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GCI gets £60m warchest from fresh backer
Serial acquisition deal maker GCI has changed its major shareholder and been given access to funds to continue to expand the business
GCI has changed its major shareholder and gained access to a warchest that will give it the funds to continue with more acquisitions and support organic growth.
The converged ICt provider's founder and chairman Wayne Martin has sold off some of his share of the firm and private equity backer BGF has sold off its involvement to Mayfair Equity Partners, which now has a majority stake in the business.
With the Mayfair backing GCI is setting up a strategic fund worth £60m, which could be spent on future acquisitions, adding to the five made in the last two years.
During Adrian Thirkill's time as CEO the firm has picked up Packet Media, Fusion Media Networks, Outsourcery, Freedom Communications and Blue Chip Data Systems. That has helped take the firms revenues to the £100m mark.
Thirkill said that it would continue to grow organically and was determined to acquire new customers but it was also not adverse to carrying out some M&A activity.
"With M&A I imagine the [proposed target] would have the capabilities that means we could take them out faster to market or it would give us market share," he said.
Mayfair was shown a three year plan for the business and organic growth was a key part of the ambitions in the short term and Thirkill said that the firm "is very results orientated".
"We are constantly investing in helping support customers and for them it will be business as usual," he said of the Mayfair deal.
Mayfair Partner, Waqqas Ahmad, said that it was aiming to work with the GCI team to make it one of the largest suppliers in the UK.
“The ICT sector has seen impressive growth in recent years, with the UK IT services sector becoming increasingly attractive as customers dependence on suppliers increases through outsourcing mission critical systems and IT infrastructure. GCI is at the forefront of the industry, with a partnership-based ethos and customer service orientated philosophy that stands out in the market, alongside a product portfolio that is tailored to meet clients’ specific needs," he said.
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NBN Co pushes back against ACCC pricing intervention
NBN warned over preferred treatment given to some RSPs
NBN Co outlines cheaper gigabit offering, action on protocol overhead
TPG’s Teoh joins telco CEO chorus criticising NBN’s enterprise ambitions
NBN Co submits special access undertaking to ACCC
By Hamish Barwick
An NBN Co special access undertaking (SAU) has been submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) which guarantees fixed wholesale prices for the next five years to service providers.
After June 2017, these charges would increase to half the rate of inflation for the next 25 years, aiming to ensure wholesale price reductions over time.
The SAU encompasses set price and non-price terms that outline the wholesaler's commitments to the ACCC and customers. It will provide access frameworks and achieve uniform national pricing of services provided by NBN Co.
The agreement, which is available on NBN Co’s website, also sets out a 30-year regulatory framework via which the company will set price and non-price terms and recover rollout costs, subject to ACCC regulation.
This agreement replaces the price mechanism that was proposed by chief executive, Mike Quiqley, in June this year which would have allowed NBN Co to increase prices for most of its services by inflation plus 5 per cent.
NBN Co head of product development and industry engagement, Jim Hassell, said in a statement that where commercial agreement could not be reached on non-price terms not covered in the SAU, or where NBN Co introduces new prices after the SAU commences, the ACCC could be called upon to settle an outcome.
“Once the ACCC has made its decision, NBN Co will make the outcome available to all our customers,” he said.
“Our corporate plan does not envisage that prices will need to rise to achieve our long-term financial objectives, and the SAU formally commits us to limits on the prices we set in the future.”
The release of the SAU follows NBN Co’s wholesale broadband agreement (WBA), the 12-month commercial contract that sets out the detailed terms for telephone and internet service providers who want to sign up to operate over the National Broadband Network (NBN).
According to Hassel, the SAU and WBA will work together to provide telephone and internet service providers with a new level of certainty on pricing and network access in the NBN world.
While the SAU has now been lodged with the ACCC, a formal process will be undertaken by the Commission to assess the agreement with the service provider industry.
“Not only does the SAU provide industry certainty if accepted by the ACCC, it is in the long-term interests of consumers and businesses because it supports the objective we have been set to offer a uniform national wholesale price for our basic services,” Hassel said.
The signing of the SAU follows calls from the telecommunications industry for regulation of NBN Co. In November, Optus chief executive officer, Paul O’Sullivan, said that unless NBN Co’s spending and pricing costs were regulated by the ACCC, consumers could end up paying more for the NBN than planned.
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The Harm in Taking Too Much Folic Acid
The maker of my multivitamin says it doesn't include folic acid because too much from supplements can be harmful. Is that true?
Although folic acid is an essential B vitamin with important functions, there are legitimate concerns about getting too much folic acid from supplements and fortified foods. For example, a high daily dose of folic acid from a supplement has been associated with a more than doubling of the risk of prostate cancer. High doses of folic acid from supplements can also complicate the diagnosis of vitamin B-12 deficiency and cause kidney damage. For details about how much is too much, and how this compares to the amounts of folic acid in the many popular multivitamins and B vitamins we've tested, see the Multivitamin Supplements Review and B Vitamin Supplements Review >>
David688 April 22, 2015
I'm very interested in knowing whether all forms of folate/folic acid can increase the risk of prostate cancer or whether it's just the standard form included in most supplements. There's been lots of articles recommending different forms such as Metafolin and Quatrefolic, but I don't know if there's any strong evidence for or against these forms - i.e. whether they're better used by the body and/or are safer.
ConsumerLab.com November 16, 2015
Hi David - Folic acid (a synthetic form of folate found in some supplements and fortified foods) from supplements has been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, but folate from dietary sources has not been found to increase the risk.
You can find more information about this, and about Metafolin and Quatrefolic, in the "Folate" section of the B Vitamin Supplements Review: https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/_/bvitamins/#folate.
You may also be interested in this CL Answer about Metafolin and Quatrefolic: https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/_/metafolin_5-methylfolate/
Ann 218 October 9, 2014
For Kathryn 212:
The multi I'm citing is Dr Fuhrman's "Gentle Care Formula" ( labeled "Vegan" also). 120 caps for $40 plus shipping. Last time, I bought it from Amazon Marketplace and avoided the shipping cost. Suggested use: 2 caps daily. Label lists trace elements like vanadium, molybdenum and others, in a medium composed of "broccoli sprout extract, acai fruit and goji berry extract", etc. All sounds good but then I got that pesky homocysteine number after a few months without supplemental folate (folic acid).
Kathryn212 October 8, 2014
I would like to know which multivitamin that is, if the person who posted the question is willing to share this information. I have looked for a multivitamin without folic acid without success. Thanks!
Sally A211 October 8, 2014
Another important concern regarding folic acid, is that many people have a genetic trait (called MTHFR, methyltetrahydrafolate reductase) that reduces their ability to metabolize synthetic folate known as folic acid. For these people (could be 40% of the US or more), they cannot transform folic acid (FA) into methyl folate (MF), and MF is needed for hundreds of essential biochemical processes. People with MTHFR who take FA either in vitamins or enriched foods can have miscarriages, birth defects, mental health issues such as depression and bipolar, difficulty releasing toxins and much more. Folic acid can reduce the ability to bind natural folate from foods like greens and from methyl folate supplements.
Stephen684 April 22, 2015
I have MTHFR and I was told to take a folate supplement. Based on your comment, this is not true?
ConsumerLab.com May 29, 2015
Hi Stephen - You can read more about folic acid and MTHFR in the B Vitamin Supplements Review: https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews//bvitamins/#folate
Beverly210 October 8, 2014
Many people have a genetic defect called MTHFR that makes it difficult or impossible for them to use folic acid, a synthetic form of folate. They need the methylfolate which is active folate instead. For those people folic acid works against them not for them.
Danielle209 October 8, 2014
I have been looking for a vitamin without Folic acid because of a MTHFR homozygous status.
Which brand dows not have the folic acid?
I have MTHFR C677T and use whole food derived MVM from New Chapter. They have several options.
There seems to be a lot of interest in this topic. Dr. Fuhrman's multis have neither folic acid nor beta-carotene nor vitamin E. (I am reading this off the label). What they do have is multiple minerals and a few b vitamins in a "vegan" medium derived from such ingredients as broccoli and acai berries. A problem with dietary folate is that overcooking can reduce the amount available from veggies, resulting in inadequate intake. Plus, care must be taken to choose produce that will deliver the needed amount. The doc sells his multis and much else on his website at premium prices. One has to decide whether or not one has sufficient goal-oriented discipline to obtain enough folate from dietary sources only.
MaryBeth222 October 10, 2014
What you need is a well done multivitamin that uses only methylated b vitamins. While not inexpensive - you get what you pay for. These are able to be ordered through your healthcare practitioner in most cases, but if you are purchasing a multivitamin over the counter or ordering online, look for those that contain methylated versions of both B12 (methylcobalamin) and methyl folate.
Wendy256 October 30, 2014
I am also homozygous on the MTHFR C677T gene, and I have found several options for a multivitamin without folic acid. Metabolic Maintenance, Pure Encapsulations, and Thorne Research all make multivitamins with methyl folate that also contain methylcobalamin (methylated B12) and the activated forms of riboflavin and B6. If you are looking for a cheaper option, Life Extension Two-Per-Day multivitamin contains natural folate made from lemon peel and also has methyl B12, activated riboflavin and B6.
michael208 October 8, 2014
The only B vitamin that I am aware of that carries realistic risks for toxicity, is B6. B vitamins are water soluble and excessive amounts will be excreted.
charles207 October 8, 2014
I take 1 mg of folic acid daily to counteract the effect of methotrexate 5mg weekly. is taking a multivitamin with folic acid too much?
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By Jeff Starck-Coin World Staff
Published: Feb 7, 2012, 7 PM
Canada’s annual silver dollar, which in 2012 marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, is available in three versions, including Proof, at left, gold-plated Proof, right, and Brilliant Uncirculated, not shown.
Images courtesy of www.mint.ca.
The Loon dollar celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012, so the annual Specimen set contains a commemorative version of the coin and bears the dual dates 1987 and 2012.
Canada’s annual commemorative silver dollar is returning to a higher silver fineness.
Canada’s annual silver dollar for 2012, which was released Jan. 23, is composed of .9999 fine silver. The fineness of the silver in the silver dollar has been changed over the years, both rising and falling in the level of fineness. Traditionally, silver dollars have been of .500, .925 and .999 fineness, with the coins issued since 2007 composed of .925 fine silver.
Despite the higher fineness of the 2012 coin, its actual silver content is slightly less than the silver content of older, lower fineness coins.
The coin is available both individually and as part of two Proof sets. New for 2012 is the first release, in what is to be an annual offering, of a silver Proof set featuring every coin struck in .9999 fine silver.
The RCM’s initial release of 2012 also includes its annual Brilliant Uncirculated and Specimen sets.
The 2012 annual silver $1, struck in Brilliant Uncirculated, Proof and gold-plated Proof versions, celebrates the bicentennial of the War of 1812, when the British Empire clashed with the United States of America, drawing in Native Americans as well.
The conflict “united English, French and First Nations forces in defending the borders and values of a future Canada and also ushered [in] two centuries of peace between Canada and the United States,” according to the RCM.
War of 1812 design
The same design is used for each of three different versions.
The reverse, designed by military artist Ardell Bourgeois of British Columbia, features a British sergeant, a Voltigeur Canadien (light infantry unit) and an Iroquois warrior united in the defense of their border against an approaching invader (U.S. forces). Behind them is a map showing part of the Great Lakes and southwestern Ontario, “where U.S. forces sparked the conflict by invading the territory of the future city of Windsor, Ontario on July 12, 1812,” according to the RCM.
Encircling this design are 200 beads near the rim of the coin to symbolize the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812.
The obverse features the Susanna Blunt-designed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, which appears on all of the new coins in this release.
The fineness of the annual silver dollars was not the only specification changed. The annual silver dollars, when struck from .925 fine silver previously, weighed 25.175 grams for an actual silver weight of 23.29 grams. The weight of the 2012 coin is 23.17 grams, meaning the coin contains slightly less actual silver than the past issues.
All of the coins measure 36.07 millimeters in diameter, the same as previous issues.
The BU version is limited to a mintage of 25,000 pieces and is available only individually, while the Proof example is limited to a mintage of 80,000 pieces, 40,000 to be offered in individual sales and 40,000 in the 2012 standard Proof set. The BU coin costs $54.95, while the Proof version is $59.95.
Two Proof sets
The RCM is offering two 2012 Proof sets, each with a different version of the commemorative silver dollar, and having the other coins made of different compositions.
One of the 2012 Proof sets will offer the other 40,000 standard Proof issues and will also feature Proof base metal examples of the eight circulating denominations of Canadian coins: the 1-cent, 5-cent, 10-cent, 25-cent, 50-cent, $1 and $2 coins.
The commemorative silver dollar in this set differs from previous dollars in Proof sets offered in recent years in that it does not feature any selective gold plating.
This 2012 Silver Proof set becomes available in April and carries a retail price of $99.95.
What the RCM website bills as a Fine Silver Proof set is an addition to the RCM’s line of products for 2012.
This year, for the first time, all eight denominations in the additional Silver Proof set are composed of .9999 fine silver (only some of the coins were previously struck in silver, and that was to a .925 fineness).
The annual commemorative silver dollar in the Fine Silver Proof set has gold plating on the edge, on the rims of both obverse and reverse, and on the three warrior figures depicted on the reverse. In addition, the silver cent and $1 and $2 coins feature gold plating (selective on two pieces) to mimic the look of circulating versions. What RCM officials term as “pink gold” is used for the cent, with the maple leaves on the reverse selectively plated in pink gold (generally described as an alloy of gold and copper) to emulate the appearance of a newly minted copper-based coin. According to the RCM, this is the first time a pure silver version of the 1-cent coin has been offered in a Proof version.
A standard $2 coin is a ringed bimetallic piece, so gold plating is applied to the .9999 fine silver $2 coin in the Fine Silver Proof set on what would be the core section of a standard $2 coin. The entirety of the silver Loon dollar (bearing the standard design) has been plated with gold.
A maximum of 20,000 Fine Silver Proof sets are being issued, each set offered for $224.95. The mintage limit reflects a drop from an edition of 45,000 for the similar set in 2011 (one containing the 2011 commemorative silver dollar and Proof examples of the circulating coins, some composed of .925 fine silver).
An annual Uncirculated set, featuring examples of all eight circulating denominations in Uncirculated condition, has also been released.
The mintage limit for the 2012 Uncirculated set was raised to 75,000 for 2012, after being limited to 55,000 in recent years. The Uncirculated sets are priced at $23.95 each.
2012 Specimen set
The annual Specimen set features eight coins: Specimen-finish examples of seven circulating coins and also a special Specimen Loon dollar available only in the annual set. The design for the 2012 Specimen dollar honors the 25th anniversary of the Loon dollar, which entered circulation in 1987.
A common loon swims on the reverse of the 2012 coin with two young chicks, one just behind the mother and another on her back (see design at top of page), in a design by Ontario artist Arnold Nogy. The dual dates of 1987 and 2012 also appear on the reverse.
The mintage limit for the 2012 Specimen set is 35,000 sets (the same as recent years). The sets sell for $49.95.
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Prices are listed in Canadian funds.
United States distributors for the RCM carry the various coins at fixed prices in U.S. dollars. Gatewest Coin Ltd., Brian Jenner Inc. and Talisman Coins are distributors for the RCM.
To contact Gatewest inside the United States, telephone the firm at 204-489-9112 or visit it online at www.gatewestcoin.com.
Write to Jenner at P.O. Box 2466-a, Pasco, WA 99302, or telephone him at 509-735-2172.
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blackhat Review
Untitled Michael Mann Projectblackhat chris hemsworth michael mann Movie Reviews
By Joshua Starnes
Rating: 5 out of 10
Chris Hemsworth as Nicholas Hathaway
Viola Davis as Carol Barrett
Wei Tang as Lien Chen
Leehom Wang as Chen Dawai
Holt McCallany as Mark Jessup
Ritchie Coster as Kassar
Yorick van Wageningen as Sdak
John Ortiz as Henry Pollack
Directed by Michael Mann
If you’ve never seen a Michael Mann film before, then blackhat – a race by a Chinese cop (Wang) and notorious computer criminal (Hemsworth) to stop the mystery hacker who sabotaged a Chinese nuclear reactor – is probably not the one to start with. If you have, then you will recognize his now well-worn tricks of the trade its runtime is filled with, but likely not appreciate them. blackhat is filled to the brim with strong men acting strong with each other and delicate with the women they love, discussions on personal relationships amid splashy montages and the odd, jarring piece of violence which weaves it all together.
Everything Mann has ever done in a crime film is repeated here with little to no innovation, erasing much of the work he has done over the past thirty years to fight the slander that as a director he is more style than substance. It’s as if Mann has simply run out of things to say about the crime story, but doesn’t know what else to talk about anymore.
All that’s really new is the setting itself as, with just a bit of computer code to go on, Hathaway and his government handler (Davis) track their prey from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. Rather than deal with any ‘stranger in a strange land’ syndrome of being in a foreign land (both Hong Kong and outside prison), Mann has little to offer but some words from Hathaway about what prison time does to a person what they have to do to handle. He replaces characterization and insight with mere plot advancing statements and his now classic vérité gun battles.
The action elements when they come are excellent. He’s fully perfected his style since Heat from ringing, realistic sound design to the cold ballet of active shooters and deadly ricochets. And if that’s all you want from a Michael Mann film, then you’re in luck, because that’s all you’re going to get; the rest is simply perfunctory from beginning to end, as if the director were aping previous work like a copyist at a light box.
It’s a feeling which seems to have gripped everyone involved from cast to crew, with little beyond the action beats to make anyone care about what’s happening on screen even as Hathaway and company discover they are the hunted as much as the hunters while playing cat and mouse across South Asia. The conflict between a desire for realism and excitement among a plot and milieu has increased that feeling of ennui, enforcing creative choices that hinder more than help the film.
Mann’s longtime experiment with digital cinematography gets ahead of him with many of the nighttime scenes taking on a totally video feel which may have meant to increase the immediacy and visceral nature of the events taking place, but instead just heighten the unreality, particularly when juxtaposed with by now clichéd camera pans along the inner workings of computer networks which stand in for visually dull computer elements of the plot.
Even the sound design, usually a highlight of Mann’s films, is wonky with dramatic sequences frequently squashed beneath effects and music in an attempt to make them more purely cinematic, which instead just loses the information trying to be passed along. An issue which is exacerbated by an attempt at naturalistic performances of unnatural, plot and jargon-filled dialogue which falls flat coming from most of the actors. The usually reliable Davis comes across as bored and uninterested, talking about paperwork and the husband she lost on 9/11 in the same flat monotone.
Only Hemsworth, despite being more believable as a streetwise thug than a hacker supreme, transcends his mediocre surroundings to display real interest in what is happening to him as if this were his last shot at redemption as much as Hathaway’s, who breaks into the NSA to find the missing pieces to the mystery hacker’s plan. That decision sends in Hathaway out on his own, one step ahead of the police trying to throw him back in jail and two steps behind the criminals, and is the only point where blackhat seems to come alive.
With much of its baggage chucked, Mann is able to focus on just Hathaway and his predicament creating real urgency and taking advantage of the one actor able to truly hold the screen, even if it is through a rumbly accent that frequently sounds like a Stallone impersonation. It also lets Mann break free from some of the weaker production design and show off the epic scope of his endeavor, stretching from LA to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
But it’s too little, too late in a style over substance thriller which doesn’t have even enough to offer in the style department to be worthwhile. For all Hemsworth tries to hold things together, he’s fighting inertia most of the time. Inertia in the shape of a complex plot and a villain who stays in the shadows so long that when he finally makes his appearance, the drama of the moment is not heightened the way Mann seems to be expecting. Inertia in the form of a screen romance which never takes flight due to Tang’s bored line readings and an overreliance on visuals and montage. Inertia in the form of ‘seen it, done it’ carelessness blackhat can’t seem to shake.
With just a few alterations, this could have been a thrilling episode of “Miami Vice” back in the day, and if it had been, it would have been called “thrilling and inventive.” But that was then; now, it’s just rote.
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conventions norwescon seattle Uncategorized
by Curtis Chen March 22, 2019 April 13, 2019
It’s less than a month until Easter, and therefore just about a month until Norwescon! Here’s where you can find me then:
Friday (4/19) – it’s all about ME
Writing Class: Dialogue, She Wrote with Curtis Chen
Cascade 13
11:30am–1pm
More than one editor has accused me of writing “good-ass banter,” and I’m okay with that. Many writers struggle with writing natural speech (reality is no excuse for fiction) or having characters talk their way out of trouble (looking at you, Scalzi!). We can also get into things like eye dialect, why not to italicize foreign language words, and non-traditional text notations (e.g., telepathy or screen displays). Presented by Clarion West. Ages 17+. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. Sign-up before the convention, or sign-up in Cascade 1 during the convention.
Reading: Curtis C. Chen
Cascade 3
3:30pm–4pm
CLOUDMAKERS, a standalone novel about computers taking over the world! Rated R.
Saturday (4/20) – it’s all about YOU
Autograph Session 1
10am–11am
Our guests of honor and attending professionals are available to sign autographs. Please note: so that as many fans as possible can participate, we will be enforcing a three-items-at-a-time (or single-sketch) autograph limit.
Nancy Pearl, Yanni Kuznia, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Koboldt, Neil Clarke, Tran Nguyen, Carol Berg, Stephen L. Gillett, Pat MacEwen, Lee Moyer, Spencer Ellsworth, Caroline M. Yoachim, Curtis C. Chen, Evan J. Peterson, Julie McGalliard, Scott James Magner, Joseph Brassey, Fonda Lee, Barth Anderson, KJ Kabza, Violet DeVille, Abie Ekenezar, Greg Bear, Ren Cummins, Nisi Shawl, Nancy Kress
11am–12noon
Star Trek is back on TV—new tech, new Klingons, new uniforms. We boldly go where no one has gone before… and talk about the new clothes on our favorite sci-fi TV show.
Curtis C. Chen (M), K Tempest Bradford, Sarah Gulde, Alexandra Samuel
What is SFWA? (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)
Panelists will discuss the origin and history of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), what the organization does for professional fantasy and science fiction writers and the genre, how and why to join, and what the organization’s direction will be in coming years.
Cat Rambo (M), Curtis C. Chen, Adam Rakunas, Patrick Hurley
First Page Idol
Feeling brave? Want to see how your first page holds up in a cold read? Send the first page of your manuscript to idol@norwescon.org for the chance to have it anonymously read aloud and critiqued by a panel of pros. (Pages will be selected randomly; we cannot guarantee all submissions will be read. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS MONDAY, APRIL 15th.)
Curtis C. Chen (M), Nancy Kress, Tod McCoy, Adam Rakunas, Kiri Callaghan
Sunday (4/21) – Easter? I didn’t even know ‘er!
MST3K – Past, Present, and Future
How can you save a bad movie? By MSTing it, of course! MST3K has come and gone and come back again, both on television and through their offshoots of Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic. These are the guys who took the unwatchable and made it not only watchable but hilariously so. Best of all, you can do it too! Let’s talk about the past, present, and future of MST3K as well as how we can make our own awesome movie riffs!
Berlynn Wohl (M), Curtis C. Chen, Chris Wiswell
If you’re at the con, come say hello! Or just follow me on Twitter to keep up with all the latest shenanigans. (Shenanigans may vary.)
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T in the Park 2016
T in the Park is Scotland's biggest music festival, which has been running for over 20 years since 1994. This year's festival will take place from Thursday 7 - Sunday 10 July 2016, at Strathallan Castle in Perthshire. The 2016 headline acts include The Stone Roses, Calvin Harris, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Disclosure.
- How to get to Strathallan Castle - Packing essentials guide
- T in the Park weather forecast - Opening and closing times
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Scottish NewsBay City Rollers singer Les McKeown says he'll never work with guitarist Stuart 'Woody' Wood againA long-delayed compilation album is about to be released as McKeown plans to hook up again with his other Roller member Eric Faulkner.
Scottish festivalsWedding of the Week: Mark Coyle and Lynn MaxwellThe pair met nine years ago on July 11, 2010, at T in the Park, Ballado.
T In The ParkFive iconic T in the Park performances over last 25 yearsDespite the rain, mud, and potential tent disasters, the festival was a firm favourite in the Scottish music calender.
T In The ParkT in the Park's 25th anniversary: Relive first three amazing years at Strathclyde ParkTake a look back at the first three years of Scotland's biggest music festival.
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T In The ParkSpot yourself at T in the Park in our huge 25 year picture galleryDid you go to the event? We've created a huge picture gallery to celebrate 25 years of the festival.
T In The ParkYour best memories from T in the Park 25 years on"When it flooded and two guys got in their speedos, put on a snorkel and flippers, climbed in a dingy and sailed through the campsite"
T In The ParkThe first T in the Park happened 25 years ago today - a look back at Scotland's most iconic festivalFrom humble beginnings as a small music festival showcasing world class music - T was at the heart of Scotland's music scene for over two decades.
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Scottish festivalsFuture of T in the Park decided as festival boss Geoff Ellis makes statementAfter two successful decades, T in the Park was cancelled indefinitely in 2016 - after the organisers said red tape made it virtually impossible to plan."
PerthshireT in the Park will not returnOrganiser: “It was an amazing festival, but it ran its course"
Irvine NewsKilwinning residents invited to view £12.7 million housing plansResidents are invited to attend a drop-in event at Whitehirst Park Community Centre on Wednesday, June 26.
Scottish festivalsFashion trends of the 90s that should make a comeback … and the ones we want to forgetWho remembers combat trousers and crushed velvet EVERYTHING?
T In The ParkDad of teen who died at T in the Park cries everyday after ecstasy overdoseMegan Bell's father speaks out after learning that a 15-year-old girl collapsed in a car park and later died after taking the drug this weekend.
PerthshireTRNSMT will not come to Perth and KinrossPerth and Kinross Council says city is unsuitable for urban-based festival
Martin CompstonScots actor Martin Compston has Tennent's tap installed in his Las Vegas homeThe Line of Duty star was presented with the draft kit as a thanks for his hardcore love and support of the beer brand.
StirlingFestival boss considers city offer that could bring TRNSMT to StirlingAmbitious plans are underway to bring to Stirling more big name music events – which may include the TRNSMT festival.
PerthshireRush for tickets for Lewis Capaldi at Perth Festival of the ArtsFestival of the Arts announces its line-up
T In The ParkRemembering when Keith Flint and The Prodigy rocked T in the Park at HamiltonKeith Flint was one of many who made it a festival to remember.
TRNSMT'Bring back T in the Park!' Scottish Twitter reacts to TRNSMT 2019 line-upNicola Gormley wasn't too happy on Twitter when she wrote: "Worst line up ever seen anywhere in the world. Ever."
PerthshirePerth student’s college project becomes two-day festivalAs many as 3000 people could descend on the festival
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Palmer’s House of Toys
Kids have their own way of judging what’s real, and it’s not necessarily based on the cost of the Santa suit. Here’s a Christmas memory from 1968, when Hazard, Kentucky, had three Santas — but only one would do. (This is a republication of a Daily Yonder holiday favorite).
By Dee Davis On Dec 25, 2018 Last updated Dec 26, 2019
The Hazard High School drama club circa 1968. Adviser Evangeline “Dang” Palmer is far left. The author, Dee Davis, is top right. (Via Facebook)
At 17 I was the Santa Claus for the Walkertown section of Hazard. Rick Rosanova, the news guy at Channel 4, was Santa at the new Sears in the old bowling alley in another part of town, Lothair. And Bill Douglas was the city’s main Santa from Backwoods to Big Bottom. He had a $1,000 velvet Santa outfit (in 1968 dollars) with black calfskin boots and jingle bells on a leather strap. His fake beard was combed human hair and in addition to that he could play the harmonica and jig dance. Value add-ons at anyone’s Christmas party. I worked at Palmer’s House of Toys, a more humble operation. I had a belly pillow and a stringy white beard-wig combination that I had to enhance by putting white shoe polish on my sideburns so my hair would not show through the gaps. The outfit was thin red corduroy, and instead of boots I had plastic covers to slip over my shoes to affect an illusion of boots.
Palmer’s House of Toys was owned by Evangeline “Dang” Palmer who had been my speech and drama teacher until she got fired for telling Merrill Pelfrey he did not know his own name. “If it is M-e-r-r-i-l-l, it’s pronounced Mehr-rill. “
Mehr-rill who thought his name was Merle said, “Dammit, woman I reckon I know my own name. It ain’t Mehh-rul, it’s Murl.” She kicked him out of her class, which was just home room for 10 minutes a day, but she drew that line unrepentantly and would not let him back in even when the order came down. So the school canned her. She went straight out and bought Country Boy Feltner’s furniture store, and then just before Thanksgiving she rented the upstairs above the old Pet Dairy across the street. Filled it with toy bins. Hired me.
Sadly, and this is no longer part of the story, Merrill Pelfrey ended up doing jail time for something like wanton endangerment. A couple of years later the Hazard cops were following him as he walked home from the Brown Derby, a bar below the new Sears in Lothair. He was tipsy and thought they were getting right up against him with the cruiser just to mess him up. When he got to his house, he grabbed a shotgun, blasted out their tires, and put 320 holes in the vehicle (according to the following week’s Hazard Herald). At first they had him up for attempted murder, but eventually let him plead it down. He told me he wasn’t attempting anything, he was looking right at the cops and could have shot them boys anytime, if he had wanted to.
Bill Douglas, on right in red with white trim, had the best Santa wardrobe in Hazard in 1968 — a velvet suit and beard made with real human hair. On the left is the younger Bill Douglas, Douglas’ son. (Photo via Facebook)
Mrs. Palmer came from Central Kentucky, horse country, and more refinement. She had studied drama at Northwestern and was a classmate there of Charlton Heston (Ben Hur, El Cid, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green is people), a fact she found reason to mention in class at least once a week. It was a time when smart women often taught school instead of being lawyers or doctors. And Mrs. Palmer was very smart. She knew all the Greek plays by heart, the eye-gouging kings who marry their mothers and mommas who kill their babies to keep them from the clutches of trifling husbands. She would tell us the plots with broad theatrical gestures. It was as good as school gets. She talked all the time, and there was never a test. Besides recalling encounters with Charlton Heston, she would regale us with tales of her performances at Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky (Lizzie and the Rainman, Arsenic and Old Lace), and the backstage dramas in which she always seemed to triumph. We were graded on how dramatically we could read aloud, how well we could make up speeches, and for helping with the school plays that she would direct like On Borrowed Time or Wait Until Dark. Speech class had only one overriding rule, and that was you couldn’t pronounce your long “i’s” flat like you would naturally in Hazard. You had to make them sound like you were saying “aye, aye, Captain Bligh.” If you didn’t, she claimed she would fail you. Not my problem. I was good at speech. Sometimes she would tell me to stand up in class and say America.
I’d say, “America.”
She’d pause for a second, “Say America.”
Again, I’d say “America,” sounding it out like she and Charlton Heston would.
Then she’d say, “He has a beautiful voice, doesn’t he?” All followed by a chortle from the back of her throat, a sound like spit frying on a griddle that you can never unhear.
After school my friends would make fun, “Say America for me.” But then it was me she hired as Santa. Paid good money, maybe two bucks an hour, and the work was nothing, if you could belt out an imitative Merry Christmas and a Ho-Ho-Ho.
Often the store was empty, and I would play with the toys myself, racecars and gyroscopes. Other times high school friends would come by to harass me, the boys trying to get me to say something inappropriate around the kids, teenage girls who wanted to sit in my lap, whisper in my ear, and make me squirm. Occasionally a kid would get scared, tear up, run back to his minder, but if you’d let the little fellow find his own way to you, he’d generally work up some courage, get a wish in, and go home hopeful. The kids that shopped in Walkertown didn’t want that much, and the House of Toys was not high end. Mostly they said dolls and balls, toy guns and play kitchens. Sometimes boys wanted those little gas stations with an elevator for the cars to get up to the down ramp. Not fancy or electric.
Then one Wednesday I got a call to come in that night to be Santa when we were not open. I remember that I did not want to bother with shoe polish on the sideburns. Too much to scrub out later on a school night. When I got there, Mrs. Palmer explained that there was this kid, I want to say Lucas or James, but I don’t remember, 7 or 8, and he was sick. I think it was leukemia then before all the miracle cures. His parents called Mrs. Palmer. Christmas was two weeks out, but they did not think he would make it. They told her they had taken him to Lothair to see Rosanova’s Santa, and downtown to see Bill Douglas, but after each visit he had told his folks, “That’s not the real Santa Claus.”
I went across the street, up the metal stairs, and turned on the lights to get dressed. I pressed the white beard and wig against my temples to hide my scraggly facial hair. Santa’s throne was an unsold upholstered chair in the back of the store. When they came up I could peer out over the bins and watch him see me as he began to make his own way back. Mrs. Palmer, who rarely came up the steps, was with them, the mom and the dad, and I think someone else from the family. Mrs. Palmer was a doctor’s widow. She had money. She was the kind of woman who would buy a furniture store just to show the school system that she did not need their payday or their approval. She would have given James or Isaac or Lucas every toy on display and not blinked. She told him to pick what he wanted.
The mom trailed the slight, sandy-haired boy. He was ashen. She wasn’t that much older than me. Her face was puffy from crying but also from holding it back. Her head cocked like when you’re worn down. She smiled at him with absolute pride, like watching your kid sing in the school pageant. But it was as if she was mourning him at the same time.
I met him in the bins, reached in to the toys, and handed him a rev-up top with a gyroscope inside it. I think it was yellow and cost four ninety-five. I called him by his name and whisked him up into my chair. I talked in softer Santa, asking him what he wanted and making a deep quiet Ho-Ho trying to sound like a man. He told me about his little brother and his momma, his daddy. If he wanted something for Christmas, it was not a big part of our conversation. I just remember that when he got up to go, the top he’d been holding had slipped into the side of the chair. As he walked back to his mom, I said, “Here, Lucas, don’t forget your top.” And he looked at me and said “I won’t, and I won’t forget who gave it to me either.”
We did not have a school play that year. Mrs. Palmer directed some community theater after that, and I got cast a couple of times: once as a farmer in the bi-centennial history of Hazard, another time as Vinnie, one of the poker players in The Odd Couple. No small parts, only small actors. The kid made it through Christmas, but not into spring. Rosanova moved away owing a lot of merchants money. And Bill Douglas is remembered in town as the greatest Santa of all time.
Dee Davis is publisher of the Daily Yonder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies. He’s on twitter @iamflyrock.
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Archive > Issue 11 > House of Great Illusions
House of Great Illusions
Tozan House
by Andrew Finkel
Hidden among the concrete blocks of Teşvikiye is a magnificent mansion riddled with mystery. Masquerading as a Venetian palazzo, Tozan House has disappearing passages, secret stairs and eccentricities it shares with its creator. Andrew Finkel investigates. Photographs by Simon Upton
A fake hearth is set in a reception-room wall and mirrored doors give an impression of more beyond
Now you see it, now you don’t. Tucked in amid the “new brutalism” of the 1960s and 1970s apartment blocks in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Teşvikiye is, for all intents and purposes, a Venetian palazzo. It is easy to overlook – the top storey is covered by another three floors belonging to the building next door. Easier still to walk past, down Hüsrev Gerede Caddesi, without noticing the plaque commemorating the house’s one-time owner, Safvet Lütfi Tozan.
However, Safvet Lütfi Bey would no doubt have approved of this anonymity. The ltalianate mansion that bears his name also bears his eccentricities, including various bolt holes that appear to lead nowhere. There are tales of hidden staircases leading out to the spacious back garden and there is a rumour, too, of a tunnel leading right down to the shoreline at Beşiktaş.
The house once contained many fine objecrs, the lifetime collection of a man who is rumoured to have had many secret aspects to his life. It is said that he sold arms to Franco and during the Second World War was a double agent, spying for the English and being chased by the Gestapo. He also procured arms for his own country.
Safvet Lütfi Bey’s appearance was dashing; his fortune was vast. The story goes that he was the sole survivor of a plane that crash-landed in the Black Sea. Found clinging to a fisherman’s boat, he was taken to lstanbul, where he appeared before the American consulate, to whom he gave some prime intelligence concerning the fate of the Resistance in Belgrade, gleaned from a German officer at a dinner party in Bucharest.
Rare for a house in Turkey, but befitting the swashbuckling habits of its owner, the Tozan Apartmanı has a baronial feel. The great blocks of stone of the great rounded pentagonal entrance hall are in fact an illusion-trompe l’oeil painted on the plaster. lt is easy to imagine the shadows of an Errol Flynn-style sword battle emanating from the flickering light of the fireplace. Except that the hearth in the living room is false as well.
The sombre walnut panelling and staircase are real enough, as are the Bavarian crystal lampshades and Baccarat chandeliers. The house served at one time after its construction in the 1920s as the guesthouse for the Mobil Oil Company, whom Lütfi Bey went on to represent. The network of kitchens and servants’ quarters below stairs was clearly capable of lavish entertainment.
The Italianate garden is spacious and surprisingly rustic for so central a location. It is overlooked at a respectable distance by the Palais d’Italie, once to have been the Italian embassy, but now a technical college.
The master bedroom, on the first floor, shares the odd pentagonal shape of the entrance hall. It has an unusual additional alcove which appears to have housed the bed concealed behind a curious gilded wrought-iron partition.
After Safvet Lüfti Tozan’s death, his possessions were dispersed at an auction still famous more than twenty years on for having provided the seed for many of today’s important art and furniture collections. “lt lasted days and the bidding went three times higher than the estimates,” recalls Raffi Portakal, the Istanbul art expert whose father oversaw the bidding. It is the furniture and carpets that most people remember. The proceeds and house went to the educational foundation, Darüşşafaka. Now [1996] the foundation has sold the house and it is back on the market at a serious price, probably nor far short of the Venetian palazzo on which it is modelled.
Other Highlights from Cornucopia 11
Aphrodite’s Domain
The finest school of sculpture in all antiquity was in Aphrodisias. Above the valleys of the Meander in Turkey’s Aegean hinterland, this favourite city of the Emperor Augustus remained largely unknown until the photographer Ara Güler brought it to the attention of the Princeton scholar Kenan T Erim in 1959. Here Ara Güler returns to the city and John Julius Norwich recalls Professor Erim and his first impressions of the sculptures that took his breath away.
Lake Shore Drive
The Mosque of Esrefoğlu in Beyşehır, is one of the most beautiful in Anatolia. Built in 1298, it recalls earlier Central Asian traditions. Wooden columns with carved capitals support the splendid roof.
Tracing the history of this beautiful fruit is like reading a fairy tale. It spans continents and cultures like no other fruit, from its presumed natural habitat in the foothills of the Himalayas to the scented paradise gardens of the eastern Mediterranean and the orange groves of California.
Vintners of Tokat
The bunch of Narince grapes Ali Riza Diren is holding in his Anatolian vineyard (illustrated in this vintage issue of Cornucopia) is the raw material of a well kept secret. Tokat’s is an ancient wine, and its production was revived by Ali Riza’s father, to the delight of ambassadors and the approval of a Sotheby’s connoisseur.
Churches of the Rock
High on the central Anatolian plateau, the craggy undulations of Cappadocia’s volcanic landscape conceal a silent world: countless Byzantine sancturies and cathedrals lovingly hollowed from the rock. David Barchard finds two valleys undisturbed since the Dark Ages. Photographs by Sigurd Kranendonk
Divan Inspiration
Amasya, Tokat and Merzifon were once on the trade routes to China, centres of scholarship and commerce. Today they are secluded enclaves of traditional pleasures. John Carswell enjoys a feast of delicate architecture and heady wines. Photographs by Simon Upton
The snowdrop treat
When Mike Read, the plant conservation officer for Fauna and Flora International (FFI), uncovered a large illegal trade in wild bulbs from Turkey in the 1980s, he and his colleagues were greatly concerned…
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CHEOPS Open Time Workshop Overview
CHEOPS 2017 Workshop Registration
CHEOPS Open Time Workshop Agenda
CHEOPS Open-time Workshop 2017
CHEOPS Open Time Workshop Overview - CHEOPS Open-time Workshop 2017
********** REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP HAS NOW CLOSED **********
** PRESENTATIONS FROM THE WORKSHOP ARE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM THE WORKSHOP RESOURCES WEBPAGE (SEE SIDEBAR) **
CHEOPS - CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite - is the first mission dedicated to the search for exoplanet transits using ultra-high-precision optical/near-infrared photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. It is the first S-(for small) class mission in the ESA science programme, and a partnership between ESA and Switzerland, with important contributions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
The 3.5 year lifetime (nominal, goal 5 year) mission will deliver the unique capability of determining accurate radii for a subset of planets in the Earth to Neptune mass range for which the mass has already been obtained from ground-based spectroscopic surveys, as well as for new, Neptune-sized and smaller planets discovered by ground-based transit surveys. The combination of accurate mass and radius provides a measure of the planet bulk density of the planet, and with it insights into the planet composition, structure and formation history.
The CHEOPS payload comprises a single instrument - an ultra-stable, single-band photometer (350 - 1100 nm waveband) that is in the focal plane of a telescope with a clear aperature of 30cm. The CHEOPS science objectives put very stringent requirements on photometric precision: to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting G5 dwarfs with V-band magnitudes of between 6 and 9 requires a precision of 20 parts per million to be reached in 6 hours (transit duration of a planet with a 50-day orbit); in the case of characterisation of a Neptune-sized planet orbiting a K-type star with V-band magnitudes of down to 12, a precision of 85 parts per million in 3 hrs (transit duration of a planet with a 13 day orbit) needs to be achieved.
The CHEOPS Consortium is led by the University of Bern. More details about the mission can be found at http://sci.esa.int/cheops and http://cheops.unibe.ch
20% of total observing time will be available to the Community through an ESA-managed Guest Observers' Programme. Calls for proposals for time will be requested through a series of open ESA Announcements of Opportunity (AOs) foreseen to be issued on an annual basis, with the first AO to be made around 6 months before launch. Selection of successful proposals will be made by a Time Allocation Committee appointed by ESA based on scientific merit.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
With the launch foreseen towards the end 2018, now is an appropriate time to start preparing to respond to the first AO. Prospective observers are invited to attend the CHEOPS Open Time Workshop that will be held on the 26-27th July (1 day, afternoon and morning), immediately after the 5th CHEOPS Science Workshop (for further details on the Science Workshop, see link) to which you are very welcome to attend also/submit an abstract for.
The agenda for the Open Time workshop has been designed to inform the Community User about CHEOPS and the Guest Observers' Programme. Talks will provide an overview of the mission -- its capabilities, scientific objectives, payload and specifications, observing modes and performances, schedule and data products -- as well details on how to apply for observing time on CHEOPS, to observe with CHEOPS and to access CHEOPS data. Hands-on demonstrations will provide the opportunity to see and to use tools that will be available to support the observer through all steps of the CHEOPS observing process: from proposal preparation, through observation preparation to archive access to CHEOPS data.
The agenda can be found at this link.
WORKSHOP LOGISTICS:
The workshop will be held in Schloss Seggau, near Leibnitz, in the South of Austria, and will run from 14:00 26th July to lunchtime on the 27th. Details on the venue and how to get to it can be found at the following link.
The recommended place to stay is at the hotel within the castle - details on the accommodation, including how to book and pay, can be found at following link.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION:
This single form covers registration for both the Open Time workshop and the 5th CHEOPS Science Workshop, and, in the case of the science workshop, abstract submission also. Update of your registration will be possible up to the appropriate closing dates.
The Open Time workshop registration fee is 45 Euros which covers the cost of dinner on the 26th and lunch on the 27th; both meals will be buffet-style. Refreshments during coffee breaks are also included in the fee, as is water with meals. Payment should be made on arrival to the hotel on arrival at the workshop.
Please contact CHEOPS-OT-workshop2017(at)cosmos.esa.int in case of questions (note: please replace (at) by the "at" symbol)
CHEOPS ESA Project Scientist
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A new book on launderettes provides a colourful homage to a dying breed
Joshua Blackburn’s photo series hopes to capture the individual quirks of London’s final remaining launderettes – all 462 of them
By Aimée McLaughlin 17/10/2019 10:09 am
It’s no secret that the high street is in crisis. Recent high profile victims include Jamie’s Italian and Thomas Cook, while Pizza Express is also at risk of folding (leading to a spate of calzone gags on Twitter) and almost 2,500 independent businesses shut up shop in 2018.
Of all the high street’s endangered species, the humble launderette is one of the most under threat. The first self-service, coin-operated launderette in Britain opened in Queensway, London in 1949, and by the 70s they had become a regular feature across the country. But they have seen a sad decline in numbers ever since, with less than 3,000 estimated to be left in existence.
Growing up in the 70s, launderettes were a regular feature of Joshua Blackburn’s childhood. The London-based photographer often looks for beauty in unexpected places in his work, and his latest project has seen him visit every remaining launderette in the capital in order to immortalise their unique charms. As the painstakingly put together photo series gets a physical home in the form of a new book from Hoxton Mini Press, Blackburn discusses bringing his passion project to life.
Banner image: The Wash House, Norwood. Above: Barbican Launderette, Barbican
Launderette, Shepherd’s Bush
Creative Review: Where does your fascination with launderettes stem from?
Joshua Blackburn: I’ve always loved launderettes. We pass them daily, but for many they go unnoticed – and yet they’ve always drawn me in. Aesthetically, socially and culturally, the launderette is a unique institution. They’re analogue in an age of digital, slow in an age of fast. But above all, for a photographer they’re very beguiling, full of colour, texture and geometry. There’s also a sense of nostalgia that’s hard to resist.
CR: What has the process of documenting all of the launderettes in London been like?
JB: When I started I was very haphazard. If I went to a friend’s house or dropped my son at football, I’d look for nearby launderettes to visit. Later, I became much more methodical. I used Google Maps and online telephone directories to create a map of London’s launderettes, then I would set aside time to focus on individual postcodes and boroughs. I won’t deny that halfway through the project I was starting to doubt my sanity. Driving from north west London to the outer reaches of Croydon, Enfield and Ealing to photograph launderettes isn’t normal, and by launderette number 350 it was definitely feeling like a marathon. But the project only made sense if I went to every launderette in London, so I had to truck on.
Launderette, Rainham
Launderette, Greenford
Spick and Span, Battersea
CR: Have you noticed any recurring themes in terms of their design?
JB: London launderettes can be divided into a few distinct types: the traditional launderettes, unchanged for 30 or 40 years; community launderettes, full of people and chatter; minimal launderettes, unstaffed and undecorated; and Launderette 2.0, with modern machines and wifi. Taken as a whole though, every launderette is different and that’s what I love about them. They are a reflection of their neighbourhood, their history and their owners. This individuality, particularly given the homogeneity of London’s high streets, is what makes them so interesting. They each have a story to tell.
CR: Do you have any personal favourites?
JB: I certainly have favourites but for very different reasons. Maypine Launderette in South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood Launderette are both extraordinary time capsules. My heart skipped a beat when I first saw their colourful enamelled machines and signage, unchanged from the 70s. Barbican Launderette is also definitely up there for similar reasons; it’s the iconic London launderette embedded in the Barbican community. Places like Deep Clean Launderette in Walthamstow and Wow Launderette in Croydon were the most fun [to photograph]; happy places where staff and customers were gossiping and laughing. Launderette Hayes in Yeading was also heart warming. They had a stray cat who had made its home there, and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
The Sign of the Good Launderette, Streatham
Cover image: Maypine Launderette, South Wimbledon
CR: What do you hope people will take away from the photo series?
JB: I wanted to capture images that were honest, warm and human. Not every launderette is in good condition, but I never wanted to show a place looking bad, or to mock in any way. London’s launderettes are wonderful, unique institutions and I wanted my photographs to tell their story in all their richness and diversity, neither romanticising nor patronising. I was also conscious that such an exhaustive documentary might prove to be of historical interest in the future, so I wanted the photographs to reflect an integrity and truthfulness that I feel is important to such a project.
Launderama: London’s Launderettes is published by Hoxton Mini Press on October 24; joshuablackburn.art
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With the encouragement of his family, Wade began to research the health effects of grass-finished beef. What he found was that pasture-raised, grass-finished beef has very low Omega-6’s (the inflaming kind) and sky-high levels of Omega-3’s (the kind that actually reduce inflammation, and which Americans generally eat far too little of). That was enough for Wade. He made the switch from feedlot to grass-finishing.
Five years on, Redger Farms is one of the most health- and flavor-focused ranches in Kansas, and Wade couldn’t be fitter or happier.
“We feed our herd a mix of silage and hay,” Wade explains, “along with minerals, non-GMO molasses and apple cider vinegar. It gives our beef a very unique and mild flavor that’s uncommon for grass-finished beef and really delicious.”
The 100% Black and Red Angus herd graze Kansas pasture year-round on grasses including brome, triticale, and crabgrass. Wade’s dedication to pasture-based farming and the highest standards of animal welfare has led his farm to be GAP 4 Certified. It’s also Non-GMO certified, and Wade never uses chemicals, growth hormones, or implants.
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Grass-fed, grass-finished beef is delicious, make no mistake about it. Speaking of mistakes, many people who write-off grass-fed beef make the mistake of preparing it the same as the grain-finished beef that they're so used to. At Crowd Cow, we've found more often than not, that the difference between a great grass-fed steak and a sub-par one all comes down to knowing how to cook it correctly.
At Crowd Cow, we've had the good fortune to taste a lot of grass-fed, grass-finished beef -- from different cuts and different producers. We've found that grass fed beef usually takes 25-30% less time to cook. You might be used to cooking your rib steaks 4 minutes per side, but for grass-fed beef, you'll want to only give it 3 minutes. Better yet, try sous-viding your grass-fed steaks or preparing them with a reverse-sear.
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College of Law, Guildford, B.Sc. (1985)
Robert Weekes
rweekes@crowell.com
Phone: +44.20.7413.1320
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London, EC2N 1HQ
Robert Weekes is a highly experienced partner in the Global Litigation and Financial Services practices at Crowell & Moring, and serves as the managing partner of the firm's London office. Clients retain Robert to provide advice on a wide range of financial litigation, investigations, and international dispute matters. He serves corporations, banks, other financial institutions, multinational and U.K.-based entities, and individuals on a wide range of complex commercial disputes, including fraud investigations and asset tracing and recovery. He frequently handles banking and investment disputes, fraud and asset recovery litigation, guarantee and indemnity claims, and advises insurance companies on complex disputed claims.
Robert has considerable experience in advising overseas companies facing contentious/litigation issues in the U.K. courts providing guidance on the rules of disclosure and evidence in the U.K. He works with leading specialists ranging from the best Queen’s Counsel to the experts that are required to undertake forensic digital investigations.
Robert has just completed a ten-day High Court trial for a large U.S. corporate company involved in a commercial dispute in London. The case went to the heart of the company's viability and was simply a “must win” case for the client.
Robert has also been advising a leading bank in dealing with a significant data breach issue that impacted on its duties of confidentiality to its customers; the matter also involved constant liaison with the bank's regulator.
As the most senior litigator in his previous firm, Robert was also heavily involved in setting the initial strategy on arguably the most prominent case that has hit the radar of the U.K. regulator in relation to the misuse of personal data.
As a frequent lecturer, Robert talks on issues such as fraud prevention, asset recovery, litigation strategy, and dealings with regulators. He has appeared on ITV News at Ten commenting on commercial fraud.
Robert has been recommended in The Legal 500 UK and recognized for the following practice areas – crime, fraud and licensing: fraud – civil (2017), dispute resolution: banking litigation – investment and retail (2015, 2017), dispute resolution: commercial litigation (2017), and finance: asset based lending (2015).
Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Robert was for 10 years the managing partner of the London office of an international firm.
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Elle France’s friends and colleagues know her as an energetic, enthusiastic and entrepreneurial free spirit. So it comes as no surprise that her latest venture is called Cosa Salvaje or “Wild Thing,” an ultra-premium Plata sipping tequila. For those familiar with France’s business prowess, the Cosa Salvaje's unique taste and creative packaging is what they have come to expect from the San Diego businesswomen.
Tequila Herradura today announced the launch of its new global marketing campaign, "Luck Is Earned." Featuring raw and undeniably real stories of people who parallel the ambition, passion and soul of Tequila Herradura, the campaign illustrates that there are no shortcuts to greatness. Whether it's making tequila, music or art, turning one's all-consuming passion into perfection requires dedication to craft and determination for excellence – the way Tequila Herradura has been doing it for over 145 years.
The "Luck Is Earned" campaign:
Features real people who emulate the courage of Tequila Herradura by resisting compromise and exceeding standards on the path to greatness.
Honors the brand's iconic horseshoe, demonstrating that it isn't just a symbol of good fortune, but a testament to Tequila Herradura's commitment to excellence since 1870, when Aurelio Lopez found a horseshoe in his agave fields, and named his tequila "Herradura" – meaning horseshoe in Spanish.
Showcases how Tequila Herradura is crafted with a balance of respect for traditional processes with industry-leading innovation at the last true tequila-producing hacienda on the planet, a true piece of Mexico's cultural fabric.
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Tequila Herradura Ultra is thrilled to announce a new global creative campaign, "Sound of Smoothness." Featuring mesmerizing visuals paired with upbeat audio, the campaign literally illustrates Ultra's smooth quality. The campaign's cymatic approach balances science and art, depicting sound frequencies reverberating through the crystal clear tequila, suspended above a speaker.
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Visualizes the effects of sound frequencies and connects to human emotion.
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Low pulse
Spiralling prices of pulses have shown India’s dependence on imports. Pulses are integral to India’s diet but not its food policy. As a result, supply cannot meet demand. What are the consequences and solutions?
by Savvy Soumya Mishra
Surendra Nath has switched to eating grass-pea, though he knows it is not good for health. But so is tobacco, he argues. He cannot do without pulses and pigeon-pea selling at Rs 100 a kg is beyond his means. “My wife insists on cooking pulses at least once a day, so we have switched to khesari (grass-pea), the cheapest available dal, that too at Rs 60 a kg,” he said.
Nath belongs to Bihar, where pulses, especially pigeon-pea (known as tur or arhar in India), form an integral part of the diet. Only cattle and the poorest of the poor would eat grass-pea since it can cause neurological disorders like paralysis and stunted growth on regular consumption over a long period. In several villages in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh people now keep pigeon-pea for special occasions; peas and potatoes are the new staple.
Pulses were displaced from their prime position in many an Indian platter when their prices doubled a year ago. Pigeon pea, which cost Rs 50 a kg earlier, was for Rs 120. Greengram saw a similar price rise and most other pulses were above Rs 70 a kg.
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar blamed the jump in pulse prices on flagging imports, low production and increased purchasing power of the Indian consumer. The reduction in global production and high international prices slowed down the import of pulses in the past two years.
In 2007-08, India imported 2.85 million tonnes of pulses and next year, 2.32 million tonnes. Since India is the biggest consumer of pulses, demand within the country influences international prices. Some pulse-exporting countries factor Indian demand in their production. India is also the biggest producer of pulses.
So when the Indian government announces imports it immediately spikes prices in the world market because it indicates to the world market that there is an acute shortage of pulses in the country, pointed out Bhaskar Goswami, food policy analyst with the Forum for Food and Biotechnology in Delhi.
“We have become major importers of pulses and this has made us dependent on the prices dictated by the markets of Myanmar, our most important exporter,” said Rajesh Gupta, pulses importer and former vice-president of the Delhi Grain Merchant Association. Myanmar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Canada, USA and Australia are the major exporters of pulses to India.
The retail prices have started reducing, with domestic supply picking up and pigeon-pea imports from Myanmar. But the recent pulse crisis exposed a deeper malaise of India’s food policy. Over decades governments have neglected pulse production in the country. It has remained stagnant at 12-14 million tonnes in the past two decades and India is short of supply by two-three million tonnes annually.
Pulses have not been promoted the way wheat and rice are, though they are equally important for the Indian diet. Nor has the government given as much attention to research and technological interventions in pulses as in the case of cash crops.
With the development of the seed-fertilizer-irrigation technologies for paddy, wheat and maize, fertile lands were diverted to these crops and pulses were relegated to marginal pieces of land cultivated by marginal farmers. In Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district farmers were growing pulses till 15 years ago. “As soon as irrigation was provided through Tawa Dam, pulses and millets like kodo and kutki got replaced by soybean,” said Sachin Jain, a member of Vikas Samvad, a civil society group in Bhopal.
In the past 30-35 years core pulse areas have shifted from northern states to central and southern India. “North India had the right climatic conditions for pulses but as irrigation improved, pulses were replaced with wheat, paddy and sugarcane. The pulse area gained in central and southern India was dry and rainfed land,” said N Nadarajan, director of IIPR. “This affected the yield.”
In India most research on pulses is by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), which is breeding pigeon-pea and chick-pea. Scientists agree that very little biodiversity exists in case of pulses to develop desirable characteristics like high yield and resistance to pests. But even with available varieties and technologies, Nadarajan believes, pulse production can be increased by at least 30 per cent. “There is definitely scope for improvement in research, but even the available technology is not reaching the farmers,” he said.
Nadarajan explained that only 10 per cent of pulse growers use certified seeds. Research institutes provide breeder seeds and agencies like the National Seeds Corporation distribute them as certified seeds after a few cycles. Nearly 400 improved varieties of pulses have been released for cultivation since the inception of the coordinated pulse improvement programme in 1967, but only 124 varieties are in the production chain and only a dozen are popular among farmers, said Reddy.
That’s partly because the gap in yields between research stations and on-farm demonstrations and between on-farm demonstrations and farmers’ yields is significant.
Private seed companies have also kept away from pulses because developing and distributing seeds are not economical. Except pigeon-pea, pulses do not have hybrids. Since pulses are pushed to marginal farms, catering to farmers scattered over large areas involves greater logistic cost, said Reddy. So seed production is restricted to public-sector research organizations.
Small wonder the yield of pulses has remained nearly stagnant in the past 40 years at 600 kg/ha, while the yield of crops like rice, wheat and maize has increased to between 2,000 kg/ha and 3,500 kg/ha, Reddy said.
Fluctuation in yields is also high because pulses are especially susceptible to pests and diseases and are grown in rainfed areas. Pulses are rich in protein, so pests love them. So do Neelgais. Besides they are slow crops because they need a lot of heat energy to break down the protein molecules required for growth. Pulses are also extremely sensitive to heat and cold.
The disadvantages and risks involved in growing pulses are not compensated by the MSP. For pulses (pigeon-pea) the MSP of Rs 2,300 per 100 kg is higher than the MSP of Rs 1,080 per 100 kg for paddy. But while paddy yields about 3,000 kg per ha, pulses have a national average yield of 600 kg per ha. Even when market prices of pigeon-pea were ruling above Rs 100 per kg, the MSP was Rs 23 per kg.
With so little attention from scientists and policy makers, pulses remain unattractive to farmers. The widening gap between production and demand is reflected in the decrease in per capita consumption of pulses. Between 1972-73 and 2004-05 pulses consumption in rural areas reduced from 4.3 per cent of the food intake to 3.1 per cent; in urban areas it slipped from 3.4 per cent to 2.1 per cent, according to a Planning Commission report. The rural protein consumption came down by over 8 per cent during the same period, while urban consumption remained the same.
The Indian Council of Medical Research recommends 65 g of pulses for an adult every day. “That level was never met. People were actually consuming 40 g per day, and this has now reduced to 30 g per day due to high prices,” nutritionist Veena Shatrugna said.
The impact is beginning to show in some of the most backward areas. In Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district 70 children belonging to the Korku tribe died of malnutrition in 2008. Similar deaths occurred in Jhabua and Sidhi districts in end-2009. A study by a civil society organization showed the Korkus had stopped taking mainstream pulses—pigeon-pea, green gram, red lentil and black gram—for almost a year.
About 78 per cent Korku children are undernourished. “They have replaced main pulses with batla dal or dried peas, which is a vegetable. That too is available at Rs 40 a kg,” said Sachin Jain a member of Vikas Samvad. The Korkus are marginal farmers who grow pulses for their own consumption. This year because of higher prices they sold their pulses at Rs 20-25 a kg to buy cheaper food.
The National Food Security Mission launched in 2008 aims at increasing the production of rice, wheat and pulses. It targets increasing the production of pulses by two million tonnes by 2012. Area under pulse cultivation (24 million ha at present) will be increased by 4.05 million ha.
The government proposes using rice fallows and intercropping with wider spaced crops. It has roped in ICRISAT along with agriculture universities in Raipur and Jabalpur for working with farmers. “We have 3,000 farmers working with us in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. The trial cultivations are done on the fields of small and marginal farmers. We are training farmers in using seed varieties and cultivation pattern so that next year they can train more farmers,” said Suresh Pande, principal scientist at ICRISAT.
Rainfed rice fallows are the best option, said Pande. The rainfed area under paddy cultivation is 10.65 million hectares. This land remains fallow after harvest and can be used for growing pulses, grain legumes and food legumes. “Since paddy grows in stagnant water, the soil is rich in moisture. Even if the moisture content is less the legumes being drought-resistant and deep-rooted can take in the required moisture from the soil,” he added.
Growing paddy is not very profitable in parts of Jharkhand, so Pande suggests replacing paddy with pigeon-pea or double cropping with short-duration pulses. Scientists at ICRISAT suggest intercropping without replacing main cereals in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. By rotating paddy with pigeon-pea and wheat with chick-pea the farmers can replenish the soil.
To make pulses profitable, the cost should be brought down by developing short-duration and pest-resistant varieties, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan said. Research is on to improve pulses varieties. ICRISAT has developed hybrid pigeon-pea (ICPH 8 is more popular) that will increase yield. Agricultural research institutes claim they are in a position to release hybrids of major pulse crops within three years. Reddy said IIPR scientists are also trying to develop Bt chick-pea resistant to pod borer.
The cost can also be brought down by eliminating middlemen in distribution of certified seeds. The seed villages initiative by Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth has made farmers self-sufficient in pulse seeds in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
A similar initiative by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation has set up pulses villages in Ramanathapuram and Pudukottai, the drier districts of Tamil Nadu. Farmer families in these villages are growing pulses on 160 ha. The mandate of the foundation was to ensure the people harvest water in community farm ponds and irrigate the pulses field the moment they show moisture stress.
Field experiments show integrated pest management and integrated nutrient management techniques will stabilize yields at levels 20 per cent to 60 per cent higher than normal.
Agriculture scientists say farmers can use certain properties of pulses—they fix nitrogen and consume less water—to improve soil health. It is estimated that chick-pea can fix (convert atmospheric nitrogen to organic nitrogen) up to 140 kg nitrogen per hectare in the growing period. Long-duration pigeon-pea in northern India, grown over a 40-week period, can fix up to 200 kg nitrogen per hectare. “A leguminous plant is very rich in nitrogen, so while the root fixes nitrogen in the soil, the other parts, when they decompose, further improve the nitrogen content as well as the organic carbon content in the soil,” A Subba Rao, director of the Indian Institute of Soil Sciences in Bhopal, said.
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For all the talk of restructuring (aka re-branding) in the face of an acute economic crisis, Cuba’s Communist regime is sticking with the same apparatchiks.
“#Cuba maintains current leaders in restructuring of government,” Reuters’ Sara Marsh tweeted today. “Miguel Diaz-Canel until now President of the Council of Ministers becomes President of the Republic, a newly created post. Essentially, he remains president, but will now have a Prime Minister to run govt in day-to-day.”
Amnesty International has demanded the Cuban government explain the charges against the head of the country’s largest opposition group, whom Havana arrested a week ago, or release him from jail, Reuters reports:
Jose Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), was detained in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Oct. 1 after a police raid on his home which also serves as the group’s headquarters, UNPACU activists told Reuters.
“Cuban authorities have imprisoned, harassed and intimidated José Daniel Ferrer García for more than a decade due to his political activism,” Amnesty said, recalling that he was held incommunicado for more than 10 days last year.
Cuba’s energy shortage has begun to affect life on the island in a wide variety of ways, The New Yorker reports, noting that…
.. the government had urged its citizens to save fuel during daylight hours, warning that its supply was inadequate to cover the island’s needs for the month. Air-conditioning had been shut off in public buildings, while schools and universities had cut back on school hours, and some public-sector workers were told to stay home, because of a lack of fuel for public transportation. Oxen were replacing tractors in fields; wood was being used to fire ovens in state-run bakeries, and a number of factories had either cut back on production or shut down altogether.
Independent opinion polls leave no doubt that Cubans see the stagnant economy as the top problem facing the country and are impatient at the slow pace of change, notes William M. LeoGrande, professor of government at American University in Washington, and co-author with Peter Kornbluh of “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana.” Managing the political fallout from the current crisis will be President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s first major test since he assumed office last year, he writes for World Politics Review.
Havana views the EU-Cuba human rights dialog as one of those agreements with principles they do not intend to respect to be used as a cynical tool that undermines an international order built on trust, write Manuel Cuesta Morúa (left), the spokesperson of Arco Progresista and promoter of Propuesta2020, and Erik Jennische of the NGO Civil Rights Defenders in Stockholm. To openly advance democracy in Cuba, the EU should insist on:
The expressed commitment by the Cuban government to respect the rights and guarantees contained in the newly approved Constitution.
The cessation of harassment and repression against citizens in the Cuban civil society.
The end of the hate crime machinery being built up within sectors of the Cuban society, where officials of the highest ranks of the State participate, and which has manifested itself particularly against women in civil society.
The release of unjustly incarcerated prisoners, often allegedly responsible for political crimes or for using their freedom of expression, including freedom of artistic expression.
The gradual construction of a human rights dialogue between Cubans and,
The ratification of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, and on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, signed by the previous Cuban government in 2008.
“An eyewitness account of idealism, self-discovery, and loss under one of the twentieth-century’s most repressive political regimes,” Anna Veltfort’s graphic novel, Goodbye, My Havana (right) looks at the limits of freedom in post-revolutionary Cuba and offers a unique lens to view a society where utopian dreams were deferred for so many.
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Steve Gottlieb, left, and his children Garrett and Ava check out the water balloon bunches that will be featured at the Water Wars event at the Prescott Mile High Middle School field on Saturday afternoon, July 6. (Cindy Barks/Courier)
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Originally Published: July 3, 2019 6:33 p.m.
For Prescottonians of a certain age, the words “water wars” are sure to conjure up specific memories: Of hot summer nights spent toting Super-Soakers and water balloons through the streets of downtown Prescott.
Throughout portions of the 1980s and 1990s, downtown was not just about rodeo dances and parades. It also was the location of epic water fights that took place among legions of young people — and many older people as well.
A sign along Goodwin Street announces the return of the Prescott Water Wars to downtown Prescott. The event will take place Saturday afternoon, July 6, at the Prescott Mile High Middle School field. (Cindy Barks/Courier)
After a series of public meetings and even a referendum vote by the public in the late 1990s, the street water-fighting was outlawed by the city in about 1999, ending that chapter in Prescott’s July 4 past.
Until this year.
On Saturday, July 6, a controlled version of the old water wars will be back in downtown Prescott.
Unlike the old water fights, which were largely unrestricted, this year’s event will take place within a fenced area at the Prescott Mile High Middle School field, 300 S. Granite St, Prescott. It also will be a paid event, with a $20 entry fee.
Steve Gottlieb, organizer of the event through his company Eagle Management and Events, along with Prescott Night Out, said the Water Wars are being held instead of the Saturday night Whiskey Row street dance that he previously organized.
Gottlieb said the Water Wars event is intended to bring back the spirit of the old water fights, but in a more controlled fashion.
The event will feature an afternoon of water-balloon play, separated by ages, Gottlieb said. It will run from noon to 5 p.m.
Upon entry, each participant will receive a tote bag with 37 balloons in a bunch. Refills will also be available for purchase.
“I have 30,000 water balloons available,” Gottlieb said, noting that the event could accommodate 800 to 1,000 people.
Prescott Recreation Services Director Joe Baynes said the Water Wars event is a good replacement for the Whiskey Row Street Dance, which had been problematic in the past because of the lengthy closure of Whiskey Row.
Without the street dance in the evening, Baynes said the city will be able to open Whiskey Row up for traffic after the end of the Boot Race — probably by about 3 p.m. Saturday.
“Before, the street stayed closed until midnight,” Baynes said.
City officials say that Gottlieb’s Whiskey Row street dance had conflicted a bit with downtown businesses, as well as with the “World’s Oldest Rodeo” street dance at the BMO Harris Bank parking lot; that event will take place from July 4 through 6 as usual this year.
“I think it’s a really cool idea,” Baynes said of Gottlieb’s Water Wars event. “It’s a good way for kids to burn off some energy and cool off.”
Baynes, who was in Prescott during the old water wars, said, “The old days got a little out of hand.”
A 1999 article in the Daily Courier described the scene: “For several nights during the week of the Fourth, people wielding Super Soaker water guns and buckets of water line the street, while an unending line of slow-moving vehicles passes by. People on foot engage in water battles with those on wheels.”
More information about this year’s Prescott Water Wars is available online at: https://www.facebook.com/events/prescott-mile-high-middle-school/water-wars-2019/434421633803709/
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The Italian city and port of Brindisi is located in the Apulia region of the country and lies on the Adriatic Sea coast. The city, like many of the towns on the Adriatic Sea coast, has a history that has strong links to the countries that lie across the Adriatic to the east. The city's large natural harbour is one of Italy's most important ports and is today the port of departure for ferry services departing to the Balkans and to Greece, although in Roman and Greek times and during the Middle Ages the port had many other purposes.
Popular attractions in the city include the Castello Svevo which was built by the Emperor Frederick II and has a trapezoid plan with large square towers. Also in the city is the 15th century Aragonese Castle which was built by King Ferdinand I of Naples, and is located on S. Andrea island which faces the city's port.
From the city's port, ferry's operate to destinations including Paxi, Corfu, Igoumenitsa, Zakynthos and Patras.
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Indie Music Album Reviews
Sam Mooney - Somewhere in Between
Sam Mooney
Somewhere in Between
self-released; 2014
By Ted Rogen
At only eighteen years of age Sam Mooney is already an accomplished musician who won the Performing Songwriter Competition with his original "The Love You Never Knew," which is currently receiving terrestrial radio play and also won the 2013 Mid-South Talent Competition in Memphis, Tennessee. His most recent accomplishment is the release of a six-song EP entitled Somewhere in Between. Mooney makes certifiable radio ready pop music that will appeal to a large demographic. All of the music on this EP is accessible and contains aesthetics you might think of when talking about a Billboard top 40 hit. That being said, Mooney is a versatile musician who likes to flirt with different genres such as blues, funk and jazz while undeniably being grounded in pop.
The EP kicks off with the most “single” worthy track on the EP entitled “The Love You Never Knew.” It’s obvious what Mooney is going for on this track. He wants a melody that will get stuck in your head and he achieves it. Out of the six tracks this one felt the most cookie cutter as it sticks to a tried and true formula that was almost too catchy.
On the second track “Cupid’s Got Me Good” Mooney implements bass, electric guitar, horns, drums and a soulful vocal performance. The song is slick and I enjoyed the subtle upbeat funky vibe. It leans more towards Maroon 5 than Al Green but is an enjoyable tune nonetheless.
“Heartbreaker” is another solid effort by Mooney. He reverts to subtle yet warm, funky vibe that is easy on the ears. Mooney brings his A game when it comes to the vocals. I thought his delivery had a good combination of soul, enthusiasm and energy
Arguably the highlight was the blues inspired “If Love is a Game.” The song revolves around a piano and organ that provide the canvas for Mooney to sing upon. Perhaps the most engaging part was the a cappella breakdown. Mooney closes with a sunny, forward moving song entitled “Somewhere in Between.”
Mooney is a talented, young artist who has a lot of potential. I think some of the music feels a bit safe but Mooney might be playing his cards right depending on what demographic he wants to attract. People who have been waiting for the new Aphex Twin album will probably pass on this but fans of Maroon 5 and even classic artists like Stevie Wonder and Van Morrison should enjoy it.
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Dorsey’s Des Moines Office Recognized by U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”
Kirk Schuler
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced that U.S. News – Best Lawyers® recognized the Commercial Litigation, Health Care Law, and Public Finance Law practices in Dorsey’s Des Moines office for inclusion in its “Best Law Firms” rankings for 2018 (a collaboration between Woodward White, Inc. and U.S. News & World Report). The practices received a tier 1 ranking, the highest recognition available.
These 2018 rankings were among a total of 110 metropolitan rankings that Dorsey received for 13 of its U.S. offices. In addition to these metropolitan rankings, Dorsey received 2018 national rankings for 22 practice areas including national tier 1 rankings in: Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Antitrust, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Litigation - Labor & Employment, Litigation - Patent, Securities/Capital Markets Law and Trademark Law.
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare have published their annual "Australia's Welfare 2017" report. The report includes information on the amount of money spent on welfare services, along with the population factors that influence the demand for these services. It includes information on young people with regards to child protection, youth justice and domestic and family violence, as well as data on the community services workforce, indigenous specific data, a special focus on housing and homelessness and more. This report collates data from a broad range of services, giving a comprehensive overview of some of the key indicators of the wellbeing in the community.
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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Finally Now Available On PC
I wouldn’t be surprised if Monster Hunter World: Iceborne goes down alongside Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge as one of the best expansion packs of all time. The DLC adds so much content that it might as well be its own game. I said as much in my Best of 2019 list, where I gave Iceborne the Best Expansion award. Unfortunately, the joys of Iceborne have so far only been accessible to PS4 and Xbox One gamers. As of today, the PC crowd joins them in the icy sun.
If you’re not familiar with the expansion, I highly advise you to check out the Steam store page There is so much new content here, that it’s impossible to describe. It’s only one new zone, but that zone is so packed with stuff that it’s as much content as the base game. Alongside the new monsters and areas is a slew of tweaks to the base game. There’s a new grappling claw that can be used to mount monsters, new moves for each of the 14 weapons, and adorable rideable monsters to help you get around. Overall, the game has been streamlined to allow you to access the DLC content much quicker. Which is nice, since Iceborne can’t be accessed until you unlock Master Rank.
There are two editions of Iceborne available. The expansion is $40, and well worth the asking price. You can also get the Deluxe edition for $50, which comes with some cosmetic stuff. None of these cosmetics are additional Palico costumes, so you might want to pass until Capcom fixes this horrible oversight. If you’re still on the fence, check out Jesse’s review where he gave it a perfect score. And this is from a guy that gave Fallen Order a 2.5/5.
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By Nick Wilgus
Release Date Jan 30, 2015
eBook Paperback
Sequel to Shaking the Sugar Tree
When his snobbish future in-laws travel all the way from Boston to visit, wise-cracking Southerner Wiley Cantrell learns that gay marriage is not without its disadvantages. Occupied by concerns over the health of his special needs son Noah, a meth baby who was not expected to live and who is now on the cusp of puberty, the antics of Wiley's outrageous would-be mother-in-law and severely conservative father-in-law strain his relationship with Jackson Ledbetter, a pediatric nurse who poses problems of his own. As their respective families meet and greet, each just as meddlesome and inflexible as the other, North meets South and the fireworks and cultural misunderstandings are plenty.
A tornado blows through the small Mississippi town where Wiley's mother lives, wrecking his mother's house and leaving their lives in disarray. Then Jackson's secret drug addiction comes to light, and Wiley and Noah are devastated. With so many stones in the road, Wiley and Jackson find their dream of becoming a real family falling apart. Though Wiley relies on humor to cope, he'll need something more to keep his happily ever after from slipping away.
Cover Artist: Anne Cain
Series The Sugar Tree Series
Genres Contemporary Romance / Gay
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Review of Stones in the Road
By Christy
on Jun 4, 2015 06:06
This is important to me, he said, clenching the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were turning white. I need my mom and my dad to approve of what Im doing. For once in my life. I want them to be part of our family, and I dont want you fighting over fetuses or the Civil War or body shame or the social construction of sexual identities or how Sarah Palin needs to masturbate more or God knows what else it is with you. And its always something with you.
I was literally five pages into 'Stones in the Road' when I realized how much I had missed Nick Wilgus's writing. I mean, what author can keep me so entertained and laughing, with fabulous, witty, repartee, and a minute later I'm absolutely furious, on behalf of Wiley and Noah. What, or who, pray tell, caused steam to come bursting out of my ears? Well, that would be Jackson's wealthy, snobby, ultra-conservative, and very rude parents who came to visit. Why, Nick? Why would you subject me to these people? *grins*
As I stated in my review of 'Shaking the Sugar Tree', volume one in this series, these books truly boil down to a story about a father and his son. Wiley's relationship with Noah is one of the most powerful that I have ever seen. His constant struggle, particularly in this book, to keep Noah with him and prove that he's a good father, is heartbreaking. There are so many parents in this world who would've given up on a child like Noah, who would have determined it was just too hard, and who would've walked away. For Wiley, and Noah, they are each other's number one priority, and sometimes that truly humbled me.
I was positive when I started this book that the author couldnt possibly make me feel more than he had in the first book. I was so very, very wrong. Stones in the Road, quite literally, ran the gamut of every possible human emotion. Wiley had to deal with so much, and then to discover the one thing, the ONE thing he swore hed never accept in a partner, in Jackson, almost pushed him over the edge. Now, Ive never been a huge fan of Jackson Ledbetter. Dont get me wrong. I liked him well enough, but I didnt love him. Seeing his weakness, his addiction, his selfishness, and his woe-is-me attitude made me care for him even less. But watching Wiley deal with all of the changes in his life simply made me respect him even more. Granted, his best friend Tonya had to give him a few lectures (which were priceless), and force him to look at his own guilt and issues, but he did it.
In the very beginning of this review I talked about how gifted the author is in moving me through so many emotions with such seeming ease. The real genius here is that by the end of the book I really liked Jacksons mother, and believe you me, she is most definitely someone who deserves a good old-fashioned Southern Bless Your Heart. Trust me when I say you cant believe it until you read it, and then you will understand exactly what Im talking about.
Im fairly certain that Ive re-read, and edited, this review more than any other Ive ever written, and I still feel as if what Ive conveyed is gobbledygook. No matter, it is what it is. Suffice it to say, I loved this sequel, and I dearly hope to see more of this series. I think Nick Wilgus is a genius, and this series will always live in my heart as a true favorite.
NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews
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Drying Wood Framing
Compared to most other hygroscopic materials, dimensional lumber absorbs and releases water relatively slowly. This means that the sooner drying begins, the less water will be absorbed into wood materials, and the more rapidly they will return to acceptable MC. It also means that wood framing that has absorbed significant water will take more time to release it. Low vapor pressure (low humidity), often combined with hot dry air movement across material surfaces, may be required to ensure efficient drying. See the discussion above for wood flooring for more general information about the response of wood materials to wetting.
Wood framing tends to swell or warp when wet, but usually returns to its approximate size and shape when dry. Organic components can act as a food source for mold if wet for extended periods, but do not support mold growth as easily as “engineered” types of wood products (particle board, OSB), paper products, and similar materials. If components remain at more than 20% MC for extended periods, fungi can affect the structural integrity of wood (dry rot). Wood framing normally is held together with steel fasteners, which are subject to corrosion when wet over time, with a possible reduction in holding strength. Some modern framing, especially trusses used for floor and ceiling joists, is made of engineered lumber. Most engineered lumber is significantly less resistant to water than solid wood lumber, especially when exposure to liquid water or excessive humidity is for an extended time. This sensitivity can result, not only in an appearance change, but in deterioration of strength, stiffness or other characteristics as well.
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View From the Cab
5/29/2018 | 2:07 PM CDT
By Pam Smith , Crops Technology Editor
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Our weekly reports highlight the many activities on the farm. Genny Haun reports in from Kenton, Ohio, and Kyle Krier details farm life and work from Claflin, Kansas. (Photos courtesy of Genny Haun and Kyle Krier)
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Let's face it, the list of chores on the farm is never ending and they extend beyond the field and furrow. "Just when you think you are caught up with fieldwork, a honey-do list appears," said Kyle Krier, of Claflin, Kansas.
"We've used a bit of a weather gap this week to catch up on things that needed to be done around home and farm," he said. "But it seems when we cross one thing off the list, a bunch more magically appear."
Genny Haun can relate. Rain delays kept the farm planters out of the field most of the weekend at Layman Farms near Kenton, Ohio, but it opened up opportunities to work on landscaping around her house. "Our son, Carter, is old enough now (4 1/2 years) that he's really in to 'helping.' It makes my heart melt to see him working beside us," she said.
DTN is following Krier and Haun throughout the 2018 crop season. The young farmers volunteered to update readers through this column each week.
Here's what has been happening on their farms during the week of May 16-23:
KYLE KRIER -- CLAFLIN, KANSAS
An inch to just a smidgen less than an inch of rain found its way to most of Krier's fields this past week. It was perfect timing to get soybeans off to a good start.
"We were starting to be a bit dry, and that is going to make for good soybean stand establishment," he said.
Milo planting is still a week or two away for Krier's farm. Krier likes to time milo planting so the crop flowers a bit behind the heat. "We think it does better if it sets seed in that late-August-to-mid-September time period," he said. "Although, by doing that, we do risk getting the needed rain to get the crop up."
So far, his part of central Kansas has been fortunate compared to other parts of the state where Krier fears wheat has "used up its nine lives."
"While cool temps have delayed our wheat compared to a typical year, we are still looking good. I'm not going to say we'll knock the bin doors off, but yields should be respectable if nothing else happens," he said.
Hay is right on schedule, though. A forecast of rain made Krier and his father, Kirby, hold off from mowing last week. However, they planned to start cutting on May 21.
A New Holland swather with a sickle head and a Massey Ferguson disc mower allow them to cut wide/fast swaths through their own acres and what they manage on a custom basis.
"There's a few things to tweak with the mowers -- like getting the right tilt on the header and making sure sickles and knives are sharp, but today's machines are really amazing. I tend to prefer the discbine system because I can drive a little faster," he said.
Raindrops and waiting for field operations may offer a break, but Krier and his work crews don't twiddle thumbs while waiting. They refinished a deck that had been on the to-do list for nearly two years. "All the lawns are mowed, fences fixed and equipment washed off.
"When the power washer comes out, we really know we're getting caught up," he said. "By that time, everyone is usually thrilled to get back in the field."
GENNY HAUN -- KENTON, OHIO
A three-hour board meeting in the middle of planting season was on Genny Haun's Monday schedule. She's the current vice-president of the Hardin County (Ohio) Farm Bureau Board of Trustees and will be installed as president next term.
"Our board has a lot of young farmers with BIG personalities," said Haun. "When we gather, there's a lot of passion packed into one room. We also get a lot done, though, and I love their commitment to agriculture."
She sees benefits for herself, agriculture and her family farm through such efforts.
The meeting came at a good time because operations at Layman Farms, at Kenton were on rain delay. Corn planting finished on Saturday, but heavy storms followed and had stalled soybean planting. The family still has about 50% of their soybeans left to go into the ground.
Still, Haun feels fortunate. Parts of Ohio to the north of her have been enduring an extremely wet spring. "At this point, we are planting any time we see an opening," she said. "We're just trying to finish it up the best we can."
The family rented an additional farm for 2018 that is only 15 miles away, but difficult to reach. Delivering meals to the workers last week brought one of those special moments of clarity that made Haun realize why she's purposefully chosen this life of farming.
"Mom was babysitting my nephew. We grabbed my two kids and slapped three car seats in the back of the Jeep and headed to the field," she recalled. "At one point, we had to stop and wait on a train. I looked back and saw those three patient kids crammed together and then looked over at my mom.
"I just had to take a picture of all of us because it occurred to me how lucky we were to all be together, and life just seemed so good," she said.
Both farmers said next week they will need to ratchet-up field scouting and other operations, so it is good to savor these slightly slower moments.
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Our Mission To End Duchenne
Duchenne UK is a lean, ambitious and highly focused charity with a clear vision: to fund and accelerate treatments and a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), and to do so in a decade.
DMD is a devastating muscle wasting disease and is the most common genetic killer of children worldwide. We aim to eradicate it in 10 years: TO END DUCHENNE IN TEN.
We are the UK’s leanest Duchenne research charity. In the last 6 years (as Duchenne Children's Trust and Joining Jack) Duchenne UK has raised over £15 million.
We've spent £8m to date and committed a further £6m to accelerating research.
We have achieved some incredible results, with the help of donors, partner charities and researchers, for details please read: Our Impact.
We have an innovative approach to funding. Not only do we fund basic research, but we fund clinical trials. We fund the doctors and nurses in the UK to deliver those trials: and we look at where ever possible, we can accelerate research and work with industry and regulators to get drugs approved.
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Loss Won't Pay The Bills
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A moving and humorous portrait of Holland’s oldest greengrocer and his wife, who have been putting their heart and soul into running their shop for 65 years and don’t want to hear about quitting.
Adrie and Francien’s greengrocer’s shop in Flushing’s old town has been there for 65 years. Old age has affected their walking ability, but Adrie still works 14 to 16 hours a day. Just before they got married in 1957, they went on holiday for the first and last time. Since then they haven’t got around to it. Working hard is their creed. Ada, Adrie’s much younger sister, helps out in the shop every day. She worries at the prospect of spending three months in the south of France. Will Adrie and Francien be able to carry on or will they have to close down their shop?
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The aim of this European Social Fund supported PhD research is to develop and test ‘Narrative Journey’ as a tool that can be used by a range of practitioners working with children, who would like to increase children’s physical, social and altruistic activities and relationships with the natural world.
For over three decades research has been telling us that a relationship with nature is beneficial to the human condition. Nature positively impacts on children’s health and well-being, social capital and environmental altruism.
For the past three years, Eden’s play project has developed a pedagogic method, Narrative Journey, in response to children’s declining exposure to the natural world. It employs themed adult-narrated stories that deliberately introduce key concepts (narrative cues) during nature experiences. However, there is very little evidence showing how children narrate their own nature experiences, or to what extent narrative can be used as a tool to encourage children’s attachments with nature.
Behaviour Mapping will record children’s physical actions during a play session (facial expressions, body language, physical movements), and contextual environmental data, including place location (e.g. playing in mud), play props (e.g. twigs, water), play partners (siblings, friends, parents), weather, time of day/week, seasonal differences and geographical markers.
Dialogic Mapping will record children’s dialogues and monologues in natural settings, using discourse analysis to analyse textual data and map this onto place-based descriptions of objects and the environment.
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Iranian Airports Feel the Heat
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company logged 360,754 takeoffs and landings during the first ten months of the current fiscal that ends in March, down 14% compared to the same period last year.
4% Decline in Iran Airport Traffic
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered a total of 33,451 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending June 21, which shows a 4% decline compared with last year’s corresponding period.
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 35,259 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending May 21, which shows an 8% decrease compared with last year’s corresponding period.
7% Increase in Iran Airport Traffic
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 35,073 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending Feb. 19, which shows a 7% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period.
Iran Airports Traffic Surges 13%
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 38,343 takeoffs and landings in the Iranian month ending Dec. 22, which shows a 13% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period.
Iran's Air Traffic, Cargo Transportation Rise
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 42,648 takeoffs and landings during the Iranian month ending Sept. 22, showing a 5% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period.
Growth in Airport Traffic
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 164,775 takeoffs and landings during the first four months of the current Iranian year (March 21-July 22), which shows a 7% rise compared with last year’s corresponding period.
Iran's Airport Traffic Up 6%
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 121,688 takeoffs and landings during the first three months of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), which shows a 6% rise compared with the similar period of last year.
Airport Activity Remains Buoyant
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 84,043 takeoffs and landings in the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21), which shows an 8% rise compared with the similar period of previous year.
Iranian Airport Activities Accelerate
EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 42,230 takeoffs and landings in the first month of the current Iranian year (March 21-April 20), which shows a 10% rise compared with the similar period of the previous year.
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Why UPS Should Be Very Afraid of Amazon's Delivery Plans
Catherine Clifford
Senior Entrepreneurship Writer at CNBC
Amazon has already changed the way we shop and consume media. Who's to say the ecommerce giant can’t also overhaul how you get your mail?
Amazon is testing out a pilot program in which its own fleet of drivers will bring Amazon packages to your door, completing the "last mile" of the delivery process, according to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Amazon was not immediately available for comment.
The Seattle tech giant has been dropping hints for some time that it might develop its own delivery network. And it would be a smart place for the company to be looking for innovation: Amazon’s shipping costs have been consistently rising in recent years.
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In 2013, Amazon spent $3.5 billion on shipping, according to the company’s latest annual report. That’s because Amazon’s shipping revenues did not cover its shipping costs. While Amazon charged for shipping to the tune of $3.1 billion, the ecommerce giant spent $6.6 billion on shipping in 2013, according to the report.
The $3.5 billion Amazon sank into shipping is an increase from the previous two years, too. The company spent $2.9 billion in 2012 and $2.4 billion in 2011.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos mentioned that in the U.K., the ecommerce giant had already created a “last mile” delivery service because the delivery services in the country could not keep up with its busiest delivery schedules. And he alluded that this was just the beginning. “In India and China, where delivery infrastructure isn’t yet mature, you can see Amazon bike couriers delivering packages throughout the major cities. And there is more invention to come,” he wrote.
Related: Is Amazon Making Peace With Its Retail Frenemies?
A trip through Amazon’s job postings reveals that the ecommerce giant is on the hunt for a handful of top-level transportation management logistics experts. One job posting specified it was looking for someone to “be an owner of Amazon’s scheduled delivery operations, helping us optimize our carrier delivery performance, decrease costs and achieve a superior last-mile delivery experience.” Another managerial role Amazon is hiring for would “analyze the delivery performance across the North American transportation network, identify improvement opportunities and then take business improvement programs from inception to successful implementation.”
The last-mile delivery program is being beta tested in New York, L.A., and San Francisco, according to The Wall Street Journal’s report.
Amazon has been aggressively moving into new markets as of late. Earlier this week, the Seattle giant announced a program called Prime Pantry. Available to members of its subscription shipping service, Amazon Prime, Amazon Pantry allows customers to order up to 45 pounds of non-perishable household goods for a flat shipping rate of $5.99.
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The consumer co-operative retailer in Slovakia has yet another successful 12 months, maintaining its strong visitibility and market leader position.
In 2018, the COOP Jednota Group achieved a retail turnover of €1.367 billion, representing year-on-year growth of 3.6%.
Sales revenue was €1.138 billion, which is a 3.3% increase compared to 2017. Total retail and logistics revenue for the COOP Jednota Group reached €1.693 billion in 2018, 3.4% higher than 2017.
The success of the Slovak COOP can be seen in the fact it won its sixth Superbrand award; it came second in the retail chain category of the prestigious Hermes Communicator of the Year Awards; it was named Slovak company of the year in Figyelő, a Hungarian magazine; and it ranked first in the NMS Market Research survey for most popular advert.
Despite strong international competition, COOP Jednota succeeded in maintaining its market leader position being the most recognisable brand, even among younger shoppers. According to the Young People Ad Monitor 2018 survey on effective marketing, COOP was the September leader in instant advertising recognition with its private label Mum’s Delicacies ads. Then, in November it was again number one with its Christmas advert.
In 2018, COOP Jednota continued in its efforts to satisfy even the most demanding customer requirements and over the last 12 months its shoppers could select from the largest assortment of Slovak groceries of all the retailers on the domestic market. And this was shown in a survey by the Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber. Working with its hundreds of loyal suppliers, COOP Jednota helped support Slovak producers and did much to increase the country's level of food sufficiency.
COOP Jednota also took its social responsibilities seriously. Last year was the second year of the successful Local Community Support Programme, through which the COOP Jednota Foundation provided financial support totalling €146,000 to 25 projects. Healthcare projects were supported to the tune of €35,000.
The COOP Jednota retail system has also responded to the increasing public pressure for businesses to be environmentally friendly. In 2018, the consumer co-operative retailer used signage, banners and media promos to publicise the steps taken to support sustainable shopping. In our stores, customers can choose from a range of environmentally friendly shopping bags and degradable binbags. In 2019, COOP will continue to promote its socially and environmentally responsible commitments. Plastic cups and plates, cotton buds and straws will all be replaced by ecological alternatives.
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Modern Warfare 3 has 12% more online gamers than Black Ops
Plus, Call of Duty Elite racks up more than 1.5m premium subs.
News by Fred Dutton, US News Editor
Updated on 9 February 2012
Modern Warfare 3 has seen a 12 per cent increase in unique online gamers over last year's Call of Duty outing, Black Ops.
The figure, released as part of Activision's annual financial report today, accounts for the first two months following each game's launch.
The publisher also announced its Call of Duty Elite service now has over seven million registered user, of which more than 1.5 million have coughed up for a premium subscription.
It seems it's been a bumper year for Activision. As detailed in the aforementioned report, its net revenue for 2011 was $4.76 billion, up from $4.45 billion in 2010.
"As we continue to strengthen our leadership position in interactive entertainment, our proven management team and talented employees delivered another extraordinary year of outperformance," commented CEO Bobby Kotick.
"With better than expected net revenues, record earnings, record operating margins, and having generated nearly $1 billion in operating cash flow, Activision Blizzard continues to set the industry success bar.
"Our extraordinary employees around the world are focused on making 2012 another great year for our audience and stakeholders. Blizzard Entertainment plans to have multiple highly-anticipated titles to release, including Diablo III, and Activision Publishing expects to release a new Call of Duty game. In addition, Activision Publishing expects to continue to grow Call of Duty Elite and launch Skylanders Giants."
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Miss World Korea 2015: Winner Crowned, Will Represent Korea at Miss World 2016
Yeon (Miriam) Wang was recently crowned Miss World Korea and will represent South Korea at the 66th Miss World Pageant in 2016. She is 20 years old and is originally from the United States.
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With the flurry of activity that had surrounded the brief Barcan incursion, plus all the reports and datawork afterward, it was three more days before the Committee hearings resumed. During that time Travis nurtured a private hope that they might have forgotten all about him, and that the glaring spotlight would move on.
No such luck. On the second day of the resumed hearings, he was ordered to report for testimony.
To find that Breakwater had managed to up the ante even higher. Not only had Travis been called, but Commodore Heissman had also been summoned to share the hot seat alongside him.
They sat there for over half an hour, answering questions, making statements, and occasionally spotting and respectfully disagreeing with some of the Chancellor’s unstated and more slanted assumptions about the battle and the people who had waged it. For Travis, it seemed to last longer than the battle itself.
And when the session was over, and they’d been dismissed, they finally learned what the Chancellor’s true purpose had been in all of this.
“It seems clear, My Lords,” Breakwater intoned as Travis and Heissman collected their tablets and other gear and headed for the door, “that the Naval Academy has proven itself woefully inadequate in carrying out its chartered duties. I think it’s clear that, with a few exceptions, the officers commanding the Star Kingdom’s ships relied almost exclusively on luck to see them through.”
Travis paused, half turning back. They’d relied on luck?
“Let it go, Lieutenant,” Heissman murmured from beside him.
“We need better than that,” Breakwater continued. “It is therefore my intention to petition the government for a new training facility, one that will be used exclusively for MPARS personnel.”
Travis’s thoughts flashed back to his time at Casey-Rosewood and the Academy, and to the more recent horror stories he’d heard about how adding a trickle of MPARS personnel to the student body was already straining the Navy’s resources to the limit. If Breakwater now raided those resources for a completely new facility —
“Because the last thing we can afford is the stale, by-the-book strategies and tactics we so recently witnessed,” Breakwater concluded.
Travis had been fully prepared to keep his mouth shut, as Heissman had told him, and walk out of the room. But that one he couldn’t let pass.
“Excuse me, My Lord,” he spoke up. “That’s not fair.”
Every eye at the table turned to him. “Not fair?” Breakwater repeated, feigned puzzlement on his face. “Not fair? Tell me, Lieutenant, from your vast military knowledge and experience: how is that unfair?”
Travis clenched his teeth. Once again, he’d opened his mouth without thinking it through. He really needed to stop doing that.
But it was too late to back out now. “With all due respect, My Lord, the tactics of response are defined by the tactics of attack. Tamerlane chose the vectors and timing; the commanders of each Manticoran group assessed and responded with skill and efficiency.”
“The Navy lost five ships,” Breakwater pointed out. “Tamerlane lost three. Is this your idea of efficiency?”
“Two of those three ships were battlecruisers,” Travis countered. “I believe that gives us the win.”
“Let me make my point clearer,” Breakwater said calmly. “The Navy lost five ships. MPARS didn’t lose any. Furthermore, it was an MPARS corvette that took out one of the enemy ships.”
“With the aid of a Navy destroyer,” Travis said. “And in all cases the victories were due to the skill and ingenuity of the officers and crew.”
“Indeed,” Breakwater agreed. “But again, the ingenuity of junior officers and junior crewmembers.” He lifted a hand and started ticking off fingers. “Petty Officer Charles Townsend. Senior Chief Fire Control Tech Lorelei Osterman — all right; a senior, but a senior enlisted. Ensign Fenton Locatelli. And — if I may be so bold — Lieutenant Travis Uriah Long.”
He favored Travis with a thin smile. “But thank you, Lieutenant, for making my case for me.” The smile vanished. “And now, you and Commodore Heissman are dismissed.”
Heissman was silent during the long walk down the corridor to the building exit. He didn’t speak again, in fact, until they were in their aircar and heading back to their shuttle. Even then he confined his conversation to the current state of Casey’s repairs and the details of upcoming work.
For his part, Travis didn’t dare mention his stupidity in walking straight into Breakwater’s trap. But such reminders were hardly necessary. Sooner or later, he knew, Heissman would have to bring up the fiasco, possibly as part of a formal discipline, possibly as a private, off-the-record dressing down. It was certainly no more than Travis deserved.
But it never happened. Heissman never mentioned the incident again.
Which wasn’t to say that he was happy with how things had gone. Travis was pretty sure he wasn’t. It also wasn’t to say that he hadn’t entered something scathing into Travis’s record. Travis was almost positive he had.
There would be consequences for handing Breakwater more ammunition in his private war against the Navy. It was just a question of what those consequences would be, and when they would begin raining down.
“Unfortunately, Your Majesty,” Dapplelake said heavily, “for once, the man is right.”
“Really,” King Edward said, long experience first in the Navy and then in Manticoran politics allowing him to keep his voice unemotional and unreadable. “This is almost a first for you.”
“I know,” Dapplelake said sourly. “But if I’m going to call him when he’s wrong, I have to be fair when he’s right. And Casey-Rosewood and the Academy simply cannot accommodate the kind of personnel MPARS is going to need in the near future. We’re barely holding our own now.”
“If we don’t give Breakwater his own training center, we’ll have to cut back on Navy personnel,” Locatelli added from the seat beside him. “And this would be the absolute worst time to do that.”
“Agreed,” Edward said, peering down at his tablet and the figures the Defense Minister had just sent across.
The numbers were impressive. Edward had assumed that the sheer number of deaths resulting from the battle would have a dampening effect on enlistment. It had been just the opposite. Manticore was mourning, yes; but Manticore was also mad as hell. The Navy recruiters were overwhelmed, and the data shufflers were having to scramble to process all the applicants showing up at the centers.
It was immensely gratifying to see his subjects coming defiantly together against their unknown enemy. But the surge of emotion that was driving this wouldn’t last. As the memories of that terrible day faded, people would start returning to their lives and their hopes and their pre-battle goals. This was the time to grab as many people as possible, and everyone at the table knew it.
So, surely, did Breakwater. MPARS enlistments weren’t nearly at the Navy’s level, but they were definitely on the rise. Now, while the warm and willing bodies were still excited at the prospect of defending the Star Kingdom, was no time to put obstacles and cooling-off time in front of them.
“If he gets his own academy, you’ll need to supply him with some of the instructors,” Edward reminded Dapplelake. “Possibly all of them. Can you afford to pull that many people?”
“No, but it’s not quite as bad as it looks,” Dapplelake said, tapping his tablet. Edward’s own tablet flickered, and a new set of names appeared. “Our thought is to give him the smallest number of instructors we can get away with, and then fill in whatever else is needed with Navy officers whose ships are still undergoing repairs. Most of those officers and chiefs would be somewhat underemployed anyway, so we could probably spare them. That way Breakwater gets what he wants — and what the Star Kingdom needs, I suppose — without seriously damaging the Navy’s own manpower buildup.”
“It does seem the best of less-than-ideal options,” Edward agreed, running his eyes down the list. He recognized a fair number of the names, and he mostly remembered them as competent. Some of them would squawk, of course, particularly some of the officers from the Peerage who had gone into the Navy for the prestige and what they’d thought would be easy jobs. One, in particular, he would bet money would use the term slumming in regards to a transfer to an MPARS training facility.
But at this point Edward didn’t care about inconvenience or bruised egos. If Manticore needed a new training facility, it would get one.
And then, as he scrolled down the list, a message box suddenly appeared in the lower corner.
Princess on rooftop with glider. Advise.
Edward glared at the tablet. Again?
Why did his daughter always do this kind of thing when Cindy wasn’t home to pin her ears back? She knew better than that — or if she didn’t, it wasn’t because she hadn’t been told often enough.
An instant later his brief flush of anger morphed into a quiet stab of guilt. With some teens, this would be a cry for help or attention. With Sophie, it was simply a matter that she wanted to do something fun and resented the new restrictions on her life.
As a father, Edward could understand that. Hell, he resented his new restrictions.
As for the timing, as a former Navy officer, he also knew exactly why she pulled these stunts when her mother wasn’t at home. It was called tactics.
Still, this had to stop. Edward had talked about it until he was blue in the face. Clearly, he hadn’t gotten through. Maybe it was time for someone else to give it a try.
Call her Aunt Elizabeth to deal with it, he typed back.
“Your Majesty?” Dapplelake asked.
“My apologies,” Edward said, looking up again. “You were saying?”
“I was just listing the facilities we could spare from Casey-Rosewood,” Dapplelake said, tapping another list to Edward’s tablet. “We’re thinking that we might be able to move some of the advanced tech classes to the Academy. It’ll take some schedule juggling, but I think we can pull it off.” He made a face. “Of course, the cadets probably won’t appreciate having to share space with enlisted. But at this point, I really don’t care.”
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11 Responses to A Call To Vengeance – Snippet 18
Lyttenburgh says:
“He didn’t speak again, in fact, until they were in their aircar”
Full stop here! Gotcha.
Oh, I waited for that! I waited for that, so that no one will tell me I’m too… me. When the authors deliver you something like that – most likely due to miscommunication and not really caring about consistency – you have to trumpet this.
Because (from snippet 11):
“His eye darted back to the time display, counting down inexorably to impeller activation, his brain feeling like a ground car skittering on ice.”
Ground. Car. In the world of far, far future…
In case you forgot (snippet 04):
““But I’d need orders,” Travis protested as she steered him toward an aircar just settling to the street in front of them. “I can’t go aboard without orders.””
Go ahead – do search with a fine comb the previous novels for the evidence that in that period of time the Star Kingdom of Manticore still used old/modern cars – wheels and all. You won’t find any. It’s been established nearly from the very beginning that in this far future some things are really, really different. Like your usual mode of transportation – the aircar.
“Tell me to be in by midnight. Tell me I should take the ground car instead of the air car.” A Call to Duty, pg 4
Good enough for ya?
Why would any society that had “aircars” completely get rid of “groundcars”? Sure, I could see them freeing up the streets for pedestrians; that would be nice. But not everywhere, all the time.
Sigh. I was really, really, really hoping that the authors would get tired of this MPARS v. Navy thing and move on. This is starting to have the feel of the early Honor books where she won every battle against impossible odds and yet the plots were all driven by having to overcome all the people who hated her. It got ridiculous after a while, just as this is.
And maybe if Travis’s half-brother would ever sit down and talk with him he could find out that the idea of a small swarm of lightly armed rescue cutters is not actually a good defense against a large naval invasion.
Richard H says:
Since I completely missed the second book, what’s MPARS? It sounds like it’s supposed to be a coast guard, but it also Blackwater seems to want it to be a full second, parallel navy, in the style of Sol Navy versus Frontier fleet.
Yes, you got it right. MPARS is basically the Coast Guard. It’s under the Dept of Exchequer rather than the War Department (or whatever the names are in Manticore). Breakwater is in charge of the Exchequer and he wants to systematically starve the Navy into non-existence in order to fund his own MPARS empire.
In the second book his argument was that they would never get invaded so they didn’t need a Navy. Now in this third book his argument seems to be that a large number of armed MPARS cutters would be more effective than a small number of large naval ships.
I tend to agree. I’m really hoping Winterfall will split with Breakwater. I’m also hoping that Breakwater will fall from power, and that it won’t take as many books as it took to get rid of High Ridge & co.
I do take note that we don’t seem to be seeing political parties in the same sense as in the later books. This leads me to wonder if the emergence of these, as well as the that of the “modern” RMN, is part of what we’re going to get in these books.
Westrim says:
“small swarm of lightly armed rescue cutters is not actually a good defense against a large naval invasion.” At least, not until 1913 when the LAC carrier concept was battle tested and proven as a small swarm of them proved to be a good defense against a large naval invasion.
Granted, that was 500 years of technological evolution later, with massively larger fleet engagements and dynamics in play, but that is the intended parallel. Breakwater is Wrong, but not Wrong For All Time.
As I recall, it is stated that the major enabling technology for the strike LAC was the frontal disc “sidewall”. Without that, building a ship around a spinal weapon system was opening yourself up to significantly more devastating responses than any attack you could put out. (The fission reactor is, IMO, a red herring because he didn’t want to deal with the logistics of fueling a zillion small craft in the kind of detail-oriented writing he produces.)
By contrast, your average system-defense LAC is somewhere between an overgrown pinnace and a destroyer with its hyperdrive removed for space reasons. The intended patrol mission means that it needs both a different layout and likely a bigger crew than a strike vehicle whose primary purpose is to damage capital ships.
Daryl Saal says:
Sophie on the roof with glider alone. Is Elizabeth about to become the heir?
Randomiser says:
Getting really tired of the implicit assumption that Breakwater is all powerful and nothing can be done about him. Fire the man; decide that MPARS is too important to be under the exchequer and needs its own minister; investigate his tax returns, business deals and favour peddling until something actionable pops out; come on Edward you are King, do something<\b) other than wring your hands and complain.
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PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
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Who said it?
At this point in the development, although geometry provided a common framework for all the forces, there was still no way to complete the unification by combining quantum theory and general relativity. Since quantum theory deals with the very small and general relativity with the very large, many physicists feel that, for all practical purposes, there is no need to attempt such an ultimate unification. Others however disagree, arguing that physicists should never give up on this ultimate search, and for these the hunt for this final unification is the ‘holy grail’. Michael Atiyah
"No Royal Road to Geometry?"
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Are you an observant person? Look at the above picture. Why ask such a question as to, "No Royal Road to Geometry?" This presupposes that a logic is formulated that leads not only one by the "phenomenological values" but by the very principal of logic itself.
All those who have written histories bring to this point their account of the development of this science. Not long after these men came Euclid, who brought together the Elements, systematizing many of the theorems of Eudoxus, perfecting many of those of Theatetus, and putting in irrefutable demonstrable form propositions that had been rather loosely established by his predecessors. He lived in the time of Ptolemy the First, for Archimedes, who lived after the time of the first Ptolemy, mentions Euclid. It is also reported that Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was not a shorter road to geometry that through the Elements, and Euclid replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He was therefore later than Plato's group but earlier than Eratosthenes and Archimedes, for these two men were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. Euclid belonged to the persuasion of Plato and was at home in this philosophy; and this is why he thought the goal of the Elements as a whole to be the construction of the so-called Platonic figures. (Proclus, ed. Friedlein, p. 68, tr. Morrow)
I don't think I could of made it any easier for one, but to reveal the answer in the quote. Now you must remember how the logic is introduced here, and what came before Euclid. The postulates are self evident in his analysis but, little did he know that there would be a "Royal Road indeed" to geometry that was much more complex and beautiful then the dry implication logic would reveal of itself.
It's done for a reason and all the geometries had to be leading in this progressive view to demonstrate that a "projective geometry" is the final destination, although, still evolving?
Eventually it was discovered that the parallel postulate is logically independent of the other postulates, and you get a perfectly consistent system even if you assume that parallel postulate is false. This means that it is possible to assign meanings to the terms "point" and "line" in such a way that they satisfy the first four postulates but not the parallel postulate. These are called non-Euclidean geometries. Projective geometry is not really a typical non-Euclidean geometry, but it can still be treated as such.
In this axiomatic approach, projective geometry means any collection of things called "points" and things called "lines" that obey the same first four basic properties that points and lines in a familiar flat plane do, but which, instead of the parallel postulate, satisfy the following opposite property instead:
The projective axiom: Any two lines intersect (in exactly one point).
If you are "ever the artist" it is good to know in which direction you will use the sun, in order to demonstrate the shadowing that will go on into your picture. While you might of thought there was everything to know about Plato's cave and it's implication I am telling you indeed that the logic is a formative apparatus concealed in the geometries that are used to explain such questions about, "the shape of space."
The Material World
There are two reasons that having mapped E8 is so important. The practical one is that E8 has major applications: mathematical analysis of the most recent versions of string theory and supergravity theories all keep revealing structure based on E8. E8 seems to be part of the structure of our universe.
The other reason is just that the complete mapping of E8 is the largest mathematical structure ever mapped out in full detail by human beings. It takes 60 gigabytes to store the map of E8. If you were to write it out on paper in 6-point print (that's really small print), you'd need a piece of paper bigger than the island of Manhattan. This thing is huge.
Polytopes and allotrope are examples to me of "shapes in their formative compulsions" that while very very small in their continuing expression, "below planck length" in our analysis of the world, has an "formative structure" in the case of the allotrope in the material world. The polytopes, as an abstract structure of math thinking about the world. As if in nature's other ways.
This illustration depicts eight of the allotropes (different molecular configurations) that pure carbon can take:
a) Diamond
b) Graphite
c) Lonsdaleite
d) Buckminsterfullerene (C60)
e) C540
f) C70
g) Amorphous carbon
h) single-walled carbon nanotube
Review of experiments
Graphite exhibits elastic behaviour and even improves its mechanical strength up to the temperature of about 2500 K. Measured changes in ultrasonic velocity in graphite after high temperature creep shows marked plasticity at temperatures above 2200 K [16]. From the standpoint of thermodynamics, melting is a phase transition of the first kind, with an abrupt enthalpy change constituting the heat of melting. Therefore, any experimental proof of melting is associated with direct recording of the temperature dependence of enthalpy in the neighbourhood of a melting point. Pulsed heating of carbon materials was studied experimentally by transient electrical resistance and arc discharge techniques, in millisecond and microsecond time regime (see, e.g., [17, 18]), and by pulsed laser heating, in microsecond, nanosecond and picosecond time regime (see, e.g., [11, 19, 20]). Both kind of experiments recorded significant changes in the material properties (density, electrical and thermal conductivity, reflectivity, etc. ) within the range 4000-5000 K, interpreted as a phase change to a liquid state. The results of graphite irradiation by lasers suggest [11] that there is at least a small range of temperatures for which liquid carbon can exist at pressure as low as 0.01 GPa. The phase boundaries between graphite and liquid were investigated experimentally and defined fairly well.
Sean Carroll:But if you peer closely, you will see that the bottom one is the lopsided one — the overall contrast (representing temperature fluctuations) is a bit higher on the left than on the right, while in the untilted image at the top they are (statistically) equal. (The lower image exaggerates the claimed effect in the real universe by a factor of two, just to make it easier to see by eye.)
See The Lopsided Universe-.
#36.Plato on Jun 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Lawrence,
“I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered.”Harold Scott Macdonald (H. S. M.) Coxeter
Moving to polytopes or allotrope seem to have values in science? Buckminister Fuller and Richard Smalley in terms of allotrope.
I was looking at Sylvestor surfaces and the Clebsch diagram. Cayley too. These configurations to me were about “surfaces,” and if we were to allot a progression to the “projective geometries” here in relation to higher dimensional thinking, “as the polytope[E8]“(where Coxeter[I meant to apologize for misspelling earlier] drew us to abstraction to the see “higher dimensional relations” toward Plato’s light.)
As the furthest extent of the Conjecture , how shall we place the dynamics of Sylvestor surfaces and B Fields in relation to the timeline of these geometries? Historically this would seem in order, but under the advancement of thinking in theoretics does it serve a purpose? Going beyond “planck length” what is a person to do?
Thanks for the clarifications on Lagrange points. This is how I see the WMAP.
Diagram of the Lagrange Point gravitational forces associated with the Sun-Earth system. WMAP orbits around L2, which is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. Lagrange Points are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a two body system like the Sun and the Earth produce enhanced regions of attraction and repulsion. The forces at L2 tend to keep WMAP aligned on the Sun-Earth axis, but requires course correction to keep the spacecraft from moving toward or away from the Earth.
Such concentration in the view of Sean’s group of the total WMAP while finding such a concentration would be revealing would it not of this geometrical instance in relation to gravitational gathering or views of the bulk tendency? Another example to show this fascinating elevation to non-euclidean, gravitational lensing, could be seen in this same light.
Such mapping would be important to the context of “seeing in the whole universe.”
See:No Royal Road to Geometry
Allotropes and the Ray of Creation
Pasquale Del Pezzo and E8 Origination?
Projective Geometries
Posted by PlatoHagel at 2:39:00 PM
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Comparing Amplitutdes of the String
Dyson, one of the most highly-regarded scientists of his time, poignantly informed the young man that his findings into the distribution of prime numbers corresponded with the spacing and distribution of energy levels of a higher-ordered quantum state.
So one tends to get in this mode of thinking, that the way in which one measures "aspects of reality" is somehow couched in the mathematics of a kind, and unbeknownst to us, a hoped a pattern is revealed?
Artist's impression of the setup.
The disks represent the bosonic condensate density and the blue balls in the vortex core represent the fermionic density. The black line is a guide to the eye to see the wiggling of the vortex line that corresponds to a so-called Kelvin mode, which provides the bosonic part of the superstring
To have gone to such extremes of thinking of the reality as one would of the elemental design, one hopes to see the "new perspective" will encourage new pathways to develping new phenomenological directions.
As absurd as this sounds, the current framework did not support the existing structure any longer in regards to sciences development, so theoretical insight needed to be pushed. New ways in which we could look at reality could provide for new experimental considerations?
It would not be unlike Bohm to introduce his system, and then ask us to think i the possible new way in which language has somehow been transformed. Does it not seem by our very nature, language accustoms perspective to have it's natural physical gestures as expression? Not just physical, but mental as well?
Posted by PlatoHagel at 8:40:00 AM
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The History of Magnetic Vision
Grossmann is getting his doctorate on a topic that is connected with non-Euclidean geometry. I don’t know what it is.
Einstein to Mileva Maric,1902
Animal Navigation
The long-distance navigational abilities of animals have fascinated humans for centuries and challenged scientists for decades. How is a butterfly with a brain weighing less than 0.02 grams able to find its way to a very specific wintering site thousands of kilometers away, even though it has never been there before? And, how does a migratory bird circumnavigate the globe with a precision unobtainable by human navigators before the emergence of GPS satellites? To answer these questions, multi-disciplinary approaches are needed. A very good example of such an approach on shorter distance navigation is the classical ongoing studies on foraging trips of Cataglyphis desert ants. My Nachwuchsgruppe intends to use mathematical modelling, physics, quantum chemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, computer simulations and newly developed laboratory equipment in combination with behavioral experiments and analyses of field data to achieve a better understanding of the behavioral and physiological mechanisms of long distance navigation in insects and birds.
Tony Smith has some interesting information in response to a post by Clifford of Asymptotia.
Clifford writes:
This is simply fascinating. I heard about it on NPR. While it is well known that birds are sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field, and use it to navigate, apparently it’s only been recently shown that this sensitivity is connected directly to the visual system (at least in some birds). The idea seems to be that the bird has evolved a mechanism for essentially seeing the magnetic field, presumably in the sense that magnetic information is encoded in the visual field and mapped to the brain along with the usual visual data
While my post has been insulted by cutting it short(and stamping it and proclaiming irrelevance,) I'd like to think otherwise, even in face of his streamlining that Clifford likes to do. His blog, he can do what he wants of course.
In any case, it seems reasonable to agree with Buhler, who concludes in his biography of Gauss that "the oft-told story according to which Gauss wanted to decide the question [of whether space is perfectly Euclidean] by measuring a particularly large triangle is, as far as we know, a myth."
So I'll repeat the post of mine here and the part, that he has deleted. You had to know how to see the relevance of the proposition of birds in relation to the magnetic field of the earth, to know why the bird relation is so important.
On Magnetic vision
Rupert Sheldrake has had similar thoughts on this topic.
"Numerous experiments on homing have already been carried out with pigeons. Nevertheless, after nearly a century of dedicated but frustrating research, no one knows how pigeons home, and all attempts to explain their navigational ability in terms of known senses and physical forces have so far proved unsuccessful. Researchers in this field readily admit the problem. 'The amazing flexibility of homing and migrating birds has been a puzzle for years. Remove cue after cue, and yet animals still retain some backup strategy for establishing flight direction.' 'The problem of navigation remains essentially unsolved.'
Many of academics might have steered clear because of the the thoughts and subject he has about this? It seems to me that if this information is credible, then some of Rupert's work has some substance to it and hence, brings some credibility to the academic outlook?
Update: Here I am adding some thoughts in regards to Rupert Sheldrake that I was having while reading his work. He had basically himself denounced the process of birds having an physiological connection to magnetic fields because of not having any information to support the magnetic vision Clifford is talking about. So Rupert moves beyond this speculation, to create an idea about what he calls Morphic resonance with regards to animals.
So Rupert presents future data and theoretics in face of what we now know in terms of the neurological basis is experimentally being talked about in the article in question Clifford is writing about.
On How to see in the Non Euclidean Geometrical World
8.6 On Gauss's Mountains
One of the most famous stories about Gauss depicts him measuring the angles of the great triangle formed by the mountain peaks of Hohenhagen, Inselberg, and Brocken for evidence that the geometry of space is non-Euclidean. It's certainly true that Gauss acquired geodetic survey data during his ten-year involvement in mapping the Kingdom of Hanover during the years from 1818 to 1832, and this data included some large "test triangles", notably the one connecting the those three mountain peaks, which could be used to check for accumulated errors in the smaller triangles. It's also true that Gauss understood how the intrinsic curvature of the Earth's surface would theoretically result in slight discrepancies when fitting the smaller triangles inside the larger triangles, although in practice this effect is negligible, because the Earth's curvature is so slight relative to even the largest triangles that can be visually measured on the surface. Still, Gauss computed the magnitude of this effect for the large test triangles because, as he wrote to Olbers, "the honor of science demands that one understand the nature of this inequality clearly". (The government officials who commissioned Gauss to perform the survey might have recalled Napoleon's remark that Laplace as head of the Department of the Interior had "brought the theory of the infinitely small to administration".) It is sometimes said that the "inequality" which Gauss had in mind was the possible curvature of space itself, but taken in context it seems he was referring to the curvature of the Earth's surface.
See:Reflections on Relativity
As a layperson, Riemann and Gauss were instrumental for helping me see beyond what we were accustom to in Euclidean, so I find Clifford's blog post extremely interesting as well. Maybe even a biological/physiological impute into our senses as well? Who knows?:)
Einstein's youth and the compass, becomes the motivation that drives the vision of what exists beyond what was acceptable in that youth. The mystery. Creates a new method on how we view the world beyond the magnetic, to help us include the view in the gravitational one as well.
From a early age, young Albert showed great interest in the world around him. When he was five years old, his father gave him a compass, and the child was enchanted by the device and intrigued by the fact the needle followed a invisible field to point always in the direction of the north pole.Reminiscing in old age, Einstein mentioned this incident as one of the factors that perhaps motivated him years later to study the gravitational field. God's Equation, by Amir D. Aczel, Pg 14
While something could exist that is abstract, like for instance the Gaussian arc, this inclusion in the value of general relativity is well known. Mileva's response in quote above was the key for Einstein's views on developing General Relativity, and without it "electromagnetism would not, and could not" have been included geometrically in the theory of GR.
It was a succession to "Gravitational wave production" that was understood in regards to Taylor and Hulse.
The theory of relativity predicts that, as it orbits the Sun, Mercury does not exactly retrace the same path each time, but rather swings around over time. We say therefore that the perihelion -- the point on its orbit when Mercury is closest to the Sun -- advances.
I would think this penduum exercise would make a deeper impression if held in concert with the way one might have look at Mercuries orbit.
Or, binary pulsar PSR 1913+16 of Taylor and Hulse. These are macroscopic valutions in what the pendulum means. Would this not be true? See:Harmonic Oscillation
I guess not every string theorist would know this? Maybe even Bee would understand that "German" is replace by another form of seeing using abstract language, for how everything can be seen in relation to the ground state? Where there are no gravitational waves, spacetime is flat.
You had to know how such views on the navigation of the birds could have a direct link to the evolutionary output of the biology and physiology of the species. What Toposense?
Yes it's a process where the mathematical minds look at knitting and such, in such modularc forms, to have said, "hey there is a space of thinking" that we can do really fancy twists and such.
One thing us humans can certainly do is construct the monumental world reality with straight lines and such in the Euclidean view. But nature was there before we thought to change all it's curves.
But the truth is, the Earth's topography is highly variable with mountains, valleys, plains, and deep ocean trenches. As a consequence of this variable topography, the density of Earth's surface varies. These fluctuations in density cause slight variations in the gravity field, which, remarkably, GRACE can detect from space. See: The Mind Field
See here for more info on Grace.
Look out into the wild world that nature itself presents and tell me what the ancient mind did not see. Native Americans lived closer to nature. Hopefully you'll understand why it is we must engage ourselves to experiencing the views of nature?:)
Mandalic Construction
See: The Last Mimzy
The "Ancient Medicine wheels" might have been place accordingly? Do you imagine seeing in the abstract world, the magnetic view we see of earth in it's different disguise?
So that last line about the "medicine wheels" probably caused Clifford to do what he did in regards to the post I wrote.
Yes I am creating a direct link between the Medicine Wheels and the Medicine Wheel as a Mandala constructed by early Native Americans. Where they were shamanically placed on the earth.
What is a Medicine Wheel?
The term "medicine wheel" was first applied to the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, the most southern one known. That site consists of a central cairn or rock pile surrounded by a circle of stone; lines of cobbles link the central cairn and the surrounding circle. The whole structure looks rather like a wagon wheel lain-out on the ground with the central cairn forming the hub, the radiating cobble lines the spokes, and the surrounding circle the rim. The "medicine" part of the name implies that it was of religious significance to Native peoples.
Figure 4 - Distribution of medicine wheel sites east of the Rockies
What was of importance is the underlying psychological patterns that exist in the forms of Mandalas. That such a thing like the Medicine wheel, would retain a impact from one's life, to another life.
There are various forms of mandalas with distinct concepts and different purposes. The individual representations range from the so-called Cosmic Mandalas, which transmit the ancient knowledge of the development of the universe and the world-systems which represents a high point among Mandalas dedicated to meditation; to the Mandalas of the Medicine Buddha which demonstrates how the Buddha-power radiates in all directions, portraying the healing power of the Buddha.
It would not be easy to understand this "seed mandala" as it makes it way into conscious recognition. It arises to awareness through the subconscious pathway during our susceptibility in dream time. This open accessibility is the understanding that there is a closer connection to the universality of being, and the realization that the degrees beyond the "emotive body" is developing the understanding of the "mental one" as well as, leading to "the spiritual one."
This comparative view is analogousness to development beyond the abstract view we see of earth in it's gravitational form.
However, the signals that scientists hope to measure with LISA and other gravitational wave detectors are best described as "sounds." If we could hear them, here are some of the possible sounds of a gravitational wave generated by the movement of a small body inspiralling into a black hole.
It would be much like a "energy packet" that would contain all that is demonstrated in "extravagant patterns." Look like a "flower in real life," or a "intricate pattern," while encouraging the person to explore these doorways and move on from.
That seed contains all of the history we have supplanted to it by how we built previously and embedded all the philosophy we had learnt from it.
The Emotional Body of the Earth
Would to me seem very emotive in terms of it's weather. How such weather patterns spread across the earth. Also, it would not seem so strange then that while we would have seen polarization aspects in the cosmos, in terms of magnetic field variances in relation to north and south, we would see "this of value" in the earth as well?
So would the earth have it's positive and negative developments in relation to aspect of it's weather? Most certainly psychological when the snows have lasted so long, one could indeed wish for warmer weather, but that's not what I mean. I mean on a physiological level, such ionic generations would indeed cause the state of the human body to react.
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IN Search of Mandelstam's Holy Grail
There are two posts that reflect the purpose of this post today. One is Clifford's linked through Lee Smolin's comment and the other, at Backreaction. Good Physics is Conflict
A lot of you may never understand the significance of the mystery that follows the thinking of the Holy Grail. Yet is it more the knowledge that can be gained from all soul's day, that on this occasion we may have called it Halloween.
We celebrated the past, in the living of today? You philosophize, while you become the thoughts of models created by science leaders shared? I do not think any have a "personality disorder" like I do:)
Lee Smolin:
Here is an example of the kind of question I found I needed a book to explore: what to think of the problems that arise from the need for higher dimensions in string theory, such as the problem of moduli stabilization and the vast number of static solutions. To approach this I read books on the early history of GR and unified field theories and learned that higher dimensional compactifications were explored many times between 1914 and 1984 and that close to the beginning these problems were appreciated and discussed by Einstein and others. I weave this story into my book because I find it useful when trying to judge how serious the present issues in string theory are to know how Einstein and many others struggled with the same issues over decades.
So of course when we think of the persons of science who walked before us (shoulders of giants), what are their whole stories, but what is evidenced to us as we read those words? So you compile your data accordingly, and from it, we say at certain spots, how are we to react to the challenge now facing us?
Stanley Mandelstam, Professor Emeritus, Particle Theory
My present research concerns the problem of topology changing in string theory. It is currently believed that one has to sum over all string backgrounds and all topologies in doing the functional integral. I suspect that certain singular string backgrounds may be equivalent to topology changes, and that it is consequently only necessary to sum over string backgrounds. As a start I am investigating topology changes in two-dimensional target spaces. I am also interested in Seiberg-Witten invariants. Although much has been learned, some basic questions remain, and I hope to be able at least to understand the simpler of these questionsStanley Mandelstam-Professor Emeritus Particle Theory
As a lay person watching the debate it is difficult for me to discern the basis of these arguments. But I strive to go past what you think is surface in conduct in science's response, as some may show of themself in a reactionary pose. Should we all be so perfect, that the human condition is not also the example by which we shall progress in science?
Dealing in the Abstract
A sphere with three handles (and three holes), i.e., a genus-3 torus.
Of course the thinking may seem so detached from reality that one asks for some reason with which to believe anything. It required, that the history of this approached dust off models in glass cabinets, that were our early descendants of the museum today.
Sylvester's models lay hidden away for a long time, but recently the Mathematical Institute received a donation to rescue some of them. Four of these were carefully restored by Catherine Kimber of the Ashmolean Museum and now sit in an illuminated glass cabinet in the Institute Common Room.
How many of you know how to work in such abstract spaces, and know that what you are talking about has it's relationships in the physics of today? Or that, what satellites we use in measure of, have some correlation to how one may have seen "UV coordinates supplied by Gauss?"
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Where are my keys?
"Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality." from Flatland, by E. A. Abbott
The Extra-Dimensions?
So you intuitively believe higher dimensions really exist?
Lisa Randall:I don't see why they shouldn't. In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
And what is it that we don't see? I thought of a comment somewhere that spoke about what first started to make it's appearance in how we communicate?
Time is the Unseen fourth Dimension
They were able to create what we recognize today as the "elliptical" and "hyperbolic" non-Euclidean geometries. Most of Saccheri's first 32 theorems can be found in today's non-Euclidean textbooks. Saccheri's theorems are prefaced by "Sac."
One of my greatest "aha moments" came when I realized Non-euclidean geometries. I had to travel the history first with Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Bolya and Lobachevsky, for this to make an impression, and I can safely say, that learning of Gauss and Riemann, I was truly impressed.
Einstein had to include that "extra dimension of time." Greater then, or less then, 180 degrees and we know "this triangle" can take on some funny shapes when you apply them "to surfaces" that are doing funny things.?:)
Second, we must be wary of the "God of the Gaps" phenomena, where miracles are attributed to whatever we don't understand. Contrary to the famous drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost, here we are tempted to conclude that the keys must lie in whatever dark corners we have not searched, rather than face the unpleasant conclusion that the keys may be forever lost.
Let me just say that "it is not the fact that any drinking could have held the mind" of the person, but when they absentmindedly threw their car keys. The "point is" that if the light shines only so far, what conclusion should we live with?
Moving to the Fifth
So of course whatever real estate you are buying, make sure the light is shining on what your willing to purchase? Is this not a good lesson to learn?
Moving any idea to a fifth dimension I thought was important in relation to seeing what Einstein had done. See further: Concepts of the Fifth Dimension. I illustrate more ways in which we may see that has not been seen for most could have helped the mind see how this is accomplished in current day geometric methods.
Why was this thought "wrong" when one may of thought to include "gravity and light" together, after the conclusion of spacetime's 3+1? Gravity. What Had Maxwell done? What Had Riemann done?
You knew "the perfect symmetry" had to be reduced to General Relativity?
Greg Landsberg:
Two types of the extra-dimensional effects observable at collides.
A graviton leaves our world for a short moment of time, just to come back and decay into a pair of photons (the DØ physicists looked for that particular effect).
A graviton escapes from our 3-dimensional world in extra dimensions (Megaverse), resulting in an apparent energy non-conservation in our three-dimensional world.
So why would it matter to us if the universe has more than 3 spatial dimensions, if we can not feel them? Well, in fact we could “feel” these extra dimensions through their effect on gravity. While the forces that hold our world together (electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions) are constrained to the 3+1-“flat” dimensions, the gravitational interaction always occupies the entire universe, thus allowing it to feel the effects of extra dimensions. Unfortunately, since gravity is a very weak force and since the radius of extra dimensions is tiny, it could be very hard to see any effects, unless there is some kind of mechanism that amplifies the gravitational interaction. Such a mechanism was recently proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali, who realized that the extra dimensions can be as large as one millimeter, and still we could have missed them in our quest for the understanding of how the universe works!
Of course these ideas are experimentally being challenged, like any good scientist would want of his theory. See EOT-WASH GROUP(4)
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The Mathematikoi had Synesthesia?
Pythagoreanism is a term used for the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were much influenced by mathematics and probably a main inspirational source for Plato and platonism.
Later resurgence of ideas similar to those held by the early Pythagoreans are collected under the term Neopythagoreanism.
The Pythagoreans were called mathematikoi, which means "those that study all1"
To say it is easy in knowing where to begin, is a understatement of what has been an enormous struggle to define the world around me. Indicative of the complications of how one may have seen this world in regards to the "views of a Synesthesist," would have taxed most "science minds" if they had "this inkling" of the complexity this brings to science. Think about what is implied here when one refers to "studying it all?"
So as I lay in the twilight hours of the mind's rest period, there are these things that I am asking of myself, as to how I may point to what is comparative in the "geometric views of science" and what is comparative to the views of that science in relation to examples given of the Synesthesist who sees from a certain position.
Again, my mind falls back in the history of humanities evolution and while the distinctiveness of sectors of that past history, it would not be unkind to draw from that history and present the question of what a Synesthesist might have seen in relation to the numbers?
Create and play with the most beautiful, hypnotic light illusions you have ever seen.
I seen the above in relation to Lubos's post. It would be nice to offer the "equation correlations" to these "colour displays" in string theory?:)
Are you quicker then I then to see that numbers may have had the colour attached to their very nature, that "all things" then my have had this basis of "music" and "colour association" thrown "into the mix/cross over points"" to call it the Pythagorean?
So imagine being strapped with the job to start from some place, and move any mind to consider the complexity of "departing euclidean views" to meld with the "non-euclidean reality" assigned our everyday species to "what is natural" from straight lines and such. Has now moved to a dynamical world of "Faraday lines" Gauss's role as "teacher of Gaussian Co-ordinates" to views of his student, "Riemann?"
This equation provides a simple relation among the three sides of a right triangle so that if the lengths of any two sides are known, the length of the third side can be found.
Should one be so crude as to see that straight lines can have a "greater implication of design" that one would not have seen, had they not understood Gauss's work? That if you moved yourself to natures's domain, how many lines are really that straight?
Ask your self then what is natural and what was man-made? That these straight lines are indeed an order to mankind's "ode to building and living," while there are these "other worldly visions" supplied in the "non euclidean realm" existed free from man's definition of nature.
One of the most famous stories about Gauss depicts him measuring the angles of the great triangle formed by the mountain peaks of Hohenhagen, Inselberg, and Brocken for evidence that the geometry of space is non-Euclidean. It's certainly true that Gauss acquired geodetic survey data during his ten-year involvement in mapping the Kingdom of Hanover during the years from 1818 to 1832, and this data included some large "test triangles", notably the one connecting the those three mountain peaks, which could be used to check for accumulated errors in the smaller triangles. It's also true that Gauss understood how the intrinsic curvature of the Earth's surface would theoretically result in slight discrepancies when fitting the smaller triangles inside the larger triangles, although in practice this effect is negligible, because the Earth's curvature is so slight relative to even the largest triangles that can be visually measured on the surface. Still, Gauss computed the magnitude of this effect for the large test triangles because, as he wrote to Olbers, "the honor of science demands that one understand the nature of this inequality clearly". (The government officials who commissioned Gauss to perform the survey might have recalled Napoleon's remark that Laplace as head of the Department of the Interior had "brought the theory of the infinitely small to administration".) It is sometimes said that the "inequality" which Gauss had in mind was the possible curvature of space itself, but taken in context it seems he was referring to the curvature of the Earth's surface. 2
The Interior Probabilities Manifests as Colour
How foolish would I be then to tell you that "Heaven' Ephemeral Qualities," are coloured to the degrees that "gravity defines itself in time?" That "model building" had to take place, so that the understanding of where this gravity explains itself, could find correlations to humans experiencing "durations of time" within in the living of day to day.
Again I move one back to what this "egg of fluttering does" as of physiological consequent, as the correlations of those same colours manifest in the qualities of those same thought patterns. Those experiences mapped to MRI imaging are condensible features "in the physical" do not explain the "Ephemeral Quality" assigned to each of these regions. Had one knew how to switch around the "value of consciousness" to the condensible feature as brain matter, one would have known about the happenings taking place "outside" of our bodies.
It is here to then that I take from the "metaphysical realm" and bring it into the relations of what is happening in the physical brain. While history has shown groups who gathered to see what was happening, saw "human experiencing" as they went through these colour modes.
1 Hemmenway, Pryia – Divine Proportion pp66, Sterling Publishing, ISBN 1-4027-3522-7
2 Reflections on Relativity8.6 On Guass's Mountain
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Visual Abstraction to Equations
Some of you might have noticed the reference to the Ashmolean Museum?
Photo by Graham Challifour. Reproduced from Critchlow, 1979, p. 132.
It seems only the good scientist John Baez had epitomes the construction of the Platonic solids? A revision then, of the "time line of history" and the correction he himself had to make? Let's not be to arrogant to know that once we understand more and look at "the anomalies" it forces us to revise our assessments.
The Art form
I relayed this image and quote below on Clifford's site to encourage the thinking of young people into an art form that is truly amazing to me. Yes I get excited about it after having learnt of Gauss and Reimann's exceptional abilities to move into the non euclidean world.
Some think me a crackpot here? If you did not follow the history then how would you know to also include the "physics of approach," as well? Also, some might ask what use "this ability to see the visual abstraction" and I think this art form is in a way destined, to what was kept in glass cabinets and such, even while the glass cabinet in analogy is held in the brain/space of them) who have developed such artistic abilities.
It's as if you move past the layers of the evolution of the human being(brain casings) and it evolution and the field that surrounds them. Having accomplished the intellect( your equations and such), has now moved into the world of imagery. Closet to this is the emotive field which circumvents our perspective on the greater potential of the world in the amazing thought forms of imagery. This move outward, varies for each of us from time to time. Some who are focused in which ever area can move beyond them. This paragraph just written is what would be considered crackpot(I dislike that word)because of the long years of research I had gone through to arrive at this point.
Of course, those views above are different.
Is it illusionary or delusional, and having looked at the Clebsch's Diagonal Surface below, how is it that "abstraction" written?
The enthusiasm that characterized such collections was captured by Francis Bacon [1, p. 247], who ironically advised "learned gentlemen" of the era to assemble within "a small compass a model of the universal made private", building
... a goodly, huge cabinet, wherein whatsoever the hand of man by exquisite art or engine has made rare in stuff, form or motion; whatsoever singularity, chance, and the shuffle of things hath produced; whatsoever Nature has wrought in things that want life and may be kept; shall be sorted and included.
There is no doubt that the long road to understanding science is the prerequisite to mapping the images from an equation's signs and symbols. While not sitting in the classroom of the teachers it was necessary to try and move into the fifth dimensional referencing of our computer screen to see what is being extolled here not just in image development, but of what the physics is doing in relation.
In 1849 already, the British mathematicians Salmon ([Sal49]) and Cayley ([Cay49]) published the results of their correspondence on the number of straight lines on a smooth cubic surface. In a letter, Cayley had told Salmon, that their could only exist a finite number - and Salmon answered, that the number should be exactly 27
So of course to be the historical journey was established like most things, Mandelstam current and what is happening there as an interlude, as well as helping to establish some understanding of the abstractions that had been developed.
But yes, before moving to current day imagery and abstraction, I had to understand how these developments were being tackled in today's theoretical sciences.
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Mars in 6 weeks? And back in a total of four months? That's the prediction of a design team working on antimatter rocket concepts at Pennsylvania State University. But first, you have to get the stuff - and store it. (PSU)
The popular belief is that an antimatter particle coming in contact with its matter counterpart yields energy. That's true for electrons and positrons (anti-electrons). They'll produce gamma rays at 511,000 electron volts.
But heavier particles like protons and anti-protons are somewhat messier, making gamma rays and leaving a spray of secondary particles that eventually decay into neutrinos and low-energy gamma rays.
And that is partly what Schmidt and others want in an antimatter engine. The gamma rays from a perfect reaction would escape immediately, unless the ship had thick shielding, and serve no purpose. But the charged debris from a proton/anti-proton annihilation can push a ship.
"We want to get as close as possible to the initial annihilation event," Schmidt explained. What's important is intercepting some of the pions and other charged particles that are produced and using the energy to produce thrust."
So our history here in this blog has detailed how we see the issues of "collision processes developed(Cern), that we may now see the cosmological playground teaming with the opportunities to produce this "stuff" that would send our spaceships to Mars?
The extension of the thinking of experimental development, has allowed us to think of "what is possible" and what this propulsion system can do, as we make our way into the new territories? As we set sail our ships, searching for those new lands.
A Penn State artist's concept of n antimatter-powered Mars ship with equipment and crew landers at the right, and the engine, with magnetic nozzles, at left.
Of course "storage" is always a troubling issue here so they developed what is call the Penning Trap. But it is not without some insight that our geometrical understanding developed in the events in the cosmos, could not be transformed in that same geometrical sense to propel those ships?
This "Penning trap" developed at Penn State University stores antiprotons.
It sounds like science fiction, but researchers are learning to create and store small amounts of antimatter in real-life labs. A portable electromagnetic antimatter trap at Penn State University, for example, can hold 10 billion antiprotons. If we could learn how to use such antimatter safely, we could impinge some on a thin stream of hydrogen gas to create thrust. Alternatively, a little antimatter could be injected into a fusion reactor to lower the temperatures needed to trigger a fusion reaction.
So you ask how is that possible?
The gravitational collapse sets up the very ideas for us as we make use of that "propulsion system" to move that space ship. So in a sense, "the collider process" at Cern is a gigantic model of what we want in the developmental process as the new engine of our spaceship.
A schematic of the heart of a Penning trap where a cloud of antiprotons (the fuzzy bluish spot) is kept cold and quiet by liquid nitrogen and helium and a stable magnetic field. (PSU)
Anti-protons, explained Dr. Gerald Smith of Pennsylvania State University, can be obtained in modest quantities from high-energy accelerators slamming particles into solid targets. The anti-protons are then collected and held in a magnetic bottle
While previously here I have spoken about how we may use Susskind's thought experiment as a monitoring system of gravitational considerations, it is also this thought process that helps us adjust the ship according to how much thrust is needed in face of the lagrangian views we encounter in star systems?
However, by using "matter/antimatter annihilation", velocities just below the speed of light could be reached, making it possible to reach the next star in about six years.
I think Stephen Hawking is going to have to work faster, in order to elucidate his thoughts on this travel. That while I may have started this lesson from the idea of 1999, it is much more advanced then many had understood. The "experimental process" of Cern is much greater then most of us had realized.
Also there is a developmental "thought pattern" that needs to be understood as we speak about how such a geometrics could have been seen underneath the very structures of our realities. Not only within the cosmos at large but in the dynamical processes of the quantum world.
Cern IMagery takes a "dramatic position" on what it is saying about itself? :) I would like to think that the fun is in how "mirror world" has somehow been transposed into what we know of the develpmental processes we are given as we now lok at what may help us move into the cosmos.
If as a society we were "uncultured" we might have thought the tribal influence of the "bad side" of all things? But in that exploratory sense al the tidbits had to add up to something, yet without our understanding of what lies beneath, one might have never gone "past" Robert Mclaughlin, to realize, the geometrical nature that imbues the process we are developing.
This was Riemann lesson to Gauss in his thesis, who like his student had thought for sure "vision capable now," would also have been transferred into a "whole new world" of understanding of the non euclidean geometries.
What do they say about the devil being in the details?
Plato:
This image had horns drawn on it, with a tail attached. Something about “angels and demons?” I don’t think we should take the “anti” too literal in face of an outcome, or should we?
It's about how we can take a legitimate process and build ideas on it, according to the very nature of the "negative and positive expressions" of what Riemann set out to do.
ON a large scale, we see the dynamics of this process, yet failed to see it work at a microcosmic sense as we deal with the colliders? As we move forward in the propulsion systems, it is importance how we see this developmental process take on dynamic views.
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Types of Blogging Software
Ask yourself this? What is the new kernel to be, if we had for one moment presented the opportunities for the using Riemann hypothesis, and contained the very idea as a philosophy presented within this blog?
A VIEW OF MATHEMATICS by Alain CONNES
Each generation builds a mental picture" of their own understanding of this world and constructs more and more penetrating mental tools to explore previously hidden aspects of that reality.
Would such a "paradigmal change" allow for insightual software development to take a turn for the better if the understanding existed, that one had already left the cave, and saw the aspects of probable outcomes, as more then the primes and it's integrations with physics mentality, along with theoretical development?
Micro-quantum structures that are exemplfiled, in Monte Carlo methods?
Are we "FREE" to Express?
While I have enjoyed the blogging experience of Blogger.com, and the integration of development that had been going on, the questions remain, as to where this information is deposited and how the moderation of "such a tool" is enforced?
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.
I have a certain ideology about trying to bring together as much information as possible, by asking, if image linking, and phrase connections, do not involve copyright infringements, and allow the versatility of blogging experience, while respecting the owners of images and wording, while connected directly to their source.
Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected only by the tenuous strands of the Internet?
Certainly not I. By the time Linux swam onto my radar screen in early 1993, I had already been involved in Unix and open-source development for ten years. I was one of the first GNU contributors in the mid-1980s. I had released a good deal of open-source software onto the net, developing or co-developing several programs (nethack, Emacs's VC and GUD modes, xlife, and others) that are still in wide use today. I thought I knew how it was done.
Linux overturned much of what I thought I knew. I had been preaching the Unix gospel of small tools, rapid prototyping and evolutionary programming for years. But I also believed there was a certain critical complexity above which a more centralized, a priori approach was required. I believed that the most important software (operating systems and really large tools like the Emacs programming editor) needed to be built like cathedrals, carefully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation, with no beta to be released before its time.
This has been on my mind as I brought together many aspects of the information that is out there. From the respectable information posted by scientists and their personal experiences, to those shared by all, through such blogging experiences. So what was the battle brewing about from those early days and the struggle to develope communities, sharing information, and who are these people today?
AOL=Netscape? Microsoft? Google? Yahoo?
How would such blogging experiences allow the movement forward of society, and the thinking brain, this internet has become?
Are there concerns, that the human being once exposed to the vastness of this information, could bring it together in such a way, as to insight the "new idea" that would forward research and developement? Encourage our minds to percieve in other ways that we are not accustom? I gave an example at the very beginning of this post in regards to the Riemann Hypothesis.
Witten:
One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist's suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics.
This is important to ask, because if such an ability is focused through the individuals efforts using such a medium, how could/would it be exploited, that it could be brought to the forefront of the "thinking brain/internet" and find indeed, that such information is useful?
Meddle then in the internal structure and enforce the rights of deposition as to the respository, and deal with it as you like?
The information depository costs money, I know? Image transference costs money. Then how shall "the dream of the thinking mind" ask, that if the repositories are the resources held in abeyance, until used as seen fit, then why not/should disrupt the information gathering and make it disjointed, while we/you look at it? Before it reveals it's state secret? An open society, right? People who are free?
Robert Laughlin:
Likewise, if the very fabric of the Universe is in a quantum-critical state, then the "stuff" that underlies reality is totally irrelevant-it could be anything, says Laughlin. Even if the string theorists show that strings can give rise to the matter and natural laws we know, they won't have proved that strings are the answer-merely one of the infinite number of possible answers. It could as well be pool balls or Lego bricks or drunk sergeant majors.
This would mean that the very ideas of the internet explosion and control of it becomes in question, as well as, the provders we use to express ourselves on the internet?
How will these repositiories change then in technologies that you and I are very quickly connected in ways that the human mind/internet becomes quite capable of seeing, in ways it is not accustom?
What revolution/paradigmalchange will then happen, that the very experiences we now enjoy, will be defuncedt with all the software solutons to metigate the ability for the individual to do what any of us can do freely, without any ofthe blogging software now demonstrated below?
Shall we choose carefully, read the requirements of, and what conclusion have you reached?
Bloxsom
Blojsom
iUpload
MvBlog
PostNuke
Roller Weblogger
If we are looking for the new "idea" where shall it arise from then? It is apparent that the early thinking in cosmology has been changed(to include strings ina time sequence of events evn thoguh they be micro seconds) and so too, the values of measure in "time," recognized as problematic, in terms of it's discrete value, when it is very well understood that continuity of expression can be very smooth(yet is it?)?
The count of Primes begins in Chaos. If we were to think of the Riemann Hypothesis assigned to a scale as an approximation to the prime distribution function, then how woud any pattern suffice to be an "emergent property" of that chaos?
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What a Good String Theorist Should Know?
Einstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics, says Miller. They agreed with Galileo's assertion that "the book of nature is written in mathematics", but they also realized the power of using visual imagery to represent mathematical symbols.
I am a bit of a fanatic when it comes to the visualizations. What benefit might these have for any good theorist? What creative ability is developed, when one sees this way?
To me, as it has been described with Dirac wording that I have spell out many a time, there is also all this "other information" that has to be followed up. I know it. Many science people know it. Maybe sometimes, caught up in all the aspirations for truth, I might not remember it. So this post is here for this purpose.
You have to trust me that I will not be knocking on any good scientists door, being the crackpot that I am, with some amazing discovery.I just don't have time to bother you good science people.:)
Anyway, I thought I should clear up some ideas people have about learning. Getting some insight into what is being talked about in regards to theoretical ideas being borne, what learning the older folk like me can look forward too. The last part of this post is in regards to Think Quest comments on string theory.
Personally, I think a good theoretician needs to know a lot.
I found information provided by Gerard t’ Hooft which gives one a a good base to what he thought we should be doing. So I wanted to include some of that here as well. Also by including each of the links, typing into the "search fucntion," this post, should come up, and the related subjects, as to what should be known.
I created one on the requirements of mathematics sometime ago as well so this would be a good source link as well to the requirements needed to work within the string theory realm. I am still looking for it. You cna see now why this post is good for memory retention being somewhat lost as to where it is put under.
Is your motivation and pursuance of knowledge up to it?
HOW to BECOME a GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICISTby Gerard 't Hooft
Theoretical Physics is like a sky scraper. It has solid foundations in elementary mathematics and notions of classical (pre-20th century) physics. Don't think that pre-20th century physics is "irrelevant" since now we have so much more. In those days, the solid foundations were laid of the knowledge that we enjoy now. Don't try to construct your sky scraper without first reconstructing these foundations yourself. The first few floors of our skyscraper consist of advanced mathematical formalisms that turn the Classical Physics theories into beauties of their own. They are needed if you want to go higher than that. So, next come many of the other subjects listed below. Finally, if you are mad enough that you want to solve those tremendously perplexing problems of reconciling gravitational physics with the quantum world, you end up studying general relativity, superstring theory, M-theory, Calabi-Yau compactification and so on. That's presently the top of the sky scraper. There are other peaks such as Bose-Einstein condensation, fractional Hall effect, and more. Also good for Nobel Prizes, as the past years have shown. A warning is called for: even if you are extremely smart, you are still likely to get stuck somewhere. Surf the net yourself. Find more. Tell me about what you found. If this site has been of any help to someone while preparing for a University study, if this has motivated someone, helped someone along the way, and smoothened his or her path towards science, then I call this site successful. Please let me know. Here is the list.
Primary Mathematics
Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Special Relativity
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Superstring Theory
Think Math
While I quickly jumped to the end of the third page of reference below, it summarizes a bit as to what culminations might be found with the math in all it's aspects describe as the language. The language(herein described as the math), brings it together nicely. Whole.
Guide to Math, by Superstringtheory.com
Noncommutative geometry (NCG for short)
Geometry was originally developed to describe physical space that we can see and measure. After modern mathematics was freed from Euclid's Fifth Axiom by Gauss and Bolyai, Riemann added to modern geometry the abstract notion of a manifold M with points that are labeled by local coordinates that are real numbers, with some metric tensor that determines an extremal length between two points on the manifold.
Much of the progress in 20th century physics was in applying this modern notion of geometry to spacetime, or to quantum gauge field theory.
In the quest to develop a notion of quantum geometry, as far back as 1947, people were trying to quantize spacetime so that the coordinates would not be ordinary real numbers, but somehow elevated to quantum operators obeying some nontrivial quantum commutation relations. Hence the term "noncommutative geometry," or NCG for short.
The current interest in NCG among physicists of the 21st century has been stimulated by work by French mathematician Alain Connes.
While the truer quest of seeing is in the world of mathematics used besides english, is the real language of commonality among scientists. It serves them well to understand how all these maths could add up too, what is required of those students of youth, and youth of mind of those advacing in age, that we see this described someplace.
Nature's patterns
So who is right? Well, there is much that is attractive in the Platonist point of view. It's tempting to see our everyday world as a pale shadow of a more perfect, ordered, mathematically exact one. For one thing, mathematical patterns permeate all areas of science. Moreover, they have a universal feel to them, rather as though God thumbed His way through some kind of mathematical wallpaper catalogue when He was trying to work out how to decorate His Universe. Not only that: the deity's pattern catalogue is remarkably versatile, with the same patterns being used in many different guises. For example, the ripples on the surface of sand dunes are pretty much identical to the wave patterns in liquid crystals. Raindrops and planets are both spherical. Rainbows and ripples on a pond are circular. Honeycomb patterns are used by bees to store honey (and to pigeonhole grubs for safekeeping), and they can also be found in the geographical distribution of territorial fish, the frozen magma of the Giant's Causeway, and rock piles created by convection currents in shallow lakes. Spirals can be seen in water running out of a bath and in the Andromeda Galaxy. Frothy bubbles occur in a washing-up bowl and the arrangement of galaxies.
Imagine calling someone with this background "flaky" because of a "strange idea" that might be borne in mind, while it is encompassed by all this knowledge of science, respectively? People who had been well intentioned, hiding all the information because they might have been taunted by those who were not respectful of the age of reason, with which they had applied them self.
I think every teacher, Mother, Father understands the best they have for their student, child respectively, and what they strive to encourage in regards to the independence and strength, to move forward with the motivation that is borne in every good seeker of truth?
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Well so easily explained in the english language, Gerard's comments about explaining what we are doing now bears fruit? My inept capilities with this of courses draws recognition, let alone, the need to write those visionary qualities to algebraic equations. So Penrose has more words for us, besides his change of heart?:)
You think it easy to change the ingraininess of our methods that we should let them drop away easily? Find a new path/math with a heart? It is not without thinking that such decisions are made.
[ROGER PENROSE]
"One particular thing that struck me... [LAUGHTER]...is the fact that he found it necessary to translate all the results that he had achieved with such methods into algebraic notation. It struck me particularly, because remember I am told of Newton, when he wrote up his work, it was always exactly the opposite, in that he obtained so much of his results, so many of his results using analytical techniques and because of the general way in which things at that time had to be explained to people, he found it necessary to translate his results into the language of geometry, so his contemporaries could understand him. Well, I guess geometry… [INAUDIBLE] not quite the same topic as to whether one thinks theoretically or analytically, algebraically perhaps. This rule is perhaps touched upon at the beginning of Professor Dirac's talk, and I think it is a very interesting topic."
A more direct link to quote above on page 12.
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BBC investigation reveals effect of sprinklers in Scottish high rises
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A BBC investigation has revealed the full impact sprinkler systems have had on Scottish high rise buildings.
Fifteen people have died and more than 480 have been hurt in high-rise fires in Scotland since 2009.
But the BBC has learned that just one of those casualties was injured in a flat fitted with a sprinkler system.
The findings have led to renewed calls for the fire suppression systems to be retrofitted in older tower blocks.
The Scottish government said Scotland has "stringent building and fire safety regulations" but added that a "thorough and critical review" of those was being carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London.
The data on sprinklers was obtained from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) in response to a freedom of information request.
It revealed that the number of fires in blocks of more than 10 storeys has fallen from a high of 499 in 2009/10 to 238 last year.
However, 98% of all the high-rise blazes reported to firefighters over the last eight years happened in flats without sprinklers.
Emergency crews have been called to just 56 fires in flats with sprinklers - and just one resulted in a casualty.
In Scotland, every high-rise built since 2005 must be fitted with sprinklers but there is no obligation on councils or social landlords to retrofit the systems.
Graham Simpson, the Scottish Conservatives' housing spokesman, said BBC Scotland's findings showed that policy must change.
"These are startling figures which emphatically show the need for
sprinkler systems to be fitted in all tower blocks," he said.
"There are a number of reasons why fires start and spread and there is more than one way to inhibit the spread of fires, but sprinklers have proved their effectiveness time and time again.
"The fact that all the deaths in tower block fires were in buildings with no sprinklers and the overwhelming majority of casualties were too is evidence of the need to fit them.”
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MegaPath adds self-install SLA option to its Hosted Voice product suite
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MegaPath is playing into the trend that its customers want to have more control over service turn-up by giving them the option to choose Self-Installation, which is backed by an industry-first 7-day service level agreement (SLA).
Designed to accommodate customers that decide to purchase their broadband Internet connection from other providers besides MegaPath, the Self-Installation service allows businesses to use their own onsite resources to deploy Hosted Voice at their locations. The company said that the service can enable a customer to get their service up and running with phones within a week.
The 7-day SLA includes what the service provider describes as real service credits of up to 50 percent off the first month's recurring cost for the affected service. Customers that prefer a fully-managed implementation with dedicated account management and phone installations can chose Professional Installation services with an onsite MegaPath technician.
MegaPath offers two options to deploy their Hosted Voice service: an "over-the-top" option that leverages a customer's existing third-party broadband connection, or where MegaPath provides a fully-integrated and managed voice and broadband solution.
By using the standalone voice option, customers can leverage their own broadband service from a cable operator or the ILEC and it provides everything they would need to operate their voice service, including wide selection of IP phones.
For those customers that opt for the fully integrated voice and broadband offering, MegaPath delivers the Internet access and controls voice and other data traffic on its privately owned, nationwide IP data network. One of the advantages of the integrated offering is that the service provider can prioritize voice traffic end-to-end in order to guarantee QoS that is not possible when using an over-the-top broadband connection.
The new service is competitively priced with business VoIP calling plans starting at $19.99 for local calling plans or $24.95 for national plans.
This new option is part of an ongoing trend where MegaPath continues to enhance its Hosted Voice service. Earlier this week, it introduced a new Unified Communications (UC) service, enabling it to target the growing mobile nature of its business clients, for example.
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Mobile advocacy is a service the Victim Services Program currently provides with trauma-informed services. Mobile advocacy brings the traditional direct and supportive services of the Victim Services Program to victims while customizing these services for victims and survivors who require services outside of our main offices and shelter. Family Services has been providing mobile advocacy for decades and it has proven to be most effective for serving victims and survivors living in rural areas within Blair County.
Nationally, many programs like ours have been faced with the same challenges. While emergency shelter provides immediate safety, it is often a temporary reprieve from the violence and places limitations on the number of victims the program can serve at one time. Lives and families are uprooted in an instant that can lead to long-lasting effects.
Dr. Cris Sullivan, Professor of Ecological-Community Psychology and Director of the Research Consortium on Gender-based Violence, is a longtime researcher on the effects of shelter on victims of domestic violence. In a study, Dr. Sullivan found that
· 10% of victims living in a shelter reported no change in their abuse and
· 10% reported the violence had not only continued, but had escalated.
The national Domestic Violence Housing First (DVHF) model has researched and documented the emotional and psychological impact of communal sheltering services on victims of domestic abuse. One particular study of 278 participants found:
· 278 participants who had received shelter,
· 85% reported symptoms of clinical depression, and 95% reported symptoms of PTSD.
· The stress of a communal living space coupled with the uncertainty of stable housing increases the level of stress and trauma victims feel after choosing to leave their abusers.
· More than half of participants lost their jobs after moving into shelter
· 38% of children living in shelter missed 6 or more days of school a quarter,
· 45% exhibited behavioral problems at school.
Housing instability puts victims and survivors at higher risks than those who are able to remain in their homes with their abusers legally removed, or those who are able to find safe and secure housing after choosing to leave.
“We simply cannot overstate the importance of safe housing for survivors who are fleeing their homes due to abuse. Nearly 60 percent of all homeless women report that domestic violence was the immediate cause of their homelessness. Safe housing is literally a lifesaver. Once housing is established, it is a stepping stone to a life free of violence”, Kim Gandy, President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, has stated.
Safe housing is permanent and stable and provides a home for victims and their family to grow roots.
The goal of this new model is to reduce the amount of time victims and survivors are homeless. Family Services Incorporated recognizes one of the main reasons victims stay and feel powerless to leave an abusive relationship is the fear of being homeless with no stable long-term housing to go to.
In 2016, the Victim Services Program served 583 victims of domestic abuse and violence; however, only 100 were used shelter services, yet it costs $200,000 to operate. In Blair County, the cost to shelter a family of four in the domestic abuse shelter averaged the same cost as the average rent for a family of four. By reallocating these funds Victim Services Program can serve more victims and survivors in more meaningful ways.
Emergency sheltering protocols will still be utilized for victims who need it; it will just not be in the same fashion as before. The safety of our clients remains the Victim Services Program’s top priority. The Domestic Violence Housing First, in partnership with The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Volunteers of American Home Free conducted a series of studies on the benefits of utilizing a Housing First model with victims and survivors of domestic violence. Across the country, communities like Blair County are able to provide permanent and stable housing solutions to victims and survivors, making it easier to leave the abuse for good.
The support of the community is vital to the success of the Victim Services Program. If you have further questions or concerns, or how to volunteer with the Victim Services Program, please call our main office 814-944-3583 to speak with Ashley Gay Vocco, Director of Victim Services or Lisa Hann, Executive Director of Family Services Incorporated.
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Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis in Romeo & Juliet *UPDATED*
Today’s throwback takes us to, probably, the most famous star-crossed lovers in history… Oh, no, sorry, I am not talking about Carrie and Brody 😀
Damian Lewis is no stranger to Shakespeare. He played Romeo in Birmingham Rep’s Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet in Hamlet in the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London in 1993 and 1994, respectively, as a fresh graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Then he did his Broadway debut as Laertes to Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet in Almeida Theatre’s production in 1995. Damian also performed as Posthumous in Cymbeline and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also brought to life a lovely Benedick on BBC’s Shakespeare Retold: Much Ado About Nothing. Damian took on the role of Lord Capulet in a 2013 big screen adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Damian kicked off Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday Celebrations in 2014 at Guildhall Library reading the great man’s first five sonnets and he gave a wonderful performance of Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech from Julius Ceasar in The Guardian‘s Shakespeare Solos in 2016.
We’re talking Romeo and Juliet today.
Well, first of all, Damian loves the story. It turns out he sometimes tells Shakespeare to his kids as bed time stories and guess what? He started off with Romeo and Juliet. Why?
“…because I thought that’s quite a sweet love story between two young children. By the end, they were both in floods of tears. I should have considered a more child-friendly ending. Instead, they now know – and hate – Romeo and Juliet. Well done me.”
And, for the record, I am with Manon and Gulliver on this one! 🙂
Damian Lewis played Romeo to Josette Bushell-Mingo‘s Juliet in a Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Gwenda Hughes, at Birmingham Rep in 1993.
Look at this young stage couple and note that this poster is in the fantastic Victoria and Albert Museum collection!
source: V&A museum collection
When we were extremely lucky to visit Damian after his brilliant performance in The Goat, JaniaJania and I gave him a gift: a poster made of the playbill covers of every stage production he has been in from Romeo and Juliet in 1993 to The Goat in 2017.
Damian loved the poster and said it was great timing because he was looking for things to hang on his walls after a renovation and that this poster would be going right up in his room 🙂
I also brought over all of the playbills I was able to find in my months-long search from Amazon to eBay to rare theatre program stores in the UK and gave those to Damian along with the poster. And I admit I was delighted to find out he did not have any of them!
As he flipped through some of the playbills, Damian sighed seeing himself in Romeo and Juliet. And when JaniaJania could not help say “You were just a baby!” he said, “Yes, the same age Archie (who plays his son in The Goat) is now.” Twenty-two to be precise. A baby indeed.
Damian talks about this production of Romeo and Juliet at his SAG-AFTRA interview:
“That was a baptism by fire particularly because I found myself in a feminist production of Romeo and Juliet with a Juliet who was more man than I was at that age. She was stunning, stunning, beautiful woman called Josette Bushell-Mingo. She was 7-8 years older than me, she had more muscles than me and she knew more about life than me. And she ate me for breakfast every time She was more man than mwe went on stage. She was beautiful and wonderful and I was callow, and innocent and useless.”
And, hey, having mentioned our modern day star-crossed lovers, Carrie and Brody, at the beginning… A fun fact is that, as a 22 year old Damian Lewis played Romeo on stage, a 17 year old Claire Danes played Juliet in the 1996 film to Leonardo Caprio’s Romeo!
Fast forward. 20 years. Damian Lewis now plays Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father, on a 2013 big screen adaptation directed by Julian Fellowees aka Mr. Downton Abbey!
Here’s a clip in which Damian talks about his character Lord Capulet:
To be honest with you, the movie did not open to great reviews… However, NY Times critic Manohla Dargis talks about “an outstanding Damian Lewis as Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father. Mr. Lewis persuasively plays the fool when need be, only to rise up in a foaming rage, a forceful reminder that, yes, the play is the thing — but a great interpreter helps.”
Cheers to our GREAT interpreter!
And, one fun surprise in THIS Romeo and Juliet is one particular Damian Lewis co-star and yet another GREAT interpreter:
Paul Giamatti!
We know Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti have been going head-to-head in Billions… But it seems the duo started the battle way before 🙂 In Romeo and Juliet, Damian Lewis plays Lord Capulet who is forcing his daughter to marry Paris where as Paul Giamatti plays Friar Lawrence who secretly marries off Juliet to Romeo 😀
Romeo & Juliet is available on Amazon, Netflix and iTunes and Billions is returning to Showtime for its fourth season sometime in 2019! It seems Bobby and Chuck are now the BFFs of the show… And, friends or foes on the show, we know the duo has been having a ball on set with some bromance blossoming! We have their confession 🙂 ENJOY!
https://www.fanfunwithdamianlewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bromance.mp4
Author DamianistaPosted on July 19, 2018 July 18, 2018 Categories Billions, Romeo and JulietTags Billions, Birmingham Rep, Damian Lewis, Josette Bushell-Mingo, London, Paul Giamatti, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Goat
2 thoughts on “Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis in Romeo & Juliet *UPDATED*”
Notlinda says:
I’m going to hunt this movie down! It’s been a long time since I saw any “new” Damian. I can fast forward to him if it’s a drag. Something I had to do with Queen of the Desert. I was surprised Werner could be so boring, beautiful but boring. However when Damian was onscreen he lit it up. “I long for you. “
Damianista says:
Please do! it’s not the movie of the year but it is decent. It goes without saying Damian is the best thing about it. I hear you about Queen of the Desert. I can totally see why Damian wanted to be a part of the project, it is Herzog after all… and yeah it is a beautiful movie, I loved how Herzog has made the desert a cast member! But yeah Damian is the best thing about that movie, too!
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The Frequently Asked Questions section is devoted to answering common questions about SAA Reservations, Voyager and SAA Cargo.
Please click below on the question that matches your query. If you have questions that are not covered in this list of FAQs, please e-mail SAA Cargo directly at SAACargoReservations@flysaa.com.
What Guidelines Should I Follow when Packing? 折叠的内容
To withstand all conditions during normal handling procedures.
To avoid any injury to any person or damage to equipment and aircraft.
Liquids must be packed in containers which are securely closed, sufficient in strength to prevent any leakage which may be caused by change in temperature or altitude. Allowance must be made for expansion.
Packing for the following commodities are specialised. These packing instructions are available from the SAA Cargo Customer Service Centre.
Telephone: (011) 978-1119 (+27 11 978-1119 for international callers) 08:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday and 08:00 to 14:00 on weekends and public holidays.
What Customs Procedures Should I Follow? 折叠的内容
Any cargo to be transported internationally is subject to customs clearance prior to acceptance by the airline. SAA Cargo staff will assist in completion of the Customs Bill of Export. All other documents necessary must be obtained and completed by the shipper. Detailed information for customs requirements is obtainable from the Department of Customs and Excise at telephone: (011) 923-2400 (** 27 11 923-2400 for international callers).
Customs and Excise are available for clearing of export cargo from 08:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday and 08:00 to 14:00 on weekends and public holidays
What is the Procedure for Goods to be Forwarded via SAA Cargo? 折叠的内容
Cargo intended for transportation internationally and domestically must be tendered to SAA Cargo Centre. Exports Export cargo must be in the airline's possession not later than five hours prior to departure. Domestic General domestic cargo is accepted on a space available basis.
Express cargo (only available on domestic services) will be accepted no later than 60 minutes prior to departure of the designated flight.
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Dangerous cargo is articles or substances which can pose a significant risk to health, safety or property when transported by air. And remember that some seemingly innocent substances, safe on the ground, may become dangerous when subjected to the fluctuations of temperature and pressure during the flight. If you have any doubts about your cargo please contact your nearest SAA Cargo Office. Because not only is it a criminal offence to ship or attempt to ship undeclared and incorrectly packaged dangerous cargo, it could also result in a fatal accident.
Please make sure that all potentially dangerous cargo is declared, labelled and packed correctly.
Where Can I Find Information on Training to Handle Dangerous Goods? 折叠的内容
In terms of existing government regulations any person involved in the handling of dangerous goods must be suitably trained. SAA provides training courses.
For more information write to: Training Administrative Officer South African Airways Cargo Private Bag X014 Kempton Park 1620 or give us a call on (011) 978-9473 (** 27 11 978-9473 for international callers) Fax (011) 978-2038 (** 27 11 978-2038 for international callers)
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What Are the Different Classes of Dangerous Substances? 折叠的内容
Summary of Classes of Dangerous Cargo
(Including names of some commercial products related to each class.)
EXPLOSIVES are substances or devices having an explosive effect, e.g. toy caps, detonators, igniters, grenades, fireworks, cartridges.
GASES: COMPRESSED, LIQUIFIED, DISSOLVED UNDER PRESSURE OR HIGHLY REFRIDGERATED, e.g. cigarette lighters, compressed oxygen, aerosols.
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS are liquids, mixtures of liquids or liquids containing solids in solution or in suspension that discharge a flammable vapour at medium temperatures e.g. paints, alcohol, petrol, benzine, brake fluid.
FLAMMABLE SOLIDS: SUBSTANCES LIABLE TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION; SUBSTANCES WHICH, ON CONTACT WITH WATER, EMIT FLAMMABLE GASES, e.g. phosphorous, potassium, matches, fire-lighters.
OXIDISING SUBSTANCES: ORGANIC PEROXIDES are substances that normally do not burn but, when in contact with oxygen, can set fire to other materials or can help to bring it about, e.g. bleaching powder, potassium permanganate, pool chemicals, disinfectants.
POISONOUS (TOXIC) AND INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES are substances that either – can cause death, injury or health problems if swallowed, inhaled or from skin contact, e.g. pesticides, cyanide compounds, rodenticides,
contain viable micro-organisms or their toxins known, or suspected to cause, diseases in humans or animals, e.g. bacterial agents.
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS are materials with a specific activity greater than 70 kBq/kg, e.g. uranium, carbon-14.
CORROSIVES are substances that, in the event of leakage, can cause severe damage by chemical action when in contact with living tissue or that can severely damage other cargo or the aircraft, e.g. hydrochloric acid, instruments containing mercury.
MISCELLANEOUS DANGEROUS GOODS are substances or articles not covered by other classes and which might be a source of danger during air transportation. These include magnetised material which might affect the flight navigational systems, and other regulated substances which might cause extreme annoyance or discomfort, e.g. dry ice, asbestos, polystyrene beads, engines internal combustion, environmentally hazardous substances.
For more information, contact your nearest SAA Cargo office. South African Airways Cargo. Email: webmaster@saacargo.co.za
How Can I Travel with my Domestic Pet Within the Republic of South Africa? 折叠的内容
Pets accompanying passengers may be accepted as cargo for stowage in the cargo hold of the aircraft.
How Can I Travel with My Pet on an International Service from South Africa? 折叠的内容
Pets accompanying passengers may be accepted as cargo for stowage in the cargo hold of the aircraft. Pets are not allowed to travel as excess baggage to any destination with the exception of the USA.
Requirements differ from country to country, therefore it is suggested that the Embassy or Consulate of that specific country be approached for the information pertinent to that country. RESTRICTIONS: No domestic pets will be loaded in the cabin area. No access to domestic pets during flight will be permitted. Domestic pets under the age of 8 weeks will under no circumstances be accepted for carriage by air.
How Can I Transport My Pet to South Africa on the International Service? 折叠的内容
In terms of existing legislation, all animals bound for South Africa on an international flight must be carried as manifest cargo. A further restriction imposed by S.A.A. Cargo on its flights into South Africa is that animals (including domestic pets) must be loaded in the cargo compartment of the aircraft. For the importation of dogs and cats a valid Rabies and Health Certificate signed by a State Veterinarian of the country of origin is required. In addition to that a Veterinary Import Permit obtained from the Director of Veterinary Services, Private Bag X138, Pretoria, 0001, RSA must be produced. Should your documents be in order, your pet will immediately be released on arrival to you. If the necessary Veterinary Health and/or Vaccination Certificates do not comply with the conditions of the Import Permit, the dog or cat may be returned to the point of departure, or quarantined for a period of 30 days in the official Quarantine Station, provided accommodation is available.
However, pets arriving from Africa (north of South Africa and Namibia, but excluding Malawi and Zimbabwe), Central and South America (from Mexico southwards) and the Middle and Far East (all countries east of Egypt, Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland and Finland excluding Greece, Cyprus and Israel), will be subjected to a quarantine period of at least 30 days irrespective of the Health and Rabies Certificates as is the case should your documentation not be in order. Should you be connecting onto a flight to Cape Town, or Durban, a Veterinary Certificate will be issued for your pet and the other clearance formalities can be finalised at these locations as they do not have quarantine facilities.
For all other stations served by SAA, all clearance formalities must be done at Johannesburg International Airport, or if on international flights Durban or Cape Town.
What Important Requirements Should I Follow? 折叠的内容
Certain countries require export, tranship and import permits and you are requested to please consult the Consulate of the country of your transit and destination to find out the exact importation requirements for their land. (International flights only).
Please contact the State Veterinarian for your pet's Rabies and Health Certificate. (International flights only).
The correct size container must be used. Animals will only be accepted for carriage in crates/ containers that securely confine them, but large enough to permit your pet to move about freely. (Refer to specifications below).
For transport of dogs and cats to and from or through Kwa-Zulu Natal, a Movement Permit issued by your local veterinarian is required.
When reporting for check-in for your flight and your pet is travelling with you as excess baggage, you must present your pet at the same time, together with the appropriate documents for your pet, e.g. Health Certificates, Permits etc.
If you wish your pet to be conveyed as cargo, it will be afforded special care and attention by our cargo staff as is the case when travelling as excess baggage.
Your pet must be handed in at the Cargo Building at approximately 3 hours prior to departure of an international flight or 1 hour 45 minutes in the case of a domestic flight, together with the appropriate documents for your pet, e.g. Health Certificates, Permits, etc.
What Containers are Necessary for Carriage By Air? 折叠的内容
Animals will be accepted for carriage by air only in suitable clean containers which must be leak-proof and escape-proof. The container must be constructed in a manner which will permit handling staff to give the necessary attention to the animals without the risk of the animals harming them. Adequate litter must be provided to absorb excreta. The use of straw as absorbent material is to be avoided because of the restrictions on the importation of straw imposed by a large number of countries. Wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives must also not be used to construct the shipping container, as the preservatives could be toxic to the animal housed therein.
What Labels and Markings Do I Require? 折叠的内容
It is mandatory to attach at least one IATA "Live Animals" label or tag, properly completed, to each live animal's container. In addition, "This way up" labels shall be placed, where possible, on all four sides of the container to indicate the upright position. (See examples below).
These labels are supplied free of charge if animals are transported by SAA Cargo Services
What Are the Carrier's Requirements for Transporting? 折叠的内容
Only animals which appear to be in good health and condition and fit to travel to the final destination will be accepted for carriage by air. The shipper is required to declare when animals are pregnant, or have given birth in the last 48 hours. Animals which are declared to be pregnant will not be accepted unless accompanied by a veterinary certificate certifying that the animal is fit to travel and there is no risk of birth during the journey.
What Is the Carrier's Liability? 折叠的内容
Carrier will not be liable for any loss, damage or expense arising from the death due to natural causes or death or injury of any animal caused by the conduct or acts of the animal itself, or by defective packing of the animal, or by the inability of the animal to withstand unavoidable changes in its physical environment inherent in the carriage by air.
Must I Feed My Animal in Transit? 折叠的内容
Generally, it is not necessary to feed an animal in transit, though certain species may need water depending on climatic conditions and total journey time. If this is required in transit, it is the shipper's responsibility to make advance arrangements for feeding. The shipper must confirm these arrangements in writing at the time the animal is presented. Any water provided must be fresh and uncontaminated, preferably suitable for human consumption and shall not be iced. Any packets of spare food provided by the shipper shall be attached to the container. In any event, food and water troughs must be fitted with outside fillers.
Is It Necessary to Tranquillise My Animal? 折叠的内容
For hold storage experience has shown that there is no considerable risk in sedating animals transported by air. For these reasons, routine tranquillisation is not recommended when animals are placed in the cargo compartments. Tranquillisers should only be administered by a veterinarian or by a person who has been instructed in their use. For hold storage experience has shown that there is no considerable risk in sedating animals transported by air. For these reasons, routine tranquillisation is not recommended when animals are placed in the cargo compartments.
Tranquillisers should only be administered by a veterinarian or by a person who has been instructed in their use. For hold storage experience has shown that there is no considerable risk in sedating animals transported by air. For these reasons, routine tranquillisation is not recommended when animals are placed in the cargo compartments. Tranquillisers should only be administered by a veterinarian or by a person who has been instructed in their use. For hold storage experience has shown that there is no considerable risk in sedating animals transported by air.
For these reasons, routine tranquillisation is not recommended when animals are placed in the cargo compartments. Tranquillisers should only be administered by a veterinarian or by a person who has been instructed in their use.
What Preparations Must I Make Before Dispatching My Animal? 折叠的内容
Feed the animal only a light meal and a short drink approximately two hours before dispatch. Snub-nosed dogs, such as boxers, bulldogs, Pekinese and pugs, are affected more than other breeds by rarefied atmosphere and care must be taken to ensure that the front of the container has open bars from the top to the bottom of the box for ventilation. It is essential that the animal be free from respiratory troubles. Shipment of females in heat (estrus) is not recommended. Females with suckling young and unweaned animals will not be accepted for carriage.
For pet animals, a familiar article in the container helps to placate the animal. Animal's name should be marked on the outside of the container.
Non-Embalmed, Embalmed or Exhumed Human Remains? 折叠的内容
These general requirements apply to both international and domestic carriage.
Human remains may be offered for transportation by air and may be accepted for carriage on an airport to airport basis subject to advance bookings having been made to final destination and on a pre-paid basis only.
Packing and marking requirements – international and domestic carriage
Human remains tendered for dispatch, must in all instances be embalmed and enclosed in a hermetically sealed metal container and then be placed in a stout wooden leak-proof coffin. (Refer to notes 1 and 2 below in respect of exceptions applicable to the Domestic Carriage only).
A coffin of usual shape must be fully covered with burlap/hessian or may be enclosed in a secondary outer packaging constructed of wood or strong fibreboard.
The coffin, whether covered or placed in a secondary outer packaging, must be constructed so as to withstand the rigours experienced during normal handling and transportation.
No marks, letters or endorsements must appear on the package/wrapping except the required AW143A cargo identification label, name and address of consignee and package orientation labels which are required on opposite sides of the outer packaging.
Two exceptions to the above ruling apply to the domestic services of SA Airways:
Human remains may be placed in a heavy gauge/polythene bag instead of a hermetically sealed metal container and then be placed in a stout wooden leak-proof coffin. If the human remains are placed in the plastic/polythene bag, most of the air must have been extracted and made airtight by sealing. In cases where the deceased died of an infectious disease and authority is granted for transportation by air by the Health Authorities, two plastic/polythene bags must be used. The undertaker dispatching such consignments must sign the following declaration in the "Handling Information" rubric on the Air Waybill: "This is to certify that the remains are encased in a SABS approved sealed heavy gauge plastic/polythene bag".
It is permitted to transport non-embalmed human remains by air on the domestic services of SA Airways without prior authority from the Quality Assurance & Standards department.
NOTE 2:
Any requests for the carriage of non-embalmed human remains on the international services of SA Airways must be directed to the Quality Assurance & Standards department at the telephone number 27 11 978 3844 or Fax to 27 11 978 3817 or at SITA telex code JNBFPSA. The telex message must contain the following information:
Date and intended routing for transportation of human remains.
Cremated Remains
No reservation is required
Packing and Marking
Ashes are to be contained within a plastic bag in a funeral urn or casket which is suitably sealed and packed in a wooden or strong fibreboard outer packaging. Packaging orientation labels are required on opposite sides of the outer packaging. No other special packing requirements are required.
Documentation For International Carriage
Documentation required to destinations outside the Republic of South Africa
Certain countries have stringent regulations regarding the importation of human remains, be they embalmed, non-embalmed or cremated. The Air Cargo Tariff (TACT) Rules, Section 7 refers - Information by countries may be consulted in this regard, however, it is advisable to contact the Embassy or Consulate of the country concerned for the latest information.
Coffins with Human Remains
A permit from the Director-General Department of National Health and Population Development, Private Bag X63, Pretoria approving the removal, and a certificate of endorsement from the Consulate/Embassy concerned representing the country of destination, approving the importation, must be produced.
The application for the permit must be accompanied by:
A medical certificate stating the cause of death or a properly certified copy thereof;
A certificate or statement or a properly certified copy or translation thereof by the foreign authority signifying the approval of the importation of the human remains;
A removal order from the District Registrar of Births and Deaths of the district where the death took place; and
A non-infectious disease certificate or a properly certified copy thereof.
The Department of National Health and Population Development does not levy any fee for the permit, but the cost of all telegrams, will be recovered from the applicant. All permits must state the following information: the name, age, sex and race of the deceased; the date and place of death; cause of death; the circumstances under which it is desired to remove the body from South Africa; the proposed mode of conveyance; the precautions which will be taken to prevent any danger to health and to ensure that offence will not be caused; and the proposed mode and place of disposal of the body outside the Republic of South Africa.
Cremated Remains (Ashes)
A permit is not required for the exportation of cremated remains from South Africa, but a certificate of cremation must be produced, and a certificate or endorsement by the authorities concerned if required by the country to which the cremated remains are being dispatched, must also be produced.
Documentation for entry into the republic of South Africa
Coffins containing human remains
A permit from the Department of National Health and Population Development must accompany the remains into the Republic of South Africa. The acceptance station abroad must comply with the requirements of the country from which the shipment was dispatched.
A certificate of cremation must be produced but no permit is required.
Documentation for Domestic Carriage
Documentation for conveyance within the republic of South Africa
The following is required:
A death certificate.
A removal order issued by the district registrar of deaths or by the SA Police.
A certificate by the undertaker stating that the necessary sanitary precautions have been met.
In the case of a notifiable medical condition, a certificate by the local medical officer of health that carriage is authorised and by the local medical officer of health at the point of destination that the body will be received.
No permit or other documentation is required for the transport of cremated remains within the Republic of South
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Early Climbing / Mountaineering Adventures
The post-climb descent from Yosemite's Munginella, circa 1982
(note Lost Arrow Spire to right in background).
My acquaintance with Bill Bergan began when I was a young staff accountant working for a local Nevada certified public accounting (CPA) firm. Bill had recently moved back to Las Vegas to manage the audit practice of the firm I was working part-time for while attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I was assigned to perform "grunt work" for Bill on an audit engagement, and we quickly became good friends upon discovering we shared certain skills in sarcasm. Bill is nine years my senior, so that made him about 29 when I met him. As a practical reality of our age difference, our relationship began as mentor-protege. We obviously shared a career interest, but it turned out we shared adventuresome spirits and love of the outdoors.
Bill Bergan at Key Hole Canyon
near Nelson's Landing (circa 1980).
Pre-FisherDad atop cliff at the entrance to
Key Hole Canyon.
Back then Bill was known as "Bergie" to his friends. Bergie and I had many memorable escapades over the next three years. We might have had a lifetime of them had he not moved to Sacramento. In a bit of irony, we simultaneously fell in love with childhood sweethearts (mine in Las Vegas, his in Sacramento) and got married in 1980. Our brides were both teachers, and I've come to know four other accountant-teacher marriages, which I've always found anecdotally amusing. But after our marriages the real estate between us, coupled with our lack of resources (particularly mine), resulted in our inability to connect on outdoor trips. Fortunately, those three short years when we explored together are epic in my memory. Some of the experiences were on-the-job, some occurred in bars, but the best were in the red rocks west of Las Vegas.
Bergie and me atop one of the Red Rock bluffs overlooking southwest
Las Vegas Valley.
At that time in my life I had not developed much of a relationship with Jesus Christ, and so I was somewhat into the "worldly" ways of society as is common for young adults. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective), Bergie had quite a larger alcohol capacity than I. While working together on audit engagements we often stopped for after-work libation on the way home. On one such night shortly after we met, Bergie was attempting to embolden me into climbing with him.
Bergie spent a few years as the comptroller for the Yosemite concessionaire. While in Yosemite Bergie developed a friendship with Loyd Price who was the director of the Yosemite Mountaineering School. It was Lloyd and his climbing staff who taught Bergie how to climb. Now in Las Vegas, Bergie was looking for a climbing partner. He must have sized me up as someone stupid enough to let him lead me up a cliff cleaning his protection.
Pardon me while I attempt to explain climbing in simple terms. Climbing usually involves a leader and a follower. The leader is usually the more advanced climber who is skilled in placing devices of all shapes and sizes into cracks and other places such that they can support a heavy weight from at least one direction; i.e., hold the climber in a fall. The follower belays the leader up the cliff while he places protection, and then the leader belays the follower up the cliff who then “cleans” the route by removing the protection so it can be used on the next section of climb, or pitch. Under this method no trace of the climbers is left so that those who follow get a pristine climbing experience. The lead climber is protected from severe injury on a fall by twice the distance the climbing rope extends beyond the last protection placed in the cracks, whereas the following climber is protected by the slack or stretch in the rope from above.
I was young and gullible, but trying to keep pace with Bergie's alcohol consumption didn't help either. My judgment was impaired. Bergie was pressing hard to teach me to climb. He swore it was safe as long as we used our heads, and that he was taught by one of the best (Loyd climbed with the original 1960s climbers who put up the first routes on the big walls of Yosemite Valley, climbers like Warren Harding, Yvon Chouinard, and Royal Robbins. Loyd also directed the infamous 1972 El Capitan rescue mission in Yosemite). After thinking hard, as hard as one can after several Scotch and waters, I blurted out with false bravado, “OK, I’ll let you teach me to rock climb if you let me teach you to fly fish.” Of course Bergie quickly agreed to such a lopsided proposition.
Bergie climbing the lead up the Camp Potosi
buttress, my inaugural climb.
Bergie belaying me up the buttress.
Preparing to belay Bergie in the Red Rock Canyon.
This was my last climb with Bergie; Ice Box Canyon, Red Rock.
Turns out Bergie got the better end of that agreement as thirty years later we can barely climb a set of stairs, but we both still love to fly fish… but I digress.
We started our climbing adventures on Mount Potosi just southwest of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountain Range. There’s a little fifty-foot buttress holding back the limestone shale slides right at the State Highway 160 turn-off to Camp Potosi; it's on the way to Pahrump just before Mountain Springs Summit. At that time climbing had a simple rating system called the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS). The Potosi climbs were in the 5.3 to 5.4 range.
In our early climbs, Bergie preferred the limestone cliffs of Potosi and Charleston. He believed the sandstone of Red Rock was too brittle and unreliable to climb. Eventually we learned to love the Red Rock sandstone, as the sharp Spring Mountain limestone really cut up our hands. And while not as dense as granite, much of the sandstone cliffs are as safe... you just have to learn a little discernment about the rock. In a couple of years Bergie and I had put up a few routes of our own that were in the 5.6 to 5.7 range.
Me following Bergie on Munginella in Yosemite Valley. In the fall of
1981 we were the guests of Loyd and Debbie Price.
While climbing Red Rock in the winter is possible and attractive to climbers from colder climates, Bergie decided I needed to learn cross-country skiing during the winter months. My theory about that offer was he had a twinge of guilt over our bar-room pact, and he felt the need to throw in skiing lessons to balance the alcohol-induced climbing-fishing trade off. Regardless of why, I have to admit I enjoyed skiing more than climbing if only because the penalty for mistakes was not as high. That said, one winter in Lee Canyon while skiing the chair lifts on cross-country skis by cutting telemark turns on the downhill slopes, Bergie fell on the last run of the day and dislocated his shoulder. That fateful accident took him out of action for a few months. And so I skied alone the rest of that season, and a consequence of that was a chance meeting with Joe Herbst and his late wife Betsy who were also skiing Lee Canyon on skinny skis.
FisherDad "telemarking" Lee Canyon on "skinny skis" with Bergie,
circa 1979.
Joe, although about Bergie’s age at the time, was known as the Old Man of the Red Rocks. Joe also climbed the big walls of Yosemite in early 1970s, but Red Rock was his home. Pick up any Red Rock climbing guide and you’ll quickly learn that many of the big wall climbs of Red Rock were first ascents by Joe Herbst in the 1970s. It was Joe that mentored a young kid by the name of Randall Grandstaff. Randy's style was more brash and aggressive than Joe's, and they seemed to part ways as Randy became stronger and riskier. There was also disagreement between them on the use of bolts in Red Rock; Joe proselytized "clean climbing" leaving no trace for the next climbers who come that way. Randy eventually created his own climbing guide service called Sky’s the Limit. Reconnecting with Randy through Joe triggered his offer to take me climbing; I politely declined knowing of Joe's concern for Randy's approach to safety. Tragically, Randy died in a Red Rock accident while guiding a client in 2002. It was the more common descent "mistake" that took his life, not some daring attempt to reach the unreachable. My love for anecdotes compels me to add, as an example of the "smallness" of Las Vegas, that my wife and I knew Randy as an underclassman at Bishop Gorman High School in the early 1970s.
My meeting Joe and our ensuing relationship was noteworthy to me because he was a living legend in Las Vegas climbing circles, albeit a small circle. And he was a genuinely nice guy. Very attune to the experience of nature and not so tied up in the athleticism of climbing despite his obvious world-class skills. Although he used them when available and necessary, he always decried the use of bolts because they permanently scarred the rock and the aesthetics of climbing. Over the course of the next year we became closer friends, climbing a little (he drug me up two 5.9 climbs: Black Glass and Dust to Dust), skiing a little, and even playing some tennis. I even prepared their joint tax returns for a couple years. Unfortunately, his wife Betsy, who was once named Clark County Teacher of the Year, died in 1980 from a rare blood disease at age 30. Soon thereafter Joe stopped climbing.
Joe and Betsy Herbst on a break from skiing the Charleston ridges, circa 1980.
Betsy Herbst making tracks in Lee Canyon.
Joe Herbst working a Lee Canyon ridge at
9,800 feet.
Betsy and Joe checking their bindings before the descent.
Joe skiing through the ponderosa trees.
Those years climbing with Bergie were some of my most memorable outdoor experiences, but I am not quite certain how or why I lived through them but for the grace of God. I can tell you that I was never in such good physical condition as when I was a rock climber, but I can also tell you my hands still sweat today when I recall those climbs that stretched my physical and mental abilities to their maximum. And although Bill and I are not able to climb rocks anymore, I am very grateful for the adventures we shared and am looking forward to many more years of fly angling with him on special adventures (see the 1979 Ruby Mountains, 1982 Martis Creek, 2003 Henderson Springs, and 2015 Elko County blogs for other adventures with Bill).
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8 Rare Whiskies For Christmas Gifts
Adam Morganstern Contributor
If you’re looking for a last minute gift for a whisky lover — and want to make them think you did your homework months ago — try tracking down one of these bottles. Some are truly rare, but with a little effort you’ll be able to surprise someone with a truly special whisky.
The Last Drop 1967 Glen Garioch — $7,000
Only 118 bottles were released of this rare Scotch distilled at Aberdeenshire’s Glen Garioch distillery and released by specialists The Last Drop. It was stored in bourbon casks, tempering their usually more robust-style whisky. Honey on the nose, peat and salt water on the palate, but it’s been mellowed over time. It was named Single Malt Scotch Whisky Of The Year by Jim Murray’s 2015 Whisky Bible — if you’re able to find this, it’ll be your turn to expect the impossible gift next year.
Craigellachie 23 Years Old — $280
This Speyside distillery, located where the the Fiddich and Spey rivers meet, is owned by John Dewar & Sons and the product normally goes into their blended whiskies. They’re now releasing 300 cases of a 23 year old single malt that showcases Craigellachie individual characteristics, sulphuric and sweet.
Laphroaig 32 Year Old — $1,200
This was released to celebrate this Islay distillery’s 200th anniversary. It’s finished exclusively in Oloroso casks, which brings a nice balance and subtle softness while still maintaining the typical Laphroaig style .
Russell’s Reserve 1998 — $250
This 15 year old bourbon comes from father and son Master Distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell, from Wild Turkey. Only about 2000 bottles were released, but if you’re looking for bourbon over single malt, this is a great find. Perfectly balanced with vanilla, fruit, and charred oak.
The Macallan Rare Cask — $300
A great intro to the Macallan style, this ruby-colored whisky is made from selected sherry casks and presented in a beautifully contoured bottle — tailor-made for gift giving. Very easy going, even a non-whisky drinker would appreciate this. Also, despite the name, this one is more widely available than others on this list.
Highland Park Odin — $350
The fourth and final expression of Highland Park’s Valhalla Collection — each named after a Norse God, which celebrates the Norwegian heritage of the distillery’s Orkney Islands home. This is powerful stuff. The nose is pleasant, cinnamon and dark spices, but the first sip commands your full attention. It’s a long beautiful ride of peat, oak and more spice that fades into sherry and smoke. Only 2,400 bottles were released in the United States.
Bowmore Mizunara Cask Finish — $1,000
A first for Scotch Whisky — a single malt finished in Japanese Mizunura oak barrels for three years. Mizunura is difficult to work with, the soft and porous wood causes a lot of leakage, and it takes 300 years for the trees to grow, but the wood is prized for the flavor it imparts. The nose is a harmony of light smoke, tropical and citrus fruits, vanilla and cloves. The palate is much more powerful. It’s sweet and smoky (though not as smoky as other Islay counterparts) with more fruit, honey, wood and subtle chocolate. Very balanced and elegant. No age statement, though it’s made of whiskies aged between 16 and 25 years, and only 2,000 bottles were released.
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye — $30
Crown Royal? Canadian Whisky? $40? How did this make the list? Well, as a counterpart to the The Last Drop 1967 Glen Garioch, this was just named 2016 World Whisky of the Year by Jim Murray’s The Whisky Bible, so you can expect whisky lovers to be grabbing whatever is available quickly. Give this as a gift and not only will you save a fortune compared to the other choices here, but your giftee will admire how up-to-date your whisky knowledge is.
Adam Morganstern
As an American kid growing up in Italy, I discovered food, wine and travel at an early age — well, mostly wine. After graduating from NYU Film, and feeling the constant
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Jim Chanos At Ira Sohn: Time To Short Seagate As Death Of PCs Will Collapse Hard Drive Market And Insiders Sell
Agustino Fontevecchia Contributor
Former Forbes staffer, now Digital Director for Perfil in Argentina
Jim Chanos suggests shorting Seagate - Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife
Legendary short-seller Jim Chanos spoke at the Ira Sohn Conference on Wednesday, and suggested betting against hard drive makers, and specifically said Seagate Technology looks like a good short. The mobile computing revolution and the move to the cloud, along with declining PC sales, are set to put increased pressure on hard drive makers going forward. Top executives selling the stock and leaving the company are another sign things don’t bode well for Seagate, he argued.
It has become commonplace to speak of the death of the PC these days. Investors know Hewlett-Packard and Dell are in trouble, and it is becoming increasingly clear that laptops, tablets, and smartphones are gradually rendering the desktop computer obsolete. Yet this process has only just begun, Chanos said.
Indeed, hard drive makers like Seagate and Western Digital are seeing their stocks thrive, as they’ve managed to keep prices high. So high that they are approaching 10% of the average sales price of PCs, Chanos explained. And that is happening in the context of not only falling desktop sales, but also of PC makers operating on “razor thin margins.” This is unsustainable, Chanos suggested: already Toshiba , the third largest player in the industry, announced its margins on its disk drive business will be cut in half this year.
Chanos thinks the disk drive makers will face added pressure from excess supply of digital storage space. Despite the rise of Facebook and YouTube, which require massive amounts of storage space for the billions of pictures and videos users upload constantly, there is still more than enough space. Sever sales still make up a very small portion of the market, and the cloud promises to make storage even more efficient, Chanos argued.
Also, the death of the PC is just beginning to start. According to Chanos, PC sales peaked in 2012 and have begun to trend down in the first quarter of 2013; at the same time, smartphone sales have exploded and tablet sales are beginning to pick up, further pressuring the PC, and therefore the hard drive, markets.
Insider transactions are a good way to get an inside opinion on a company, Chanos said, and when everyone is selling and leaving, it’s reasonable to take a look. In Seagate, Chanos found “opportunistic insider sales,” as the stock holdings of the top four executives seem to have fallen by about 50% between October 2011 and 2012. Those sales appear to have continued since last October. Indeed, “the number three guy” quit on Tuesday, Chanos added. “Stocks near highs, insiders getting out and leaving” are all good signs a stock is a possible short, he said.
Shares in Seagate hit a 52-week high on Wednesday, before Jim Chanos started speaking. By 4:58 PM in New York, a few minutes after the legendary short-seller stepped down from the stage, the stock, which closed the day flat, was down 3.5% to $40.85.
Agustino Fontevecchia
Forbes' former Latam expert, with a background in the markets and richlist teams, I'm currently the Digital Director for Editorial Perfil, one of Argentina's largest med...
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Prosecutors: Father used 11-month-old son as human shield during Hunting Park shooting
Prosecutors say they charged the father of an 11-month-old boy following a shooting last month in the city's Hunting Park section.
PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors say they charged the father of an 11-month-old boy with recklessly endangering another person and related charges in connection with a shooting last month in the city's Hunting Park section.
Shots rang out on Oct. 19 on the 700 block of West Luzerne Street as the boy sat inside a car with his father.
Police say Nafes Monroe, 25, is facing recklessly endangering another person and related charges after a shooting that left his son critically injured.
The child was struck once in the back of the head, once in the chest and twice in the buttocks. The child was left critically injured.
Police say instead of protecting his son Nafes Monroe, 25, used him as a human shield. Investigators say he drove to a house before going to the hospital.
According to police, Monroe was using counterfeit money to purchase drugs and they believe that is the motive for the shooting. Investigators believe Monroe brought his son to avoid being shot at by a potentially upset drug dealer.
Police are still searching for the shooter.
Authorities: 11-month-old shot four times in Hunting Park, $5K reward offered
'Outraged, disgusted': Mayor Kenney addresses shootings involving 2-year-old, 11-month old children
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Klopp eyes Naby once more as Liverpool look to secure Champions League spot
Posted By: Friends of Liverpool 9th December 2019
Liverpool can do no wrong when it comes to the Premier League. They are unbeaten in the top-flight campaign thus far and are surely on course to lift their first crown of the new era. Rampant best describes Jurgen Klopp’s mighty men at the minute — just ask Eddie Howe and his AFC Bournemouth players who were very much handed a footballing lesson at Dean Court with the Anfield giants leaving the south coast with an easy three points after chalking up a 3-0 win to maintain their position at the summit.
Once again German coach Klopp, who let us not forget steered the Merseysiders to Champions League triumph last time of asking, made several changes to his side that swept aside the Cherries. it seems that even from the bench, the league leaders have so much strength and quality that the head coach can afford to tinker with his side. It’s a squad game after all, is what they tell you these days.
And no doubt the faces will change again on Tuesday night when Liverpool go to Red Bull Salzburg in Austria keen to snaffle the point they need to rubber-stamp their progress to the last 16. They have not been so dominant in Europe and the fact remains they If they lose they will be out of the competition; out, that is unless Italians Napoli also are defeated at home to Genk — or that Klopp’s team grab four away goals or more and only lose by one goal (for example a 5-4 reverse). All of that is irrelevant if the visitors pick up a win on the road as they will then go through as group winners.
Klopp will more than likely give midfielder Naby Keita more game time in the match. The £50million midfielder has struggled to get among the action since his switch from RB Leipzig in the summer of 2018. But he came on against Howe’s side on Saturday has delivered an influential performance — and a goal!
And Klopp was full of praise for the schemer and his ability to listen to reason as to why he wasn’t being selected. He said: “Naby has had injuries and the team is in very good shape, so then do you change?” asked Klopp. “We are not flying, it’s not like we won all of the games 4-0, or 5-0, so we had to bring on a player who helps us with defending set-pieces. Then Naby is sitting outside thinking, ‘why don’t I play?’ I get all of that. So, we stayed in contact, we talked and we spoke a lot about it.”
Liverpool host woeful Watford in the Premier League on Saturday after their midweek European excursion.
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Rampant Reds have wobbly United in their sights
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Family-Friendly Daily Events at Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Allouez
Daily Events at The Hill ~ Now through September 1st
Heritage Hill is a great place for you to bring your family! With educational experts focusing more and more on the importance of learning and knowing our history, what better place than The Hill?
Here’s a summary of daily events you can enjoy:
Tuesday & Wednesday: Walk About Days
Enjoy a self-guided tour of our newly-gated and open buildings with reduced admission.
Thursday: Regular Interpretation and Tasty Treats Thursday
Select buildings will be open for tours, demonstrations, and hands-on experiences throughout the park.
Fans of the Great British Baking Show and other cooking shows will enjoy seeing historic cooking methods and recipes being prepared. While we can’t give samples of the food, you can take copies of the historic recipes home to try – good luck making them though. Some of them resemble the Great British Baking Show’s Technical Challenge!
Friday: Kids Free Friday – Through August 23rd
Up to 3 kids (ages 15 and under) get in to Heritage Hill FREE with 1 PAID Adult Full Admission for this activity-packed day. Each week will have hands-on and interactive experiences scheduled throughout the day.
Each week will have hands-on and interactive experiences scheduled throughout the day.
Saturday & Sunday: Regular Interpretation
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Heritage Hill State Park
Heritage Hill State Historical Park is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We are a living history state park devoted to the preservation of our buildings and artifacts and the interpretation of the history of Northeastern Wisconsin and its people. The Park opened in 1977 on a 54 acre site with 24 historical and reproduction buildings representing the early history of Northeastern Wisconsin from 1672 to 1940.
GPS 2640 S Webster Avenue, Allouez Wisconsin, 54301 Phone 920-448-5150 [email protected] Visit Website
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Green Bay Packers' Davante Adams selling condo in Ledgeview
Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams selling condo in Ledgeview.
Green Bay Packers' Davante Adams selling condo in Ledgeview Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams selling condo in Ledgeview. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2019/09/19/green-bay-packers-davante-adams-selling-condo-ledgeview/2349583001/
Richard Ryman, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 6:43 a.m. CT Sept. 19, 2019
Davante Adams condo for sale
Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams is selling this house at 2525 W. Crais Court in Ledgeview. Richard Ryman/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams is selling a condo at 2525 W. Crais Court in Ledgeview. Courtesy of Dallaire Realty
LEDGEVIEW – Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams has listed his condominium at 2525 W. Crais Court for $239,900.
The three-bedroom, three-bath condo has more than 3,000-square feet, including 1,000 square feet of finished space on the lower level, according to Daillaire Realty. There is a theater room on the second floor.
The condominium was built in 2006.
Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams is selling this house at 2525 W. Crais Court in Ledgeview. (Photo: Richard Ryman/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Adams bought the condo from then-teammate Randall Cobb in 2015 for $206,950, according to Brown County real estate records. Cobb paid $200,000 for it in 2012.
Adams bought a house in De Pere in May.
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Adams is the No. 1 receiver for the Packers. He was drafted in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft after attending Fresno State university. In six seasons with the Packers, Adams has 359 receptions for 4,339 yards and and 39 touchdowns.
Other Packers-related houses on the market include:
618 Marble Rock Circle, Ledgeview, owned by former Packers receiver Randall Cobb. The house is listed for $649,900.
222 W. Mission Road, Allouez, the first Green Bay home for Vince Lombardi and family. They lived there about a year. The house is listed for $549,900, $30,000 less than initially priced.
2968 Seafarer Way, Suamico, one of two houses owned by former Packers linebacker Nick Perry. The house is listed for $579,900.
935 N. Broadway, De Pere, owned by Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy, who moved to a nearby condo. The house is listed for $1.19 million, a $310,000 price cut from the initial listing in summer 2018.
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About 43% of American employees work remotely “at least sometimes” and 31% work remotely 80% to 100% of the time, according to a recent Gallup poll. But what happens when those remote working arrangements change?
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But even when there has been no easily-identifiable change at all, companies have the right to change course. “It’s legal and fair for a business to decide that, after experimenting with remote work, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages,” Berger says. “Anecdotally, it seems to be a common trend that employers are disappointed when they begin to accommodate remote workers, because their expectations regarding the work relationship were forged around the in-person relationship and, in many cases, our experiences with collaboration are formed from in-person relationships.”
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The Steel Wheels at the Historic Goshen Theater
May 1, 2017 By gcmusiccenter.org Open link to external site
91.1 The Globe presents: The Steel Wheels at the Historic Goshen Theater. The Steel Wheels have captured audiences across the country with their heady brew of original soulful mountain music and their deep commitment to roots and community.
Performing Arts Series to feature Argentinian dance company Che Malambo
Che Malambo, an all-male Argentinian dance company, will perform at Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. as the final performance of the Performing Arts Series.
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Goshen College President Jim Brenneman will deliver a farewell address on Friday, April 21, at 10 a.m. at College Mennonite Church, titled "Back to the Future: Reflections on Being GC's 16th President." A reception will follow. All are invited.
Admit One: The Story of the Goshen Theater
The documentary, “Admit One: The Story of the Goshen Theater,” directed by Riley Bean-Mills, will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Umble Center. The 26-minute documentary explores the rich history of the Goshen Theater and the tremendous task currently underway to restore and revive it.
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The Argentine-based company Che Malmabo excites audiences through precise footwork and rhythmic stomping, drumming of the bombos, and singing and whirling boleadoras (lassos with stones on the end).
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Students in the Goshen College International Student Club (ISC) will celebrate the food and culture of their home countries with a dinner and a show during the annual ISC Coffeehouse on Saturday, March 18.
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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Raising Baby In America?
By Gossip Cop Staff | 12:34 am, June 1, 2019
(National Enquirer)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are going to raise their baby boy, Archie, in America, reports one of this week’s celebrity magazines. The claim, however, is completely untrue. While there’s a chance they will relocate for a certain amount of time outside the U.K., they are not moving to Hollywood or anywhere in the U.S.
According to the latest issue of the National Enquirer, “Royal rebel Megan is flat-out defying Queen Elizabeth’s order to move to Africa with Prince Harry and baby Archie.” Instead, they’re leaving Windsor Castle’s Frogmore Cottage, which was a gift from the queen, and heading to the United States, contends the supermarket tabloid. A so-called “source” is quoted as saying Markle has “gone totally rogue,” and is telling friends that “if the royal family want[s] her out of their hair, she’ll happily oblige by moving back to America.”
The supposed tipster continues, “[Markle] boasts she’ll be treated like a queen there and have her mom around to babysit and wait on her hand and foot.” Noting then how there have been reports that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be sent to Africa to be commonwealth ambassadors, the alleged insider asserts, “Of course, they’ll promote projects in Africa. But live there? No way! Meghan’s insisting their newborn son be raised in America like she was.” Markle is “already looking for a multimillion-dollar home in a celebrity enclave like Malibu, where Archie can have playdates with the children of Hollywood stars and grow up swimming and surfing year-round,” relates the purported source.
The plotline about the royals relocating to the U.S. is not new, though the reasons for moving to America have shifted over the years, as have the magazine’s narratives. In fact, before he began dating the actress, the tabloid’s sister publication, OK!, ran a cover story in 2016 about Prince Harry moving to America, specifically Malibu, to find himself a princess. That was followed the next year by a Star article about Prince Harry and [then-girlfriend] Markle moving to America and quitting royal life to live in the Hollywood Hills.
A year ago, well before there was talk about Prince Harry and Markle being royal envoys in Africa, there was another tabloid cover story about them moving to the United States. In that tale, published by Star a month before their marriage, it was alleged Prince Harry and Markle were moving to Malibu, and he was dropping millions of dollars on a property as a “wedding gift.” And after it was announced she was pregnant, there was yet another magazine article which declared Markle and Prince Harry were having their baby in America.
All those reports were lies. Still, Gossip Cop looked into the new story, and we were assured on background that the royals are not moving to Malibu or anywhere else in America. It also bears mentioning the Enquirer is not exactly a reliable source of information about the couple. Just a couple of months ago, we busted the same outlet for a tale about Queen Elizabeth having “booted Prince Harry and Markle from the royal family.
In that manufactured piece, it was wrongly claimed Prince Harry and his wife were “banished to Malta.” Of course, since that article, the Queen has spent time happily visiting Prince Harry, Markle and their baby. And this past Wednesday, Her Majesty had the redheaded royal at her garden party at Buckingham Palace.
The publication also previously falsely swore up and down that Prince Harry is not Prince Charles’s son, but instead the child of Welsh guards officer Mark Dyer. And it ran another cover story about how Markle and Prince Harry were having twins. Rather than believing Markle and Prince Harry are moving to America, maybe it’s time for readers to move on from that outlet which clearly does not have trustworthy palace sources.
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"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle 'Moving To America' Cover Story Is Made Up." Gossip Cop, 4 Oct. 2017.
Barry, Ellen. "A New Assignment for the Sussexes: Royal Envoys to Africa?" New York Times, 7 May 2019.
"Prince Harry, Meghan Markle NOT 'Moving To Malibu,' Despite Report." Gossip Cop, 25 Apr. 2018.
"Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Having Baby In America?" Gossip Cop, 18 Jan. 2019.
"Queen Elizabeth 'Booted' Prince Harry, Meghan Markle From Royal Family?" Gossip Cop, 30 Mar. 2019.
"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are pleased to announce they have named their first born child: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. This afternoon Their Royal Highnesses introduced Her Majesty The Queen to her eighth great-grandchild at Windsor Castle... " Instagram account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 8 May 2019.
"Prince Harry 'Real Dad' Cover Story Is NOT True." Gossip Cop, 28 Feb. 2018.
"Meghan Markle NOT Pregnant With Twins, Despite Report." Gossip Cop, 30 May. 2018.
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Taylor Swift praises Jameela Jamil for promoting body neutrality
Actor Jameela Jamil (left) and singer Taylor Swift. TNS
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Taylor Swift has praised Jameela Jamil for her stance on body image activism, expressing the importance of promoting body neutrality.
The Grammy Award-winning artist recently joined DJ Zane Lowe for an interview on Apple radio station Beats 1.
During their discussion, Swift opened up about the scrutiny she has experienced throughout her career regarding her musical talent and her dating life, in addition to the “internalised misogyny” that exists in society.
The singer said that witnessing the personal lives of young female artists being probed in the media puts her “in a real sad place.”
“I think when I was the youngest, it was hard because I didn’t understand why nobody was saying that this was wrong,” the 29-year-old said.
Swift continued, referencing the work of “The Good Place” star Jamil, who in 2018 launched her body neutrality-focused I Weigh movement.
“We have amazing women out there like Jameela Jamil saying, ‘I’m not trying to spread body positivity. I’m trying to spread body neutrality where I can sit here and not think about what my body is looking like,’” she stated.
“We have made incredible progress. We’ve made incredible strides,” she added.
“It’s a way to take a woman who’s doing her job and succeeding at doing her job and making things. In a way it’s figuring out how to completely minimise that skill by taking something that everyone in their darkest, darkest moments likes to do, which is to slut-shame.”
Earlier this year, Swift expressed her admiration for Jamil’s work as a body image activist in an interview with “Elle” magazine.
The singer said: “I’ve been loving how outspoken Jameela Jamil has been on this subject. Reading her words feels like hearing a voice of reason.”
On Twitter, Jamil thanked Swift for her “lovely words.”
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Weltklang – Night of Poetry
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Berlin Poetry Lecture
Middle East meets Europe. Translation Workshop: Arabic-German
50th Anniversary of Stonewall
Poet's Evening #6
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Cuba Night
Press material 2019
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin
Words of Welcome
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International Meeting of lyrikline.org Partners
Sun. 3 June 11 am
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, not open to the public
lyrikline.org is the website for listening to, reading and understanding German and international poetry. Poets from Brecht to Yeats, Nooteboom to Tranströmer read here in their original voices, a total of 830 poets with 7500 poems from 56 languages and with more than 10,000 translations. As part of the poesiefestival berlin, the partners in lyrikline.org's world-wide network are coming together to exchange ideas and plan future steps.They will include partners from Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and the Ukraine.
Project leader: Heiko Strunk, Assistant: Juliane Otto
Poetry Talk: Simple Truths
Sun. 3 June 3 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Clubraum, Admission € 5 / 3
Abdelwahab Meddeb writer, Tunisia / France, in conversation with Hamza Chourabi board member of the Association for Promoting Democracy in Tunisia, Berlin
'The clueless ones of our times' is the title of a poem by poet, novelist and Islamic scholar Abdelwahab Meddeb, that seems to take up the sound of a sandstorm, picking up and blurring literary traces and traditions. Meddeb is one of the most prominent proponents of French literature with a Tunisian background. He constantly criticises anti-democratic tendencies in Islam as well as Western perspectives that polarise and over-simplify. Poetry, novels, essays and academic texts go hand-in-hand in his oeuvre, in which he underlines the relevance of literary classics to develop from them a more humane way of thinking. In conversation with Hamza Chourabi, Abdelwahab Meddeb will be explaining his approach to writing and discussing his poetry and its codes.
With the kind support of: The Mandala Hotel
Project leader: Isabel Ferrin-Aguirre
Colloquium: Living in Translation
Event suitable for English speakers
With Hartmut Fähndrich Arabic scholar, Berne Hendrik Jackson writer, Berlin Dörte Schmidt musicologist, Berlin Moderated by Ilma Rakusa writer and translator, Zurich
Translation is everywhere as exchange and appropriation. But how do poets, translators and musicians approach a foreign text? What do they make out of it? Do they try to stay faithful to it? Do they transform it? Do they express their admiration, or do they rather criticise, even ridicule?
Poet Hendrik Jackson will be speaking from his experience of various kinds of free translation, from the 'version' or 'adaptation' to inspired rewriting to imitative pastiche.
Hartmut Fähndrich, Arabic scholar, will be taking a long view over thirteen centuries of fruitful exchange between the Arabic and European worlds, focussing on the translations from Greek into Arabic in Baghdad in the Eighth to Tenth Centuries, the translation schools in Toledo and their translations from Arabic into Latin in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, the French translation of the Thousand and One Nights in the Eighteenth Century and finally the cultural and scientific exchanges of the past two hundred years.
Musicologist Dörte Schmidt deals with cover versions and draws connections between them and the translation of "sacred texts": can it be that this is exactly what covering a cult Bob Dylan song is for many performers?
Hartmut Fähndrich (born 1944) knows, teaches and translates modern Arabic literature, travels in Arab countries and incorporates the fruits of these travels into his work as an editor, etc.
Hendrik Jackson (born 1971) has translated Marina Tsvetayeva and Alexei Parshtshikov, and there as in his own texts he uses the means of poetry to explore the translateability of what is symbolic and (apparently) non-verbal, beyond language.
Dörte Schmidt (born 1964) teaches at the University of the Arts, where she does research into musical theatre, new music and the culture of musical writing, and is interested in translation within and between the arts.
With the kind support of: Pro Helvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation, Prussian Maritime Trade Foundation, Weltlesebühne e. V.
Project leader: Gabriele Leupold
The Koran – in German
With Hartmut Bobzin Islamic scholar, Erlangen Ahmad Milad Karimi Islamic scholar, Freiburg Moderated by Hartmut Fähndrich Arabic scholar and translator, Berne
After 11 September 2001 the Koran was sold out in all western bookshops; interest in the holy book of the Muslims, suddenly a political issue, was great. But what is this "verbal scripture" that we hear is so beautiful? Can it be translated in other languages? But though many attempts have been made, translating the Koran has confronted the translator not just with linguistic problems, but with poetic, aesthetic, theological and political challenges as well.
Islamic scholars Hartmut Bobzin and Ahmad Milad Karimi have accepted these challenges - and attractions - with differing assumptions and intentions and published the Koran in German. They will be talking about the paths and dead ends of translation, about the interplay of academic and artistic thinking and discussing the approaches they took towards solutions, including a comparison between selected passages of text and recitation and reading in Arabic and German.
Hartmut Bobzin (born in 1946) studied Protestant Theology, Religious Studies, Indology and Semitic Studies as well as Arabic Studies. He teaches Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and has been concerned for many years with the history of printing and interpreting the Koran in Europe.
Ahmad Milad Karimi (born in 1979 in Kabul, Afghanistan) studied Philosophy, Mathematics and Islamic Studies in Freiburg and New Delhi. He publishes children's books and books on Islamic Theology and Religious Education and gained a doctorate with a thesis on Heidegger and German Idealism.
With the kind support of: Pro Helvetia - Swiss Cultural Foundation, Prussian Maritime Trade Foundation, Weltlesebühne e.V.
Konzert: Erdmöbel
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Studio, Admission € 15 / 10
At the poesiefestival berlin, Erdmöbel, called "the greatest German band of our time" by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, will be appearing for a unique concert performance, playing selected covers of songs from the 60s to the present and some their own best songs. Erdmöbel adapt the lyrics of top ten hits like 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', translating them into their cosmos and demonstrating that covers are an art form of their own.
Not only do they often make wonderfully ludicrous German versions of the texts, but the band also arrange many songs against the grain, freed of any chart slickness. They shine in a cool, ironic, loving light - all the better for dancing to.
Erdmöbel have for years counted as one of Germany's most literary bands. Critics are seldom more unanimous: taz has described their music as "thinking man's pop", and the FAZ called their latest album a masterpiece. Singer and lyricist Markus Berges has also published the novel Ein langer Brief an September Nowak [A Long Letter to September Novak] (Rowohlt Berlin, 2010), which has also been highly praised in the cultural pages of the newspapers.
To conclude this theme day presenting translation as a poetic act, the horizon will open up to include an extra-literary field; but even covering songs is a form of translation, of transfer from one language to another.
Project leaders: Alexander Gumz and Gabriele Leupold
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The latest Ulysse Nardin hour striking watch: loud and proud.
Ulysse Nardin has specialized in creating a number of unusual watches over the last few decades. The most visible is probably the Freak, which began as a revolutionary one-off timepiece and became a platform for experiments in materials science and escapement design which continue to this day. But the company has also produced exotic astronomical complications (the Trilogy of Time watches remain, since the first came out in 1985, some of the most interesting astronomical watches ever designed) and as well, has produced chiming watches. In the latter category, the firm made a name for itself with its repeaters and hour-striking watches, and its latest hour striker, which is produced as a collaboration with the high-end French audio firm, Devialet, aims to extend the experimental spirit of the Freak into the design of chiming watches as well.
Devialet is a relatively new firm but its products, which include one of the most highly praised wireless speaker systems in the world, have taken the audiophile world by storm (and the high praise goes along with some pretty extravagant prices; the Phantom wireless speaker will run you $1850, although Wired, among others, seems to think it's worth it). The basic brief was to figure out how to wring more volume out of the chiming mechanism. Basically, when hammer meets gong in a striking watch, the gong oscillates laterally and the sound waves have to propogate through the movement and case before being heard. The idea behind the Hourstriker Phantom is one we've seen before up to a point – there is a thin membrane on the underside of the watch that acts as an amplifier, which is more or less what Audemars Piguet is doing with its Supersonnerie.
What seems to be unique to the Phantom is the system for driving the membrane. Ulysse Nardin hasn't released actual diagrams of the mechanism, but it describes it as a system of "torsion arms" which transmit vibrations to the membrane directly. The result, so the company says, is a watch that ought to be clearly audible under any conditions short of an aircraft carrier flight deck; promised sound output is 85 decibels (as measured at a distance of 10 centimeters) thanks to both the torsion arm and membrane system, and the titanium case.
Initial Thoughts
Ulysse Nardin's collaboration with Devialet is an interesting one in that for all that striking watches are often characterized by their makers as musical instruments, it has as far as I can recall, never before happened that a watch manufacturer has produced a striking watch in collaboration with a high-end audio company. In retrospect, it seems like the most natural thing in the world to do – audio firms are, bien sûr, experts in sound and sound transmission, so why not ask one for advice? Ulysse Nardin appeals to a family connection to partly justify the partnership – Emmanuel Nardin, one of Devialet's founders, is descended from the Ulysse Nardin family – but you don't need bloodlines for the idea to make sense.
There is of course more to a striking watch than pure volume, and the quality of the sound, as well as how well the visual design aspects and the audible experience complement each other, will have a lot to do with the final impact of the watch as a whole. Still, the engineering ideas behind the Phantom could make for a never-before-heard impact in the rarefied world of striking complications, in which Ulysse Nardin has until now, preferred to play a largely traditional game. We look forward to hearing it, in the metal.
Brand: Ulysse Nardin
Model: Hourstriker Phantom
Case Material: titanium
Dial Color: anthracite
Strap/Bracelet: black alligator with pin buckle
Caliber: UN-610
Functions: minutes, hours; strikes the hours and also on the half hour
Power Reserve: 42 hous
Winding: manual or automatic
Price: CHF 72,500
Limited Edition: yes, 85 pieces world wide.
Visit Ulysse Nardin online, right here.
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Abigail Disney Backs New Hollywood Misconduct Database Rotten Apples
12:35 PM PDT 6/27/2018 by Pamela McClintock
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Abigail Disney (left), Adrienne Becker
Disney is investing in the website via Level Forward, the new female-led venture she runs alongside Hollywood veteran Adrienne Becker.
Abigail Disney is determined to exile "raping and pillaging" from Hollywood by backing Level Forward, a female-led company that will focus on producing a wide array of content from women and people of color, among other initiatives.
On Wednesday, Disney and her partner, Adrienne Becker, briefed reporters for the first time on their plans for Level Forward, which they launched in January. It turns out the company is a key investor in Rotten Apples, a website that serves as a database for consumers interested in learning whether anyone associated with a movie or TV show has been involved in allegations of misconduct. Rotten Apples launched in December in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
For example, type in the movie Shakespeare in Love, and the names Ben Affleck, Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein pop up. In the case of Affleck, his name is linked to an article detailing the actor's apology for groping someone. Harvey Weinstein's name, of course, is linked to articles about the multitude of allegations brought against him.
Becker said Rotten Apples — which is clearly riffing on Rotten Tomatoes — is in the beta phase, and that it will be expanding. For example, it could begin including links to organizations helping victims of sexual misconduct or abuse.
If a show or film receives a "fresh" rating, it is accompanied with the message, "this movie has no known affiliation to anyone with allegations of sexual misconduct against them."
Speaking from Europe via a video phone call, Disney — whose grandfather was Roy Disney, the brother of Walt Disney — said Level Forward is committed to backing authentic stories from women and minorities, as well as increasing diversity behind the camera. Only then will younger consumers hear the right message.
"We are committed to making business sense out of turning this stupid equation upside down, and taking raping and pillaging out of business plans once and for all," Disney said.
Disney provided the seed money for Level Forward, which is also raising money from other investors.
The idea for Level Forward was born when Disney teamed with Killer Content to explore buying The Weinstein Co. following the Harvey Weinstein scandal. They withdrew their female-fronted bid, with Disney saying on Wednesday that it was a flawed process, and one she didn't want to legitimize.
Disney and Becker also on Wednesday announced a number of key hires, as well as several projects. Former MTV president Christina Norma has joined Level Forward as a creative advisor, while a number of producers have also come aboard in various capacities, including Maximum's Eva Price and Stephanie Allain (Dear White People), who will lead producing "pods." Other producers working with Level Forward include Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler of Killer Films, Stephanie Laing and Donna Gigliotti.
Becker and Disney also revealed that Level Forward is backing Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick's upcoming doc MeToo, which could be done in time for the Sundance Film Festival.
Disney is chairman of the board at Level Forward; Becker is CEO.
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On November 27, 2014, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared Cante Alentejano as Intangible Culture Heritage of Mankind
On November 27, 2014, the United Nations United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), declared Cante Alentejano as Intangible Culture Heritage of Mankind
It is in cellars and taverns that the most spontaneous and authentic cultural manifestations emerge, and it is also in them the privileged stage of men who, taking advantage of the leisure hours before or after work, release their voices in unparalleled unison, in which polyphonies find the natural stage of their emotions and genuine feelings. Divided between the Point, the High and the Seconds Voices, a group of cante alentejano has in its repertoire "modas" about work, love, contemplation, and nostalgia. Other characteristics that distinguish it are its slowness, accentuations, melismas, and certain harmonic anomalies.
The cante alentejano thus finds in the Wine of Talha the ideal partner for a irrefutable conviviality, in which men share the joys and sorrows of their daily lives and echo their personal, family and Community policies.
The wine and the cante, the cante and the wine. Old inseparable friends who live in the cellars and in the taverns, testify the laborious ability of human effort with musical and poetic creativity. They are the greatest interpreters, who justify the union of the voices of friends with the purpose of sharing the narratives of human effort and condition through the polyphonic songs.
If it is in the vineyard that everything starts when we talk about “Vinho da Talha”, and if it is in the grape picker and “almocreve” the source of the poetic and musical creativity where cante alentejano stories are born, is in the taverns and cellars that the pretexts and vocations, spontaneously and genuinely emerge under the common feeling that brings out the “moda” accompanied with a glass of wine. This wine tasted in a balanced way, following the silence that is established after a conversation that ended and introduced the pretext for the “moda’s” letter. Cante Alentejano and the Wine of Talha thus establish an intimate and an accomplice that is impossible to disassociate and untangle.
On November 27, 2014, the United Nations United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), declared Cante Alentejano as Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The video below, published by UNESCO, explains in a synthesized way, the reasons why this Heritage of Alentejo is one of the greatest treasures of Portugal.
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Facts about Mangalore's 'table top' airport
The Mangalore airport, where 160 people were killed Saturday morning when an Air India Express flying from Dubai overshot the runway during landing, is considered difficult for aircraft landings and take offs, particularly in the rainy season.
It has been raining heavily in the area, an impact of cyclone Laila.
The airport is located on top of a hill and surrounded by deep gorges that are just 30 metres from the runway. There are tropical forests on the three sides of the mountain.
The airport is at Bajpe, about 20 km from Mangalore and 350 km from Bangalore. The runway is called "table top" because of the gorges surrounding it. There are two runways at the airport. The old runway is 6,000 ft long while the new one is 8,000 ft.
The new terminal building was inaugurated recently, on May 15, by Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel.
It is not clear whether the Air India Express, which caught fire Saturday, landed at the old runway, about 1.6 km in length or the new 2.6 km runway that became operational in 2006.
Mangalore is a busy commercial and education centre on the west coast. It has a mixed population of Hindus, Christians and Muslims who speak Kannada, Tulu, Konkani and Urdu. The New Mangalore Port is located here.
The city has been in news for all the wrong reasons due to increasing communal tension. The most infamous incident was that of young girls being attacked by self-appointed protectors of Hindutva at a pub in Mangalore in January 2009.
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Prescott in Yavapai County, Arizona — The American Mountains (Southwest)
By Mike Wintermantel, July 4, 2019
1. Prescott Marker
Marker has been repainted since the previous photo
Prescott, Yavapai County Seat, founded 1864 on Granite Creek, source of Placer gold. Named for William Hickling Prescott, Historian, first Gov. JN. N. Goodwin, Appointee of Abraham Lincoln. Established first territorial capital of Arizona here. At Governor's Mansion, two blocks west, the first legislature met July 18, 1864. Site of first graded school in Arizona. Disastrous fire started by miner's candle destroyed four blocks about this square in 1900. . This historical marker was erected in 1959 by Prescott Rotary Club. It is in Prescott in Yavapai County Arizona
Prescott, Yavapai County Seat, founded 1864 on Granite Creek, source of Placer gold. Named for William Hickling Prescott, Historian, first Gov. JN. N. Goodwin, Appointee of Abraham Lincoln. Established first territorial capital of Arizona here. At Governor's Mansion, two blocks west, the first legislature met July 18, 1864. Site of first graded school in Arizona. Disastrous fire started by miner's candle destroyed four blocks about this square in 1900.
Erected 1959 by Prescott Rotary Club.
Location. 34° 32.498′ N, 112° 28.213′ W. Marker is in Prescott, Arizona, in Yavapai County. Marker is on S. Montezuma Street (Arizona Route 89) near W. Gurley St and S. Montezuma St., on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Prescott AZ 86303, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Hotel St. Michael (here, next to this marker); Bashford Burmister Company (a few steps from this marker); The Palace Saloon (within shouting distance of this marker); Whiskey Row (within shouting
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distance of this marker); Plaza Bandstand (within shouting distance of this marker); Solon Hannibal Borglum America's First Cowboy Sculptor (within shouting distance of this marker); Montezuma Street (within shouting distance of this marker); Prescott's Beginnings: The First Mining District in Yavapai County (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Prescott.
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New York Fashion Tips
Learn how to wear hats like they do in NYC from fashion editor Verena von Pfetten in this Howcast video.
Hats are great way to accessorize your outfit. You know they can take a dress and sort of add a little spice to it. They're also great in weather and in somewhere like New York where you spend so much time outdoors, a great hat can honestly make or break your day. If it's rainy and a nice wide brimmed waterproof hat, you can look chic and stylish and stay dry in a way that doesn't involve like manhandling an umbrella all day long and in the winter when you're cold and sort of already bundled up a really cute knit hat is a great way to add warmth without sort of sacrificing on your style. So there are a few different types of hats out there. I mean, there's an unlimited variety, but I think the most common ones are the fedora, which we have in front, a wide brimmed hat which we would probably where in the winter, and a knit hat sort of like a winter hat, and you can get different shapes and more fitted shapes or floppy shape and I think the thing to keep in mind when you're accessorizing with the hat is really just the weather and what you're wearing. Fedoras are great, you know the straw ones in the summer wear them with a cute dress and sandals and it's sort of fun and you look playful and you get a little bit of that 70's beach vibe. The knit hats in the winter, they keep you warm and if you get them in a bright color or maybe even just your favorite color, that's a great way to add a little zest and a little brightness to sort of the dark winter months. And then my favorite, again, is just a wide brimmed felt hat, ideally one that's a little bit waterproof and that's something you don't have to think too much about. It's great, because if it rains a little bit you're totally dry, I think it looks really chic. It's something you see a little bit more in Europe and I think it's a great thing to translate to a New York City street That's something I would wear with anything from like a Cashmere sweater to a jean jacket, to like a warm winter coat or a dress or pants. I think that you can be as dressy or as casual as you want it to be.
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How to Enable Dark Mode on your iPhone and iPad
Khamosh Pathak @pixeldetective
Updated September 18, 2019, 4:41pm EDT
Khamosh Pathak
Dark mode is everywhere from Mac, Windows, Android, and now on the iPhone and iPad. iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 finally brings the much-coveted feature to Apple’s devices. It looks great, and it automatically works with supported apps and websites.
How to Enable Dark Mode on iPhone and iPad
When you enable dark mode, the entire UI on your iPhone or iPad flips. You now see a black background and white text. Apple has gone with a true black theme which means that the background at most places is pure black instead of a dark gray.
This looks great on iPhones with an OLED display (iPhone X, XS, XS Max, 11, and 11 Max) as the pixels just don’t light up. To maintain readability, Apple has gone for a gray background for some background elements. We’ve talked about the intricacies of the dark mode interface in detail before.
So let’s get to the nitty-gritty. To enable the dark mode on your iPhone or iPad, first, open the Control Center.
If you have an iPhone X-style device with a notch, swipe down from the top-right edge of the screen. The same goes for iPad users. If you’re using an iPhone with a Home button, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open Control Center.
Here, tap and hold on the “Brightness” slider.
Now, tap on the “Dark mode” button to turn it on. If you want to disable the feature, you can tap on the icon again.
Alternatively, you can turn dark mode on or off through the Settings menu. You can do this by going to Settings > Display and tap on “Dark.”
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Add a Dark Mode Toggle to the Control Center
If you’re like me, you’ll want a dedicated switch for dark mode. It’s available as an additional toggle in Control Center.
To enable it, go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls.
From this screen, tap on the “+” button next “Dark mode.”
This will enable the dedicated dark mode toggle at the end of the Control Center. Tap on the button to toggle dark mode on and off. There’s no more need to go to the brightness menu!
Set Dark Mode on a Schedule
You can also automate the dark mode feature by setting up a schedule. Open the “Settings” app and go to “Display and Brightness.”
From the “Appearance” section, tap on the toggle next to “Automatic.”
Then tap on the “Options” button to switch between the “Sunset to Sunrise” option and a “Custom Schedule” option.
If you choose the “Custom Schedule” option, you’ll be able to specify the precise time dark mode should kick in.
Dark Mode Works With Compatible Apps and Websites
Just like macOS Mojave, the dark mode on iPhone and iPad works with supported apps and websites.
Once an app updates for iOS 13 and supports this feature, it will automatically switch the app’s theme to dark theme when you turn on the system dark mode from Control Center.
Here, for example, is the LookUp Dictionary app. In the left screenshot, the app is in the default light mode. And on the right, you can see what the app looks like in dark mode.
All I did between these two screenshots was to go to the Control Center and turn on dark mode. Once apps start supporting this feature, you won’t need to find the dark mode feature in individual apps.
The same goes for Safari. If a website supports the dark mode feature in CSS, it will automatically switch between the light and the dark themes based on the system settings.
In the screenshot below, you can see the feature in action for the Twitter website in Safari.
Currently, there’s no way to blacklist apps from this automatic theme switching feature.
But for websites, you can disable the feature altogether by going to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features and turning off the “Dark mode CSS support” option.
Alternative To Dark Mode: Smart Invert
The automatic dark mode will only work for apps that support the feature in iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and above. What if you want to enable dark mode in an app that doesn’t support it? Use the Smart invert feature as a workaround.
Smart invert is an accessibility feature that automatically inverts the UI colors without touching the images and other media. With this workaround, you can get a decent white-text-on-black-background interface.
To enable it, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display and Text Size and then toggle on “Smart Invert.”
You can see the difference between a website in light mode and with Smart invert turned on in the screenshots below. Although most of the website inverts correctly, some areas—such as the menu bar in the below example—don’t look like they should.
Granted, the Smart invert feature doesn’t work for everything, but it’s a good alternative. If a developer doesn’t add dark mode to their app(s), this (somewhat) works.
Khamosh Pathak is a freelance technology writer who specializes in tutorials. His work has also been published on iPhoneHacks, Zapier's blog, MakeUseOf, and Guiding Tech. Khamosh has seven years of experience writing how-tos, features and technology guides on the internet.
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Accessibility approach for IVI and IFE
Narayanan Dharmarajan - Group Project Manager | October 9, 2017
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Accessibility refers to the ability for everyone, regardless of disability or special needs, to access, use, and benefit from everything within their environment. It is the “degree to which a product, device, service or environment is available to as many people as possible.”
Everyone Should Have Equal Access:
Understanding the four principles of accessibility as per WCAG 2.0 guidelines –
Perceivable – Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways that they can perceive.
Operable – User interface components and navigation must be operable.
Understandable –Information and The operation of user interface and information must be understandable.
Robust – Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
Accessibility for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and In-Flight Entertainment (IFE)
Currently, there are a host of programs available from in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) or in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems offered by various infotainment service providers. Various features that help drivers, passengers (rear seat entertainment in cars), and also the usage of such systems are simple and user friendly. In-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and in-flight entertainment (IFE) enables people, who are travelling long distances, to enjoy their journey. Accessibility factors in when the same entertainment needs to be extended to people with any form of disability or elderly.
Accessibility Approach for IVI & IFE
Most of the currently running in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) or in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems are not providing basic accessibility like screen reader support, label zooming functions or text descriptions for audio messages for physically challenged individuals.
Section 508 Technical Requirements suggests Software Standards, which contain 12 technical pointers for making a software Section 508 compliant. When these standards are not met, the application is not accessible and can deny equal access to people with disabilities. The Functional Performance Criteria of Section 508 requires at least one accessible mode of operation and information retrieval for persons with disabilities, encompassing no vision, low vision, no hearing and hard of hearing, enhanced auditory modes, no speech and no fine motor control
It would be good for IVI and IFE systems to fulfil the above requirements in order to be Section 508 compliant or any other standards laid down by different countries’ accessibility compliance requirements.
The document states – “Most of the existing systems are not accessibility compliant”. Moreover, they are currently not using any standard OS like Android or Windows, where the native accessibility support is available that can be customized by application developers.
HCL has a huge opportunity in this space in the areas of development and testing. According to statistics, the infotainment market is very large. Globally, the market is projected to be worth $35.2 billion by 2020.
Development – Most existing systems do not have native accessibility supporting tools such as screen reader. So, we have to develop the equivalent functionality of screen reader to support the system for visually challenged or low vision users. There need not be complete screen reader kind of development because the options in an infotainment system will be limited. Additionally, we can provide the voice over help using “text-to-speech” algorithms. The challenge would be IVI or IFE systems with multi-language support. There will be a huge scope of development activities in this space. HCL should make a systematic approach and create a few POCs and pitch for bigger projects.
Testing – This will be another major activity when it comes to accessibility testing. Testers with DHS certification will add more value. The complete system should be tested with all basic accessibility requirements for devices software like –
All interactive elements, all images, color dependence, color contrast, flashing, and multimedia which includes enable/check captions, enable/check audio descriptions, zoom functionality etc.
Solution – HCL has extensive expertise in providing accessibility solutions to leading OEMs that can be leveraged in IVI and IFE segments. Our Accessibility Engineering Centre of Excellence will be able to provide - Accessible GUI, Simple on-screen navigation, Vocal instructions, Easy swipe and Touch gestures, Use of identifiable colours (for low-vision), Zoom functionality, equivalent functionality of screen reader, improving the accessible content portfolio etc. Our certified testing SMEs will be able to test the complete application adhering to Section 508 standards, Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA) Closed Captioning Requirements for Videos, end-user controls, etc. Our strong points in testing Satisfaction Testing, Usability Testing, and Compliance Testing will help making the applications delightfully accessible.
Challenges – If HCL can invest in the creation of TTS algorithms, developing multi-lingual support libraries, providing automated testing solution, it will be in a position to bring home many IVI & IFE projects going forward.
Conclusion – Providing accessibility in these segments not only drives inclusiveness but also greatly benefits 1 billion people (15% of the world population) who can equally relish their journeys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/intro.html
DHS_Section_508_Compliance_Test_Process_for_Applications
Section 508 Standards_for_Applications
http://www.strategyr.com/MarketResearch/Automotive_Infotainment_Systems_Market_Trends.asp
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Behind insurer strategies to snag higher MA star ratings
Samantha Liss
Each year billions of federal dollars are up for grabs as insurers compete to score a star rating high enough to earn a lucrative financial bonus in the Medicare Advantage program. Last year, more than $6 billion in bonuses were awarded to various types of privately run MA plans.
Obtaining a bonus is especially important as plans use that funding to sell supplemental benefits, or extra perks that can be enticing to shoppers and can attract more people to their rolls.
However, the bonus program is costly and has been pegged as an area ripe for trimming, according to a 2018 Congressional Budget Office report that suggested changes could help reduce the federal deficit.
Still, insurers take the stars program seriously and devise strategies to snag higher scores. It stokes competition among plans and promotes robust benefit offerings as issuers are forced to use some of those dollars on supplemental benefits such as dental or vision.
"There is not a silver bullet," for a stars strategy, Dustin Grzeskowiak, an actuary for consulting firm Milliman, told Healthcare Dive.
However, highly rated plans often have a few characteristics in common, he said.
Top-rated plans tend to be part of a company with an overall culture of supporting and championing the stars program. Sophisticated data-driven strategies are also key, along with member outreach.
At Kaiser Permanente, there is a disciplined structure around star ratings, Agnes Strandberg, senior vice president of Kaiser's Medicare program, told Healthcare Dive.
Her team is focused on reviewing data, key metrics and predictive analytics to understand emerging trends among members. The focus on analytics also helps identify best practices throughout the organization's regions, which is a hallmark of integrated health systems, Strandberg said.
A core pillar for California-based Kaiser is ensuring a consistent member experience across all those regions, which requires a lot of training, she said.
Being an integrated health system provides an important foundation for these goals, Strandberg said.
For example, when a Kaiser member walks into a clinic for a visit, the receptionist may remind the patient they're due for a mammogram and attempt to go ahead and schedule one. The pharmacist also is there not just to fill prescriptions but to play a role in advancing a member's health. Staying current on screenings such as mammograms are an important metric that play into the star ratings.
The health plan and its clinicians are essentially playing for the same team and not at odds with one another, which can be the case for other non-affiliated payers and providers.
All told, Kaiser garnered five-star ratings for seven of its health plans in the most recent ranking, the most of any payer. Together the seven plans cover more than 1.5 million people.
Overall, only 23 plans out of 401 received the top grade, according to CMS.
Another top performer was Bloomfield, Conneticut-based Cigna.
Cigna's Florida plan was one of 23 plans to earn a perfect score of five stars. The plan, Healthspring, covers more than 48,000 seniors throughout the sunshine state.
Cigna officials say it's not about "teaching to the test" or varying strategies each year for the best results. Instead, the company has doubled down on member satisfaction, David Meyer, vice president of Cigna's stars program, told Healthcare Dive.
"Happy customers give you better scores," Meyer said. "And then, I think, the rates come."
For example, in one of the many listening sessions the company holds with its customers, Cigna realized that it wasn't more apps or smartphone support that members wanted but more ways to access their "passport to health" — a booklet for collecting important health information and appointment and screening dates. They wanted a hard copy version sent to their house. That was somewhat of a surprise, Meyer said.
Cigna's stars team often rolls out pilots to see what keeps customers happy. Right now, in some markets, doctors have agreed to alert patients when they're running behind and by how many minutes by noting it on a whiteboard in the waiting room.
Keeping customers happy is through lots of small things, Meyer said. "We absolutely sweat the small stuff," he said.
But for all the focus on stars, it's not a key factor for patients when picking their plans, Gretchen Jacobson of the Kaiser Family Foundation told Healthcare Dive. Patients are concerned about picking a plan that includes their doctor and other benefits.
"Seniors were pretty clear that they as whole do not use the star ratings when selecting a plan," Jacobson said of KFF's results from focus groups.
While more members are in highly-rated plans, what's key to pay attention to is the under-performing plans, Jacobson said.
It's important to keep an eye on the habitual low scorers, which are supposed to be kicked off the program after a certain period of time, she said.
In February of this year, CMS sent a memo to insurers warning them that it would terminate plans for low scores. The memo said it was resuming its authority to do so after a moratorium that expired Dec. 31.
Next year's will be the first set of ratings to be counted toward qualification for a possible termination. A plan risks that fate if it falls below three stars for three consecutive years, an agency spokesperson said.
This year, five plans were flagged as low performers. Four of those plans had low enrollment, fewer than 5,000 members. But, one plan, Merit Health Insurance sold by Magellan Health Inc., had more than 63,000 enrollees. These plans have garnered 2.5 or fewer stars from at least 2018 through 2020, according to CMS.
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Lot # 132
Canadian, Impressionist & Modern Art Live auction
Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson
ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA 1882 - 1974 Canadian
Alberta Foothills
oil on canvas 1943
signed and on verso titled, dated 1942 [sic], inscribed "4" (circled), numbered with the Art Gallery of Ontario accession #L75.65 on the AGO inventory labels and stamped twice with the Jules Loeb Collection #88
25 x 32 in 63.5 x 81.3cm
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, 1946
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 1959
Jules Loeb, Ottawa and Toronto
Gift from the Jules Loeb Collection to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1976
Donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1988, AGO accession #L75.65
A.Y. Jackson: Thirty Years of Painting, Dominion Gallery, 1946, titled as Alberta Foot-hills, unpaginated
Pierre Théberge, The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection / La collection M. et Mme Jules Loeb, National Gallery of Canada, 1970, unpaginated
Contemporary Canadian Art from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 1979, listed, unpaginated
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, A.Y. Jackson: Thirty Years of Painting, May 4 – 18, 1946, titled as Alberta Foot-hills, catalogue #9
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings and Sketches by A.Y. Jackson, April 24 – May 8, 1948, catalogue #15
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection / La collection M. et Mme Jules Loeb, October 15 – November 15, 1970, traveling in 1970 to 1971 to Sir George Williams University, Montreal; Winnipeg Art Gallery; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Windsor; Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec; and Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, catalogue #23
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida, Contemporary Canadian Art from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, March 6 - 25, 1979, catalogue #13
Jules and Fay Loeb’s distinguished collection of Canadian art from the middle of the nineteenth century to the 1980s was formed in a halcyon period of broad and deep interest in historic Canadian art. A.Y. Jackson’s Alberta Foothills entered their collection, its only documented private collection, when they were most actively acquiring historical Canadian art in the later 1950s and the 1960s. In 1970 and 1971, Alberta Foothills was included in an exhibition of the collection organized for a national tour by Pierre Théberge, then curator of contemporary Canadian art and later director at the National Gallery of Canada.
Alberta Foothills’ motif of land rolling into mountains at sunrise relates to many of Jackson’s paintings of the Laurentian Mountains from more than a decade earlier. A crest of grass and stubble running across the bottom fifth of the painting establishes the viewer’s point of view. Then, rising and receding horizontal zones bisected by a diagonal road, ploughed fields, the distant pink and blue mountains, and the light morning sky activate the composition. Its sparse and formal concision is an important extension of Jackson’s formal developments from the early 1930s. Alberta Foothills is one of Jackson’s most sophisticated canvases from the 1940s, one that demands and rewards mindful viewing.
Alberta, and southern Alberta in particular, gave Jackson the opportunity to invest a new landscape with the wisdom of his experience. After decades of painting in and around Georgian Bay and Algoma in Ontario, and the Laurentians in Quebec, he perceived the Alberta landscape as different. Its flats were flatter, its distances more distant, and the peaks of its mountains loftier. How could he engage with this new landscape?
The approach he took was neither arbitrary nor determined. Through successive painting trips from 1937 to 1943, when he painted Alberta Foothills, Jackson renewed the scale of his painting and caught up with the landscape. The most accomplished works, like Alberta Foothills, eliminated any depiction of people or animals, as well as the artificial and natural points of reference that give his earlier paintings their resonance. After 30 years and intimate knowledge of his preferred landscapes, Jackson met the southwestern Alberta landscape with knowledge gleaned elsewhere to paint it as it had never been painted before.
The preparatory graphite study and oil sketch for Alberta Foothills give invaluable insight into its development and Jackson’s thoughts. They also show how two key deviations made Alberta Foothills a great work of art. Near Pincher Creek (1943, graphite on paper, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, #1974.7.116.RV) is Jackson’s initial view, with a couple of horses on the prairie in centre left and a bisecting road, bordered by a fence on both sides. A composition on the drawing’s verso, dated September 23, 1943, conclusively supports the painting’s 1943 date as published in the Dominion Gallery’s 1946 catalogue. When Jackson worked up the graphite study into his oil sketch, Pincher Creek, Alberta (sold by Heffel on November 19, 2008, lot 203), he brought the horses closer to the viewer, almost parallel with the picture plane, and eliminated the fence on the far side of the road.
Between his brother Ernest’s home in Lethbridge that he used as a base, and where he likely made the oil sketch, and the Studio Building in Toronto where he painted the canvas, the horses and fence vanished, the picture brightened, and the distant mountains and sky were enlivened by a concert of pink and blue, infused with white.
Jackson painted with the wisdom of his experience. As he learned to make great paintings in the Laurentians, he had to learn to make great paintings in Alberta. Paring his composition and tightening his palette, Jackson advanced the pictorial subject from graphite sketch to oil study to finished canvas. The breakthrough he made with Alberta Foothills would culminate in his marvellous circa 1948 canvas Alberta Rhythm (private collection).
We thank Gregory Humeniuk, art historian, writer and curator, for contributing the above essay.
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Laylatul Qadr or The Night of Fate
As the Quran is the Word of Allah (swt), It can be subjected to several interpretations by scholars. However, when there is discernment, we can easily understand to whom the Koranic speech is directed. Sometimes Allah (SWT) talks to the earthly world inhabitants, sometimes to those living in Ghayb or the Unknown Universe and sometimes His Word goes to the angels.
The Holy Koran has been revealed to Prophet Muhammad (saw), to be a guideline for both human beings and djinns. This revelation took place in the month of Ramadan, as it is stated by Allah (swt) in the Chapter 2, Verse 185: “the month of Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was sent down as a guide to people and a proof of a straight path and discernment.” He added the rules to abide by or the conditions to respect during this holy month “anyone who is present in this month must fast, and anyone who is sick or traveling have to fast the same number of days afterwards.” In addition to that, in the Chapter 97, God gives some information about the Quran revelation, in these terms: “Bismilahi Rahmani Rahîmi. We have revealed it (the Quran) in the night of Fate. And what will tell you what is the night of Fate? The night of Fate is better than thousands months, angels and Rouhou come down by Allah permission on every order. It is Peace! Until the rise of dawn.
In this Surah, we notice that there are two levels of understanding. The first comes from an official dimension that focuses on the strict sense meaning of the event; whereas, the second one is an unofficial dimension with a hidden meaning, the esoteric sense. Allah (swt), in the second verse of the Surah 97, asks a question that arouses attention: “And what will tell you what is the night of Fate?” He answered it not by giving a detailed explanation of what this night is, but rather by showing the graces and benefits of this night. “The night of Fate is better than thousands months, it is Peace until the rise of dawn.” Adding there a description of the sequence of events of the night with the arrival of angels led by Rouhou. Some exegetes liken Rouhou to Djibril, but we would like to point out that these two angels are different. We will meet the angel Rouhou the day of the last judgment sitting cross-legged in the heart of the event with inside his legs all the creatures. The reality of the angel Rouhou is different from that of the angel Djibril.
The reality of the night of Fate or Laylatul Qadri
Descent of the Holy Quran in the Chahada World
The interpretation of the surah AL QADR
Inâ anzalnâhu fi laylatil Qadri:
Wa mâ adrâka mâ Laylatul Qadri:
Laylatul Qadri khayrun mine Alfi Chahrine:
TANAZZALUL MALA’IKATU WA RUHU FI HA BI IZNI RABIHIM MINE KOULI AMRINE:
MIN KOULI AMRIN SALÄMOUNE HIYA HATA MATLAHIL FADJRI:
First, we must know that there are three nights approved by Allah (swt) which are the night of Fate or Al Qadr, the night of mid-shabane or Nisfu Châbbâne or mid-shabane, and the night of the 10th day of Muharram where men of God gather at the “Diwânul Hirâ” to decide what will happen during the year.
Before the coming of Prophet Muhammad (saw) on earth, He had had a conversation with Allah (swt) who let him know of His intention to create the earthly world and informed him of all the organization He wanted to carry out. Allah (swt) made the Prophet listen Words that would constitute, billions of years later, the Qur’an. The Almighty began by the following Verses: Bismilahi Rahmani Rahim (1), Alîf Lâm Mîm (2), this is the Book about which there is no doubt, and which is a guide for the pious. Sûrat 2 (Al Baqara) Verse 1. The Prophet listened to His lord up to the last Verse of Sûrat An-nâçi (114). That is the reason why, in the Holy Qur’an Sûrats are arranged in the way starting from Sûrat Baqara to Sûrat An-Nâçi. Although during revelation neither chapters nor verses have been revealed to the Prophet following the aforesaid arrangement.
The Prophet Muhammad (saw) made sure, through his mastering of the Bâtine or Hidden Realities that the arrangement of Sûrats be in conformity with that established billions of years earlier by Allah (swt). Then, The Almighty let His messenger decide the way he wanted verses and Sûrat or chapters to come to him once on earth. Such an organization is destined to help people have a coherent, logical and understandable process of the Qur’an’s revelation. Then, Allah (swt) specified that verses would be revealed to the Prophet according to specific events, which would be nothing but pretexts to help in the understanding of his contemporaries. A scenario had then been decided. Seydi Ahmad called Djibril (as) and informed him about his function of God’s spokesperson and about the mission he had to fulfill.
This consisted in the angel Djibril (as) finding the Messenger of Islam at Mont Hira or Hira Hill and asking him to read. After that, the Prophet asked the angel the Verse that would be the first to be revealed during the revelation cycle.
At that moment, the Great Helper Pole who is, moreover, the Khatmiya of the Prophet (meaning the intermediary between Seydi Ahmad and the others) decided to join in the discussion saying that even if Djibril was Allah’s (swt) spokesperson, it was not to him to choose the verse that would be revealed the first. After that, the Great Helper Pole asked to recite all Sûrats or chapters already said by The Almighty, from the Chapter Al-Baqara to An-Nâçi and then proposed to begin revelation with the first verse of Sûrat Al ‘Alaq: “Read in the Name of your Lord who created(1). He Who created human being from a clot of blood (2). Read, your Lord is the Noblest (3), He taught by pen (4). He taught human being what he did not know (5).
The Great Savior Pole requested the surah to be written on him. He morphed into a green silk fabric on which he asked the Creator to inscribe that first surah to be revealed on Earth. Once the surah was written on that hijab of light, represented by that cloth, the latter turned into a ball of light that rotated. And then the four Poles, who always accompany the Great Pole, arrived. As a quick reminder, these four Poles are like the four best Companions of the Prophet (saw). They, thus, surrounded the ball and escorted it as it moved through the divine light. The ball kept on rolling while saying the following zikr: “Bi Izni Lahutul Bast, Bi Izni Nurul Satiri”. The Poles Saviors chanted in chorus the zikr that allies the name of the prophet as Muhammadul Habibi and that of the Great Savior Pole. Such an event continued until Allah (swt) approved of the organization of all that protocol preceding the coming of the Qur’an, and He confirmed that all these would happen when the Qur’an was to descend in the visible world or Chahâda. Allah (swt) named that night, along with everything that occurred in it, Al Qadr.
The word Al Qadr stems from haqiqa or true reality. There is a cause-and-effect relationship between what really happened during this night in Ghayb Universe and the benefits to the people of the chahâda. Indeed, the blessings that come out of this night of light in the world of realities will be poured out on the people of the chahâda world who will indulge in prayer during this blessed night.
The prophet Muhammad (saw) used to go to Hira mount for meditation or recovering. One day, while he was lying inside the cave, it happened a very important event that would become a landmark for the history of Islam. It was that day that Allah (swt) chose to bring down the holy Quran. The aforesaid ball of light, which turned in the divine lights and escorted by the four Savior Poles began to descend on earth.
They were with the angel Djibril (as) who was standing behind them. When they reached the top of Hira mount, they asked Djibril to go alone to burst the ball of light. They could not go beyond this limit because it was not their time yet to appear on earth. So, the angel Djibril (as) burst the ball of light and spread the fabric on which was written the first verse of the holy Quran which is Al ‘Alaq.
Indeed, We sent the Quran down during the night of Fate.
The “We” represents Allah (swt) as well as everyone that were present when the ceremony took place earlier. That was the prophet (saw), the Great Savior Pole, the four Savior Poles and the angel Djibril.
And what can make you know what the Night of Fate?
That was at that Night that Allah (swt) summoned Prophet Muhammad (saw) whereas the Chahâda world did not exist yet. It was also during that Night that the Great Savior Pole morphed into a fabric of light, then to a ball in front of the four Savior Pole and the angel Djibril.
The night of Fate is better than thousand months (of adoration).
Why 1000 months? Because 1000 months separated the night of AL QADR where the extraordinary ceremony happened and the birth of Prophet Muhammad (saw) in the Chahâda world. Then, all the benefits of this night will come to the inhabitants of the Chahâda world who will devote themselves to prayers.
During that night angels come from the sky as well as the angel Rûhu by their Lord’s permission for all orders:
Rûhu is the biggest angel. That angel lives in a cave located in heaven. He does not get out except for two major events. The first one is the Night of Fate and the second one will be the day of the last judgment. During the night of Fate, he is accompanied with 124,000 (One hundred and twenty four thousand) angels that have human looking men dressed of white “jellabas”. Among them, there is Djibril who is the only one that holds on a white light flag on which is written Lâ ilâha illa lâh Muhammadu Rassûlu Lâhi. Rûhu leads the delegation and they all go to the Prophet’s tomb in Medine. After arriving at the place, Rouhou takes the white flag from Djibril (as) and plants it in front of the tomb. They will begin to recite the ninety-nine Divine Names and even the Holy Names not included in the “Asmâ’u Lâhil Husnâ such As-Sattâru or Al-Amyâlu, until in the early hours. The Name “Yâ Amyâlu” is the Divine name, which is used by birds in zikr in order to be able to fly. It is also the Name used by the mint leave for its zikr. As for the other animals, they use the Name Al Madjidou.
When the time comes up to end the session of zikr during the Night of Al Qadr, Rûhu and Djibril are the only angels to recite loudly 1.000 times the Supreme Salâtu alâ Nabi and 65 times the Salât on the Prophet regarded as heaven’s jewel while the other angels listen quietly the recitation. These two Salât Alâ Nabi are considered as the best ones in Ghayb Universe. Before returning to the heavens, Rûhu takes back the flag and give it to Djibrîl (as). Then, they all return to where they came from. All the benefits stemming from their zikr will remain on earth.
It (Al Qadr) is peace until the rise of dawn.
Rûhu, Djibril and their procession end up their prayers at 4 a.m. and only those who spend this Holy Night praying or performing zikr will benefit from them.
Allah (swt) has hidden many secrets within this Sacred and particular Night. We will share with you two of them. Between 12h 02 and 12h 05 midnight, the sea water becomes sweet. In addition to that, cats for instance, fast two hours the day of Al Qadr. They start from 7 a.m. up to 8 a.m. then they break their fasting. After that, they start again from 11a.m. to twelve o’clock.
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Home > HOME > Immune Pathways > Immune Pathways: ICOS
Inducible T-cell co-stimulator (ICOS), an activating receptor, promotes activation and survival of cytotoxic and memory T cells . Stimulation of ICOS may promote T-cell activation and proliferation.
Expression and normal function
ICOS is an activating receptor from the CD28 superfamily1-5
ICOS is expressed on activated cytotoxic T cells, regulatory T cells (Tregs) ,
NK cells , and other types of T cells1-5
ICOSL (B7RP-1), the ligand for ICOS, is expressed on antigen-presenting cells
(APCs) such as dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages1,2,4
While similar in structure to the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) receptor, ICOS has a distinctly opposing function: ICOS/ICOSL signaling leads to the activation, proliferation, and survival of cytotoxic T cells, as well as memory T-cell survival2,6-9
Following T-cell activation, ICOS upregulation perpetuates T-cell proliferation and function7,10
ICOS/ICOSL signaling may also enhance activated NK-cell function5
Mouse models show that ICOS expression augments the antitumor response of NK cells5
Preclinical evidence
In preclinical studies, ICOS signaling enhanced the activation, proliferation, and function of cytotoxic T cells11,12
ICOS stimulation in combination with other checkpoint inhibitors was shown to enhance T-cell activity11
REFERENCES–ICOS
1. Harada H, Salama AD, Sho M, et al. The role of the ICOS-B7h T cell costimulatory pathway in transplantation immunity. J Clin Invest. 2003;112(2):234-243. 2. Zheng J, Chan P-L, Li u Y, et al. ICOS regulates the generation and function of human CD4+ Treg in a CTLA-4 dependent manner. PLoS One. 2013;8(12):e82203. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082203. 3. Tu J-F, Ding Y-H, Ying X-H, et al. Regulatory T cells, especially ICOS+ FOXP3+ regulatory T cells, are increased in the hepatocellular carcinoma microenvironment and predict reduced survival. Sci Rep. 2016;6:35056. doi:10.1038/srep35056. 4. Greenwald RJ, Freeman GJ, Sharpe AH. The B7 family revisited. Annu Rev Immunol. 2005;23:515-548. 5. Ogasawara K, Yoshinaga SK, Lanier LL. Inducible costimulator costimulates cytotoxic activity and IFN-γ production in activated murine NK cells. J Immunol. 2002;169(7):3676-3685. 6. Burmeister Y, Lischke T, Dahler AC, et al. ICOS controls the pool size of effector-memory and regulatory T cells. J Immunol. 2008;180(2):774-782. 7. Hutloff A, Dittrich AM, Beier KC, et al. ICOS is an inducible T-cell co-stimulator structurally and functionally related to CD28. Nature. 1999;397(6716):263-266. 8. Yoshinaga SK, Whoriskey JS, Khare SD, et al. T-cell co-stimulation through B7RP-1 and ICOS. Nature. 1999;402(6763):827-832. 9. Rudd CE, Schneider H. Unifying concepts in CD28, ICOS and CTLA4 co-receptor signalling. Nat Rev Immunol. 2003;3(7):544-556. 10. Dong C, Juedes AE, Temann U-A, et al. ICOS co-stimulatory receptor is essential for T-cell activation and function. Nature. 2001;409(6816):97-101. 11. Fan X, Quezada SA, Sepulveda MA, Sharma P, Allison JP. Engagement of the ICOS pathway markedly enhances efficacy of CTLA-4 blockade in cancer immunotherapy. J Exp Med. 2014;211(4):715-725. 12. Fu T, He Q, Sharma P. The ICOS/ICOSL pathway is required for optimal antitumor responses mediated by anti–CTLA-4 therapy. Cancer Res. 2011;71(16):5445-5454.
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*****! BLOWS YOU AWAY WITH ITS BEAUTY.
— Joe Neumaier, The New York Times
A sacred space where the human and the mystical effortlessly intertwine, and we are in Werner Herzog's debt for that great gift.
— Kenneth Turan, New York Daily News
WHAT A GIFT...AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE ASTONISHING CAVE OF CHAUVET-PONT-d'ARC-AND IN 3-D TOO. IT'S A BLAST TO BE INSIDE THE CAVE.
— Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times
If you're a member of the human race - you owe it to yourself to see this movie.
— Dana Stevens, Chicago Tribune
****! WONDERFUL. SEE THIS FILM. IT TAKES YOU TO A PLACE YOU WON'T SOON FORGET.
— Michael Phillips, Slate
Presented by Sundance Selects | France | Apr 29th, 2011 | 90 MINS | UR
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, a breathtaking new 3D documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog (ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, GRIZZLY MAN) follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS is an unforgettable cinematic experience that provides a unique glimpse of pristine artwork dating back to human hands over 30,000 years ago — almost twice as old as any previous discovery.
ERIK NELSON
ADRIENNE CIUFFO
Toronto International Film Festival 2010
AFI Film Festival 2010
Opening Night Film
DOC NYC 2010
Winner - Best Nonfiction Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2011
Winner - Best Documentary
Washington Film Critics Awards 2011
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Journaline Real-Time News and Information Now Available on Total Traffic Network Plus
Press Release / 8.4.2010
Fraunhofer IIS and Total Traffic Network Partner to Deliver Text-Based News Information Using Journaline® over Digital Broadcasting Systems to U.S. Mobile Devices for the First Time Ever.
Total Traffic Network and Fraunhofer IIS, the leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems, are working together to deliver real-time news information on Total Traffic Network Plus, such as local and national weather conditions, sports scores, and news headlines, directly to mobile devices in the U.S. through a simple to navigate menu structure. The new offering is based on Journaline, the international standard for high quality data services for the transmission of text-based information over digital broadcast systems.
“As two of the most innovative products on the market today, Journaline and Total Traffic Network are the perfect match of technologies to deliver the highest quality service for traffic and enhanced information,” said Harald Popp, head of the department Multimedia Realtime Systems at Fraunhofer IIS. “Total Traffic Network is the ideal platform for news delivery, and Journaline ensures that all information is transmitted quickly, reliably and smoothly, and presented to the user in a convenient way for immediate access.”
“This is a natural extension to our offering – our users already rely on us for up-to-the-minute traffic updates and with Journaline technology, we’re able to offer them realtime news topics that they care about,” said Lance Locher, Senior Vice President, Total Traffic Network. “Journaline is a revolutionary technology and we’re confident that the millions of Total Traffic Network users will be pleased with this new addition.”
Total Traffic Network is the leading source of current traffic information for 125 metropolitan areas in four countries, supplying real-time traffic data to more than 125 million users through partnerships with automotive manufacturers like BMW, Mazda, Aston Martin, Volvo (all of whom offer subscription- free services) as well as navigation device makers ASUS, Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, Nav N Go, Mio Technology, Delphi, Kenwood, Clarion, Harmon Kardon, Panasonic, Siemens, and Cobra Electronics, among others.
“Total Traffic likes to focus on ‘standardized’ rather than ‘proprietary’ solutions,” added Jeff Littlejohn, EVP of Distribution for Clear Channel Radio “These international standards make it easier for our receiver partners to implement services in an economical and expeditious manner.”
As an open, internationally standardized data application for digital radio systems, Journaline delivers hierarchically structured textual information, enabling users to easily and immediately access topics and information they are most interested in. Users can browse all received information – both program-related and program-independent textual information – and select their favorite news items when and where they want.
Specifically designed for digital broadcast services, Journaline:
Works with virtually any broadcast platform due to its low transmission bandwidth consumption.
Supports a metadata option for high quality text-tospeech playback.
Features geo-referencing to enable the presentation of locally relevant information.
Delivers a ‚Hot Button‘ feature that allows broadcasters to trigger backchannel interactivity such as, linking to online websites, initiating phone calls or sending short text messages.
The popularity and demand for Journaline is growing. Earlier in 2010, JVC announced its JVC KD-NT3HDT in-dash receiver as the first receiver to support Journaline for in-vehicle applications. This receiver is the first of many to come with Journaline and Total Traffic Network Plus implementation. On a global scale, Journaline is featured on air by many international broadcasters today, particularly over the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting, Eureka 147) platforms. In addition, Uniwave recently launched its Di-Wave 100 DRM radio featuring a graphical color screen and Journaline capability and Analog Devices has integrated Journaline into their DAB and DRM receiver reference design platform.
Journaline and Total Traffic Network will be demonstrating this new offering at NAB 2010 in the Fraunhofer IIS Booth C1446, April 12-15. For more information about Journaline visit www.journaline.info.
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Can a Chevrolet Bolt EV Electrify on Track? We Autocross One to Find Out
Evan Williams September 5, 2017
Bridgestone Potenza RE71R
Bridgestone Ecopia 422 Low Rolling Resistance
It’s 8 a.m. and I’m standing in a parking lot looking at a sea of cones and listening to a lecture about the rules for the day. It sounds like the start of a typical autocross day. Only this time, I’m not in my usual autocross car. I’m looking at something a little newer, a lot more silent, and massively more efficient. Waiting to be tossed through the cones is a fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs.
That’s right, I’m putting an electric car against the clock in one of the tightest and most unforgiving forms of motorsport. The purpose? The get event is by Chevrolet which wants to show the Bolt is more than just an economical EV. It wants to demonstrate that electric cars can be fun to drive and break past any perceived stereotype of high-tech silent blandmobiles.
“We didn’t want it to be like a golf cart,” said Darin Gesse, Bolt product manager. “We wanted to make it fun to drive.”
You might be reading this with about as much skepticism as I had when I looked at the course and the cars. But then, at the end of the talk about performance and handling, a Volkswagen Golf GTI made a delightfully dramatic roll up beside the Bolts. That earned a raised eyebrow. Does Chevrolet really think that the Bolt can hold its own against a GTI? A GTI with the Sport package? Now Chevy has my attention.
It doesn’t seem like a car with sporting potential, but let’s take a look. First, it’s small. The Bolt is only 69.5-inches wide, with a 102.4-inch wheelbase. It’s also relatively light. Despite having about 960 pounds of batteries, it weighs 3,580 pounds. Only about 460 more than the GTI. Plus that battery is just 4.0-inches off the ground, and it’s bolted to the chassis in a way that increases structural rigidity 28 percent and its in-floor positioning helps drop the center of gravity. Motor-wise, it has 200 horsepower and 266 pounds-feet of torque. Those are hot-hatch numbers. And, the direct drive with a 7:1 gear ratio for the single speeder means that you’re always in the powerband because the power is everywhere. So while it doesn’t seem like the ideal choice for anything motorsports related, it has more credentials than one might think.
At our manufacturer-spornsored autocross, Chevy has a handful of Bolt EVs waiting with two different configurations. One has the super-low rolling resistance all-season tire, and the rest have a still eco-biased summer tire. Chevrolet wants to demonstrate the extra grip and performance a summer tire can offer, and how it affects fun to drive.
How to up the fun on your hybrid or EV
Step 1: Tires. Tires make a huge difference in cornering. Maybe the most per dollar of any modification. Look at higher-performance models, as well as larger sizes.
Step 2: Springs and shocks. Stiffer springs can improve road feel and cornering grip as well as reduce understeer. Several companies, including Unplugged and Tsportline offer parts for Tesla, Toyota Racing offers kits for the Prius, and while GM doesn’t have anything for the Bolt, GM uses a catalogue of springs, meaning you might be able to find the right parts from another GM car to improve your Bolt.
Step 3: Driver Education. The cheapest modification is to tighten the nut behind the wheel: the driver. Before going overboard on modifications, consider taking high-performance driver education. It can teach you to drive your car faster.
An autocross is a course made up of cones set up in a large parking lot. The courses are set up to be technical, with lots of quick transitions and a mix of tight and sweeping corners. It’s a discipline that encourages quick turn in, firm roll stiffness, and sticky tires. Just the place for an affordable electric hatchback to show off or fall flat on its face.
My first runs are in the all-season tire Bolt, to get the feel of the course. I expected the wallowy body roll and poor turn in that have been a part of small domestic hatchbacks for decades, and maybe with a little bit of rear-axle bump-steer thrown in. But the Bolt corners surprisingly flat. Even in quick transitions, the Bolt makes the left to right crossover smoothly. The tail is firmly planted behind me, but there isn’t much understeer either, unless I really over drive the car into a turn.
Modulating the Bolt’s nose in a corner is straightforward and easy, once you get the hang of the accelerator. Unlike most cars, lifting the pedal here doesn’t result in coasting or light engine braking. It results in hard braking from the regen system. So instead of lifting, you feather the pedal. Lightly adding or taking away power. It’s smooth once you get used to it. And if you want a touch more braking power for just a moment? Grab the regen paddle and transfer weight to the nose.
I do a few more runs in the summer tire equipped Bolts. They’re using Michelin Primacy 3 tires instead of the Michelin Energy Saver all-season. The Primacy is still a low rolling resistance touring tire, not a performance tire, but it offers up more grip and better feel than the Energy. The Primacy lets me start dropping lap times.
With the Primacy tire, I can throw the car harder through the transitions on the course. Unlike the smooth inputs of track-day driving, autocross in a stock car requires sharp, deliberate, and immediate outputs – on the brakes and steering, at least. The Bolt EV lets you turn off traction and stability control -something the GTI won’t let you do – and that makes things more interesting.
I’m tossing the Bolt hard through the slalom. I can feel the rear getting loose, but just enough to help it get around the pylons better. Even when I added a touch of brakes to the equation, in an attempt to really make the Bolt oversteer, the rear end stays in place.
So far, I’m impressed by the Bolt. I expected a slow, tire squealing mess, with the mirrors dragging on the asphalt from body roll. But what I got was a quick, responsive car, with good body control. There’s still lots of tire squeal though.
Now it’s time for a run in the GTI. It’s the Sport model, which means 10 more horsepower for 220 total. It also means a limited slip differential, upgraded brakes, and Pirelli performance tires. The differences between this car and the Bolt are pretty quickly apparent. The tires have more traction, allowing me to accelerate more quickly. The suspension is tuned for much quicker turn-in, which means I can turn later, accelerating or braking longer. The tail is also much happier to rotate. I can swing it around the cones, letting me slow down less. The limited-slip differential means I can put down more power earlier in the turn. So the GTI is sounding faster and more fun, right?
It’s not all sunshine and lap times from the GTI. It dropped low in the RPM range every time I slowed for a corner. Downshifting would help get back in the power band, but shifting takes more time than it saves. So you’re stuck out of boost and out of the fun. And while it had much sharper turn-in, that’s largely due to a more aggressive alignment. Add some toe to the Bolt, and it would get some of that knife-edge turn in. The GTI had more grip in the corners, but it also had tires picked for grip, not range.
Was the Bolt EV more fun? Not quite. But it wasn’t a fair fight. The Bolt and GTI aren’t in the same weight class when it comes to performance. It was close, though. Really close. A few hundred dollars worth of changes to the Bolt makes the difference close. The Bolt was more fun to autocross than my own car, a 1997 BMW 328iS with thousands in modifications to make it handle better. I think that fun would translate to the road. Body control and good damping don’t get worse when you move to the street.
The GTI was faster, but by much less than you’d think. I was 0.63-seconds faster in the GTI than the Bolt on a 40-second course. Give me five minutes with a tire pump, and most of that would have disappeared. Swap the tires, and I believe the Bolt would have run away with the clock. And five of the seven of us in my drive group were actually quicker in the Bolt. The all-season equipped Bolt was 1.8 seconds slower. It was more difficult to drive fast, and slower around corners. That’s the difference tires make.
Electric vehicles are the future of cars. As an enthusiast, I’m OK with that. As long as those electric cars are fun to drive. Sure Tesla offers supercar-like acceleration from the Model S, but it’s an expensive car. What I want is for cheap electrics to be fun – the way cheap gas-powered compacts are fun. The Bolt EV delivers on that. It’ll get you to work on Friday, but can play in the cones – or on a back road – on Saturday morning. It handles much better than I expected, and it’s loads of fun to toss around. Maybe next time, Chevrolet will let us take it on a road course.
Chevrolet brought in a pro driver, Corvette Racing driver Tommy Milner, to offer tips and show us how driving quickly was done. I asked him how he felt about hard driving in a Bolt. He admitted, after some prodding, that he too had been dubious of the Bolt EV’s sporting potential. But after spending the morning throwing one around he was convinced. This is a fun car.
I was worried about the lack of engine noise lessening the experience. When I was actually driving, I didn’t even notice it was missing. And with about 10 people running the three Bolts for several hours, the range gauges were all still well over half way. Impressive. I lapped the Bolt EV until I got tired from the exertion. But I wanted to keep driving. And that’s what fun to drive is all about.
Tires: High Performance or Low Rolling Resitance?
“What would happen if you put real performance tires on an EV? How much more rolling resistance would they have, and what would that do to the range?”
It’s the question I asked a handful of tire companies before I got the chance to autocross a Chevrolet Bolt EV. The consensus was surprise at the question.
A low rolling resistance eco-friendly tire and a high-performance competition tire are about as opposite as you can get when it comes to cars. LRR tires are hard. They’re designed with not just a hard rubber tread compound, but with stiffer sidewalls. Think of the steel wheel on a locomotive.
Actually, it’s more like that train wheel than you might think. If cars didn’t have to turn or stop, that’s almost exactly what we’d get. But cars have to do those things, so there are some concessions made to allow for grip.
Performance tires are designed to be soft in the tread and sidewalls. That lets the rubber conform with and bond to more of the road surface. And, it gives more traction but increases the drag on the tire.
But just how much more drag and friction is there? If you want to corner harder, will you end up walking home looking for an extension cord?
Fortunately, the answer is not much more, and no. You won’t be walking.
I spoke with Chris Welty, a tire education specialist with Bridgestone, and a former performance driving instructor. He’s somebody who knows what enthusiastic driving is about.
Bridgestone Ecopia 422 Low Rolling Resistance.
Chris told me that compared to Bridgestone’s baseline tire, a LRR tire like the new Ecopia 422 has 36-percent less rolling resistance. It sounds like a lot, but remember that there are a lot of factors going into range. He said that the 36-percent decrease in rolling resistance would boost range about four percent.
But what about a high-performance tire like Bridgestone’s Potenza RE-71R? That tire is well known to enthusiasts as one of the grippiest autocross and lapping day tires around. But it’s one that is also a great fast street tire.
Chris said that the RE-71R has about 20-percent more rolling resistance than the company’s baseline tire. That’s about a 7-percent hit to economy or range in exchange for a massive increase in grip for cornering, braking, and acceleration. He told me that if he had an EV, it would wear the performance tire.
Bridgestone Potenza RE71R. Note – at issue is presently an exact 215/50-17 original equipment size RE71R is not available. Your options are to look for another performance tire or consider either a wider/shorter tire like the 225/45 or 235/45 or a plus one like the 215/45-18 with a second set of wheels. Squeezing a 215/45-17 on the stock wheel would change the speed and odo adjustment a bit, and is not recommended, though racers have done such things before, even with a second set of wheels so as not to adversely affect daily metrics. Before deciding, we recommend seeking advice from a qualified tire seller to explore options.
And about that 7 percent? Chris suggested that moving from a high-quality LRR tire to an off-brand cheap tire would have a bigger impact with none of the grip. Up to a 15 percent hit to range and mileage. This was an effect I noticed in my own car when changing to a cheap tire.
Now that I’ve driven the Bolt, I would make the same choice as Chris. Extra grip in exchange for around a 20-mile range reduction? That’s the enthusiast’s choice. But if you want something that’s just a little more fun, there is a broad range of tire classes. If the extreme performance category is too sticky and too short-lived for you, there are still several classes of tire between eco and track-ready.
Other automakers seem to feel the same way about performance versus all-out range. The Tesla Model S wears Continental ExtremeContact tires on 21-inch wheels. BMW’s i8 hybrid supercar and 330e both use Bridgestone S001. That tire is also used by Porsche, Aston Martin, and Mercedes-Benz. Those are performance cars, and buyers are expecting a certain level of performance. Vehicles with electric performance deserve rubber that electrifies. Even better, the choice between max-range and max-grip is up to you.
Posted in Chevrolet, Reviews
Tagged as autocross, bolt, Chevrolet, EV, Homepage Featured, low rolling resistance, tires
Matt Posky June 10, 2019
GM’s First Self-Driving Car May Keep Manual Controls
Looks like steering wheels and pedals will stick around....
Sebastien Bell May 28, 2019
GM Partners with Constructor of Hoover Dam to Build EV Charging Stations
They're using OnStar to get info on where people charge....
No timeline has been shared yet....
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Flight Plan Equipment codes for Dummies
IAOPA Europe Enews Archive
GA Magazine Archive
Airports & Fuel
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IAOPA-Europe e-news, August 2009
Welcome to the e-news of IAOPA-Europe, which goes out to 23,000 aircraft owners and pilots in 27 countries across the continent
SESAR: IAOPA speaks for GA
IAOPA has been selected to represent general aviation during the next phase of the SESAR programme, which aims to put in place an efficient air traffic control system for Europe.
Because of the cost of being involved with the ‘Joint Undertaking’ which is working on SESAR there was some doubt as to whether IAOPA could afford to buy a place at the table for the second round of the work programme. The risk is that if the debate is left solely to rulemakers, airlines, ANSPs and major manufacturers, GA’s future access to airspace and airfields may be restricted. IAOPA was fully involved in the first round of SESAR, the definition phase, after pledging a €400,000 bond, and as a result it was able to fight for GA’s rights. IAOPA-Europe has once again found it possible to underwrite its involvement in the development phase, which starts work on September 7th, and has been notified by Patrick Ky, executive director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, that it’s bid to provide user expertise to the SJU.
Dr Michael Erb, managing director of AOPA-Germany, who managed IAOPA’s involvement in the definition phase, says that while not everything that’s coming out of SESAR will please the GA community, the situation would have been much worse had IAOPA not been directly involved in the deliberations.
SESAR is part of the Single European Sky programme, which is designing an all-new ATC system for modern aviation and capable of far greater efficiency.
EASA OPS NPA is critically flawed
Consultation on EASA’s OPS-NPA closed on the last day of July, and IAOPA has made almost 50 critical observations on the proposals.
The response document has been collated by Jacob Pedersen of AOPA-Denmark, who sat on the OPS.001 Working Group which supposedly wrote the document. Jacob has often pointed out that despite this, new proposals kept creeping in of which OPS.001 had no knowledge.
Among the most important responses is the fact that the document is so badly written that it is almost impossible to follow. To find the answer on a single regulation, the pilot of a non-commercial complex aircraft must look up nine different places in the document. The document is written to satisfy lawyers, not to explain the rules, and EASA’s online tool is no substitute for clear regulation.
In addition, regulations should always be proportional, and those which require one-man operators of small aircraft to hire consultants to audit their operations should be abandoned.
Regulations which would require non-commercial operators to carry greater fuel reserves than commercial flights should also be revisited. Other fundamental problems IAOPA has highlighted include the requirement to carry oxygen above 10,000 feet, which would force pilots in the mountains to fly dangerously low in areas where they have operated safely for years; the proposals that VFR aircraft should carry certain equipment and conform to restricted minima when there is no demonstrated safety gain; the new regulations’ repudiation of the concept of ‘VFR on top’ would be a dangerous retrograde step; accelerate-stop distances as set out in the proposals are meaningless for single-engine aircraft for which the concept of a ‘V1’ speed is meaningless; PLBs should be an acceptable alternative to ELTs; and the proposal that helicopters should be forbidden from flying beyond autorotational distance from land without having floats fitted is nonsense in the absence of any safety case for it.
The full list of IAOPA observations on the OPS NPA can be read on the IAOPA-Europe website at www.iaopa.eu
Lebanese GA discriminated against in Cyprus
Aviation authorities in Cyprus are operating an illegal and discriminatory ban on general aviation aircraft from Lebanon, and AOPA representatives in half a dozen countries are working to try to resolve the situation.
Hadi Azhari, chairman of AOPA Lebanon, operates Cessna Citation Mustang jets on an AOC, but has been refused permission for the aircraft to land in Cyprus. The bizarre reason given is that the aircraft are under five tonnes, and are therefore banned from Cyprus. Ioannis Papaiacovou of AOPA Cyprus approached the Cypriot authorities for an explanation and was told that no aircraft under 5,700 kg coming from Lebanon would be authorised because of a request made by the Americans after 9/11.
Ioannis says: “That was eight years ago – America forgot about it, but Cyprus continues to impose restrictions. We have told them that this is nonsense, but they say if Lebanon sends a bigger jet, they will accept it.”
Hadi Azhari says: “Cyprus must wake up to the existence of business jets. They save money and help the environment – there is no need to send a bigger jet if we have only one passenger on board! Where is the logic in this?’
The ban would certainly appear to be illegal under international law. Cyprus airport is listed in the ICAO regional plan and as such is a public airport, open to everyone. For security reasons, a country can ban traffic from certain countries, but this has to cover all traffic from that country, not just GA or certain smaller aircraft, and it must be time-limited and properly promulgated in Notams.
Through John Sheehan, general secretary of IAOPA, an approach is being made to ICAO in Montreal to get the Cypriots to respect the law and lift the ban.
*Stop Press: In the face of IAOPA’s pressure Cyprus has relented and will allow private jets to land, but IAOPA will continue to pressure the authorities to accept piston-engined aircraft from Lebanon – there should be no discrimination by type.
More, cheaper avgas in Greece
Hellenic CAA has announced a radical change in the refuelling situation in Greece which will further help to boost general aviation in Greece.
Under old legislation, all general aviation refueling in Greece was by law restricted to big international oil companies like BP and Shell for ‘safety reasons’. Since demand for such fuel was very low, the big companies operated only a handful of refuelling stations – only eight out of 42 Greek airports provided refuelling capabilities, and that was restricted to avgas 100LL; no mogas was available.
Recognising that the refuelling situation was a major obstacle to the development of GA, the new HCAA leadership has taken bold steps to attack the problem. Under new legislation it is now legal for all GA organisations like flying schools and aero clubs to open and operate their own refuelling facilities. Yiouli Kalafati of AOPA-Hellas says that these new new stations will be able to offer both mogas and avgas at much cheaper prices. “As soon as the new legislation was published, more than 10 GA operators declared their decision to built their own refueling stations and start operations before the end of 2009,” she said. “It is anticipated that almost all Greek airports will have GA refuelling capabilities before the end of 2010. Thus, we hope, GA in Greece will take another leap forward.”
En-route charging back on the agenda?
Is the exemption for sub-two tonne aircraft from en-route navigation charges again under threat? At a meeting of the EC’s Industry Consultation Body, IAOPA-Europe senior vice president Martin Robinson asked about the timescale for amending the current charging regulation. The European Commission representative responded by saying that due to the amendments contained in the Single European Sky II package, redrafting would be necessary.
Martin Robinson says: “I expressed concern in respect of how the existing exemptions to aircraft under two tonnes would be applied to the proposed Functional Airspace Blocks, but the Commission made no comment. However, at a meeting last week when I again sought clarification, the Commission said they expect to have a rough draft of the changes available by the end of 2009. “The Commission also made it very clear that they see the future charging regulation as the backbone to the performance of the system. However, the SES II package has not yet been formally adopted as it needs to be translated in to all the European languages.
“Interestingly, but not surprisingly, Eurocontrol has applied for the role of monitoring the system’s performance. Eurocontrol also has a mandate to review the rules of the air and to present its findings within ten months of receiving the mandate.
“The Commission spoke about the need to contain ATM costs as it has been reported that due to the downturn in commercial traffic, some ANSPs have been increasing charges to those airlines still operating.
“Next in line for the Presidency of Europe is Sweden, who have given advance notice of their intention to focus on aviation environmental issues…”
Disharmony on ELTs
AOPA-Germany is seeking agreement from aviation authorities to leave decisions on how to apply ICAO’s recommendations on ELTs to EASA. As things stand, the authorities in France, the Netherlands, Britain and Germany interpret ICAO’s requirements on ELTs entirely differently. Germany mandates aviation-certified 406 mHz ELTs for all aircraft, Holland requires fixed, portable or manually-activated ELTs or PLBs – personal locator beacons – for international flights, while the French demand either 406 mHz ELTs or PLBs in all aircraft in French airspace. Britain has exempted general aviation aircraft from carrying fixed ELTs. Other European states are leaving the matter to EASA, which hopes to find a Europe-wide solution by 2012.
Dr Michael Erb, managing director of AOPA-Germany, says: “Unfortunately the German Ministry of Transport has stressed to us that it does not want to move away from its ELT regulations, whatever EASA may decide. They have, however, confirmed that portable aviation-certified 406 mHz ELTs are acceptable, and only aircraft certified after October 1st 2009 are required to have fixed ELTs. Having a portable ELT means it is not necessary to obtain an EASA ‘minor modification’ approval, which clearly reduces costs. Portable solutions cost well under €1,000.
“The situation is confusing and unacceptable. AOPA is asking all authorities to make no rulings on ELTs until EASA has had a chance to create a Europe-wide solution.”
EASA: ‘We’ll listen to GA…’
EASA’s executive director Patrick Goudou has announced that ‘dedicated focal points’ for general aviation are being established at EASA, with Matthias Borgmeier nominated as the contact man for what Mr Goudou calls ‘non-commercial GA’ and Willy Sigl the man to talk to for ‘commercial, business and other GA’.
Mr Goudou says: “The purpose of my decision is to further enable stakeholders’ involvement in the development of the Agency’s policies for general and business aviation.”
Both men work in the Rulemaking Directorate, which has been criticised for paying lip service to the idea of consultation with industry, but not really acting on industry’s concerns.
Raid on Reggio
AOPA-Malta is small but active. Last month it organised a flight out to Reggio Calabria in Italy for its members. The flight consisted of five Maltese aircraft, a Diamond DA40, a Diamond DVB20, a Cessna 172, an Aero Commander 112 and a Beech Baron, all flown by Maltese crews. Northern Europeans might be interested to know that the weather was CAVOK as usual at this time of year. Dr. Ivan X Gatt, president of AOPA-Malta, was responsible for the trip’s logistics and has promised similarly planned flyouts in the coming month. The stated reason for the trip was to improve navigational skills, but Dr Gatt points out that improving the brotherhood of pilots is equally important. “Special thanks go to MIA for organising our flawless land-based transport, MATS ATC for their unfailing patience, and the airport officials at Reggio Calabria,” he says. Malta itself is well worth a flying visit at any time of years, and AOPA-Malta will be pleased to provide information to GA pilots.
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Iberian lynx in Central Spain – new relict populations?
A study published by researchers from CSIC this month in Animal Conservation (Looking for the Iberian lynx in central Spain: a needle in a haystack?) examines the possible relict populations of Iberian lynx outside the two known populations of lynx in the Sierra Morena and Doñana. To determine the current distribution of Iberian lynx outside the two recognized populations, the team surveyed five different areas between 2004 and 2007 where the species is considered extinct and collected 581 faeces for the genetic identification of the species. They identified 18 samples as belonging to Iberian lynx in four out of the five areas studied (including the area , providing clear evidence for the presence of lynx in central Spain. In some areas the species was detected repeatedly at different localities and on different dates, indicating a regular occurrence of an unknown number of individuals. Crucially, five new haplotypes have been found which appear to confirm these are genetically distinct animals from new populations and not dispersed animals.
These areas were studied. Lynx scats were found in the first four
Sierra del Relumbrar
Western Sierra Morena
Río Guadalmez (Ciudad Real), where lynxes were recorded last year and where it appears there is a population of 12-18 individuals. See Lynx in Castilla-La Mancha (from Lynx brief)
Sierra de Gata. No signs found despite numerous attempts.
As biologist Fernando Alda points out the data proves that they are at least “out there” and that even though they are in very small number they could provide valuable genetic variability to the two main populations of Doñana and Andújar. He also believes they should also be considered as areas for reintroduction.
I haven’t seen the full article on which this story is based though I am sure that more details will come out. My doubt was, as with the River Guadalmez lynxes, whether we are talking about relict populations or a individuals which have dispersed from the Sierra Morena stronghold of Andújar-Cardoña. But the five new haplotypes appear to confirm these are genetically distinct animals which would provide a valuable increase in genetic variability for the lynx.
See also El Público
Photo above from ex situ Iberian lynx conservation programme. Here
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Spanish imperial eagle webcam
Here’s another great live webcam, this time on a Spanish imperial eagle’s nest in Cabañeros National Park (Ciudad Real). At the moment of posting this the chick is less one month old. The aim is to raise awareness of the importance of the conservation of the Spanish imperial eagle.
Spain currently has 234 pairs of imperial eagles, 34 more than in 2006, of which 73 are found in Castilla-La Mancha. The bird’s principal threats are poison and power lines; between 1990 and 2007 at least 95 birds were poisoned and a further 130 were electrocuted. The lack of rabbits is also a problem. More information from aguilaimperial.org
See also Bonelli’s eagle webcam in El Garraf
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Uber to create 3,000 new jobs with Dallas hub Tuesday 27-Aug-2019
Uber Technologies will invest $75 million to establish a new US General and Administrative Hub that will house various corporate functions in Dallas, Texas.
The company will hire at least 3,000 employees paying an avergae annual wage of $100,000 in Deep Ellum and it plans to turn Dallas into its largest hub outside of its San Francisco headquarters. It would initially open the office in an existing tower at The Epic, an 8-acre mixed-use development, and later move into a 450,000 sq ft space in another tower that would go up there.
Uber has been awarded a $24 million grant through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) incentive program. The company has also been approved $746,000 in tax abatements over a five-year period and an $8.6 million grant from the Dallas City Council. Dallas County Commissioners also approved government incentives worth $2.6 million in the form of tax abatements over a 10-year period.
“Dallas became the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012, and since then Texas has been a hub of innovation for our platform,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber. “Uber is excited to bring this major investment to Texas and to increase our commitment to the City of Dallas. We are grateful for our partnership with Governor Abbott, Mayor Johnson and Judge Jenkins and their leadership in making this a reality.”
“I am proud to welcome Uber’s investment in the great state of Texas, along with the 3,000 jobs the company will bring to its new Dallas office,” said Governor Abbott. “This investment will bolster Texas’ continued economic success and reputation as the best state for business. Our unrivaled workforce and business-friendly environment makes Texas the perfect home for innovative companies like Uber.”
“Uber’s selection of Dallas County spotlights our position as a premier talent market for companies looking to expand. This move will create a $400 million annual payroll in Deep Ellum that will provide a huge boost to our urban core with a positive wave that will spread across our entire county and region,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins.
Uber Technologies is an American multinational transportation network company (TNC) offering services that include peer-to-peer ridesharing, ride service hailing, food delivery and a bicycle-sharing system. The company is based in San Francisco, California and has operations in over 785 metropolitan areas worldwide.
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Movie review: Keener fights to save her ‘Little Pink House’
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In 1997, the seaside Connecticut city of New London was limp, unable to get its employment levels up. So who better to rectify that impotency than Pfizer Pharmaceutical and its new magic pill, Viagra? Spurred on by soon-to-be-jailed Gov. John Rowland, the makers of the “little blue pill” opted to relocate its factory and headquarters to the city’s Fort Trumbull area, provided the company receive huge tax breaks (paying 20 cents on the dollar) and an option to redevelop the abutting blue-collar neighborhood by erecting high-priced condos and a luxury hotel. One problem: The po’ folks whose homes were in the way, didn’t wanna sell.
That’s the set-up for writer-director Courtney Moorehead Balaker’s crowd-pleasing, anger-inducing “Little Pink House,” a fact-based story of government bullying that makes you want to turn all politicians into piñatas. No room for evenhandedness here; nor should there be. What Rowland (Aaron Douglas) and his cronies at the New London Development Corporation did to vox populi crusader Susette Kelo (perfectly cast Catherine Keener) and her Fort Trumbull neighbors was reprehensible; an act so egregious 43 states have since passed laws to prohibit the eminent domain shenanigans Pfizer and its political abettors pulled along the river Thames.
You wouldn’t think the last clause of the Fifth Amendment would make a compelling foundation for a movie, but here it does, largely because President Donald Trump is one of the law’s staunchest supporters, as are all developers sharing the belief that the moneyed hold sway over the indigent when it comes to getting what they want. Your casa is their casa, if they so deem. And they have an infamous 2005 Supreme Court ruling to back them up. But I get ahead of myself.
Let’s get back to the beginning. It’s 1997, and Kelo — an EMT studying to be a nurse — is walking out on her drunken, louse of a spouse to make it on her own. She finds solace in the form of a shabby shack on the banks of the Thames. She buys it, refurbishes it and paints it an inviting shade of pink. The only thing that could add to her bliss is a hunky antiques dealer in the form of Callum Keith Rennie’s Tim. But just as he’s about to convince the recent divorcee to give love another chance, a perky, unctuous realtor knocks on her door offering $68,000 for her abode. Susette says no thanks. And a fight that will extend all the way to our most hallowed halls of justice is under way.
In the government’s corner is Kellyanne Conway-clone Charlotte Wells (a terrific Jeanne Tripplehorn), the governor’s pick to lead the NLDC. She has the smile of a Cheshire cat and the claws of a rampaging tiger. She’s so alpha, even the governor quakes in her presence. On the opposite side of the ring stand the equally stubborn Kelo and her pro bono attorneys from the non-profit Institute for Justice, led by a methodical and pragmatic Scott Bullock (Giacomo Baessato), ESQ.
Cue the predictable scenes of volatile town hall meetings, oodles of condescension and a wide array of emotional setbacks and triumphs. The film also bares its fair share of sentimentality and pathos. Think of it as a Lifetime production. In fact, the entire movie has the feel of a social-cause-of-the-week TV offering. What holds it together is Keener’s soulful performance. She is sensational in full glam-down mode. But it’s more than just makeup she sheds; so too is any hint of pretension or sanctity. Her Susette is so real, so normal you never think of it as acting. She’s not trying to win your sympathy; she’s trying to raise your ire. And, boy, does she.
You get so riled up, you want desperately to lash out and scream, “Vote them out!,” a feeling that only gains intensity when you reach the story’s head-slapping finale. It’s powerful, and if you’re wise, you’ll avoid knowing beforehand how Susette’s lawsuit played out. Still, you wish Balaker had been more concerned about creating drama and conflict than staying faithful to Jeff Benedict’s 2009 book, “Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage.” Sure, she largely sticks to the facts, making alterations only when legalities demand. But the result is too often inert, allowing her film to get lost in the details.
Ultimately, Balaker leaves us plenty to think about, like what’s more important: Creating jobs or saving people’s homes from being taken against the owner’s will? And more importantly, should corporations be included in a constitutional amendment that limits eminent domain to projects serving the public good, like roads, hospitals and parks? Do new jobs meet that criterion? The answers Balaker proffers are not as black and white as you’d expect. The movie may be about the fate of a pink house, but what you’re left with is a startling amount of gray.
“Little Pink House”
Cast includes Catherine Keener, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Aaron Douglas, Colin Cunningham and Callum Keith Rennie.
(Not rated.)
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KVASU invites applications for affiliation from recognised Colleges
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KVASU invites applications for affiliation from recognised Colleges/Educational Institutions
Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) started at Pookode, Wayanad with effect from 14th June 2010 as per the 3/2011 Act of Government of Kerala. University started functioning with the objective of becoming one of the National level Universities in the areas of Veterinary Science, Dairy Science, Management and allied biological sciences. University had received Rs 200 Crore funding from Government of India and Government of Kerala for developing infrastructure facilities and augmenting research activities. University has two campuses; one at Pookode and the other at Mannuthy with two colleges of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and one college of Dairy Science and Technology offering UG, PG and doctoral programmes with 45 Departments, five interdisciplinary schools and centres of research each.
KVASU invites applications for affiliation of new colleges/ introduction of new courses of study and seats for admission in recognized arts and science colleges, engineering colleges, medical and paramedical colleges /educational institutions in the state for the year 2014 in the prescribed form along with No Objection Certificate from affiliated University and application fee. Filled in application should reach the Office of the Registrar, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode, Lakkidi (Po), Wayanad 673576 on or before 20th May 2013. Please find the regulations and annexure as attachment.
For more details, visit: www.kvasu.ac.in
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Home Featured Juul Labs shipped one million contaminated pods, says ex-Juul executive
Juul Labs shipped one million contaminated pods, says ex-Juul executive
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Anna Domanska , October 30, 2019 / 1897 0
A former senior vice president of global finance at Juul Labs is alleging in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the San Francisco-based company sent to the market “approximately one million mint-flavored e-cigarette nicotine pods that it admits were contaminated.”
According to the lawsuit, Breja claims that he discovered during an executive meeting in March that some of the mint e-liquid was used to refill 250,000 kits, or a total of one million pods, that had already been shipped to retailers and customers.
The lawsuit, filed by Dhillon Law in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Siddharth Breja, alleges that Juul ignored his protests to issue a product recall for the contaminated Juul pods, “or at a minimum, issue a public health and safety notice to consumers.”
Tim Danaher, Juul Labs’ then CFO, told Breja he should remember his loyalty to the company after he continued to raise concerns in March that the company was violating the law and it would hurt its then-$38 billion valuation. About a week later, Breja was fired for misrepresenting himself as former chief financial officer at Uber. Breja says the claim was preposterous, and that he had accurately represented his former position as a CFO at Uber.
Breja claims that Juul Labs wanted to sell pods that were almost a year old, and when he urged fellow executives to add an expiration or best buy date, he was told by former CEO Kevin Burns that “half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the f--k is going to notice?"
The suit says Kevin Burns ruled the company in a “dictatorial manner and fostered a culture of silence.”
Management Shakeups at Juul Labs
News of the lawsuit comes the same day as Juul announces it plans to cut 500 jobs, or about 10% to 15% of its total headcount, and the departure of Tim Danaher.
The company also announced three more departures. Among them is Craig Brommers, chief marketing officer, David Foster, senior vice president of advanced technology, and Ashley Gould, chief administrative officer.
Juul Labs is currently facing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in regard to how the company’s vaping device became so popular with underage teens.
The Trump administration plans to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from the market amid a surge in teenage vaping and vaping deaths.
Juul Labs is also being investigated by state and local enforcement officials, with ongoing inquiries being conducted by Attorneys General in Illinois, District of Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Here are the vape products most seen in outbreak cases
by Mike Stobbe, Associated Press, Updated: December 6, 2019
A woman exhales while using a vaping device.
Tony Dejak / AP
NEW YORK — Health officials investigating a nationwide outbreak of vaping illnesses have listed, for the first time, the vape brands that are most commonly linked to hospitalizations.
Most of the nearly 2,300 people who suffered lung damage were vaping liquids that contain THC, the high-inducing part of marijuana.
In a report released Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the products most often cited by patients, noting that some of them said they vaped more than one.
Dank Vapes was the brand used by 56% of the hospitalized patients nationwide.
Dank is not a licensed product coming from one business, it is empty packaging that can be ordered from Chinese internet sites. Illicit vaping cartridge makers can buy the empty packages and then fill them with whatever they choose.
Other product names at the top of the list from CDC were TKO (15%), Smart Cart (13%), and Rove (12%).
Some of the brands cited by the CDC are sold in states with legalized marijuana. But counterfeits of those legitimate brands have flooded the market around the country, forcing some to redesign their packaging.
The CDC also said Friday that the worst of the outbreak may be over. Hospitalizations peaked in mid-September and have been steadily declining since then, officials said.
But cases are still coming in, with 2,291 reported this year — including 176 that joined the tally in late November. Every state has reported cases, and 25 states and the District of Columbia have reported a total of 48 deaths.
Symptoms include trouble breathing, chest pain, fatigue and vomiting. Imaging tests show lung injuries and doctors can't find infections or other causes. About half the patients are people in their teens or early 20s.
The outbreak appears to have started in March. CDC officials have gradually come to focus their investigation on black-market THC cartridges.
An analysis of about 1,800 of the hospitalized patients found about 80% said they used at least one THC product. Last month, CDC officials said they had narrowed in on a culprit — a chemical compound called vitamin E acetate that has been commonly found in the lungs of sick patients as well as in the products that they vaped.
The agency is recommending that people do not use any e-cigarettes or vaping products that contain THC, especially those obtained from friends, family members or black market dealers.
However, 13% of patients said they vaped only nicotine, and CDC officials are continuing to look at nicotine-containing vapes, too.
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A Tale of Three Churches
December 13, 2019 Nahma Nadich
The 2018 JCRC Christian Clergy Israel Study Tour
This Friday, a message from Deputy Director Nahma Nadich.
Almost every Saturday, you can find me in synagogue, where I celebrate Shabbat with my community, joining in the sweet song of Jewish prayer and the joyful study of Torah. But on three recent Sundays, I found myself in other houses of worship, outside of the tradition in which I’ve spent my life. Given the starkly different surroundings and the unfamiliar observance, I might have expected to feel out of place or perhaps even uncomfortable. So, it was a bit confusing for this Jewish girl to feel so at home in Baptist, AME (African Methodist Episcopal) and Episcopal churches, where I was greeted warmly with hugs from friends, old and new. In each church, though the ritual and religious language were not mine, I felt deeply connected to friends and partners inspired by their own faith traditions to realize our collective dreams for our community.
Each of these connections was forged on our last JCRC Christian Clergy Israel Study Tour, at each other’s sacred sites; gazing over the Sea of Galilee, walking the streets of Nazareth and Bethlehem, marveling at the throngs of praying Jews at the Kotel, experiencing the wonder of this Holy Land through the lens of the other. We wept together at Yad Vashem and were buoyed by the hope embodied in the work of Israelis and Palestinians working together toward a better future for all. And throughout, our affection and admiration for each other grew, as did our shared commitment to build a society back in Boston reflecting the values of our disparate faith traditions: freedom, equality and justice.
So why all the church visits?
The first opportunity came late last summer when Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz called with an unusual request; could I recommend a minister who could address the Temple Emanuel community during the break in their Yom Kippur service? They were hoping that an inspirational speaker might counteract their weariness and revive their flagging spirits during a long fast day. I connected them with Rev. Jeremy Battle, who had left an enduring impression on me during our trip. Reverend Battle did not disappoint. Not only did he deliver rousing remarks that day, but he developed a bond with the Temple Emanuel clergy and congregation in the process. That visit led to an immediate plan for a larger interfaith gathering in Cambridge, when the Temple Emanuel community was invited to join with Rev. Battle and his congregation (Western Avenue Baptist Church) along with another minister from our trip, Rev. Lorraine Thornhill, and her congregation, Kingdom Empowerment Center.
With the full participation of the three congregations, their clergy, and choirs, the gathering had to be held in a larger space – the MLK School in Cambridge. The ministers shared their reflections of their time in Israel, with Rev. Thornhill attesting to the enduring impact of her Shabbat experience in Jerusalem on her own Sabbath observance back home. This time, it was Rabbi Gardenswarz who stirred the crowd with his sermon, and the choirs joined in jubilant song. In a region and country too often marked by divisiveness and rancor, we were people of God— proudly celebrating the richness of our distinct traditions, and our common humanity. You can watch a video of the interfaith gathering here.
Speaking at the interfaith gathering in Cambridge
The next week I was invited by another Israel trip alum, Reverend Greg Groover, to join in the celebration of his and his wife Rev. Barbara Groover’s 25th anniversary celebration at their church, Charles St. AME. Rev. Groover, who serves as mentor to countless area clergy, will be co-chairing this summer’s JCRC trip to Israel. The celebration of their leadership was as moving as I knew it would be, with tributes from Mayor Walsh, Attorney General Healey, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and BPS Superintendent Brenda Casselius. Rev. Groover’s extraordinary accomplishments as Chair of the Boston School Committee resonated deeply with JCRC’s 20+ year commitment to the schools through our literacy program.
Reverend Greg Groover and Rev. Barbara Groover’s 25th anniversary celebration at their church, Charles St. AME
On the JCRC Israel Study Tour with Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw
And just this past Sunday, I was in yet another church, St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Newton Highlands, for a farewell service and celebration of Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw. Though she too was on our trip, we actually met the previous year, at a meeting of faith communities called to address the crisis facing local immigrants. This visionary minister took an immediate leap of faith at that meeting, committing her church to be a sanctuary for people targeted for deportation. A cluster was formed to support the work, and I was privileged to participate through my own Newton congregation, doing regular overnight shifts. The sanctuary was sustained through Rev. Grimshaw’s leadership and a robust and tight-knit network of Jews and Christians who JCRC helped to organize. We turned out that day in full force, to honor our clergy leader, marveling at the magnificent liturgy she created and sharing our words of Torah in the celebration afterward.
The Talmud describes Shabbat as containing a foretaste of the world to come. On a different Sabbath – on three Sundays and in three churches, I got a glimpse of that world. Through foreign and unfamiliar ritual, I saw the expression of shared hopes and dreams – of interfaith understanding and connection, and a common commitment to equal opportunity, freedom, and dignity for all. Informed by our respective faith traditions, we came together to build a community where there is no “other”, where all are one as God’s creations.
Wishing you a Shabbat – whenever you celebrate it – of peace, inspiration and hope.
Nahma
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Alex Motter '16, Editor-In-Chief
The first place ribbon your freshman homeroom won at Ranger Day. The homecoming garter you kept from your sophomore and junior homecoming dances. The smooth rock from your Senior Kairos retreat, symbolizing the steadfast foundation Jesuit has provided the past four years. The Letterman jacket proudly displaying all your proudest achievements on a simple blue and gold textile. These mementos and many others serve as constant reminders of the experiences shared with your fellow Jesuit brothers.
Relishing these and countless other analogous items, Jesuit’s Archives promote the discovery, collection, preservation and displaying of materials relating to the history of Jesuit. One of the areas in which the archives play a significant role is within the communications department. Mr. James Kramer helps publish press releases, complete magazines such as the Jesuit Today, and act as the school’s publicist, Jesuit’s impressive archival system helping “utilize past information so future generations can enjoy and learn from it.” Publications by Jesuit especially the Jesuit Today would not be possible without access to this extensive history, Kramer “[leveraging] archives to successfully tell a story.” Maintaining a strong connection to history preserves the virtuous actions of our school community, “documents the achievements of all of our students, and allows us to document the evolution of our programs, and the commitments of our donors.” Acknowledgment of the archives requires “perspective in order to truly value and appreciate the archives’ value and unfortunately that comes with time,” despite the magnitude of these realizations we often “don’t realize how important archives are until we need them.” Only through intentional education and outreach can support for the archival history increase. Kramer finally encourages students to “be cognizant that everything you do is becoming a part of history,” to hold onto the mementos and memorabilia which will eventually become the cornerstones of the school’s traditions and culture.
Jesuit’s President Mr. Mike Earsing emphasized the importance of each community member’s personal story: “Our lives as we get older expand and contract…looking back on the past lets your world become bigger.” A man who has witnessed many changes at Jesuit throughout the school’s history, Earsing underscored the importance of each piece of memorabilia, how each piece preserves life at Jesuit, “You won’t have another community days, you won’t have another sophomore or Junior retreat, you won’t have another chariot race, you only do each once.” The fleeting nature of these once-in-a-lifetime experiences forces students and faculty members alike to appreciate their time at this school, for “It won’t be until you have a son come back to Jesuit that you’ll be reconnected at that same level.” Yet, it’s not that Jesuit successfully remodels and re-shapes its values every year; in fact, Mr. Earsing reaffirmed “Jesuit actually hasn’t changed very much. The basics are the same…the school [only] changes to the needs of students.” For example, the implementation of iPads and newer technology have helped augment the academic learning experience for students. Likewise, the simple task of taking and developing pictures became “a long and expensive process…but as we’ve gone to electronic storage, we can keep a lot more.” Now, thousands of pictures from decades ago are able to be saved more cost effectively, expanding the Jesuit’s Archives expansive picture collection. The Archives hold a treasure trove of information about the proud history of Jesuit, and it is Jesuit’s goal to promote “the paradigm shift for the…notion of an archive,” a place of remembrance for our past’s cherished moments.
None of these outstanding accomplishments would be possible without Ms. Sheryl Row, the faculty administrator responsible for compiling and organizing the school’s entire history. Beginning her work in the archives around 2004, Ms. Row currently balances time both teaching senior level English and maintaining the archives. Rather than library or historical work, her job is more like “being a detective, you’re looking at a picture or some object and trying to get clues from it.” She not only maintains the physical records in the archives room but also moderates its online website. Combining personal experiences, digitally imported media, and an interactive timeline, the archives site brings decades of history into modernity. Row receives donations from generous alumni year round, but one artifact, in particular, stood out to her, a pair of baseball shoes from the 1940s. A senior Donald Schmidt graduated early from Jesuit to fight in WW2 and generously gave his baseball shoes to another less affluent player. Row compiled many similarly meaningful pieces to create the exhibitions throughout the counseling wing, “out of these exhibits came the idea that there were people who appreciated and noticed the archives.” However, this appreciation often takes a lengthy period of time to take full effect, the archives only truly becoming a part of an alumnus’ life during the latter half of his life. Interaction with the archives is so far detached from Jesuit’s everyday lives “it would be like asking [a current student] ‘have you written a will?’ It’s just not on your radar even though it’s out there.” The archives are absent not only emotionally but also physically from everyday life, the entrance to the archival room passed by nearly every Jesuit student daily. Ms. Row hopes future archives could showcase these pieces of history more readily, the ideal design “a larger room with a big plate glass window so people could look in on it.”
Despite the strength of our high school memories, families, college, time, and careers leave Jesuit faded in the outskirts of the alumnus’ life. No matter how hard we try, we will forget. Human nature condemns us to lose memory and the tangible attachment to our memories we once cherished. Resources like the Jesuit Archives breathe life again into these distant lives, bringing some of the happiest moments of our lives onto the center stage once again.
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Pushing Beyond Paid Proselytizers
As a brand owner and marketer, you may have grown weary thinking about or addressing your influencer strategy.
Yet we believe there’s not enough influencer buzz, and that marketing through your fans has finally reached an inflection point: relying on paid influencers is good for some, reaching free influencers may be better for all.
Influencer marketing has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Today marketers find brand fans and typically pay them or offer free product in exchange for promotion. It’s an accepted, well-known practice to pursue influencers who willingly share products or services with others in their social circles, frequently on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Embracing influencers, with reservations
It’s buzzworthy, all right. “Influencer” landed as runner-up for the most popular term cited by national advertisers, losing only to “brand purpose.” Meanwhile “influencer” also came in second place, losing to “transparency” in Research Intelligencer’s survey of marketers and advertisers.
National advertisers certainly seem committed to influencer marketing. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) reported that 75 percent of surveyed advertisers were already spending money on influencers last year, and a quarter of the rest planned to begin within a year.
Despite influencer marketing’s stronghold, some 44 percent of advertisers are neutral about its effectiveness and 19 percent believe it doesn’t work. There are marketing specialists and firms devoted to helping marketers manage influencers better, along with newer services to help filter out bad actors with fake followers.
Expanding from paid to free influencer networks
Bigger brands and organizations may have led the way by identifying, engaging, and compensating people who willingly share their products and services. Yet there’s a quieter undercurrent of businesses exploring social influencers who reflect their brands — and they aren’t motivated by payments or product rewards.
That’s where the shift in influencer buzz begins.
We all know people who enjoy sharing their interests within their online or real-life social circles. They are uncompensated influencers who share experiences and recommendations as “expert” shoppers or consumers. We’ll even call them proselytizers because they naturally advocate and attract their friends, families or colleagues.
Some circle members inevitably react or respond to proselytizers, and share what’s getting discussed with their own connections. Others may be listeners who may not chose to say (or type) a word, though actively consume and take action from what they’ve learned.
Businesses can connect with their “brand communities” by expanding their definition of influencers. Finding supporters who identify with their products or services isn’t only about the loudest influencers: it’s the participants, reactors and listeners who create the critical links as well.
Finding Communities of Interest
To understand how businesses and their influencers ultimately connect, let’s consider the ways people declare their interests.
Always Searching: People may be driven by passion, repetitive tasks or one-time needs, and google search can’t know for sure. Yet their semantic algorithms offer contextual results that feel relevant.
Declared Interests: Everyone raises his or her hands digitally to say “we’re in,” and gets joined to others like them. This happens when you sign up on shopping sites or join a social group page.
Unconscious Coupling: When you’re connected as friends, different circles form based on nodes. You’ll see differences based on how you know people and get exposed to their interests.
While it’s entirely possible to search or browse around for business brands, related reviews, discussion and questions, how people feel about the brands will dictate their decision to buy from them.
Consumers not only rely on what is getting said in their social circles, they also need to trust brands themselves — and digital discussion will take place whether the business is involved directly or not. The imperative for establishing a two-way communication and reaching people who have discovered you is what’s required in the direct-to-consumer era.
Influencer buzz isn’t overused or overplayed at all. In fact, it’ll likely continue to grow as we approach the new era in which businesses push beyond paid proselytizers. This new approach to supporters challenges our notions of how to connect with them, simply as a part of communications, marketing and good business.
Influencer Marketing is changing and going mainstream. #RealPeopleWantToHelpPromote
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New Zealand: New Zealand government releases timeline for considering initiatives to address BEPS
The New Zealand government has released two reports detailing its tax policy work regarding base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) issues. The reports were prepared several months ago by Inland Revenue and Treasury officials to update government ministers on BEPS issues and were more recently released to the public.
The OECD's work on BEPS issues has been well publicised. New Zealand has been actively involved in the OECD's BEPS work, and the New Zealand government has been considering whether changes to New Zealand's domestic laws may be necessary to address BEPS concerns in the country.
Inland Revenue and Treasury officials view New Zealand's international tax policy settings as generally robust, but have advised the New Zealand government that there are areas in which they are considering reform to New Zealand domestic law to conform to the OECD's recommendations. These areas are:
neutralising the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements; and
limiting base erosion via interest deductions.
The OECD's work in these areas is expected to be finalised by the end of 2015. Inland Revenue and Treasury officials are aiming to release public consultation papers in late 2015 (following the conclusion of the OECD's work) regarding possible domestic law reform in these areas.
Inland Revenue and Treasury officials have also identified certain issues that are not part of the OECD's BEPS action plan for consideration as part of New Zealand's response to BEPS. These include:
reviewing the taxation of foreign trusts. At present, New Zealand tax resident trustees of a trust are generally not taxed on the trust's non-New Zealand sourced income unless a New Zealand resident has made a settlement on the trust;
strengthening non-resident withholding tax (NRWT) rules as they apply to interest. Aspects of the NRWT rules to be considered will include:
timing mismatches between when interest expenditure is deductible to the payer, and when NRWT becomes payable on the interest;
who is subject to NRWT and, in particular, how New Zealand's associated persons tests apply in the context of NRWT. For example, one concern is whether related parties are able to interpose unrelated intermediaries in back-to-back arrangements to qualify for an exemption from NRWT; and
a longstanding exemption from NRWT that applies to non-residents with branches in New Zealand;
improving the quality and usefulness of tax-related disclosures via administrative measures (Compliance Measures). Possible measures include:
requiring large corporates to file their income tax returns earlier, and to disclose additional information in a standardised electronic format; and
introducing a voluntary code of practice for large corporates.
Inland Revenue and Treasury officials were due to report to government ministers before the end of 2014 regarding the rules for taxing foreign trusts. As for the other possible initiatives, Inland Revenue and Treasury have yet to reach any views regarding the need for reform, but intend to commence public consultation by the middle of 2015 on any reform proposals.
The possibility of New Zealand's response to BEPS extending beyond the matters in the OECD's action plan to include a review of the foreign trust rules, aspects of the NRWT rules and Compliance Measures is controversial, since any changes to these rules will likely affect business-as-usual arrangements, rather than being targeted at instances of double non-taxation or aggressive tax planning. Considering that New Zealand already has one of the most robust anti-avoidance measures of any country in the world, businesses will no doubt be concerned that this BEPS mission creep may needlessly result in uncertainty, or in unintended consequences, for commercial arrangements.
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Amazing Photo Manipulations by Igor Morski
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Beautiful Bodies and Faces in Photo Manipulations by Igor Morski
It’s been a long time since I`ve shared with you photo manipulation pictures last time.
Well, I have good news today we have a great collection of photo manipulation pictures by polish graphic designer, illustrator and set designer – Igor Morski.
No doubts, this incredible artist knows how to manipulate pictures.
Photo Manipulation by Igor Morski
His interests are not just art but he expands his interests in natural sciences in a broad sense, genetics, cosmology, and theoretical physics.
The center of Igor’s interest is photo manipulation but he is also focusing on mixed media graphic art, drawing and 3D.
Igor Morski has many achievements to be proud of
He graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań (now the University of Arts);
He worked with leading Polish titles including „Newsweek”, „Businessweek”, „Businessman Magazine”, „Manager Magazine”, „Focus”;
Igor has created more than 1000 illustrations;
His works have been featured in international magazines like „Prevention”, „Money”, „ITB”, „Men’s Health”, “Woman’s Health”;
He is a winner of many admiration awards including Communication Arts Excellence Award (2008, 2010) and Applied Arts Award (2010) ;
Igor is co-owner of a graphic design studio Morski Studio Graficzne in his hometown.
His art has been appreciated by Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore, Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney and Abelson Taylor among others.
Expanding his interests wider than just an Art, Igor Morski opens up for himself an incredible source of inspiration.
Some sort of the window through which the original ideas have their own way to come into his mind. Obviously, he also loves people.
Faces, heads, and bodies almost always take a special place in Igor’s photo manipulations and artworks.
Probably that is why it is so enthralling to catch up in his artworks incredible conjunction of faces and bodies with nature as well as the union of science with the wild dreams.
The Heads full of birds or flowers; bodies filled in with the green nature; wings, butterflies and so much more.
Everything he likes we can see reflecting in his amazing artworks.
Great techniques combined with his unique semblance and that what we all have to see!
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More than a way of getting from A to B, the Trans-Siberian Railway is an icon of engineering. It’s an epic journey through Siberian Russia and a great way to meet locals.
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Capital city: Moscow (population approximately 12 million)
Approximately 145 million
Currency: Russian Ruble (RUB)
Time zone: (GMT+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd
Electricity: Type C (European 2-pin) Type F (German 2-pin, side clip earth)
Calling code: +7
Russia may be one country but it’s the sum of its varied parts. You’ll find the European parts of Russia, like St Petersburg and Moscow, quite fast-paced and cosmopolitan compared to Siberian towns like Lake Baikal. Then there’s the far north and Arctic towns like Murmansk that have an entirely different way of life again.
The most widely practised religion is Russian Orthodox Christianity, with about 40 per cent of Russians identifying themselves as adherents of the sect. There is also a significant population of Muslims and about a quarter of the population identify as non-religious. Around Lake Baikal there is a fairly large population of Old Believers – Christians who practise an older form of Orthodox Christianity and more traditional way of life.
Russians may have a reputation for being frosty but most locals across this vast land value camaraderie and hospitality. Smiles aren’t necessarily doled out just to make strangers feel more comfortable, but no matter where you are, if you’re polite and curious you can expect to be embraced by Russians (though maybe not in the physical sense). An invitation to dinner will undoubtedly end in the host showering you with copious amounts of food and drink (yes, we’re talking about vodka).
Fiercely proud of (and vocal about) their contributions to the arts and sciences (brush up on your Tolstoy and Chekov before your visit), Russians don’t take kindly to negative stereotypes and generalisations about their country. Go with an open mind and you’ll find Russians ready and willing to share their hospitality, traditions and love for their country with you.
There isn’t a lot of concrete information available on the early humans who lived on the land now known as Russia. However, rudimentary tools unearthed in the North Caucasus region (near Georgia and Azerbaijan) suggest that the greater region has been occupied (not necessarily continuously) for around 1.5 million years.
The Mongols vs The Princes
Legend says the Viking ruler of Novgorod, Oleg, conquered Kiev in the ninth century and used its strategic position to form the Slavic state of Rus’ – a collection of various noble families that coordinated trade but ruled each of their territories independently. The 13th century saw all Rus’ territories ceded to the Mongols, but the royals were often allowed to continue governing their territories as long as they paid lavish tribute to their Mongol superiors. The princes of Rus’ bided their time, buttering up their rulers by crushing peasant uprisings, and in the 15th century the nobility of Rus’, led by Ivan the Great, began to take back territory from the Mongols by force.
Tsars time
Ivan the Terrible crowned himself the first ‘Tsar of all the Russians’ in 1547. His legacy includes the beginning of the exploration and colonisation of Siberia and the unification of Russia under a nationalist autocrat. Michael Romanov assumed the position of Tsar of Russia in 1613, which began the approximately 300-year reign of the Romanov family, during which Russia conquered territory in Belarus, Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Kazakhstan and more.
In 1917, widespread strikes and protests broke out across the country, motivated by a desire for better working conditions, better pay and a fairer society. As a result of this uprising, the last of the Romanovs in Russia (many royals and their supporters had at this point already fled the country) were first placed under house arrest and then executed in 1918.
The series of uprisings in 1917 led to a years-long period of civil war between the Bolsheviks (communists) and the Whites (anti-communists), from which the Bolsheviks emerged triumphant. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed in the same year, led by Joseph Stalin. He consolidated his power and emerged as a fierce dictator, with policies of forced labour and brutal repression replacing dreams of a democratic socialist state led by workers. After Stalin’s death in 1953, the USSR began to decentralise, modernise and become less repressive until its eventual dissolution – or collapse – In 1991.
After the dissolution of the USSR, Russia underwent a very fast period of economic liberalisation, with mixed results. Russia experienced a series of financial crises throughout the 1990s from which it was slow to recover, and income disparity is still a big problem throughout the country.
Like a lot of countries with colder climates, Russia's food is typically heavy and hearty. Pickling and preserving are popular as a result of the need for food that can last through harsh winters when produce may be scarce. In large cities like Moscow and St Petersburg, the food scene is cosmopolitan and diverse, with plenty of chefs experimenting with fusion dishes and new takes on Russian classics.
We’ve compiled a list of the most bread-sopping, jaw-dropping, mouth-watering Russian drinks and dishes you should make a beeline for during your travels:
A signature dish of Tatarstan, a semi-independent part of western-central Russia, laghman is a tasty meal of thick pulled noodles served with meat and vegetables.
Even if you’re not normally a fan of the clear spirit, drinking vodka in Russia is undeniably a cultural experience just as much as a way to get your buzz on. Usually served straight from the freezer – neat or in a shot glass – and accompanied by a rousing toast (and sometimes a little snack called a zakuski), vodka is an easy way to bond with locals – just don’t ask for a mixer.
Medovukha
This liquor, made from fermented honey, has been around since bee farming first became a thing and the drink still maintains a vintage air. Russia has a long beekeeping tradition and honey is still a huge industry across the country, which also makes for a healthy medovukha (mead) industry.
Pelmeni (dumplings)
A Siberian classic, these meat and vegetable-filled packages are the perfect antidote to frigid winters. Often served with sour cream and dill, the little parcels of goodness have a more rustic and earthy flavour profile than their South East Asian counterparts.
Somewhere between a crepe and a pancake, the blini can be served with either sweet or savoury toppings as diverse as caviar, salmon, jam and honey. They’re most popular during Maslenisa, the week before Great Lent in Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Pickling, the art of preserving produce in jars, is a widespread artform in Russia. From wooden cabins in rural villages to cramped apartments in St Petersburg, you’ll see jars filled with slowly curing cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms and more lining the kitchen shelves of local homes.
Chebureki
Another Tatarstan classic, chebureki consists of meat stuffed in flaky pastry that is then deep fried. Onions, beef and pepper make up the traditional filling in this easy-to-eat street food staple, which are perfect as a roadside snack or bite between sightseeing.
It’s sad that this soup has become little more than a punchline to an unfunny joke about Eastern European food since in reality it’s a rich and respectable dish with an impressive history. Made from beetroot and typically including meat, garlic and stock, there’s a longstanding cultural stoush over who the sour soup really belongs to, with the Ukraine also claiming the dish as its own.
Plant-based options
Forget what you’ve heard! Travelling as a vegetarian in Russia has always been relatively easy, as many staples of Russian cuisine are vegetarian by default. In terms of classic Russian dishes, vegetarians can safely order dishes like blini (pancakes), boiled potatoes, beetroot salads, fried potatoes and cabbage pelmeni.
Travelling as a vegan requires a bit of creativity if you’re planning on leaving the major cities. Vegans should be aware the side dishes favoured by vegetarians are often prepared or served with animal fats. However, even eateries in small towns will usually have a few vegan options on the menu like salad, bread and potatoes cooked in oil. Both vegetarians and vegans should keep in mind that vegetable soups are frequently made with meat stock that may not be listed on the menu.
Of course, this is all a lot easier when you’re travelling with a local, someone who knows the language and the culture and can help you tell your sorrel from your schi (they’re both soups FYI). If you travel with Intrepid, you’ll have a local leader who can help you decipher menus and recommend good plant-based choices.
Hungry? Check out our Russia Real Food Adventure
Sharing its border with 14 countries, as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans, Russia is the largest country in the world (twice the size of runner-up Canada). It’s not surprising, then, that Russia’s environment is incredibly diverse and ranges from Arctic tundra to coniferous forests and mountain ranges.
Siberia is the vast expanse that makes up almost 80 per cent of Russia’s territory. This region is known for its bitter climate and wilderness, with winter temperatures ranging from -45°C (-49°F) in the Sakha Republic to -22°C (-7.6°F) in warmer areas like Omsk. Though much of Siberia’s landscape cannot support agriculture, it’s home to a wealth of natural resources like natural gas, oil, coal and gold. For this reason, Siberia is home to some industrial cities that operate in mind-boggling environments, built on permafrost with expert engineering to withstand extreme conditions.
The Ural Mountains separate Siberia from European Russia, which houses about 80 per cent of the country’s population despite making up around 20 per cent of its land mass. European Russia – which makes up most of the East European Plain – is made up primarily of large plains, waterways and wetlands. The climate here is more seasonal than in Siberia, featuring winters with temperatures below freezing, but warm and wet summers.
From the Ural Mountains, Russia’s 102,000 kilometres of waterways flow into the Baltic, White, Caspian and Black seas through this East European Plain.
It's not just stories you'll return home from Russia with. There'll be plenty of opportunities to get your mittens on one of these iconic Russian mementos (and maybe grab some for your friends too):
You may not be able to bring a lot of it back, depending on your country’s customs laws, but you should try to grab at least one bottle of Russian vodka while you’re here. Extra points for grabbing a bottle of Putinka – named after Russia’s President Putin.
Russia's famous matryoshka, or 'babushka', dolls were first crafted in the 19th century and remain one of Russia's most recognised souvenirs.
Need a stylish but no-nonsense hat that also protects you from the elements? Never fear, ushanka is here. You can get the kind made from inexpensive synthetic materials in tourist shops or pick up the animal fur variety, depending on whether you plan to use it for costumes or during a Trans-Siberian trek.
Take your commitment to tea parties to an ornate extreme with a Russian samovar. A precursor to the kettle, a samovar has two main chambers. The inner chamber is ventilated and made for burning a small fire. This fire then boils water held in the outer chamber where tea can be steeped. If that all sounds a bit labour intensive for you, they also make a fancy decoration or the perfect vessel for cocktails on tap.
Believe the hype, not the stereotypes, because there's nothing Russians love more than a reason to celebrate. These are some of the biggest days on the festival calendar:
White Nights Festival
It isn’t always pretty living this close to the Arctic Circle. Winter in St Petersburg, while undeniably beautiful, can be brutal. Of course, the flip side of the freezing winters are summers where the days never seem to end. While true ‘midnight sun’ doesn’t occur in St Petersburg (the sun sets for at least a few hours each day), the city sees very little darkness over the high summer months of June and July. St Petersburg hosts parties, performances and cultural events throughout this period, the exact dates of which change every year. This is a great time to visit the city as the streets hum with energy while the locals celebrate summer.
Victory Day
On 9 May every year, a massive display of military strength takes place in Moscow’s Red Square. Partly a commemoration of the end of WWII, partly a celebration of Russian pride, this massively popular event seems to get bigger every year. If you’re interested in military history, national identity or modern Russian politics, you might be interested in planning your trip to coincide with Victory Day.
It makes sense that a country that experiences sub-zero temperatures for so many months of the year would find a way to embrace the cold. Every year during December and January, Moscow transforms into a festive wonderland complete with a glittering Christmas village in Revolution Square, ice skating at Gorky Park and a public snowman-making extravaganza on Arbat Street. If you’re travelling to Russia during the darker months, a visit to Moscow during the Winter Festival is a must.
Maslenisa
With origins as a Pagan folk holiday to mark the end of winter, today’s Maslenisa celebration is a chance to eat your fill of Russian pancakes (blini) while taking in various celebrations before the sombre Russian Orthodox Pascha period comes around. It’s an incredibly joyful and delicious time to be in Russia.
Go to smarttraveller.gov.au
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The World Health Organization also provides useful health information. Go to who.int for more details.
For inspiring stories to prepare you for your Russia adventure, check out these books:
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
GULAG: A History – Anne Applebaum
The Women of Lazarus – Marina Stepnova
The Big Green Tent – Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov
Lenin's Tomb – David Remnick
Secondhand Time – Svetlana Alexievich
Selected Stories – Anton Chekov
Russia travel FAQs
When is the best time to visit Russia?
The summer months (June, July and August) are the most popular time for international tourists in Russia as the weather is warmest and the days are longest. Russia doesn’t quite get midnight sun but its proximity to the Arctic Circle means the high summer is accompanied by daylight that stretches until 11 pm. Summer in Russia is also when St Petersburg hosts all-night parties, performances and cultural events as part of the White Nights Festival. The downsides? The major sights and cities get pretty busy and it rains a lot.
While the charms of summer in Russia are well known, we’re actually quite partial to winter travel in the region. While Moscow and its milder cousin St Petersburg are prone to temperatures below 0°C (32°F) from November through to March, the snow coating the cities is unbelievably beautiful. There are fewer tourists, more chances to interact with locals and (in December and January) incredible Christmas decorations and festivities that light up the frosty streets and squares. Plus, Russian food is hearty and designed to keep you warm.
If you’re travelling to Siberia be prepared for a subarctic climate. That means even in summer you can expect July temperatures to max out at between 10°C (50°F) and 17°C (63°F). If you can handle the cold, a Siberian winter is really something to remember. Despite temperatures reaching an eye-watering -22°C (-7.6°F) in Lake Baikal in January, the frozen waters and winter wonderland vibes more than make up for it. Besides, homes and cities in Siberia are built to handle the cold so you’ll do fine once you’re inside.
Do I need a visa to travel to Russia?
While the Russian visa process has a reputation for being complicated and strict, things are getting easier every year for travellers who want to visit the country. Most nationalities need a visa to enter Russia, with exceptions given to former USSR states like Ukraine and most countries in South and Central America.
Travellers from the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand need to obtain a visa before travelling to Russia. Before you contact your embassy or consulate, you will need to get your Letter of Invitation sorted. Fortunately, we will organise this for you. Our full guide to visas and LOIs can be found here.
Is tipping customary in Russia?
Tipping is appreciated but not expected in Russia. At restaurants there is often a service charge included on the bill, in which case you don’t need to tip. If you would like to tip for good service, rounding up the bill or adding a 10–15 per cent gratuity is more than enough.
What is the internet access like in Russia?
If you’re planning to use your mobile phone in Russia (with either global roaming activated or by using a local SIM) you’ll find internet in the major cities is quick and free wi-fi is often available through hotspots. Just keep in mind that in order to connect to hotspots you will have to authenticate your identity. Travellers will be able to find internet cafes in Russia's large cities like Moscow, St Petersburg and Suzdal. In rural areas, internet access might be patchy or non-existent.
Internet access is available on the Trans-Siberian Railway for certain legs of the journey. This requires purchase of a local connection (around USD 40), which will work with some laptops and certain 3G devices.
Can I use my mobile/cell phone while in Russia?
Mobile phone coverage is generally good in the cities and regional centres of Russia, although coverage may not be available in remote areas. If you want to use your mobile phone, ensure global roaming is activated before you arrive (but be aware of the fees this may incur).
What are the toilets like in Russia?
Travellers can expect to encounter both squat toilets and modern flushable toilets while travelling through Russia. Be prepared by carrying your own soap and toilet paper as these aren't always provided. Additionally, some public toilets may require a small fee payment before access, so be sure to carry change.
What will it cost for a...?
Russia's unit of currency is the ruble. Prices here are approximate and shown in US dollars for ease of comparison.
Trip on the metro = USD 0.70
Internet cafe surfing = USD 1–3 per hour
Serve of vodka in a ryumochnaya = USD 1–2
Pint of beer = USD 2.5
Canteen meal = USD 5–10
Dinner at a restaurant = USD 15–20
Can I drink the water in Russia?
Drinking tap water isn't recommended in Russia. For environmental reasons, try to avoid buying bottled water. Ask your leader or hotel where filtered water can be found and don't forget to avoid ice in drinks and peel fruit before eating.
Are credit cards widely accepted in Russia?
Credit cards are usually accepted by hotels, large retailers and shops but may not be accepted by smaller vendors. Always carry enough cash for smaller purchases in case credit cards are not an option.
What is ATM access like in Russia?
Travellers will be able to find ATMs in Russia's large cities and regional centres. Remote and rural areas will have less ATM availability, so prepare accordingly before venturing out of metropolitan areas.
What is the weather like in Russia?
Given the size of Russia, the weather tends to vary depending on where you are. From June through September most of the country, aside from Siberia, will see warm weather. The long winter from November until March/April sees snow and freezing temperatures, while temperatures in the shoulder seasons vary from place to place. St Petersburg, for example, may see temperatures ranging from 5–20°C (41–68°F) degrees in the lead up to summer.
Do I need to purchase travel insurance before travelling in Russia?
Absolutely. All passengers travelling with Intrepid are required to purchase travel insurance before the start of their tour. Your travel insurance details will be recorded by your leader on the first day of the trip. Due to the varying nature, availability and cost of health care around the world, travel insurance is very much an essential and necessary part of every journey.
What public holidays are celebrated in Russia?
1 January New Year’s Day
7 January Russian Orthodox Christmas Day
23 February Defender of the Fatherland Day
8 March International Women’s Day
1 May International Labour Day/Spring Festival
9 May Victory Day
12 June Russian Independence Day
4 November Unity Day
Keep in mind that some businesses shut down in the ten days leading up to 7 January.
For a current list of public holidays in Russia go to worldtravelguide.net
Is Russia a safe destination for LGBTQIA+ travellers?
We recommend LGBTQIA+ travellers exercise discretion when travelling in Russia.
Russia is not a safe destination for LGBTQIA+ travellers who wish to openly express sexuality and/or gender identity outside of a very rigid, heterosexual binary. Openly LGBTQIA+ people face stigma, harassment and violence in their everyday lives. Homosexuality isn't illegal but promoting ‘non-traditional sexual relationships’ is. What constitutes promotion is at the discretion of the authorities. Travellers have been arrested in the past for discussing gay rights with young people.
There are active queer scenes in the larger cities, but travellers should be aware that people leaving venues known to cater to LGBTQIA+ folks are often the target of violence. The venues themselves are sometimes targeted, too. Attempting to seek out local queer culture while in Russia may pose a risk to travellers.
For more detailed and up-to-date advice, we recommend visiting Equaldex or ILGA before you travel.
If you are travelling solo on an Intrepid group tour, you will share accommodation with a passenger of the same gender as per your passport information. If you don’t identify with the gender assigned on your passport, please let us know at time of booking and we’ll arrange the rooming configuration accordingly. A single supplement is available on some tours for travellers who do not wish to share a room.
Is Russia accessible for travellers with disabilities?
Intrepid is committed to making travel widely accessible, regardless of ability or disability. That’s why we do our best to help as many people see the world as possible, regardless of any physical or mental limitations they might have. We’re always happy to talk to travellers with disabilities and see if we can help guide them towards the most suitable itinerary for their needs and, where possible, make reasonable adjustments to our itineraries.
While the situation is improving, Russia is still a difficult destination to explore for travellers with disabilities. Even in large cities like Moscow and St Petersburg, old infrastructure has been slow to adapt to the needs of differently abled travellers. Where ramps exist, for example, they are often incredibly steep and therefore useless.
While the exterior of some sites are accessible to wheelchair users, it is often not possible to explore them fully. For example, wheelchair users will be able to enter the Kremlin but can’t access its cathedrals. The stations of the Moscow Metro often have no ramps or elevators, however most of the buses in Moscow are accessible to wheelchair users.
The streets of Moscow and St Petersburg may pose a problems to travellers with restricted mobility or vision impairments as they can be uneven and road crossings are sometimes via tunnels that are only accessible by staircase.
While international chain hotels are often built with the needs of accessible travellers in mind, homestays, guesthouses and locally-run hotels are generally not fitted with ramps, elevators, shower rails etc. Unfortunately, overnight train travel in Russia will be difficult for wheelchair users as the bathrooms are not designed for accessibility.
If you have a battery-operated hearing aid, it’s a good idea to bring extra batteries.
If you do live with a visual, hearing or other impairment, let your booking agent or group leader know early on so they’re aware and suitable arrangements can be made. As a general rule, knowing some common words in the local language, carrying a written itinerary with you and taking to the streets in a group, rather than solo, can help make your travel experience the best it can be.
Learn more about Accessible Travel with Intrepid
What to wear in Russia
What you wear in Russia will depend on what time of the year you’re travelling in. If you’re visiting between October and May you will need to be prepared with a warm windproof jacket, scarf, gloves, warm hat and waterproof and slip-proof boots – the streets get icy in the colder months! Even in summer, we recommend you wear clothing that can be easily layered and pack a warm jacket and boots.
When entering churches, either working or historic, women and men should both cover their shoulders and women will need a scarf to cover their head.
Intrepid is committed to travelling in a way that is respectful of local people, their culture, local economies and the environment. It's important to remember that what may be acceptable behaviour, dress and language in your own country may not be appropriate in another. Please keep this in mind while travelling.
In Russia, we stay in locally run accommodation including guesthouses, smaller-scale hotels and homestays in an effort to support the local economies. We also visit locally run restaurants and markets where travellers will have opportunities to support local businesses and purchase handicrafts created by local artisans. Our Responsible Travel Policy outlines our commitment to being the best travel company for the world.
Honey cooperative in Maly Turysh
In Russia we spend the night in Maly Turysh, a rural village where a unique honey cooperative has reinvigorated the local economy and bought people together.
Visit Maly Turysh on this Russian adventure
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RECRUITS Hope For A Home Run At Housing Association Challenge Day
YOUNG people from The Recruit programme took part in a challenge day hosted by Cloch Housing Association.
The Recruit is a summer-long personal development course run by Inverclyde Council for senior school students.
Organisations set tasks for the participants and Cloch challenged them to design a home and community of the future using research, discussion, creativity and Lego.
Facilitated by Lorna Wilson of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA), the pupils worked in teams to develop their ideas and finished the day with a presentation of their work.
Votes were then cast for the favourite ideas, which included a skyscraper that was a community complete with shops, spa and community garden, and a house that could be relocated by flying.
MPS Housing who are, Cloch’s reactive repairs contractor, were also represented and worked alongside Cloch staff giving presentations about their work and choosing housing or maintenance as a career.
The most successful participants in The Recruit are offered posts with local businesses and organisations. Cloch will be providing an 18-month Modern Apprenticeship in Housing and MPS Housing have offered a four-year Trade Apprenticeship as part of their community benefit through their contract with Cloch.
Decisions on which candidates are successful will be made in the weeks ahead and announced to the group at a gala dinner.
Liz Bowden, corporate services manager at Cloch said: “This fantastic programme offers so many opportunities to these young people who have big decisions to make about their futures.
"Hopefully, we have given them a good idea of why a career in social housing is an excellent path to take and the fact that one young person will be offered a four-year trade apprenticeship is a fantastic opportunity."
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Diversify Your Investments
Figure Out Your Finances
Gauge Your Risk Tolerance
Learn About Investment Options
Pay Off Credit Cards or Other High Interest Debt
Save for a Rainy Day
Small Savings Add Up to Big Money
Understand What It Means to Invest
Types of Brokerage Accounts
Stock Purchases and Sales: Long and Short
Executing an Order
Auction Rate Securities
Bonds or Fixed Income Products
High-yield Corporate Bonds
Education Savings - 529 Plans
Variable Life Products
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Cryptocurrencies
Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
Alternative Mutual Funds
Leveraged Loan Funds
Smart Beta, Quant Funds and other Non- Traditional Index Funds
Options or Derivatives
Private Equity Funds
403(b) and 457(b)
IRA (Individual Retirement Accounts)
Structured Notes with Principal Protection
How to Submit Comments to the SEC
The Laws That Govern the Securities Industry
Part of the mission of the SEC is “to maintain standards for fair, orderly, and efficient markets.” To do this, the SEC regulates a number of securities market participants. These include:
Broker-Dealers - Broker-dealers charge a fee to handle trades between the buyers and sellers of securities. A broker-dealer may buy securities from their customer who is selling or sell from their own inventory to its customer who is buying.
Clearing Agencies - Clearing Agencies are Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) that are required to register with the SEC. Like all SROs, they are responsible for writing and enforcing their rules and disciplining members. There are two types of clearing agencies-- clearing corporations and depositories.
Clearing corporations, such as the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), compare member transactions, clear those trades and prepare instructions for automated settlement of those trades. Clearing corporations often act as intermediaries in making securities settlements.
Depositories, namely The Depository Trust Company (DTC), hold securities certificates for their participants, transfer positions between participants, and maintain ownership records.
Credit Rating Agencies - Credit Rating Agencies provide opinions on the creditworthiness of a company or security. They indicate the credit quality by means of a grade. Generally, credit ratings distinguish between investment grade and non-investment grade. For example, a credit rating agency may assign a "triple A" credit rating as its top "investment grade" rating, and a "double B" credit rating or below for "non-investment grade" or "high-yield" corporate bonds. Credit rating agencies registered as such with the SEC are known as “Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations.”
ECNs/ATSs - Electronic Communications Networks, or ECNs, are electronic trading systems that automatically match buy and sell orders at specified prices for users of the system. ECNs register with the SEC as broker-dealers and are subject to Regulation ATS. ATSs are Alternative Trading Systems. This term encompasses all systems that perform securities exchange functions and are not registered with the Commission as exchanges.
Investment Advisers - Investment advisers are persons or firms that are in the business of providing investment advice to investors or issuing reports or analyses regarding securities. They do these activities for compensation.
Securities Exchanges - Securities exchanges are markets where securities are bought and sold. Currently, there are fifteen securities exchanges registered with the SEC as national securities exchanges, including NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ, The Chicago Board Options Exchange, and BATS Exchange. Securities Exchanges are also SROs.
Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) - An SRO manages its industry through the adoption of rules governing the conduct of its members. SROs also enforce the rules they adopt and discipline members for violating SRO rules. Two well-known SROs are the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). FINRA is the largest SRO in the securities industry. It is the frontline regulator of broker-dealers. MSRB makes rules regulating dealers of municipal securities. The SEC oversees both FINRA and the MSRB. Other SROs include clearing agencies and securities exchanges.
Transfer Agents -Transfer agents record changes of security ownership, maintain the issuer's security holder records, cancel and issue certificates, and distribute dividends. Transfer agents stand between issuing companies and security holders. Transfer agents are required to be registered with the SEC, or if the transfer agent is a bank, with a bank regulatory agency. There is no SRO that governs transfer agents. The SEC has announced rules and regulations for all registered transfer agents. The intent is to facilitate the prompt and accurate clearance and settlement of securities transactions and assure the safeguarding of securities and funds.
For more technical information on Market Participants, go to http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrclearing.shtml.
DTC Chills and Freezes
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Irish Bank suing Jim Corr of The Corrs for 1.3 million
DARA KELLY
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ACC Bank, based in Ireland, has begun legal action against musician Jim Corr and an associate for an alleged debt of 1.3 million euro.
The bank applied to the High Court on Thursday for an order to serve documents on Jim Corr at his home in Bangor, County Down.
Solicitors for ACC Bank said numerous attempts had been made to serve Corr with legal papers but it was clear from his conduct he was 'evading service.'
ACC Bank is suing Corr for an alleged debt of 1.3 million. The loan relates to 91 acres of land at Goresbridge, Co Kilkenny.
At the High Court yesterday senior counsel for the bank, Bernard Dunleavy, told the judge that Corr was 'a citizen of Ireland and a well-known musician.'
Dunleavy secured an order for 'substitute of service.' This will allow the bank to serve notice of the legal proceedings on Corr by post.
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1991 San Diego Padres Roster
National League (NL)
Team Record: 84-78
Finished 3rd in the NL's West Division
Manager: Greg Riddoch (84-78)
1991 San Diego Padres Statistics
The San Diego Padres of the National League ended the season with a record of 84 wins and 78 losses, finishing third in the NL's West Division. Greg Riddoch served as manager.
Regular Season Runs Scored: 636
Regular Season Runs Scored Against: 646
Date Game Res Home Road Record
April 9, 1991 San Francisco Giants 4 at San Diego Padres 7 W 1-0 0-0 1-0
April 10, 1991 San Francisco Giants 3 at San Diego Padres 4 W 2-0 0-0 2-0
April 11, 1991 San Francisco Giants 11 at San Diego Padres 9 L 2-1 0-0 2-1
April 12, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Los Angeles Dodgers 2 W 2-1 1-0 3-1
April 15, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 2 at San Diego Padres 3 W 3-1 3-0 6-1
April 16, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 1 at San Diego Padres 0 L 3-2 3-0 6-2
April 18, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 5 at San Diego Padres 10 W 4-3 3-0 7-3
April 19, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 4 at San Diego Padres 0 L 4-4 3-0 7-4
April 20, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 3 at San Diego Padres 5 W 5-4 3-0 8-4
April 22, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at San Francisco Giants 5 W 5-5 4-0 9-5
April 23, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at San Francisco Giants 6 W 5-5 5-0 10-5
April 24, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at San Francisco Giants 6 L 5-5 5-1 10-6
April 26, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Philadelphia Phillies 0 W 5-5 6-1 11-6
April 27, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Philadelphia Phillies 4 L 5-5 6-2 11-7
April 30, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at New York Mets 6 L 5-5 6-5 11-10
May 1, 1991 San Diego Padres 8 at New York Mets 7 W 5-5 7-5 12-10
May 3, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Montreal Expos 4 L 5-5 7-6 12-11
May 4, 1991 San Diego Padres 6 at Montreal Expos 5 W 5-5 8-6 13-11
May 7, 1991 Philadelphia Phillies 2 at San Diego Padres 4 W 6-5 9-6 15-11
May 8, 1991 Philadelphia Phillies 5 at San Diego Padres 2 L 6-6 9-6 15-12
May 10, 1991 Montreal Expos 6 at San Diego Padres 4 L 6-8 9-6 15-14
May 12, 1991 Montreal Expos 8 at San Diego Padres 6 L 6-10 9-6 15-16
May 13, 1991 New York Mets 2 at San Diego Padres 5 W 7-10 9-6 16-16
May 14, 1991 New York Mets 6 at San Diego Padres 1 L 7-11 9-6 16-17
May 17, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Cincinnati Reds 7 L 7-12 9-7 16-19
May 18, 1991 San Diego Padres 5 at Cincinnati Reds 2 W 7-12 10-7 17-19
May 20, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Atlanta Braves 3 W 7-12 12-7 19-19
May 21, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Atlanta Braves 4 L 7-12 12-8 19-20
May 23, 1991 San Diego Padres 11 at Atlanta Braves 10 W 7-12 14-8 21-20
May 24, 1991 San Diego Padres 0 at Houston Astros 1 L 7-12 14-9 21-21
May 25, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Houston Astros 2 W 7-12 15-9 22-21
May 26, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Houston Astros 13 L 7-12 15-10 22-22
May 27, 1991 Atlanta Braves 3 at San Diego Padres 1 L 7-13 15-10 22-23
May 30, 1991 Houston Astros 0 at San Diego Padres 4 W 8-15 15-10 23-25
June 1, 1991 Houston Astros 2 at San Diego Padres 7 W 10-15 15-10 25-25
June 4, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Chicago Cubs 1 W 11-15 16-10 27-25
June 6, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at Chicago Cubs 6 L 11-15 17-11 28-26
June 7, 1991 San Diego Padres 0 at Pittsburgh Pirates 1 L 11-15 17-12 28-27
June 8, 1991 San Diego Padres 11 at Pittsburgh Pirates 0 W 11-15 18-12 29-27
June 9, 1991 San Diego Padres 5 at Pittsburgh Pirates 3 W 11-15 19-12 30-27
June 10, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Pittsburgh Pirates 5 L 11-15 19-13 30-28
June 11, 1991 St. Louis Cardinals 10 at San Diego Padres 4 L 11-16 19-13 30-29
June 12, 1991 St. Louis Cardinals 2 at San Diego Padres 7 W 12-16 19-13 31-29
June 14, 1991 Chicago Cubs 7 at San Diego Padres 3 L 12-18 19-13 31-31
June 15, 1991 Chicago Cubs 2 at San Diego Padres 6 W 13-18 19-13 32-31
June 17, 1991 Pittsburgh Pirates 3 at San Diego Padres 2 L 14-19 19-13 33-32
June 19, 1991 Pittsburgh Pirates 5 at San Diego Padres 6 W 15-20 19-13 34-33
June 21, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at St. Louis Cardinals 4 L 15-20 19-14 34-34
June 22, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at St. Louis Cardinals 3 W 15-20 20-14 35-34
June 25, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at Cincinnati Reds 8 L 15-20 22-15 37-35
June 28, 1991 San Francisco Giants 3 at San Diego Padres 5 W 16-20 22-17 38-37
June 29, 1991 San Francisco Giants 6 at San Diego Padres 4 L 16-21 22-17 38-38
July 2, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 4 at San Diego Padres 1 L 16-23 22-17 38-40
July 4, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 4 at San Diego Padres 5 W 17-24 22-17 39-41
July 5, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at San Francisco Giants 2 W 17-24 23-17 40-41
July 6, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at San Francisco Giants 4 L 17-24 23-18 40-42
July 11, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at New York Mets 4 L 17-24 23-20 40-44
July 14, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at New York Mets 1 W 17-24 24-22 41-46
July 15, 1991 San Diego Padres 0 at Montreal Expos 3 L 17-24 24-23 41-47
July 16, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Montreal Expos 3 W 17-24 25-23 42-47
July 19, 1991 Philadelphia Phillies 4 at San Diego Padres 1 L 17-25 26-23 43-48
July 21, 1991 Philadelphia Phillies 2 at San Diego Padres 5 W 18-26 26-23 44-49
July 23, 1991 Montreal Expos 1 at San Diego Padres 2 W 19-26 26-23 45-49
July 24, 1991 Montreal Expos 8 at San Diego Padres 2 L 19-27 26-23 45-50
July 26, 1991 New York Mets 2 at San Diego Padres 8 W 21-27 26-23 47-50
July 27, 1991 New York Mets 4 at San Diego Padres 0 L 21-28 26-23 47-51
July 30, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Philadelphia Phillies 2 L 22-28 26-24 48-52
August 2, 1991 San Diego Padres 13 at Atlanta Braves 3 W 22-28 27-25 49-53
August 3, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Atlanta Braves 2 W 22-28 28-25 50-53
August 4, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Atlanta Braves 9 L 22-28 28-26 50-54
August 5, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Houston Astros 2 L 22-28 28-27 50-55
August 7, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Houston Astros 4 W 22-28 29-28 51-56
August 9, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 5 at San Diego Padres 1 L 22-29 30-28 52-57
August 10, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 0 at San Diego Padres 1 W 23-29 30-28 53-57
August 11, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 0 at San Diego Padres 13 W 24-29 30-28 54-57
August 12, 1991 Houston Astros 5 at San Diego Padres 6 W 25-29 30-28 55-57
August 13, 1991 Houston Astros 12 at San Diego Padres 9 L 25-30 30-28 55-58
August 15, 1991 Atlanta Braves 0 at San Diego Padres 1 W 27-30 30-28 57-58
August 16, 1991 Atlanta Braves 3 at San Diego Padres 2 L 27-31 30-28 57-59
August 19, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at Los Angeles Dodgers 3 L 28-32 30-29 58-61
August 23, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Chicago Cubs 5 L 28-32 30-32 58-64
August 24, 1991 San Diego Padres 4 at Chicago Cubs 1 W 28-32 31-32 59-64
August 25, 1991 San Diego Padres 12 at Chicago Cubs 9 W 28-32 32-32 60-64
August 26, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Pittsburgh Pirates 5 W 28-32 33-32 61-64
August 27, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at Pittsburgh Pirates 5 L 28-32 33-33 61-65
August 28, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at St. Louis Cardinals 1 W 28-32 34-33 62-65
August 30, 1991 Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at San Diego Padres 1 L 28-33 35-33 63-66
September 1, 1991 Pittsburgh Pirates 4 at San Diego Padres 7 W 29-34 35-33 64-67
September 2, 1991 Chicago Cubs 10 at San Diego Padres 8 L 29-35 35-33 64-68
September 3, 1991 Chicago Cubs 1 at San Diego Padres 4 W 30-35 35-33 65-68
September 5, 1991 St. Louis Cardinals 1 at San Diego Padres 3 W 32-35 35-33 67-68
September 9, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at Houston Astros 0 W 34-35 36-33 70-68
September 10, 1991 San Diego Padres 7 at Houston Astros 6 W 34-35 37-33 71-68
September 11, 1991 San Diego Padres 0 at Atlanta Braves 1 L 34-35 37-34 71-69
September 13, 1991 San Diego Padres 13 at San Francisco Giants 2 W 34-35 38-35 72-70
September 14, 1991 San Diego Padres 3 at San Francisco Giants 1 W 34-35 39-35 73-70
September 15, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at San Francisco Giants 7 L 34-35 39-36 73-71
September 16, 1991 Houston Astros 1 at San Diego Padres 6 W 35-35 39-36 74-71
September 17, 1991 Houston Astros 3 at San Diego Padres 0 L 35-36 39-36 74-72
September 18, 1991 Atlanta Braves 6 at San Diego Padres 4 L 35-37 39-36 74-73
September 20, 1991 San Francisco Giants 5 at San Diego Padres 10 W 36-38 39-36 75-74
September 21, 1991 San Francisco Giants 2 at San Diego Padres 3 W 37-38 39-36 76-74
September 24, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 5 at San Diego Padres 2 L 38-39 39-36 77-75
September 25, 1991 Los Angeles Dodgers 2 at San Diego Padres 8 W 39-39 39-36 78-75
September 27, 1991 San Diego Padres 8 at Cincinnati Reds 3 W 39-39 40-36 79-75
September 29, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Cincinnati Reds 8 L 39-39 41-37 80-76
September 30, 1991 San Diego Padres 2 at Los Angeles Dodgers 7 L 39-39 41-38 80-77
October 1, 1991 San Diego Padres 1 at Los Angeles Dodgers 3 L 39-39 41-39 80-78
October 2, 1991 San Diego Padres 9 at Los Angeles Dodgers 4 W 39-39 42-39 81-78
October 4, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 2 at San Diego Padres 3 W 40-39 42-39 82-78
October 5, 1991 Cincinnati Reds 7 at San Diego Padres 10 W 41-39 42-39 83-78
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