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photography by erin taylor
These photos came about after reflection on the smart phone camera as a form of archiving our lives. All of these photos were taken on an iPhone over the past few years because I could not afford an actual camera, the accessibility of this form of photography is very important. Whole revolutions, lives, and performances are now all documented through our iPhones, Snapchat, Instagram, and eventually on Facebook, in a way that is so easy to do that it's accessible to people of all backgrounds and experiences. I've been in parts of the world in which people didn't necessarily have direct access to clean water or food, yet they had smartphones in which they could document their lives. This documentation of our daily experience is what brought this project around, thinking about how grateful I am for my friends and being able to be a part of their lives. All of these photos are pictures of my friends existing and allowing me to document their existence in the most accessible way I know how, through my iPhone.
Erin Taylor is an American poet whose work has been featured at LAMBDA Literary, Cosmonauts Avenue, Scum Mag, and more. More of her work can be found at erintaylor.tumblr.com and she tweets at @erinisaway.
2 poems byjacob brooks
you are my father
Ubiquitous barbecue
I wait for the magnetism
Our gazes germinate
Avalanche of breaths
Buries the phallus
I have no ancestor
Our current fills the porch
And the question that emerges
Per moment
Call me babe
These barbecue meat games
23 years ago you are conceiving me
Whiffing your nearest set of armpits
I betray my material
Emulsified
in the Genesee river
My discontinuous bod
dudestyle
So I let myself get runny like this
Slipping through the sieve of crowds
Garbage wind
But how will I be a baseball hole
twunk dicksleeve
fitted hat pitstrap
Sniff my pig quadrant
you different broseph
I teem with succ fluid
At the coney island
I process my special milk.
Pineapples for self-image
I can’t abide a meager load
I bring you home
to my bromance cave
Daddy’s Dick-scented candle
you love me in front of the playstation
Leave your air jordans on
Jacob Brooks is a poet and communist based in Philadelphia. His chapbook ARTPORN (2016) is published by Citizen of the World. Find him on Twitter @skinandimpulses.
photography by hannah gross
growing from ashes
Cacti and palm varieties some how sustained life on Caladesi Island despite being torched. The purposeful flames provide regrowth to plants and even though they are surrounded by death and decay, many still thrived.
Hannah Gross is a textbook Gemini with an affinity for exploring different landscapes. A native of Pittsburgh, her influences converge at the intersection of art and science, specifically how the two work together to transform and capture life. More of her work on portraits and wildlife can be found at hannahgrossphotography.smugmug.com and instagram handles @doctor_trifling.
the pool by jesse rice-evans & an interview with zef lisowski
The first cool day, I drape my knotted body with old sweatshirt, cheap canvas sneakers, a dressing down I usually reserve for home
My period 8 days late, I am crying on the steering wheel, unable to allow myself to mourn my shoulders, how they escalate, how I need to pierce myself and drain the excess I am trying everyday to shove inside my skin like a sack of grains but, you know, the rotting kind
I buy makeup that promises glow or glimmer or another adjective I reserve for how fireflies were the only lanterns I knew for the first hundred years of my country life, how everything smelled electric and benches were jaunty wooden stumped hunks and how your porch leapt when it saw me drifting
Instead of glow, I gloom, dark but iridescent dunked gasping, my body on mute except the dreams where I open drawers of my dresser from college: cateye sunglasses, femme gear, things I haven't touched since I started to feel
In another, I am folding laundry still dewy with sunrise, the hammock a knotted metaphor for my clasped back, how I only jumped off of the roof that once, mattress leafed with autumn sparking bark, my legs collapsing into the swell of soft, my own swells still steeping along my hips, my hands, your hair, hideous fist I begged you to leave rattling in the pickup bed
If I could still play with space, I would
interview with zefyr lisowski
Zefyr:
Hey there! I'm excited to have/start this conversation, and I'd like to lead with something we've talked about individually with each other several times—what does hybridity mean to you?
We're conducting this conversation both digitally and in person, and I know you've talked about the blurring of forms between essay/poem/memoir in your work. Certainly for me, in both my writing and my physical embodiment—and yours— there's a certain polymorphousness that I'm excited by, a refusal to, so to speak, check just one box. What does the idea of the hybrid mean to you? How is that shaped for you by digitality, disability, queerness, etc?
early 17th century (as a noun): from Latin hybrida ‘offspring of a tame sow and wild boar, child of a freeman and slave, etc.’
This little snippet gives me pause: a miscegenation of two unlike types.
To me, this dualism speaks to well/unwell; IDK that I'm OK identifying as "polymorphous," but I definitely feel that my writing is doing some of the work of embodying me.
There's some stuff I actually can't even speak about except in my work. As someone with sliding degrees of ability, depending on the severity of each oncoming illness flare-up, hybridity is a reminder of the weirdness of the liminal body I inhabit/have available.
Why does polymorphous feel applicable to you?
I love the idea of writing doing the work of embodiment, rather than the other way around. And the way that hybrid projects these meanings of coerced couplings and slavery is deeply unsettling to me, but also reminds me of why I find etymology so interesting: a way of forcing visibility of those violences that have been rendered invisible by day-to-day use. Thank you for drawing my attention to both of those!
For me, "polymorphous" is part of a project of weirdness, like you note, but it's also a way of making work against the ways in which trans and faggy self-representations have been historically constrained. I'm drawing my use of the word from Freud's "polymorphous perversity," the violence that medical gatekeeping, pathologization, etc, have writ onto bodies similar to my own.
I don't need to explain to you why Freud, like, sucks, but I find something exciting about using this language that infantilizes to refer to my own work, bending the box out of shape by claiming the words that made it. Of course, my ability to claim this language has everything to do with my whiteness, ability to present as abled, and so on. Yet still, I think reclaiming it can be important! Do you know the artist Greer Lankton?
Yeah, girl, you talk about her all the time.
I'm obsessed with her! She was a trans artist in '80s New York, but she made these enormous, mutable, life-size dolls out of scraps of fabric and wire--all kinda monstrous, gender-liminal, but also invested with this enormous care and tenderness. There's a photo of her that I think Nan Goldin or Eric Knoll took where she's sitting in a bathtub smiling, and all these dolls are hovering around her:
I love the idea of crafting other selves/forms as something both deeply eerie and kind, and hope to gesture to those same types of mutability—a polymorphousness, to return to Freud—in my own writing. There's this tenderness, but also sadness, in Greer’s eyes that I keep returning to. I think of poems (like dolls in many ways!) as bodies or imitations of bodies. As I’m building a piece, I think of what it would be like in three dimensions, what part of the poem would be the arm, what it would mean to feel that. Looking at Greer’s process helps me picture that in some ways, feel kinda less alone.
I'm deeply bored by ekphrasis and hope we don't start talking about that, but are there artists or non-writers that you channel in your own writing? What places, besides other words, do your words come from?
Avoiding ekphrasis:
I have been working on a pop-ekphrastic series based on episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, which I binge-watched when I first got really sick in 2016. I began jotting down slivers of dialogue, and the off-screen narration from one of the characters (usually the titular Grey) that opens each episode.
I like the idea that we can articulate patterns and themes as they happen, which I know comes largely from my work as a writing consultant. This kind of meta-awareness of practice can lead to valuable insights about personal needs in creative projects: I work best on my phone with some tea and a heating pad.
It’s funny that I identify with the GA narratives about doctors and surgeries: I’m so suspicious of the cultural power that MDs wield, but I’m drawn to the intensity of the work as it’s depicted on the show. I waited tables for a super long time—and I loved it—so I harbor nostalgia for urgency, embodied laboring that I can no longer perform since my chronic illnesses have pulled me away.
Otherwise, contemporary poetry is super exciting. I’m constantly favoriting new issues of mags on Twitter and when I revisit the links, I’m like, I should have done this sooner. I also love Instagram meme accounts, although the form is so different from my own work. Something about the disregard for professionalism is enticing.
How/do you find shards of your writing practice showing up elsewhere in your life?
In my text messages, weirdly! Writing poetry has made me a better (or at least weirder) texter, and there's a constant transmutation between texts and poems, switching back & forth. I suspect this is true for most writers of this generation, though—it's really interesting to see how technologies are affecting writing, and I share your enthusiasm for memes as a similarly millennial way of wilding/queering form in these interesting ways.
Even though I think of myself as someone who is bound by the page in some ways—I started making visual art before I really started writing, and keep returning to the physicality of a watercolor brush or sturdiness of a pad of paper in moments of high stress—it's undeniable that digital technologies shape my writing. And that's something that I think is so important to talk about! How have computers, smartphones, etc changed the way we think, or write? In what ways can these changes constitute a queering? (You don't have to answer these questions if you don't want to).
But there's that word "shard" that you used, as well—I'm so interested in rupture and in my current work am looking a lot at different units of breaking—writing about holes, and decay, and glinting. How a thing shards apart. What’s left after the shard. What meanings do the break/shard hold for you or your writing?
That’s not weird!
I think of “shards” often lately: memories, snippets of conversation. I have late-stage Lyme disease, and especially when I’m tired or in pain, I feel much of my emotional and intellectual work appears as these “shards.”
I have an acute memory of hosting Nicole Steinberg, JD Scott, and Niina Pollari on tour in 2012 when I was running the Juniper Bends Reading Series back in Asheville, NC. Niina got up and read weirdly and fabulously off of her phone and I was like, done. I had never seen anyone read off of their phone, and it was such an intensely casual and confident gesture, and she did it in this astounding laid-back style that totally rocked my world.
Obviously, this gesture has become more commonplace, but Niina’s performance laid the foundation for me to start working on my phone: the aforementioned work on Grey’s Anatomy, my first book forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019, much of my work towards my MA and now my PhD—all completed on my phone. I can lay on a heating pad and watch workplace TV dramas and write.
I tend not to tell my PhD colleagues about this behavior, but I do talk to my students at City College and Cooper Union about this, and about how lowering the stakes of *sitting down to compose* has helped me loosen up and experiment with weirdnesses that have always rendered me self-conscious in other writing spaces. I don't know that it's a queering, but it's definitely an important piece of student-centered writing pedagogy!
I'm all about this practice! I think it was you who turned me on to writing on my phone—it’s definitely lower-stakes, but also does weird things with form that I'm interested in. In a lot of ways, phone writing—for me—becomes sort of a box building process, the constraints of the screen (and you know my phone is tiny) a way to get in to the poem immediately, do some weird stuff, and get out. To that end, it's especially good for editing for me, forcing a kind of concision I don't naturally drift to.
I'm preparing to give a conference presentation on ecologies as we're emailing each other so I'm all over the place, but I'd like to conclude by thinking about how technology or writing intersects with our environments, too. My presentation and, like, two of the chapbooks I'm pulling together currently (like a typical Gemini moon, I'm always working on six too many things) is about ~trans becoming~ as a form of kinship-making with surrounding biomes—what it means to queer a body or queer a form of writing against the mass extinctions, etc, that are unfolding everywhere.
I know we're both vegan (which is boring to talk about—vegans, especially white vegans, as you know, suck) so we could obviously talk about animal rights in our poetry or whatever, but I'm deeply uninterested in that. Considering this instead, I'm wondering what it means for you to write environmentally. We're both from North Carolina, which is such a fecund state. For me, the greenery there—the Great Dismal Swamp especially, but the swaths of kudzu across the plains, the dogwoods flowering everywhere, Appalachia—is something that keeps me scrappy. I love those territories of becoming, wildness, and home, and I try to channel in my own writing.
But, of course, "nature writing" as a genre is marked by really intense ableism and also colonialism! So much of the "natural" world is glorified as a way of emphasizing nature writers' physical health, the ability of people or bodies to make do without accommodations. And, obviously, the creation of natural parks, preserves, etc, is an act of theft, stealing the land away from the poor, frequently Black and indigenous inhabitants who were already living there (to say nothing of the original thefts in the United States that happened as part of manifest destiny, etc).
So what I'm constantly trying to do is figure out how I can write about nature in the 21st century without glorifying any of these processes. I'm not sure it's even possible! But how do you connect with the physicalness of your home state yourself, avoiding those toxicities? How does technology intersect with that? I know you aren't even interested in writing about nature, but I see its shadow in a bunch of what you produce, especially how your first chapbook, Soft Switch, uses the moon as a framing device. Where does this sit within you?
You know, I’ve thought so much about how to I neglected to credit the Indigenous
knowledge of the moon that I relied heavily on in Soft Switch, and that's 100% my white privilege showing; we have the ability to ignore historical contributions by BIPOC to all forms of knowledge, but it’s especially pervasive in white *healing* spaces and social justice work.
I apologize for this tremendous oversight, and I commit to unpacking the white entitlement that allowed me access to this knowledge without giving credit to the folks whose labor I took for granted.
When I moved to the west coast, I began to feel my Southerness as I faced loads of anti-Southern language and ideologies (white liberal cities *shrug*). I began to dream of venus fly traps, dogwood & azalea blossoms, afternoon thunderstorms, and while I don’t especially work with the pastoral in my work, I definitely feel grounded in my North Carolina roots, and I know now that much of that ethos carries me through my work.
Roots are so important! Not just metaphorically—although that shit is definitely true—but literally, as well. I’m always trying to find inspiration in the ways plants suck up water, tether themselves, are buried in dirt, as a resistant strategy.
Jesse Rice-Evans is a queer Southern poet and essayist. Her work has appeared in Entropy, Public Pool, Heavy Feather Review, and other cool mags, and in her chapbook Soft Switch, out from Damaged Goods Press. She teaches writing at the City College of New York and the Cooper Union, and tries to do reiki on her cats.
Zefyr Lisowski is a trans femme artist, sea queen, and double Pisces. She teaches and studies at Hunter College, edits poetry for Apogee Journal, and is the author of the microchapbook Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press 2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle, DIAGRAM, Bone Bouquet, and The Texas Review, among other journals. She’s a 2018 summer resident at Sundress Academy of the Arts. Find her at zeflisowski.com.
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Man arrested after suspected road-rage shooting on I-5
Jan. 10, 2020 at 6:55 am
Christine Clarridge
A 37-year-old Auburn man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of shooting at one fellow driver on Wednesday and flashing a shotgun at another.
No one was injured, but the shooting — which happened on northbound Interstate 5 near Tukwila — was a close call, according to the Washington State Patrol.
“It missed him. Narrowly missed,” Trooper Rick Johnson told KOMO News. “We’re really thankful he didn’t get hit by that.”
The suspect faces multiple charges, including assault and driving under the influence of intoxicants, police said.
The incident wasn’t the only one this week involving a driver armed with a gun in traffic, Johnson said. On Monday, a semi-truck driver was shot in Kent. Police have not made an arrest in that case.
Johnson told KOMO he thinks violent reactions while driving in traffic seem to have become more common.
“It seems like we’ve had a wave of them lately. It’s concerning to us, definitely. We want people to report these things,” Johnson told the station. “People dislike being tailgated, dislike being cut off, and some individuals get angry and they want to teach that other person a lesson.”
Christine Clarridge: 206-464-8983 or cclarridge@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @c_clarridge.
5 of the Seattle area's most changed neighborhoods: We crunched the data on population, income, jobs
Here's what's open, closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Lemoyian
Lemoyian's Story
On the Western side of Amboseli National Park about 1 km from the Tanzanian border, there is a deep watering well called the ‘Lemoyian Well’ where the resident Masai cattle herders water their livestock. The whole area is known as Lemoyian, named many years ago after a prominent Masai family.
During the night of the 8th October a great deal of commotion was heard by some of the local community members at the well. Upon further investigation it was obvious that the noise during the night was a mother elephant desperately trying to save her calf that had fallen down the well. A local community member and livestock owner named Muterian Ole Saboti, who had found the mother and calf at sunrise, reported the situation to the Amboseli Research Station first thing in the morning of the 9th when the mother elephant was still at the well struggling to free her calf. Sadly herds of cattle began streaming into the area in order to drink from the well, forcing the mother to abandon her calf. Muterian stayed with the baby until help arrived, having managed to singlehandedly chase-off a group of local youths from spearing him.
Officials from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) soon arrived at the scene and were assisted by community members in extracting the calf. The orphan was then loaded into a vehicle and driven to the Amboseli Park airstrip, from where it was met by the DSWT rescue team and soon airlifted to the Nairobi Nursery. The calf, a beautiful baby bull who was about 3 months of age on arrival, arrived at the Nursery by 5pm and has since been named “Lemoyian”. We feel for the mother elephant who is obviously grief-stricken having lost her calf, and we are incredibly saddened that this orphan could not have been reunited with his family. Since the well is very close to an international border, and the mother could well have crossed into Tanzania, it was not an option for the rescuers to attempt to reunite the family.
Muterian's selfless and committed protection of little Lemoyian until help arrived is an example to all of us. An appropriate way to reward his exemplary conservation behavior is being decided in the hope that it will go some small way towards encouraging others in the wider community, and especially within his local community, to feel the same way about the wildlife they share their land with.
Of course huge thanks go to Muterian himself, the Amboseli Trust for Elephants and also Tortilis Camp who were extremely helpful in the rescue, and who have now made a ramp for the waterhole so that any future animals caught in the well can escape easily.
Although it is still early days Lemoyian is thriving at the Nursery. He was initially treated with anti-biotics as the staff at ATE informed us that the well into which he had fallen was very dirty, therefore the likelihood of him ingesting toxic water was high. The treatment seems to have helped as we have not had much trouble with his health, although he initially lost a little weight due to the change in diet and stress of losing his mother, but this will improve in time. He is a very boisterous little bull and loves being mothered by the older females like Mutara and Shukuru, who spend much of their time hugging him and letting him huddle underneath them.
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P&Z sets hearing on Fountain Square changes
https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Lunch-rush-for-voters-13952378.php
Lunch rush for voters
Aaron Berkowitz
Published 3:40 pm EST, Tuesday, November 3, 2015
With a little over 4 hours until the polls close the pace for people placing their votes has increased slightly during the "lunch rush," according to mediator Mike Weber. He added that he believes the real rush of voters will be after 5 p.m. when most people are getting off from work.
As of 2 p.m. the total number of votes collected at Shelton Intermediate School was 986. The number of votes collected at Elizabeth Shelton School was 1404.
Polls close at 8 p.m.
For information on where your designated poll location is, read below.
Elizabeth Shelton School, 138 Willoughby Road
Shelton Intermediate School, 675 Constitution Boulevard North
Long Hill School, 565 Long Hill Ave.
Mohegan School, 47 Mohegan Road
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Inspired Travel: Stay in Vintage Trailers, Refurbbed Airplanes & Other "Upcycled" Digs
by Christine Wei • Oct 27, 2014
Why sleep in a concrete-and-glass building when you can stay in a vintage trailer, a Boeing 747, or even in a wine barrel? These quirky hotel concepts are totally refreshing -- and they give obsolete spaces a sustainable second life.
BaseCamp Young Hostel, Bonn, Germany
In the laidback city of Bonn along the Rhine, hotelier Michael Schloesser has gathered twenty-some Pullman rail cars, Airstream trailers, vintage caravans, and other transportation curios in a former storage facility to house 120 beds. But units comprising this “faux campground” are no ragtag fleet; the furnishings (including "front lawns") are the brainchild of Marion Seul, a TV and movie set designer. Private rooms cost €28 to €74 (approximately $35 to $94) per night, while shared rooms cost €24 ($31). All rates include breakfast and WiFi.
Jumbo Stay, Stockholm, Sweden
Jumbo Stay
Aerospace fanatics can finally get a good night's sleep on this Boeing 747, which has been converted into bunk rooms that sleep two to four people, single rooms with private baths, and even suites. In your waking hours, get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to walk onto the plane’s left wing, then fuel up with a meal and a drink at the onsite café. Prices start from 975 krona ($152) for private rooms and 450 krona per person ($70) for dorm rooms.
De Vrouwe van Stavoren, Stavoren, Netherlands
De Vrouwe van Stavoren
Each of the rooms in this harborside hotel once held almost 15,000 liters of wine. Today, the barrels are outfitted with beds, most with bathrooms and bathtubs. Amenities like radios and televisions are included, but we’d rather watch the ships come in from the restaurant conservatory as we enjoy one of the specialty fish dishes. Standard breakfast-inclusive rates are are €69.50 to €119.50 ($89 to $151) -- though you can find seasonal discounts of between 25 and 75 percent off, depending on the month and the length of your stay.
Prahran Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
Prahran Hotel
So Prahran Hotel is actually a hotel in name only -- in practical terms, it’s simply a pub. But we love the idea of dining and drinking in a draining pipe, and the visual effect is nothing short of stunning. The menu promotions don't hurt, either; Tuesday and Wednesday nights mean $14 AUS ($12 USD) porterhouse steak and chicken parm, and patrons pay what they think is "karmically fair" for beer during the Karma Kegs happy hours, a weekly charity fundraising from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays.
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Sierra Club’s John Bacher Receives Forestry Award
Photo of John Bacher (on right) receiving award from David Milton, Executive Director of Ontario Professional Foresters Association
By Dan McDermott
Sierra Club Ontario Greenbelt campaigner, Dr. John Bacher received the Ontario Professional Foresters Association’s Edmund Zavitz Award “in recognition of significant contribution to forest conservation in Ontario”, at the OPFA May 1st award ceremony in Thunder Bay. Dr. Bacher received the Zavitz Award, appropriately enough, for his book, Two Billion Trees and Counting, The Legacy of Edmund Zavitz. Mr. Zavitz (1875-1968) held the positions of chief forester of Ontario, deputy minister of forests, and director of reforestation. He is credited with rescuing Ontario forests from environmental and human caused disasters. More than two billion trees were planted under his guidance. In presenting the award to Bacher, OPFA’s David Milton also noted John’s work with foresters across the province, who are tree by-law enforcement officers. Within Niagara Region, where John lives, this work contributed to securing an improved tree by-law and the protection of a forest that contains two Threatened Species, the Round-leaved Greenbrier and the White Wood Aster.
John’s Niagara Region Greenbelt work involves raising Greenbelt awareness and support for the Greenbelt Act heading toward the 2015 Review of the Act. He currently is involved in Ontario Municipal Board hearings addressing natural ecosystem protection and the threat of encroaching sprawl development in Niagara.
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Serving Truckee, Tahoe City, Kings Beach and Incline Village
Tahoe Shakespeare review: ‘Taming of the Shrew’ engulfs audience in sidesplitting comedy
Activities & Events | August 1, 2019
Kaleb Roedel
kroedel@sierrasun.com
Katherine does not accept the bachelor Petruchio’s rose (actors, Jessika D. Williams and Jonathan Dyrud, left to right) in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Taming of the Shrew.
Courtesy Strotz Photography
Performances of “The Taming of the Shrew” runs through Aug. 25 at Sand Harbor State Park, alternating with “Million Dollar Quartet,” the festival’s other live performance this summer. Visit laketahoeshakespeare.com to learn more about the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
Madison Martin had the best seat in the house.
Sure, having the “best seat in the house” is a subjective claim. But, there was no debate on this starry Tuesday night at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of “The Taming of the Shrew.”
Martin’s seat wasn’t front row, center stage — her seat was near the center, on stage.
If it wasn’t enough to be sitting within arm’s length of the actors, immersed in the energetic, sidesplitting production, Martin was also — ready for this? — part of the performance.
Early in the play, when characters Petruchio and Grumio tussle on the floor, the latter grabbed Martin’s ankles for leverage. Later, when Petruchio tossed a pretzel from a platter, the salted snack (unintentionally) careened toward Martin’s head. She ducked just in time, prompting Grumio to give her noggin a friendly pat.
And then the fourth act came. There, when Tranio, who’s impersonating Lucentio (don’t worry, it’ll all make sense when you see it), says to “call forth an officer,” Martin is literally pulled into the scene to play the role. Yanked from her chair, thrust to center stage, a police helmet put on her head, Martin had all eyes on her — from the characters to the 800-plus attendees — during the climactic scene at Lucentio’s house.
Impressively, the Tahoma resident managed to keep a straight face for her impromptu, minute-long performance as the officer. On the inside, though, she was beaming.
“To be part of the performance, it’s just mind-blowing,” Martin, still beaming, said after the show. “I’m awestruck right now. Everybody in the audience wants to be a part of that. It was a really, really neat experience.”
Martin, who even received a round of applause from the audience during the curtain call, was one of 20 people who had onstage seats during the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare’s rollicking production of “The Taming of the Shrew” on July 16 at Sand Harbor.
Her mother, Jamie Martin, was seated alongside her, equally awestruck and amused.
“It’s just wonderful,” Jamie said. “Kids need to come and see it; they’d have a blast here.”
uproarious performances abound
For those uninitiated, “The Taming of the Shrew” tells the story of a wealthy father with two very different daughter problems.
Baptista Minola’s younger daughter, Bianca, is being wooed by three suitors: Hortensio, Germio and Lucentio. Lucentio goes so far as to change identities with his servant, Tranio, in order to get a job as Bianca’s tutor.
Baptista, however, will not allow his youngest to be married until a husband is found for his older daughter, Katherine, a feisty woman who strikes fear in most men she encounters.
Petruchio of Verona accepts the challenge. Visiting his friend Hortensio, Petruchio brazenly takes on taming “the shrew” Katherine to not only help his friend, but also to marry into money.
Naturally, comedy ensues.
Perhaps the funniest moment of this uproarious performance comes when Petruchio, set to marry Katherine despite her defiance, shows up late to their wedding. Played by Jonathan Dyrud, a comedic wrecking ball, Petruchio trudges in shirtless wearing a hilariously hideous outfit: red and yellow cape; purple tights; knee-high boot on one foot, slipper on the other; scuba mask and mouthpiece; and, to top it all off, a rubber ducky floatie hugging his waist.
Seemingly improvised, Dyrud pecks the duck’s mouth on his castmates, shouting “Muah!” each time, as he meanders across the stage.
By the time Petruchio exited stage left — punctuating his exit by pausing, turning to the crowd and sternly straightening his crooked rubber ducky floatie — the audience was in stitches.
A captivating show — and setting
Several other standout performances highlighted the LTSF’s production of “The Taming of the Shrew.” Jessika D. Williams shined as the title character, unspooling impassioned monologues with fierce swagger.
Joe Wegner flexed unparalleled comedic timing as Grumio, who at one point exhaustedly asked the audience, “Who else needs a drink?” before pretending to count out the orders: “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven-hundred of you!”
It was just another example of the immersive nature of this captivating production. There’s a stage, sure, but there are no dividing lines between actor and audience at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
Characters run through aisles, sit on attendees’ laps, munch popcorn during monologues, and even whisk those sitting in the best seat in the house into position to play a part in the show.
Not to mention, it all takes place in a venue backdropped by the shimmering waters of Lake Tahoe and the snow-capped Sierra Nevada.
For Madison Martin, it sure beat going to the movies.
“I think having flesh and blood right in front of you perform is so much heavier than just seeing it on a movie screen,” Martin said. “This is the first year we had tickets for on stage and we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. And now it’s going to be that way every year. I’d recommend it to everyone.”
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Tornado: Farm Escape Slot Review
Net Entertainment are back to show off their quirky imagination with this abstract themed slot that is one of the better-looking ones out there currently. The premise is straightforward and as soon as the game loads up, we are treated to a short animation detailing the working life on the farm, before the farm is battered by a tornado and surprisingly, the animals all think that this is a holiday of sorts. Net Entertainment’s development skills know no boundaries in the world of online slots and this is a good thing for all the players who enjoy games that take a slightly different approach.
Looks & Feel:
As the name suggests, we are in the eye of the storm and the reels in this game are a bird’s eye view of the field beneath these helpless creatures, that strangely seem to be enjoying this whole ordeal. The illustrations for Tornado: Farm Escape might look cartoony but when you consider the theme of the game, you will certainly appreciate them.
This slot doesn’t differ too much from the layout of other games and Tornado: Farm Escape is a 5-reel slot that has 20 paylines which are fixed across 3 rows. There is a total of 10 main symbols to keep track of, including a sheep, a horse, a stool, a radio, a welly boot, an armchair, a pig, an armchair, a chicken and a cow.
For the wild, Net Entertainment has used a TV set and the bonus features for the game are activated by the hot and cold clouds that we will go into more detail regarding later.
Tornado: With a theme as strange as this one, you’d be right to expect some weird and wonderful bonus features that are as unique as they come. You will activate the tornado feature by landing on the hot cloud on the first reel and the cold cloud on the fifth reel. This will cause the tornado to sweep the reels and collect the symbol in the very centre, every spin after that which contains a matching icon or wild will incur a payout.
Storm Feature: This feature keeps this game interesting and occurs randomly throughout the game. A storm will appear on any side of the reels and move across the screen. Any symbols the storm touches are then turned into wilds until there are no symbols left and the storm cloud disappears.
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With a payout percentage of 96.40%, this game is relatively high when compared to other titles on the market. There are some games that have higher, but you will often sacrifice quality and if a game isn’t fun, you won’t spend any time playing it. A problem you won’t encounter on Tornado.
This game is perfect for players who are looking to try out something new. This game has that well-polished feel that we have grown to expect from Net Entertainment and the premise is hilarious but works a lot better than you’d think. There are a couple of bonus features that have been worked into the game well and if you prefer uninterrupted gameplay with the occasional bonus surprise, this game is going to be right up your street.
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Remote WA carers back-paid $6 million after six-year payroll error
By Hamish Hastie
December 13, 2019 — 12.19pm
One foster carer working in remote WA with Indigenous children has been back-paid more than $500,000 after their NDIS-registered employer self-disclosed six years of underpayments to the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Lifestyle Solutions entered into a court-enforced undertaking with the Ombudsman to back-pay more than $6 million to 124 current and former live-in foster carers who worked mostly with Indigenous children in remote WA under a contract with the Department of Communities.
Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker. Credit:Paul Jeffers
An internal audit found Lifestyle Solutions underpaid the carers' overtime and weekend penalty rates they were entitled to under the award between 2012 and 2018, with individual amounts ranging from less than $1000 to more than $500,000.
The carers worked at properties owned by the WA government.
Carers working under the remote contract were generally paid annual salaries of more than $100,000 but some employees on-call were entitled to annual wages of well over $200,000.
In a statement on its website the company said it was not accurately calculating how the relevant award applied to the unique way its foster care services operated in Western Australia.
“Our people are at the heart of what we do and we understand that in this case, we have let them down. We unreservedly apologise and are committed to ensuring that this won’t happen again," Lifestyle Solutions chief executive Andrew Hyland said.
Ombudsman Sandra Parker said a court-enforceable undertaking was appropriate because Lifestyle Solutions demonstrated a strong commitment to back-paying workers, but it served as a warning to all employers to prioritise workplace compliance.
“The court-enforceable undertaking commits Lifestyle Solutions to stringent measures to protect their employees, including developing new systems to ensure future compliance, funding external audits over the next two years and rectifying any further underpayments," she said.
Lifestyle Solutions provides disability and family services right across the country but the Ombudsman said the payment issues were limited to its WA operations.
The ombudsman said some back payments were outstanding and former employees who believe they may be impacted should contact Lifestyle Solutions or the ombudsman.
The issue was unlikely to occur again with the company implementing 'guaranteed annual earnings' contracts remote WA foster carers, which set their salaries about the high income threshold of $148,700, meaning award entitlements no longer applied.
WA Child Protection Minister Simone McGurk said underpayment of employees who worked in good faith was unacceptable but she praised the company for self-disclosing the underpayments to the Ombudsman and taking the steps to pay the money back.
“As the ombudsman stated, this should serve as a warning to employers to prioritise workplace compliance," she said.
The admission is the latest in a stream of multi-million dollar underpayment cases that have surfaced in Australian workplaces.
In October Woolworths announced it had underpaid workers as much as $300 million.
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Hamish Hastie
Hamish Hastie is WAtoday's business reporter.
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Cardinal DiNardo Should Ask Abusive Conroe Priest to Plead Guilty
An allegedly abusive priest from Conroe County is due in court on Thursday for the next phase of his trial. We believe that church officials can and should spare his victims the pain of that trial and should encourage the priest to plead guilty instead.
Fr. Manuel LaRosa Lopez will be back in court on Thursday following his indictment in May on three counts of indecency with a child. He has now been charged with five counts from three separate victims. The incidents for the five counts occurred in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. There is also a fourth victim who went to the Archdiocese of Galveston/Houston in 1992 with an accusation, but this incident occurred outside of the window of the Statute of Limitations. If the church had been responsible at that time, they would have removed Fr. LaRosa Lopez from ministry, preventing the three victims in the criminal case from being sexually abused, changing their lives forever. Given this information, we feel that Cardinal Daniel DiNardo should use his power to help spare the pain and expense of a trial and encourage Fr. LaRosa Lopez to plead guilty.
Priests take a vow of obedience, so if Cardinal DiNardo demanded that Fr. LaRosa Lopez take this step, he would be required to do so. And the church continues to pay Fr. LaRosa Lopez’s expenses, including legal fees. If church officials in Houston really care about victims the way they claim to do publicly, they should be looking for ways to ensure Fr. LaRosa Lopez is kept away from children in the future and for survivors of his abuse to receive the validation they deserve.
For the concern of survivors and the protection of others in the future, Cardinal DiNardo should make this demand today.
CONTACT: Michael D. Norris, SNAP Houston (snapmdnorris@hotmail.com, 713-855-9178), Eduardo Lopez de Casas, SNAP Houston (eduarturo_c@yahoo.com, 832-641-6319), Zach Hiner, Executive Director (zhiner@snapnetwork.org, 517-974-9009)
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Mary MacIntosh
What Do You Wear Under a Wrestling Singlet?
Proper Dress Code for a Catholic Ordination
What Equipment Do You Need for Sumo Wrestling?
What to Wear to a Boxing Match
Olympic Volleyball Uniform Rules
Home Fitness Strength Training
Wrestling Hairstyles
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Wrestling is a technical and physically demanding sport that pits talented athletes against each other at close quarters. Because of the intimate nature of a wrestling match, referees and coaches must enforce strict rules regarding the wrestlers' physical appearance and dress. Fingernail length, facial hair and personal hygiene are strictly regulated for the safety and comfort of other wrestlers. Likewise, wrestling hairstyles must comply with guidelines laid out by college or high school sport organizations.
Regulations for Hair
Both the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which governs college wrestling, and the NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee, which regulates high school wrestling, have similar rules regarding appearance and hair. Wrestlers must have short hair that does not hang below a standard collar in the back. The rules also mandate short sideburns that descend no lower than the earlobe. If a wrestler has longer hair, he must tuck it into his headgear or a solid, non-abrasive hair cover worn underneath his headgear. Bandannas and hair nets are not permitted in competition.
Regulations for Facial Hair
According to the NCAA wrestling rule book, wrestlers must be cleanshaven and smooth, with no abrasive stubble that could injure another player. The rules permit a short mustache that does not hang down past the lips. Wrestlers with other facial hair, such as beards or long sideburns, can obtain a legal face mask which covers it safely.
Common Wrestling Hairstyles
Due to these regulations, most wrestlers compete with a short style such as a buzz cut or crew cut. Slightly longer hair is permitted, but even styles that fit within regulations can be a disadvantage if they are long enough to grab. Male and female wrestlers who have long hair must braid it and coil it tightly into a hair cover or headpiece. Male wrestlers commonly shave their heads for competition, though they must take care to avoid stubble which the referee could deem a hazard.
Sumo Wrestling Hairstyles
In the Japanese tradition of sumo wrestling, hair regulations are very different than in Western wrestling. Most sumo athletes have very long hair that is styled for competition by special hairdressers. The most common sumo hairstyle is the top knot, or chonmage, which features a large bun of hair on the top of the head. Sumo wrestlers have worn this style for centuries, theoretically to cushion the head from injury. When a wrestler retires, he undergoes an elaborate hair-cutting ceremony that treats his hair with appropriate reverence.
Syracuse Wrestling Officials Association; Wrestler's Health and Appearance; Alan Beste; 2006
Japanese Culture Teaching Notes: The Sumo Topknot
Mary MacIntosh has been writing professionally since 2007, contributing articles to "The California Tech" and serving as an editor for the "Biweekly Frink Digest." She is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in computational neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology.
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Life Sciences Biochemistry & Biophysics
Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease
Phospholipases in Health and Disease
Editors: Tappia, Paramjit S, Dhalla, Naranjan S (Eds.)
Focuses on the role of phospholipases in cellular function in health and disease
Includes up-to-date knowledge about these enzymes and related signal transduction mechanisms
Provides a comprehensive discussion on three different types of phospholipases in the same volume
eBook 117,69 €
Hardcover 176,79 €
Softcover 155,50 €
Phospholipases generate lipid signaling molecules through their hydrolytic action on phospholipids and are known to regulate function of a variety of cells under normal and diseased conditions. While several physiological, biochemical and molecular techniques have identified key players involved in different disease processes, phospholipases have also emerged as critical players in the pathogenesis of a number of different diseases including cancer and heart disease. In addition, phospholipases are also implicated in such conditions as brain disorder/injury, kidney and immune cell dysfunction.
Phospholipases in Health and Disease is a compilation of review articles dedicated to the study of the field with respect to biochemical and molecular mechanisms of normal and abnormal cell function. The wide range of area covered here is of interest to basic research scientists, clinicians and graduate students, who are engaged in studying pathophysiological basis of a variety of diseases. Furthermore, this book highlights the potential of the different phospholipases as therapeutic targets as well as part of prevention strategies. Twenty three articles in this book are organized in four sections that are designed to emphasize the most characterized forms of the phospholipases in mammalian cells. The first section discusses general aspect of phospholipases. Section two covers the role and function of phospholipase A in different pathophysiological conditions. The third section is focussed on phospholipase C which is believed to play a central role in transmembrane signaling. The final section covers phospholipase D which is present in a variety of different cells. The book illustrates that the activation of phospholipases is of fundamental importance in signal transduction affecting cell function. Overall, this book discusses the diverse mechanisms of phospholipase mediated signal transduction in different pathophysiological conditions and raises the possibility of specific forms of phospholipases serving as novel targets for drug development.
Yang, Yong Ryoul (et al.)
Role of Phospholipases in Regulation of Cardiolipin Biosynthesis and Remodeling in the Heart and Mammalian Cells
Mejia, Edgard M. (et al.)
Role of Phospholipases and Oxidized Phospholipids in Inflammation
Hasanally, Devin (et al.)
Phospholipases in Cardiovascular Disease
Ikonomidis, Ignatios, Ph.D., F.E.S.C. (et al.)
The Structures and Functions of Intracellular Phospholipase A1 Family Proteins
Tani, Katsuko (et al.)
Phospholipase A and Breast Cancer
Thomas, Warren
Pathophysiological Aspects of Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2: A Brief Overview
Chakraborti, Sajal (et al.)
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Paramjit S Tappia
Naranjan S Dhalla
Springer Science+Business Media New York
10.1007/978-1-4939-0464-8
XIX, 410
16 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Lipidology
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Physics Classical Continuum Physics
Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Neoclassical Physics
Authors: Cunningham, Mark A.
Explains physics by discussing the processes that lead physicists to a correct description of the systems under study
Includes solutions to chapter exercises and Mathematica notebook files for computational exercises
Presents as well a wealth of historical information on many of the scientists under discussion, ranging from Newton to Einstein and Hilbert
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In this introductory text, physics concepts are introduced as a means of understanding experimental observations, not as a sequential list of facts to be memorized. The book is structured around the key scientific discoveries that led to much of our current understanding of the universe. Numerous exercises are provided that utilize Mathematica software to help students explore how the language of mathematics is used to describe physical phenomena. Topics requiring quantum mechanics for a more complete explanation are identified but not pursued.
In a departure from the traditional methodology and subject matter used in introductory physics texts, this is organized in a manner that will facilitate a guided discovery style of instruction. Students will obtain much more detailed information about fewer topics and will also gain proficiency with Mathematica, a powerful tool with many potential uses in subsequent courses.
Mark Cunningham received his BS in Physics from Rice University in 1976 and a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from Yale University in 1982. After a lengthy career in industry, working on remote sensing and non-destructive testing, Dr. Cunningham returned to academic pursuits that centered on structural biology. He taught at The University of Texas-Pan American for nine years, including numerous sections of University Physics.
Cunningham, Mark A.
II On the Motion of Planets
III On the Nature of Matter
IV On the Nature of Spacetime
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by Animesh Harrington
It is sunset. Far mountain peaks catch the last rays of light; a wash of colour spreads out across the evening sky; waves of calm, lap the motionless shoreline; and the rush of daily life dissolves in an ocean of irresistible peace.
Nature is offering its final blessing for the day as the ephemeral glow of twilight gently lifts the heart to prayer.
It could be any one of a thousand summer evenings that have graced this special island for centuries. But for me, this tranquil close of day marks the final farewell to our stay in Bali.
Like old friends, memories of the past five weeks have gathered, eager to share these fleeting moments. Some images parade past with the bold clash of a gamelan orchestra; others, delicate and serene, leave their faint impressions like a whispering stream of flute music.
“It is as if Sri Chinmoy is playing with a miniature solar system.
Each shotput, once it takes flight, looks like some heavenly body suspended in infinite space.”
It is just before 6 a.m. when Sri Chinmoy arrives at the beach entrance of the Kartika Plaza Hotel. A team of assistants, ‘the shot-put boys’, have already set up Sri Chinmoy’s practice area. It is of a makeshift design, drawn out on hardened sand. There is no throwing circle, no stop board, just a simple line marking the place from which Sri Chinmoy will throw. In front of this point, each metre, between 6 and 12 metres, has also been marked with a line and a small flag. To the side of the throwing area, shot puts of varying weights have been arrayed.
The official weight of an Olympic shot put is 16 lbs. The shot puts Sri Chinmoy will be throwing today are: 6, 8, 12, 16, 22, 27, 31, 35, 40 and 50 lbs.
Sri Chinmoy, retaining as always a meditative consciousness, does not talk as he takes the first shot put in his hands. With a tremendous thrust, he launches the weight into the air. There is absolute silence until the shot put hits the sand.
He walks up to the farthest mark and turns around. Outwardly he gives little attention to where the shot put has landed. Sri Chinmoy, it seems, is spanning some other inner world as he slowly walks back to his seat.
He takes a drink from his table and rises again for the next attempt. Like this, he will practice for two or more hours. It is as if Sri Chinmoy is playing with a miniature solar system. Each shot put, once it takes flight, looks like some heavenly body suspended in infinite space. One could easily imagine that the moon and the planets had come to earth for a time, just to rest for a moment in Sri Chinmoy’s hands.
The heat and humidity in Bali can be devastating, especially for Westerners. Just running a few miles in the early morning takes its toll. Yet most mornings, after an exhausting workout throwing shot put, Sri Chinmoy plays tennis.
This morning, at the courts of the Hotel Sanur Beach, Mahiyan takes up his usual position, ready to face Sri Chinmoy's relentless play of volleys and drop shots. It is not unusual to see Mahiyan looking pale, and dripping wet from perspiration.
Today though, Mahiyan is close to exhaustion. The scene is reminiscent of a time in Sri Lanka, when Sri Chinmoy himself was so severely affected by the heat that he suffered extreme dehydration and life-threatening cramps. However, the match is nearing its end and the game plays on as Mahiyan staggers across the court in chase of the ball.
Finally, Sri Chinmoy unleashes the winning point. Mahiyan almost falls from the court and sits, slumped and motionless, in the shade by the wall. The vision of Mahiyan, his hand loosely clutching a water bottle, eyes cast toward the heavens, the involuntary gasp of his breathing, his mind uncluttered by thought, is a scene from an epic battle in the Mahabharata. He looks like an ancient martyr, crumpled, worn and helpless, who has given his all for a great cause.
Sri Chinmoy takes two cups from his table and walks towards Mahiyan. He leans down and offers Mahiyan his drinks. A gleam of gratitude comes to Mahiyan’s eyes. Sri Chinmoy says nothing as he turns and walks away. Mahiyan rests back against the wall, melting in the afterglow of Sri Chinmoy’s smile.
The Bali International Yacht Club, while not exactly Newport, is about as international as you could get in the far, far East of the Indonesian archipelago. Nevertheless, it is true to its tradition – it is home to noble seafaring souls from around the world.
The local variety of yachts look to be almost shipwrecked as they sit tilted against the horizon in the shallow inlet. Our chartered sailing ship, the ‘Matahari’, is luckily anchored in deeper waters of the bay and we are ferried out to it in a small motorboat.
As we set sail, it is as though we are continuing an eternal boat journey. It could be the Nile, the Hudson or the Elbe: Sri Chinmoy sits by the side composing songs, the skyline moves slowly by, the rush and spray of water dissolving earthbound time.
The captain, who has already become a friend, will in the course of the next few weeks dedicate his boat to world peace with a plaque inscribed: ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Boat’.
The shot put boys dressed as clowns, jump and smile, dance and sing their way through Sri Chinmoy’s most recent composition:
Marvellous, marvellous, marvellous
Oriental Circus, Oriental Circus!
Charming, thrilling and daring,
Loving, caring and self-giving.
Oriental Circus, Oriental –
Sweetness-heart transcendental.
The audience is a troupe of circus performers who had entertained us the night before. Now, in this unusual reversal of roles, Sri Chinmoy is honouring the ‘Oriental Circus’ in a very special way.
There is something of the atmosphere of a children's birthday party here at the Bali Gardens Hotel today, which is understandable as most of the circus performers are in fact children, orphaned children.
During the past twenty years, the kind heart of the circus manager, Tony, has become home for many children who have lost their parents. He takes loving care of them and they have become part of his travelling circus family.
Outside in a small amphitheatre, Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting platform has been set up. One by one the circus performers come up on stage to be lifted. Occasionally Sri Chinmoy lifts two or three of the younger children at once, much to the amazement of their circus friends.
After the lifting, Sri Chinmoy, who also lost his parents at an early age, gives a touching talk to the children: “You may not understand now what I am going to say, but when you are older Tony will tell you...”
Sri Chinmoy’s heart says it all and the children respond with spontaneous joy. As their final tribute to Sri Chinmoy, the younger children (the youngest is only four-years-old) give a display of acrobatics with all the talent and professionalism of veteran circus performers.
On several occasions, Sri Chinmoy appreciated the “simplicity, sincerity and purity” of the people and the land of Bali. Their religious tradition has imbued them with something unique. The Balinese have a natural friendliness, openness and spontaneous happiness, which affects everyone they come in contact with.
The General Manager of the Kartika Plaza Hotel is one such person. Living and working each day with the open-hearted Balinese people, as he has, has given him an immediate receptivity to Sri Chinmoy’s message.
On arrival at the Kartika Plaza Hotel, Sri Chinmoy was accorded a welcoming honour reserved only for royalty. The departure ceremony could easily have been intended to honour a god.
Assembled in front of the hotel’s main entrance is a 30-piece gamelan orchestra. Dressed in traditional uniform of yellow, red and gold they sit and kneel with complete repose. They have been playing now for 20 minutes or more. The soft murmur of gongs, bells and drums conveys an anticipation of the magic about to unfold.
The music, with precise intonation and control, rises to a deafening crescendo of pitch and flailing rhythms. Then from the height of thunderous intensity, the sound drops like gentle evening rain from the edge of a cloud as a quiet temple-like atmosphere once more resumes the play.
The dancers who have been patiently waiting by the fountain at the side move out in front of the orchestra and the performance begins. Sri Chinmoy has arrived.
The General Manager is looking on with justifiable pride. (The dancers and musicians are all part of the hotel staff.)
Sri Chinmoy is escorted slowly down the steps to where the procession has formed. He is flanked by honour guards on all sides and is engulfed in a ribbon of colour and sound as he is walked in stately grandeur down through the decorative gateways and gardens to his waiting car. As Sri Chinmoy bows to his hosts in gratitude, he is showered with flower petals. The musicians have stopped, yet the peal of gamelan bells still echoes in the air, as if the gods themselves have continued to play.
Mr. Astawa, Assistant Manager of the Kartika Plaza Hotel, had a significant dream about Sri Chinmoy even before Sri Chinmoy had arrived in Bali.
He dreamt he was in a most luminous room with disciples and there he saw Sri Chinmoy smiling at him.
Today Mr. Astawa has been invited to meet with Sri Chinmoy. The singers have just finished learning a special song about Mr. Astawa, which Sri Chinmoy spontaneously composed for the occasion. Mr. Astawa arrives and is ushered to the front where Sri Chinmoy is seated.
As the singers start to sing, the dream and the reality come face to face. Mr. Astawa is completely overwhelmed by a flood of his heart’s joy and gratitude. With his head bowed in humility and hands folded in prayer he asks if he can become Sri Chinmoy's disciple.
Sri Chinmoy smiles. The dream continues…
At the airport, Sri Chinmoy’s Balinese disciples have been waiting to offer their last goodbye to their spiritual Master. Also here are the General Manager from the Kartika and his wife. Amidst the swirl of activity, they stand, smiling and chatting with us, bowing to Sri Chinmoy and completely taken by the occasion.
Meanwhile, at the Kartika Plaza Hotel, there is a lasting tribute to Sri Chinmoy carved in stone, which was dedicated by the General Manager. He has named the gateway by the beach, ‘Sri Chinmoy Peace Gateway’.
Our Christmas trip has come to a close. Still, the achievements will forever be remembered:
Sri Chinmoy composed 400 songs, wrote 3,200 poems, lifted 53 people (8,018 lbs.) in less than 1½ hours, received an award naming him ‘Ambassador of Peace’, as well as an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Dwijendra University. There were Peace Boats, Peace Gateways, Peace Gardens, Peace Concerts … and Peace Dreams.
This article was originally written in 1991.
Copyright © Animesh Harrington, 2010. All rights reserved.
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Celebrate Dolly Parton’s Birthday in This Meaningful Way
A gift for you, and a gift for a child. What more would Dolly want?
By Rebecca Angel Baer
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Saturday, January 19this a very special day indeed. It's the birthday of one of the South's favorite daughters! Dolly Parton celebrates another trip around the sun this Saturday and we are not the only people rejoicing. Fellow famous Southern Belle, and self-proclaimed Dolly Parton mega fan, Reese Witherspoon is honoring the Queen of country music in a way that we know she will just love.
Last year, Witherspoon and her clothing brand Draper James announced they were celebrating Dolly by donating the shop's profits to a cause near and dear to Dolly's heart—her Imagination Library. This foundation is Parton's passion project and she's donated free books every month to children from birth to five years of age all over the world.
Witherspoon even posed with the Smoky Mountain songbird along with an adorable Draper James tote bearing the phrase "What would Dolly do?"
Draper James has several products featuring this moniker and we just love it! We think Dolly Parton is a great icon to emulate. This year, Witherspoon as updated the entire "What Would Dolly Do" collection featuring a font inspired by Parton's signature on all of her album covers.
Also, this year, Witherspoon and Draper James are changing up the way they are celebrating Parton's birthday. It's now a two-day affair. Today, Friday January 17, and tomorrow, Saturday January 18, Draper James will donate a book to the Imagination Library for every purchase you make. You aren't limited to the Dolly inspired collection, but of course, there are some great choices there. What a way to celebrate our hero Dolly! A gift for yourself and a new book for a child to enjoy! We couldn't imagine that anything else would make Dolly happier.
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The one with the magic words
20 January 2017 on mindset, personal training, inspiration
Once upon a time, deep under the sea, there were two great friends - Fish and Turtle. Each week, Fish and Turtle would meet up and swim together amongst the reef and the reeds with their other marine friends.
As the days, weeks and months passed by, Turtle and Fish became better at swimming; each noticing that they were becoming stronger, more confident and capable of swimming further than they had ever thought possible.
Realising that they were ready for their next challenge, Fish and Turtle took a deep breath and signed up for the Great Reef Swim.
Fish and Turtle leaped into their training with vigour and enthusiasm and as they did so, they continued to become stronger, more confident and capable of swimming even further than they had ever thought possible.
Everything was going well.
Until one day, Fish realised that the three strokes she had been behind Turtle, was now six. The next week, the six strokes became twelve and the next, the twelve became twenty-four until Fish was swimming so far behind Turtle and the others, the collage of colours that used to flicker ahead of her could no longer be seen.
Dejected, Fish slumped down on a near by sand bar and sulked.
"What's wrong?" Asked a passing Sea Horse.
"I'm so slow... so much slower than my swimming pals; I can't swim with them anymore." Explained Fish. "I always thought she'd be a little bit faster than me, but I didn't think we'd be this different."
Sea Horse thought for a little bit, then turned to the Fish, "It's not so much that you're slower than the others that's the problem; you're capable of swimming just as spectacularly. I can see you're upset, I can give you some magic medicine to help you if you like?"
Fish excitedly thanked Sea Horse and accepted the magic medicine gratefully.
"All you have to do is sprinkle a little of it over your head every day, whilst saying the magic words I give you." Explained Sea Horse, "And soon, before you know it, you'll be sprinting through the water as sprightly as your friend again."
Handing her the magic medicine, Sea Horse whispered the magic words into Fish's ear.
Over the next few weeks, Turtle and Fish continued to swim at different speeds, sometimes together, sometimes in their turtley-fishy group and sometimes alone. Each night, Fish would sprinkle the magic dust Sea Horse had given her over her head and say the magic words. Slowly, very slowly, Fish started to swim better and better until finally, she was swimming confidently and capably but most importantly, cheerily alongside her friends.
Noticing the new found tenacity in her Fishy pal, inevitably Turtle was curious as to what had turned her friend's swimming fortunes around.
Fish told her friend all about the magic dust and the magic words she had chanted each night and how, even though the magic dust had run out after a few days, she'd looked in the mirror and continued to say those magic words every night; until eventually, little by little, she'd become more confident, capable and cheerful. Eager to know the magic words, Turtle asked if she would share them with her.
"Of course," Replied Fish, "And they're so easy to remember just:
I am strong,
I am capable,
I am me.
Three simple phrases, but they made such a difference."
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Expanding with churches
Published Dec. 11, 2019
Partnership with Master's Plan brings immediate results; "I am thoroughly enjoying this"
TULSA (Dec. 11, 2019) -- Sparks Reed Architecture and Interiors ends 2019 with eight different church expansion or renovation projects underway and more on the horizon.
Many of these developed through a strategic partnership with another Tulsa firm, Master’s Plan, a turnkey church design and construction firm launched earlier this year by Rodney C. James.
"I am thoroughly enjoying this," said David Reed, principal and co-founder of Tulsa-based Sparks Reed. "Rodney's team is great to work with."
The two firms bring unique perspectives to their church efforts.
• Sparks Reed’s founders are devout Christians who have worked on many such projects through their careers. This experience adds to Sparks Reed's successful track record of architectural and interior design efforts across many fields, from sports and education facilities to office, retail, and service(s) buildings, municipal districts, and park plans.
“That’s very good for us and what we do,” James said.
• James, whose father was a builder, pastored a Tulsa area church for two decades before entering the construction field. He oversaw multiple expansion and renovation projects while serving his church. Through Master’s Plan, James has a team of subcontractors able to provide all skills needed to complete any church project.
“The uniqueness that I have really sets us apart,” said James. “We look at everything with the skills of an architect but the eyes of a pastor. I know what our clients feel, what they’re trying to achieve. That helps our team partnership with Sparks Reed design sanctuary spaces to make the client’s vision work.”
This business relationship came together through Sparks Reed co-founder Gary Sparks. James, who had hired Gary under Sparks Companies before Sparks Reed formed, contacted his friend early this year about finding a design partner for a project Master’s Plan had in hand. Sparks arranged a meeting between James and Reed, who had worked for Sparks at that earlier firm.
“The three of us met, and we hit it off,” said Reed. “We’ve been drawing for Rodney ever since.”
Five of Sparks Reed’s eight ongoing church projects originated with Master’s Plan. James said another four churches are considering contracts, with two more at the interview stage.
“It’s only going to get better, the more we do together,” said James.
Current Sparks Reed/Master's Plan projects
First Baptist Church, Glen Rose, Texas: This church plans to renovate and add space to create a new gathering place for the growing congregation. It also intends to add new administrative and children's areas. James said these projects would accommodate First Baptist's next expansion phase, a new sanctuary. Having completed a capital plan in November, James said the congregation will vote Dec. 15 on the building contract. Allowing for five to six months of design and permitting, James said this 12,000-square-foot project could open near the end of 2021.
Grace Community Church, Bartlesville, OK: Sparks Reed and Master’s Plan are renovating and designing new children’s and youth space for Grace. This 14,000-square-foot project is in the design/development stage.
Memorial Church of Christ, Tulsa, OK: Master’s Plan was in discussions with church leaders about a separate effort when a fire gutted much of Memorial’s existing campus. Sparks Reed and Master’s Plan are now working on schematic designs for rebuilding and expanding this church. These remain in the due diligence and feasibility stage while Memorial works through fire recovery issues.
Providence Church, Albany, GA: This project brought about the Master’s Plan/Sparks Reed partnership. Master’s Plan needed an architectural firm that could come in and supply drawings for a new sanctuary, classrooms, increased gathering space, and a coffee shop. Sparks Reed delivered on that 19,000-square-foot project, which Master’s Plan hopes to finish construction on by spring 2021.
Trinity Baptist Church, Kerrville, Texas: James said this expansion and renovation passed through several variations as the church contemplated a street closing and relocating power lines. Having a design concept now in hand, church leaders have voted to move forward with the project. With four to five months of design ahead, plus permitting needs, James said construction could begin by mid- to late summer, with completion in late 2021 or early 2022.
Separate Sparks Reed church projects
Crossroads Community Church, near Mannford, OK: Sparks Reed designed a 5,000-square-foot fellowship hall and youth addition for this project. The church hopes to start construction in the first quarter.
Evergreen Baptist Church, Broken Arrow, OK: This effort evolved from a master plan and phase-one construction project in 2006. All three Sparks Reed co-founders worked on that under Gary Sparks’ original firm. As the church prepared for phase four, its leadership – intact for two decades – came to Sparks Reed to draw up a new worship space able to seat approximately 2,000 people. That project is in the conceptual design phase. “That was one of my first projects with Sparks, so it’s really exciting and an honor to return to it,” said Reed.
Victory Church/Bible College, Tulsa, OK: Victory Bible College has started construction on the first building outlined under a campus master plan developed by Sparks Reed. LD Kerns Contractors hopes to finish this 40,000-square-foot building by August. While this Sparks Reed design represents a college expansion, Reed said the building also will provide meeting space for Victory Church youth programs. He expects the facility to improve ministry impact and operations for both organizations.
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(from our pamphlet, “Making the Most of your Powwow Experience”)
Powwows are exciting events! Make the most of your experience and read about basic powwow etiquette.
Powwow etiquette at its most basic is simply the use of common courtesy and respect for others.
Every powwow is different. However, most gatherings are either a traditional wačhípi — dance, or the more contemporary powwow contest. Traditional powwows honor groups or individuals and may include a special ceremony. Contest powwows are typically larger, competitive events and provide prize money for dancers. Some powwows are both. Nevertheless, one thing they have in common are expectations and general rules, also known as powwow etiquette.
Powwows can be very busy events with lots of action going on at once, which is why one of the first expectations of powwow etiquette is to listen carefully. The Master of Ceremonies may announce it’s time to stand and remove your hat for an honor song. Please follow the request just as you would for the National Anthem. The Master of Ceremonies will also tell you who is to dance and whether the audience may participate. Remember to allow elders to go first and listen carefully whenever they speak.
Show Respect
Items carried or worn by dancers should be called outfits or regalia. Dancers dress to honor the spiritual connection they have with nature and Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka — Great Spirit. Outfits can sometimes take years to put together. Each piece is intricate; they can be costly and may be family heirlooms. Please do not refer to these cherished possessions as a “costume.”
Spectators should also show respect for dancers by asking permission before taking a photo or touching any part of their regalia. Politely ask permission if you want to use a camera or record video. Pictures or recordings should only be used for personal purposes — not commercial.
Alcohol and drug use are not allowed.
Most Native Americans are glad to share their culture with those who are genuinely interested. A good way to learn is to find a friendly participant and ask questions. Pay attention to the Master of Ceremonies and to what people around you are doing, and you will have no problems enjoying the powwow!
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Close Calls: Climbing Mishaps & Near-Death Experiences
John Long (Falcon)
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Jul 24, 2007 / Jun 2, 2015
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Renowned climber John Long presents 68 stories of climbers whose mishaps could have resulted in the proverbial “dirt nap” but who lived to tell their tales. The author takes the basic fact narrative of each incident and recounts it with a generous humorous overtone. But apart from entertainment value, Long also analyzes what caused the problem and comments on how the situation could have been prevented. So there is a great deal of instructional information that emerges out of these stories.
These stories will refresh the climber how easy it is to let your guard down. But even the non-climber will enjoy this book for the combination of the drama of the close call and the hilarity injected by the author’s story-telling style.
Paperback: 170 pages with illustrations
Author: John Long
Publisher: Falcon
Augie Medina - Jul 24, 2007 7:56 pm - Voted 5/5
Funny and Instructive
This little volume is a combination of seriousness and great humor. Although recounting near-death experiences, Long’s style will have you laughing out loud in many places. One thing that comes through loud and clear is that you can never be too careful when engaged in an activity like climbing, whether it’s big walls or single-pitch routes. As Long illustrates, even elite climbers make basic mistakes sometimes.
Long’s “Commentary” and “Prevention” sections which come with each chapter contain information ranging from basic common sense (climbing and drug or alcohol use is a bad combination; don’t climb a big wall with someone who has never climbed before) to more technically useful information (avoiding common mistakes in rappelling or in anchor building). The cartoon illustrations really add luster to the humorous undertone of this book.
lisae - Oct 3, 2007 9:55 pm - Voted 5/5
I enjoyed reading
this book! Long is a great story teller and Tami Knight's cartoons are always funny.
silversummit - Jan 13, 2009 10:34 pm - Voted 5/5
This is one of the several mountain type books I bought from Book Closeouts without an idea of what kind of read it would be. Turns out that by about the fourth short story I was chuckling and enjoying the ironic words of wisdom. The old climbing lingo came back to me and I found myself wanting more by the last page!
There is probably an example in this book of almost every obvious mistake that can be made along with a couple of really unbelievable things. I especially enjoyed "Violet" who managed to get her elbow jammed in a crack and just after her partner headed for help she remembered that she could use lip balm to carry out a self rescue. Lots of humor, sound advice and even a few vocabulary words to remind you of your SAT study days.
stepho - Aug 14, 2009 10:12 pm - Voted 5/5
got it a library recently
lots of the stories are both funny and educational.
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Collective Action and Exchange
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy
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In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy.
Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as political and policy theory to develop this approach. The text uses classical, evolutionary, and epistemic game theory, along with basic social network analysis, as modeling frameworks. These models effectively bind the ideas presented, generating a coherent theoretic approach to political economy that stresses sometimes overlooked implications.
William D. Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College, where he teaches courses on labor economics, policy analysis, applied game theory, and political economy.
"Ferguson's book is a forceful introduction to the analytical techniques involved in this intellectual revolution, together with a presentation of the evidence supporting various models. It exhibits a deep appreciation for the long road ahead in improving our understanding of the political aspects of social life . . . Your students will love you for it because the material is so exciting and real world. Quite an antidote to traditional micro texts!"
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"Political economy has evolved in the past two decades from verbal gymnastics to a scientific study of how people form groups to solve collective action problems. Ferguson's book is a forceful introduction to the analytical techniques involved in this intellectual revolution, together with a presentation of the evidence supporting various models. It exhibits a deep appreciation for the long road ahead in improving our understanding of the political aspects of social life."
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CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif. — 99 Cents Only Stores here said yesterday it plans to announce in early August whether it will exit its 34-unit Texas operation or implement a plan to increase profitability there.
In the seven weeks since Easter, those stores have shown same-store sales increases of 20% because of improved merchandising and strong word-of-mouth, Eric Schiffer, chief executive officer, said in a conference call.
For the fourth quarter, which ended March 28, net income at the company was $7 million, compared with a net loss of $4.4 million a year ago, while sales rose 13.3% to $329.2 million and same-sore sales jumped 6.2%. For the fiscal year, net income rose 193.6% to $8.4 million, while sales climbed 8.6% to $1.3 billion and same-store sales rose 3.7%.
Net income for the year included a Texas leasehold asset impairment charge of $10.1 million; severance payments of $1.4 million; and lease termination costs of $1.3 million related to the company's announced plans to exit its Texas operations — a decision it put on hold in February. The company has since closed 14 underperforming locations of the 48 stores it was operating there.
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No one wants to spend a second more than they have to paying for their purchases, so payment technology companies know a thing or two about moving quickly. PayPal certainly does: just a few days after announcing the expansion of its brick-and-mortar payments pilot with Home Depot from five stores to 51, published reports indicate that if the no-card, no-phone payment test is successful, it will be made available in more than 2,000 Home Depot stores by March.
In addition, Reuters reports that Office Depot is testing PayPal's POS solution in a few of its stores. PayPal, a division of eBay, has said it plans to offer the service at 20 major retailers by the end of 2012, but it has not yet named the others.
"We anticipate [the PayPal solution] will give consumers better shopping experiences and more flexible payment choices," said eBay CEO John Donahoe. "And for retailers, we believe this will give them opportunities to not only engage consumers at checkout, but also throughout their entire multichannel shopping experience."
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Hall Research UH2X-P1 extender
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WIRE Buzz: Patrick Stewart met with Feige; Gretel & Hansel cooks up new clip; and more
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Death Stranding reviews are in: Kojima takes Reedus & del Toro on a long, strange trip
Benjamin Bullard
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Fans are still a week away from getting to play it for themselves, but the reviews are finally streaming in for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, by far one of the most buzzed-about games to grace this current console generation.
From what critics are saying, Kojima appears to have lost none of his trademark weirdness and gift for movie-style melodrama as he escorts Norman Reedus, Guillermo del Toro, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, and more of his real-life celebrity pals on an epic sci-fi journey across a dystopian American landscape. Reedus is the star of the show as protagonist Sam Porter Bridges, but Mikkelsen, Lindsay Wagner, and del Toro (who lends his appearance but is voiced by actor Jesse Corti) also are getting tons of love for giving life to interesting characters who know how to chew the post-apocalyptic scenery.
While lots of reviewers say they still don’t know what to make of Death Stranding even after they’ve played through it, the consensus seems to be that Kojima and friends have definitely broken new ground — especially when it comes to challenging players’ long-held assumptions about what kind of experience a video game can be. Without spoiling anything too much, it’s safe to say that you’ll be spending tons of alone time with Reedus’ character as he walks across beautifully broken vistas, sneaks past half-living supernatural tar-monsters, and dodges a hellishly brutal sci-fi version of acid rain.
Reviewers mostly loved the game’s solitude and slow-boil, patient story, but some say those very features also make Death Stranding feel more like an interactive movie than a conventional, attention-span-gratifying video game. Just as he did with Metal Gear, Kojima has loaded Death Stranding with hours and hours of cutscenes (seriously, there’s probably enough cinematic footage in Metal Gear Solid IV to break out into a Netflix series) — so your mileage may vary, depending on how much storytelling you like with your running and gunning.
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From mainstream outlets like TIME and NPR to gaming pros like IGN and Polygon, here’s a sampling of what the critics are saying:
"Death Stranding is epic, weird, and not like anything I’ve ever played before. The story is a core draw here — Bridges’ journey across America posits big questions about technology’s role in American life, about the isolation created by the internet, and our culture’s dysfunctional relationship with death. It doesn’t always answer those questions, and sometimes it answers them poorly. But there’s no other big-budget video game on the market today doing anything as innovative or as strange as Death Stranding." — Matthew Gault, TIME
"Make no mistake: This is thoroughly a Hideo Kojima game. Though made by many individuals, it bears the unmistakable marks of its supreme creator. In fact, it is maybe the most Hideo Kojima of all Hideo Kojima games ... The reality is that Death Stranding is neither a masterpiece nor a failure. It's a fairly average but ambitious experience, elevated by the enthusiasm and eccentricity of its creator. As frustrating a creative work as it often is, there's no doubting that it's an earnest one." — Vincent Acovino, NPR
"In Death Stranding, Kojima has delivered a game that digs into conversations and topics around environmentalism, war, politics, the rifts we see in society and culture and notions of American exceptionalism. I came away from the game exhilarated, confused and wanting to find others who have played it not only to put together the missing pieces but to commiserate about the experience. In a clever meta twist, Kojima has created a game that begs for a larger discourse, a connection for all those who have played it to share." — Kahlief Adams, The Hollywood Reporter
"To fully embrace Death Stranding, you have to let go of that desire to know everything. Much like watching Lost or playing pretty much any JRPG, the overall narrative is just a means to an end. It’s a setup for creating dramatic, emotional moments. It’s not always easy to get to those moments, and you’ll have to suspend your disbelief quite often to fully enjoy them, but for a certain kind of player, that long, exhausting journey will be worth the effort." — Andrew Webster, The Verge
"Hideo Kojima promised the world that he'd be delivering a new genre, and his friends and those who had tried the game in its infancy dared to dream that Death Stranding could be revolutionary. It's not the best game ever made, but it's one of the best experiences in modern gaming. Death Stranding delivered on its impossible promise in a breathtaking way, and it's a must-play for everyone who has ever held a game controller and wondered about what comes next." — Cody Gravelle, Screen Rant
"There is a fascinating, fleshed-out world of supernatural science fiction to enjoy across its sprawling and spectacular map, so it’s a real shame that it’s all been saddled on a gameplay backbone that struggles to adequately support its weight over the full course of the journey. It’s fitting that Kojima Productions’ latest is so preoccupied with social media inspired praise, because in some ways I did ‘Like’ Death Stranding. I just didn’t ever love it." — Tristan Ogilvie, IGN
"Death Stranding feels like two games in one, designed for seemingly opposite audiences. One is a wholly unique open-world adventure with asynchronous cooperative multiplayer that allows me to feel like I’m part of a community, building a world from scratch. And the other is a long, confusing, deeply strange movie ... it’s impossible to separate the good from the bad. It’s all in the same box." — Russ Frushtick, Polyogon
"Death Stranding is a long and grueling game, but that grind and sweat is fundamentally important to its identity. After the initial plot is set up, the next 40 to 50 hours are devoted to quiet hikes and desperate forays with only a few plot punctuations. In Death Stranding, labor is key, and offering any convenience to the player outside of a few weapons and gadgets would rub against the game’s themes. If players are meant to value connections, they need to be alone for hours." — Heather Alexandra, Kotaku
"It’s a game that isn’t afraid to be unconventional at times and mundane at others, and which benefits from a willingness to be both. Death Stranding makes me glad that Hideo Kojima makes video games—because our hobby would be boring as hell without him ... In the end, Death Stranding’s biggest mystery isn’t any of the elements we’ve had teased in three-plus years of trailers—it’s what people are going to think of it. Even from a man known for making love-them-or-hate-them projects, this may end up being one of the most divisive games ever created. For me, it was an experience that I can truly say was unlike any other I remember." — Mollie L. Patterson, Electronic Gaming Monthly
"At its heart, I guess you could say Death Stranding is a post-apocalyptic survival game; one where the dead have flooded in from the afterlife, and Amazon delivery people have become feral rogues. But mostly it's about delivering packages. Lots and lots of packages. It might be Kojima's boldest and most interesting game to date. It may also be his most tedious." — Kat Bailey, US Gamer
"Death Stranding is a hard game to absorb. There are many intertwining threads to its plot, and silly names, corny moments, and heavy exposition belie an otherwise very simple message ... It's positive without ignoring pain; in fact, it argues in both its story and its gameplay that adversity itself is what makes things worth doing and life worth living. It's a game that requires patience, compassion, and love, and it's also one we really need right now." — Kallie Plagge, Gamespot
Overall, the early reactions are definitely tilting toward the positive side. As of publication time, Death Stranding was sitting at an enviable 84 percent favorable rating over at Metacritic, and even with a week to go before it’s actually available, the game’s social buzz is through the roof (hey, even The Onion can’t resist getting in on the hype).
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Vol 11 No 2 (2019): May-August
GUIDELINE FOR IMPROVING FOOD PROVISION MODEL IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NONTHABURI PROVINCE
PDF (ภาษาไทย) ( 509KB )
สุนันทา คเชศะนันทน์ อัครพันธ์ รัตสุข
This study aims to develop guidelines to improve the food service provision at a secondary school in Nonthaburi Province. This research investigated the relationship between students’ personal factors, their consumption behaviors and satisfaction with their school food service program by conducting a survey using a questionnaire. Moreover, in-depth interviews were conducted with the school executives, and a focus group discussion was conducted involving the school teachers and the head of the service provision. Results show that male students have the consumption behaviors in both positive and negative ways more often than those of female students. Students with rather slim and normal fgures have better hygienic food consumption behavior than that of slim, chubby and fat students. Most students are highly satisfed with the meal provision program of the school in terms of food menu, cleanliness and hygiene, but have suggestions for improvement. After considering the information from the school executives, teachers and personnel all of which were satisfed with the food provision program, and also the information from food service providers, the researchers propose the guidelines for the program with the emphasis on providing food with high and complete nutrition values based on the nutrition principles to students by maintaining good hygienic management, redesigning the food appearance to be more appetizing and up-to-date, improving the food menu to be more appropriate, and instilling the students’ food consumption habits and manners, and hygienic food consumption behaviors to ensure that the they will grow up healthy with good behaviors in food consumption.
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คเชศะนันทน์ส., & รัตสุขอ. (2019). GUIDELINE FOR IMPROVING FOOD PROVISION MODEL IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NONTHABURI PROVINCE. Panyapiwat Journal, 11(2), 177-192. Retrieved from https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pimjournal/article/view/207523
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Platinum Metals Rev., 1992, 36, (4), 202
Electrogenerative Systems
Potential uses Include Clean-Up of Flue Gases from Coal Fired Stationary Power Plants
By Stanley H. Langer
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
The concept of utilising favourable exothermic heats of overall reaction to produce chemicals while at the same time generating electrical energy in an electrochemical cell arrangement is appealing from an aesthetic viewpoint, and also responds to present day concerns about conservation and the environment. Some possibilities were noted by such eminent figures as Grove, the inventor of fuel cells in 1842 (1), and Nernst and others at the end of the nineteenth century (2). Yet, despite significant advances in electrochemical syntheses (3–6) and electrocatalysis since that time, the application of this electrogenerative approach to chemical processing has not progressed beyond research efforts in a few laboratories. Thus, many possibilities are not appreciated or have been overlooked. In this introductory discussion, which is intended for stimulation of further consideration, electrogenerative processing is explained and some means for its implementation are given, as are its limitations. Several types of systems also are described, as are some selectivity features, and possible ways for applying this approach to controlling nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide emissions.
More extensive discussion and pertinent references can be found in several reviews and recent articles (2, 6–12).
“Electrogenerative systems” or processes combine the favourable thermodynamics of overall reaction (ΔG<0) where the change in Gibbs’ free energy should be negative, with mechanistic and kinetic factors to produce or remove a desired chemical, and to generate DC current between matched electrodes in an electrochemical cell arrangement. Fuel cell operations, which are related, generally emphasise energy production aspects in the cell and complete oxidation (13, 14, 15). Electrogenerative systems share the use of catalytic electrodes and possibly even fuel cell components, but they differ significantly in that their main function is chemical processing with attendant considerations, and the electrical power is a by-product. The “electrogenerative” designation emphasises the chemical processing goals (6, 7, 9, 16). A consequence of this is that catalytic requirements at both electrodes may differ considerably from those of fuel cells.
With the long term view influenced by an interest in catalysis and the considerations above, a number of systems have been devised for performing selected electrochemical syntheses in a galvanic or “electrogenerative” mode (6, 7, 9, 12). Some electrogenerative systems of interest to this discussion are listed in the Table. While a variety of conventional and modified electrochemical methods can be used to study the pertinent half-cell electrode reactions (for example 17–19), in our laboratories overall electrogenerative systems generally have been investigated without any external power source and with simple controls. They incorporate two coupled electrode reactions, an appropriate barrier electrolyte, a provision for product recovery, and a circuit with a load for using the electrical energy, or possibly only to dissipate it, as illustrated by the system for studying electrogenerative hydrogenation in Figure 1. This approach insures feasibility and has stimulated continued improvement in current densities, components and cell configurations. Generally we have worked with aqueous solutions or aqueous compatible barrier electrolytes, such as some ion exchange membranes. Some other work on electrogenerative processes using solid electrolytes has been summarised recently by Vayenas (20), and Stoukides (21), while Winnick and co-workers (22) have also discussed important related applications using solid electrolytes.
One of the cell configurations, and associated circuitry, used to study electrogenerative hydrogenation processes
Some Electrogenerative Systems and Their Characteristics
The hydrogenation of simple alkenes, conventionally a heterogeneous catalytic reduction, was utilised as an initial model system for investigating organic electrogenerative system operation (23, 24) and has been among the most extensively studied to-date. While the electrogenerative production of alkanes from alkenes is not a system of ordinary commercial interest, it is related to a number which are, and it has been useful for demonstration studies. Many approaches used in analysing electrogenerative alkene hydrogenation (for example the determination of rate expressions and mechanism) are applicable to other electrogenerative systems of the type described later. In this hydrogenation, hydrogen reacts across a barrier electrolyte phase bounded by porous, electrolyte-impermeable, catalytic electrodes. Figure 1 illustrates a cell design, together with associated circuitry, chosen from a number which have been used.
During operation, hydrogen ions which formed at the anode are transferred through the electrolyte, while electrons are conducted through the external circuit. Hydrogenation occurs at the counter, catalytic cathode (reducing electrode) at a controlled rate. With aque-ous acid electrolyte, overall processes are:
The open circuit cell potential is given by Ecathode – Eanode. For the hydrogenation of olefins, a characteristic reproducible open circuit voltage close to that calculated on the basis of free energy change (see the Table) is observed, although the olefmic electrode is not considered reversible. By varying the simple external load the rate (current) of reaction can be controlled. Electrode potential also varies because of polarisation. In this example, the low solubility of reactants and products in the barrier electrolyte limits any direct chemical reaction between hydrogen and the olefin reactants or “chemical shorting”, so that the thermodynamic driving force is maintained. Reactions (i) and (iii) led to an overall reaction with an invariant electrolyte composition at significant current densities (> 70 mA/cm2) using high surface area, gas diffusion electrodes (23–25).
With constant ionic strength Perchlorate electrolyte, the kinetics of ethylene electrogenerative hydrogenation at the cathode could be studied at liquid-impermeable, Teflon-bonded, platinum black American Cyanamid LAA-2 electrodes (9 mg Pt/cm2) (25). Either the ethylene partial pressure or the concentration of the hydrogen ions was kept constant, at steady state positive potentials, while the other was varied under conditions where transport was not limiting. Thus, an order in each reactant at the cathode could be determined from:
with the assumption of a simple exponential rate expression for the rate of reaction. Here, i is current density, T is temperature, E is potential, and Ci represents the concentration of a specific reactant at the electrode, Ci is the concentration of other reactants, and Zi is the order of reaction with respect to any reactant. In recent years, more elaborate studies have been conducted on this hydrogenation reaction (26–28) for both platinum and palladium catalysts.
Some Electrogenerative Systems of Interest (6, 7)
Overall reaction
cΔH°R
dΔG°R
eE°, V(calculated)
fE,V(observed)
kcal/mol
Reductions:
C2H4+H2→C2H6 2 -32.7 -24.1 0.52 0.51
C6H6+3H2→C6H12 6 -49.3 -23.4 0.17 0.14
2NO(g)+H2→N2O(g)+H2O(i) 2 -70.4 -36.7 1.59 0.90
NO(g)+1.5H2+H+→NH2OH.H+(aq) 3 -52.3 -34.3 0.50 b
NO(g)+2.5H2+H+→NH+4 (aq)+H2O 5 -121.7 -96.4 0.84 b
Halogenations:
C2H4+Cl2→CH2ClCH2Cl 2 -52.2 -35.5 0.769 0.81
C2H4+Cl2+H2O→CH2ClCH2OH+HCl(aq) 2 -46.7* -35.6* 0.742 0.81
C2H4+Br2→CH2BrCH2Br 2 -23.3* -21.2* 0.460 0.61
Oxidations:
C2H5OH+0.5O2→CH3CHO+H2O 2 -51.8 -48.4 1.05 0.64
C2H5OH+O2→CH3COOH+H2O 4 -128.5 -110.2 1.20 0.64
C2H5OH+3O2→2CO2+3H2O 12 -336.8 -318.3 1.15 0.64
C4HB(g)+0.5O2→C4H8O 2 -65.3 -53.3 1.16 b
SO2(g)+0.5O2+H2O(i)→H2SO4(aq) 2 -77.6 -48.8 1.06 0.65
Number of electrons involved
Not studied under requisite conditions
Change in enthalpy
Estimated from group contributions
Change in Gibbs free energy at 298K
Standard e.m.f
Open circuit
A variety of electrogenerative halogenation systems can also be operated to give dihaloalka-nes and haloalcohols (6, 7, 16, 29) with olefins introduced at the anode. With electrogenerative bromination, for example, the overall electrode reactions with aqueous bromide electrolyte are:
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
When Reaction (viii) occurs the electrolyte is no longer invariant. One challenge is to control the system so that either Reaction (vii) or ((viii) occurs selectively, since either bromohydrin or dibromoalkane can be the desired product. Control of selectivity, through potential or elec-trocatalysts at the anode, in order to favour either dihaloalkanes or haloalcohols has been described elsewhere for electrogenerative halogenations (16,29). With a mixed reaction route available at the anode, as well as irreversibility, it is not surprising that the open circuit voltages for this system vary somewhat from those calculated, as are shown in the Table.
The “potential windows” for the operation of cells for electrogenerative hydrogenation and bromination of ethylene are shown in Figure 2, together with the standard potentials of the reversible hydrogen and bromine electrodes, respectively. Potential regions on this scale where corresponding, energy consuming, electrolytic processes generally are operated are also indicated. It can be seen that the potential regions tend to be different. Electrogenerative hydrogenation occurs above the standard hydrogen reversible potential (~0 V) at positive voltages, while electrogenerative bromination occurs below the standard bromine/bromide reversible potential (~1.06 V) where bromide ion ordinarily would be discharged; see the caption discussion in Figure 2. Thus, for both types of reactions, the driving force for product formation in the electrogenerative mode contributes to ion discharge and the overall reaction at the electrode.
Operating potential ranges for indicated electrogenerative processes and conventional electrolytic processes are shown. Electrogenerative hydrogenation of ethylene takes place between 0.0 and 0.51 V on this scale (above the standard reversible potential for hydrogen discharge). Electrolytic hydrogenation generally takes place below 0.0 V. Electrogenerative bromination takes place between about 0.47 and 1.07 V (below the standard reversible potential for bromine discharge) (16). Electrolytic bromination of an olefin would ordinarily take place at an anode above 1.07 V
Nitric oxide, a gas of special interest from both basic and environmental considerations can also be reduced in the electrogenerative mode as a consequence of favourable thermodynamics (ΔGR << 0, see Table), in a cell similar to that shown as Figure 1. A polarisation or performance curve, A, corrected for ohmic loss in the electrolyte (IR correction), for the nitrogen oxide/hydrogen system at a moderate nitric oxide flow rate is shown in Figure 3; reaction conditions are indicated in the caption (30).
NO/H2 cell polarisation curves for nitric oxide reduction show: Curve A: IR corrected; dashed line, A’, uncorrected for ohmic drop (IR loss). Platinum LAA-2 cathode at 25°C with 3M HClO, electrolyte; nitric oxide flow rate 5.4 cm3/min (30). Curve B, 2M HCIO4 electrolyte, nitric oxide flow rate 20 cm3/min (34). Both cells incorporate LAA-2 anodes
For comparison, the curve without IR correction is also presented in this Figure. The correction or voltage loss varies with current. Substantial currents of the order of 100 mA/cm2 or higher are seen to be generated in the nitric oxide/hydrogen system with high surface area LAA-2 gas diffusion electrodes, which are gas permeable as well as electrolyte impermeable (31).
With the porous, catalytic electrodes, the following nitric oxide reactions can take place and have been observed under varying conditions:
(ix)
(xi)
(xii)
where E0 is the standard potential for these reactions. The hydrogen oxidation reaction at the platinum anode (Equation (i)) occurs fairly reversibly and readily, close to 0 V. Similar nitric oxide reduction products have been reported in a variety of heterogeneous catalytic studies. At the electrogenerative nitric oxide electrode, product selectivity is determined by kinetics and mechanism under the indicated cell conditions as well as by thermodynamics (17, 32, 33). Standard potential alone does not determine the course of the reaction.
The polarisation behaviour shown in Figure 3 can be interpreted in terms of two potential regions (30). From open circuit, 0.9, to 0.4 V nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is the major product. The sharp potential drop with virtually no current increase corresponds to complete depletion of the entering nitric oxide stream (100 per cent conversion). Such limiting current behaviour can be observed with platinum elec-trocatalysts with relatively low nitric oxide flows, and corresponds to Reaction (ix).
For further selectivity analyses, current efficiencies (CE) can be considered. These are based on the calculated current for any product using the production rate and the number of electrons indicated in Equations (ix) to (xii) for the calculation, and dividing by the total measured current at a given potential (30, 34). The current efficiencies found in our laboratories (30) with Perchlorate electrolyte are represented in Figure 4 as a function of the cathode potential referred to the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE). Below 0.4 V the nitrous oxide current efficiency decreases sharply, while significant nitrogen formation begins; see Figure 4 and refer to Figure 3, (Curve A). The current efficiency for nitrogen formation, Reaction (x), goes through a maximum around 0.25 V. Ammonia formation also begins as nitrous oxide production drops off, at about 0.3 V. It is the major product at potentials below 0.15 V. While some hydroxylamine is formed at potentials below 0.3 V, the current efficiency for its formation is not important (< 5 per cent) relative to other products under these conditions. However palladium, rhodium and ruthenium electro catalysts all tend to promote more hydroxylamine formation (17). Both ammonia and hydroxylamine accumulate in the acid electrolyte while nitrogen and nitrous oxide exit in the cathode effluent.
Selectivity during nitric oxide reduction showing current efficiency versus cathode potential referred to hydrogen electrode (RHE). This is for cell of curve A in Figure 3. Ammonia current efficiency at 0.1 V was obtained with nitric oxide flow of 0.6 cm3/min (30)
Hydroxylamine is of special interest because it is relatively valuable, being used in the manufacture of caprolactam and aldoximes. Selectivity to hydroxylamine, Equation (xi), can be favoured by altering the conditions in a variety of ways (electrolyte, catalyst, etc.) (17, 34). By depositing sulphur in a controlled manner on the platinum catalyst, current efficiencies for hydroxylamine formation of ninety per cent or higher can be achieved (18, 33). These and other results suggest that there is the possibility of utilising an electrogenerative operation to produce hydroxylamine, as an alternative to the heterogeneous catalytic process (35). One special advantage of the electrogenerative optionis that both anode and cathode gaseous effluents can be recycled without any need for a separation stage.
The selectivity features of the nitric oxide/hydrogen system are illustrative of significant factors which can arise in electrogenerative processing, as compared with fuel cell operation. Besides selectivity, special problems include controlled catalysis and catalytic activity, as well as reactant and product recovery from processed streams. As can be seen from Figure 4, if attempts are made merely to maximise power or DC current generation without regard to desired chemical selectivity, cell operation might be shifted to unfavourable voltage ranges. The optimal conditions of operation also illustrate an important advantage for electrogenerative processing as compared with heterogeneous catalysis, in that the former offers the special possibility of controlling selectivity and rate through electrode potential, as well as through altering catalyst, surface structure and concentrations.
Currents in the nitric oxide/hydrogen cell can also be increased considerably through increased nitric oxide flow rate at the anode, in order to produce selectively nitrous oxide which is also of value. A polarisation curve for such a situation is shown as curve B in Figure 3. Of special interest is the fact that electrogenerative cells can be operated so that nitric oxide, in dilute gas mixtures, is reduced to a very low level (32–34, 36) suggesting a possible electrogenerative application to waste gas treatments.
Electrogenerative Processing of Potential Polluting Streams
Flue gas treatments or aspects of these treatments are among the most interesting potential applications for electrogenerative processes. Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides present in the flue gas emitted from fossil fuel-fired power generators are recognised as the largest source of acid rain in the United States of America, and are very significant factors elsewhere. These atmospheric pollutants are also associated with other types of processing, such as nitric oxide and sulphuric acid manufacture, as well as with waste incineration and ore processing. Awareness of these problems continues to grow throughout the world. Electric utilities and industrial boilers were projected to emit 21 million tons of sulphur dioxide and 11 million tons of nitrogen oxides, accounting for 85 and 52 per cent, respectively, of these pollutant emissions during 1990 in the U.S.A. alone (37). A major portion of the sulphur dioxide emissions comes from older operations of modest capacity. With more coal-fired capacity coming online during the next decade, these types of operations may well be under pressure to achieve further emission reductions. In a comparison with conventional technology, electrochemical stages might well be more viable for modular, small-scale installation and so could emerge as better suited for these retrofit applications, as well as for some new uses. There was interest in electrochemical flue gas clean-up processes earlier (38, 39), but the high costs generally associated with them tended to discourage any significant efforts. With electrogenerative processing, however, costs might be directed toward useful chemical production as well as to the elimination of pollutants. Earlier studies in our laboratories in connection with sulphuric acid production have shown that sulphur dioxide can be processed in electrogenerative cells at ambient temperature, and at 60-70°C, to give sulphuric acid and high currents (7,9) although both the sulphur dioxide and the oxygen electrodes operate about two-tenths of a volt away from standard potentials, even at open circuit. Cell performances with current densities approaching 200 mA/cm2 are illustrated in Figure 5. The electrode reactions for sulphur dioxide oxidation can be represented as shown below (40).
(xiii)
(xiv)
(xv)
Polarisation curves are shown for sulphur dioxide oxidation with an oxygen cathode in an ion exchange membrane divided electrogenerative cell for sulphuric acid production. Electrolyte flows through cathode compartment into anode compartment. LAA-25 American Cyanamid electrodes are 5.1 cm2, 25 mg Pt black/cm2. Each electrolyte chamber is 4.8 mm thick. Cell resistance at 30°C 0.38 ohms; at 60°C about 0.31 ohms; the dashed line indicates cell voltage at 60°C corrected for IRint loss. RAI Research R4010 cation exchange membrane separator. Ecell is measured at terminals. Reproduced with permission (7), copyright (1985), ACS
A general electrochemical approach to the flue gas clean-up not involving an external power source can then be proposed (41, 42). One possibility, a modification of a standard approach, is shown in Figure 6. Particulates, sulphur dioxide and nitric oxide are all removed in separate stages. As we have seen, the pertinent electrogenerative reactions for flue gas clean-up have been demonstrated to be feasible separately at high currents in preliminary reactor studies. These are sulphur dioxide oxidation to sulphuric acid, Equation (xv), and nitric oxide reduction to ammonia or hydroxylamine. Efforts for implementing these processes in clean-up would be in the direction of modifying them to meet performance criteria (including costs) for each stage, so that one or both types of reactors could be applied for low sulphur dioxide or nitric oxide concentrations. While platinum group catalysts in bulk form have been satisfactory for feasibility testing, catalysts supported on conductors such as carbon and in other configurations will be required for the future, because of economic considerations.
A general electrochemical approach to flue gag clean-up which incorporates electrogenerative stages
Dilute gaseous streams containing sulphur dioxide might be treated directly, or concentrating procedures such as the Bergbau-Forschung and Wellman-Lord or related processes might be applied to provide more concentrated gas streams or solutions for liquid phase processing (41,42). Both commercial gas diffusion type anodes and packed bed electrodes have been studied for processing and removing low sulphur dioxide concentrations from gaseous and from liquid streams (42, 43, 44). The gaseous concentrations have approached those of common flue gases (43). These cited studies also can be reviewed as models for investigating other dilute gas streams for clean-up through electrogenerative processing. In connection with the investigation on electrogenerative processing of dilute sulphur dioxide in our laboratories, additional work was done on a pretreatment for anodic current enhancement through sulphur deposition onto an electrocatalyst via sulphur dioxide reduction. While some related treatments were used by other investigators earlier, little had been done on high surface area porous electrode treatments for reproducible, steady state use.
For dilute sulphur dioxide studies with gas diffusion electrodes (43), the design of the cell of Figure 1 was altered to provide a rectangular working anode configuration of 13 x 51 mm (6.45 cm2 in area). Results for electrogenerative processing of 1 per cent sulphur dioxide in nitrogen are shown in Figure 7, for an LAA-2 electrode. Currents, of course, are well below those observed earlier with concentrated sulphur dioxide gas streams. However, relatively high conversions of 89 per cent and 55 per cent, depending on flow rate, could be achieved even with this small working area. Other data, more comparable to scaled-up cells, were obtained at higher flow rates. For scale-up, higher conversion could be achieved from longer flow paths and even several separate stages in series with anodes operating at different potentials, depending on clean-up and power generating strategy. Further investigation of commercial type gas diffusion electrodes obtained through Johnson Matthey showed that a gas diffusion electrode (NSX88/4/E1) incorporating carbon support, platinum (1.5 mg/cm2) promoted with manganese, and a Teflon backing, would give an anode performance comparable to that of the more heavily loaded LAA-2 electrode which was used initially (43).
Electrogenerative processing of 1 per cent sulphur dioxide in nitrogen, indicating the performance of a 1 per cent SO2/N2 || O2, cell, LAA-2 electrodes, 6.45 cm2, 3 M H2SO4 electrolyte at 25°C. Reproduced with permission (43), copyright 1992, Butterworth Heinemann
The effect on cell performance from lowering sulphur dioxide concentrations to levels close to those of effluent gas flow levels from power plants is illustrated in Figure 8. Differing high gas flow rates were used for various reasons but all were in substantial excess, so that the gas phase concentration was the critical factor in controlling the generated current. The important result is that electrogenerative operation is quite feasible at low concentrations and that these concentrations of sulphur dioxide can be reduced to still lower levels. Additional work has shown that even a three per cent oxygen concentration in a simulated 0.3 per cent sulphur dioxide effluent stream was not very deleterious to sulphur dioxide/oxygen cell performance when using a platinum-manganese/carbon anode and a high performance cathode with 3 molar sulphuric acid electrolyte (43).
Effect of low sulphur dioxide concentrations in a nitrogen stream is shown on electrogenerative cell performance. Pt-Mn/C anode, 23°C, 3M H2SO4 electrolyte and LAA-2 oxygen cathode. Reproduced with permission (43), copyright 1992, Butterworth Heinemann
An alternative strategy for processing sulphur dioxide from effluent gas streams is to anodi-cally remove it from scrubbing liquors or solutions resulting from concentrating procedures, such as those implied in the arrangement shown as Figure 6. With this in mind, oxidation of dissolved sulphur dioxide in liquid phase electrogenerative reactors with packed bed anodes also has been studied. In this feasibility investigation, platinum loadings in the range of 0.5 to 6 mg/cm2 on porous graphite supports were emphasised (44). The hybrid type cell combined a gas diffusion cathode with the packed bed anode. Earlier work was done on both heavily loaded platinum anodes and graphite supported platinum (42), but the effects of a pre-treatment protocol together with electrode preparation details were not quantified in many instances. Currents of 80 mA/cm2 were generated though at room temperature with 0.5 M sulphur dioxide in 3 M sulphuric acid using a porous graphite anode sheet containing 18 mg/cm2 of platinum and an efficient gas diffusion counter electrode in the hybrid cell and pretreatment. Further work showed that a loading decrease to 6 mg platinum/cm2 could be attained with little sacrifice in performance.
Moving to lower loadings, it was found that with 1.5 mg platinum/cm2 on the rectangular graphite sheet, packed bed anode (3 mm thick) in the hybrid cell, 55 per cent of entering 0.35 M sulphur dioxide in 3 M sulphuric acid electrolyte flowing at 0.63 cm3/min, could be converted (44). A polarisation curve for a faster flow rate is shown in Figure 9. Significant currents of the order of 3 mA/cm2 could be generated even at 0.003 M sulphur dioxide concentrations. For the future we must determine the extent to which increased platinum dispersion can be achieved with improved preparation methods to lower catalyst loading.
Liquid phase electrogenerative processing of dissolved sulphur dioxide in a hybrid cell with O2 cathode. LAA-2 anode 1.47 mg Pt/cm2 on graphite, catholyte: 3M H2SO4, anolyte (packed bed feed): 0.31 M SO2 in 3M H2SO4, 2.8 cm3min, 24°C. Cell resistance 0.24 Ω. Data of S. E. Lyke and S. H. Langer, experiments described elsewhere (44)
As already indicated, earlier work showed that nitric oxide reduction is very feasible in electrogenerative cells (34, 41, 45) and currents of 100 mA/cm2 or higher are readily achieved. With more than 10 million tons of nitrogen oxides – originally mostly nitric oxide – produced in stationary power plants in the United States of America each year there are attractive possibilities for the recovery of this effluent component in chemical form; see Reactions (xi) and (xii). Furthermore, if nitric oxide can be removed economically through electrogenerative processing, power plant protocol, which is formulated so as to minimise its formation, might even be altered. Little work has been done with supported catalysts and dilute nitric oxide streams. However with LAA-2 type electrodes and some sulphur pretreatment it has been shown that electrogenerative nitric oxide conversions are particularly effective (33, 46). In studies with two to three per cent nitric oxide in various gaseous diluents, ninety to ninety five per cent conversions take place readily even in small scale laboratory cells with circular electrodes of the type in Figure 1.
Some questions regarding nitric oxide material balances remain for future consideration. The extent to which nitric oxide can be reduced to nitrogen (30, 47) has not been evaluated for dilute nitric oxide streams, and the maximum achievable concentrations of electrolyte soluble products must be determined. For flue gas clean-up applications, studies of operations with gas diffusion electrodes at low nitric oxide feed concentrations, for example 0.05 per cent, still must be undertaken. To process feed for cost effective current densities, that is, adequate nitric oxide removal rates, cells with special cathode gas channels may be required. Flow across the face of the electrode should be controlled so as to assure lateral dispersion, while pressure drop must not be excessive. This type of problem, and others not discussed, are part of the challenge in future electrogenerative reactor design (48).
Additional Electrogenerative Possibilities
With growing interest in facets of biomass processing, alcohol oxidations to aldehydes or ketones become another area worthy of attention. Ethanol oxidation is of special interest particularly in the presence of water or water vapour. This is because the acetaldehyde product has a low boiling point (20.8°C) which facilitates subsequent separation where desired. In Figure 10, the rates of production of acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide from aqueous ethanolic vapour at a platinum anode, in a cell with an oxygen cathode, are compared (6). Their formation can be represented by Equations (xvi) and (xvii):
(xvi)
(xvii)
(xviii)
Acetaldehyde (○) and carbon dioxide (□) production rates are shown from an aqueous ethanolic vapour in a nitrogen stream fed to a cell at 38°C with a gas diffusion type anode in 3M H2SO4 electrolyte (6). The O2 cathode is also a gas diffusion type. The vapour feed was obtained by sparging a 75 per cent by volume ethanol-water mixture at ambient temperature with nitrogen at 59 cm3min. Reproduced from (6), with permission of IUPAC, the copyright holder
Reaction (xvi) would be the desired one. In Figure 10, it can be seen that as the anode potential increases, acetaldehyde production also increases, reaching a maximum at about 0.68 V (versus RHE). At a higher voltage, the production of acetaldehyde then diminishes while undesired carbon dioxide formation, a desired fuel cell reaction, increases. Above about 0.73 V, catalyst activity deteriorates with time reflecting platinum oxide formation and catalyst deactivation (6). Thus, even though there is a pronounced increase in cell current with increasing potential, acetaldehyde selectivity considerations dictate the range and potential region of operation for this cell. It can be further noted that while an open circuit cell voltage of 1.05 can be calculated for standard conditions, as shown in the Table, the observed value is 0.64 V. Neither the ethanol anode nor the oxygen cathode ordinarily operate close to reversible potentials. Nevertheless, controlled electrogenerative conversion of ethanolic vapour to acetaldehyde seems feasible.
Stafford adapted fuel cell type components for a study of the electrogenerative oxidation of propylene at a palladium catalysed anode, using 25 per cent phosphoric acid electrolyte in the temperature range of ambient to 80°C (12). The interesting and special catalytic properties of palladium for allylic oxidation were demonstrated through the formation of acrolein and acrylic acid. Although selectivity was poor and currents were low in this pioneering effort, future improvements can be anticipated. Experiments with similar results to those of Stafford but with the catalysts deposited on solid polymer electrolytes have been reported more recently by Japanese workers (49). A number of related studies with solid polymer electrolytes have also been described (50).
Prospects for the Future
Electrogenerative systems differ from conventional electrolytic processing systems in that the need for an external power source can be eliminated in many instances, thus providing advantages with respect to ease and scale of operation as well as capital investment. Even at the present stage of development, there is the promise that with minor refinements these cells can be developed advantageously to become standard laboratory devices since electrogenerative processing can be convenient while retaining many advantages of conventional electrolytic processing relative to heterogeneous catalysis. Among these are simple reaction rate control and special selectivity, as well as the capacity for operation under mild, controlled conditions. Views on costs and related factors in conventional electrochemical processing have been clouded by the uncertainty about future electric power costs and capital investment needs for equipment. However, when nine proposed electrochemical processes were thoroughly reviewed and analysed (3), the electrogenerative based preparation of methyl ethyl ketone from butene was one of two selected for potential future energy savings relative to corresponding chemical processes (51).
Limited work with electrogenerative and related systems to-date has also limited the recognition of their potential applications and their special features despite some recent activity in this direction (9, 10, 12, 49). While the types of processes studied in our laboratories have been emphasised here, other investigators, already cited, have emphasised solid electrolytes (20, 21) or catalytic electrodes supported on solid polymer electrolytes (49, 50). Interested readers may wish to consult the references provided here to work beyond the scope and breadth of this introductory discussion and identify additional candidate electrogenerative systems. Platinum and palladium have been the catalysts emphasised in work to-date but many possibilities exist for controlling selectivity with other metals and different approaches (17, 30, 46, 48). Electrogenerative type operations would seem to hold special promise for the future, even with modest electrochemical energy recovery. They might alleviate future energy needs while providing special advantages. With external electrochemical energy recovery, process cooling costs for highly exothermic reactions might be reduced (9). Basic research in this area also offers the promise of providing a link between heterogeneous gas phase catalytic systems and electrochemical syntheses (26, 27, 52). Further advances expected in the near future, should stimulate other workers and planners to give serious consideration to electro-generative or related electrochemical routes in the processing industries.
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We thank the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin for their long term support of this work as well as Eastman Kodak, Chevron and Mobil Oil for more recent help. We also appreciate the loan of noble metal catalytic materials and electrodes by Johnson Matthey. I am personally indebted to many past students and visiting collaborators, most of whom are referenced here, for their many contributions. Thanks are also due to Messrs. Tri Duc Tran and Jongwook Lee for their suggestions and help with the Figures. The patents which have been received on work from our laboratories at Wisconsin have been assigned to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Figure 5, 7 and 8 and 10, are reproduced with the permission of the relevant copyright holders, namely the American Chemical Society, Butterworth Heineman, and IUPAC, respectively.
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Mobile 3D gaming on the way
By Anna Lagerkvist 2008-02-21T14:47:57.51Z
ARM beefs up software graphics
Is this the future of mobile gaming?
Software-maker ARM today updated its graphics acceleration software for mobile devices, announcing the ARM Mali-JSR297 for 3D graphics at the Game Developers Conference in Francisco. The firm said the software is the "first product to enable developers of Java applications to take advantage of the latest hardware graphics features found in recent GPUs".
It works on most next-generation mobile devices, and gives game developers better control over how their games appear on screen. This means that your mobile games will start to resemble those you’re used to on gaming consoles and PCs.
‘Leap in graphics’
ARM said its Mali-JSR297 software demonstrates a "leap in graphics quality that meets consumer demands for advanced-content entertainment on mobile phones".
“The expectations of the gaming community continue to increase, which is driving demand for device manufacturers to deliver the next wave of user experience in mobile gaming. The ARM Mali-JSR297 software will provide game developers with the resources they need to bridge the graphics divide among various gaming platforms,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of multimedia and graphics market research firm Jon Peddie Research.
“Historically, graphics quality on mobile phones has lagged in comparison to those displayed on a gaming console or computer screens. The software and hardware products that ARM is now offering mean that mobile graphics will now quickly approach the quality of a dedicated games device,” Peddie said.
Less downtime
The new software also minimises the risk of problems when integrating gaming platforms onto mobile devices, so presumably that means less downtime for you due to compatibility problems. It also "opens up the full power" of any gaming application you download to your phone, creating games with more personality despite the relatively small screen size.
“The majority of today’s mobile phones are using Java technology to enable additional applications and games to be downloaded to the phone after it is sold. ARM is committed to providing solutions for the gaming community that deliver dramatic improvements in the quality of graphics displayed on these applications,” said Gareth Vaughan, ARM’s graphics product manager.
“ARM’s support for the Java community and graphics ecosystem with products such as the Mali-JSR297 software enables game developers to harness new hardware capabilities, producing 3D graphics that are markedly superior in quality and performance.”
The ARM Mali-JSR297 software will be available as soon as the JSR297 mobile 3D graphics standard is ratified, ARM said. Pre-release versions will be available in Q3 2008 so hopefully we can start looking forward to richer games with more features sometime next year.
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Spielberg hopes 3D film prices will 'calm down'
By Patrick Goss 2011-07-25T10:42:00.205Z
Can't be a money-making gimmick, says director
The Adventures of Tintin - coming soon and in 3D
Steven Spielberg has expressed his hope that cinemas will stop charging extra for 3D and that prices 'calm down' to make it fairer for the consumer.
The legendary director, speaking at a Comic Con talk about his forthcoming animated movie The Adventures of Tin Tin, made the sensible assertion that 3D should still be used in impact movies, rather than with a scattergun approach to any old flick, and that soon it would move past being a selling point.
"I'm hoping that 3D gets to the point where people don't notice it, because then it becomes another tool and the ticket prices normalise," said Spielberg.
Calm down, 3dear
"I hope that the prices calm down, which would be more fair to the consumer. Not every movie should be shot in 3D – you don't need it for, say, a little romantic drama," he added.
"The last great 3D movie I saw where it really enhanced the experience for me – and I'm a co-producer so this is going to sound weird – but it was Transformers 3.
"But it needs a trained eye, it's not for everybody, and you shouldn't do it to improve your box office another few per cent. It's not just putting another lens on the camera and forgetting it. It will change your approach to where you put the camera, so it's not for everybody."
3D has become a hot topic in Hollywood, with consumer excitement giving way to annoyance at higher prices and no guarantee of quality.
However, with the likes of Spielberg and Bay massive fans of the technology, it is clear that major figures believe that 3D can add an extra something to a movie (beyond a dimension), and that directors can begin to think of it as a tool for improving their offerings rather than a money-making gimmick.
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Microsoft launches child-friendly version of IE9
By Chris Smith 2012-02-08T02:49:00.38Z
Teams-up with UK child protection charity
Parents can have more peace of mind with the new IE9 browser
Microsoft has partnered-up with a British-based child protection group to launch a new version of Internet Explorer to keep kids away from unsuitable content.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) agency's version of IE9 allows parents to use a handy 'Jump List' which will block inappropriate websites, depending on the age group selected.
The free version of IE9 features all of the literature from CEOP, which offers a guide to parents and carers with a view to protecting youngsters, and one-click access to sites like thinkuknow.co.uk.
Microsoft's UK Internet Explorer boss Gabby Hegerty says the new software will give parents a little more piece of mind - if they can keep them away from Chrome and Firefox, that is.
"At Microsoft we always want to provide our customers with the tools to enjoy the web safely and securely," she said.
"The internet has become a central part of everyday life for adults and children, from learning and communicating to working and playing online.
"As the leading browser provider, it is important we make the appropriate safety information available and build in features to our software which provide families with peace of mind online."
The CEOP-tailored version of IE9 is available to download from the Thinkuknow website free of charge, but you'll need to have Windows 7 installed.
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Guy Hands vs David Wormsley: the lawyers, the laughs and those chocolate biscuits
Guy Hands may have lost but his decision to sue Citigroup over EMI offered a fascinating insight into the workings of a high-profile trial, writes Richard Blackden.
EMI may now be sold, after expressions of interest from Warner Music Group and BMG Rights.
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"I had just assumed all the principal figures on both sides in this case were modest, self-effacing, kind of shy people,” quipped Judge Jed Rakoff.
Perched high in the Federal Court Building near the southern tip of Manhattan, Rakoff’s courtroom is not a natural habitat for bankers and financiers. If the wood-panelled walls and plush, though fading, carpet carried echoes of boardrooms familiar to Guy Hands and David Wormsley, little else did.
Here the market – long the judge and jury in both men’s stellar careers – counted for nothing. Courtroom 14B was instead rich hunting ground for lawyers whose pockets were lined with increasing amounts of gold as the days ticked over. But in America’s judicial system they, along with the judge, are subject to the will of the jury, which was picked on a sunny October morning almost three weeks ago.
Understanding risk is in the DNA of the private equity industry, but in dragging his old friend and closest adviser across the Atlantic, Hands was making a bet few bookies would have given odds for. It’s something Hands, the maverick wunderkind of Britain’s private equity industry, may have reflected on as the jurors were chosen. It was to them that the courtroom’s two protagonists would offer their accounts of a fateful chapter in EMI’s venerable history. Beyond the press, few in the courtroom had heard of two of the City of London’s brightest stars. But many in the gallery had made the journey just to see David Boies, who put the case for Terra Firma, and Ted Wells, Citi’s defender.
Their competing narratives were delivered in sharply contrasting styles. At 69, Boies was methodical, his body remarkably still as his brain fizzed; larger and younger, Wells’s hands and arms flashed above the lectern as they played their part in his constant volcano of indignation that Hands had dared file the suit. Their opening statements delivered a hard-boiled version of the case they hoped the jury would suck on for the next fortnight. Citi was a greedy bank, happy, according to Boies, in playing “two sides of the street”.
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Hands was a man who “suddenly had a new story” when he realised his multi-billion pound deal was “going down the tube”, thundered Wells.
Though delivered in court, each sudden thrust from Boies and sharp feint by Wells was born months earlier. Terra Firma and Citi had coughed up 600,000 documents – emails, presentations, spreadsheets, minutes, memos and phone records – that had all been meticulously labelled over the summer and could, if both sides agreed, be submitted as evidence.
This ammunition was stored in two rooms outside the courtoom. In the legal equivalent of a coal mine, documents were retrieved from the deep as required and projected on to a screen whose size dwarfed anything you might watch football on in a pub.
Boies and Wells were the stars but could only shine thanks to the hundreds of hours billed – legal fees for each side are believed to run into the low tens of millions of dollars – in the months when few expected the case ever to reach court. If those two topped the bill during the trial, emails ran them a very close second. Each cut and thrust in front of the jury box offered a daily reminder of the truism that you should be mindful of what you write before pressing the send button. A handful of emails became familiar, sometimes tediously so, as each side recycled them, seeking to convince the jurors that they in fact knew what the sender really meant.
Retrieving emails from the bottom of the storerooms proved easier than dusting off the memories of those who testified. The court was treated to an almost constant chorus of “I don’t recall”. It sometimes strayed into the comic, with Hands admitting that all he could remember of a key meeting on May 20 was “wanting some chocolate biscuits”.
Or the agonising, as with Wormsley’s comment about a phone call he had with Hands late that same night: “I have spent a large part of the last 10 months trying to remember the call. I would love to but I don’t.”
The comment was one of the few that betrayed the raw emotions that the two men kept in check. Friends and dealmakers for a fabulously successful decade until EMI, Hands and Wormsley sat almost directly behind each other without ever acknowledging the other.
Despite defeat for one, the trial’s end will have come as a relief for both. Its 14 days opened a window on the final, heady days of a boom that neither Hands nor Wormsley appeared to realise was already on borrowed time.
It also gave a fascinating insight into American courtrooms that are likely to be kept full for years to come by the financial crisis that followed.
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Fifth Avenue galleries invite street art inside
Tinney Contemporary welcomes roster of internationally acclaimed street artists while The Rymer Gallery spotlights locals.
Fifth Avenue galleries invite street art inside Tinney Contemporary welcomes roster of internationally acclaimed street artists while The Rymer Gallery spotlights locals. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://tnne.ws/27KZYyS
Sara Estes, For The Tennessean Published 10:03 a.m. CT May 21, 2016
"Brick to Canvas": Street art on view at Tinney Contemporary
Hush, "Dallas" Submitted
Swoon, "Braddock Steel" Submitted
Adele Renault, "Camp On One Leg" Submitted
Hush, "Jade" Submitted
Banksy, "Haight Street Rat" Tinney Contemporary
Banksy, "Bomb Hugger" Submitted
Adele Reanault, "Summer Camp" Submitted
Kofie, "Overcast Air" Michael Underwood
Niels "Shoe" Meulman, "From Delhi to Nice I" Submitted
Rone, "in this together" Submitted
Herakut, "He Got Father's Strength But Luckily Not His Temper." Submitted
Banksy, "Bomb Hugger"(Photo: Submitted)
The streets make their way indoors this summer on downtown’s 5th Avenue of the Arts. Spanning multiple exhibitions in May, June and July, Tinney Contemporary and Rymer Gallery are offering Nashvillians an impressive glimpse at the world of contemporary street art. Highlighting original work by local artists and international superstars, these exciting exhibitions are making an indoor home for outdoor art.
Tinney Contemporary’s "Brick to Canvas: A Survey of International Street Art" is a two-part exhibition bringing dozens of renowned international street artists to Nashville for the first time. The show is curated by founders of the Nashville Walls Project, Tova Lobatz and Brian Greif.
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Nashville Walls Project provides canvas for street art
Banksy, "Haight Street Rat" (Photo: Tinney Contemporary)
Part I of "Brick to Canvas" features 20 original pieces by six acclaimed street artists: Banksy (England), Herakut (Germany), Rone (Australia), Niels “Shoe” Meulman (Amsterdam), Adele Renault (Amsterdam), and Augustine Kofie (U.S.). The works are on view through May 28.
While German duo Herkut’s whimsical room-sized installation in the back gallery will keep you entranced for as much time as you’ve got, the pièce de résistance of the show is undoubtedly “Haight Street Rat” by Banksy, one of the most famous graffiti artists in the world.
Owned by curator Brian Greif, the 7-foot stenciled rat donning a beret and holding a Magic Marker was spray-painted on the side of a San Francisco bed-and-breakfast in 2010 for the release of Banksy’s documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Greif chronicles his arduous journey to procure and restore the work in a documentary he co-produced called "Saving Banksy." Vowing never to sell the valuable work at auction, Greif has tried to donate the work to various museums, but the institutions refused to accept the work without a letter of authentication from the artist. He has since shown the work in galleries around the country.
Swoon, "Braddock Steel" (Photo: Submitted)
Part II of "Brick to Canvas" will be on view June 4-July 25 and will feature original work by Swoon (U.S.), Hush (England), Faith47 (South Africa), Logan Hicks (U.S.), Ben Eine (England), C215 (France), Above (Germany) and two more works by Banksy.
As a whole, this exhibition translates the artists’ go-big-or-go-home street style into art fit for a white-walled gallery. Their distinct visual aesthetics — usually juxtaposed onto a background of textured cement, dilapidated wood and corroded metal — are in many ways transformed by their pristine gallery presentation: smaller scale, on stretched canvas or framed paper, well-lit. It feels like a different animal altogether — for better or worse. Either way, it is exhilarating to get a look at their craftsmanship up close.
Two doors down on Fifth Avenue, The Rymer Gallery is currently spotlighting work by local Nashville street artists in a group show titled "#615Streets." In this exhibition, Brandon Donahue’s "Basketball Bloom" wall sculptures join the wheat-pasted fawns of Emily Miller. Executed with jaw-dropping precision, Chris Zidek’s imaginative geometric illustrations appear alongside Nathan Brown creates a forest of hand-written typography. Other artists include Sam Dunson, Troy Duff, Jay Jenkins, Bryan Deese and Patch Whisky. The show offers a rare chance to see some of Nashville’s best street artists under one roof.
In June, be on the lookout once again as Rymer Gallery will be teaming up with Lobatz and Greif for another graffiti-themed exhibition.
What: "Brick to Canvas" at Tinney Contemporary; "#615Streets"at Rymer Gallery
Where: 237 Fifth Ave N.; 233 Fifth Ave. N.
When: "Brick to Canvas" closes July 25; "#615Street" closes June 3
Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesday-Saturday
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Meet Ward Baker, the strategist behind Marsha Blackburn's winning US Senate campaign
Tennessee native Ward Baker served as the campaign's chief strategist.
Meet Ward Baker, the strategist behind Marsha Blackburn's winning US Senate campaign Tennessee native Ward Baker served as the campaign's chief strategist. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/tn-elections/2018/11/13/marsha-blackburn-ward-baker-campaign-strategist-tennessee-us-senate-campaign/1941685002/
Joel Ebert, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:00 a.m. CT Nov. 13, 2018 | Updated 2:15 p.m. CT Nov. 13, 2018
Campaign strategist Ward Baker applauds during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn on Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin.(Photo: George Walker IV / The Tennessean)
Ward Baker, 42, is a Tennessee native and graduate of Benton Hall Academy in Franklin. He served in the Marines.
Blackburn's historic win is just the latest in a string of victories that Baker has played a role in.
Baker's clients have included Mitch McConnell, Bob Corker, Chuck Fleischmann and Diane Black.
Baker is known for his data-driven approach to politics and a level of intensity more common in the military than politics.
When Republican Marsha Blackburn celebrated her U.S. Senate victory over Democrat Phil Bredesen on Tuesday, she heaped praise on many of her backers throughout the race.
“You know one person does not win a campaign,” she said, thanking the many volunteers who helped knock on 1.5 million doors and make 3 million phone calls throughout the 13-month campaign.
She also thanked her campaign leadership team, and the first name she mentioned was Ward Baker, the 42-year-old Tennessee native and graduate of Benton Hall Academy in Nashville who served as Blackburn's campaign strategist.
Unlike many supporters and volunteers whom Blackburn’s campaign recruited during the race, Baker, who was standing behind the senator-elect on the stage, has a relationship with the Brentwood Republican that dates back decades.
“Marsha and her family have been close friends and encouraged me throughout my career. I owe them a debt of gratitude,” Baker told the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee.
“I wanted to work for Marsha Blackburn because I knew that voters would see what I see — and that they would come to decide that she is the one best able to represent them.”
Blackburn’s historic win — she is Tennessee’s first female U.S. senator — is just the latest in a string of victories that Baker has played a role in, leading political insiders to view him as one of the pre-eminent figures in politics today.
Washington and Tennessee connections
Baker’s foray into politics came in 2002, shortly after he got out of the Marine Corps and started working on the state Senate race for Jim Bryson and Blackburn's congressional campaign.
From there Baker went on to work on the campaigns of former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election effort.
In the years since, Baker’s clients have included Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, Cory Gardner, Bill Cassidy and Deb Fischer, and Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth.
Election Day 2018 in Tennessee
U.S. Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn speaks to supporters at the election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Governor-elect Bill Lee celebrates his victory with supporters during the election party at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen delivers his concession speech to supporters at his campaign watch party at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / tennessean
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean delivers his concession speech at his campaign party held at Clementine Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn celebrates her victory at her watch party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Country artist John Rich presents Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn with flowers at her election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn embraces country artist Larry Gatlin after declaring victory at her election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen delivers his concession speech with his wife beside him at his campaign watch party at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / tennessean
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen gives a concession speech as his wife Andrea Conte stands beside him at his campaign watch party at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / tennessean
Tennessee Gov.-elect Bill Lee hugs his wife, Maria, as he speaks to supporters at his election party at the Factory in Franklin on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Governor-elect Bill Lee addresses supporters at his the election party at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Supporters take a selfie with Governor-elect Bill Lee at his election party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Gov.-elect Bill Lee addresses supporters at his the election party at the Factory in Franklin on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Tennessee Governor-elect Bill Lee slaps hands with supporters during his election party at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean thanks supporters during a campaign party held at Clementine Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Karl Dean speaks during his campaign party held at Clementine Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Alan Poizner
From left, Jamie Hill, Virginia Mitchell and Betsy Carroll celebrate during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Lee Greenwood performs "God Bless the USA" during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Alcia Lundquist celebrates during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Darlene Hipsher and Melissa Miles celebrate during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
People lift their hands in prayer during the invocation at the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Tennessee Gov.-elect Bill Lee celebrates his victory with supporters during an election party Nov. 6, 2018, at the Factory in Franklin. The longtime businessman has to figure out what he’ll do with Lee Company, the Franklin-based HVAC, electrical and plumbing business his grandfather founded in 1944 — and where Lee went to work in 1981. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Tennessee Governor-elect Bill Lee celebrates his victory with supporters during the election party at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Robert Payne is decked out in red, white and blue at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Dr. Al Spaw holds a sign at Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen's campaign watch party at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / tennessean
Guests arrive for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean's campaign party held at Clementine Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Alan Poizner
State Sen. Jack Johnson performs at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Cheryl Petty and Donna Choate celebrate results at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
RJ Mamula watches the polls at Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen's campaign watch party at the Hilton Hotel Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
NASCAR personality Darrell Waltrip speaks during the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Mary Neil and her husband Findlay of Nashville cheer as election results come in during the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Williamson County Sheriff Jeff Long speaks at the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Lynne Davis, state executive committee member, lifts her hand in prayer during the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
The line at Antioch High School stretches all the way down the hall, estimated to be an 1.5-hour wait at 6:49 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, according to poll worker Mitzy Johnson, who hasnÕt seen a line this long since the last presidential election. Mariah Timms / The Tennessean
Betsy Carroll and Jimmy Gayle keep an eye on results during the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Donna Choate and Cary Johnson dance at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Joyce Jennette takes a photo of her husband, Tony, of Pegrom, at the election party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee at the Factory in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Joynce Jennette said she went to middle school with Bill Lee. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Joe Byrne adjusts his Marsha Blackburn hat during the election night watch party for the Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Mike and Tina Hodges dance at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Linda Kollmann listens to music at the election night watch party for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Jy'Zayiah Davis, 9, of Knoxville, wears "I Voted" Tennessee stickers on his face while at Fair Garden Elementary School while his mom votes on Election Day in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters were voting for Tennessee's next governor, U.S. senator, congressional representatives and dozens of state lawmakers. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Nicole Dally of Franklin votes with her son, Hudson, 3, in her arms at the Westhaven Clubhouse polling location in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 20-18. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
Madison County Election volunteers show some voters how to use the machines before stepping away for voters to cast their ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Voters line up at Central Christian Church on South McLean just after 6 a.m. Micaela Watts / The Commercial Appeal
Election official Thomas Shaw holds an "I Voted" sticker ready to hand to voters at the Cathedral of Praise in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
Voters cast their vote at Pond Gap Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Voting signs at Green Magnet Academy on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Dan Chappell wears red white and blue glasses while waiting in line at the Shelby Park Community Center in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. "It's fun to get in the spirit," Chappell said. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Bill Huff of Franklin celebrates his son, Brandon Huff,19, voting for the first time with a photo at the Westhaven Clubhouse polling location in Franklin, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
November 06 2018 - Betsy Landers campaigns outside of a voting location at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian church in Germantown on Election Day. Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal
Election officials help voters via lanterns and window light at 65-E at Shoreline Church Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Siblings stick "I Voted" stickers on each other at Dogwood Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., campaigns at Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and talks with David Frodin as his son, Noah, 2, naps Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Clarksville, Tenn. Blackburn is running against former Gov. Phil Bredesen for the U.S. Senate. Mark Humphrey, AP
Governor Phil Bredesen speaks to a 9-year-old girl after casting his ballot at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean, right, shakes hands with James Lytle, left, outside of Bearden High School on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee, holding his grandson, arrives at the Fairview Recreation Center Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2018, to vote. Nancy Stephens / The Tennessean
Governor Phil Bredesen prepares to cast his ballot at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., center, campaigns at Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Clarksville, Tenn. Blackburn is running against former Gov. Phil Bredesen for the U.S. Senate. Mark Humphrey, AP
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee and his wife, Maria, check in with election officer Tetra Walker before voting at the Fairview Recreation Center on Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2018. Nancy Stephens / The Tennessesan
Gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean, right, shakes hands with James Sutton, 9, as father Bo Sutton, left, watches, outside of Bearden High School on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
Gretchen Millspaugh signs paper work as she prepares to vote at SportsCom Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
Sisters Caitlyn Parris and Loren Osborne campaign for their mother, DeAnn Osborne, at the Mitchell-Neilson polling site in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
A Madison County voter walks into Pope Elementary School to to cast his ballot in the 2018 midterm election, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Simone Secours wears a sign that says "Simone says: vote blue, yes on Amendment #1, free hugs" outside of the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. According to her owner Molly Secours, Simone is a "blue dog democrat." Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Desmond Parker, left, and Simeon Hall look over their ballots while voting at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
18-year-old Jamir Kyle stands at a voting booth to cast his ballot for the first time at North Side High School during the midterm election, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Regan Brown smiles while voting at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Greg Washington sings "we can do more with Brenda Gilmore" as voters enter the Cathedral of Praise to vote in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
Campaign signs line the entrance to the parking lot at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Abbey Hassell receives her access code so that she may vote for the first time during the 2018 midterm election, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Stewart Kresge wears his "I Voted" sticker on his forehead outside of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Election official Carolyn Morrow helps a voter at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Madison County voters form a line outside of Pope Elementary School in Jackson to cast their ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Dr. LaVern Hill, center, and Laura Flowers joke around while campaigning for Karl Dean at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Abbey Hassell signs her name so that she may vote for the first time during the 2018 midterm election, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Eugene Flemon receives an "I Voted" sticker at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Election officials at 65-E at Shoreline Church were using paper ballots and lanterns to assist voters Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Election official Carolyn Morrow sits at the Cathedral of Praise polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Madison County Resident Joe Kyle casts his ballot at North Side High School during the 2018 midterm election, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Voters cast their ballots Nov. 6, 2018, at Springdale Baptist Church. Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal
The line to vote stretches down the hallway at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Voter at Pope Elementary make their first top at the sign-in table before going to cast their ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
November 06 2018 - Germantown Mayor Mike Palazzolo speaks with a voter outside of a voting location at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian church in Germantown on Election Day. Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal
Karen Litwin of Franklin votes with her daughter Lucy,14, by her side at Hunters Bend Elementary School in Franklin on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean
A sign reminding voters to have their photo identification is placed on the table as voters enter to cast their ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, Tuesday, November 6. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
A crew works to clear the driveway into the 65-E precinct at Shoreline ChurchTuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Stone Scheideman, 5, helps his mom, Marissa Moss vote at the Shelby Park Community Center in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
November 06 2018 - People campaign outside of a voting location at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian church in Germantown on Election Day. Brad Vest/The Commercial Appeal
A voter takes an "I Voted" sticker after casting a ballot at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Election official Cozie Young smiles as she helps a voter at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Citizens prepare to vote at the Brickey Cloud Elementary polling place in Powell on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Mary Wells, 3 months, lies in a stroller while waiting in line at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
John Smith looks over a sample ballot while waiting in line at the Shelby Park Community Center in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Smith said he recently moved to the area so he wanted to familiarize himself with the amendment proposals before voting. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Germantown Alderman candidate Brian White waves from the top of a truck driven by a supporter outside Farmington Elementary School in Germantown. Max Garland / The Commercial Appeal
Stone Scheideman, 5, picks up an "I Voted" sticker after helping his mom vote at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Carolyn McKnight, right, shows first time-voter, Alexis Yenney, left, how to use the voting machine at SportsCom Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro Jim Davis/for the DNJ
Voters check in at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Dan Chappell and Laura Chappell talk to River Chappell, 3 months, while waiting in line at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Mallory Randall watches her mom cast her vote at Siegel Middle School Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
People vote at the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Leigh Garrett stands with her dogs Zoey, left, and Zander, right, while campaigning for Kate Trudell and Phil Bredesen, outside Powell High School's sports complex in Powell on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
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Voters leave Mitchell-Neilson Primary School in Murfreesboro after voting Tuesday morning in the 2018 midterm elections. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
Sevier Park Community Center had as many as 70 people in line, with wait times ranging from 40 minutes to an hour. Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tenn. Jamie McGee / The Tennessean
Nakia Scott, of Knoxville, shares a laugh with Joanne Dixon after voting at Fair Garden Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters were voting for Tennessee's next governor, U.S. senator, congressional representatives and dozens of state lawmakers. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Precinct Registrar Marilyn Swing points Ed Thackston toward the voting station at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
Deborah Bailey and Ryan Cox campaign for Marsha Blackburn, Bill Lee, and Tim Burchett outside Powell High School's sports complex polling place in Powell on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
The scene at Eakin Elementary School around noon where two precincts vote Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mariah Timms / The Tennessean
Van Johnson proudly shows his 'I Voted' sticker as he leaves Siegel Middle School Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
Dave Mohr, 31, and Nicole Mohr, 26, stop to fill out an exit poll survey after voting at the Williamson County Recreation Center on Tuesday. We love voting," Dave Mohr said with a smile. "We vote every chance we get." Added Nicole Mohr: "We always try to get all our friends to register, too. "Yeah, we are those people," Dave Mohr said. Jessica Bliss / The Tennessean
A voter casts their ballot at Fair Garden Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters were voting for Tennessee's next governor, U.S. senator, congressional representatives and dozens of state lawmakers. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Heather Geren cast her vote at SportsCom Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
A voter leaving Farragut 66-S Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Elizabeth Hargett waves to voters while campaigning for Bill Dunn outside Powell High School's sports complex polling place in Powell on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Stewart Kresge speaks with Pat McDonald and Roger Schecter, who hold Bob Freeman campaign signs, outside of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
John Saupe shows at poll worker at SportsCom his ID as he prepares to vote Tuesday morning in Murfreesboro. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
Precinct Registrar Marilyn Swing helps voters at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
Election officials said voters were lined up outside Farragut 66-N when they opened the doors and the line continued inside Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Ed Thackston puts his "I Voted" sticker on his lapel at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Mike Clark / For The Tennessean
Voters and children leaving Farragut 66-S Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Abdi Radi, 54 Antioch resident voties at Rural Hill Church of Christ Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tenn.. Anita Wadhwani / The Tennessean
Voters arriving and leaving Farragut 66-N Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
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Mandy Jones pets Simone Secours outside the Shelby Park Community Center polling place in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. According to her owner Molly Secours, Simone is a "blue dog Democrat." Mike Clark / For The Tennessesan
Voters check in to vote at Fair Garden Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville, Tennessee on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Voters were voting for Tennessee's next governor, U.S. senator, congressional representatives and dozens of state lawmakers. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Voters form a line at SportsCom in Murfreesboro Tuesday morning for the 2018 midterm elections. Jim Davis/for the DNJ
A child watches its parent vote at Pond Gap Elementary School on Election Day in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel
In Tennessee, in addition to Blackburn, Baker's clients have included U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, U.S. Reps. Chuck Fleischmann and Diane Black and newly elected U.S. Rep. John Rose, as well as state Sen. Jack Johnson.
And during the 2014 and 2016 election cycles, he served as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group charged with helping the GOP win Senate seats.
Gov. Bill Haslam, who talks frequently to Baker, said he is one of a limited number of people who have played such a prominent role on the big stage.
"It's a fairly small world of people who understand how to run statewide campaigns and have done it successfully," he said.
Johnson, the Tennessee state senator who views Baker as the brother he never had, said, “In state and national politics, he’s an absolute superstar.”
“There’s not a United States senator who does not know who Ward Baker is," Johnson said.
Fischer, the Nebraska U.S. senator, said she has known Baker for six years and points to his work ethic.
"I’ve long considered him a 'philosopher warrior' who thoughtfully and joyfully engages in politics,” she said.
Baker is so well known in national political circles that Steve Bannon — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist — once put him on a short list of Republicans, including McConnell and Karl Rove, who would soon see their “day of reckoning.”
Haslam said he joked with Baker about being on Bannon's "bad list," but it was also the Breitbart founder's effort to throw the Tennessean into the Republican Party's "bad crowd."
"Since that time I think they've proven differently," Haslam said.
Baker, who is closely tied to McConnell and many other Republican senators, has connections that even extend into the White House.
The Baker household's national connections aren't limited to him. Baker's wife, Jennifer, is a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association.
'Death by 10,000 cuts': Ward Baker's intense approach to politics
Beyond his reputation, Baker is known for his data-driven approach to politics and a level of intensity more common in the military than politics.
In the middle of this year’s Senate race, Baker said the campaign would be won by “death by 10,000 cuts” and half-jokingly said he was keeping a “list of everybody that’s screwing us" in reference to Republicans backing Blackburn's Democratic opponent.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., watches election returns with senior adviser Ward Baker on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin. (Photo: Mark Humphrey/AP)
Baker's comments drew the ire of Democrats, who filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging illegal coordination between Blackburn's campaign and outside groups.
Johnson said Baker’s passion for politics is nothing new. After a long day of door knocking in Johnson’s 2006 primary race for the state Senate, he and Baker once yelled at each other while standing nose to nose.
“In retrospect, it was at that moment that I realized I think he wanted me to win more than I wanted to win,” Johnson said.
Baker, who throughout the Senate campaign was awake by 4 a.m. crunching data from the day before, has a similarly heightened approach with his staff.
“I want everyone who works with me to become better than me,” he said. “You should never allow campaign staff to be average. We expect the best out of everybody.”
Campaign cash initial concern as race began
Heading into this year’s Senate campaign, Baker said his main concern was having the necessary money to compete.
“We knew that Bredesen was going to self-fund and could simply keep stroking checks,” he said. Bredesen loaned his campaign $7.5 million by the end of the race.
Because of that, Blackburn’s campaign held off spending money on television ads until one day before the Aug. 2 primary election. Haslam said the decision drew criticism from some in political circles.
“We knew that July and August would be tough and that polls would show Bredesen with a lead, but we quietly were building a war chest for the homestretch,” Baker wrote in a Nov. 8 campaign memo assessing the race.
“Once we put our foot on the gas pedal we never let up and kept Bredesen in a corner,” Baker wrote. “It was something he had never previously experienced.”
Haslam said the gambit ended up paying off. "They had a plan and the patience to carry that out, and you have to give them credit for it," he said.
When Bredesen got in the race in December, Baker said he was never daunted.
“We wanted to run against the best they have to offer and we were able to win,” Baker said, referring to Bredesen, adding that the campaign’s biggest advantage was Blackburn, whom he views as genuine and knowledgeable.
All throughout the race, Baker would stress to his staff — and reporters — the importance of data to keep tabs on the campaign.
“I live by one simple credo,” Baker said. “Base your decisions on what you know, not what you think.”
Abbi Sigler, Blackburn's campaign spokeswoman, said their meetings were "all about the numbers."
Baker said everything the campaign did — from voters' reactions to phone calls and door knockers to new public polls and how people interacted on social media — was combined in a way to best inform their efforts along the way.
"You could see the difference between our campaign and Bredesen’s in this regard. We believed he was going to run a 2006 type campaign, and we saw that from their weak investment in digital to their clipboard use in the field," he said.
'I wanted to win this one a lot'
It hasn’t always been success for Baker along the way — which he says is actually a good thing. “I’ve learned more from adversity than I have success," he said.
Looking back on Blackburn’s campaign, Baker said it has added significance.
“This one to me was meaningful because I have a great relationship with the Blackburn family and it’s my home state," he said. "I wanted to win this one a lot."
Although he has close personal ties to Blackburn, Baker said he’s not planning on joining her office in Washington, D.C.
When asked what’s next, he said he planned to take his daughter to see “Ice! How the Grinch Stole Christmas” in Nashville.
Beyond that, Baker said he is largely focused on continuing his winning streak.
“I’m going to do everything I can in whatever Leader McConnell needs me to do for his re-election,” he said.
More Tennessee 2018 election coverage:
► Marsha Blackburn defeats Phil Bredesen, will become Tennessee's first female senator
► Marsha Blackburn wins US Senate race: 4 takeaways on her historic victory, Phil Bredesen's bruising defeat
► How Marsha Blackburn won Tennessee's US Senate race and what it means for Tennessee
► Republican Bill Lee wins race for Tennessee governor, defeating Democrat Karl Dean
► Bill Lee announces transition leadership team as he prepares to make cabinet picks
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I had such a memorable time on the Edwardian. From the moment I first decided where I wanted to hold my 80th birthday luncheon, I had nothing but great help from the team who looked after me so well. Nothing was too much trouble for her. When on board, the crew and staff were all great - even when one of my guests was unwell, they managed to get a wheelchair for him to take him back to the coach. I could highly recommend you to friends. Thank you.
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We had a fabulous afternoon celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary on board the Edwardian. Everything went like clockwork and the staff were wonderful - particularly the captain and his mate.
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Everything - from the initial planning to the actual day on the Erasmus - was amazing. Our wedding reception was a surprise for many and the cruise certainly made the day very different to standard weddings. All 90 guests have and keep telling us how magical the Thames trip was, so a big thank you from us to TLC and all the staff.
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We had our wedding reception aboard the Elizabethan - an amazing afternoon and evening. Guests were very impressed, with many announcing that it was the best wedding they had been to!
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The robin is a small bird with red around its mouth and red on its breast. The female has no red on her the breast, and the following African is the folktale legend explains why.
One day the Robin and his wife found that they had no red camwood powder to make themselves beautiful, so the husband prepared for a journey to the market to buy some. He was a long time on the road, but at last reached the market only to find that all the red camwood had been sold. He tried one trader after another with no success, for all had sold out, but one finally said, "I have none to sell, but I can give you a small piece, enough for yourself."
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Directions Heat 2 inches oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Mash the bananas into a paste in a bowl. Alternate adding rice flour and a little water to make a stiff batter. Stir in the sugar. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the hot oil and fry until golden brown, dumplings will float to the top when done. Drain on kitchen paper to r…
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Most of the pictures stand for the object they represent, but usually, they stand for sounds. You cannot exactly match the American English alphabet to hieroglyphics, because they are two very different languages, but historians have come up with a simplified translation of our letters and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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The Pan-African flag or Black Liberation Flag is a tricolor flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands colored red, black and green. The three colors on the Pan-African flag represent red for the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation, black for the people of Black African ancestry and green for the abundant natural wealth of Africa.
Jamaican political leader Marcus Garvey was a founding member and former president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) created the Pan-African flag in 1920 in response to the 1900 song "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon." The song was written by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf was very popular in the United States and Britain.
A 1921 report appearing in the Africa Times and Orient Review, Marcus Garvey stated on the importance of the flag…
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Hungry people and policymakers throughout the world want to reduce food loss and waste therefore people need to know where it occurs and where interventions will be the most impactful. Food loss is the decrease in the quantity or quality of food resulting from decisions and actions by food suppliers in the chain. Food loss refers to any food that is discarded, incinerated or otherwise disposed of along the food supply chain from harvest. However food waste refers to the decrease in the quantity or quality of food resulting from decisions and actions by retailers, food service providers and consumers.
The where and why food loss and waste happensAt the farm Important causes of on-farm losses include inadequate harvesting time, climatic conditions, practices applied at harvest and handling, and challenges in marketing produce. Food loss and waste entails poor use of resources and negative environmental impacts. It is forecast that a growing population and rising incomes will lead to incr…
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Burdens of Women Collecting Firewood in Africa
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Almost all African countries still rely on wood to meet basic energy needs, in fact over 80% of the energy supply in African countries comes from wood. In these countries, woodfuels not only are vital to the nutrition of rural and urban households but are also often essential in food processing industries for baking, brewing, smoking, curing and electricity production.
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Traditional South African Gooseberry Jam Recipe
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By Greg Morcroft
Published: December 3rd, 2019
Corporations struggling to adapt to an investment community increasingly focused on improving environmental, social, and governance behavior may instead be missing an opportunity, according to a panel discussion at the Deal Economy Conference.
Corporations struggling to adapt to an investment community increasingly focused on improving environmental, social, and governance behavior may instead be missing an opportunity.
That’s the consensus from an expert panel presenting Wednesday at The Deal Economy Conference in New York.
“There’s research out there that suggests companies with better ESG ratings have better performance,” said Patrick McHugh, co-founder of proxy solicitor Okapi Partners. “The academic literature is strongly supportive of, essentially, alpha from ESG.”
Panelist Rob Berridge, director of shareholder engagement at Ceres, cited a Morningstar study that found that 73% of their ESG indexes outperformed non-ESG equivalents.
He also referenced a 2016 paper by a Bank of America that found an investor who had only stocks with above average ESG rankings would have avoided 15 out of 17 bankruptcy’s since 2008. So 90% of the bankruptcies would have been avoided, he added.
“So take a look at the academic literature,” Berridge said.
Saema Somalya, senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Fifth Third Bank, said that one way companies are tackling a growing demand for a demonstrable ESG strategy is by aligning their ESG-related efforts with their core business strategy and purpose.
“Every corporation is there to provide some sort of services or products to its customers. I find that ESG initiatives are most meaningful when they are rooted in the worth purpose of the company itself,” she said.
She noted that food and beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) focused their most significant ESG initiatives around water justice and water rights, which is a subject the company understands a great deal considering its heavy use of water. Pepsi participated in global NGOs around water justice and delivering water to hurricane-affected areas that didn’t have access to palatable water, she added.
At her shop, she noted that Fifth Third dedicates much of its time spent on ESG to community development and financial justice.
“We also are excited about and involved in sustainability initiatives. But those will all be rooted in, and they will all function best really when they’re rooted in our corporate purpose, particularly when we’re talking about maximizing resources and expertise,’ she said.
Turning to climate and environmental issues, the E in ESG, Berridge discussed what shareholders look for and how firms respond.
“We work with the investors in our network, and we convene them and coordinate them, and we have issue experts at Ceres. So if a company that is interested in buying renewable energy, we can get them with our renewable energy people or even better, would invite a Ceres staffer to the dialogue with the company. We also have a sector experts, electric utilities, oil and gas,” he said.
Berridge said investors filed 145 shareholder resolutions last year that Ceres deemed called climate-related. He said investors withdrew 56 of those proposals for a commitment of some sort by the company.
“It’s not always a groundbreaking thing. Sometimes it’s a report or adopting a policy, but sometimes it’s setting a goal or committing to source renewable energy,” he said. “So that’s about a 38% commitment rate. And on average over the years, it’s usually about a third. The commitment rate is about a third for climate-related shareholder proposals. So, pretty high volume and a lot of corporate commitments. So I think we are moving the needle.”
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Monday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
David Leeder
Published November 4, 2019 Updated November 4, 2019
Inside the Market’s roundup of some of today’s key analyst actions
Seeing “limited downside” to its stock following a recent decline in price, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Danidl Barus raised his rating for BlackBerry Ltd. (BB-N, BB-T) to “neutral” from “underperform” on Monday.
Though he touted the Waterloo, Ont.-based tech firm’s “favourable” valuation following a slid of almost 45 per cent since March, he feels it’s “offset by near-term execution issues and the potential for further quarterly result disappointments.”
“Investors are potentially overlooking some key assets, such as Cylance, QNX, and Athoc,” the analyst said.
Calling it a “show-me story” and emphasizing it “needs better execution,” Mr. Bartus increased his target to US$7 per share from US$6. The average target on the Street is currently US$7.50, according to Bloomberg data.
Ahead of third-quarter earnings seasons for Canadian Alt-A mortgage lenders, CIBC World Markets analyst Marco Giurleo thinks it’s “time to flip the script,” leading him to make a pair of ratings changes.
“The significant share price appreciation of the Alt-A lenders (up 92 cent year-to-date for EQB and 88 per cent YTD for HCG) is reflective of improving housing conditions (particularly in the GTA), a benign credit environment, and a robust mortgage growth outlook,” he said. “While the earnings growth profile has improved as a result, much of the heavy lifting with respect to price appreciation has come from multiple expansion.”
Mr. Giurleo raised his rating for Home Capital Group Inc. (HCG-T) to “outperformer” from “neutral” with a $35 target, rising from $25 and above the $29.61 consensus.
“We now see a path to double-digit profitability that will in all likelihood be outlined by management at the upcoming investor day in November," he said. "On the last conference call, management indicated that over the next two to three years they see potential for 500 basis points of ROE expansion, approximately half of which will come from “optimizing the capital base” and the remainder from profit expansion.”
Mr. Giurleo added: “Our Outperformer rating is underpinned by the company’s: 1) path to double-digit profitability; 2) strong mortgage growth outlook; and 3) attractive valuation."
At the same time, he lowered Equitable Group Inc. (EQB-T) to “neutral” from “outperformer” with a $130 target, up from $100. The average is $122.43.
“With the stock trading near the high end of its historical valuation range (on both a P/E and P/BV basis), we see the risk-reward on the shares as skewed to the downside and believe future share price appreciation will be contained to earnings growth + dividend yield, which combine for a healthy double-digit return (15 per cent),” the analyst said.
Seven Aces Ltd. (ACES-X) is holding “a dominant position in a highly fragmented, but highly regulated and highly lucrative market,” according to Industrial Alliance Securities analyst Neil Linsdell.
He initiated coverage of the Toronto-based gaming company, which focuses exclusively on Georgia through its 70-per-cent stake in coin operating amusement machine (COAM) operator Lucky Bucks LLC, with a “buy” rating, believing it is “well positioned to adapt to an increasingly restrictive regulatory environment.”
“Seven Aces is operating in a market that is highly fragmented, but also highly regulated," he said. “This provides the opportunity for a well organized and well capitalized organization to profitably grow organically, and to become a sought-after and efficient acquirer. Using the organizational capabilities of ACES’ management team, the company is creating infrastructure and processes that allow it to operate more efficiently, and to offer superior terminals, games, and customer service to location operators. This puts it in a better position to win contracts as they expire (typically every 5-10 years) from less organized or less well-capitalized route operators, and to be seen as a preferred acquirer for sellers looking for an exit or to implement succession plans. This competitive advantage is further highlighted by increasing regulations that place additional pressure on smaller operators, enticing them to consider selling their COAM assets to LB rather than face escalating compliance and other costs in order to continue operating.”
Mr. Linsdell said Seven Aces currently operates with an “attractive" free cash flow attributable to shareholders of 12 per cent of gross revenue, which he projects to improve by 15 per cent over the next five years.
“The Company’s growth strategy includes a significant focus on M&A, by selectively acquiring the highest producing COAMs in the state, while leveraging its growing infrastructure and network, and advancing structure and best-in-class reporting systems to create a protective moat. The market is relatively fragmented, with LB as the largest COAM operator in Georgia, with 9 per cent of units (11 per cent of revenue), providing ample opportunities for additional acquisitions. The top 10 operators combined (including LB) are estimated to control 40 per cent of the market. As such, we are optimistic about LB’s potential opportunity to continue consolidating this market for many years to come.”
He set a target of $1.90 per share, which falls 2 cents below the consensus.
Aecon Group Inc.'s (ARE-T) newly introduced normal-course issuer bid is “another tool in the box to build shareholder value,” said Desjardins Securities analyst Benoit Poirier in the wake of Thursday’s release of “decent” third-quarter results.
“ARE’s stock has lagged the S&P/TSX since the beginning of the year (up 4 per cent versus 16 per cent) despite the robust operational results delivered in 2019,” he said. “In our view, the underperformance is explained by the weakness of some peers on LSTK [lump-sum turnkey] projects, notably SNC-Lavalin and Fluor. We believe this situation is unjustified and does not reflect ARE’s robust operational track record and growth potential. We support the NCIB as we believe it will enable ARE to close what we see as an unwarranted valuation gap vs its Canadian and U.S. peers (enterprise value to FY1 EBITDA discount of 0.2 times and 4.5 times, respectively).”
For the quarter, the Toronto-based construction company reported revenue of $1.025-billion, exceeding Mr. Poirier’s estimate of $952-million and in line with the consensus projection of $1.014-billion. Adjusted EBITDA of $91-million, which the analyst said was investors’ main focus, also topped both the expectations of both Mr. Poirier ($88-million) and the Street ($86-million).
“In 3Q19, net debt to EBITDA increased slightly to 1.7 times from 1.6 times (including convertibles), as ARE continues to ramp up on key contracts (working capital investments expected to improve in 4Q),” he said. "A solid balance sheet remains a competitive advantage to secure attractive partnerships for major projects — a key growth driver. It also allows management to be active with its newly implemented NCIB program to buy back shares opportunistically. Management reiterated that it is prudently looking to enter the U.S. market by acquisition. We support this strategy, which enables ARE to leverage its strong expertise to diversify the business while also expanding its addressable market.
With a “buy” rating (unchanged), Mr. Poirier increased his target for Aecon shares to $25 from $24. The average is $24.90.
“We continue to see significant potential for value creation as management delivers on the solid backlog while continuing to pursue projects ($40-billion-plus identified),” he said.
Elsewhere, Canaccord Genuity’s Yuri Lynk maintained a “buy” rating and $27 target.
Mr. Lynk said: “Aecon’s outlook remains compelling. Next year is shaping up to be very strong in terms of new awards. We are tracking six projects Aecon is shortlisted on that could be awarded next year and potentially add $1.6 billion to backlog or 25 per cent on a risk-adjusted basis. Additionally, Aecon enjoys a $525 million stream of recurring revenue work that is increasing steadily over time. Management continues to call for EBITDA growth in 2020, which is supported by 22-per-cent year-over-year growth in NTM [next 12-month] backlog.”
TMAC Resources Inc. (TMR-T) faces a significant new operational risk with ground condition concerns at its Hope Bay mine in Nunavut, said Canaccord Genuity analyst Tom Gallo.
“The TMAC story has revolved around mill operations, as the mill has struggled to reach name plate capacity of 2,000 tons per day and achieve targeted gold recoveries of 90 per cent,” he said. “Q3/19 did not deliver on these two fronts; however, tonnes milled and recoveries improved quarter over quarter. Production for Q3/19 of 36,290 ounces was a miss compared to Q2/19 and Canaccord Genuity estimates, but management was confident it was still possible to reach the low end of 2019 guidance. That has now been changed as ground condition issues have forced rehabilitation of the Doris BTD East Limb to ensure safe conditions, and management has revised guidance to reflect the delay in accessing higher grade ore.”
Based on the need for “significant rehabilitation work” at the Doris BTD East Limb of the mine, Mr. Gallo has taken a “more conservative” stance toward production costs for the next several quarters, leading to declines in both his EBITDA and earnings per share projections.
“Though we believe this to be an isolated event, we expect the stock to continue to lag peers until the company demonstrates a solution to the ground condition situation, as well as showing consistent improvements in mill recoveries,” said Mr. Gallo.
Maintaining a “speculative buy” rating, he lowered his target to $7.50 from $9. The average is currently $7.37.
Elsewhere, Laurentian Bank Securities’ Barry Allan cut his target to $7.80 from $9 with a “buy” rating (unchanged).
Mr. Allan said: "We updated our financial model for actual Q3/19 results and have trimmed our 2019 forecast as per recent Q4/19 guidance. We have also taken a more conservative milling rate for 2020 and 2021 to reflect our revised view that the operating rate of the mill may be constrained by the ability of the mine to produce sufficient ore to keep the mill at capacity. With a low level of stockpiles to offset potential hiccups in the underground, we have capped the mill rate at 1,750 tpd. The impact of this assumption change is that our NAV/sh fell to $7.79 from $8.94 previously. In-line with the drop in underlying NAV, we are reducing the target price to $7.80 from $9.00. However, our recommendation remains a Buy – we do see value in TMR. "
Calling it a “premier defensive utility,” Raymond James analyst David Quezada thinks Fortis Inc.'s (FTS-T) past acquisitions showed their “value” in its in-line third-quarter financial results.
Before the bell on Friday, Fortis reported adjusted earnings per share of 66 cents, exceeding Mr. Quezada’s expectations by 4 cents.
“Relative to 3Q18′s EPS of $0.65, Fortis saw a lift from higher earnings at ITC [Holdings Inc.] due to rate base growth (partially offset by the 25 basis points reduction in the independence adder) while UNS’ earnings saw a lift year-over-year on regulated recoveries,” he said. “These benefits were offset by lower rainfall in Belize which impacted the company’s Energy Infrastructure segment while higher share count also had a modest negative impact. At $2.6-billion year-to-date, Fortis remains on track to spend a targeted $4.3-billion in capex for 2019. FTS also announced a 6.1-per-cent dividend increase, consistent with guidance. We believe these results reflect continued impressive performance from ITC and UNS [Energy Corp.], each of which outpaced our estimates, and the value the company has delivered with past acquisitions.”
He added: “Our Market Perform rating notwithstanding, we consider Fortis to be a best-in-class North American utility with diversified footprint, attractive rate base and earnings growth and enviable dividend track record. We believe Fortis’ $18.3-billion five year capital plan— which supports three and five year rate base CAGRs [compound annual growth rates] of 7.2 per cent and 6.5 per cent, respectively—stacks up well vs. peers, which considering the company’s low risk footprint (93 per cent of FTS’ earnings come from transmission and distribution) and relatively small likelihood of discrete equity, represents a compelling combination, in our view. That said, currently trading at 19.8 times P/NTM EPS [price to next 12 month earnings per share], we believe FTS stock resides within shooting distance of its historical peak and has closed much of the gap versus U.S. peers.”
Mr. Quezada kept a “market perform” rating and $55 target, which falls short of the $56.59 consensus.
“While strong year-to-date share price gains and valuation approaching cycle peak levels prompt our neutral stance, we continue to regard Fortis as a premier energy infrastructure holding,” he said. "With attractive rate base growth, positive optionally from longer term opportunities outside the company’s capital plan and best-in-class diversification, we see Fortis as a go-to name among large cap Canadian utilities.”
In other analyst actions:
Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FM-T) to “neutral” from “underperform” with a $13 target. The average on the Street is $15.63.
TD Securities analyst Linda Ezergailis cut TC Energy Corp. (TRP-T) to “buy” from “action list buy” with a $76 target, which exceeds the $72.41 average.
Eight Capital analyst Suthan Sukumar raised his target for shares of Kinaxis Inc. (KXS-T) to Street-high $115 from $100 with a “buy” rating (unchanged). The average is currently $104.92.
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Discussion in 'General Gun Discussions' started by mike101, Jan 7, 2009.
rscalzo Member
Comparing an AR15 to a Machine gun puts in the mind of the public that and ar15 IS a machine gun
As a matter of fact, AR15's were available in FA. We had one purchased in 1965 for use by our department. It was ordered and delivered in a full auto configuration. It was marked as a Colt AR15, one of the first sold to police agencies.
rscalzo, Jan 7, 2009
MGshaggy Member
Truth ne told a selective fire AR15 is not even truely a Machine gun, it is an assult weopon.
Not according to the US Code.
MGshaggy, Jan 7, 2009
paintballdude902 Member
jr u mean like the mg42?
paintballdude902, Jan 7, 2009
There's no such thing as an "assault weapon". That's a made up term to make people confuse assault rifles with a semi auto rifle based on the military selective fire version.
hso - I keep hearing this, but have never heard any source for it. The term "semi-automatic assault weapon" was a statutorily defined term in the US Code during the time the 1994 AWB was in effect. Can you cite an official source wherein the term "assault weapon" was codified or defined as a selective fire, intermediate caliber rifle (or something similar)?
mike101 Member
Not to nitpick, but the reporter's exact words were these.
"One of the machine guns taken looked like this one, an AR-15"
Then they showed a picture of an AR-15 with a five round mag.
mike101, Jan 7, 2009
Shung Member
I have got a Colt M4 built on a M16A1 lower...
the Colt markings says:
Colt (logo)
Property of US GOVT
Cal 5.56 MM
XXXXXXXXX (serial)
So my AR-15 really looks like a machine gun
Shung, Jan 7, 2009
edSky Member
Hey, Vernon is cool, he's older than me. He has been around a long time, and was reporting live when then Philly Mayor Wilson B. Goode personally bombed the M.O.V.E. headquarters (from a Philadelphia Air-Force helicopter) back in the 1980's.
Vernon probably does a lot of his reporting extemporaneously, and it doesn't seem like he made a horrible error. He was reporting on the crime, not the evils of black guns.
Read about Vernon here: http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/odom.html
edSky, Jan 7, 2009
Gunnerpalace Member
Somewhere in Michigan
Sugarmann is credited with first coining the term "assault weapon
Yeah I cant add any more to that pretty much sums it up.
Gunnerpalace, Jan 7, 2009
Art Eatman Administrator Staff Member
Terlingua, TX; Thomasville,GA
MGshaggy, prior to all the noises about the evil assault weapons, most of the gun folks referred to selective fire critters as assault rifles. It was not until a few semi-auto AKs and SKS types got used in highly-publicized crimes that the new term "Assault Weapon" got applied to just about any para-military rifle.
Art Eatman, Jan 7, 2009
hso Moderator Staff Member
0 hrs east of TN
Assault Rifle = selective fire rifle or carbine firing intermediate or pistol cartridge (e.g. M16 or M4) instead of a battle rifle which fired a rifle cartridge (30.06 out of a Garand, 7.62 NATO out of a FAL, etc.)
Assault Weapon = semiauto rifle or carbine that happens to look kinda like a submachine gun or assault rifle firing an intermediate cartridge but the term sounds a lot scarier than just saying semiauto rifle or semiauto carbine (e.g. AR15 or M4gery) and therefore had a whole useless law ('94 AWB) built around the propaganda that somehow a semiauto rifle with a pistol grip, removable magazine and a flash hider was more dangerous than a blue and wood semiauto rifle firing the exact same round (AR15 vs Mini 14). Luckily, the law sun-setted, but the pejorative term lingers on as part of the common lexicon.
AW is a propaganda term while assault rifle is a military term.
hso, Jan 7, 2009
I understand that Art, but where is 'our' definition of "assault rifle" codified or defined? Surely the Sturmgewehr was partly responsible, but are we basing out objection to the media's misuse of the term "assault rifle" on the 65 year old nomenclature of a defeated military? Has the US military or US government adopted such nomenclature?
(and I do recognize and apologize for my own misuse of the term "assault weapon" in my previous post - I meant "assault rifle", which was also defined under the 1994 AWB as a "semiautomatic assault rifle".)
hso - I understand the difference; my question goes to the derivation of our use of the term. IOW, where is the definition you just cited formally codified or defined?
tpaw Member
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tpaw, Jan 7, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
Wikipedia Explains a lot more.
MGshaggy- see my post.
I did. It doesn't address my question. See my post #36 for further clarification.
Tommygunn Member
Morgan County, Alabama
IIRC, when the rifle first came out, it was called the AR-15.
The army adopted it as the M-16.
Tommygunn, Jan 7, 2009
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https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/New-bills-target-pharmacy-middlemen-for-state-13695186.php
New bills target pharmacy middlemen for state regulation
Peter Hancock Capitol News Illinois
Published 11:39 am CDT, Sunday, March 17, 2019
Rep. Gregory Harris, D-Chicago, and state Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, speak in favor of imposing state regulations on a little-known industry, pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, who negotiate drug prices and benefits on behalf of insurance plans. The pair addressed a large group of pharmacists from around the state at the Capitol Wednesday.
Rep. Gregory Harris, D-Chicago, and state Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, speak in favor of imposing state regulations on a little-known industry, pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, who negotiate drug prices
Peter Hancock/Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – As part of an effort to rein in the rising cost of prescription drugs in Illinois, Democratic state lawmakers introduced bills Wednesday to impose state regulations on a little-known industry, pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, who negotiate drug prices and benefits on behalf of insurance plans.
Speaking at a statehouse rally with scores of pharmacists from around the state, House Majority Leader Gregory Harris, of Chicago, and Democratic Sen. Andy Manar, of Bunker Hill, blamed that industry not only for manipulating drug prices, but also for pushing independent community pharmacies out of business — charges the PBM industry denies.
“So we’re here today to work on legislation that will outlaw predatory pricing practices, that will stop insurers and PBMs from disadvantaging local pharmacies and local pharmacists, and to make drugs more affordable to families and consumers across the state of Illinois,” Harris said at the rally.
PBMs generally work on behalf of health insurance plans to negotiate drug prices and develop what are called “formularies” — rules that determine what drugs will be covered for particular conditions, and in some instances, under what conditions those drugs will be covered.
In addition, in the case of high-cost drugs, PBMs will often set a “maximum allowable cost” that limits how much pharmacies will be reimbursed for a particular drug.
Independent pharmacies complain those maximum allowable costs are often less than the wholesale price they pay to manufacturers to obtain the drug. They also allege that certain PBMs have direct ties to large, retail chain pharmacies, such as CVS Health, which operates the nation’s largest chain of retail pharmacies and provides pharmacy benefit management services.
Harris and Manar introduced companion bills Wednesday — House Bill 465 and Senate Bill 652 — that would put PBMs under regulation by the Illinois Department of Insurance.
They would also put several restrictions on PBM operations, such as prohibiting them from putting a drug on a maximum allowable cost list unless there are at least three lower-cost generic equivalent drugs available on the market.
“No one regulates PBMs in the state of Illinois,” Harris said during an interview after the rally. “And this has been true across the country. In the last two years, this has become such an issue in so many states that, I believe now, 25 states are regulating PBMs and adopting similar principles we have here to cut down on the predatory pricing practices.”
An association that represents PBMs, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, portrayed the controversy as merely one branch of the prescription drug industry attacking another.
“We agree with…Harris that more can be done to address rising drug prices,” the association said in a statement. “However, legislation HB 465, promotes the special interest agenda of the independent drugstore lobby while having adverse effects on drug costs for Illinois consumers.”
The association has also argued that it is not to blame for the closure of small, independent pharmacies. Those pharmacies, it said, are at a natural competitive disadvantage because they do not have the purchasing power to negotiate the same kind of prices with wholesalers that PBMs can negotiate.
Harris said the next steps for the bills will be for House and Senate leaders to assign them to committees that will hold hearings on the issue later in the session.
Reach reporter Peter Hancock at phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com
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https://www.theintelligencer.com/sports/article/BASEBALL-Cougars-sweep-doubleheader-to-open-home-13657781.php
BASEBALL: Cougars sweep doubleheader to open home season
SIUE Athletics
Published 8:05 am CST, Saturday, March 2, 2019
EDWARDSVILLE – SIUE baseball opened the 2019 home season in fine fashion Friday, sweeping a doubleheader from UIC at Simmons Baseball Complex.
The Cougars improved to 3-5 overall, while UIC slipped to 1-7.
“These were two really good team wins,” SIUE head coach Sean Lyons said. “The guys feel good about it. A lot of guys contributed.”
Scheduled for a seven-inning affair, the Cougars needed an extra inning to get past the flames in game one. With the score tied 2-2, SIUE freshman Brady Bunten led off the inning with a double to right center and moved to third on an errant pickoff throw. Jordan Ross lifted a fly ball into right field and Bunten was able to beat the throw to home plate with the winning run.
“I give (UIC right fielder Scott Ota) credit,” Lyons said. “He made an excellent throw from right field and Brady sneaks in under the tag to win it.”
The Cougars took an early lead in the opener, scoring a run on two hits in the first inning. Brock Weimer doubled to drive home Ross with the first run.
UIC tied the score in the second, before SIUE regained the lead in the bottom of the inning. Garrett Carmichael doubled to score Raul Elguezabal who had doubled to start the inning.
SIUE reliever Chris Robinson (2-1) struck out eight hitters over four scoreless innings. He allowed just two hits and did not walk a batter. Robinson followed Collin Baumgartner who fanned a career-high seven hitters in four innings. He allowed two runs on six hits.
UIC righthander Jacob Key (0-3) worked the complete game for the Flames. He struck out nine and allowed three runs, two earned, on six SIUE hits.
“Key did an exceptional job,” Lyons added. “We got on him the first two innings and then he settled into the game. He had us baffled. We were fortunate to get a run there.”
The Flames got a grand slam from Dominic Smith in the first inning of game two to lead 4-0.
SIUE starter Cameron Prayer lasted only the inning, allowing the four runs on three hits and two walks.
“When you have a seven-inning game you don’t want to take your starter out after one inning,” Lyons said. “Cameron wasn’t sharp in the first and they made him pay for it.”
The Cougars plated two runs in the second thanks to throwing errors to trim the lead to 4-2. SIUE took over in the fifth with four runs on four hits. Dustin Woodcock singled to drive in a run and Carmichael added two RBIs on a two-out single to right field.
“We were the benefactors of a few miscues but I think some of that comes with the speed of some of our guys in the lineup this year who can put pressure on the defense,” Lyons said. “It helped us chip away before we had the big inning.”
The SIUE bullpen shined in game two. Brayden Bone, Adam Drewry and Cole Milam combined for six shutout innings. Bone struck out five over three innings. Drewry (1-0) earned his first SIUE win with two shutout innings and Milam saved his second game of the year, striking out the side in the seventh.
“The two most important guys in today’s games were Chris Robinson and Brayden Bone,” Lyons said. “Both guys came into the game and just put up zeroes. Chris did a great job in game one to keep the score where it was. Brayden, in game two, gave us an opportunity to come back after we faced a 4-0 deficit in the first.”
SIUE will open Ohio Valley Conference play next weekend with a series at defending regular-season champion Tennessee Tech.
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The Pope Meets With Catholic Church Sex Abuse Survivors In Ireland
11 0 Katerina Papakyriakopoulou Friday, August 31, 2018 Edit this post
Pope Francis, on the first papal visit to Ireland on August 25th, 2018, in almost four decades, expressed "outrage" over the Catholic Church's cover-up of sex abuse.
Pope Francis delivers a speech in the Dublin Castle during his visit to Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland, on August 25, 2018. Source: EPA-EFE
Pope Francis, on the first papal visit to Ireland on August 25th, 2018, in almost four decades, expressed "outrage" over the Catholic Church's cover-up of sex abuse. He later met with 8 survivors of what the Vatican called as "clerical as well as religious & institutional abuse."
Ireland is the hotbed of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, with the institution under fire across the world for its systemic failures to protect kids or to punish bishops that hid the crimes.
“The failure of ecclesiastical authorities — bishops, religious superiors, priests and others — to adequately address these repugnant crimes has rightly given rise to outrage and remains a source of pain and shame for the Catholic community. I myself share these sentiments." the Pope said in a speech in Italian to Irish government authorities.
“With regard to the most vulnerable, I can't fail to acknowledge the grave scandal caused in Ireland by the abuse of young people by members of the Church charged with responsibility for their protection and education,” he added.
However, he didn't indicate whether he plans to take forceful action to hold bishops accountable for protecting kids or to sanction them when they fall short.
The pope met with the eight survivors later, including some abused sexually and some who as infants were forcibly separated from their moms in church-run orphans homes.
Francis referred to the past remarks of Pope Benedict in a letter to Irish Catholics claiming that he “spared no words in recognizing both the gravity of the situation” as well as in demanding “truly evangelical, just and effective” measures to be taken in response “to this betrayal of trust.”
Pope Francis waves as he boards the plane on his way to the his two-day pastoral trip to Ireland. Source: AFP/Getty Images
In their meeting with the pope, the survivors delivered a letter calling on the pontiff to condemn the forced separations of 100,000 mothers from their kids in notorious adoption centers. According to the Irish Times, the letter said:
“The nuns have never taken responsibility for their willful neglect. We ask you, Pope Francis, to publicly call on these nuns to acknowledge their actions and issue an open and unqualified apology."
In turn, the pope agreed to end a mass on August 26th, by telling mothers who had given up their kids for adoption that there was no sin is now looking for their kids, according to the newspaper.
Upon his arrival from Rome, Pope Francis sought to get ahead of the public criticism in his opening remarks to several hundred dignitaries from Irish political, religious, and civic life.
“It's my hope that the gravity of the abuse scandals, which have cast a light on the failings of many, will serve to emphasize the importance of the protection of minors and vulnerable adults on the part of society as a whole,” he said, according to the Irish Times.
Nevertheless, neither Francis’ words nor a new meeting with abuse victims is likely to calm the outrage among rank-and-file Catholics following new revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up in the US, an ongoing crisis in Chile and prosecutions of top clerics in Australia and France.
Colm O’Gorman, who's leading a solidarity rally in Dublin for abuse victims, said Francis’ remarks concerning the shame felt by Catholics were an “insult to faithful Catholics.”
A group of protesters demonstrating against the pope’s visit outside Dublin Castle had a banner which read: “Pedophile supporters go home.”
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, in remarks in Dublin Castle before the pontiff spoke, set the tone for the visit in saying the time had come to build a "more mature" relationship between the Catholic Church and the Irish state.
Varadkar referred to the abuse as “unspeakable crimes" which were perpetrated by people within the church.
The prime minister addressed the Church’s handling of clerical sex abuse and said that there “can only be zero tolerance for those who abuse innocent children or who facilitate the abuse.”
The country of Ireland has experienced one of the world's worst records of abuse. Crimes were revealed to the 4.8 million people of the deeply Catholic nation through a series of government-mandated inquiries over the last decade. The reviews concluded that thousands of kids were raped or molested by priests and physically abused in church-run schools whilst bishops covered up for abusers.
After the Irish church faced the problems and established strict new rules to fight abuse, and it had been looking to the very first visit by a pope in forty years to show a different, more caring church that understands the problems of Catholic families today.
Over 37,000 people – the majority of them young Catholics – signed up to attend a Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families which began in Dublin on August 21st and runs through August 26th, more than twice the number as for the last family rally held in Philadelphia three years ago.
And many faithful were hopeful. However, Ireland’s tortured history of abuse has unfortunately left its mark.
In a country where Catholic bishops held such sway that they advised the drafters of the republic’s constitution in the 1930s, voters in recent years have turned their backs on core Catholic teachings, overturning a constitutional ban on abortion and legalized divorce, same-sex marriage, and contraception.
Francis was welcomed on the tarmac of Dublin International Airport by a small delegation mostly composed of clergy.
Irish abuse victims, as well as their supporters, were expected to hold a solidarity rally on August 26th in Dublin, at the same time Francis is celebrating his final Mass to close out the family conference.
Separately, survivors of Ireland’s wretched “mother and baby homes” – where kids were sent away for the embarrassment of having been born to unmarried mothers – are holding their own demonstration. The location is Tuam, site of a mass grave of hundreds of babies who died over the years at a church-run home.
Francis will be nearby, visiting the Marian shrine at Knock, but he isn't planning to visit the grave site.
On the eve of Francis’ arrival in Dublin, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley – the pope’s top abuse counselor – said protecting kids and vulnerable adults was now the single most crucial issue facing the church.
O’Malley had been expected to headline the discussion in person, yet he backed out at the very last minute, explaining a new inquiry he launched into his diocesan seminary amid sexual misconduct allegations – one of all three prominent U.S. seminaries which have recently launched such investigations.
Irish abuse survivor and advocate Marie Collins, who resigned in frustration from O’Malley’s board in 2017, told the safeguarding panel that if Francis claims to be on the side of victims, the Catholic Church should no longer lobby to block the ability of victims to sue and prosecute abusers after the statute of limitations expires.
She called for “robust structures” and strong sanctions to hold accountable bishops and Vatican officials who fail to protect children.
Nevertheless, Francis offered no such structures or sanctions in a letter he penned on the eve of his Irish visit, vowing only to spare no effort to fight the abuse problem. He has pledged “zero tolerance” since the start of his pontificate.
When St. John Paul II visited Ireland in 1979, in the first-ever papal visit, about 1.25 million people turned out for his first Mass in Phoenix Park, 1/3 of Ireland's population and the biggest gathering in Irish history at the time.
References: The Associated Press, USA Today
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Chile qualify for World Cup finals in style
La Roja beat Ecuador to seal its place in Brazil 2014, building on its reputation for exciting attacking soccer.
Thursday 17 October, 2013 | Daily life, Sports
“Chi-chi-chi / le-le-le / viva Chile.” Clamoring voices, frenetic drumming, beeping car-horns and a seemingly endless array of soccer chants about Chile; this was the sound of Wednesday night as ebullient fans across the 2600 mile length of the country took to the streets to celebrate the national team’s qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
A few hours earlier, as Chile lined up to face the formidable Ecuador in the final round of qualification in Santiago, spirits were already high among both hosts and visitors alike.
Both teams went into the match with good prospects of automatic qualification, in fact a draw would have sealed the deal for both squads, so you could be forgiven for thinking Chile would rest on its laurels and take the easy road.
To the delight of fans, Chile showed the same attacking flair that has captivated audiences across the world in recent years in Wednesday’s match creating a raft of opportunities from the first whistle.
Star striker Alexis Sánchez was the first to get on the scoreboard leaping above his marker to head home Chile’s first goal. A second came soon after as Cardiff City’s Gary Medel slotted home an easy finish from a Sánchez assist. While Ecuador came back into the game in the second half Chile was able to hold on to a victory, sailing in to the World Cup finals and, quite possibly, the hearts of aficionados of dynamic, attacking soccer worldwide.
Since its showing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chile has built a reputation as a great team to watch, garnering acclaim from a host of pundits for their fluid, offensive style.
BBC sports pundit Tim Vickery is one such zealous convert. “Full of pace, movement and attacking intent, Chile are a delight to watch,” wrote the British sports writer last month in an article suggesting the South American team should be a favorite among neutrals during the big tournament next year.
Understandably, his high praise is mirrored by those in the squad responsible for getting Chile’s heart racing. Speaking to press after Wednesday’s triumph, Sanchéz was adamant that this year’s qualifying success is just the beginning; the big prize is next summer’s World Cup.
“It does not stop here,” the Barcelona striker said. “We want to be champions in Brazil.”
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Discovering the Secrets of 'Poldark's Beach'
The period drama, a fixture on UK TV screens since 2015, has helped make a star of the stunning Cornish beach which has appeared in numerous scenes - often while a well-known character stares broodingly out to sea
Winston Graham's novels, following the Poldark family and late 18th and early 19th century life in Cornwall, have been popular since publication and the latest hit screen adaptation has introduced the canon, and the Cornish landscape, to a whole new audience.
Carter's or Gull Rocks
Little is known about the iconic rocks which are used frequently as a focal point in the TV adaptation. There are two names used to refer to the islets situated in Holywell Bay, Carter's Rocks and Gull Rocks. 'Carter's Rock' presumably originates from the famous Cornish smuggling brothers Harry, Charles and John Carter; the latter of the three brothers was famously known as 'The King of Prussia'. However, many maps also feature the name 'Gull Rocks' which follows suit with the other rocks situated along the coast towards Newquay with fellow feathered namesakes including, 'Chick Rock' and 'Goose Rock'.
The Holy Well
Found nestled in the grounds of Trevornick this natural spring has been a religious place of pilgrimage for many years. The water from the well was thought to have healing powers and historically many people would travel to sample the restorative properties of its water.
Holywell's Sea Cave
This bizarre natural formation of stalagmites and stalactites creating a natural well is a must see for visitors to the location. Featured in a famous scene between Demelza's younger brother Drake Carne and his love interest Morwenna; the ancient rock formation can only be found at low tide, at the far eastern end of Holywell beach (Great care should be taken when looking for the well).
Beach Bond
As well as Poldark, a number of other films and production companies have utilised the beautiful scenery of this part of the Cornish coast. Bond films 'Tomorrow Never Dies', and 'Die Another Day' have both seen 007 striding on the sand of Holywell Bay.
At low tide beachgoers should look to the horizon and amongst the waves they'll spot the mast of a sunken ship jutting out of the swell. The SS. Francia, an old Argentinian ship, was carrying a cargo of coal when it was wrecked in 1917 during stormy conditions. This remnant of maritime industry lends itself well to the dramatic atmosphere of the location.
Visitors keen to immerse themselves full in Poldark country have a range of accommodation options overlooking the popular filming location at Trevornick Holiday Park. Just a short walk through the sand dunes to the filming location.
Guests can choose from camping under canvas and heading straight to the beach with the effortless and fully-equipped Eurotents, experience the saltwater lifestyle in a static caravan, enjoy the coastal comfort of a Cornish cottage and, new for 2019 delight in a little bit of luxury, in the five-star lodges.
Other on site amenities include an outdoor heated pool, a golf course overlooking the Bay and the Wild Tribe kids club to entertain younger visitors.
Trevornick Holiday Park, Holywell Bay, Cornwall TR8 5PW. For details visit www.trevornick.co.uk or call 01637 830531.
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Lehighton school district receives award
Published November 04. 2019 12:52PM
<p>By Jarrad Hedes</p><p>jmhedes@tnonline.com</p>
Lehighton Area School District has been named a 2019 Forever Green: U.S. Green Building Council leadership award winner.
One of 10 winners recently announced by the council, Lehighton will receive the Most Successful Community Engagement Award during a ceremony on Nov. 7. at Historic Ashland in Wrightsville.
“This award celebrates a project team that has demonstrated creative and innovative strategies for connecting either with their internal or external community through a building project,” the council stated in a press release.
Lehighton has completed several building projects in the past five years. It built a new elementary center and renovated its middle and high schools.
The award will be presented to EI Associates; Lehighton Area School District; Baker, Ingram & Associates; Gatter & Diehl Inc.; Advanced Foodservice Solutions; and Quandel Construction Group Inc.
“I want to thank the entire team of staff, students, community members and board members who have volunteered their time so diligently over the past six years to these building projects,” Superintendent Jonathan Cleaver said. “We’re very honored to be one of the only schools in the state honored by the council for our projects.”
The district has also received its LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification for several of its major building projects.
LEED is a rating system used to evaluate the environmental performance of a building. Projects earn points for environmentally friendly actions taken during construction and use of a building.
In 2015, Lehighton approved $25.7 million in renovations to both buildings with the McClure Company installing a four-pipe central heat pump system in the schools for $7.72 million. Because it was an energy savings, or ESCO, project, McClure guarantees the district over $80,000 per year in utility savings.
The elementary center project eliminated fuel oil and liquid propane gas as primary energy sources in lieu of natural gas, which was aimed at reducing energy consumption. According to EI Associates, other cost savings measures included a high-performance HVAC system, energy efficient lighting, building orientation providing natural daylighting, a modern thermal envelope further contributing to heating and cooling savings, and fixtures exceeding building code requirements to reduce water use by over 30 percent annually.
Other 2019 U.S. Green Building Council award winners include:
• RE Farm Cafe receiving the Green Building of the Year Award
• State College Area High School receiving the Rise to the Challenge Award
• 78 Trade Center receiving the Exceptional Implementation of Sustainable Technologies Award
• Presbyterian Senior Living — Windy Hill II receiving the Building Performance Award
• Spring Creek Elementary School receiving the Green Schools Award
• Veterans Affairs Clinic at Willow Valley receiving the Community Champion Award
• DCNR receiving the Climate Champion Award
• High Street Residence Hall at Dickinson College receiving the Innovation in Residential Building Award
• Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency receiving the People’s Choice: Sustainable Leader
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Xbox E3 2018 Recap: Halo Infinite, Gears 5 and Cyberpunk 2077
By Michael Andronico 2018-06-10T21:43:00Z
Here's everything Xbox announced at its E3 2018 press conference.
Xbox's E3 2018 conference is officially in the books, delivering exciting new exclusives such as Halo: Infinite and Gears of War 5 as well as some major third-party debuts like Devil May Cry 5 and The Division 2.
Here are the biggest announcements you missed.
Halo: Infinite
Microsoft kicked off its show with a surprising trailer for Halo: Infinite, which showed a montage of serene wildlife and a group of seemingly unknown soldiers before cutting away to a shot of Master Chief.
According to Xbox chief Phil Spencer, Halo: Infinite will feature "Master Chief on his greatest adventure yet to save humanity" and will continue the story of Halo 5. No word yet on gameplay details or release date, though Microsoft did note that the game is running on the company's new Slipspace Engine.
We got our first glimpse at Gears of War 5, which now puts supporting character Kait Diaz in the spotlight. According to Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson, Gears 5 will focus on two wars: the one happening in the game world, and the one happening within Kait herself (after all, she did just recently learn that her grandmother is the Locust Queen). It's shaping up to be the most visually varied Gears game yet, with snowy vistas and hellish caves, and seems like it'll feature a bigger focus on melee combat.
Microsoft also debuted Gears Pop, and upcoming mobile game with cute Funko characters, and Gears Tactics, a PC-focused turn based strategy game in the vein of games like XCOM.
Just when it seemed like Microsoft's conference was over, the sights and sounds of Cyberpunk 2077 literally hijacked the room. We got our first-ever glimpse at CD Projekt Red's highly anticipated open-world role-playing game, which will set you loose in a gorgeously seedy sci-fi universe. Details on the game are currently scant, but we can't wait to learn more about it.
Bethesda took to Xbox's stage to debut the first-ever gameplay for Fallout 76. The game is a prequel to the entire Fallout franchise set in West Virginia, and according to Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard, is four times the size as Fallout 4. It looks quite a bit like Fallout 4 as well, as you'll still be donning power suits and fighting nuclear monstrosities -- except now, you can do it online with your friends.
Devil May Cry is officially back. After years of speculation, Capcom finally unveiled the latest installment in its beloved action series, and it looks fresh, fun and completely frenetic. The game looks to feature Devil May Cry 4 star Nero as well as a new female lead, but fret not -- Dante will be back, complete with some nice old-man scruff.
Battletoads is Back!
The classic beat-em-up action of Battletoads will soon be back in a big way. In a quick teaser, Microsoft promised that the new Battletoads game will have 3-player co-op, 4K graphics support, and "body morphing genre mashups." We can't wait to see how silly the final game turns out to be when it hits in 2019.
Kingdom Hearts III: Now With Frozen
Do you want to build a snowman? The Frozen crew is officially joining Kingdom Hearts III, the latest in Square Enix's beloved Disney RPG crossover series. Look forward to teaming up with the likes of Goofy, Donald, Elsa, Olaf and more when the game hits on Jan. 29, 2019.
As expected, Forza Horizon 4 was revealed. And as expected, it looks gorgeous. Horizon 4 brings the action to Great Britain and introduces dynamic seasons, with each time of year providing its own unique gameplay challenges and weather conditions. The game looks to put a big focus on off-road racing, and the trailer seemed to hint that motorbikes may be playable. It launches on Xbox One and Windows 10 on Oct. 2.
The Division 2 will bring Ubsioft's open-world tactical shooter series to Washington D.C., where you'll have to survive the outbreak from a whole new perspective. The game looks more lively and colorful than the New York City-based original, as survivors have learned to build communities and cultivate gardens. Other than that, look forward to more of the same co-op, cover-based loot shooting that made the first game so addictive.
We got a breathtaking new trailer for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third installment in Square Enix's excellent Tomb Raider reboot series. The stakes look higher than ever, as Lara has seemingly inadvertently set off an apocalypse and must fight to survive it. Expect lots of puzzle-solving, cliff-jumping, and ever-so-satisfying stealth kills. Also, Lara seems to be donning her classic blue tanktop again, which is a nice nostalgic touch.
It might be delayed until 2019, but it's hard not to get excited about Crackdown 3 when you have Terry Crews shouting his way through the entirety of the game's new trailer. Microsoft's open-world crime fighting game looks to be in much better shape than it did last year, and should deliver plenty of crazy platforming, fun weapons and slick vehicles when it hits next year.
We got a brand new look at Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the sequel to the gorgeous and punishing platformer Ori and the Blind Forest. The game's serene visuals and challenging gameplay both look to be back in a big way. The game will release in 2019.
Microsoft showed off a blistering trailer for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a frenetic samurai-action game from Dark Souls developer From Software. The game looks like a brutal blend of challenging Souls gameplay and lightning fast old-school action, complete with grappling hooks and all kinds of crazy looking bosses. Look for it in 2019.
Dying Light 2 looks like a promising sequel to the cult 2015 zombie survival hit, building on the original's thrilling parkour-based movement and rich melee combat. The game also puts a focus on branching decisions, as your personal actions can have a massive impact on how your game world evolves.
We got our best look yet at Metro Exodus, the latest brutal and visually stunning installment in the post-apocalyptic Metro shooter series. Gun customization looks to play a big part this time around, as does exploring tons of gorgeous, snowy battlefields filled with man and monster.
Microsoft Goes All in on First-Party
Microsoft stressed its committment to developing new first-party games at E3 2018, announcing a brand new internal studio called The Initiative. The company also acquired longtime partners Undead Labs (State of Decay) and Playground Games (Forza Horizon), as well as indie studio Compulsion Games (We Happy Few). But the biggest news here is that Microsoft has scooped up Ninja Theory, the beloved indie studio behind such games as Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Enslaved; Odyssey to the West.
New Hardware and Streaming
Phil Spencer capped off the show by making two major announcements on the platform front. Microsoft is currently working on a new cloud gaming initiative designed to deliver "console quality streaming" to any device, including your PC and smartphone. Spencer also confirmed that the next Xbox is officially in development.
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In the 1930s, Alfa Romeo launched a series of road and sports cars designated as 8C, in reference to their original straight-8 cylinder engines design. In 1935, the 8C-35 Tipo C Monoposto was born, and used a 3.8-litre straight-eight developing 330hp!
The engine was designed by Vittorio Jano and was used for racing purposes from 1931 to 1939, and in 1932, Alfa Romeo released the very first single-seater “Monoposto” Grand Prix race car named Tipo B. Needless to say this is a very impressive figure for the era. Eight different engines were built to be raced by the Scuderia Ferrari. However, the Alfas struggled to compete against the Auto Union and Mercedes on fast tracks but had a serious advantage on smaller tighter courses.
In 2013, the very unique last example remaining driven by Tazio Nuvolari sold for the record sum of £5.9M by @bonhamsmotoring at @goodwoodrevival making it the most expensive Alfa sold at an auction. Alfa Romeo released a new version of the 8C in 2007 named the 8C Competizione and limited to 500 units. The new 8C is following its heritage by offering a Maserati derived, and Ferrari assembled V8 engine.
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Nubian holy water
Samia Ibrahim
From baptisms to marriages, ritual cleansing with Nile water has a long standing in Nubian culture.
11.03.2016 | Khartoum, Sudan
Confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, near Khartoum. (photo: De Agostini / N. Cirani, gettyimages)
People of the Nubian regions, north of Sudan, sanctify the Nile and consider it the giver of life, fertility, happiness and prosperity. Since the birth of the early Sudanese civilisations, such as the Kerma culture (which began around 3000 BC), man has found that his life within these communities is linked to the Nile. Dependence on this great river is related to a number of customs, traditions and rituals associated with the various stages of life itself.
Shafouqa Abdul Rahman Dahab, an archeologist interested in Nubian heritage, said the rituals practiced by her family in Wadi Halfa city in northern Sudan are concerned with marriage, birth and circumcision. “Two days ahead of the marriage ceremony, the bride goes to the Nile to wash her face, while the bridegroom goes there on his wedding day to bathe. Afterwards, the actual wedding preparations are arranged,” she explained and added that on the seventh day after the wedding, the bride and bridegroom walk to the Nile to wash their face and feet with its water.
Sacraments and rites of passage
In the Sukut and Mahas districts and in some areas near Dongola, mothers take their newborns to the Nile at sunset and wash their faces as well as the faces of their newborn babies with the Nile’s water. They fill seven containers with Nile water to irrigate seven small palm trees to invoke bounty and happiness. All babies’ items used to clean their newborns are thrown to the Nile. A quantity of cooked chickpeas is prepared some of which are eaten by the riverside while the remaining quantity is thrown along with the baby’s items.
In certain areas of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Khartoum, mothers have to stay indoors for 40 days after their delivery. On the 40th day, the mother takes her newborn to the Nile and washes the infant in accordance with the adopted ritual. Local inhabitants in the Nubian regions believe that women who disregard this ritual will be afflicted with all types of evil. Women carrying palm branches and singing folk songs accompany the mothers. The newborns’ mothers wash their hands, feet and face as well the face and feet of their babies. Meanwhile, the accompanying women ululate in joy after the rituals are completed. When a boy is circumcised, he is taken to the Nile on the same day to wash his face with the Nile’s water.
This ritual is similar to baptism performed by Christians for their newborn children. According to the book entitled ‘Discovery of Ancient Nuba History’ by Giovanni Fantini, these rituals still exist in Nuba areas in northern Sudan and Darfur in the west. These rituals testify to Nubians’ Christian past.
The priest of Two Martyrs Church, father Velothaos Faraj said a number of customs in Nuba districts are regarded as remnants of Christianity which existed in the Nubian regions between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. These customs continued after the advent of Islam, including those that were associated with the river Nile. “The Nile is a sacred river to all Nuba population and they turn to it for renewed life,” he added. Faraj also said there are customs linked to the start of married life where the bride’s procession goes to the Nile to take some water from the blessed river. The groom as well visits the river and then the marriage procedures are consummated.
Manal Saleh, a mother of two, said she followed these rituals when she gave birth to her children. “Despite the changes of lifestyles at present, these rituals are still followed in the Nubian villages and rural areas located north and east of Sudan.”
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Patriots go from very back luck to very bad look
One day, things aren't looking good at all for the New England Patriots. The next, the defending champs are grappling with a very bad look.
A day after officiating blunders and another poor passing performance by Tom Brady were the biggest takeaways from New England's first home loss in two years, the Patriots acknowledged that a video crew working for the team filmed the Cincinnati sideline during the Bengals' game at Cleveland.
Cincinnati plays New England this weekend.
Yes, another camera-spying flap from the team that brought the term "Spygate" into the NFL lexicon in 2007 when the Patriots were caught videotaping opposing team signals in a scandal that cost them a first-round draft pick and $250,000 and made Bill Belichick's bank account $500,000 lighter.
Crucial calls made in the final minute of the Dolphins-Jets game and the 49ers-Saints showdown in a wild Week 14 were overshadowed by the Patriots' mushrooming problems.
In a statement posted on Twitter and the team website, the Patriots said a three-person crew for a web series titled “Do Your Job” “inappropriately filmed the field from the press box” as part of a feature on the scouting department. The filming took place “without specific knowledge of league rules,” the statement said.
The Patriots said the Browns, the home team, granted the crew credentials but in an “unintended oversight," the team failed to inform the Bengals or the NFL and when confronted, the crew “immediately turned over all footage to the league and cooperated fully," the team said.
Spygate, as The AP's Jimmy Golen wrote, helped fuel a widespread distrust of the team that reverberated a decade later when the Patriots were accused of illegally deflating footballs used in the 2015 AFC championship game. Brady was suspended four games, and the team was fined $1 million and docked another first-round draft pick.
A few years after Spygate, Josh McDaniels, who was head coach in Denver between stints as Brady's offensive play caller, was fired in the aftermath of a video scandal in which Steve Scarnecchia, the son of longtime Patriots offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia and who followed McDaniels to Denver, illegally filmed the 49ers' practice ahead of a 2010 game against the Broncos in London.
Asked about the latest vexing videotape reports during his radio show on Monday, Belichick told WEEI the video crew was completely separate from the football staff: "We have absolutely nothing to do with anything that they produce or direct or shoot. I have never seen any of their tapes or anything else. This is something that we 100% have zero involvement with.”
It hardly seems necessary for the Patriots (10-3) to need special intel on the signals of the Bengals (1-12). Then again, the Patriots' past rap sheet means football fans outside New England don't give them the benefit of the doubt.
On Sunday, the Patriots didn't get the calls that seemingly always went their way at Gillette Stadium.
There were three big questionable rulings by referee Jerome Boger's crew in New England's 23-16 loss to Kansas City:
1. Travis Kelce's fumble in the waning seconds of the third quarter. Hit by Devin McCourty, the Chiefs tight end fumbles the football and Stephon Gilmore recovers with plenty of room to run toward the end zone. The play is blown dead, however, and Kelce ruled down by contact. Belichick uses his final challenge and the call is overturned. New England gets the ball at its 43.
2. The Patriots quickly drive to the Kansas City 15 and N'Keal Harry is ruled out of bounds at the 3 after an apparent touchdown catch from Brady with 13:22 remaining in the game. TV replays show Harry stayed inbounds on what should have been ruled a score. Belichick is out of challenges after losing one in which he asked for a better spot and offensive pass interference on a play earlier in the game but lost on both counts.
Three plays later, New England settled for a field goal to get to 23-16.
" I thought it was a touchdown," Harry said. "I'm pretty sure everyone else saw it was a touchdown."
Boger told a pool reporter after the game that the covering official on the Harry play was blocked out by defenders.
"The downfield official who was on the goal line and looking back toward the field of play had that he stepped out at the 3-yard line," Boger said. "So, they got together and conferred on that. The final ruling was that he was out of bounds at the 3-yard line."
Because all scoring plays are reviewed, a ruling of touchdown would have ultimately gotten the call right, but Boger said he wasn't inclined to overrule his crew mates to get to the fail-safe automatic review.
"Those two officials who are covering it, they look at it in real time," Boger said. "This case was unique in that the guy who would have ruled touchdown had him short. So maybe if the ruling official on the goal line had a touchdown, we could have gotten into that, but he thought that that guy stepped out of bounds. The goal line wasn't in the play."
3. Officials missed a defensive pass interference by cornerback Kendall Fuller on a deep pass to Phillip Dorsett with 3½ minutes remaining that would have spotted the ball at the Kansas City 6. The non-call brought up fourth-and-6 at the Kansas City 29 and Brady scrambled for 17 yards for a first down.
But on fourth-and-3 from the Kansas City 5-yard line, Bashaud Breeland expertly defended Brady's pass to Julian Edelman in the end zone and knocked it away.
Brady's 169 yards passing were his second-fewest this season, and the Patriots' 21-game home winning streak, tied for longest in franchise history, was also finished.
Boger only addressed Harry's TD-that-wasn't after the game, not Kelce's fumble, the uncalled pass interference or Donte Hightower's late shove that sent Patrick Mahomes tumbling into the team's coolers that drew no flag.
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17 Breakout TV Stars to Watch for In 2017, From Ricky Whittle to Rose Leslie (Photos)
The new Kiefer Sutherland, the new Veronica Lodge, the newest Marvel superhero and other stars poised to have big years on the small screen
Linda Ge | January 5, 2017 @ 4:46 PM Last Updated: January 5, 2017 @ 5:52 PM
Another year, another crop of TV stars ready to steal audiences' hearts and attentions. Here are 17 up-and-comers we're keeping an eye on in 2017.
Camila Mendes, "Riverdale"The entire cast of The CW's teen drama are about to become huge stars, but our safe bet is on Mendes, the new Veronica Lodge, the troubled bad girl whose arrival in town coincides with some big changes for Archie and his friends.
Corey Hawkins, "24: Legacy"Stepping into Kiefer Sutherland's shoes is no small task, but could reap big rewards for Hawkins, who's been poised for a breakout since last summer's hit "Straight Outta Compton."
Sonequa Martin-Green, "Star Trek Discovery"We don't know anything about the new "Star Trek" series ... but it's a new "Star Trek" series, and if you're the star of it, you're going to have a big breakout moment.
Ricky Whittle, "American Gods"Bringing a sizable fanbase from "The 100" with him, Whittle is set to endear a whole new set of rabid fans in Bryan Fuller's Neil Gaiman adaptation.
Rachel Keller, "Legion"After impressing Noah Hawley on "Fargo," the showrunner is giving Keller an even bigger breakout platform, as the female lead opposite Dan Stevens in FX's X-Men superhero series.
Finn Jones, "Iron Fist"Marvel's latest superhero will do his best to keep up with the likes of "Daredevil," "Jessica Jones" and "Luke Cage," all of whom have been breakout stars and critical and fan favorites.
Adria Arjona, "Emerald City""Wizard of Oz" fans, get ready to meet your new Dorothy. From director Tarsem, NBC's new fantasy drama should be visually stunning if nothing else.
Jermaine Fowler, "Superior Donuts"CBS has been high on the stand-up comedian and retooled this sitcom for him twice before ordering it to series - time for the world to see Fowler's talents.
Rose Leslie, "The Good Fight"This "Game of Thrones" alum no longer has to share the spotlight with a cast of thousands as the lead of CBS All Access' "The Good Wife" spinoff.
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Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War
Variations of Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War
Basic Game Rules
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Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War Variant Rules
Variant 1: "Honor Among Spies"
In this variant, the Double Agent Movement Piece is not used. Ignore the center-most setup position in the Setup Diagram (that is, Spy "X" is removed from play at setup), and instead use only the other 12 Spies in their usual starting positions.
Variant 2: "Tight Setup"
In this variant, you do not use the darkened columns on the board that are marked with the nuclear radiation symbol. They are treated as "out of play" for all purposes.
This variant creates a tougher environment for Spies to move around in.
Variant 3: "Safe Extraction"
In this variant, your Spy must control the Briefcase and additionally survive for one full turn in the opponent's first row in order to win the game. If your Spy reaches your opponent's first row but is eliminated on your opponent's next turn, the game continues.
This variant is good for players who are new to the game, or players who want a longer game.
Variant 4: "Variable Setup"
In this variant, players are invited to set up their pieces in any pattern that they wish, observing the following placement rules:
You may only setup in the first and second rows as in the standard game.
No more than seven Spies may be placed in any one row.
At least four columns must have Spies in both rows (meaning that at least four Spies in your "home" row will be blocked from moving directly ahead on the first turn by four Spies sitting in front of them).
Players are still not permitted to see their own Movement Pieces and extra care must be taken to avoid doing so when using this setup method.
Variant 5: "Promotion, Sir?"
In this variant, all Spies (not just those with a crown icon) are promotable with the exception of the Double Agents. The opponent asks "Do you wish to promote this Spy?" for each Spy arriving on the opponent's edge of the board. You may freely decide whether or not to promote the Spy.
Once declined, the Spy remains in place unpromoted and unrevealed. If an unpromoted Spy is moved off of an edge square and back to an edge square later in the game, the promotion question is asked again.
Double Agents may not be promoted in this variant. If the opponent asks and you accept the promotion, the opponent reveals the Double Agent and it is removed from the game.
In addition, the Briefcase, regardless of location, is transferred to the opponent's alphabetically first Spy regardless of his location. Most of the time this will be Spy A, but if Spy A is already eliminated, it transfers to Spy C and so on. The opponent may decline this Briefcase transfer if he wishes, and in this case, the Briefcase stays in its current location.
In this variant, it pays to know who your Spies are before promoting them. Attempting to promote a Double Agent is a sure way to have the Briefcase stolen.
Players may also combine this variant with variant #1. This would result in a game with no Double-Agent, and therefore no need to ask for promotion. However, all spies would be promotable.
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Ta-ku
Hip Hop, Electronic - Perth, WA
When I Met You
Mahal feat. Chet Faker
Snakadaktal - Dance Bear (Ta-ku Remix)
Hip Hop, Electronic
Mndsgn Dibiase Elaquent Dilla J-Dilla hip hop Soul Future
Elaquent, Dilla
J-Dilla, Mndsgn, Dibiase
www.ta-ku.me
Within just 3 years of operation in his chosen field, Regan 'Ta-Ku' Matthews has evolved from a self-taught student of music into a scholar of progressive beat production, cultivating a unique sound that has since resonated to all corners of the globe. As an astute observer of the melodic elements of soul music and the percussive elements of hip-hop, Ta-Ku takes influence from pioneering beatsmiths such as J Dilla, 9th Wonder and DJ Premier. In 2008, an invite to the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, taking counsel from the likes of of DJ Toomp, Chuck D, Bun B, Omas Keith and Dennis Coffey and sharing alumni status with artists like Teebs, Onra, Dorian Concept and Pursuit Grooves. The trip was a breakthrough moment for Ta-Ku as he channeled his experience and new found motivation to liberate a slew of free beat tapes within months of his return. Shortly after flooding the internet with a diverse array of releases, his output was rewarded with subsequent collaborations involving CyHi Da Prynce (G.O.O.D music), John Robinson, Raashan Ahmad (Paper Chain labelmate), Joe Scudda, Outasight, Kid Daytona, Phil Ade, Raaka (Dilated Peoples) amongst many others. Ta-Ku's work ethic continued to garner worldwide attention and within two years of his return from the Red Bull Music Academy he'd become a regular fixture on countless blogs and online zines, securing himself a prized feature on Giles Peterson's esteemed Brownswood Electr*c Compilation. In 2011, Ta-Ku aspires to take his hip-hop roots and apply them to further experimentation within the electronic and new soul realms. His musical identity continues to evolve with the progressive nature of the genres he has contributed to, illustrated most recently with a Soulection endorsed 24 mixtape and his debut EP and 12" releases through PROJECT: Mooncircle and DarkerThanWax respectively. He has recently released an EP by the name of LATENYC on L.A's HW&W Recordings in the lead up to his instrumental LP release SCARLETTE. LATENYC is 9 tracks of instrumental future soul music and features Melbourne vocalist Chet Faker.
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Gemma Pike
Perth represent! I love this track. Has a slight Boards Of Canada sound to it... and Chet nails the vocals. Two thumbs up.
Dave Ruby Howe
The track with Chet is a sure thing but I have to give love to this wonderfully wiry jam too. Love the squeaky vocal sample and the way you flitter from sound to sound on the fly.
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Getting to and From NYC Airports From Brooklyn
United States New York New York City
Ellen Freudenheim
Ellen Freudenheim is the author of four guidebooks to Brooklyn, where she has lived for more than 20 years.
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Getting to and from the three major New York area airports can be expensive and time-consuming. So, plan ahead. Here are ideas about how to navigate your way to and from Brooklyn to New York City's three airports: JFK International Airport (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), and Newark Liberty International Airport.
In general, the most expensive Brooklyn-to-airport trip is to Newark, followed by JFK, and then LaGuardia. JFK is the easiest to access via public transportation. But none of the area airports is served by a direct rail connection to Brooklyn, as you might find in some European cities.
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You have five options for getting to and from JFK airport.
Cabs and Ride-Sharing Services
You can either call a ride-sharing service or use the green "Boro taxis" to prearrange a pickup in Brooklyn. Allow about an hour for travel time. Alternatively, you can take ridesharing services like Uber or Lyft, which became legal in the state of New York in April 2017.
You can take the AirTrain which will leave you at various points in NYC that are accessible to Brooklyn via subway or you can take the AirTrain and LIRR combo. Also, MTA's Trip Planner offers real-time travel options for taking the AirTrain and subways with estimated times depending on the day and hour you'll be en route.
Private Express Bus
You can take the NYC Airporter, which leaves JFK Airport about every half hour and takes passengers to Port Authority Bus Terminal, Grand Central Station, and Penn Station in Manhattan.
Shared-Ride Vans or Private Car Services
These can be organized in advance. The vans are larger than cabs but are also are more expensive. The airport website recommends Airlink New York, All-County Express, and ETS Air Shuttle. Recommended private car services include Carmel Super Saver, Dial 7 Car & Limousine, and ExecuCar.
Of course, you can drive and park your car in an overnight lot. Check the airport parking website for rates and information, and to see how full various parking lots are as well as current pricing.
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As with JFK, you have five options for getting to and from Brooklyn to LaGuardia.
Cabs and Car Services
You can either call a ride-sharing service or use the green "Boro taxis" to prearrange a pick up in Brooklyn. Allow a half hour to an hour for travel time; ask the dispatchers. You won't have to pay any tolls for your trip to Laguardia and back, but tips, a cabbie waiting time if you arrange a pickup, parking, and any other fees are not included. Good news: There are no additional fees for extra passengers.
This is the least expensive option, so read the full details on traveling between Brooklyn and LaGuardia via public transportation. Also check out MTA's Trip Planner for real-time travel options, with estimated times depending on the day and hour you'll be en route.
You can catch a private express bus to and from LaGuardia that departs about every half hour. Going to the airport, you can catch the bus at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal, Grand Central Station or Penn Station. Coming from the airport, the NYC Airporter bus will drop you at these same major transportation centers. From these hubs, you can easily pick up a subway from anywhere in Brooklyn.
Shared-Ride Vans
Reservations for shared-ride vans and private car services can be made at the welcome center located on the arrivals level of each terminal. If the counter is closed, there is a convenient self-service kiosk nearby where you can contact authorized shared-ride or private car services. Note that these are only cost-effective if you are traveling with a group; otherwise, they will be more expensive than a cab.
You can also drive to LaGuardia. There's onsite parking, as well, for a fee. Check the website to determine which terminal has availability.
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Although many Brooklynites use JFK or LaGuardia, Newark is a viable and easy option. If you've booked tickets from Newark, here are three ways to help you get to the airport—and back—without (hopefully) any hassles.
Budget-Friendly Option
You can save some cash by taking public transportation to Newark. Use the subways to connect to the Newark AirTrain from any point in Brooklyn, or from Newark to Brooklyn. It's the cheapest way to go, and sometimes (for instance on Thanksgiving and other busy holidays) also the fastest.
AirTrain Newark doesn't take you into Manhattan or Brooklyn. It's just a quick ride from (or around) the airport to a dedicated "Rail Transfer Station,” where you then board a regular New Jersey Transit commuter train into New York Pennsylvania Station. There are escalators and elevators in case you have heavy luggage.
Easiest Route
The most comfortable way to get to and from Newark is also the most expensive: By taxi or car service. It's a long trip so be prepared to pay for the service. You can call a car service or use the green "Boro taxis" to prearrange a pick up to take you to Newark. Reserve a day in advance, or two days during the holidays.
If you're not up for using an app, you can go old school and call one of the car services—those services also go to and from Brooklyn to Newark Airport.
If you've rented a car during your stay, you can always pick it up at Newark Liberty, which is conveniently located on the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95). Or you may prefer to just drive to Newark and park your car, but be aware that you will need to pay for parking at the airport
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Flashcards: Literary Analysis
There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.
The bell mentioned in the passage can best be understood to refer to __________.
The bell rung in the morning to wake people from their sleep
The bell rung to announce Mass
The bell rung to announce a death
The bell rung to announce the end of Lent
The bell in this sermon is that which was traditionally rung to announce a death. Even if you weren't familiar with this piece or aware of the practice of ringing a bell to announce a death, the description of the bell's hearer as being united with God should be enough to clue you into the fact that the poem is concerned with mortality.
Adapted from "Meditation XVII" in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes by John Donne (1624)
"What is the People?"
And who are you that ask the question? One of the people. And yet you would be something! Then you would not have the People nothing. For what is the People? Millions of men, like you, with hearts beating in their bosoms, with thoughts stirring in their minds, with blood circulating in their veins, with wants and appetites, with passions and anxious cares, with busy purposes and affections for others and a respect for themselves, and a desire of happiness, and a right to freedom, and a will to be free. And yet you would tear out this mighty heart of a nation, and lay it bare and bleeding at the foot of despotism: you would slay the mind of a country to fill up the dreary aching void with the old, obscene, drivelling prejudices of superstition and tyranny: you would tread out the eye of Liberty (the light of nations) like 'a vile jelly', that mankind may be led about darkling to its endless drudgery, like the Hebrew ---------- (shorn of his strength and blind), by his insulting taskmasters: you would make the throne every thing. and the people nothing, to be yourself less than nothing, a very slave, a reptile, a creeping, cringing sycophant, a court favorite, a pander to Legitimacy - that detestable fiction, which would make you and me and all mankind its slaves or victims.
Who is the character referred to in the underlined simile?
The explanation in parenthesis ("shorn of his strength and blind") is key here. The book of Judges in the Christian Bible tells the story of Samson who was given supernatural strength by God, but was later betrayed by a woman, Delilah, who cut off his hair where his strength resided (he was "shorn of his strength") and handed him over to his enemies, who gouged out his eyes.
Cain and Moses are not associated with blindness, and while Oedipus, according to Greek myth, did gouge his eyes out, he is not a "Hebrew" character.
Passage adapted from "What is the People?" by William Hazlitt (1817)
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Broadcasters Ponder Industry Future at IBC2013
Media companies acknowledge inevitability of 4K
Tom Butts
An IBC “flash mob” promoted the launch of the show’s “Content Everywhere” global event series.
AMSTERDAM—Along with the spring NAB Show, Europe’s IBC Show in the fall gives broadcasters and related media companies a chance to launch new products, debate the latest topics and share ideas on future technologies. All those trends were in full view at the five-day 2013 show, which wrapped up in Amsterdam this week.
The show continues to grow; on the final day, IBC executives announced a 3 percent growth in attendance, with approximately 52,322 passing through the doors of the RAI Convention Center by the final day. There were nearly 1,000 exhibitors representing over 150 countries; more than 800 press were registered.
4K WAS EVERYWHERE
Anyone looking for a buzz word at the show had to settle for two characters instead: “4” and “K.” Referred to as a strictly digital cinema format as recently as two years ago, the speed with which the 4K format—which has four times the resolution of current HD standards—has become the dominant focus of the broadcast and production communities has astounded even industry veterans. Fueled by the market introduction of Ultra HDTVs in the past 12 months, the race is on to adopt faster processors and fatter pipes to accommodate the massive size of 4K files.
The next-generation HEVC codec, another important element in the move to 4K, was featured prominently in a number of exhibit booths. Harmonic, in addition to its focus on multiscreen and local ad insertion at the show, stressed the importance of the format in developing what it termed “real-world HD.” The company announced at the show that it has teamed up with Tata Communications, an India-based global telecommunications company to add HEVC support to Tata’s Content Transform cloud-based video transcoding and delivery service, allowing the industry to migrate its existing archives to Ultra HD.
With HEVC/H.265 an emerging format, there are still only a small number of encoders on the market. This has led some vendors to improvise with H.264/AVC, which was used in a live 4K satellite broadcast of a rugby match in London via satellite for an audience of more 400 at the show. The broadcast marked the second live 4K satellite broadcast in as many weeks and also provided a valuable learning experience for both technology providers and producers. It was also designed to showcase the “immersive” quality of 4K.
The match between New Gloucester and Saracens (which Sarecens won), was shown in the Ericsson, Sony and Intelsat booths on a variety of UHD displays, including a JVC seven-foot 4K UHDTV and a Sony 6-meter projection setup. U.K. broadcaster BT sent signals from three Sony F55 4K cameras covering the match, to a vision mixer, which were then sent to Ericsson AVP2000 encoders and RX8200 advance modular receivers. After encoding, the signal was transmitted as a 100 Mbps video from BT’s Global Media Network to Intelsat’s Point of Presence in London, then hopped to the IntelsatOne terrestrial network to Intelsat’s teleport in Germany, where it was uplinked to Intelsat’s Thor6 bird and delivered to a 2.4 m dish on the top of the RAI Convention Center. The result was picture of stunning clarity that stopped booth visitors in their tracks.
“This was a live production and we wanted to do it with technology that would show what the capabilities of 4K are,” said Matthew Goldman, senior vice president of technology for Ericsson. “If you’re going to wow people with something new, why go to 4K if you’re not going to show the immersive technology. It has four times the spatial resolution, twice the temporal resolution and is 10-bit precision.
“When we talk about how beautiful HD is when compared to SD, the experience we had on the floor reminded me of what it felt like when I first saw HD in a production. This [UHD demo] made HD look like SD,” he added.
At the show, officials from Russian broadcaster NTV+ announced their intention to transmit the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 4K to public viewing areas and cinemas and Sony announced at IBC that it intended to deploy its technology to show the 2014 FIFA World Cup in 4K to public venues as well. It’s also widely anticipated that the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil will provide the most widespread 4K coverage of a sporting event yet, and Japan, which is hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics has indicated that state broadcaster NHK will demo those games in 8K. To illustrate its commitment to 8K, NHK demonstrated the format (7680 x 4320) on an 85-inch Sharp LCD, using the MPEG-H HEVC/H-265 format. NHK dubs the format “Super Hi-Vision.”
NEW LEADERSHIP, NEW INITIATIVES
Several new (or nearly) new company leaders announced new initiatives or revealed their strategies for their companies. Charlie Vogt, who recently took the helm at Harris Broadcast, which was created by the sale of Harris’ broadcast division to The Gores Group earlier this year, is a 25-year IT and communications veteran who offered his unique opinion on the broadcast industry, which he described as “fragmented.”
“You look at somebody like Harris Broadcast, we’re the biggest in this space and I look at us as still a small company,” he said. “We’re sort of the ‘gorilla’ among a lot of smaller, fragmented media companies. I think there’s still a lot of consolidation that will continue to occur in this market.” Vogt said he wants to emphasize an almost “start-up” attitude in Harris Broadcast. “I’ve challenged the employees to think of us as a very large, entrepreneurial business opportunity,” he said. “If we can get 1,500 employees that are thinking very entrepreneurial and very ‘start-up like,’ I think the responsiveness for us in our space, which I think our customers are sort of screaming for… the best thing that happened to us was being divested from Harris Corp.”
Avid President Louis Hernandez announced the new Avid Customer Association, a major new initiative to give its customers a larger voice in product development feedback. A Customer Association Executive Committee, which will provide oversight, was announced and includes such industry luminaries as Dr. Andreas Bereczky, executive vice president of technology and production for ZDF German Television and Frank Governale, vice president, CBS News Technology and Operations. The company plans to hold the group's first big event in April of 2014 just prior to NAB.
New product introductions and tech demos included:
Panasonic, which introduced its first P2 HD handheld camera recorder with integrated AVC-Ultra recording and announced that it was prioritizing the development of the 4K VariCam.
Arri announced the Amira, a documentary-style camera based on the company’s CFast 2.0 workflow and an ergonomic design optimized for single-operator use.
Miranda introduced its M3 3Gbps router integration cable that replaces 16 coax cables and connectors by assimilating them into a single, high-density cable structure.
AJA Video previewed its new Io 4K, now updated and customized for Thunderbolt 2 technology and 4K workflows.
Snell announced its Kahuna Maverik, a modular control surface for its Kahuna 360 multiformat production switcher range.
For-A demo-ed a prototype of its 4K Extractor System, an option for its FT-One 4K camera, offering direct control of the camera’s memory.
More information on IBC product introductions can be found here.
Tom Butts is the Content Director for TV Technology
Akamai to Showcase Future of Online Broadcast Content at IBC2013
At IBC 2013, Akamai Technologies will showcase several innovations to address the future of high quality online entertainment
Harmonic to Demonstrate Broadcast and Multiscreen Solutions at IBC2013
At IBC 2013, Harmonic will demonstrate solutions designed to optimize the production and delivery of video in the broadcast, cable, and multiscreen environments
IBC2014: Elemental Launches Delta for Intelligent Video Delivery
Elemental Technologies has launched Elemental Delta, a video delivery platform that the company says will simplify the process of adding on-demand services.
Catching the ‘Next Wave of Technology’ at IBC2013
First it was HDTV, then 3DTV and now 4K/Ultra HD: Do the changes ever stop for broadcasters?
Telestream to Launch Post Producer at IBC2013
At IBC 2013, Telestream will unveil Post Producer.
Engineering Confab Focuses on Industry’s Future
Five-day event to cover UHD, cloud and NYC broadcasting
IBC Showcases Television’s Future
Europe broadcast confab logs 49,911 attendees
MediaPower Showing Media Management Systems at IBC2013
At IBC 2013, MediaPower will be showcasing its full line of media management products
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CES: What's New Is OLED
Consumer OLED, interfaces, connected TVs and cross-platform delivery pervade big show
Gary Arlen
LAS VEGAS -- Whether it was LG's "ultra-definition" 3DTV or Sony's "Crystal LED" 55-inch flat-panel prototypes; Motorola's Xyboard and Droid tablets or Huawei's ultra-skinny Ascend smart phones; DISH's "Hopper" or "Channel Master TV" (actually an over-the-air tuner with a built-in Web connection), the array of options at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 10–13), augured acceleration of the TV industry's new agenda.
Samsung wowed CES attendees with its 0.3-inch deep 55-inch Super OLED display. Photo by Samsung Tomorrow Almost every year, CES promoters vow that the current crop of new products will launch the audio-video and online world into important new trajectories. This year, with record-breaking attendance of 153,000 people and 3,100 exhibitors—both figures are 10 percent above initial estimates—the hype may be reasonable, depending on the economy's ability to absorb so much innovation.
THIN & SMART
Not only were TV monitors vaster and thinner than ever, but the alternative delivery options continued to expand. Internet-delivered video to "smart TVs" was omnipresent, with special emphasis on wireless options for tablets and smartphones, which in turn triggered new episodes in the battle of the airwaves. The profusion of health/wellness monitoring and other devices that require machine-to-machine (M2M) connections raised further concerns about how to assure sufficient wireless spectrum.
Amid the technology avalanche, there was time for self-reflection, notably Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn's confession about the floundering 3DTV rollout. "I don't think the story was told as effectively as it could have been," Dunn said in a keynote presentation. "Content's got to be out there to pull this wagon." He suggested the 3D situation will become "much more interesting" when glasses-free 3D arrives, which could be very soon, based on exhibits from Sony, LG, Toshiba and many others.
While 3D hovers, CES's major focus was on the growing presence of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays and the following generation of technology, especially Sony's ultra-bright Crystal LED device. Just two years ago, TV makers were struggling to deliver OLED screens larger than 25-inches. This year, dozens of OLED screens in the 50-inch and larger range were on displays, although pricing information is still sparse.
LG's booth—the first thing many CES visitors saw when they entered the main exhibit hall—featured Cinema 3D exhibits plus an array of next-generation video options. Its 84-inch 3D Ultra Definition TV delivers 8 million pixels, four times the resolution clarity (3840x2160) of existing conventional HD panels. It also features 3D "Depth Control," which allows users to customize the 3D effect.
Photo by CEA/International CES At the other end of the floor, Sony showcased its 55-inch Crystal LED prototype, which uses about six million LEDs to create a full HD display, which can be seen at a nearly 180-degree viwewing angle. Sony says the display is at least two years away—and other sources suggest that the manufacturing price may be prohibitive for longer than that period.
DISH introduced "Hopper," which features a two terabyte (2,000-hour capacity) digital video recorder with whole-home distribution capability. DISH will ally with ViaSat for satellite broadband service, integrating online video with linear and on-demand programming. Channel Master unveiled a two-tuner ($399) receiver along with an Ethernet connection and built-in VUDU connection to allow viewers to see and store broadcast plus Web video content.
MORE MOBILITY
CES's TV array was not just about size and visibility. Increasingly, the focus was on interconnectivity and multiscreen capability, with Samsung gloating that by the end of this year its sets will offer 1,500 video apps, (global number, not all available in the U.S.). Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Vizio and others that make both TV sets and tablets showcased integrated systems that allow the mobile devices to integrate with—and often serve as a dynamic remote control for—the TV sets.
Separately, Mobile DTV's trudge toward reality continued, much of it centered around a CES pavillion of about a dozen vendors showing off everything from chips (Siano Mobile Silicon) to video clips (Dyle, the new content service from the Mobile Content Venture).
"Reaction to the Mobile DTV TechZone and new Dyle products from Samsung, Belkin, and RCA show that there is high interest in real TV on-the-go," said Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, which coordinated the showcase. "Technology demonstrations during CES showed what's coming, including Mobile Emergency Alerts from the Las Vegas PBS station." (KLVX-TV is one of the pilot broadcasters showing the capabilities of Mobile DTV to assist in emergencies.)
Another cross-over service, "Syncbak," which has drawn financial support from the National Association of Broadcasters and the Consumer Electronics Association, marked a watershed moment during CES. "We transitioned from technology company to consumer company with our mobile and Smart TV offerings," said Jack Perry, CEO and founder of the Marion, Iowa-based company. "There were several times during the show where we had both broadcasters and CE manufacturers in the booth talking about television over-the-top, or OTT. Our first market, Spokane, Washington, goes live later this month where we have three of the four major network affiliates set up and ready to go."
LG's new 84-inch Ultra-Definition 3DTV boasts native resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, for a total of about 8 million pixels. Photo by Gary Arlen CONTROL, CONTENT & BANDWIDTH
Call it "son-of-SIRI," a follow-on to the engaging voice-response technology that is part of the Apple iPhone 4S. Although voice-activated remote control prototypes have been demonstrated for more than a decade, several voice-control technologies appear closer to market. Active Video Networks, which announced a deal with Cisco's VideoScape system, also showed a voice-control system that actually piggybacks on the iPhone SIRI technology.
Haptic and gesture controlled remote control systems were also embedded in more TV systems, such as the LG "magic wand" control that uses Hillcrest Labs' technology.
Other approaches to viewer control include Automated Content Recognition (ACR), which is envisioned for applications ranging from social TV and personalized viewing recommendations to ad responses and audience measurement. Audible Magic, a digital fingerprinting provider that is active in the ACR category, unveiled plans to provide services on live TV shows, which Jay Friedman, the company's marketing vice president, claims will "integrate a new advertising experience."
As the gizmos' capabilities increase, there is growing recognition of viewers' appetite for more content. During a keynote speech for the CES "Entertainment Matters" conference, Robert Kyncl, vice president of global content partnerships for YouTube, focused on the rapid growth of Internet video's "channel model." Kyncl pointed out that YouTube's five most viewed channels have as many viewers as the top 20 cable channels.
Such discussions tied into the challenge looming over the entire CES show: availability of bandwidth. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in an on-stage discussion with CEA President/CEO Gary Shapiro, was in full campaign mode to promote his National Broadband Plan, emphasizing that in the evolving broadband ecosystem, "Everything is connected wirelessly."
"We should work on unleashing more of it [spectrum]," Genachowski said, concluding that he is proud that his legacy at the FCC will be "that we focused on broadband."
CES Shows Resilience
Tech highlights include mobile DTV, 3D, OLED
2011 CES Touts Connected Video
'Net TVs, Mobile DTV, Tablets in the spotlight
CES Embraces the Big Picture
Show touts UHDTV, integrated video, diverse interfaces
CES: Convergence Closer to Reality
During the "Digital TV Transition" session at the Consumer Electronics Show, the countdown clock from the FCC's Web site (www.dtv.gov) was periodically projected onto the conference hall's big screen.
TV at CES 2019: ‘8K Is Getting Real’
Just before the 2019 CES begins Jan. 8, the CTA will reveal its annual electronics sales forecast, and for the first time 8K ultra high definition TV sets will be included in the forecast.
CES Converges Net with TV
Spectrum squabble erupts
CES Overwhelms With Tech and Policy
The show--on track for a record-setting crowd exceeding 150,000 (preliminary tallies will be released Friday, the show’s final day)--looks like a breakthrough year.
Connected Media Big at CES
From a Disney sensor that warns when kids are sitting too close to a TV set to a live UHDTV broadcast, to cloud TV, the 2014 International CES offered a larger-than-ever array of “television” viewing options.
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City Life/ Vida Urbana
Jamaica Plain, MA
City Life Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization that seeks to build working class power and foster individual empowerment in order to catalyze systemic change. City Life works to build racial, social, and economic justice as well as gender equality. Through the creation of collective power, City Life seeks to prevent the displacement of people.
City Life envisions a society that has peace, respect, and equity and guarantees people the right to essential needs such as food, housing, health care, education, employment, and a life without fear of displacement.
City Life's core values include:
-SOLIDARITY
-HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT
-SELF DETERMINATION & SPEAKING ONE’S TRUTH
-CHALLENGE INTOLERANCE AND OPPRESSION
-SERVE THE PEOPLE
-LINKING ACTION TO REFLECTION
-LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF WORKING AND POOR PEOPLE
Pioneer Valley Project (PVP)
PVP is a coalition of churches, synagogues, labor unions, and other organizations that have a strong interest in community life in the Pioneer Valley. There are currently twenty-six member organizations that form PVP. The member organizations come from all sections of Springfield and the surrounding community. Consequently, its membership is very diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, age, religion, socio-economic status, and just about any other demographic category.
PVP is modeled on a number of other community organizing groups that have effected important social changes in their own communities. The basic goal of PVP is to respond to the concerns that the participants in the member organizations raise as the social problems that are plaguing their communities. To this end, each of the member organizations surveys its congregation or membership each year to determine what particular social issues seem most pressing to its members. PVP then holds an issues assembly at which the entire membership of PVP gives input into what projects and goals the PVP will focus on during the next year.
'Building power for justice and the common good'
Independent Drivers Guild, New York
The Independent Drivers Guild is a Machinists Union affiliate that represents over 65,000 For-Hire Vehicle drivers in New York City. The IDG is the first nonprofit labor organization to negotiate a seat at the table with a ride share company and the first to offer crucial new protections and essential benefits while building worker power.
IDG are drivers in solidarity fighting for a better work environment. Together we are a powerful force to win driver-friendly policies. Together we have contact with hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers daily. Together we are a service that generates millions of dollars. With driver activism and solidarity we will win—and can drive with dignity. We believe that the power of a union is workers banding together. With the Guild, we can band together and win better working conditions and increase working drivers’ earnings now.
Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP)
The Manchester Chapter of the Granite State Organizing Project and their youth wing, Young Organizers United have become known as a powerful force in the community,
GSOP has focused their attention on Title Loan Companies and their practice of providing short team loans to people at incredibly high-interest rates – generally as high as 300%! These lenders do not seek necessary information as to the ability of the borrower to pay back the loan. This practice takes unfair advantage of citizens living in poverty. Our members worked to create a Manchester Housing Commission on the issue of absentee land scofflaw landlords. They have successfully testified and presented recommendations to the board of mayor and alderman about holding landlords accountable.
GSOP continues its efforts to invite more people of faith along with their faith communities to work with us in bringing about change in our city as we have many battles to face. We are proud to have facilitated meetings between the Police and youth of color and to have brought the faith community to support a peaceful Black Lives Matter march last summer.
Our YOU group is doing extraordinary things to bring attention to issues that point to inequities for low income students, immigrant students and students of color. Students that have been here longer need to have equal access to AP classes and college opportunities. GSOP is also asking the city Board of School Committee to move forward on the Office of Civil Rights recommendation to actively recruit teachers of color as it reflects our student population.
West Harlem, NY
WE ACT expands political participation among communities of color and low income residents in order to impact environmental planning and decision making.
a pioneering community health watchdog. Our proven results and experienced leadership have extended our sphere of influence beyond our Northern Manhattan roots to state and federal levels.
a well-known organization in the research and academic community. We have working research partnerships with Columbia University in programs that have been funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and the Federal EPA.
a driving force of change that improves the well-being of all New Yorkers. Our campaigns have culminated in the creation of the West Harlem Piers Park and the implementation of stringent new bus pollution standards that led New York’s MTA to switch from diesel fuel to hybrid electrics that reduce tailpipe emissions by 95%.
an effective force for environmental policy. We work on the city, state and federal levels to improve policy on environmental health and justice. In 2016, alongside partners we helped to pass the country’s first Safe School Water Act, which mandates testing and remediation for lead in all New York State schools. In 2017, WE ACT was instrumental in passing NYC’s Environmental Justice Study Bill (359) and Environmental Justice Policy Bill (886A), which provides the city and all New Yorkers more information to identify and address environmental injustices.
Recent Partners
Alternatives for Community and Environment
Virginia Organizing
Maine People's Alliance
Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 54
OTA-10 Sprint
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OTA-10
OTA-10 is very close to being released but it hit a snag. The FP2 camera problem is fixed but other devices have now developed unexpected problems as a result. We will get them all back to working properly before we launch the update. The problem with Camera app updating to an inappropriate version via OpenStore has now been fixed. This even affected stable and we apologise for that. If anyone still a version issue, please ping Dalton for help on resolving it.
This is a good time to mention the QA team, where we solve problems like these. New members there are always welcome. Take a look at the documentation page to see how to get involved and report bugs.
Fairphone has had reversed headphone outputs forever (nobody seemed to notice!). We have fixed that now. We have also switched from the old Canonical repositories for Libertine (from a Launchpad PPA) and we now have our own installed. This should work much better. You will need to install new containers to make use of it.
A beta for the UT installer to include the Edge channel and to introduce some UI improvements has now been released. Edge is now at a point where it can be used by many people, which is why we have added it now.
You can install Edge without wiping your device.
Florian has a new TELEports release. Apologies for the wait for an update. There were some stability issues that had to be fixed first. With the latest version, forwarding will become possible. Colours, including in popup dialogs, now render correctly. There is also a connection indicator, in the form of the usual moving bar. Re connection time will be much faster. It should all be ready in a couple of weeks from now.
A new tdlib version has been released but there are lots of API changes in that so we will stick with the older version, until we have exhausted the potential to implement the features which are in there but not yet in TELEports.
Telegram develop privately and then upload everything new in bulk, which is rather overwhelming. It is awesome that they are making so much progress but it is obviously very unlike our community driven working model.
Some notification improvements are in the pipeline and unread message presentation improvements are not far off.
In our UT bug tracker there are about 65 items without any label at all. They need tidying up by being removed if they were temporary or resolved. In some cases, it is just a matter of answering a question posed by the poster. A very good way to start getting involved with our project is to help us out with that. Ask Dalton at @UniversalSuperBox if you would like more information on how to get started.
Sponsors were thanked.
Which bugs will be corrected by new Mir and Unity8?
Well, Libertine and hardware acceleration fixes are almost tangible. In the short term, the change will be about enabling technology which can be used for new stuff in the future, rather than just improving what we have now. Again, at a visible level, Morph browser will allow popup windows to work correctly. There will be big stability developments but those you won’t directly see. With the changes, we become plugged into the upstream, which means we will get immediate updates and benefits from the improvements being made by external teams. Indirectly, that frees up more time for other development.
Would it be possible to create a ‘power off’ animation?
As you know, at the moment it just goes dark. Importing an SVG file into QML would be possible in principle, so the basic answer is yes. Unity8 stops though before the device stops. So there still would be blank screen for a while, before the shutdown. We would not be able to do it, as in Lineage, right to the end.
Halium and Porting
We don’t talk about device ports much on Q&As but a reminder – Halium is a collabotative project, for various mobile operating systems. It allows them all to run on Android devices. It is also a place to gather to discuss porting.
5.1 and 7.1 are supported but for now, none other. So if your device launched with something else, you are currently out of luck. Look at halium.org for a lot of information. Some uncompleted ports have been abandoned, so you could pick one up and get a head start. Look in their documentation section. Many ports are still making steady progress.
How easy would it be to emulate an old kernel on a new kernel?
Basically it is not possible. There are new drivers. System calls and function calls would need newer information, which would not be available. It would be great if such technology existed but it would be wildly complicated to do.
New kernels on new devices are of course a different matter altogether! Dalton mentioned that Pinetab is out now. The new Pinebook laptop will also be great. The Pinephone will release us from the old Android-imposed kernel.
Would it be straightforward to allow the import of OpenVPN settings directly within Settings?
It could indeed be done but has not been implemented. There are no plans around but it would be an interesting project. There are of course blogs on our website about setting up a VPN in UT manually.
Finally, a shout out to Nigel who does the uploading of the blog versions of these Q&A sessions and gets them onto social media. Many thanks to him for the work he does.
Bout of OTA-10
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Back to Main Radiology
Aneurysm and Dissection
Biliary Leak
Biliary Obstruction
Gastrointestinal Ischemia
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Liver Cancer (Metastatic)
Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM)
Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
Variceal Bleeding
Varicose/Spider Veins
Venous and Lymphatic Malformations
Vertebral Fracture
Angioplasty and Vascular Stenting
Arterial Thrombolysis
Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration
Biliary Drainage
Biopsy, Percutaneous
Chemoembolization
Cyst Aspiration/Sclerosis
Dialysis Fistula/Graft Interventions
Drainage, Percutaneous
Embolization
Gastrostomy and Gastrojejunostomy Tube Placement
Genicular Artery Embolization (GAE)
Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Removal
Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)
Pulmonary Angiography and Embolization
Radioembolization (Y90)
Stent Graft Placement
Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
Transjugular Liver Biopsy
Tumor Ablation
Varicocele Embolization
Vascular Access Procedures
Venous Thrombolysis and Recanalization
Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
Biopsy Percutaneous
Drainage Percutaneous
Permacath
Treatment for:
Venous access
Why it’s done:
Permacaths provide long-term central venous access for treatments which require high flow rates, such as dialysis or plasmapheresis.
An interventional radiologist uses ultrasound to access the target vein, most commonly the internal jugular vein in the neck. X-rays are then used to guide placement of the catheter so that the tip lies in the central veins near the heart. The catheter is tunneled beneath the skin and exits the skin usually in the upper chest.
Level of anesthesia:
Risks:
Small risk of bleeding or infection. Catheters can sometimes break or clog, necessitating replacement. X-rays are used.
Post-procedure:
One to three hours in recovery, then discharge home. The catheter can be used immediately. The catheter exit site should be kept clean and dry.
Follow-up:
With referring physician. If problems with the catheter occur, contact your interventional radiologist.
Hickman or Groshong catheter placement
Hickman or Groshong catheters provide long-term central venous access for treatments such as chemotherapy, TPN, or antibiotics, and can be used for blood draws. A Groshong catheter has a valve at the tip, while Hickman catheters do not.
Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
PICCs provide intermediate-term (1 week to 2 months) central venous access for treatments such as chemotherapy, TPN, or antibiotics, and can be used for blood draws.
An interventional radiology nurse practitioner or physician uses ultrasound to access one of the veins in the arm, and the catheter is passed centrally into the vein until the tip lies in the central veins near the heart. PICCs are non-tunneled catheters.
Local anesthesia only
Small risk of bleeding, infection or arrhythmia. Clot may form around the catheter in the arm vein or central vein, and may require catheter removal and/or anticoagulation.
No bed rest required. The catheter may be used immediately.
With referring physician. If problems with the catheter occur, contact the PICC team.
Port catheter placement
Port catheters (or Port-a-caths, or ports) provide long-term central venous access for treatments such as chemotherapy, TPN, or antibiotics, and can be used for blood draws. Unlike other types of catheters, ports are entirely under the skin, which makes them less prone to infection, allows for bathing and swimming, and makes them less conspicuous to others.
An interventional radiologist uses ultrasound to access the target vein, most commonly the internal jugular vein in the neck. X-rays are then used to guide placement of the catheter so that the tip lies in the central veins near the heart. The catheter is tunneled beneath the skin and is connected to a port in the upper chest, which is inserted using a small incision. The port lies beneath the skin and can be accessed through the skin using a special needle.
Small risk of bleeding or infection. The port or catheter can sometimes break or clog, necessitating replacement.
One to three hours in recovery, then discharge home. The port can be used immediately.
A wound check is typically performed one week after the procedure in interventional radiology clinic. If problems with the catheter occur, contact your interventional radiologist.
For more information or to schedule an appointment with one of our IR physicians, please call 310-481-7545.
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Finding meaning in a world of (really) big data
In 2015...
438,000 people died of malaria.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 402.56 parts per million.
10,125,159 acres burned in U.S. wildfires.
If those numbers overwhelm you — or even make you feel helpless or numb — don’t worry. You’re not alone.
You (and other humans) are better able to process and respond to information about individuals rather than multitudes, says University of Idaho researcher Scott Slovic.
“This is not about the ability to do math or not. It’s about how the human mind processes different types of information,”
“This is not about the ability to do math or not. It’s about how the human mind processes different types of information,” Slovic says. “Even people who are brilliant calculators of numbers are more sensitive to individual phenomena on an emotional level than they are to collective information or large-scale information.”
Slovic, chair of the UI English Department in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, is an internationally known ecocritic: He studies the interplay of humans and environments in literature and other forms of communication, and uses this research to inform cross-disciplinary discussions of essential topics such as climate change, freedom of speech and energy.
Together with his father — University of Oregon psychology professor Paul Slovic — Scott Slovic published the book “Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data,” which appeared in November 2015.
Scott Slovic's Faculty Profile
"Numbers and Nerves" in the New York Times
Degrees in Psychology
Defining the Limitations
“Numbers and Nerves” explores the psychological limitations that make people insensitive to information dealing with large quantities.
For example, if you felt helpless to stop thousands of malaria deaths after reading the beginning of this story, that’s pseudoinefficacy — a psychological tendency to feel as if you are too small and far away to make any difference in a big problem.
If upon reading about carbon dioxide, you briefly considered giving up driving, then looked out the window at the weather and changed your mind, that’s the prominence effect — a situation in which two values conflict and you defer to the value that feels most immediate and defensible.
“We now have access at our fingertips to a bewildering blizzard of ideas and statistics,”
Such limitations are likely linked to evolution, Slovic says. Across evolutionary history, humans as a species needed to be sensitive to certain types of information to survive. But with the advent of technology, we face situations and encounter information that would have been unimaginable even a few centuries ago.
“We now have access at our fingertips to a bewildering blizzard of ideas and statistics,” Slovic says.
Numbers and Nerves book cover
Transcending the Limitations
We can fool ourselves into thinking we understand large-scale phenomena, Slovic says, but our blind spots and limitations ultimately affect the decisions we make in our personal and professional lives.
So, knowing this, how do we make good decisions?
The first step is knowing the limitations exist, hence the reasoning behind “Numbers and Nerves.” And once you’re aware of the way your mind works, you can work with (or against) it, Slovic says.
So you might remind yourself that saving even one life makes a difference, then make a small donation toward malaria-reducing mosquito netting.
“Becoming self-conscious about how our minds work, including the limitations of our cognitive processes, enables us to slow down, rationally analyze our options, and ultimately make ‘better’ decisions.”
Or you might look out that window at the weather, remind yourself of increased pollution and climate-linked fires and storms, then dress appropriately and head outside to walk.
“When you understand these tendencies, then you can take a deep breath and think through what’s happening in the world today,” Slovic says. “Becoming self-conscious about how our minds work, including the limitations of our cognitive processes, enables us to slow down, rationally analyze our options, and ultimately make ‘better’ decisions.”
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Taking the Story to the World
This psychological knowledge is important to the general public, but it’s also vital for the people who share information with the public, like journalists and policymakers.
Authors, artists, musicians and filmmakers “have long been trying intuitively to make us feel something, to strike a chord,” Slovic says. Journalists know they have to find the “human interest” in a story. Audiences respond when a piece is poignant, when it makes them feel something.
Now that research is uncovering empirical psychological understanding of why the mind responds to various kinds of information, communicators can work deliberately to reach their audiences in a way that will resonate.
Slovic and his father plan to delve deeper into this idea in their followup to “Numbers and Nerves,” which will explore ways to emphasize individual voices and experiences, to infuse information with poignancy, and to meld different communication strategies in order to convey information multidimensionally.
“We have to train ourselves to use our minds more pliably, more flexibly, to move back and forth between small scale and large scale,”
“We have to train ourselves to use our minds more pliably, more flexibly, to move back and forth between small scale and large scale,” Slovic says.
In addition to pursuing his own continued scholarship, Slovic hopes “Numbers and Nerves” will spawn work by other writers and thinkers inside and outside academia, whether literature professors, scientists, engineers, human rights activists or others.
“I think we’ve all come to realize that academic disciplines have very artificial boundaries,” Slovic says. “The pressing problems of the world require us to ignore institutional boundaries.”
Scott Slovic (right) and his father and co-author Paul Slovic
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VFTCB Presents Record Rev Run Check to VF Park
August 2, 2018 by Rachel Riley
Tourism Organization Also Debuts new Comic Book to Highlight its History Brand, Patriot Trails
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (August 1, 2018) -- The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board (VFTCB) presented its largest donation to date – $55,500 – to Valley Forge National Historical Park, the VFTCB’s annual donation from funds raised through this year’s 13th annual Valley Forge Revolutionary 5-Mile Run (Rev Run) held in April.
Since its inception in 2006, Rev Run has raised more than $400,000 for park infrastructure improvement projects and programming to enhance visitor experience.
During the announcement, the VFTCB also debuted a new “Patriot Tales” comic book, the first in a series, which highlights history at Valley Forge National Historical Park and promotes the VFTCB’s history brand, Patriot Trails.
A fictional story, “Washington the Spymaster” features James and Lydia, two kids who travel back in time, meet George Washington, and embark on an exciting adventure to discover the area’s rich history.
“This comic book brings our rich history to life in a fun way for a whole new generation of Montco visitors and residents,” said Edward Harris, VFTCB Chief Marketing Officer. “We wanted to find a different way of connecting with families to discover and explore the story of our historic heroes, make them come to life, and hopefully drive more traffic to the park and our other historic sites.”
The free comic book also includes a section of puzzles to educate kids on historical facts, and features the Montgomery County mascot, Monty the Fox. It will be distributed to community libraries, elementary schools, historic sites, 75 hotels, and at the VFTCB’s traveling kiosk during popular events throughout the year. A digital version can be downloaded at PatriotTrails.com.
The comic book was presented at the check presentation event to tourism and park representatives, as well as Montgomery County Commissioners Kenneth Lawrence, Jr. and Joseph Gale, Rev Run Race Director Kirsten Tallman, race partners and sponsors, and a George Washington reenactor.
“Valley Forge National Historical Park is one of the region’s most visited destinations and
we are thrilled to present our largest-ever donation of Rev Run funds to help support key programming and improvement projects here,” said Mike Bowman, VFTCB President & CEO. “The Park is truly a treasure for runners, cyclists, history enthusiasts, visitors, and residents alike.”
A special storytelling performance from Historic Philadelphia, Inc. (HPI) during the presentation drew attention to HPI’s “Once Upon a Nation” storytelling program, one of the Park projects supported by the Rev Run funds. This year’s funds will also support future maintenance needs of Sullivan’s Bridge, the new pedestrian span over the Schuylkill River, as well as Grand Parade Trail projects.
“We’re honored to receive these significant contributions, and we consider ourselves fortunate to have a committed park partner like we have in the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board,” said Valley Forge National Historical Park Superintendent Steve Sims. “As a three-time Rev Run participant, I look forward to seeing the race, and the benefits it provides to the visitor experience continue for years to come.”
Sims also emphasized the Park’s significant economic impact in the region. In 2017, the Park attracted 2.2 million visitors and contributed $46.5 million in economic output and 426 jobs to the local economy. The Rev Run included more than 1,500 participants this year.
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The world's second-largest brewery has commenced with a digital transformation that incorporates agile site design, with B2B and B2C applications that incorporate multiple platforms meeting diverse worldwide needs.
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Netherlands-based Heineken is the second largest beer brewery in the world, with over 165 breweries in more than 70 countries. Over the years, product offerings have expanded to include the original Heineken along with more than 250 international brands, craft and variety beers, and ciders.
Due to its international presence and expanded lines, the brewer had multifaceted goals. Heineken asked Valtech for help developing a variety of cross-functional platforms that would shape the customer journey as it evolves over time, support local operations, and meet consumer requirements.
Valtech had been working with Heineken since 2010 with the design of their corporate site. We continued working on various projects, ultimately embarking on a complete digital transformation.
A Lasting Partnership Continues
Heineken already knew the importance of a strong digital presence and they knew exactly which channels they needed to target. Valtech’s role was to help make that happen effectively across brands, both locally and around the globe.
Engaging the Digital Arena
Valtech developed a series of platforms, each targeting different audience segments within Heineken’s distinctive target groups, including international as well as specific operational companies. The B2B and B2C branding and eCommerce platforms give visitors an opportunity to obtain information, engage with the brand, or make purchases, depending on their needs.
Digital wasn’t just about launching yet another B2C platform. “It’s a mindset of continuously evolving your digital presence,” as Pascal Lagarde, Digital Director of eCommerce at Valtech Netherlands puts it. “Adjusting, adapting, tweaking. The moment digital KPIs became an integral part of the way Heineken ran Business Units, digital transformation was on a roll.”
Supporting Business Innovation
Heineken is a worldwide leader in supporting spinoffs and new business incubators (in keeping with the rise of craft beer and direct delivery of beer) as they continue to develop their online presence. "Launch fast, test, and improve as we expand" is the philosophy behind these new ventures.
An agile approach is fundamental to the success of business ventures that rely on flawless digital platforms. Take Beerwulf for example. Beerwulf’s ambitions were steep: to build the biggest and best beer platform in Europe, and to introduce a growing choice of special beers to as many people as possible. The site was launched in three months and has seen rapid month over month revenue growth in the months since.
Supporting business transformation
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In 2018, Beerwulf and Valtech were crowned with a golden Dutch Interactive Award in the e-commerce category. The Dutch Interactive Awards (DIA) are the prizes for the best interactive online work of Dutch agencies.
What the jury had to say:
The site for specialty beers went from 400 orders per week last year, to 400 order per hour now. That is impressive. The speed of both development of the site as the growth in revenue is impressive as well. A good choice to work with an external party at the beginning and start recruiting “your own” people later on. With investor Heineken, Beerwulf operates strongly on uncharted territory, with remarkable growth figures.
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The 5 Elements of a Successful Sales Email: What Wineries Can Learn From Meatpacking, Automobile Production, and Radio Ads.
Despite popular belief, Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. He stole the idea (I know, sorry). If there’s a silver lining in your now bursted bubble, it’s that I’m going to share how you can do something similar in creating emails to your winery customers. It turns out that streamlining your emails to go out in less time than you can say “Model T” (and with better results) is actually quite simple. Just don’t tell Henry Ford we told you.
Let’s begin with Armour Refrigeration, who produced the world's first refrigerated train car. Naturally, the next step was to fill those cars with products and make some cold hard cash. So started the Armour Meat Packing Facility.
A disassembly line. commons.wikimedia.org
Imagine an early 1900's brick warehouse with a trolley system hanging from the ceiling. Meat hooks dangling in mid-air, ready for animal carcasses to be strung upon them. In this facility, the cattle or pigs (not sure which, honestly) would be brought to the top of the multi-story building… and slaughtered. They would get hung on the trolley system, then be progressively rendered and packaged at the next floor down. To get to the next floor, they would use wooden chutes. At the ground level, they packaged and crated the finished perishables into the refrigerated boxcars, then hauled them off to metropolitan areas around the nation.
Henry Ford cited his visit to this plant as the inspiration behind his assembly line.
The same thing - only in reverse - was to become a proven industry best practice. Tailored and adapted to the unique business needs of countless other industries. Indeed, stealing an industry best practice is very lucrative.
How does this relate to winery emails?
Radio is to email as meat packing is to car production
I was in radio for a stint. The owner of the company I worked for made his millions off the “Golden Age” of radio. Mr. Hats. Not his real last name, but it sounds similar.
Mr. Hats started out as a radio salesman and now he owns networks in various locales. He’s one of those very persuasive and charismatic types that could argue two different sides and have you believing both are right. He would meet with the sales team every week to go over ideas and strategies, and he'd always have a new lesson to teach us.
But just like how every movie or story that exists is a derivative of Shakespeare's work in a way, Mr. Hats’ radio advertising and/or sales lessons would key back to this one document.
We would go over our ad copy and he would give us a rating out of 100 points. The rubric and grading scale was crystal clear. It all centered around the 5 elements that are fundamental to effective radio sales copy.
5 Key Elements. Worth 100 Points Total.
It seems so basic, that I doubted its relevancy in the beginning. But anytime I would stray from the basic elements, my clients’ results would be negatively impacted. This is anecdotal testing on my part, but Mr. Hats claimed he had it statistically proven. And I believe him.
At Premier Cellar, we’ve been testing (including but not limited to) the same elements in helping to manage the accounts of our over 30+ winery clients. Across the board results were the same, no matter the product/portfolio type or market segment the winery is focused on.
Often times when you create an email campaign you get tunnel visioned on certain aspects and forget other key elements. It happens to me all the time. Something seems so obvious to you, but without the context you already have, the recipient might be lost.
The great thing is that this list gives you the ability to check your strategy, copy, and design against something tangible. If you have these things covered, you can stop second guessing yourself and get the email out the door. We’ve built it into our campaign creation process and so should you.
Skeptical? That’s great! Email is an awesome medium for a skeptic. You can test around these proven strategies. What happens when you do this and when you don't do that. But don't take our word for it. Download the Email Success Checklist and test it out for yourself!
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Home Technology Earth is headed for its second warmest year in recorded history
Earth is headed for its second warmest year in recorded history
Apparently, the globe just experienced the second-hottest October ever recorded and is on track for the second-hottest year till date on record - Vyapaarjagat
Data from the U.S. government sure seems to indicate that the Earth is warming (despite what the current leadership may say).
Apparently, the globe just experienced the second-hottest October ever recorded and is on track for the second-hottest year to date on record, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
HOT OCTOBERS
Not only are we experiencing a run of hot Octobers (this is the tenth year that temperatures have hit recorded-history highs since 2003 and all five of the highest temperature years were in the past five years), but arctic ice has also shrunk to its lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979.
Even as the Trump Administration enacts policies to reverse course on curbing the emissions that seem to be leading to a changing global climate, federal agencies like the NOAA keep releasing reports that reveal exactly how much the planet is changing.
Earlier this month Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began the process of formally withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change. As with most momentous events of the Administration, the world was notified via Twitter.
Today we begin the formal process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. The U.S. is proud of our record as a world leader in reducing all emissions, fostering resilience, growing our economy, and ensuring energy for our citizens. Ours is a realistic and pragmatic model.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) November 4, 2019
While Secretary Pompeo was praising the nation’s approach to “reducing all emissions”, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands hit historic record-setting temperatures and the world’s average sea surface temperature hit its second-warmest ever-recorded temperature.
Meanwhile, new projections are revising the risk that cities face from rising sea levels that are caused by melting glaciers due to warmer temperatures.
Maps created by the research organization Climate Central, and published in the journal Nature Communications indicate that rising seas could flood land that’s currently home to some 150 million people at high-tide by 2050, if steps aren’t taken to improve the resiliency of cities to flooding or reverse course on climate.
Even the Federal Reserve is waking up to climate change risks. The regulator responsible for U.S. monetary policy convened an event earlier this month to focus on the financial impacts of climate change.
“By participating more actively in climate-related research and practice, the Federal Reserve can be more effective in supporting a strong economy and a stable financial system,” Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed’s board in Washington, said in prepared remarks at the same event, according to a report in The New York Times.
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ARLINGTON - It was the matchup we all wanted. And while the end did not have the theatrics of last year, it still had some big moments as North Shore was able to assert itself defensively in the second half to a 31-17 win over Duncanville to claim its second straight 6A DI state championship.
In the first half, the teams traded blows and it was clear it was an evenly contested matchup. As Duncanville was with Ja'Quinden Jackson and North Shore without Zach Evans, other playmakers had to step up. Duncanville (15-1) relied on Roderick Daniels to ignite its offense and lessen the burden on freshman quarterback Chris Parson, who was making his first high school start.
North Shore turned to Dematrius Davis, who made crucial plays with his arms and legs all game long.
After going into the break tied at 17, North Shore (15-1) completely put the clamp down defensively with the tide turning all the way in its favor after recovering a botched snap on a Duncanville punt. Four plays later, North Shore retook the lead.
Duncanville could only muster 42 yards of offense as the North Shore defense began to key in on the Duncanville run game and force Parson to make plays through the air.
With the game in the balance in the fourth quarter, North Shore iced it as Davis hit Charles King on a 44-yard touchdown to seal the victory for North Shore. Duncanville bit on the slot receiver, leaving King wide open for the score and the game.
Charles King wiiiiiiiide open! North Shore takes a two-score lead! #UILState pic.twitter.com/Y0mDJXePXs
— Dave Campbell's Texas Football — TexasFootball.com (@dctf) December 22, 2019
Duncanville turned the ball over on downs on the ensuing possession, sealing the game and the title for North Shore.
PHONE-GATE: North Shore's Evans to miss state title game
North Shore's Zach Evans is considered by the national recruiting pundits as a 5-Star running back.
He is the most coveted recruit in the country.
On the eve of the Class 6A DI State Title Game against Duncanville, Evans was sent back home to Houston.
The news started hitting social media this morning and rumors were a plenty.
The North Shore Mustangs were asked to give up their phones last night to focus on their much-anticipated rematch with Duncanville.
Everyone complied. Zach Evans did not.
He was asked repeatedly. He would not.
Knowing coach Jon Kay, athletic director Vivian Dancy and superintendent Dr. Angi Williams, every "I" was "dotted" and every "T" was crossed. Galena Park ISD is first class and always does the "right" thing.
According to sources close to the situation, the decision went up the chain-of-command and the decision was made. Zach Evans, the nation's top recruit, was sent home.
Keep in mind, this is not an isolated incident. Evans was suspended earlier in the season for three games. It was handled in-house.
What Jon Kay, Vivian Dancy and Dr. Angi Williams did last night should be applauded by every high school coach in the state.
If the No. 1 player in the country can be suspended for the Class 6A DI State Title Game, then anyone can. It sets the entire tone for the overall program. No wonder the 'Stangs are so successful.
It starts at the top. These coaches do EVERYTHING in their power to help their student-athletes. The hours away from their families are countless. They are more than fair. They don't do it for the money. They are fearless in teaching life lessons to kids that some parents are afraid to do.
One player does not make a team. There is no "I" in team. No one is bigger than the team. Team, team, team!
Evans didn't comply.
Coaches in every sport regardless of gender preaches this every day. EVERY DAY!
Don't get it twisted. This is a gut-wrenching decision for a coach. It will keep you up at night. It probably did for Jon Kay, his assistants and the rest of his team.
North Shore is the beacon of light for Houston's rough-and-tumble #Eastside. Now it might be the guiding light for the entire state as they make the right decision on the biggest stage.
And it has nothing to do with X's and O's.
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RODANTHE, N.C. (WAVY) — A park ranger says a 26-year-old man from Manteo was bitten by a “marine animal” while surfing Monday afternoon.
Vandzura said the animal was possibly a shark.
Daniel “Boone” Vandzura, chief park ranger, said the man was bitten in the Rodanthe area. The incident occurred near Sudie Payne Road in Rodanthe, North Carolina, the National Park Service said in a news release.
The National Park Service said the 911 call reporting the incident was received around 2:33 p.m.
The man’s injuries are not serious and not life-threatening, Vandzura said.
He was taken to the Outer Banks Hospital for a foot injury.
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Turkey: Patriotic sentiment on display amid Syria operation
Posted: Oct 16, 2019 / 05:48 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 16, 2019 / 05:48 AM CDT
FILE-In this Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 file photo, youths celebrate in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, after the state-run Anadolu news agency reported the northern Syrian town of Tal Abyad had fallen to the Turkish military offensive. Since Turkey announced its incursion into neighbouring Syria to clear out Kurdish fighters last week, patriotic sentiment has run high, with national emblems being proudly displayed. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Since Turkey announced its incursion into neighboring Syria to clear out Kurdish fighters last week, patriotic sentiment has run high — as has bewilderment and anger at the overwhelmingly negative international reaction to Ankara’s actions.
“At times of this kind of Turkish operation, we as Turkish people feel prouder about our nation,” said Cuma Gunay, a 47-year-old supermarket owner in the border town of Akcakale.
Ankara has long argued the Kurdish fighters are nothing more than an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has waged a guerrilla campaign inside Turkey since the 1980s and which Turkey, as well as the U.S. and European Union, designate a terrorist organization.
But the offensive has led to an international outcry, causing tens of thousands to flee their homes and upending alliances in Syria’s eight-year war.
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The Five Year Engagement - Film Review
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The Five Year Engagement is the type of film that many people can relate to as it concerns the ups and downs that come with being in a romantic relationship. It is the type of film that definitely brings you back to reality, but it also allows for some escapism into another world for a short period of time. Incredibly funny in parts - in fact, really funny.
Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) meet at a fancy dress party in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, and exactly 12-months later, Tom proposes to Violet (code word 'receipts'- once you see the film you will get this) on the rooftop of a restaurant where he is a sous chef.
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Tom's life turns itself upside down when his fiancée receives an offer to join a psychology research project at the University of Michigan. Meanwhile Tom's career as a cook continues to blossom, but working in another kitchen is a massive adjustment for him. Tom finally takes a leap of faith and opens up his own mobile taco joint back in San Francisco, but good things really do come to an end - despite being engaged for five years.
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CueCore’s have been used to great affect in South Korea and this has led to a new Distribution agreement. South Korean based LIVE-LAB have recently learnt and used to great effect the CueCore1 and CueCore2 products. Lotte World theme park is one of the largest in South Korea. LIVE-LAB specified and installed the CueCores for solid-state architectural lighting control within the theme park and also for a special themed event for Halloween in October.
The CueCores were used to control the lighting fixtures within the Halloween House. When visitors walked in they could select a button that would activate a strobe and “kill” a zombie.
After these first successful installs in the theme park, LIVE-LAB have gone on to use the Visual Productions products in a couple of other installations. In Samcheok (a province of South Korea) a CueCore was used to control the lighting of projections in the window of the main Cinema here. More recently in Yoeju, the CueCore was used to great effect for a riverside lighting installation called Big Rock. The rock face was lit up with projections from a media server and lighting fixtures. The CueCore controlled all these fixtures and was triggered using the onboard schedular.
As a result of these installations LIVE-LAB’s CEO, Bonggill Chu and Visual Productions’ Sales Manager, Zoë Castle talked about expanding the opportunities in South Korea through distribution of the entire product range. Chu and his technical team are very enthusiastic about the ease in which to learn these products and the strength of control opportunities that they bring to a number of difference environments and markets. Chu stated “CueCore is really good for installing and architecture, it’s really smart and flexible product for various projects. Especially, the dump function with CueluxPro is really great and It’s also useful to have the option of recording from a 3rd party console. It’s a very powerful feature that we can use multiple protocols like udp, tcp, osc, midi, smpte, DMX, artnet, sACN.”
The deal was sealed during LDI in Las Vegas and Visual Productions are proud to welcome LIVE-LAB as their new distributor for South Korea.
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Puja Patel on navigating music journalism in the US as a woman of colour
by Parizaad Khan Sethi
Apr 05, 2019 | 15:29:27 IST
Hindi film music formed the early soundtrack to Puja Patel’s life in the late ’80s and early ’90s, while she was growing up to immigrant Indian parents in rural American suburbia outside Baltimore. So ingrained in her was the music that when she later heard the original American versions of the riffs that Indian musicians had ripped off, she thought it was so cool they were borrowed from Indian songs. “I actually came to love dance music because I thought it was Hindi music, but it was actually the reverse, which was a jarring realisation,” confesses Patel, the now editor-in chief of Pitchfork, a legacy digital music magazine owned by Condé Nast, which is known for being a game-changer in music journalism.
Voice of inclusivity
Patel figured out early on that listening to other people’s music gave a behind-the-scenes insight into their lives and culture, much like eating their food does. “I had an early obsession with trying to use music to understand other cultures, living in one where I wasn’t the same as everyone else,” she says. In a way, Patel is still using music as a lens with which to look at the world. Pitchfork has always played a pivotal role in discovering new talent, and, in the golden age of criticism, can make or break musicians’ careers with a single review. That power now rests in the hands of a 33-year-old Indian American editor, who’s determined to use it wisely as she makes a case for inclusivity.
A woman-of-colour editor-in-chief is an anomaly, even in the American media landscape. According to a 2018 report by the US-based Women’s Media Center, women of colour represent just 7.95 per cent of US print newsroom staff. “I need to remind myself every day that I don’t represent anything other than myself,” Patel says when we talk about her unique position, seated in the Pitchfork offices at One World Trade Center in New York. She’s addressing the universal pressure every woman of colour in positions of power face: feeling they’re not only carrying their own hopes and ambitions but that of an entire population. “What I can do is raise people up and I can be a voice of inclusivity for everyone.”
A new sound
In her six-month tenure, she has sharpened the magazine’s music criticism, and Pitchfork has broken critical news pieces like the music industry’s reckoning with the #MeToo movement. “We want to show that we care about a lot of things and not just necessarily indie rock of a certain set that led the charge in the early 2000s. If a broader and more inclusive audience turns to Pitchfork for their news and discovery I will feel like we’ve done our job,” she says.
As we chat, I admire the easy self-confidence Patel displays every time she navigates an unknown landscape that would have fazed many others. She got her break in music writing when she cold-pitched the now-shuttered Village Voice, New York’s biggest alt-newsweekly, taking them to task for ignoring the burgeoning underground music scene in the world’s most diverse city. “It was a little arrogant. I was 22.” But it worked, resulting in a test run to cover an electronic music festival, and Michael Jackson’s memorial in Prospect Park.
Patel showed signs of her signature chutzpah early on, like the time she wore a chanya choli to prom, risking standing out at a time when other teenagers instinctively want to blend in. She derives strength from her individuality, and embraces both her American and Indian identities effortlessly. “As a kid, I proudly wore Indian clothes to events, out of choice. I would volunteer for every single school activity, and do the Indian thing there. [I always felt my heritage] was different, cool, interesting and valuable, and [people] should be excited I’m sharing it.” The music and media worlds just got really lucky.
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Nottingham turns red with Tim Tri Cymru
Welsh Triathlon took a team of 20 athletes ranging from 17 to 71 years old to represent Tim Tri Cymru at the British sprint championships.
Saturday 15th June saw the British Sprint Championships in Nottingham, with over 200 home nation members competing for British Championship titles and Great Britain Age-group qualification spots. Due to heavy rain in the lead up to the day the event was held as a duathlon (1.5km run, 18.2km bike and 4.5km run).
Welsh Triathlon took a team of 20 athletes ranging from 17 to 71 years old to represent Tim Tri Cymru.
Friday night saw the team and their families meet at the team hotel for a meal, where they were presented with their exclusive team Trisuit and kit, including a HUUB hat from our new Welsh Triathlon sponsor. The evening was an opportunity for the team members get to know each other before the race the following day and start the team spirit, and there was an extra speial video message from Elite athlete Non Stanford wishing the team luck.
An early start Saturday morning with the Welsh Triathlon staff setting up their gazebo. Creating a team hub for families and team members to use as a base, as well as welcoming other members of Welsh Triathlon to come and have chat.
At 08:00am the first wave saw Dafyd Jay in the 16-19 age group, at 17 Dafyd was the youngest member of the team, shortly followed by the waves for male 20-24, 25-29, 30-34 and 35-39 which included Welsh Super Series current leader Liam Lloyd, Trizone Fitness’Tom Graham and Ross Simpson.
With a fast start, Liam Lloyd soon took the lead with Dafyd Jay on his heels in the draft legal race, seeing Liam Lloyd first cross the finish line with plenty of cheers from other Tim Tri members, to take the 25-29 Age group win and overall winner in a time of 47:05. Less than 2 minutes behind Dafyd took first place in his age group and 8th overall with a time of 48:41. Ross Simpson took a top 20 place and 5th in age group (30-34) in a time of 49:49 followed by Tom Graham in 51:22 who also took 5th in his age group (25-29).
Up next was the age group 40-44 - Taff Ely Triathlon club chairman Mark Binding and Pencoed tri clubs Andrew Martin after finishing the first 1.5km run , getting into the drafting packs they both soon were on the final 4.5km run, Martin finishing in 7th place with a time of 50:42 and 11th place for Binding with 52:43.
50-54 age group saw Cardiff Triathlon club chairman Ian Liddiatt and GOG Tri clubs Geran Hughes take to the start line alongside Martin and Binding. A strong race from Liddiatt saw him take 7th place (53:26) in a competitive age group, followed a few minutes behind by Hughes who came off his bike, but carried onto the run to finish in and impressive 56:21.
In our 60 – 64 age group were John Pollard and Caerphilly Tri-ers Phil Murrow, both crossing the line within milliseconds of each other Pollard in 1:04:07 and Murrow in 1:04:07. Both saying it was a big honour to be able to wear the dragon to race in the British Sprint champs, with lots of spirit and lots of smiles.
Next up were our women at 09:45. Our youngest female team member Mali Jones was first up to start the women’s racing in a time of 1:02:49 followed by Emily Christopher, Larna Andrews and Jaz Bowyer who were next to fly the flag for Wales, The women put in a solid performance all coming in within an hour, it was Andrews who took 4th in her age group in a time of 56:41 followed a few minutes behind was Bowyer to take 7th place in the same age group (25-29) with a time of 58:09. Less than a minute later Christopher joined the women at the finish line in 58:52 and taking 4th in her age group 20-24.
The final group of women were Vicky Jones and Ruth Flatman were competing in the 40-44 age group. Jones who only started Triathlon a few years back after watching Ironman Wales by accident, gave a strong performance taking 5th in her age group in 1:01:49 followed shortly by Flatman in 1:02:26. Flatman described the experience as unforgettable and Jones said it was her proudest day in Triathlon and felt honoured to have been a part of the team.
Angella Hughes from GOG tri and Cardiff Triathletes’ Tej Quine were representing Tim Tri Cymru in age group 50-54 the same categories as their partners Geran Hughes and Ian Liddiatt. Hughes finishing in a time of 1:04:04 and Quine in 1:06:32.
Julie Brown ( 60-64) who qualified as part of the team at the Barry SWYD event 3 weeks ago finished in 1:19:13 and is now looking forward to being able to wear her trisuit at upcoming events.
In age group 70-74 Sue Graves took 2nd place in a time of 1:15:50. Sue who lives in Farnham said it was a pleasure to wear the dragon and represent Wales, she even got the whole team to sign her Welsh Flag as reminder of the weekend.
Later in the day the age group presentations were given which saw Jay, Lloyd and Graves take podium places and collect their medals and fly the flag for Tim Tri Cymru and Welsh Triathlon, supported by the rest of the team with many cheers and cowbell ringing!
CEO of Welsh Triathlon Beverley Lewis said:
Our members have long told us they want to race in Welsh kit. Until this year this was restricted to IRC Tristar or Commonwealth Games athletes. This year we qualified a group of Age Group athletes (17 – 71 years old!) to represent Wales at the British Championships. They wore the Welsh colours and competed as a team supporting each other and generating a fantastic team spirit showcasing the very best of Age Group Triathlon’
Team manager Amy Jenner said:
It was a fantastic weekend in Nottingham the team spirit was second to none. I was so proud of each and every one of them, they were a credit to the team and so supportive of each other. We hope we can build on this for many years to come.
Joining the team was a key volunteer for Welsh Triathlon Sorrel Williams:
Volunteering for Welsh Triathlon at the British Sprint Champs was one of the best volunteering experiences; being part of such a passionate team who were all so proud to be representing Wales was amazing and even though I was ‘only’ a volunteer I was made to feel as much as a member of the team as all the triathletes. I’ve been on the receiving end of marshals and volunteers for all of my triathlon life so this was not only special because of the team spirit but special because I wanted to give back as much support as I have been given. Excellent, excellent experience - 100% looking out for the next opportunity to be part of the volunteer team with Welsh Triathlon.
If you want to volunteer with Welsh Triathlon please contact amyjenner@welshtriathlon.org for more information
Do you want to be a part of Tim Tri Cymru 2020? Join our Welsh Triathlon membership to get the latest news and offers from Welsh Triathlon, which includes discounts off many brands such as HUUB , Brav and Pedal Cover.
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Murder at the Graves Estate
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From the files of Inspector Noel Richards comes a story of deception, greed, and lust. A very rich woman has determined to throw a lavish party. But during the merriment, things turns sour when a woman is found dead in her bed one morning, and the killer is quickly found. However, Inspector Richards suspects that there is a hidden agenda behind it all and begins an investigation to find out the real killer.
I was born in a small house in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1947 and moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut as small boy. I met Lauren, the love of my life in 1985 and we were married years later and moved to Bristol, Connecticut. One night, I had a vivid dream that caught my attention, that spurred me to write it down, and sent it to my sister T. Jene Brideau, for an interoperation who also is a writer. She wrote and told him that the story was good. I took her encouragement and my imagination went to work. That’s when I discovered my God given talent to write great space adventures stories. From then on, I have written over fifty stories of which only seven of them have been published with great reviews.
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Pablo Miller
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Sergei Skripal's MI6 handler, whose identity the UK government issued a D Notice to try to prevent coming out in connection with the Skripal Affair. A leak revealed him to be on an Integrity Initiative mailing list.
Dates unknown
Sergei Skripal's handler
A colleague of Mark Urban
Pablo Miller, also known as Antonio Alvarez de Hidalgo[1] is an MI6 agent.[2][3] He worked as first secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 13 June 2015 "for service to British foreign policy".[4]
2 Sergei Skripal
3 Orbis Business Intelligence
4 Cover-up
5 Exposure
5.1 Skripal Affair
5.2 Integrity Initiative
6 Related Quotation
Brothers in Arms: Pablo Miller & Mark Urban
Pablo Miller was an officer in the Royal Tank Regiment together with Mark Urban, who also lived in Salisbury.
Sergei Skripal
In the early 1990s Sergei Skripal was recruited by an MI6 agent Pablo Miller, whom the British media declined to name.[5] Miller was an MI6 agent in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Miller’s main task was recruiting Russians to provide information about their country to the British. An interesting fact, possibly coincidental, was that the MI6 officer under diplomatic cover in Moscow at this time was Christopher Steele. Steele was later to become better known as the principal author of the infamous Trump dossier.
When Steele returned to London, he ran MI6’s Russia desk between the 2006 and 2009. The information that Skripal disclosed would have been given to Steele, first in Moscow and later in London.
Orbis Business Intelligence
Full article: Orbis Business Intelligence
Pablo Miller is now working with a British security consultancy named Orbis Business Intelligence. Again according to the Telegraph, Miller’s association with this company has now been removed from Miller’s LinkedIn profile.
Orbis is the same private intelligence agency as that of Christopher Steele. It seems more than a mere coincidence that the same three men who had personal and professional links going back to the 1990s should have a continuing association at the same time as the Steele dossier was being compiled and later as the so-called Russiagate inquiry was imploding. Former FBI Director James Comey described the Steele dossier as “salacious and unverified” in a Senate hearing.[6]
On both 7th and 14th of March 2018, the DSMA Secretary issued a DSMA-Notice to try to prevent commercially-controlled media from publishing Miller's name in connection with the Skripal Affair.[7]
Miller's name and alias were published online in Russian in 2007.[1]
Skripal Affair
Full article: Skripal Affair
Miller's name was connected to the Skripal Affair by Craig Murray, who published about the DSMA-Notices.[8]
Integrity Initiative
His name and email were on a mailing list from the Integrity Initiative that was leaked online in 2018.[9][10]
Related Quotation
Craig Murray “We have a programme, the Integrity Initiative, whose entire purpose is to pump out covert disinformation against Russia, through social media and news stories secretly paid for by the British government. And we have the Skripals’ MI6 handler, the BBC, Porton Down, the FCO, the MOD and the US Embassy, working together in a group under the auspices of the Integrity Initiative. The Skripal Case happened to occur shortly after a massive increase in the Integrity Initiative’s budget and activity, which itself was a small part of a British Government decision to ramp up a major information war against Russia. I find that very interesting indeed.” Craig Murray 21 December 2018
Document:Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning blog post 28 April 2018 Craig Murray
Clive Ponting Those of us who have been in the belly of the beast and have worked closely with the intelligence services, really do know what they and the British government are capable of. They are not “white knights”.
Document:Sputnik Gatecrashes Launch of Mark Urban's Book 'The Skripal Files' Article 5 October 2018 Kit Klarenberg
Johanna Ross Sputnik Gatecrashes Launch of Mark Urban's Book 'The Skripal Files'
Document:Spy behind Donald Trump 'golden shower' dossier feared president had been 'compromised by foreign power' Article 10 January 2018 James Law "It's political rhetoric to call the dossier phoney. The memos are field reports of real interviews that Chris's network conducted and there's nothing phoney about it. We can argue about what's prudent and what's not, but it's not a fabrication."
Document:The Strange Case of the Russian Spy Poisoning: Sergei Skripal blog post 17 March 2018 Ludwig De Braeckeleer
James O'Neill In any major criminal inquiry one of the basic questions the investigation asks is: who had the means, the motive and the opportunity? Framed in that light, the Russians come a distant fourth behind the other prime suspects: the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies themselves, and those elements of the deep state opposed to Donald Trump.
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↑ https://twitter.com/alextomo/status/973125120414928897
↑ Document:The Strange Case of the Russian Spy Poisoning: Sergei Skripal
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↑ Document:CND Gen list 2
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To Race a Drone You Must Be the Drone
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First-person drone racing is taking off
When I arrived at the football field at Santa Cruz high school the air was abuzz. Literally. Not with a crowd’s anticipation, though the folks in the stands did seem ready for a show, but with the slash and hum of flying computers. Imagine someone repeatedly zipping a jacket at 100 MPH. Or an airport for wasps. That’s the feeling. They darted around gates, whizzed under PVC pipe and banked turns through a course spread over the football field. Pilots sat on the sidelines either controlling their crafts or tightening rotors, replacing batteries and readying their crafts for gametime.
This was a drone race.
“We’re going to be going hard today,” Kurt Somerville tells me. Kurt, stocky and originally from suburban Boston, wears a shirt that says “Rotor Guru,” and this is actually what people call him. Before the race, one of the organizers tells me they may have to handicap Rotor Guru to keep the field of play fair. They didn’t, but he’s that good.
Rotor Guru has been building unmanned aerial vehicles for over a decade, but only in the last year has he started first-person-view (FPV) racing. Previously pilots controlled drones using line of sight from the ground. But ever-faster processing speeds — catalyzed by the hot smartphone market — and dropping costs have allowed recreational drones to carry sharp onboard cameras. This imagery transmits fast enough that amateur pilots can don a pair of goggles — think Star Trek’s Geordi LaForge — and watch a first person point of view of the craft. They race “in” the cockpit.
Philippe Duvivier, a technology scout from French drone maker Parrot, gives me a pair of Epson interactive glasses, hooked up to a Parrot control system, and suddenly I’m peering through the drone’s eyes. Overlaid digital instrumentation, menus and grid lines show me the drone’s stabilization as it flies.
This is a video game set in reality. Ender’s Game come to life.
Or according to Zoe: “You feel like a superhero.”
Of 20 pilots at the race today, she is the lone lady. “We need more women flying drones,” the announcer says to the crowd. He describes an inexpensive model, and a pilot on the sidelines remarks, “Or about the cost of a girlfriend… but a lot cheaper than a wife.” He gets a good laugh. Another pilot notes he’s able to be here tonight because “the wife’s into it.” “That’s key,” remarks another.
I hadn’t noticed Zoe until her first heat. She won. She is 24, tall with blond ends to her hair and from Santa Cruz. Her mother Kathy is here as a cheering section. Zoe waves a hand to the crowd with a rolling flourish after her early victory and takes a bow as she picks up her hexacopter.
“Months of practice paying off,” she says as she walks back to her giant black suitcase of gear, glowing.
Typically amateur enthusiasts gather in parks and open spaces, a case of drinks nearby, and fly their rigs. But with the improving tech capabilities, perhaps naturally, first person racing is starting to burgeon. Drone racing already has lots of formal signals. “Pilot on the field.” “Goggles on” when about to race. “Walking out” when entering a field. Organizers also have to coordinate which pilots are on what frequency to control their drone; they have a narrow band and if two pilots pick up the same frequency, or even ones near each other, they will cross signals and suddenly be controlling each other’s crafts. Every pilot also has a spotter to follow a drone should it fly into the horizon.
Communities and serious competitions have been springing up from the Bay Area to France, sending drones through courses in the woods like the speeder bikes in Star Wars. Though there are models marketed for racing, most of these crafts are built in garages, either from scratch or with heavy modifications to products out of the box. Parrot doesn’t make models specifically for racing — yet. That’s why Philippe is here.
The impetus for this race is the Drones, Data X conference in Santa Cruz over the weekend. Heavyweights like Amazon, Google, GoPro and Facebook are all interested in how unmanned aerial vehicles can factor into their business. Facebook bought a solar-powered drone company to broadcast the Internet. Amazon may use them to deliver packages. GoPros are one of the most commonly mounted cameras on the nose of a drone. Who knows what Google wants with them but the company has shown an unending interest in robotics.
Parrot’s Philippe seems to only care about getting feedback from Rotor Guru. The other racers look on as he shows Rotor Guru a control system. Rotor Guru isn’t satisfied. “I need more forward pitch,” he says. And the drone’s fisheye camera actually makes it harder for him to fly because he can’t feel exactly which way the craft is leaning.
Discussion takes on that gearhead vernacular, like paintballers or motorcyclists. Drone enthusiasts look for people “to fly with.” Latest models are eyed with envy; someone calls a huge drone capturing race footage “the cadillac.” A non-pilot talks about the arc welding work on a drone he’s building that can hoist 68 pounds. Costs, rotor distance, battery, voltage, amperage, radio strength and weight, to name just a handful, are metrics bandied about with such regularity that they become a foreign tongue. Maybe someone switched to carbon fiber rotors; now the craft cuts on a dime. Maybe someone shaved off the landing pads; now there’s less drag. Maybe someone put a second HD camera on the rear; now there’s two reels of cool footage. Modifications are discussed with pride and one-upmanship. You did that — very nice — but check out this.
I chat with a 15-year-old boy who’s helping on the sidelines. He doesn’t play video games and is pretty excited about flying his own drone once he’s saved enough money. Why is he excited to race?
“It’s real life,” he says. “And the tinkering.”
That’s the word, or the concept you hear over and over on the sidelines, clearly the binding agent of the entire event. The competition is almost secondary. David Hitchcock, a self-described “blue collar kind of guy” who works on gas lines by day, has been tinkering with drones for over two years, typically from about 9 to 11 each night after he puts his two small children to bed. David doesn’t see how FPV drone racing won’t take off with kids. Rather than an Xbox birthday present, how about a drone. “He’s going to go down a rabbit hole to a whole new universe,” David says of this hypothetical kid.
Only in the last couple months has David been interested in racing. He’s just moved to Santa Cruz from Oakland and has been watching how racing has been taking off in parts of middle America.
“I was really surprised it took the East Bay so long,” David says.
I ask Zoe about her copter. “It’s all me,” she says. “Months of obsession.” She’s built the entire thing from parts. She has a huge black trunk with spare gear. She’s started building copters eight months ago and this is her first race. Fellow pilot Steven, age 16, tinkers with his rig nearby. He has been building copters with his dad since he was eight. He smiles and says to Zoe, “You’re going down!”
“Screw you,” she says, only returning half the fun.
Later I chat with Kathy, Zoe’s mom, about what drone racing has meant for her daughter. Turns out doctors had messed up some surgery for Zoe about 18 months ago. She was bed-ridden for a year. And then about eight months ago Kathy bought Zoe a small copter to fly from bed. A week later Zoe wanted a bigger one.
“A month after that, she was building them,” Kathy says.
Now Zoe runs Hexinair, a site dedicated to how-to’s on building copters, guides to local flying spots and videos of drone footage. Kathy watches her daughter, walking, out of bed, out on the racecourse retrieving her drone. She admits Zoe will probably be sore tomorrow. And then she begins to tear up.
“It’s been so good for her,” Kathy says.
The heats continue and while some are tight, Rotor Guru is clearly the pilot to beat. His drone is always quickest off the starter pad and slices the tightest turns around the gate. But there is something a tad eerie about watching him and any of the pilots race. They almost don’t move. Maybe a shoulder tilts on a tight bank, but for the most part they stare straight ahead — while out on the course their craft zips and dives everywhere. It’s tough to say whether FPV drone racing is more virtual or reality.
Of course, there are lots of crashes. Drones thwap into flags, lose control or just malfunction mid-flight. Most crashes are spectacular and spastic, the copter cartwheeling as rotors spin off and the crowd groans. But the pilots rarely flinch. Even still, you can’t help but picture the future, a floating arena with huge spacecrafts zipping around interstellar courses as humans cheer from space bleachers. And of course Star Wars references abound. A pilot on the sidelines starts looking through someone else’s pile of gear by accident and the owner jokes, “These are not the drones you are looking for.”
When you spend enough time looking for drones buzzing through the air, the rest of the world starts to feel a bit surreal. I watch something gliding over the trees and wonder who let their drone get that far away — but it turns out to be a seagull. An big housefly hovers over the starter’s table and buzzes away. Airliners pass way overhead and at first glance, they look like hovering drones. Over the loudspeaker the announcer paints a picture of a future overflowing with personal flying crafts. He mentions Zee Aero, a company in Mountain View building flying cars.
“No more traffic jams,” he promises. “That is the future.”
Chris Munoz rocks flip-flops, board shorts and an AC/DC shirt with the sleeves cut off to show off his tattoos. He runs his own finance company. “You wouldn’t know it.” He doesn’t race but likes to hang at the scene. His drone, black with carbon fiber rotors, looks like the batmobile. Chris points out to the road and then 180 degrees away, to the far trees, and claims his drone can cover that ground in a couple seconds; it can also fly to an altitude of 1600 feet. Today the law only allows drones to 400 feet.
“A lot of these guys are in online forums,” Rotor Guru says pointing around at the pilots. But “nobody goes by their real names” he says. One pilot’s t-shirt claims “Hacking is not a crime.” A lot of drone piloting is outside the law. The FAA is still trying to catch up to the exploding hobby. Chris worries about the FAA’s new rules on drones, due out sometime in the next couple years, will hinder his hobby with myopic rules. He says he writes a lot of letters.
The finals come around: Steven, Zoe and Rotor Guru. Some pilots had to bow out due to technical issues; others just plain lost.
The three lay their drones on the launch pads and step back to the sidelines. “Go!” The drones lift off and pitch forward. They weave around the first gate, bank hard right and head down the course. Zoe jumps to an early lead. Roto Guru is on her tail and now it’s hard not to see that scene in Star Wars where they’re racing speeder bikes through the Redwood trees.
The three complete a lap. But Steven dips too low. The ground snatches his drone and the craft cartwheels to a stop, pieces flying into the air. He pulls off his goggles and looks around with a sheepish smile. He’s out.
Now we’re down to Zoe and Rotor Guru.
This would be playing out like the plot of a cheesy sports movie except that Rotor Guru is a nice guy. But clearly the sidelines don’t expect him to lose to Zoe.
“Rotor Guru has to be a quarter prop down,” says someone.
No matter how he tries, he can’t catch her. Both of them sit statue still on the sideline, their thumbs working furiously. At one turn Rotor Guru cuts down the angle and closes on Zoe but her hexacopter is still too fast. On the final straightaway she blasts the engines, leaving him in the dust, and punches through the finish line.
In celebration Zoe sends her hexacopter high into the air. The crowd cheers. But she doesn’t move. She’s still staring straight ahead, fingers working the controller. Finally, she pulls off her goggles and takes in the accolades with another characteristic bow. When she thinks no one’s looking she snaps her fingers and pumps her fist.
She, Steven and Rotor Guru chat with the announcer like the post-game interviews at any sporting event. Rotor Guru is gracious in defeat, offering up support to all the racers. Zoe is awarded a new quadcopter for first prize. You can already see the gears turning on how she’ll modify the craft.
“I came in here to prove a point,” Zoe says later, easing back in her chair on the sidelines. “And not come in last.” A few pilots come by to check out Zoe’s rig. She gives one a card. Kathy beams at her daughter. The sun drops lower behind the trees and the stands empty of spectators.
Zoe takes it all in. “And this feels pretty damn good,” she says.
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More Trouble for Huawei: No More Facebook on New Phones
Facebook reportedly bans Huawei from installing its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, on new phones.
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Just when it seemed like things couldn't get worse for Huawei, reports have emerged that the company may soon not be able to sell phones with the world’s most popular social networks. Facebook will reportedly no longer allow the Chinese telecom giant to preinstall Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram apps on its devices.
According to Reuters, if you already have a Huawei phone you should be able to continue receiving updates to Facebook-owned apps. The change will only affect new phones. Facebook and Huawei did not respond to requests for comment.
Facebook's decision is the latest fallout from the US government's decision last month to add Huawei to a list of companies that, due to national security concerns, must get permission to buy US-made technology, including software. US companies are now refusing to sell microchips and other components to Huawei. Google has revoked licenses for Huawei to install its software, such as the Google Play app store and Gmail, on its phones.
Huawei, the second-largest maker of smartphones worldwide according to IDC, is still allowed to use the freely available, open source version of the Android operating system on its new phones. Users of those phones should still be able to access Facebook through the web and install WhatsApp by downloading the app directly from the WhatsApp website. Installers for other apps, such as Facebook Messenger and Instagram, are also available from third parties on the web. But without official support from companies like Google and Facebook, it's possible that some apps might not work as expected.
In China, where Facebook and Google are banned and alternatives like the search engine Baidu and the messaging app WeChat dominate, that might not be a big deal. But for users in other countries, such as Europe, the lack of popular US-owned applications could make Huawei phones less attractive.
The US has long worried that Huawei could use its telecom equipment to spy for the Chinese government. Huawei denies that it has ever, or would ever, spy on its customers and is suing the US government over a law banning government agencies from doing business with companies that use technology from Huawei and ZTE. Huawei has also argued that Chinese law does not require it to spy for the Chinese government, though legal scholars aren't convinced by the company’s logic.
Some non-US companies, including UK chipmaker Arm, are cutting ties with Huawei because some of their technology is developed in the US. Analysts say the company has stockpiles of chips, and Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said in a media statement last month that it will be able to make its own chips to replace those of US chipmakers. Indeed, the US sanctions give Chinese companies all the more reason to stop relying on foreign-made technologies. But it could take years for Huawei and other Chinese companies to divorce themselves from US suppliers.
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Ukraine investigates US ambassador surveillance claim; Giuliani ally implicates Trump
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(AP) - Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post.
In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The announcement Thursday came two days after Democratic lawmakers released a trove of documents that show Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, communicating about the removal of Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador.
Her firing was a focus of the inquiry that led to Trump's impeachment.
The Ukrainian ministry said police “are not interfering in the internal political affairs of the United States” but looking into “possible violations of Ukrainian law."
Parnas made several potentially explosive claims in a televised interview Wednesday, including that Trump was directly involved in the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden.
He said he delivered an ultimatum in May to the incoming president of Ukraine that no senior U.S. officials would attend his inauguration and vital American security aid to the war-torn country would be withheld if an investigation into Biden wasn’t announced.
“President Trump knew exactly what was going on," Parnas said.
If true, his account undercuts a key Republican defense of the president during the impeachment investigation - that Trump’s withholding of vital military aid to Ukraine last summer wasn’t a quid pro quo for Biden investigations.
Parnas also says Attorney General William Barr knew about his efforts in Ukraine. A Justice Department spokeswoman called such claims “false.”
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Previously unseen Princess Diana letter gives sweet insight into Princes William and Harry’s childhood Christmas
The Princes were said to be 'thrilled' at the thought of Christmas.
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Princess Diana opens up about sons Prince William and Prince Harry in a previously unseen letter that how now been unearthed.
A letter from Princess Diana, which has never been seen before in the public eye, has recently come out in the open.
In the sweet letter, the late Princess gives an adorable insight into how sons Prince William and Prince Harry spent Christmas during their childhood.
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It’s always interesting to get an insight into how the royals live.
And when it comes to Christmas, that interest peaks.
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Well now, we’ve all been given some insight into the typical royal Christmas Day, and it has come from a rather unlikely source.
A personal letter, handwritten by the late Princess Diana, has gone up for auction – and it details how her sons spent Christmas Day.
Princess Diana said her sons were ‘thrilled at the prospect of Christmas on the horizon’ (Credit: Getty)
The letter was written by the Princess of Wales in 1990 to a Mrs Ivy Woodward, a woman who Princess Diana met visiting Prince Charles in the hospital.
The two had met in September of that year, when the royal visited her husband in hospital after he had broken his arm playing polo, while Mrs Woodward sat beside her son who was in a coma after being caught in a motorbike accident.
Addressed to Mrs Woodward who lived in Nottingham at the time, Princess Diana’s handwritten letter details how she was preparing to spend the festive season with her two young sons, who were eight- and six-years-old at the time.
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Songs of Hope - September 10, 2017 @ 4:00pm, Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church, Worcester
Patricia Yancey, President Worcester Branch NAACP
Songs of Hope is presented by the Worcester Black-Jewish Alliance. The Worcester Black-Jewish Alliance is a new initiative in our community supported by the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts, the Worcester Black Clergy Alliance, and the Worcester Branch NAACP. Our first community event, “Songs of Hope,” is a musical expression of hope, endurance and triumph featuring performers from each of our two communities.
The Black and Jewish communities have long been important allies in struggle for social justice and equality. Our shared commitment toward seeking justice and fighting oppression heightened during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, and we remain united in demanding social justice and equality today.
In these difficult times, we find ourselves challenged once more, to stand together in unity, to drown out the voices of hatred, racism, and violence, with a defiantly joyful song.
Featured Performers include: Lydia Fortune (vocalist), Mitch Gordon (percussionist), Knights of Zion (acapella group), Anthony Russell (vocalist), Shir Joy (Central MA Jewish Community Choir), and a special appearance of "Men of Faith" (Rev. Lucas, Rabbi Swarttz, Rev. Vance, and Rev. Wright).
EVERYONE IS INVITED to celebrate music from the Black and Jewish Communities, and to enjoy a Potluck Dinner after the concert. Feel free to bring your favorite Southern or Jewish dish to share! If you or your organization in interested in sponsoring this event, contact the Worcester Branch NAACP @ 774.314.7515 or the Jewish Federation @ 508.756.1543, x201.
The event is hosted by Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church, 55 Illinois St., Worcester, MA
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My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
By Mark D. Hersey
University of Georgia Press, 2011
$24.95, Paper
Reviewed by Don Noble
There are several biographies of George Washington Carver in print, but this book, although highly specialized and detailed, would also serve for those who haven’t read one. Hersey, now an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State, was encouraged as an undergraduate at the University of Alabama by professors John Beeler and Rich Megraw. This well-researched study is based on his dissertation.
Carver was born in southwest Missouri to a slave named Mary, probably before the Civil War ended, in 1864, although that is not certain. Carver lost both his parents in his infancy. After Emancipation, he was raised by his previous “owners,” Moses and Susan Carver, successful farmers who had owned two of the seventeen slaves in the county and then became foster parents to George and his brother Jim.
Mr. Carver hired tutors for George and allowed him to attend a primary school for blacks in nearby Neosho. Later, at twenty-five, George would attend Simpson College and then, most importantly, Iowa Agricultural College in Ames.
At both colleges George was the first African American student and had to work hard to pay the bills.
In the end he emerged with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in biology, an extraordinary accomplishment for the time.
Carver was a professionally trained scientist but also a complicated man. He was a skilled artist and a devout Christian and had no problems reconciling Darwin and evolution with his deep faith. For Carver science was truth and Christianity was truth. He never understood the need for the Scopes Trial. For him the natural world in all its beauty and inspiration was perpetual proof of the creation.
Despite other job offers, Carver felt it was his destiny not just to work as an agriculturist but to help the most needy of his people—black sharecroppers and tenant farmers. In 1896 he arrived at Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, “unprepared in some significant ways for the world he encountered.” As he put it himself, he found himself “in a strange land and among a strange people.”
Hersey’s focus on Carver’s career at Tuskegee is not the story we are familiar with.
An eccentric fellow, with no intellectual peer at Tuskegee, Carver was not a popular faculty member. He wore a flower in his lapel each day, ate edible weeds from the countryside if he didn’t like the cafeteria food, and sometimes made his own clothes.
As one might guess, he and the principal, Booker T. Washington, had a difficult relationship.
Hersey makes some surprising assertions. Carver, known as “The Peanut Man,” “developed virtually no peanut products that were both original and marketable.” He did not even invent peanut butter.
Hailed as a consummate agricultural scientist, most of Carver’s career was spent in opposition to agricultural chemistry, that is, chemical fertilizers.
Carver believed in improving the soil, building it up with animal manure, compost from the forest, muck from the swamps.
Black tenants and sharecroppers could do this with no expense. But, Hersey reminds us, the croppers had no incentive to improve, with great labor, soil they did not own. And the owners wanted only one activity from the tenants: plant, tend, and harvest cotton.
Carver urged tenants to keep chickens and livestock, plant vegetable gardens, harvest wild grapes, gather nuts, avoid all waste, stop buying tobacco and whiskey, and save their money. The croppers were themselves resistant to change, and the owners, far from wanting the croppers to save money and come out in the black, would rather have them remain in debt and back again next year.
Hersey concludes that Carver was not a great success in achieving his own stated goals, but he deserves every honor as a pioneering ecologist, one who wanted every parcel of land to be healthier at the end of the year than at the beginning. Nov. 2011
Don Noble is host of the Alabama Public Television literary interview show Bookmark and the editor of A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from Alabama. This review was originally broadcast on Alabama Public Radio.
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A man who lived his life in the “fast lane” had learned one critical lesson that there’s more to life than money after his health deteriorated during his final days on earth.
Dr. Richard Teo Keng Siang, a cosmetic surgeon, who lived his life in the ‘‘fast lane’’ learn a critical lesson that there’s more to life than money after his days became numbered.
The Singaporean physician managed to spread his message before succumbing to lung cancer in October 2012.
Teo‘s story resurfaced on the internet this week, touching the hearts of many struggling to search for their happiness.
“I’m a typical product of today’s society,” he said in a speech.
“From young, I’ve always been under the influence and impression that to be happy is to be successful. And to be successful is to be wealthy. So I led my life according to this motto.”
Teo, who died at the age of 40, switched from a career in ophthalmology to aesthetics, a transition that brought him millions in his first year of practice.
“You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out of average GPs, family physicians. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous,” Teo said in another speech.
As he raked in millions, Teo, a sports car enthusiast, found himself spending weekends at car club gatherings, racing with his chosen wheels.
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He would also dine at the fanciest restaurants and brush elbows with high-profile people, including the likes of Miss Singapore Universe Rachel Kum and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
Teo owned at least four sports cars, including a Honda S2000, Nissan GTR, Subaru WRX and Ferrari 430.
“I was at the pinnacle of my career. I thought I was having everything under control,” he recalled.
Then, the unfortunate news struck his family on March 11, 2011, the same day a tsunami ravaged Japan.
Teo was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given three to four months, with six months at most to live.
“I couldn’t accept it. I have a hundred relatives on both sides, my mom and my dad… And not a single one has cancer,” he said of his illness, which had spread to his brain and spine.
Falling under severe depression, the doctor cried himself to sleep at night.
“See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy.”
As the days went on, he realized that it was not his Ferrari or Michelin-starred dish that brought him joy.
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“What really brought me joy in the last 10 months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through.”
In his suffering, Teo also learned to empathize with fellow cancer patients — something that he had never experienced as a doctor focused on profit.
“I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. And, if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were to relive my life now, I can tell you, yes I will. Because I truly understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to learn it the hard way,” he told young doctors.
There is nothing wrong with being successful, with being rich or wealthy, absolutely nothing wrong. The only trouble is that a lot of us like myself couldn’t handle it.
I became so obsessed that nothing else really mattered to me. Patients were just a source of income, and I tried to squeeze every single cent out of these patients.”
Teo carried the lessons he had learned in the last few months of his life to his deathbed.
“When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself of everything and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live.”
Teo’s timeless message resonates not only with young doctors, but anyone trying to find their own success.
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Over the years, human activities have contributed to changes in the dynamic equilibrium of stream systems across the county. These activities center on manipulating stream corridor systems for a wide variety of purposes, including domestic and industrial water supplies, irrigation, transportation, waste disposal, mining, flood control, timber management, recreation, aesthetics, and more recently, fish and wildlife habitat. Increases in human population and industrial, commercial, and residential development place heavy demands on the county’s stream corridors. The cumulative effects of these activities result in significant changes, not only to stream corridors, but also to the ecosystems of which they are a part. These changes include degradation of water quality, decreased water storage and conveyance capacity, loss of habitat for fish and wildlife, and decreased recreational and aesthetic values. Riparian landowners in York County are responsible for watershed protection and are encouraged to practice good environmental stewardship at home.
The Headwaters Environmental Legacy Program for Small Streams (HELP-Streams) was initiated in 2003 by the Conservation District to educate landowners about making the best choices for managing their small streams and providing financial and technical resources for rehabilitating and protecting headwater streams. Financial assistance is available to eligible landowners on a cost-share basis as resources allow. Technical assistance is provided at no cost to landowners who wish to do the work themselves. In most cases, a General Permit (GP-3) is required by the Department of Environmental Protection.
To be eligible for assistance you must be able to answer YES to all four questions below:
Are you the landowner of a headwater stream (i.e. small 1st or 2nd order)?
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YouReadyGrandma 5 years ago 144
The awkward exchange began when Chief Justice Roberts asked famed gay rights lawyer Mary Bonauto why she believed that we should “force churches and religious leaders to preside over a homosexual wedding that, when taken as a whole, would offend their moral conscience.”
With the first day of hearings taking place before the United States Supreme Court, an awkward happening occurred when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts found out that both religion and religious establishments have nothing to do with the legality of same-sex marriage.
The uncomfortable exchange began when Chief Justice Roberts asked famed gay rights lawyer Mary Bonauto why she believed that we should “force churches and religious leaders to preside over a homosexual wedding that, when taken as a whole, would offend their moral conscience.”
Although she seemed taken aback, Bonauto replied with little to no hesitation.
“Well, I’d cite the U.S. Constitution, previous Supreme Court decisions, and the Treaty of Tripoli.”
Chief Justice Roberts then asked Bonauto to elaborate on her answer.
Bonauto replied, “Thomas Jefferson clearly stated that the intent and function of the 1st Amendment was that the country could never establish any laws based on, or supporting, a specific religious view. He stated that ‘the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.'”
She then continued by stating that, “This court has ruled in this manner time after time, and even the Treaty of Tripoli, which was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate way back in 1797, clearly stated that our government was not established on any specific religious tradition. Not to mention, priests and churches will not be forced to marry anyone.”
Bonauto concluded by accurately saying, “Indeed, it is a fact that all you need to get married would be another person, a trip to a courthouse, a witness, and a signed document. When people get married in a church, it isn’t recognized by the government without the legal documentation.”
It was at this point that those in the court witnessed Chief Justice Roberts begin to whisper to fellow conservative Justices Scalia and Alito. Justice Roberts then became visibly red in the face at this point and some reports even state that you could audibly hear Roberts say, “Really!?”
***Requested Update:
For anyone unfamiliar with the U.S. Treaty of Tripoli, the phrase that Bonauto was referring to reads as such:
“The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
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jlutherbarnhart says:
September at 1:46
It is very interesting that Bonauto said, “Indeed, it is a fact that all you need to get married would be another person, a trip to a courthouse, a witness, and a signed document.” Because it isn’t true. You must have your marriage solemnized. Not just anyone can solemnize it. At least this is true in the states I have resided in. I have also looked up Kentucky’s law on the subject:
(1) Marriage shall be solemnized only by:
(a) Ministers of the gospel or priests of any denomination in regular communion with any religious society;
(b) Justices and judges of the Court of Justice, retired justices and judges of the Court of Justice except those removed for cause or convicted of a felony, county judges/executive, and such justices of the peace and fiscal court commissioners as the Governor or the county judge/executive authorizes; or
(c) A religious society that has no officiating minister or priest and whose usage is to solemnize marriage at the usual place of worship and by consent given in the presence of the society, if either party belongs to the society.
Marriage can and often does legally involve churches and religion. It doesn’t HAVE to, but it can. The state doesn’t solemnize the marriage at all. A justice or judge of the court can, but the court itself does not. The justice or judge could be retired, and not even part of the government anymore.
youreadygrandma says:
Sounds like your state has unconstitutional laws.
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pottergreen says:
What level of government is Bonauto referring to? The state or the federal government? The treaty is a federal construct, but the state administers/defines marriages. How does one branch’s construct of a treaty affect a state power or its administration?
Roxanne Daugherty says:
well guys i am voiving my opipion and noone has the right to judge the othr person but in my eyes i c ant say to much for if i did i would be judging my own family and i cant.its each persons decision what they want to do be and so we shouldnt judge for we have our own beliefs.As for ministers and marrage its there decision in what they want to do marry or not marry.have a good day.
why iss Barbabra anyway> i dont agree with her
abunudnik says:
A wonderful piece of deceit. The treaty had to do with negotiating with Muslims regarding the Barbary Coast pirates. The treaty is in no way enshrined in the constitution and its wording is, in a word, diplomatic. It’s purpose was to reassure the party with whom he was negotiating the long end of the Barbary Coast action which included the bombardment of Tripoli harbor for harboring the pirates.
tonypham says:
I can’t find the word Tripoli in the trinscripts. The case is Obergefell v. Hodges: http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcript.aspx
alteregoliz says:
Reblogged this on alteregoliz.
Doneau Probst says:
Until the couple get a license from the County Clerk and present the signed license back to the County Clerk, the actual ceremony is purely symbolic and carries no legal weight whatsoever. A marriage license is a legal contract and the marriage is granted by the State and can only be dissolved by a judge or magistrate. Churches have only the illusion of being able to grant the legal status of marriage when in fact they have no legal standing whatsoever to do so. They can perform the ceremony, but only the State can grant the marriage.
Legal status of a marriage may be more or less important to some, but only a church can perform a marriage before God.
So is a marriage a civil institution or an spiritual institution ? To the degree that it’s a former, the state can call anything it wants a marriage. To the degree that it’s an institution under God, only He can decide what is and is not a marriage.
Hate is ignorance, absence of knowledge of who the person is beyond what you immediately see.. senseless.. and aren’t there more pressing matters on the American agenda than gay marriage, it is not the business of anyone other than the two consenting adults that are entering into the union.. Let us all grow up and mind our own damn business.
Until it comes time to coerce people into vaccinating their kids anyway, right, Tori?
I hope you know this is a HOAX. The case is Obergefell v. Hodges. Try to search for the work Tripoli in the transcript! Stupid is as stupid does!
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcript.aspx
I agree with the basis for the post, but you may want to preface it with this being satire / fictional, as I’ve seen it shared as legitimate on numerous platforms.
cainch says:
Thomas Jefferson had nothing to do with the 1st Treaty of Tripoli, which was the one quoted. That was the Washington and Adams administrations. The second treaty of Tripoli did not contain the “in no sense” clause. This in no way invalidates the argument re: our govt being founded as secular, but if you’re going to snarky at a member of SCOTUS, you should put forth some minimal effort to get your facts straight.
Willis Jennings says:
ah.. it makes so much more sense if it was Scalia. I dislike C.J. Roberts and don’t believe him to be completely honest, but he’s certainly not stupid. Scalia on the other hand…
Michael Miller says:
What happened to the pursuit of happiness? Guess it only applies to a select group of Americans. Also to the tax guy….the roads have potholes, the water has to be filtered, the current police situation is crazy in this country there are power outages etc etc clearly you can get married without a church. I believe in bringing all people closer to God not pushing them away. Besides this is about equality under the law for all Americans
Religion was created as a way to control the masses. Higher powers established that without fear of consequence, people would do as they please and there would be utter chaos. Every part of the world has a religion and different beliefs. Saying one or the other is right, goes against what this country was founded on. The freedom to live as you want and to believe in what you want. I for one believe there is a god. We say he did different things, call him different names, but in the end you don’t know. Having good morals and loving the one you are with regardless of sex, race, or looks should be what we strive for anyway. Religion is as corrupt as wall street and a bigger industry than drugs. Why does a priest need donations for 67 million dollar jet. Come on people
Shoot, I’ve been pointing that out to internet trolls for months now…
Hey…wait…you don’t think?
John Roberts, was that you?
eileengriffin77 says:
May at 1:54
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jimmyboi2 says:
Hello, everyone. This was NEVER about storming the altars. It was about legal equality as Americans. Class dismissed. Sheesh. (The churches made it a religious issue, to their everlasting shame and discredit.)
Jack Marino says:
So what all you liberals that LOVE government and not the individual’s rights. How would you handle a Jewish deli being force to cater an neo-nazi party event. They would have to make all their pastries with little swastika’s and a cake with Hitler’s face on it. Now since the jews are a religious people and keep to themselves, and they use all the public services mention in the above comments. Do you secularists require this jewish business to provide this service to a bunch of nazis for their event?
Nazis are all about hate. Gay people wanting to marry is about love. If you think the two groups are similar, you’re wrong. Nazis want to harm people, gay people just want to get married.
Rome Fiddler says:
Not the point. Love, hate, whatever. Discrimination is discrimination. You can’t pick and choose!
harmonikasavingsbonds says:
What happened to you? What a sad and ugly outlook.
Honestly Now says:
There is a difference. It’s too bad you are so blinded, because it’s just stunningly obvious.
A Jewish deli owner will not make swastika cakes for anyone. Never-mind that Nazis would be the only ones who would want them. If I asked for “hate cakes” (I’ll just call them that), the answer is no. If you, a Nazi, an atheist midget, and (for some unfathomable reason) another Jew asked for them… still no. See? The answer is the same (EQUAL!) no matter who is asking.
Now if I (a straight woman) go into the bakery of a homophobe and ask for a wedding cake for my husband and myself, I’ll get one. If a gay man walks into the same bakery and asks for the EXACT SAME THING (a wedding cake for his husband and himself), he would be denied.
It’s just. so. obvious.
Two people go in and ask for the exact same item – they both receive the same answer (whether that answer is yes, no, or something else). That is NOT discrimination.
Two people go in and ask for the exact same item – they receive different answers BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE. That IS discrimination.
This is not about “forcing” business owners… it never was. Good try, though. Way over used… be original.
Cynthia Sharp says:
You missed they entire article; no one is forcing churches to do something they don’t believe in…. no one needs a church to get married. Marriage is a legal term.
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Daleth says:
This article is a flat-out lie, as anyone with access to the internets can confirm. I’ve supported gay marriage all my life and I disagree with 99.9% of what Roberts has to say, but I can’t support LIES in the media.
Here are the transcripts of the Supreme Court hearings in this case–search ’em all you want, you will never see Roberts ask that question (and for that matter, you also won’t see anyone mention the Treaty of Tripoli):
Question 1 arguments (is there a Constitutional right to gay marriage):
http://www.supremecourt.gov/…/argumen…/14-556q1_7l48.pdf
Question 2 arguments (can states refuse to recognize gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions):
http://www.supremecourt.gov/…/argumen…/14-556q2_2dp3.pdf
Are these the only arguments with Bonauto and Roberts?
Dorothy Lundgren says:
separation of church and state is one of the principles this country was founded upon.
Betty Gleason says:
My education taught that when 2 capable adults make a life long commitment each to the other, that is a marriage. The civil marriage is the signing of the legal documents to enforce rights & responsibilities, and the religious ceremony is to ask God’s blessing on the union. Marriage itself is personal & private. All the rest is asking others to share in their joy.
Hello, I was just wondering when (if?) the above exchange occurred as I can’t seem to find it in the oral argument transcripts on the Supreme Court website at http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcript.aspx
janis says:
I am a Canadian. We have been doing this for almost 11 years. the sky did not fall, many church are still bigots,Take a look at the progressive world around you, stop pushing your religious morals on people who just want no part of Any religion, they are all mostly corrupt,Im Roman Catholic , dont get me started.There is no argument that can be debated without religion and the views of Zealots. give up ,listen to your lawyers and judges. The sky will not fall.
Marc Winger says:
Well, dear, there are a lot of people that disappointed in Justice Roberts. Of both main ideologies. So, yes this is a bit shocking; but not totally unexpected.
debielou says:
Another source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/04/28/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-same-sex-marriage-case-obergefell-v-hodges-today/
Curt Zimmerman says:
“The state marries; the church blesses.” Not all countries allow “clergy” to preside at the civil marriage rite. What’s before the SCOTUS is CIVIL marriage. It has nothing to do with any religious values of any type. As a Christian clergy person, I would be much more comfortable if couples took care of the legal/civil stuff by civil authority; then my faith community can decide which relationships to bless.
SawIt says:
If this happened, I’m glad, If it didn’t, it should. I’ve heard a lot of arguments for/against gay marriage, but seldom do people bring up this one. I kept bringing it up and no one seemed to get the point. Maybe now they will. So I shared, real or not. Maybe the lawyers arguing this case will take a clue!
BRA says:
“Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools”
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If i had a church i wouldn’t perform homosexual/lesbian marriages…because I’d rather be in trouble with man’s law than God himself…i fear what God would do to me for not keeping his word..than what a man has to say or do to me #realtalk
Sandra Koenig says:
Poor thing. Are you really so afraid of what your god would “do to you”? That’s really sad.
Gary Gibson says:
Please point to any part of the Bible that GOD or JESUS authored PERSONALLY. To my knowledge, MEN wrote the Bible. Self-serving, violent, ever-corruptible men. We have several thousand years of history which illustrates Man’s sins. Do you think that the men who authored the Bible (or the ones who selected the books that were allowed in the Bible) were any less sinful or self-serving?? Since the church more or less ran things back then, the Bible is little more than political propaganda from that time.
free radical says:
And by the same token, I’m sure you’ve never eaten any pork product or shellfish, since that is also forbidden by the bible. And you’ve surely never worn clothes made from more than one kind of fabric, specifically banned. Ever performed any kind of work on the sabbath? If so the bible says you should be put to death.
As long as you are picking and choosing which of gods laws you want to follow, we ask that you choose love instead of hate.
*Drops mic* Walks away.
Dana Westerman says:
I could care less of some “religious institution” doesn’t want to perform a gay marriage. That is totally OK!!! Real “Christians” love and accept everyone and don’t judge others. There are other religions who WILL perform gay marriages. However, as pointed out, not everyone views marriage in the religious context. The thing is, certain religions want to outlaw gay marriage no matter WHO performs it. They don’t want ANYONE to be able to perform a gay wedding at all…..not even a justice in a court. This is where they FAIL. If they don’t want to perform these types of weddings….that’s totally ok. However, their religion is NOT law and they CANNOT stop others from doing it. End of story. It is well known that so called “Christians” like this also used their “beliefs” to justify trying to prevent heterosexual couples of different races from being able to marry years ago. “Religions” like this are the ones going around persecuting ANYONE who does not believe the same crap that they do. Then, when they don’t get their way, they cry and whine and say they are the ones being persecuted against. This is TOTALLY ridiculous. It’s time for religious tyranny like this to end.
dadbearnj says:
Dana instead of using quotation marks for these kinds of Christians, I use small letter c calling them christians (I know auto-correct keeps capitalizing it, so you have to go back and make it a small c again). So these christians are not real Christians because they do not follow the true teachings of love and respect that Jesus espoused.
In Texas it is against the state constitution for the legislature to create a law that makes a parallel “civil union” available to gays. If that’s not against the US constitution I’ll eat my hat.
stormkite says:
The only parts of the US Constitution recognized in Texas are certain specifically limited applications of the First and Second amentments (as they apply to rich white straight Protestants) and the Tenth Amendment so long as the state is governed by the aforementioned Rich white straight Protestant members of the GOP. The rest is simply moot and hasn’t actually been read in over 150 years.
d4m10n says:
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Bucks says:
listen to audio on soundcloud question one, around 22:20 in, Scalia utterly fails to understand clergy’s role in marriages http://www.towleroad.com/2015/04/here-is-audio-from-the-scotus-marriage-equality-hearing-question-1-listen.html
So is the article above correct as written or not?
If someone (justice, lawyer or otherwise) said the words quoted above, who said it and when? Can anyone provide a reference, please?
I’m not taking sides — I just want to read the words for myself.
Lisa Berger says:
I was at the argument and this exchange never occurred. Justice Scalia did ask why ministers wouldn’t be required to perform same-sex marriages if they declare it a constitutional right. Mary Bonauto pointed out that ministers aren’t required to do so now in marriage equality states and Justice Kagan stated that, for example, rabbis (and therefore all clergy) are not required to perform mixed marriages. No one mentioned the Treaty of Tripoli.
Michael Simpson says:
I’ve listened to the entire Bonauto segments of the arguments and I can’t find the quotes above anywhere. Can you provide a more precise cite as to where they are in the transcripts? Page number and line number is the traditional format to cite to a deposition or transcript.
I, too, would like to know from where these other claims are cited. Most of these claims are not in the transcript I read. I remember only what I listed above, that Bonauto did point out that the 1st Amendment protected clergy and that none have been forced to perform a marriage ceremony outside of their beliefs.
OMG! Read the darn constitution man! It’s written in black ink. No matterifthis thread is fake or not. Read it for yourself. Any how what is the big deal? The churches have refused people since its inception because of race and religious beliefs, what’s new?
Jeremy Harden says:
But we must remember, Seperation of Church and State, means ANY religion, yours, mine and the fundies all over! Blessed be the wisdom of Melek-Taus!
K Martin says:
Think of this as the blog equivalent of The Onion. It’s all satire. As much as we may like the idea of Roberts not knowing that people don’t have to be married by religious authority, it’s impossible that he would have said and done the things that are reported in this article. So you can stop looking for documentation of this. It’s satire. But with a point. Why do governments think they need to support religious beliefs with restrictive laws about who can get married.?
VoR says:
The exchange described was the writer’s fantasy. Roberts never asked that question. Besides, the answer supposedly given is utterly non-responsive to the question and hardly praiseworthy even if true.
That said, I did read the transcript, and Scalia (not Roberts) did ask a similar question. (See transcript 23:3-18.) And Bonauto’s response was uninspiring at best. It basically amounted to “of course not.”
Kagan’s response to the question was the best and most persuasive response offered. (See transcript 26:8-16.)
As far as Roberts’s participation on this question, he chimed in at 36:4-8: “We have a concession from your friend that clergy will not be required to perform samesex marriage, but there are going to be harder questions. Would a religious school that has married housing be required to afford such housing to samesex couples?”
You can read the response and the rest of the transcript here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/…/argumen…/14-556q1_7l48.pdf
The Chief Justice did ask about a church being forced to perform a ceremony against their beliefs. Council Bonauto pointed out that that was covered by the 1st Amendment and, as such, was a separate issue.
By taking this to the Supreme Court they are asking that it be applied to the 1st Admendment too. They won’t say that unless they are forced to admit it. They are attempting to mislead people to get their foot in the door. Then they can pry it open further in other cases. Once you open that door it can’t be closed! Government should get out of the marriage business except to record the event. No sanctioning or prohibiting.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-28/what-justices-are-really-saying-about-gay-marriage
“This time, Scalia focused on whether a minister who condemns same-sex marriage could be obligated to perform one. This approach reflects a concern heard widely among opponents of gay marriage, who have turned to religious liberty as a guarantor of their rights to continue to disagree.”
It was a real question – but SCALIA asked it. See page 23 of the transcript
chakrajade says:
Compelling and legit-seeming argument! After looking over the transcripts for the 28Apr2015 oral arguments (Question 1 http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/14-556q1_11o2.pdf and Question 2 http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/14-556q2_f2ah.pdf ) I can’t find any part of this exchange, which leads me to believe that this exchange is fake. But, Gods Be Good, I wish it were real!
If you are polytheist, why subscribe to Dualism, that has played from the Christians and Muslims from their more parental figure Zoroasterism that it isn’t funny! Making duality is become a trend… I FAIL to see a good man anywhere… Who ever calls himself good needs to take a long look at himself and ask why he is good, and then see how he looks at the world in total…
Therefore I ask, if a God/Goddess or a multitude of deities are good or evil, are they truly ALL good and evil? Or are we just whitewashing the whole situation to make things easier, therefore lazy?
Bart Sutton says:
Why is it that people cannot distinguish between legal marriage which requires secular marriage licenses, etc., and religious belief? It seems like a simple concept to me. If gay marriage becomes law I’m sure some churches will not perform ceremonies and if so, who cares. People can go to the court house or I’m sure other religious organizations would spring up to service gay people.
James Olson says:
Or already exist. This UCC pastor has been performing same-sex marriages for 10 years.
My apologies, Pastor, I misjudged how I felt, you are truly a noble soul, and I truly mean that…
Marriage is NOT a religious institution, it is a civil contract between two consenting adults. A priest (or a judge) can’t marry you without a marriage license — issued by your local jurisdiction, not a church.
David Carefoot says:
Well, marriage IS a religious institution for many. Secular culture separates out the affairs of civil society (the public sphere), regulated by legal institutions (government), from the values of practices of voluntary organizations (church). So… marriage is a legal institution (public) and a religious institution (private) in the US. As a pastor I’ve married older people who don’t want to marry publicly (civilly) because it would be a financial disadvantage but don’t want to live together without a sacred pledge of faith mediated by the church. It seems secularization is poorly understood by the right and the left. The right forgets the secular was invented to keep religious groups from inflicting the violence of their consciences on the “unlike”. They want to force private views into the public sphere. The left forgets that opinions are like as*hol*s–everyone has the right to have one (and to be one)–but privately.
And pastor, which group has the asshole opinion that gay people can’t get married sans religious weigh-in? I’m old. Refresh my mind?
For many, but not for all. We do not live in a theocracy, where religion is imposed on the entire population.
Marriage has been around longer then any Abrahamic who put a turban on his head, or stepped down on a mountain with his sandled feet from having a long conversation with a “burning bush…” Now it’s a institution for control since the Catholism came in, before then it was one of the few ways one would convert to be in Judiasm.
David Harn says:
The concept of “marriage” originated in the idea that a man “owned” his wife. (In the beginning, there was no restriction on a man to be faithful, only women.) The documentation for marriages began as a way to keep breeding records to avoid inbreeding of slaves. (Or to ensure inbreeding in the case of medieval “royal lineage”.) Since women are no longer legally viewed as chattel, there is no longer a need for the “title deed” called a marriage record. And the laws of incest between consenting adults have become so blurred, (in part because of all the birth control methods available today), there is no longer a need for breeding records. Therefore, there is strong argument in favor of the notion that marriage should be abolished as antiquated and obsolete. That said, I confess that these are not my feelings on the matter, but rather logical conclusions based on facts. As long as two people choose to share a life and want all the benefits and responsibilities that come with such a choice, there will always be marriage. I personally believe very deeply in the sanctity of such a union. I do NOT believe that government should have anything to do with it, though. Neither in the support or condemnation of “unconventional” marriage, nor in forcing people to go against their own life choices just because those choices offend someone else.
Marriage was created by religious institutions. The only reason governments got involved was to restrict who was getting married and to be able to tax the process. Every bakery targeted by gay bullies have stated that they sell to every one that walks into their stores and buys something off the shelf. Purchasing a custom cake requires a contract between the baker and the purchaser. The baker is under no legal obligation to accept every contract presented to them, just like every businees does. They may turn it down because they don’t have the skills, the cake is too elaborate and would leave them with very little profit or it is offensive to them. Just like an artist that won’t paint nudes, or a photographer or book publisher that won’t do pornography, or a kosher butcher that won’t do non-kosher cuts of meat or a moslim butcher that won’t touch pork. Marriage also involves contracts between the preacher and the couple wanting to marry. if he won’t perform the seremony because you are already lilving together or have a child out of wedlock or are divorced, you always have the option to be married in a non-religious civil ceremony.
C Randall Brotherton says:
or you can be married by another church. Your church isn’t the only game in town–thank the gods.
bobbybecka says:
Reblogged this on we work with words and commented:
classic. 🙂
Gale Younglove Marfia says:
Hey PJD – its only found by people seeking TRUTH!
PJD says:
How come this is the only place on the internet I can find these quotes? I am not seeing a report of this exact exchange anywhere else. What is the source? Was this an eyewitness transcription?
JRJ says:
You can go to http://www.supremecourt.gov and look for Obergefell v Hodges. The Transcript and actual audio of the oral arguments are posted for everyone to read and listen.
I did a word search in both of the transcripts linked and can find no trace of these quotations. 🙁 I looked for “Tripoli”, “Jefferson” and “moral.”
Bruce Ragsdale Horton says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
I’ve listened and read the transcript in its entirety. This exchange never happened, at least not on the record. Maybe this website is satirical?
G F says:
This didn’t happen. It’s not in either of the two transcripts from April 28th. This propaganda is just as despicable as Fox News!
I have also done searches in the Transcripts and cannot find the alleged exchange.
bradleuy bleck says:
Look on page 21 of the First Question’s transcript. While the words are not the same, and it’s Scalia and not Roberts, the question gets asked:
“for example, is it is it conceivable that a minister who is authorized by the State to conduct marriage can decline to marry two men if indeed this Court holds that they have a constitutional right to marry? Is it conceivable that that would be allowed?”
Corey Fields (@coreyf_4) says:
I had the same question. I’m not familiar with the site and don’t know if it’s satire or not. I can’t find it anywhere else either. Let me know if you do.
OK, I was embarrassingly duped. I don’t know why I didn’t go to the site’s homepage but this is clearly a fake/satire site.
Kim Everett says:
Treaty of Tripoli –
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp
read the Cnstitution and that should tell you, right? Not sure why you would write this unless you read it and did not see it
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/14-556q1_7l48.pdf
Because this is not accurate. This exchange did not occur. There was an exchange about whether clergy would be forced to conduct such marriages, primarily between Justice Scalia and Ms. Bonauto, but it was not this specific exchange.
Simon Isbister says:
That’s because yhis article is satire. This is a humour site.
How come you use how come instead of why? “How come “is improper grammar.
August at 1:20
Right, its becoming more difficult to access reliable information. No disrespect but the media, clergy, and politicians and other governing officials are all in the same business as the authir of this article. It is to pursuasively manipulate a point or points and to CONTROL or keep power over the audience or affected people. Someone of POWER can say to their following “piss will now be called water” and it would. The gay marriage ruling was important because it was an legal issue not a one of religion. Its sad, it has taken this long for a group of people to be acknowledged the rights that the CONSTITUTION had long given them. This is important because we’re going to continue to see cases like these where prejudices and abuses of power will deny people the rights of which this nation was formed and of its commandments.
James Dean says:
This entire website is satire with a point. So, hopefully your comment is too in regard to this article…
Churches all over the country deny straight couples religious marriage in their church all the time. If the church doesn’t agree with the coupling of the two in marriage, they decline to perform the ceremony. Those straight couples who are denied marriage in the church, go to secular sources to obtain legal marriage. It would be no different with the LGBTQ community. No church is ever required to perform a marriage ceremony when they disagree due to religious convictions.
Correct and in fact, many liberal churches that support marriage equality, have taken a stand not to marry (sign legal documents) heterosexual couples, until all who love can be married legally. This is the stance of many Unitarian Universalist ministers – who might perform a ceremony, but won’t sign the states legal papers. Some won’t even perform a ceremony in the church. This is made clear to couples, because these ministers can’t legally marry all who come to them for a religious wedding ceremony, so they chose not to legally marry any couple.
julesd says:
UU churches are a joke. They only believe there is a God
Drop the UU part of the comment, only keep the first sentence, and I think you’re in business!
fred haslitt says:
Funny when she used the treaty of tripoli that she didn’t use the rest of the sentence that proves her point wrong !!
Quasihedron says:
My husband and I were married by our chosen Universalist Unitarian minister. We were the first wedding ceremony she ever conducted, as she said that she would not perform any weddings until she could marry a same-sex couple first! That was 5 years ago in Washington, DC, just a few blocks from the White House and the Capitol! We had family and friends in attendance, from all over the USA, including West Coast, East Coast, Mid-West and the South. Three states in the Obergefell v. Hodges were represented in our clans!
“When one of us is a bit free-er, we all are a bit free-er!” — Unknown author.
Ed Waldorph says:
Not entirely sure to what Fred Haslitt was referring but the entire Article 11 is one sentence and nothing in it subsequently negates the first clause quoted here.
Desiree Allen says:
The second sentence basically says the government won’t be opposed to other religions or religious freedom. But the end says “No pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony…” meaning just what we’ve all been saying. You have the freedom to practice whatever religion you want, the government won’t oppose it. But you’re religious beliefs cannot interfere with law.
My husband and I were lawfully married in the UNMC church just a few blocks from the White House. The minister there at the time, Rev. Lily said that we were her first wedding ceremony, because she would not marry any couple until she could marry all couples lawfully, and a same-sex couple. We were the first to show up on the doorstep. That was 2 months after all the court decisions there were settled in 2010, in the Washington DC, and Congress did not (could not!) object.
We became lawfully married in January here in Florida. Thus we are precedent for the Full Faith and Credit Clause, crossing state lines.
We are now lawfully married in all 57 US states and territories.
Even the Congress cannot divorce us now.
That takes our personal specific approval and permission!
Lynda L B Duke says:
Uh, sorry Kim Everett, but the Unitarian Churches Support and Defend Same Sex Marriage – All LGBTQ&I marriages are welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Churches. And we will gladly perform the ceremony and sign the states’ legal papers. I don’t know where you got the information about UUs but we had a major press release about this, and all ministers there were asked if they would gladly perform and sign the marriages certificate. All said YES! Please, leave out the Unitarian Universalist Churches from your list….you are giving out misleading information.
manfromatlan says:
Note to Fred Haslitt, how does the following sentence in Art. 11 of the treaty “as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” prove your point?
I believe traditional Christian churches will use the same practice. If a church chooses to NOT sign the legal documents recognized by the state for any marriage and only performs a religious ceremony for heterosexual couples there is no LEGAL discrimination. Same sex couples are only guaranteed a marriage recognized by the state, not a religious ceremony.
Ruprecht says:
Same with wedding cakes, if a bakery doesn’t want to bake a cake for a gay marriage they just say no and the couple goes elsewhere with no fuss, right?
Nope. Churches are exempt because of the 1st amendment separation of Church and States and their unique status in the United States (for example, they are exempt from paying taxes; they are also exempt from following anti discrimination laws). Businesses are regulated by the federal government under the interstate commerce clause. They are for profit organizations created to make money (unlike Churches which are created to serve religious needs). Just like a bakery cannot put up a sign that said they did not serve people of color, they should be able to refuse to serve homosexuals. It is discrimination. And before you counter back with religious beliefs, the KKK grounds their racism on religious beliefs as well – and we have rejected that in a public setting.
Jeromie Williams says:
Except that you’re forgetting one little pesky fact about the wedding cake defence: taxes. When a resident of a town or city pays civic taxes for things like roads, infrastructure, sewers, electrical grids, and water lines, that resident is entitled to enjoy the benefits of having paid for those things to be built and maintained. Any public company that opens its doors for business benefits from the tax dollars that keep the sidewalk out front clean, the roads beyond that paved, safe water running through the faucet, electricity to power the ovens and lights, and a police force to keep it all safe. Unless the person in your bakery is breaking the law, or engaging in an illegal activity in your store, having religious beliefs and ideals does not excuse denying a tax payer the right to use, buy, or access the commercial goods or services you are offering. If the thought of baking a cake for a gay wedding puts your morals and beliefs on the line, then you have the right and the option to not open a store that benefits from the utilities and services afforded by tax dollars. It is as simple as that.
sam rose says:
Of course the bakery owner has a choice – they can make the cake or they can close down their business. See everyone has a choice under capitalism.
whosoeverperiod says:
Only if the bakery does not make wedding cakes for ANYONE. The law is clear that if you have a license to do business with the PUBLIC, you have to serve everyone. BUT you can choose not to bake wedding cakes for ANYONE and then you are fine.
You don’t need a license to buy a cake and once you have it, it goes down the toilet. Oh, I guess it really is the same thing. Wow Ruprect, you really are a smart person…lolol
xyane1 says:
If all thr local banks refuse you a lone because of religioss convictions, you should just move and keep quiet. No fuss, right? Get u our head out of your ass!
If one business can discriminate, then so can all of the rest of them. Where do you draw the line? Bakeries, restaurants, grocery stores, hospitals, doctors?
Albert Hoffman says:
Fred, I think you should work on your reading compression.
a business is not a church. christians seemed to be confused over the simplest of things. a business is open to the public for profit. In this country, if you are open for business to the public, then you are in business to ALL of the public. Those are the rules. If you do not want to be open to all of the public, then make your business a private club open to members only, or by appointment. A church, on the other hand, isn’t supposed to be a business–tho the vast majority of them in the USA are a business–the entertainment business. But churches to not require a fee, just donations. Therefore, they are not bound by the same laws as businesses. It is amazing to me that this has to be explained to an adult.
If a bakery doesn’t want to make a specialized cake that they normally wouldn’t make, then yes, you are correct. A bakery should have the right to NOT make a cake that has “a same sex couple having sex on it. A bakery should have the right to NOT make a cake that has a saying like, “To hell with Christianity” on it. A bakery SHOULD NOT have the right to deny a same sex couple a wedding cake that looks no different than any other wedding cake that they make. That is the difference. If a bakery is asked to do something different than they normally would do, they should be allowed to say no. A wedding cake for a same sex couple that looks exactly the same as the wedding cake for a hetero couple, then NO WAY. They should not be able to discriminate in that way.
Al Lucard says:
Not really. A bakery is a for-profit business, that serves “the public.” As such, they have to obey laws of discrimination. If they deny service based on established “groups,” but offer the same services to others, they are in breach of those laws.
It’s not hard to understand the concept.
Yeah no. If you want to run a business in this country you must give equality to all . If you don’t want to , you can hand in your business license.
previous commenter is spot on. if no different than any other cake…then no problem…add figurines of same sex couple as you see fit after the fact. to force any proprietor to do what they are not in business to do is unconstitutional. look up your business law. each business is required to have its mission, policies, and charter established…and free to do so to their liking. To simplify for all you obvious simpletons:
1) you can’t goto Walmart, look at a Jeep Power Wheels Car for your kid and claim age discrimination because they don’t provide the grown-up version (a real jeep) for you…youre not their target demographic regarding mobilized transportation…so go find a jeep dealership
2) you who complain about a bakery citing religious reasons to not make same-sex wedding cake…ask yourself…would you stand equally as brave/tall behind the poor neo-nazi who was refused service by Jewish bakery for his schwastica cake? or the extremist white supremacist and his demand for rebel flag cake to a minoroty owned bakery.
you’re all pathetically hypocritical and sadly try to claim a position of “higher ground” by being so “open minded” to such ignorance. so congrats…you made it…finally made your mark as one of the smarter idiots!
Robert Wood says:
NO…not right. A bakery is not a religious institution that is tax-exempt. A refusal from a for-profit organization is clearly discrimination and has severe consequences.
kilkee526 says:
No, that’s different. Businesses that hold themselves out to the public as secular, profit-making enterprises are not like churches. Churches can decline to offer their particular brand of ‘endorsement’ to a marriage (which as the article explains is only legal with the State’s approval). A business cannot refuse to supply a hotel room, a seat at a lunch counter, etc., to anyone based on a ‘religious’ objection to them. If they could the entire edifice of civil rights laws would collapse.
This splitting hairs, but that’s what a comment section is all about. To the cake issue. As a baker if I provide a product or variation of a product to one customer, then I must provide the same to any other customer. If I make a plain white cake for a straight couple, then the same for a gay couple. If I choose to not offer orange frosting on any cake, then a customer cannot come in, order a cake with orange frosting and then declare discrimination if I don’t provide it.
So then, what if I declare that I will not put vulgar language on a cake for either a straight or gay couple. Who then decides what is vulgar?
Walter Pendergraft says:
October at 1:58
Your bigot baker can choose to provide a cake to all or provide a cake to none. If your bigot baker chooses to single out a couple or class of people to deny service based on the bigot baker’s personal feelings about them, it is discrimination, plain and simple. You do not get to decide. They pay the same taxes to support the same infrastructure that allows your bigot baker to operate. Offering or declining to offer a product or service to everyone equally is your choice. To offer or decline to offer it to a singled-out class or individual is bigotry and discrimination.
It’s the stupid old “Jewish deli wouldn’t get into trouble for declining to make a ham sandwich, why should a baker get in trouble for not serving a cake?” argument. Let me spell this out for you in case you are too stupid to get it: a Jewish deli would NOT OFFER a ham sandwich. It would NOT be on the menu for you to even request. THAT is religious freedom. However, if the ham sandwich WAS on the menu, and was served to everyone BUT YOU based on the business owner’s personal bias, this is unlawful discrimination and should be prosecuted.
Stephen Bourassa says:
You would think that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would know the laws and constitution better than the rest of americans
The Treaty of Tripoli was never mentioned in the oral arguments. I’ve listened to and read them twice. This article is misleading and places quotes that did not happen.
Daayiee says:
Stephen, all law students who do become law professionals are like other people in various fields, you have the excellent and those who fall below, but may be brilliant or very well versed in certain areas of the law. After careers they are appointed to positions by politicians. I agree CJ should have known, but alas, people are people and. “we the people” don’t know it all.
Whoah that is so far from the truth, you are clearly a space cadet! Ever heard of UNITARIAN CHURCHES? I live in a town where I attend one, and they held one not too long ago, they will always marry anyone who want to marry because Unitarians are more then a set religion, they are receptive of everyones needs due to the fact we are not going to be the same… Nor we will follow everyones religion, that is why I am the only Satanist there… And they love me to pieces as I do them! Hail Satan!
jberlat says:
and that is their right. I can’ t get married in a Catholic church if I am not Catholic. This is why it should be a civil union and you have the choice to get “married” at a church, or not at a church. You can get married anywhere you want by anyone legally qualified to marry you.
Eric Godsey says:
unfortunately on this one – the term marriage has a governmental definition as well as a religious one. What they would need to do is ban the use of the word “marriage” and make that strictly a religious designation. However, because the word marriage is on almost over governmental form or application, it carries civil implications. Also, governmental benefits arise from the fact you’re married, not because you have children. I’m for gay marriage, but i’m also not for upending the apple cart for the folks who have issues with it. there will be a backlash. People need time to get used to this.
The Catholic Church does not call this a marriage…they call it Holy Matrimony…a Sacrament. They are two different things entirely. Don’t use religion as a basis for your decision when you don’t even understand your own religion.
Marriage ≠ Holy Matrimony.
Marriage is the legal term for the civil union of two consenting adults, in the US. (Religion has no bearing here. You can be legally married without any church or religious ceremony.)
Holy Matrimony is a Sacrament of the Church (which has no legal standing without your filing the Marriage License with your state Capitol, before it expires.)
I would hope the Justices would understand at least the LEGALITY of Marriage, but I have my doubts.
i think what people are missing here — it’s not about the treaty of tripoli – it’s not about a cake bakery…this is about a church. Can the federal government mandate that a church do something? a church will be treated differently, because it’s not a commercial enterpise, and separation of church and state goes both ways – not just one. All you folks responding here who are up in arms about christian churches – would you be just as willing to say the same holds true for a mosque, or a temple?
@Fred Haslitt Per Yale Law The treaty of Tripoli. How does this invalidate her statement….she legitimately used it to prove her point. The US Government in 1796 stated that the US Government was NOT founded on the Christian Religion.
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