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Holding bad thoughts for the Muslim Leaders – Shaikh ‘Abdus-Salaam Ibn Burjiss
May 26, 2015 By AbdurRahman.org in Rulers & Kings, ~All Tags: Al-Ibaanah.com, Isma’eel Alarcon, Shaykh Abdus-Salaam bin Barjiss
From his book Al-Amr Bi-Luzoom Al-Jamaa’ah wa Imaamihim (pg. 114-117)
Translator : isma’eel alarcon
Allaah says: “O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion. Verily, some (forms of) suspicion is sinful.” [Surah Al-Hujuraat: 12]
In the two Saheeh collections (of Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim), Abu Hurairah (radhi Allaahu anhu) reported that Allaah’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said: “Beware of suspicion, for indeed suspicion is the most false type of speech.”
Indeed, holding bad thoughts for the Muslim leaders in their administrative actions and the decisions that they make is truly a door to evil, which leads the one who engages in it to fall into matters forbidden in the Religion. And it’s harm can spread to the general masses of people.
So when the door to holding bad thoughts about the actions enforced by the Muslim leaders is opened and each person begins to express his thoughts about these actions, the people fall into the suspicion that is condemned in the Religion. And each person is brought into the talk of that which doesn’t concern him and liking the he said/she said (gossip) which is forbidden in the Religion. And those who have no say in matters or bear any position of responsibility (with respect to leadership) will begin to voice themselves. All of this has a harmful effect upon the people collectively, for it is one of the ways of the Devil in causing catastrophes and warranting rebellion against the leaders.
And whatever leads to an evil consequence must be prevented even if it is something that is allowed (mubaah). So how much more so when the thing that leads to it is forbidden (in itself) and when the thing being led to is the source of evil?
Shaikh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdil-Lateef and Shaikh ‘Abdullaah Ibn ‘Abdil-‘Azeez Al-‘Anqaree said in a letter written [1] by them to the people during the time of the fitnah of the Ikhwaan against the king ‘Abdul ‘Azeez, may Allaah have mercy on him:
“From the things that the Devil causes to enter into some of the practicing Muslims is:
Accusing the Muslim scholars of flattering and kissing up (to the leaders), suspicious thoughts (about them), and not taking (knowledge) from them. This is all a cause for one’s being prevented from beneficial knowledge.
Another thing that the Devil puts into them is:
Holding bad thoughts for the leader and failing to obey him. Indeed, this is from the greatest types of sins and it is from the ways of the people of Jaahiliyyah, those who did not hold hearing and obeying (the leader) as being part of the Religion. Rather, each of one of them followed his own opinion.
The evidences from the Book and the Sunnah clearly demonstrate the obligation of hearing and obeying the (Muslim) leader in times of hardship and times of ease and in things that one likes and things that one hates. This is such that he (saws) said:
‘Hear and obey (the leader), even if he takes your money and whips your back.’
So it is forbidden to disobey him and oppose him in his authority, in his relations, in his agreements and in his treaties, for he is a representative of the Muslims and looking out for what is in their best interests. And his looking out for them is better than their looking out for their own selves. This is since through his leadership, the order of the Religion remains established and the unity of the Muslims remains in tact.
And this is especially the case since Allaah has blessed you with a leader whose authority is that of religious authority. [2] And he has guided the masses of his subjects from the Muslims, especially the practicing ones amongst them, by being kind to them and building masaajid for them and sending out callers (du’aat) to them and overlooking their errors and acts of ignorance.
And this existing in the last portion of these times is from the greatest bounties that Allaah has bestowed to the people of this (Arab) peninsula.
So it is an obligation upon them to be thankful for this bounty and to consider it. And they should support him and be loyal to him inwardly and outwardly. So it is not permissible for anyone to betray him, nor to carry out some matter except with his permission.
And whoever betrays him with treason then he has strove to sow the seeds of dissension amongst the Muslims against him, and he has split away from the Jamaa’ah (main body of Muslims). The Prophet (saws) said:
‘Whoever disobeys the Ameer (leader) has disobeyed me. And whoever disobeys me has disobeyed Allaah.’
What is intended by the word Ameer in this hadeeth is the person whom Allaah has given authority over the affairs of the Muslims, and he is the greater Imaam.”
[1] Ad-Durur As-Saniyyah fee Al-Ajwibah An-Najdiyyah (9/127, 133, 135)
[2] He is referring to the rule of the king (of Saudi Arabia) ‘Abdul-‘Azeez Ibn ‘Abdir-Rahmaan, may Allaah have mercy on him.
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In today's NHL you literally can't be eliminated from the playoffs
Good news, Oilers fans!
According to CBS Sports, the sports website of America's most watched network, the Oilers are still in the playoff hunt. Er, so is Buffalo. And Toronto, Toronto's in the thick of things too. Hey, don't forget Arizona, they're also "still alive". Carolina too is really just a couple points away from the playoffs, their magic number is what, 40?
Okay, so the CBS Sports website is wrong. They're so wrong that I took a screenshot to show how wrong they were. (note: I've cropped out a section to fit it all in one easy image)
For comparison, here's the standings today according to TSN (again, the screenshot has been edited for readability)
Now the info is out of date. According to CBS Sports, teams like Winnipeg and Nashville had only played 79 games, which was true a couple days ago. That's one issue: America's most watched network doesn't update it's NHL coverage (though perhaps we should be happy that they at least give the scores for the games played last night). Columbus (eliminated from the playoffs) did beat Toronto (not eliminated from the playoffs) 5-0 on Wednesday April 8th.
A quick scan seems to indicate that the games played, won, lost, etc. was accurate on the morning of April 7th. Only two days out of date, not bad CBS!
But let's not nitpick about America's most watched network being 48 hours behind the times on the standings, that's trivial. Instead, let's focus on the fact that CBS Sports, in their custom-made NHL standings page, completely gets who has been eliminated from the playoffs wrong.
This is not trivial information. Who has been eliminated is a key question at this point in the season [or, for Oilers or Sabres fans, a complete month ago... -ed]. Not only are fans of the team interested in learning when their season fell apart, but fans of teams ahead of them in the standings nervously watch the teams below almost as intensely as they watch the teams above. Knowing that you need 4 points to catch up to Winnipeg is small consolation if you worry that Dallas needs 6 points to beat Winnipeg and you and has an easier schedule.
Indeed, the whole reason I found this page this morning is that I was finding TSN's standings page inadequate for the specific reason that it wasn't telling me who had been mathematically eliminated. (Specifically, I was looking at the San Jose Sharks, who yes indeed were mathematically eliminated on Monday). This is important and interesting information, and it's more than a little shocking that major sports sites (and the NHL's own website) don't carry it.
So how much worse is it to carry this and get it so horribly wrong?
We can't even grumble "well, it's not up to date" or "they haven't added the most recent eliminations". They do have an elimination -- the Columbus Blue Jackets -- who with 83 points are indeed out of the playoff race.† So how do they figure that Buffalo (54 points) and Toronto (67 points) are "still alive" based on 83 points eliminating a team. These are all Eastern Conference teams, by the way, they're could even claim as they do with Arizona's 56 points or Edmonton's 59 that they could be "still alive". Columbus really seals the deal here: if they left them off the chart, we could look at the "e-" next to the teams to find who was actually eliminated. But honestly, how many of you saw right away that many teams had an "e-" for eliminated next to their names when there was a separate "Eliminated" section at the bottom?
† We'll go with the points on their page
For the "latest NHL playoff news" you're implored to follow @EyeOnHockey on Twitter, who's likely to give you all the latest news, like "Chris Chelios leads the playoffs in +/-" or "Frank Mahovlich scored short-handed last night".
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Police: 3 University of Delaware students robbed
NEWARK, Del. -- Police are investigating the armed robbery of three University of Delaware students.
The Newark Police Department said Monday that they are still searching for two male suspects.
Police say the robbery occurred Saturday before 10 p.m. on Benny street near the university campus. The three victims, all 19-year-old students, reported that they were approached from behind.
One of the two suspects showed a handgun.
At that point, police say one of the victims ran, while the other two gave up credit cards and a cellphone.
Police used dogs to search the area after the robbery but could not find the robbers.
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Video captures Fla. motorcyclist crashing after 'taunting' police
Police in Florida have released footage showing a dramatic crash in which a motorcyclist suffered serious injuries.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said 21-year-old Ryan Decubellis was driving his 2017 Suzuki Motorcycle northbound on US Highway 19 North with a group of motorcyclists on May 3 when he drove past two deputies and accelerated at a "high rate of speed."
Sergent Spencer Gross told local media that Decubellis was taunting the deputies.
Decubellis crashed into a car driven by 54-year-old Scott Colletti, who was making a left turn across the road, police said.
Decubellis sustained serious injuries as a result of the crash.
Colletti suffered minor injures.
Police said Decubellis pleaded guilty to charges of Reckless Driving with Property Damage and Personal Injury and No Motorcycle Endorsement.
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Kudu Facts
Bovidae
Tragelaphus
Tragelaphus Strepsiceros
0.8-1.2m (31-47in)
120-256kg (265-565lbs)
Brown, Grey, Red
Shrub woodland and savanna plains
Average Litter Size:
The average number of babies born at once
Leaves, Herbs, Fruit, Flowers
Lions, Leopards, Wild Dogs
Large ears and white stripes on body
Kudu Location
Map of Africa
The kudu is a sub-species of antelope that is found inhabiting mixed shrub woodland, and savanna plains in eastern and southern Africa. The kudu relies heavily on close, dense thickets in which the kudu can escape to and hide when it feels threatened.
There are two species of kudu in Africa which are the Lesser kudu and the Greater kudu. Both kudu species are closely related and look very similar in appearance but there are a few distinctive ways that the lesser kudu and the greater kudu can be distinguished from one another. The lesser kudu has ten white stripes which run vertically down the lesser kudu's body where the greater kudu can have anywhere between 4 and 12 stripes. The greater kudu is also generally bigger than the lesser kudu
Kudus are herbivorous animals and therefore have a completely vegetarian diet. Kudus forage in woodland and around thickets of shrubs nibbling on leaves from the trees and bushes. Kudus also eat other varieties of plant life such as herbs, flowers, berries and fallen fruits.
Kudus are prey to a number of predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs and the occasional large python that will hunt the smaller and more vulnerable kudu young. Kudu are able to run very fast but often have a hard time outrunning predators so the kudu rely on their agile ability to leap into forest and woodland where large carnivorous predators find it harder to chase them. The kudu will then often hide in woodland until the predator have eventually given up and left.
Kudus live in small herds of up to 24 kudu individuals. The kudu herds mainly consist of female kudus and their calves as male kudus tend to solitary and only come together with other kudus when it is time to mate. It has been known that groups of up to 8 male kudus will form a herd but this is very rare.
The kudu mating season occurs at the end of the rainy season. The kudu gestation period is around 8 months after which time the female kudu will normally give birth to just one baby kudu. The baby kudus tend to be born around February and March when the grass is at it's highest and there is plenty of food to help the baby kudu calves to grow.
Kudus have both benefited and suffered from contact with humans. Humans find the kudu an easy target for hunting due to the fact that kudus tend to stop and look around after they have run away. Some local tribes people believe the kudu to be a sacred animal and therefore protect the kudu rather than killing it. Human settlements have also meant that the kudu habitat as changed and the kudu have had to move to other areas. This has actually done the kudu population the world of good as the kudu have been pushed into areas where there is a better source of water and therefore food.
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Group Opposes Legislation to Mandate Life without Parole for Certain Crimes
Today, the ACLU of Virginia, New Virginia Majority, Virginia CURE, and the Sentencing Project sent Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam a letter to voice our opposition to legislation that would mandate life without parole for certain persons sentenced to Virginia prisons, arguing that public safety goals will not be met by increasing the severity of prison terms.
"High-profile crimes have driven the expansion of life without parole nationally, contributing to a surge in incarceration rates and time spent behind bars – with the average length of imprisonment increasing by 24 percent between 2000-15," stated the letter. "There is some tendency to generalize the circumstances of a single offense as the reason to mandate life prison terms. In reality, these tragic outcomes are rare; most violent crime is situational and contributing factors may include the influence of drugs or alcohol."
The letter pointed out that Virginia’s prison population increased more than 700 percent since 1970 at tremendous social and financial cost. "The best single proximate explanation of the rise in incarceration is not rising crime rates, but the policy choices made by legislators to increase the use of imprisonment as a response to crime," stated the letter. "This includes flawed efforts such as abolishing parole in 1994 and instituting “truth in sentencing” which mandated that anyone convicted of offenses after January 1, 1995 serve at least 85 percent of their sentence, a mandatory minimum that applies now to all convictions making specific mandatory minima for some crimes superfluous."
"Recognizing the capacity for rehabilitation and allowing for a meaningful opportunity for release strengthens public safety priorities. Life-sentenced prisoners are frequently called upon by prison staff to serve as mentors to newly arrived prisoners. In addition, multiple studies confirm that the prevalence of misconduct is quite low compared to non-life prisoners, in contrast to the theory that life-sentenced prisoners are more volatile because they have 'nothing to lose.' The challenge for Virginia is to develop a more comprehensive rehabilitative program in prison that addresses the underlying reasons that contributed to violent offending."
For the above reasons, the ACLU of Virginia and its coalition partners called on Gov. Northam to veto House Bill 2615 and Senate Bill 1501.
You can read the full letter below.
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https://acluva.org/sites/default/files/group_opposition_letter_to_virginia_lwop_expansion_bills_final.pdf
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Adairsville Middle School empowering our children to succeed
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Adairsville has enjoyed a long history of providing educational opportunities to its community. Adairsville Schools began circa 1900 as Cherokee Baptist High School, housing grades 9 through 11. In 1910 the City of Adairsville was asked to take over the elementary section of the school by the Middle Cherokee Baptist Association. At that time, the elementary grades were renamed the Cherokee Institute. Later, in 1916, the Cherokee Baptist Association requested that the city take over the remaining grade levels also. The school remained under the jurisdiction of the City of Adairsville until 1939 when control of the school was transferred to the Bartow County School System.
The school functioned as a 1-12 facility from the 1950's until 1978, when Adairsville Elementary School was built. During the period of 1978-1985, the school included grades 7-12. In 1985 grade six was added, and grades 6-8 officially became Adairsville Middle School. In 1995 the decision was made to reunite AMS and AHS under one administration, and was called Adairsville Middle/High School. Then in 2000, Adairsville Middle once more became its own separate school. The long-awaited new Adairsville High School was completed 2004 and AMS remained at the existing facility until Fall 2013 when Adairsville Middle School relocated to a newly constructed facility, neighboring Adairsville High School.
Adairsville Middle School 485 Old Hwy 41, Adairsville, GA 30103 Phone: 770-606-5842 Fax: 770-606-5179
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The Bush
Fish, Frogs & Reptiles
Whitebait and whitebaiting
Story: Whitebait and whitebaiting
Whitebait in New Zealand
Nets, screens and canneries
Whitebaiting culture and regulations
Page 3. Nets, screens and canneries
Boys with nets
Whitebait stands (1st of 3)
Nolan’s whitebait cannery
Holding tanks and horseback
Flying out the catch
Whitebait are caught in fine-meshed nets that are hand held or set along river banks. Hand-held nets have round hoop frames and long handles. Known as scoop nets, they are used along the river’s edge. Right in the breakers at river mouths, small, short-handled ‘pot’ nets are used.
In the 1930s West Coasters improvised whitebait nets with supplejack vine for the hoop and a net of cotton mosquito netting. The frames of modern hand-held nets are made of lightweight aluminium, and the netting is nylon mesh. The catch was typically stored in kerosene tins, but these were superseded by plastic buckets.
Before refrigeration, commercial whitebaiters also kept their catch in ‘live boxes’ – wooden crates covered in mesh netting and placed in the river. Live whitebait could be kept captive in this way for a few days.
Fixed nets
Fixed nets (or set nets) are placed facing downstream to catch whitebait as they swim upstream. Early models had frames of supplejack covered in cotton mesh. These were placed in gaps in river groynes that were built at right angles to a river bank. (Building trenches or groynes or otherwise altering the river bed is now illegal.)
Fixed nets vary in their design. The most common have metal frames with fine metal mesh. Triangular or box-shaped, they are often fitted to a stand – a rough jetty at a right angle to the bank. Long tapering nets are also fixed to stands, and dubbed ‘Southland socks’.
Screens, sticks and boards
Screens (which cannot exceed 3 metres in length) are staked in the river, at right angles to the bank. They help guide the fish out from the river edge and into the net.
Although it is illegal, some whitebaiters use a ‘waggle stick’ – a 2–3-metre stick with a white flag on the end. This is said to encourage the fish to swim into the net.
Often a spotter board (a white plank) is placed on the riverbed at the mouth of the net. This allows the whitebaiter to see the fish as they swim over it. The whitebaiter then empties the net before the whitebait swim out again. For the same purpose, previous generations used to chop down cabbage trees, peel their bark to reveal the light-coloured wood, and lay them in the water.
Canneries
In South Westland, catching whitebait was usually no problem, but getting it to market could be difficult. Whitebait did not keep well. With no natural ports, boats had to cross river bars, and they could not always get in. Much whitebait spoilt before it could be sold.
No arguing with Nolan
In 1950 Henry Buchanan had his first season fishing the Ōkuru River. Din Nolan, owner of the canning factory that bought whitebait, let him net the river. Buchanan grossed £600 (in 2006 this equated to $35,000), and recalls:
‘Old Nolan – he was ruling like a Czar, and he’d tell you where you could fish and where you could go. … He had a boy on every river – he had five boys, and if he had a boy on the river you weren’t allowed to fish there, otherwise he wouldn’t take your fish.’ 1
Before refrigeration, canning was the only way to keep the fish. Canning was first established on the Waikato River in 1887, and that same year whitebait were being canned on the West Coast at Paringa. By 1930 the firm of Irvine and Stevenson had canneries at Karamea, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika and Dunedin.
In 1928 Din Nolan set up a canning factory at Ōkuru. At that time, South Westland was very remote and members of the Nolan family often had an entire river to fish for themselves. As their cannery was the only outfit buying whitebait, they could command the price. The Ōkuru cannery was probably the country’s largest, due to the prolific catches. In 1944, 54.4 tonnes were canned and the catch was carted to the cannery by the dray load. The factory ran until 1952.
Flying whitebait out
As early as 1936, planes were flying whitebait out from South Westland. Airstrips were hacked out of the bush, or the planes landed on the beach. After the Second World War, large quantities were flown out in light aircraft by returned air force pilots such as Fred ‘Popeye’ Lucas. Around 1946 Des Nolan, son of the cannery owner Din Nolan, got his pilot’s licence and flew out whitebait for seven or eight years.
However, the harvest did not always get picked up, as poor visibility sometimes prevented the pilots from landing. There were numerous crashes and near misses.
Decline of the canneries
The arrival of refrigerators meant that whitebait could be cool-stored rather than canned, leading to the demise of the South Westland canneries by the 1950s.
When the Haast Pass road was opened in 1960, flying became less important – except for those isolated rivers to the south, such as the Cascade.
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Quoted in Julia Bradshaw, The far downers. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2001, pp. 68–69. › Back
Carl Walrond, 'Whitebait and whitebaiting - Nets, screens and canneries', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/whitebait-and-whitebaiting/page-3 (accessed 21 January 2020)
Story by Carl Walrond, published 24 Sep 2007
Nolan, Patrick, 1875-1951, and Nolan, William Denis, 1877-1959
Nolan, William Denis, 1877-1959
Ngārara – reptiles
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Big L – Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
Big L. One of the most underrated rappers of all time but among the greatest lyricists of all time. Coming from the streets of Harlem, brought up by Lord Finesse, and apart of the DITC crew, Big L comes on the rap scene with a bang. Big L’s lyrics are unstoppable. He has a flow hard to be matched. And he raps the truth. But the best part about him is his lyrical genius. This amazing debut of his is proof of that.
Big L comes hard on this track! He raps about himself. It’s a great track to begin with. His flow is great and his lyrics even better. With mainly just a steady beat the listener can focus on his lyrics. Big L does, without a doubt, put it on.
“Aiyyo, you betta flee Hobbes, or get your head flown three blocks L keep rapper’s hearts pumpin like Reeboks”
An ill track. This track showcases some great lyricism. Big L rips it apart. It can be said that it is slightly racist but that’s besides the point. He raps about killing people if you mess with him but the way he says it makes you love the song. One of the best from the album.
“Yo once again it’s the Big L, that kid who got much props from killin corrupt cops, with mother*****in buck shots”
All Endz, No Skinz
One of the best from the album. This song is on point, lyrically and material wise. L raps the truth. It basically says that if you have money all the chicks want to be with you and if you’re poor you don’t get anyone. L flows nicely on this dope track. He manages to twist and turn witty lyrics to get his point across.
“Let me get to the point real quick When ya pockets are thick”
The best track on the album. Lyricism which is hard to be matched, and a perfect flow to match it. This is L’s greatest song, of all time. This track is all about him being the best. And he certainly proves that. Not many artists can do anything that comes close the this. He is indeed the most valuable poet on the m-i-c.
“A yo spark up the phillies and pass the stout Making quick money grip before your ass is out”
8 Iz Enuff
Big L raps nicely on this track. It probably should have been the introduction track. This is a great song all about himself. He showcases his incredible skills on it. Great lyricism combined with a good beat makes it a deadly track.
“Aiyo, folks who quote what I wrote get choked You better surrender before you get smoked”
I Don’t Understand It
An amazing track. Big L raps about how so many rappers are making it big when they really don’t deserve it. He raps about how untalented MC’s are selling out when there is really nothing to him. He then goes on to rap about those who really rap, and rap truth, don’t even go gold. Too many MC’s take the rap game for granted…
“There are too many MC’s who are overrated You ask me, they wasn’t even supposed to make it”
Fed Up With The Bullsthit
L raps about how he is sick of all the constant bullshitting. He basically talks about how people are being treated like dirt and nothing is done about it. He raps about how ignorant people are and how they can turn a blind eye on the many issues that affect minorities.
“Yo, on the scene is the brother that’s big, I’m not a little kid I’m a nig who don’t dig a mutha*****in pig”
Big L has an odd flow on this song. But the listener quickly gets used to it. He raps about the streets, the danger zone. This is an extremely vicious song. Violent, but great. He cant be stopped. He raps about how “no man can withstand a hole in his zone” IT also has a bit of Malcolm X sampling.
“The microphone is through when this rap legend grab it Sendin poems to have them faggots diggin hoes like Reverand Swaggart”
Da Graveyard
Big L raps with and unstoppable flow on this track and comes uncontrollably hard. He adds some witty lines to this ill track. He features Lord Finesse, Microphone Nut, Jay-Z and Y.U. They all come correct and manage to all shine on this track, despite L’s great lyrics. An unbelievable track.
“Big L be lightin’ niggas like incense Gettin’ men lynched to win tits”
Let ‘Em Have It “L”
L adopts a style on this track listen to the rest of the album. He slows down the pace but his tongue never tires. He just keeps going on and on. He raps about himself on this track and basically gives it all he has. A dope track.
Street Struck
Just from the beat in the beginning and the title of this track, the listener knows it’s going to be a dangerous one. He raps about the streets and life on it. He has some great, meaningful lyrics on this great track.
“Yo where I’m from it ain’t cookies and cream There’s a lot of peer pressure growin up as a young teen”
Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
The title of the track basically breaks down the track. He raps about street life and about what happens and how dangerous it is. This is a great track. He raps the truth on this slightly violent song.
“My name is L, and I’m from a part of town where clowns Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds”
There you have it. The classic debut by the late Big L. This album basically secured his spot as one of the greatest lyricists of all time. Big L met his unfortunate end in the streets of Harlem where he was gunned down. Truly living the lifestyle of the poor and dangerous. Amidst all the violence he has managed to stay true to rap despite all the obstacles. Through everything, he has forever left his mark in the rap game. And this classic album proves that…
MC Ren – Shock Of The Hour
Too Short – Get In Where You Fit In
Lord Finesse – Funky Technician
Big L – The Big Picture
Main Source – Breaking Atoms
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Cast: (voiced by) Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Madeleine McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan, Joan Cusack
Director: Josh Cooley
Writers: Stephany Folsom, Andrew Stanton
In the three films that made up its near-perfect trilogy, Toy Story told what was more or less a complete story about the life cycle of a sentient toy. What started off as a pretty cute idea (what if your toys came to life whenever you left the room?) grew into something richer and more compelling by virtue of having so many characters just teeming with personality, thoughts and feelings. Over the course of the years-long span of these three movies we’ve seen Woody and the gang confront such weighty themes as growth, identity, parenthood, trauma, abandonment, mortality and transient love. It concluded with a grown-up Andy passing the toys on to another child so that their calling in life, to belong to a child and be played with, may never come to an end. It is as moving and powerful an ending as any Pixar could have dreamed up and to say that it left me satisfied would be an understatement. Thus, when I heard that a fourth movie was on its way, my reaction was apprehension and dread. Why mess with something that already ended perfectly? Why not leave well enough alone? Where else can they even possibly go with the story? Perhaps it’s the desperate move of a once fresh and dynamic company that’s struggling to offer its audience something new (of the ten films Pixar has released since Toy Story 3, six have been sequels and prequels). If there is indeed some anxiety within Pixar about the fear of becoming obsolete, irrelevant and forgotten, they’ve baked it into the very DNA of this film.
After having spent three movies exploring the emotional challenges and harsh realities of life as a toy, an immortal life of child-like dependence and parent-like nurturing that inevitably ends in relinquishment, the fourth instalment takes things a step further by delving into the theme of their very existence. What does it actually mean to be a toy? Enter Forky, a plastic spork with googly eyes, pipe cleaner arms and popsicle stick feet brought to life by Bonnie’s imagination and desire for a friend at her new school. Forky’s defining trait as a character is his existential crisis. He was created for the sole purpose of becoming trash and keeps trying to break away from Bonnie and make for the nearest bin so that his purpose might be fulfilled. Woody however thwarts him at every turn. Forky is a toy now; he has been endowed with a consciousness and a soul by a five-year-old girl’s desperate need for a companion during a scary time in her life and Woody tries his darndest to press onto the panicky spork that it is now his duty to be there for her. Throughout this whole series all the toys we have met, both good and bad, have shared a single motivation compelling their actions at every point, the desire for a child’s love. Through Forky we are given the greatest illustration yet of how that love isn’t just what these toys yearn and strive for, it is essentially what gives them life.
That desire to be loved carries with it a desire to be needed and since being given away by Andy to Bonnie, Woody has found himself relegated to the sidelines. He clearly cares for the kid and is as determined as ever to look out for his friends, but his heroics and leadership aren’t really called for in this safe, cushy gig that they’ve landed and he’s no longer the playtime favourite. Jessie is now Bonnie’s sheriff of choice; the old cowboy tends to be left stranded in the closet most days. When Woody elects himself to join the shy, nervous Bonnie on her first day at kindergarten, it’s like he’s a grandparent intervening in his granddaughter’s life in some minor, nominal way because he misses having a small child depend on him. He means well, but it’s still more about making himself feel useful than it is about helping Bonnie. Woody is essentially a weathered old hand on the verge of retirement and he’s simply not ready to be discarded and forgotten (a fate that befalls every toy sooner or later). For an immortal being, this is as close to death as it gets short of being incinerated (as they all very nearly were in Toy Story 3). Thus, with Forky’s creation, Woody finds some purpose for himself as the self-appointed guardian of Bonnie’s new favourite but even that can only keep him busy for so long. When Woody is later reunited with Bo Peep, whose departure we see in the opening scene, and learns of the life she’s built for herself since, it’s then that he starts to wonder whether there is more to being a toy than having a kid’s name written on the sole of your foot.
It’s a tough question that Woody struggles to answer because he and so many of the other toys he’s encountered over the years have been conditioned to believe that a toy’s existence is meaningless without the love of a child. The dark side of this desire is presented in Gabby Gabby, a 1950s pullstring doll hidden away in an antiques shop. Her voicebox is broken, a manufacturing defect, and so she was rejected and stored away, left to sit and gather dust for all these decades. It’s a cruel lesson that the Toy Story films taught us before back when Woody tore his arm in the second film, that the adolescent love and adoration these toys all crave is conditional. Since no child wants to play with a pullstring doll that cannot speak, Gabby sets her sights on Woody’s voicebox when he Forky happen to wander into the shop in search of a friend. What makes Gabby a great antagonist (apart from being voiced by Christina Hendricks) is that she isn’t an outright villain in the way that Sid and Lotso were. She isn’t in herself a bad person but the years of neglect she’s suffered and the harsh belief that only true perfection will make her worthy of the affection she so despondently pines for compels her to act out in harmful ways. In meeting her Woody is treated to a dark reflection, a warning of who he might become if he allows his desire to be needed to consume him.
All of this talk about existential crises, moral dilemmas and empty futures makes Toy Story 4 sound like it could have been directed by David Lynch or Werner Herzog (either of which, incidentally, I would absolutely love to see happen). I should therefore take this chance to stress that the movie is in fact a delight to watch in all the ways Toy Story has always been. The movie is a visual splendour from beginning to end, not only in the wonderful designs it conjures up from the dark, sinister antiques shop that Gabby dominates with her ventriloquist dummy stooges (the scariest things in the film) to the colourfully resplendent fairground just across the road or in the seamless fluidity of the movements and action but also in the character animation. So many of the film’s most touching moments hit all the harder because the animators always know the exact right expression to go for to complement the performance, just as writers Stanton and Folsom and director Cooley know when to stop for a moment so that the audience has some time to take it in. Pixar remains one of the modern masters of visual storytelling and Toy Story 4 is yet another testament to them. The movie is also incredibly funny, thanks in no small part to the inclusion of such new characters as a pair of conjoined plush dolls voiced by Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele and a Canadian Evel Knievel knock-off as voiced by Keanu Reeves.
It shouldn’t be possible for a movie to be this funny and entertaining while still being this loaded with philosophy and metaphor and yet Toy Story makes it look almost childishly simple. Part of the reason it works as well as it does is due to how freely flexible so much of the subtext is. The movie is loaded with images and ideas that can be a hundred different things to a hundred different people, all of whom can impart their own feelings onto the text of the film and read it all of their subtly different ways without the movie ever seeming like it’s at odds with itself. Woody is a character so rich in personality, history and mythology that he can be whichever character the individual viewer needs him to be. When Toy Story 3 came along nine years ago and delivered not only the perfect ending to its own story but also the ending that my seventeen-year-old self needed to see at that age, I was adamant that Pixar had no business revisiting this franchise and tarnishing its legacy. Having now watched Toy Story 4 I still believe that this is a movie that didn’t need to exist, but I’m glad that it does all the same. That the 1995 animated classic grew into such a magnificent blockbuster series and has against all odds proven itself capable of evolving and reinventing itself across generations is a feat worthy of celebration. Now please Pixar, for the love of God and all that is holy, stop making these films!
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Knocking on Drawn to Death's Door
Doodles that will scramble your noodle.
David Motel
There’s a lot to like about Drawn to Death, a game developed by The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency. First and foremost, Drawn to Death feels like a throwback to games like Twisted Metal fused with Quake. Funnily enough, David Jaffee, the creator of Twisted Metal and the God of War series, is actually the one responsible for this angsty artsy fantasy.
This online-only shooter is filled to the brim with massive amounts of quirk and profanity. In contrast, the sketchbook art style that leaps off the pages into this nightmarish three-dimensional landscape creating a striking and fresh experience.
While the bloody gore and over the top frenetic action make it a head-spinning ride, the character designs give it a quirky edge. For example, we have a Little Mermaid reject with a head of a shark and body of a voluptuous lady named Ninjaw. Then you have Alan, who lugs around a massive chainsaw that would do Ash from The Evil Dead franchise proud.
Each character has their own unique traits, like Ninjaw, who can use her special powers to anchor enemies in place. On the other side of that spectrum, Alan can toss his chainsaw across the map for serious damage, only to fetch it so he can use his special ability titled the Flying Death.
The amount to learn from each character leaves a lot of variation in matches. Especially when each character has a weakness to another, so team balance is key when joining the fray. By the end game, you’ll need plenty of practice in order to understand how each weapon and character works to their best potential.
In deathmatch, you’ll be gaining two points for a kill but losing one for a death. How so? Well, let's say you’re about to be down and out from the match way too soon for your liking. Using the Drawn to Death system, you can be skyrocketed to the top of the chart and turn your loss into a skin of your teeth victory.
Like most multiplayer titles, if your team is bad you’ll be unfairly punished, which halts your progress and can be frustrating when you want that next weapon unlock. Blood is then calculated at the end of the round where you’re given keys to unlock one of the 20 insane guns. Or you can just pay for the whole shebang upfront and get them all unlocked with real cash.
In addition to the massive variety of weapons, you collect Mystery Boxes, just every online multiplayer shooter out there. These Mystery Boxes house cosmetic items such as taunts or costumes and you’ll be wanting the juvenile taunts to rile up the enemy after a well-deserved victory. Overall, I found the taunts and jokes in Drawn to Death to be a guilty pleasure charm. Although, I can also understand how they may turn casual players off.
Right now the game is free for PS Plus members for the month of April, but once that honeymoon is over, will there be enough meat to keep them coming back for more? I think so. Drawn to Death reminds me of another hilariously fun and exciting third-person shooter, Loadout.
Loadout had very similar sense of style in terms of its visual comedy and play mechanics. Unfortunately, the player base ran dry, and the PS4 isn’t a slouch when it comes to multiplayer games vying for top dog. I want Drawn to Death to learn from Loadout and have longevity. After all, the game has style, jokes, fun character designs, interesting weapons, and frantic action.
I also like the current price tag of "free," but even when the game goes back to it’s original $20 MSRP I would recommend it. I believe there’s enough character/world design and gameplay that can make it one of the standout third-person shooters on PS4. As for right now, you’ve got nothing to lose if you’re a Playstation Plus member and a lot to gain if you’re not.
Do you like the art style in Drawn to Death? Do you see yourself continuing to play when Destiny 2 comes out? Comment below!
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Category Archives: Jeff Lorber Fusion
by dunderbeck1980 | November 4, 2016 · 10:38 am
Anatomy of THE Groove: “Monster Man” by Jeff Lorber Fusion
Jeff Lorber has remained one of the major jazz/funk keyboard players whose continued through the smooth jazz era by remaining consistently funky. Music will always change. And artists will have to change with it. Lorber has realized that as long as he keeps the rhythms tough and strong,and his solos jazzy and hummable,that the jazz/funk/fusion sound he’s now a veteran of,he can modernize his sound but keep its basic flavors intact. This is something he’s shown with his recent comebacks. On the other hand,his grooves hit a fevered pitch in the early 1980’s.
About 12 years ago when discovering Jeff Lorber’s albums from approximately 1980 to 1986, it came to me how much he was able to do with in the time period when analog based synthesizers were transitioning to digital ones. This also arrived at the same time that the Jeff Lorber Fusion were beginning to focus on heavy rhythm along with improvised instrumental soloing. That played a big part in their final album together for almost 30 years entitled Galaxian. The opening track of this album is one of the best examples of this that I can think of. It was called “Monster Man”.
The thick drums and slap bass start out the song before a fruity voice does a short rap at the beginning-while the bass burbles with an accenting rhythm guitar beneath him. After this,Donnie Gerrard’s vocals come in. And each of his vocals lines is accented by the horn charts from Jerry Hey. This represents the chorus of the song. On the refrains,Lorber’s keyboards lead a group lead the harmony vocals. On the bridge of the song,the drums take on a Brazilian flavor as the slap bass gets a duetting solo from non other than Stanley Clarke himself before the song fades out on the main theme.
‘Monster Man” is indeed a heavy funk monster. The bass leads the way from beginning to end. And the entire song never takes its eyes off the groove. I dare say it is the most thoroughly funky song Jeff Lorber made in the 1980’s. I’m not entirely sure if Stanley Clarke plays all the bass lines here,or is accompanying bassist Danny Wilson (who plays on the rest of the album) on this song. Either way,its still one of those “bass in your face” songs where the funk is very accessible to identify. Since Lorber is celebrating his birthday today,this is just the song I’d personally chose to represent his groove.
Filed under 1980's, Donnie Gerrard, drums, horns, jazz funk, Jeff Lorber, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Jerry Hey, rhythm guitar, slap bass, Stanley Clarke, synthesizer
Tagged as 1980's, Donnie Gerrard, drums, horns, jazz funk, Jeff Lorber, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Jerry Hey, rhythm guitar, slap bass, Stanley Clarke, synthesizer
by dunderbeck1980 | June 5, 2016 · 2:10 pm
Anatomy Of The Groove: “Spur Of The Moment” by The Jeff Lorber Fusion
Jeff Lorber is another example of how Philadelphia remains one of the East Coast’s most musical cities. He released his first two albums as a bandleader with The Jeff Lorber Fusion in 1977 and 1978-the later of which featured guest appearances from jazz fusion luminaries in Miles Davis alumni Chick Corea and Corea’s own protege Joe Farrell. Following signing to Arista in 1979 and his label debut Water Sign,Lorber bough in Seattle saxophonist Kenny Gorelick for their 1980 album Wizard Island. Gorelick would pursue a solo career a few years later under his better known moniker of Kenny G.
The first time I ever heard the name Jeff Lorber was when DC native musician/DJ Nigel Hall loaned me his copy of Lorber’s 1983 solo album In The Heat Of The Night. Being that period was also my early years on the internet,there was the ability for me to go out and research Lorber’s music further. And then purchase albums that looked interesting. One such purchase,made on Ebay was a vinyl copy of the 1980 Jeff Lorber Fusion album Galaxian. It was filled with strong grooves. And one that still stands out for me was co-written by Kenny Gorelick. It was called “Spur Of The Moment”.
The groove starts right off cold with driving 4/4 beat. The chorus features Gorelick playing the singable funky melody on his processed sax. Below this,Lorber comes in with a snaky synth bass while Marlon McClain comes in with a high pitched rhythm guitar. On the refrains,Lorber brings it on home on the electric piano with Gorelick’s bluesy exchanges. On the bridge,Lorber plays a heavy melodic synthesizer improvisation over a full electric bass. On the final choruses of the song,Lorber plays this synth solo and a honky tonk electric piano call and response with a full horn section before the song fades out.
The ultra melodic jazz/funk/pop style instrumentation and melody of this song is right in line with the streamlined sound Quincy Jones was getting with the Westlake studio crew at the same time. Yet with Gorelick’s brittle,succinct solos on his processed wah wah sax (as well as the somewhat stripped down rhythm) put this song right into the boogie/post disco funk mode of the era. The way the solos become more melodic grand and improvisational in scope showcase the talent of this band when they played together. It’s by far one of my favorite songs that the future Kenny G would ever be associated with.
Filed under 1980's, Boogie Funk, drums, electric piano, jazz funk, Jeff Lorber, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Kenny Gorelick, Marlon McClain, post disco, rhythm guitar, Saxophone, synth bass, synthesizers
Tagged as 1980's, boogie funk, drums, electric piano, funk bass, jazz funk, Jeff Lorber, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Kenny Gorelick, post disco, rhythm guitar, saxophone, synth bass, synthesizers
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Home Government Reprimanding Kennedy Agyapong is “mockery” of Parliament-Centre
Reprimanding Kennedy Agyapong is “mockery” of Parliament-Centre
Kennedy Agyapong in purple suit
Ho, Feb. 19, GNA- The African Center for Parliamentary Journalism and Research (ACPJR) has described the decision by Parliament to reprimand Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency for his “contemptuous” description of Parliament as “cheap and useless”, a “mockery” of the House.
The Centre said the decision was a bad precedent, which was likely to open the floodgate for indiscipline in the House.
A press release signed by Mr. Harrison Kofi Belley, Executive Director of the Centre and copied to the Ghana News Agency said “the practice where some MPs are allowed to speak against Parliament and go free but seen to be hard on non-MPs seems to be creating the impression that, the Privileges Committee of Parliament is always heavy handed on outsiders as against their own”.
The release said Parliament over the years had been lenient and reluctant to cite its members for contempt and “it is important that Parliament started applying the rules because the reluctance of the House to apply the rules was fuelling indiscipline in the institution”.
It said “the MP should have been punished severely by Parliament for describing the law-making arm of government as “cheap” and “useless” after the Privileges Committee pronounced him guilty of contempt of Parliament”.
The release said “public confidence in Parliament is eroding and many people in Ghana are fed up with the behaviour of some MPs especially Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, so, it is only proper and fair that, Parliament would do something about the institution if they want the dignity of Parliament to be held in high esteem by Ghanaians”.
It urged the leadership of the House “to muster the courage and caution its members to be civil and measured in their utterances especially when engaging the media, and the implication of being cited for contempt of Parliament and severely punish any member who fall foul of the constitution and the Standing Orders of the House”.
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Whole Blood Gene Expression Profiles to Assess Pathogenesis and Disease Severity in Infants with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection
Asuncion Mejias, Blerta Dimo, Nicolas M. Suarez, Carla Garcia, et al
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001549
http://www.mendeley.com/research/whole-blood-gene-expression-profiles-assess-pathogenesis-disease-severity-infants-respiratory-syncyt-2
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277187"], "description"=>"<p>IPA showed that the interferon-signaling pathway followed by genes related to cell cycle and hematopoietic precursors (ATM) were the most upregulated pathways, while the B cell and T cell signaling pathways were the most downregulated pathways, confirming our previous results using modular-level analyses. iCOS-SL in Th cells, inducible costimulator signaling in T helper cells.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["canonical", "pathways", "children", "rsv"], "article_id"=>847796, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>7, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Top_canonical_pathways_expressed_in_children_with_RSV_LRTI_/847796", "title"=>"Top canonical pathways expressed in children with RSV LRTI.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277203"], "description"=>"a<p>Training and test sets.</p><p>N/A, not applicable.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["k-nn"], "article_id"=>847810, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.t005", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Results_from_the_K_NN_class_prediction_algorithm_/847810", "title"=>"Results from the K-NN class prediction algorithm.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277183"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Extracted and processed RNA was hybridized into Illumina human beadchips (205 samples into Human WG-6 v3 beadchips and 36 in to Human HT-12 v4) and scanned on the Illumina Beadstation 500, and fluorescent hybridization signals were assessed and scaled using Illumina BeadStudio. (B) For analysis we used GeneSpring software, IPA, modular analyses, and MDTH analysis. Depending on the type of analysis, either normalized, non-normalized, or raw data were used. FDR, false discovery rate; KW, Kruskal-Wallis test; MW, Mann-Whitney test.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>[], "article_id"=>847792, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Microarray_processing_and_statistical_analyses_/847792", "title"=>"Microarray processing and statistical analyses.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277181"], "description"=>"<p>Patient allocation and analyses performed throughout the study are depicted in Figure 1: RSV signature analysis (A), discrimination and modular analyses (B), follow-up analysis (C), age analyses (D), and disease severity analysis (E). Patients included in the different sub-analyses were matched for age, gender, and race/ethnicity with controls. In addition, for the age analyses (D), children greater or younger than 6 mo were matched for disease severity. Asterisk indicates that RSV patients used for viral discrimination analysis (B) were previously used in the RSV signature analysis (A). Ctrl, control; FU, follow-up.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["diagram"], "article_id"=>847790, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Flow_diagram_of_study_patients_/847790", "title"=>"Flow diagram of study patients.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277195"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Statistical group comparisons between 20 patients <6 mo of age and nine healthy matched controls (Ctl) yielded 1,212 significantly differentially expressed transcripts between the two groups. Of those, 952 (79%) transcripts were underexpressed. (B) The same type of analysis using 17 children with RSV LRTI at age 6–24 mo and nine healthy matched controls yielded 2,176 significantly differentially expressed transcripts, with 1,075 (49%) transcripts underexpressed. (C) Venn diagram displaying the overlap between the global RSV signature described in <a href=\"http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549#pmed-1001549-g003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 3A</a> and the age-specific RSV gene expression profiles. (D) Modular analysis in the two age groups revealed a similar trend in the overexpression of neutrophil-related genes (M5.15) and the suppression of genes related to T cells (M4.1, M4.15), lymphoid lineage (M6.19), and antimicrobial response (M2.1). On the other hand, the overall activation of the innate immunity, interferon, and inflammatory response was decreased in infants <6 mo, and the adaptive immune response (B cells [M4.10], plasma cells [M4.11], and cytotoxic/NK cells [M3.6]) was further suppressed compared with children 6–24 mo of age. Circle rings indicate the modules within each group with greater over- or underexpression. (E) Horizontal bars illustrating the proportion of over- and underexpressed modules in infants <6 mo and children 6–24 mo of age in relation to the global RSV signature. (F) These differences are further illustrated in a spider graph representing the per-module median expression values of the significantly differentially expressed modules between the two age groups.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["influences"], "article_id"=>847804, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g007", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>9, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Age_at_the_time_of_infection_influences_the_host_immune_response_to_RSV_/847804", "title"=>"Age at the time of infection influences the host immune response to RSV.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277192"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Samples from 21 infants with RSV LRTI were obtained 1 mo after the acute hospitalization. Hierarchical clustering of control (Ctrl), acute, and follow-up samples reflected the heterogeneity observed during the acute disease. (B) MDTH scores per patient are represented by bars (yellow: healthy controls; orange: acute RSV LRTI; green: RSV follow-up) underneath the expression profile for that specific sample in (A). Wilcoxon rank paired <i>t</i>-test demonstrated significantly lower MDTH scores at follow-up compared with during the acute disease. (C and D) Average modular transcriptional fingerprint for acute RSV LRTI (C) and follow-up (D). Colored spots represent the percentage of significantly overexpressed (red) or underexpressed (blue) transcripts within a module in patients with RSV infection compared to controls (see <a href=\"http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549#pmed-1001549-g003\" target=\"_blank\">Figure 3G</a> for module map key). Circle rings highlight modules with greater changes from the acute to the follow-up visit. (E) Analysis of modular activation during acute RSV LRTI and follow-up revealed overexpression of interferon-related genes (M1.2, M3.4, M5.12) at a greater level at follow-up than during acute disease (54% in acute RSV versus 78% at follow-up; <i>p</i><0.001). This effect was specifically observed in type-I interferon (<i>TRIM25</i>) but mostly in interferon-γ-related genes (<i>BTN3A1, TAP2, SP100, SP110, NUB1</i>). Genes related to neutrophils (M5.15), monocytes (M4.14), and innate immunity (M3.2, M4.2) that were overexpressed during acute disease showed decreased expression at follow-up. Cytotoxic/NK cell (M3.6) genes were significantly overexpressed at follow-up compared with the acute disease. B cell (M4.10) genes remained underexpressed over time, but genes related to T cells (M4.1, M4.15), lymphoid lineage (M6.19), and antimicrobial response (M2.1), which were underexpressed during acute RSV, reached expression levels comparable to those observed in healthy controls (grey circles) at follow-up.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["profiles", "altered", "mo", "acute", "rsv"], "article_id"=>847801, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g006", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>9, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Blood_host_immune_profiles_remain_altered_1_mo_after_acute_RSV_LRTI_/847801", "title"=>"Blood host immune profiles remain altered 1 mo after acute RSV LRTI.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277190"], "description"=>"<p>(A) A supervised learning K-NN algorithm with seven neighbors and a <i>p</i>-value ratio cutoff of 0.5 was used to identify the 70 top-ranked genes that best discriminated RSV from HRV and influenza LRTI. Using the 70 classifier genes, leave-one-out cross-validation of the training set correctly classified 67 of the 68 samples (influenza [<i>n</i> = 9; green]; RSV [<i>n</i> = 44, blue]; HRV [<i>n</i> = 15, burgundy]) (98% accuracy). The patient sample that was not classified correctly belonged to an infant <6 mo old with mild influenza A LRTI (#207). Predicted class is indicated by light-colored rectangles. (B) The 70 classifier genes were cross-validated on an independent set of 69 new patients (test set; influenza <i>n</i> = 7; RSV <i>n</i> = 47; HRV <i>n</i> = 15). The algorithm correctly categorized 63 of the 69 new patient samples (91% accuracy). Five samples (#22, #38, #45, #46, #49) from infants with RSV were misclassified as influenza. These five RSV patients demonstrated overexpression of the 18 top overexpressed influenza classifier genes, which was not demonstrated in the rest of the RSV cohort (<a href=\"http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549#pmed-1001549-t002\" target=\"_blank\">Table 2</a>). One patient with mild RSV LRTI (#47) was not predicted. (C) Mean modular transcriptional fingerprint for influenza (<i>n</i> = 16 and 10 matched controls), RSV (<i>n</i> = 44 and 14 matched controls), and HRV LRTI (<i>n</i> = 30 and 14 matched controls). Overall, children with HRV infection demonstrated a milder activation of the innate and adaptive immune responses, compared with children with influenza or RSV infection. Children with influenza displayed a stronger activation of genes related to interferon (M1.2, M3.4, M5.12), inflammation (M4.6, M5.1, M6.13), monocytes (M4.14), and innate immune response (M3.2, M4.2, M4.13) compared with children with RSV or HRV. Several type I interferon (<i>IFIH1, IFIT1–5, STAT2, MX1</i>) and type II interferon (<i>IFI16, CXCL10, CCL8, GBP1–5, STAT1, SOCS1</i>) genes were expressed only in influenza and RSV infection (<a href=\"http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549#pmed.1001549.s006\" target=\"_blank\">Table S3</a>). In addition, the magnitude of the type I interferon (<i>IFI44, IFI44L, OAS2, IRF7</i>) and type II interferon (<i>IFI35, IFITM1–3</i>) response present was 2- to 22-fold higher in children with influenza compared with children with RSV or HRV. Similarly, genes related to inflammation, monocytes, and innate immune response were greatly overexpressed in children with influenza compared to children with RSV or HRV LRTI. Neutrophil-related genes (M5.15) such as <i>CEACAM6</i>, <i>DEFA4</i>, <i>MPO</i>, and <i>MMP8</i> were significantly overexpressed in RSV infection, followed by HRV infection and, at a lower level, influenza infection. <i>DEFA1</i>, <i>DEFA3</i>, <i>ELA2</i>, <i>CEACAM8</i>, and <i>AZU1</i> were expressed only in RSV and HRV infection. Three genes were solely and significantly expressed in RSV infection but not in influenza or HRV infection: <i>LTF</i>, <i>RETN</i>, which binds to <i>DEFA1</i>, and the scavenger receptor <i>OLR1</i>. On the other hand, the suppression of genes related to B cells (M4.10), T cells (M4.1, M4.15), lymphoid lineage (M6.19), and antimicrobial response (M2.1) observed in RSV infection was significantly milder or not present in children with influenza or HRV LRTI. The outer dark circles highlight the disease group (influenza, RSV, or HRV) with greater (red) or lower (blue) modular activation.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["profiles", "children", "hrv"], "article_id"=>847799, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g005", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>50, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Transcriptional_profiles_from_children_with_influenza_RSV_and_HRV_LRTI_/847799", "title"=>"Transcriptional profiles from children with influenza, RSV, and HRV LRTI.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1277185"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Statistical group comparisons between children <2 y of age with RSV LRTI and healthy matched controls (Ctl) (Mann-Whitney test <i>p</i><0.01, Benjamini-Hochberg multiple test correction and 1.25-fold change) yielded 2,317 significantly differentially expressed transcripts (training set; Dallas, Texas). Transcripts were organized by hierarchical clustering, where each row represents a single transcript and each column an individual participant. Normalized expression levels are indicated as overexpressed (red) or underexpressed (blue) compared to the median expression of healthy controls (yellow). (B) The same 2,317-transcript list applied to an independent set (test set; Dallas, Texas) of 46 children with RSV LRTI and 13 matched controls. (C) A third cohort of children with RSV LRTI was used as validation set A (Turku, Finland). Unsupervised hierarchical clustering of the 2,317 transcripts grouped all RSV patients together (red bar) except for the only patient who was diagnosed in the outpatient setting, who clustered with the controls. Dotted line indicates the cluster separation. (D) A fourth cohort of 28 infants with RSV and eight matched controls was used as validation set B (Columbus, Ohio) and was analyzed in a different gene chip (Illumina Human HT-12 v4). Unsupervised clustering of the 2,194 transcripts (123 transcripts were not present in this new gene chip) segregated patients and controls with high accuracy. Dotted line indicates the cluster separation. (E and F) Average modular transcriptional fingerprint for RSV LRTI in the training (E) and test (F) sets. Colored spots represent the percentage of significantly overexpressed (red) or underexpressed (blue) transcripts within a module in patients with RSV infection compared to controls (see [G] for module map key). Blank modules indicate no significant differences between patients and controls. Patients with RSV LRTI demonstrated significant overexpression of modules related to erythrocytes (M2.3, M3.1), platelets (M1.1), and cell cycle (M3.3, M4.7, M6.11, M6.16), and to innate immunity including interferon (M1.2, M3.4, M5.12), monocytes (M4.14), neutrophils (M5.15), innate immune responses (M3.2, M4.2), and inflammation (M4.6, M5.1, M6.13). Conversely, genes related to adaptive immunity: T cells (M4.1, M4.15), B cells (M4.10), lymphoid lineage (M6.19), cytotoxicity/NK cells (M3.6), and antimicrobial response (M2.1) were significantly underexpressed. (G) Key to the functional interpretation of each transcriptional module (M): module sets 1 to 6 are indicated on the <i>y</i>-axis, and module numbers within each set are indicated on the <i>x</i>-axis. (H) Scatter plot correlating (Spearman's <i>r</i>) percentage of modular expression between the training (<i>x</i>-axis) and the test (<i>y</i>-axis) sets. The interferon module (M1.2) and the antimicrobial response module (M2.1) were the most highly correlated between the training and the test sets.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["transcriptional", "characterized", "overexpression", "innate", "immunity", "suppression", "adaptive"], "article_id"=>847794, "categories"=>["Biological Sciences"], "users"=>["Asuncion Mejias", "Blerta Dimo", "Nicolas M. Suarez", "Carla Garcia", "M. Carmen Suarez-Arrabal", "Tuomas Jartti", "Derek Blankenship", "Alejandro Jordan-Villegas", "Monica I. Ardura", "Zhaohui Xu", "Jacques Banchereau", "Damien Chaussabel", "Octavio Ramilo"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001549.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>11, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_RSV_transcriptional_signature_is_characterized_by_overexpression_of_innate_immunity_and_suppression_of_adaptive_immunity_/847794", "title"=>"RSV transcriptional signature is characterized by overexpression of innate immunity and suppression of adaptive immunity.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-11-12 03:24:04"}
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Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Richard P. Chi & Allan W. Snyder
http://www.mendeley.com/research/facilitate-insight-noninvasive-brain-stimulation
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{"type"=>"COMMENT", "annotationUri"=>"info:doi/10.1371/annotation/d7f27a02-1a3b-4016-9363-de86060adaa1", "title"=>"Attractor dynamics", "body"=>"The results in this paper would have been quite predictable by dynamical systems theory: the transcranial stimulation may have modulated the attractor landscape of the brain (i.e., neural networks) by external electromagnetic forces, so that the brain is not \"stuck\" any more in some inflexible attractors or \"prejudices\" or \"first guesses\" or \"biases\" (or \"mental templates\", according to these authors).\r\n\r\nAs usual: there is no \"science\", but only technology...\r\n\r\nI wonder when the time is coming to apply transcranial stimulation in schools and during pedagogic interventions (i.e., another --- very old --- way and method to shift and sculpt neural networks and attractors in vivo and in real-time). \r\n\r\nBut \"good\" teachers (and non-invasive methods) are becoming extremely rare throughout the world...", "isRemoved"=>false, "created"=>"2011-02-08T12:10:47Z", "lastModified"=>"2011-02-08T12:10:47Z", "creator"=>{"userId"=>"81273"}, "highlightedText"=>"", "competingInterestStatement"=>{"creatorWasPrompted"=>true, "hasCompetingInterests"=>false}, "parentArticle"=>{"doi"=>"info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655", "state"=>"published", "journals"=>{"PLoSONE"=>{"journalKey"=>"PLoSONE", "eIssn"=>"1932-6203", "title"=>"PLOS ONE"}}}, "replyTreeSize"=>0, "mostRecentActivity"=>"2011-02-08T12:10:47Z", "replies"=>[]}
{"type"=>"COMMENT", "annotationUri"=>"info:doi/10.1371/annotation/0babb198-5ee1-4b86-8d02-530ea98f233b", "title"=>"Academic editor reply to criticism of this paper", "body"=>"As academic editor of this paper, I had expected it to be controversial, given the striking result and potential implications for application. I’m a congenital sceptic, but it had been through a round of review by two sober individuals who did not find major flaws and I felt it was methodologically adequate and merited publication. I haven’t used transcranial electrical direct current stimulation (tDCS) in my own research, but I’m interested in possibly doing so in future and know a little about it.\n This paper has achieved a startling level of prominence, with over 10,000 article views in the 24 days since publication. Yet not all reaction has been favourable. I’m aware of some blogposts that have been highly critical. This has led me to look again at the paper to judge whether I was wrong to accept it for publication.\nBut before I summarise my re-evaluation, I’d like to make one other point. There has been only ONE comment on this paper. I have tried to persuade critics on the blogosphere to use the Comments facility to start up a debate but nobody has. Why not? It does seem an opportunity wasted: it would be a way of drawing attention of the criticisms to the authors, who could then respond, and it would also mean that the 10,000 people who’d viewed the paper would be aware there was controversy.\n A widely-disseminated critique of this paper was in a blogpost on the Guardian Science blog website, by Chris Chambers, Sven Bestmann and Elena Rusconi, entitled, “'Thinking caps' are pseudoscience masquerading as neuroscience”, http://tinyurl.com/6l9xcua .\nThe first part of the post criticised the sensationalised media accounts of the research rather than the PLOS One paper; as readers of my own blog (http://deevybee.blogspot.com/ ) will know, that’s a topic that I’m very interested in, but my concern here is with comments that specifically question the methodology and conclusions of the paper itself. According to Chambers et al, the study “suffers from a catalogue of confounding factors and logical flaws”. In essence, they argue there is a lack of experimental control: “by failing to control for alternative explanations, their results … are open to a multitude of possible interpretations” and that “without appropriate experimental controls, the results are virtually meaningless.” \n Nobody seems to disagree that the brain stimulation improved task performance. In fact, in so far as I’m sceptical, it’s that part of the paper that concerned me - I found myself wondering whether such a dramatic effect was just a fluke. I wondered if it would replicate. But that’s why we have statistics, and I didn’t think it was my place as an editor to reject a paper just because I find it implausible if the stats are telling me it’s a big effect that is highly unlikely to have arisen by chance. This is particularly the case for PLOS One, whose policy very much discourages editors from allowing personal prejudices to affect decisions.\n The criticisms raised by Chambers and colleagues are different. They contest the claim by Chi and Snyder that stimulation affected ‘insight’. They suggest alternative interpretations that have not been elimiated: (a) participants became less cautious in reaching a decision; (b) they were helped to recall a similar problem seen a few minutes earlier; (c) they were temporarily less distractible; (d) they had dulled hearing; or (e) were more generally alert.\n While I agree that the mechanism of the effect remains unclear, most of these alternatives don’t strike me as plausible. Anyone who has tried the stick problems (which are specified in the paper) will realise that these are problems where it’s not hard to know whether you’re right or wrong. You essentially get stuck, especially if you’ve been primed with a different class of problem, until the moment when you have the ‘ah ha’ experience. It’s not clear to me how caution in decision-making would be an issue for such a task. As regards (b), the participants haven’t seen similar problems: that’s the whole point. This is a new type of problem and that’s why it’s hard. Hearing is neither here nor there; this is a visual task. Distractibility or alertness could, I agree, be mechanisms underlying the effect. In that case, we might have expected the tDCS to have an equivalent effect regardless of laterality of stimulation, but I agree we can’t rule out a rather general mechanism underlying the effect on this task - it's possible that the side of stimulation has a differential effect, e.g. on attention.\n I’m prepared to accept that this one experiment has not given a watertight account of how tDCS works - there are a number of explanations that remain open. But I don’t regard the results as ‘virtually meaningless’. On the contrary, I would argue this study lays the ground for more work on tDCS to both replicate this study and refine the methods. As the authors themselves pointed out “Further studies using a variety of control tasks are needed to disentangle the specific mechanisms of action and to determine whether the improvement in insight problem solving is task specific or can be widely generalized.” \n The other major objections raised by Chambers et al concerned the ethical implications of the work, especially the possibility that attempts to enhance cognitive abilities might have unwanted side effects. I agree. We need to be very cautious. But as someone who works with individuals who have problems in learning, I think we need careful studies of just how safe tDCS is, rather than assuming it will be harmful. \n So do I regret accepting this manuscript? I hope that I’m honest enough to be able to accept when I’m wrong, but in this case I think the decision to publish was correct. I do thoroughly agree with critics, however, in my dislike of the subsequent sensationalism surrounding media reports of the findings.\n\n", "isRemoved"=>false, "created"=>"2011-02-27T16:14:36Z", "lastModified"=>"2011-02-27T16:14:36Z", "creator"=>{"userId"=>"84195"}, "highlightedText"=>"", "competingInterestStatement"=>{"creatorWasPrompted"=>true, "hasCompetingInterests"=>false}, "parentArticle"=>{"doi"=>"info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655", "state"=>"published", "journals"=>{"PLoSONE"=>{"journalKey"=>"PLoSONE", "eIssn"=>"1932-6203", "title"=>"PLOS ONE"}}}, "replyTreeSize"=>1, "mostRecentActivity"=>"2011-06-07T00:13:34Z", "replies"=>[{"type"=>"REPLY", "parentID"=>925, "annotationUri"=>"info:doi/10.1371/reply/3a998a1d-8fb9-4429-83bd-7aa3e8bd5ae1", "title"=>"RE: Academic editor reply to criticism of this paper", "body"=>"Greetings. I have been extremely interested in this study since it was published some 6 months ago. As a foreign language teacher, I see the effects of past mental templates on students all the time. I can tell them how to pronounce a word time after time, but their mental template of the alphabet (in their own language) dictates the way they repeat what I tell them. \r\nI don't believe they fail to listen but that what I tell them is filtered through that particular mental template and the pronunciation of any given word thus changes when repeated back to me.\r\nJust an hour ago I walked into an English business class to give an exam and a coworker of the students told me that my student was [praɪjiŋ] instead of [preɪjiŋ]. That simple change from one diphthong to another kept me from understanding the man until he put his hands up as if he were [preɪjiŋ]. So, both our mental templates put as at a disadvantage.\r\nAnyway, I hope we can find ways to apply this to learning. \r\nAlso, to the authors of this study, could there be any relation with your findings to the concepts of so-called \"neuro-linguistic programming”? \r\nIt has received what I consider to be similar criticism to its ideas, i.e. a lack of control in proving their methodology.\r\nI am not aware of anyone attempting to prove the concepts but I see a relationship between your ideas and some of the ideas related to neuro-linguistic programming.\r\nI know some of their methods involve incorporating motor tasks that supposedly stimulate the right side of students' brains by having them do exercises with their left hands.\r\nMaybe this could be an area of opportunity. Could we possibly examine the effects of these simple, physical exercises on a more empirical level with the aid of new computer imaging technology?\r\n\r\nAside from that, I find it quite funny that deevybee sites a PLoS One policy which “very much discourages editors from allowing personal prejudices to affect decisions.” \r\n\r\nI suggest that PloS One use the “thinking cap” in order to avoid such policy violations.\r\n\r\n", "isRemoved"=>false, "created"=>"2011-06-07T00:13:34Z", "lastModified"=>"2011-06-07T00:13:34Z", "creator"=>{"userId"=>"168587"}, "highlightedText"=>"", "competingInterestStatement"=>{"creatorWasPrompted"=>true, "hasCompetingInterests"=>false}, "parentArticle"=>{"doi"=>"info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655", "state"=>"published", "journals"=>{"PLoSONE"=>{"journalKey"=>"PLoSONE", "eIssn"=>"1932-6203", "title"=>"PLOS ONE"}}}, "replyTreeSize"=>0, "mostRecentActivity"=>"2011-06-07T00:13:34Z", "replies"=>[]}]}
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/801096"], "description"=>"<p>Values are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean. Participants across the three stimulation groups did not differ in terms of age (p = 0.19, ANOVA), time required in completing the mental set phase (p = 0.76, ANOVA) or experience in a quantitative field (p = 0.85, 2 tailed Fisher's exact test). It turned out that gender is not evenly distributed across the stimulation groups, with a few more females in the sham stimulation group. Nevertheless, it is clear from the data that gender is not a predictor of success in problem solving for either the Type 2 (p = 1, 2-tailed Fisher's exact test) or Type 3 (p = 0.58, 2-tailed Fisher's exact test) insight problem (see <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655#pone-0016655-t002\" target=\"_blank\">Table 2</a>).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["characteristics", "stimulation"], "article_id"=>471470, "categories"=>["Neuroscience"], "users"=>["Richard P. Chi", "Allan W. Snyder"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655.t001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>5, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Demographic_characteristics_across_the_three_stimulation_groups_/471470", "title"=>"Demographic characteristics across the three stimulation groups.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 20:48:48"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/801056"], "description"=>"<p>We a priori did not intend to use the Type 3 insight problem to test our main hypothesis that those in the L− R+ group would perform better than those in the sham stimulation group. This is because those with brain lesion paradoxically perform better only for Type 2 problems, but not for Type 3 problems (Reveberi et al., 2007). Nevertheless, the result for the Type 3 problem is consistent with our hypothesis and also consistent with results for the Type 2 problem. Note that while the comparisons between L+ R− and sham (p = 0.15, logrank test) and between L+ R− and L− R+ (p = 0.26, logrank test) are not significant (possibly due to the lack of power), it is clear that those in the L− R+ group had a significant advantage over those in the sham stimulation group (p = 0.010, logrank test).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["provides", "solving", "stimulation"], "article_id"=>471427, "categories"=>["Neuroscience"], "users"=>["Richard P. Chi", "Allan W. Snyder"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016655.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>3, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_figure_provides_a_comparison_of_problem_solving_performance_Type_3_insight_problem_across_stimulation_groups_/471427", "title"=>"The figure provides a comparison of problem solving performance (Type 3 insight problem) across stimulation groups.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 20:48:34"}
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‘A Walking Shadow’, p. 9
April 1, 2016 Amanda Victoria Sewell Leave a comment
The ‘student revolution’ of ’68 seemed to have passed UEA by, almost entirely. Perhaps its geographical location in a remote part of East Anglia; and the predominantly middle-class student ‘body’ dulled any notions of dissent.
There was a plethora of sports cars ( MGBs mainly) owned by students in the university car park.
UEA was an incongruous place : set in the heart of the glorious Norfolk countryside and housed in Denys Lasdun’s bleak New Brutalist architecture. From the air, the campus resembled’ a maximum security asylum for the criminally insane’, as a good friend of mine once described it..
By July 1969, however, Jonathan had become restive, and had decided to leave university teaching and to pursue his fledgling writing career in London.
He and I were still ‘together’, and I visited him a few times in London, where he had moved and was renting a room in the home of the journalist, Angela Lambert.
Angela was the most lively and entertaining of landladies. A very pretty woman, with dazzling green eyes, she was living with the Hungarian writer, Stephen Vizinczey, whose seminal book In Praise of Older Women’, had been published in 1965, to great acclaim.
I only met Stephen once , as we both arrived at Angela’s doorstep at the same time, but I was impressed even then by his courtly, sensual mitteleuropaische charm.
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Cup’s future might depend on tight finish, says Louis Oosthuizen
December 10, 2019 Marcus Taylor
Making his Presidents Cup debut in 2013, Oosthuizen said the tournament needed some tight competition to survive.
“I think we’re almost at that point,” the world No.20 said.
“Running up against a brick wall in New York with an unbelievable in-form US Team, was just a very difficult that week.
“I think this week, this is probably the best chance we will have with this golf course, this crowd, and I think the way our guys are playing.
“I think this is probably the best chance that we’ll have in the four Cups that I’ve played.”
With seven International debutants, he felt the team carried few scars from Presidents Cup past and that could prove the difference.
“I think it’s the youth in our team – it’s a lot of youngsters and a lot of rookies, and it’s great to see how eager they are and how ready they are to get this done,” he said.
“That’s where I feel Ernie (team captain Ernie Els) has done an unbelievable job getting all of us ready and the boys are playing good golf.”
Winner of the 2010 British Open, as well as finishing second in four other majors, Oosthuizen has had a stellar preparation for the tournament.
He finished with an eagle for a final round 66 to earn second spot in last week’s Australian Open.
“My game is good – I’m playing nicely and I’m putting nicely,” he said.
“I used it as preparation and obviously I’ll take a lot of confidence and hopefully we can pull it off.”
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Doom E3 2015 Trailer: Gameplay, SnapMap and Multiplayer Revealed
Bethesda has finally revealed gameplay of Id Software's Doom at E3 2015, and let's just say it was worth the wait.
We all know Bethedsa is hosting an E3 panel, they're showcasing Doom, so let's get straight into the action. The first gameplay trailer for Doom started off with a person putting on a Spartan-esque helmet, resulting in the game's HUD appearing onscreen. A shotgun is used at the default weapon as the player is seen double jumping through a futuristic foundry that is likely to host the molten remains of a T-800. Out of nowhere, demons start spawning all over the level and the shells start flying. We should note that the player was able to incapacitate a demon, run up to it stunned, break off its leg and jam the stump into the monster's face, which is needless to say, awesome. After opening a door, the player finds a bloody hallway filled with corpses. On one of the bodies was a super shotgun. As you would expect, it made demons' bodies blow up into gooey bits.
The player fought off a few enemies brandishing laser-based weapons as he found an upgrade to his first shotgun that added explosive rounds and rapid fire. The next weapon featured after that was a plasma rifle. We're loving the new melee finishing moves, including a part where a demon's lower jaw was ripped from its face. After activating a computer terminal, you get to see a holographic recording of the massive demon that killed the local science team. The player then ripped off the hand of a nearby scientist's corpse to activate the security panel and open the next door. Much to our delight, the player found a chainsaw in the next room, resulting in some epic death sequences. Everything looked amazing, and these visuals subliminally confirmed that this incarnation of Doom would not be hitting last-gen consoles.
After showcasing the gameplay, ID Software revealed details about the game's online multiplayer, which focuses on fast-paced gameplay that should cater to old school FPS fans, especially PC vets. In the middle of combat, the player grew flaming pentagrams in his palms as he changed from a human to a demon with shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and kept fighting in the online match. The variety of guns, fast paced gameplay and multitude of demons will make Doom's multiplayer a much-needed breath of fresh air for competitive FPS gameplay. Lastly, ID Software revealed that gamers will be able to customize their own online matches in Doom: SnapMap. SnapMap is like a level creator cranked to the extreme, letting you bend the rules of the game to however you'd like to see.
Finally, we got to see Hell, literally, in a second single-player mode gameplay demo (featured below). This environment was much different than the Mars-based foundry. There are all kinds of demons and spirits around, and most of them don't take kindly to anyone with a human soul. As you'd expect, there are hellspawn coming out of the wood works here, making things extremely tense.
It's time to blast the death metal, because Doom looks to make amends for its years of delays. One of the new enemy types is a chubby demon filled with plasma-dispersing tech. After killing it, your character ripped a glowing panel off of its chest, shoved it down the demon's throat and made it self destruct. At the very end of the trailer, the towering statue in the center of the level came alive and aimed a massive energy weapon at you while the player started charging a BFG shot in its direction before the screen went blank.
Doom was been confirmed for a Spring 2016 release for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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IPEC Joins V-Con Celebration
The much-awaited V-Convention MALAYSIA 2018 or V-Con, as it’s popularly known, kicked off at the Subterranean Penang International Conference & Exhibition Centre (SPICE). The theme for V-Con Malaysia 2018 – organised by Q Net, a prominent direct selling company – is One People, One Planet, One Purpose in conjunction with 20th Anniversary of Qnet. The Founder of V-Convention Dato’ Sri Vijay Eswaran officially welcomed 15,000 participants from 70 countries such as Malaysia, India, UAE, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Singapore, Australia,Philippines and more.
IPEC Bureau’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Juliana Lim together with Standards Malaysia Director of General Datuk Fadilah Baharin were invited to the convention which staged a grand celebration for thousands of attendees, mainly entrepreneurs, with passion for building a better life for themselves and empowering others around the world. The Quatum Energy Scientist Prof Dr Konstantin Korotkov was invited to speak on the launch of a new energy product at the Qnet carnival. V-Con is a five-day convention featuring world-class motivational speeches, training sessions and impressive exhibitions, with nine countries having hosted this event.
By ipecbureauin Insights April 30, 2018 178 Words
International Science,Technology and Innovation (STI) Funding Workshop
IPEC Bureau is invited every year to participate in the international collaboration fund offered by ASEAN and APEC. This year, the International Collaboration Funds Workshop was held on 17 April 2018, organised by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).
The objective of this workshop is to provide a brief on the funds and encourage application submissions. This presents an invaluable opportunity to embark on joint Research & Development (R&D) collaboration projects between government related organisations in Malaysia and their ASEAN and APEC counterparts.
To secure international funds, the workshop encouraged submissions of quality project proposals from government related organisations. Malaysia is among the participating member states in ASEAN, Science and Technology and APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation, which opens doors for international funding for capacity building and R & D projects such as ASEAN STI Fund, ASEAN Dialogue Partners’ Funds and APEC Fund.
Overall the workshop was a big success in enlightening everyone on grant and funding opportunities available, primarily the ASEAN and APEC grants – which will be handled by MOSTI’s International Collaboration Funds – as well as application procedures.
With APEC firmly focusing on advancing free trade for Asia-Pacific prosperity to achieve free and open trade and investment by 2020, a world of opportunities awaits Malaysians, especially SMEs involved in STI.
Imagine The Possibilities with APEC
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is firmly focused on advancing free trade for Asia-Pacific prosperity to achieve free and open trade and investment by 2020. APEC is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the region. Back in 2014, IPEC Bureau represented Malaysia in APEC, participating in the Multilateral Recognition Arrangement Readiness Project in Person Certification (CTI 04 13T) sponsored by the APEC Sub Committee on Standards Conformance (SCSC) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
IPEC is continuously involved in promoting the core values of APEC in talent mobility, social innovations and personnel quality through the ISO/IEC 17024. This will enable the public to stay competitive and relevant as APEC moves towards strengthening its human assets, especially empowering women in economic and inclusive growth.
The following video helps you Imagine The Possibilities with APEC. Please contact us if you are interested to involve with us at APEC level.
By ipecbureauin Insights April 28, 2018 April 27, 2018 155 Words
IAC SITE VISIT FOR STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
Site visits are crucial to ensure standards are maintained and compliance are in order. One was recently conducted as part of the new Industry Assessment Centre (IAC) by our CEO, Dr. Juliana Lim, which was developed to accommodate the advancement of current facilities on specific sector standards development and assessment practice.
The visit was to Faire La Belle Aesthetic Boutique in Kuala Lumpur, owned by Ms Aileen Yap, who is also the premier investor for the Amplewest Tower. The importance of the IAC cannot be stressed enough. It provides and convenience for candidates to complete their assessment in an industrial base.
IAC is the new initiative implemented by IPEC to tackle the none-typical industry competencies upskilling, reskilling and cross-skilling through outbound on real job-assessment concept. This intervention concept introduce by IPEC is in tandem with Malaysia TN50 initiative on The Future of Jobs, Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy.
Bulletz March 2018
The latest edition of Bulletz highlights a new dimension to human capital development in ASEAN with our recent bilateral meeting in Cambodia. And grants! grants! grant!. Don’t forget to grab yours now. Read on to find out more.
By ipecbureauin Insights March 31, 2018 45 Words
“I am very proud to appoint Nadiah Wafa as IPEC Bureau’s Inspired / Goodwill Ambassador, and am excited about the prospect of Nadiah promoting IPEC’s core values not just domestically but throughout Asia Pacific.
As IPEC drives people to embrace personal transformation, Nadiah — one of the top in her sport in Malaysia, and the best woman paragliding pilot in country — exemplifies what unlocking the superpower within you can do for your stature, career progress and become your own masterpiece.
Please take a moment to watch this brief video of Nadiah, produced by one our young university graduates which, again, goes to show how IPEC Bureau can inspire young talent to make impossible, I’m possible.”
IPEC BUREAU CEO, Dr Juliana Alut Lim
By ipecbureauin Insights March 31, 2018 131 Words
IPEC Goodwill Ambassador – Nadiah Wafa
When one of the best Malaysian paragliding pilot – also the best woman paragliding pilot in the country – joint forces with IPEC Bureau, you have the right choice to be projected as our Inspired / Goodwill Ambassador for next two years.
This is the story of Nadia Wafa, who passionately engaged in personal transformation to overcome many challenges and, make impossible, I’m possible. Nadia will be drive forward, dynamism and innovation to promote best practice of IPEC’s values and inspire the WOW generation. This initiative is aimed at encouraging young minds to embrace the platforms for ISO/IEC 17024 certification of person and international recognition.
Nadia will also be competing in the upcoming 1st FAI Asian-Oceanic Paragliding Accuracy Championship (FAI CAT 1).
Personal transformation starts from the most atomic level of the an individual and the sky’s the limit. We would like to congratulate our New Goodwill Ambassador Nadiah Wafa.
By ipecbureauin Insights March 30, 2018 March 30, 2018 151 Words
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Member of ARIJ Award
ARIJ 10th Annual Forum ملتقى أريج السنوي العاشر
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Christiaan Triebert
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Christian Triebert is an award-winning investigative journalist focused on war and conflict. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, amongst others. He is a member of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat and contributes to the work of civilian casualty watchdog Airwars. Besides his digital research, Christiaan has conducted fieldwork in a variety of countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. He holds a master’s degree in Conflict, Security & Development from King’s College London and two bachelor degrees (IRIO and Philosophy of a Specific Discipline) from the University of Groningen. Twitter: @trbrtc.
Investigating War and Conflict with Digital Information ( Hosted By BellingCat )
( Hosted By BellingCat ) تقصّي وقائع حروب ومناطق نزاع بالمعلومات الرقمية Al Diwan 1Christiaan Triebert
Filter By Date ARIJ 10th Annual Forum ملتقى أريج السنوي العاشر Dec 1- 3, 2017
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New Rochelle Downtown Jazz Festival Highlights Big Musical Weekend
It’s already mid-July and it seems as if the summer is speeding by. Don’t let it pass you by, though, without enjoying everything there is to see in the cities, towns and villages in the 88th Assembly District. The New Rochelle Downtown Jazz Festival highlights a week of concerts in the area.
The group Gunsmoke will perform at noon in Renaissance Park (Mamaroneck Avenue and Main Street, White Plains) as part of the city’s Noon Day Concert series. Visit cityofwhiteplains.com for more information.
The New Rochelle Council on the Arts will continue its “Pop-Up Performances” at the New Rochelle Train Station from 5:30-7 p.m. The concerts will run every Thursday through Aug. 25. Visit newrochellearts.org for more information.
The City of New Rochelle will celebrate its founding by French Huguenots with a 10 a.m. Bastille Day ceremony, sponsored by the New Rochelle Sister City Committee, at City Hall (515 North Avenue, New Rochelle). Visit newrochelleny.com for more information.
Huguenots
The annual New Rochelle Downtown Jazz Festival will kick off with a performance by Ras Chemash Lamed at Jolo’s Vegan Restaurant (49 Lawton St., New Rochelle). Italian pianist Nico Morelli is also scheduled to perform. Visit newrochellearts.org for more information.
The Westchester Band, under the direction of Allan Hollander, will perform at Chase Park in Scarsdale at 8 p.m. The concert will be held at Scarsdale High School in case of rain. Visit scarsdale.com for more information.
The Beth El Synagogue Center (1324 North Avenue, New Rochelle) will continue the 2016 Summer Israel Film Series with a 7:30 p.m. showing of “Partner With the Enemy”, an inspiring story of the relationship between two women, one Israeli the other Palestinian. Visit bethel.org for more information.
The Westchester Italian Cultural Center (24 Depot Square, Tuckahoe) will host its Cinema Sotto le Stelle Series beginning with an 8:30 p.m. showing of “Se Dio Vuole”. Bring your own chair and be in Depot Square early to get a seat. Visit wiccny.org for more information.
The city of White Plains will host T-Bone as part of its neighborhood nights series at Chatterton Park (Chatterton Avenue and Harmon Street, White Plains) at 7 p.m. Visit cityofwhiteplains.com for more information.
The Petting Zoo and Shaun the Sheep will be at Gardella Park (Ferris Avenue, White Plains) at 4 p.m. Visit cityofwhiteplains.com for more information.
The City of White Plains, ArtsWestchester and the White Plains Performing Arts Center have joined together once again to present Shakespeare in the Park. This year’s production is “As You Like It” and will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. in Turnure Park (26 Lake Street, White Plains). Visit wppac.com for more information.
The New Rochelle Down To Earth Farmer’s Market will take place from 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Huguenot Park/Twin Lakes. Visit http://tinyurl.com/jsbomn4 for more information.
The New Rochelle Downtown Jazz Festival will continue at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway) when the Brian Carter Quartet and Nico Morelli perform at 8 p.m. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The Pelham Arts Center (155 Fifth Avenue, Pelham) will host an Opening Reception for its “Faculty and Student Showcase” exhibit, which will run through Aug. 19, from 6:30-8 p.m. Visit pelhamartscenter.org for more information.
The White Plains Performing Arts Center (11 City Place, White Plains) will present Willy Wonka Junior as part of its Summer Theatre Academy production series. Showtime is 7 p.m. on Friday and again on Saturday. Visit wppac.com for more information.
The Generoso Pope Foundation (24 Depot Square, Tuckahoe) will kick off its Summer Movie Series with a showing of Toy Story at 8:30 p.m. Visit gpfny.org for more information.
The First Baptist Church of White Plains (456 North Street, White Plains) will host a free Game and Grill Night. Bring
some food to share or enjoy the free burgers and hot dogs while playing board and lawn games. Visit firstbaptistwhiteplains.org for more information.
The Pelham Picture House (175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham) will present “The Music of Strangers” beginning with a 1 p.m. show. There will also be shows at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. with shows throughout the weekend. The film chronicles the story of Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the international music collective founded by the legendary cellist. Visit thepicturehouse.org for more information.
The New Rochelle Downtown BID Grand Market will take place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on the New Rochelle Library Green. Visit newrochellegrandmarket.com for more information.
The Bronxville Farmer’s Market will take place from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Stone Place and Paxton Avenue, Bronxville. Visit bronxvillefarmersmarket.com for more information.
The New Rochelle Jazz Festival continues with a full day of music at Ruby Dee Park on the Library Green. Scheduled to appear are Jazmyn (noon), The Rocky Middleton Trio (2 p.m.), Blue Haze with special gust Tasty Mike Murphy (5-7 p.m.), KJ Denhart (7-9 p.m.) and the Carl Bartlett, Jr. Quartet (9-10:30 p.m.). Gil Paris will receive the New Rochelle Jazz Festival Award at Jolo’s Kitchen (49 Lawton Street, New Rochelle). He will perform at 8 and 10 p.m. Visit newrochellearts.org for more information.
Tasty Mike Murphy
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) will host Volunteer Garden Clean-Up Day from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Youth volunteers and children with adult supervision are encouraged to participate. Visit bartowpellmansionmuseum.org for more information.
The Empire Strikes Back Concert will take place at The County Center in White Plains at 7 p.m. DMX, Swizz Beats, The Lox, Drag-On, and Sean Cross are scheduled to perform. Visit countycenter.biz for more information.
Jazmyn will perform in the main dining room at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) at 7:30 p.m. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale) will host a breakfast with playwright and author Delia Ephron at 11 a.m. Visit scarsdalelibrary.org for more information.
The Tuckahoe Farmer’s Market will take place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in Depot Square, Tuckahoe. Visit tuckahoe.com for more information.
The New Rochelle Downtown Jazz Festival concludes with late-afternoon and evening performances at Ruby Dee Park on the New Rochelle Library Green. Avalanche (4-5 p.m.), Adam Weber Jeruvian Latin Jazz Quintet (5-7 p.m.), Brian Carter Quartet featuring Nico Morelli (7-8 p.m.) and INTZ featuring Ken Geoffrey (9-10:30 p.m.) are all scheduled to perform.
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The Humane Society of Westchester (70 Portman Road, New Rochelle) will host its 16th annual Dog Wash Fundraiser from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Visit humanesocietyofwestchester.org for more information.
The Bronxville Women’s Club (135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville) will announce the winners of the 2016 Beaux Arts Competitions at a reception from 2-5 p.m. Visit bronxvillewomensclub.org for more information.
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NASA Study Shows Disks Don’t Need Planets To Make Patterns
July 12, 2013 George Arnold Leave a comment Go to comments
Image Credit: NASA Goddard/W. Lyra (JPL-Caltech), M. Kuchner (Goddard)
Many young stars known to host planets also possess disks containing dust and icy grains, particles produced by collisions among asteroids and comets also orbiting the star. These debris disks often show sharply defined rings or spiral patterns, features that could signal the presence of orbiting planets. Astronomers study the disk features as a way to better understand the physical properties of known planets and possibly uncover new ones.
But a new study by NASA scientists sounds a cautionary note in interpreting rings and spiral arms as signposts for new planets. Thanks to interactions between gas and dust, a debris disk may, under the right conditions, produce narrow rings on its own, no planets needed.
“When the mass of gas is roughly equal to the mass of dust, the two interact in a way that leads to clumping in the dust and the formation of patterns,” said lead researcher Wladimir Lyra, a Sagan Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “In essence, the gas shepherds the dust into the kinds of structures we would expect to be see if a planet were present.”
Full Story, Video, and Links: http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-study-shows-disks-dont-need-planets-to-make-patterns/#.UeBFsz7h6-k
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NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon NGC 2392: A Beautiful End To A Star’s Life
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#OlPejeta News Updates
Aviation, Travel and Conservation News - DAILY from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands July 31, 2019 Uncategorized
Dear ATCNews Readers,
Winner of the 2019 African Ranger Awards
As we celebrate this year’s World Ranger Day, we are so proud to announce that our own, Simon Irungu Wangu, is one of the winners of the 2019 African Ranger Awards.
Sergeant Simon Irungu Wangu is the Team Commander for the Rapid Response Unit on Ol Pejeta, and a member of the National Police Reserve team (NPR). His main duty is to protect wildlife, particularly rhinos, and to manage an armed security team of 42 men. Every day, Simon deploys his team in strategic locations depending on the intelligence received hours before. While they mainly work at night, when the threat of poaching is at its highest, they also sometimes work during the day to help local communities with security incidents. It’s a 24/7 commitment.
Please join us in congratulating Simon.
Aerial Count Reveals 8% Increase in Ol Pejeta’s Wildlife
We took to the skies in June to conduct Ol Pejeta’s first dry season wildlife count. We found an increase in Ol Pejeta’s wildlife population by about 8% compared with 2017, and counted some of the largest buffalo and zebra herds on record. Mutara’s wildlife population has boomed – growing 78% since the last count.
// get the full details here
Animal Watch on Ol Pejeta
Anneka Svenska is the founder of Animal Watch — one of the fastest growing online Wildlife TV channels. In just two years, Animal Watch has reached 200,000 subscribers and amassed over 36 million total views. We were delighted to host Anneka on Ol Pejeta this month, giving her a tour of the K-9 unit and the endangered species boma, as well as some of our rangers on the front line. You will be able to watch her Ol Pejeta adventures online soon, so make sure you subscribe to Animal Watch here.
Creative Cook Stoves for a Sustainable Future
For a number of years, Ol Pejeta has been working with local communities to promote the use of more energy-saving stoves; which use up to 70% less firewood than traditional stoves, and produce a lot less smoke. In the last month, we partnered with JW Seagon, to make bricks that will be used to build fuel-efficient stoves in the Weruini Community.
// what’s cooking?
Ol Pejeta’s Community Work On a Global Platform with Ted X
Our partnership with PA-MOJA has given hope, education and a future to so many students by providing opportunity, not charity. How does this work? In June, biologist Alison Stuart – who is part of the PA-MOJA initiative – shared lessons from her work with the Ol Pejeta communities on the TedX stage – seeking to redefine philanthropy with examples of community members she has worked with.
// watch her in action here.
British Secretary of State for International Development Visits Ol Pejeta
The Secretary of State for International Development for the UK, Rory Stewart, joined the head of the Department for International Development (DfiD) Julius Court on a tour of Ol Pejeta Conservancy as part of a wider visit to northern Kenya.
They met Ol Pejeta’s head of conservation Samuel Mutisya and discussed the challenges surrounding rhino conservation and the successes we have experienced.
// read more here
ESCAPE TO OL PEJETA
Ol Pejeta is a non-profit wildlife conservancy in Kenya supporting endangered species, tourism and community outreach.
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Charlotte Green's Culture Club
Ian McKellen: Playing Gandalf made me "less shy"
"I now find that most places in the world there’ll be somebody in the room, or on the subway, or in the street, who recognises me as the actor who pretends to be Gandalf or Magneto," Ian McKellen told Charlotte Green's Culture Club on Classic FM (Sunday 14 June). "And that’s very nice for me because it’s a friendly face and something in common, and I feel less shy so its been a real boost to my confidence."
Ian McKellen on live music: "I like nothing better"
Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham-Carter on Charlotte Green's Culture Club
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Katherine Jenkins on V.E. Day at 70
New CBSO conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla talks to Classic FM
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Fading Site and Specific Lines: A Review of William Pope.L’s “Cliff” and “Better” at the Logan Center
August 23, 2019 at 9:00 am by Caira Moreira-Brown
by Caira Moreira-Brown
August 23, 2019 September 9, 2019 Filed under:
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William Pope.L, “Cliff” (2012) in Logan Center Tower/Photo: Nabiha Khan
Chicago-based artist William Pope.L’s work encompasses installation and performance, directly speaking to and challenging ideas about race and social stigmas. His installation at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center challenges contemporary views of education.
Across the windows of Logan Center Tower is an outline of a cliff in thick black vinyl print with rigid vertical markings. “Cliff” (2012), a site-specific work by Pope.L, is a part of the exhibition, “Wall Text.”
The two-dimensional cliff is contradictory to its environs. The thick black ink that renders the peaks and cliff dimensions is in contrast to the urban landscape in which it exists. Across the valleys, on an adjoining wall, are letters that spell out “On Strike for Better Schools.” Placed in an elite university, the slogan takes on a complexity of meaning. Pope.L’s work consistently contradicts social roles. The peaks and valleys in “Cliff” are more than rigid lines on a window: they represent moments in life. We find ourselves in peaks and valleys, often climbing out of the valley to make it to the peak. Each of these high and low periods will get better.
William Pope.L, “Better” (2013)/ Image: Nabiha Khan
Also on view is an extension of the work, “Better” (2013), a bumper sticker that, unlike “Cliff,” will travel through the social surroundings. This site-specific piece, which viewers are encouraged to take away, acquires a new identity when placed on a car or book, creating a protest that the next question is always coming.
These public pieces probe issues surrounding race, language and community. The bumper sticker, which reads “On Strike For Better Schools,” is intended to be attached to a vehicle, where the public will be able to view it. The lifetime of a bumper sticker is roughly five years, the same amount of time it takes the average American to graduate with their undergraduate degree. After those five years, the visibility of the sticker will begin to fade, similar to college memories.
Pope.L’s “Cliff” and “Better” indirectly ask us to interrogate the education system, while targeting an audience armed with the privilege of a college education or private transportation. By engaging real-world issues of the education system, this work offers a glimpse into another education path. (Caira Moreira-Brown)
“Cliff” (2012) and “Better” (2013) are on display indefinitely on the windows on levels 7, 8 and 9, beginning in the southwest stairwell of Level 9, Logan Center Tower at The University of Chicago, 915 East 60th Street.
Nude Figuration: A Review of "State of Undress" at Victor Armendariz and Cheryl Pope at Monique Meloche Exhibitions that focus on nude figuration have been scarce in the new millennium. This summer, however, two such shows are running simultaneously.
The Arcadian Serenity of Lines: A Review of Maura Segal at Matthew Rachman Gallery The whole is never sacrificed to the detail, as the artist tries to establish form rather than destroy or avoid it.
Kintsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche Meloche's latest window installation takes the cracks of a Ukrainian Village cathedral as inspiration for renewal.
Drawing America from an Immigrant's View: A Review of “Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg” at the Art Institute of Chicago He had a distinct visual take on American life expressed in the squiggly vertical lines that make up the faces of old ladies gambling, the exaggerated spurs on the cowboys dueling in front of a Sears Roebuck store, a topographical map of New York City as the epicenter…
Opening the Doors of Perception: A Review of “William Blake and the Age of Aquarius” at the Block Museum An Evanston exhibition revisits the clairvoyant brilliance of the English mystic-artist William Blake and his influence on twentieth-century psychedelia.
Wonder Women: A Review of “Woman As Warrior” at the Zhou B Art Center A timely and clever theme sets apart this exhibition of paintings and sculpture.
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Curating the Contemporary
International conference: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
The idea of the art museum has undergone radical changes after 1945, expressed in a whole array of new ways to stage its space, curate its exhibitions, and interact with its audiences. These developments generally orient the museum and its practices towards the contemporary in all its plural meanings.
The aim of this conference is to investigate the museum of art as a place, where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. How did the interplay between the museum and the curated thematic exhibition evolve? Which models for rethinking the museum in relation to the contemporary has been proposed? How has the museum been reimagined as a new kind of Bildung institution? How do national galleries rethink themselves in new national, international and/or global ways to (re)present the contemporary?
The conference will focus on the period after 1945: how did the museum of art gain a new position in the societies settling after WW2 and what developments can be recognized, and, potentially shed a new light on art history and art’s significance today? The focus is international to spur an exchange of different perspectives and highlight exchanges and circulations as key factors in the curating of the contemporary.
Open call for papers for the international conference.
Confirmed keynote speakers
Beatrice von Bismarck
Kim West.
The conference fee is 450 DKK (60 EUR) for two days conference including lunch, coffee breaks and closing reception. The conference is free of charge for all presenters.
For further inquiries, please contact: Kristian Handberg, handberg@hum.ku.dk
Malene Vest Hansen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen), Kristian Handberg (Postdoc, University of Copenhagen) and Camilla Jalving (Deputy Director of Collections, Research and Conservation, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark).
The conference is part of the research project Curating the Contemporary.
Time: 12 March - 13 March 2020
Place: SMK - National Gallery of Denmark & the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Organizer: The research project Curating the Contemporary
Charlotte Isabella Aarre Jerne
cjerne@hum.ku.dk
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Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio Legal Thriller by Lisa Scottoline
By Bella Wright on November 17, 2015 in Crime Thriller Books, Legal Thriller Books, New Book Releases
Bennie Rosato the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she doesn’t like to fail.
Now, a case from her past shows her how differently things might have turned out.
Thirteen years ago, Bennie Rosato took on Jason Leftavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention center after fighting a class bully.
Bennie couldn’t free Jason, and to this day it’s the case that haunts her. Jason has grown up in and out of juvenile prison, and his adulthood hasn’t been any easier.
Bennie no longer represents those accused of murder, but when Jason is indicted for killing the same bully he fought with as a kid, she sees no choice but to represent him. She doesn’t know whether or not to believe his claims of innocence, but she knows she owes him for past failures-of the law, of the juvenile justice system, and of herself. Forced to relive the darkest period of her life, Bennie will do everything in her power to get the truth, and justice.
Bella Wright
Bella Wright blogs about books, film and media.
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Castles of Mad King Ludwig For PC / Windows 7/8/10 / Mac – Free Download
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Ted Alspach's castle-building board game comes alive on Android! The winner of the prestigious 2015 Mensa Mind Games award tasks players with building extravagant castles for King Ludwig of Bavaria. Castles are constructed one room at a time, with a different player each round setting the prices for the others, resulting in a competitive, engaging game where building is as much fun as winning!
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Fishery and Biology of Blackfin Tuna Thunnus atlanticus off Northeastern Brazil
Katia M.F. Freire, University of British Columbia
Rosangela Lessa, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
Jorge Eduardo Lins-Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Blackfin tuna, Thunnus atlanticus, is the target species of a handline artisanal fishery off northeastern Brazil in September–January, but it is also caught by anglers and as by-catch in industrial fisheries. The population structure, morphometric relationships, mortality, reproduction, and fishery dynamics were studied during 2 fishing seasons (1996 and 1997). The maximum length and weight observed were 87 cm FL and 10 kg Wd, respectively. Males were larger and predominant (1.9:1). The length at 50% maturity was 49.8 cm FL for females and 52.1 cm FL for males. This species uses the area for reproduction, although a spawning peak was not observed. The length at first capture (58.1 cm FL) was higher than the length at 50% maturity. The total, natural, and fishing mortality rates were 2.34, 0.94, and 1.40 year-1, respectively. The total length-fork length and the total length-standard length relationships were TL = 1.35369 + 1.0462 FL and TL = 6.37742 + 1.0544 SL, respectively (sexes grouped). The length-weight relationship estimated for both sexes was Wd = 0.00003 FL2.8569. Annual catches decreased from 154 t year-1 in the 1970s to 33.5 t year-1 in the 1990s. It seems that there was not much change in the structure of this stock after 30 years, but the lack of a proper collection system of catch data and the increasing interest in recreational fisheries raise reasons for concern.
https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.1701.02
Freire, K. M., R. Lessa and J. E. Lins-Oliveira. 2005. Fishery and Biology of Blackfin Tuna Thunnus atlanticus off Northeastern Brazil. Gulf and Caribbean Research 17 (1): 15-24.
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Samsung unveils extremely affordable 860 QVO 4-bit MLC SATA SSD with big capacity options
By Brian Fagioli
One of the biggest knocks against solid state drives, is their capacities are typically much lower than those of mechanical hard drives at the same price points. With that said, this really only matters if you truly need a lot of local storage space. For some, performance is the most important aspect, especially thanks to the cloud.
These days, however, solid state drives are becoming more affordable and gaining higher capacities all the time. Today, Samsung unveils an affordable drive that doesn't compromise on speed or capacity. The "860 QVO," as it is called, uses 4-bit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND and starts at 1TB capacity. Yes, the base model is 1TB -- how crazy is that? You can also opt for 2TB or 4TB if you need. Speeds are exactly what you'd expect from a SATA drive -- slower than NVMe, of course, but more than fast enough for most people.
"Mainstream PC users handling large multi-media content often need to upgrade their PC’s storage to improve everyday computing experience. Based on the commonly used SATA interface and 2.5-inch form factor, the 860 QVO fits perfectly in most standard laptops or desktops. Also, by offering both high capacity and performance in a single, affordable drive, the 860 QVO eliminates the need to use a combination of an SSD and an HDD for booting and storage," says Samsung.
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The famed company further says, "Featuring sequential read and write speeds of up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 520 MB/s, respectively, the 860 QVO achieves the same level of performance as today's 3-bit MLC SSD, thanks to Samsung's latest 4-bit V-NAND and the proven MJX controller. The drive is also integrated with Intelligent TurboWrite technology, which helps to accelerate speeds while maintaining high performance for longer periods of time."
Samsung shares the following specifications.
Category Samsung 860 QVO
Interface SATA 6 Gbps
Form Factor 2.5-inch
Storage Memory Samsung V-NAND 4-bit MLC
Controller Samsung MJX Controller
DRAM 4GB LPDDR4 for 4TB
2GB LPDDR4 for 2TB
Capacity 4TB, 2TB, 1TB
Sequential Read/Write Speed Up to 550/520 MB/s
Random Read/Write Speed Up to 97K/89K IOPS
Management Software Magician Software for SSD management
Total Bytes Written 1,440TB (4TB)
720TB (2TB)
Warranty Three (3) Year Limited Warranty
The Samsung 860 QVO SSD will be available for purchase next month -- starting on December 16. Even if you already have a very fast NVMe boot drive, the 860 QVO is worth considering as a secondary storage device. Pricing starts at just $149.99 for the 1TB variant and goes up from there.
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Propelled by Kinect, Microsoft’s Xbox outsells Wii, PS3 again
According to analytics firm NPD Group, Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console has outsold Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3 for the sixth consecutive month. Microsoft moved roughly 1.37 million consoles during November, representing a 68% increase from the same period last year. Several weeks ago, the Redmond company announced that it had sold over 2.5 million Kinect motion-controllers since its November 4th launch.
“The 360 platform accounted for over 40 percent of total industry sales driven by the successful launch of Microsoft’s Kinect,” wrote Anita Frazier, an NPD Group analyst. “Xbox 360 accessories accounted for 60 percent of that category’s dollar sales this month.”
The gaming industry saw $2.76 billion in sales this past November; up 2% year-over-year.
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A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to Boeing’s on everything except noise suppression. Rickenbacker then gave Douglas one last chance to out-promise Boeing on this feature.
After consulting with his engineers, Douglas reported that he didn’t feel he could make that promise. Rickenbacker replied, “I know you can’t, I just wanted to see if you were still honest.”
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AEW Dynamite airs Every Wednesday 8/7c on TNT
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The last several weeks of “Dynamite” have been quite celebratory; we’ve had a Homecoming, an Anniversary, a Bash, an extension for “Dynamite”, and now we’ve got a cruise on our hands as well! This week’s edition of “Dynamite” is going to be a rocking rager with a Tag Title match, a bout to determine the top contender for the AEW World Title, six-man tag action, and more! #1 CONTENDERS MATCH (#1) Jon Moxley vs. (#4) PAC Moxley knocked down Sammy Guevara to get to this point, but as you can see in the above video from the “Bash at The Beach” edition of “Dynamite” last week, he paid the price for that victory with a vicious assault at the hands of Chris Jericho and The Inner Circle. The assault left Moxley with damage that left many worried it could cost him his eye sight, but did not stop him from making his presence felt after PAC defeated Darby Allin in the main event of the evening. There may not have been any physical contact between the two top contenders for Jericho’s AEW World Title, but Mox making his way to the entrance area after PAC basically declared Mox incapable of fighting demonstrated the kind of fight fans have in store this coming Wednesday on TNT. Both men have had their sights on the World Title for some time, and now they are each one win away from the opportunity to wrest it from the hands of Le Champion. Everyone witnessed the state of Moxley at the close of last week versus the state of PAC, but what will walk into the ring one week removed from that moment? Is Mox in any shape to compete, and even if a doctor said he wasn’t, does anyone actually think that would stop him? And PAC is in the best shape of his life, even though a bit obsessed in seeking a rubber match with Kenny Omega, with no nagging injuries or damage to hamper him in battle. The will of Moxley versus the will of PAC…which one will give first? WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH SCU (Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) (c) vs. (#4) Kenny Omega & Hangman Page They did it, despite their differences and the outside-the-ring antics of Adam Page, he and Kenny Omega managed to best The Young Bucks, Proud-n-Powerful, and The Best Friends to earn themselves a championship match with the SCU duo of Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky. Kaz and Sky have been the reigning and defending World Tag Team Champions since October 30th, with three successful defenses under the proverbial belts. Now they find themselves facing a pair on quite a roll after picking up that victory over three of the best teams, and defeating Private Party the week prior. Page and Omega may be a duo essentially kept together by Kenny’s force of will, but they have proven quite an effective duo nonetheless. Can they keep it together to become the second ever AEW World Tag Team Champions this Wednesday night on TNT? Or will Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky continue their dominance over the tag team division with another tick in the win column? Oh yeah, and did we mention this one is all going down on a boat!!!! SIX MAN TAG MATCH The Inner Circle (AEW World Champion Chris Jericho, Santana, & Ortiz) vs. Jurassic Express (Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy, Marko Stunt) Just a few weeks ago, to close out 2019, World Champion Chris Jericho challenged Jungle Boy to last ten minutes with Le Champion, and he did. Despite the protestations of Jericho, despite his claims otherwise, Jungle Boy did just that and it is something that Jericho cannot deny. It’s on tape, the whole world saw it live on “Dynamite”, and not only did Jericho demand 5 more minutes after Jungle Boy survived the initial 10, the champion also bailed on the extended time before those 5 minutes expired! Now, as part of the very cruise that Jericho founded, Jungle Boy has another shot at cracking the champ in the mouth, and this time it’s with the rest of The Jurassic Express at his side! But Jericho isn’t alone either, at his side are two of the most dangerous men on the All Elite roster, Santana and Ortiz. After several weeks away to take care of personal business, Proud-n-Powerful returned in the #1 Contender’s match, and although unsuccessful in their attempt to earn the spot, demonstrated they are still a threat to anyone inside the squared circle with them. Now they will side up with the World Champ to make the Jurassic Express as extinct as Luchasaurus’ relatives. P-n-P hold a victory over Marko and Lucha back on “AEW Dark” from the Sears Centre in November, so this is also that pairings chance for a little redemption over Santana & Ortiz. Something to note going into this…Chris Jericho only has one loss on his record in AEW, and that came in a tag team match where he was pinned by Scorpio Sky. Sky was rewarded a World Title match as a result of that win…just saying. HEAD-TO-HEAD MJF vs. “Bad Boy” Joey Janela Are there two more opposite ends of the spectrum on the AEW roster? On one side is Joey Janela, who has busted his body for years to get where he is today, and continues to do so every time he steps foot in the AEW ring. The man who has gone toe-to-toe with BOTH Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega in Lights Out matches, as well as a traditional one-on-one bouts, who bested Shawn Spears on “Dark” from Corpus Christi, and who had a hell of a match with Rey Fenix on the “Dark” that will air this week. And the other is Maxwell Jacob Friedman. The man who only wants Cody in a match if he’s been beaten down and “humbled” (at least in Max’s eyes), the man who shows no respect to the legends who paved the road on which he now walks, the man who hires others to do his dirty work but then rejoices in the spoils of his victory, and the man who has pretty much done the opposite of Janela when it comes to earning his keep between the ropes. Now, with Max getting all his wishes granted by Cody last week, he will have to lock horns with one of the hardest working men in AEW in Joey Janela. “The Bad Boy” is looking to make 2020 his year, and what better way to do so than by slapping the silver spoon right out of MJF’s mouth and tossing it into the ocean below… DR. BRITT BAKER IN ACTION! The fifth ranked woman on the AEW roster will be competing in the ring on this week’s edition of “Dynamite” as she attempts to climb back to the top and challenge for Riho’s AEW Women’s World Championship. Baker came so close to the mountain top once before, can she ascend there once again and actually claim the summit this time? Her journey continues this week on TNT! It’s “Dynamite” from the high seas this week, coming your way at 8pm EST/7pm CST, on TNT! Tag Titles up for grabs, the #1 Contender for the World Title will be set, MJF vs. Janela, and a whole lot more coming to you this week as our “Bash At The Beach” continues!!
The surviving members of the Hart Foundation have made it known there is unfinished business with CONTRA Unit. Now they must contend with a 6’6″ catch wrestler on the prowl for the belt. Following winning the 2019 Opera Cup, Davey Boy Smith Jr. has put himself in motion for a title shot against the reigning World Heavyweight Champion Jacob […]
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Tessa Blanchard is making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. The first-ever female Impact World Champion has suffered the ire of fans and wrestlers alike owing to her backstage behavior. The initial allegations were just the beginning. Blanchard wrestles for WOW where she also works as a head trainer. Reports suggested that the WOW locker room […]
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AYF Youth Corps Celebrates 15 Years of Service to Armenia, Karabakh
PASADENA–The Armenian Youth Federation’s Youth Corps Program celebrated its 15th anniversary on Saturday, May 22. The event, held at the Dimejian residence in Pasadena, brought together Youth Corps alumni, supporters and friends to share experiences, relive memories and celebrate the accomplishments of the program.
“I had the privilege of meeting many of the volunteers who have participated in the program in the past. I was able to speak to them personally about their experiences and hear their remarkable stories,” said Nora Kayserian, who will be volunteering this summer. “These dedicated individuals have made the program successful over the years and continue to inspire others to be a part of it.”
Youth Corps began in 1994, two months after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a cease-fire agreement ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In its first few years, the program sent volunteers in the summer to the Marduni region to assist in the reconstruction of the village of Ashan, which had been almost completely destroyed in the liberation struggle.
Youth Corps participants had the unique opportunity to see and assist in the village’s rebirth, to discover the serenity of village life, and the culture and heritage of its people, recalled Melanie Vartabedian, who participated in the program 10 years ago.
“The memories, the smell of the fire, the fresh taste of the watermelon you bite into, the endless toasts to life, to us, to the beauty of Armenia and Artsakh, and of course the toasts to the fallen—those memories remain forever,” she added.
The formative years of Youth Corps were history in the making–for Armenia and the Diaspora alike. “The bonds we forged continue to this day,” exclaimed Dzia Vartabedian, a member of the first volunteer group sent to war-torn Karabakh in 1994. According to her, the AYF started this program to connect Diasporan youth to the youth of the newly independent republic of Karabakh.
Working on the campsite in Ashan village helped achieve that goal, she explained, adding that the group spent its summer with villagers who experienced war first-hand.
Over the years, the program sent groups to the capital of Stepanakert, the village of Vayk, and the village of Ashan. Through its work, Youth Corps developed into the most memorable, productive and exciting means for young Armenians to establish and strengthen their ties with their homeland.
In 2008, Youth Corps switched gears to focus on building connections between youth in the Diaspora with their counterparts in the homeland. For two years now, Youth Corps has been operating a free summer day camp for underprivileged children in Gyumri, Armenia.
“Camp Gyumri, as it has come to be known, gives young Armenians from the Diaspora a chance to make a direct impact on the lives of some of Gyumri’s most impoverished families,” explained program director Sose Thomassian. “The four week-long camp accepts up to 150 children and provides them with a fun and safe environment to make new friends and learn new things.”
This summer, the AYF will send nine participants from California and one from Canada to run Camp Gyumri. The group will arrive in the Armenian capital of Yerevan in early July. In addition to running the camp, The group will have a chance to experience the beauty of the Homeland and its people, touring Armenia and Karabakh for two weeks.
“It’s exciting to think about the adventures we are going to have as a group and the many lives we will touch through our volunteerism,” Kayserian said. “We will have our own memories to make and stories to tell.”
The group, like last year, will maintain a daily blog of their experiences at: http://www.ayfyouthcorps.org.
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The Future of Journalism in Our Community
By Allen Yekikian
On Sunday, May 23, I had the privilege of speaking about journalism and Armenian media at a panel discussion hosted at the AGBU Manoogian-Demirjian school in Canoga Park. The panel also included longtime journalist and Horizon TV anchor Paul Chaderjian and freelance writer and ianyanmag.com editor Liana Aghajanian.
Organized by English Department Chair, Paul Martin, the conference focused on topics such as new media, the transformation of journalism and the advent of social media. The three of us shared our experiences in the industry with students, faculty and parents and spoke about the various opportunities that exist today because of the dramatic transformation and democratization of media.
Much to my enjoyment, the audience had many questions for us and everyone was eager to explore the topic in detail. The panel moderator, a bright up-and-coming writer, named Vatche Yousefian, did a great job bridging the topics and guiding the discussion.
Paul Martin covered the entire panel in great detail here on his blog, The Teacher’s View.
Prior to today’s conference, my students gathered together to draft topics and questions for the panelists. They boiled down their inquiries to several key areas: One, the students wanted to know the journalists’ opinions about devices such as iPads, Kindles, Nooks, and other electronic reading gadgets, and how they might benefit the writing and journalism industries. Since several students have blogs and also read them, they were looking for tips and techniques for creating content and reaching a wider audience. Third, the concept of citizen journalism was a prominent interest, since so many news organizations now have links for submitting stories from the average person-on-the-street. Finally, the subject of newspapers and magazines, particularly what form these traditional publications might take in the future, concerned many students, as they are interested in majoring in journalism or working in media in the future.
A few day’s before the panel, I forwarded to Paul Martin an article Paul Chaderjian and I co-authored exploring the prospects of a new Armenian revival in the age of digital media and hyper-connectivity. The article, titled, A 21st Century Zartonk: An iRevival in the Modern Age of iFedayees, was given to the students to read ahead of the discussion and, I believe, served as a solid bridge connecting the greater media world to their personal Armenian world.
The day after the panel, Liana and I appeared on Paul Chaderjian’s show on Horizon to share some after thoughts about the experience. Liana spoke about her experiences as a freelance writer and independent editor, while I shared some of the discussion points raised during the panel. We collectively probed, for the viewers, many of the questions posed to us during the panel by our younger peers. the video is worth a click and is posted below:
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AYF ‘Artistic Uprising’ Showcases Young Armenian Talent
LA CRESCENTA, CA – Some young people have a lot to say, others shy from the spotlight but share their emotions and thoughts through the printed word or on canvas. Whether they wanted to sing, recite, show their paintings or try their hand at humor, about 100 young people gathered on Saturday, May 8, to enjoy the AYF’s Artistic Uprising Open Mic Night.
Organized for the fourth year by the AYF La Crescenta “Zartonk” chapter, Open Mic Night invited young people from throughout Southern California to share their talents.
“Zartonk puts together the Open Mic Night to provide an opportunity for those who wish to express themselves,” said Zartonik member Shant Mirzaian. “It’s also a great show for those who just want to sit back and enjoy the entertainment.”
Hosts Gaianeh Avanessian and Levon Abrahamian were more than masters of ceremonies. They promoted laughter with their humorous dialogue and bickering during the show.
Bringing music and soulful beats throughout the night was AYF alumnus Knar Kitabjian, who spun CD’s and was the DJ of the night.
The self-expression wasn’t confined to what was happening on stage during Open Mic Night. Decorations for the hall were pieces of art lovingly created by Naris Azaryan. And there was even a magic act by Hayk Dilanian. Known as HD Magic, Hayk dazzled the audience with a suspenseful skit that put a twist on the typical “pick the right cup” routine.
Others on stage on May 8th included Deanna Ashikyan and Ani Khodaverdian, who performed a number of songs. Their acoustic performance ended with a finale of “Dream a Little Dream of Me.”
Singing Armenian songs was Nayiri Balian, who was accompanied by Vahe Lepedjian on keyboard and George Baltakian on drums.
Christina Gharibian brought a Middle Eastern vibe to the event, belly dancing to traditional Arabic music as well as to contemporary hip hop.
The band “Prisoners of Disguise” rocked the audience with a set of original songs they wrote and composed.
Bedig Atmajian riled up the audience by singing Armenian Revolutionary songs. Donning traditional Armenian folk attire, Gaianeh Avanessian and Lara Panossian performed a number of Armenian dances.
Alex Minassian and Vache Thomassian both moved the audience individually with original poetry. Alex Minassian’s poetry was of a more personal nature, dealing with issues of love and understanding enigmatic people. Vache Thomassian’s poetry on the other hand was his personal reaction and outrage to the tragic story of Mike Yepremyan, a 19-year-old Armenian who was shot to death in a Sears parking lot in North Hollywood by another Armenian after they argued about a text message.
Hiebert Sarian, one of the lead singers of the popular Armenain folk band Element, wrapped up the event with his performance. Hiebert sang classical songs from Gomidas with the help of one of his former music school classmates. He also had a little help with the AYF’s own Arek Santikian on the drums.
“We were lucky to have so many willing artists be a part of the show,” said show host Gaianeh Avanessian.
Organizers of Open Mic Night believe these popular events are another great way that the AYF brings people with a common background together.
Never Want to See…
Recently a stream of Armenian-on-Armenian violence has captured headlines in Southern California. Among the most tragic is the story of Mike Yepremyan, a 19 year old Armenian who was shot to death in a Sears parking lot in North Hollywood by another Armenian after they argued about a text message.
Mike Yepremyan and his parents (above) are the latest in a growing list of victims afflicted by inter-communal violence among Armenians. Mike’s murder occurred against the backdrop of a festering criminal culture fostered by Armenian television shows (like “Immigrants”) glorifying a mafioso life of crime, drugs, and murder.
I should like to see any power of the world destroy our race.
Before we do it ourselves…
This small tribe of insignificant people,
Who fought wars to keep their identity,
Who died for inches of land,
Who starved to give their children a chance,
dying on hot sand…
That small tribe of unimportant people,
with more enemies than friends,
With more misery than hope…
Has begun destroying itself.
And we’re nearing the end of our rope.
Violence fills the world,
from wars in the fields to wars in our homes.
Hate fills your heart like gasoline in a bomb,
Waiting for a spark and when that time comes,
The only time you rest is a fist to the face,
Or blasting a hole in their chest.
Martin Luther King once said that a man who won’t die,
for something is not fit to live.
But what about a man who’s willing to kill for nothing.
That man I cannot forgive.
A man who’s never felt, never heard of a thing called brotherhood.
Never understood the meaning of fighting for good.
Go ahead prove your manhood.
Destroy what you think is your enemy.
See if you can do it.
If they come at you with words, respond with fists,
If they come at with you with a bat, you better bring a gun,
And if they shoot well that’s just no fun,
Because dying without revenge means that they’ve won.
What’s with the evil that plagues the male ego,
That makes us puppets of lust and weak people.
Is it a cultural phenomenon?
Touch my badeev and then it’s on,
Or is it society that says life’s so cheap,
That you’re willing to put a complete stranger to sleep.
And all for what…
Because you think that your ego is worth more than a life.
Because you whore the word honor like it’s a badge or a knife.
I know that it takes much more than fists to make a man,
And all it takes are words to make you raging mad.
That anger isn’t because god made you a warrior man,
It’s because you’re confused over how to deal,
Incapable of making a plan.
Think about this while you’re worried about a diss,
There’s a kid in our homeland worried about the hiss,
Of a sniper rifle’s bullet finding its mark in his heart,
On the front lines of a battle field strewn with land mines.
No BMs or Hummers, but with real honor,
Ready to die to protect the land of all his fore-mothers.
You want to fight,
Well there’s a war against our people,
When they take the cross off of a steeple,
Or rewrite the lives of our people,
Are you ready to die to fight the lies,
As they try and trample our people?
The price of life is equal amongst all Armenian people,
Think before you act,
Tell your friends and any other people.
People will read Mike’s story and think absos,
But they will learn to live and laugh again,
And to sing again and I pray,
That when two of us meet anywhere in the world,
We won’t unfurl hatred and anger and kill because of words…
I should like to see any power of this world,
destroy our race…
Before we do it ourselves.
Through the Lens: Culture & Purpose in Today’s Armenian Reality
There are hundreds of young, talented Armenians exploring the bounds of art and identity through countless means including music and film. They interpret culture through their own individual lens. Haytoug sat down with some of these creative individuals to explore their thoughts on culture and identity.
Haytoug: Describe yourself in 5 words.
Antranig Kzirian: Committed. Creative. Adaptive. Persistent. Stubborn.
H: Where did you get the inspiration to pursue your field?
A.K.: The Armenian oud tradition of the Eastern United States strongly motivated me to explore and study the oud and the role Armenians played historically in mastering it. Growing up I also incorporated various influences into my understanding of music and performing on the instrument. I believe that traditions must be kept alive but also developed and grown so that they remain a living, breathing part of our perception of art and life.
H: Please describe your proudest achievements.
A.K.: Working with great musicians in various genres and learning as much as I can while striving to be a flexible musician. Working with Viza, Aravod, History, Ara Dinkjian, Serj Tankian, Gor, Sonya Varoujan, and several musicians from all over.
H: Do you think identity is something that must be preserved or something that can evolve?
A.K.: Both – we must preserve but also help it evolve and survive in its surroundings. Adding our own experiences and seasoning helps to keep identity fresh and current while still maintaining core values that we hold dear as Armenians and people of good conscience.
H: What are your thoughts about Armenian culture today in the Diaspora? In Armenia? Where is it headed? What do you see your role as?
A.K.: I see Armenian culture as dynamic – especially given the richness and complexity of the Diaspora. I believe it’s headed in a positive direction generally, but we must work hard to make sure not to disqualify or marginalize certain components of our diverse art and music history. I see my role as trying to preserve one piece of the puzzle as best I can.
H: What does the future hold for you?
A.K.: More writing, performing, recording and collaboration. Raising awareness of the Armenian oud tradition.
Haytoug: Describe yourself in 5 words
Ara Soudjian: Mexican/Armenian filmmaker living in Los Angeles. (let’s count Los Angeles as one word.)
A.S.: My inspiration came from my Mother, who was an actress, and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.
A.S.: First, winning two 2008 MVPA (Music Video Production Association) awards for best music video under 25k (Serj Tankian’s Money) and best Hip-Hop video (Wiz Khalifa’s Say Yeah). Second, producing content for the ANCA (Armenian National Committee of America). Third meeting my wife at an AYF Kebab night in Orange County! (Most important!)
A.S.: The customs, language, history must be preserved but I also believe that a person’s identity can evolve over time. We are human after all….
H: What are your thoughts about Armenian culture today in the Diaspora?
A.S.: The Armenian culture today in the Diaspora has evolved from 10 years ago. I feel that our culture is strong. I don’t think it’s as strong “culturally” as it was in the past, but I do believe we are stronger on the activism front. I believe we have assimilated, which is only natural. Some people may say that a lot of young Armenians can’t read or write the language. The white genocide is upon us, etc. Is that bad? Some would say so…but there are those who don’t speak the language but are still active in the community.
I would prefer having young “active” Armenians who care about our community and country any day over those who speak the language and do nothing positive.
A.S.: A successful filmmaking career along with a successful marriage and some future AYF-ers.
Eric Nazarian: I am a human being.
E.N.: My father Haik inspired me to become a filmmaker and screenwriter.
E.N.: Being awarded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for my screenplay “Giants” and making my first feature film, “The Blue Hour.”
E.N.: I believe in the evolution of our identities. Identity evolves with age and experience. I’d like to believe that I can evolve as a human being and preserve and advance my spiritual, cultural and artistic identity.
E.N.: I can only comment as an Angeleno. In Los Angeles, Armenian culture is alive and well. So many events, screenings, concerts, lectures, etc. Armenians as well as non-Armenians have several cultural activities to choose from. In Armenia, the culture and history lives and breathes in the faces and stories of the Armenian people, the ancient monuments and churches, and the cinematic heritage now slowly being resurrected. The Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Armenia is doing a phenomenal job with their annual film festival. They attract so many countries and filmmakers to participate. I see my role as a bridge builder through cinema, making films that can hopefully be interesting to international audiences.
E.N.: I don’t think anybody can answer that question truthfully since we don’t know what will happen ten seconds from now. I’d like to think the future holds great movies, amazing sunsets, lots of “kef” music, phenomenal food and wonderful friends dancing “shoorjbar”. Cheers to the future!
May 25, 2010 /0 Comments/by Vache Thomassian
Distinguished Experts Discuss Assimilation, Revival and Repatriation with Youth at Annual Seminar
WRIGHTWOOD, CA–Several dozen youth gathered at AYF Camp this past weekend for the Armenian Youth Federation’s annual Educational Seminar, where the issues of assimilation and repatriation were explored through lectures, discussions, debates, and other group activities.
The seminar kicked off Friday night with Director Elizabeth Chouljian, ANCA’s Communications Director and an AYF alumna herself, presenting the opening remarks and asking the campers to introduce themselves individually. Chouldjian created a welcoming environment, insisting that everyone call her Ungerouhi Yeghso.
The educational portion of the weekend started on Saturday morning. The first guest lecturer, Ara Mgrdichian, challenged participants to see themselves and their community from an “out-of-the-box” perspective by questioning conscious and subconscious notions of identity. The second guest lecturer, Dr. Hagop Kouloujian, spoke about the phenomenon of assimilation through the prism of language. Chouldjian presented her own lecture on the ANCA and its role in preserving Armenian identity and community. The campers then participated in a group discussion led by Ungerouhi Yeghso to explore the theoretical and practical motivations and challenges surrounding the issue of repatriation to Armenia.
“Having a solid educational foundation within the membership is essential for any community organization, and even more so for AYF,” said organizer Aris Hovasapian. “We want to be able to train the future leaders of our community, and exposing our members to new ideas or challenging them with new concepts is certainly a step in the right direction.”
The AYF’s Educational Council, which organized the event, was optimistic about achieving the goals of introducing ideas that are new to the participants, and presenting concepts they can apply in daily life. “The type of education that we stress has limitless applications, but the greatest act would be for someone to take what they learned over the weekend and use it as a catalyst to do something greater that could eventually benefit the community at large.” said Hovasapian.
Mgrdichian, an AYF alumnus and a violence prevention counselor at Hoover High School, presented “Assimilation and the Youth Living in the Diaspora,” which exposed the campers to an alternative vantage point on the problems Armenian youth face today. He challenged participants to define Armenian identity and what encompasses being Armenian. With identity crisis in the modern Diaspora being a very crucial and controversial topic, the discussion quickly turned into a debate. Mgrdichian concluded that Armenian youth need not label themselves and put boundaries on what precisely defines being Armenian. The focus, he stressed, should be on bringing Armenians together to propel the Armenian Cause forward.
Dr. Kouloujian, a professor of Armenian language at UCLA, presented “Assimilation and the Importance of the Armenian Language,” which showed an historical evolution of the Armenian language, from its inception and eras of expansion to its current phase of atrophy and endangerment. Dr. Kouloujian prepared his lecture specially for this event, and the participants were very appreciative that he spent the time to gather so much research and create a PowerPoint presentation.
Organizer Berj Parseghian welcomed Dr. Kouloujian’s unconventional approach: “A fresh new perspective was offered by Professor Kouloujian. He explained that if a language does not evolve and remains stagnant, that language will eventually disappear,” he recalled. “We need innovation, new words, new poets, new writers, a 21st century Armenian language… Let’s create a critical mass around this concept… A 21st century Armenian.”
“Every educational was amazing,” said participant and AYF-WR Central Executive chairperson Arek Santikian. “Ungerouhi Yeghso broke down her points very well in relation to Hye Tad and the AYF’s role in it. Additionally, the lecture regarding the Armenian language was a true wake up call to me. I realized that it is extremely important to pick up a book or two, every month or so, and simply read it. It is up to us to not only cherish our culture and history, but to maintain it, preserve it and evolve with it.”
Chouldjian shared Santikian’s sentiments and had similar words of praise for the participants. “These young people had such depth in all of the information and all of the discussions that they had,” said Chouldjian about the interaction she witnessed throughout the weekend. “During the actual lectures themselves, the participation was great, but even in the off sections when kids were trying to take a break, the whole discussion was how do we make Armenia better, how do we make our nation better, and how do we work better here in the Diaspora. It was just absolutely inspiring to see that.”
The organizers said they were very pleased with the amount of participation by attendees, and impressed by all the new faces. “It is always great to see new members excited and actively participating in discussion because their input is greatly valued. Many people had a few different chances to speak and express their thoughts on all the different topics discussed” said organizer Aline Karakozian.
The educational portion of the seminar was followed by an oath ceremony Saturday evening where 10 AYF novices were officially welcomed into the AYF. “The room was filled with mostly our younger membership, which made me extremely happy.” Said Santikian “A number of novices also came up to participate and eventually take their oath. The energy was at a high level throughout the entire weekend, and it showed during the discussion portion of the seminar. I was very impressed with the viewpoints of many of our members.”
When asked to gauge the success of the event, Karakozian said, “We definitely had a successful weekend with plenty of positive feedback.” The seminar, she continued, was fun and educational and gave participants a unique “opportunity to discuss issues that have become very important to our people.”
Karakozian was happy that participants “were able to share our ideas on what we should be doing as Armenians and as AYF members to help prevent assimilation and how to begin a movement of repatriation to our homeland.”
Parseghian summed up the general feeling of the seminar’s participants: “Our measure of success comes from the weekend being a catalyst for youth to think, innovate, and struggle… it was awesome.”
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A 21st Century Zartonk: An iRevival in the Modern Age of iFedayees
95 years of questioning the reality of planned, brutal mass executions, the ethnic cleansing of a people from their place is far too long. Up against a looming deadline, a threat of losing their history and identity, a new generation of Armenians is waking up to an economic collapse, disappearing Diasporas, and questionable leadership. The time has come for modern-day Fedayees to take action, to use modern technologies and create global media messages about their legacy, history, and their future. This is our prophecy.
By Paul Chaderjian and Allen Yekikan
At twenty-four minutes past four o’clock on the afternoon of April 24, a war for cultural survival wages on the streets of this metropolis. In the fight of their lifetime are young Armenians on the sidewalks of Wilshire, changing the rules, questioning Baby Boomer values, inventing a new movement, and sending a message to the world that justice will be served and their ancient culture will survive and thrive.
On the front lines of this epic war are the Digital Natives, Generation Z, armed with nothing more than their cell phones, cameras, and their laptop computers. This war is a battle for cultural revival, a battle to re-energize the Armenian spirit in the far corners of the Diaspora and in suffocated and abused community like Javakhk. This fight is for the universal acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide and global recognition of the independent Republic of Karabagh. This battle for national survival is not only being waged on these streets of La La Land but in the abstract place called the Internet.
Why is this generation – born into the most pampered of lives – out on the sidewalks instead of sipping beers at a beach-side cantina off the Pacific, on rides in Disneyland, or in the great malls of commerce, shopping, eating, or enjoying a Saturday afternoon matinee?
Where is this sense of injustice and this passion for change coming from? How is their passion being fueled? Why does the world outside their suburban lives matter more now than ever before? And why does a 95-year-old crime against their ancestors warrant the display of such passion – nearly a century later and a world away – on the streets of California?
A Generation in Question
Perhaps these question’s are because the progeny of the Genocide has awakened to an uncertain, apocalyptic future. A new generation of young men and women are coming of age to the threat that their lifestyles may be a memory of the good old days.
Young people are opening their eyes to headlines that those in their 20s and 30s are facing 50% unemployment. Their jobs have been shipped off to China and India. Their universities are broke and have no room for new students. Their forests are cut down and natural resources fast depleting.Their bankrupt government is waging unnecessary wars overseas, throwing billions of dollars in smart bombs on foreign lands, and their corrupt leaders throwing billions of bonuses to those sociopath capitalists who bankrupted a bogus financial industry.
Perhaps their stark realities are now coming into focus because they wake up to accusations that their very existence as Armenians is based on a lie. This rabid movement is being ignited because they turn on CNN to hear the Turkish Prime Minister say that there had been no such thing as Genocide and that Armenians had been the criminals that victimized the Turks.
Baby Boomers’ democratic leaders have not only failed at setting the record straight on the Genocide, but they have also failed at guaranteeing that our way of life can be sustainable for the next generation and for generations to come.
Youth today are threatened with the possibility of never owning their own homes, not affording to go on vacations to their ancestral Homeland, and no longer being able to afford to provide an Armenian education to their children or keeping the doors of their ancient churches open that is fueling the crisis.
How does their government and their President get away with destroying their future and making empty promises like ‘change.’ Hadn’t Mr. Obama promised Genocide recognition? Wasn’t he now turning his back on his promises and bowing down to the lying Ottoman politicians of the 21st century?
21st Century Re-awakening
The activists in the 6300 block of Wilshire are following a noble path, a path taversed by their forefathers. One which they were destined to retrace.
When they realized the older generations, in their affluent self-assurance, wasn’t going to listen to their ideas about cultural preservation and nationhood, this generation looked back to their people’s history. They found inspiration in stories about fools and revolutionaries who dared to question authority. They found hope in the actions of those in the late 19th century who ventured into the villages and founded schools, and who brought the European enlightenment to the Armenian countryside.
From Madras/Chanai to Venice/San Lazzaro, in the seminaries, merchant communities, and universities of the Armenian Diaspora, Armenians of the day began to look toward their Homeland with despair. They sought solutions to the nation’s problems. Having grown tired of being told what they couldn’t do by their parents, these individuals began to imagine a better future. They envisioned it and then worked to create it.
What began as a spark became a movement of awakening, a Zartonk, and it spread like a modern-day viral video across the Armenian world. The medium of that era was not the Internet but the printing press. Newspapers, pamphlets, and books created a Diaspora-wide dialogue about cultural, linguistic and social demands. The printing press created a consciousness and awareness that resulted in change.
In the 1700s when Armenians were living under foreign rule, Armenians in the Diaspora experienced the Age of Enlightenment and closely followed the French and American independence movements and the births of democracies.
As the framers of the US constitution were dreaming up their new nation, free from British rule, Armenians like Shahamir Shahamirian were thinking up a bill of rights for Armenians and a means for liberation from Turkish oppression. Their weapon was a printing press, which spread new ideas to the masses.
Through the printed word, ancient tales of heroic exploits and battles were brought to life, dialogue about democratic governance and social justice were popularized, and Armenian students studying in the universities of Europe were given a struggle in which to believe.
Armenians in the Age of Enlightenment gave birth to young enlightened thinkers, selfless teachers, and the fearless Fedayees.
The iPeople
One of the historic acts of the enlightened Armenians was the development a modern language that could be understood by the masses. This Askharabahr became the language of their revolution. It defied the Church and authority to become the medium through which dreams and means for emancipation and liberation were conveyed.
Today, 21st century Fedayees also have a new way to speak the language of the new masses. Their Ashkharabahr–the language of their world–is the Internet and social media. This new media in the age of hyper-connectivity is the foundation of this reawakening. That any two or ten million Armenians anywhere can come together at anytime through the unfathomable global access of the Internet is what makes the iZaronk a reality.
Armed with their laptops, cell and smart phones, this new breed of freedom fighter is waging a struggle for freedom from their people’s established norms, norms which are staid and are slowly suffocating if not killing a new generation of young Armenians.
Clear, concise messages, video images in abundance, passionate Armenians speaking up, jumping in front of their cameras, getting behind their iPhones, punching their keyboards with words small and big — these are what can and will turn around a people in a deep sleep in the early years of the 21st Century. The time has come, and the alarm is sounding; the war of yesterday is now the war in Cyberspace. The weapon is new media.
Armen loads his video camera with a fresh tape. His batteries are charged. His tripod is set-up. He has his MacBook, and he’s on the front lines of the Armenian Cause in the 21st Century. He knows that supremacy in the information age is getting his messages heard, using the information superhighways prolifically, and producing sexy, viral messages that are watched by millions of people, scoring thousands of hits on the net.
Varant is clicking photos of police officers guarding the Consulate doors. He’s uploading them with captions via his BlackBerry to thousands who are checking his real-time Facebook updates.
These youth are on the front lines of the Internet, where video, audio, and viral messaging can help Armenians reach the tipping point into nationhood, where democracy and social justice prevail; ensure cultural survival; secure the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide; achieve autonomy and self-rule in Javakhk, and protect the inalienable right of self-determination of the people of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.
Alina clicks away all day, texting friends, posting messages, videotaping images. She is not wasting her time communicating about which movie she saw or who is dating whom. Instead, she is living and breathing the Armenian Cause, by making the issues on the table more intriguing than what and who is walking on the red carpet or getting drunk in Vegas.
Like Armen, Varant and Alina, thousands of Armenian youth today have greater power than any government, than any conglomerate, than any old-world call-to-arms. Their war of a lifetime is waged through thoughts, through outspokenness, and through clicks on their communications technologies.
The time has come for a 21st century Zartonk, a national revival using the new weapons of modern civilization –the communications tools that every citizen of the world either has access to or knows someone with access. These tools, cameras, keyboards, editing software, iPad and iPods, FlipCams and iPhones, are all what can create the iZartonk.
From the dance halls of the Ani barakhoomp, to the Armenian language classes at Mesrobian, from the film sets of the aspiring filmmakers, to the performances of young playwrights, iZartonk is Armenians breaking free of their pedagogical restrains, free of the capitalist poison of accruing more wealth, free of the game of politics.
Along the way, young Armenians are using their Internet connections and their keyboards to not only report about what their generation is doing toward their community’s collective goal of cultural preservation, but they are also using all these platforms of media and communication to ask the questions that needs to be asked. They are asking each other, expressing their opinions, spreading unique stories about the Armenian-American experience and challenging each other for new dreams, new ideas, and calls to action.
What should we believe in? What should we stand for? What should be our plans? How do we protect our community and our rights? These are the messages that are floating back-and-forth on the Information Superhighway. Instead of banal messages on Facebook about what people are having for dessert, how about asking what is a good insurance carrier or where there are new job openings? Instead of feeding the livestock on Farmville or repeating a joke from a morally bankrupt cartoon on cable, why not promote a group fighting to stop capitalist endeavors destroying the Earth?
iFedayees
The iFedayees want a say in what their community stands for, what the collective should focus on, not merely accept the ways of their parents’ world. They want to decide whether this community needs multi-million dollar cathedrals, lavish banquet halls, and obscene weddings and parties – all which are depleting resources that could otherwise go towards timeless endeavors.
iFedayees must roll up their sleeves and know more than just their people’s history. They must also learn about the climate of the world, the Chinese economy, the worlds of the Islam and the South Americas, and how all these factors shape their modern Armenian-American experience.
iFedayees must learn, they must take a stand, and they must be involved in every aspect of their lives and hence their future. This is what revolutionaries do; and this is what young Armenians must do to ensure the survival of their six-thousand year-old-culture and nation – be it in the Homeland or in its vast and ever-relocating Diaspora.
iDo and iWill
In today’s Armenian media, instead of stories about the legendary heroes of the people who took up arms to protect their fellow Armenians, there are stories of the mafiosos stealing from the government, the masses, and each other. Instead of notions of equal rights and freedoms, instead of stories of revolutionaries in the turn-of-the-century Anatolia who inspired a nation and defied the odds to found an independent republic amid the ashes of Genocide, community broadcasters are promoting Armenian criminals as the heroes of the day.
Instead of preaching and promoting service to community and to others, Armenian media is selling laser hair removal, lap bands, and glamorizing those who take from the innocent, those who kill for financial gain, and those who have no morality and humanity. These are not the role models today’s young people are seeking., and these broadcasters needed to know that the viewer always has the last word.
The solution is for every Armenian to become a media practitioner, participate in creating and using alternative media and ignore the obnoxious mainstream media outlets. Ignore the info-tainment on your cells, computers, and television channels and hear what alternative media sources are saying. What do Link TV reports say about the European headlines? What are the Arabic channels reporting about the Middle East? What are blogs saying about the Homeland? And what is the individual Armenian saying?
After you learn and listen, become a media content creator by picking up your audio recorder, your notepad, your video camera, and record your voice, broadcast it to your friends. Even if you don’t have the answers, ask the questions, put your concerns on paper or on videotape and send them off into Cyberspace.
Every single Armenian should take it upon him or herself to write a few paragraphs or videotape 30 to 60 second news reports to let others in our community know what everyone else is doing as members of the “Armenians.”
We saw a glimpse of how powerful and active our community became when hundreds of thousands of you followed the Asbarez and Horizon TV during the committee vote on the Genocide Resolution, the Protocol protests, the hunger strike, and the Armenian President’s visit around the Diaspora. Thousands watched ANC YouTube videos; Asbarez and Horizon pages had thousands of hits; and AYF members reported the news by videotaping interviews from the front lines and posting it for Armenians and non-Armenians around the world to watch.
The momentum that we glimpsed and that we collectively created around the Stop the Protocols campaign was unprecedented. Our story and our collective engagement with the creation of media was viral. Not only did we engage the story, but we engaged our peers and made them active. On top of that success, our viral messages reached mainstream media, the LA Times, and all the television networks. Our Tweets and iPhone videos reached the “Tipping Point” and put our people at the forefront, at least for two weeks, during the Information Age.
But why stop now? Why not continue this grassroots Armenian revolution of the 21st century and continue and build upon the creation of media messages as we did during the Protocols Campaign. And why stop at Facebook and Twitter? Why not report about all of our individual and community successes to our own media network. And why stop with our media? Why not write letters to editors, engage your lawmakers, create YouTube videos, submit stories to Current TV, Reddit, CNN iReports, and other media outlets?
This reawakening, this iZartonk, is based on your participation, you sharing your small and big steps, ideas, concerns, and news items in this whirlpool of information. The revolution, the change, can continue if you and your friends, colleagues, the Armenian community-at-large, and the world knows what we are all talking about.
Share your news, share what’s new and different, promote your successes, highlight and advertise whatever makes you proud by writing, videotaping, blogging, Tweet-ing and Facebook-ing. If you have a keyboard, you’re a journalist. If you have a video camera, you’re a reporter.
Take creating media one step further and find the candidates who are concerned about your concerns and vote them into office. If those candidates aren’t there, then you run for office, be it for your university board of regents, your town parish, church council, city council, or state or federal offices. A democracy serves the masses only when the masses serve the democracy, when they vote, when they express their concerns, and when they go door-to-door talking to people.
Why should your government, your democracy, your representatives on Capitol Hill NOT vote for Genocide recognition. That question should be enough to make you ponder whether they really care about justice and have your best interest in their hearts. Or are they merely banking on empty promises so that they can sustain their cushy jobs and their affluent lifestyles and donors?
If your representatives in government aren’t providing what you need them to provide, if they aren’t worried about your future, your career, your education, if they are able to convince you that your government needs to wage war overseas instead of fixing roads, developing new industries and renewable energy sources, then their tenure as public servants is over.
Now it’s your turn. Participate in the reawakening of the Armenian spirit, create media, voice your concerns, vote, and talk to people.
Remember, in the Information Age, we are on an equal playing field with anything that mainstream news organizations are producing. Your thoughts, your concerns, your opinions are as valid as those of the pundits who are using the mainstream channels that are in the business of making money by gathering the most eyeballs at any given time.
Don’t patronize mass media to appease their shareholders with bigger profits. Instead, create your own media and change the game. Whether you attended a protest rally on April 24, attended a book signing, wrote a play, or heard a new artist, everything is relevant to your community.
So speak up, speak loud and participate in the reawakening of the Armenian Soul through iZartonk.
Channeling a United Community: H.Res 252 and Beyond
By Shant Hagopian
As another April comes and goes, and we mourn the loss of our ancestors almost a century ago, we again look toward recognition. States, counties, cities and municipalities will pass resolutions in their legislative bodies acknowledging truth, paying homage to social justice and international human rights. Rallies will assemble, protests will emerge and we will unite with our brothers and sisters around the world demanding that the Republic of Turkey accept guilt for its atrocities beginning in 1915. Such has been the case for decades and we have made inroads in our battle for justice. With that said, there are still many milestones toward recognition which the Armenian community is still looking to accomplish.
Those working toward these efforts can be found among those few remaining survivors the latest generation of Armenians. As diverse and multi cultural the Armenian race is, spread across every continent of this earth, we are united by a common struggle for justice. From our highly successful professionals to our passionate youth, our ever-expending community is utilizing every tool at its disposal to ensure the tragedies of our ancestors are not forgotten and efforts to rewrite history prove unsuccessful. Almost a century after the near extermination of our race, our voices have become louder and every passing generation sees our Cause embolden.
Each passing year, the Armenian Genocide becomes more widely known and accepted. On every front, the Armenian Diaspora is educating the public through all means possible across the globe. Just this year, another handful of countries added its name to the laundry list of those who formally recognize the genocide. With that said, the heyday of Armenian Genocide recognition remains in the future. As much progress has been made, the passage of the resolution in the United States Congress still awaits a full vote.
Behind the scenes, opposition has been mounting to the proper characterization of the Armenian Genocide. This opposition started with a few powerful lobbyists and has transformed into a campaign encompassing international diplomacy, academia and the media. This, along with shifts in geopolitics and a war on terror, has allowed the Republic of Turkey to take advantage of opportunities in its efforts to rewrite history. Their fight, like ours, does not end in Washington. The effort to ensure an accurate historical record stretches far beyond the halls of the nation’s capitol and requires attention of our entire community.
As we inch closer to 100 years after the start of the Armenian Genocide, we must not only remember to stay united but also to remain activated. When this April comes and goes, lets not put our efforts on hold for a year. In order to pass a resolution in Congress, we must channel the passion felt on April 24 into action throughout the year.
Our community is strong but only with participation of our already united nation can we fulfill all of our efforts toward recognition.
Men in Black in Little Armenia
By Tamar Salibian
In 1915, over 1.5 million Armenians were removed from their homes and subsequently massacred by the Ottoman Turks in what is known as the Aghed (catastrophe) or the Armenian genocide. Each year, April 24 is the day when Armenians around the world remember the death of their ancestors under the brutal hand of the Ottoman Turkish government. The year is 2007, this year, the cloudless sky and warm California weather made for an apt setting to commemorate April 24 in Los Angeles’ Little Armenia. Thousands of Armenians prepared to meet near the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Hobart Street for a commemorative march across town.
I awoke to the sound of my alarm clock blaring at 8:30 and immediately rolled over to try to sleep for a few more minutes. “I’ll make it in time, it starts at 10,” I thought to myself as I drifted back into slumber.
Awaking with a start at 9:08, I jumped out of bed and proceeded to search for an outfit that was somber enough for the day’s events yet comfortable enough to walk around in. Black slacks, black shoes, charcoal grey tee shirt, done.
At Turkish scholar Dr. Taner Akcam’s lecture at Glendale Community College the previous day, I’d been bombarded with paraphernalia for the April 24th events, yet I did not choose to wear my new “1915: Stop the Denial” tee shirt, nor did I affix the “Boycott Turkey” bumper sticker to my car that I’d been given as I left the lecture where Dr. Akcam attempted to promote dialogue between Armenians and Turks. I wondered if the students who abruptly left Dr. Akcam’s lecture early were given the “Boycott Turkey” bumper stickers or if the stickers were only awarded to those who stayed until the end of the presentation.
Running to my car, I quickly made it to the 101 South and exited at Hollywood Boulevard where I was suddenly stopped in my tracks by a massive traffic jam.
“It’s to be expected today,” I thought as I took the time to look around at the people in their cars in Little Armenia. BMW’s, Mercedes Benzes and other opulent cars were adorned with Armenian and American flags. I chuckled, wondering if the tourists across the street thought there was a soccer match going on because of all of the fanfare. A black BMW with tinted windows passed me and I noticed a group of young men, cleanly shaven with shorn hair and black 1915 tee shirts, laughing and watching intently as a group of young girls in tight blue jeans and platform sandals walked towards the march. The search for parking seemed endless but I finally found a spot near Hollywood on Edgemont.
The air was thick with the pungent scent of hair gel and aftershave. Old men stood on the street corners awaiting the start of the event. In the distance, I could already hear the chanting of the crowd. “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! Shame on Turkey! 1915, never again!” A group of men stood nearby smoking cigarettes and watching the crowd as many young Armenian boys and girls with gelled hair, Jamba Juice and Starbucks drinks and T-Mobile Sidekicks attached to their hands as if with Krazy glue walked around sending text messages and laughing with each other. The social aspect of such events was to be expected and yet the longer I watched the crowd, the less I wanted to stay.
At the head of the march was a group of Armenian archbishops and priests who solemnly walked without chanting. Their presence was in stark contrast to the general public who, with fists raised, chanted, yelled and screamed. As the crowd reached Normandie Avenue, the religious leaders quietly stepped away from the crowd, passing me to disappear from the march. The yelling started to give me a headache.
Sure, I want justice like any other self-respecting Armenian whose ancestors survived the genocide. My maternal grandfather was rescued from under a pile of corpses as an infant and spent his entire life in silence trying to live under a shadow he never discussed. Yet this tragedy is something that I wish to remember in a different way.
I want to mourn the dead rather than hold up slogans and walk down avenues as though I were part of a parade. I felt the anger rising up in my chest. Are we Armenians replacing the commemorative root of this day with a kind of bravado mob mentality? Was it ever any different? “What would happen,” I thought to myself, “if all of a sudden the genocide magically did receive worldwide recognition? What would our agenda be then?” Sensing that my frustration might lead me to say or do something I would regret, I turned and walked back toward my car. But it wasn’t time to go home.
What did I really want today to be about? I got in my car and drove east on Hollywood, North on Vermont, onto the 5 and then to the 134 until I reached the place that I knew was the right place to be on this day.
Forest Lawn Cemetery welcomed me with its quiet, its calm and its simple, somber atmosphere. I picked out a bouquet of white flowers in the flower shop and made my way up through the grounds. “Akh medzmayrig, oor es?” (“Great-grandma, where are you?”) I whispered to myself as I trudged through the grass in search of my great-grandmother Araxie Oshagan’s grave. “Eem havidenagan hartsus” (“My eternal dilemma”) I thought, as I remembered the same search for her grave I have each time I visit this cemetery. Was it two rows down from the stone bench or two rows up? Damn it, should I call my cousin for directions?
And then, I found her. The emotions arose within me as I slowly began to wash her gravestone with water and arrange the flowers I had bought.
Araxie Astardjian was born in Bulgaria in 1895. As a young teen, she met her future husband when on one cold night, the writer Hagop Oshagan knocked on her parents’ door asking if they could put him up for the night. From Bulgaria all the way to her death in Los Angeles in 1987 just two weeks after moving to the US, my medzmayrig’s life was one full of trauma, strength, pride and loss.
I remembered how she would sit in the corner of her room, her head turned to look out the window, searching for the ghosts of her long-lost husband and family members. I noticed a car pass by with an Armenian flag attached to its passenger window. A solemn family exited the car to pay their respects to their loved ones at the cemetery. Slowly, I realized that all was not forgotten.
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Giants Unveil 2020 Oracle Park Dimensions
By Kevin Reichard on December 13, 2019 in Major-League Baseball, News
The San Francisco Giants unveiled 2020 Oracle Park dimensions, as the bullpens are moved to center field in an attempt to generate more offense and remove players from the old bullpens next to the foul lines. (more…)
New Oracle Park Bullpens Under Construction
By Zach Spedden on November 11, 2019 in Major-League Baseball, News
The San Francisco Giants have begun construction on new bullpens at Oracle Park, as the team will build two bullpens beyond the outfield wall before the 2020 season. (more…)
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The San Francisco Giants have unveiled new details on the first phase a planned redevelopment project south of McCovey Cove, as construction could begin this offseason. (more…)
Baer: We’re Likely to See 2020 Oracle Park Changes
By Kevin Reichard on September 23, 2019 in Major-League Baseball, News
We’re likely to see 2020 Oracle Park changes, including relocation of the bullpens from the field of play, but we probably won’t see Triples Alley eliminated, according to San Francisco Giants President and CEO Larry Baer. (more…)
Williamson: Oracle Park Bullpens Should Move
By Zach Spedden on May 8, 2019 in Major-League Baseball, News
After tripping over a bullpen mound and suffering a concussion last year, San Francisco Giants outfielder Mac Williamson is arguing in favor of moving Oracle Park‘s bullpens. (more…)
New Challenge for Giants at Oracle Park: Attendance Issues
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In a relatively new challenge during their run at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants are having to address concerns over declining attendance numbers. (more…)
2019 Preview: San Francisco Giants, Oracle Park
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Ballpark Digest is previewing what every MLB team is doing to begin the season, both on and off the field, as the 2019 season is underway. Up next: the San Francisco Giants and Oracle Park. (more…)
Scottsdale Stadium Renovations Set for 2020
By Kevin Reichard on March 20, 2019 in Major-League Baseball, News
The long-debated upgrades to Scottsdale Stadium, spring home of the San Francisco Giants, will move forward after the Scottsdale City Council approved the first phase of the project, set at $50.6 million. (more…)
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The backbone of any successful MLB franchise is a successful player-development system. And these days successful player development means strong MiLB and spring-training facilities. We rank MLB organizations by the quality of their player-development facilities, as updated for 2019. (more…)
Teams Strike New MLB Ballpark Naming-Rights Deals
By Zach Spedden on February 6, 2019 in Features, Major-League Baseball
The nature of Major League Baseball ballpark naming-rights agreements is often fluid, and this offseason has been a reflection of that trend. In recent months, two teams secured new naming-rights deals that went into effect immediately, while another laid the groundwork for a major partnership that will kick in in the coming years. (more…)
Oracle Park Certified LEED Platinum
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In Memoriam: Peter Magowan
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By Kevin Reichard on January 22, 2019 in Features, Major-League Baseball
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Puig Arrested For Going 110MPH
Dodgers rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig was arrested on a reckless driving charge for the second time this year after being clocked going 110 mph in a 70 mph zone, according to an ESPN.com report.
A news release from the Florida Highway Patrol said a white Mercedes driven by the Cuban defector was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Authorities said Puig was arrested and charged with reckless driving and taken to the Collier County Jail for processing. Puig lives in the Miami area during the offseason.
Dodgers spokesman Joe Jareck declined to comment on Puig's latest arrest.
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Tanaka To Be Represented By Casey Close
Masahiro Tanaka, who will be posted as a Major League free agent, has chosen to be represented by agent Casey Close.
Close also represents Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke and Derek Jeter.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, and Chicago Cubs have been among the clubs most frequently linked to Tanaka.
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Jamey Wright Reaches Deal With Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers have added Jamey Wright to their bullpen.
Wright will be the team's long man. He filled the same role in 2012. He spent this past season with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Wright, 40, went 5-3 with a 3.72 ERA in 66 appearances for the Dodgers in 2012.
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Dodgers Nearing Deal With Chris Perez
The Los Angeles Dodgers are closing in on a one-year contract with Chris Perez, according to sources.
The deal hasn't been finalized and financial terms haven't been released.
The Cleveland Indians released Perez, a former All-Star closer, on Oct. 31.
Sources: Brewers Looking At Michael Young
The Milwaukee Brewers are interested in signing Michael Young to play first base, according to sources.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies are also in the mix for Young.
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Ethier Not Affected By Trade Rumors
Andre Ethier is ignoring the most recent trade rumors and says he is happy as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"I thought I handled it last year from the year before -- it's the same old stuff," he said. "I prepare every offseason to make myself better to make the team win. I'm a Dodger until I'm told otherwise. That's why I'm here today.
"I stand here today still a Dodger after all the rumors. I'm moving forward with the organization and happy to be where I'm at."
Dodgers Re-Sign J.P. Howell To Two-Year Deal
The Los Angeles Dodgers will retain J.P. Howell on a two-year, $11.25 million contract with a third-year option, according to multiple reports.
The 30-year-old made $2.85 million last season after signing a one-year deal with the Dodgers.
If Howell reaches 120 appearances over the next two seasons, the $6.25 million option for 2016 becomes a player option.
Dodgers, Puig Clean Up At Social Media Awards
MLB Network's first-ever Social Media Awards were handed out Sunday night, with the Dodgers taking five of the honors back to Los Angeles. Rookie Yasiel Puig was responsible for two of them, winning the Socially Savvy Rookie and #SAW (Stop-And-Watch) awards.
Orioles third baseman Manny Machado took home the biggest honor of the night, as his incredible grab and throw from deep in foul territory to first base was named the #OMG! Play of the Year.
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Misc Rumor, Personal Award
Juan Uribe Back With Dodgers
The Dodgers have reached agreement on a two-year contract worth $15M with third baseman Juan Uribe, a source confirmed Saturday.
Uribe was coming off a three-year, $21 million deal.
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Misc Rumor, Terms Agreement
Rays Have Interest In Juan Uribe
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The Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers also like Uribe.
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Dodgers Aren't Planning To Trade Kemp
Matt Kemp's agent met with the Dodgers on Wednesday and was told they plan to hold onto the center fielder.
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Source: Uribe Considering Dodgers, White Sox
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Agent: Kemp Trade Talks Are Active
Dave Stewart, the agent for Matt Kemp, said Monday night that he believed "something was brewing" in trade talks involving his client.
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Dodgers Express Interest In David Price
The Dodgers don't plan to aggressively pursue David Price, but they want the Rays to keep them in mind.
Dodgers GM Colletti Open To Trading Outfielder
Dodgers GM Ned Colletti is still looking for as many as three more relief pitchers.
Brian Wilson Agrees To $10M Deal With Dodgers
Brian Wilson posted a 0.66 ERA in 18 games last season.
Brian Wilson Close To Deal With Dodgers
Brian Wilson decided to stop exploring a contract with the Yankees when it became clear that he would not be willing to shave his trademark beard.
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Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a New Iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia
Phil R. Bell, Tom Brougham, Matthew C. Herne, Timothy Frauenfelder, Elizabeth T. Smith
39(1), (22 August 2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1564757
Globally, non-hadrosauroid iguanodontians (‘basal iguanodontians’) reached their acme in terms of diversity during the Early Cretaceous. However, Gondwanan representatives of this clade are rare and are represented in Australia only by the enigmatic Muttaburrasaurus langdoni (upper Albian; Mackunda Formation). Here, we describe a new iguanodontian, Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. The holotype and referred specimens, preserved entirely in opal, pertain to at least four individuals from a monodominant bone bed excavated from an underground opal mine. This deposit constitutes the first ornithopod-dominated bone bed from Australia. Elements from most parts of the body are represented, including the first partial skull of a dinosaur recovered from New South Wales. The new taxon is identified by a number of autapomorphies that include, but are not restricted to, a stepped lateral margin of the frontal in dorsal view and a stout protuberance on the anterolateral corner of the frontal. Phylogenetic analysis based on a recently published data set recovers Fostoria as the sister taxon to a clade of Gondwanan iguanodontians that includes Anabisetia saldiviai, Talenkauen santacrucensis, and Muttaburrasaurus langdoni. The new taxon and M. langdoni represent the sole iguanodontians known from the eastern margin of the epeiric Eromanga Sea, whereas the group is conspicuously absent from the contemporaneous ornithopod-dominated ecosystems of the Australian-Antarctic rift valley in Victoria.
Authorship and Date of Publication of the Name Tetrapoda
Hans-Dieter Sues
A New Species of Kentriodon (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Kentriodontidae) from the Miocene of Japan
Toshiyuki Kimura, Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Kentriodontids are small- to medium-sized odontocetes with a wide geographic range that flourished during the Miocene. They are closely related to crown Delphinida. Seven fossil kentriodontid specimens have been recovered from the Haraichi Formation, Annaka Group (latest middle/earliest late Miocene, Serravallian/Tortonian), Gunma Prefecture, Japan. We describe and diagnose a new species of the genus Kentriodon. Kentriodon nakajimai, sp. nov., has a larger fossa for the hamular and preorbital lobes of the pterygoid sinuses, which suggests that the species was more highly adapted for diving than other Kentriodon species. Asymmetric development of left and right maxillary crests indicates asymmetric development of the facial muscles attached to the melon. If this is the case, it suggests that K. nakajimai possessed a more sophisticated echolocation system than other kentriodontids. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that K. nakajimai is most closely related to K. obscurus and the genus Kentriodon may have originated in the Pacific and then dispersed into the Atlantic several times.
A New Genus of Proterotheriinae (Mammalia, Litopterna) from the Pleistocene of Uruguay
Andrea Corona, Daniel Perea, Martín Ubilla
We describe a new genus and species of Proterotheriinae from the Pleistocene of Uruguay. Several taxonomic, biostratigraphic, paleoecological, and paleoenvironmental analyses and interpretations have been performed in a detailed study of the Litopterna (Mammalia, ‘Meridiungulata’) of Uruguay. The Proterotheriidae is the most diverse family of the Litopterna. In Uruguay, the record of the Proterotheriidae, although in many cases fragmentary, includes interesting specimens in particular contexts and different ages in the late Oligocene–late Pleistocene. The aim of this work is to reassess the specimens primarily assigned four decades ago to ‘Licaphrium’ aff. floweri, redescribing them, evaluating their taxonomic status in the context of the Proterotheriidae, and establishing the characters that allow the determination of this taxon as a new genus and species of Proterotheriinae: Uruguayodon alius. We redescribe two specimens of this new taxon, which include dental and postcranial remains. The diagnostic element is the last lower molar, which shows, among other characters, paraconid and paralophid in a very lingual position, smoothed metaflexid, and absence of entoflexid. The individuals were excavated from a sandy level of the San José Member of the Raigón Formation, a unit that has an endemic fauna, a pattern discussed here in a paleogeographic framework. The provenance of the analyzed specimens from Pleistocene layers is indicated by mammalian content and absolute ages, which support the presence of another genus of Proterotheriidae surviving into the Quaternary, in addition to Neolicaphrium recens.
Inferring Differential Behavior between Giant Ground Sloth Adults and Juveniles through Scapula Morphology
Andy D. Grass
Animals with large differences in body size between adults and juveniles will often exhibit differences in behavior through ontogeny, and these behavioral differences can sometimes have direct effects on skeletal morphology. Scapula shape has been shown in several groups to be highly influenced by function and in some groups to be a good indicator of body size. Megalonyx and Paramylodon, two of the most common and widespread of the North American Plio-Pleistocene giant ground sloths, had overlapping temporal and geographic ranges. However, they have few co-occurrences in the fossil record. In this study, the scapulae of juvenile and adult Megalonyx jeffersonii and Paramylodon harlani were analyzed using geometric morphometrics and compared with those of the two genera of modern tree sloths, Bradypus and Choloepus. The ground sloths have significantly different scapula shapes from each other, as do the tree sloths. The scapula shapes between juveniles and adults of each genus are also significantly different from each other, with the scapulae of the juveniles of each species more circular in appearance than the more ovoid ones in adults. All four genera show significant allometry, but it is more apparent in adults than juveniles. However, there is no difference in nonallometric shape between adults and juveniles or between each pair of genera. The ground sloths exhibit similar changes in ontogeny to those observed in modern sloths, indicating that ground sloth juveniles may have engaged in similar behaviors to those of modern sloths, such as clinging to their mothers for transportation. Ground sloth juveniles also possess morphological traits that have been linked with semiarboreal behaviors.
Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, ‘Creodonta,’ Mammalia), a Gigantic Carnivore from the Earliest Miocene of Kenya
Matthew R. Borths, Nancy J. Stevens
Hyainailourine hyaenodonts are among the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals known. The clade is widely dispersed, found in Eurasia, North America, and Afro-Arabia in the Paleogene and early Neogene. In this study, we describe dental and postcranial material from Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov., the most complete hyainailourine known from sub-Saharan Africa. The material is from a relatively young adult from the early Miocene locality of Meswa Bridge, Kenya. Simbakubwa differs from Hyainailouros in exhibiting lingually oriented molar protocones, gracile metastyles, and buccolingually compressed, shearing canines. Like other large Miocene hyainailourines, Simbakubwa has deep carnassial notches on the molars and tall paracones fused to shorter metacones forming single piercing cusps. A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis recovers Simbakubwa as the sister taxon of a clade of large-bodied Miocene hyainailourines that includes Hyainailouros and Megistotherium. Bayesian ancestral state reconstruction supports an Afro-Arabian origin for Hyainailourinae with subsequent dispersal to Eurasia during the early Miocene. Regression analysis based on carnassial size is applied to Simbakubwa and closely related hyainailourines, recovering a body mass up to 1,500 kg for the new taxon. The evolution and extinction of Hyainailourinae offers important insights for interpreting ecological transitions from Paleogene to Neogene faunas in Afro-Arabia and Eurasia.
New Miocene Sirenians from Nosy Makamby, Northwestern Madagascar
Karen E. Samonds, Rebekah A. Ernat, Tsiory Andrianavalona, Daryl P. Domning
The near lack of vertebrate fossils from the Cenozoic of Madagascar has left many of the details regarding the origin and evolution of the island's extant faunas unknown. However, recent fossil discoveries from Madagascar's nearshore marine deposits have begun to elucidate this mystery. These finds include sharks, bony fish, turtles, crocodylians, a middle Eocene sirenian (Eotheroides lambondrano), and the island's first fossil dolphin. We report here at least three (possibly four) different early (or possibly later) Miocene dugongid sirenians recovered from the island of Nosy Makamby, Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. These include (1) a fragmentary braincase originally attributed to the genus Halitherium but here reidentified as a previously named species known only from Libya (Rytiodus heali; Dugonginae); (2) a newly named genus and species (Norosiren zazavavindrano) interpreted as a primitive relative of Xenosiren (Dugonginae); (3) a probable dugongine not yet identified with any known species; and (4) a taxon reported here as Metaxytherium cf. krahuletzi (Halitheriinae), the first Neogene halitheriine credibly reported from the Indian Ocean basin. This pattern of shallow marine environments harboring multispecies sirenian paleofaunas is seen elsewhere in the world, and these three or four contemporaneous sirenians represent the first glimpse into Madagascar's sea cow diversity during the Miocene. This specific time period is a poorly known and critical interval for interpreting Madagascar's past, and these specimens are potentially highly significant for reconstructing sirenian evolutionary and biogeographic history. Surprisingly, this sirenian fauna, so far, shares no genera with the roughly contemporaneous and relatively nearby one from Kutch, western India.
Brain and Pneumatic Cavities of the Braincase of the Basal Alligatoroid Diplocynodon tormis (Eocene, Spain)
Alejandro Serrano-Martínez, Fabien Knoll, Iván Narváez, Francisco Ortega
A well-preserved braincase of the basal alligatoroid Diplocynodon tormis was found in the middle Eocene site of ‘Teso de la Flecha,’ Salamanca, Spain. The specimen was scanned using computed tomography (CT), and its inner cavities were digitally rendered in three dimensions. Most bones of the left side are missing, so the reconstruction was based mainly on the right half of the braincase. The endocast of the brain cavity, nerves, part of the inner ear, and blood vessel canals was reconstructed, as well as a complex network of air-filled cavities around the hindbrain formed by the median pharyngeal sinus and pharyngotympanic sinus systems. Inner cavities of the skull are considered to be conservative structures. The comparison of this specimen with several extant crocodilians (Alligatoroidea, Crocodyloidea, and Gavialoidea) allows us to identify a neuroanatomical evolutionary pattern that matches current phylogenetic hypotheses. All internal cavities of the braincase of Diplocynodon are similar to those of other studied eusuchians, with some noteworthy differences in shape and size, particularly regarding the cerebrum and the paratympanic sinus system. Diplocynodon tormis shows a combination of alligatoroid synapomorphies and crocodylian symplesiomorphies in its internal cavities, consistent with its phylogenetic placement as a basal alligatoroid.
First Cretaceous Fish Fauna from Malaysia
Yu He Teng, Masatoshi Sone, Ren Hirayama, Masataka Yoshida, Toshifumi Komatsu, Suchada Khamha, Gilles Cuny
Cretaceous fish fossils are reported from Malaysia for the first time. They were found with dinosaur and turtle remains in nonmarine sediments in the interior of Pahang State, Peninsular Malaysia. This fish assemblage consists mostly of isolated teeth, with minor amounts of noncranial remains, including vertebral centra, scales, coprolites, and hybodont fin spines. Over 100 fish teeth were examined. Nine taxa were confirmed from this fish assemblage: six (identified and unidentified) species of hybodont sharks, Heteroptychodus kokutensis, Isanodus paladeji, Lonchidion aff. khoratensis, Mukdahanodus aff. trisivakulii, Egertonodus sp., and Hybodontidae indet., and three species of actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes): ‘Lepidotes’ sp., Halecomorphi indet., and Ginglymodi indet. This fish assemblage has strong affinities with Early Cretaceous (Barremian–early Aptian) faunas of Thailand, because the four hybodont species, H. kokutensis, I. paladeji, L. khoratensis, and M. trisivakulii, were previously known only from the Sao Khua Formation (Khorat Group) and equivalent strata of Ko Kut (Kut Island). Egertonodus has been confirmed in Asia for the first time. Overall, this fish assemblage shows a close linkage to Early Cretaceous (Barremian–early Aptian) faunas of Thailand. Based on faunal composition and biostratigraphic correlation, we suggest a Barremian–early Aptian age for this new fauna from Malaysia.
A New Species of Bristlebird (Passeriformes, Dasyornithidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia
Jacqueline M. T. Nguyen
The bristlebird family (Passeriformes, Dasyornithidae) constitutes one of the earliest branches in the oscine (songbird) tree. A new bristlebird, Dasyornis walterbolesi, sp. nov., is described from lower Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia. This new species is based on a femur, a tibiotarsus, and a tarsometatarsus of one individual, the first known instance of associated passerine bones in the pre-Pleistocene record of Australia, as well as a distal part of a femur of a second individual. Dasyornis walterbolesi is smaller in size than the extant eastern bristlebird, D. brachypterus, and extends the known fossil record for Dasyornithidae by 18 million years. The new fossils considerably increase the geographic range of Dasyornithidae and indicate that the bristlebird family was once more widespread in Australia. A phylogenetic analysis of 91 morphological characters strongly supports the placement of the new fossil species in Dasyornithidae, although its intrafamilial relationships will only be better informed by discovery and study of additional material. Dasyornis walterbolesi meets five criteria for consideration as a well-justified fossil calibration and can be used to calibrate molecular estimates of the passerine evolutionary timescale.
Revision of Dugaldia emmilta (Teleostei, ichthyodectiformes) from the Toolebuc Formation, Albian of Australia, with Comments on the Jaw Mechanics
Lionel Cavin, Rodney W. Berrell
Dugaldia emmilta is a teleostean fish found in the late Albian Toolebuc Formation in Queensland, Australia. In the original description, D. emmilta was attributed to the Neoteleostei because of the presence of a tripartite occipital condyle, and the species was postulated to have a basal position among neoteleosteans because of the presence of several plesiomorphic characters. A reexamination of the holotype, together with the description of two new specimens, indicates that D. emmilta is an ichthyodectiform fish. A phylogenetic analysis resolves this species as the sister to Ogunichthys + Ichthyodectoidei. This species shows unusual features for an ichthyodectiform, in particular the shape of the mandible and the arrangement of the teeth on the lower jaw. Jaw mechanics in ichthyodectiforms are peculiar because they allow a significant lateral enlargement. In Dugaldia, a similar disposition is present but is exaggerated by specific features of the maxilla and the mandible. Comparisons with the sarcastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi), a living blenny that shows a ‘gaping display,’ reveal that Dugaldia was likely able to exhibit extreme lateral mouth enlargement.
A New Pliocene True Toad (Anura: Bufonidae): First Record of an Extinct Species from South America
Celeste M. Pérez-Ben, Raúl O. Gómez, Ana M. Báez
Reappraisal of ‘Metoposaurus hoffmani’ Dutuit, 1978, and Description of New Temnospondyl Specimens from the Middle–Late Triassic of Madagascar (Morondava Basin)
Josep Fortuny, Thomas Arbez, Eudald Mujal, J. Sébastien Steyer
Temnospondyls from the Middle–Late Triassic of Madagascar are problematic and scarce: ‘Metoposaurus hoffmani’ was erected on the basis of poor material, and this taxon has never been revised. Other remains were also reported and assigned to Temnospondyli indet., but they have never been described, nor figured. Here, we (re)describe in detail this historical material from the Folakara area of Madagascar (Isalo Group, Morondava Basin): the specimens include cranial and postcranial remains, most of them being referred to Metoposauridae indet. and a few to Stereospondyli indet. We also confirm that ‘M. hoffmani’ is a nomen dubium owing to the absence of any clear autapomorphy of the fragmentary type material. The material referred here to Metoposauridae indet. is incorporated in an updated paleobiogeographic analysis of the group: interestingly, it suggests a connection with Indian metoposaurids during the Late Triassic.
The Neogene Fossil Record of Aetomylaeus (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae) from the Southeastern Pacific
Jaime A. Villafaña, Giuseppe Marramà, Sebastian Hernandez, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Dirk Hovestadt, Rene Kindlimann, Jürgen Kriwet
The presence of eagle rays of the genus Aetomylaeus in the Neogene of the Temperate Pacific coast of South America (TPSA) still is ambiguous, although the fossil record of elasmobranch fishes (sharks, rays, and skates) from this area is quite good. Here, we present the first unmistakable fossil remains of Aetomylaeus from the Neogene of the TPSA. The material comprises 13 dental plates from one site in Peru and six localities in Chile ranging in age from Miocene to Pliocene and was compared with dental plates of extant species. Our study reveals that the number of tooth rows and the shape of lateral teeth in extant species are seemingly very variable and need to be established before fossil specimens can be confidently identified. Consequently, we do not assign the fossil specimens from the Neogene of the TPSA to any species but leave them as Aetomylaeus. Moreover, we recognized that only the shape of medial teeth provides reliable diagnostic characters in our material, whereas the shape and number of lateral teeth are highly variable, similar to the condition seen in extant species.
Anatomy and Systematics of Notohippus toxodontoides Ameghino, 1891 (Mammalia, Notoungulata), from the Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Mercedes Fernández, Esperanza Cerdeño, Juan C. Fernicola
The specimens described herein come from the Río Bote locality, Santa Cruz Formation (early Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. They include the most complete cranial material of the ‘Notohippidae’ Notohippus toxodontoides and other remains that increase knowledge of the mandible and dentition. The new remains allow extension of the original description proposed by Ameghino in the 19th century and provide data on ontogenetic variation in the dental traits of this species. Notohippus differs from the Deseadan–Colhuehuapian genus Argyrohippus in the following features: discontinuous dentition; C and p1 absent; shorter P2–M3/p2–m3 series; crown of I1 highly curved; upper molars with less developed parastyle and paracone fold, less undulating ectoloph, deeper distolingual groove of M3 directed more lingually and presence of a very shallow distolabial groove; incisiform lower canine; and lower molars with posterolabial angle of talonid more rounded and narrower trigonid valley. As stated in previous works, our phylogenetic analysis indicates that the ‘Notohippidae’ do not constitute a monophyletic group, because Argyrohippus, Notohippus, and Toxodontidae are recovered as a clade. Internal relationships within this clade are not resolved in any of the phylogenetic analyses performed here. The presence of N. toxodontoides in the faunal assemblage found at the Río Bote locality adds to its previous records in Santa Cruz (Kar-Aiken and Cerro Centinela localities) Province, Argentina, and Sierra Baguales locality in Chile.
Description of a New Basal Mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous of Croatia, with Comments on the Evolution of the Mosasauroid Forelimb
Michelle Campbell Mekarski, Dražen Japundžić, Katarina Krizmanić, Michael W. Caldwell
A new genus and species of plesiopedal mosasauroid, Portunatasaurus krambergeri, from the Cenomanian–Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of Croatia is described. An articulated skeleton, representing an animal roughly a meter long was found in 2008 on the island of Dugi Otok. The specimen is articulated, in approximate life position, and is well represented from the anterior cervical series to the pelvis. Preserved elements include cervical and dorsal vertebrae, rib fragments, pelvic fragments, and an exquisitely preserved right forelimb. The taxon possesses plesiomorphic characters such as terrestrial limbs and an elongate body similar to that of basal mosasauroids such as Aigialosaurus or Komensaurus, but also shares derived characteristics with mosasaurine mosasaurids such as Mosasaurus. The articulated hand exhibits a unique anatomy that appears to be transitional in form between the terrestrially capable aigialosaurs and fully aquatic mosasaurines, including 10 ossified carpal elements (as in aigialosaurs), intermediately reduced pro- and epipodials, and a broad, flattened first metacarpal (as in mosasaurines). The new and unique limb anatomy contributes to a revised scenario of mosasauroid paddle evolution, whereby the abbreviation of the forelimb and the hydrofoil shape of the paddle evolves either earlier in the mosasaur lineage than previously thought or more times than previously considered. The presence of this new genus, the third and geologically youngest species of aigialosaur from Croatia, suggests an unrealized diversity and ecological importance of this family within the shallow, Late Cretaceous Tethys Sea.
A New Scincid Lizard from the Miocene of Northern Australia, and the Evolutionary History of Social Skinks (Scincidae: Egerniinae)
Kailah M. Thorn, Mark N. Hutchinson, Michael Archer, Michael S. Y. Lee
The Egerniinae (formerly the Egernia group) is a morphologically diverse clade of skinks comprising 61 extant species from eight genera, spread across Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The relatively large size and robustness of many egerniines has meant that they fossilize more readily than other Australian skinks and have been more frequently recorded from paleontological excavations. The Riversleigh World Heritage Area of northeastern Australia has yielded multiple egerniine fossils, but most are isolated jaw elements, and only one taxon (‘Tiliqua’ pusilla) has been formally described. Articulated remains recently recovered from the mid-Miocene AL90 site (14.8 Ma) at Riversleigh are here described as Egernia gillespieae and represent the first opportunity to describe the morphology of a significant portion of a single individual of a fossil member of the Egerniinae. We include this fossil and ‘T.’ pusilla in an integrated analysis of morphology and published molecular data to assess their relationships and to provide calibration points for the timing of the egerniine radiation. Our calibrated tree combining molecular and morphological data suggests that the modern Australian radiation dates to the end of the Eocene (34.1 Ma). Both fossils are within the Australian crown clade Egerniinae: Egernia gillespieae is placed close to species of the living genus Egernia, whereas ‘Tiliqua’ pusilla likely sits basal to the divergence of the clade inclusive of Tiliqua and Cyclodomorphus. The fossils thus provide direct evidence that the Australian radiation of the Egerniinae was well underway by the mid-Miocene.
A Dvinosaurian Temnospondyl from the Carboniferous-Permian Boundary of Germany Sheds Light on Dvinosaurian Phylogeny and Distribution
Rainer R. Schoch, Sebastian Voigt
A complete skull and well-preserved postcranium of a dvinosaurian temnospondyl from the Carboniferous-Permian boundary of Germany is referred to a new genus and species, Trypanognathus remigiusbergensis. The skull closely resembles that of the early Permian dvinosaurian genus Trimerorhachis in outline and suture topology, but the occiput and the palate differ substantially. Derived states are the penetration of vomerine tusks through the splenial and symphyseal tusks through the premaxilla. Trypanognathus shares with dvinosauroids the lack of a squamosal embayment, an elongated basipterygoid process, a foreshortened palatine ramus exclusively reaching the ectopterygoid, the absence of pterygoid denticles, and enlarged palatal tusks. The body is elongate with well-ossified, but small limbs, the presacral count is ca. 28, and the pleurocentra are large and reached ventrally almost as far as the intercentrum. The new taxon nests within Dvinosauria above the trimerorhachid clade and Erpetosaurus, at the base of the broad-skulled dvinosauroids. Trypanognathus occurs in a tetrapod fauna that closely resembles early Permian assemblages of western North America, with which it shares sphenacodontid and edaphosaurid synapsids, as well as eryopid temnospondyls.
A New Specimen of Platypterygius sachicarum (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia and Its Phylogenetic Implications
Erin E. Maxwell, Dirley Cortés, Pedro Patarroyo, Mary Luz Parra Ruge
Platypterygius sachicarum is one of the few Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaurian species described from the Hauterivian–Aptian-aged Paja Formation, the most complete Lower Cretaceous sedimentary sequence in northern South America. To date, P. sachicarum has been described only from a single skull, limiting morphological, stratigraphic, and phylogenetic comparisons. Here, we describe a new skull and associated postcranium of upper Barremian age from Villa de Leyva, Colombia, which represent the first documented postcranial remains of this species and enable detailed comparison with other Early Cretaceous ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs. Platypterygius sachicarum shares many morphological similarities with contemporaneous taxa from Europe but differs in both skull and tooth morphology from coeval South American species from northern South America and from the eastern Pacific. The additional data provide new diagnostic characters for this species and resolve the position of P. sachicarum as part of a polytomy of other species historically referred to Platypterygius. However, as with previous analyses, all recovered clades are poorly supported. The rich vertebrate fossil record of the Paja Formation provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore paleobiogeographic and paleoecological questions pertaining to Cretaceous marine reptiles; however, in most cases, a robust stratigraphic and phylogenetic framework remains elusive.
A New Macronarian Sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal
Pedro Mocho, Rafael Royo-Torres, Francisco Ortega
The Upper Jurassic of Portugal is relatively rich in sauropod remains. We describe a new sauropod specimen, which includes a partial tail, pectoral and pelvic girdle elements, and hind limb bones, from Praia de Valmitão (Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation, upper Kimmeridgian–lowermost Tithonian). This specimen constitutes the holotype of Oceanotitan dantasi, gen. et sp. nov., which shows a unique combination of characters, including the presence of anterior caudal vertebrae with a medial accessory articulation on the prezygapophysis; a circular, rough tuberosity on the medial surface of the scapula; an elliptical concavity on the ventral face of the scapula; an ischium that is shorter than the pubis; and a robust fourth trochanter located at the midline of the posterior face of the femur. Multiple phylogenetic analyses recover Oceanotitan dantasi within Titanosauriformes, with one resolving it at the base of Somphospondyli. This taxon shares several apomorphies with some Cretaceous somphospondylans and turiasaurs, such as the transverse furrow on the chevron articulations (shared with Tangvayosaurus and Phuwiangosaurus) and the ischium being shorter than the pubis (shared with Mierasaurus and somphospondylans). Oceanotitan might represent the oldest known somphospondylan, and its establishment increases the known diversity of the Late Jurassic–earliest Early Cretaceous sauropod fauna in the Iberian Peninsula, which also consists of turiasaurs, diplodocids and macronarians (non-camarasaurid, non-titanosauriform macronarians; camarasaurids; and brachiosaurids). This high diversity in sauropods suggests that this region might have played an important role during the Late Jurassic in the dispersal and diversification of several sauropod lineages between North America, Africa, and Europe, especially macronarians.
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Athletic Woman with Alopecia Areata Restores A Lifestyle: Pat's Story
As part of our ongoing commitment to build an inspiring, global network of women with alopecia areata, we're sharing another personal story of a strong woman coping with her alopecia.
Below, are excerpts of my recent interview with Pat from Queeensland, Australia -- an active woman with alopecia universalis who is the only person diagnosed in her family.
When it comes to finding what works best with flexibility, perserverance and humor, in my mind Pat stands out as a motivator we can all learn from. When faced with challenges, Pat figures out how to enjoy her active pursuits with and without hair.
What was it like when you were first diagnosed?
It was 1989 and I was 38 when I first noticed my cent sized bald spot. I was referred to a dermatologist but he dismissed my fears by behaving as if he thought I was overreacting. In fact, I was terrified and incapable of expressing myself. I thought him to be dismissive and unhelpful. I addition, there were major family stresses in my life at that time . It became increasingly difficult for me to visit the dermatologist due in large part to his attitude and because I saw no improvement from scalp steroid injections other than tufts of white hair. Bald patches were increasing all over my head.
Within 9 months, all the hair on my body fell out completely and it stayed this way for 4 years. Then suddenly, with no treatment at all after years of no hair, it started to regrow. I thought my time with alopecia had ended. How wrong I was!
Over time, I've also been affected by other auto-immune conditions.
Early on what was most helpful, least helpful?
I really think doctors should be more respectful and realise the emotional effect on patients and show a more caring attitude. It would have made all the difference to me at the time. I tried acupuncture for a while. In contrast to the dermatologist, the acupuncturist showed a very different attitude and was quite excited at the prospect of having me as a patient. I'm sure he was as disappointed as I was when the alopecia didn't resolve itself.
Was the second round of hair loss a repeat of the first?
Within two years of regrowth, the bald spots re-started and increased until once again I lost every hair on my body. This time around it was the age of the internet....a life-saver for me as I was able to connect with others and didn't feel as isolated and alone. I joined a couple of groups where I'm still a member and now am a moderator on one of them.
I felt more in control of my emotional helath and decided I wouldn't let alopecia decide how I would live my life. I was a runner and previously I stopped doing this. But this time I continued to run albeit with a hat or scarf.
How do you work eyebrows, lashes and hair into your alopecia lifestyle?
I have enougn eyelashes now to put on mascara which I'm very pleased about. There are also some very unruly hairs on my eyebrows which seem to have forgotten the directon they are supposed to grow! I pluck some of the really weird ones, but keep the others and paste them down with a wax pencil as it adds to the illusion that I have eyebrows. I had my eyebrows and eyeline tattooed a couple of times over the years and wouldn't be without them.
During this second bout, I decided to get a wig. Through trial and error I now wear wigs I am happy and comfortable with. I feel like myself when I put on my wig and rarely go out without it. At times I wear a scarf and hat and I have gone swimming with my head bare a couple of times. I wear a wig to the gym, too, as I'm unable to do cardio these days so sweat isn't a problem.
I am a big admirer of those who go wigless, but I feel more like me with a wig on. I see it as just another way of putting on clothes/makeup. Also it keeps my head warm in winter. I used to feel like a fake when I wore a wig, but I don't anymore. Today wearing a wig IS me. It's who I am today.
Were there moments that altered your perspective?
When walking into a shop I saw a young woman with no legs in a wheelchair. It was my first wakeup call to realise I may have lost my hair but I could still walk, run and basically do everything I used to do. I do StandUp Paddling every Sunday.
Connecting with others on the internet really helped me to get over myself. I had viewed my alopecia as a monster controlling my body, but gradually I became friends with it. I've come a long way from not wanting to look at myself in the mirror!
What esle did you do to restore normalcy?
In the early 2000's I joined Toastmasters to overcome my fear of people looking at me (even with hair!). Through gaining confidence in that organisation, I made a speech about alopecia and my journey with it to my club. A few years later I got to talk at a Toastmaster conference about alopecia and the funny things I've experienced along the way --- like losing my wig in the surf. It was a wonderful moment for me that I could stand up and talk about it with humour rather than as the tragedy I had previously viewed it as being.
I can laugh at myself these days and see the funny side rather than remaining in tragic mode. That's really helped me cope with my down days which are rather more like down moments now.
At the launch of the Bald Girls Do Lunch nonprofit, you were one of the first people we followed online. Did you feel like a pioneer?
Because there is more online support, people aren't freaking out like they used to when first diagnosed. Of course, it's still traumatic for new ones, but it seems like they get to acceptance far quicker. I didn't feel so much like a pioneer in alopecia support as feeling tremendous relief that other people were experiencing what I was going through. No matter how supportive my husband was, he didn't understand the panic I was going through. Other alopecians online knew exactly how I felt.
We want to thank Pat very much for sharing her story!
Feel free to use the space below to tell us some turning points in your journey with alopecia areata.
Topics: coping with alopecia, stories of women with alopecia, alopecia awareness
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Medical education in India is not in a good shape. 358 medical colleges are unable to produce as many MBBS graduates as to take care of the health facility for 1.25 billion Indians. There is acute shortage of doctors in the country. Their number is not in proportion to the rising population. There is only one govt. doctor on around 11 thousand Indians. The condition of government hospitals and health Centres is deplorable.
In ancient times, India was considered to be the centre of Medical Education. Two world renowned Physicians – Charak and Sashrut – made great contribution to medical education in India. Students from distant countries were making their way to Nalanda and Taxila universities to study medicine.
Now, it is rather a sad state of affairs when the present 398 medical colleges in India fail to provide the much needed healthcare for its 1.2 billion strong populations. There is huge gap between doctors and patients in terms of number.
Medical education is also very expensive in the country and Medical profession is no longer considered as the service to humanity. Most of the doctors only indulge in fleecing money in many ways from the patients. There are very few among them who treat their profession as the service to humanity. The brilliant ones among the medical community prefer to start private practice. They avoid joining government concerns because of low salary and less facility. In the prevailing situation, the commoners remain deprived of availing up to the mark medical treatment by the brilliant private doctors. Their consultation fees are very high, which the common people cannot afford.
As medical education requires huge expense, the parents mortgage all their wealth for the medical education of their wards. So, when these medical students pass out from the colleges, their main aim is to earn as much as they could do. Most of the govt. doctors are no better than quacks. The biggest deficiency in our medical education is that the students are given more knowledge and less practical training. That is why our doctors are not rated as the best ones. Practical knowledge of the science subject. Especially Biology is a must in schools and colleges. Without the proper practical training in schools and colleges to the science students, no theoretical knowledge will be of much use for the medical students.
Proper attention towards public healthcare and medical education has not been paid in the country. There is huge gap between rising population and the number of medical graduates produced by the colleges in India. There is also acute shortage of good doctors in government concerns because of the low salary being paid to them. As huge expense is required on the medical education, most of the medical practitioners’ main aims remain only earning money.
Medical profession is most attractive, well-paid and lucrative. The craving for pursuing medical (Health and Science) education is very high among the students of 10+2. They appear at various medical entrance tests to get admission to any medical college. As medical education is difficult and it requires a lot of labour, there is also the need of attention and concentration on the part of the medical aspirants to clear the entrance test examination. To promote medical education and encourage students to pursue it, we have been conducting medical scholarship examinations – AIPMST (Primary) and AIPMST (Secondary) - at national level since 2012. To know in detail about the process of these two medical scholarship examinations, please visit www.aipmstprimary.co.in and www.aipmstsecondary.co.in.
The demand of management graduates in the country is increasing day by day.
With the opening up of economy very fast, the demand of management graduates in the country has increased. As there is no dearth of talented, deserving and meritorious students, Brainztorm Technical excellence Pvt. Ltd., working in the field of education and IT, is going to provide them opportunity to appear at scholarship examinations - Management Scholarship Aptitude Test MSAT (Primary) for admission to the management institutes of their choices along with scholarship and MSAT (Secondary) for only scholarship to pursue education in IIM. These two management scholarship examinations are going to be conducted by BTE from the session 2018-19.
All those students who qualify MSAT (Primary) would get admission to the choicest management college along with scholarship while Management aspirants will get only scholarship to pursue education in IIM on qualifying MSAT (Secondary). Their admission to IIM will be on their own after clearing the entrance examination meant for it. They are going to be a boon for brilliant and deserving students. To ensure that no deserving and meritorious students be deprived of pursuing their cherished education in management in reputed and prestigious management colleges due to economic constraint, we are going to organize and conduct MSAT (Primary) for the first time. With mounting pressure on us from among the deserving students to start a scholarship examination for them to pursue Management education in leading colleges of the country, we are going to organize it.
We have realized, keeping in mind the rising cost of Management education ranging in between Rs. 5 to 10 lakh in moderate to top colleges in India, the need for organizing scholarship examination like MSAT to help the deserving and meritorious students get their cherished dream of pursuing the Management career fulfilled.
With economic liberalization and opening up of market in place, the door to a number of opportunities for Management Graduates opened in all economic related sectors. As economy governs and controls all sectors, the demand for Management Graduate in the job market is bound to rise day by day.
Besides financial help, MSAT (Primary) also inspires and encourages students for admission in Management colleges. It is financially helpful for meritorious and deserving students. It also inspires them to be self-confident to pursue management education in top grade colleges in India. It is our earnest desire and effort to instill leadership quality, confidence in students to make them self-employed and focused.
MSAT (Secondary) is organized and conducted to minimize the financial burden of meritorious and deserving students in pursuing management education in top colleges/universities. Keeping in view the rising cost of management education and mounting pressure from the meritorious students, Brainztorm Technological Excellence Pvt. Ltd. has decided to start and conduct MSAT (Secondary). It is most likely that it would prove to be very fruitful to especially those meritorious and deserving students who are coming from financially weaker section of society. We conduct examination and grant scholarship to deserving students only. MSAT (Primary) and MSAT (Secondary) would be merit-based examinations. We conduct these two management scholarship examinations responsibly and sincerely. The examination conducted by us is very fair and strict. The standard of examination would be up to the mark.
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Facebook Blames Server Problem For Massive Outage
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Facebook blamed a “server configuration change” on Thursday for a massive outage affecting its applications around the world and brought fresh attention to the embattled social networking leader.
The outage affected users for some 12 hours in most areas of the world, with the biggest impact in North America and Europe, according to the tracking website downdetector.com.
After acknowledging the problem on Wednesday, Facebook remained mum on the issue for nearly 24 hours before issuing an explanation and apology around 1630 GMT Thursday.
“Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services,” a Facebook tweet said.
“We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.”
the outage was believed to be the worst ever for the internet giant that reaches an estimated 2.7 billion people with its core social network, Instagram and messaging applications.
On Wednesday, Facebook said the situation did not appear to be the result of a denial-of-service attack. The hashtag #FacebookDown was a popular theme on Twitter.
In some cases, the apps could be accessed but would not load posts or handle messages.
In November, a Facebook outage was attributed to a server problem, and a September disruption was said to be the result of “networking issues.”
Bloomberg News reported that Facebook was considering refunds for advertisers whose messages could not be delivered. Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Investigations abound
While the outage continued, The New York Times reported that US prosecutors had launched a criminal investigation into the social network’s practice of sharing users’ data with companies without letting them know.
According to the report, a grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from at least two major smartphone makers about such arrangements with Facebook.
The news comes with regulators, investigators and elected officials in the US and elsewhere in the world digging into the data sharing practices of Facebook.
The social network’s handling of user data has been a flashpoint for controversy since it admitted last year that Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy which did work for Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, used an app that may have hijacked the private details of 87 million users.
Facebook suggested there was nothing new in the New York Times report.
“It has already been reported that there are ongoing federal investigations, including by the Department of Justice,” a Facebook spokesman told AFP.
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“As we’ve said before, we are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously. We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged that we will continue to do so.”
Facebook has maintained that it shared limited amounts of user data with smartphone makers and other outside partners to enable its services to work well on devices or with applications.
Regulators, and now prosecutors, appear intent on determining whether this was done in ways that let users know what was happening and protected privacy.
Over the past year, the social network has announced a series of moves to tighten handling of data, including eliminating most of its data-sharing partnerships with outside companies.
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Setting sail: four stunning destinations to see by sea
As the weather starts to warm, the ocean calls. We present some of the world’s most delightful destinations to set sail for – whether with the help of crew and cook, or entirely solo.
By Private View
Whether you’re an experienced sailor or a complete novice, navigating a yacht through some of the world’s most stunning waters can be exhilarating – and entirely doable. There are plenty of opportunities to skipper your own monohull or catamaran with ‘bareboat’ yacht charters. Alternatively you could opt for the relative safety of a flotilla sailing holiday, where you have the added support of a lead boat crew. Still outside your comfort zone? Maybe hiring a boat together with full crew and chef is the way to go. Whatever you choose, make sure you don’t miss these top four spots.
An angler’s paradise
If you’ve sailed the Whitsundays time and again, how about dropping in on our neighbours? New Zealand boasts 15,000 kilometres of coastline dotted with secluded coves and serene bays plus numerous isolated islands. There are also plenty of charming coastal trips worth trying, where you can moor each day in a sheltered bay before sailing on at sunrise.
One particularly delightful area to navigate is the Bay of Islands, up north. The verdant green of its 144 unspoilt islands contrasts beautifully with the clear blue waters all around. You might want to go fishing in this ‘angler’s paradise or you can simply enjoy spotting such marine wildlife as whales, penguins and dolphins.
Further south, there’s the undeveloped Abel Tasman National Park to explore, with its golden sands and idyllic blue waters framed by subtropical native rainforest. It’s a great place to take out a kayak and observe the myriad sea creatures at close quarters.
If you’re a seasoned sailor, try heading to the Marlborough Sounds, with its spectacular peaks and sea-drowned valleys. It’s a veritable labyrinth of waterways with picturesque islands, coves and bays to sail in and around. Calm waters can become perilous, however, so it’s not for the faint of heart – it’s well worth hiring someone who knows the waters well.
Swimming with whales
In such close proximity to the international date line, it’s understandable that the Kingdom of Tonga is seen as a place where time stands still.
You might wish it had, too, once you arrive. It’s hard to tire of sailing among its stunning islands with their lush forests and pristine sands, serene lagoons and protected coral reefs readily visible in clear, blue waters. In fact, visibility can reach 70 metres around Tonga, making snorkelling and diving an absolute must on your trip.
To start your sailing journey, it’s a good idea to head to the Vava’u archipelago where most charters are based. One of the highlights here is humpback whales. You might hear them from your yacht – or even swim with them – if you’re lucky.
If you can tear yourself away from the water, it’s worth a visit to a traditional Tongan village, after which you could enjoy the gastronomical delights of a 20-course torchlit Tongan beach feast.
NB: Tonga charters may not start or end on a Sunday.
A dip into history and nature
Like Greece, but not like Greece. Croatia boasts more than 1,000 islands along its Dalmatian Coast, but though it’s gaining in popularity, it’s still viewed as the road (or waterway) less taken.
Most of Croatia’s islands tend to be wild, rugged and often entirely uninhabited. Your trip doesn’t have to be devoid of cultural delights, however. The fact that Greeks, Illyrians and Romans all had a hand in establishing the cities along the Adriatic coast is evident in the beautiful old buildings of the area. Highlights include the UNESCO-protected ancient Greek port of Trogir and the striking city of Split with its massive Diocletian’s Palace built at the turn of the fourth century AD (which has been a filming location for HBO’s Game of Thrones).
You might also want to drop your anchor in the bay of Primosten. The town is famous for its distinctive ‘stone lace’ vineyards, which rise vertically from the sea and are divided by kilometres of white dry-stone walls crafted entirely by hand.
If it’s solitude you desire, enjoy sailing around the isolated, unspoilt Kornati archipelago with its 140 islands. Most of the area has been declared a national park and with good reason.
Keep in mind that the winds are stronger on the northern coast of Croatia, though there’s no reason you can’t select the sailing area to suit your level of experience.
Mud baths and molten lava
Sicily, of course, is worth the journey itself with its delightful mix of Greek-, Roman-, Arab- and Norman-inspired architecture. Charter a yacht and you’re likely to experience perfect sailing conditions as you explore the seven UNESCO World Heritage-listed Aeolian Islands just 35 kilometres north. Renowned for their unusual topography, these volcanic islands offer a wonderful experience.
There are islands rich in history dating back to Ancient Greece while others are barely populated at all. The smoking Stromboli, one of the few constantly active volcanos in the world, is likely to light up the night sky with giant flames and molten rock spray, making for an evening hike you’ll never forget.
Then there’s the rugged Vulcano, popular for its mud baths and thermal springs – if not for its sulphuric pong. The fashionable Panarea, meanwhile, attracts Europe’s affluent and famous, and will give you a true taste of the islands’ nightlife with its lively restaurants and sunset bars.
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Tough Times? Sell Fido
BiographyKathleen Madigan
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Aug 5, 2010 1:32 pm ET
We are what we search. In economically stressed times, we search online for ways to make ends meet.
Back in January, analysts at BNY ConvergEx Group scanned the results of economic queries given by the “autocompletes” in the search engine Google. (Autocompletes are the suggested finishes to whatever you start typing into the search line. The engine’s algorithms adjust the autocompletes to whatever is currently the most popular completion to the phrase you are entering. Type in “Justin” and “Bieber” pops up.)
The January results of five phrases showed a very bearish view of the world. For instance, the phrase “I want to sell my” was autocompleted with “car” and “house.” The word “Filing” was finished with “bankruptcy.”
The group repeated the exercise in August, adding Yahoo and Bing. The hope was that attitudes had improved. No such luck. If anything, searchers seem more desperate for cash.
“I want to sell my” is now finished with “hair” and “laptop.” Google also suggested “dog” as a possible sales item.
Bankruptcy is no longer the most popular autocompletion for “Filing.” But that’s only because it was nudged out by “for unemployment.”
“Overall, we can’t say that much has changed in search engine land to indicate better economic times,” says Nicholas Colas, ConvergEx Group chief market strategist.
If there was any good news, the exercise found that the phrase “I want to buy” was now autocompleted more often with the word “dog.” Hopefully, the dog buyers can hook up with the people trying to sell with their family pet.
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard “Murder of the Universe”
Murder of the Universe
[ATO; 2017]
All signs would suggest that Murder of the Universe, the 11th release from Australian psych outfit King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, should be a disappointment. It’s 21 tracks long. It’s a concept album centered around the creation of outlandish altered beasts. And it’s the second release in a year where the band has promised to release five albums, resulting in possible oversaturation and carelessness (update: they released their third album of the year today). Yet somehow, all of these negative precursors somehow propel this album to new heights, making for one wild listen.
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Year of the Neil: Episode #5
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Kevin Morby “City Music”
City Music
[Dead Oceans; 2017]
For over a decade, journalists have been writing think-pieces on the death of rock and roll, but not until the past couple years have their omens seemed possible. Two weeks ago Nielsen announced that for the first time in the rating system’s existence, rock music was not the most popular genre in their mid-year report. There’s no need for concern (yet). Rock music is closely trailing R&B/hip hop overall and in the category of albums, rock reigns supreme making up 40% of sales. Regardless, it does seem like rock and roll is on the down swing in popularity. For those in need of comfort during rock’s decline, Kevin Morby’s City Music plays as a perfect album of appreciation and reflection on the genre’s adventurous past.
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Check it out HERE, or better yet, subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay (search: BDWPS).
Fugazi “Target”
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Sunny Day Real Estate “8”
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Directed by boundary-breaking filmmaker Errol Morris, Wormwood explores the limits of knowledge about the past and the lengths we’ll go in our search for the truth. A twisting, evolving story of one man’s sixty-year quest to identify the circumstances of his father’s mysterious death. Combining a virtuosic performance by Peter Sarsgaard with Morris’ legendary interview style, Wormwood examines this case from every possible angle, bringing the viewer face-to-face with some of the United States’ darkest secrets. Wormwood sets a new standard for nonfiction filmmaking and finds Morris working on his grandest canvas yet.
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Why Green Sukuk Could be a Growth Driver for Islamic Finance
Created to fund projects with positive environmental benefits, green bonds have become rapidly popular in Europe and Asia while gaining traction in the United States.
By Bashar Al Natoor, Global Head of Islamic Finance, Fitch Ratings
Sep 4, 2017 // 12:08PM
Islamic Finance is one of the latest sectors to begin exploring the possibilities of what has been called “socially responsible” investing.
With Islamic finance systemically important in many jurisdictions and now growing in the wider regions of Middle East, Asia and also Africa, recent discussion is focusing around the favourable prospects of green Sukuk being another growth driver for Islamic Finance.
According to Reuters, a record $32.2 billion-worth of green bonds were issued in the second quarter of 2017, while issuance from emerging markets has jumped from $2.3 billion to $9.2 billion year-on-year, about half the total from developed markets, versus 16 percent a year ago. South Africa’s Cape Town, Argentina’s La Rioja Province, the Brazilian Development Bank and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi have all tapped the market, while Malaysia’s Tadau Energy sold the world’s first green Sukuk.
Countries such as Malaysia and the UAE are most active on this front out of the top 10 key Islamic finance markets. In Malaysia in 2014, the Security Commission revised its Sukuk guideline by incorporating the new requirements for the issuance of socially responsible investing (SRI) Sukuk. The new Sukuk guidelines set out that the proceeds of SRI Sukuk can be used to preserve the environment and natural resources, conserve the use of energy, promote the use of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emission.
Malaysia is a recent entrant to SRI and (excluding Japan) remains the leader in Asia when it comes to SRI asset under management with an estimated 30% of market share predominantly attributed to Malaysian Islamic funds. Malaysia has the opportunity and ambition to be a leader in this space on the premise that primarily, Malaysia is already a leader in Islamic finance.
There is also a strong push for SRI in the UAE which we have seen through the UAE Green Agenda’s Green Finance and Investment Support Scheme’s endeavour to promote financial growth through investing in green projects, products and services. Among the financial vehicles being considered is green Sukuk.
For Sukuk, It’s Easy Being ‘Green’
So why is Sukuk a good fit for green? For one, to finance sustainable infrastructure through green Sukuk can further broaden this market as well as help bridge the gap between conventional and Islamic financial worlds. Both environmentally sustainable investors and Sukuk investors aim to use their money in manners that comply with certain values and beliefs. Green Sukuk funding and environmentally sustainable infrastructure projects, such as the construction of renewable or clean energy projects, could appeal to both Sukuk investors and conventional environment-focused investors, as Sukuk by design are structured based on a specific pool of assets.
A closer look reveals that there is a need for infrastructure globally that could require up to hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars a year in additional financing; this is a real opportunity for green Sukuk where we find key and potential Islamic finance markets are primarily young and growing populations. However, this opportunity has not yet been tapped in to; 2016 was no different to previous years where we saw limited activity in the Islamic finance regions’ infrastructure bond financing, let alone Islamic finance and Sukuk.
So why is the list of challenges so daunting for the advent of green Sukuk? Perhaps the most important challenge for Sukuk is gaining acceptance by international investors due to lack of standardisation and legal enforceability risk. The industry is already struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing regulatory environment and achieve at least a local standardisation. In addition, the time spent drafting green Sukuk structures and frameworks that are acceptable to governments, investors and the Sukuk’s Sharia boards, can mean a substantially longer time frame of Islamic finance implementation leading to higher costs (at least until a standardised framework is established).
Market norms and standards for green bonds are still evolving, reflecting the market’s nascent status. It is essentially a self-regulated market although various voluntary guidelines exist, most notably the International Capital Market Association’s Green Bond Principles which were established in 2014 by a group of banks and focus on use of proceeds, process for project evaluation and selections, management of proceeds, and reporting. The Climate Bond Initiative also provides guidance, focusing on specific sectors.
While still very new, Islamic Finance on paper seems to be a logical place where green bonds, or in this case green Sukuk, could proliferate. Sukuk is already confined to a pool of assets by nature which makes it easy to be green. Nevertheless, achieving this goal comes with significant challenges and achieving a sustainable, established green Sukuk market looks to be a long way ahead.
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Bashar Al Natoor is Fitch Rating’s Global Head Islamic Finance. Mr Al Natoor is responsible for coordinating all Islamic Finance activities across Fitch’s Sovereign, Financial Institutions, Corporate, Structured Finance, Infrastructure and Insurance teams, bringing together dedicated analytical and industry expertise into a centralised and focused Islamic finance group.
Mr Al Natoor has more than 16 years' experience in the Islamic Finance market. Since joining Fitch in 2007, he has overseen Fitch's Sukuk criteria and Islamic Finance practices, undertaken research and written numerous published articles on Islamic Finance. Mr Al Natoor Joined Fitch as a director in the EMEA Corporates group based in Dubai. He was responsible for analysing EMEA issuers, with focus on Middle East and Turkish issuers in the construction, property and Telecommunication sectors. Prior to joining Fitch, Mr. Al Natoor spent seven years at the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in key roles including Investment Officer in the Treasury Department, a Senior Credit Analyst in Risk Management and Senior Technical Assistant to the Vice President of Finance & Administration. Before working with IDB, Mr Al Natoor was a senior auditor for four years in Arthur Andersen.
Mr Al Natoor graduated with an MSc in banking and financial studies from the Arab Academy for Finance and Banking Science and a BS in finance and banking from Amman University. Bashar is also a Certified Bank Auditor (CBA), a Certified Risk Professional (CRP), a Chartered Market Analyst (FAD-CMA), and a Certified Risk Analyst (CRA).
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paper, I will create a modern climate profile of the Southwestern United States.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), and various research institutions include different states
when defining the Southwestern United States climate region. This paper will
primarily focus on the climate of Arizona and New Mexico, these states being
constant in the interpretations of various climate research agencies.
climate data pertinent to this analysis includes temperature and drought trends,
as well as climate altering factors such as the El Niño Southern-Oscillation,
variations in the North American Monsoon System, and Sea Surface Temperature
Anomalies. This report is intended to give context to both past and future
climate analysis of the Southwest.
climate of the Southwestern United States is characterized as the hottest and
most arid region in the nation (Garfin, et al., 2014). The past century in
the Southwest can be roughly summarized as having long, sometimes decade long
droughts punctuated by fewer pluvial periods lasting shorter amounts of time (Carrillo, Castro, Chang, & Luong, 2017). The primary
mechanisms controlling yearly climate variations include the El Niño
Southern-Oscillation (ENSO) in the autumn and spring, mid-latitude storm
systems in the winter (Andrade & Sellers, 1988), and the North
American Monsoon System (NAMS) in the summer (Sheppard, et al., 1999).
The aim of
this paper is to provide a description of the modern climate setting of the
Southwestern United States that includes consistent climate patterns and the
factors that affect them. The following analysis will include a discussion on
multi-year droughts, seasonal climate trends, and a focus on outside mechanisms
that cause variations in these trends.
in the southwest follows a normal four season cycle with maximums in the summer
and minimums in the winter, decreasing with higher elevations. The mean annual
temperature of New Mexico, at 12°C, is lower than that of Arizona, at
17°C. Daily averages in the southwest vary from winter lows at
-7°C at higher altitudes to summer highs between 27°C to 35°C at
lower altitudes. (Sellers & Hill, 1974)
Droughts and the Effects of Global
Southwest owes much of its aridity to a quasi-permanent subtropical
high-pressure ridge over the region. Other contributing factors include high
temperatures, high levels of evapotranspiration, and rainshadow effects from
mountain ranges (Scott, 1991).
Droughts in the Southwest can be particularly intense, sometimes spanning
several decades. (Carrillo, Castro, Chang, & Luong, 2017) In analyzing the
past century of drought data using tree ring data complimented with the
Twentieth-Century Reanalysis product (20CR) and a long-term simulation that
dynamically downscaled this data, (Carrillo, Castro, Chang, & Luong, 2017) demonstrated that
most multi-year droughts can be linked to the El-Niño Southern-Oscillation,
with the exception of the 1892-1899 drought, which was related to inner
atmospheric variability.
Figure 1. The JA MFC (July-August
Moisture Flux Convergence) anomaly time-series. The convergence and divergence
of the moisture flux are pointed out with vectors. The dotted bars show annual
changes and the solid line shows the running mean over 10-years. (Carrillo, Castro, Chang, & Luong, 2017)
As reported
by the National Climate Assessment in 2014, the Southwest is already
experiencing the effects of climate change. The period since the 1950’s has
seen the highest temperatures in the last 600 years (Garfin, et al., 2014). A higher frequency
in droughts, combined with human caused temperature increases, has led to
insect outbreaks, as well as increased forest fire frequency and tree
mortality. (Garfin, et al., 2014)
The El Niño Southern-Oscillation and
Spring/Autumn Climate Variations
The El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the largest cause for variation in the
Spring/Autumn dry seasons of the Southwestern climate. (Kiladis & Diaz, 1989) While it’s effects
are largely minimized in the winter by mid-latitude storm systems (Andrade &
Sellers, 1988),
large ENSO events can have an effect on cold season precipitation (Kiladis &
Diaz, 1989).
The effects of ENSO on summer precipitation are also minimized, primarily due
to the fact that the North American Monsoon System (NAMS) provides a fairly
constant influx of moisture (Sheppard, et al., 1999).
southwest region, the spring and autumn seasons tend to be affected greatly by
ENSO. Both seasons see a pronounced increase in precipitation due to unusually
warm water off the West Coast. This leads to the development of strong
west-coast troughs and weakens the tradewind inversion (Andrade & Sellers, 1988). In the autumn, this
causes stronger, more frequent development of tropical storms and hurricanes
off the West Coast. (Smith, 1986)
Cold Season Climatic Setting and
Southwest, being located south of the typical winter westerly storm tracks, is
generally not subject to the substantial precipitation brought to the northern
states (Sheppard, et al., 1999). Rather, these
westerly storms result in high winds and cloudy skies throughout the region (Sheppard, et al., 1999). When precipitation
does occur in the winter, it is often caused by large cyclones spanning a few
thousand kilometers that enter North America via California (Sellers & Hill, 1974). Heavy winter rains
in Arizona tend to coincide with unusually dry periods in northwestern states (Sellers & Hill, 1974).
variations in winter climate in the Southwest can be attributed to 4 major
causes: the Pacific/North American pattern, southwestern troughing, the El
Niño-Southern Oscillation, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (Sheppard, et al., 1999). The Pacific/North
American (PNA) pattern (Simmons, Wallace, & Branstator, 1983) can be linked to
above average Southwest precipitation depending on the east-west position of
the high pressure ridge, where a reverse PNA pattern results in below average
precipitation. Southwestern troughing, a phenomenon in which meridional flow is
displaced westward, the winter circumpolar vortex expands and displaces Pacific
storms to the south, causing them to absorb more moisture and contributing to
over sixty percent of January precipitation totals in southern Arizona (Sellers & Hill, 1974).
El-Niño events, as discussed in further detail in a different section of this
paper, result in the largest variation in annual climate in the troposphere (Kiladis & Diaz, 1989). Large warm ENSO
events (El Niño) result in cool and wet winters, with southwestern deserts
experiencing winter flooding (Kiladis & Diaz, 1989). Strong cold ENSO
events (La Niña), on the other hand, result in a reverse PNA pattern, resulting
in warmer and drier conditions in the southwest (Kiladis & Diaz, 1989).
Summer Climate Setting and
dominant feature of summers in the southwest is the North American Monsoon
System (NAMS) (Sheppard, et al., 1999). Monsoon systems
develop from the thermal contrast between continents and oceans in low-latitude
regions, and have a large effect on warm season precipitation patterns (Higgens, Yao, & Wang, 1997). The North American
Monsoon System affects much of the western United States and northwestern Mexico
(Higgens, Yao, & Wang, 1997). The onset of NAMS
typically occurs in Mexico in June, and later in higher latitudes such as in
New Mexico and Arizona (Higgens, Yao, & Wang, 1997).
in the North American Monsoon System are controlled by factors such as ENSO, soil
moisture, snow cover, and most importantly, Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
(SSTA), (Higgins & Shi, 2000). (Higgins, Mo, & Yao, 1998) demonstrated that
wet summer monsoons in the southwest were usually preceded by dry winters in
the northwest and vice versa; the primary cause of this was attributed to
Pacific SSTA. In a study by (Higgins & Shi, 2000), it was concluded
that the mechanism relating SSTA to the summer monsoon was the impact of
changes in the Pacific jet on West Coast precipitation regimes from preceding
winters.
Figure 2. SSTA (8C) for NH winter
(January, February, March) for the 50’s (a) and 80’s (b). Computed as compared
to monthly means from the base period from 1961 to 1990. (Higgins & Shi, 2000)
climate of the southwest can classified as primarily arid, sometimes enduring
multi-year droughts (Carrillo, Castro, Chang, & Luong, 2017), and can be affected
by a number of outside factors throughout the year. The spring and autumn dry
seasons see a dramatic increase in precipitation during ENSO events (Kiladis & Diaz, 1989). The winter
precipitation is primarily varied by large cyclones from the West Coast (Sellers & Hill, 1974). The summers, being
characterized by NAMS, sees variations primarily due to Sea Surface Temperature
Anomalies (SSTA). Some of the questions I seek to answer in later assignments
include how we can use paleoclimate reconstruction techniques to understand how
changes in these weather systems have affected the climatic past of the Southwest.
Andrade, E. R., & Sellers, W. D. (1988). El Niño
and its effect of precipitation in Arizona and Western New Mexico. Journal
of Climatology, 403-410.
Carrillo, C. M., Castro, C. L., Chang, H.-I., &
Luong, T. M. (2017, March 21). Multi-year climate variability in the
Southwestern United States within a context of a dynamically downscaled
twentieth century reanalysis. Climate Dynamics, 4217-4236.
Garfin, G., Franco, G., Blanco, H., Comrie, A., P.,
G., Piechota, T., . . . Waskom, R. (2014). Climate Change Impacts in the
United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. U.S. Global Change
Research Program. Washington D.C.: U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Higgens, R., Yao, Y., & Wang, X. (1997).
Influence of the North American Monsoon System on the U.S. Summer
Precipitation Regime. Journal Of Climate, 10, 2600-2622.
Higgins, R., & Shi, W. (2000). Dominant Factors
Responsible for Interannual Variability of the Summer Monsoon in the
Southwestern United States. Journal Of Climate, 759-766.
Higgins, R., Mo, K., & Yao, Y. (1998).
Interannual variability of the United States summer precipitation regime with
emphasis on the southwestern monsoon. Journal Of Climate, 11,
Kiladis, G., & Diaz, H. (1989). Global climate
anomalies associated with extremes of the Southern Oscillation. Journal of
Climate(2), 1069-1090.
Scott, R. (1991). Essentials of physical
geography. New York: West Publishing Co.
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Climate 1931-1972 (2nd ed.). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Sheppard, P. R., Comrie, A. C., Packin, G. D.,
Angersbach, Kurt, & and Hughes, M. K. (1999). The Climate of the
Southwest. The University of Arizona. Tucson: Institute for the Study of
Simmons, A., Wallace, J., & Branstator, G.
(1983). Barotropic wave propagations and instability, and atmospheric
teleconnections. Amos Sci(40), 1363-1393.
Smith, W. (1986). The Effects of Eastern North
Pacific Tropical Cyclones on the Southwestern United States. Silver
Spring: National Weather Service.
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The Montgomery Ink series continues with a forbidden love between three friends and a past that they can’t escape.
Jake Gallagher knew from the moment he saw Maya that she was the one for him—it had the same breath-taking intensity as when he’d first set eyes on Border. Only life never turns out the way one plans, and now he’s falling for someone else…or at least he thinks he is.
Maya Montgomery never should have looked past the friendship she already had. Now that she has, she can’t stop thinking about Jake and what he means to her. When a mysterious stranger from Jake’s past shows up at their door, she’s forced to admit that if she doesn’t take the risk of a lifetime, she’ll regret it for the rest of her days.
Border Gentry walked away without a second glance once because of what could happen if he let go, but now he’s back and ready to see what he’s missed. He’s been on the road a long time and has seen things no man should ever see, yet once he rediscovers the broody Jake and meets the inked and fierce Maya, they’re like a balm to his soul and he realizes what path his future should take.
It will take more than sizzling chemistry and a heat that never dies for the three of them to overcome their pasts. And when someone from the outside wants to stand in their way, it’s not only their hearts on the line…but also their lives.
Ink Enduring is Book 5 in the Montgomery Ink series
Ink Enduring Characters Profiles
Jake Gallagher
Maya Montgomery
Border Gentry
That damn skirt was going to kill him. It rose up with every move of her hips, every dip, every sway, every goddamn bend. There was nothing better than a tight, leather skirt that hugged those kinds of curves in all the right places. Her hair touched her ass when she leaned back and brushed the small of her back every time she moved. She wore a tank thing with no bra, and the wavy, long black strands slid over her bare skin. It made him want to wrap her hair around his fist and bend her over the nearest barstool. He’d slide right into her, and they’d both come until they were panting and sated.
Jake Gallagher didn’t even know who this chick was, yet he couldn’t keep his eyes off her. He licked his lips and adjusted himself in his pants. The long swig of his beer did nothing to calm the urge. It didn’t matter that she was with another man, dancing and grinding and having a hell of a good time, all he wanted to do was sink his teeth into her shoulder, his fingers into her hips, and his cock into that sweet pussy—because it would be sweet.
He’d figure out her name later.
Her ink glistened with perspiration, and he wanted to lick it off, taste each curve of her tattoos to see if they tasted differently than her bare skin. He loved ink, loved the way—if done correctly—it enhanced the art of a woman’s or man’s body. He was an artist at heart, though he couldn’t draw the way her artist did. Her body and ink were a masterpiece. One he wanted to have in his hands.
The light glinted off her eyebrow ring, and when she turned to the side, he could see her tongue flick out and the piercing there press against her upper lip.
He wanted that tongue on his dick, that tongue ring sliding up his shaft, and those fucking sexy lips wrapped around his cock. He swallowed hard, a little disturbed at his reaction to this stranger. He didn’t normally respond like this in public when a girl—or guy, for that matter—was just dancing in front of him. Jake usually had a little more control.
A little.
“You done eye-fucking that chick in leather?” Graham, his older brother asked as he ran his hand through his beard.
Jake rolled his eyes and took another drink of his beer. “I’m not eye-fucking her.” He was totally eye-fucking her, and he might have felt bad about it, but from the look on her face when she caught others doing it, she liked the attention. If she hadn’t, he’d have stopped. He wasn’t a complete asshole.
“You’re totally eye-fucking her,” Owen, his younger brother said with a grin. Newly twenty-one, he seemed happy as hell that he hadn’t had to use his fake ID to get in that night. Their youngest brother, Murphy, didn’t look old enough to pass a fake yet, but that would come.
“Okay, fine,” Jake said as he shrugged. “She’s hot, and I’m single. Can’t blame me for looking.” He tilted his beer toward the very gorgeous woman dancing in the middle of the floor. There were other women in the bar and on the dance floor, but all eyes were on this one. There was just something about the way she moved, with a casual grace and a “fuck off” attitude that made people want to know more about her.
Jake wasn’t any different than those with their hungry eyes all for her.
“Well, she’s not single from the looks of it,” Graham drawled. “In fact, she looks clearly…attached.”
Jake flipped his brother off even as he watched the woman wrap one leg around her dance partner’s hips and grind. Oddly enough, with the type of bar they were in, she was probably the most dressed woman there, and wasn’t dancing as sexually as the others. But either way, she made him groan. He wanted her to dance with him like that.
“Speaking of attached,” Jake began, “where’s your wife? I thought you said she would be here with you tonight.” Jake liked Candace. She loved his brother, and Graham smiled when she was around. In Jake’s book, that worked.
“She wanted to stay home tonight,” Graham said with a shrug. “Told me to get out and watch your ass.” His older brother grinned through that big beard of his. “And since the wife told me to…”
He trailed off, and Jake punched Graham in the arm. “Fuck off.”
“No thanks, I have a willing, young wife at home. I don’t need your help.”
Owen snorted in his beer and shook his head. “I really don’t need to think about any of that.”
“Aww, you and your hand going through a breakup?” Jake asked, ducking as Owen threw a punch. “Hey, watch it. Don’t get us kicked out of here. It’s my favorite bar.”
Owen rolled his eyes. “Every bar is your favorite bar.”
Jake grinned and tipped his beer at his brother. “True, but this one has her.” He pointed with his beer again. “I like the view.” When he turned toward the mysterious woman, though, he frowned.
Some other dude had come up behind her, and from the look on the first guy’s face, this one wasn’t a stranger. But when stranger number two put his hands on the woman’s hips, all hell broke loose.
“What the fuck, Mark?” the woman spat. “I already told you, I’m not going to do your buddy so you can watch.” She tried to wiggle out from between them, but the two douchebags held her tight.
Jake ground his teeth and set his beer down. “Be right back,” he snarled.
Graham growled, “We’re right behind you.”
“No one touches a woman like that if she doesn’t want it,” Owen added.
There was a reason Jake loved being a Gallagher brother, but he pushed that thought out of his mind as he stormed toward the three on the dance floor. Not a single other person looked like they were going to help. In fact, some of the women looked happy that one of their own was in this situation. Fucking people and their fucking small minds. Just because someone wanted to dance, didn’t mean they wanted to fuck. It was as simple as that.
Jake held out one hand and opened his mouth to speak, only to come up short as the woman moved faster than he thought possible. In one move, she elbowed the one behind her in the gut and kneed the first dude in the nuts. When both of the guys leaned forward with a groan, she slammed their heads together. Just when Jake thought she might be done, she kicked them each in the nuts one more time.
“No means no, assholes.” With that, she tossed her hair over her shoulder and glared at the rest of the crowd before letting her gaze fall on him. She studied him for a moment, and he forced himself to let his fists relax at his sides. She raised a brow at him before smiling.
Damn, she was beautiful. Not just hot and sexy, but fucking gorgeous.
“Thanks for the assist,” she said without a hint of sarcasm. “Buy me a drink?”
He blinked a couple of times before letting out a rough chuckle. “That I can do, sweetness.” He held out a hand, but she smiled at him instead, moving past him and leaving the two dumbasses on the floor trying to pick themselves up.
Jake let out a breath and followed her to the bar where she was already holding up two fingers at the bartender. He sidled up to her side and noticed that Owen and Graham had moved a little farther down the bar, giving him space with this new development. He loved his brothers sometimes.
“You handled yourself well there,” he said as casually as he could. Kind of hard to sound casual with a hard-on from hell pushing against his zipper. “Jake Gallagher.”
She smiled and held out a tequila shot. He took it and tapped glasses. Neither of them bothered with salt or lime, instead, letting it hit the back of their throats as they shot it back.
“I have five brothers and about eighty cousins,” she said once they’d finished the shot. “I can handle myself anywhere.” She winked. “Maya Montgomery.”
Maya. He liked the name. It fit her well.
“So, Maya, I’d ask what brings a girl like you to a place like this, but that’s cliché, and considering you just laid those two on the ground in two seconds flat, I figure I’d best think of something else to say.”
She smiled again. “I like you, Jake Gallagher. No pretense, and yet you’re smooth.” She tapped her tongue ring on her tooth. “Or, at least you think you’re smooth.”
He clutched his hand over his heart. “I’m wounded.”
“You are not. You were totally checking me out the entire time I was dancing, and you liked what you saw. And from the nice bulge in your jeans, I’m thinking you liked it a lot.”
He didn’t look down at his dick, but it was damn hard not to—no pun intended. “You take no shit, I’m guessing.”
“If I did, I’d have to give a shit,” she said simply and held up two more fingers. “More shots?” she asked, even as the bartender worked.
Jake ran a hand over his day-old beard. “Tequila isn’t really my thing,” he said honestly. “Plus, with the beer beforehand, I’m gonna have a hangover from hell.”
Maya grinned. “Then I’d better make it worth it.”
Jake studied her face and forced himself not to reach out and touch. “I thought you were with that dude back there.” He might want her, but he wasn’t about to poach. He had enough issues going on at home right now without adding women trouble to the mix.
She shook her head. “We went on a couple of dates. He sucks at oral.” Jake choked, but she just grinned. “He wanted to bring in his friend. Now if this guy was as good as he thought he was in the sack, I might have. But I didn’t trust his friend. And I’m pretty sure both of them wanted each other but were too chicken shit to admit it.”
“You have a problem with that?” He hoped as hell not, considering he was bisexual.
She held up her hands. “Are you kidding me? Two men going at it is hot as hell. I love men, and I love men that love men. What I don’t like, is when two dudes who want each other but hate the idea that they could be gay or bisexual want to use me to get in bed. There’s a line I won’t cross, and being the bitch between two assholes is one of them.”
“Well, that’s honest,” he said finally after a moment. Tonight…tonight was going to mean something. He could feel it. “So…how are you going to make it worth it?”
She licked her lips, and Jake swallowed hard, knowing things were about to get interesting.
Jake slid his hand up Maya’s thigh and licked her lip. She arched her back against the door, and he couldn’t help but smile. He’d watched her dance, seen her kick ass and take names, and now she was in his room, against his door, and in his arms.
He was going to taste every inch of her like he wanted to, and fuck her until they were both breathless. Then he’d do it all again because he was so fucking hard it was going to take more than one turn for him to be sated. Probably more than two or three times for that matter.
He liked Maya. She made him laugh, she took no shit, and she was hot as hell.
He had a feeling if he had his way, this would be more than one night. He surely hoped so.
“What’s with that grin?” Maya asked. She licked up his shoulder and neck then bit down gently where the two met. He groaned, rocking into her so his dick pressed against the heat of her pussy. They’d already taken off his shirt and both of their shoes, but he still wore his pants and she, sadly, still wore that skirt and top of hers. For now.
“I was just thinking about how I knew your skin would taste fucking fantastic.” It was the truth, if not the whole of it. He didn’t want to scare her too much since he’d just met her that night. They’d taken a cab back to his place since they’d both had too much booze to drive, and neither of them had a car there to begin with. His brothers had left before he had, meaning he was all alone now with Maya in his home and in his arms. He’d count that as a win on so many freaking levels.
Maya pushed her breasts against his chest. “I’m glad you think so because I want that tongue to taste every inch of me.” She raised her brow. “You get me? Because I already told you, being shitty at oral is a deal breaker for me.”
He growled and pushed her harder into the door, using one hand to pin her wrists over her head and the other to hold her ass. “Don’t talk about that other dude when I’m about to fuck you. As for oral? I’m going to eat that cunt of yours until you come on my face, and then I’m going to do it again so you’re begging me to stop and fill you with my cock. How does that sound?”
She rocked herself on him, her legs wrapped around his waist. “Sounds like a lot of talk. I think you’d better use that mouth of yours for better purposes.” She paused, tilting her head. “Oh, and Jake, if you need an oral tutor, I’ll tell you exactly where I need your tongue. So I hope you’re good at taking direction.”
He took a moment to regain his control since he was about two seconds from blowing his load in his pants like a damn teenager. Once he could breathe again, he crushed his mouth to hers, needing her taste. Her tongue slid against his and she pulled back, biting his lip. He growled, kissing her again, using his hips to hold her in place so he could use his free hand to cup her breast.
“I love your tits,” he panted. “They overfill my hands, all perky and tempting. I wonder what color your nipples are.” Still slightly buzzed from the alcohol and the taste of her, he knew they should slow down, but he wasn’t about to. They both wanted this, and hell, if he were honest with himself, he needed this.
“Why don’t you find out?” She wiggled, and he pulled back, letting her to her feet.
He slowly undid her top from the back and let it fall to the floor. Of course, she wasn’t wearing a bra because the bar gods were looking kindly on him tonight. Her nipples were a dusty pink, slightly large on her ample breasts, and fucking hard as hell.
Jake bent down, taking a nipple into his mouth and using his free hand to cup her other breast. Maya put her hand on the back of his head and pressed him closer.
“Harder,” she panted, her nails digging into his scalp.
He did as she asked and moved his hand down her belly and over her skirt before sliding it back up again, this time under the fabric. When his fingers brushed her damp panties, they both let out a groan. He moved to her other breast and pushed her panties aside with his fingers, needing to feel her.
“Jake,” she breathed as she rocked her hips on his hand. He slid his finger over her clit slightly before spearing her with two fingers.
“Fuck,” he growled. “You’re drenched for me, sweetness. You want me that much?”
“Move, Jake,” she shot back. “Make me come before I make myself come.”
He took that as a challenge and fucked her hard with his fingers. She threw her head back, and that made her breasts push toward him. Grinning at his luck, he took her nipple between his teeth and bit down.
She came around his fingers, shouting his name and rocking her hips until she shook. He slid his hand up her bare back and to her head so he could bring her in for a kiss. She kissed him back like she couldn’t get enough of him, and he couldn’t blame her as he felt the same about her. When he slid his hand out from beneath her skirt and licked his fingers, she smiled.
“I want to lick something, too,” she said softly with a dangerous gleam in her eyes.
“Oh, really?”
He let her fall to her knees in front of him and had to swallow hard as she undid the button of his jeans. He slid his hand through her hair, and she smiled up at him before licking up his shaft. That damn tongue ring would be his undoing.
He shuddered and had to hold himself back from coming right then and there. “Jesus, you look good there,” he said honestly.
“On my knees?” she asked wryly.
“With my dick in your hand. I’m sure you’ll like the way I look when you’re riding my face.”
She laughed before slowly sucking on his balls. He swallowed hard and tried to keep his eyes open. He didn’t want to miss any of this. When she licked the tip of his cock, he groaned.
“You taste just like I thought you would,” she said, almost repeating his earlier words back to him.
“Yeah? You like it?”
“Uh huh. Now let me get to work.” She swallowed him then, taking as much of him as she could into her mouth. What she couldn’t, she used her hands on. She worked him, her tongue ring dancing along his dick as she sucked him.
He rocked his hips, unable to hold back, but when she hummed against him, he knew she liked it, too. She fondled his balls with one hand and reached around to his ass to run her fingers along his crack. Since he still had his jeans around his ankles, he couldn’t spread as much as he wanted to, but he wanted her hands on him, wanted everything about her on him.
The small of his back tingled, and his balls tightened, and he knew he couldn’t stop from coming. “I’m going to come, sweetness. Tell me where you want it.”
She looked up at him, big eyes and all hotness. When she didn’t pull back, instead opening her mouth wider, he just about fell in love. The first spurt hit her tongue, and he roared her name, his body shaking as he came.
Jake was about to bend down and pick her up so he could kiss her once more before going down on her when someone slammed their fist on the door.
“What the fuck?” Maya asked as she stood up on shaky legs.
Jake frowned and put his hand on her hip.
“Jake!” his brother Graham called out. “Get your ass out here. Murphy passed out. You need to get dressed, say goodbye to the chick, and get in the fucking car. Sorry to interrupt and all, but you didn’t answer your phone.”
Jake cursed, his body shaking for a whole new reason. “Damn it.”
Maya looked at him questioningly even as she helped him zip up his pants, tucking his still hard cock, wet from her mouth, away. He saw the questions in her gaze and knew he had to at least tell her something.
“Murphy is our youngest brother,” he said as he tied up her top. “He’s going through chemo now, but we thought he was doing okay.” Fear crawled up his spine and settled in his get. “He was supposed to be okay.” His voice cracked, and he didn’t care that Maya had heard it.
Tears filled her eyes, but she didn’t let them fall. She kissed him softly and patted his chest. “I’ll call a cab. Go to your brother. Family is important.” She gave him a sad smile. “Find me at Montgomery Ink, the tattoo shop off 16th Street Mall when you’re ready. If you want.” She paused. “I hope your brother is okay.”
And with that, she opened the door and passed a wide-eyed Graham before walking out of Jake’s home and life.
Three months later.
Jake stared up at the sign to Montgomery Ink, his hands in his pockets and his heart a little heavy, wondering if he was about to make another fucking mistake. It had been three months since he’d watched Maya walk away and his life had gone to shit. Now, here he was, his beard unkempt and what felt like another decade of living on his shoulders.
Murphy had almost died that night, and Jake wasn’t sure what he would have done if his baby brother hadn’t made it. As it was, it was still touch and go, but Murphy was stable, and Jake needed to get out of his home and out of the damn hospital. Maya had told him to come to Montgomery Ink when he could, and this was the first time he’d been able to—not only physically, but mentally, as well.
Since the place was called Montgomery, he figured her family owned it—or rather Maya had to. He liked the idea that she had her own shop, and he knew she’d be damn good at running it and everything that came with it. She was good at so many things.
He just hoped he wasn’t too late.
As soon as he entered the building, his senses were assaulted with rock music, laughter, and conversation. A young kid stood at the front desk, tapping her pencil on a notepad as she studied from some textbook. There were at least eight stations around the building with what looked like a door to an office and another to a bathroom in the back.
It was nice.
All hot pink and black with artwork on the walls that spoke of talent. He recognized some of the work as that of the artist who had inked Maya’s skin. He’d only been with her one night, but he knew her ink like the back of his hand. He remembered it vividly. He wouldn’t call it an obsession, but it was damn close.
“Jake?”
His head shot up at the sound of her voice, and he froze. She stood in one of the stations, her smile wide, concern in her eyes, and another man’s arms around her waist. From the possessive way the man held her, Jake knew this guy wasn’t one of her many brothers or countless cousins.
He was too late.
He pushed that thought from his mind, as well as the achy feeling in his gut, and put on a smile. He just hoped she couldn’t read him. If she could, then she’d see the smile for the fake it was.
“Hey, Maya,” he said, his voice gruff. He cleared his throat and tried to act casual. “Nice place you have here.”
She beamed up at him before patting the guy’s arm. When the man didn’t release her, she glared up at him and moved away. She came up to Jake and punched him on the shoulder.
“Took you long enough to show up,” she said with a smile while studying his face. “Murphy okay?” She said the last part softly, as if afraid of the answer.
Jake nodded. “He’s okay now. It took me a while to get here because…well…just because.”
Maya gave him a sad smile and nodded, as well. “Well, you’re here. Welcome to my shop.”
“Our shop,” a big, bearded dude with eyes like Maya’s said from another station.
“That would be my brother, Austin.” Maya flipped the big man off. “We’re a new shop, but I think we’re doing pretty well. So, what do you think?”
He met her gaze and knew if he walked out today he would never see her again. If he didn’t stay and talk, she’d be out of his life for good, and Jake wasn’t sure he could handle that.
“It’s…fucking amazing, Maya,” he said truthfully.
“Baby, I thought we were getting lunch,” the dude who’d had his arms around her grumbled.
Maya rolled her eyes. “My boyfriend, Franklin.” She said it slowly, as if trying to make sure Jake understood. He got the hint, all right.
He held back a sigh. “If you’re going out to lunch, I’ll let you go.” Jake put his hands back in his pockets. “I just wanted to say hi and maybe get some ink.” He hadn’t been here for the last part, but he wouldn’t say no to Montgomery ink.
“Ink?” Austin asked. “We have room for some walk-ins in a bit. Why don’t you tell me what you want?”
Maya flipped her brother off once again. “Nope. If anyone is going to give Jake a tattoo, it’s me. You don’t get to touch him.” She said the last part over her shoulder before holding her finger up to Jake. “Think about what you want. I’ll just be a sec.”
She sauntered over to her boyfriend and said a few words to him. When Franklin patted her ass, Jake turned his attention to the books on the table by his side. He only had to wait a few minutes before the boyfriend was gone and Maya was smiling up at him.
“We good?” she asked.
Jake met her gaze. “We’re good.”
She let out a relieved breath. “Good, because I like you, Jake, and I think you’ll fit in this shop just fine. Now, tell me what you’re thinking about in terms of ink.” She pulled him to her station, and he let her lead him.
He liked Maya, and damn if he wanted to leave and never see her again. He could be her friend and be fine with it. They fit together, and if that was all he could get…well, he’d be good. Because there was only one Maya Montgomery in the world, and Jake wasn’t about to lose her.
And one day, he’d quit getting a hard-on every time he saw her.
Friends he could do. Friends lasted for a hell of a lot longer than sex.
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“A compelling love story filled with hope, romance, suspense, sensual sexiness and a whole lot of love I could not put this book down.”
— Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
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“Ink Enduring is a great read for any contemporary romance fans, especially if you are looking for a heartfelt triad story.”
“Carrie Ann Ryan gets romance y’all. There is always an HEA, she fully explores all of her character’s motivations and she gives us panty-melting sex scenes. More than that, though, I fully trust her to give me lovable characters that burrow their way into my heart.”
— Straight Shootin' Book Reviews
“This story is one of second chances and new beginnings. A story of a non-conventional relationship in a non-conventional, unconditionally loving family on both the Montgomery and Gallagher sides.”
— Book Reading Gals
“This is a great friends to lovers novel. It kept me turning the pages to find out what would happen next. The inevitable can only be fought for so long before passion, wanting and need consume the three of them. If you love a good menage this is defiantly the book for you! God these three are HOT”
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SAMSA Centre for Maritime Excellence executive head, Sindiswa Nhlumayo snatches IPM’s Leadership Top Award
Pretoria: 05 November 2015
Ms Sindiswa Nhlumayo, Executive Head, Centre for Maritime Excellence
The SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) headquarters in Pretoria was still abuzz with fervor of excitement and a degree of nostalgia Tuesday and early Wednesday this week after confirmation of news that Ms Sindiswa Nhlumayo, an executive head of the organisation’s Centre for Maritime Excellence; has been recognized as the Institute of People Management’s “Business Leader of the Year 2015.”
The country’s top leadership recognition and achievement award was presented to Ms Nhlumayo at the IPM’s 70th anniversary celebrations and 59th year of its people management excellence awards presentations held at Sun City, North West on Tuesday evening.
By Wednesday morning the news of Ms Nhlumayo’s high recognition award had spread far and wide, thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and such other modern social media communication platforms. Wednesday afternoon, SAMSA CEO Commander Tsietsi Mokhele in a brief general meeting with staff also shared the news, sparking a momentary frenzy of excitement characterized by ‘high fives’, hugs, kisses and handshakes.
Commander Tsietsi Mokhele, CEO of the SA Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA)
Mr Mokhele described the awarding of the IPM’s “Business Leader of the Year Award 2015” to Ms Nhlumayo as both indicative of the high leadership qualities the award winner possesses and displays, but also an evidence of the calibre of people SAMSA has driving its programmes.
As executive head of the Centre for Maritime Excellence at SAMSA, Ms Nhlumayo is responsible for promoting and driving the growth of skills and human capacity in the Maritime Sector, promoting research, development and innovation and unleashing opportunities for economic development lying in our coastal areas and inland waterways.
Prior to her joining SAMSA, she was head of the Human Resources Development Council whose role is to ensure the implementation of the Human Resources Development Strategy for South Africa and to drive the message of ensuring that South Africa competes better through people in the entire human resources development service value chain.
Before that she was the Deputy Director General for Tourism at the National Department of Tourism and had previously served as head of the first ever Tourism Black Economic Empowerment Council. Ms Nhlumayo is also a former Special Advisor to the Minister of Tourism and former Chief Director for Tourism and Economic Development in the Western Cape.
She holds a Master of Science Degree from the University College of Buckinghamshire and is currently enrolled for a PhD in Maritime Affairs (World Maritime University) in Sweden, specifically focussing on maritime policy and job creation.
She is a founding member of the Cape and Craft Design Institute, and also a lifetime fellow of the Emerging Leaders Programme from Dukes University in the United States and University of Cape Town in South Africa. She currently serves on the National Heritage Council, Tourism KwaZulu Natal, TETA Maritime Chamber and Cullinan Holdings (Non-Executive Director). She was the 2013 Best Female Public Servant. She also got an award from the University of Durban Westville (University of KZN) for being exemplary alumni.
Speaking briefly to staff Wednesday afternoon, Ms Nhlumayo expressed gratitude for the support her work with people received from all, including top management, her peers as well as support staff in her centre and the rest of the establishment.
She committed to maintaining and improving the people leadership standards she’d now been formally recognized for by industry, and to continuing to share her experiences with others. For the period of her ‘reign’ as “Business Leader of the Year 2015” Ms Nhlumayo would also serve ceremoniously as ‘ambassador’ of the IPM, making such appearances at various functions or events as shall be possible.
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Selected Publications (Back to )
G. Chen, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, Introduction to Complex Networks: Models, Structures, and Dynamics (2nd edition) 复杂网络引论：模型，结构与动力学（英文版，第2版）, Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2015, 366 pages, ISBN: 978-7-04-040605-4.
G. Chen, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, Introduction to Complex Networks: Models, Structures, and Dynamics 复杂网络引论：模型，结构与动力学（英文版）, Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2012, 332 pages, ISBN: 978-7-04-034782-1.
Xiang Li, From Complexity to Order: Theoretic Progress in Neural Network-based Intelligent Control 从复杂到有序――神经网络智能控制理论新进展, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, Shanghai, 2006, 160 pages, ISBN: 7-313-04324-4 (in Chinese). [Cover1][Cover2]
X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, G. Chen, Complex Networks: Theories and Applications 复杂网络理论及其应用, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, 2006, 260 pages, ISBN: 7-302-12505-8 (in Chinese). [Cover1][Cover2]
X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, G. Chen, Network Science: An Introduction 网络科学导论，Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2012, 397 pages, ISBN: 978-7-04-034494-3 (in Chinese).
X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, Automatic Control Systems, The 8th version (Translation Version in Chinese), Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2004, 562 pages. ISBN: 7-04-014561-8.
Handbook Chapters
Xiang Li, P. Yao, Y.J. Pan, Towards structural controllability of temporal complex networks, in Complex Systems and Networks: Dynamics, Controls, and Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2015, 341-371.
Xiang Li, Y.Q. Zhang, A.V. Vasilakos, Discovering and predicting temporal patterns of WiFi-interactive social populations, in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks, CRC Press, 2015, Chapter 4, 99-122. ISBN: 9-7814-6659-4944.
G. Chen, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, J. Lv, Some recent advances in complex network synchronization, in Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization: Theories and Applications, Springer, 2009, 3-16.
Xiang Li, X.F. Wang, H.S. Su, Control of Networks, in Complex Networks 复杂网络, L. Guo et al. (Eds.), Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, 2006, 96-115, ISBN: 7-5428-4297-8. (in Chinese).
G. Chen, Z.P. Fan, Xiang Li, Modeling the complex Internet topology, in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks, G. Vattay, L. Kocarev (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005, 213-235. ISBN: 3-540-24305-4.
Z.Q. Chen, Z.Z. Yuan, Xiang Li, Study on nonlinear system predictive control based on neural networks, in System Sciences and Engineering, G.Z. Xu (Eds.), Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, Shanghai, 2000, 506-512. ISBN: 7-5428-2430-9. (in Chinese)
Invited Surveys & Features
L. Wang, Xiang Li*, Spatial epidemiology of networked metapopulation: an overview, Chineses Science Bulletin, 2014, 59(28), 3511-3522.
Xiang Li*, D. Yang, X. Liu, X.M. Wu, Bridging time series dynamics and complex network theory with application to electrocardiogram analysis, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2012, 12(4), 33-46.
X.F. Wang*, Xiang Li*, J. Lv*, Control and flocking of networking systems via pinning, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2010, 10(3), 83-91.
Xiang Li, Spreading dynamics on complex dynamical networks, Advances in Mechanics, 2008, 38(6), 723-732 (in Chinese).
J.Q. Fang, X.F. Wang, Z.G. Zheng, Q. Bi, Z.R. Di, Xiang Li, New interdisciplinary science: Network science (I), Progress in Physics, 2007, 27(3), 239-343 (in Chinese).
J.Q. Fang, X.F. Wang, Z.G. Zheng, Xiang Li, Z.R. Di, Q. Bi, New interdisciplinary science: Network science (II), Progress in Physics, 2007, 27(4), 365-448 (in Chinese).
Xiang Li, Sync in complex dynamical networks: stability, evolution, control, and application, International Journal of Computational Cognition, 2005, 3(4), 16-26.
Selected Journal Publications
J.B. Wang, L. Wang, Xiang Li*, Identifying spatial invasion of pandemics on metapopulation networks via anatomizing arrival history, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, in press,(Regular Paper)
Y.Q. Zhang, J. Cui, S.M. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, Modelling temporal networks of human face-to-face contacts with public activity and individual reachability, European Physical Journal B, in press, (Special issue of temporal networks).
Xiang Li*, P. Rao, Synchronizing a weighted and weakly-connected kuramoto oscillator digraph with a pacemaker, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 2015, 62(3), 899-905. (Regular Paper)
Y.Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, J. Xu, A.V. Vaslakos, Human interactive patterns in temporal networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics: Systems, 2015, 45(2), 214-222. (Regular Paper)
Y.Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, D. Liang, J. Cui, Charactering bursts of aggregate pairs with individual Poissonian activity and preferential mobility, IEEE Communication Letters, 2015, 19(7), 1225-1228.
J.Y. Zhan, Xiang Li*, Asynchronous consensus of multiple double-integrator agents with arbitrary sampling intervals and communication delays, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 2015, 62(9), 2301-2311. (Regular Paper)
C.B. Tang, A. Li, Xiang Li*, When reputation enforces evolutionary cooperation in unreliable MANETs, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2015, 45(10), 2190-2201. (Regular Paper)
Y.J. Pan, Xiang Li*, Structural controllability and controlling centrality of temporal networks, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9(4), e94998.
C.B. Tang, B. Wu, J.B. Wang, Xiang Li*, Evolutionary origin of asymptotically stable consensus, Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 4590.
C.B. Tang, Z. Wang, Xiang Li*, Moderate intra-group bias maximizes cooperation on interdependent networks, PLoS ONE, 2014, 9(2), e88412.
Y.Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, When susceptible-infectious-susceptible contagion meets time-varying networks with identical infectivity, EPL, 2014, 108, 28006.
J.Y. Zhan, Xiang Li*, Flocking of multi-agent systems via model predictive control based on position-only measurements, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013, 9(1), 377-385.(Regular Paper)
Y. Yang, Xiang Li*, Towards a snowdrift game optimization to vertex cover of general networks, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2013, 43(3), 948-956. (Regular Paper)
J.Y. Zhan, Xiang Li*, Consensus of sampled-data multi-agent networking systems via model predictive control, Automatica, 2013, 49, 2502-2507.
L. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Zhang, Xiang Li*, How human location-specific contact patterns impact spatial transmission between populations? Scientific Reports, 2013, 3, 1468.
C.B. Tang, Y. Wang, L. Cao, Xiang Li*, Y. Yang, Towards the role of social connectivity and aspiration level on evolutionary game, European Physical Journal B, 2013, 86, 26.
Y.Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, Temporal dynamics and impact of event interactions of cyber-social populations, CHAOS, 2013, 23, 013131.
L. Wang, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, Xiang Li*, The impact of human location-specific contact pattern on the SIR epidemic transmission between populations, Int. Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 2013, 23(5), 1350095.
C.B. Tang, Xiang Li*, L. Cao, J.Y. Zhan, The σ law of evolutionary dynamics in community-structured populations, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2012, 306, 106.
Y. Zhang, L. Wang, Y.Q. Zhang, Xiang Li*, Towards a temporal network analysis of interactive WiFi users, EPL, 2012, 98, 68002.
L. Wang, Y. Zhang, T.Y. Huang, Xiang Li*, Estimating the value of containment strategies in delaying the arrival time of an influenza pandemic: A case study of travel restriction and patient isolation, Physical Review E, 2012, 86, 032901.
H.Q. Wang, Xiang Li*, Bifurcations in a frequency-weighted Kuramoto oscillators network, Int. Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 2012, 22(9), 1250230.
C.B. Tang, F.Y. Chen, J.B. Wang, Xiang Li*, Extending local passivity theory and Hopf bifurcation at the edge of chaos in Oregonator CNN, Int. Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 2012, 22(11), 1250285.
L.Wang, Xiang Li*, Y.Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang, K. Zhang, Evolution of scaling emergence in large-scale spatial epidemic spreading, PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(7), e21197.
H.Q. Wang, Xiang Li*, Synchronization and Chimera states of frequency-weighted Kuramoto oscillator networks, Physical Review E, 2011, 83, 066214.
C.B. Tang, F.Y. Chen, Xiang Li*, Perceptron implementation of triple-valued logic operations, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 2011, 58(9), 590-594.
Xiang Li*, Z. Dong, Detection and prediction of the onset of human ventricular fibrillation: An approach based on complex network theory, Physical Review E, 2011, 84, 062109.
W.L. Lu , Xiang Li*, Z.H. Rong, Global stabilization of complex directed networks with a local pinning algorithm, Automatica, 2010, 46, 116-121.
Y. Yang, Xiang Li*, Z.H. Rong, Assortative degree-mixing patterns inhibit behavioral diversity of a scale-free structured population in high mutation situations, EPL, 2010, 89, 18006.
Xiang Li*, L. Cao, G. Cao, Epidemic prevalence on random mobile dynamical networks: Individual heterogeneity and correlation, European Physical Journal B, 2010, 75, 319-326.
Z. Dong, Xiang Li*, The study of network motifs induced from discrete time series, Acta Physica Sinica, 2010, 59(3), 1600-1608 (in Chinese).
Z. Dong, Xiang Li*, Comment on "Network analysis of human heartbeat dynamics", Applied Physics Letters, 2010, 96, 266101.
Xiang Li*, L. Cao, Largest Laplacian eigenvalue predicts the emergence of costly punishment in the evolutionary ultimatum game on networks, Physical Review E, 2009, 80, 066101.
M.J. Shi, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang , The complex software network evolution of Java Development Kits: Topological properties and design principles. International Journal of Systems, Control, and Commucations, 2009, 1(4), 478-491.
L. Cao, Xiang Li*, Mixed evolutionary strategies imply coexisting opinions on networks, Physical Review E, 2008, 77, 016108.
Z.Q. Chen, Xiang Li, Z.X. Liu, Z.Z. Yuan, A novel neural-net-based nonlinear adaptive control and application on the cross-direction deviation control of a polymer film spread line, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2008, 35, 808-813.
Z. Xie, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, Weighted evolving networks with self-organized communities, Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2008, 50, 261-266.
Xiang Li , The role of degree-weighted couplings in the synchronous onset of Kuramoto oscillator networks, Physica A, 2008, 387, 6624-6630.
D. Xu, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, An Investigation on local area control of virus spreading in complex networks, Acta Physica Sinica, 2007, 56(3),1313-1317.
Xiang Li*, Xiaofan Wang , On the stability of epidemic spreading in small-world networks: how prompt the recovery should be?, International Journal of Systems Science, 2007, 38(5), 400-407.
W.P. Guo, Xiang Li*, X.F.Wang , Epidemics and immunization on Euclidean distance preferred small-world networks, Physica A, 2007, 380, 684-690.
Z. Xie, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang , A new community based evolving network model, Physica A, 2007, 384(2), 725-732.
Z.H Rong, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang , Roles of mixing patterns to cooperation on scale-free networked game, Physical Review E, 2007, 76, 027101.
Z.H Rong, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, Overpayments of small-world networks, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete, and Impulsive Systems-B, 2007, 14(S6), 154-159.
Xiang Li, Uniform synchronous criticality of diversely random complex networks, Physica A, 2006, 360, 629-636.
Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, Controlling the spreading in small-world evolving networks: Stability, oscillation, and topology, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2006, 51(3), 534-540.
X.B. Lu, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, Synchronization in triangled complex networks, Communications in Theoretical Physics, 2006, 45(5), 955-960.
Z.F. Pan, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, Generalized local-world models for weighted networks, Physical Review E, 2006, 73, 056109.
X.B. Lu, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, J.Q. Fang, Synchronization in weighted complex networks: heterogeneity and synchronizability, Physica A, 2006, 370, 381-389.
W. Yang, L. Cao, X.F. Wang, Xiang Li, Consensus in a heterogeneous influence network, Physical Review E, 2006, 74, 037101.
Xiang Li, Phase synchronization in complex networks with decayed long-range interactions, Physica D, 2006, 223, 242-247.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, Models, dynamics, and control of spreading in complex networks: A survey, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete, and Impulsive Systems-B, 2006, 13(c), 109-116.
L.H. Shang, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, Cooperative dynamics of snowdrift game on spatial distance-dependent small-world networks, European Physical Journal B, 2006, 54, 369-373.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, Transition from regularity to Li-Yorke chaos in coupled Logistic networks, Physics Letters A, 2005, 338(6), 472-478.
J. Fan, Xiang Li*, X.F. Wang, On synchronous preference of complex dynamical networks, Physica A, 2005, 355, 657-666.
Xiang Li, X.F. Wang, G. Chen, Pinning a complex dynamical network to its equilibrium, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I:Regular Papers, 2004, 51(10), 2074-2087. (2005 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award) [Certificate]
Xiang Li, G. Chen, C.G. Li, Stability and bifurcation of disease spreading in complex networks, International Journal of Systems Science, 2004, 35(9), 527-536.
Xiang Li, Y.Y. Jin, G. Chen, On the topology of the world exchange arrangements web, Physica A, 2004, 343, 573-582.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, K.T. Ko, Transition to chaos in complex dynamical networks, Physica A, 2004, 338(3/4), 367-378.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, Synchronization and desynchronization of complex dynamical networks: An engineering viewpoint, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, 2003, 50(11), 1381-1390.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, A local-world evolving network model, Physica A, 2003, 328(1-2): 274-286.
Xiang Li, Y.Y. Jin, G. Chen, Complexity and synchronization of the World Trade Web, Physica A, 2003, 328(1-2): 287-296.
Xiang Li, G. Chen, Z.Q. Chen, Z.Z. Yuan, Chaotifying linear Elman Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2002, 13(5), 1193-1199.
Xiang Li, Z.Q. Chen, Z.Z. Yuan, Simple recurrent neural networks-based adaptive predictive control for nonlinear systems, Asian Journal of Control, 2002, 4(2), 231-239.
Xiang Li, Z.Q. Chen, Z.Z. Yuan, G. Chen, Generating Chaos by an Elman Network, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 2001, 48(9), 1126-1131.
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BEST OF TV AWARDS 2016 - Best Action or Drama Actress WINNER - AMY ACKER "PERSON OF INTEREST"
The 2016 Best Of TV Awards winner in the category of Best Action or Drama Actress is - Amy Acker "Person Of Interest"
This years winner for Best Action or Drama Actress is last years winner, Amy Acker. The actress that brought the sociciopath Root to life week after week on the show becomes a repeat winner in the shows final year with 157 votes.
The former 3X winner Stana Katic "Castle" was Runner Up in her final year for the show as well, with 107 votes.
The 2013 Winner Emily Bett Rickards was 3rd with 40 votes.
Sarah Shahi "Person Of Interest" was 4th with 35 votes. Viola Davis "How To Get Away With Murder" was 5th with 25 votes.
Grace Park "Hawaii Five-0" narrowly missed the top 5 with 24 votes for 6th place. Katie Cassidy "Arrow" was right behind for 7th with 23 votes. Ellen Pompeo "Grey's Anatomy" with 21 votes was 8th. Jessica Capshaw "Grey's Anatomy" was 9th with 13 votes. Sara Ramirez "Grey's Anatony" was 10th with 12 votes. Hayley Atwell "Conviction" was 11th with 8 votes.
1st AMY ACKER "PERSON OF INTEREST" 157
2nd STANA KATIC "CASTLE" 107
3rd EMILY BETT RICKARDS 'ARROW" 40
4th SARAH SHAHI 'PERSON OF INTEREST" 35
5th VIOLA DAVIS "HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER" 25
6th GRACE PARK "HAWAII FIVE-0" 24
7th KATIE CASSIDY "ARROW" 23
8th ELLEN POMPEO "GREY'S ANATOMY" 21
9th JESSICA CAPSHAW "GREY'S ANATOMY" 13
10th SARA RAMIREZ "GREY'S ANAYOMY" 12
11th HAYLEY ATWELL "CONVICTION" 8
You can find ALL of this years winners HERE
You can find ALL the all-time winners HERE
BEST OF TV AWARDS 2016 - Best Couple WINNER - SAMANTHA GROVES/ROOT & SAMEEN SHAW "PERSON OF INTEREST"
The 2016 Best Of TV Awards winner in the category of Best Couple is - Samantha Groves/Root & Sameen Shaw "Person Of Interest"
This years winner is the first ever winner to repeat as champion. The couple known to its shippers as "Shoot" wins for the 2nd time in their final year of eligibility for the award. While its never really fully stated that 1 of the pair had the same feelings as the other, it was undeniable that when on screen together, they had chemistry. This marks the 4th time in the 6 years of this award that same sex couple has won the award. With 209 votes they beat the runner ups by 70 votes.
This years Runner up was the 2012 winners, Richard Castle & Kate Beckett "Castle" (Caskett) with 139 votes..
Third was Nick Burkhardt & Adalind Schade "Grimm" in their 1st finals with 95 votes.
Fourth was Steve McGarrett & Catherine Rollins "Hawaii Five-0" (McRoll) with 91 votes. In 5th was the 2013 winners Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak "Arrow" (Olicity) with 45 votes.
Sixth was Emma Swan & Captain Hook "Once Upon A Time" (Captain Swan) with 38 votes. Sheldon Cooper & Amy Farrah Fowler "The Big Bang Theory" (ShAmy) was 7th with 32 votes. Tied for 7th was Barry Allen & Iris West "The Flash" (WestAllen). In 9th was Waverley Earp & Nicole Haught "Wynonna Earp" (WayHaught" with 24 votes. Robin Hood & Regina Mills "Once Upon A Time" (Outlaw Queen) was 10th with 16 votes. Prince Charming & Snow White "Once Upon A Time" (Snowing) was 11th with 14 votes.
1st SAMANTHA GROVES [ROOT] & SAMEEN SHAW "PERSON OF INTEREST" (SHOOT) 209
2nd RICHARD CASTLE & KATE BECKETT "CASTLE" (CASKETT) 139
3rd NICK BURKHARDT & ADALIND SCHADE "GRIMM" 95
4th STEVE MCGARRETT & CATHERINE ROLLINS "HAWAII FIVE-0" (MCROLL) 91
5th OLIVER QUEEN & FELICITY SMOAK "ARROW" (OLICITY) 45
6th EMMA SWAN & CAPTAIN HOOK "ONCE UPON A TIME" (CAPTAIN SWAN) 38
7th SHELDON COOPER & AMY FARRAH FOWLER "THE BIG BANG THEORY" (SHAMY) 32
7th BARRY ALLEN & IRIS WEST "THE FLASH" (WESTALLEN) 32
9tH WAVERLEY EARP & NICOLE HAUGHT "WYNONNA EARP (WAYHAUGHT) 24
10th ROBIN HOOD & REGINA MILLS "ONCE UPON A TIME" (OUTLAW QUEEN) 16
11th PRINCE CHARMING & SNOW WHITE "ONCE UPON A TIME" (SNOWING) 14
Best Of TV Awards 2016 - Semi-Final Results and FINALS list for Best Action or drama Program, Actress & Actor
The 2016 Best Of TV Awards Finals are on now, and here is the finalists for the categories of Best Action or Drama Actor
Jim Caviezel "Person of Interest" led the semi-final votes with 81 votes for his 4th finals appearance.
Stephen Amell "Arrow" with 67 votes came in 2nd in the semis for his 4th consecutive finals appearance. Michael Emerson "Person of Interest" was 3rd with 62 votes for his 3rd finals appearance. Kiefer Sutherland "Designated Survivor" was 4th with 52 votes for his first finals appearance. Alex O'Loughlin "Hawaii Five-0" was 5th with 50 votes for his 5th consecutive finals appearance.
Matthew Gray Gubler "Criminal Minds" was 6th with 45 votes for his 1st finals appearance since 2013 & his 3 total finals appearance. Kevin Chapman "Person of Interest" was 7th with 43 votes for his 2nd consecutive finals appearance. Charlie Cox "Daredevil" was 9th with 42 votes for his 2nd consecutive finals appearance. James Spader "The Blacklist" was 10th with 41 votes for his 4th consecutive finals appearance. nathan Fillion "Castle" the 3X winner 2015,2012,2011 finishd 11th with 39 votes for his 6th consecutive & final finals appearance for this show.
Jim Caviezel "Person of Interest" 81
Stephen Amell "Arrow" 67
Michael Emerson "Person Of Interest" 62
Kiefer Sutherland "Designated Survivor" 52
Alex O'Loughlin "Hawaii Five-0" 50
Matthew Gray Gubler "Criminal Minds" 45
Kevin Chapman "Person Of Interest" 43
Charlie Cox "Daredevil" 42
James Spader "The Blacklist" 41
Nathan Fillion "Castle" 39
The 2016 Best Of TV Awards Finals are on now, and here is the finalists for the categories of Best Action or Drama Actress
Jessica Capshaw "Grey's Anatomy" leads the semi-finals with 115 votes, making the finals in her first ever nomination.
Amy Acker "Person of Interest", the 2015 Winner, was 2nd with 109 votes for her 4th consecutive finals appearance. Sarah Shahi "Person Of Interest" was 3rd with 68 votes for her 2nd consecutive finals appearance. Ellen Pompeo "Greys Anatomy" with 64 votes was 4th, for her 3rd finals appearance since & first since 2013. Emily Bett Rickards "Arrow" the 2014 winner, came in 5th in the semis with 63 votes for her 4th consecutive finals appearance.
Sara Ramirez "Grey's Anatomy" came in 6th with 55 votes for her 1st finals appearance. Hayley Atwell "Conviction" with 50 votes came in 7th for her 1st finals appearance. Stana Katic "Castle" the 3X winner fro 2011 to 2013, was 8th with 49 votes makes the finals for her 6th consecutive & final time with this show. Viola Davis "How To Get Away With Murder" came in 9th in the semis with 45 vtes for her 2nd consecutive finals appearance. Katie Cassidy "Arrow" with 43 votes came in 10th for her 3rd consecutive finals appearance. Grace Park "Hawaii Five-0" with 35 votes came in 11th for her 4th consecutive finals appearance.
Jessica Capshaw "Grey's Anatomy" 115
Amy Acker "Person of Interest" 109
Sarah Shahi "Person of Interest" 68
Ellen Pompeo "Grey's Anatomy" 64
Emily Bett Rickards "Arrow" 63
Sara Ramirez "Grey's Anatomy" 55
Hayley Atwell "Conviction" 50
Stana Katic "Castle" 49
Viola Davis "How To Get Away With Murder" 45
Katie Cassidy "Arrow" 43
Grace Park "Hawaii Five-0:" 35
The 2016 Best Of TV Awards Finals are on now, and here is the finalists for the categories of Best Action or Drama Program
Grey's Anatomy led the semi-finals vote with 129 votes. This is their 5th finals & their 1st since 2013, after 4 consecutive finals appearances.
Person Of Interest, the 2015 Winner, came in 2nd in the semis with 107 votes for their 5th consecutive & final finals appearance. Arrow the 2014 & 2013 winner came in 3rd with 66 votes for their 4th consecutive finals appearance. Agent Carter with 52 votes came in 4th for their 1st & final finals appearance in this category. Hawaii Five-0 was 5th with 44 votes for their 6th consecutive finals appearance.
How To Get Away With Murder was 6th with 43 votes for their 2nd consecutive finals appearance. Criminal Minds was 7th with 41 votes for their record 7th consecutive finals appearance. Daredevil was tied for 7th for their 1st finals appearance.
Grey's Anatomy 129
Arrow 66
Agent Carter 52
Hawaii Five-0 44
How To Get Away With Murder 43
Daredevil 41
Voting for the Finals starts started. January 28, 2017 on some categories & goes till late February/early March.
You can Vote HERE
Best Of TV Awards 2015 - WINNER - Best Couple - SAMANTHA GROVES/ROOT & SAMEEN SHAW "Person of Interest"
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The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Best Couple Samantha Groves/Root & Sameen Shaw (Amy Acker & Sarah Shahi) "Person Of Interest".
This years Best Couple winner is technically not even a couple.... but met the categories dynamics (something a specific fan base in the opening round had trouble understanding). Samantha Groves, aka Root and another member of Team Machine Sameen Shaw won the Best Couple based off the 1 kiss they shared last year in episode 411 after a lot of suggestions from Root that they should be together, which till that moment Shaw had ignored. While the deranged "couple" still havent found each other since then, the fans of the couple known as "Shoot" (reasonably named considering the duos penchant for guns & just happens to be a combination of Shaw & Root) havent stopped hoping.
In 2nd was last years super couple, the 2014 BOTVA winners Oliver Queen & Felicity Smoak "Arrow". The popularity of this couple, known as Olicity with a select part of the shows fandom is not in dispute. In 3rd was the 2012 Winners Richard Castle & Kate Beckett "Castle", known as Caskett by their fans. In 4th was Robin Hood & Regina Mills "Once Upon A Time" in their 1st ever finals in this category known as Outlaw Queen with their fandom. Clarke Griffin & Lexa The Commander "The 100" in their 1st ever finals in this category Clexa as they are known by the fans finished 5th.
6th place found the 2011 & 2013 Winners Bo Dennis & Lauren Lewis "Lost Girl" in their 5th consecutive finals. Doccubus had never finished worse than 2nd prior to this year. In 7th was Barry Allen & Iris West "The Flash" known as WestAllen by the fans. This is the 2nd finals in a row for Barry Allen, who made it last year with Felicity Smoak, while Iris West is here for the 1st time. Another "Once Upon A Time" couple in 8th as Captain Hook & Emma Swan. "Captain Swan" finished 4th last year. In 9th is the on again off again couple of Steve McGarrett & Catherine Rollins "Hawaii Five-0" down 1 spot from where McRoll finished last year. 10th was Sheldon Cooper & Amy Farrah Fowler "The Big Bang Theory" The couple known as ShAmy were finalists in 2012 & 2013, but missed last years finals.
Prince Charming & Snow White "Once Upon A Time" were back for a 3rd time. Snowing made the finals prior in 2011 and 2013. Thea Queen & Roy Harper "Arrow" made the finals for a 2nd consecutive year.
Sam Swarek & Andy McNally "Rookie Blue" known as McSwarek by the fans made the finals for the 1st time. Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce "Glee" known as Brittana to the fans, made the finals in the shows last year of eligibility.
Voting for this award saw 4 different leaders over the 1st two days. Clexa, Caskett, Olicity and Shoot all had the lead at different times. Eventually Shoot pulled away in the final couple days. This is the 2nd award (Sexiest Actress) of these BOTVAs for Amy Acker (the actress who plays Root) and 3rd honour (2015 May Madness winner as well). This is the 1st award for Sarah Shahi (actress who plays Shaw).
Complete Final Results
1st SAMANTHA GROVES/ROOT & SAMEEN SHAW "Person Of Interest" 818
2nd OLIVER QUEEN & FELICITY SMOAK "Arrow" 716
3rd RICHARD CASTLE & KATE BECKETT "Castle" 576
4th ROBIN HOOD & REGINA MILLS "Once Upon A Time" 524
5th CLARKE GRIFFIN & LEXA THE COMMANDER "The 100" 445
6th BO DENNIS & LAUREN LEWIS "Lost Girl" 376
7th BARRY ALLEN & IRIS WEST "The Flash" 343
8th EMMA SWAN & CAPTAIN HOOK "Once Upon A Time" 258
9th STEVE MCGARRETT & CATHERINE ROLLINS "Hawaii Five-0" 101
10th SHELDON COOPER & AMY FARRAH FOWLER "The Big Bang Theory" 97
11th SAM SWAREK & ANDY MCNALLY "Rookie Blue" 68
12th PRINCE CHARMING & SNOW WHITE "Once Upon A Time" 35
13th SANTANA LOPEZ & BRITTANY PIERCE "Glee" 33
14th THEA QUEEN & ROY HARPER "Arrow" 14
Best Of TV Awards 2015 - WINNER - Sexiest Actress - AMY ACKER
The 2015 Best Of TV Awards Winner for Sexiest Actress is Amy Acker.
This years winner has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster whirlwind of success in 2015. Amy Acker, who plays deranged Root on the CBS hit show "Person of Interest" has garnered a lot of fan love in the past year. Besides her first BOTVA, Acker's character won our annual May Madness Favorite Character tournament last year, as well as Spoiler TV's version of it , the Character Cup. As well she has at least 1 more award coming this year. Acker a recurring role on Con Man and a 2 episode guest spot on Suits.
The 39 year old actress beat out a trio of former winners in Emily Bett Rickards (2014), Jennifer Lawrence (2013) and Stana Katic (2012) for the award. The two leaders Acker, and Rickards leapfrogged each other a couple times during the voting, with Acker actually being behind by 11 votes at the start of the last day of voting. But, as we will see several more times in this years awards, last day voting pushes made the difference in the end.
The 2014 winner Emily Bett Rickards finished 2nd with a notable lead over the 2012 winner Stana Katic who finished 3rd. Perennial top 4 finisher Zoie Palmer nabbed 4th, making it her 5th time in the top 4. Gillian Anderson, hot off her return of The X-Files nabbed 5th in her 1st ever Sexiest Actress BOTVA appearance.
Scarlett Johansson in her 2nd consecutive finals slipped 1 spot this year to 6th. The 2013 Winner Jennifer Lawrence dropped two spots from last years 5th place finish to 7th this year. Sarah Shahi in her 1st ever Sexiest Actress appearance took 8th. Lana Parrilla dropped 2 spots from last years 7th to finish 9th this year. Jennifer Morrison dropped 1 spot from last year to take the final spot in the top 10.
Anna Silk, Katrina Law, Kat Dennings, Yvonne Strahovski, Jenna Coleman, Anna Torv & Jamie Chung all made the finals this year again after being there last year. While Grace Park, Hayley Atwell & Elizabeth Henstridge made the finals for the 1st time.
WINNER- AMY ACKER 1,235
2nd EMILY BETT RICKARDS 1,188
3rd STANA KATIC 496
4th ZOIE PALMER 261
5th GILLIAN ANDERSON 221
6th SCARLETT JOHANSSON 155
7th JENNIFER LAWRENCE 144
8th SARAH SHAHI 136
9th LANA PARRILLA 107
10th JENNIFER MORRISON 94
11th ANNA SILK 83
12th GRACE PARK 58
13th HAYLEY ATWELL 43
14th KAT DENNINGS 40
15th JENNA COLEMAN 39
16th KATRINA LAW 36
17th ANNA TORV 34
18th YVONNE STRAHOVSKI 26
19th JAMIE CHUNG 22
20th ELIZEBETH HENSTRIDGE 18
You can congratulate the finalists & follow them on their social media outlets.
Amy Acker Twitter
Emily Bett Rickards Twitter facebook
Stana Katic Twitter facebook
Zoie Palmer Twitter
Gillian Anderson Twitter facebook
Jennifer Lawrence facebook
Sarah Shahi Twitter
Lana Parrilla Twitter facebook
Jennifer Morrison Twitter facebook
Anna Silk Twitter
Kat Dennings Twitter
Jenna Coleman Twitter
Katrina Law Twitter facebook
Yvonne Strahovski Twitter
Jamie Chung Twitter facebook
Elizabeth Henstridge Twitter
Best Of TV Awards 2015 - Results for Semi-Finals voting and FINALISTS for Best Action or Drama Actor, Actress and Program
The 2015 Best Of TV Awards finals are under way. The 6th annual BOTVA's have already shattered the previous record for votes in the first round combined. With over 487,000 votes. The 2015 BOTVA's all time record is 575,000 votes in a year has also fallen now.
The Semi-Final rounds for Best Action or Drama Actor, Actress and Program categories took place a couple weeks ago.
Here are the complete results (BOLD nominees have qualified for the Finals)
CASTLE 273
HANNIBAL 238
GOTHAM 97
HAWAII FIVE-O 77
THE BLACKLIST 67
RIZZOLI AND ISLES 65
ROOKIE BLUE 55
Elementary 51, fargo 34, Revenge 34, House Of Cards 23, Saving Hope 19, Homeland 15, Justified 15
STEPHEN AMELL "Arrow" 767
NATHAN FILLION "Caslte" 299
MADS MIKKELSEN "Hannibal" 282
RAMI MALEK "Mr. Robot" 237
MICHAEL EMERSON "Person Of Interest" 216
HUGH DANCY "Hannibal" 168
JOHN BARROWMAN "Arrow" 158
JIM CAVIEZEL "Person Of Interest" 152
KEVIN CHAPMAN "Person Of Interest" 152
JON HUERTAS "Castle" 121
PAUL BLACKTHORNE "Arrow" 105
YANNICK BISSON "Murdoch Mysteries" 88
ROBIN LORD TAYLOR "Gotham" 80
BEN MCKENZIE "Gotham" 78
Qualified for finals, but did not finish in the top 3 for their program
Colton Haynes "Arrow" 95
Jonny Lee Miller "Elementary" 67, Shemar Moore "Criminal Minds" 63, Ben bass "Rookie Blue" 62, Brandon Routh "Arrow" 58, Lawrence Fishburne "Hannibal" 53, Cory Michael Smith "Gotham" 50, Sean Pertwee "Gotham" 45, Scott Caan "Hawaii Five-0" 43, Daniel Dae Kim "Hawaii Five-0" 38, Ryan Eggold "The Blacklist" 35, gabriel Mann "Revenge" 33, gregory Smith "Rookie Blue" 32, Kevin Spacey "House Of Cards" 29, Travis Milne "Rookie Blue" 29, Elden Henson "daredevil" 24, Timothy Olyphant "Justified" 20, Nick Weschler "Revenge" 18, Philip Winchester "The Player" 17, Kristoffer Polaha "Backstrom" 14, Bob Odenkirk "Better Call Saul" 13, Wesley Snipes "The Player" 12, Liev Schrieber "Ray Donovan" 10
EMILY BETT RICKARDS "Arrow" 843
STANA KATIC "Castle" 312
SARAH SHAHI "Person Of Interest" 229
GILLIAN ANDERSON "Hannibal" 190
MOLLY QUINN "Castle" 121
WILLA HOLLAND "Arrow" 115
VIOLA DAVIS "How To Get Away With Murder" 110
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS "Hannibal" 100
HELENE JOY "Murdoch Mysteries" 89
SASHA ALEXANDER "Rizzoli And Isles" 72
GRACE PARK "Hawaii Five-O" 67
LUCY LIU "Elementary" 65
TARAJI P HENSON "Empire" 64
ANGIE HARMON "Rizzoli And Isles" 61
MISSY PEREGRYM "Rookie Blue" 60
Megan Boone "The Blacklist" 53, Emily VanCamp "Revenge" 50, Deborah Ann Woll "Daredevil" 48, Kerry Washington "Scandal" 44, Pauley Perrette "NCIS" 43, Erin Richards "Gotham" 42, Chelsea Spack "Gotham" 39, Vera farmiga "Bates Motel" 37, Jennifer Love Hewitt "Criminal Minds" 37, Beatrice Rosen "Backstrom" 31, Clare Danes "Homeland" 29, Charlotte Sullivan "Rookie Blue" 28, Robin Wright "House Of cards" 27, Bex taylor-Klaus "Scream" 27, Shiri Appleby "UnReal" 25, Laura Carmichael "Downton Abbey" 24, Olivia Cooke "Bates Motel" 20, Madeleine Stowe "Revenge" 19, Erica Durance "Saving Hope" 19, Charity Wakefield "The Player" 18, Lauren Holly "Motive" 17, Willa Fitzgerald "Scream" 14, Katie Holmes "Ray Donovan" 10
The Best Action or Drama Program category appears set to crown its first 3X winner as the defending 2 time winner Arrow ran away with the semi-final voting. Person Of Interest finds itself in the finals for a 5th consecutive year, 4th time in this category (plus 2011 New Program category), they will try to improve on their all time best 5th place finish & their 2nd in the semi-finals bodes well for that happening. Last years runner up and former 2X category winners Castle are again in the mix with a 3rd place finish in the semis. Hannibal finds themselves back in the finals for a 2nd time, looking to improve on their 7th place finish last year. Criminal Minds stays in the finals, making it an unprecidented 6th finals appearance in this category. Still hoping to get their 1st win, with a 2nd & 3rd in the past few years. Hawaii Five-0 is back for their 5th finals. The Blacklist is in their 2nd straight finals. Rookie Blue is in the finals for a 2nd time, their last appearance was in 2013.
Gotham and How To Get Away With Murder find themselves in the finals for the first time in this category. Last year they both made it in the New Program category. Rizzoli And Isles makes the finals for the first time in any category.
The Best Action or Drama Actor Category will not have a repeat winner as last years winner Christopher Gorham "Covert Affairs" is not eligible this year. There are two former Winners in the mix though. The 2013 winner John Barrowman "Arrow" is once again back, along with his shows star Stephen Amell, who led semi-final voting (as he did last year as well) and Paul Blackthorne for his 2nd time. The 2012 & 2011 winner Nathan Fillion "Castle" who is joined this time by 1st time finalst Jon Huertas from his show. Mads Mikkelsen & Hugh Dancy "Hannibal" both are back for a 3rd consecutive finals. Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson "Person Of Interest" are back in the finals, caviezel for his 3rd time (missing last year) and Emerson for his 2nd (first time since 2012) along with their cast mate Kevin Chapman making his 1st finals. Yannick Bisson "Murdoch Mysteries" makes the finals for the 2nd time. Alex O'Loughlin "Hawaii Five-0" is back for his 4th finals. Ben McKenzie "Gotham" returns to the finals for his 2nd year in a row, along with 1st time finalist from the show Robin Lord taylor. James Spader "The Blacklist" slips into the last spot of the finals, making it his 3rd consecutive finals.
In the finals for the first time, along with Huertas, Chapman and Taylor are Rami Malek "Mr. Robot" and Charlie Cox "Daredevil" in their shows 1st year.
The Best Action or Drama Actress Category had last years winner leading the semi-final voting as Emily Bett Rickards "Arrow" led by a wide margin, her co-stars Katie Cassidy & Willa Holland also made it for the 2nd time each. The former 3 time winner Stana Katic "Castle" was 2nd and will be joined this year in the finals by co-star Molly Quinn for her 1st time. Amy Acker "Person Of Interest" who plays Root, the May Madness Character winner this past year was 3rd and makes the finals for her 3rd time. She is joined by 1st time finalist Sarah Shahi from the show. Gillian Anderson "Hannibal" a finalist last year in the recurring actress category is back this time in the action/drama actress category, along with co-star Caroline Dhavernas. Helene Joy "Murdoch Mysteries" makes the finals for the 2nd consecutive year. Lucy Liu "Elementary" is back for her 3rd time as is Grace Park "Hawaii Five-0". Taraji P Henson "
Empire" makes the finals for the first time on this show, and her 2nd time in the category, previously with "Person Of Interest" in 2013.
In the finals for the first time besides Molly Quinn, Sarah Shahi, Gillian Anderson and Caroline Dhavernas. Viola Davis "How To Get Away With Murder. Sasha Alexander & Angie Harmon "Rizzoli And Isles", Missy Peregrym "Rookie Blue" making this the 1st finals appearance for a Rookie Blue main cast member.
The Final round of the 2015 Best Of TV Awards is under way. Each voting round will last 3 to 6 days..
Voting, and a complete list of nominees in all categories can be found HERE
Best Of TV Awards 2015 - Round 2 - Semi-finals results and list of FINALISTS for Sexiest Actress, Actor and Best Non-Human Character or Prop
The 2015 Best Of TV Awards are about to start the Finals soon. The 6th annual BOTVA's are still closing out some polls for the run off round before we advance to the finals. We've already shattered the previous record for votes in the first round combined. With over 487,000 votes. The 2015 BOTVA's all time record of 575,000 votes in a year looks sure to fall as we passed the 560,000 vote mark in the semi-finals & nearly broke the 570,000 mark.
Emily Bett Rickards 1081
Amy Acker 736
Sarah Shahi 521
Zoie Palmer 294
Anna Silk 245
Lana Parrilla 154
Gillian Anderson 152
Jennifer Lawrence 148
Hayley Atwell 127
Stana Katic 121
Katrina Law 82
Jennifer Morrison 79
Yvonne Strahovski 72
Elizabeth Henstridge 61
Anna Torv 55
Jenna Coleman 50
Kat Dennings 49
Jamie Chung 48
Grace Park 47
Rose McIver 43
Katie Holmes 35
Jennifer Love Hewitt 34
Saoirse Ronan 30
Molly Quinn 23
Melissa Rauch 20
Aly Michalka 19
Deborah Ann Woll 19
Sarah Silverman 15
Charity Wakefield 12
Stephen Amell 780
Mads Mikkelsen 203
Jim Caviezel 196
Jared Padalecki 180
Chris Hemsworth 146
Chris Evans 129
Jensen Ackles 122
Alex O'Loughlin 95
Chris Pratt 92
Kris Holden-Ried 90
Tom Hiddleston 98
Tom Hardy 82
Benedict Cumberbatch 78
Colin O'Donoghue 78
Grant Gustin 78
Ian Somerhalder 74
Liam Hemsworth 74
John Barrowman 71
Josh Dallas 70
Nathan Fillion 70
Shemar Moore 70
Idris Elba 53
Hugh Dancy 48
Misha Collins 41
Chris Pine 40
Joshua Jackson 38
Jamie Dornan 37
Tom Cruise 37
Norman Reedus 34
Timothy Omundson 33
Vincent D'Onofrio 30
Philip Winchester 24
Joel Kinnaman 21
BEAR "Person of Interest" 396
THE MACHINE "Person Of Interest" 361
THE IMPALA "Supernatural" 302
LAZARUS PIT "Arrow" 255
ATOM SUIT "Arrow" 198
THE TARDIS "Doctor Who" 183
THE FLASH SUIT "The Flash" 130
RUMPLESTILTSKINS DAGGER "Once Upon A Time" 116
S.T.A.R. Labs "The Flash" 97
Daryl's crossbow "The Walking Dead" 84
Michonnes Katana "The Walking Dead' 82
Sonic Screwdriver "Doctor Who" 65
The Sexiest Actress category will see 14 of the 16 finalists from last year in this years final again. Only finalists last year to miss the mark this year were two of my faves, Molly Quinn & Jennifer Love Hewitt. Despite the finalists list expanding from 16 to 20. Newcomers to the finals this year will include Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Gillian Anderson, Hayley Atwell, Elizabeth Henstridge, Grace Park.
The last 3 winners, Emily Bett Rickards, Jennifer Lawrence and Stana Katic are all in this years finals. Along with 4 time top 3 finalist Zoie Palmer. In a rare occurance in these awards, pretty much all the leaders in the nomination round were near the top in the semi-finals. The top 4 in this round, Rickards, Acker, Shahi, Palmer, were also the top 4 in the opening round. As well, Anderson, Silk and Parrilla in the opening round all finished in the top 8 & did so here as well. This is nothing short of rare for these awards, as the opening round often sees 1 or 2 hopefuls being propped up by a couple enthusiastic supporters fall by the wayside in round 2 when the voting is limited to 1 each.
Last years winner Emily Bett Rickards had sizable leads in the 1st & 2nd rounds & would seem like a good bet to repeat this year.
The Sexiest Actor Category was not so predictable. While last years winner Stephen Amell did lead the semi-final voting, he was an adequate 8th in the opening round. The Nomination round vote leader Mads Mikkelsen continued with trying to make an impact by coming in 2nd in the semi-finals. His co-star, who finished 2nd in round 1, didnt even qualify for the finals. Strange to say the least, its usually not till the finals that fandoms abandon a 2nd choice when voting is streamlined to only 1 or 2 picks. Another top 5 opening round vote getter didnt make the finals, Vincent D'Onofrio, as the power of the small handful of voters he had in the first round couldnt get enough of their fans to follow suit in round 2. Jim Caviezel, Jared Padalecki & Chris Hemsworth round out the top 5 in the semi-finals. Only Caviezel was a top 5 name after round one of voting. Three time winner Jensen Ackles qualified for the finals in 7th, the lowest hes ever come into the finals at.
The Best Non-Human Character or Prop category looks poised to potentially have a new winner. The four time winner, The Impala from "Supernatural" seems to have some stiff competition this year. The "Person Of Interest" dog Bear has led the voting in both rounds, with another POI candidate second in both, The Machine. While The Impala did improve from the 1st round to the 2nd round by going from a 5th place showing up to a 3rd place showing & was less than 100 votes behind the leader, this is clearly the first ever sign of any challenge to the defending 4X champions crown. Interestingly the 3rd place finisher in round 1, did not even make the finals, finishing 2nd to last. While the last place qualifier in round 1 finished in the top 5 this round.
The Final round of the 2015 Best Of TV Awards will be under way with some categories soon. Each voting round will last 3 to 6 days..
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Home>Articles>Governor Newsom Meets PG&E Executives Face To Face Following State Takeover Threat
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Governor Newsom Meets PG&E Executives Face To Face Following State Takeover Threat
PG&E will have until the end of June to get out of bankruptcy before state action
By Evan Symon, November 7, 2019 5:53 am
Governor Gavin Newsom. (Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
After only four days following Governor Gavin Newsom’s threat to take over PG&E utilities, PG&E CEO Bill Johnson came to Sacramento to discuss the growing issues of the company.
Johnson, as well as Chief Financial Officer Jason Wells and Chair of the Board Nora Brownell, met the Governor at a private meeting in the State Capitol.
Both PG&E staff and those working for the Governor confirmed that the main issue being discussed was the increasing number of planned power outages PG&E has instituted in Northern California, the effect it had on the elderly and disabled who rely on power and businesses to remain open, the number of businesses, schools, and public buildings that had to close for days at a time, and the ever-present fire danger.
Governor Newsom also made it clear that, if PG&E failed to rectify or improve the issues at hand, California would step in and do whatever was necessary, including a possible takeover. A date was also given as a deadline to resolve the current bankruptcy: June 30, 2020. After June 30th, California would be ready to acquire the struggling utility.
PG&E’s bankruptcy throughout 2019 has been a back and forth of control of the company with investors and creditors getting into a heated battle over control of the company. While both plans are currently being discussed in a San Francisco court, local residents and cities such as San Jose are looking into their own plans of booting out PG&E in favor of a more local power provider, with some places calling on making it a public or non-profit utility, or even suggesting to break it up.
With so many things going on, which also includes around $30 billion in potential damages from PG&E started fires such as the deadly Camp Fire in 2018, PG&E have dug in their heels on what they’ve been doing, while also noting that they have come up short on many things recently.
PG&E CEO Bill Johnson (Bloomberg)
Johnson defended PG&E to Newsom, pointing out that if the power had not gone off, numerous other forest fires would have started due to conditions in the area. His response was safety to the accusations of causing human misery.
“I came to California with one basic purpose: Let’s make sure we don’t kill anybody at our operations,” said Johnson on Tuesday. “I think we achieved that this year. I understand the hardship, I apologize for it, but for me, safety has to come first. I know there were hardships involved. But if you look at what happened over the last couple of years with catastrophic wildfires, we actually prevented that for the most part this year.”
Daniel Zingale (Twitter)
Johnson also said that a takeover or a switch to a local or non-profit company wouldn’t be the best option, due to the logistics of dozens of new power companies across the state and rural areas being charged more.
“I think the way it is structured now is the best idea for the majority of customers,” stated Johnson.
After the meeting it was clear to both parties want PG&E to get out of bankruptcy as soon as possible. But it was also clear that the California governor wants massive change at PG&E.
“It will be very different and qualitatively better than what we have known as PG&E,” explained Newsom’s Senior Adviser on Strategy and Communications Daniel Zingale. “It will be a new model with a new way of governance and a new way of prioritizing safety, ratepayer’s interests and profit in a way that PG&E, as we know it, has not done.”
With just over seven months to the takeover deadline, along with persistent issues such as wildfires and planned blackouts, the meeting with the Governor on Tuesday shows that it will be a very busy half a year for PG&E.
Evan Symon
Evan V. Symon is the Senior Editor for the California Globe. Prior to the Globe, he reported for the Pasadena Independent, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and was head of the Personal Experiences section at Cracked. He can be reached at evan@californiaglobe.com.
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Does this mean you’re gonna stop taking campaign donations too, Gavvie???
Effing slimewad….
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The Broadway Theatre presents
Catford Fringe Festival 2018
Nye & Guests
May 9, 2018 by chrisb2018
Nye (short for Aneurin) is a singer/actor from Australia, with Welsh heritage! He came to the UK to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2012, where he completed a Masters degree in Professional Acting. Nye has pursued a career in performance that has taken in musicals such as the lead role of Robert Baker in Wonderful Town (All Star Productions) to Annie Get Your Gun (Union Theatre) to A Little Prince (Brighton Open Air Theatre), Nominated Best Family Show at the Brighton Fringe 2016).With a love of both jazz standards and musical numbers, Nye brings you a collection of some of his favourites, coupled with entries from special guests and an anecdote or two thrown in!
After the festival Aneurin can next be seen performing the role of Vittorio Vidal as part of Artform’s upcoming season of Sweet Charity July 11-14th at the Catford Broadway Studio space.
‘Aneurin Pascoe makes his rendition of A Quiet Girl, one of Bernstein’s most haunting ballads, worth the price of a ticket alone’
Raymond Langford Jones, Sardine’s magazine
Sunday 10th, 4pm
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Testimony Housing
Testimony on the Mayor's Housing Proposals
Options for increasing the efficient use of land, reducing construction costs, and effectively using cross-subsidies should be explored to maximize the amount of affordable housing that can be produced.
Report Transportation
Recessions and Revenues
This policy brief considers the implications of a recession for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) current financial plan.
Blog Housing
The Cost of Affordable Housing
How much does it take to build in NYC?
Video City Budget
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer
CBC Breakfast with NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer
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Twenty Years Later
The FDNY responds to more more medical emergencies than fires. The department needs a fundamental transformation.
Report Economic Development
An Assessment of Performance Reporting by Regional Economic Development Councils
This brief assesses the performance of New York State's Regional Economic Development Councils over the past four years and offers recommendations for further improving data collected on projects and on the economic performance of the regions.
Special Feature City Budget
Facts About the NYPD
Presents total expenses and headcount of New York City Police Department, focusing on overtime costs.
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NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton
CBC Breakfast with NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton in November 2015.
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Whose Burden Is It Anyway?
This report looks at New York City rent burdens in more detail, using an in-depth housing survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to consider a variety of household characteristics.
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Why delaying plans for the second phase of the Second Avenue subway is sensible.
In 2008, CBC called for the elimination of the Empire Zones jobs program amid concerns it wasted public resources. In 2010, New York State replaced Empire Zones with the streamlined Excelsior Jobs Program. Excelsior was designed to avoid the errors of Empire Zones but until recently it has been difficult to assess to what degree it achieves its objectives.
Facts About the NYC Budget
Facts about the NYC budget in 2015, focusing on recession risk and citywide savings plan.
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Statement on MTA Funding Agreement
The announcement of an agreement for funding the MTA’s 2015-2019 capital plan is an important step in maintaining and enhancing the region’s most vital transportation assets. However, additional steps must be taken.
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Facts About NYCHA
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NYCHA Chair & CEO Shola Olatoye
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Best (and Worst) Stations by Subway Line
identifies the best and worst train stations in New York City Transit-MTA system.
Sisyphus and Subway Stations
This brief examines why the subway stations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority never reach a state of good repair and recommends how to address the challenge.
Special Feature Transportation
Subway Station Condition Map
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) latest survey of the condition of its 467 subway stations in 2012 showed more than one in four of all structural components were not in a satisfactory condition—known in the jargon as a “state of good repair” or SGR. This map reveals the condition of the components of all 467 subway stations.
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Community heritage project to preserve local history
The unveiling of a nineteenth century cog marked the official opening of the new housing development, Old Mill Court. The development is a partnership project between Morganstone and Charter Housing, part of the Pobl Group and Newport City Council.
During the course of the preparation works undertaken on the site of the former Merry Miller public house, the old cog was discovered and identified as being part of Malpas Mill which formerly stood on the site. The Mill was constructed in the mid to late 19th century and was destroyed in the period after the Second World War. The cast iron driving cog would have transferred power from the water wheel to the grindstone mechanism and formed part of the mill.
As part of its community engagement work, Morganstone undertook a heritage project to restore and return the cog to its place of origin. The cog now stands on a plinth within the development and boasts a special commemorative bronze plaque in recognition of the history, that residents and the surrounding community will now share.
Ian Morgan, Managing Director, Morganstone said:
“Being involved with redevelopment projects are always unique in their own way and the Old Mill Court redevelopment was no exception, with the opportunity to transform a run-down public house into much needed affordable housing in the area. Then to come across the cog from the old mill during construction just added to the history of the project and thankfully we were able to uncover, store and retain the cog throughout throughout the construction period and allow future generations to see a piece of our history”
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Community liaison, Legacy,
Impact on resources
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Coastal, Rural, Urban,
Antonia John
Business Development & Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
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Encon Construction
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Contributing to the local community will create goodwill and using local suppliers can leave a lasting positive impression. Residents will be more inclined to welcome contractors into an area, when any negative impact is off-set by what the site contributes locally. Sites should show a commitment to people, stakeholders, community and the environment and become a temporary member of the community.
Paperless Community Suggestion Box
Shaping Your World
Building a Community Garden
Beach replenished with sand
Leaving a lasting legacy on a military site
Mick George Ltd contributes towards community Skate Park
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Depending on Bots Is Dangerous to the Future of Your Contact Center
A survey of 330 contact center executives, leaders, and industry experts offers an interesting take on the technologies that might have an impact on the future of contact centers. A key takeaway from the research is...
By: Gal Rimon, Founder & CEO, Centrical
A survey of 330 contact center executives, leaders, and industry experts offers an interesting take on the technologies that might have an impact on the future of contact centers. A key takeaway from the research, conducted under the direction of Lori Bocklund, president of contact center consultancy Strategic Contact, is there’s hope certain technologies with positively impact service agents. What’s striking is the manner in which the technology will likely help to improve those frontline employees’ jobs.
About half of the respondents were from the leaders group, people who actually direct or manage contact center operations. They’re the ones very much aware of what a service agent goes through from shift to shift. The CC Pros.
Let’s dispel the view of what technology, aka automation, will do to contact center headcount. About one-third of the CC Pros don’t see technology having any impact on that. Interestingly, just 10% of industry experts and 20% of executives share that view.
So if technology isn’t going to turn contact centers into rooms filled with automatrons what will it do — specifically, to enhance the on-the-job experience of service agents? Well, based on the top three technologies felt to have the greatest impact on contact centers of the future, it amplifies all the more the need for technology that delivers highly engaging, highly personalized learning for optimal real-time employee performance management.
Among survey participants, the top three technologies felt to have the greatest impact on contact centers of the future are:
bots, that include voice, chat or text — by a wide margin;
Robotic process automation (RPA to provide agent assistance; and,
Analytics.
The goal to be achieved by the trio of top tech was seen by 46% of respondents as being “Improve Service.” This was followed by “Reduce Call Volumes,” “Reduce Handle Time “and “Increase Revenue,” at 26%, 22%, and 7%, respectively.
A quick observation on the less than robust view of tech’s impact on heightening revenue generation. That is a reflection of this group of CC Pros who have, quite literally, heard it all before. More importantly, let’s delve a bit deeper into the top goal to raise service quality levels.
That vision of the contact center of the future is somewhat at odds with what we’re seeing happening today. Contact centers by the dozen are applying technology to automate basic service requests. Banks provide current account balances, retailers offer store hours, directions and the current promotions, and airlines or hotels promote deals via automation. That means when an agent is dealing with a customer, it’s already at a high service level requirement. Consider for a moment the customer who’s called a product help line and has made her way through a gauntlet of automated hurdles. Before ever touching a phone or keyboard, the customer has gone online to solve the problem on her own. She has become well-versed on the matter and, in all likelihood, is a baby step or two away from solving it on her own. Whether the contact center deals with support, sales or collection, the dynamic is, increasingly, the same. Consumers come to contact centers really well-informed.
And that means the service agent must be better informed, more able to grasp issues, concerns, and be more aware of just-breaking promotions as well as have the capacity to empathize with emotions. No matter how many bots are deployed at a contact center of the future they will not be able to help the agent deal more effectively one-on-one with a customer.
To accomplish that now, a contact center needs to make agent learning, more accurately continuous learning, central to their technology plans. Specifically, a learning experience from a platform that consists of real-time employee performance management, personalized microlearning, and advanced gamification.
For the skeptics, Microsoft’s Consumer Support Operations implemented that form of learning — from GamEffective — for its network of contact centers with thousands of agents. In a matter of weeks productivity among agents increased by 10%, absenteeism dropped 12%, and the attach rate rose 2X for non-sales agents. A brilliant reflection of the value of this form of learning was that 89% of surveyed Microsoft agents acknowledged awareness of new information, up from 23% prior to GamEffective, and felt empowered to apply it.
Oh, by the way, customer satisfaction also rose higher.
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LaVar Ball says he’s the ‘best coach ever,’ takes loss in championship game
Bruno Manrique
The LaVar Ball show didn’t just enhance the spectacle that the Adidas Uprising Summer Championship game was bound to be, but integrated with it, making it a jam-packed, fan-frenzied even unlike the AAU circuit had seen in more than a decade.
The game seated roughly 4,000 people, with another 1,500 waiting outside as local police had to barricade the doors to prevent any infractions.
A matchup between the top-ranked junior point guard in LaMelo Ball and the second-ranked high school senior in Zion Williamson had the likes of Damian Lillard, Eric Gordon, and Andrew Wiggins sitting courtside to witness the two prep wonders go at one another.
Prior to coaching the Big Ballers in Wednesday night’s showdown, LaVar Ball has some self-praising words, words which he would later have to eat up after a 104-92 loss against Williamson’s SC Supreme.
“The best coach ever. That’s how I describe myself,” Ball told ESPN’s Jeff Borzello before the game. “The best coach ever. Because I said so.”
Despite the hoopla, Ball’s team held up great against a nationally ranked team, given that the Big Ballers are a team that hasn’t gone through any of the big three AAU sneaker-branded circuits and lacks the experience against teams of SC Supreme’s caliber — playing mostly in local tournaments and not venturing outside of their local Los Angeles area.
“You can’t compare me to nobody,” Ball said. “Them coaches ain’t doing the stuff that I do. I have my own team, I pick them myself. These guys were not playing on anybody else’s team, on the fact that nobody would pick them. And I don’t charge them nothing. I just bring them with me and let’s go.”
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PRESS DIGEST- Canada-July 25
July 25 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
** Kitchenware brand The Pampered Chef can continue to use its "PC" logo to sell products in Canada, a judge ruled this week, dismissing a trademark lawsuit by Loblaw Companies Ltd . tgam.ca/2SHs2S2
** Political leaders and financial analysts are expressing concern that SNC-Lavalin Group Inc will see an employee exodus in the months ahead that will weaken its operational capability at a critical time. tgam.ca/2K0C4d1
** Less than five months before edibles are expected to hit store shelves, Quebec said on Wednesday that it would ban cannabis products that could appeal to minors, such as cannabis candies, confections and desserts, including chocolate. tgam.ca/2JTOjJD
** In the midst of a board room scuffle that has seen Aimia Inc take its largest shareholder to court for allegedly running a "covert campaign" for control, RBC Global Asset Management has voiced its support for the company's leadership. bit.ly/2YsXPes
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Exclusive: Amazon Picks Up Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Brigands of Rattlecreek’
by Jeff Sneider March 15, 2019
Seven years ago, I reported that South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) was in talks to direct the ultraviolent western thriller The Brigands of Rattleborge from Bone Tomahawk writer S. Craig Zahler, and today I’ve confirmed with multiple sources that the long-gestating project has a new home and a new title. Amazon Studios has picked up the project, which is now being referred to as The Brigands of Rattlecreek.
Bradley Fischer (Shutter Island) will produce the film, which follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town. Zahler’s script topped the 2006 Black List but has languished in development, likely due to its violent content.
Image via Aviron Pictures
Sources say that Amazon and Fischer are courting Matthew McConaughey to play the doctor opposite another A-lister as the sheriff, though it remains early on the casting front and no actors have a closed deal at this time. Still, the fact that Amazon has swooped in to rescue this highly-regarded project, which puts them in business with a world-class filmmaker who’s comfortable with violent material, is great news for genre fans.
Fischer recently split from his partners at Mythology Entertainment so I truly have no idea how the rest of the producing credits will shake out on this project, though the director’s longtime collaborator Wonjo Jeong (The Little Drummer Girl) is expected to be involved in some kind of producing capacity. Amazon declined to comment on the project at this time.
This isn’t really a story about McConaughey, whose casting remains as yet unconfirmed, but the project seems right up his alley. The actor is coming off four straight box office disappointments between Gold, The Dark Tower, White Boy Rick and Serenity, but his upcoming film The Beach Bum is drawing encouraging reviews out of SXSW, and I also hear that his upcoming Guy Ritchie movie is a return to form for the Snatch director, so things are trending up for the Oscar-winning star of Dallas Buyers Club. McConaughey also isn’t afraid of dark, violent material, having earned rave reviews for his turn in Killer Joe.
Park is no stranger to revenge pics, having directed the “Vengeance” trilogy, which includes Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance, and most notably, Oldboy. He also directed Fox Searchlight’s Stoker, the vampire movie Thirst, and most recently, The Handmaiden. He’s repped by WME, while McConaughey is repped by CAA.
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The ‘Saved by the Bell’ Revival Series Just Got its Zack Morris Back
by Gregory Lawrence January 10, 2020
Time out! The fella responsible for that delightfully ’90s catchphrase, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, is returning to the revival series of the show where it all started. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gosselaar will return to the upcoming Saved by the Bell revival series on Peacock, NBC’s upcoming streaming service. He’ll be executive producing the series and — hell yeah — returning as Zack Morris.
In the new series, now a single-camera comedy, Zack Morris has become the governor of California, and is controversially closing many lower-income schools. In an effort to curb the effects of his decisions, he sends many of the affected students to different schools — including, of course, Bayside High. Other returning alumni include Mario Lopez as A.C. Slater and Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano. Peacock is also in talks with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen to play Kelly Kapowski. New cast members include Josie Totah (No Good Nick) as a beautiful, popular, mean cheerleader at Bayside. The whole project comes from the mind of creator/writer Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock, Great News).
Image via NBC
Gosselaar, beyond his producing duties, will only be appearing in three episodes of the series, due to his previous commitments as a series regular on mixed-ish. The two programs are produced by different studios, and the series regular status limits Gosselaar’s ability to appear on other programs to three episodes a piece (we previously saw this play out with Johnny Galecki‘s guest appearances on the Roseanne revival while being a series regular on The Big Bang Theory). Thus, it seems like Zack Morris, after inciting the whole premise of the series, will mostly be an unseen force in the show. Still — we’ll take whatever new Zack Morris we can get, and look forward to seeing Wigfield’s sharper-than-usual take on the character’s mythology.
Peacock is set to launch sometime in April. But if you’re impatient, check out this mini-Saved by the Bell reunion on Jimmy Fallon. And if you wanna know what else Peacock is rebooting, here’s our intel on the upcoming Battlestar Galactica revival series.
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Naruto Teases Tenten's Big Comeback in New Boruto Preview
By Megan Peters - May 21, 2019 10:27 am EDT
Naruto has never afraid to toe into side arcs, and that trend has continued well into Boruto. These days, the sequel has moved into a spin-off tale that focuses on Mirai Sarutobi as she tackles are special mission with her seniors. And as it turns out, a bit of girl power will join the team for a spell.
Yes, that’s right. Mirai is about to be joined by Tenten, and their meeting will be welcomed by some rather… spooky events.
As you can see above, a preview for Boruto: Naruto Next Generation’s upcoming episode has gone live. It was there fans got a taste of what episode 108 will hold, and it includes lots of Tenten.
It turns out Tenten is sent to bring Mirai some supplies and additional luggage as she continues her tour with Kakashi and Gai. The weapons expert stays the night, and the reel sees Tenten and Mirai share some girl talk in a public bath house before things get weird.
After all, it turns out the hotel in which the team is staying is haunted or appears to be so. Might Guy is the first visited by the evil spirit, and the reel ends with Tenten giving Mirai the fright of her life in an abandoned hallway. So, here's to hoping the two girls can buckle down and figure out whether Casper the Friendly Ghost has decided to pay the Fire Nation a visit.
So, are you ready to see Tenten make a comeback? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!
Originally created by Masashi Kishimoto for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999, Naruto follows a young ninja, with a sealed demon within him, that wishes to become the leader of his home village. The series ran for 700 chapters overall, and was adapted into an anime series by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex that ran from 2002 to 2017. The series was popular enough to warrant a sequel, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations which is set several years after the events of the original Naruto story and features the children of many of its key characters such as Naruto and Hinata.
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Tag: Gnu-Atheism
Imagined History of a Never-Was: “New Atheism”
Jacob Hamburger writes over at The Point, asking what the New Atheism even was. It’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since Gary Wolf resurrected the term at Wired in 2006 in his oft-cited essay. Asking and mostly getting the same answer, over and over.
There’s really only one position in relation to “New Atheism” that I’ve ever been completely comfortable with: that it doesn’t exist, that it never existed, and that the term was a snarl word that only functioned rhetorically. The phrase “Gnu Atheism”, an altogether un-serious mutation of the term born a few years later out of a scam that snared journalist and vocal critic Chris Mooney, always seemed a far better candidate to be taken seriously, despite its obvious satirical bend.
People using the term almost only ever define themselves in relation to the “New Atheism”, rather than in the affirmative. Who called themselves a “New Atheist”? A notable exception would be the late Victor Stenger, who seemed quite innocently unable to realize how odd he was in doing so. Mostly the meaning of the term shifted and slid according to the short term requirements of authors and pundits.
One day Daniel Dennett could have been a “New Atheist”, and the next a bulwark against it. The critique was folly. “New Atheism” was a shadow puppet.
Supposedly coined in 2006 by Gary Wolf at Wired, the term was used much earlier in 1986 by Robert Morey in his “New Atheism and the Erosion of Freedom”, and possibly earlier than that again. Tacking a “new” onto the start of any “ism” being an old formula that’s sadly never gone stale.
Wolf’s article is more restrained than either Morey’s thesis, or any number of the jeremiads using the term that would follow. He focused on three authors, none who called themselves “New Atheists”; Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, and Sam Harris. This was shortly before Christopher Hitchens had entered the fray.
It’s weird, even humorous that Wolf invoked the late Paul Kurtz in contrast to the “New Atheists”, then of the Centre For Inquiry. In the 1980s, the afore mentioned Morey was lambasting Kurtz himself as one of the “New Atheists”. It was an old game and one Kurtz would have been aware of, especially on account of the matter of stridency; the man was a supporter and friend of the not-exactly-timid Madalyn Murray O’Hair who also came in for a smearing in Morey’s tome.
Criticisms of Dawkins, typical of the time, came down to him being “strident”, and being incapable of alliances with liberal-minded Christians (despite his cooperation with then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on the matter of creationism in schools). When you strip away the objections based on fiction, you were basically left with tone, which doesn’t have very much meat to it as far as purported ideological demarcations go. Anything that foreshadowed “Dear Muslima” was thin on the ground.
Wolf seemed even less capable of presenting a meaningful difference between Dennett and the likes of Kurtz.
Lashings of embellishments from a variety of authors in the following years didn’t flesh things out any further.
“They’re logical positivists!” (No “they” weren’t).
“They want to destroy Christian culture!” (Basically a re-branded War on Christmas fiction for people who imagined they were above Fox News).
“They support the Iraq War!” (Mostly “they” didn’t).
“Scientism!” (Having a poor conception of the boundaries of science does not a scientismist make, and at any rate, Harris’ philosophical silliness wasn’t widely adopted by purported “New Atheists” anyway – not unless you tweaked your definitions to perform an act of circular logic, at least.)
The worst part of these takes on the “New Atheism” though, wasn’t that they were untrue (although frequently they were). The worst part was that so little, if any of it, could be used as demarcation criteria. And when it was a suitable for demarcation, you’d find “New Atheism” being split off into other categories.
Even in the early days there was a whiff of sexism about the scene you couldn’t easily deny; Dawkins’ lilting waffle about the gentler sex; Harris’ bias for male pronouns; more overtly, Hitchens calling the Dixie Chicks “fucking fat slags”. Aside from how conspicuous it is that people wanting to bury the “New Atheism” at the time buried the lede on this one, this is still insufficient to demonstrate that there is (or was) a “New Atheism”. How would this sexism set the “New” apart from the “Old Atheism” – the old guard Wolf mentions?
Wolf wrote favorably about Asimov as an example of the old, but that guy was a complete shit to women; a serial groper, a condescending patriarch and completely unable to render women believably in fiction to boot. A demarcation criterion needs to be able to make a distinction, but “fucking fat slags” is a sentiment you could imagine ass-grabber Asimov getting behind, so sexism’s probably not going to do the job.
Maybe vanity and thin skin? No. I mean, Harris and Dawkins, and maybe Dennett could be accused of thin-skin, much like a number of other less known “New” atheists. But nice-guy Sagan’s “Butt-Head Astronomer” legal battle with Apple arguably tops any fit-of-pique the purported “New Atheism” could lay claim to.
Kurtz’s labelling of Ron Lindsay’s management style as Stalinist seems grounded in vanity as well. And the criticism of offensive cartoons – something he himself presided over but overlooked in a way suggestive of preening – brings us neatly back to the issue of confected difference.
The function of the “New Atheist” trope, at least from the secular progressive side, isn’t primarily to critique atheists. It’s a tool by which authors write about themselves in negative relief, a direct approach to extolling their own virtues being far too obvious. “Look at the New Atheism! [I’m not like that! Allow me to list the qualities I don’t have!]”
Back to Hamburger: So what came of “it”?
Hitchens is dead, for one. I think he would have objected to Hamburger’s attribution of the idea of liberalism ideally being grounded in pure reason alone. It’s almost as if Hamburger missed the discussion of “rationalist naiveté” – and Hitchens proximity to that discussion. Only Hamburger’s focus on that period is quite extensive.
And why the weird narrative tales? Non-belief and scientific rationality only becoming political causes after Hitchens joined with Dawkins et. al.? Harris “founding” the “New Atheist” genre, as if the other books by Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens weren’t authored independently? That’s not how it happened.
I don’t think Hamburger is being mendacious. I don’t even think he’s writing his essay in an attempt to position himself with readers in the way that PZ Myers’ recent testimony-cum-denouncement so obviously labours to do. In a way, I suspect he’s naively fallen into the same trap Victor Stenger did, albeit from the opposite end of the pit.
It is possible to be unwittingly maneuvered into writing this kind of thing even if you’ve only passively adopted just a few questionable assumptions in good faith.
There are meaningful trends in the detritus of the readerships of the Usually Mentioned Atheists. You can find misogynists pretty easily. There’s a particular school of handwaving concerning the boundaries of science that’s been masquerading as clear and forthright ever since The Moral Landscape.
There’s been pride expressed over political ignorance and a related if often inverse dismissiveness regarding philosophical literacy. “You used a word that philosophers use! You’re one of those Politically Correct Ismists that are saying things! Now I know I can ignore you! Bwaha! You should leave the pub and leave me to stroke my most intelligent of beards!”
Depending on how the net has been cast, there are also more-or-less decent, more-or-less intelligent, and more-or-less anodyne sorts in there with more than salvageable ideas. But again, none of this is “New” and none of it is uniform across the purported “New Atheism”.
What can be done to collate meaning in all of this mess? Rather than giving the vague snarl word of “New Atheism” any serious coinage (or excessive dismissal in cases where no malice is evident), I think someone’s going to have to work out a taxonomy based on actual positions held, that actually matter taxonomically; something akin to John Nerst’s notion of the Pomo-oid Cluster, albeit for atheist authors post-2004. Or rather, someone should have tried this a long time ago.
Going beyond just the concept of a cluster and actually making a map of the territory would be immensely useful too, even if it wouldn’t take off in every-day conversation. At the very least people arguing in good faith could more easily avoid talking past each other, and a kind of convention for recognizing disingenuous railing against “New Atheists” could be more easily practiced.
As it stands, it’s too easy for woke-acting columnists to rail against “New Atheists” (The Guardian and Salon have offered up several examples over the years), just as it’s too easy for genuine criticism of atheist authors to be dismissed as disingenuous or hostile (which you can see for yourself if you crawl down this rabbit hole).
Forget how the various tribes of authors feel about this for a moment, and ask yourself “in a civil democracy, how does this particular form of ambiguity – this confected grouping – serve the public interest?”
~ Bruce
Posted on February 2, 2019 by Bruce EverettPosted in Atheism, Politics, Religion, SecularismTagged Atheism, Gnu-Atheism, Secularism. Leave a comment
Is Barnaby Joyce the avante garde of the Christian literary tradition?
Ho ho ho, with a hat-tip to Russell Blackford. Barnaby Joyce is putting lead into the pencil of Christian literature, or at least, there’s probably lead in the crayons he ate from the Fairfax stationary.
Perhaps I’m being unkind…
‘My war is always against that religion called atheist extremism, that sneaky sect.’
(Barnaby Joyce, 2011).
Oh come on… It’s not so bad.
‘Yes, this sect’s followers make their way on to your veranda then hold a righteous court of sneering indignation about the crib in the park. You can hear yourself muttering under your breath, ”I wish you would go drown yourself, you pseudo-intellectual Gucci flea.” They write letters to complain about the incorrectness of carols at the school and picket the Christmas tree. To not insult their religion, you must no longer follow yours. They yearn for the fallacy of a vacuum and they demand that you join them in that philosophical void.’
(Barnaby Joyce, 2011)
Now I know what you’re thinking – incitement to violence, and in a Fairfax paper of all places!
But if you’ve learned anything about lit-crit, and religious texts, it’s that you can take these things to literally. He’s not suggesting that atheist should actually kill themselves, no, no, no.
You start out as a Gucci flea (whatever that is, I’m not sure of the Biblical reference – I’m not a Biblical scholar), then you submerge yourself in a baptism until you flatline. You are then born again, brain-dead, able to operate on, and in sympathy with, Joyce’s intellectual plane. Which apparently isn’t a void. Sort of a Cartesian dualism deal, or something – the brain is dead, but the soul goes on, un-vacuumed.
It’s hard to interpret such cutting edge stuff fairly. I may not be a Biblical scholar, but I know when new intertextualities arise, in more novel configurations, those familiar with the traditional – conservatives and laymen – are left scratching their heads.
Where he got the idea that atheism was a religion, much less a sect, I don’t know. There are too many new sources. Once upon a time, people knew that atheists were precisely not religious, which is why sometimes, they were killed. Not drowned so much as dismembered, hung, set on fire, or whatever.
No, Barnaby is obviously going with something post-modern, in response to the liberal secularism of early 20th century anglophone nations. The confabulation about Christian exclusion from schools, or the anxiety about freedom from religion being the freedom to take religion away. Not my tradition of choice, actually – bullshit actually – but that seems to be where Joyce, our latest national treasure, is coming from; late 20th, early 21st century, Christian self-pity.
But ignore the ressentiment, for a moment, because it’s only one facet of the human condition that Barnaby Joyce fleshes out. Joyce is nothing, if not a pluralist…
‘Anyway, Christmas is here and I hope we borrow a little from the person who kicked it off. The timing at the end of December has more to do with the celebration of the pagan festival of Saturnalia rather than when Christ was actually born. Those politically incorrect early Christians had the good sense to roll with the customs rather than to rage against them.’
I take it that this includes the concept of ‘December liberty’, where people could say what they wanted of their leaders, and others, without fear of reprisal. This is perhaps why Barnaby is so liberal with his own choice of words.
Allow me to reciprocate in the same spirit.
You Barnaby, are a complete and utter moron. I hope you asphyxiate on a dingleberry. (Not literally, of course.)
Oh, and it’s a few seconds from midnight… Happy Unholy Anti-Christmas! Here’s a jingle.
Posted on December 24, 2011 by Bruce EverettPosted in Atheism, Atheists, Christmas, ReligionTagged Gnu-Atheism, Merry Christmas. Leave a comment
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Cawo Abdi
cabdi@umn.edu
1146 Soc Sci Building
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Global Studies, Institute for
PhD: Sociology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 2006.
MA: University of Guelph, Canada, 2002.
BSocSc: Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada, 1995.
Gender, Race, and Class
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Soc 3505 - Transnational Migration
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Soc 8390 - Topics: Global Migrations
One of my new projects examines the educational attainment and school choices of new migrants. For children of migrant parents, the American education system can be their ladder to social mobility and the realization of their American dream, or it can leave them behind as a part of millions of Americans whose lives remain precarious. This study investigates the increasing role ethnocentric charter schools are playing in new refugee and migrant groups’ education in Minnesota and how this shapes their long-term settlement and integration in the United States.
”Protracted Limbo? Refugees and the Statelessness in the Age of Terrorism,” with Erika Busse. Forthcoming 2018. In The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies. Edited by Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn. UK: Routledge.
"Refugees and Citizens on the Margins: Sufferings Recognized, Sufferings Denied.” 2017. Pp. 217-232 in Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life. Edited by Ronald E. Anderson. NY: Springer.
"Disclaimed or Reclaimed? Muslim Refugee Youth and Belonging in the Age of Hyperbolisation." 2015. Journal of Intercultural Studies 36(5):564-578.
Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity. 2015. MN: University of Minnesota Press.
"Threatened Identities and Gendered Opportunities: Somali Migration to America." 2014. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39(21):459-483.
"Muslim-American Youth and Homeland Politics: Competing Narratives on the War on Terror.” 2011. Pp 273-289 in Looming Shadows: Migration and Integration at a Time of Upheaval. European and American Perspectives. Edited by Vedran Dzihic and Thomas Schmidinger. Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS.
"Moving Beyond ‘Xenophobia’: Structural Violence, Conflict and Encounters with the ‘Other’ Africans," 2011. Development Southern Africa 28(5):691-704.
"Convergence of Civil War and the Religious Right: Re-Imagining Somali Women," 2007. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33(1):183-207.
Fulbright Research Fellowship to South Africa, 2012 - 2013
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John R Warren
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Sociology .
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Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1998.
Soc 3801: Social Research Methods
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Soc 5811: Intermediate Social Statistics
Soc 8001: Soc as a Profession
Soc 8090: Topics in Soc: Soc of Education Journal Editing Seminar
High School & Beyond (with Chandra Muller and Eric Grodsky). I am conducting follow-up surveys of the sophomore (in 2013-2014) and senior (in 2014-2015) cohorts of High School and Beyond (HS&B). These ~30,000 people were first interviewed in high school in 1980; they are now in their early 50s. The full HS&B data will provide leverage in understanding the roles of education, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and ascribed attributes in shaping work, health, and well-being at midlife. Integrating, Harmonizing, and Linking Data from the Current Population Survey (with Sarah Flood). Despite the longitudinal design of the Current Population Survey (CPS), researchers have almost exclusively analyzed these data as though they were collected through a series of cross-sectional surveys. With support from NIH, we are developing integrated data, dissemination software, and associated metadata that will make longitudinal analyses of CPS data radically easier. I am also the Editor of Sociology of Education, a top-10 sociology journal and a top-20 education research journal
"How Much Do You Have to Publish to Get a Job in a Top Sociology Department? Or to Get Tenure? Trends Over a Generation." 2019. Sociological Science 6:172-196.
"Tracking Health Inequalities from High School to Midlife," with Jamie Carroll and Chandra Muller. 2017. Social Forces 96:591-628.
"Do Inferences about Mortality Rates and Disparities Vary by Source of Mortality Information?," with Carolina Milesi, Karen Grigorian, et al. 2017. Annals of Epidemiology 27:121-127.
"Panel Conditioning in the General Social Survey," with Andrew Halpern-Manners and Florencia Torche. 2017. Sociological Methods and Research 46:103-124.
"Does Growing Childhood Socioeconomic Inequality Mean Future Inequality in Adult Health?" 2016. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 663: 292-330.
"The Impact of Work and Family Life Histories on Economic Well-Being at Older Ages," with Andrew Halpern-Manners, James Raymo, & Adam Nicholson. 2015. Social Forces 93:1369-1396.
"Potential Data Sources for a New Study of Social Mobility in the United States." 2015. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 657: 208-246
"Do Different Methods for Modeling Age-Graded Trajectories Yield the Same Results?," with Liying Luo, Andrew Halpern-Manners, et al. 2015. American Journal of Sociology 120:1809-1856.
"Patterns and Trends in Grade Retention Rates in the United States, 1995-2010," with Emily Hoffman & Megan Andrew. 2014. Educational Researcher 43: 433-443.
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The Herald business columnist Liam Dann had a curious column out yesterday. When I first saw it online it had a more right-on headline [UPDATE: “Woke wonderland – how a new narrative has changed NZ”] (I didn’t read the article until my wife started quoting bits to me) but it now has the headline “NZ’s population prediction was out by 30 years – the price we are paying”.
Dann had been prompted to write the article by stumbling on a 2004 SNZ release from 2004 which apparently “forecast” (more likely, it was the medium “projection”) New Zealand’s population to get to five million in about 2050. As it is, it appears that milestone will be reached within the next few months.
The bit that the current headline deals refers to was this
Now I can’t get past the notion that this miscalculation holds the key to many of our social infrastructure problems in 2019.
If that was the population assumption policy makers were using, then of course we have a housing shortage … of course our roads, our hospitals and our schools are crowded.
I’m a bit ambivalent on that point. After all, it isn’t as if the projections haven’t been updated, regularly, since 2004. And one could quite reasonably make the point that this specific issue isn’t primarily about surprisingly rapid population growth, as about successive waves of central and local governments (including the current ones) that have made too much of the system not responsive to population surprises. Planners control where houses can (mostly can’t) be built and most of them have a deeply-held aversion to an increased physical footprint for cities, let alone competitive market processes to determine where and when development occurs. We still don’t have congestion charging in our major cities. And so on. And so the pressures fall on house/land prices and in various forms of congestion or queuing.
All that said, if we were to take as more-or-less given the RMA and associated development constraints then Dann does have a point. After all, it was the same political leaders who have repeatedly refused to act to free-up land supply etc (and in doing so were, just possibly, reflecting public preferences) who also oversaw the immigration system which has resulted in such a rapid rate of population growth. The immigration system is much easier to tweak, to manage trend inflows of non-New Zealand citizens, than the entrenched land use issues are to fix. In that sense blame a series of active (and, more often, passive) choices by our political leaders.
Using official SNZ data, here is how our population has changed since September 2004 (September years are the latest annual data).
Over the full period, the population has risen by (an estimated) 842000. Take natural increase (births less deaths) and the large net outflow of New Zealand citizens (another 315000) and you’d have been left with a pretty small rise in the population (less than 4 per cent in total, over 15 years).
That is simply an illustrative scenario. In the absence of large non-citizen immigration, the rate of natural increase would have been lower (immigrants, once here, have children too). Whether the outflow of New Zealanders would have been any different is hard to know. My own view is that there would have been a slightly smaller outflow of New Zealanders (consistent with my model, in which economic prospects here would have been improved), but there are alternative hypotheses in which some more New Zealanders might have left (wanting the brighter lights a NZ of five million could offer, but one of four million could not).
But to a first approximation, if you regard the land regulation situation as largely frozen, then almost all the subsequent pressures can be ascribed to the choice to keep on with large scale non-citizen migration regardless. Even if you thought it really could be quite readily changed and it was just venal politicians who refused to do the right thing, then knowing that and still supporting large scale immigration (and recall that ours is among the very largest in the world per capita) is akin to knowingly inflicting the resulting house prices, congestion, queues etc on New Zealand. It isn’t as if other countries have been so good at fixing those land (related issues). And officials and outside observers knew these issues were a problem 15 years ago.
Of course, having raising the issue Liam Dann – pillar of the establishment – is keen to assure his readers that he does not, not for a minute, oppose immigration. Thus his claim
in my lifetime this country has been vastly improved by more people and more cultural diversity.
I get the impression he must be almost 50 so presumably he is talking about immigration since about 1970. In reality though, between about 1974 and the end iof the 1980s there wasn’t much immigration, so we are mostly talking about the last 30 years. I can’t share his optimism, particularly about the raw numbers, in a country that has continued to drift further behind economically over that period, and whose firms have failed – in aggregate – to find new products/markets abroad (even though external trade is a key element in any prospective improvement in our relative prosperity).
Anyway, at this point Dann launches into a paean to the better New Zealand we now are that, to me anyway, seems more than a little detached from reality. We are told that
Something structural has changed.
New Zealand just isn’t a place people want to leave any more.
Except of course (see above) a net 300000+ people have: just imagine if a net 7.5 per cent of the American population had left the US in 15 years.
Now a little later on, Dann does concede that any reduction in net outflows isn’t entirely good news
Australia becoming a lot less friendly to New Zealanders has influenced our net migration rates. It’s not nearly as easy to enjoy the easy life across the Tasman as “Bondi bludgers”.
In other words, poeople may still want to leave, but it is harder to do so. And it isn’t just about the caricatured “Bondi bludger” but about the difficulty of your kids getting established and ever getting citizenship etc. New Zealanders are worse off as a result of those tougher Australian policies.
It is also worth pointing out that New Zealanders go to Australia when the Australian labour market is strong. It hasn’t been that strong in the last few years, after commodity prices peak and the mining investment boom began to pass. That isn’t good for Australians, and it certainly isn’t good for New Zealanders who might want to take advantage of the higher productivity and higher material living standards abroad.
And, as it happens, the outflow has been picking up again. Here is the net outflow of New Zealand citizens from the new SNZ migration data.
It certainly isn’t a record outflow, but the increase is now becoming quite pronounced. Not exactly a tale consistent with a wonderful New Zealand.
But when he talks about the migration choices of New Zealand citizens, Dann is just warming up. The real story on his telling is
New Zealand finds itself being cast as the “woke” capital of the world.
We failed to see what a desirable place New Zealand has become in the eyes of the world.
Complete with all manner of gushy references to the idea that, for example
the UK and US media simply can’t get enough of the notion that this country is a liberal paradise.
Now I’m not going to deny that there are sections of the world media who seem particularly enamoured (for reasons that largely escape me) with our Prime Minister.
But….the surge in net migration this decade mostly happened on the watch of the previous lot, that outflow of New Zealanders has (and it is almost entirely coincidental) increased in the couple of years the current government has been in office, and in case Dann hasn’t noticed, the residence approvals targets haven’t changed much in 20 years now, and actual approvals have been undershooting target in the last couple of years (probably less because of lack of interest than because of processing delays by MBIE). Because the headline target hasn’t changed much in 20 years, while the population has grown quite a bit, residence approvals for non-citizens are quite a bit less now, in per capita terms, than they were in, say, 2004 (Dann’s reference point).
And why might we doubt that Stephen Colbert (or, on the other side, Donald Trump) or the Guardian really have anything much to do with our population growth? Well, try this chart from the new MBIE immigration dashboard, showing the top five countries for residence approvals.
Four of these five countries are materially poorer than New Zealand is (and the UK, once the leading individual source country, while richer and more productive is now down to equal 4th). Mostly people migrate when (a) the options are better for them abroad, and (b) the potential recipient country allows them to do so. That seems pretty consistent with the New Zealand story not just now, but throughout history (think of the UK migration from say 1870 to 1970, a period when wages here were typically higher than those in UK, or of Pacific migration in the 60s and 70s).
And if there has been an increase in the (typically small) net number of US migrants since Trump, well there has been a fall in the net inflow of Brits since the Brexit vote.
In combination, net arrivals from the UK and US are now about one-third of what we were experiencing from 2004 to 2007. So much for the pulling power of the “woke paradise” rhetoric.
As just another area where our rules matter quite a lot, the MIBE data says that we now have about 200000 people here at any one time on temporary work visas. In 2012 that number was about 100000. That’s non-trivial share of the roughly 500000 growth in population (all needing accommodation etc) in that period.
Towards the end of his article, Dann’s sunlit uplands narrative continues
Now more than ever New Zealand has some control over that destiny.
We can choose to turn the immigration tap up or down with policy settings.
We have choices because we can rest assured that the demand is there.
Except that for most of the last 150 years it has been so. When you are a relatively rich country – and one that is not given to coups or civil wars and speaks the global language – of course people will want to come. In what we often think of as the dark years of the late 70s and early 80s plenty of people would happily have come, it was just that we chose not to let them (and reasonable people can debate that economic or social merits of that choice). We could elect the antithesis of Jacinda Ardern and while Colbert, the Guardian and the Washington Post might not like it, it wouldn’t materially alter the broad level of interest in moving from a much poorer country (eg India, South Africa, Philippines) to quite a rich (if remote) one.
I remain convinced that we would be better off economically, and probably politically/socially as well, to be targeting a much lower rate of non-citizen immigration (perhaps 10000 to 15000 residence approvals per annum). If we did, the population would probably level out near five million. Without compelling evidence of incipient rapid productivity growth – of the sort missing for at least 70 years – that would play better to the limited economic opportunities in this remote corner of the world. And, as it happens, it would leave us not far below the size of the median country globally.
As it is, the existing planning ranges for residence approvals expire at the end of this year. As I highlighted earlier in the year, the government is apparently looking at quite an overhaul of the system (although no hint they were looking at lower numbers). The number of Cabinet meetings before the end of the year must now be dropping away quite fast.
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Your comments on immigration have been spot on Michael.
Thing is, we live in an antebellum economy. The objective of the political elite is to drive up asset prices – which they benefit from – and down wages. To that end, mass immigration has been a boon; and for those outside of the disaster called Auckland, they benefit from increased tax receipts without having to experience the negative externalities.
Getgreatstuff says:
Auckland is ranked 12 on the Most livable cities in the world. Not quite a disaster. But with 52 Volcanos in its centre it is a geographically difficult city to build infrastructure.
Brendan McNeill says:
It always surprises me that the most obvious question relating to immigration is never asked, particularly given the scale and cultural diversity of our immigrant population. Stated simply: “What kind of country do we want to become?”
To quote author and commentator Mark Steyn who wrote in 2006, a decade prior to Merkel’s million migrants into Germany:
“Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There’ll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands–probably–just as in Istanbul there’s still a building called St. Sophia’s Cathedral. But it’s not a cathedral; it’s merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West.”
https://www.steynonline.com/7428/it-still-the-demography-stupid
He might just as easily have included New Zealand in that list of countries that before the end of this century will be defined solely by their geography, rather than their social, religious and cultural heritage, which is to say Western Civilisation.
You could be forgiven for thinking that is the whole point of the exercise.
Do we understand what are we trading away for the presumed ‘benefits’ of immigrant led population growth, or are we little more than 21st century Easu’s trading our birthright for a bowel of porridge?
I’m no fan of Shane Jones, or any of our current political parties for that matter, but if he is successful in opening this question for public discussion then he may well have justified his political career. However, I’m doubtful that it is it still possible to have this conversation in New Zealand without being condemned as a racist, a bigot, a hater. Yet if we don’t allow reasonable politicians to raise this question without immediate condemnation, then it gets pushed to the margins of polite society and left to Shane Jones, or others less endearing to take it forward.
It is probable that we will embrace by default the problems of Europe, incapable as we have become of confronting any difficult questions.
The first problem is the Treaty of Waitangi. It is a racist colonial document of which the only party left to the agreement is Maori. The other party the British Crown does not give any legal recognition in England. Over here in NZ the NZ government calls itself a fictional Crown but there is no Queen that takes legal ownership in NZ or in England so where is the Crown entity? A complete fiction.
Treaty of Waitangi settlements are purely a form of racist social Welfare payments benefitting only one race ie Maori and no other New Zealander. How more racist can you get? Our so called founding document is a racist document.
Tony Burton says:
I guess as one of the immigrants I’ll have a different take on some of your assessment… but some more general thoughts:
– The hundreds of thousands of people coming to NZ are a small fraction of the world’s migrant population (according to the UN 272 million, though that looks like it includes refugees https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046562). NZ is a small country, so wobbles in the intentions of a small fraction of 1% of those people looks large relative to the NZ population.
– The obvious change since the late 1990s was the Lord of The Rings films. In effect they were a 9 hour advert for New Zealand that hundreds of millions of people across the world paid to see. It’s not that people come to NZ because of the films, it’s that more people think about NZ because of the films and so more people end up seeing it as a place they want to come. That’s the kind of minuscule wobble that would explain why people like me think twice about NZ when we might not otherwise have done so.
– The Liam Dann article is highlighting an important issue. Its surprised how little proper NZ analysis of migration flows there are given its importance to NZ over the last couple of decades. Stats is not very good at predicting, or at adjusting its predictions with new evidence. This feeds into the way Treasury underestimated GDP growth and, I suspect, others underestimated downward pressure on wages and inflation. It’s a symptom of an endemic problem that NZ academia is not very good at dealing with NZ specific issues. (Migration is international, but having both high immigration and emigration is unusual and not properly modeled in a way that is policy useful.)
Michael Reddell says:
THanks Tony. Your v last sentence is a key consideration for me. The main official NZ response to it as has been “our people are leaving so we need to replace them”, which in isolation makes little sense either economically or socially.
And now I must get on with reading Kinley Salmon (as you recommended), currently sitting on top of my pile.
Our people are leaving because our institutions train them with high level skills where are are no jobs in NZ. Unfortunately we do not have our people trained for the jobs we need people for and thats why we need to bring people into the country. It is not a replacement issue, it is a training issue and available employment.
Geoff Prickett says:
I’ve got no solutions – but consider this, the population of Nigeria has gone from 56mil to 200mil in the past 50 years – what price over half a billion in another 50 years. Combined pops of Turkey Syria and Iraq from 50mil to 138mil since 1970. Ethiopia from 28 to 105mil – India from 553mil to 1.34bil – Philippines 35 to 105 mil. How many would like to live in NZ?
If it was possible the population issue poses even more intractable problems than climate change. Both issues are confronted by the short-term interests of individuals and pressure groups – both carry the possibility of worldwide catastrophe – not one day in the distant future but within the lifetimes of our grandkids.
Interesting angle. Of course, in many of those places birth rates have now fallen v rapidly, so populations are likely to stabilise in time. Longer-term the key question is probably whether those countries can put in place policy frameworks that generate pretty good living stds (even if not 1st world). Turkey has – productivity there now more or less matches NZ. India is on a path that may well get there. In middle income countries, with reasonable freedom and political stability, not that many people really want to migrate esp not to a quite alien culture/society.
Odysseus says:
Liam Dann appears to have sensed there is a problem about our absurdly high non-citizen immigration rate but then tries to dress it up as a symbol of our hyper-woke virtuousness. Thank you for taking apart his “sunlit uplands” narrative. There are certainly vested interests involved which is why anyone who challenges the purported benefits of mass immigration is immediately shouted down as a “racist” by the media and metropolitan elites. Some people have done very well from hiring immigrants who will work for the minimum wage or less instead of New Zealanders. Others have made millions from the relentless escalation of property prices. Meanwhile our infrastructure and services are failing, our cities are increasingly congested and the environment is degraded, while fulfilling our insane zero carbon target now enshrined in law becomes that much more difficult every time a new immigrant lands. But hey, let’s privatize the profits while socializing the costs.
hilarytee says:
Almost a rarity to see Kiwis doing the harvesting on Country Calendar nowadays.
Yes hilarytee. I don’t deny the benefits to South Pacific economies, to New Zealand growers and to the pickers themselves and their families that come from seasonal migrant labour. It’s a win-win as long as the pickers are paid and treated fairly. But I do question how many immigrants we need to staff petrol stations, liquor stores, of which we seem to have an epidemic, and wash dishes etc.
NZ immigration has a open door policy towards the South Pacific island nations. In fact we have also declared that some island nations can have freedom of access to the NZ Universal Super whilst residing in their islands. Winston Peters have thrown recently given away $900 million in taxpayer dollars to the islands for their economic development.
But don’t forget these island nations are freely giving away passports to Chinese investors. Perhaps this is a backdoor for Chinese entry into NZ with Island passports.
iconoclast says:
And the wealthy Singaporeans come for the easy pickings
Just last week …..
Tax evasion and money laundering allegations behind freezing orders over 15 Gisborne properties and $10m
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12284774
Read the trial transcript at the bottom of the article
The ghettoisation of Auckland
An article from 2003
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3516526
Now 2019 … ethnic wars
Which has erupted in a mass brawl in Mission Bay Auckland between youths from South Auckland and West Auckland – the combatants were not pakeha
Bob Atkinson says:
Thank you for mentioning “”processing delays by MBIE””. There are quotas for the various visa types (or at least Mr Woodhouse claimed there were when he wrote to me in Jan 2017). What doesn’t make any sense is meeting these quotas by delay in processing. It means the most desperate will hang in (for example a family member still waiting for residency by partnership after a relationship of five years and with a three year old NZ child – no visa issues other than delays in processing. Pity it was not a ‘traditional marriage’). Meanwhile the most talented potential immigrants possessing skills needed throughout the world will be going elsewhere.
It is too much to ask INZ to set its quotas; set its price for visas so they can employ adequate staff; set the point counts appropriate to the quotas and then process visa applications promptly. The comparison with the friendly efficiency of our passport office is stunning. Being employed by INZ must be deeply embarassing.
Delighted to say my son-in-law received news that his permanent residency visa on grounds of partnership was verbally approved a couple of hours ago. And I ought to mention I was bending the truth – my granddaughter is not three next month.
My family is very happy and celebrating. However the issue of delays in just starting the processing of visitor, work and residence visas remains a major embarrassment to NZ and a source of legitimate complaint by the unfortunate applicants trapped by the unkind bureaucracy.
Shane Jones would say, you can’t expect to bring your entire village with you. If you don’t like it go home.
Craig H says:
Points, fees and quotas are set by the government, not INZ, although obviously based on whatever information government requests from INZ. Having an overall range for residence visas but only a few small quotas within that makes it hard to find a way to manage other than to stop processing visas when the cap is reached which would no doubt be highly popular… Also, the SMC points don’t make a lot of difference to volumes because people apply based on what they think they have which presumably does not always match with the INZ assessment.
“”People from poorer countries will come if we let them””. The elite who make the decisions about NZ immigration policy behind closed doors are cosmopolitan; they know other countries both by OE and by holidays. For example our Prime Minister was employed in London. They understand how OECD countries work but they are far less aware of the pressures on and the attitudes of inhabitants of poor countries. On holiday the natives tell you what they think you want to hear not what you need to know – that is true for PNG and it was also true of the West Coast of Scotland. It takes time and maybe even inter-marriage to learn about a third world culture; any place without a welfare state is deeply different.
There are many aspects of NZ that I really like; I doubt I would ever leave unless I had to return to Britain because their health service provided a life saving drug not funded by Pharmac. For immigrants from third world countries the following keep them in NZ even when they would be happier back home: pension, safety and education of children, jobs for school leavers, any serious medical conditions.
I support immigration – well I would if the numbers were more rational which for me would mean matching UK & USA per capita. I enjoy meeting Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Africans, Pacific Islanders, etc when they are clearly helping NZ and are as strongly attached to their new country as I am.
This year is the first time that I have seen 3 tables taken up by cantonese dialect Hong Kong Chinese at the Ascot tents on the grounds of the Ellerslie race course during the Melbourne Cup race day. I have attended many of these race days over 15 years and not even 1 table has ever been taken up any Asian group.. Looks like the 6 months unrest in Hong Kong has pushed these poorer people to NZ. However at $3,500 per table or $350 per person, perhaps not so poor people arriving at our doorstep.
At $350 a head at the Ascot tents at the Ellerslie Race course, I can never understand why their buffet lunch is usually so bad. I could not believe they would serve up badly burnt beef as a casserole main dish and hot food served cold. Have they not heard that there is such a technology called serving plate warmers?
sorethumb says:
I think it is disgusting that people from India and China have as much claim to this country as people from our ancestor country. That’s ethnocentrism. Europeans are less ethnocentric than other ethnic groups.
I thought our ancestor country was Taiwan?
Had to look it up. Ethnocentric: evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
I don’t think your assertion is true. Whoever we are we ought to have values that we measure others by; being aware that other cultures have different values merely requires experience of other cultures. So Europe is diverse with my French family eating horses and my English family especially the pony owners horrified by the idea. New Zealanders are well traveled so are reasonable culturally aware but there are other countries where having an education almost certainly brings you into contact while still young and impressionable with other cultures. India and Papua New Guinea spring to mind. I rather like the way both Indians and Papuans can be dismissive of their own fellow citizens in a way that would have us dismissed at racists.
My worry is not New Zealanders having more openness to other standards and customs but our losing awareness that we have such standards. So we have current values being imposed on historic figures – I expect some academic is criticising Captain Cook for not have gender neutral toilets on board the Endevour. The debate about Indian traditional marriage has focused on race and culture but avoided the fact that every year twice as many females as males arrive in NZ on family visas. Our current values seem to have a hierarchy: race, gender and religion and I would prefer that order reversed.
It is certainly not disgusting that some New Zealanders of Indian and Chinese ethnicity have a better claim to New Zealand than say myself. My acquaintance Nancy may be totally Chinese in appearance and blood but was born here 75 years ago and has all the best virtues of any proud Kiwi; surely that is a better claim than my mere 17 years in New Zealand. If as I expect you are referring to people from poor countries who are escaping poverty but without any love of New Zealand and have little intention of assimilating into New Zealand life and chose to live in an ethnic enclave then I agree with you.
Ethnocentrism is more than your definition Bob. In computer simulations ethnocentrism is the winning evolutionary strategy. You won’t find much where social scientists don’t want to look but there is a study of second generation Turkish migrants who think Australia is full of plain looking people without any culture. They see themselves as Australia’s culture and get through more.
https://zuleykazevallos.com/2012/10/06/its-like-were-their-culture/
But that isn’t the point. Multiculturalism doesn’t want or recognise any dominant ethnic group.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/why-we-must-all-reduce-our-moral-certainties/
This is about ethnocentrism Bob. It shows it is a biological phenomena. Jacinda Adern told the UN that people can be trained not to be xenophobic. If she can convince the public that large numbers of foreign people from unlike cultures are an asset- good luck.
I thought the Gurkhas are great British soldiers?
The bond with Australia was only based on a handshake . Our weakening bond is being driven by immigration from China and India into Eastern Australia. According to an interview on RNZ.
Unfortunately the Australians have forgotten that NZ exists as a State of Australia in their founding constitution and practically wrote most of their constitution. These days they treat the SCV-Special Category Visa as a pariah Not so special Visa category.
Hamish Young says:
Keep up the good work Michael, another great post.
I feel that a majority of NZers are opposed to mass immigration, but many people consider it a necessary evil because industry, politicians and media would like us to believe that our economic health depends on a high level of immigration. Your blog shows otherwise.
We are not opposed to having 10 million cows delivering GDP of a measly $17 billion. Why would we be opposed to 10 million monkeys delivering GDP of $600 billion?
We are witnessing the rise of a new oligarchy of wealth and education. And not surprisingly, the leaders of this country’s government, its press, its corporations and most of its popular culture most all belong to this same class.
But this oligarchy is not sustainable. Not only because it is unjust that the global economy should work for so few, that so many should be shut out of America’s front row, left without a voice.
We must forge in this century a new politics of family and neighborhood—a new politics of love and belonging—a new politics of home.
That will mean rethinking old positions and revisiting old orthodoxies. It will mean challenging the old priorities of the political class. But we cannot wait any longer. Our life of liberty, our life together, cannot wait.
So let us strengthen the hands that are feeble and steady the knees that give way.
Let us renew our hope in what might be.
Let us begin.
Thank you and goodnight.
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Two Eco-Friendly, Health-Conscious Startups Share First Place in 2019 CSUN Nazarian College Fast Pitch Competition
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Student teams Beegan Bites and Nourish share the first-place prize for the 2019 CSUN Fast Pitch competition on Nov. 19. Photo by Lee Choo.
Chandra Subramaniam, dean of CSUN's Nazarian College, gives the opening remarks of the CSUN Fast Pitch competition, held on Nov. 19, 2019 at the Ferman Presentation Room. Photo by Lee Choo.
Nazarian College Dean Chandra Subramaniam joins the panel of judges for the 2019 CSUN Fast Pitch competition on Nov. 19. Photo by Lee Choo.
The judges for the 2019 CSUN Fast Pitch competition listen intently to the student presentations given on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo by Lee Choo.
Student team Van Robotics gives their three-minute "elevator pitch" presentation to a panel of judges and a live audience during the 2019 CSUN Fast Pitch competition, on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo by Lee Choo.
The eight finalist teams for the 2019 CSUN Fast Pitch competition come together for a group photo on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo by Lee Choo.
Three batches of scrumptious snacks traveled on trays across the Ferman Presentation Room during the CSUN Fast Pitch finals hosted by CSUN’s David Nazarian College of Business and Economics on Nov. 19, tempting audience members to take a tasty sample as they listened attentively to the student team behind the treats.
Beegan Bites are organic snacks made from non-genetically modified (non-GMO) gluten-free rolled oats, coconut, walnuts, dates, Himalayan salt, cinnamon and — the inspiration for the brand’s name — ethically sourced honey. The snacks come in three flavors: peanut butter, cacao and, fitting for the autumn season, pumpkin spice.
The business uses certified honey (labeled “True Source Certified”) from bees that feed from organic flowers and are kept in spacious bee farms, said Melissa Schwarz, a senior majoring in theatre, and founder and CEO of Beegan Bites. Her team avoided using dairy and eggs, due to the tremendous negative impact the meat and dairy industries have on our planet, she said. They also use biodegradable, cornstarch-based packaging to do their part in reducing landfill waste.
“My original intention was to create an organic treat for myself that didn’t have ingredients such as added sugars, unnatural preservatives, dyes, soy and GMOs,” said Schwarz (dubbed “the Queen of the Hive” by her team, which includes fellow Matador Melissa Padilla. Their other teammates are Maya Sparadeo and Devin Dean, both of whom Schwarz met outside of CSUN.)
“I didn’t really intend to make it a business at the beginning, but after my friends and family tried it and really liked it, they all urged me to [market the product]. Now, here I am,” she said.
Beegan Bites was one of the competition’s two food-related startups catering to a health-conscious and environmentally aware clientele — and it shared the first-place honors in the 2019 CSUN Nazarian College Fast Pitch new venture competition with the other, a company called Nourish.
In the Nazarian College Fast Pitch competition, eight finalist teams compete for $4,000 in prizes. Fast Pitch is designed to help Matador-created, -managed and -owned ventures receive meaningful feedback from industry professionals and prepare for the CSUN Nazarian College Bull Ring New Venture Competition in the spring semester, where student teams vie for $70,000 in cash prizes.
Each Fast Pitch team delivered a three-minute “elevator pitch” speech to introduce their startup or brand to an audience and a panel of judges, which included Andy Mysza, former owner of travel agency Montrose Travel; Cesar Montoya, founder of telecommunications company Ringaro; Nishit Rathod, founder and CEO of Triumph, which offers workshops and programs for entrepreneurial and personal growth; and Rozanne Englehart, owner and director of Yoga Sol Studio.
After the pitch, the floor was open for judges to ask team members questions and learn more about their ventures.
Nourish targets the issue of food waste by delivering excess food supply from restaurants and other food establishments to nonprofit organizations. The Nourish team is made up of CSUN students Leanna Merza, Magdah Al Sinaidi, Anh Nguyen and Christopher Moreno, who are all minoring in entrepreneurship.
In their pitch, the team described their business model, which functions through a web application where businesses can schedule pickups for their surplus ingredients and food items, and track their delivery to local nonprofits. Revenue would be made through a 10 percent commission of the cost of food donated, pickup and delivery fees, disposal fees and contract deals with companies that wish to use its services regularly, the students said.
The other finalist teams were: Van Robotics, which is developing an electromechanical exoskeleton to reduce physical stress on the bodies of first responders, police and military; Titan Helmets, which has developed a motorcycle helmet prototype that integrates an air-purification system; LOD (Line of Defense), which is creating a system that can protect homes from wildfires; Keyream, a physical wallet that can carry cryptocurrency; EZPZ, a wristband that helps parents and guardians keep track of children when going to amusement parks; and MeSave, a mobile app that guides college students to available parking spaces.
Ryan Holbrook, director of the Nazarian College’s entrepreneurship program, said the 2019 finalists produced two firsts for Fast Pitch: In addition to the first-place tie between Beegan Bites and Nourish (earning each team a check for $1,500), two teams — Nourish and Keyream — tied in the “audience choice” category (online vote), which earned each a $250 prize.
The judges’ deliberation process also went overtime, as the panel found it challenging to choose between the finalists, Holbrook said. The ties between the victors and the audience-choice winners were “a testament to the competitiveness and diversity of the finalist teams this year,” he said.
“It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of 120 strangers and pitch an early-stage venture,” Holbrook said. “And doing so can often be the spark leading to something extraordinary.
Echoing Holbrook’s sentiments, Nazarian College Dean Chandra Subramaniam also expressed his pride.
“I continue to be impressed by the students that compete in our new venture competitions,” Subramaniam said. “Not only are they gaining the tools and experience to be successful outside of their education, they are also serving as role models and showing their peers that their ideas can lead to the creation of a new business.”
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ asks who won ‘First Lady debate,’ people answer [VIDEO]
Zachary Snider Contributor
October 18, 2012 10:09 AM ET
The hi-jinks never stop on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’
After taking to the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday to ask passers by who won the second Presidential debate — four hours before it started — show producers decided to ask a different question before Wednesday’s show: “Who won the First Lady debate between Ann Romney and Michelle Obama?”
One unsuspecting gentleman, “the guy with the eyebrows,” drew a particularly heavy laugh from the crowd. It turns out he was in the audience for the show.
“You like that debate last night?” Kimmel asked him.
“I loved that debate, actually,” the man said as he laughed. “I think I had a dream last night; I saw the debate in the dream.”
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Welcome to N3rd Street
In early summer of 2007, Indy Hall wasn’t a place, but it was a nomadic tribe. We were moving from bar to cafe to restaurant to living room – anywhere with wifi – in the pursuit of a better working experience than working alone in our apartments.
At the time, Old City didn’t really jump to mind as the ideal place for us to settle. Compared to other neighborhoods, it was pricey. None of us lived in Old City. And on the weekends…well, the area attracted Philadelphia’s “bridge and tunnel” crowd.
But a few things drew us in.
For one, while none of us lived there, the 2nd Street subway station and the bus routes provided easy access to the neighborhood.
Second, one of the bar/restaurant spots we’d been frequenting was the geek friendly National Mechanics.
And third was the opportunity we found to rent this beautiful loft, and the lovely couple who took a chance letting us rent it to try out our “unorthodox” business model.
We Found Other Nerds on 3rd St
National Mechanics isn’t a geek-friendly spot by accident – it’s actually the “downstairs” of Weblinc, a quiet but powerful leader in the Philadelphia technology community and a supporter of everything from meetups, parties, and happy hours for groups of all sizes and flavors.
Weblinc provides their own enterprise-class eCommerce tools to companies that I’m sure you’ve heard of, and they employ some of the sharpest tech and business crew in Philadelphia. Jason and Darren Hill, the brothers who own National Mechanics and Weblinc, became quick friends and – for me personally – mentors, as they’ve been growing a tech business in Philly since the early 90’s
Just across the street from National/Weblinc, we found I-Site, another Philadelphia veteran web company. Founder Ian Cross doesn’t SOUND like a Philadelphian, since you’ll likely notice his british accent before you get too far into conversation with him, but Ian most certainly bleeds Philadelphia and has a lot of love for nerds of all kinds in this city. In addition to leading a successful creative/tech agency, Ian is active in many arts, culture, and civic circles across Philadelphia, always bringing his a-game.
There were other technology companies in Old City, of course, but these were the first two we found that not only had a critical mass of their own, but went out of their way to welcome and support other tech businesses coming into the neighborhood, and they both happened to be on 3rd street.
Head North, Young Man
We settled into the groove in Old City quickly. The easy access from anywhere in the city was a big attraction, but so was the bountiful lunch spots, the dozens of after-hours drink spots, and the close proximity to historic Philadelphian landmarks like the Liberty Bell and the other Hall of Independence. Our members loved inviting their clients to Old City for meetings for these reasons and more.
It was also really great to be so close to the old city arts community – First Fridays provided endless people watching and opportunities to scope out the galleries latest shows.
When we started looking for a new location to grow into in early 2009, one of our members found a vacant floor in the Daniel Building. We showed the spot to our members and everyone agreed – this new spot north of Market street would bring us a myriad of improvements over our original office, not the least of which were a main street positioning over our Strawberry St “alley” location. The owners – Miles & Generalis, were supportive of what we were doing. They “got it”, and had a similar origin story themselves. M&G partners Tom and Alex are artists themselves, and identified strongly with our goals of bringing people together for creative and business endeavors. I think we brought a familiar identity to their building, and they’ve been supportive the whole way.
We joked that we didn’t think it would have been possible to move closer to National Mechanics, and yet – that’s exactly what we did.
We opened our new North 3rd St location – equidistant north of Market Street from National Mechanics/Weblinc’s building, in May 2009 and continued to grow and fill out our 2nd floor clubhouse.
Colonizing The Daniel Building
Indy Hall’s never been great for teams bigger than 2 or 3 – so when a couple of our members (one of whom lent us money for our move into the Daniel Building) began to quickly grow their company, they jumped on the opportunity to move and have space for their burgeoning team…up one floor in the Daniel Building.
Earlier that same year, Indy Hall friends and supporters Frank Roche and Sarah Chambers were looking to move their team at iFractal across town, and fell in love with an office… in the Daniel Building.
And as of this week, the growing Philadlephia contingent at Wildbit – decided to officially move to…the Daniel Building.
As of this week, Indy Hall & friends account for 36% of the 14 units in the Daniel Building.
Weblinc Expands North
Earlier this year, Weblinc bought and renovated another building on the stretch of 3rd street…right between the Daniel Building and market Street. This is after spending several months in temporary space…you guessed it…from our offices in the Daniel Building.
It doesn’t stop there
Continue north on 3rd street corridor and you’ll run into the Devnuts office, home to the John Fazio, Chris Alfano, and Matt Monahan’s Jarv.us and their unusual tech-talent bootcamp. I’d been watching them closely since they opened Devnuts, and it’s been really fantastic to watch them literally fill their North 3rd Street loft just across the street from Liberty Lands Park with some of the brightest young minds in Philadelphia and whip them into shape. Earlier this year, we joined forces to work on my newest adventure, DynamicWear.
Slash7 – Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs’ joint for producing their cheerful webapps like Freckle and Charm relocated to the neighborhood earlier this year – from Vienna, Austria. They just signed a lease on an office of their own just a couple of blocks away as their team has recently more than doubled in size.
And this is just a sampling of companies that I know well – DrinkPhilly’s office is at 3rd and Chestnut. Agency M and QuirkBooks are around the corner on Church Street. I’m sure I’m leaving somebody out – if we’re N3rd St Neighbors, say hello in the comments!
N3rd Street Only Goes One Way: Up
It was while hanging out with the Jarv.us/Devnuts crew that we realized that N. 3rd Street could easily be read as N3rd Street, the “leet” spelling of nerd.
It’s been really, really great to make N3rd Street our home over the last couple of years, and contribute to the gravity that is attracting more and more tech and creative companies to the neighborhood.
That’s really the difference though – it’s starting to feeling like a neighborhood. I don’t just love the area, I love our neighbors. I love seeing people I know on the street while I’m walking around, saying hello, and finding out what they’re up to.
Even better, though, is that it seems like all of the companies on N3rd Street are growing. It’s a great energy for all of us to be sharing in.
Things are good and only getting better on N3rd Street.
If you’re running a tech/creative company on or near N3rd Street, say hi in the comments! Thinking about moving to the neighborhood? Let me know if you have any questions!
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Don Lacy: Improving Safety, One Professional Driver at a Time
By Andrea Mueller
Don Lacy’s distinguished career working with the professional drivers at Prime Inc dates back 25 years. His illustrious career dates back another 25 years before he joined Prime, to when he was vice president, president, and director of safety at several other companies before finding his calling at Prime Inc.
During his impressive tenure at Prime, Mr. Lacy was at the forefront of several safety and communications initiatives, including the induction of the “Prime University” training center. Every professional driver who has worked with Lacy can vouch for his tireless advocacy of driver safety, as evidenced by the number of safety-related committees on which Mr. Lacy served. That list includes:
Professional Truck Driving Institute
Truckload Carriers Association Safety Group, Safety & Security Division, and Independent Contractor Division
American Trucking Association Council of Safety Supervisors
Commercial Motor Vehicle Section National Safety Council
Oklahoma Motor Carriers
Missouri Bus & Truck Association
In addition to his membership on these committees, Mr. Lacy has also spoken at numerous transportation industry events, served as an expert American Transportation Research Institute panel member, and developed over 30 individual professional driver safety programs. As these programs have been implemented, fleet injuries have continued to decline. For example, of the 3,096 professional drivers handling more than 2,500 trucks, only 175 fleet injuries were reported in 2008. Thanks in large part to Mr. Lacy’s hard work and dedication that number dropped to just 140 in 2012, despite the fleet continuing to grow in size.
One of Mr. Lacy’s most recent accolades was the 2011 Claire C. Casey Safety Professional of the Year Award he received from the Truckload Carriers Association. Other past awards he received include the 2010 Fleet Safety Improvement Award from the Truckload Carriers Association and the 1978 Safety Man of the Year from the Missouri Bus and Truck Association.
We’re sad to say good-bye to Mr. Lacy, who is retiring on April 1. Mr. Lacy has been associated with several management teams [in the last 50 years]. He confidently states that,
“Prime has been the best by far.” When asked about his reasoning for retiring at the height of his 50-year career, Mr. Lacy stated, “It has been a great ride, but I am ready to hang it up.”
If you want to benefit from the excellent culture of safety Mr. Lacy has established at Prime Inc., please visit our website to learn more about becoming a professional driver with our company. Then be sure to connect with us on Facebook and Twitter.
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An Edmonton-area single father is facing a human rights complaint for allegedly discriminating against a male babysitter by asking him about his age and gender.
The complaint dates back to Aug. 31, 2017, when Todd, who doesn’t want his last name published to protect his family’s privacy, posted a babysitting job ad on Kijiji. He was looking for someone to look after his then five- and eight-year-old children for the evening.
One of the potential babysitters who responded to the ad was James Cyrynowski, who filed the complaint against Todd.
According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which is representing Todd pro bono, Todd’s evening plans fell through so he cancelled the babysitter. The JCCF says Cyrynowski did not follow up with Todd about the cancellation and instead filed the complaint the next day.
Postmedia attempted to contact Cyrynowski for this story but was not successful.
Todd said in an email he doesn’t want to speculate on possible motives but was thankful for the help after he reached out to the JCCF.
“There have been many sleepless nights,” he said on Tuesday. “I did not realize that people could object to me finding out all the relevant information I can about a potential babysitter, including their age and sex. I thought I was doing what was best for my young children.”
Todd, who is self-employed, said while he rarely uses babysitters, he’s reluctant to try again because of this experience.
“Just trying to learn enough about a potential new babysitter can get me in trouble and I need to ensure that my children are safe,” he added.
In the complaint, dated Sept. 1, 2017, Cyrynowski said he received a message 10 minutes after applying to the job posting asking for his age and gender.
“I told him I’m male and 28 years old,” he wrote. “I never heard back from him since.”
This is not the first time Cyrynowski has filed a human rights complaint.
A similar case dating back to May 23, 2014, involved a mother posting an ad for a babysitter for her five-year-old son. Court documents show her ad listed a preference for an older woman with experience to look after her son. When Cyrynowski replied to the ad, he was told that she was looking for a female.
Cyrynowski filed his complaint a few days later on May 26. The court case went all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada where it was ultimately dismissed in May this year.
JCCF president John Carpay said parents need to be able to hire whoever they feel is appropriate to babysit their children.
“The parents should have full discretion,” he said. “If it is for a service in the home, you have to feel comfortable with a person coming into your home.”
Human rights complaints are considered confidential and are only made public once they go before a tribunal.
At the moment, Carpay is simply looking to have the case dismissed and isn’t seeking any kind of legal costs.
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#ShopLocal film encouraging people to support the high street is a hit this Christmas
Lorna McAteer-BIngham2019-12-18T10:42:42+00:00December 18th, 2019|
The team at North East marketing agency DTW is backing local independent traders this Christmas with a touching seasonal short film encouraging people to #ShopLocal.
People have welcomed the #ShopLocal film on social media, which features a range of small retailers and businesses in Guisborough, highlighting the huge difference local customers make to small retailers in our towns and villages.
The short festive film was produced by Guisborough-based DTW’s film and digital content specialists Richard Johnston and Katie Mitchell as part of an online advent calendar the agency produced in the run up to Christmas.
They decided to go out into Guisborough to speak to businesses about why people should shop local, filming some of the town’s business owners, showing the vital contribution they make to the town’s economy.
Richard, who lives in Guisborough, said: “I’m incredibly proud of Guisborough and feel passionate about the people and businesses who make this town what it is.
“We have so many quirky shops and cafes here and I wanted to showcase the difference small independent retailers and businesses make to the town.
“They work incredibly hard all year to make a living and offer unique goods and a personal service that cannot be matched by bigger chains and superstores.
“We met so many amazing people while filming. I hope this encourages people to shop local, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year.”
Katie said she hoped the film captured the atmosphere of the high street and the genuine difference small businesses make.
“Shopping local is personal, you get to know the business owner and they get to know you,” said Katie.
“Money spent in local shops stays in the local community, it supports local jobs and local families. At DTW, we shop in Guisborough all the time. Not only is it handy, but we have a great mix of shops and services. We wouldn’t want to lose them.
“If we want to keep vibrant local high streets, we all must do our bit and hopefully this video captures that.”
The film, which has been provided to local retailers and released on social media, is picking up attention from across the region, particularly among the community in Guisborough.
DTW Managing Director Chris Taylor said: “We produce films for clients all year, but this was a great opportunity to do something for independent retailers in Guisborough, and across the region, who we feel passionately about and who provide a fabulous service throughout the year.
“At a time when people are shopping more and more online and visiting huge superstores, at DTW we appreciate what independent businesses offer and the difference they make to the local economy.
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The 8 npm Registry Essentials You Can’t Live Without
Build processes are becoming increasingly more complex. But, with a Binary Repository Manager these eight essentials that make development with npm more reliable, stable, and efficient, are much easier to manage.
Sam Rubashkin
Jul. 26, 16 · DevOps Zone ·
The Short and Sweet of It
The software industry has evolved from developing software to assembling it from open source, commercial, and in-house components. This trend includes Node.js developers who download more than four billion packages per month from the public npm registry at npmjs.org. This move from “development” to “assembly” has well-known benefits in terms of cost and code quality, but it also presents several challenges. These challenges are met by a Binary Repository Manager—a central gateway to host and manage all binary resources in your organization which provides the eight npm registry essentials to make your node.js development more efficient.
The “Essentials” Response
Remote resources and network are unreliable. Build processes are long and network intensive.
“Remote repositories” store downloaded artifacts in a local cache so they are always available rendering you (and your build tools) independent of the remote resource or the network.
Controlling where developers download components from and who can access them
Virtual repositories control which remote resources are accessible
“includes” and “excludes” directives provide fine-grained access control
Integration with server access protocols like LDAP, SAML, and Crowd.
Sharing components on-site and across borders
Local repositories
A single source for internal packages. Replication synchronizes their content to distant sites.
Reproducing production issues
Fully reproducible builds
Using exhaustive build information, builds can be precisely reproduced and compared with “diff” tools.
Finding components by different criteria
Multiple search methods, from name search to simple but advanced “SQL-like” queries.
Your npm registry is a critical resource. It must never go down.
High availability configuration
Provides up to “five-nines” availability.
Custom behavior
User plugins let you implement custom behavior for a long list of system events.
Managing components of other package formats
A universal repository that works with all package formats significantly reduces the complexity of managing all the different binary assets in your organization.
The public npm registry meets some of the needs of enterprises developing with Node.js, but it takes an advanced repository manager to provide the eight essentials that make development with npm reliable, stable, and efficient.
Software development is changing rapidly. Several years ago developers were writing most of their code in-house, while today most are using freely-available open-source, commercial, and in-house binary components. In fact, today, most enterprises use more open source software and assembled components than proprietary code. This trend includes Node.js developers who download more than four billion packages per month from the public npm registry at npmjs.org.
There are many advantages to creating code using assembled components, but you also need to address many challenges and pitfalls. Build processes are becoming increasingly more complex: while build cycles keep getting shorter, npm packages and their related metadata must be available offline, security and access control are always of paramount importance, packages must be shared across teams and across sites, binary versions must be tracked, specific packages must be found, and an organization's npm registry must be maintained at a high level of stability and reliability.
The answer to these challenges lie in a Binary Repository Manager; a central gateway that hosts and manages binary resources automatically as a collaboration hub. A repository manager speeds up Node.js development processes making them more efficient by managing internal and external npm registries for both developers and automated build processes.
An npm Registry Must Always Be Accessible
The recent #unpublishgate incident shows how critical it is for developers to have access to 3rd party npm packages. If a component is abruptly removed or an npm registry goes offline, things grind to a halt, and if we take a look at the official npmjs.org history page, we find that outages do happen in varying degrees of severity from time to time.
A repository manager insulates you from outages in remote public resources such as npmjs.org. It acts as an intermediary and downloads each component only once, storing it in an up-to-date, local cache of all software artifacts and their dependencies. This means that even if a remote npm registry goes down, your developers, and more importantly, your build servers, continue to operate, oblivious of the outage. As an added benefit, the local cache prevents multiple downloads of the same artifact, since the repository manager serves the single version currently resident in the local cache. This automatically reduces network traffic and provides a fast and reliable source of components, independent of the status of the internet connection. For developers, this means uninterrupted service, but for build tools and continuous integration (CI) servers, it also means considerably shorter build cycles.
In this example, repository manager JFrog Artifactory has cached a package originating from npmjs.org. The package is then available locally to developers and the build server, rendering them independent of the stability of the external network and npmjs.org as a remote resource.
Security Is Paramount
Security policies in a development organization are complex but are essential to enable controlled access to internal and external resources. A repository manager offers multiple levels of security and access control. Virtual repositories aggregate several local and remote resources to provide developers with a single URL from which they access all the components they need. In reality, the components may be located anywhere, in different remote and local repositories, but this is transparent to the developer. Through permissions at the level of the user and "Include" and "Exclude" patterns at the level of the repository, virtual repositories offer access control down to the level of an individual artifact. At a higher level, through integration with common server-level access control systems such as LDAP, Crowd, SAML and others, the repository manager makes it easy for administrators to comply with corporate-wide access policies.
Sharing Components Within the Organization and Across Borders
A repository manager offers different ways to share components across an organization whether teams are co-located, or sitting on opposite sides of the planet. A local repository is where a team will store the components it develops. One way to share npm packages in a local repository is to let another team proxy it. So for the sharing team, the resource is its local npm registry, for the receiving team, the resource is a remote repository which implements all the caching behavior to maintain accessibility as discussed before. Another way to share packages is through replication. A repository manager offers different ways to replicate repositories. Whether the sharing team push replicates a local repository to its distant counterpart, or the receiving team pull replicates the data, the end result is sharing of the organization's components by synchronizing repositories through replication across the globe.
Reproducing Builds to Manage Post-Production Issues
Production issues can be difficult to solve with the huge number of parameters that go into a build. Between system settings, environment variables, properties, dependency versions, licensing and much more, it can get extremely difficult to identify the source of an issue once the component is in production.
A repository manager stores detailed build information metadata. This exhaustive bill-of-materials, similar to that used by hardware engineers, lets you quickly reproduce a build precisely as it was originally created, and using "diff" tools, identify exactly what changed in the build to help find the source of the post-production issue.
As the number of components used by a software development organization continues to grow, and artifact storage starts reaching terabytes and even petabytes in size, finding a very specific component can become the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack. A repository manager can make that needle shine through the hay with a variety of different search options. Most repository managers will let you search by name, version, and timestamp; those are pretty standard. More advanced tools offer additional options such as searching through properties annotating the different components, or even searching on a component's checksum (this can be particularly useful when a component's name has been altered for some reason). The most advanced repository managers even offer a proprietary SQL-like query language which essentially lets you search for a component based on any number of complex search criteria to zero in on exactly the component you are looking for.
As a repository manager takes a central role in a software development organization, its own stability and availability become a critical factor in the organization's daily workflow. To keep developers (and more importantly, build servers) operational at all times, a repository manager can offer high availability. This is achieved by synchronizing multiple servers and providing access to them as a single unit through a load balancer so that no server is a single point of failure. This kind of configuration can offer unparalleled uptime guarantee with up to five-nines availability. Another option is to access your repository manager as a cloud service. This offers all the well-known advantages of cloud services such as minimal setup, hardware footprint, and maintenance within the organization, flexible and cost-effective pricing schemes, constant version updates and more.
The npm client offers different commands that let you upload (publish) packages to or download (install) packages from the public npm registry and work with them in different ways. While there are many commands, and how they work can even be modified by environment variables, there is still some limitation to what you can practically do with a fixed set of commands. If your organization's policies require some functionality that isn't available, you need to beg your local script-master to somehow, conjure up compliance. This is where an advanced repository manager can step in. Since a repository manager is central in your development environment, it is aware of everything that happens with an npm package and can provide corresponding hooks for any number of events. This lets you customize what happens when a package is uploaded, downloaded, moved, copied or modified in any way allowing you to support virtually any workflow required by your corporate policies. For example, you could invoke a vulnerability scan for any component downloaded from the public npm registry, send an email alert to the right administrator if a vulnerability is found and even prevent access to any suspicious component. This is the kind of functionality that only an extensible repository manager could offer.
While you may be developing in JavaScript, it's quite likely that your organization uses several different technologies to develop your products. Whether you're using Docker for virtualization, Bower for front-end development, and NuGet to cater to your .NET business, you need the same artifact repository management services for all of those technologies. While each component technology offers its own private and public registries with varying degrees of functionality, having a single universal repository that can cater to all the major packaging formats can significantly reduce the complexity of managing your organization's components while acting as a central hub for development and artifact management.
Development with npm continues to be on the rise. While the public npm registry provided by npmjs.org may provide some of these essentials, and their enterprise offering may offer more, it takes an advanced repository manager to provide all of these eight essentials—for npm as well as for the other packaging formats your organization is likely to be using. The world's leading companies in every business sector have all realized that neither the file system nor any database can provide the universal component management they need and have understood that only an advanced repository manager paves the way to the success of their business.
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Charles’ famous and most recounted quotation ‘take your pleasure seriously’ can be no better attributed than to the designs he produced for the Eames children's range. Not only were the first furniture designs released made for children, but he spent great time and energy in producing toys and games as well as films with them in mind.
The toys and games were significant in the sense that although clearly aimed at inspiring play, they also stimulated creative thinking, building and model making. This is the very application of taking pleasure seriously and offering constructive purpose to what was essentially a playful and fun experience.
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It is not altogether clear why the first furniture designs released by Charles and Ray Eames were made for children rather than adults. Perhaps it was a form of experimentation, could it even be that as the pieces were small it would take less raw materials to make that trial? A test of the market or the strength of the plywood? Or perhaps they were just ready first! Whatever the thinking behind this first release, the 1945 plywood furniture for children would be the catalyst of a golden career.
The series of Eames children’s furniture was released in a limited number of just 5000 pieces. It consisted of the nested chair, nested stool and matching nested table. There were a number of color options too including natural ply, aniline red, black and yellow dyed. The pieces were very small and suitable for children of a young toddler age. The pieces were manufactured by the Evans Plywood Company and they were the very first furniture pieces to ever be made in molded plywood. Evans lacked both the knowledge of the market and the distribution network required and it was therefore no surprise that the initial limited run of pieces was not followed up. It does however make the original Eames children's furniture one of the most sort after and valuable collector pieces today.
Charles Eames always maintained an interest in child’s play and this would result in a series of toys and games developed during the 1950’s being added to the Eames children's range. It is perhaps having a daughter of his own growing up that gave him the inspiration to create the range. All the toys and games had a key ingredient in their concept which ensured they were far from meaningless fun and it very much drew from Charles’ architectural roots. This key factor was that, in addition to being fun, all would involve direct creativity, building, imagination and physical involvement from the player. Looking back at these designs now, which sold modestly during the period, they were intelligent, thought provoking, absorbing and above all fun for multiple users.
The Toy was the first to be released to the marketplace in 1951, manufactured by Tigrett Enterprises. This ingenious set contained durable bright colored panels and dowels which enabled the user to build a construction of their choosing in any shape or size. The Toy was a great introduction to building sets and dens, houses or towers and all done with bright colors. The footprint size of the game led to a smaller version being released shortly after entitled the ‘Little Toy’. It was literally a smaller version but with the same process of building and construction. The sheer nature of ‘The Toy’ and ‘Little Toy’ meant that very few complete examples exist today and can be considered a rare piece of the Eames children's range.
The coloring toy, released in 1955, had the same principles as the toy in terms of the involvement of the player. It consisted of 8 boards of varying shapes, color crayons and pins. The idea was to push out the shapes, color them and build a model from the shapes in any combination desired. Once again it encouraged creativity and individualism. The Coloring Toy is very rare to find as it would need to be an example that has never been used due to its one-time nature.
Perhaps the most famous of Charles Eames Toy designs, and an iconic component of the Eames children's range, is the ‘House of Cards’. A deck of patterned and (later) pictured cards that had intelligent slits built into them to enable the player to construct a shape/building in whatever shape and combination they wish. This super popular concept was initially released as a one pack game and quickly doubled to two packs within a short time. An enlarged version called the ‘Giant House Of Cards’ was also released and even an IBM ‘Computer House Of Cards’ borrowed the concept as expo gifts later on.
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The groundbreaking conference included sessions in Japanese, sessions in English, and sessions in which presenters used English language slides but could speak in Japanese.
Exhibits and poster hall at the joint JpGU-AGU meeting in Chiba, Japan, late last month. Credit: Ken Xs Hao
By Lauren Parr 12 June 2017
The Japan Geosciences Union–American Geophysical Union (JpGU-AGU) Joint Meeting in Chiba, Japan, has come to a close, and we’ve said goodbye to a wonderful team of Japanese co-organizers. This meeting, the first of its kind between these organizations, arose from an idea conceived in 2014—an idea to advance Earth and space science by expanding the JpGU annual meeting and increasing participation from scientists outside of the region.
The resulting collaborative event, which drew 8450 attendees, was a resounding success. As I attended sessions and walked through the poster hall, I was reminded again and again of our borderless scientific world.
Sharing Visions and Ideas
JpGU and AGU worked to ensure that we developed the scientific program and accompanying events together and made them reflective of the missions and visions of both of our organizations.
Although a joint meeting might seem like an easy proposal, planning a complex scientific event that reflects both organizations is a challenging task. Every society has a culture, traditions, and norms that are its own. Beginning in 2015, under the guidance of a joint agreement, JpGU and AGU worked to ensure that we developed the scientific program and accompanying events together and made them reflective of the missions and visions of both of our organizations. All planning was collaborative; we began by discussing our vision and sharing ideas rather than by insisting on planning “the AGU way” or “the JpGU way.” Each organization shared best practices, and each organization tried new things.
With a collaborative planning process underway, the scientific program committee, led by the meeting’s director Hisayoshi Yurimoto of Hokkaido University and committee cochairs Huixin Liu of Kyushu University and Tetsuo Irifune of Ehime University, began to discuss how to create a program where there was something for everyone. Because the meeting traditionally had been held with mostly Japanese presentations, the committee recognized that there was a barrier to participation from non-Japanese-speaking scientists. Thus, JpGU used its 2016 annual meeting to encourage submission of more English language sessions and abstracts.
Ultimately, the joint meeting offered Japanese sessions, English sessions, and a blended session type where the presenter shared slides in English but could present in Japanese. This array of session types resulted in both more sessions for non-Japanese speakers and more positive experiences for Japanese-speaking presenters uncomfortable with giving their entire talks in English.
Two Societies, Two Keynotes
As the meeting moved through the week, our societies blended many traditions.
To reflect the truly joint nature of the meeting, JpGU and AGU selected two keynote speakers, Lucy Jones, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey and now at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo. Jones, known as the “earthquake lady,” spoke about randomness in seismic events and the difficulty of predicting earthquakes, framed in the context of human behavior and understanding. Kajita discussed how our understanding of cosmic rays has changed since their discovery more than 100 years ago and shared where this area of science is headed. These thought leaders gave talks that were vastly different scientifically, yet both spoke of scientific realms in which predictions are difficult to make and researchers study evidence and risks that are largely imperceptible to human senses.
As the meeting moved through the week, our societies blended many traditions. AGU helped organize student pop-up talks, renamed Oshaberi Bar Pop-Up Talks, which were well received by joint meeting attendees. An elegant award ceremony complete with Japanese drumming and a sake bar made for a wonderful midmeeting event. In addition, numerous hot topic sessions and author workshops rounded out a full program of scientific presentations.
Of course, there was also beer! It’s a tradition at both AGU and JpGU.
Student pop-up talks, dubbed Oshaberi Bar Pop-Up Talks at the JpGU-AGU meeting, received a warm welcome from the joint meeting’s attendees. Credit: Takeshige Ishiwa, Hiroaki Koge, and Natsumi Okutsu
Standing Stronger Together
Having completed the meeting and wished our Earth and space scientists safe travels home, we look forward to informing our work at AGU with what we learned on site in Japan and throughout the planning process: AGU is a global society in our borderless geoscience world.
There may be those who ask why AGU didn’t just host its own meeting and partnered with another established society. As I reflect on the week of the joint meeting, it’s clear to me that we are stronger when we stand together. JpGU and AGU created something unique that honored the mission and vision of both organizations. More than a sum of its parts, it was a collaborative effort that neither society could have achieved completely on its own—much like the scientific enterprise in which our members around the world endeavor every day.
—Lauren Parr (email: [email protected]), Vice President, Meetings, AGU
Correction, 12 June 2017: This article has been updated with the most recent attendance figure.
Citation: Parr, L. (2017), Japan-U.S. joint meeting: Geoscience for a borderless world, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO075663. Published on 12 June 2017.
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India is a country dotted by majestic forts that have gone down in history as a testimony to a kingdom's greatness. This episode takes a look at the process of fortifying involved in architecture through the forts of Janjira and Daulatabad.
E5 Vertical Wonders
Situated in two separate states of India lie two monuments which have stood the ravages of time. With their stones touching the winds of the sky, the Vijay Stambh in Rajasthan and the Brihadeshwara Temple in Tamil Nadu are architectural wonders of India dating back to 1449 AD and 1010 AD respectively. Vijay Stambh, also known as the Tower of Victory, is a nine storied tower which was built to commemorate King Rana Kumbha's victory over the armies of Mewar. Brihadeshwara Temple, a Hindu temple, was built as a dedication to Lord Shiva, and stands tall at 216 feet. Our expedition to find the Vertical architectural wonders of India was fulfilled when we stood at the steps of these marvels and looked up, only to find a glorious era that was etched across the skies.
E6 Astronomical Wonders
Centuries back, when man had no access to technology and machines, he created something that would serve us very well in the times to come. Literally! The acquisition of data using astronomy, meaning the sun, moon and stars, is a tradition that dates back to the 1600BC. And it was this tradition, which made us travel to the Konark Sun Temple in Orissa, and then, Jantar Mantar in Jaipur. Submerged in age old glory and stories of stone, these astronomical wonders were one of the earliest constructions by our ancestors that gave the world the ability to tell time. The Konark Sun Temple possesses sundials, which had, and still have the ability to tell time to the exact minute using the position of the sun. Jantar Mantar, on the other hand, is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, which can tell the time, follow the location of stars, track ellipses and the positions of the sun, moon and planets.
E7 Man Made Caves
Known as the 'Cradle of Civilization', caves were the earliest homes to our kind. Man understood the importance of having a roof over his head as one of his basic necessities, and so came into being the Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra and the Udayagiri and Khandgiri Caves in Orissa. Masterpieces of the most exemplary architecture, engravings and sculptures seen by the eye, both sets of caves served as monasteries for Buddhist and Jain monks. Constructed around the 1st century, the caves are stupendous examples of all that our forefathers built brick by brick, and stone by stone, without the advantages of technology and science. Carved and chiseled with handmade tools from that time, Ajanta and Udagayiri/Khandagiri caves are some of the finest instances in Indian history.
The self-replicating repetition of a pattern is the characteristic feature of temples at Khajuraho, and the best illustration is provided by the Kanadriya Mahadeo built between 95—1050 CE, during the reign of Chandela kings. A profusion of curvilinear Shikhar creates an impressive illusion of a mountain. The fractal pattern is encountered not only in the elevation but also in abundance of decorative detail. A similar play with fractals is indulged in the Virupaksha temple at Patadakkal in Karnataka. It is interesting that what the Indian builders practiced in early medieval period was articulated and explained by mathematicians only in the middle of the twentieth century.
Admire the architectural genius of 'Do minara', popularly known as 'Jhulta Minara'. These two tall towers or Minaras which are located in Ahmedabad are made of Sandstone and swing simultaneously without having any visible connections when one is pushed. From shaking minarets, now travel to Junagarh Mahabat and Bahauddin Maqbara, a sensation of the Indo-Islamic architecture. Witness the jaw dropping combination of Gothic, Turkish, Mughal and Rajput architecture that has come together to adorn this structure.
E11 Musical And Hanging Pillar
Somewhere between the floor and the ceiling of ancient structures, lie the mysteries of civilizations that existed even before ours. The Lepakshi temple in Andhra Pradesh and the Vitthala temple of Hampi in Karnataka are two monuments which stand strong today, as the perfect examples of imperial architecture that focused on exquisite detailing and intricacy in their pillars. And not only that, the hanging pillar at Lepakshi and the musical pillars at Vitthala spark curiosity and imagination making us wonder and question the speciality that lied these pillars. Find out the answers to these witty architectural constructions, only on Sanrachana
E12 Magnificent Gateways
In trying to connect our world and the world that existed in times much before ours, we paid a visit to the doorways of India: The Buland Darwaza in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra, and Charminar in Hyderabad. With their domes touching the colours of the sky, these gateways are the answers to a rich culture, heritage and history that gave shape to our country's legacy. Architecturally pure and intricate, their engravings tell us of a past that has now, given us our present. Come join us on a journey to find out why these gateways are such important monuments in India's history, only on Sanrachna.
E13 Spiritual Stone
Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh houses the well-known Buddhist Vihara known for its great Stupa. This episode highlights the gradual construction of this architectural virtuoso.Following this great marvel, go to the world's tallest monolithic structure in Shravanabelagola, the statue of Gommateshvara Bahubali which was created by Chamundaraya on 13th March, 1981.
Banaras - E1 Banaras Hindu University
Indian Martial Arts - शस्त्र का शास्त्रा - Dhop
Adrishya - (Hindi) - E1 Jeevsiddhi
Ekaant - E1 Kuldhara
Ekaant - E1 Raigad
Indian Martial Arts - Ek Itihaas - E1 Mardaani Khel
Kahi Suni - E1 Nashik
Lost Recipes - E1 Goa
Made In India - E1 Flush Toilets (Dholavira)
Raja Rasoi Aur Anya Kahaniyaan - E1 Jodhpur & Jaipur
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Project acronym 3MC
Project 3D Model Catalysts to explore new routes to sustainable fuels
Researcher (PI) Petra Elisabeth De jongh
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), PE4, ERC-2014-CoG
Summary Currently fuels, plastics, and drugs are predominantly manufactured from oil. A transition towards renewable resources critically depends on new catalysts, for instance to convert small molecules (such as solar or biomass derived hydrogen, carbon monoxide, water and carbon dioxide) into more complex ones (such as oxygenates, containing oxygen atoms in their structure). Catalyst development now often depends on trial and error rather than rational design, as the heterogeneity of these composite systems hampers detailed understanding of the role of each of the components. I propose 3D model catalysts as a novel enabling tool to overcome this problem. Their well-defined nature allows unprecedented precision in the variation of structural parameters (morphology, spatial distribution) of the individual components, while at the same time they mimic real catalysts closely enough to allow testing under industrially relevant conditions. Using this approach I will address fundamental questions, such as: * What are the mechanisms (structural, electronic, chemical) by which non-metal promoters influence the functionality of copper-based catalysts? * Which nanoalloys can be formed, how does their composition influence the surface active sites and catalytic functionality under reaction conditions? * Which size and interface effects occur, and how can we use them to tune the actitivity and selectivity towards desired products? Our 3D model catalysts will be assembled from ordered mesoporous silica and carbon support materials and Cu-based promoted and bimetallic nanoparticles. The combination with high resolution characterization and testing under realistic conditions allows detailed insight into the role of the different components; critical for the rational design of novel catalysts for a future more sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources.
Currently fuels, plastics, and drugs are predominantly manufactured from oil. A transition towards renewable resources critically depends on new catalysts, for instance to convert small molecules (such as solar or biomass derived hydrogen, carbon monoxide, water and carbon dioxide) into more complex ones (such as oxygenates, containing oxygen atoms in their structure). Catalyst development now often depends on trial and error rather than rational design, as the heterogeneity of these composite systems hampers detailed understanding of the role of each of the components. I propose 3D model catalysts as a novel enabling tool to overcome this problem. Their well-defined nature allows unprecedented precision in the variation of structural parameters (morphology, spatial distribution) of the individual components, while at the same time they mimic real catalysts closely enough to allow testing under industrially relevant conditions. Using this approach I will address fundamental questions, such as: * What are the mechanisms (structural, electronic, chemical) by which non-metal promoters influence the functionality of copper-based catalysts? * Which nanoalloys can be formed, how does their composition influence the surface active sites and catalytic functionality under reaction conditions? * Which size and interface effects occur, and how can we use them to tune the actitivity and selectivity towards desired products? Our 3D model catalysts will be assembled from ordered mesoporous silica and carbon support materials and Cu-based promoted and bimetallic nanoparticles. The combination with high resolution characterization and testing under realistic conditions allows detailed insight into the role of the different components; critical for the rational design of novel catalysts for a future more sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources.
Project acronym aCROBAT
Project Circadian Regulation Of Brown Adipose Thermogenesis
Researcher (PI) Zachary Philip Gerhart-Hines
Host Institution (HI) KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Summary Obesity and diabetes have reached pandemic proportions and new therapeutic strategies are critically needed. Brown adipose tissue (BAT), a major source of heat production, possesses significant energy-dissipating capacity and therefore represents a promising target to use in combating these diseases. Recently, I discovered a novel link between circadian rhythm and thermogenic stress in the control of the conserved, calorie-burning functions of BAT. Circadian and thermogenic signaling to BAT incorporates blood-borne hormonal and nutrient cues with direct neuronal input. Yet how these responses coordinately shape BAT energy-expending potential through the regulation of cell surface receptors, metabolic enzymes, and transcriptional effectors is still not understood. My primary goal is to investigate this previously unappreciated network of crosstalk that allows mammals to effectively orchestrate daily rhythms in BAT metabolism, while maintaining their ability to adapt to abrupt changes in energy demand. My group will address this question using gain and loss-of-function in vitro and in vivo studies, newly-generated mouse models, customized physiological phenotyping, and cutting-edge advances in next generation RNA sequencing and mass spectrometry. Preliminary, small-scale validations of our methodologies have already yielded a number of novel candidates that may drive key facets of BAT metabolism. Additionally, we will extend our circadian and thermogenic studies into humans to evaluate the translational potential. Our results will advance the fundamental understanding of how daily oscillations in bioenergetic networks establish a framework for the anticipation of and adaptation to environmental challenges. Importantly, we expect that these mechanistic insights will reveal pharmacological targets through which we can unlock evolutionary constraints and harness the energy-expending potential of BAT for the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes.
Obesity and diabetes have reached pandemic proportions and new therapeutic strategies are critically needed. Brown adipose tissue (BAT), a major source of heat production, possesses significant energy-dissipating capacity and therefore represents a promising target to use in combating these diseases. Recently, I discovered a novel link between circadian rhythm and thermogenic stress in the control of the conserved, calorie-burning functions of BAT. Circadian and thermogenic signaling to BAT incorporates blood-borne hormonal and nutrient cues with direct neuronal input. Yet how these responses coordinately shape BAT energy-expending potential through the regulation of cell surface receptors, metabolic enzymes, and transcriptional effectors is still not understood. My primary goal is to investigate this previously unappreciated network of crosstalk that allows mammals to effectively orchestrate daily rhythms in BAT metabolism, while maintaining their ability to adapt to abrupt changes in energy demand. My group will address this question using gain and loss-of-function in vitro and in vivo studies, newly-generated mouse models, customized physiological phenotyping, and cutting-edge advances in next generation RNA sequencing and mass spectrometry. Preliminary, small-scale validations of our methodologies have already yielded a number of novel candidates that may drive key facets of BAT metabolism. Additionally, we will extend our circadian and thermogenic studies into humans to evaluate the translational potential. Our results will advance the fundamental understanding of how daily oscillations in bioenergetic networks establish a framework for the anticipation of and adaptation to environmental challenges. Importantly, we expect that these mechanistic insights will reveal pharmacological targets through which we can unlock evolutionary constraints and harness the energy-expending potential of BAT for the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes.
Project acronym ADaPTIVE
Project Analysing Diversity with a Phenomic approach: Trends in Vertebrate Evolution
Researcher (PI) Anjali Goswami
Host Institution (HI) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Summary What processes shape vertebrate diversity through deep time? Approaches to this question can focus on many different factors, from life history and ecology to large-scale environmental change and extinction. To date, the majority of studies on the evolution of vertebrate diversity have focused on relatively simple metrics, specifically taxon counts or univariate measures, such as body size. However, multivariate morphological data provides a more complete picture of evolutionary and palaeoecological change. Morphological data can also bridge deep-time palaeobiological analyses with studies of the genetic and developmental factors that shape variation and must also influence large-scale patterns of evolutionary change. Thus, accurately reconstructing the patterns and processes underlying evolution requires an approach that can fully represent an organism’s phenome, the sum total of their observable traits. Recent advances in imaging and data analysis allow large-scale study of phenomic evolution. In this project, I propose to quantitatively analyse the deep-time evolutionary diversity of tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). Specifically, I will apply and extend new imaging, morphometric, and analytical tools to construct a multivariate phenomic dataset for living and extinct tetrapods from 3-D scans. I will use these data to rigorously compare extinction selectivity, timing, pace, and shape of adaptive radiations, and ecomorphological response to large-scale climatic shifts across all tetrapod clades. To do so, I will quantify morphological diversity (disparity) and rates of evolution spanning over 300 million years of tetrapod history. I will further analyse the evolution of phenotypic integration by quantifying not just the traits themselves, but changes in the relationships among traits, which reflect the genetic, developmental, and functional interactions that shape variation, the raw material for natural selection.
What processes shape vertebrate diversity through deep time? Approaches to this question can focus on many different factors, from life history and ecology to large-scale environmental change and extinction. To date, the majority of studies on the evolution of vertebrate diversity have focused on relatively simple metrics, specifically taxon counts or univariate measures, such as body size. However, multivariate morphological data provides a more complete picture of evolutionary and palaeoecological change. Morphological data can also bridge deep-time palaeobiological analyses with studies of the genetic and developmental factors that shape variation and must also influence large-scale patterns of evolutionary change. Thus, accurately reconstructing the patterns and processes underlying evolution requires an approach that can fully represent an organism’s phenome, the sum total of their observable traits. Recent advances in imaging and data analysis allow large-scale study of phenomic evolution. In this project, I propose to quantitatively analyse the deep-time evolutionary diversity of tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). Specifically, I will apply and extend new imaging, morphometric, and analytical tools to construct a multivariate phenomic dataset for living and extinct tetrapods from 3-D scans. I will use these data to rigorously compare extinction selectivity, timing, pace, and shape of adaptive radiations, and ecomorphological response to large-scale climatic shifts across all tetrapod clades. To do so, I will quantify morphological diversity (disparity) and rates of evolution spanning over 300 million years of tetrapod history. I will further analyse the evolution of phenotypic integration by quantifying not just the traits themselves, but changes in the relationships among traits, which reflect the genetic, developmental, and functional interactions that shape variation, the raw material for natural selection.
Project acronym AdaptoSCOPE
Project Using cis-regulatory mutations to highlight polygenic adaptation in natural plant systems
Researcher (PI) Juliette de Meaux
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN
Summary The goal of this project is to demonstrate that novel aspects of the molecular basis of Darwinian adaptation can be discovered if the polygenic basis of adaptation is taken into account. This project will use the genome-wide distribution of cis-regulatory variants to discover the molecular pathways that are optimized during adaptation via accumulation of small effect mutations. Current approaches include scans for outlier genes with strong population genetics signatures of selection, or large effect QTL associating with fitness. They can only reveal a small subset of the molecular changes recruited along adaptive paths. Here, instead, the distribution of small effect mutations will be used to make inferences on the targets of polygenic adaptation across divergent populations in each of the two closely related species, A. thaliana and A. lyrata. These species are both found at diverse latitudes and show sign of local adaptation to climatic differences. Mutations affecting cis-regulation will be identified in leaves of plants exposed to various temperature regimes triggering phenotypic responses of adaptive relevance. Their distribution in clusters of functionally connected genes will be quantified. The phylogeographic differences in the distribution of the mutations will be used to disentangle neutral from adaptive clusters of functionally connected genes in each of the two species. This project will identify the molecular pathways subjected collectively to natural selection and provide a completely novel view on adaptive landscapes. It will further examine whether local adaptation occurs by convergent evolution of molecular systems in plants. This approach has the potential to find broad applications in ecology and agriculture.
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that novel aspects of the molecular basis of Darwinian adaptation can be discovered if the polygenic basis of adaptation is taken into account. This project will use the genome-wide distribution of cis-regulatory variants to discover the molecular pathways that are optimized during adaptation via accumulation of small effect mutations. Current approaches include scans for outlier genes with strong population genetics signatures of selection, or large effect QTL associating with fitness. They can only reveal a small subset of the molecular changes recruited along adaptive paths. Here, instead, the distribution of small effect mutations will be used to make inferences on the targets of polygenic adaptation across divergent populations in each of the two closely related species, A. thaliana and A. lyrata. These species are both found at diverse latitudes and show sign of local adaptation to climatic differences. Mutations affecting cis-regulation will be identified in leaves of plants exposed to various temperature regimes triggering phenotypic responses of adaptive relevance. Their distribution in clusters of functionally connected genes will be quantified. The phylogeographic differences in the distribution of the mutations will be used to disentangle neutral from adaptive clusters of functionally connected genes in each of the two species. This project will identify the molecular pathways subjected collectively to natural selection and provide a completely novel view on adaptive landscapes. It will further examine whether local adaptation occurs by convergent evolution of molecular systems in plants. This approach has the potential to find broad applications in ecology and agriculture.
Project acronym ALH
Project Alternative life histories: linking genes to phenotypes to demography
Researcher (PI) Thomas Eric Reed
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
Summary Understanding how and why individuals develop strikingly different life histories is a major goal in evolutionary biology. It is also a prerequisite for conserving important biodiversity within species and predicting the impacts of environmental change on populations. The aim of my study is to examine a key threshold phenotypic trait (alternative migratory tactics) in a series of large scale laboratory and field experiments, integrating several previously independent perspectives from evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology and genomics, to produce a downstream predictive model. My chosen study species, the brown trout Salmo trutta, has an extensive history of genetic and experimental work and exhibits ‘partial migration’: individuals either migrate to sea (‘sea trout’) or remain in freshwater their whole lives. Recent advances in molecular parentage assignment, quantitative genetics and genomics (next generation sequencing and bioinformatics) will allow unprecedented insight into how alternative life history phenotypes are moulded by the interaction between genes and environment. To provide additional mechanistic understanding of these processes, the balance between metabolic requirements during growth and available extrinsic resources will be investigated as the major physiological driver of migratory behaviour. Together these results will be used to develop a predictive model to explore the consequences of rapid environmental change, accounting for the effects of genetics and environment on phenotype and on population demographics. In addition to their value for conservation and management of an iconic and key species in European freshwaters and coastal seas, these results will generate novel insight into the evolution of migratory behaviour generally, providing a text book example of how alternative life histories are shaped and maintained in wild populations.
Understanding how and why individuals develop strikingly different life histories is a major goal in evolutionary biology. It is also a prerequisite for conserving important biodiversity within species and predicting the impacts of environmental change on populations. The aim of my study is to examine a key threshold phenotypic trait (alternative migratory tactics) in a series of large scale laboratory and field experiments, integrating several previously independent perspectives from evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology and genomics, to produce a downstream predictive model. My chosen study species, the brown trout Salmo trutta, has an extensive history of genetic and experimental work and exhibits ‘partial migration’: individuals either migrate to sea (‘sea trout’) or remain in freshwater their whole lives. Recent advances in molecular parentage assignment, quantitative genetics and genomics (next generation sequencing and bioinformatics) will allow unprecedented insight into how alternative life history phenotypes are moulded by the interaction between genes and environment. To provide additional mechanistic understanding of these processes, the balance between metabolic requirements during growth and available extrinsic resources will be investigated as the major physiological driver of migratory behaviour. Together these results will be used to develop a predictive model to explore the consequences of rapid environmental change, accounting for the effects of genetics and environment on phenotype and on population demographics. In addition to their value for conservation and management of an iconic and key species in European freshwaters and coastal seas, these results will generate novel insight into the evolution of migratory behaviour generally, providing a text book example of how alternative life histories are shaped and maintained in wild populations.
Project acronym ALLEGRO
Project unrAvelLing sLow modE travelinG and tRaffic: with innOvative data to a new transportation and traffic theory for pedestrians and bicycles
Researcher (PI) Serge Hoogendoorn
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Summary A major challenge in contemporary traffic and transportation theory is having a comprehensive understanding of pedestrians and cyclists behaviour. This is notoriously hard to observe, since sensors providing abundant and detailed information about key variables characterising this behaviour have not been available until very recently. The behaviour is also far more complex than that of the much better understood fast mode. This is due to the many degrees of freedom in decision-making, the interactions among slow traffic participants that are more involved and far less guided by traffic rules and regulations than those between car-drivers, and the many fascinating but complex phenomena in slow traffic flows (self-organised patterns, turbulence, spontaneous phase transitions, herding, etc.) that are very hard to predict accurately. With slow traffic modes gaining ground in terms of mode share in many cities, lack of empirical insights, behavioural theories, predictively valid analytical and simulation models, and tools to support planning, design, management and control is posing a major societal problem as well: examples of major accidents due to bad planning, organisation and management of events are manifold, as are locations where safety of slow modes is a serious issue due to interactions with fast modes. This programme is geared towards establishing a comprehensive theory of slow mode traffic behaviour, considering the different behavioural levels relevant for understanding, reproducing and predicting slow mode traffic flows in cities. The levels deal with walking and cycling operations, activity scheduling and travel behaviour, and knowledge representation and learning. Major scientific breakthroughs are expected at each of these levels, in terms of theory and modelling, by using innovative (big) data collection and experimentation, analysis and fusion techniques, including social media data analytics, using augmented reality, and remote and crowd sensing.
A major challenge in contemporary traffic and transportation theory is having a comprehensive understanding of pedestrians and cyclists behaviour. This is notoriously hard to observe, since sensors providing abundant and detailed information about key variables characterising this behaviour have not been available until very recently. The behaviour is also far more complex than that of the much better understood fast mode. This is due to the many degrees of freedom in decision-making, the interactions among slow traffic participants that are more involved and far less guided by traffic rules and regulations than those between car-drivers, and the many fascinating but complex phenomena in slow traffic flows (self-organised patterns, turbulence, spontaneous phase transitions, herding, etc.) that are very hard to predict accurately. With slow traffic modes gaining ground in terms of mode share in many cities, lack of empirical insights, behavioural theories, predictively valid analytical and simulation models, and tools to support planning, design, management and control is posing a major societal problem as well: examples of major accidents due to bad planning, organisation and management of events are manifold, as are locations where safety of slow modes is a serious issue due to interactions with fast modes. This programme is geared towards establishing a comprehensive theory of slow mode traffic behaviour, considering the different behavioural levels relevant for understanding, reproducing and predicting slow mode traffic flows in cities. The levels deal with walking and cycling operations, activity scheduling and travel behaviour, and knowledge representation and learning. Major scientific breakthroughs are expected at each of these levels, in terms of theory and modelling, by using innovative (big) data collection and experimentation, analysis and fusion techniques, including social media data analytics, using augmented reality, and remote and crowd sensing.
Project acronym AngioGenesHD
Project Epistasis analysis of angiogenes with high cellular definition
Researcher (PI) Rui Miguel Dos Santos Benedito
Host Institution (HI) CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONESCARDIOVASCULARES CARLOS III (F.S.P.)
Summary Blood and lymphatic vessels have been the subject of intense investigation due to their important role in cancer development and in cardiovascular diseases. The significant advance in the methods used to modify and analyse gene function have allowed us to obtain a much better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of the biology of blood vessels. However, there are two key aspects that significantly diminish our capacity to understand the function of gene networks and their intersections in vivo. One is the long time that is usually required to generate a given double mutant vertebrate tissue, and the other is the lack of single-cell genetic and phenotypic resolution. We have recently performed an in vivo comparative transcriptome analysis of highly angiogenic endothelial cells experiencing different VEGF and Notch signalling levels. These are two of the most important molecular mechanisms required for the adequate differentiation, proliferation and sprouting of endothelial cells. Using the information generated from this analysis, the overall aim of the proposed project is to characterize the vascular function of some of the previously identified genes and determine how they functionally interact with these two signalling pathways. We propose to use novel inducible genetic tools that will allow us to generate a spatially and temporally regulated fluorescent cell mosaic matrix for quantitative analysis. This will enable us to analyse with unprecedented speed and resolution the function of several different genes simultaneously, during vascular development, homeostasis or associated diseases. Understanding the genetic epistatic interactions that control the differentiation and behaviour of endothelial cells, in different contexts, and with high cellular definition, has the potential to unveil new mechanisms with high biological and therapeutic relevance.
Blood and lymphatic vessels have been the subject of intense investigation due to their important role in cancer development and in cardiovascular diseases. The significant advance in the methods used to modify and analyse gene function have allowed us to obtain a much better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of the biology of blood vessels. However, there are two key aspects that significantly diminish our capacity to understand the function of gene networks and their intersections in vivo. One is the long time that is usually required to generate a given double mutant vertebrate tissue, and the other is the lack of single-cell genetic and phenotypic resolution. We have recently performed an in vivo comparative transcriptome analysis of highly angiogenic endothelial cells experiencing different VEGF and Notch signalling levels. These are two of the most important molecular mechanisms required for the adequate differentiation, proliferation and sprouting of endothelial cells. Using the information generated from this analysis, the overall aim of the proposed project is to characterize the vascular function of some of the previously identified genes and determine how they functionally interact with these two signalling pathways. We propose to use novel inducible genetic tools that will allow us to generate a spatially and temporally regulated fluorescent cell mosaic matrix for quantitative analysis. This will enable us to analyse with unprecedented speed and resolution the function of several different genes simultaneously, during vascular development, homeostasis or associated diseases. Understanding the genetic epistatic interactions that control the differentiation and behaviour of endothelial cells, in different contexts, and with high cellular definition, has the potential to unveil new mechanisms with high biological and therapeutic relevance.
Project acronym Angiolnc
Project Endothelial long non-coding RNAs
Researcher (PI) Stefanie Dimmeler
Host Institution (HI) JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITATFRANKFURT AM MAIN
Summary Endothelial cells comprise the inner cellular cover of the vasculature, which delivers metabolites and oxygen to the tissue. Dysfunction of endothelial cells as it occurs during aging or metabolic syndromes can result in atherosclerosis, which can lead to myocardial infarction or stroke, whereas pathological angiogenesis contributes to tumor growth and diabetic retinopathy. Thus, endothelial cells play central roles in pathophysiological processes of many diseases including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Many studies explored the regulation of endothelial cell functions by growth factors, but the impact of epigenetic mechanisms and particularly the role of novel non-coding RNAs is largely unknown. More than 70 % of the human genome encodes for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and increasing evidence suggests that a significant portion of these ncRNAs are functionally active as RNA molecules. Angiolnc aims to explore the function of long ncRNAs (lncRNAs) and particular circular RNAs (circRNAs) in the endothelium. LncRNAs comprise a heterogenic class of RNAs with a length of > 200 nucleotides and circRNAs are generated by back splicing. Angiolnc is based on the discovery of novel endothelial hypoxia-regulated lncRNAs and circRNAs by next generation sequencing. To begin to understand the potential functions of lncRNAs in the endothelium, we will study two lncRNAs, named Angiolnc1 und Angiolnc2, as prototypical examples of endothelial cell-enriched lncRNAs that are regulated by oxygen levels. We will further dissect the epigenetic mechanisms, by which these lncRNAs regulate endothelial cell function. In the second part of the application, we will determine the regulation and function of circRNAs, which may act as molecular sponges in the cytoplasm. Finally, we will study the function of identified lncRNAs and circRNAs in mouse models and measure their expression in human specimens in order to determine their role as therapeutic targets or diagnostic tools.
Endothelial cells comprise the inner cellular cover of the vasculature, which delivers metabolites and oxygen to the tissue. Dysfunction of endothelial cells as it occurs during aging or metabolic syndromes can result in atherosclerosis, which can lead to myocardial infarction or stroke, whereas pathological angiogenesis contributes to tumor growth and diabetic retinopathy. Thus, endothelial cells play central roles in pathophysiological processes of many diseases including cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Many studies explored the regulation of endothelial cell functions by growth factors, but the impact of epigenetic mechanisms and particularly the role of novel non-coding RNAs is largely unknown. More than 70 % of the human genome encodes for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and increasing evidence suggests that a significant portion of these ncRNAs are functionally active as RNA molecules. Angiolnc aims to explore the function of long ncRNAs (lncRNAs) and particular circular RNAs (circRNAs) in the endothelium. LncRNAs comprise a heterogenic class of RNAs with a length of > 200 nucleotides and circRNAs are generated by back splicing. Angiolnc is based on the discovery of novel endothelial hypoxia-regulated lncRNAs and circRNAs by next generation sequencing. To begin to understand the potential functions of lncRNAs in the endothelium, we will study two lncRNAs, named Angiolnc1 und Angiolnc2, as prototypical examples of endothelial cell-enriched lncRNAs that are regulated by oxygen levels. We will further dissect the epigenetic mechanisms, by which these lncRNAs regulate endothelial cell function. In the second part of the application, we will determine the regulation and function of circRNAs, which may act as molecular sponges in the cytoplasm. Finally, we will study the function of identified lncRNAs and circRNAs in mouse models and measure their expression in human specimens in order to determine their role as therapeutic targets or diagnostic tools.
Project acronym ANICOLEVO
Project Animal coloration through deep time: evolutionary novelty, homology and taphonomy
Researcher (PI) Maria McNamara
Summary What does the fossil record tell us about the evolution of colour in animals through deep time? Evidence of colour in fossils can inform on the visual signalling strategies used by ancient animals. Research to date often has a narrow focus, lacks a broad phylogenetic and temporal context, and rarely incorporates information on taphonomy. This proposal represents a bold new holistic approach to the study of fossil colour: it will couple powerful imaging- and chemical analytical techniques with a rigorous programme of fossilisation experiments simulating decay, burial, and transport, and analysis of fossils and their sedimentary context, to construct the first robust models for the evolution of colour in animals through deep time. The research will resolve the original integumentary colours of fossil higher vertebrates, and the original colours of fossil hair; the fossil record of non-melanin pigments in feathers and insects; the biological significance of monotonal patterning in fossil insects; and the evolutionary history of scales and 3D photonic crystals in insects. Critically, the research will test, for the first time, whether evidence of fossil colour can solve broader evolutionary questions, e.g. the true affinities of enigmatic Cambrian chordate-like metazoans, and feather-like integumentary filaments in dinosaurs. The proposal entails construction of a dedicated experimental maturation laboratory for simulating the impact of burial on tissues. This laboratory will form the core of the world’s first integrated ‘experimental fossilisation facility’, consolidating the PI’s team as the global hub for fossil colour research. The research team comprises the PI, three postdoctoral researchers, and three PhD students, and will form an extensive research network via collaborations with 13 researchers from Europe and beyond. The project will reach out to diverse scientists and will inspire a positive attitude to science among the general public and policymakers alike.
What does the fossil record tell us about the evolution of colour in animals through deep time? Evidence of colour in fossils can inform on the visual signalling strategies used by ancient animals. Research to date often has a narrow focus, lacks a broad phylogenetic and temporal context, and rarely incorporates information on taphonomy. This proposal represents a bold new holistic approach to the study of fossil colour: it will couple powerful imaging- and chemical analytical techniques with a rigorous programme of fossilisation experiments simulating decay, burial, and transport, and analysis of fossils and their sedimentary context, to construct the first robust models for the evolution of colour in animals through deep time. The research will resolve the original integumentary colours of fossil higher vertebrates, and the original colours of fossil hair; the fossil record of non-melanin pigments in feathers and insects; the biological significance of monotonal patterning in fossil insects; and the evolutionary history of scales and 3D photonic crystals in insects. Critically, the research will test, for the first time, whether evidence of fossil colour can solve broader evolutionary questions, e.g. the true affinities of enigmatic Cambrian chordate-like metazoans, and feather-like integumentary filaments in dinosaurs. The proposal entails construction of a dedicated experimental maturation laboratory for simulating the impact of burial on tissues. This laboratory will form the core of the world’s first integrated ‘experimental fossilisation facility’, consolidating the PI’s team as the global hub for fossil colour research. The research team comprises the PI, three postdoctoral researchers, and three PhD students, and will form an extensive research network via collaborations with 13 researchers from Europe and beyond. The project will reach out to diverse scientists and will inspire a positive attitude to science among the general public and policymakers alike.
Project acronym ApoptoMDS
Project Hematopoietic stem cell Apoptosis in bone marrow failure and MyeloDysplastic Syndromes: Friend or foe?
Researcher (PI) Miriam Erlacher
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM FREIBURG
Summary Deregulated apoptotic signaling in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) strongly contributes to the pathogenesis and phenotypes of congenital bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and their progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). HSPCs are highly susceptible to apoptosis during bone marrow failure and early MDS, but AML evolution selects for apoptosis resistance. Little is known about the main apoptotic players and their regulators. ApoptoMDS will investigate the impact of apoptotic deregulation for pathogenesis, correlate apoptotic susceptibility with the kinetics of disease progression and characterize the mechanism by which apoptotic susceptibility turns into resistance. ApoptoMDS will draw on a large collection of patient-derived samples and genetically engineered mouse models to investigate disease progression in serially transplanted and xenotransplanted mice. How activated DNA damage checkpoint signaling contributes to syndrome phenotypes and HSPC hypersusceptibility to apoptosis will be assessed. Checkpoint activation confers a competitive disadvantage, and HSPCs undergoing malignant transformation are under high selective pressure to inactivate it. Checkpoint abrogation mitigates the hematological phenotype, but increases the risk of AML evolution. ApoptoMDS aims to analyze if inhibiting apoptosis in HSPCs from bone marrow failure and early-stage MDS can overcome the dilemma of checkpoint abrogation. Whether inhibiting apoptosis is sufficient to improve HSPC function will be tested on several levels and validated in patient-derived samples. How inhibiting apoptosis in the presence of functional checkpoint signaling influences malignant transformation kinetics will be assessed. If, as hypothesized, inhibiting apoptosis both mitigates hematological symptoms and delays AML evolution, ApoptoMDS will pave the way for novel therapeutic approaches to expand the less severe symptomatic period for patients with these syndromes.
Deregulated apoptotic signaling in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) strongly contributes to the pathogenesis and phenotypes of congenital bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and their progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). HSPCs are highly susceptible to apoptosis during bone marrow failure and early MDS, but AML evolution selects for apoptosis resistance. Little is known about the main apoptotic players and their regulators. ApoptoMDS will investigate the impact of apoptotic deregulation for pathogenesis, correlate apoptotic susceptibility with the kinetics of disease progression and characterize the mechanism by which apoptotic susceptibility turns into resistance. ApoptoMDS will draw on a large collection of patient-derived samples and genetically engineered mouse models to investigate disease progression in serially transplanted and xenotransplanted mice. How activated DNA damage checkpoint signaling contributes to syndrome phenotypes and HSPC hypersusceptibility to apoptosis will be assessed. Checkpoint activation confers a competitive disadvantage, and HSPCs undergoing malignant transformation are under high selective pressure to inactivate it. Checkpoint abrogation mitigates the hematological phenotype, but increases the risk of AML evolution. ApoptoMDS aims to analyze if inhibiting apoptosis in HSPCs from bone marrow failure and early-stage MDS can overcome the dilemma of checkpoint abrogation. Whether inhibiting apoptosis is sufficient to improve HSPC function will be tested on several levels and validated in patient-derived samples. How inhibiting apoptosis in the presence of functional checkpoint signaling influences malignant transformation kinetics will be assessed. If, as hypothesized, inhibiting apoptosis both mitigates hematological symptoms and delays AML evolution, ApoptoMDS will pave the way for novel therapeutic approaches to expand the less severe symptomatic period for patients with these syndromes.
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Project acronym AMORE
Project A distributional MOdel of Reference to Entities
Researcher (PI) Gemma BOLEDA TORRENT
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Summary "When I asked my seven-year-old daughter ""Who is the boy in your class who was also new in school last year, like you?"", she instantly replied ""Daniel"", using the descriptive content in my utterance to identify an entity in the real world and refer to it. The ability to use language to refer to reality is crucial for humans, and yet it is very difficult to model. AMORE breaks new ground in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence by developing a model of linguistic reference to entities implemented as a computational system that can learn its own representations from data. This interdisciplinary project builds on two complementary semantic traditions: 1) Formal semantics, a symbolic approach that can delimit and track linguistic referents, but does not adequately match them with the descriptive content of linguistic expressions; 2) Distributional semantics, which can handle descriptive content but does not associate it to individuated referents. AMORE synthesizes the two approaches into a unified, scalable model of reference that operates with individuated referents and links them to referential expressions characterized by rich descriptive content. The model is a distributed (neural network) version of a formal semantic framework that is furthermore able to integrate perceptual (visual) and linguistic information about entities. We test it extensively in referential tasks that require matching noun phrases (“the Medicine student”, “the white cat”) with entity representations extracted from text and images. AMORE advances our scientific understanding of language and its computational modeling, and contributes to the far-reaching debate between symbolic and distributed approaches to cognition with an integrative proposal. I am in a privileged position to carry out this integration, since I have contributed top research in both distributional and formal semantics. "
"When I asked my seven-year-old daughter ""Who is the boy in your class who was also new in school last year, like you?"", she instantly replied ""Daniel"", using the descriptive content in my utterance to identify an entity in the real world and refer to it. The ability to use language to refer to reality is crucial for humans, and yet it is very difficult to model. AMORE breaks new ground in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence by developing a model of linguistic reference to entities implemented as a computational system that can learn its own representations from data. This interdisciplinary project builds on two complementary semantic traditions: 1) Formal semantics, a symbolic approach that can delimit and track linguistic referents, but does not adequately match them with the descriptive content of linguistic expressions; 2) Distributional semantics, which can handle descriptive content but does not associate it to individuated referents. AMORE synthesizes the two approaches into a unified, scalable model of reference that operates with individuated referents and links them to referential expressions characterized by rich descriptive content. The model is a distributed (neural network) version of a formal semantic framework that is furthermore able to integrate perceptual (visual) and linguistic information about entities. We test it extensively in referential tasks that require matching noun phrases (“the Medicine student”, “the white cat”) with entity representations extracted from text and images. AMORE advances our scientific understanding of language and its computational modeling, and contributes to the far-reaching debate between symbolic and distributed approaches to cognition with an integrative proposal. I am in a privileged position to carry out this integration, since I have contributed top research in both distributional and formal semantics. "
Project acronym APACHE
Project Atmospheric Pressure plAsma meets biomaterials for bone Cancer HEaling
Researcher (PI) Cristina CANAL BARNILS
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA
Summary Cold atmospheric pressure plasmas (APP) have been reported to selectively kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding tissues. Studies have been conducted on a variety of cancer types but to the best of our knowledge not on any kind of bone cancer. Treatment options for bone cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, etc. and may involve the use of bone grafting biomaterials to replace the surgically removed bone. APACHE brings a totally different and ground-breaking approach in the design of a novel therapy for bone cancer by taking advantage of the active species generated by APP in combination with biomaterials to deliver the active species locally in the diseased site. The feasibility of this approach is rooted in the evidence that the cellular effects of APP appear to strongly involve the suite of reactive species created by plasmas, which can be derived from a) direct treatment of the malignant cells by APP or b) indirect treatment of the liquid media by APP which is then put in contact with the cancer cells. In APACHE we aim to investigate the fundamentals involved in the lethal effects of cold plasmas on bone cancer cells, and to develop improved bone cancer therapies. To achieve this we will take advantage of the highly reactive species generated by APP in the liquid media, which we will use in an incremental strategy: i) to investigate the effects of APP treated liquid on bone cancer cells, ii) to evaluate the potential of combining APP treated liquid in a hydrogel vehicle with/wo CaP biomaterials and iii) to ascertain the potential three directional interactions between APP reactive species in liquid medium with biomaterials and with chemotherapeutic drugs. The methodological approach will involve an interdisciplinary team, dealing with plasma diagnostics in gas and liquid media; with cell biology and the effects of APP treated with bone tumor cells and its combination with biomaterials and/or with anticancer drugs.
Cold atmospheric pressure plasmas (APP) have been reported to selectively kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding tissues. Studies have been conducted on a variety of cancer types but to the best of our knowledge not on any kind of bone cancer. Treatment options for bone cancer include surgery, chemotherapy, etc. and may involve the use of bone grafting biomaterials to replace the surgically removed bone. APACHE brings a totally different and ground-breaking approach in the design of a novel therapy for bone cancer by taking advantage of the active species generated by APP in combination with biomaterials to deliver the active species locally in the diseased site. The feasibility of this approach is rooted in the evidence that the cellular effects of APP appear to strongly involve the suite of reactive species created by plasmas, which can be derived from a) direct treatment of the malignant cells by APP or b) indirect treatment of the liquid media by APP which is then put in contact with the cancer cells. In APACHE we aim to investigate the fundamentals involved in the lethal effects of cold plasmas on bone cancer cells, and to develop improved bone cancer therapies. To achieve this we will take advantage of the highly reactive species generated by APP in the liquid media, which we will use in an incremental strategy: i) to investigate the effects of APP treated liquid on bone cancer cells, ii) to evaluate the potential of combining APP treated liquid in a hydrogel vehicle with/wo CaP biomaterials and iii) to ascertain the potential three directional interactions between APP reactive species in liquid medium with biomaterials and with chemotherapeutic drugs. The methodological approach will involve an interdisciplinary team, dealing with plasma diagnostics in gas and liquid media; with cell biology and the effects of APP treated with bone tumor cells and its combination with biomaterials and/or with anticancer drugs.
Project acronym ARISYS
Project Engineering an artificial immune system with functional components assembled from prokaryotic parts and modules
Researcher (PI) Víctor De Lorenzo Prieto
Host Institution (HI) AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Summary The objective of this project is to overcome current limitations for antibody production that are inherent to the extant immune system of vertebrates. This will be done by creating an all-in-one artificial/synthetic counterpart based exclusively on prokaryotic parts, devices and modules. To this end, ARISYS will exploit design concepts, construction hierarchies and standardization notions that stem from contemporary Synthetic Biology for the assembly and validation of (what we believe is) the most complex artificial biological system ventured thus far. This all-bacterial immune-like system will not only simplify and make affordable the manipulations necessary for antibody generation, but will also permit the application of such binders by themselves or displayed on bacterial cells to biotechnological challenges well beyond therapeutic and health-related uses. The work plan involves the assembly and validation of autonomous functional modules for [i] displaying antibody/affibody (AB) scaffolds attached to the surface of bacterial cells, [ii] conditional diversification of target-binding sequences of the ABs, [iii] contact-dependent activation of gene expression, [iv] reversible bi-stable switches, and [v] clonal selection and amplification of improved binders. These modules composed of stand-alone parts and bearing well defined input/output functions, will be assembled in the genomic chassis of streamlined Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida strains. The resulting molecular network will make the ABs expressed and displayed on the cell surface to proceed spontaneously (or at the user's decision) through subsequent cycles of affinity and specificity maturation towards antigens or other targets presented to the bacterial population. In this way, a single, easy-to-handle (albeit heavily engineered) strain will govern all operations that are typically scattered in a multitude of separate methods and apparatuses for AB production.
The objective of this project is to overcome current limitations for antibody production that are inherent to the extant immune system of vertebrates. This will be done by creating an all-in-one artificial/synthetic counterpart based exclusively on prokaryotic parts, devices and modules. To this end, ARISYS will exploit design concepts, construction hierarchies and standardization notions that stem from contemporary Synthetic Biology for the assembly and validation of (what we believe is) the most complex artificial biological system ventured thus far. This all-bacterial immune-like system will not only simplify and make affordable the manipulations necessary for antibody generation, but will also permit the application of such binders by themselves or displayed on bacterial cells to biotechnological challenges well beyond therapeutic and health-related uses. The work plan involves the assembly and validation of autonomous functional modules for [i] displaying antibody/affibody (AB) scaffolds attached to the surface of bacterial cells, [ii] conditional diversification of target-binding sequences of the ABs, [iii] contact-dependent activation of gene expression, [iv] reversible bi-stable switches, and [v] clonal selection and amplification of improved binders. These modules composed of stand-alone parts and bearing well defined input/output functions, will be assembled in the genomic chassis of streamlined Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida strains. The resulting molecular network will make the ABs expressed and displayed on the cell surface to proceed spontaneously (or at the user's decision) through subsequent cycles of affinity and specificity maturation towards antigens or other targets presented to the bacterial population. In this way, a single, easy-to-handle (albeit heavily engineered) strain will govern all operations that are typically scattered in a multitude of separate methods and apparatuses for AB production.
Project acronym B-INNATE
Project Innate signaling networks in B cell antibody production: new targets for vaccine development
Researcher (PI) Andrea Cerutti
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACIO INSTITUT MAR D INVESTIGACIONS MEDIQUES IMIM
Summary The long-term goal of this proposal is to explore a novel immune pathway that involves an unexpected interplay between marginal zone (MZ) B cells and neutrophils. MZ B cells are strategically positioned at the interface between the immune system and the circulation and rapidly produce protective antibodies to blood-borne pathogens through a T cell-independent pathway that remains poorly understood. We recently found that the human spleen contains a novel subset of B cell helper neutrophils (NBH cells) with a phenotype and gene expression profile distinct from those of conventional circulating neutrophils (NC cells). In this proposal, we hypothesize that NC cells undergo splenic reprogramming into NBH cells through an IL-10-dependent pathway involving perifollicular sinusoidal endothelial cells. We contend that these unique endothelial cells release NC cell-attracting chemokines and IL-10 upon sensing blood-borne bacteria through Toll-like receptors. We also argue that IL-10 from sinusoidal endothelial cells stimulates NC cells to differentiate into NBH cells equipped with powerful MZ B cell-stimulating activity. The following three aims will be pursued. Aim 1 is to determine the mechanisms by which splenic sinusoidal endothelial cells induce reprogramming of NC cells into NBH cells upon sensing bacteria through Toll-like receptors. Aim 2 is to elucidate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce IgM production, IgG and IgA class switching, and plasma cell differentiation in MZ B cells. Aim 3 is to evaluate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce V(D)J gene somatic hypermutation and high-affinity antibody production in MZ B cells. These studies will uncover previously unknown facets of the immunological function of neutrophils by taking advantage of unique cells and tissues from patients with rare primary immunodeficiencies and by making use of selected mouse models. Results from these studies may also lead to the identification of novel vaccine strategies.
The long-term goal of this proposal is to explore a novel immune pathway that involves an unexpected interplay between marginal zone (MZ) B cells and neutrophils. MZ B cells are strategically positioned at the interface between the immune system and the circulation and rapidly produce protective antibodies to blood-borne pathogens through a T cell-independent pathway that remains poorly understood. We recently found that the human spleen contains a novel subset of B cell helper neutrophils (NBH cells) with a phenotype and gene expression profile distinct from those of conventional circulating neutrophils (NC cells). In this proposal, we hypothesize that NC cells undergo splenic reprogramming into NBH cells through an IL-10-dependent pathway involving perifollicular sinusoidal endothelial cells. We contend that these unique endothelial cells release NC cell-attracting chemokines and IL-10 upon sensing blood-borne bacteria through Toll-like receptors. We also argue that IL-10 from sinusoidal endothelial cells stimulates NC cells to differentiate into NBH cells equipped with powerful MZ B cell-stimulating activity. The following three aims will be pursued. Aim 1 is to determine the mechanisms by which splenic sinusoidal endothelial cells induce reprogramming of NC cells into NBH cells upon sensing bacteria through Toll-like receptors. Aim 2 is to elucidate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce IgM production, IgG and IgA class switching, and plasma cell differentiation in MZ B cells. Aim 3 is to evaluate the mechanisms by which NBH cells induce V(D)J gene somatic hypermutation and high-affinity antibody production in MZ B cells. These studies will uncover previously unknown facets of the immunological function of neutrophils by taking advantage of unique cells and tissues from patients with rare primary immunodeficiencies and by making use of selected mouse models. Results from these studies may also lead to the identification of novel vaccine strategies.
Project acronym BacBio
Project Mechanistic and functional studies of Bacillus biofilms assembly on plants, and their impact in sustainable agriculture and food safety
Researcher (PI) Diego Francisco Romero Hinojosa
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA
Summary Sustainable agriculture is an ambitious concept conceived to improve productivity but minimizing side effects. Why the efficiency of a biocontrol agent is so variable? How can different therapies be efficiently exploited in a combined way to combat microbial diseases? These are questions that need investigation to convey with criteria of sustainability. What I present is an integral proposal aim to study the microbial ecology and specifically bacterial biofilms as a central axis of two differential but likely interconnected scenarios in plant health: i) the beneficial interaction of the biocontrol agent (BCA) Bacillus subtilis, and ii) the non-conventional interaction of the food-borne pathogen Bacillus cereus. I will start working with B. subtilis, and reasons are: 1) Different isolates are promising BCAs and are commercialized for such purpose, 2) There exist vast information of the genetics circuitries that govern important aspects of B. subtilis physiology as antibiotic production, cell differentiation, and biofilm formation. In parallel I propose to study the way B. cereus, a food-borne pathogenic bacterium interacts with vegetables. I am planning to set up a multidisciplinary approach that will combine genetics, biochemistry, proteomics, cell biology and molecular biology to visualize how these bacterial population interacts, communicates with plants and other microorganisms, or how all these factors trigger or inhibit the developmental program ending in biofilm formation. I am also interested on knowing if structural components of the bacterial extracellular matrix (exopolysaccharides or amyloid proteins) are important for bacterial fitness. If this were the case, I will also investigate which external factors affect their expression and assembly in functional biofilms. The insights get on these studies are committed to impulse our knowledge on microbial ecology and their biotechnological applicability to sustainable agriculture and food safety.
Sustainable agriculture is an ambitious concept conceived to improve productivity but minimizing side effects. Why the efficiency of a biocontrol agent is so variable? How can different therapies be efficiently exploited in a combined way to combat microbial diseases? These are questions that need investigation to convey with criteria of sustainability. What I present is an integral proposal aim to study the microbial ecology and specifically bacterial biofilms as a central axis of two differential but likely interconnected scenarios in plant health: i) the beneficial interaction of the biocontrol agent (BCA) Bacillus subtilis, and ii) the non-conventional interaction of the food-borne pathogen Bacillus cereus. I will start working with B. subtilis, and reasons are: 1) Different isolates are promising BCAs and are commercialized for such purpose, 2) There exist vast information of the genetics circuitries that govern important aspects of B. subtilis physiology as antibiotic production, cell differentiation, and biofilm formation. In parallel I propose to study the way B. cereus, a food-borne pathogenic bacterium interacts with vegetables. I am planning to set up a multidisciplinary approach that will combine genetics, biochemistry, proteomics, cell biology and molecular biology to visualize how these bacterial population interacts, communicates with plants and other microorganisms, or how all these factors trigger or inhibit the developmental program ending in biofilm formation. I am also interested on knowing if structural components of the bacterial extracellular matrix (exopolysaccharides or amyloid proteins) are important for bacterial fitness. If this were the case, I will also investigate which external factors affect their expression and assembly in functional biofilms. The insights get on these studies are committed to impulse our knowledge on microbial ecology and their biotechnological applicability to sustainable agriculture and food safety.
Project acronym BacRafts
Project Architecture of bacterial lipid rafts; inhibition of virulence and antibiotic resistance using raft-disassembling small molecules
Researcher (PI) Daniel López Serrano
Summary Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into microdomains or lipid rafts whose integrity is essential for numerous cellular processes. Lipid rafts has been considered a fundamental step to define the cellular complexity of eukaryotes, assuming that bacteria do not require such a sophisticated organization of their signaling networks. However, I have discovered that bacteria organize many signaling pathways in membrane microdomains similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts. Perturbation of bacterial lipid rafts leads to a potent and simultaneous impairment of all raft-harbored signaling pathways. Consequently, the disassembly of lipid rafts in pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus generates a simultaneous inhibition of numerous infection-related processes that can be further explored to control bacterial infections. This unexpected sophistication in membrane organization is unprecedented in bacteria and hence, this proposal will explore the molecular basis of the assembly of bacterial lipid rafts and their role in the infection-related processes. These questions will be addressed in three main goals: First, I will elucidate the molecular components and the mechanism of assembly of bacterial lipid rafts using S. aureus as model organism. Second, I will dissect the molecular basis that links the functionality of the infection-related processes to the integrity of bacterial lipid rafts. Third, my collection of anti-raft small molecules that are able to disrupt lipid rafts will be tested as antimicrobial agents to prevent hospital-acquired infections, abrogate pre-existing infections and develop bacteria-free materials that can be used in clinical settings. I will use a number of molecular approaches in combination with cutting-edge techniques in flow cytometry, cell-imaging and transcriptomics to clarify the architecture and functionality of lipid rafts and demonstrate the feasibility of targeting lipid a new strategy for anti-microbial therapy.
Membranes of eukaryotic cells organize signal transduction proteins into microdomains or lipid rafts whose integrity is essential for numerous cellular processes. Lipid rafts has been considered a fundamental step to define the cellular complexity of eukaryotes, assuming that bacteria do not require such a sophisticated organization of their signaling networks. However, I have discovered that bacteria organize many signaling pathways in membrane microdomains similar to the eukaryotic lipid rafts. Perturbation of bacterial lipid rafts leads to a potent and simultaneous impairment of all raft-harbored signaling pathways. Consequently, the disassembly of lipid rafts in pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus generates a simultaneous inhibition of numerous infection-related processes that can be further explored to control bacterial infections. This unexpected sophistication in membrane organization is unprecedented in bacteria and hence, this proposal will explore the molecular basis of the assembly of bacterial lipid rafts and their role in the infection-related processes. These questions will be addressed in three main goals: First, I will elucidate the molecular components and the mechanism of assembly of bacterial lipid rafts using S. aureus as model organism. Second, I will dissect the molecular basis that links the functionality of the infection-related processes to the integrity of bacterial lipid rafts. Third, my collection of anti-raft small molecules that are able to disrupt lipid rafts will be tested as antimicrobial agents to prevent hospital-acquired infections, abrogate pre-existing infections and develop bacteria-free materials that can be used in clinical settings. I will use a number of molecular approaches in combination with cutting-edge techniques in flow cytometry, cell-imaging and transcriptomics to clarify the architecture and functionality of lipid rafts and demonstrate the feasibility of targeting lipid a new strategy for anti-microbial therapy.
Project acronym BILITERACY
Project Bi-literacy: Learning to read in L1 and in L2
Researcher (PI) Manuel Francisco Carreiras Valiña
Host Institution (HI) BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Summary Learning to read is probably one of the most exciting discoveries in our life. Using a longitudinal approach, the research proposed examines how the human brain responds to two major challenges: (a) the instantiation a complex cognitive function for which there is no genetic blueprint (learning to read in a first language, L1), and (b) the accommodation to new statistical regularities when learning to read in a second language (L2). The aim of the present research project is to identify the neural substrates of the reading process and its constituent cognitive components, with specific attention to individual differences and reading disabilities; as well as to investigate the relationship between specific cognitive functions and the changes in neural activity that take place in the course of learning to read in L1 and in L2. The project will employ a longitudinal design. We will recruit children before they learn to read in L1 and in L2 and track reading development with both cognitive and neuroimaging measures over 24 months. The findings from this project will provide a deeper understanding of (a) how general neurocognitive factors and language specific factors underlie individual differences – and reading disabilities– in reading acquisition in L1 and in L2; (b) how the neuro-cognitive circuitry changes and brain mechanisms synchronize while instantiating reading in L1 and in L2; (c) what the limitations and the extent of brain plasticity are in young readers. An interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach is one of the keys to success of the present project, along with strong theory-driven investigation. By combining both we will generate breakthroughs to advance our understanding of how literacy in L1 and in L2 is acquired and mastered. The research proposed will also lay the foundations for more applied investigations of best practice in teaching reading in first and subsequent languages, and devising intervention methods for reading disabilities.
Learning to read is probably one of the most exciting discoveries in our life. Using a longitudinal approach, the research proposed examines how the human brain responds to two major challenges: (a) the instantiation a complex cognitive function for which there is no genetic blueprint (learning to read in a first language, L1), and (b) the accommodation to new statistical regularities when learning to read in a second language (L2). The aim of the present research project is to identify the neural substrates of the reading process and its constituent cognitive components, with specific attention to individual differences and reading disabilities; as well as to investigate the relationship between specific cognitive functions and the changes in neural activity that take place in the course of learning to read in L1 and in L2. The project will employ a longitudinal design. We will recruit children before they learn to read in L1 and in L2 and track reading development with both cognitive and neuroimaging measures over 24 months. The findings from this project will provide a deeper understanding of (a) how general neurocognitive factors and language specific factors underlie individual differences – and reading disabilities– in reading acquisition in L1 and in L2; (b) how the neuro-cognitive circuitry changes and brain mechanisms synchronize while instantiating reading in L1 and in L2; (c) what the limitations and the extent of brain plasticity are in young readers. An interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach is one of the keys to success of the present project, along with strong theory-driven investigation. By combining both we will generate breakthroughs to advance our understanding of how literacy in L1 and in L2 is acquired and mastered. The research proposed will also lay the foundations for more applied investigations of best practice in teaching reading in first and subsequent languages, and devising intervention methods for reading disabilities.
Project acronym BIOCON
Project Biological origins of linguistic constraints
Researcher (PI) Juan Manuel Toro
Summary The linguistic capacity to express and comprehend an unlimited number of ideas when combining a limited number of elements has only been observed in humans. Nevertheless, research has not fully identified the components of language that make it uniquely human and that allow infants to grasp the complexity of linguistic structure in an apparently effortless manner. Research on comparative cognition suggests humans and other species share powerful learning mechanisms and basic perceptual abilities we use for language processing. But humans display remarkable linguistic abilities that other animals do not possess. Understanding the interplay between general mechanisms shared across species and more specialized ones dedicated to the speech signal is at the heart of current debates in human language acquisition. This is a highly relevant issue for researchers in the fields of Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. By conducting experiments across several populations (human adults and infants) and species (human and nonhuman animals), and using a wide array of experimental techniques, the present proposal hopes to shed some light on the origins of shared biological constraints that guide more specialized mechanisms in the search for linguistic structure. More specifically, we hope to understand how general perceptual and cognitive mechanisms likely present in other animals constrain the way humans tackle the task of language acquisition. Our hypothesis is that differences between humans and other species are not the result of humans being able to process increasingly complex structures that are the hallmark of language. Rather, differences might be due to humans and other animals focusing on different cues present in the signal to extract relevant information. This research will hint at what is uniquely human and what is shared across different animals species.
The linguistic capacity to express and comprehend an unlimited number of ideas when combining a limited number of elements has only been observed in humans. Nevertheless, research has not fully identified the components of language that make it uniquely human and that allow infants to grasp the complexity of linguistic structure in an apparently effortless manner. Research on comparative cognition suggests humans and other species share powerful learning mechanisms and basic perceptual abilities we use for language processing. But humans display remarkable linguistic abilities that other animals do not possess. Understanding the interplay between general mechanisms shared across species and more specialized ones dedicated to the speech signal is at the heart of current debates in human language acquisition. This is a highly relevant issue for researchers in the fields of Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. By conducting experiments across several populations (human adults and infants) and species (human and nonhuman animals), and using a wide array of experimental techniques, the present proposal hopes to shed some light on the origins of shared biological constraints that guide more specialized mechanisms in the search for linguistic structure. More specifically, we hope to understand how general perceptual and cognitive mechanisms likely present in other animals constrain the way humans tackle the task of language acquisition. Our hypothesis is that differences between humans and other species are not the result of humans being able to process increasingly complex structures that are the hallmark of language. Rather, differences might be due to humans and other animals focusing on different cues present in the signal to extract relevant information. This research will hint at what is uniquely human and what is shared across different animals species.
Project acronym BIOFORCE
Project Simultaneous multi-pathway engineering in crop plants through combinatorial genetic transformation: Creating nutritionally biofortified cereal grains for food security
Researcher (PI) Paul Christou
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA
Summary BIOFORCE has a highly ambitious applied objective: to create transgenic cereal plants that will provide a near-complete micronutrient complement (vitamins A, C, E, folate and essential minerals Ca, Fe, Se and Zn) for malnourished people in the developing world, as well as built-in resistance to insects and parasitic weeds. This in itself represents a striking advance over current efforts to address food insecurity using applied biotechnology in the developing world. We will also address fundamental mechanistic aspects of multi-gene/pathway engineering through transcriptome and metabolome profiling. Fundamental science and applied objectives will be achieved through the application of an exciting novel technology (combinatorial genetic transformation) developed and patented by my research group. This allows the simultaneous transfer of an unlimited number of transgenes into plants followed by library-based selection of plants with appropriate genotypes and phenotypes. All transgenes integrate into one locus ensuring expression stability over multiple generations. This proposal represents a new line of research in my laboratory, founded on incremental advances in the elucidation of transgene integration mechanisms in plants over the past two and a half decades. In addition to scientific issues, BIOFORCE address challenges such as intellectual property, regulatory and biosafety issues and crucially how the fruits of our work will be taken up through philanthropic initiatives in the developing world while creating exploitable opportunities elsewhere. BIOFORCE is comprehensive and it provides a complete package that stands to make an unprecedented contribution to food security in the developing world, while at the same time generating new knowledge to streamline and simplify multiplex gene transfer and the simultaneous modification of multiple complex plant metabolic pathways
BIOFORCE has a highly ambitious applied objective: to create transgenic cereal plants that will provide a near-complete micronutrient complement (vitamins A, C, E, folate and essential minerals Ca, Fe, Se and Zn) for malnourished people in the developing world, as well as built-in resistance to insects and parasitic weeds. This in itself represents a striking advance over current efforts to address food insecurity using applied biotechnology in the developing world. We will also address fundamental mechanistic aspects of multi-gene/pathway engineering through transcriptome and metabolome profiling. Fundamental science and applied objectives will be achieved through the application of an exciting novel technology (combinatorial genetic transformation) developed and patented by my research group. This allows the simultaneous transfer of an unlimited number of transgenes into plants followed by library-based selection of plants with appropriate genotypes and phenotypes. All transgenes integrate into one locus ensuring expression stability over multiple generations. This proposal represents a new line of research in my laboratory, founded on incremental advances in the elucidation of transgene integration mechanisms in plants over the past two and a half decades. In addition to scientific issues, BIOFORCE address challenges such as intellectual property, regulatory and biosafety issues and crucially how the fruits of our work will be taken up through philanthropic initiatives in the developing world while creating exploitable opportunities elsewhere. BIOFORCE is comprehensive and it provides a complete package that stands to make an unprecedented contribution to food security in the developing world, while at the same time generating new knowledge to streamline and simplify multiplex gene transfer and the simultaneous modification of multiple complex plant metabolic pathways
Project acronym BLOODCELLSCROSSTALK
Project The Crosstalk Between Red And White Blood Cells: The Case Of Fish
Researcher (PI) Maria del Mar Ortega-Villaizan Romo
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNANDEZ DE ELCHE
Summary Fish are the phylogenetically oldest vertebrate group with an immune system with clear similarities to the immune system of mammals. However, it is an actual matter of fact that the current knowledge of the fish immune system seems to lack the key piece to complete the puzzle. In 1953 Nelson described a new role of human red blood cells (RBCs) which would go beyond the simple transport of O2 to the tissues. This new role, involved in the defence against microbes, described the antibody and complement-dependent binding of microbial immune complexes to RBCs. Regardless of the importance of this finding in the field of microbial infection, this phenomenon has been poorly evaluated. Just recently, a set of biological processes relevant to immunity have been described in the RBCs of a diverse group of organisms, which include: pathogen recognition, pathogen binding and clearance and cytokines production. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that nucleated erythrocytes from fish and avian species develop specific responses to different pathogen associated molecular patterns and produce soluble factors that modulate leukocyte activity. In the light of these pieces of evidences, and in an attempt to improve the knowledge of the immune mechanism(s) responsible for fish protection against viral infections, we raised the question: could nucleated fish erythrocytes be the key mediators of the antiviral responses? To answer this question we decided to focus our project on the evaluation of the crosstalk between red and white blood cells in the scenario of fish viral infections and prophylaxis. For that a working model composed of the rainbow trout and the viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) was chosen, being the objectives of the project to evaluate: i) the implication trout RBCs (tRBCs) in the clearance of VHSV, and ii) the involvement of tRBCs in the blood transportation of the glycoprotein G of VHSV (GVHSV), the antigen encoded by the DNA vaccine.
Fish are the phylogenetically oldest vertebrate group with an immune system with clear similarities to the immune system of mammals. However, it is an actual matter of fact that the current knowledge of the fish immune system seems to lack the key piece to complete the puzzle. In 1953 Nelson described a new role of human red blood cells (RBCs) which would go beyond the simple transport of O2 to the tissues. This new role, involved in the defence against microbes, described the antibody and complement-dependent binding of microbial immune complexes to RBCs. Regardless of the importance of this finding in the field of microbial infection, this phenomenon has been poorly evaluated. Just recently, a set of biological processes relevant to immunity have been described in the RBCs of a diverse group of organisms, which include: pathogen recognition, pathogen binding and clearance and cytokines production. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that nucleated erythrocytes from fish and avian species develop specific responses to different pathogen associated molecular patterns and produce soluble factors that modulate leukocyte activity. In the light of these pieces of evidences, and in an attempt to improve the knowledge of the immune mechanism(s) responsible for fish protection against viral infections, we raised the question: could nucleated fish erythrocytes be the key mediators of the antiviral responses? To answer this question we decided to focus our project on the evaluation of the crosstalk between red and white blood cells in the scenario of fish viral infections and prophylaxis. For that a working model composed of the rainbow trout and the viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) was chosen, being the objectives of the project to evaluate: i) the implication trout RBCs (tRBCs) in the clearance of VHSV, and ii) the involvement of tRBCs in the blood transportation of the glycoprotein G of VHSV (GVHSV), the antigen encoded by the DNA vaccine.
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Justin Bieber: Five reasons watching him on 'SNL' may not be as painful as you think
Updated August 07, 2017 at 11:40 AM EDT
Image Credit: Pamela LittkeyJustin Bieber is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this week. This you know. This you cannot change. Here are five reasons it might turn out to be okay:
1. The kid can sing. If you’ve been avoiding listening to the music behind the 16-year-old former YouTube sensation/current Twitter trending topic, you should know that he does sing on key live. There should be no cringing. An acoustic performance to prove it…
2. He has a sense of humor. This is important because there’s no way SNL won’t be doing a sketch about him. (Maybe a celebrity charity single in which the others are pissed that he gets to sing the first line?) Below, one of the videos shot for his April Fools’ Day takeover of FunnyorDie.com.
3. You can drink every time he does a hair flip. Katie Couric recently got to the bottom of it.
4. Have you ever considered that you dislike Bieber fans more than the Bieber?
5. You’ve sat though Tim Urban singing “Sweet Love.” A role for Bieber in an American Idol sketch?
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CARNIVAL 2018 recap: Transportation operators split on carnival business
BusinessMay 8, 2018May 11, 2018 at 4:15 am Theo Sealy
Bahamas Ride Co-owner, Gavin Christie.
Taxi operators and owners of the new Bahamian equivalent of Uber – Bahamas Ride – shared mixed reviews with Eyewtiness News over the weekend when questioned about whether they experienced an increase in business during the fourth installment of Bahamas Carnival.
Only two however, said they experienced a spike in business, as a result of carnival patrons.
“I surely did experience an increase in sales during the carnival weekend,” said taxi driver Pauline Robinson, who said she was certain that the festival added to her overall increase in profit on the weekend.
“I don’t work at night, but I worked during the day and it was really good. I experienced almost a 20 per cent increase in business this weekend.”
Taxi driver and owner of jitney fleet Thomas Smith also shared Robinson’s sentiments.
“They all make money,” said Smith.
“They might not make it the way they want to make it, but everyone made money. I (have) been in the business for about 55 years and I would believe that they made a profit from carnival. I know everyone made a dollar.”
But a number of other taxi drivers sang a different tune.
“Let me tell you when I will respect carnival,” shared Earnest Munnings, taxi driver.
“When we have a situation where we have inventory and all the hotels are over booked. But this carnival, and the previous ones, nothing happened.
For taxi operator Patricia Ferguson, none of her customers were in town for the three-day event.
“I saw some visitors, but personally I didn’t drive any of them,” shared Ferguson.
Meanwhile, one taxi operator said carnival was a hindrance to his business over the weekend.
“Carnival caused me to miss all my jobs Saturday,” lamented livery driver Terry Thompson.
“I got caught up behind Enigma. I don’t particularly like it. I live in Fort Charlotte and the inspector didn’t want to let me through by Clifford Park and I had to beg to even get home.”
Taxi driver Randal Rahming also suggested that the jitneys, which pass the airport on a daily basis, could possibly be the reason why taxi drivers did not experience an increase in profit over the carnival weekend.
“The jitney’s pass right here by the airport,” said Rahming.
“There is a lot of people that walk out from the airport and catch jitneys. So, when it comes to the carnival, we didn’t really make anything much off of it.
“From what I’ve been hearing, none of them (taxi drivers) have been saying we got a good contribution from carnival as it relates to customers coming out and catching the cabs saying they came here just for carnival.
“You could see how hurt drivers are by carnival because it’s nothing beneficial in it for cab drivers.”
But where taxi operators remain split on the discussion of carnival business, new kid on the block Bahamas Ride, confirmed that carnival provided a 20 per cent increase in business.
“Business was great,” shared Gavin Christie, co-owner of Bahamas Ride.
“We experienced a 20 per cent increase over the carnival weekend. It was very good for us.”
He said he was surprised that the new business was an even split between local and foreign clients.
“Initially, we thought it was going to be predominantly tourists. But, it was actually 50 to 50 split; tourists to locals,” he said.
Transportation operators who experienced the hike in business over the carnival weekend said they look forward to the fifth installment of the festival.
Always a headline ahead, Bahamas news, Eyewitness News, www.ewnews.com
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'Hero' Muslim employee who saved lives at Kosher supermarket in Paris praised for his courage as he is granted citizenship by France
The Muslim kosher supermarket employee who saved several shoppers lives during the Paris attack has been granted French citizenship.
Lassana Bathily, 24, was praised for his 'courage and heroism' by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve during a ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
Mr Cazeneuve said Mali-born Bathily's 'act of humanity has become a symbol of an Islam of peace and tolerance.'
'Tonight I'm very proud and deeply touched,' Mr Bathily, who went to school in Paris, said with tears in his eyes.
He humbly stressed that he does not consider himself a hero, saying: 'I am Lassana. I'll stay true to myself.'
'People are all equal to me and skin color isn't a matter. France is the country of human rights,' he added.
Mr Bathily was in the store's underground stockroom when gunman Amedy Coulibaly burst in to the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, Paris, on January 9 and killed four people.
The 24-year-old guided terrified customers to safety in a supermarket chiller and has since been praised around the world for his quick-thinking and bravery.
Photo shows: Selfless: When gunman Amedy Coulibaly entered the shop, Lassana Bathily turned off the freezer and hid shoppers inside before sneaking out and helping police free the hostages
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René Lalique (1860- 1945) is called the Da Vinci of the jewellery and glass art. The works from the art nouveau and art deco period are full of symbolism and “secret” details. Museums from all over the world, among which the “Metropolitan museum of Art” from New York lend pieces from the art nouveau and art deco periods to the museum. The museum is housed in a pair of old national monuments where visitors will be received with hospitality, in an atmospheric ambiance.
The museum is open every day, with the exception of Mondays.…
The museum is open every day, with the exception of Mondays. Furthermore, you can make an appointment to get an arrangement, with reception at the concert piano. Upon agreement, guests attend readings by the curator, with a piano recital at the concert piano, while enjoying a glass of prosecco, and after the tour there is the possibility to have a very luxurious lunch.
René Lalique
The permanent exhibition of the museum is fully dedicated to the work of jewellery designer and glass artist René Lalique. You can find literally radiant works of this ‘master of the French art nouveau and art deco’. With the help of the many objects the collection provides an image of the Dutch customer base of the artist, his clients, and the way his work was received here.
Around 1900 the young artist René Lalique (1860-1945) was internationally seen as the primary designer of modern ornaments. The big names, actresses and opera divas show off his jewellery, which is not impressive because of the use of gold and diamonds, but because of the creative shapes and the use of new materials, like emaille pliqué-a-jour and semi-precious stones.
Modern industrial luxury
Lalique chooses typical art nouveau and art deco patterns, like nature and feminine shapes. He also develops himself into a glass artist, which also gets him noticed in the Netherlands. His introduction to the luxurious perfume industry causes a rapid. He develops a way of working that is somewhere between art and industrial shaping: modern industrial luxury. He creates mechanically superior items of art with a luxurious appearance. Aside from the pieces of which a lot of copies are produced, Lalique creates unique objects for the very fortunate people from his time.
French chic
The impressive building in which the museum is housed, offers the ultimate ambiance for an exhibition about this master of the French art nouveau and art deco. From a horn comb with pearls, to a necklace made of emaille pliqué-a-jour, from golden cufflinks to press-blown perfume bottles and radiant decorative vases made of glass, that provided women and men around 1900 with splendour and class. The jewellery by Lalique sometimes has an appraised value of 100 million Euro. The objects are iconic, loved and very desired everywhere in the world.
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Power tariff: PSPCL seeks substantial hike to mitigate revenue deficit
In its Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) filed with the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the discom has sought a hike of around 8% to 14% on various categories of consumers.Manish Sirhindi | TNN | December 27, 2018, 07:31 IST
New Delhi: Going through financial distresses due to a huge loan outstanding and the delayed payment of power subsidies, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has sought a substantial hike in the power tariff to mitigate its revenue deficit during the next financial year.
In its Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) filed with the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), the discom has sought a hike of around 8% to 14% on various categories of consumers.
In the last tariff order approved for 2018-19 in April this year, the PSERC had allowed a 2.17% hike. Huge interest of Rs 3,868 crore being paid on the outstanding debt of the power corporation and the delay in the release of subsidy payments by the state government were wiping out all the profits being booked by the PSPCL by selling the surplus power that it has, an officer of the power corporation said. Unhindered by this, the corporation could have sustained its operations without seeking any hike in the power tariffs, he said.
PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director Baldev Singh Sran said the corporation had been able to save Rs 400 crore by selling the extra power worth Rs 1,008 crore in the open market. Rs 600 crore was the cost of power borne by the corporation. “This saving would start reflecting during the next year. The corporation would also begin saving Rs 650 crore on its coal expenditure by May 2019, with the operationalization of Pachwara coal mines. This saving would also bail out the corporation from the present financial distress. But this year, foregoing a hike is not possible for the PSPCL,” he said.
In April, the PSERC had hiked the power tariffs to fill the revenue-expenditure gap. The domestic tariff had been increased by 10 to 14 paisa per unit and fixed charges increased by Rs 10 per KW. For Industrial supply, the increase had been 10 to 13 paisa per unit and fixed charges by Rs 10 to 15 per KVA.
The PSPCL in its AAR put before the PSERC has stated that the cost of power purchase will be Rs 19,959 crore, the employee cost will be Rs 4,762 crore, actual administration and general (A&G) expenses along with repairs and maintenance (R&M) expenses have been calculated at Rs 540 crore. The depreciation of installed infrastructure has been calculated at Rs 1,143 crore and the interest to be paid on outstanding debts is Rs 3,868 crore. The return on equity to be paid by the PSPCL is Rs 365 crore and the cost of generation has been calculated at Rs 4,822 crore, along with the transmission charges payable to Punjab State Power Transmission Corporation at Rs 1,332 crore.
The total revenue requirement for the year 2019-20 has been projected as Rs 36,8020 crore, while the PSPCL is hoping that it would save Rs 627 crore through non-tariff income and thus the net revenue requirement for the PSPCL would be will be Rs 36,175 crore for the next fiscal year.
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A number of users were affected by a large outage on one of our servers over the weekend. This FAQ is designed to answer users questions about what happened and what we're doing in the future.
Q1. Why isn't there any redundancy that would have avoided this?
A1. There is! We use a RAID storage system that ensures that individual disk failures do not result in any downtime. There are different levels of RAID, and we use one of the newest and most advanced called RAID 6. RAID 6 is designed to continue normally even if 2 hard drives fail simultaneously. In fact, we've had several disk failures over the last couple of years, and all of these have gone entirely un-noticed by users due to the RAID system.
Q2. So what did happen?
A2. The drives we use have a guaranteed lifetime of 3 years and were only 15 months old. Given that RAID 6 can support up to 2 drives in an array failing, the chance of any 2 drives failing at the same time is an extremely rare occurrence. However in this particular case, 3 drives all failed within a remarkably short period of time! At that moment, we had effectively lost access to all data on the unit, and had to resort to our disaster recovery scenario, our daily incremental backups.
Q3. How long did it take to replace the first failed drive?
A3. We had the first failed drive replaced within about 30 minutes. As soon as we replaced the drive, it began "rebuilding" the new drive which is the standard RAID process for copying redundant version of the data onto the drive. This process may take over 24 hours however depending on the load on the array. The rebuild was not complete when the 2 other drives then failed.
Q4. Why did you do the largest accounts last?
A4. Most of the accounts on the server were paid accounts, so after we calculated that the entire restore would take about 2-3 days, decided to try and get as many users back up and running as quickly as possible. Because of the large skew in account sizes, if we did largest first, only 10% would be restored after 2 days. By doing the smaller first, we were able to restore 90% of account within the 24 hours or so of the failure.
Q5. Why didn't you deliver email and restore at the same time?
A5. We did some experimentation and discovered that running both restores and deliveries at the same time seemed to vastly slow down both actions. Something that would take 2 days (restore) + 6 hours (delivery) separately was going to take > 5 days when run simultaneously. Thus we decided to perform the restores as quickly as possible, and as soon as that was done, deliver the queued email.
Q6. Why was email delivery delayed?
A6. During the restore process, we restored users to a number of different servers to speed up the restore process, rather than just restoring back to the original server. Due to the above mentioned problem when simultaneously restoring and delivering email, we suspended all email deliveries for a short time over the weekend.
Q7. Why did it take so long?
A7. Basically the large volume of data. We had to restore > 1000 GB of data, and that just takes a while even restoring to multiple servers simultaneously. We knew that restoring from backups would probably take a while, but we regarded this acceptable because it would only be required in the unexpected base of a total array failure, which would either require complete hardware failure or >2 drives failing at once, something that we'd calculated as extremely unlikely.
Q8. Did anything go right at all?
A8. Yes. We did actually have a "disaster" recovery plan in the event that an entire RAID array and or file-system became destroyed/corrupted. In this very unlikely event, we were actually still ready for it. Our nightly incremental backups of all email did work and were all there and we were able to restore all users from these backups. We had multiple drives spare and ready to go and so could bring a fresh RAID volume back online quickly to restore to. We
were able to get the entire restore done over the weekend and be all ready in time for the working week.
Q9. Was any email bounced?
A9. No. All email was queued and correctly delivered to accounts once they were restored.
Q10. What are you doing to make sure it never happens again?
A10. While the RAID infrastructure we have has worked extremely well for over 5 years, this recent failure has made us again have to look at alternatives in the future. The most likely system would be a replicated infrastructure, where all email and all actions are replicated across multiple servers simultaneously. Such a setup has recently become feasible because of some updates to our email server software, and thus we will now seriously look at this option and what would be required to make it happen. In such a scenario, any one entire system can fail entirely and we can still work just by switching all incoming connections and email to the working system.
Also, one of the core problems was the sheer amount of time it took to recover over 1000GB of data. A replicated solution would help in that even a wholesale system crash or corruption would just result in the alternate replica taking over, but to improve things even further we would reduce the total size of volumes we build, and instead use a number of smaller volumes so even disaster recovery restores would be quicker.
We will also look at using smaller volumes, and drives from different manufacturers and batches to ensure that failures that require restores from backup can be done faster as well.
Q11. Are you going to compensate users for the outage?
A11. We are going to give all affected Full and Enhanced users an additional month on their subscription. This will be occurring shortly.
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‘American Hustle’ Review
by fat vox
America is a land of invention and reinvention, where people believe what they want to believe – about themselves and everything and everyone around them. This grand American Hustle is re-examined by David O. Russell, in the guise of a strange but true story about con artists, the FBI, politicians, the mob and one of the biggest political scandals of the late 70’s. However, Russell’s version of it will be more well known for its clothes [or lack thereof] Martin Scorsese comparisons, and his latest works of magic with his four favorite actors – if not much else.
Irving Rosenfeld is a pudgy, comb over wearing small time con artist, who hustles while putting up with his severely loopy wife Rosalyn. But when Irving meets a kindred spirit named Sydney, who’s also looking to reinvent herself – in the guise of a wealthy English lady, no less – the two find prosperity in love and business. Yet business goes sour when they entrap the wrong man in FBI agent Richie, who forces them to use their talents in a series of sting operations. This culminates in a massive potential takedown involving the Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, the mob, politicians and Arab money. However, Richie’s unstable ambitions – both for the deal and for Sydney – and Rosalyn’s suspicions threaten a lot more than just the sting.
Russell caps off a trilogy that turned him from a violate pariah into one of the most decorated directors today. What’s more, American Hustle is basically an all-star reunion of all his stars from The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook. After getting Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence Oscars, as well as getting Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams nominations, Russell mixes them up anew and puts them in garish hairstyles, accents and clothes – or what often passes for clothes on Adams and Lawrence.
While Russell borrows from himself in his acting roster, virtually everyone who’s seen American Hustle – or even just the trailers – knows he owes a debt to Martin Scorsese too. However, it takes a lot to match Scorsese’s map cap style and dizzying action, as his own Wolf Of Wall Street is bound to prove next week. Not only is Russell a bit too muted, of all things, to match a Scorsese like rollercoaster, he seems to be missing the manic edge from his own Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook as well.
American Hustle tries to make up for it by showing the big and small ways its characters, institutions and even its country hustles, deludes and re-invents itself to survive – even using nail polish as part of the grand metaphor. Given how this story is set not long after Watergate and Vietnam, the time and place certainly works as more than just a fashion show. Nevertheless, Russell makes his point well enough, yet still can’t resist driving it into the ground more than he should.
The oddest part of American Hustle is that Russell has every tool he needs to make his grand epic. However, Bale, Cooper, Adams and Lawrence are the ones who make it work more than he does, which is a weird paradox. Russell is a master at getting more out of these actors, and showing more sides to them, than almost anyone else can. Yet aside from giving them their showcases and showy characters, Russell struggles to provide an actual movie around them that is worthy of them.
Russell’s genius with Bale in The Fighter and American Hustle is to take him beyond the dour, growling image that Batman stuck him with. In fact, aside from the weight gain and the comb over hair – which in the opening scene, includes the most memorable stuck up piece of hair since Cameron Diaz’s in There’s Something About Mary – Bale is actually the least showy performer of the bunch.
If anyone is stable in this group, Bale’s Irving is it, even as he gets entangled in a bigger game than he ever imagined or wanted. Beyond the loud hair and gut, Bale is actually quieter, more heartfelt and more of a longing dreamer than we’re used to seeing from him. Since Bale transforms himself physically all the time, it’s become easy to take him for granted – especially in the midst of everyone else’s antics. Yet while Cooper, Adams and Lawrence have much of American Hustle’s raves and awards buzz, Bale may be the real grounding force of the film.
Russell brings out sides to Bale he doesn’t get to use often – and also brings out sides of Cooper that few expected he had. For the second time with Russell, Cooper goes beyond his Hangover persona and finds a deeper use for his fast talking, occasionally sleazy talents. As it turns out, when Richie gets particularly power drunk and obsessed, Cooper becomes even more unsettling and unhinged than in the first half of Silver Linings Playbook, only with no redeeming dance contest this time.
Yet while Bale and Cooper are the headliners, American Hustle really belongs to the ladies. For a good part of it all, it belongs first and foremost to Adams – lack of a neckline and convincing British accent and all. Russell was the first to show Adams’ tougher, sexier range in The Fighter, and she turns it into a full on master class here. One could watch Adams be seductive, scheming, vulnerable, soulful and desperate all day long – and her face often conveys the whole package all at once, to the point where it almost gives her cleavage a run for its money.
This makes it Russell and American Hustle’s greatest crime that Adams and Sydney are all but pushed aside in the second half. Despite Bale and Cooper’s contributions, Adams puts on such a showcase that one wishes the movie was more about her. But as it turns out, she passes the baton to the film’s other megastar actress in the second half, as Lawrence goes to more maniacal extremes than in Silver Linings Playbook, if possible.
Although Rosalyn is a ridiculous comedy relief character on paper, she actually comes closest to nailing the movie’s grand themes of self-delusion and invention. Despite being a flighty wild card, Rosalyn always finds a line of twisted logic to justify her behavior, and to escape facing responsibility for it. Whether she knowingly lies to herself or genuinely believes her excuses, it is hard to say. Yet as always, Lawrence is so open and full of life, while pouring everything she has into every little line and gesture, it makes Rosalyn both the most dishonest and honest character of the bunch – and maybe even its most unsympathetic and sympathetic.
Beyond Russell’s now typical troupe, he also has Jeremy Renner as the corrupt but well-meaning mayor, Louis C.K. in the most comedic moments of the movie as Ritchie’s skeptical boss, Boardwalk Empire veterans Shea Whigham and Jack Huston, and even Robert de Niro in a threatening cameo – another actor Russell is getting far more out of than anyone else lately. However, Bale, Cooper, Adams, Lawrence and their crazy characters are the whole show – which both keeps American Hustle afloat and exposes the rest of the film’s limitations.
When it comes to working with these actors and reaffirming their greatness in different ways, Russell has gotten it down to a science. When it comes to making an actual classic movie to support their great efforts, American Hustle hits a few more speed bumps. Yet with these actors and characters, and with this director that is so good in so many areas, it’s hard to fully sort out why they’re in a movie that’s only good enough – regardless of what the Oscars might say down the line.
American Hustle is nothing if not entertaining, and is worth it if only to savor the stars in their new and old elements. Russell has Bale going bigger and smaller than ever, Cooper going closer to the edge than ever, Lawrence being as thrillingly alive than ever, and Adams’ wardrobe and face speaking unforgettable volumes. But unfortunately for Russell and American Hustle, they set too high a bar for everything else around them.
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By Larry Kummer, Editor / 8 Comments / 4 October 2016 4 October 2016
Summary: From the sturm and drang about Campaign 2016 we might believe it offered us a wide choice of candidates and policies. Much of Trump’s platform is standard right-wing doctrine (e.g., bomb the Middle East, tax cuts for the rich). Clinton offers standard doctrines of the center-left Goldman-neocon-neoliberal alliance. Here anthropologist Maximilian Forte looks at Sanders, representing the half-heads. Let’s start soon to do better in 2020.
Half-Heads: A Dominant Force in US Politics
By Maximilian C. Forte from Zero Anthropology.
Reposted with his generous permission.
“Half-head”: this signifies a way of approaching problems that involves efficient thinking, where efficiency comes from an intensely selective focus. A half-headed approach could be a combination of unspoken or unconscious interests, the accumulation of taboos around certain subjects, the desire to appeal to select audiences, the product of an ideology — some or all of these, and perhaps a few more. While a half-head can produce answers quickly, the answers are always half-answers at best.
While the imagery produced for this essay implies mockery, and suggests that a half-head is somehow brain damaged or deficient, the objective here is not to laugh at half-heads. In fact, if having a half-head is a problem, then it is a fairly ordinary and widespread problem, where most of us are half-heads, at least half the time. The objective is instead to point out how the half-head dominates US political discourse, possibly more now than previously (say, at Eisenhower’s time). A half-head will only give us half the story. While one might think that two half-heads are as good as one, so that all we have to do is add half-answers together, the solution is a little more complicated than that. First, let’s describe the problem in specific instances.
Anti-Militarist Half-Heads
I think that I first became half-aware of the half-head problem when reflecting on years spent studying, discussing and debating the militarization of the social sciences, with reference to anthropology in particular. It became clearer to me that what many of the so-called radical critics of militarization were really objecting to, when it came to US foreign policy, was militarization/militarism, and specifically violence. Anything that involved the military, anything that the military touched, was suspect at best. Most of the US anthropologists who have criticized militarization and militarism have had comparatively less, or even little, to say about US imperialism as a whole (that’s not always true, but it is mostly true).
The anti-militarists would generally not touch the non-violent, not overtly coercive, civilian dimensions of US foreign policy, such as the work of USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, educational exchanges, trade, the work of various force multipliers such as the World Bank and the IMF, and so on.
Even “humanitarian intervention” seemed to be generally off limits from their discussions; the same applies to the topic of cultural imperialism (few US anthropologists would even agree that such a phenomenon exists). For them, what figured most prominently was the Pentagon, the CIA, and an array of private military contractors. Having a career-driven research specialization also greatly enables the onset of half-headedness.
It is not just a theoretical problem that ensues — that one can provide little in the way of historical context and causality in explaining the rise and significance of militarization, how it is sustained and defended, and how the legitimacy issues of militarization differ in different national political systems (where it is expansionist in one, it is defensive in others).
There is also a political problem that results: the anthropological critique of militarization and militarism often plays a supportive role in established political contests among the elites. There is a continuing history of competition between the US armed services (with defense contractors) and the US State Department, over budgets and personnel numbers. The critique of militarization thus operates at the highest levels, as part of an institutionalized complaint by US diplomats and development experts that what they used to do is now being done by the military.
The critique of militarization/militarism is not, by itself, a critique of imperialism, nor is it a theory of imperialism, nor is it sufficient in describing imperialism. In fact, one could be an anti-militarist and a pro-imperialist at the same time, and there is an abundance of narratives and persons that exemplify this.
Bernie Sanders. Mandel Ngan – AFP/GETTY.
Bernie Sanders: Half-Head
Bernie Sanders is absolutely a half-head, and that’s on a good day. When compared to the anti-militarists, Sanders does not even represent the other half of the problem, but rather the other half of another half: i.e., the domestic, non-military side.
The almost exclusive focus of Sanders’ campaign speeches has been on domestic income and wealth redistribution, campaign finance reform, and ending the hegemony of banking oligopolies. In other words, his emphasis is on finance: wages, debts, and financial institutions. Where the anti-militarists focus on the Pentagon, Sanders and his supporters focus on Wall Street. However, Sanders also focuses primarily on the domestic front. Sanders thus manages to evade a critique of capitalism, militarism, and imperialism.
There is a political bargain that results from such half-headedness. First, if one of the major tools of wealth redistribution involves taxing the very rich, and taxing corporations, it means that such entities must continue to exist — more than that, they must thrive — because they are the cash-cows that will sustain the domestic new deal. Second, that means doing little to harm or impede the success of these corporations in extracting wealth from abroad — “cash-cows” may not be the best metaphor here: these are carnivorous hunters, and Sanders is compelled to wish them happy hunting in the hope of getting a piece of meat to throw to the crowd. Third, it means Sanders abides by the US’ imperialist position in the world, and his supporters do as well, as long as there is a “fair” redistribution at home, of the loot plundered from abroad.
As much as these people may feign contempt for “America First,” they believe in a certain version of the same basic principle, except they are more prone to sharing something with those who take the risk to enter the country illegally (a small fraction of humanity).
Bernie Sanders is not aspiring to be a scholar, but there are important theoretical problems that arise from his own half-headedness. For instance, his criticism of the militarization of US police forces has no context and no origin. How did they become militarized, and when? What is the source of their militarization? Since Sanders is not an anti-militarist, he never proposes drastically cutting the US’ drastic military spending to fund social programs — his primary tool is instead taxation. He could introduce measures to curtail the militarization of the police, but he has no answer to the problem of a broader political-economy and culture of militarism, which can always reintroduce militarization in this or that sphere of the society at other times.
The result of how Sanders conceptualizes his program is a number of dead-ends. For example, he proposes spending on infrastructure to create jobs and alleviate poverty — which is reasonable and positive. However, these are short-term measures (half-measures). Eventually, the bridge is built, the road is paved, the bricks are laid. What happens after that? Where do those workers turn?
Sanders also calls for raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour — which at the very least is a humane suggestion, and not by any means exorbitant (at 40 hours per week, working without any holiday for 52 weeks, one would earn a mere $31,200 at that rate). I am not criticizing the amount, but rather what the focus could suggest: that many workers should reconcile themselves to occupying minimum wage jobs, and that the best way to improve their situation is not to aid them in securing better and more rewarding jobs, but to make their current station in life less painful. If that is the intent, or the result, then the minimum wage boost is not all that “progressive” (whatever this means).
Similarly, Sanders calls for tuition-free education at public universities and colleges. This is another excellent idea, or at least half of an idea. On the one hand, the untested and unproven assumption here is that by dropping tuition fees, more poor/working class persons will enter higher education–which might be good, if it were true. That assumes they want to go to college — when many instead drop out of high school. Given the heavy preponderance of middle class youths who attend college, Sanders’ proposal can amount to a subsidy for their class, and thus a continuation of the upward redistribution of wealth.
On the other hand, Sanders does not raise the question as to why people should get a university degree in the first place. Here he mentions something about US global “competitiveness,” and no doubt implies a continued emphasis on the “knowledge economy” — rather than bolstering stable and long-term industrial and perhaps agricultural employment. Higher education is thus retained as a prestige object, that promises higher status and higher rewards, which in turn implies the continued commodification of knowledge.
When we add everything up, it’s not certain that we have even half a socialist here.
An Anti-Imperialist Half-Head Speaks
Many readers already know that anti-imperialists in the West are regularly accused of being half-heads, probably more so than anyone else. The anti-imperialist is accused of valuing sovereignty over human rights, national self-determination over liberal democracy, or even anti-imperialism over socialism. Indeed, anti-imperialism is not the private property of any one ideology, so one can see how the latter accusation could be logical. However, I generally see each of these accusations as deeply flawed, and I have already devoted excessive amounts of ink, actual or digital, in rebutting them.
Instead, the half-headedness that is of interest here involves an interpretation of the significance of the US elections, guided by greater concern for the impact of the electoral outcome on the broader world system, than for the welfare of the average US citizen. For those who are not US citizens (that is most of us), it would not be difficult to reconcile matters this way: “Your own internal fights and outrages about sexism, misogyny, racism, etc., are your own affair; they do not concern us, have no impact on us, and we just don’t care”.
The theoretical problem here is that such an attitude could make us forget the interplay between domestic and foreign dimensions of any imperial formation, that the strife, divisions, and conquests practiced at home are frequently visited upon others abroad later. At the very least, forging unity at home is often an impetus for war against a foreign “enemy”. Politically, the problem could be that of forsaking “solidarity” and condemning everyone in the US, which is also an attractive option if we are to be honest.
Let me explain that last point. Speaking for myself, it is difficult to either forget, or forgive, the massive shroud of liberal and left-wing silence that arose in the US at the time of the war on Libya. To then turn around and be asked — or commanded — to support such types when it comes time to improving their domestic situation, and enhancing their individual lot, and to rally around their conveniently constructed and selectively directed “anti-fascist” crusade, seems like too much to suffer.
A large portion of the US “left” was bought off by democracy-promotion and the “Arab Spring,” cheering bombs that would mythically save lives. What little remained of an anti-imperialist left, was led away from anti-neoliberalism as they cheered “Democracy Spring” and the preemptive pre-regime change of “Stop Trump” at home. It now seems clear that every single sector and shade of the US left has made some sort of peace with neoliberalism, with the basic structure of the status quo, from which their hopes hang even if by the thinnest of humanitarian, cosmopolitan and reformist threads. There is no doubt that the non-US, anti-imperialist half-head in this case is one consumed by a sense of disgust and a desire for revenge.
While I am personally less concerned about the political side of the last point, as a theoretical approach it barely functions. There are better options for producing analyses that are more comprehensive and integral.
A Whole-of-Head Approach
In a meek remark that provoked the ire and abuse of some of Bernie Sanders’ more vulgar supporters, I commented that he was no C. Wright Mills, who had a more complete understanding of US capitalism and militarism, because he saw them as combined. Perhaps they were angry at never having read, or even having heard of Mills? If so, then let me try to remedy that deficit.
In The Power Elite
. (1956) and “The Structure of Power in American Society” (The British Journal of Sociology, March 1958), Mills’ explanations can look like an elaborated, in-depth version of what former president Dwight Eisenhower described as the military-industrial complex, but with a stronger focus on the role of private corporations and special interest lobbies. These approaches endure today — because the problem they describe and analyze continues — as shown in the work of anthropologists such as Wedel on Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
, Guerin on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wage Labour: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Neoliberal Coup (2014), Kapferer in “New Formations of Power, the Oligarchic-Corporate state, and Anthropological Ideological Discourse” (Anthropological Theory, September 2005) on the corporate-oligarchic imperial state, which complement the more recent work of Gilens & Page in “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens” (Perspectives on Politics, in press) on the oligarchic dominance of US politics, and Dube et al. in “Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information” (Quarterly Journal of Economics, April 2011) on the relationship between the stock market, multinational corporations and the US’ CIA-led coups against foreign governments.
Combined, even these few items provide a more robust understanding and critique than what is presented as “progressive” or “socialist” in the platforms of US Democrats.
For C. Wright Mills, the problem was not just “Wall St.,” nor the “Pentagon” alone — focusing on one over the other produces a half-headed understanding, with all of the political demerits that result. As he argued in his 1958 article, “the high military, the corporation executives, the political directorate have tended to come together to form the power elite of America” (pp. 32-33). The power elite is what he described as a “triangle of power,” linking corporations, executive government, and the military: “There is a political economy numerously linked with military order and decision. This triangle of power is now a structural fact, and it is the key to any understanding of the higher circles in America today” (Mills, 1958, p. 32).
Contrary to Bernie Sanders, Mills emphasizes the decisive influence of the military in the corporate oligarchic state (as Kapferer later called it):
“The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of civilian distrust, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government; behind smiling public relations, it has all the grim and clumsy efficiency of a great and sprawling bureaucracy. The high military have gained decisive political and economic relevance. The seemingly permanent military threat places a premium upon them and virtually all political and economic actions are now judged in terms of military definitions of reality: the higher military have ascended to a firm position within the power elite of our time”. (Mills, 1958, p. 33)
US politics are dominated, Mills argued, “by a few hundred corporations, administratively and politically interrelated, which together hold the keys to economic decision,” and the economy that results is “at once a permanent-war economy and a private-corporation economy”:
“The most important relations of the corporation to the state now rest on the coincidence between military and corporate interests, as defined by the military and the corporate rich, and accepted by politicians and public”. (Mills, 1958, p. 33)
Mills also pays attention to the history of this type of corporate-military state. The influence of private lobbies dates back deep into US political history, when the influence of railway tycoons, banana magnates, and tobacco barons was considerable at different times. From this Mills discerned the rise of what he called the “invisible government,” which existed starting from at least 50 years prior to his 1958 article…
“Fifty years ago many observers thought of the American state as a mask behind which an invisible government operated. But nowadays, much of what was called the old lobby, visible or invisible, is part of the quite visible government. The ‘governmentalization of the lobby’ has proceeded in both the legislative and the executive domain, as well as between them. The executive bureaucracy becomes not only the centre of decision but also the arena within which major conflicts of power are resolved or denied resolution. ‘Administration’ replaces electoral politics; the maneuvering of cliques (which include leading Senators as well as civil servants) replaces the open clash of parties”. (Mills, 1958, p. 38)
The corporate-military government is tied to US global dominance, and its power increased dramatically from 1939 onwards. As Mills noted, “the attention of the elite has shifted from domestic problems — centered in the ’thirties around slump — to international problems centered in the ’forties and ’fifties around war” (1958, p. 33). (As I argued elsewhere, this shift also registers in US anthropology, which moved from research at home, on domestic social problems, to fieldwork abroad as the dominant norm.)
Rather than challenge the arms industry, whose growing size and power stunned Eisenhower, Sanders would simply tax them more. It is open to debate whether Sanders’ is offering even half of a solution, and whether he sees even half of the bigger picture. Usually Sanders has voted in favour of military appropriations, supported the financing of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has backed a range of regime change and “humanitarian interventionist” efforts, from NATO’s war in Kosovo, to support for the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act and for regime change in Libya (contrary to his false representations on the latter point). He is also an aggressive supporter of NATO and its anti-Russian posture. While he is not even half of anti-imperialist, some might argue that it is also too generous to see him as half of a socialist–either way, we need to do better than beat each other up with half-answers.
Maximilian C. Forte is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa
(2012) and Emergency as Security (New Imperialism)
(2013). See his publications here; read his bio here.
He writes at the Zero Anthropology website (many of his articles are posted at the FM website. it is one of the of the few with an About page well worth reading — excerpt…
Anthropology after empire is one built in part by an anthropology that is against empire, and it need not continue, defensively, as a discipline laden with all of the orthodoxies from which it suffers today. Indeed, the position taken here is that there can be no real critical anthropology that is not simultaneously critical of (a) the institutionalization and professionalization of this field, and (b) imperialism itself.
Anthropology, as we approach it, is a non-disciplinary way of speaking about the human condition that looks critically at dominant discourses, with a keen emphasis on meanings and relationships, producing a non-state, non-market, non-archival knowledge.
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8 thoughts on “An anthropologist looks at the narrow choices we’re offered in Campaign 2016”
epagbreton
Nifty Post here. Mills? 1958? Recall reading him in the late 60’s, impactful then; yet clearly too young to grasp the historical significance of him at that time.
Half a loaf or half a head. A full critical examination? Now that is work and time consuming but half a head does allow one to take a deep breath, self satisfied and just move along….until the contradictions loom so large and the impacts are felt inter familia but then what?
Glad you found this gent.
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Music, Maine, and More.
10Qs
The Return Of Our Musician Database
March 3, 2016 September 28, 2017 | Stephen Quirk
When this site launched in 2010, one of the key features was a local music database. The information had been culled from personal knowledge, user submissions, defunct sites, show listings, and many other sources. Eventually, the original tool used to build the database no longer functioned and the information fell out of date.
Today we’re happy to announce that the database is back! With almost 500 listings, it’s by far the most comprehensive listing of Maine-connected artists. Does that mean the work is done? No, not at all. We need your help to keep the list growing! If you see someone missing or information that needs to be updated, feel free to fill out our contact form. Additionally, we have a queue of more artists to be added soon!
The list is meant to be a bit curated and we try to look for bands and performers who have made an impact; someone who has played shows in Maine in established or known DIY venues, released albums, played festivals, or received media attention. Please be aware this list can never cover all musicians in the state. There may be gaps in genres, time periods, and more, but we’ll do our best to continue building out this frequently requested resource.
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Stephen Quirk
Stephen is a freelance builder of websites and creator of content. He worked in the Technology Department at his alma mater, Maine College or Art and as an Events Wrangler at Automattic.
Stephen has exhibited his photography in California and throughout New England and served as Associate Director of a Boston-based non-profit overseeing the organization's technology, visual design, social networking, and event planning.
He lives outside of Portland with his wife and two children.
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