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Message of sympathy to families of young people lost in Tyrone tragedy
18 March, 2019 - by Mary Lou McDonald TD
The Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has extended her deepest sympathies to the families of the young people lost at the incident in Tyrone last night.
Ms McDonald called on those with any information to help the PSNI in their investigation into what happened.
The Sinn Féin President said:
“I cannot fathom the horror that the parents of these children are going through this morning. What should have been a night of fun and celebration for young people has turned into a night of tragedy.
“I wish to extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to all the families affected at this time of heartbreak, shock and loss.
“The PSNI have asked that any young people with footage of what happened do not post it on social media. I echo those calls and ask that any information or footage is given to police in order aid the investigation into this horrific tragedy.”
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Annual Snowshoe Thompson Celebration set for Feb. 24
Written by Rick Stedman
For nearly two decades, residents of the Lake Tahoe area have celebrated the legend of Snowshoe Thompson. Dubbed the Mailman of the Sierra, John A. “Snowshoe” Thompson carried mail between Placerville, Calif. and Genoa, Nev. for 20 grueling years, twice a month during the winters between 1856 and 1876.
On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Friends of Snowshoe Thompson will hold the 18th annual Snowshoe Thompson Ski and Snowshoe Celebration at Lake Tahoe Golf Course from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Thompson’s mail carrier career began shortly after he responded to an advertisement in the Sacramento Union newspaper: “People Lost to the World; Uncle Sam Needs a Mail Carrier.” Thompson would become the only winter mail link across the Sierra for the next two decades, until rail lines were eventually laid through the peaks.
A few years ago, writer Frank Tortorich published a book on the colorful life of Snowshoe Thompson. In his book “John A. ‘Snowshoe’ Thompson, Pioneer Mail Carrier of the Sierra,” Tortorich describes how Thompson acquired the nickname ‘Snowshoe. When Thompson first donned his handmade oak skis that weighed 25 pounds and stretched to nearly 10 feet long, folks back then called his skis Norwegian snowshoes, thus the nickname. Thompson was born in Norway and moved to the U.S. when he was 10 years old.
A special program on using long skis (longboard) will be presented by ski instructor Nina MacLeod, a long-time Tahoe resident, avid skier, and fellow organizer of the annual Snowshoe Thompson celebration. MacLeod clarifies that “Snowshoe Thompson did not use longboards, which are between 12 and 16 feet long. That was what the miners used back then to entertain themselves! Thompson’s skis were a little more like 8-9 feet in length. I like to include a demonstration of longboards in the celebration just to give visitors a feel for what it’s like to be on skis that long.”
While MacLeod was born in Oslo, Snowshoe Thompson came from a nearby town of Tinn, which is the Telemark region of Norway. MacLeod found inspiration for starting the Snowshoe Thompson celebration when she made a discovery nearly 20 years ago. “In Norway, after learning of the accomplishments of Thompson in the U.S., they began holding an annual 20-kilometer cross-country ski tour on Palm Sunday in his honor. It’s a very popular event with an average of 600-800 participants, spanning 5-80 years old. It’s a great event, and I participated twice.”
Snowshoe Thompson-statue in Mormon Station State Park Genoa, Nevada – photo courtesy of Kim Harris
Other activities to highlight the legacy of Snowshoe Thompson include a performance by singer-musician Richard Blair. The local artist keeps the past alive by singing about the past, and his popularity proves it. Author Frank Tortorich will offer a discussion centered on his book “John A. ‘Snowshoe’ Thompson, Pioneer Mail Carrier of the Sierra.” Also, 97-year-old Martin Hollay, a local ski legend, will be on hand to share stories from his 25-year career as a member of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s ski patrol. Last winter, he skied 100 days!
Chautauqua performer Steve Hale has been presenting historical figures from the Lake Tahoe region for almost two decades. His performance of John “Snowshoe” Thompson should not be missed. Hale has performed at state parks in northern California, for the Norwegian consulate at the Squaw Valley dedication of a statue of “Snowshoe” Thompson, nonprofit fundraising events, and U.S. Forest Service interpretive programs.
If the 18th annual Snowshoe Thompson Ski and Snowshoe Celebration isn’t enough, the Lake Tahoe Historical Society offers more details about the life and times of Snowshoe Thompson. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Lake Tahoe Historical Society museum includes exhibits on pioneer and farm displays, ice cutting and logging, mail delivery systems by the Pony Express and Snowshoe Thompson, and more.
Snowshoe Thompson mural, Placerville, California
The family-friendly event is sponsored by the Friends of Snowshoe Thompson, with support from Lake Tahoe Golf Course, Douglas County Historical Society, Lake Tahoe Historical Society, and the Alpine County Chamber of Commerce.
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Susan Knight on February 16, 2018 at 11:35 am said:
Thanks for the great article Rick!
Sue Knight, Secretary, Friends of Snowshoe Thompson
http://www.snowshoethompson.org
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Kaana Ellie and the Remedies
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Kaana Ellie is a rising star on the London soul circuit. Hailing from the streets of Tottenham, North London, youth worker Kaana began developing her vocals in the church from an early age. Taking the skills and influences gained from not only church, but an African mother, West Indian father and London town. Kaana decided to take her passion further and began studying music at college and University.
It was at Westminster University where she really began to develop as an artist and find her sound. Forming her band the “Remedies” they began to experiment with her songs. Working with a band helped combine her Soulful melodies with funk fuelled grooves and rhythms that injected a new energy into Kaana and her performance. As she began to gig and record with the band she found a new level of performance and confidence that left people smiling, cheering and dancing.
Her debut ep “Better Late Than Never” is filled with tales of love, pain, loss and life that provide positive messages for the youth she works with on a day to day basis.
Backed by her 7 piece band, ‘The Remedies’, Kaana has a Soul/Funk soundtrack to her words that pays tribute to all the great acts that have represented this style of music over the decades. Kaana and the band have been gigging on the London Soul and acoustic circuit for the past 18 months and have played at venues such as Soho Revue bar and Jazz Cafe. Kaanas second ep (Now Or Never ) is due out later this year.
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SoulBounce Presents: The Bounce Featuring Miguel
It's undeniable that one of the biggest songs of the year in mainstream R&B--that I can tolerate, at least--is newcomer Miguel's "All I Want Is You." It's a return to that hip hop soul flavor that many such as myself still crave with J. Cole's verses and its winning bass groove. After releasing such a huge song out of the gate, Miguel has no plans on becoming a one-hit wonder when his album, also titled All I Want Is You, drops on November 30th and we get to hear more from him. Audiences are currently experiencing more of Miguel live and direct who is fresh off of his first tour with Mary J. Blige and now on the road with Usher. I got a chance to catch up with Miguel while he was on the road with MJB and we had a frank and entertaining discussion about his music, his background and influences, what we can expect on the debut album and his love of fruit. Not only is he talented but he has a great sense of humor and personality to match as you'll see when you watch him in the latest episode of The Bounce below.
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Walk - Stepper Point from Trevone
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Moderate - The walking is on tracks and footpaths on mostly level terrain. Bring a picnic if the weather's good.
A headland walk giving far-reaching views over the mouth of the River Camel and the Doom Bar, where mermaids wait to lure sailors to disaster! Features include sandy beaches, secluded coves, holy wells, a daymark tower, some stunning rock formations, and an abbreviated route for those looking for a shorter walk. An excellent walk for children and a good route in spring, when the bushes are decked out in sharp new leaves and luxurious blossom, and whistling whimbrels fly up the estuary in flocks of as many as a hundred birds.
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Attractive cosy cottage in a tranquil location, just a short drive from foodie haven Padstow and close to many beautiful beaches.
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Located in unspoilt countryside bordering the North Cornish coastline, a short distance from Padstow and wonderful beaches. Bar serving food available at certain times and shop.
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Amazing views over open farmland, a perfect retreat to relax and unwind after a day on the Path. Range of accommodation including Shepherds Huts. Lifts to Path & luggage transfer on request.
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Situated 250 m from Porthcothan Bay beach close to the coast path. We have 2 double ensuite rooms and a room with 2 single beds and a private bathroom. Free wifi. Dog friendly and can help with kit transfer.
The Red Bouy
Right on the beach at Porthcothan next to the Path. Special wooden building with cabin bedroom and ensuite bathroom. Sleeps 2 - 4. Double room in main house available. Breakfast on request. Owned by local film maker and environmentalist.
Small family run Farm Park, B&B plus Campsite just ½ a mile from beautiful Porthcothan Bay, along the coast between Padstow and Newquay.
From the beach car park in Trevone pick up the South West Coast Path on the right as you face the sea and follow it around above the northern side of the beach. (NB As at April 2014 the end of the front car park is closed following storm damage. Go through the car park behind you to pick up the path a short way up the hillside). Carry on around the first headland, detouring to explore the astonishing crater in the grass. As a track joins from the right, bear left with the Coast Path to continue past the ragged rocks and islets. At the first larger island the path descends steeply into a small valley and climbs out again, only to repeat the process a moment later.
As you walk along here you will hear the hollow boom that tells of caves in the rock below your feet. These are carved out by the sea, which exploits weaknesses in the rock and then enlarges them with the power of its waves as they wash around the cave. Sometimes these collapse, leaving a sinkhole. The enormous crater was formed in this way, and so were Pepper Hole, Butter Hole and Fox Hole, ahead.
Ignore the path heading inland to the right and carry on along the coastline, past a disused mine by the second island and the rocky inlet beyond it.
Seabirds nest on ledges on the high cliffs here, and peregrine falcons are often seen. Look out for seals around the islands.
Stay on the Coast Path as it passes high above a small sandy cove and carries on around Stepper Point to the tower.
At Stepper Point much of the cliff land is farmed as part of the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme - an environmental scheme where no sprays or fertilisers are used and field margins are left uncultivated. This creates a better habitat for rare species of plant and encourages endangered wildlife such as the corn bunting, barn owl, grey partridge and hare. Sheep graze these fields, and ground-nesting birds raise their young in the areas of rough grassland, so please keep your dog on a lead, particularly in the spring and early summer.
The daymark tower was built, probably in the early nineteenth century, as a maritime navigational aid, designed to guide sailors into the River Camel.
From flint tools found on the headland it appears that people lived in this part of Stepper Point as far back as 6000 years ago, and possibly even earlier.
The dramatic headland at Stepper Point marks the entrance to the Camel Estuary and features prominently in the opening episodes of Poldark.
Rounding the point, the Coast Path heads due south above the mouth of the River Camel and the famous Doom Bar.
Looking out across the estuary, at low tide the sand on this side of the water extends almost to Doom Bar. According to a traditional ballad, the Mermaid of Padstow fell in love with local lad, Tom Yeo, who mistook her for a seal (or so he said), and shot her. In the awful rage of a woman scorned, she called up a mighty storm, wrecking all the ships in the harbour and throwing a huge sandbar across the river to imperil all future sailors venturing in. Look out for her on the rocks at Hawker's Cove...
Ignore the track to the right shortly after the point and continue to the hamlet at Hawker's Cove.
Ignoring the path to the right before the houses, carry on along the Coast Path as it goes past the cottages and rounds the back of the cove, behind the old lifeboat station. When the road turns sharply right, leave it to carry on along the Coast Path to the left.
The first Padstow lifeboat, built by the Padstow Harbour Association, was stationed here, before the Padstow branch of the RNLI was formed in 1855. In 1931 a new boathouse was built, and a roller slipway, but by 1967 silting up became a problem and the lifeboat was moved to Trevose Head, a few miles to the west.
At Harbour Cove the path detours behind the dunes. Turn left on the track to follow it above the beach, bearing right with it past the small paths through the dunes. Leave the Coast Path here, staying on the main track as it travels alongside fields. Turn right behind the last barn at Tregirls Farm, turning immediately left to continue along the road, past roads to right and then left, to where a footpath leaves in the field on the right.
Take this footpath and cross the field, diagonally to the right. Cross this road and continue ahead, following a clear path directly through six fields to the road at Crugmeer.
Turn left on this road and walk to the junction ahead, turning right here.
Bear left at the next junction a moment later, heading for Porthmissen and Trevone. Stay on the road as it bears left around Porthmissen.
Carry straight on ahead after the buildings to head steeply downhill, back to the beach car park at Trevone.
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Eleven Sports, Onefootball sign PPV deal for football in Belgium, Luxembourg
Romelu Lukaku of FC Internazionale in action during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and US Lecce (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)
International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has teamed up with the Onefootball digital platform to deliver European football coverage to users of the latter’s app in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The partnership begins this weekend with the Italian Serie A match between arch rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan, which will be available to viewers in Belgium.
The agreement will deliver pay-per-view live streaming of 20 football matches during the 2019-20 season. Fans will be given the option to watch a match of their choice for €4.99 ($5.51) per game, in Dutch and in French, through the Onefootball app.
As well as Serie A, Eleven Sports holds rights in Belgium and Luxembourg to Spain’s LaLiga and Germany’s Bundesliga.
Guillaume Collard, managing director of Eleven Sports in Belgium and Luxembourg, said: “This partnership responds strongly to the demand of the viewer. Fans are increasingly looking for flexible ways to watch live sports. This collaboration with Onefootball meets that need and also allows us to reach an even wider fan base with our live matches.”
The deal comes after Eleven Sports in April entered into a global partnership with Onefootball to launch a pay-per-view offering.
Last month, Onefootball and German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland revealed details of a similar pay-per-view streaming deal for live games of the second-tier 2.Bundesliga and DFB Pokal.
The pay-per-view cost for matches from the competitions will start at €3.99 per game. Sky’s highlights of the English Premier League will also be made available to Onefootball customers from 1:00am (CET) on the day following each game.
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More than any other sport, baseball appreciation is passed from generation to generation, especially from father to son. From teaching a child to break in a glove to taking them to their first game to sharing their Little League successes, baseball forms the lifelong bonds that shape relationships between parent and child. In Glove Story: Fathers, Sons and the American Pastime,Mark Rosenman and A. J. Carter explore how those ties lead to lifelong memories and passed down careers. Against the backdrop of Rosenman seeking one last bonding experience with his adult son—a joint trip to New York Mets Fantasy Camp— Glove Story explores how those relationship develop and endure, through the eyes of some of the 248 father-son major league baseball pairings and notable fans. This sometimes touching, eminently readable book includes first-hand accounts from such baseball notables as Maury and Bump Wills, Ken Griffey Sr., Tim Raines Sr., Brian McRae, Bret Boone, David Bell, and broadcasters Bob Costas, Howie Rose, and Chip Caray. It also examines the role the fathers play in creating our fandom through interviews with former Vice President Dan Quayle, astronaut Terry Virts, actor Chazz Palminteri and comedy writer Alan Zweibel. Entertaining, engaging, funny, and heartwarming, with a foreword written by father and son broadcasting legends Marty and Thom Brennaman, Glove Story reads as a love letter to the sport we all love.
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Esteban Gutierrez confirmed as Adrian Sutil's team-mate at Sauber for 2014
Mexican youngster will be Adrian Sutil's team-mate in 2014
By Pete Gill
The Mexican youngster will partner Adrian Sutil, who was unveiled as Nico Hulkenberg's replacement last week.
The announcement leaves just three places on the 2014 grid still to be filled, with Caterham yet to name either of their drivers for next season and Marussia so far only naming Jules Bianchi.
Gutierrez scored six points during his first season in F1 season - a modest haul which was nevertheless sufficient to make the 22-year-old the highest-scoring novice in a field which included five debutants.
After a difficult start to his F1 career, in which he was consistently and comprehensively out-performed by Hulkenberg, Gutierrez steadily improved as the campaign progressed, culminating in his first points-scoring race in October's Japanese GP.
"I am happy to be able to continue as a driver for the Sauber F1 Team," said Gutierrez. "It was a steep learning curve last season, but by working closely with the team I was able to improve continuously. It will be my fourth year with the team, the second as a racing driver, and I feel comfortable in taking the next step. The technical challenges in 2014 will be massive. Therefore it will be even more important to know well the people you are working with.
"I will do my very best to improve even more and support the team the best way I can."
Sauber have also confirmed that Russian teenager Sergey Sirotkin has been appointed their official Test Driver for 2014 with the 'aim of preparing Sergey for his debut in Formula One.'
How the 2014 grid is lining up
Red Bull: Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo.
Ferrari: Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen.
Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
Lotus: Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado.
McLaren: Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen.
Sauber: Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez.
Force India: Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.
Williams: Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas.
Toro Rosso: Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat.
Caterham: Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson.
Marussia: Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton.
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UOB collaborates with local companies to spur Singapore’s switch to solar power
United Overseas Bank (UOB) announced on 26 November its collaboration with three homegrown solar companies, SolarGy, SolarPVExchange and Sunseap Group, to accelerate the use of solar energy in Singapore.
The tie-up is part of the Bank’s U-Solar program which connects the entire solar power value chain to help businesses and consumers switch to solar power, enabling them to reduce their reliance on non-renewable energy.
Under the collaboration, business and home owners will be able to adopt solar energy by choosing from the installation, commissioning, operations and after-sales service packages for solar power systems provided by SolarGy, SolarPVExchange and Sunseap Group. UOB will offer business owners solar equipment financing to help with the costs of installing and maintaining the system.
UOB’s U-Solar program supports the Government’s twin goals of becoming a leading center for green finance in Asia and globally; as well as increasing Singapore’s solar capacity by about eight times to two gigawatt-peak by 2030 – enough to power about 350,000 households a year.
Mr Frederick Chin, Head of Group Wholesale Banking and Markets, UOB, said that solar power, besides being clean and efficient, has also become more economically viable as its technology matures.
“Despite this, many companies and consumers remain hesitant to adopt solar power, believing that it requires high upfront investment,” he added. The program encourages businesses and home owners to switch over by helping to fund the purchase of the solar power system.
The U-Solar program was launched in Singapore today as part of UOB’s ‘Solar Day’ event. At the event, UOB customers learnt from the Bank’s U-Solar partners in Singapore about the benefits of solar power and how it can complement their energy needs. UOB’s regional U-Solar initiative was first launched in Malaysia in October 2019 and subsequently in Indonesia.
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Cornish Heritage Builders winners at 2012 Cornish Building Awards
Posted by: editor | May 14, 2012
Cornish Heritage Builders have recently been announced as one of three winners of the 2012 Cornish Building Awards. The Cornish Buildings Group founded its awards scheme 30 years ago to honour architects and builders who show great innovation and sensitivity in new designs or the conservation and restoration of the county's historic buildings.
As the standard of this year’s competition was extremely high, the judges selected three winners and Cornish Heritage Builders share the award for a refurbishment project at The Cottage, a 16th century house situated in the heart of Marazion, Cornwall. Our skilled building team removed all of the mid-20th Century additions and then undertook a restoration project using traditional materials and methods whilst incorporating current insulation processes. New plumbing, heating and electricity systems were also installed and this included an exterior air-source heat pump which now supplies all heating and hot water.
This is the second time that Cornish Heritage Builders have won this award after previously winning in 2001for a restoration project called The Canyack in Cot Valley, St Just.
Well done team for your continued standards of excellence and workmanship.
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This fund encourages STFM Collaboratives and Special Project Teams to plan, develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate findings from educationally-related scholarly projects. The outcomes of the project should benefit members, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the discipline of family medicine. The project should also provide students, residents and new faculty an opportunity to participate in a significant way in a scholarly project that exposes them to STFM.
The program is coordinated by the STFM Executive Committee.
Requirements for Eligibility
Funding Details
The project must be a collaborative effort among two or more STFM members.
A student, resident, or new faculty (7 yrs or less in faculty role) must have a significant role in the project either as a co-principal investigator, project leader, or as a primary recipient of the project activities.
The project must be recommended by an STFM Collaborative or Special Project Team.
Funds must be disbursed to an entity, not an individual.
Projects should attempt to conduct their survey through CERA, if appropriate.
Funds may not be used for salary support.
Projects are funded for a maximum of 2 years, and funding is not renewable. Funds may be budgeted in the categories below. Indirect costs are not provided.
Required equipment (eg, a laptop computer) and supplies (eg, photocopying).
Travel (eg, funds to present project outcomes at STFM meetings and/or attend project team meetings).
Personnel (eg, to purchase a statistical consultant's time). Funds for faculty and/or staff release time must be contributed "in-kind" by departments/programs.
Production and technical support.
A project may be funded for 1 or 2 years at one of the two levels below:
Full Funding: A few proposals of exceptional quality and potential impact may be funded up to $10,000 total.
Seed Money: To support projects up to $5,000 total.
Proposals at either funding level must have matching in-kind contributions for personnel (eg, faculty and/or staff), equipment, and/or supplies. Any unspent dollars from projects must be returned to the STFM Foundation.
Project has strong relationship to the community/special project team goals.
Project is aligned with STFM’s strategic plan.
Project rationale is innovative and adds new knowledge and/or advances an existing body of knowledge.
Project identifies measurable outcomes.
Project’s activities are innovative and match proposed goals and objectives.
Evaluation methods are valid and reliable.
Project yields outcomes that STFM’s members and constituencies can use.
Project has potential of continuing after initial funding.
There is a clear dissemination plan for project results or products.
Project budget includes matching funds from a department or other sources.
Any STFM Collaborative or Special Project Team may submit a proposal for funding. Proposals must follow the format shown on the application form and be submitted electronically to Sandy VanTuyl at svantuyl@stfm.org by November 18.
Proposals that would conduct a survey must be coordinated with CERA (CAFM Education Research Alliance).
The STFM Executive Committee will fund selected proposals at one of the levels stated in the Funding Details tab. Proposals will be assessed using the Proposal Rating Form. Principal Investigators will be notified about the funding decision on February 15, and funds will be dispersed by March 1. The project period runs from March 1 – February 28. Principal investigators of funded proposals must submit a progress report to the STFM Executive Director on September 1 of the project period, and at 6-month intervals until the final report due by March 20 in the year of completion.
Application form (Word)
Example of funded project (Word)
STFM Project Fund Recipients
Project: STFM/CFPC Global Family Medicine Education Symposium
Description: Many of the challenges faced in expanding and advocating for family medicine education are not unique to the United States context. Research and practice improvement findings are available from around the globe which can better inform our own educational systems and structures and, similarly, allow us to share our own best practices with others. STFM-GHEC leadership, in conjunction with colleagues in the Canadian Family Physicians, including representatives of the University of Toronto and the Besrour Center, will host an evening dinner symposium on Monday, April 29th, during the STFM Annual Spring Conference. The event will offer an opportunity for both formal and informal networking and knowledge sharing between US and internationally-based physicians surrounding topics of key importance in family medicine education..
STFM Collaborative: Global Health Educators
Principal Investigator: Esther Johnston, MD, MPH, The Wright Center National FMR at HealthPoint
Award: $1,000 over 1 year
Project: Beginning Writing Skills for Early Career Minority Faculty
Description: This project will be a two-year extension of the writing workshops from STFM. The steering committee of the multicultural and minority health collaborative will take on six new, junior faculty members and actively mentor them from writing a letter to the editor to completing their first manuscript based on their published letter to the editor. We will assist them in finding data sources, completing the IRB application, analyzing the data, and writing the manuscript. We will also encourage the protégés to present at two conferences and use those presentations to inform the scholarly project.
STFM Collaborative: Minority and Multicultural Health
Principal Investigator: Jose Rodriguez, MD, University of Utah Health Sciences
Award: $8,000 over 2 years
Project: Creation of a National Addiction Medicine Curriculum for Family Medicine Residency Programs
Description: The STFM’s Addiction Collaborative proposes creation of a national addiction medicine curriculum accessible to Family Medicine Residency programs across the country seeking to launch a first-time curriculum or improve an existing one. We will design this curriculum via a 3-step approach: first, we will develop a list of core competencies by soliciting feedback from expert family medicine educators across the country and from national addiction societies’ guidelines; second, we will develop a curriculum based on these competencies; third, we will test and evaluate this curriculum at several residency programs across the country before more broadly expanding access. The curriculum will cater to programs with various levels of need and include both online and in-person learning. We will create high quality, interactive modules with videos, case scenarios, knowledge checks, and learning objectives that residents can complete asynchronously. Taking a flipped classroom approach, we will also design an instructor’s guide that faculty can use to facilitate an in-person classroom session with discussions and practice through case-based learning. Finally, we will offer family medicine residency program faculty members opportunities for enhanced teaching support through a six-month ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) hub that provides bi-weekly didactics, case presentations, and expert troubleshooting with members of the Addiction Collaborative. This multimodal curriculum will thus provide a complete package of knowledge-based content and skill development that is adaptable to the needs and capacity of any residency program. We will specifically cater to faculty who have little specialized training in addiction but still create content that can be tweaked by those with more robust training. We will also design strategies for programs to support and evaluate resident competency development over time. We will pilot the national addiction medicine curriculum at several residency programs and evaluate its effectiveness and feasibility. We will then seek additional funding from national and state organizations (e.g., AAFP, ASAM) to expand and improve the curriculum and disseminate it across the country.
STFM Collaborative: Addictions
Principal Investigator: Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd, Tufts FMR
Project: Integration and Optimization of Clinical Pharmacists as Clinician-Educators and Faculty Members Within Family Medicine Residency Programs: A Residency Program and Clinician’s Guide
Description: Clinical pharmacists are well-established within family medicine residency programs (FMRPs) as clinician-educators and faculty members. However, nearly half of FMRPs do not employ clinical pharmacists. Despite an established pipeline for highly-trained clinical pharmacist educators, fewer are trained specifically for faculty roles in physician training programs. Additionally, many existing family medicine physician faculty were not trained with clinical pharmacists as team members. Resources are needed to grow integration of these valuable clinician-educators and faculty members to support interprofessional team-based care and education. This project will establish resources to assist family medicine residency programs justify and utilize clinical pharmacists as well as create resources for faculty development specifically for clinical pharmacists for optimal integration
STFM Special Project Team: Pharmacist Faculty
Principal Investigator: Jennie Jarrett, PharmD, BCPS, MMedEd, University of Illinois at Chicago
Award: $ 8,000 over 2 years
Project: Racism in the Healthcare System: An Investigation of Institutional Racism, Racism from Colleagues, and Racism from Patients as Reported by Physicians of Color
Description: The research literature has been notably silent on the effects of racism on physicians of color (defined here as physicians from the non-dominant racial-ethnic group), despite instances of racism being well-documented in personal accounts. Thus, it is imperative to understand experiences of racism within the healthcare setting in order to inform interventions and create systems of support for physicians of color. In a mixed methods survey design, we aim to ask physicians about their experiences of racism from patients, racism from colleagues, and institutional racism. We also aim to investigate how racism affects work satisfaction, burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. We hope that the results of this study will provide empirical support for the effects of racism experienced by physicians, as well as serve to identify sources of support to help protect against encountering racism in the healthcare setting.
Principal Investigator: Kelly Serafini, PhD, CDP, Swedish First Hill FMR, Seattle, WA
Project: Voices from Behaviorists in Family Medicine: Experience and Wisdom from the Past that Shapes a Future
Description: There is perhaps nothing more powerful as a tool for teaching then the “Story.” Stories allow us to enter into an experience, walk around, and develop insight and gain wisdom. It provides a means of moving from the simple instruction of information to hopefully the transformation of a learner, who is encouraged to see their world and their craft with a deeper vision. The stories of many senior faculty, who are “wisdom carriers,” have not yet been told or shared with many of us who are coming behind. In fact, several influential faculty have already retired with several others planning to retire in the coming years. The stories of these “Pioneers” give us an opportunity to hear where we have come from and reflect upon the struggles, growth, and potential for the future. We do not want to miss the contributions and wisdom that these early pioneers have to share with us, especially during this time of celebration. The intent of this project is to identify and interview a number of pioneer faculty who have shaped behavioral training in Family Medicine. These interviews or stories would not only be recorded but also disseminated to the larger Family Medicine community. This would allow us to capture our history, glean insight and wisdom, and perhaps shape and impact those faculty coming behind.
STFM Collaborative: Family and Behavioral Health
Principal Investigator: Thomas Bishop, PsyD, University of Michigan
Project: Pre-matriculation Exposure to Pharmaceutical Marketing: Too Much, Too Soon?
Description: Pharmaceutical marketing is effective in changing behavior of health care providers resulting in less evidence based prescribing, decreased prescribing of generic alternatives, and higher prescription costs.1-7 Pharmaceutical companies interact with physicians-in-training during formative stages of their careers.8-16 In 2013, at a single private Midwestern medical school, 62% of students interacted with pharmaceutical marketers before matriculation.17 Unpublished 2016 data from the University of Washington shows 54% of pre-matriculated students interacted with drug marketers. This interaction occurred most often during shadowing in preparation for medical school application. Medical experience, such as shadowing physicians, is required by many schools, and the magnitude nationally of the exposure to pharmaceutical marketers before matriculation is not known. Where exposure exists, prospective students are in an awkward position without the experience or knowledge to manage this. If medical students matriculate already exposed to pharmaceutical marketing, it risks normalization of this physician/industry entanglement. There are educational and professional consequences that call –at least- for curriculum development and professionalism and ethics training early in medical school. We propose a national survey of medical students to examine the prevalence of pre-matriculation exposure to pharmaceutical marketing. We hypothesize that pre-matriculation exposure is widespread and occurs principally during shadowing and employment experiences.
STFM Collaboration: Humanities and Ethics
Principal Investigator: David V Evans, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine
Project: Preparing Medical Students and Residents to Work in Behavioral Health Integration
Description: Behavioral health integration in primary care is becoming more of the norm than the exception in the current US health care system. Family physicians comprise half of the primary care medical workforce and consequently are responsible for addressing many behavioral health needs. Most family physicians lack the training necessary to effectively utilize integrated behavioral health services. Family medicine educators need an evidence- and competency-based curriculum to prepare students and residents to work with behavioral health clinicians. The purpose of this multi-disciplinary, multi-site project is to design and evaluate a curriculum that prepares future generations of family physicians in behavioral health integration.
STFM Collaboration: Family and Behavioral Health
Principal Investigator: Matt Martin, PhD, LMFT, Duke/SR-AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program
Project: STFM Task Force on Residential Wellness: Developing Expert Consensus Guidelines on Curricula
Description: Physician burnout is increasingly being recognized as both a national epidemic and a threat to achieving the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim of improving patient experience of care, improving health of populations, and reducing the cost of health care. Burnout is linked to lower patient satisfaction, lower quality of care, higher rates of medical error, higher turnover, substance abuse and suicide. Contributors to burnout often begin during residency. There has been a welcome explosion of conference presentations on this topic; however few intervention studies exist. The field is its infancy with regard to the evidence of what is most effective. A Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Task Force on Resident Wellness was recently created and proposes a partnership with a similar task force from the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD). The primary aims of this project are to: (1) conduct a comprehensive literature review and gather existing FM resident wellness curricula; (2) identify and bring together thoughtful leaders to review the evidence and existing curricula using; (3) use a qualitative metasynthesis for this review and to develop common themes in existing curricula; (4) develop a concept paper offering expert guidelines on family medicine residency wellness curricula, mapped to the ACGME milestones; and (5) use the existing online platforms, available through STFM and AFMRD, to offer FM residency programs these guidelines and curricular tools.
Principal Investigator: Lauren Penwell-Waines, PhD, Roanoke Salem Family Medicine
Project: The CoPRR Study: Community Preceptor Recruitment and Retention
Description: Preceptor recruitment and retention is a significant and ubiquitous challenge for Family Medicine departments. A push-pull framework can help identify factors that promote or impede community physicians serving as clinical faculty members and teaching as
preceptors. This project involves three components. First, we will conduct national focus groups of community physicians who are, or may become, preceptors to identify relevant factors and elements of the push-pull framework. Second, we will use Lean Methodology to rapidly test interventions and innovations designed to impact the push-pull balance and improve preceptor recruitment and retention. Finally, we plan to perform structured project team and participant debriefing sessions throughout our project to evaluate our experiences and determine if Lean Methodology is a feasible model for STFM to adopt for addressing pressing issues in medical education.
STFM Group: Medical Student Education
Principal Investigator: Amanda Kost, MD, University of Washing ton School of Medicine
Award: $10,000 over 2 years
Project: Pipeline is Policy: Building the Ladder
Description: The Ladder is an intergenerational, cascading mentorship program in Minneapolis that incorporates hands-on science fun with values and character development. The goal of this project is to disseminate the Ladder model in a way that is sustainable and adaptable to meet local needs and goals. This will be accomplished through creation and dissemination of a toolkit that will allow communities across the country to adapt The Ladder model to serve their communities and equip and guide youth on the pathway to becoming health professionals. This project addresses underrepresentation of minority groups in healthcare professions, and supports development of leadership, mentorship, and teaching skills of involved health professionals and students.
STFM Group: Health Policy and Access (Co-Sponsored by Latino Faculty and Minority and Multicultural Health)
Principal Investigator: Renee Crichlow, MD, University of Minnesota
Project: Photos from the Frontlines: A Cross-Institutional Exploration of Medical Student Experiences Using Photovoice
Description: The purpose of “Photos from the Frontlines” is to examine how the rural setting interacts with students’ clinical training. Using the participatory visual research method, Photovoice, from a cross institutional perspective, we hope to gain a better understanding of how rural and small town settings impact students’ learning, and intentions for future practice. Results from our study may provide insight into how rural training experiences shape perceptions of medicine through students’ identification with rural settings and community preceptors, to inform medical educators in the refinement of rural education programs to sustain students’ intentions for rural practice.
STFM Group: Rural Health
Principle Investigator: Carrie Roseamelia, PhD, State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine
Project: Rural Workforce Development From the Perspective of the Family Medicine Resident
Description: Rural communities experience challenges in recruiting and retaining physicians. The Community Apgar Questionnaire (CAQ) was developed to help communities assess their strengths and challenges in recruiting and retaining physicians. This study will utilize the CAQ to assess the characteristics and parameters of rural and urban/suburban communities relating to recruitment and retention of family medicine residents. Results may inform medical schools, residencies, and rural communities about the factors that relate to recruitment of rural track physicians in training and potential retention as they begin their practices.
Principal Investigator: David Schmitz, MD, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho
Project: Quality Mentorship Through STFM
Description: The Groups on Latino Faculty and Minority and Multicultural Health share many common goals around increasing the number of underrepresented in medicine minority (URMM) faculty and improving health equity by addressing health disparities and the provision of culturally humble care. A diverse, resilient, proficient, purpose-driven, patient-centered workforce is necessary for the future of family medicine. A deliberate effort to nurture family medicine faculty and cultivate family medicine interest to meet population demands and promote the elimination of health disparities in the United States and abroad is essential. This planning project will explore the creation and implementation of a longitudinal faculty mentorship program and infrastructure for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). The long-term goals of this project are to enhance mentorship opportunities for STFM members, improve resiliency and retention of URMM family medicine faculty, and increase education and leadership diversity for STFM.
STFM Group: Minority and Multicultural Health and Latino Faculty
Principal Investigator: Joedrecka S. Brown Speights, MD, Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, Florida State University,
Project: Competencies for Family Medicine Global Health Fellows
Description: There are currently no guidelines outlining competencies for global health fellows. This project will help define core competencies that will clarify fellowship training goals and create the basis for comprehensive and robust curricula evaluation of fellowships. The study will utilize a technique to achieve a consensus around these competencies among a diverse panel of family medicine educators with dual expertise in global health and medical/residency education.
STFM Group: Global Health
Principal Investigator: Fadya El Rayess, MD, MPH, B rown Family Medicine Residency, Pawtucket, RI
Award: $4,060
Project: State of the World: An Update of the Global Landscape of Family Medicine Training
Description: Nearly 2 decades have elapsed since the global status of family medicine postgraduate training was last described. The focus of this project is to update the typology of family medicine and postgraduate training on a nation-by-nation basis. The study will access and utilize information using an electronically based strategy to identify published materials. The main goal is to determine whether or not a nation has an active postgraduate training program for medical professionals that leads to a distinct family medicine-type qualification for the individual.
Principal Investigator: John Tice Parks, MD, Georgetown University,
Project: Implementation of a Model to Empower Family Medicine Patients to Achieve Recommended IOM Gestational Weight Gain Recommendations
Description: Excessive weight gain before and during pregnancy has considerable adverse effects on the short- and longterm health
of both the mother and child. Although the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has devised a set of recommendations and guidelines for health providers to gauge an appropriate gestational weight gain allowance for their patients, the issue remains of great concern in the United States. This project will evaluate whether a model developed to increase the familiarity and implementation of the 2009 IOM’s weight gain recommendations by family medicine providers and staff in their clinical practice will prevent excessive weight gain in already obese, overweight, or normal-weight women during pregnancy.
STFM Group: Family-Centered Maternity Care
Principal Investigator: Evelyn Figueroa, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago,
Project: Rural Workforce Development From the Perspective of the Medical Student: Assessment of Factors for Recruiting and Retaining Medical Students to Rural Communities Using the Community Apgar Questionnaire (CAQ)
Description: This study involves surveying third- and fourth-year medical students from geographically diverse institutions who are considering a career in family medicine using the CAQ to assess if differences exist on the CAQ factor importance ratings between those third- and fourth-year students who are planning to practice in rural settings versus those who plan on an urban or suburban practice. Results may be used to inform medical schools and rural communities about factors that relate to recruitment of rural track physicians in training and potential retention of those practitioners once they begin rural practice.
Principal Investigator: Alex J. Reed, PsyD, MPH, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho,
Award: $5,000 for 1 year
Project: Strengthening International Family Medicine Faculty Development: Needs Assessment to Guide Developing Countries
Description: The purpose of this project is to define the core teaching and curriculum development needs of faculty during their first 3 years at family medicine residency programs in developing countries. Developing countries refers to any country where graduate training in the specialty of family medicine is emerging and does not necessarily denote economic or geopolitical status. The project will be conducted in three phases: (1) identifying core competencies necessary for faculty in family medicine residency programs in developing countries, (2) describing core curricular content of family medicine faculty development programs in the United States, and (3) establishing guidelines for teaching and curriculum development in family medicine residency programs in developing countries.
STFM Groups: Global Health and Faculty Development
Principal Investigator: Paul R. Larson, MD, MS, UPMC St. Margaret
Project: Virtual Minority Medical Student Outreach “Happy Hours”
Description: Medical school can be a stressful and trying time for most students and even more so for minority students who may feel isolated or under-supported. The intention of this project is to harness the best of virtual interaction technology and social media to provide a rich source of warm human emotional support, relevant information, and motivational encouragement to successfully navigate the many and unique challenges faced by minority medical students. The virtual happy hour project will directly foster academic development of minority physicians, provide mentorship for minority medical students, and facilitate a network for current and future colleagues through a series of monthly semi-structured 90-minute meetings in a virtual gathering space.
STFM Group: Minority Health and Multicultural Education.
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Ring, PhD, White Memorial Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Project: Evaluation of the Extent and Methods of Public Health Training in US Medical Schools and Family Medicine Training Programs
Description: The goal of this project is to assess public health training curricula in medical schools and residency training programs by including questions on the CERA survey designed to determine the prevalent methods of delivery of required public health training.
STFM Group: Public Health Education
Principle Investigator: Jacob Prunuske, MD, MSPH, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Award: $10,000 over one year
Project: Increasing the Interest of Minority Students in Choosing Family Medicine through Mentoring
Description: The goal is of this project is to provide community preceptors (targeting minorities) in the Seattle area (AN12 location) with information that will assist them in their role as mentors for students and serving as a positive influence for Family Medicine. This will
be done by offering a special session for preceptors who have received a scholarship to attend AN12.
STFM Group: Minority and Multicultural Health
Principal Investigator: Judy Washington, MD, Women and Family Hea lth, New Jersey
Award: $7,150 for 10 preceptors to attend AN12 (carried over to AN13)
Project: Improving Education in Care for Those With Disabilities
Description: The goal of this project is to allow faculty from residency programs and medical schools with expertise in the treatment of patients with disabilities to design a unified curriculum which could be integrated into other sites. There will be 10 people on the curriculum work group.
STFM Group: Disabilities
Principal Investigator: Deborah Dreyfus, MD, Boston University
Award: $9,900 over two years
Project: The SAGE Project: Assessing the Social Accountability of Global Health Experiences. Do Global Health Tracks During Family Medicine Residency Increase the Likelihood of Underserved Care?
Description: Given that an influx of newly insured will likely exacerbate current physician maldistribution, residencies will soon be evaluated on their ability to produce physicians for shortage areas. Surveys indicate Global Health Track (GHT) participants have increased interest in underserved care, but no studies have assessed whether participants are more likely to practice in underserved areas. This project will identify five residencies with well-established GHTs, determine whether their GHT participants are more likely to practice in underserved areas compared with nonparticipants, and create an evidence summary document that can be used to inform curricular decisions.
Principal Investigator: Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, VCU Family Practice Center
Project: An Ounce of Prevention: How We Are Managing the Early Assessment of Residents’ Clinical Skills
Description: This STFM Foundation group project will survey family medicine program directors to discover what early assessment methods and activities are being used, benefits and costs of these methods, barriers to implementation of early assessment activities, and whether or not these assessments have been effective at identifying interns who will experience academic difficulty. This information will be used to develop a recommendation for early clinical skills assessment of residents.
STFM Group: Learners in Academic Difficulty
Principal Investigator: Tracy Kedian, MD, University of Massachusetts
Project: Identifying the Motivators and Challenges for Senior Faculty in Family Medicine
Description: The purpose of this project is to identify the personal and professional needs of senior (more than 55 years old) faculty to provide an enhanced forum and resources to support and engage this significant segment of STFM membership. This will be accomplished through both a survey and focus groups, yielding quantitative and qualitative data for publication and to inform educational programming decisions.
STFM Group: Senior Faculty
Principal Investigator: Jeff Stearns, MD, University of Wisconsin
Project: Rural Health Predoctoral Book Discussion Groups
Description: The goal of this project is to expose first- and second-year medical students to the realities of the practice of rural medicine today through reading and discussion of a recently published collection edited by the PI, The Country Doctor Revisited, a 21st Century Reader. Ten sites will be recruited from medical schools with affliated rural family medicine residencies. The project allows for early interaction between rural residency directors and medical students, creates opportunities for students to network with other students interested in rural practice, and to develop mentoring relationships with rural family medicine faculty. The students’ eventual choice of residency will be tracked.
Principal Investigator: Theresa Zink, MD, MPH, University of Minnesota
Project: Behavioral Science Educator Fellowship
Description: This project will engage 12 newer behavioral science educators in small networking groups with experienced educators who will serve as mentors. The Fellows will learn to teach the core principles of behavioral science, will define the best practices in behavioral science core content, and will be involved in a task force to develop a national curriculum between 2011 and 2013.
STFM Groups: Family in Family Medicine and Behavioral Science
Principal Investigator: Deborah Taylor, PhD, Central Maine Medical Center FMR
Project: Women’s Abortion Experiences in the Family Medicine Setting
Description: The results of a cross-sectional study of 200 women undergoing first trimester abortion at four family medicine residencies will be used to inform programmatic and educational interventions to improve patient-centered abortion care in family medicine.
STFM Group: Abortion Training and Access
Principal Investigator: Justine Wu, MD, MPH, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine
Project: Survey of Medical Ethics Education in Family Medicine Residency Programs
Description: Program directors in the United States will be surveyed to determine details on the
prevalence, aims, content, teaching, assessment, and outcomes of formal ethics
education for family medicine residents. Survey results will provide pedagogical
guidance through the sharing of curricular information and highlight ways in which
ethics education in family medicine could be improved.
STFM Group: Ethics and Humanities
Principal Investigator: Helen M. Manson, MBChB, MRC, Dundee University, Scotland, UK
Award: $10,000 for 1 year
Project: Online Training in Dietary Supplements for Family Physicians
Description: Many patients use dietary supplements, and physicians need evidence-based up-to-date information on the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements. This project will develop, evaluate, and market online continuing medical education modules on dietary supplements and three chronic health conditions: heart disease, diabetes, and asthma. These modules will be maintained and updated at the Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine and housed on the BU Distance Education for Health Web site. CME credit will be through BU.
STFM Group: Integrative Medicine
Principal Investigator: Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, Boston University Department of Family Medicine
Project: Medical School Admission Policies and the Family Medicine Pipeline: Developing Practical Guidance Based on Analysis of Student Origins
Description: Many state medical schools have increased their efforts to recruit and matriculate out-of-state medical students in the past decade, while they simultaneously have experienced decreased numbers of students matriculating into the specialty of family medicine. Practical information is lacking on the relationship between student origin and medical specialty choice. This project will address this deficiency by analyzing data from the 10-year period prior to 1997, which saw a growth in the number of US seniors entering family medicine, as well as the 10-year period after 1997 in which a decline occurred. The project is designed to alleviate potential unintended consequences of current policies of admissions committees and to empower administrators to make informed decisions that will benefit underserved rural populations by increasing the recruitment of physicians from rural areas.
Principal Investigator: Richard Pretorius, MD, MPH , SUNY Department of Family Medicine, Buffalo, NY,
Project: Current Trends in Medical Education in Identifying and Treating Patients Exposed to Domestic Violence
Description: Residency Review Committee (RRC) guidelines state that each residency must have a structured curriculum in community medicine, including didactic and experiential components for the assessment of risks for abuse, neglect, and family and community violence along with a process to evaluate the curriculum and to document resident skill attainment. This project will survey family medicine departments with regard to the training of faculty, residents, and medical students in the assessment of these risks within the framework of ACGME and RRC guidelines. The results will characterize the field’s current focus, identifying systematic educational gaps in addition to deconstructing the components of innovative models that can be disseminated nationally.
STFM Group: Violence Education and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Peter Cronholm, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania Department of Family Medicine and Community Health,
Project: Adolescent Health for Primary Care: Development of a Web-based, Comprehensive, Competency-based Curriculum
Description: The project will: 1) develop, implement, and evaluate a curricular instruction plan; 2) develop, implement, and maintain a peer-reviewed database of adolescent-related teaching resources through a link to STFM’s Family Medicine Digital Resources Library; and 3) house the curriculum on the Web to maximize access.
STFM Group: Adolescent Health
Principal Investigator: Francesco Leanza, MD, Beth Israel Residency Program in Urban Family Health, New York, NY
Project: Overcoming Obstacles to Writing for Family Medicine Educators
Description: This project will conduct four writing workshops open to STFM members, particularly junior, women, Hispanic, and minority faculty designed to support minority faculty, enhance their ability to recruit others to the field, and build capacity for research through strengthening writing ability.
Principal Investigator: Lucy Candib, MD, Family Health Center of Worcester, Worcester, Mass
Project: Teaching E-mail Communication in a Residency Program
Description: This project will develop a curriculum to teach residents how best to communicate via e-mail with patients while guarding patient confidentiality, safety, and imparting appropriate information in a suitable time to the correct recipient.
STFM Group: Information Technology—Heather Paladine, MD, University of Southern California
Family Medicine Residency, principal investigator
Project: Outgoing Third-year Family Medicine Resident Satisfaction
Description: This project will create and offer to all US and Canadian family medicine residency programs a confidential, objective, self-report questionnaire that will be administered online to graduating third year residents as a part of the exit interview process.
STFM Group: Behavioral Science
Principal Investigator: Timothy Spruill, EdD, Florida Hospital East Orlando, Orlando, Fl
If you have questions about the STFM Project Fund, email Sandy VanTuyl.
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CCTV appeal after illegal moped use in St Helens
The CCTV images
Police have issued CCTV stills showing two men they believe may have information that could assist enquiries into the illegal riding of mopeds in St Helens in recent weeks.
It was reported they were ridden on West End Road, Haydock at about 8.30pm on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 and officers are investigating a number of other similar incidents.
Inspector Neil Birkett said: “We have had a number of reports in the past few weeks of mopeds being ridden illegally and anti-socially in the St Helens area.
“We know what a menace such behaviour can be for people living locally, and appeal for anyone who recognises the men pictured as we believe they could have information that will help us investigate these issues.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Merseyside Police social media desk via Twitter @MerPolCC or Facebook Merseyside Police CC. You can also call 101 quoting incident reference 19100617664 or contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or via their online form at: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-information.
Brothers jailed after stealing 88-year-old's handbag, car keys and bank cards in burglary
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Conveniently located one-half mile outside the Capital Beltway in North Bethesda, Maryland, Strathmore provides affordable, accessible, multi-disciplinary arts programming in the Mansion at Strathmore, the Music Center at Strathmore, and on its scenic 16-acre site.
Situated on Strathmore's 16-acre campus, the Music Center at Strathmore opened in 2005. The Music Center is home to to six resident artistic partner organizations that present performances in the Concert Hall and classes in the Education Center. Artistic offerings presented by Strathmore in the Music Center include world-class performances by major international artists of folk, rock, blues, pop, R&B, jazz, world music, show tunes, dance, and classical music. The Music Center at Strathmore also houses the Café, which is open for lunch, snacks, and pre-concert meals.
Music Center Rentals
Built in 1899, the Mansion at Strathmore was first home to prominent Washingtonian Captain James Frederick Oyster and his wife. Today the Mansion at is home to intimate artistic programs presented by Strathmore in the warm and acoustically superb 100-seat Dorothy M. and Maurice C. Shapiro Music Room, the Gudelsky Gallery Suite exhibition spaces, the outdoor Gudelsky Concert Pavilion, and outdoor Sculpture Gardens. The Mansion also features the Shop at Strathmore and the Strathmore Tea Room, serving Afternoon Tea on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and select Saturdays. Historical tours of the Mansion are also available.
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AMP is Strathmore’s newest venue, located just a mile further up Rockville Pike in the urban-minded, Metro-accessible Pike & Rose neighborhood. AMP puts a premium on authentic live music experiences.
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A look back at Suplari and CDK Global at 2019 SIG Summit: Taking Procurement Data to a New Level
December 23, 2019By Mari StromBlog
Suplari CEO, Nikesh Parekh, was joined on stage by Director of Spend Management, Maria Wiseman, CDK Global, at the 2019 Fall SIG Global Summit for a discussion about the benefits and power of spend intelligence.
CDK Global is a global provider of integrated information technology solutions to the automotive retail industry and recently celebrated its 5th anniversary following a spinoff from ADP. With independence well established, one of its recent goals was to drive innovation in its procurement and supply chain organization.
Data Difficulties
As the new Director of Spend Management, Maria was tasked with determining the effectiveness of the existing software landscape and identifying details of spend analytics, including how much and which categories.
Maria had a vision for what a new tool might provide: a dashboard with all the suppliers, 12-24 months spend trends, business units, G&L account information, and analytic insights that detected potential opportunities.
It also had to be easy to use and require little training to ensure broad adoption.
Suplari Offered a New Approach
Suplari isn’t your P2P system, CLM, or ERP.
Instead, using its cloud-based unified data model, it aggregates all the data from ERPs, P2Ps, CLMs, T&E systems, p-card systems, and operational systems. The data is cleansed, normalized, and categorized so it can be used to provide powerful and accurate analytics to stakeholders.
Only Suplari included a library of more than 60 built-in AI-powered insights – valuable algorithms that can automatically prioritize analysis for various types of opportunities or fraud. And, the system has the flexibility to add unique data to build new insights specific to customer’s needs.
“Suplari provided the dashboard that allowed us to immediately identify the top supplier, how much the spend increased /decreased over the past year, and which category was trending up/down,” said Maria.
Lifting the Organization to a new Level
After implementing Suplari, CDK unified its data for spend visibility across major systems.
With the dashboard in place, Maria’s team was able to quickly understand the story the data was telling them.
“I wanted better analytics,” said Maria. “Building the dashboard intelligence helped my team build the business. I’m happy to be out of the business of chasing reports.”
Leadership at CDK also recognized the immense value created by Maria and her team. They disrupted the status quo and found a new way for the organization to view and use their spend data. Now Maria and her team can focus more on spend strategy, rather than wasting time on tedious data wrangling.
In addition to efforts to make Suplari the “go-to-resource” across the company, CDK Global expects continued benefits and transparency from this new intelligent data system.
“Leveraging Suplari to truly understand our data has provided us many opportunities to advance our procurement organization and help the company prepare for a more profitable future,” said Maria. “I feel like we’ve lifted the organization to a new level.”
To learn more about how Suplari can help your procurement organization reach a new level with complete visibility across all of your suppliers, contact us at info@suplari.com or schedule a demo.
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STS Aviation News
STS Aviation Group Hires Michael John Adams to Spearhead European Operations
Categories: Apple Aviation, STS AeroMod, STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News
JENSEN BEACH, Fla., Oct. 17, 2019 — Fresh off the heels of acquiring Apple Aviation and purchasing the former Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) wide-body aircraft hangar in Birmingham, England, STS Aviation Group (STS), a leading global aviation solutions company, announces that it has appointed Michael John Adams to oversee its European Operations.
Adams will immediately begin to manage Apple Aviation, the wide-body aircraft maintenance facility in Birmingham and all other existing STS entities in Europe.
Mark Smith, President of STS Aviation Group, said “When our team set out to find someone with the skills, experience and industry knowledge needed to spearhead our company’s European operations, one name kept coming up. And shortly after meeting Mick in person, I think our company stakeholders all knew that we had found the right man for the job.”
Adams brings nearly 40 years of industry experience with him having previously served as the Vice President of Transformational Deals, the Executive Vice President of Etihad Airways Engineering and the Managing Director of Monarch Aircraft Engineering.
On his recent appointment, Adams said, “I’m thrilled to join STS Aviation Group, and I look forward to the rewarding challenge that will come from leading its highly motivated European teams. When you add STS’ existing expertise to the recent acquisition of Apple Aviation and the purchase of the wide-body aircraft maintenance facility in Birmingham, you get the perfect, all-encompassing MRO solution. I look forward to servicing our clients’ immediate and future needs, and I cannot think of better organization to be a part of as I enter the pinnacle of my career.”
To learn more about STS Aviation Group, please visit: https://www.stsaviationgroup.com/
About STS Aviation Group:
Founded in 1986, STS Aviation Group is a one-stop service provider to the global aviation industry. With headquarters in Jensen Beach, Florida and offices around the world, STS delivers nose-to-tail solutions with unmatched results and expertise. To learn more about STS Aviation Group and what makes it the company with “Solutions to Keep You Flying,” please visit www.stsaviationgroup.com or call 1-800-800-2400.
bryan.shaw@stsaviationgroup.com
STS Component Solutions and PTI Technologies Inc. Announce New Distribution Partnership
Categories: OEM Product Line, Press Release Archive, STS Aviation News, STS Component Solutions, STS Component Solutions
PALM CITY, FL, June 19, 2019 — STS Component Solutions has been named an authorized distribution partner for PTI Technologies’ commercial aftermarket products. PTI Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of filtration systems and equipment to the commercial transport, helicopter, military and corporate aviation markets.
STS Component Solutions, a division of STS Aviation Group, will be providing global support for PTI Technologies Inc. in the commercial aftermarket. Tom Covella, Group President of STS Component Solutions, states “We are very excited about this new OEM partnership with PTI. PTI is an established leader in the filtration systems market and collectively we are confident that we will add further value to the aftermarket support of these products. This product line will further broaden our OEM Distribution portfolio and provides STS with additional capabilities to support our global customer base.”
“We are very pleased to work with STS Component Solutions to provide increased levels of service and innovative solutions to our global airline customers,” said Rowland Ellis, President of PTI Technologies Inc. “Supporting aircraft operators with the right products at the right time is our goal and STS Component Solutions is an ideal partner for us to achieve this goal. We look forward to a long and successful partnership.”
If you would like to learn more about STS Component Solutions or its parent company, STS Aviation Group, please visit: https://www.stsaviationgroup.com/
About STS Component Solutions:
STS Component Solutions prides itself on providing global aircraft inventory solutions to its customers, 24/7/365. On-time delivery of certified aircraft parts lies at STS Component Solutions’ core. The organization specializes in materials management, OEM distribution and supply chain solutions. We have a proven track record for locating hard-to-find aircraft / engine parts and stock a rotable inventory in strategic warehouses around the world. In today’s fast-paced world of aviation, STS Component Solutions is the one global company that can provide the aircraft inventory and on-time delivery you need to keep flying! To learn more please visit www.stsaviationgroup.com or call 1-888-777-2960.
Marketing & Events Manager
Taylor.Salisbury@sts-cs.com
STS Component Solutions Opens New Sales Office in Guangzhou, China
Categories: Press Release Archive, STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News, STS Component Solutions, STS Component Solutions, STS News Grid
Palm City, Florida, March 13, 2019 – STS Component Solutions, a global aircraft inventory solutions provider, expands into China with the opening of a sales office in Guangzhou.
The establishment of this location was driven by current customer demand and projected organizational growth in the Asia-Pacific region over the next 20 years. This new facility is the company’s third office to open in mainland China.
“We are extremely excited about the opening of our new office in Guangzhou,” says Pat Tyler, Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development for STS Component Solutions. “This new office will expand our global footprint to provide additional support, service and product offerings to our airline and MRO customers in the Asia-Pacific region… and beyond. STS Component Solutions currently maintains inventory in Shanghai and Beijing. We are also growing our stock locations with the addition of a warehouse in Hong Kong that is slated to open in April of this year.”
A team of Account Managers and Customer Service Representatives are already fully operational in Guangzhou and supporting STS’ growing network of customers.
If you would like to learn more about STS Component Solutions or its parent company,STS Aviation Group, please visit: www.stsaviationgroup.com/
In today’s fast-paced world of aviation, STS Component Solutions is the one global company that can provide the aircraft inventory and on-time delivery you need to keep flying! To learn more, please visit www.stsaviationgroup.com or call 1-888-777-2960.
Marketing Coordinator at STS Component Solutions
STS Line Maintenance Recognized by the USDOT and FAA for Its Commitment to Training and Safety
Categories: STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News, STS Line Maintenance, STS News Grid, STS Technical Services
Jensen Beach, Fla., February 27, 2019 – STS Line Maintenance just received the FAA Diamond Award by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration. The award recognizes the company’s commitment to aircraft maintenance training and safety.
“Given the growing size of our Line Maintenance network, this is quite an accomplishment,” says Mark Smith, Group President of STS Line Maintenance. “The promotion of safety through regular and ongoing training has always been a focal point for STS Line Maintenance, but to receive the FAA Diamond Award means 100% participation from our entire staff… and that’s hundreds of people rallying around the company’s core cultural values and training methods. Again, quite an accomplishment.”
Back in the early part of 2018, STS Line Maintenance enrolled itself into the FAA FAAST program; a program designed to promote safer skies through the ongoing training and education of Aircraft Maintenance Technicians. In order to receive the FAA Diamond Award, every touch labor specialist employed by STS Line Maintenance had to successfully complete the year-long program with ratings levels that exceeded the Federal Aviation Administration’s justifiably high standards.
“We fix, troubleshoot and modify commercial aircraft for a living,” says Robby Bush, Sr. Vice President and General Manager for STS Line Maintenance. “That’s a responsibility and a privilege we take very seriously. This award reflects that, and I’m proud of our team for rallying together and working hard to bring this honor home. This award means a lot to us as an organization but knowing that safety rests at the heart of everything we do means a great deal more to our customers and the people who travel on their aircraft.
If you would like to learn more about STS Line Maintenance or its parent company, STS Aviation Group, please visit: https://www.stsaviationgroup.com/
About STS Line Maintenance:
STS Line Maintenance services commercial and regional airlines operating out of 32 airports across the United States and the Bahamas. The company offers nose-to-tail aircraft maintenance support, FAA / DER engineering assistance, AOG response teams and enhanced reliability through rapid response times. To learn more about STS Line Maintenance and the service offerings it provides, please visit the company’s website.
Director of Marketing at STS Technical Group
STS Aviation Group Selects Greenbriar Equity Group as its New Equity Partner
Categories: STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News
Jensen Beach, Florida, January 7, 2019 — STS Aviation Group (“STS”), a leading global aviation solutions company, today announced that it has selected Greenbriar Equity Group, L.P. (“Greenbriar”), a New York-based private investment firm, as its new equity partner.
STS provides a range of solutions to the global aviation industry, including component sales and distribution, workforce management, engineering services, line maintenance, and aircraft repair and modifications. The company is well-known for its breadth of capabilities and customer-centric approach to helping airlines and aircraft operators meet their critical operational and people requirements worldwide.
Noah Roy, Managing Partner at Greenbriar, said: “No company in the global aviation supply chain provides more essential solutions than STS. Customers trust STS to meet their most urgent operational needs, and that has underpinned the company’s success for more than three decades. We are proud to invest in STS to support its continued growth, both organically and through strategic acquisitions. STS’s reputation, capabilities and superb management team provide a unique platform for value creation in the aviation services market.”
P.J. Anson, CEO of STS, said: “This is an exciting time for STS to partner with Greenbriar. The industry recognizes the value of our suite of capabilities and is driving our significant growth. Greenbriar’s deep industry knowledge and track record investing in the aerospace and aviation sectors make them the ideal partner for this next chapter at STS. The entire STS team is excited by our new partnership with Greenbriar and the many opportunities ahead of us.”
About Greenbriar Equity Group, L.P.:
Founded in 1999, Greenbriar Equity Group is a private equity firm with over $3.5 billion of committed capital focused on investing in market-leading manufacturing and services businesses in partnership with proven management teams. Greenbriar looks to identify companies capitalizing on strong long-term growth prospects that can benefit from Greenbriar’s industry knowledge, operating capabilities, network of senior executive relationships, strategic insight and access to capital. Sectors of particular focus include aerospace and defense, industrial and business services, transportation and logistics, and specialty manufacturing. Additional information may be found at www.greenbriarequity.com.
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STS Component Solutions & Curtiss Wright Corporation Announce New Aftermarket Distribution Partnership
Categories: Press Release Archive, STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News, STS Component Solutions
Palm City, October 11, 2018 – STS Component Solutions (STSCS) is proud to announce the newest addition to the organization’s OEM Distribution Product Line portfolio. Curtiss Wright Corporation provides innovative products applicable to the commercial aerospace, general aviation, rotary, defense, power generation and industrial markets. STS Component Solutions has been appointed the sole aftermarket distributor for Curtiss Wright across four business units and 11 cage codes. The products manufactured by Curtiss-Wright include position sensors, rotary and linear actuators, solenoids and valves.
STSCS Group President Tom Covella states, “STS is proud to add this prestigious OEM and partnership to our existing distribution portfolio that will further enable us to provide expanded support and product line diversity to our global customer base.”
For any inquiries, please contact the sales team at 1-888-777-2960 or sales@sts-cs.com. We are available 24/7/365 to assist with all of your OEM Distribution product line needs.
To learn more about STS Component Solutions or STS Aviation Group, please visit www.stsaviationgroup.com.
STS Aviation Group is a diversified company that specializes in support services for the aerospace industry through its nine divisions, STS Technical Services, STS Engineering Solutions, STS Line Maintenance, STS Component Solutions, STS Air-Pro, STS UJet, STS Mod Center, STS AeroMod, STS GSE Services. From staffing your team so it can get the project done right and at an affordable price, to providing certified aircraft and engine components so you can get off the ground and back in the sky, STS continues to be a one-stop servicing center for all of your company’s staffing, aircraft engineering, line maintenance, ground service equipment, component sale / distribution, hose manufacturing, aircraft interiors, and modification requirements. To learn more about what makes STS the company with “Solutions to Keep You Flying,” please visit www.stsaviationgroup.com. You may also call 1-800-800-2400 or 1-888-777-2960.
1-888-777-2960 ext.8396
Weekly Aviation Hot Jobs List (July 30, 2018)
Categories: STS AeroStaff Services, STS Aviation News, Weekly Hot Jobs
Below are the hottest jobs in aviation for the week of July 30, 2018. Simply click a job title to learn more and apply online.
Dallas, TX: A&P Mechanics (Direct Hire)
Boston, MA: A&P Line Maintenance Technicians (Direct Hire)
Philadelphia, PA: A&P Line Maintenance Technicians (Direct Hire)
Augusta, GA: Portfolio Manager
Savannah, GA: Aircraft Components Repair Technicians
Florence, SC: A&P Mechanics, Aircraft Sheet Mechanics
Hunt Valley, MD: Senior Aircraft Electronics Assemblers
Charlotte, NC: Entry-Level Repair Technicians
Sterling, VA: Entry-Level Repair Technicians
Las Vegas, NV: Aviation Induction Engineers
Wilmington, OH: Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanics
Hartford, CT: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics, Avionics Technicians
Hyannis, MA: A&P Mechanics
St. Louis, MO: A&P Mechanics, Aircraft Cabinet Makers
Cleveland, OH: A&P Mechanics, A&P Mechanics II
Bridgewater, VA: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics, Avionics Technicians
Nashville, TN: Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanics, A&P Mechanics
Melbourne, FL: Aircraft Painters, Aircraft Quality Inspectors, Marketing Interns
Windsor Locks, CT: A&P Mechanics, Avionics Technicians
Hayden, ID: Sheet Metal Mechanics
Fargo, ND: A&P Mechanics
Lawrenceville, GA: A&P Mechanics
Westfield, MA: A&P Mechanics
Appleton, WI: Aircraft Upholstery Technicians
Newburgh, NY: A&P Mechanics
Long Island City, NY: Aircraft Maintenance Planners
Jamaica, NY: Aircraft Records Analysts
Oscoda, MI: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics, A&P Engine Mechanics, Senior Avionics Technicians (Special Rates & Bonuses)
Ypsilanti, MI: A&P Flight Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics (Special Rates & Bonuses)
Laredo, TX: A&P Mechanics
Maui, HI: A&P Mechanics
Honolulu, HI: A&P Mechanics
Kailua Kona, HI: A&P Mechanics
Kapolei, HI: Entry-Level Repair Technicians
Imperial, CA: A&P Mechanics
Broomfield, CO: Fabrication Technicians, Aircraft Upholstery Technicians
Eden Prairie, MN: A&P Mechanics
Houston, TX: Avionics Technicians, Crew Chief Airframe (LEAR), Airframe Avionics Operations Director (Direct Hire)
Columbus, MS: Quality Engineers, Wiring Supervisors, Sensors Engineers, Aerostructures Director (Direct Hire)
Farmingdale, NY: A&P Mechanics
Reno, NV: GSE Mechanics
Milwaukee, WI: GSE Technicians
Macomb, MI: Quality Engineers
Park City, UT: CNC Cylindrical Grinders
Hebron, KY: Entry-Level Repair Technicians
Elk Grove Village, IL: Welders
Hawthorne, CA: Entry-Level Repair Technicians, Aircraft Welders
Whippany, NJ: Electrical Engineers
If you have questions, we invite you to contact an STS Recruiter by dialing 1-800-359-4787.
We appreciate your time and attention and look forward to working with you soon.
www.stsaviationjobs.com
recruiting@stsaerostaff.com
Weekly Aviation Hot Jobs List (July 9, 2018)
Below are the hottest jobs in aviation for the week of July 9, 2018. Simply click a job title to learn more and apply online.
Chicago, IL: Aviation Maintenance Hub Manager (Direct Hire)
Los Angeles, CA: A&P Certified Line Maintenance Technician
Wilmington, OH: A&P Mechanics
Marana, AZ: Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanics
Tuscon, AZ: Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanics
Purchase, NY: Powerplant Engineers
St. Louis, MO: A&P Mechanics, Senior Aircraft Cabinet Makers, Senior Aircraft Cabinet Finishers
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Logistics Operators
Melbourne, FL: Accounting Staff, Aircraft Interior Assembly Technicians, Aircraft Assembly Technicians
Nashville, TN: Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanics, Production Control Specialists
Walden, NY: General Service Technicians (Golf Carts)
Pebble Beach, CA: Service Technicians (Golf Carts)
Denver, CO: Aircraft Maintenance Control Coordinators, Aircraft Maintenance Program Managers
Greensboro, NC: Aircraft Quality Control Supervisors, Aircraft Quality Control Inspectors, Support Contracts Specialists (Direct Hire)
Boston, MA: Inventory Auditors (Quick Contract)
Oscoda, MI: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics, A&P Engine Mechanics, Avionics Technicians, Senior Avionics Technicians, CNC Programmers, Composites Technicians, Diesel
Mechanics, Fuel Cell Technicians, Aircraft Painters, A&P Engine Mechanics (Special Rates and Bonuses)
Ypsilanti, MI: A&P Flight Mechanics, Aviation Crew Schedulers, Sheet Metal Mechanics
Broomfield, CO: Fabrication Technicians
Lewiston, MI: Production Supervisor
Milwaukee, WI: Aircraft Ground Support Equipment Technicians
Slidell, LA: Subcontracts Administrators
If you have questions, we invite you to contact an STS AeroStaff Services Recruiter by dialing 1-800-359-4787.
Weekly Aviation Hot Jobs – May 16, 2018
Below are the hottest jobs in aviation for the week of May 14, 2018. Simply click a job title to learn more and apply online.
Naples, FL: Electrical Engineers (Direct Hire)
Houston, TX: General Service Technicians
San Antonio, TX: Aircraft Interior Technicians, Composite Technicians, Production Engineers (Direct Hire)
Oscoda, MI: A&P Mechanics, A&P Engine Mechanics, Avionics Technicians, Sheet Metal Mechanics
Ypsilanti, MI: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics
Prescott, AZ: Avionics Service Technicians
Saint Louis, MO: A&P Mechanics
Fargo, ND: A&P Mechanics, Avionics Technicians
Florence, SC: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics, Avionics Technicians
Melbourne, FL: Sheet Metal Mechanics
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Aircraft Wheel Shop Painters
Miami, FL: Network Stock Control Officers
Hayden, ID: A&P Mechanics, Sheet Metal Mechanics
Hawthorne, CA: Entry-Level Repair Technicians
Hawaii: Aircraft Maintenance Supervisors (Direct Hire)
Milwaukee, WI: Ground Support Equipment Technicians
Bridgewater, VA: Avionics Technicians, A&P Mechanics
Bangor, ME: A&P Mechanics
Windsor Locks, CT: A&P Mechanics (Direct Hire)
Addison, TX: Sheet Metal Mechanics
Farmington Hills, MI: CNC Operators (Direct Hire)
Greensboro, NC: Document Control Administrators, Facilities Technicians, Industrial Engineers
Jamaica, NY: Aviation CASS Analysts
Dallas, TX: Aircraft Maintenance Programs Compliance Analysts
Little Ferry, NJ: Inside Sales Representatives
Elk Rapids, MI: Applications Engineers, Software Engineers (Direct Hire)
Phoenix, AZ: Customer Service Support Administrators
Walden, NY: General Service Technicians
Myrtle Beach, SC: Aircraft Maintenance Supervisors
Eden Prairie, MN: A&P Mechanics, Aircraft Painters
Hunt Valley, MD: Senior Aircraft Electrical Assemblers
Kansas City, MO: Ground Support Equipment Technicians
Park City, UT: Aircraft Receiving Inspectors
If you have questions, we invite you to contact and STS AeroStaff Services Recruiter by dialing 1-800-359-4787.
We appreciate your time and attention, and look forward to working with you soon.
STS Aviation Group Set to Host Annual Technical OEM Symposium
Categories: OEM Product Line, STS Air-Pro, STS Aviation Group, STS Aviation News, STS Component Solutions, STS Events, STS Partners
STS Aviation Group is extremely excited to once again host airline guests and OEM partners in sunny Jensen Beach, Florida, for its annual Technical OEM Symposium.
On February 7 – 9th, attendees from more than 10 different airlines and OEM partners will gather at the brand new Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa in Jensen Beach for three days full of networking events, informative presentations highlighting the STS Component Solutions and STS Air-Pro OEM portfolio, break away meetings, team building activities and so much more!
Airline guests set to attend this year are from Aruba, Azur, COPA, Delta, Envoy, Etihad, GOL, JetBlue, KLM, Southwest, and Sun Express.
Starting on Wednesday February 7th, you can expect mini-meeting sessions followed by a welcome dinner and networking. Thursday morning, from 8:00 am until 5:00pm, OEMs will present their products and services while also creating a platform for open discussions and idea sharing to help benefit both the sales team and airlines that may have important input to help solve pains plaguing the industry.
This event is unique in that it allows interaction between integral parts of the industry all in one place to share ideas and work towards solutions to better serve customers. On Friday, the event wraps up with exciting team building activities and another chance for everyone to interact in a more casual and fun setting.
Guests can expect to either fish, golf, or simply enjoy the beauty of the treasure coast from the ocean front resort. We will end on a high note at the farewell dinner where the catch of day will be served to everyone who is able to attend.
“The STS Technical OEM Symposium provides our customers and business partners the opportunity to build upon our long standing relationships while sharing new information on OEM products, reliability improvements, data analytics and supply chain programs,” says Tim Russo, Director of Customer Solutions and OEM Distribution at STS Component Solutions. “As STS Component Solutions continues to grow we are focused on providing unparalleled service and value to our customers, which is the focus of the annual event.”
This year is set to be the biggest yet! We are thrilled that so many of our airline and OEM friends and partners are able to travel to Jensen Beach for this special event that we are happy to host each year.
Stay tuned to our social channels for more from the 2018 Technical OEM Symposium. This year is going to be one to remember!
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A Home of Their Own
by Daniel Sean Kaye
Finding the senior option that’s best for everyone’s needs
Growing old isn’t easy, for anyone. For Mike Lando, executive director at Spring Hills Cherry Hill, the concerns that children face as their parents age are all too common, and he says it’s a conversation he’s quite used to having. “[They’ll say] she doesn’t seem to be eating well, the house is not as tidy as it used to be. [Or] she struggles to read and open her prescription medication bottle and opts not to bother taking anything, or worse—she takes the wrong medication in the wrong dose,” he says.
And while your parent or elder loved one may be doing “OK,” having the difficult-but-honest conversation about elderly parent care can be the most successful outcome for everyone.
There are so many options out there for senior housing, but where do you begin?
“Know what it is that you or your loved one needs help with,” says Melissa Repkoe, community operations manager at Brandywine Senior Living at Voorhees. She warns that adult children often see their parents as more independent than is true.
“Seniors and their family members need to discuss what the potential needs might be in the future,” agrees Debbie Callahan, director of marketing for Friends Village at Woodstown. If a person has no chronic conditions and is in general good health, maybe an active adult community is a good choice. “If aging-in-place is preferred, how do you remove some of the stress of homeownership that may be burdensome?
If seniors are experiencing or have experienced changes in their health, then the conversation with family may lean toward researching and considering communities that provide health services to residents,” she says.
There are many choices, from staying at home with loved ones or home health aides and going to adult day centers, to residing in a community specifically created for seniors and their changing needs such as independent or assisted living. There are also secure memory-care environments for those dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia-related care as well as long-term care facilities.
Families can contact their local state department for health and senior services, says Christina M. O’Leary, director of branding and media at Spring Hills Cherry Hill. Gather information and get referrals from friends and family who’ve already been through it. She also suggests websites and social media. “Baby boomers 65-plus make up the largest demographic on Facebook and YouTube is used by 85 percent of boomers,” she says, also suggesting reviewing sites like Google Plus and Yelp. “Research shows that 72 percent of customers trust the reviews they read online to help in their next step of the decision-making process.”
Adult Retirement Communities (or Active Adult Communities) are designed for active, independent people 55 years and older, says Sherry Outten, vice president and executive director of Lutheran Crossings Enhanced Living at Moorestown.
Generally for purchase, some rental units may be available and may be single houses, duplexes, condominiums or garden apartments. They offer social and recreational activities but generally no medical or nursing services, although some communities now arrange for such services, she says. A manager oversees general outdoor maintenance and upkeep, a monthly fee is charged, and the resident pays property taxes.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) provide housing, services and health care, including nursing home care, explains Outten. The community’s continuum of care meets the needs of individual residents, beginning with independent living through skilled nursing care. The CCRC contract defines the housing and services to be provided, including meals, housekeeping, linens, 24-hour security and recreational services.
The entrance fee “guarantees shelter and access to various health care services, whether these services are pre-funded or provided on a fee-for-service basis,” she says.
Assisted Living Residences (ALR), licensed by the Department of Health, “are community-based facilities offering a special mix of housing, personalized support services, and health care designed to promote maximum independence and dignity for each resident,” says Outten. These facilities promote “aging in place” with apartment-style housing or rooms and congregate dining with assisted living services when needed. Apartment units typically include a room, private bathroom and kitchenette, and provide three daily meals, activities, medication supervision and limited health services, she says.
Financial aid options exist
Most senior apartment facilities offer rent adjustments based on income, says Callahan. “Assisted living facilities and other communities with health service options are primarily private pay, but every facility is different.” Also, veterans may qualify for federal financial support. Ask about financial aid when visiting various communities.
Affordable/subsidized housing might be a solution. These are priced for households making 80 percent or less of the county median income, says Outten. “Both the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and The Department of Community Affairs can be contacted to obtain information about affordable housing in New Jersey communities,” she says. There are income limitations for eligibility for this type of housing.
At many communities, if a resident spends all of his or her assets, he or she will receive help from the State Medicaid program. Medicaid may cover the cost of a resident’s stay, and maintain the level, says Repkoe.
For seniors opting to remain at home, consider enrolling in an adult day program, explains Callahan. “Day programs offer support for medication management, appointments, nutrition and socialization.” Transportation is offered. Also, in-home aide services can help with light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, shopping and personal care like bathing, dressing, walking, etc. “These types of services are billed at an hourly rate,” says Callahan.
Nursing homes—residential facilities that provide 24-hour supervision by licensed and certified staff—emphasize medical care as prescribed by a physician along with personal care services such as bathing, dressing, grooming and three meals a day as well as physical, occupation and other therapies as prescribed by a physician, says Outten. Services can address an individual’s social-emotional needs.
Every county in New Jersey has an Office on Aging, says Callahan. This is a good place to start for information about local resources and programs.
“The key for anyone considering senior living options is to visit facilities and communities before making a decision. And to do it while they can rather than after a serious health care event has placed limitations on their abilities,” says Callahan.
Whatever the decision, when seniors are part of deciding on the solution of their own free will before someone else has to make it for them, they are still managing their own future, says Lando. “This sense of being in control is extremely important and makes for a better situation for everyone involved.”
Brandywine Senior Living at Voorhees
311 Route 73 | Voorhees
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Friends Village
1 Friends Drive | Woodstown
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Lutheran Crossings Enhanced Living at Moorestown
3 Manhattan Drive | Burlington
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Spring Hills Cherry Hill
1450 Route 70 E. | Cherry Hill
Spring-Hills.com
Published (and copyrighted) in the Art of Living Well pull-out section of Suburban Family Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 3 (May, 2015).
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Algerians Are Choosing a New President in Contentious Poll
ALGIERS, ALGERIA - Five candidates have their eyes on becoming the next president of Algeria - without a leader since April - as voting began in Thursday's contentious election boycotted by a massive pro-democracy movement.
The powerful army chief and his cohorts in the interim government have promised the voting will chart a new era for the gas-rich North African nation that is a strategic partner of the West in countering extremist violence. Those opposed to the voting fear the results will replicate a corrupt, anti-democratic system they are trying to level.
Tension was palpable on the eve of the vote as protesters in at least 10 towns denounced the elections. In Bouira, east of Algiers, the capital, security forces used tear gas to push back protesters who had invaded a voting station in a high school, according to the online TSA news agency, citing witnesses. Several thousand people demonstrated in Algiers.
Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) and are to close at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). Results were not likely until Friday, to be announced by a newly created National Independent Electoral Authority overseeing the voting. The body was among the nods of authorities to protesters, like the decision for soldiers to vote in civilian clothes at regular polling stations, rather than in barracks.
The five candidates, two of them former prime ministers, Ali Benflis and Abdelmadjid Tebboune, endured insults and protests during the 22-day campaign. All five contenders have links to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced to resign in April after 20 years in office under pressure from weekly street protests that began in February, with an assist from army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah.
The turnout rate should be a critical indication of whether the contender elected has popular legitimacy. There was no firm indication which of the five had the upper hand ahead of the vote. Opinion polls for elections are not permitted.
Tebboune, 74, was until recently seen as the favorite due to his reportedly close ties to Gaid Salah. However, a 60-year-old former culture minister, Azzedine Mihoubi, a writer and poet, has been touted in the media. Mihoubi has deep ties to the fallen Bouteflika regime. He took over leadership of the National Democratic Rally party, which governed in alliance with the FLN, the sole party for nearly three decades, until 1989, and now in tatters.
Benflis, 75, was making his third attempt at the presidency. A lawyer and former justice minister, he was Bouteflika's top aide before falling out when he ran against him in 2004. He started his own party.
The other candidates are Abdelaziz Belaid, 56, a former figure in the FLN who started his own party, and Abdelkader Bengrini, 57, a one-time tourism minister and former member of the moderate Islamist party, Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP). He then started his own Islamist party el Bina, which like the MSP, backed Bouteflika.
Gaid Salah, who has emerged as the authority figure in the political vacuum, setting the date for the elections, has maintained that the voting is the shortest and surest way to raise Algeria out of its paralyzing political crisis and give birth to a new era. He was the force behind an anti-corruption campaign that has seen top figures jailed and convicted, including Said Bouteflika, the president's brother and chief counselor, sentenced to 15 years in prison in September for "plotting against the state."
Gaid Salah refers to Bouteflika's entourage as "the gang," as do pro-democracy protesters who include Gaid Salah among them.
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Category Archives: Spain
Ciudadanos-Cs, the vanguard of cuñadismo
May 31, 2016 Politics, SpainTom
I’ve struggled in the past to properly describe Ciudadanos’ political philosophy. The refer to themselves as ‘liberals’ (which means something different in just about every country where it’s used). It’s true that they lack far-right policies but their spokesmen have expressed some pretty reactionary attitudes at times. And while it would be unquestionably wrong to call them fascists, they’re certainly good at signalling their values to people who don’t think Franco was that bad (something they learned from the PP).
But their latest spot, for next month’s elections, has thrown everything into focus. Cs represents, and speaks to, that most Spanish of political philosophies: el cuñadismo.
Because it’s Spain’s cuñados’ votes that the PP and Cs are really fighting for. The guys who come out with lines like “Por qué te quejas? Tú al menos tienes trabajo” or “Mucho protestar y luego bien que tienen iPhones” or “Bueno, esa es tu opinión”. Cuñadismo has finally been captured in a video clip so perfect, it almost hurts to watch.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Toda la razón, Álber. Yo me siento 100% identificado. Se nota que conocéis nuestros verdaderos problemas. @Albert_Rivera @CiudadanosCs
— Cuñado (@CunadoDeTuiter) May 29, 2016
The decline and fall of the PSC
April 27, 2016 Catalonia, Politics, SpainCarme Chacón, PSC, Societat Civil CatalanaTom
From a high in 1999, where it won 38% of the vote in Catalan parliamentary elections, the PSC is now at an all time low. While it’s easy to blame this problem on meddling from Madrid, the decline of the PSC is intrinsically linked to its abandonment of basic principles which it defended at the height of its success – most importantly the right of Catalans to decide their future democratically.
Under Carme Chacón’s stewardship (from what I understand she remains the most powerful figure in the PSC), numerous mistakes have been made:
Chacón has used the PSC as a tool to try to obtain personal power at state level. This is evidenced by her adoption of a patently dishonest discourse regarding the question of Catalan separatism, aimed not at securing the PSC’s position but at boosting Chacón’s own chances of leading a PSOE still dominated by anti-separatist sentiment (see José Bono, Susana Díaz).
Chacón’s leadership has also boosted the right wing of the party, and left it without a true social-democratic focus (in line with the PSOE as a whole).
Her powerful position in the PSC has helped to ensure the appointment of a series of weak and ineffectual leaders in Barcelona, particularly Pere Navarro and Miquel Iceta, who have been totally unable to run the PSC on their own terms. This has further weakened the party when faced by more dynamic party leaders like Mas, Junqueras, Rivera and more recently, Colau.
The PSC’s adoption of an anti-Catalanist position is at odds with its line under Maragall, who defended not only the independence of the party within the Socialist federation, but also the Catalans’ right to decide. This decision was at least in part conditioned by the rise of Cs. Cs is a pseudo-centrist party which has learned one of the best tricks of the PP – know how to speak to the far right, and how to adopt its positions on questions of nationality, language policy, the right to decide, etc – without actually espousing right-wing policies (well, not very often anyway: the mask slips sometimes, like when its leaders say that gay marriage is “problematic” or that male violence against women “doesn’t exist”). The PSC’s shift in position culminated in its purging the party of anyone with pro-independence views, further boosting ERC and the newer Podem-EnComú.
I have a feeling that the PSC’s analysis of the rise of Cs is flawed. The PSC seems to think that it can win votes by seeming to be nearly as unionist as Cs. But at the same time, it hasn’t been willing to drop its commitment to policies like ‘linguistic immersion’ (education in Catalan for all), which Cs opposes. This has led to a disjointed position which Cs has found it easy to exploit. It has also led many former PSC voters – a large number of whom supported the new Estatut and, at least nominally, the right to decide, to look elsewhere – ERC, and the CUP have benefited. Every time the PSC takes a step towards Cs in terms of policy, it loses votes. This is an example of a very common mistake in politics: when a political movement seems to be gathering momentum, you can either co-opt it and try to lead it (see: CDC and the separatist movement) or you can oppose it. What you can never do is follow the upstarts (in this case, Cs) and hope to gather a few votes by clinging to their coat tails. It never works.
But it has worked for Cs and for their friends in Societat Civil Catalana. Probably the clearest symbol of the PSC’s decline is its involvement in SCC, a unionist organization founded by and operated in the tradition of, the unionist far-right. This takes the PSC beyond an accusation of Pasokification. The PSC now regularly shares a platform with SCC – and each time it does, it provides a new coat of democratic makeup to a group founded by the likes of Josep Ramon Bosch and Javier Barraycoa. That SCC is Somatemps 2.0 is well established. For the PSC to share a platform with a group like this shows just how far the PSC has fallen. We end up with situations like the youth PSC of Cerdanyola attacking the CUP over apparently invented accusations of violence on the UAB campus, while defending SCC and their neo-Nazi boot boys.
Now, you wonder how much longer Chacón can continue, given that she has managed to lead the PSC to its worst ever results in both Catalan and Spanish parliamentary elections. When, as predicted, we end up with fresh elections this summer, I’d expect them to be her last chance. The alternative is annihilation.
UPDATE: ah well, there you go. It turns out that the last elections were her last chance. Chacón is out. Maybe she read this. We’ll never know.
Revisionist history: Catalan under the dictatorship
March 19, 2016 Catalonia, Politics, SpainCatalan, Catalonia, Francisco Franco, history, language policyTom
“I never physically beat anybody and you can see film footage showing me not beating anybody!”
Peter Cook, Why Bother? “Prisoner of War”
Proving a negative can be rather tricky. As we all know, an absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence and so as epistemology shows us, anyone who states that x categorically does (or did) not exist holds the burden of proof.
The legend of how the Catalan language was treated during Franco’s dictatorship comes in two forms. The first and more widely subscribed to says that Catalan was effectively outlawed from public life, that people speaking Catalan in reception rooms and shops were often told that they should “Háblame en cristiano!”, and that it was only with the death of Franco and restoration of democracy that Catalan could be heard once again in the streets of Catalan towns and villages. The second, more recent version – we may call it a revisionist version because it is most certainly at odds with the first, received version – says that Catalan wasn’t repressed during the dictatorship at all. That books were published in Catalan, kids could speak Catalan in the school playground, official business was conducted in Catalan, that the Catalan language was valued and that the received wisdom of the first version was imposed after the restoration of democracy as part of Pujol’s infernal nation-building operation.
Proponents of both versions of this history bear the burden of proof, and both versions have some tricky questions that they need to answer. The question for me, as an outsider, is which version has the most convincing evidence.
It is clearly not enough to say simply that Catalan was outlawed during Franco’s dictatorship. This must be proven with facts. And there are facts that lend support to that claim. Throughout the dictatorship, but particularly in the early years, laws and regulations were established to reduce the presence of Catalan in public life almost to zero. It was no longer taught in schools. Civil servants were prevented from speaking Catalan at any time (whether in public buildings or not), under pain of instant dismissal. The Civil Governor of Barcelona asked the publishers of a Catalan language magazine “Do you really think we fought the war so that Catalan could return to public use?”. Telegrams couldn’t be sent in Catalan. A friend of mine was slapped in the face any time he and his friends spoke in Catalan in their Barcelona schoolyard. Kids had to be given Spanish language names (probably the source of the ‘Arturo Mas’ legend). People were fined for speaking Catalan on the telephone. Streets and squares were renamed in Spanish in every Catalan city, town and village.
But at the same time, other things happened. In the 1960s especially, Catalan culture started to grow in official acceptance. Children’s magazines were published in Catalan from 1961. They were even legal from 1968 onwards. Prizes were given for Catalan language books. Radio stations started to broadcast cultural or folkloric programmes in Catalan. Some schools (mainly either for the Catalan alta burgesia, or in distant villages) started to teach some Catalan language classes.
When you look at the evidence, it seems fair to say that in the early years of the dictatorship, there was widespread official repression of practically all use of the Catalan language in public life but that after a couple of decades in power, the regime rowed back somewhat from its initial position. Expression in Catalan never seems to have been wholly free under the dictatorship – but then it wasn’t really free in Spanish either. At the same time, there seems to have been a tacit message in the regime’s softening position on the language: that you may speak this language by the grace of our goodwill, and only for the purposes of cultural and folkloric expressions.
Of course, Catalan’s use never completely died out in the home which is why you’ll find plenty of people in their 50s and 60s here who can speak Catalan perfectly but are unable to write in anything but Castilian Spanish. But its absence from schools, particularly in the industrialized areas of Catalonia which welcomed hundreds of thousands of workers from other parts of Spain in the 50s, 60s and 70s, helped to guarantee that Catalan became a minority language and certainly one in decline. Excluding the regional language from the education system and pretty much all mass media left Catalan as a language of shepherds, fishermen, villagers, poets and die-hard patriots. But ideally not factory workers, bank managers or government officials. I can’t prove it but I get the feeling that the intention was not to waste any more time repressing Catalan but instead to leave it as a culturally interesting but politically non-threatening rump of a language. Not erased from history but on its way to being left there.
To me, claims that the Catalan language was completely outlawed during the dictatorship are problematic most of all because by failing to recognise that some Catalan was permitted, some of the time, and in limited contexts, they are easily challenged with a handful of books, poetry prizes and posters for the Orfeó Català. Exaggerating the crimes of the dictatorship is wrong, albeit understandable. The revisionist claim, on the other hand, strikes me as more pernicious because it seeks to deny that the language was repressed – an entirely insupportable claim. The facts that the revisionists cling to are facts. But they always remind me of that wonderful Peter Cook line at the top of this post, which was his character’s response to being accused of violence against the men under his command. Yes, there is evidence that Catalan wasn’t always repressed. That doesn’t mean that in general, and certainly in most professional, educational, civil and legal contexts, Catalan wasn’t effectively banned through much of the Franco dictatorship.
The revisionists have a place in this story, most of all to remind us that history can never really be black and white and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. But their narrative is wrong because at heart it seeks to diminish the harm done by the dictatorship to the people of Catalonia and the rest of Spain. I don’t doubt that now these revisionist myths are established, they will grow and mutate into fascinating new forms. How long before we hear that actually, if it wasn’t for Franco, Catalan would have died out? I expect my mysterious friends at Dolça Catalunya are already drafting that one.
And what about Catalan under the 2nd Republic? Now that’s another story….
Farewell, Juan Arza. May we never meet again.
March 3, 2016 Catalonia, General, Politics, PP, SpainCatalonia, Ciutadans, Juan Arza, Partido Popular/Popular Party, SCC, Societat Civil CatalanaTom
It is with great sadness that we announce that Juan Arza, former correspondent on these humble pages, has stepped down as a member of Societat Civil Catalana. Not because he was caught lying. Or because he couldn’t argue his way out of a bag. No, it’s because as an activist for the PP, the poor chap couldn’t stomach SCC’s endorsement of a PSOE-Ciutadans coalition in Madrid.
When you think about it, about the only thing sadder and lonelier than being a member of SCC is being a member of the PPC. Bon vent, Juan, i barca nova. Oh and watch out for those seagulls. They can be vicious brutes.
The difference between Spain and Catalonia: a project
January 19, 2016 Catalonia, Politics, PP, SpainCatalonia, Elections in Spain, Politics, Politics of Catalonia, SpainTom
It seems to me that the great hope of the Spanish center is now the mutually assured destruction pact that a PP-PSOE coalition would represent. Actually, this is almost certainly the great hope of the PP which wouldn’t stand to lose quite as much as the PSOE (whose slogan in the last election was “Let’s kick out Rajoy!”). But therein lies a clue to the potential pact: like the CUP in September’s Catalan elections, the PSOE hasn’t said no to any PP candidate for president. It has said no to Rajoy, which implicitly leaves the door open for an alternative candidate. Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría would appear to be the obvious choice.
So that’s one option. The other is a center-left alliance of PSOE and Podemos, which would also need the support of some regional parties to rule. Which would mean the PSOE offering a Catalan referendum, which Sánchez probably couldn’t offer even if he wanted to.
I suppose the difference between the Spain and Catalonia situations, vis-à-vis the question of negotiations to form a government, is that the Catalans have the advantage of a seriously big question, a national project, which dominates and blurs party politics. This is, at least in part, intentional. But it’s also helpful because in the end, there are enough people who actually believe in that project that it can be used to forge tough political agreements, like the CUP forcing Mas to step aside and then backing one of his proteges for president. Spain has nothing remotely similar on the table. You hear terms like ‘constitutional reform’ and ‘new transition’ bandied about but unlike Catalonia, where 48% of voters voted for unambiguously pro-independence parties, the 4 main parties at Spain level don’t have a coherent vision of the nation to offer voters. Even the upstarts – Podemos and Cs – have been unable to explain to voters what Spain looks like in their vision of the future. This is either because they don’t really know or don’t really care… I suspect it’s a mixture of the two, personally.
In the end, say what you will about the independence process and its putative ephemerality, at least it’s a project. Spain has yet to come up with something similar and the best options for change – Podemos and Cs – don’t have the support. So it’s Soraya for president and continuity, or new elections with nothing any clearer.
Pujol Ferrusola claims a top police chief offered the family immunity for stopping independence “madness”
November 25, 2015 Capital, Catalonia, Politics, PP, SpainCatalan CiU party, Catalonia, Jordi Pujol i Soley, Partido Popular/Popular Party, Political corruptionTom
A generous offer, if true. It fits with the “do this to save Spain” text that we heard about a couple of years back.
Apparently he wanted some dirt on ERC too and said that he “knew” that Pujol had contacts in “Eastern countries” who were going to help create a Catalan army.
None of which makes the Pujol story any less murky, of course. But if true, it helps to confirm suspicions that the Pujol investigation is less about corruption and more about politics and, ahem, territorial integrity.
Personally, I’d be happy to see Pujol behind bars, if convicted, and Mas as well. But those who carp the “Junts pel 3%” line ought to be careful. The idea that kickbacks are some sort of Catalan phenomenon is laughable. I asked a (non-Catalan) friend in the know about this the other day and he told me that not only is this a Spain-wide practice, it happens pretty much everywhere.
And while the independence movement has been accused of existing solely to mask the Pujol case (absurd, given that the large demos started years before anything about the Pujols was in the papers), you might well ask why we hear so much about one group of oligarchs in a country totally overrun by corrupt shits. Would it not make sense, you may wonder, for the PP to pressure an already politicised police and judicial system to investigate the Pujols, shortly after Rajoy himself was named in court documents as personally receiving envelopes stuffed with cash? Because the PP wins both ways: if the tactic works, you stop the Catalans and overshadow the PP’s corruption cases.
I mean who even remembers that the PP’s offices were raided in December 2013?
Elections, Don Felipe and the banalization of evil
September 30, 2015 Catalonia, Politics, PP, Spain#27S, Banalization of evil, Catalan elections, Catalonia, Felipe Gónzalez, Ines Arrimades, Jose Maria AznarTom
Sunday’s elections in Catalonia delivered a majority of seats for pro-independence parties but “only” 47.9% of the vote. In reality it was the unionists who lost the vote. Only 39% of Catalan voters were mobilized to back parties in the ‘No’ camp, despite a high turnout and months of scaremongering and threats from the Spanish government, the PP, the PSOE and Cs.
Cs did predictably well (in fact, it bears noting that the pollsters also did well this time around). It’ll be interesting to watch whether Ines Arrimades’s group can now act as a serious opposition in the Catalan parliament – whether the party has now matured – or whether they’ll continue to throw TV-friendly tantrums once every six months or so. It all boils down to if she really leads the party in Catalonia. It doesn’t feel like it. And that’s not a slight against her: it just feels like Albert ‘Scarface’ Rivera is still the boss. Aznar sees the danger at national level and Sánchez is fast at work on a new collection of sonnets. No room here to wonder about the genius who thought that Nicholas Sarkozy would be a vote winner for the PP. Or that Xavier Albiol would be, for that matter.
Spain-level party bosses love to wade into Catalan elections and these were special elections. You have to wonder if any of them have questioned whether their appearances helped or hindered their affiliates’ campaigns. Pedro Sánchez, Pablo Iglésias, Mariano Rajoy, Felipe González… their parties may well have done better if they’d stayed in Madrid.
Felipe González in particular should probably be locked in a cupboard for the next elections. Ignore what he said about Pinochet and Maduro – Don Felipe has his business interests in mind, and who can blame him? But comparing Catalan separatism to Nazism was a little… off, no? Don Felipe should know that Godwin’s law is also considered to apply off the internet nowadays.
Friday before the elections we were in Berlin and visited the Topography of Terror museum which charts the Nazi party’s coming to power, Hitler’s dictatorship and the state security aperatus it established, centered on the SS and the Gestapo. While we were there, I briefly recalled Don Felipe’s words. And it made me sad that someone of his apparent intelligence could insult the memory of so many millions of victims the way he did. I had an urge to grab him by the ear and take him around that awful place. And make him read. And make him look. But what good would it do? To paraphrase Bellow, when the need for illusion is so deep, why shouldn’t Don Felipe trade in ignorance?
Finally, I was delighted to hear that Societat Civil Catalana appears to be unraveling. Josep Ramon Bosch has quit as president. He’s being sued for threats and insults and has been caught praising the Nazis on YouTube. His need for illusion was also deep.
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It’s time for Juan Arza and Societat Civil Catalana to apologize, but I’m not holding my breath
July 23, 2015 Catalonia, Politics, Spainanti-fascist magazine, Catalan journalist, civil society, European Parliament, far-right groups, Javier Barraycoa, Jordi Borràs, Juan Arza, media outlets, Societat Civil CatalanaTom
Last month I wrote about how Societat Civil Catalana, a group of around 70 people opposed to Catalan independence, and its spokesman, Juan Arza, lied about SCC’s links to Spanish far-right groups. The article was carefully researched and edited to ensure it contained nothing which wasn’t demonstrably true. I wouldn’t like to defame anybody, just as I wouldn’t like them to defame me.
So what was the response? The article was shared a few hundred times on Twitter and garnered a vague legal threat from SCC itself. Typically, whenever someone reveals the truth about SCC and its founding members’ political allegiances, the group trots out some stuff about how they’re going to stand up to “accusations, threats and intimidation”. This time around, they tweeted that they would be taking me to court for defamation, or something like that. They block me on twitter, so I can’t actually read their threat. They have also threatened Catalan journalist Jordi Borràs, one of whose photographs I used in my article, and UK-based anti-fascist magazine Hope Not Hate, which published one of his articles. To the best of my knowledge, they have yet to open legal proceedings against anybody.
Photo from: http://www.eldiario.es/politica/Societat-Civil-Catalana-constituye-independencia_0_247075680.html
And it’s not hard to see why. As this photo clearly shows, Javier Barraycoa was present at SCC’s first major event, its presentation to the Col.legi de Periodistes. You can even see Arza sharing a platform with him (Barraycoa is second from the left, standing next to SCC president Josep Ramon Bosch. Arza on the, er, far right – no double entendre intended).
Juan Arza finally commented on the article a couple of days after it was published. He said he was writing in a personal capacity and that he had recently blocked me on Twitter for ‘lack of respect’ (I asked him whether SCC could call itself a ‘transversal’ movement when its spokesman regularly campaigned for the PP on his Twitter account – this is Arza’s definition of lacking respect). He went on to fail to refute any of the claims I made in my article, claims by which I still stand. He referred to my articles about SCC as a “witch hunt” and insinuated that I was pursuing this topic for personal gain. Now, that’s kind of defamatory. Read our buying guide on best hunting knife only at knifefellas.
I don’t expect SCC or Arza to apologize for insulting me. It’s part of the deal when you write articles like that. But they should apologize to everyone they are deceiving regarding SCC’s links to the far right. They should apologize to the journalists and media outlets that SCC has threatened simply for publishing the truth. They should apologize to the European Parliament which awarded SCC a medal under false pretenses. And they should apologize to the true civil society of Catalonia, whose name they have usurped.
Don’t worry, I’m not holding my breath.
Societat Civil Catalana lies about its links to the far-right
June 10, 2015 Catalonia, Politics, SpainJavier Barraycoa, Josep Ramon Bosch, Juan Arza, SCC, Societat Civil Catalana, SomatempsTom
Exclusive: Juan Arza lied about Javier Barraycoa’s involvement with Societat Civil Catalana
A few weeks back, I asked anti-Catalan independence pressure group Societat Civil Catalana to confirm or deny Javier Barraycoa’s reported involvement with the group. SCC’s spokesman and key political mover, Juan Arza responded unequivocally:
Mr Javier Barraycoa was present in some meetings previous to the creation of Societat Civil Catalana, however he is not an associate (socio) nor is he part of our executive council (junta ejecutiva), nor does he have any link with SCC.
In response to a follow-up question, he was even clearer:
During our early stages and before registering the association many meetings took place with the participation of many people. Mr. Barraycoa was one of the attendants to some of these meetings (he presented himself as an historician [sic] and University professor, but never mentioned his political activities).
Indeed, he came to Madrid with us on April 8 2014 paying his own expenses. He didn’t participate in any of the meetings we had with politicians.
He didn’t play any role in our presentation to the public on April 23, and he distanced himself from us just after that date.
He was never a partner of SCC.
But a document that has been brought to my attention shows SCC to be lying on several points. In fact, SCC itself described Barraycoa as a ‘founding member’ of the group. A PowerPoint presentation prepared for its event at the Col.legi de Periodistes de Catalunya on April 7th 2014 includes one slide where Arza and Barraycoa are both listed as ‘Membres fundadors’ of Societat Civil Catalana. The man Arza describes as being present ‘in some meetings previous to the creation of SCC’, is identified by the group itself – and one must assume, Arza himself – as a founding member, establishing him as a socio from the very beginning.
SCC’s presentation from April 7, 2014. Javier Barraycoa (as ‘Xavier’), bottom left. Juan Arza (as ‘Joan’), top left.
Of course, Barraycoa was only identified as a founding member of SCC for a short time. In that same month of April, Vilaweb broke the story about Barraycoa’s links to the far-right and in the scandal that ensued, SCC quietly removed references to him from their literature.
Arza insists that Barraycoa “distanced himself from us just after that date”. Presumably, this is because the press got hold of the story that Barraycoa, a noted ultra-conservative and Carlist, had attended a meeting with Democracia Nacional, an extreme right-wing party, on February 8th 2014. He was apparently there to promote his book and unfortunately for him, his talk was filmed. You could almost mark that down as a mistake on his part. If it weren’t for the fact that he turned up at another Democracia Nacional meeting, this time in November. The meeting was once again filmed. Fool me once, shame on you, as the saying goes. Based on this evidence, there is no question that Barraycoa has links to the far right.
Arza is also misleading us when he says that Barraycoa “didn’t play any role in our presentation to the public on April 23”. Because although he wasn’t on stage, he was there outside the event, with his accreditation hanging from his neck. Only organizers of the event were provided with accreditation.
Javier Barraycoa at SCC’s inaugural event, welcoming the public outside the Teatre Victòria on April 23, 2014. (Photo: Jordi Borràs.)
4/5 aquí teniu la foto amb les metadades que demostren dia i hora de la realització de la imatge. pic.twitter.com/6ehDWy4OXa
— Jordi Borràs (@jordiborras) June 9, 2015
The third lie:
…he presented himself as an historician [sic] and University professor, but never mentioned his political activities
– implies that Barraycoa simply walked in off the street and presented (some of) his credentials. But Barraycoa is closely linked to Josep Ramon Bosch, SCC’s President. They ran the right-wing group Somatemps together. Somatemps was effectively the precursor to SCC, the latter only being created when it was clear that Somatemps didn’t have a hope of passing for the transversal group that SCC has presented itself to be.
The idea that SCC didn’t know the background of a founding member and long-established collaborator with its own president is patently absurd.
The suggestion that Barraycoa and SCC distanced themselves from each other is another lie. Months after his connections to the far right were revealed, and at which time SCC was hiding its relationship with him from the public eye, Mr Barraycoa manned an SCC stand in Badalona on August 21st.
Javier Barraycoa at SCC’s stand in Badalona, August 21 2014. (Photo: SCC)
SCC secretary Isabel Porcel and SCC Board member José Domingo were also present, as this SCC video shows. Which indicates that they had no problem with Mr Barraycoa’s presence there.
Juan Arza and Societat Civil Catalana insult our intelligence when they claim not to know about Javier Barraycoa. They’ve lied about his status as a founding member of the group and his activity for the group, continuing at least as recently as August of last year. And they’ve failed to publicly distance themselves from him. Why? It can only be because while they’re perfectly happy having the support of the far-right, they would rather keep it a secret.
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'Orwell was off by only 35 years'
Image source: Vimeo screenshot
A United Kingdom restaurant chain, Burger & Lobster, launched a gender-neutral, colorless line of cocktails in two of its London establishments recently "in a bid to remove stereotypes surrounding drinks" that influence patrons to avoid selections they see as traditionally geared to the opposite gender.
Burger & Lobster noted in a news release that the "Mixed-ology" cocktails came about after research and social experiments.
In its Soho restaurant, the new line's five cocktails were listed using numbers and ingredients rather than traditional names; at its Bread Street eatery, the traditional names were used. It was discovered that:
Just over 30 percent of male customers weren't keen on drinks like the Cosmopolitan or Pina Colada because of their "feminine" names.
And just over 10 percent of female customers were too embarrassed to order drinks considered more "masculine" like a Negroni or Old Fashioned.
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Also, it was discovered that just over 20 percent of drink buyers aren't comfortable ordering items they see as geared toward the opposite gender. And 67 percent would avoid a drink if the glassware was too "feminine" or "masculine," the outlet said.
Let the lampooning begin
Commenters on Yahoo Lifestyle's coverage of the gender-neutral line of cocktails weren't very impressed:
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"Next week: The words 'white,' 'black,' 'yellow,' and 'brown' were all removed from food and drink names because they are painfully obvious racist terms."
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By: Tony Sadiku
LEE COUNTY, Fla., — Your child gives it their all, both time and effort, yet struggles to complete a homework assignment.
Another child scribbles their name on a piece of paper and turns it in.
Technically, both students could get the same grade according to an investigation by Scripps station WFTX in Fort Myers, Florida that’s uncovering the tactics teachers and administrators are using to boost low grades.
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“I am not aware of such a policy,” said Board Member Dr. Jane Kuckel.
“I think every parent needs to be aware of the grading policy,” said Mark Castellano, a former Lee County public school teacher.
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Middle school students who don’t pass are still promoted to the next grade level, but may be more likely to struggle down the road.
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“Teachers will begin to think that I need to retain because this child doesn’t seem to be able to tackle the issues in high school,” Creel said. “A retained 8th grader can be one of the highest indicators of a dropout. We are finding strategies to help our overaged 8th graders to get the credits they need so they can move on to high school.”
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Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Fri, 12/27/2013 - 3:16pm
Devon and Cornwall Police have reported no incidents over the Christmas period.
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21.33 Million
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FX (36×24) image area, (L)5568, x3712, (M)4176, x2784, (S)2784, x1856, 1.2x (30×20) image area, (L)4640, x3088, (M)3472, x2312, (S)2320, x1544, DX (24×16) image area, (L)3648, x2432, (M)2736, x1824, (S)1824, x1216, 5 : 4 (30×24) image area, (L)4640, x3712, (M)3472, x2784, (S)2320, x1856, FX-format photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, (L)5568, x3128, (M)4176, x2344, (S)2784, x1560, DX-format photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, (L)3648, x2048, (M)2736, x1536, (S)1824, x1024, Photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 3840 x 2160: 3840 x 2160 Photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 1920 x 1080 crop: 1920 x 1080
NEF (RAW): 12 or 14 bit (lossless compressed, compressed, or uncompressed); large, medium, and small available (medium and small images are recorded at a bit depth of 12 bits using lossless compression), TIFF (RGB), JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1 : 4), normal (approx. 1 : 8), or basic (approx. 1 : 16) compression; optimal quality compression available, NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats
XQD, CompactFlash (CF) (Type I, UDMA compliant)
Compatible with AF NIKKOR lenses, including type G, E, and D lenses (some restrictions apply to PC lenses) and DX lenses (using DX 24 x 16 1.5x image area), AI-P NIKKOR lenses, and non-CPU AI lenses (exposure modes A and M only). IX NIKKOR lenses, lenses for the F3AF, and non-AI lenses can not be used. The electronic rangefinder can be used with lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/5.6 or faster (the electronic rangefinder supports 15 focus points with lenses that have a maximum aperture of f/8 or faster, of which 9 points are available for selection).
Metering System:
TTL exposure metering using RGB sensor with approximately 180K (180,000) pixels
Metering Method:
Matrix: 3D color matrix metering III (type G, E, and D lenses); color matrix metering III (other CPU lenses); color matrix metering available with non-CPU lenses if user provides lens data Center-weighted: Weight of 75% given to 12 mm circle in center of frame. Diameter of circle can be changed to 8, 15, or 20 mm, or weighting can be based on average of entire frame (non-CPU lenses use 12-mm circle) Spot: Meters 4 mm circle (about 1.5% of frame) centered on selected focus point (on center focus point when non-CPU lens is used) Highlight-weighted: Available with type G, E, and D lenses
ISO Sensitivity:
ISO 100 to, 102400, in steps of1/3, 1/2, or 1EV, Can also be set to approx. 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, or 1 EV (ISO 50 equivalent) below ISO 100 or to approx. 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 EV (ISO 3280000 equivalent) above ISO 102400; auto ISO sensitivity control available
Focus Points:
153, 153 focus points, of which 55 or 15 are available for selection
Frame Size and Frame Rate:
3840 x 2160 (4K UHD); 30p (progressive), 25p, 24p 1920 x 1080; 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, 24p 1920 x 1080 crop; 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, 24p 1280 x 720; 60p, 50p Actual frame rates for 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, and 24p are 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, and 23.976 fps respectively; high quality available at all frame sizes, normal quality available at all sizes except 3840 x 2160
USB Connector:
SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0 Micro-B connector), connection to built-in USB port is recommended
HDMI Output:
Type C HDMI connector
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HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop and desktops double down on accessible PC gaming
By Joe Osborne 2018-04-11T14:28:08.1Z
Plus, a (pricey) HP Pavilion Gaming Display to go with either
As it turns out, PC gaming has grown to be mighty profitable for PC makers, the latest of which to double down on widening that audience being none other than HP. The firm has announced three new Pavilion Gaming products aimed toward more mainstream or first-time PC gamers.
These three new devices consist of a gaming laptop, two variants of a gaming PC and an HDR gaming monitor. First up is the HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15, an obviously 15-inch gaming notebook decked out in perhaps a bit more gamer-centric design than we’d expect, with either ‘Acid Green,’ ‘Ghost White’ or ‘Ultraviolet’ accents atop a matte black chassis.
Read more: HP Omen Desktop PC
Beyond that, this laptop will house Intel’s latest, Coffee Lake H-series hexa-core processors – starting with i5 and up to i7 – backed by Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics chip. From there, you have a choice between 8GB of DDR4 (2,666Hz) memory or 16GB of Intel’s latest Optane Memory, as well as either 1TB of spinning storage (with the Optane model) or a 128GB SSD-plus-1TB hard drive combo.
All of this sits behind a Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) display with tiny bezels and in-plane switching (IPS) for wider viewing angles. HP promises up to 8 hours and 45 minutes of mixed usage on a charge from this laptop, which will start at $799 (about £569, AU$1,029) when it launches on May 27.
The HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 790
Desktop PC gaming on the cheap – well, almost
In the same announcement, HP also unveiled the simply named HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690 and 790. Both of these computers come in largely identical, green-on-black cases, but are awfully different on the inside.
For instance, the 690 model is an all-AMD device, sporting an AMD Ryzen 3 2200G processor and AMD Radeon RX 550 graphics card. Meanwhile, the 790 version is an Intel-and-Nvidia affair, with an 8th-generation Intel Core i5-8400 processor and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card.
From there, both models sport 8GB of DDR4 (2,666Hz) memory and gobs of USB ports (including one USB-C each), though storage options differ. The 690 model comes with a 7,200 rpm 1TB hard drive, while the 790 simply has a 256GB SSD to start. However, we’re told that several storage and memory configurations will be available.
The HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690 will be available for $549 (about £389, AU$709) to start on April 15, while the 790 model will launch on April 30 for $649 (about £459, AU$839) to start.
Finally, and where HP’s push for affordable PC gaming begins to fall apart, the firm has announced a massive, 32-inch gaming monitor with HDR for better color reproduction. It’s called simply (again) the HP Pavilion Gaming 32 HDR Display, and shines at 600 nits brightness as well as supports AMD Radeon FreeSync technology for reducing screen tearing.
The monitor pumps out a QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution that, frankly, the other products HP has announced will have trouble fulfilling with their low-end graphics cards. Here’s the kicker: the Pavilion Gaming 32 HDR Display will call for $449 (about £319, AU$579) when it lands on May 11.
Frankly, this monitor costs just 100 bucks less than HP’s most affordable gaming desktop – whereas you can find just-fine 1080p gaming monitors for hundreds less. By this logic, this product should drop the ‘Pavilion’ name and adopt HP's high-end gaming ‘Omen’ moniker.
At any rate, the booming popularity of PC gaming all the more apparent now that HP has followed Dell and other brands in doubling down on efforts to widen that audience. In the end, that can only be good for all of us – i.e. more newbies to mop the floor with.
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TechSoup Canada Accessible Customer Service Policy
Providing goods, services or facilities to people with disabilities
TechSoup Canada understands that obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA) and its accessibility standards do not substitute or limit its obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code or obligations to people with disabilities under any other law.
TechSoup Canada is committed to complying with both the Ontario Human Rights Code and the AODA.
TechSoup Canada is committed to excellence in serving all customers, including people with disabilities.
Our accessible customer service policies are consistent with the principles of independence, dignity, integration and equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.
People with disabilities may use their personal assistive devices when accessing our services.
In cases where the assistive device presents a significant and unavoidable health or safety concern or may not be permitted for other reasons, other measures will be used to ensure the person with a disability can access our goods, services or facilities.
We will ensure that our staff is trained and familiar with various assistive devices that may be used by customers while accessing our goods, services or facilities.
Our team will share a document to report cases of talking with a customer with disabilities (ex: a hearing disability) in an effort to continually improve the way Account Managers at TechSoup deal with this kind of situation.
Situations of interacting with customers who utilize assistive devices will be incorporated into our training materials for staff. The objective being to train our staff to provide quality service to customers who utilize assistive devices.
We will communicate with people with disabilities in ways that take into account their disability. This may include the following:
When speaking on the phone:
Speak clearly enough to be understood
Speaking with a support person or interpreter
Following the communications preferences outlined by our customers
Write emails in large, easy to read font with high contrast
Invite customers to notify us if they need emails to be written in a more legible way
Keep in mind that some of our customers may have learning disabilities. We will do our best to communicate in a clear and understandable way.
TechSoup Canada will provide service to customers who utilize support persons in a way that is effective and maintains the respect and dignity of all parties involved.
The main channels of TechSoup Canada’s customer service are email correspondence and phone calls.
As a result, the situation where support persons are most likely to be involved is when supporting customers over the phone. Not only is TechSoup Canada open to talking to support persons, but we are also committed to improving our service in these situations. To do so, we will train our staff in communication by phone when a support person is involved, and collect feedback for improvements, in an attempt to make these conversations as positive as possible.
TechSoup Canada being a program of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), all TechSoup Canada’s employees are required to take part to an accessible customer service training.
Staff will be trained in conducting accessible customer service within 6 months after being hired.
Purpose of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the requirements of the customer service standard
Centre for Social Innovation and TechSoup Canada’s policies related to the customer service standard
How to interact and communicate with people with various types of disabilities
How to interact with people with disabilities who use an assistive device or require the assistance of a service animal or a support person
How to use the equipment or devices available on-site or otherwise that may help with providing goods, services or facilities to people with disabilities. These include:
What to do if a person with a disability is having difficulty in accessing CSI and TechSoup Canada’s goods, services or facilities
Staff will also be trained when changes are made to our accessible customer service policies.
Feedback process
TechSoup Canada welcomes feedback on how we provide accessible customer service. Customer feedback will help us identify barriers and respond to concerns.
Customers will be notified of how to provide feedback in the following ways:
A note on the Contact Us page - ‘‘We welcome your feedback on how we could make our service more accessible‘‘
Customers who wish to provide feedback on the way TechSoup Canada provides services to people with disabilities can provide feedback in the following way(s):
Answering our annual survey
“Have you ever experienced any barriers in accessibility when contacting customer service or using our website? If so, what was your experience?”
Writing to our team of Account Managers at customerservice@techsoupcanada.ca
Calling our team of Account Managers at 1.855.281.5499
All feedback, including complaints, will be handled in the following manner:
Feedback will be communicated to the staff responsible for accessibility in the relevant area of business. Our team will then decide upon actions that can be taken to avoid a recurrence of the same issue or to generally improve our services.
Customers can expect to hear back in 7 to 10 business days.
TechSoup Canada will make sure our feedback process is accessible to people with disabilities by providing or arranging for accessible formats and communication supports, on request.
Notice of availability of documents
TechSoup Canada will notify the public that documents related to accessible customer service, are available upon request by posting a notice in the following location(s)/way(s):
TechSoup Canada’s website (Contact Us page)
TechSoup Canada will provide this document in an accessible format or with communication support, on request. We will consult with the person making the request to determine the suitability of the format or communication support. We will provide the accessible format in a timely manner and, at no additional cost.
Modifications to this or other policies
Any policies of TechSoup Canada that do not respect and promote the principles of dignity, independence, integration and equal opportunity for people with disabilities will be modified or removed.
Questions about this policy
This policy exists to achieve service excellence to customers with disabilities. If anyone has a question about the policy, or if the purpose of a policy is not understood, an explanation should be provided by, or referred to any Account Manager at TechSoup Canada.
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How to Determine Website Credibility
By: David Sarokin
According to Google, the Internet consists of more than 30 trillion Web pages and is constantly getting larger. Given these numbers, it's no surprise that some sites are more trustworthy than others. That is, some sites present information that is widely regarded as reliable, and some sites do not -- and the same is true for websites as is for people: it's not always easy to determine who you can trust. There aren't any foolproof methods for guaranteeing honesty and accuracy online, but a variety of clues and techniques can help you gauge a website's credibility. These include reviewing site ownership, examining content and design, researching other opinions about a site and checking in with your own common sense.
A website address is one clue to the site's reliability.
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Check In With Your Common Sense
Consider the purpose of the site. Pages with a strong advocacy position, especially on controversial topics, do not always present objective information. Sites that want to sell you -- on a product, an idea, a lifestyle, a political viewpoint -- sometimes have a greater interest in persuasion than in truth.
Consider the design of the site. A page on the Web that is built with garish colors, flashing graphics and intrusive sound and video may be more interested in grabbing your attention than in presenting reliable information. Pages that are cluttered with advertisements might be focusing more on earning income than on providing useful content.
Look at the site's URL. A site address ending in .gov or .mil is an official U.S. government website, and information on the site generally goes through extensive layers of review and quality assurance prior to posting. University and school websites are often identified by an .edu extension and usually adhere to academic standards for posted materials (unless the schools provide students with personal Web pages, in which case, there may be no standards for information posted by the students). Other common extensions like .com, .org and .net have highly variable protocols for quality control, resulting in many credible sites but many that are far less so.
A source that is well-known to you, such as a local library, newspaper, business or community organization, is likely to build an online presence that reflects the group's offline credibility. Sites built largely or wholly from user-generated content, such as many social media sites, are less likely to have mechanisms in place to assure credibility of the information that is posted.
Find Out What Others Think
Put the site's URL address in quotation marks--"www.anysite.com"--and use it as a search term in Google, Bing or any other search engine. Scan the search results to see which other sites are referencing the URL and the types of feedback the sites have on the URL. Sites that have very few mentions elsewhere on the Internet have not been widely viewed and will have little or no testimony as to the site's credibility. Sites with hundreds or thousands of mentions will generally have feedback from users of the site as to its overall credibility. For instance, if you see many search results that refer to the site as a "scam," treat the content of the URL you searched with skepticism.
Identify the author of the site, whether a person or an organization, and search on the author's name as well. Your search results will provide feedback on how well the author is regarded. For sites with no information as to who or what group created the site, the content should be viewed with caution.
Do Some Research
Use online tools for additional feedback about a specific site. Alexa offers details about a site's popularity, traffic and history. It also identifies other sites on the Web with similar content so you can compare how sites present information. Online encyclopedias like Wikipedia have entries on the Internet's larger sites and often include commentary about how the user community perceives a site's credibility. For business sites, you can check the Better Business Bureau for ratings on the overall business. BBB also includes ratings for charitable organizations. Enter a website's address in online tools like Norton Safe Web to find out if a site has been identified as containing malware and is unsafe to visit. The site's whois record includes details on when the site was registered, by whom and from what country.
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Thu., August 15, 2019
Looking for compassion at City Hall
Ducks swim and walk near their pond at Amber Oldfield's northeast Cedar Rapids home on Monday, July 22, 2019. Seven ducks will be released at another location once their flight feathers develop. Oldfield has lived in this home for 10 years and is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. The ducks have a small pond in which to swim and eat algae. The coop at left houses raccoons in rehabilitation. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
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Maybe you saw my column last week about Amber Oldfield, the state-licensed animal rehabilitator who has been told by the city of Cedar Rapids she must cease her work with animals at her home or move. Oldfield has run afoul of zoning rules.
Well, Mayor Brad Hart saw it. And he was not pleased.
I ran into the mayor at an unrelated editorial board meeting last week and he made it clear he didn’t appreciate my comparison between how the city pulls out all the stops for big developers but is being far less accommodating to Oldfield’s predicament. He said Oldfield should have known the zoning rules when she moved to the northeast side after being flooded out of her previous address in 2008.
If the city makes an exception for Oldfield, where does it stop, the mayor wondered. And her animals pose a safety risk, the mayor argues.
So I guess it’s better to stop or displace Oldfield, who cares for about 300 animals each year, for no pay, than to slide down a slippery slope toward zoning chaos. Ridiculous, to put it mildly.
It’s worth mentioning, again, that no one has complained about Oldfield’s operation.
Oldfield pleaded to Hart and the City Council Tuesday afternoon for help finding a solution that either allows her to stay or eases her transition to another property.
“I have a lot of experience with animals, but I lack the knowledge of how to get this done,” Oldfield told the council. “I am asking for help, for the knowledge you all have.”
Oldfield told me she has been having problems with some kids in her neighborhood, which led to her make multiple calls to police. That drew city scrutiny of her zoning situation.
That scrutiny has yielded other complications. Because Oldfield’s mortgage is under the name of a former boyfriend — she makes the payments — the city now has designated her home as a rental property. After an inspection, the city told Oldfield she must paint the house and raise the ceiling in her son’s room by two inches to meet code, among other fixes.
Her complicated finances just got more complicated.
“With this I can’t even think about moving, let alone start moving in that direction. It is just too much for one person to do,” Oldfield told the council.
It makes you wonder what else the city has up its sleeve.
Three residents rose to Oldfield’s defense.
“She’s a rare breed, with a kind and caring heart, taking care of creatures that would very well suffer a slow, painful death without her help,” said Julie Hamilton, who noted that some domestic pets in the city cause more problems and complaints. “Forcing her to move or to get rid of the very animals that need her most seems cruel to me.”
But among council members, only Ashley Vanorny expressed a willingness to help.
“I wanted to let you know that I’m compassionate to your cause and will help champion the work that you do, welcoming the help of any council members,” Vanorny said. “I have great respect for the work you do and will find a way forward with a resolution. Thank you for looking after these animals.”
Compassion, what a novel concept. It sure beats cruelty, complications and the slippery slope.
l Comments: (319) 398-8262; todd.dorman@thegazette.com
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Damien Walter's weird things
Science-fiction's Golden Age writers left a fantastic legacy
From gaming to films, sci-fi is loved by millions, and has diversified for our times – can other literary genres claim that?
Damien Walter
Fri 13 Sep 2013 04.58 EDT First published on Fri 13 Sep 2013 04.58 EDT
Set to stun … Mass Effect
They say the golden age for reading science fiction is 12. The cusp of adolescence when our sense of wonder is at its greatest. But the genre's Golden Age is historically dated from the mid 1930s to the late 1950s. From its humble origins in the pages of pulp magazines (the mass entertainment of the 1920s), Golden Age SF launched its assault, lasers ablaze, on the shelves of respectable book shops around the globe.
Golden Age SF conjured amazing visions of the future that, for many people, are still the epitome of science fiction. Vast galactic empires warring across millennia. Alien invaders from other planets. Super-science countering the threats that faced mankind. And at the heart of it all, heroic men, heroically saving the world with their problem-solving powers of reason and logic. Oh, and plenty of huge, thrusting rockets.
The recent death of Frederik Pohl marked the passing of the last great writer of Golden Age SF, as Neil Gaiman noted. Many of the authors who shaped the Golden Age are long forgotten, but a few are still remembered among those who can list all 29 Grand Masters of Sci-Fi: Robert A Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, Clifford D Simak, AE van Vogt. What the greats of Golden Age SF may have lacked in literary skills they made up for with blistering powers of imagination and the cunning deployment of middle initials. And between them they created a genre that is arguably among the most influential literary movements of the last century.
What other literary genre can claim the influence over popular culture, and hence the hearts and minds of the masses, of sci-fi? From blockbuster Hollywood movies to the vast popularity of video game franchises such as Halo, Mass Effect and Bioshock, sci-fi is a constant in the lives of today's generation. What lasting influence, in contrast, do modernism, or the Lost Generation, or the Beats, have in the commercialised, capitalistic, mainstream culture of today?
And yet science fiction is still largely ignored by our cultural elite. The recent Man Booker prize shortlist has many great strengths, but SF is still systematically excluded from consideration. English departments at UK universities lead research across 20th century and contemporary literature, but SF is still shunned as an explicit research discipline. Perhaps it is the very popularity of science fiction that prevents elitists from seeing its value?
Or perhaps the values of science fiction itself are to blame. Much as we might love its ability to transport us on flights of fantasy, the conservative values of Golden Age SF are in stark contrast to the progressive literary movements it eclipsed. The esteemed SF critic Paul Kincaid presents a convincing argument for SF as an essentially rightwing genre of literature in his 2008 essay Hard Right. The ongoing arguments about the representation of gender and race within the genre highlight problems which should come as no surprise, given that the early authors of Golden Age SF were almost exclusively white and male.
But science fiction has moved on in the decades since its Golden Age. A series of artistic movements including the New Wave of the 1960s, cyberpunk in the 1980s and New Weird in the years post 2000 have transformed the genre in weird and radical ways. The science fiction stories of Lauren Beukes, Charles Stross, Madeline Ashby, G Willow Wilson, China Miéville and a growing cohort of younger novelists might not even be recognised as SF by the early creators of the Golden Age. And yet I am certain every one of those authors would acknowledge the influence of that era, even if they rebel against its values.
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Guardian News & Media sustainability report
Environmentally regenerative
Our commitment to improving GNM's environmental performance will test our ingenuity, but it is the only way to be sure of progress
Sun 16 Nov 2008 19.01 EST
Enlarge the image to view the key elements of our carbon strategy, and the carbon footprint of GNM offices and print sites
Our ambition to be environmentally regenerative came out of a six-month partnership with sustainability charity Forum for the Future, which was framed around how sustainability could support the future success of GNM.
The commitment was made even though there was no way to be certain that becoming environmentally regenerative is possible. This is because we wanted to commit to a challenge that would test our ingenuity.
We didn't want to aim for carbon neutrality because we felt it had already been tainted by companies rushing to meet this target, sometimes for marketing advantage and often by the lazy route of offsetting, rather than looking for reductions or to avoid the emissions in the first place.
We also wanted to have a broader definition to ensure that our influence with our readers and suppliers could be brought into the equation, recognising that we can have an impact in those areas as well as at our own offices and print sites.
A recent report produced by Forum and the American NGO Clean Air Cool Planet called Getting to Zero echoed our approach, concluding that the "dynamic, fluid nature of the concept [carbon neutrality] also means that it may well be more intellectually honest to aspire to neutrality rather than to claim it.
"Changing expectations over time will push the company in question to continually improve its performance and to engage with its suppliers and customers to help them reduce their emissions.
"If we accept that neutrality is a fluid target, then transparency about what is, and what is not, covered by a claim becomes absolutely essential. Companies should anticipate and be prepared for considerable scrutiny from stakeholders."
A year ago we realised while we were developing a strategy around our editorial and commercial operations, we had not been giving sufficient attention to our operational performance. In fact, areas such as waste management in our offices, would not have held up well to scrutiny by our stakeholders.
To rectify this, environmental manager Claire Buckley was appointed in summer 2008. She has been concentrating on reviewing GNM's environmental performance and establishing a process of continual improvement.
Her initial review has resulted in a more complete carbon footprint for our offices and print sites, as well as in the identification of the key steps we need to take to develop a comprehensive carbon strategy which will put us on the road to being carbon positive. We are aiming for external verification of our direct carbon footprint in 2009. Work has also begun on our indirect carbon footprint, focusing on our paper supply and newspaper distribution network.
A number of other changes have taken place over the past year that will have an impact on our operations. These include a change in the management structure of our two newspaper print sites. Trafford Park Printers in Manchester, which had been a 50% joint venture beween Guardian Media Group (GMG) and the Telegraph Group, came under our full ownership in October 2008 and we had earlier taken over the management of the Guardian Print Centre in East London. Bringing together the different environmental approaches of these two operations will be a priority.
We concentrated in 2008 on various actions to reduce emissions through energy-efficiency and replace high-carbon energy sources with sustainable alternatives.
We are confident that our new headquarters building in King's Cross will be significantly more energy efficient than the old 1960s office we move out of at the end of 2008 and will measure the changes in order to get the full benefits from the new site.
The building uses renewable energy as does our other office in Clerkenwell. Our energy intensive London print site GPC also switched to a renewable energy contract in October 2008.
Our Manchester print site (TPP) is currently locked into a brown energy contract, which does not come up for renewal for two years, but it has created an energy policy and embarked on a comprehensive reduction plan.
The GNM technology department has improved the energy efficiency of our IT infrastructure, reducing the number of servers in our data centres from 150 to just five, as well as installing intelligent power units. This has resulted in a 2% reduction in overall server energy consumption.
Acknowledging there are carbon emissions we cannot avoid, from 2009 we will be mitigating them through partnerships with three organisations:
• Sandbag campaigns to remove carbon permits that allow big business to carry on polluting as well buying permits to retire them from the system (sandbag.org.uk).
• The C-Change Trust runs the Carbon Busters programme where pupils create ways to reduce their schools' carbon footprint. We will be working with C-Change to invest in schools around our King's Cross office (thec-changetrust.org).
• The Converging World invests in clean energy in India. Profits go directly into creating sustainable communities there (theconvergingworld.org).
The various projects across GNM are taking place within the framework of a Carbon Management Project across all divisions of our parent company Guardian Media Group (GMG), with the support of the Carbon Trust. Its aim is to measure the carbon footprint of the six divisions and then seek significant reductions.
This year's targets
1. Strengthen our process of continual environmental improvement, including
environmental objectives, indicators and management reporting
2. Develop our carbon reduction strategy and road map towards being carbon positive
3. Measure the carbon footprint of the paper we purchase (by end of 2009)
4. Increase the certified content of virgin magazine paper to 90% by 2012
5. Support our two print sites in jointly developing new environmental improvement programmes
6. Establish sustainability measures within procurement and business travel
7. Raise staff engagement and awareness levels of GNM's sustainability commitments and performance
Last year's targets
1. Produce an independently verified 1. erified carbon footprint for our direct carbon emissions, and provide more accurate information on GNM's indirect emissions resulting from newspaper production and distribution 2 stars
2. Monitor the progress and environmental performance at our newspaper and magazine printsites based on recommendations produced by the Carbon Trust and CSRnetwork. 1 star
3. Undertake a comparative lifecycle analysis of bioplastic versus regular polythene, to give clarity around the environmental impacts of polybagging weekend newspapers. 3 stars
4. Appoint an environmental manager. 3 stars
5. Research the issues surrounding carbon emissions associated with paper manufacture. 2 stars
6. Improve the percentage of recycled paper in our magazine supplies subject to issues of quality and availability. 1 star
7. Progressively increase certified fibre content of virgin paper to 70% over five years. 2 stars
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Woman sues Indiana National Guard leader for defamation
By: Kara Kenney
INDIANAPOLIS — A former contract worker with the Indiana National Guard has filed a lawsuit accusing their top leader of having an affair with a subordinate and then retaliating against a woman who reported it.
Shari McLaughlin filed the lawsuit on August 1 in Marion County Superior Court against Major General Courtney Carr, the Adjutant General of the Indiana National Guard.
Starting in May 2017, McLaughlin worked as a government contractor servicing the Indiana National Guard Tyndall Armory.
When she was hired, McLaughlin was paired with an in-house mentor who began a sexual relationship with Carr around July 2017, court records show.
The woman shared with McLaughlin explicit dialogue she had exchanged with Carr including sexual images, videos, texting, rendezvous times and locations, according to the lawsuit.
McLaughlin also claims the woman asked her to serve as a look out during one incident at a local hotel during a convention.
Court documents also outline McLaughlin’s allegations of other sexual relationship between some of her co-workers and Indiana National Guard active-duty members.
She says once she came forward with concerns, McLaughlin was subjected to retaliation, unwarranted write-ups, false accusations, and intimidation.
“Realizing that the retaliation and intimidation would not stop, McLaughlin resigned her position, effective July 6, 2018 because the work environment had become too unsafe and toxic for her to continue to function in her role,” read the lawsuit.
McLaughlin alleges Carr got her fired from her subsequent job at Alutiiq, a federal contractor who administers the Building Healthy Military Communities program.
Shortly after starting her new position, the company informed her not to report to work the next day because she was “unfit to represent the state.”
“Carr intentionally interfered with McLaughlin’s business relationship with Alutiiq by threatening to terminate Alutiiq’s contract to conduct business in the state of Indiana.
McLaughlin’s is suing Carr for interfering with her employment contract.
“TAG Carr intentionally induced breach of McLaughlin’s contract with Alutiiq without legal justification and for personal reasons of a vendetta against McLaughlin for having reported his illicit sexual affair with a married woman and who was working for the Indiana National Guard,” read the lawsuit.
McLaughlin is also suing Carr for defamation, and claims she suffered damages as a result of Carr’s actions.
McLaughlin is represented by Tae Sture of Indianapolis law firm Sture Legal Services LLC.
RTV6 reached out to the Indiana National Guard for comment on the lawsuit.
“While we cannot discuss the nature of the current litigation, we can say the Indiana National Guard as a whole prioritizes its care for all uniformed and civilian personnel within the organization and continues to be a ready and reliable force supporting its communities, state and nation,” said SSG Beth Houx, Public Affairs Operations.
No attorney is listed yet for Carr in the court record.
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By lucy.morewood@rmml.com June 3, 2015 Family
and I think it must have something to do with the fresh strawberries & cream associated with Wimbledon, washed down with a cool glass (jug) of Pimm’s or Champagne!
There’s nothing tastier than a British strawberry, so red and juicy and sweet. You don’t need to do much with it when it’s in season or you’ll detract from its beauty. When strawberries are this easily available and cheap, then you just have to buy several punnets and enjoy them every day, in as many different recipes as possible. Eating them straight from the box is obviously the best way, but I add a handful to my breakfast granola or smoothie in the mornings and my girls can’t get enough of them as a snack or as a pudding – they eat them plain and always get covered in lots of sticky red juice!
Serving strawberries with cream is a very English tradition, especially at Wimbledon; but I love to adorn a classic crème patisserie filled tart with the red jewels. I often get asked what is my favourite thing to bake for myself, and I always say that I don’t have a sweet tooth and so enjoy a loaf of bread….that is unless I make crème patisserie for choux buns or a sweet shortcrust tart, then my will power goes out of the window and I’ll happily scoff the lot.
You can of course decorate the tart with any fruits you like and I often do a rainbow effect using mango, kiwis, blueberries, etc. But if I make the tart and there are soft fruits in season, then they will win hands down, from fresh cherries to blueberries, raspberries and of course strawberries. Finish the tart with an apricot jam glaze, just so it wouldn’t look out of place in the window of a French Patisserie.
Sadly you have to share the tart with others, but it will never fail to impress and what a treat to make for your family over the weekend whilst you watch and Cheer the British contingency at Wimbledon.
Summer Fruits Tart
Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
140g Unsalted Butter, Cold and Cubed, plus extra for greasing
2-3 tablespoons Cold Water
Crème Patisserie
500ml Full Fat Milk
6 medium free-range egg yolks
Vanilla Pod, split lengthways
Apricot Jam – to glaze
Fresh Mint, small sprig to decorate
1. Start by making the crème patisserie. Pour the milk into a saucepan and separate the yolks from the eggs. I usually keep the egg whites to use for macarons or meringues. You can store them in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or in the freezer for up to 3 months, just make a note of how many egg whites you have in the boxes
2. Next cut a vanilla pod in half – be careful not to scrape the seeds out – they’ll naturally fall out in the milk when it gets heated on the hob. Heat the milk with the vanilla pod until it’s just over body temperature – don’t let it boil.
3. Whilst the milk is warming, whisk the egg yolks, sugar, plain flour and corn flour in a large bowl until pale and light. Remove the vanilla pod and gradually add the milk to the egg mixture and whisk continuously until all the milk has been added. Make sure the milk isn’t too hot otherwise your eggs will begin to cook.
4. Transfer the mixture back to the saucepan and bring to a boil, letting it bubble a little and stirring throughout. Remove the mixture and transfer to a clean bowl and then cover with cling film so as not to let a skin form on top. Place in the fridge for a few hours to cool completely.
5. To make the pastry, place the plain flour, salt, icing sugar and cold butter into the food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. The reason I use icing sugar is because I think it gives you a much smoother pastry than using normal sugar which tends to have a more gritty texture.
6. Next, add the egg and 2-3 table spoons of cold water a little at a time until a ball of dough is formed. Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface to knead a little before wrapping in cling film and resting in the fridge for at least an hour.
7. Grease a 10 inch tart tin and put to one side until needed.
8. Once the pastry has chilled 7 rested, bring it out of the fridge 10 minutes before you need it. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough and carefully line the tin. Gently ease the pastry into the corners of the tin and leave the pastry over hanging as it may shrink a little while baking. Chill in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line the pastry shell with cling film and either baking beans, rice, lentils – whatever you have to hand to weigh the pastry down as it blind bakes in the oven for 15 minutes. Make sure your cling film can withstand the heat in your oven.
10. After this time, remove the beans and cling film and place back in the oven for a further 7 minutes to give the tart a chance to colour.
11. Once out of the oven, leave to cool a little before trimming off the overhanging pastry with a sharp knife to leave a clean and neat edge to the pastry. The shell needs to cool completely before being filled with the crème patisserie and fruit.
12. Whilst the cases are baking/cooling, prepare some fruit for you toppings – you can use any fruit you want, but as soft fruit are in season in Britain at the moment, I’m using summer fruits – they’re super delicious and always make me feel summer….even if it’s raining outside! Slice the strawberries and grapes in half, but leave the blueberries and raspberries whole.
13. To assemble the tarts, remove the pastry shell from the tin and place on a chopping board whilst you fill and decorate it.
14. Pipe the crème patisserie neatly into the shell then layer the fruit on top.
15. Heat a good amount of apricot jam in a small saucepan to glaze the tart at the end – this is optional, but I always think it’s worth the effort. Garnish with a small sprig of mint and serve straight away with a chilled glass of Prosecco.
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Putin Slams 'Obsolete' Liberal World Order in FT Interview
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Vladimir Putin’s interview with Financial Times. Kremlin.ru
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that liberal values were obsolete because they had been rejected by the majority of the people in Western nations.
Putin told the Financial Times newspaper that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made a cardinal mistake by adopting a liberal policy towards immigration from the Middle East.
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"The liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these? Every crime must have its punishment," Putin said in the interview.
"So, the liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population," he said.
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Putin said Russia is not homophobic, but that a Western willingness to embrace homosexuality and gender fluidity seemed excessive to him.
"Traditional values are more stable and more important for millions of people than this liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing to exist."
Putin also said he had the impression that liberal circles were set on using problems being experienced by the Catholic church to destroy the church.
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Alleged Rape of Russian Journalist Sparks Criminal Case After Outcry
Alina Scheglova Facebook
Investigators in the city of Novgorod have launched a criminal case into the alleged rape of a local female journalist by a chief editor, more than two weeks after she had first filed a report about the incident.
It is the latest case in Russia in which a woman has alleged sexual assault by a man in a senior post. Dozens of women in Russia have shared stories of sexual violence and abuse over the past two years on the back of the #MeToo movement in the United States. According to polls, a quarter of Russian women say they have been victims of sexual violence.
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Alina Scheglova, a journalist at the local Novgorod.ru news outlet, claims she was raped by an editor after a party in another outlet's newsroom on Sept. 27.
In an online post published last Saturday, she said that her attacker had offered to take her home after the party by taxi but waited until the newsroom was empty before raping her.
In her post, Scheglova, 33, said she decided to go public with her story after investigators had delayed launching a criminal case, sparking fears that the case may be closed. Scheglova said that her alleged rapist and his wife, a local police colonel, had repeatedly asked her to withdraw her accusation.
The Meduza news website named the alleged attacker as Mikhail Bogolyubov, 42, the chief editor of the local Novgorod newspaper.
“The man who raped me continues to head his newspaper, hold briefings and go to press conferences,” Scheglova wrote in her post.
“This is why I am coming out with my version of the events. It is painful for me to do this and it is terrifying… but I want only one thing: For this person to be punished in accordance with the law.”
The victim's alleged attacker has since taken a leave of absence from his newspaper, local media reported.
Days after Scheglova's post ignited a public outcry and nationwide media attention, investigators announced Wednesday that they had launched a criminal case into the alleged rape.
Since going public, Scheglova says she has received dozens of messages from women who say they were victims of sexual violence but were afraid to speak about it.
“It’s unbearably painful to read [the stories]. It’s even more painful to realize how many people have gone unpunished,” she wrote in a public post on the Telegram messaging app.
Scheglova’s colleagues at Novgorod.ru published a statement Tuesday in which they pledged to defend their correspondent.
Investigators say their probe into the incident is ongoing.
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Review: World premiere of La Boheme is a treat in Oman
With a few tweaks on and off the stage, this coproduction between the Royal Opera House Muscat and Opera De Monte-Carlo can go global
Irina Lungu, Giorgio Berrugi and Giovanni Romeo star as as Rodolfo, Mimi and Schuanard in La Boheme. Courtesy: Khalid AlBusaidi, ROHM.
A new version of Puccini’s La Boheme was staged in Oman.
Led by the acclaimed star soprano Irina Lungu, the new co-production between the Royal Opera House Muscat and Opera De Monte-Carlo was well-realised and contained enough developments to keep the most seasoned La Boheme fan engaged.
The biggest change in the new version – held on Thursday, October 4 – was in subtly shifting the period in which the story is told.
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Where the original production, based on Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of short stories Scenes de la vie Boheme, is set in the 1840s, this co-production fast forwards to the Parisian winter in 1945 and 1946.
This means were are in post-war France, a time marked with the anxiety and promise for a new future. All of which are encapsulated in La Boheme’s main cast of youthful dreamers; the wide-eyed poet Rodolfo (Giorgio Berrugi), the brooding artist Marcello (Gabriel Bermudez), the talented singer Musetta (Mariam Battistelli), the philosopher Colline (George Andguladze) and the violinist Schuanard (Giovanni Romeo).
Their joie de vivre, particularly highlighted in the infectious opening number Questo Mar Rosso, is quietly shattered with the arrival of Mimi (Irina Lingu). Rodolfo immediately falls in love with the sickly flower maker and the impending tragedy results in bitter truths for all involved.
A strong cast
The production is mostly successful and a lot of that is is down the cast giving their all. La Boheme is a deceptively difficult challenge for most performers. On top of the expectations that comes from taking on a crowd favourite, the opera requires a deep range to complement the vast emotional terrain covered.
Over the space of two and a half hours, the characters go through all the feels, from the joy of youth, the hopelessness of poverty, the anxiety of unexpected love and ultimately the tragedy and reality of death.
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Simply put, this is not a production for wallflowers and the seasoned cast embraced it all with verve.
Lungu, who was renowned for her Musetta in previous high profile productions at London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, is soulful as Mimi. She gives the character a certain serenity and acceptance that only amplifies her tragic situation.
Meanwhile, Berrugi is simply electrifying as Rodolfo. He moves from fun romantic machismo upon meeting Mimi, before digging deep to summon the pain as he witnesses his love withering away.
The last act, where he lies beside Mimi as she perishes, is truly heart breaking. When he laments about the loss of “my brief youth”, we ache with him. Most of us have felt that life-changing moment where we are forced to take on a new road.
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The only gripe I have with the uniformly strong cast is Battistelli’s Musetta. Then again, discussions regarding this character are similar to debating about salads. Some like their Musetta played strong with spice, while others prefer a lighter and nuanced touch.
I belong to the former school of thought, in that Musetta needs to be a fireball of passion. Her tempestuous nature not only explains her stormy relationship with the gregarious Marcello, but it also goes to high light her character’s central anxiety surrounding love and acceptance.
While her voice was buoyant and her flamboyant gowns show-stopping, Battistelli’s Musetta was too timid. At times, it made me wonder why Marcello was putting up with her shenanigans in the first place.
La Boheme is a co-production by the Royal Opera House Muscat and Opera De Monte-Carlo. Courtesy: Khalid AlBusaidi, ROHM.
Staging could use a tweak
Another aspect that needs to be rectified was the scene transition in the final act. While the production’s overall set design was elegant yet minimal – after all, the 500 seater Opera de Monte-Carlo is known and loved for its intimacy – and made good use of video projection, the set change from winter to spring, before the final scene was so long the crowd stirred uncomfortably.
This kink will surely be ironed out by the second and final performance in Muscat on Saturday, October 5.
As a coproduction, the Royal Opera House Muscat have done a fine job in collaborating with Opera De Monte-Carlo. Both institutions are similar in dynamism and global ambitions. With some minor tweaks, on and off the stage, their La Boheme definitely has legs for a potential world tour of mid-level venues that all opera lovers can enjoy.
La Boheme will be performed at the Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman, on Saturday, October 5, at 7pm. Tickets from OMR10 (Dh95) are available at www.rohmuscat.org.om
Updated: October 4, 2019 04:59 PM
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Home Other News Crime & Law Expat female chef chases off machete-wielding robbers
Expat female chef chases off machete-wielding robbers
Amie Keeley
18 Mar, 2011 @ 06:00
AN expat chef armed with a bottle of Famous Grouse chased off two machete-wielding robbers who tried to rob her local bar.
The 5ft 4ins heroine Suzie – whose nickname is ‘Rambo’ – grabbed the bottle of whisky off the bar, smashed it and threatened the masked pair.
Incredibly, the balaclava-wearing duo were so terrified of the former soldier they fled in panic, with her chasing them down the street.
“I don’t know what came over me,” Suzie told the Olive Press. “I just went into a zone.
“I realised no one was going to do anything so I decided it was up to me.”
The chef, from Plymouth, in Devon, had been drinking in JJ’s bar in Riviera del Sol, when the pair, described as Moroccan and in their 20s, came in just before closing time.
They walked straight up to the bar and demanded the barmaid put the day’s takings into a white plastic bag.
It was then that the red mist decended and chef Suzie – who asked not to give her surname – jumped into action.
The 47-year-old chef, who works at the nearby Garden Bar, explained: “I was in the army for 16 years and it is just in my nature to protect people.
“I honestly wasn’t even scared,” she continued. “Everyone else was left very shaken but I slept like a baby.”
Bar owner Jesma Mackie, 61, praised the heroics. “She’s either very brave or very stupid. She was as cool as a cucumber. I don’t think the robbers will ever come back .”
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Israeli Air Force graduation: The planes were impressive — but so were the people
Ezra LevantRebel Commander
So far, the highlight of our fact-finding adventure in Israel was getting to attend the graduation ceremony for the Israeli Air Force.
I'm pretty sure we were the only tourists there. The rest were the new pilots and their families, of course, but Prime Minister Netanyahu came too, along with other high ranking dignitaries. And not only that, but after giving his speech, the Prime Minister stayed for the entire ceremony, as each new pilot received his or her wings in a personalized presentation.
Can you imagine our own Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, even coming to an event like this, let alone staying for the whole thing?
And then what? An air show of our aging fighter planes, in contrast to Israel's F-15s and F-35s, the most advanced military aircraft in the world?
Israel's new pilots are mostly Millennials. While their counterparts in the rest of the west are arguing about gender pronouns, these young men and women are fighting real battles.
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Rick Plesnik commented 2018-07-04 14:18:19 -0400
Sorry for the double post. The site was acting up again……………
Jews have been targets for centuries. They realize this and would never tolerate a low life like Jihadi Justin.
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TOMMY ROBINSON’S COURT DATE JULY 10 2018 HAS BEEN CANCELLED NO FURTHER DATE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. EXCUSE THE GOVERMENT IS NOT READY….BS
THE REBEL MEDIA WITH THE COMPLETE CONSENT OF TOMMY ROBINSON’S
WIFE AND MOTHER HAVE SET UP CROWD FUNDING AT SAVETOMMY.COM
ALL FUNDS WILL BE USED TO FUND HIS DEFENCE. IF ANY LEFT OVER FUNDS RAISED
THE BALANCE WILL GO TO TOMMY’S WIFE AND FAMILY. GO TO THE REBEL MEDIA FOR MORE DETAILS …………….. FREE TOMMY ROBINSON …………..FREE SPEECH FOREVER
PRINT THIS SONG SING IT AT THE NEXT RALLY
THE TOMMY ROBINSON SONG
I hear there was a secret court
Journalists weren’t allowed to report
But you don’t really care, for freedom do yeah?
It goes like this without the 5th
The Gavel falls and they cuff your rists
It’s not OK that this is how they rule yeah
How they rule ya
But Tommy has been hear before
He’s seen this room and he’s walked this floor
Last time they tried to kill him, but he endured yeah
They need the votes for this growing state
And won’t stop who their voters rape
There was a time they let you know
Who’s really coming to your shores
But now they never tell the story true yeah
The state tries to say Tommy has racial hate
It’s really a fear of a caliphate
The state says “no, it’s how we rule ya”
How we rule ya
Pedophiles are celbrated
Tommy Robinson is incarcerated
But you never seem to care for children do ya?
The grooming gangs moved in on you
And the kids looked up to you for truth
Please just don’t say “baby this how the rule ya”
HOW THEY RULED YEAH
Maurice Potvin commented 2018-07-03 20:04:25 -0400
No, Ezra, we can’t afford a buffoon as Prime Minister. But, yes, we have one, and the country is suffering for it.
Cindy Churcher commented 2018-07-03 17:30:17 -0400
http://beholdisrael.org/news-israel/news/idf-provides-humanitarian-aid-syrian-refugees-overnight
IDF provides humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees overnight
Amy Lynn: Israel doesn’t need “welfare.” They are a very prosperous country at this point in time! They have never been in such a great position as a country financially. Are you aware of the many medical and technological advances that this country has initiated? Israel also has abundant natural gas resources. Would you rather see American money sent to somewhere like Iran, Amy?
God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America!
What Canadian Millennials have in comparison to Israel, is not a privilege, Ezra, it’s a curse! Millennials with nothing to do but worry about dying their hair pink and what pronoun they want to be called are not privileged! It’s really very sad. These young people in Israel are taught to care for their country, their people and are given the responsibility to keep Israel safe. How unfortunate that we have created such useless, lost and lazy young Canadians.
Amy Lynn commented 2018-07-03 16:29:28 -0400
Ezra, they’re impressive planes because US taxpayers fork over $11 million per day in welfare cheques to Israel.
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Welcome to the Smog.
by David Klemke on November 20, 2010
I was awake long before the alarm went off, an annoying trait I picked up many years ago when I was tinkering with my body clock. It always seems that whenever I set an alarm I’ll be awake at least 10~20 minutes before hand but should I try to wake without an alarm I’ll more than likely oversleep. Still I wasn’t as tired as I thought I would be and 30 minutes later I was ready to go and spending the last few moments in our hotel room watching the morning news whilst Rebecca got ready. We left the hotel 30 minutes later and caught a cab to JFK airport where we spent the next hour or so tracking down some breakfast before boarding our flight.
JFK to LA is one of the longest flights in the states and it was set to be about 5 hours to get to our destination. Thankfully this flight had Wifi and in a fit of forethought I had bought a monthly pass to the Delta in-flight system for only $7 more than the daily pass, granting me the ability to catch up on my tweets and Facebook posts. I didn’t use it much more than that though I was far too engrossed in the last 150 pages of Judas Unchained to care about much else, practically gulping down those last chapters without coming up for air. Knowing that I had 5 hours to kill and more than enough time to finish that book I had brought the sequel, Judas Unchained, along with me and started tucking into that immediately. I got about 100 pages into it before the call came on for us to land in LA. Our 5 hour flight had only lost us 3 hours putting the local time smack bang on midday.
After grabbing our luggage we made our way to the airport shuttle area to catch a bus to the hire car place. I had spent a lazy hour or so looking over the cars available the night before and settled on a Dodge Charger. Realistically it would be far too big for us, more suited to a small family, but I wanted something that would provide us a deal of comfort over some of the longer drives we were planning and the econoboxes weren’t really going to cut it. Arriving there we were told they were out of Chargers and the only one they had resembled a battered old Ford Falcon. A “mid sized” SUV was available for a similar price so we went ahead with that and got to pick our car. I picked a Jeep Grand Cherokee and got us on our way to the hotel with gusto.
After the initial excitement of seeing the city I realised that what I thought was clouds on the horizon was actually the thick blanket of smog. As we got closer it only got worse with the haze giving most of the buildings a particularly eery glow. Even in NYC the pollution wasn’t this bad as when we looked back at Manhattan from Liberty Island we could clearly see everything. From a similar distance in LA we were struggling to see the more distant buildings. Needless to say, I didn’t feel much like looking around town.
The hotel itself is in downtown LA, a fact I had failed to notice when booking it. Usually this wouldn’t be much of a concern but I knew this meant they’d be charging like a wounded bull for their parking. Indeed they were to the tune of $35 a night, as much as the car had cost to hire per day. Still the valets were nice and it meant we didn’t have to worry about parking but after the amount we paid for the hotel getting hit for extras feels a bit rich. I had the same feeling when I hooked up my laptop in the room only to be shown an sign-in page for internet access for $13 a day. I’d stayed in a $70/night hotel that gave me the fastest Internet connection I’ve had in the entire US for free so this was just the icing on the shit sandwich. Undeterred I started poking around to see if they were doing ARP poisoning like the DoubleTree was in NYC and found that they weren’t. 10 minutes of trying various MAC addresses later had me up and running with an Internet connection without having to shell out for something that I don’t believe should be a paid extra in a 4 star hotel.
We wanted to pick up some hotel room supplies so I tracked down the closet Walmart and punched the co-ordinates. About 10 minutes later we were passing through a pretty run down section of downtown LA. We past the supposed location twice and noticed that what was supposed to be a Walmart looked like a run down strip mall. Figuring that it was either a planned site (or more likely, one that was closed down) I found another and promptly got stuck in pre-rush hour traffic, seeing a 10 mile journey take almost 45 minutes. We got there though and secured out wants before heading back to the hotel for a workout before dinner. We hit a local pizza place that served amazing pizzas, leaving us both too full to finish and taking a box home to polish off later.
We’re hoping to hit up Disney World tomorrow as it’s something that Rebecca has really been looking forward to. After visiting Disney Land in Tokyo almost a decade ago and hating it (but then again I was an angsty little bastard) I’m keen to see if I’ll have a similar reaction the second time around. Plus it will hopefully get us away from the dreadful smog that seems to be unrelenting around here, making staying in the city very undesirable.
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New Poll Finds Majority of Voters Disapprove of Trump, Support Impeachment, But He Still Remains Competitive
October 15, 2019 by Dan McCue
President Donald Trump spars with a report during a press conference in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 2, 2019. (Photo by Dan McCue)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump may be weak when it comes to job approval and public support for impeachment, but a number of factors, ranging from economy to unfavorable views toward some Democratic candidates, continue to make him competitive in 2020, a new poll finds.
The latest Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Poll, released Tuesday afternoon, points to a 2020 political environment shaping up to be every bit as volatile—and negative—as 2016.
Among the warning signs for President Trump in the new survey:
A majority (56%) of voters have an unfavorable view of the President, as opposed to those with a favorable view of him (42%);
Only 43% of voters approve of his overall job performance, while 53% disapprove;
58% of voters believe the country is on the wrong track, while only 35% believe it is headed in the right direction;
If the election were held today, voters would pick the Democratic candidate over the President by a margin of 50-42%; and,
Voters say that President Trump should be impeached and sent to the Senate for a trial by a margin of 51-46%. Among independents, the margin is 53-43%.
But the survey does find some positive signs for the President as well:
Voters approve of the President’s job performance on the economy by a margin of 57-41%, and on jobs by a similar margin of 57-40%;
By a margin of 52-40%, voters believe the President would do a better job of handling the economy than Democrats in Congress; and
Of the seven top Democratic presidential candidates tested, six also have net unfavorable ratings.
“The latest Battleground Poll shows a remarkable level of engagement among all voters, polarization among partisans, and fluidity among independents,” said Mo Elleithee, executive director of the Institute for Politics and Public Service. “All of that is a recipe for an incredibly volatile election season.”
The national survey of 1000 likely voters was conducted from October 6-10 in a bipartisan effort by Republican pollster Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners.
Initiated in June 1991, Goeas and Lake brought the Battleground Poll to the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in early 2019. This is the second survey as part of that partnership.
The survey also found:
High Enthusiasm and No Partisan Enthusiasm Gap
The poll found that 82 percent of voters indicate that they are extremely likely to vote and there is no partisan enthusiasm gap between Republicans (84 percent extremely likely to vote) and Democrats (82 percent extremely likely to vote).
This type of intensity is unprecedented in Battleground Polling over the last twenty-eight years and particularly unusual for partisans on both sides to be so engaged.
Economy, Economy, Economy
The poll also found while the President has a majority approval rating among all voters on the economy (57%) and jobs (57%), two-thirds of Democrats (67%) disapprove of President Trump’s job performance on all six issues while sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters approve of his job approval on all six issues.
Consistent with the April 2019 survey findings, 58 percent of voters are either very or somewhat worried that the United States will suffer another economic downturn that will negatively affect their family; 40 percent are not too worried or not at all worried. There is a strong relationship between one’s partisan affiliation and one’s economic anxiety—or lack thereof.
Women: Married White vs. Independent
As with voters in the general electorate, women voters are also divided. White married women were key to President Trump’s 2016 victory and continue to give him a sixty-percent (60%) approval rating on the economy, a fifty-two percent (52%) approval rating on taxes, and a fifty-seven percent (57%) approval rating on jobs.
Similar to the overall poll, a strong, consistent message on the economy is key to President Trump’s success. Unlike many voting blocs that have abandoned the president, these women are still winnable.
However, independent women are increasingly becoming more dissatisfied with Trump and turning to the Democrats, fueling the President’s weak position in overall job approval, reelection chances and support for impeachment.
Fifty-four percent of independent women disapprove of the president, 64 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, 65 percent of independent women want to impeach, showing President Trump’s support among independent women sliding.
On impeachment, an astounding 94 percent of Americans said they have seen, read, or heard something about the Congressional investigation on impeachment, with 57% saying they are following the news on impeachment extremely or very closely.
While the Battleground Poll found that voters support the impeachment of the President by a 51-46% margin, the breakdown is predictable in its partisanship and intensity: 90% of Democrats say the President should be impeached (84% strongly), and 90% of Republicans say he should not be impeached (82% strongly). Independents, however, break in favor of impeachment by a margin of 53-43%, with the greatest intensity among independent women (65% in favor of impeachment, 56% strongly).
Warning Signs for the Democratic Candidates
While the Battleground Poll did not test match-ups with specific Democratic candidates, it did find that if the general election were held today, “The Democratic Candidate” would defeat President Trump by a margin of 50-42%.
The survey did highlight an area of concern for the Democratic field, however. Of the seven top Democratic candidates tested, six have net unfavorable ratings: Biden (-4), Castro (-12), Harris (-8), Sanders (-6), Warren (-1), and Booker (-9).
Of those tested, only Buttigieg had a net favorable rating (+4), but with a full 39% having no opinion or never heard of him.
Aspirational Vote vs. “Dislike Both”
Voters are signaling a desire to cast an aspirational vote in 2020. Respondents overwhelmingly said that supporting a candidate whose views closely match their own is more important than supporting a candidate who can beat the other side by a margin of 78-16%.
And by a margin of 71-21%, they believe their Presidential vote in 2020 will be a vote for their preferred candidate as opposed to against the other candidate.
And yet, the survey is showing a situation where voters have a net unfavorable view of both the President, and the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination. This sets up a scenario where the election could be decided by voters who dislike both candidates, creating an incentive for a scorched earth campaign by both parties—just like in 2016.
“The 2020 election is shaping up to be truly historical. Voters are engaged and energized,” said Ed Goeas, The Tarrance Group.
“Presidential candidates, Congressional leaders, and Congressional political parties all have images that are upside down,” he said. “The President has a majority disapproval job rating overall and on key issues like foreign affairs, immigration, and health care. His most viable path to victory is to paint his Democratic opponent as an unacceptable choice whose views are unacceptable. Those highly engaged voters hoping for an inspirational candidate running an aspirational campaign will be sorely disappointed.”
Meanwhile Celinda Lake, Lake Research Partners, said Democrats have made some important gains over the past six months.
“Trump is losing his appeal on economic issues, which provides an opening for the Democrats to make up further ground,” Lake said. “On top of that, we are seeing their base solidify, as women, Black voters, and college educated voters are all voting for Democratic candidates at higher rates than they were in April.
“We also see gender divides increasing, particularly among independent women, who are increasingly becoming dissatisfied with Trump and turning to the Democrats,” she said. “And yet, Democrats continue to trail Trump on the economy and jobs, and only run even with him on dealing with the rising cost of living.”
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Alcatel Idol 4S Will Ship in VR Viewer (Report)
By Cherlynn Low 2016-02-11T16:34:03Z
Alcatel is expected to launch a high-end follow-up to its Idol 3 flagship, and the Idol 4S may ship in a box that doubles as a VR headset.
How do you get people more excited about virtual reality? If you're Alcatel, you bundle a VR viewer with the phone. A new report says the upcoming Idol 4 handset will ship in a box that will double as a Google Cardboard-like VR headset.
Image courtesy of Evan Blass/Venturebeat
Alcatel has not yet announced the Idol 4, but the company is expected to show off a follow-up to last year's successful Idol 3 flagship at Mobile World Congress in Spain this month. And according to VentureBeat's Evan Blass, the next-gen handset will come in two flavors: a 5.2-inch Idol 4 and 5.5-inch Idol 4S.
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The Idol 4S will likely be the most highly-specced device out of Alcatel to date. It will reportedly carry a quad HD AMOLED display, octa-core Snapdragon 652 display and 16-megapixel rear and 8-MP front cameras. On top of that, the 4S will come in a hard plastic box that you can use as a Google Cardboard-compliant VR viewer, said Blass.
Based on the picture VentureBeat obtained, Alcatel's goggles looks like a sturdy, solid version of Google's cardboard folded headset. You should be able to put your phone into the frame, and use a VR app to turn your videos and pictures into split-screen, stereoscopic content that you can view in virtual reality.
This bonus goody, plus the premium specs for the Idol 4S' reportedly sub-$400 price, could really boost Alcatel's chances of having a winner on its hands. Last year's $250 Idol 3 garnered praise for its solid build, long-lasting battery and overall value. The Idol 3's success propelled the company to the fourth spot on IDC's list of top North American phone makers (by total units shipped).
Alcatel declined to comment on the report, but Blass has a solid history of dropping accurate leaks out of his Twitter account @evleaks.
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Sheet Music by Composer: Robert Hugill
The Lord bless thee
Robert Hugill
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Moderate (choir), Advanced (organ)
Setting of the blessing, 'The Lord bless thee, the Lord keep thee' for two part upper voices (womens voices or children) and organ.
The Advent Prose
Setting in Latin of the Advent Prose, the text taken from a plainsong hymn sung during the season of Advent. Robert Hugill's setting is for unaccompanied four part choir with some divisi.
Faith Hope and Charity for cello and choir
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Moderate (choir), Advanced (cello)
Arrangement for cello and choir of Robert Hugill's inspiring solo motet Faith, Hope and Charity. The cello sings the high solo line with its long cantilena whilst the choir provides a lyrical accompaniment.
Echoes of Love Remembered for clarinet quintet
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Clarinet quintet inspired by poems by the Egyptian poet Constantine Cavafy.
Love Remembered, suite for clarinet and piano
moderate to difficult
Six pieces for clarinet and piano after poems by Constantine Cavafy.
soprano and piano
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's inspiring poem set by Robert Hugill
To His Love
Ivor Gurney's poem which celebrates both his love of countryside and shattered friendships. Robert Hugill's setting came 2nd in the English Poetry and Song Society's 2007 Ivor Gurney competition.
Four Songs to Texts by Ivor Gurney
baritone and piano
Four moving poems by Ivor Gurney (Song, Requiem, To His Love, Song and Pain) set by Robert Hugill, two of the songs were short-listed in the 2007 English Poetry and Song Society's Ivor Gurney Competition.
soprano, alto and organ
St. Luke's description of the Annunciation set as a dialogue between soprano and alto soloists, which reflects both the dramatic nature of the Angel's appearance and Mary's quietly meditative response.
Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus
chapel choir and organ
Mass setting by Robert Hugill for two part choir and Organ (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei and Organ Postlude).
Jacob and the Angel
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A Nocturne for Choir and Strings, words and music by Robert Hugill, based on the story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel from Genesis.
Let this Harvest Pass, O Lord
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12 Duets for Alto and Guitar by Robert Hugill, setting poems by Carl Cook meditating on the progress of a love affair.
Songs of Love and Loss
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Song Cycle for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet (or Viola) and Piano by Robert Hugill
Passion, a setting of extracts from St John's Gospel, with interpolated poems, for Male Alto, Tenor, Tenor and Baritone.
Passion, by Robert Hugill, a setting of the passion story from St. John's Gospel, with 6 interpolated poems by Carl Cook
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Russia: RZD Logistics and Ratraco dispatch first direct Russia-Vietnam rail shipment
JSC RZD Logistics dispatched a test railway shipment from Russia to Vietnam in partnership with the Vietnamese operator Ratraco, a logistics company 35% owned by Vietnam Railways. This shipment is part of an agreement between Russian Railways and Vietnam Railways on bilateral cooperation and marks the launch of the Vietnam-Russia-Vietnam International Transport Corridor.
A container with cosmetics made by the Russian company “Red Line” departed from Freight Village Vorsino in the Kaluga region as a part of container train and arrived in Hanoi on 23 January. The shipment took 20 days to arrive, twice as fast as a standard shipment by sea. The cargo included shampoo for both adults and children, soap, shower gels, various scrubs, creams and masks for face and hair.
RZD Logistics was responsible for the general organisation of this multimodal transportation, providing at relatively short notice auto and container belonging to PJSC TransContainer which was loaded with products at the warehouse of the consignor.
RZD Logistics also organised the transportation of the goods to a railway station and freight forwarding across Russia. The RZD Logistics’ subsidiary Far East Land Bridge received the freight at the Manchuria-Zabaikalsk border point and supervised the transportation through China. Ratraco controlled the final stage of the shipment in Vietnam.
The timely and high-quality implementation of all stages of the project, from developing the route to searching for a client and partners, was facilitated by RZD Logistics’ competencies, which make it the only operator with the experience to launch such an international level service and in particular a new International Transport Corridor. The transport solution offered by RZD Logistics has several advantages for consignors, including short delivery times, a “one window service” and the guaranteed security of the cargo.
“We have covered the complete process from the initial idea to its implementation in a short time thanks to the efforts of our high-class specialists, who invested much of their time and effort into this project, even during New Year holidays. We are delighted to make our contribution to the development of trade relations between Russia and Vietnam, especially in such an important sphere as the export of Russian goods with high added value,” said the CEO of JSC RZD Logistics Viacheslav Valentik.
“We have been exporting our products for 15 years now and have been actively working on Asian markets recently. “Red Line” cosmetics are popular in the CIS and Baltic regions, as well as in European, Arab and Asian countries. This shipment was organised in order to coincide with the opening of our shop in Hanoi. The South-East Asia market has huge potential and is growing year by year, presenting us with a wide range of opportunities for future cooperation. Asia is a very diverse continent with regard to the wealth of its citizens and infrastructure development. It is also heavily-populated, which opens up great export opportunities for various goods, including our company’s products,” said Svetlana Marakhovskay, Managing Director of “Red Line” LLC.
JSC RZD Logistics was established on 19 November 2010 as part of the development of the logistics business within the Russian Railways (RZD) Holding. The Company provides a range of reliable services such as freight storage and forwarding all over the world, optimisation of supply chains, complex logistics services for production facilities and the container transportation of shot lots. Today RZD Logistics has 33 branches and branch offices in Russia and 5 subsidiaries and joint ventures abroad and employs 1,000 people.
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Gerth, S., Otto, C., Nam, Y., & Felser, C. (2017). Strength of garden-path effects in native and non-native speakers' processing of subject-object ambiguities. International Journal of Bilingualism 21(2), 125–144.
Gračanin-Yuksek, M., Lago, S., Şafak, D.F., Demir, Orhan & Kırkıcı, B. (2017). The interaction of contextual and syntactic information in the processing of Turkish anaphors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,46, 1397–1425.
Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family N., and Allen, S.E.M. (2017). The role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 269-282.
Jacob, G., Lago, S., & Patterson, C. (2017). L2 processing and memory retrieval: Some empirical and conceptual challenges. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 691-693.
Jessen, A., Festman, J., Boxell, O., & Felser, C. (2017). Native and non-native speakers' brain responses to filled indirect object gaps. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 46(5), 1319-1338.
Jessen, A., Fleischhauer, E. & Clahsen, H. (2017). Morphological encoding in German children’s language production: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Child Language, 44: 427–456.
Mosca, M. & de Bot, K. (2017). Bilingual language switching: Production vs. Recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 934.
Patterson, C., Esaulova, Y., & Felser, C. (2017). The impact of focus on pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension. Second Language Research 33, 403-429.
Reifegerste, J., & Clahsen, H. (2017). Accessing morphosyntactic information is preserved at old age, except for irregulars. The Mental Lexicon 12(3), 342-372.
Reifegerste, J., Hauer, F., & Felser, C. (2017). Agreement processing and attraction errors in aging: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German. Journal of Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition 24(6), 672-702.
Reifegerste, J., & Felser, C. (2017). Effects of aging on interference during pronoun resolution. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(12), 3573-3589.
Arslan, S., Bamyacı, E. & Bastiaanse, R. (2016). A characterization of verb use in Turkish agrammatic narrative speech. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 30(6), 449-469.
Bosch, S. & H. Clahsen (2016). Accessing morphosyntax in L1 and L2 word recognition: A priming study of inflected German adjectives. The Mental Lexicon 11, 26-54.
Clahsen, H. (2016). Experimental studies of morphology and morphological processing. In: A. Hippisley & G. Stump (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.792-819.
Clahsen, H. (2016). Contributions of linguistic typology to psycholinguistics. Linguistic Typology 20: 599–614.
Clahsen, H. & J. Veríssimo (2016). Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6, 685-698.
Clahsen, H. & Veríssimo, J. (2016). Dual morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese. In P. Guijarro-Fuentes, M. Juan-Garau and P. Larranaga (Eds.). Acquisition of Romance languages: Old acquisition challenges and new explanations from a generative perspective (pp. 41-64). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Felser, C. (2016). Binding and coreference in non-native language processing. In: Anke Holler & Katja Suckow (eds.), Empirical perspectives on anaphora resolution. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 229-253.
Festman, J. & Clahsen, H. (2016). How Germans prepare for the English past tense: Silent production of inflected words during EEG. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 487-506.
Festman, J. & Mosca, M. (2016). Influence of preparation time on language control: A trilingual digit-naming study. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.). Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism (pp. 145-170). Ontario, Canada: John Benjamins.
Jacob, G. & C. Felser (2016). Reanalysis and semantic persistence in native and non-native garden-path recovery. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 907-925.
Jacob, G., and Kırkıcı, B. (2016). The processing of morphologically complex words in a specific speaker group: A masked-priming study with Turkish heritage speakers. The Mental Lexicon,11, 2, 308-328.
Leminen, A., Clahsen, H., Lehtonen, M. & M. Bozic (eds.), (2016). Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. (pp.232).
Mosca, M. & H. Clahsen (2016). Examining language switching in bilinguals: The role of preparation time. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 415-424.
Nakano, Y., Ikemoto, Y., Jacob, G. & H. Clahsen (2016). How orthography modulates morphological priming: Subliminal kanji activation in Japanese. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 316 (Research Topic: Processing Across Languages; ed. by S. Kennison).
Reifegerste, J., Meyer, A. S., & Zwitserlood, P. (2016). Inflectional complexity and experience affect plural processing in younger and older readers of Dutch and German. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 32(4), 471-481.
Veríssimo, J. (2016). Extending a Gradient Symbolic approach to the native versus non-native contrast: The case of plurals in compounds [Commentary on Goldrick, Putnam, & Schwarz]. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 900–902.
Arslan, S., Bastiaanse, R., & Felser, C. (2015). Looking at the evidence in visual world: eye-movements reveal how bilingual and monolingual Turkish speakers process grammatical evidentiality. Frontiers in Psychology 6:1387.
Bosch, S. & Clahsen, H. (2015). Accessing morphosyntactic information in L1 and L2 word recognition: A masked priming study. In: E. Grillo & K. Jepson (eds.), BUCLD 39: Proceedings of BUCLD 39. Vol.1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 101-112.
Budd, M.-J., Paulmann, S., Barry, C., & H. Clahsen (2015). Producing morphologically complex words: An ERP study with children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 12: 51-60.
Clahsen, H., Gerth, S., Heyer, V. & E. Schott (2015). Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways: Evidence from plurals inside compounds. The Mental Lexicon 10: 53-87.
Cunnings, I., Patterson, C., & Felser, C. (2015). Structural constraints on pronoun binding and coreference: Evidence from eye movements during reading. Frontiers in Psychology 6:840.
Felser, C. (2015). Syntax and language processing. In: T. Kiss and A. Alexiadou (eds.). Syntax – Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 42.3, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1875-1911.
Felser, C. (2015). Native vs. non-native processing of discontinuous dependencies. Second Language 14, 5-19.
Heyer, V. & H. Clahsen (2015). Late bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal: Dissecting formal overlap from morphological priming in the processing of derived words. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18, 543-550.
Jacob, G. (2015). The L2 decomposition of transparent derived verbs - Is it ‘morphological’? A commentary on De Grauwe, Lemhöfer, Willems, & Schriefers (2014). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:220.
Krause, H., Bosch, S. & Clahsen, H. (2015). Morphosyntax in the bilingual mental lexicon: An experimental study of strong stems in German. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37, 597-621.
Pan, H.-Y., S. Schimke & C. Felser (2015). Referential context effects in non-native relative clause ambiguity resolution. International Journal of Bilingualism 19, 298–313.
Paulmann, S., Z. Ghareeb-Ali & C. Felser (2015). Neurophysiological markers of phrasal verb processing: Evidence from L1 and L2 speakers. In Roberto R. Heredia and Anna B. Cieslicka (eds.). Bilingual Figurative Language Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 245-267.
Van de Koot, H., R. Silva, C. Felser & M. Sato (2015). Does Dutch A-scrambling involve movement? Evidence from antecedent priming. The Linguistic Review 32, 739-776.
Boxell, O. (2014). Lexical fillers permit real-time gap-search inside island domains. Journal of Cognitive Science 15, 97-135.
Clackson, K., & V. Heyer (2014). Reflexive anaphor resolution in spoken language comprehension: Structural constraints and beyond. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences 5, 904.
Clahsen, H., & E. Fleischhauer (2014). Morphological priming in child German. Journal of Child Language 41, 1305-1333.
Clahsen, H., Rothweiler, M., Sterner, F., & S. Chilla (2014). Linguistic markers of Specific Language Impairment in bilingual children: The case of verb morphology. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 28, 709–721.
Cunnings, I., Patterson, C., & C. Felser (2014). Variable binding and coreference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language 71, 39-56.
Jaensch, C., Heyer, V., Gordon, P., & H. Clahsen (2014). What plurals and compounds reveal about constraints in word formation. Language Acquisition 21, 319–338.
Leminen, A., & H. Clahsen (2014). Brain potentials to inflected adjectives: Beyond storage and decomposition. Brain Research 1543, 223–234.
Patterson, C., Trompelt, H., & C. Felser C (2014). The online application of binding condition B in native and non-native pronoun resolution. Frontiers in Psychology 5, 147.
Trompelt, H., & C. Felser (2014). Variable binding and coreference in non-native pronoun resolution. In: W. Orman and M. J. Valleau (eds.), BUCLD 38: Proceedings of the 38th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 471-483.
Veríssimo, J., & H. Clahsen (2014). Variables and similarity in linguistic generalization: Evidence from morphological classes in Portuguese. Journal of Memory and Language 76, 61-79.
Wattendorf, E., Festman, J., Westerman, B., Keil, U., Zappatore, D., Franceschini, R. Luedi, G., Radue, E.-W., Münte, T.F., Rager, G., & Nitsch, C. (2014). Early bilingualism influences early and subsequently later acquired languages in cortical regions representing control functions. International Journal of Bilingualism 18, 48-66.
Budd, M.-J., Paulmann, S., Barry, C., & H. Clahsen (2013). Brain potentials during language production in children and adults: An ERP study of the English past tense. Brain & Language 127, 345-355.
Clahsen H., Balkhair, L., Schutter, J.-S., & I. Cunnings (2013). The time course of morphological processing in a second language. Second Language Research 29, 7–31.
Cunnings, I., & C. Felser (2013). The role of working memory in the processing of reflexives. Language and Cognitive Processes 28:1-2, 188-219.
Jacob, G., Fleischhauer, E., & H. Clahsen (2013). Stem allomorphy and affixation in morphological processing: A cross-modal priming study with late bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 16, 924-933.
Kirkici, B., & H. Clahsen (2013). Inflection and derivation in native and non-native language processing: Masked priming experiments on Turkish. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 16, 776-794.
Patterson, C. (2013). Discourse coherence in pronoun resolution. Discours 12.
Silva, R., Gerth, S., & H. Clahsen (2013). Morphological constraints in children’s spoken language comprehension: A visual world study of plurals inside compounds in English. Cognition 129, 457-469.
Trompelt, H., Bordag, D., & T. Pechmann (2013). (Ir)regularity of verbs revisited: Evidence for lexical entry complexity. The Mental Lexicon 8(1), 26-52.
Boxell, O. (2012). Discourse-linking and long-distance syntactic dependency formation in real-time. In: E. Boone, K. Linke and M. Schulpen (eds.) Proceedings of ConSOLE 19, 151-175.
Clahsen, H., & C. Felser (2012). The Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism. Linguistische Berichte 229, 99-116.
Clahsen H., & Y. Ikemoto (2012). The mental representation of derived words: An experimental study of –sa and –mi nominals in Japanese. The Mental Lexicon 7: 147-182.
Felser, C. (2012). Language processing evidence for linguistic structure. Iberia 4(2), 1-22.
Felser, C., & I. Cunnings (2012). Processing reflexives in English as a second language: The role of structural and discourse-level constraints. Applied Psycholinguistics 33, 571-603.
Felser, C., I. Cunnings, Batterham, C., & H. Clahsen (2012). The timing of island effects in nonnative sentence processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 34, 67-98.
Festman, J. (2012). "Multilingual Brains": Individual differences in multilinguals - a neuro-psycholinguistc perspective. In: Braunmüller, K. & Gabriel, Ch. (eds.). Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies. (Hamburger Studies in Multilingualism, Vol. 13). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 207-220.
Festman, J. (2012). Language control abilities of late bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(3), 580-593.
Festman, J., & Münte, T.F. (2012). Cognitive control in Russian-German bilinguals. Frontiers in Cognition 3: 115.
Fleischhauer E., & H. Clahsen (2012). Generating inflected word forms in real time: Evaluating the role of age, frequency, and working memory. In: Biller, A., Chung, E. & A. Kimball (eds.), Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Volume 1, Cascadilla Press: Somerville, MA, 164-176.
Havas, V., Rodriguez-Fornells, A., & H. Clahsen (2012). Brain potentials for derivational morphology: An ERP study of deadjectival nominalizations in Spanish. Brain & Language 120, 332-344.
Radford, A., Felser, C., & O. Boxell (2012). Preposition copying and pruning in present-day English. English Language and Linguistics 16, 403-426.
Rothweiler, M., Chilla, S., & H. Clahsen (2012). Subject verb agreement in Specific Language Impairment: A study of monolingual and bilingual German-speaking children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15, 39-57.
Clackson, K., Felser, C., & H. Clahsen (2011). Children’s processing of reflexives and pronouns in English: Evidence from eye movements during listening. Journal of Memory and Language 65, 12-144.
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Anime News 162
Catch all the latest Anime News, Anime Reviews and Previews from all your favorite distributors like FUNimation, Viz Media and Sentai Filmworks.
By: Robert Prentice October 7, 2014
Aldnoah.Zero Season 1 Review – That Ending Plus Season 2 Poster
On the surface, Aldnoah.Zero appeared to be just another Mecha Anime with a focus on machines. So many mecha genre series’ have come out lately that I can understand why some people would look past a series like this. I did the same thing myself, and I regret waiting. So I finally took the time to […]
By: Steve Figueroa October 5, 2014
Attack On Titan Episode 21 Review – Titan on Titan
57th Expedition Beyond the Walls (Part 5) Warning Contains Spoilers Recap As the Survey Corps continues its retreat, Commander Erwin and Hange discuss on how the Female Titan escaped. Erwin thinks it used the 3DMG to escape in the steam. They then come to a conclusion that the Titan must have been someone who witnessed […]
By: Robert Prentice September 28, 2014
‘Attack On Titan’ Crossover Spoof Released With The Seven Deadly Sins Newest Trailer
Okay, so we have been posting a lot about Attack on Titan lately. Starting with the Levi OVA series, then WIT studios taking over the ‘Seraph Of The End’ anime and now a crossover spoof poster that was released with the newest trailer for Nanatsu No taizai (The Seven Deadly Sins). Are you excited for […]
Anime Film Flyer Collection Revealed for Fall/Winter 2014
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Attack On Titan Season 2, Giveaway & Part 2 Collectors Edition Review
Attack On Titan fans can relax and rejoice in the knowledge that season 2 began production last month and is well under way (According To Christian Post). Since the first season aired over a year ago, fans across the US have rallied around the series, making it by far one of the most popular anime […]
The Seven Deadly Sin’s Anime – New Preview
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Attack on Titan Episode 17 Review – Female Titan
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Crime: Police: Man beat girlfriend three times in six months
Ousmane Sow, 26, was charged with continuous violence against the family and his bail was set at $25,000. He was not in Wichita County Jail Thursday.
Crime: Police: Man beat girlfriend three times in six months Ousmane Sow, 26, was charged with continuous violence against the family and his bail was set at $25,000. He was not in Wichita County Jail Thursday. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: http://wtrne.ws/2f1UCfE
Times Record News Published 12:00 a.m. CT April 8, 2016
A Wichita Falls man was arrested earlier this week after being accused of repeatedly assaulting his girlfriend.
According to an arrest affidavit:
Around 2 p.m. on March 20, Wichita Falls police spoke with the woman at the police department about the incident.
She told officers she went to dinner with coworkers and one of their husbands showed up to eat with them. Sow, who was at work at the time, became extremely angry with her.
Later that night, Sow started striking the woman with his belt repeatedly on the arms and legs and told her she "better never do that (explicative) again."
He told her she would suffer another beating 10 times worse if she ever told anyone. He then took her phone and apartment key and demanded she go in the bedroom and go to sleep.
Around 1 a.m. on March 20, Sow came into the bedroom and slapped her several times on the left side of her face and head.
When they woke up, Sow instructed her to put on pants because he didn't want to see her legs. He returned her phone before leaving for work at 11 a.m., but did not give back her apartment key. She called a coworker and went to the police department after he left.
During the interview, officers documented severe and large bruises on both her legs and knees consistent with a belt and were able to observe the belt width and belt buckle outline on her legs.
A records check showed that she had filed an assault family violence report on Oct. 12, but she did not follow through with the charges.
On March 22, she was granted a temporary protective order from Sow.
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How Does Mumps Affect Pregnancy?
Mumps is a contagious viral infection caused by a myxovirus (single-stranded RNA viruses, included in the families, orthomyxoviral and paramyxoviral, that causes influenza, mumps and other related viral diseases and infections). The mumps virus mainly affects the salivary glands (parotid salivary glands, which are the largest salivary gland that releases saliva).
Though common amongst the children, mumps can also affect the unimmunized adults.
Also known as the Epidemic Parotitis, mumps can be observed in pregnant women as well. Reports suggest incidences of mumps in 1 to 10 in every 10,000 pregnant women.
Mode of transmission of the viral disease
The virus responsible for mumps thrives mostly in the mucus of the throat and nose of the affected person, in addition to their saliva. In patients, the virus multiplies within the throat, nose, as well as in the lymph node. It can also get into the blood and spread to the other organs of the body. In pregnant women, in particular, the virus can gain access to the placenta, as well as the fetus and cause infection.
Thus, coughing and sneezing cause maximum damage, transmitting the infection from the infected person to another healthy individual. Coming in close contact with the infected person, or touching contaminated items like the handkerchief, tissues, toiletries and utensils can also help spread the infection.
Touching your eyes, nose or mouth with unclean and unwashed hands, after touching the contaminated and infected things, can elevate the chances of the viral disease spreading by a thousand folds.
Signs and symptoms of the viral disease
After the initial infection by the virus, the symptoms appear between 16 to 18 days, though the range is between 12-25 days (referred to as the incubation period).
The characteristic symptoms of mumps include:
1. Swelling of the parotid glands
Other symptoms which develop include:
1. Extreme fatigue and tiredness
2. Chills
4. Myalgia (pain in the muscles)
5. Sore throat
In some cases, a patient develops no symptoms of the disease in spite of being infected.
In adults, a patient takes about 16-18 days to recover from the disease.
Like any other patients, a pregnant woman is a potential carrier of the disease. The most contagious period, when a person (both healthy as well as infected) needs to be careful is, three days before the symptoms appear (swelling of the salivary gland) to nine days after the appearance of the symptoms.
Effect of mumps during pregnancy
The harmful consequences and after-effects of mumps are comparatively less compared to the other viral diseases like measles and rubella. Likewise, mumps during pregnancy seldom affects the pregnant woman or the fetus. However, if a pregnant woman develops mumps during the first trimester, there are chances (though rare) of a miscarriage. There may also be complications (extremely rare) like:
1. Oophoritis (inflammation of the ovary) or mastitis (inflammation of the breasts)
2. Pancreatitis
3. Deafness (mostly permanent)
4. Encephalitis or meningitis
The most effective treatment against mumps is the MMR (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) vaccine. Unfortunately, the vaccination is not advisable for pregnant women. The reason lies in the fact that the MMR vaccine contains a live virus that can cause infection and harm the baby. Women who go for the vaccination should postpone their pregnancy by at least a month.
However, the following alternate remedies may provide some relief.
1. For a quick recovery, it is important that one takes proper care of themselves. Rest as much as possible.
2. Drink plenty of fluids.
3. Applying compress, both warm and cold, to the swollen gland can provide some relief.
4. Painkillers like ibuprofen or Tylenol, though effective, should be used under medical supervision, especially for pregnant women.
5. Eat foods that are soft and which require less chewing. Avoid spicy, salty and acidic foods and beverages.
A little alertness, especially during pregnancy, can avert the spread of mumps.
1. There should be minimum contact with the affected person.-
2. Avoid sharing your toiletries, utensils and clothes with anyone.
3. Wash hands thoroughly before eating or touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
4. Disinfect contaminated surfaces.
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“Stonebridge Academy, a private prep school of about 400 students located on 50 acres of dense woods, was to be the setting for Alex Witt’s second try at being an instructor. Her first ended with a memory that made her skin crawl. Unfortunately, her time at Stonebridge would prove to be even more disturbing. Remember the age-old adage, ‘Boys will be boys’? With The Swallows, we have a new adage: ‘Girls will be tougher than boys.’ This is a powerfully serious yet humorous look at the battle between the sexes and a timely and important book for all readers.”
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A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war—with deadly consequences—in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger
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When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative writing assignments generates some disturbing responses from students. Before long, Alex is immersed in an investigation of the students atop the school’s social hierarchy—and their connection to something called the Darkroom. She soon inspires the girls who’ve started to question the school’s “boys will be boys” attitude and incites a resistance. But just as the movement is gaining momentum, Alex attracts the attention of an unknown enemy who knows a little too much about her—and what brought her to Stonebridge in the first place.
Meanwhile, Gemma, a defiant senior, has been plotting her attack for years, waiting for the right moment. Shy loner Norman hates his role in the Darkroom, but can’t find the courage to fight back until he makes an unlikely alliance. And then there’s Finn Ford, an English teacher with a shady reputation, who keeps one eye on his literary ambitions and one on Ms. Witt. As the school’s secrets begin to trickle out, a boys-versus-girls skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal—and potentially fatal—consequences for everyone involved.
Lisa Lutz’s blistering, timely tale of revenge and disruption shows us what can happen when silence wins out over decency for too long—and why the scariest threat of all might be the idea that sooner or later, girls will be girls.
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“The Swallows is fast-moving, darkly humorous and at times shockingly vicious. The battle of the sexes within its pages couldn’t be more compelling. . . . Lutz delivers a frantic, morbidly funny story.”—BookPage
“A decade before the #MeToo movement kicks off in full force, women are coming for the patriarchy in this big ol’ novel, ripe with idiosyncratic characterization and memorable scenes.”—Refinery29
Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling, Alex Award–winning author of the Spellman Files series, as well as the novels Heads You Lose (with David Hayward), How to Start a Fire, and The Passenger. She has also written for film and TV, including HBO’s The Deuce. She lives part-time in New York’s Hudson Valley.
“In her witty and charming style, Lutz offers a genre-busting work of fiction that will satisfy readers looking for a seriously engaging read. The story itself is disturbingly plausible, and the humanly flawed characters make choices, good and bad, based on their backgrounds, all blending smoothly into a darkly comedic mystery. . . . This novel keeps readers on the edge of their seats while opening a conversation about public shaming, economic privilege, gender inequity, and revenge versus justice.”—Booklist (starred review)
“It's the era of #MeToo, and literature is beginning to reflect that in a big way. In Lisa Lutz’s The Swallows, a prep school teacher ignites a gender war when she begins the question the institution's overpowering ‘boys will be boys’ mentality. She soon learns that starting a revolution and threatening the status quo comes with steep consequences.”—Bustle
“A new teacher at a ritzy New England prep school ignites a fierce battle between the male and female students that ends with revenge, threats, and a fatality. So, just another average day in high school . . . just kidding.”—PopSugar
“The latest campus novel teetering between thriller and satire, Lutz’s book throws readers into the drama of a New England prep school, where one inscrutable new teacher brings about ideas that ignite a deadly gender-war.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Liza Lutz is a treasure. Her Spellman Files series manages to be both charming and shrewd, and The Swallows promises to follow suit—it looks witty and caustic, winsome and clever. It’s also, and this is a classic Lutz move, a fresh, unique spin on a genre that already has been reworked a million times. . . . Lutz, searing as ever . . . illuminate[s] how various institutions excuse the oppression or silencing of women and girls.”—CrimeReads
“[Lutz] takes no prisoners. . . . She builds her plot cannily and walks a neat line between satire and realism [in a] withering portrayal of how the #MeToo movement plays out in this rarefied setting.”—Publishers Weekly
“Lutz draws on the droll humor and idiosyncratic characterizations that make her Spellman novels so appealing. . . . An offbeat, darkly witty pre-#MeToo revenge tale. The patriarchy doesn’t stand a chance.”—Kirkus Reviews
“With a memorable cast of characters and more than a few secrets, Lutz’s latest is a turbocharged tale for our times.”—Newsweek
“Extraordinarily fun and blood pressure-raising . . . The Swallows goes surprising places (axes are employed) and isn’t afraid to let everyone roll around in the muck—though some characters come out smelling sweeter than others.”—Vulture
“Wes Anderson meets Muriel Spark in this delicius and vicious bayyle of the sexes set within a private school. Wickedly fun and wildly subversive but packing an emotional punch, The Swallows is as powerful as it is timely.”—Nationally bestselling author Megan Abbott
“Sharpen your axes, ladies, and get ready for this fierce, fun, unsparing novel of female rage, power, and friendship.”—Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy
“I devoured The Swallows. You’ll laugh out loud even as you anxiously flip the pages.”—New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen
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Extinction Is Stalking Humanity: The Threats to Human Survival Accumulate
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 29 Jul 2019
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth which threaten human extinction by 2026. See ‘Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival’.
Rather than reiterate the evidence in the above article, I would like to add to it by focusing attention on three additional threats – geoengineering, medical vaccinations and electromagnetic radiation – that are less well-known (largely because the evidence is officially suppressed and only made available by conscientious investigative activists) and which, either separately or in combination with other threats, significantly increase the prospect of extinction for humans and most (and possibly all) life on Earth by the above date, particularly given the failure to respond strategically to these interrelated threats.
Before doing this, however, let me emphasize, yet again, that it is (unconscious) fear that is driving all of these crises in the first place and fear that underpins our collective failure to strategically address each of these interrelated threats in turn. And, as I have explained elsewhere and reiterate now, if we do not address this fear as a central feature of any overall strategy for survival, then extinction in the near term is certain. See, for example, ‘The Limited Mind: Why Fear is Driving Humanity to Extinction’.
So, beyond the usual issues that are considered imminent threats to human survival – particularly nuclear war, ecological collapse and climate catastrophe based on dysfunctional political, economic, legal and social institutions – let me briefly outline some of these other threats and, once again, invite a strategic response to each and all of these threats so that we give ourselves some chance of surviving.
In the ‘‘Human Extinction by 2026?’ article I cited above, I referred to the use of geoengineering to wage war on Earth’s climate, environment and ultimately ourselves. See, for example, ‘Engineered Climate Cataclysm: Hurricane Harvey’ and ‘The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: “Owning the Weather” for Military Use’.
But if you are unfamiliar with the evidence of how Earth is being geoengineered for catastrophe, by inflicting enormous damage on the biosphere, try watching this recent interview by Dane Wigington of Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt on the subject. Dr. Klinghardt carefully explains why geoengineering (simply: the high altitude aerial introduction of particulates – especially a synthesized compound of nanonized aluminium and the poison glyphosate in this case – into Earth’s atmosphere to manipulate the climate) creates a ‘supertoxin’ that is generating ‘a crisis of neurological diseases’ and, for example, crosses the blood-brain barrier causing diseases on the Autism spectrum (a spectrum of diseases virtually unknown prior to 1975 and now at epidemic proportions in countries, like the USA, where geoengineering is conducted extensively). See ‘World-Renowned Doctor Addresses Climate Engineering Dangers’.
While careful to distinguish the offending toxic compounds of aluminium and making the point that these adversely impact all lifeforms on the planet, Dr. Klinghardt nevertheless maintains that ‘Aluminium could be isolated as the single factor that is right now creating the mass extinction on the planet including our own’.
Because Dr. Klinghardt cites the corroborating research on glyophosate and aluminium by Dr Stephenie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT, who investigates ‘the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health’, you might like to consult relevant documentation from her research too – see Dr Stephenie Seneff – or watch one of her lectures on the subject. See ‘Autism Explained: Synergistic Poisoning from Aluminum and Glyphosate’.
Given the role of vaccination in precipitating autism, among a great many other disorders, by introducing into the body contaminants such as aluminium and glyphosate as well, you might also like to check out Sayer Ji’s 326 page bibliography with a vast number of references to the literature explaining the exceptional range of shocking dangers from vaccination. See ‘Vaccination’.
Or, if you wish to just read straightforward accounts of the history of vaccine damage and the ongoing dangers, see these articles by Gary G. Kohls MD: ‘A Comprehensive List of Vaccine-Associated Toxic Reactions’ and ‘Identifying the Vaccinology-Illiterate among Us’.
Before proceeding, it is worth mentioning that given his commitment to understanding the causes of, and healing, disorders on the autism spectrum but many others besides, Dr Klinghardt offers treatment protocols for many (now) chronic illnesses, including those on the autism spectrum, on his website: Klinghardt Academy or Institut für Neurobiologie.
But worse than these already horrible impacts, Dr Klinghardt also explains how the nanonized aluminium becomes embedded in our body, including the mitochondria (thus ‘jamming’ the body’s energy production ‘machinery’). More importantly, the metal reacts extremely negatively to electromagnetic radiation (such as WiFi, which will get enormously worse as 5G is progressively introduced) and this destroys the mitochondria in the DNA very rapidly thus spelling ‘the end of higher evolution in the next six to eight years’. Why so soon? Dr Klinghardt carefully explains the exponential nature, a poorly understood concept, of what is taking place. See ‘World-Renowned Doctor Addresses Climate Engineering Dangers’.
Moreover, he explains, because geoengineering is not confined to what is sprayed over land masses but includes what is sprayed over the ocean as well, the world’s oceans effectively have a layer of microplastic and metal covering their surfaces creating the effect of confining the Earth’s oceans in a gigantic sealed plastic bag. As Dr Klinghardt explains: This has reduced the water content of the atmosphere by 40% in the past two decades, causing droughts and desertification throughout Europe and the Middle East, for example, and substantially reduced the capacity of algae in the ocean to produce oxygen.
Having mentioned 5G above, if you are not aware of the monumental hazards of this technology, which is already being introduced without informed public consultation, the following articles and videos will give you a solid understanding of key issues from the viewpoint of human and planetary well-being. See ‘5G Technology is Coming – Linked to Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Death’, ‘20,000 Satellites for 5G to be Launched Sending Focused Beams of Intense Microwave Radiation Over Entire Earth’, ‘Will 5G Cell Phone Technology Lead To Dramatic Population Reduction As Large Numbers Of Men Become Sterile?’, ‘The 5G Revolution: Millions of “Human Guinea Pigs” in Big Telecom’s Global Experiment’ and ‘5G Apocalypse – The Extinction Event’.
In essence then, there is enormous evidence that geoengineering, vaccinations and 5G technology pose a monumental (and, in key ways, interrelated) threat to human and planetary health and threaten near term extinction for humans and a vast number of other species. Of course, as mentioned above, these are not the only paths to extinction that we face.
How have these threats come about? Essentially because the insane global elite, over the past thousand years, has progressively secured control over world affairs in order to maximize its privilege, profit and power, at any cost to the Earth and its populations (and now, ultimately, even its own members), successfully co-opting all major political, economic, corporate, legal and social institutions and those who work in these institutions – see ‘The Global Elite is Insane Revisited’ – while the bulk of the human population has been terrorized and disempowered to such as extent that our resistance has been tokenistic and misdirected (almost invariably at governments). See, for example, ‘Why Activists Fail’.
And this is why, even now, as humanity stands at the brink of extinction, most people’s unconscious fear will prevent them from seeking out or considering the type of evidence offered in this article or, if they do read it, to dismiss it from their mind. That is how unconscious fear works: it eliminates unpalatable truths from awareness.
Fear and Extinction
So here we stand. We are on the brink of human extinction (with 200 species of life on Earth being driven to extinction daily) and most humans utterly oblivious to (or in denial of) the desperate nature and timeframe of our plight.
Why? Because the first three capacities that fear shuts down are awareness (of what is happening around us), faculties such as conscience and feelings (particularly the anger that gives us the courage to act) and intelligence (to analyze and strategize our response). Which is why I go to some pains to emphasize that our unconscious fear is the primary driver of our accelerating rush to extinction and I encourage you to seriously consider incorporating strategies to address this fear into any effort you make to defend ourselves from extinction.
‘But I am not afraid’ you (or someone else) might say. Aren’t you? Your unconscious mind has had years to learn the tricks it needed when you were a child to survive the onslaught of the violent parenting and schooling you suffered – see ‘Why Violence?’, ‘Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice’ and ‘Do We Want School or Education?’ – among the many other possibilities of violence, including those of a structural nature, that you will have also suffered.
But your mind only learned these ‘tricks’ – such as the trick of hiding your fear behind chronic overconsumption: see ‘Love Denied: The Psychology of Materialism, Violence and War’ – at great cost to your functionality and it now diverts the attention from reality of most people so effectively that they cannot even pay attention to the obvious and imminent threats to human survival, such as the threats of nuclear war, ecological collapse and climate catastrophe, let alone the many other issues including the more ‘obscure’ ones (if your attention has been successfully diverted) I touched on above.
The reality is that fear induces most people to live in delusion and to believe such garbage as ‘The Earth is bountiful’ (and can sustain endless economic growth) or that the ‘end of century’ is our timeframe for survival. But the fear works in a great many ways, only a few of which I have touched on in ‘The Limited Mind: Why Fear is Driving Humanity to Extinction’, for example.
Defending Ourselves from Extinction
So how do we defend ourselves from extinction, particularly when there is an insane global elite endlessly impeding our efforts to do so?
For most people, this will include starting with yourself. See ‘Putting Feelings First’.
For virtually all adults, it will include reviewing your relationship with children and, ideally, making ‘My Promise to Children’. Critically, this will include learning the skill of nisteling. See ‘Nisteling: The Art of Deep Listening’.
For those who feel courageous enough, consider campaigning strategically to achieve the outcomes we need, whether it is to end violence against children or end war (and the threat of nuclear war), halt geoengineering, stop the destruction of Earth’s climate, stop the deployment of 5G or end the destruction of Earth’s rainforests. See Nonviolent Campaign Strategy or Nonviolent Defense/Liberation Strategy. A lot of people doing a bit here and there, or lobbying governments, is not going to get us out of this mess.
The global elite is deeply entrenched – fighting its wars, upgrading its nuclear arsenal, exploiting people, geoengineering the destruction of the biosphere, destroying the climate, invading/occupying resource-rich countries – and not about to give way without a concerted effort by many of us campaigning strategically on several key fronts. So strategy is imperative if we are to successfully deal with all of the issues that confront us in the time we have left.
If you recognize the pervasiveness of the fear-driven violence in our world, consider joining the global network of people resisting it by signing the online pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’.
But if you do nothing else while understanding the simple point that Earth’s biosphere cannot sustain a human population of this magnitude of whom more than half endlessly over-consume, then consider accelerated participation in the strategy outlined in ‘The Flame Tree Project to Save Life on Earth’.
Or, if this feels too complicated, consider committing to:
The Earth Pledge
Out of love for the Earth and all of its creatures, and my respect for their needs, from this day onwards I pledge that:
I will listen deeply to children (see explanation above)
I will not travel by plane
I will not travel by car
I will not eat meat and fish
I will only eat organically/biodynamically grown food
I will minimize the amount of fresh water I use, including by minimizing my ownership and use of electronic devices
I will not buy rainforest timber
I will not buy or use single-use plastic, such as bags, bottles, containers, cups and straws
I will not use banks, superannuation (pension) funds or insurance companies that provide any service to corporations involved in fossil fuels, nuclear power and/or weapons
I will not accept employment from, or invest in, any organization that supports or participates in the exploitation of fellow human beings or profits from killing and/or destruction of the biosphere
I will not get news from the corporate media (mainstream newspapers, television, radio, Google, Facebook, Twitter…)
I will make the effort to learn a skill, such as food gardening or sewing, that makes me more self-reliant
I will gently encourage my family and friends to consider signing this pledge.
Sometime in the next few years, the overwhelming evidence is that homo sapiens will join other species that only exist as part of the fossil record.
Therefore, you have two vital choices to make: Will you fight for survival? And will you do it strategically?
If you do not make both choices consciously, your unconscious fear will make them for you.
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment and has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of Why Violence? Websites: (Charter) (Flame Tree Project) (Songs of Nonviolence) (Nonviolent Campaign Strategy) (Nonviolent Defense/Liberation Strategy) (Robert J. Burrowes) (Feelings First) Email: flametree@riseup.net
Tags: 5G wireless, Activism, Climate Change, Conflict, Economics, Environment, Extinction, Geopolitics, Global warming, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Relations, Justice, Media, Politics, Power, Social justice, Solutions, UN, USA, Violence, War, West, World
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 29 Jul 2019.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Extinction Is Stalking Humanity: The Threats to Human Survival Accumulate, is included. Thank you.
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Robbers Cave State Park
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Please note that the swimming pool is open daily Memorial Day through Labor Day. Hours are daily from 1-7pm. In addition, paddleboat/canoe rentals and miniature golf are lease concessions that are open seasonally. Hours of operation for the pool and the lease concessions will vary starting in August, due to the start of the school season.
***NOTICE*** Due to winterization at Robbers Cave State Park, Group Camp 1 will be closed from December 1, 2019 through March 1, 2020. Old Circle Campground will remain open. Sites 31-41 will have electric only and the restroom will be winterized. The restroom behind the pool, restroom on the west end of the Nature Center and Group Camp 2 will remain open year round.
In the scenic, hilly woodlands of the Sans Bois Mountains of southeast Oklahoma, Robbers Cave State Park is a favorite of rappellers, equestrians, hikers and outdoor lovers. The park and adjoining wildlife management area offer acres of discovery and enjoyment including seasonal trout fishing and hunting, miles of hiking and equestrian trails, rugged cliffs for climbing and stunning fall foliage viewing.
Once a former hideout for outlaws Jesse James and Belle Starr, Robbers Cave State Park is an 8,246-acre park with 189 combined lake acres with Lake Carlton, Lake Wayne Wallace and Coon Creek. It is named for the famous outlaw cave hidden in the formation of 300 to 1,500-ft sandstone hills and cliffs.
Campground facilities at Robbers Cave State Park include RV sites with full hookups; RV sites with water and electric hookups, and primitive camping areas along secluded trails. Equestrian campsites are also available. Online reservations must be made for RV and tent sites in the Equestrian, Pine Trails, Whispering Pines and the Old Circle Campgrounds.
Other overnight accommodations include a lodge, cabins, a lake hut, yurts and two group camp facilities. Each of the 20 rooms at the Belle Starr View Lodge commands an impressive view of Coon Creek Lake and the forested valley below. All rooms are non-smoking and feature two double beds, a coffee maker, microwave, mini-fridge and satellite television. Rooms at the lodge can accommodate up to four guests. Pets are not permitted in lodge rooms.
A total of 26 non-smoking cabins are available with scenic views of Robbers Cave State Park. Each cabin comes fully equipped with refrigerator, cooking range, microwave, coffee pot, dishes, silverware, pots and pans, cooking utensils, linens, central heat and air, fireplace, shower and satellite television. Pet-friendly cabins are available with a daily pet fee and must be requested at reservation.
Choose from one-bedroom duplex cabins that sleep four guests, one-bedroom cabins that also sleep four guests, two-bedroom cabins that sleep six guests and two-bedroom cabins with decks that sleep up to six guests. If you're looking for something romantic, "honeymoon" cabins are also available. Near the main park entrance, the lake hut comes equipped with a queen-sized bed and a sleeper sofa. It also has a full-sized refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker and a table with four chairs. There is no television or shower facility, but the lake hut does have a toilet and sink. It is pet-friendly.
Yurt guests enjoy a queen bed and sofa sleeper within the circular structure. Amenities include a mini-fridge, microwave, heat and air window unit, ceiling fan and a deck overlooking Lake Carlton. One yurt is handicap accessible, and the nearest restroom/shower is a couple of hundred yards away.
With accommodations for up to 274 people, Group Camp 1 features 12 cabins, while Group Camp 2 features seven bunkhouses that can accommodate 250 people. Group Camp 1 is open seasonally from March through November and Group Camp 2 is open year-round.
Bring your own ATV or side-by-side and explore Robbers Cave State Park’s 250-acre ATV riding area, which is open from 8am until sunset each day. The park also has an amphitheater, five group picnic shelters and two indoor community rooms. With picnic tables, comfort stations with showers, boat ramps, a swimming beach, a seasonal swimming pool with bathhouse, playgrounds, it's easy to have a good time at the park. From miniature golf, paddleboat rentals and golf cart rentals, to a small grocery store and a nature center with naturalist programs and exhibits, the park has something for everyone.
Robbers Cave State Park is a perfect family getaway with an abundance of outdoor fun to keep the kids entertained. Take advantage of the park's steep cliffs while learning the art of rappelling, or venture off into the adjacent wildlife management area, featuring 3,800 acres of forested hunting ground.
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2020 Melilla ETU Triathlon Junior European Cup
29 Mar, 2020 • Melilla, Spain
Junior Men Junior Women
Have you ever considered Melilla as a holiday destination? Sometimes, the most unexpected destinations often include the added pleasure of the unknown. We would like to present you the modern Melilla, a thriving modern city which offers many tourist delights for the visitor.
There is a city that gathers all the mystery of Africa and the history of Spain: a great small city of renown which opens its doors to invite you to the discovery and pleasure. The city of Melilla is a window from which two different continents see each other. An enclave in North Africa for over 500 years, Melilla’s shorelines are lapped by the waves of the Mediterranean Sea, where visitors who like the taste of the unexpected may find a holiday full of exoticism, cultural variety and outdoor activities.
From the charm of its ancient Citadel walls to the colourful of the Modernist architecture with over 900 Modernist and Art Deco buildings, Melilla offers the visitor an endless variety while walking along its roads. The proximity to the sea and the influence of the four cultures are reflected in the city’s delicious gastronomy and in the variety of its artistic customs and expressions.
Few people are aware of the several attractions that invite the visitor to discover the city of Melilla, which range from local treasures displaying the city’s splendour as a historical link between two continents, to the city’s fine sand beaches on the Mediterranean Sea.
One of Melilla’s greatest appeals are the people themselves, who constantly welcome visitors to discover the city. Four different ethnic and religious communities (Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu) coexist peacefully while maintaining their own particular cultural identities, making of Melilla a city with a mix of surprising contrasts and colours and enriching its landscape as well as its streets.
This cultural blending is also evident in Melilla’s cuisine, which tempts the palate with a wide range of dishes and exquisite specialities which are the result of the city’s cultural diversity and Mediterranean character.
In addition to dining out, Melilla is also a wonderful place to go shopping, not only due to the city’s cultural diversity but also because prices are significantly lower than in mainland Spain, since Melilla enjoys fiscal advantages which allow many products to be sold at tax-free prices. Melilla’s shopping area is full of shops owned by Muslims, Jews and Hindus traders. In those shops, visitors can buy Berber jewellery as well as gold and silver products, leather hand-crafted items, tapestry and carpets and local pottery, as well as designer clothing, accessories and footwear. We can also find areas that evoke the colourful atmosphere of the African open-air markets with all the advantages of a Western city.
During the day, Melilla is a happy, cultural, lively and colourful city. Its semi-arid Mediterranean climate guarantees average annual temperatures of around 18ºC for the whole year. Any time of the year is a good moment to have a break in Melilla, enjoy longer holidays, or take advantage of its privileged position as a linking point between Europe and Africa. Melilla is an ideal starting point to venture for a journey into Africa, while being, at he same time, in an exceptionally attractive Spanish location.
When night falls, Melilla offers fun for everyone, and the visitor can enjoy an evening at the most modern clubs and discos or relax in traditional bars, where conversation mingles among different rhythms.
If you are looking for a new and exotic destination do not hesitate to come and discover Melilla. You will enjoy the experience more than you would ever imagine
Athletes Briefing:
Saturday 28th of March
17:00 Junior Athletes Briefing
Place Club Nautico Melilla
Daniel Marquez
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9:30 to 10:00 Bike Course Familiarization
10:00 to 11:00 Swim Course Familiarization
17.00 Junior Athletes Briefing
Sunday 29th of March
15:00 Junior Women Event
16:30 Junior Men Event
18:00 Elite Women Event
19:30 Elite Men Event
20:30 Award ceremonies
Bike Mechanical Service
From Monday to Friday, all day; and Saturday in the morning; at Dr Kool Bike (Rodrigo Triana 9 St)
Sunday; from 13.30 to 19.30 at the Finish Area, next to the Athletes Lounge
Swim Training Update
Athletes can swim at the swimming pool from 18:00 to 22:00 on Friday and from 11:00 to 13:00 on Saturday
Piscina La Salle
Plaza San Juan Bautista
Closest Airport
Melilla Airport
For other transport option; like boat, check with Globalia. There is boat transport from Almeria, Motril andl Malaga
Also Nador (NDR) airport in Morocco; is located 40 km from Melilla; and offers flight with Ryanair and Air Morocco
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Home » The Patient Experience
Learn how it's measured and what makes a difference
David Ollier Weber
Do you remember your last overnight stay at a hospital?
You probably had some pain. Did the physicians and nurses do everything in their power to keep it tolerable? Did a caregiver always, usually, sometimes or never show up immediately after you pressed your call button?
Were the nurses and physicians courteous and respectful to you? All of them? All the time?
Did the nurses check on you frequently? Did they listen patiently to your questions and explain things in ways you understood? Did they make sure you knew what medicines you were taking and why, and what side effects you could experience every time they gave you medicine?
Were your room and bathroom kept spotless? Were the hallways quiet throughout the night?
When it was time to go home, did the hospital staff make sure you had all the outside help you would need to avoid a relapse and readmission? Did they give you written instructions to consult about symptoms or problems you might experience, and how you should care for yourself?
Now think over your entire experience. Using a scale of zero to 10 — where zero represents the most awful hospital conceivable and 10 rewards human perfection in medical care, attentiveness and quality — which score would you give to that hospital? Would you recommend it? Will you choose to be treated there again given an alternative?
Okay, end of exercise. You've just completed an abbreviated version of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or HCAHPS survey, a set of 21 questions the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires that you (or a sample of patients older than 18 like you) be asked after a hospital stay.
And if you're a hospital trustee, consider it a thumbnail guide to the eight basic dimensions — nurse-patient communication, doctor-patient communication, prompt responsiveness of hospital staff, pain control, communication about medication, cleanliness and quietness of the hospital environment, discharge information and overall rating — your organization has to focus on to give patients what they expect and deserve when they're in your hands.
Note that there are no questions about flat-screen TVs, atriums with waterfalls, valet parking or coq au vin. Just skill, bedside professionalism, caring attention, plain talk, good housekeeping and calm. And not just sometimes, not just usually, certainly not never, but always.
Link to Quality
For nearly 40 years, U.S. hospitals have followed the example of other industries in trying to gauge and improve customer response to their services. They've looked to the hospitality sector for tips on room design and amenities. They've followed culinary trends to offer more appealing meals. They've devised a panoply of measurements to figure out just what patients value most when circumstances bring them across a hospital's threshold.
Initially, says Hope Brown, senior consultant at Professional Research Consultants Inc., hospitals were motivated to pay structured attention to the perspective of their bed occupants by a desire to reduce complaints and earn high marks they could trumpet in their advertising. "Ninety-nine percent patient satisfaction" emblazoned next to the institution's name on a billboard might give it a leg up on the competition.
By the 1990s, she says, hospitals had come to recognize that embellishing the patient experience can be more than a marketing tool. There is a strategic dimension. "If patients feel their care is excellent, they're four times as likely to recommend you," Brown says. "That's been shown in every industry."
Beyond that, she notes, making sure patients feel comfortable and well cared for is congruent with a hospital's compassionate mission.
In fact, patient experience actually correlates directly with hospital quality, Brown says. Press Ganey, an analytics and strategic consultancy firm that pioneered patient satisfaction measurement, recently summarized a growing body of research that links how patients feel about their experience in the hospital with how well they recover from their illness. In one study of 2,500 hospitals, for example, 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia were lowest at the facilities that had the highest patient satisfaction scores. A good experience was even more important, the researchers found, than clinical performance.
At least 55 separate studies have backed up that conclusion, according to a systematic review published in BMJ Open earlier this year. Greater patient satisfaction is accompanied by better patient adherence to treatment guidelines and lower inpatient mortality rates; patients who rank hospitals high on their HCAHPS surveys have fewer complications; organizations that score high on HCAHPS provide a higher quality of care across all measures of clinical performance than those beneath them. The authors summarized: "Patient experience is positively associated with clinical effectiveness and patient safety … . [Data] support the case for the inclusion of patient experience as one of the central pillars of quality in health care."
Link to Reimbursement
In 2005, CMS gave hospitals another compelling reason to ensure that their patients are happy campers: value-based purchasing. Providers are now being paid not just for how many things they've done to their Medicare and Medicaid clientele, but instead, at least in part, for how well they've done them. One of the key measures by which that performance is judged is the patients' own assessments of their inpatient experience via uniformly comparable HCAHPS scores.
Starting this fiscal year, hospitals with low scores will see their federal reimbursements docked. Those with high scores will receive bonuses. A percentage of Medicare and Medicaid payments — 1 percent this year, rising to 2 percent in 2017 — will be withheld by the government each year under a value-based purchasing formula in which HCAHPS accounts for 30 percent. Do well by VBP standards and a hospital will get back the entire percentage withheld — plus a reward, pegged to how high the organization ranks among all hospitals nationally that year. The bonuses will come at the expense of the hospitals that fare poorly. Because Medicare and Medicaid patients consume almost 60 percent of the average hospital's services, performance as measured by the VBP indicators can make a difference of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to an organization's bottom line.
The VBP calculus is too complex for easy summary. In addition to patient experience, it also factors in a dozen clinical processes, mortality and per-case spending as a gauge of efficiency in changing ratios from year to year. What's more, under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals are now at risk of federal reimbursement being withheld up to 2 percent in 2013 (3 percent next year) based on the rate at which heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients are readmitted within 30 days of initial discharge.
In fiscal 2013, according to CMS, some 2,217 U.S. hospitals will be penalized for excessive readmissions. More than 300 will incur the full reduction. But if the knee-jerk reaction of an organization that loses revenue under VBP is to slash costs to compensate, it's making a potentially fatal mistake, warns PRC CEO Joe Inguanzo. Quality of care will suffer, the decline will be registered in patients' experiences as reported on the HCAHPS survey, outcomes will suffer and more penalties will accrue in a vicious downward spiral.
Instead, Inguanzo argues — and his Press Ganey counterpart, CEO Patrick Ryan, concurs — these hospitals especially should focus on improving the inpatient experience. Nothing but good will result.
"Executives ask, 'What is our biggest problem?' " says PRC's Brown. Her usual answer: "You have too many patients who like you." Then she continues: "You don't have enough who love you."
Very few hospitals — about 3 percent — get zero or 1 as an overall grade, Inguanzo explains. Even the worst hospitals get a 9 or a 10 from as many as half their patients.
"Anybody can do okay care," he says. "Excellence is what counts." And hospitals that are loved merit a 9 or a 10 from at least 70 percent of those who've experienced their care.
Nor is it enough to rely on HCAHPS ratings alone, cautions Press Ganey's Ryan. Those numbers are stale by the time they're published. "You're looking in the rearview mirror," he says. "If you're happy with last year's data, you're already behind because the rest of the country is moving forward."
For real improvement, he says, hospitals need to go beyond the government mandate, query every single patient and mine the data constantly for real-time insights. Press Ganey emails queries to all its clients' patients immediately after discharge and processes the responses within a day or two.
"Today we can drill down and find exactly what's happening — by floor, by unit, by provider," he declares. "That's how you learn your strengths and your opportunities." For example, he notes, "We had one system that had a problem with its ob-gyn unit. In the past, using only the aggregate score, we would have gone in and retrained everyone in that unit. But now we could see it was the Saturday shift and the evening shift that were getting bad scores from a particular segment of the patient population."
Problem identified, remedial action targeted, issue efficiently corrected.
Both Ryan and his chief medical officer, Thomas Lee, M.D., are seasoned hospital trustees who currently sit on the boards, respectively, of Lahey Clinic and Geisinger Health System. "The boards I've been on know that the game is changing," Lee says. "In the old world, the focus was on fund-raising, margin and fee-for-service volume. Now the big concern is market share. My colleagues and partners look at [patients'] likelihood of recommending as hugely important. We talk about it at every meeting."
Ryan agrees. "It's a best practice to review patient experience data as the first priority at every meeting," he emphasizes. "I could name a thousand CEOs who'd tell you the same thing. Patient experience is the first, the second and the third priority because in totality that's what drives clinical and safety and financial performance.
"The proof is in the marketplace," he adds. "Look at the HCAHPS scores over the last three or four years nationwide. The improvement has been dramatic. And the curve continues to go up."
David Ollier Weber is a principal of the Kila Springs Group in Placerville, Calif., and a regular contributor to H&HN Daily.
Sidebar - Start at the Top to Reduce Readmissions
When Press Ganey recently compared readmission penalty data to Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores, it found that the better a hospital did on the latter, the better it did on the former. This was especially apparent at the top and the bottom of the distribution. In other words, a poor HCAHPS showing (a score lower than 19) was associated with many more readmissions than average (and proportionate penalties), while a high patient experience score (80–100) was associated with many fewer readmissions than average and proportionate incentive rewards.
But the patient experience isn't itself the cause of fewer readmissions, CEO Patrick Ryan noted. Rather, the organizational culture, the management practices and the systems that underlie a hospital's stellar showing on the HCAHPS scale are what produce better outcomes and fewer avoidable relapses.
"There are lots of vendors who have recipes for improving the patient experience," says Cathy Lee Frederick, assistant vice president of service excellence at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence, S.C. "They're awesome. They're fantastic. We've borrowed from them unabashedly. But you have to have the structure across the board, throughout the whole organization, or you're only going to get a short-lived gain." — D.O.W.
Sidebar - One Number Says It All
"Very early on, we recognized the power of one number," says Patrick Herrmann, director of research and metrics and manager of the experience team at Ascension Health, a Catholic system headquartered in St. Louis. He calls it the net promoter score, or NPS, and it's based on a single question: "How likely are you to recommend this hospital to your friends?"
Combining the last two questions on the HCAHPS survey, Ascension's NPS also uses a scale of zero to 10. It's derived by totaling the percentage of 9s and 10s a facility receives and subtracting the percentage of 6s and below. When first asked in 2006, reports Herrmann, the systemwide average inpatient NPS was 58.3. Today it stands at 75.
And it's the trend, not the raw number, that Herrmann urges Ascension leaders to pay most heed to.
"We've seen our lowest hospitals, [those] that were in the 10s and 20s [on their NPS], now in the 40s and 50s," he says. "And the top-performing hospitals just seem to get better and better. We try to spark a little level of competition across the system, but you can get distracted, complacent or discouraged if you spend too much time watching everyone else.
"The goal is to be better than you were last year," Herrmann says. "That's what it's all about. This work doesn't happen in a month. You have to create a culture over the long term that takes pride and ownership in improvement." — D.O.W.
Sidebar - What Matters Most to Patients
With so much riding on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores — close to a third of any penalty or bonus earned for treating Medicare patients, as well as association with other potentially make-or-break indicators like mortality and unplanned readmissions — it's critical to engage staff in enhancing the inpatient experience across all eight dimensions covered by the survey. And don't overlook emergency department personnel for training and monitoring, notes Joe Inguanzo, CEO of Professional Research Consultants, because at least half of all inpatients enter through the ED, where they get their first impressions. But out of all eight HCAHPS experience domains, one element is most important, according to Press Ganey research. Nurse-patient communication is a rising-tide measure: When it goes up, others measures float up with it. When it sinks, they will founder, too.
The link was corroborated by a study of more than 3,000 acute care hospitals, Press Ganey reports. When nurses treat patients with respect, listen carefully and take time to explain what's happening, overall staff responsiveness to patients' needs and pain management measures are positively influenced. That leads to better communication about medications, too — and together those three measures are major factors in determining the overall rating the patient will assign to the hospital.
"We have thousands of anecdotes about hospitals that had beautiful rooms and gourmet food but where a failure in a nursing handoff led to a very negative experience," says press Ganey CEO Patrick Ryan. To achieve and maintain nursing excellence, he suggests several proven best practices: "purposeful hourly rounding" in which a nurse visits each room and verbally checks on the occupant's needs; nursing shift handoffs at the patient's bedside; use of scripts to ensure that important information is conveyed clearly, consistently and comprehensively; follow-up phone calls to patients after discharge; making strong interpersonal skills a job qualification when nurses are hired; and providing skills training that is reinforced periodically.
Rounding by managers is also strongly encouraged. At one hospital, says PRC senior consultant Hope Brown, analysis of HCAHPS returns revealed that RNs were popping into every room on the hour, but only to scribble on the whiteboard. Nursing leaders on each unit began making random visits to 10 patients daily to ask when their nurse had last spoken to them, how well their pain was being controlled and whether their bathroom needs were being met. "That hospital recorded the biggest gain I've ever seen" in HCAHPS performance, Brown says, "over the course of just nine months."
"No matter how big an organization is, there needs to be personal round-ing within the organization by top leadership," Ryan says. "I think it's a best practice for trustees to go to the front lines and see what's taking place as well, because the complexity is amazing." — D.O.W.
Sidebar - Online Exclusive
A pat on the arm, a slice of fresh fruit — these are some of the ways hospitals win over patients. For more, read the Web-only feature "It's the Little Things" at www.trusteemag.com.
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Put the Patient Experience First
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Utilizing the right emergency department processes can benefit admissions, revenue and reputation.
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Why engaging patients matters.
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Frédéric Moffet
A son discreetly records fleeting moments in his parents’ suburban home. An intimate portrait of a stable life lived according to the rules of society.
Jennifer Montgomery
The Agonal Phase
In the aftermath of a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside of the terribly interiorized state of mourning.
-- Jennifer Montgomery
Steve Reinke
Amsterdam Camera Vacation
"I'm not going to go to the Anne Frank House—I don't think I could take it—being a tourist is bad enough—though I'm not really a tourist—I'm here working—my camera's the one on vacation—taking holiday sounds and images—it's having a nice change of pace—for me it's still the same old thing—talking and talking.
George Kuchar
Andy's House of Gary
A young painter, and his somewhat slower roommate, talk of paranormal occurrences in a room of charcoal canvasses and ephemeral renderings. Eavesdrop on the improbable and the impossible (BUT TRUE!).
Kathy High
Animal Attraction is a documentary about the relationship between people and animals that questions the way we project our hopes and desires onto our pets, and ascribe human qualities and attributes to their gestures. The video was inspired by the plight of the filmmaker who was frustrated by the obnoxious behavior of her cat, Ernie. As a last resort, she gave in to a friend's suggestion to contact an animal communicator. This is her journey with interspecies telepathic communicator, Dawn Hayman, from Spring Farm CARES, an animal sanctuary in upstate New York.
Cecelia Condit
Annie Lloyd
Annie Lloyd is a daughter's poetic documentation of the last few years of her mother's life and an intimate portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.
This title is also available on Cecelia Condit Videoworks: Volume 2
Art For Teachers of Children
Jennifer, an intelligent but insecure 14-year-old student at a boarding school, seduces her married dormitory counselor, a photographer who has offered to teach her about his art and winds up shooting her in the nude. She is naive, and he manipulates her into an affair that eventually is discovered. Years later, as the photographer is being investigated by the FBI, the adult woman remembers her first love as a case of herself watching the artist who watched her.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Borderstasis: A Video Diary
This strange, lyrical performance video diary is a millennial reflection on the impossibility to "reveal" one’s self in stormy times such as ours. The piece is also about the intricate connections between performance and everyday life; about language, identity, love, nostalgia and activism amidst the California apocalypse.
A Boy Needs A Friend
"The title, A Boy Needs A Friend, is both a pathetic plea and just a fact."
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Ken Kobland
Buildings and Grounds/ The Angst Archive
"...a rumination, a series of borrowed 'dialogues' out of an ongoing argument with myself. It meanders, mentally and physically, reflecting on the conditions of being human; on transience, consciousness and desire. It uses landscapes as provocations, as sites of contemplation. And between the landscape and the thought, i.e. between the radical presence of the physical world and the idea, there is, more often than not, a distance, disbelief or irony."
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The Butchered Beefcake
This video diary visits two sites that exhibited my visual works this past year, culminating at the VOLTA ART SHOW in N.Y.C., where I sold some paintings and a photograph.
The underling theme of the diary deals with some bloating, scarring and beefcake exposure while on the road to an acting gig where I'm scheduled to play a BI-SEXUAL, paraplegic in heat.
There are some in depth scenes of me working out the romance/sex routines with a young and attractive, male co-star. The all-girl crew appears to be getting off on the whole thing and I don't blame them!
Caged Culture
Two women, miles apart in spacial terms, chat about their art and motivational meanderings amid images of Chinese potstickers and fresh pasta. A man sits with them and chews the fat, revealing the ups and downs of social intercourse and parental secretions (secrets).
Carlos Nader
The question, “Who am I?” has been asked over the centuries in many different ways. Videomaker Carlos Nader adds another approach in his investigation into the nature of the individual by taking the work beyond self-examination and asking it of others. What is revealed is the impossibility of rational thinking to understand the essentialism of human identity. Nader describes this work as a “non-autobiography-video” about its author; a video about nothing.” Exploring notions of the irreducibility of identity to one’s color, nationality, or politics, the tape “wants to be anyone’s biography.
The Celluloids
George stays in San Francisco for this video about local filmmakers and their future projects.
Renée Green
A poetic meditation on distance, Come Closer is a short and peripatetic film, casting an affective web between the locations of Lisbon, San Francisco and Brazil. Focusing on Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, musician Derrick Green –– the filmmaker’s brother and lead singer of Brazilian band Sepultura –– and her own work produced in Lisbon since 1992, Come Closer can be thought as a meditation on friendship and saudade.
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A mosaic of memories – monuments and public space in Roman Greece (c.200 BC to c. 200 AD)
A mosaic of memories – monuments and public space .. (MMRG)
A mosaic of memories – monuments and public space in Roman Greece (c.200 BC to c. 200 AD) (MMRG)
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Apr 15, 2017 PROJECT FINISHED
The footage of jubilant Iraqis tearing down a statue of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the Iraq war reminds us how highly charged with meaning statues and other monuments can be. Arguably no people in history has set up as many monuments in public space as the ancient Greeks. Their markets, streets, gymnasia, theatres and bathhouses were full of bronze and marble sculpture, tombs and public inscriptions. The numbers of monuments on display reached its peak at the height of the Roman Empire in the 2nd Century A.D, the result of accumulation over centuries and of new monuments being erected with increasing frequency. This phenomenon is one of the most remarkable characteristics of ancient Greek urbanism yet the impact public monuments had on polis society and culture has never been subject to systematic investigation. That is the aim of this project.Crossing the boundaries between ancient history and archaeology and drawing on spatial theory the project will look at the many ways that public monuments were used to define and contest relationships of power within the Roman period polis (c.200 B.C – 200 A.D). I will compile a database for all monuments attested as standing in public spaces in Greek cities in the Roman period which will be used to explore their significance The central focus in this enquiry will be how spatial context gave monuments their meaning. I will investigate how different groups (e.g. emperors, elites, civic authorities, families, trade associations) deployed monuments in different public spaces in order to cement or challenge relations of power. I will also explore the impact that monuments had on the lives of the Greeks who moved among them. The project will challenge the current consensus that increasing numbers of monuments under Roman influence transformed Greek civic centres into museum-like spaces devoid of meaningful human interaction and will deepen our understanding of the post-Classical polis.
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Voice-Over Translation – Funny Way of Translation
December 17, 2014 | by admin | 0 Comments |
(Last Updated On: April 26, 2019)
Watching documentary films or news reports from foreign media outlets often involves voice-over translations. This type of translation work is an audio-visual method that records translated voice over the original video, with the voice of the source being heard in the background.
Different from dubbing where the voice artist records directly over the source material, voice-over translations are mostly used for movies and documentaries that are written in a foreign language, or in English but translated to another language. In Europe, these types of translation work were very common in the 80’s and early 90’s, especially in countries like Poland, Bulgaria and Russia.
Voice-overs are usually made in slow-paced rhythm, but the results are quite understandable. Sometimes, it lags behind, trailing the source dialogue with missing sentences if not an abridged version of the original in context and form.
Challenges with voice-over translation
The challenges with voice-over translation are, however, imminent especially for materials where the interpreter or voice talent seems to appear too plain as he speaks with less variety in intonation or tonal patterns. This issue may pose a minimal problem from the outside, but in the long run, this concern may become a major problem for lexical misunderstanding, or that it might result to language ambiguity and emotional gaps. As the voice-over artist tries to sound transparent with the translation, the timing of his speech may come earlier or later than the source video, confusing the audience with the apparent difference in synchronicity. It sometimes becomes a funny presentation with hints of dubbing mishaps as both video and visual elements do not seem to quite go together. What may even add confusion to the audience is if the original material involves several characters and there is only one person doing the voice-over translation. Making do with a single voice talent results to almost hysterical video as the translator grapples to speak each character without having to change much of his intonation or tone. Audience may in fact wonder which of the persons onscreen is speaking.
There are, at present, voice-over translations that include subtitles in the audio-video material. And they do come in handy especially when the audience is caught between having to look at the persons speaking on the video and deciphering the facial expressions, and understanding the spoken language.
Disadvantages of voice-over translations
Another prominent hurdle with this type of translation is the apparent disregard for idioms, vernacular speech, or value and cultural differences. Often, these words of foreign origin are erroneously interpreted and translated, cutting short the contextual and cultural meaning of the words or phrase. At times, interpreters and translators may possess a leaning towards creativity that sometimes results to altering the original intention of the filmmaker, news reporter or documentary maker. It does make for a more enjoyable presentation, though. However, it does the original material no justice by actually shortchanging the audio-visual source.
Clamors to stick with accurate translation have prodded many interpreters and translators to expand knowledge and skills on voice-over translation. As it is an essential quality of the industry of translation, consistently sticking with quality and accuracy makes no room for mistakes. And, of course, the audience is guaranteed to hear and see the translated material just as the filmmaker or reporter intended it to be.
Voice over translation is essential for your multimedia elements; it’s not always a simple process. Like all other elements being translated into another language, a voice over translation needs loads of detail and experience to make your content as professional as possible. This is not a method you want to rush through or cut curves on.
The first move in voiceover translation is transcribing your audio stuff. There’s no method to translate the content without understanding the script. Once it’s been transcribed, it’s turned into the language you’re want to. Here is where things can get a bit difficult. For instance, if you want your content to be translated for Spanish, that’s fine. But you’ll have to understand your target audience for the voice over translation because Spanish has various dialects. This is something to think about before you start the voice over translation process, as it also concerns which translators are appointed for your project.
Our Voice-over translation services enable us to produce the highest quality end product while keeping costs down. We aim to provide a full voice-over translation service to our clients. Our qualified team will work with you to fully understand your project to manage the workflow from concept to completion efficiently. We aim to help your communication objectives.
Quality and timing are paramount to the voice-over translation services that USA Translate provides. To this point, we have set in place a system to ensure these factors are met. We only ever use professional voiceover artists who speak the chosen language as their native tongue. This ensures every word is pronounced correctly and the text’s nuances are conveyed using an appropriate technique. Your project is given to the most suitable translator with the proper expertise to translate your document. This ensures every word is declared correctly and the text’s nuances are carried using an appropriate technique.
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Top 3 consensus picks in SuperContest are unanimous: Broncos, Chargers, Giants
LAS VEGAS–The same three teams were chosen as the top consensus plays in both the SuperContest Classic and SuperContest Gold for Week 4 of the NFL season.
The Broncos -2.5 vs. the Raiders, Chargers -1.5 vs. the Eagles, and Giants plus-3 at the Buccaneers were the top three picks from the record 2,748 entrants in the long-running Westgate SuperContest where players put up $1,500 apiece. The $5,000 SuperContest Gold, which drew 94 entries in its first year, had the same top three but in slightly different order with the Chargers -1.5 as the top pick, followed by the Broncos -2.5 and Giants plus-3.
The Saints -3 vs. the Dolphins (this week’s early Sunday morning game from London) is the No. 4 choice in the regular SuperContest and No. 5 in the Gold. The No. 5 choice in the SuperContest is the Bengals -3 at the Browns while the No. 4 choice in the Gold is the Titans -1.5 at the Texans.
Links to all of the consensus plays and selections from all contestants can be found on VSiN’s dedicated SuperContest page.
The Top 5 Consensus plays are off to a slow start this year at 5-10 against the SuperContest lines (5-5 after starting 0-5 in Week 1) while the Gold Top 5 have gone 2-3 each week to stand at 6-9.
I’ve covered the SuperContest since 1999 and I’ve seen it all (or at least I’ll keep saying that until I see something new, and then I’ll say “Now I’ve seen it all!). In years when the consensus plays start red-hot, a ton of people believe that’s the secret formula (“because these football handicappers put up $1,500 and must know something”) and talk about how you have to follow and bet the consensus plays.
If they start cold like this year, everyone says the SuperContestants are a bunch of bums who don’t know anything (even when the field was mostly full of sharp bettors in Vegas). In recent years, with the number of entrants exploding, the most common comment is that the SuperContest is now full of a bunch of squares and that’s why the consensus is doing so bad.
We’ll see where it goes from here, but my guess is that the Top 5 Consensus will finish somewhere around .500 even with the slow start.
Last year, the Top 5 Consensus (remember, it was just the regular SuperContest and no Gold) was an even worse 3-12 after three weeks and actually went a little better than 50% at 35-31-4 the rest of the year to finish 38-43-4 (46.9%). The overall consensus started 17-30 (36.2%) and actually finished above .500 at 125-122-7 (50.6%).
You may ask: Are the SuperContest Consensus plays always a losing proposition (below the break-even point of 52.3%)? No. Just two years ago, the Top 5 Consensus started 11-4 and finished a very respectable 46-37-2 (55.4%) and the overall consensus of all games was 141-109-4 (56.4%).
As for the individual leaders heading into Week 4, PHD Sports leads the regular SuperContest at 13-2 (remember, the leader after four weeks will win a $15,000 bonus or share it with the other co-leaders). PHD Sports’ picks for Week 4 are the Panthers plus-9 at the Patriots, Lions plus-2.5 at the Vikings, Titans -1.5 at the Texans, Bengals -3 at the Browns and the Bills plus-7.5 at the Falcons.
Gold leader BKSF (also 13-2) has the Panthers plus-9 at the Patriots, Giants plus-3 at the Buccaneers, Chargers -1.5 vs. the Eagles, 49ers plus-6.5 at the Cardinals and Broncos -2.5 vs. the Raiders.
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Dick Morris: Political Technology Is Unraveling - The Limits of Targeting
Pe3 / ShutterstockPresident Donald Trump Facebook page (Pe3 / Shutterstock)
By Dick Morris
In modern politics, the overwhelming emphasis in campaigns is on targeting voters through data mining. The revolution, begun by Cambridge Analytica and a network of firms that came to advise the Trump campaign, has proceeded to the point where targeting is seen as more important than messaging.
Find out who the voter is, the theory goes, and then, instead of broadcasting your message to the world, “narrowcast” your message, aiming it with precision at each individual voter. (Google assures us that the word “narrowcasting” was coined by computer scientist and public broadcasting advocate J. C. R. Licklider in 1967. But it entered political usage through the work of media guru Tony Schwartz).
Targeting uses millions of publicly — and legally — available bits of data about each of us that catalogs our consumer preferences, habits, priorities and lifestyle choices — what car we drive, where we live, our pets, what food we eat, what films we see, what we watch on television, etc.
The data firms then conduct conventional political survey research, with very large sample sizes, to see how each of these non-political consumer preferences correlates with their political behavior. Do Toyota Hybrid owners tend to be liberal? Are dog owners conservative? And how about aficionados of the TV show “Law and Order”?
By overlaying the political data onto the consumer data, the campaigns can target swing voters and understand the messages that will work.
Modern campaigns spend huge amounts of time and money on targeting, so much so that they often forget to do the rest of the job and do not develop messages to reach their carefully selected targets.
They spend so much time and money building the missile that they forget about making the warhead.
Typically, after analyzing massive amounts of data, they will find that a given voter is focused on the economy and jobs. But, having done that, they aim a “jobs” ad at him, the same ad they use on millions of others. There is no customization of the ads to take account of the massive differences in personality and background their research has unearthed. If you’re type A or type B or male or female, or unmarried with kids, you get the same jobs ad. Just like olden times.
Modern campaign operatives are so immersed in the data that they have not given adequate thought to how to persuade the voters they target.
As a result, persuasion has slipped far below motivation in the hierarchy of campaign goals. Get your vote out and don’t worry as much about persuading the swing voter.
This shift in strategy underscores how rapidly our politics has become a turnout duel between two static blocks of voters entrenched in their own ideology. As in World War I, the trench warfare has eclipsed a war of movement where persuasion is possible and voter groups can be lured across party lines.
The technology has reinforced the static, fixed battlefield of today’s politics. It assumes that turnout is the key and that the goal of targeting is to find the voter who agrees with you but needs to be motivated to go on Election Day.
But these assumptions are likely becoming obsolete as you read this column. How many millions of Americans were turned off Trump in 2016 or fixated on the collusion narrative who are now up for grabs? As Trump’s accomplishments mount and his economic policies are obviously working, the collusion charges are disproven, and the Democratic field moves massively left, these voters are now becoming highly persuadable. The ice is breaking. It’s time that our consultants change their priorities and adjust to the new landscape.
Put away your metrics and data points and figure out how to persuade people, in English (or Spanish) to vote for the Republicans. Speak language, not just data.
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Treat the voters as intelligent people who can be persuaded by arguments and information, not just as automatons who need to be dragged out to vote.
The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by the owners of this website.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster and consultant. His most recent book, "50 Shades of Politics," was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
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EuroDay 2016, an initiative by the DWMA and the Belgian Go4Circle, showcased several good examples of the circular economy. The conference showed that waste companies and governments are busily innovating and investing in the circular economy. Active cooperation is needed to implement the ambitious EU and national policies.
EuroDay 2016 in Brussels
Author: René Didde Translation: Derek Middleton ©copyright
The circular economy has become a hot item over the past two years. Governments, public sector organisations and businesses are aiming to become ‘100% circular’. Fine words indeed, but what actually is the circular economy? A quick description is that a circular economy produces virtually no waste because discarded and end-of-life products are used again as high-grade resources in the manufacture of new products. At EuroDay 2016, held on 22 November in Brussels, it became clear that this is easier said than done.
Plans for the circular economy and innovative projects
Building the circular economy will require a huge number of innovations and massive investment. The main question explored at EuroDay 2016 was how EU policies can support such efforts. In the Dutch embassy in Brussels more than fifty participants were treated to an intensive programme packed full of content: three sessions with no less than eleven speakers, followed by a panel debate. The speakers talked about plans for the circular economy, innovative projects, what innovators need in practice and the obstacles they encounter. The conference was an initiative of the DWMA and its Belgian counterpart Go4Circle (previously FEBEM-FEGE), in cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Permanent Representations of the Netherlands and Belgium. The participants were members of the two organisations and representatives from governments and European associations.
Concerted cooperation
One Brussels insider at the conference complained that the circular economy sometimes seems to be little more than a well-intentioned recycling of good ideas. But there were also more positive messages to take away. First of all, the economics and environment ministries of various countries are working closely together. And this is also the case at the European level, as Magnus Gislev and Julius Langendorff confirmed in their presentation. Both work for the European Commission, Gislev at DG Growth, Langendorff at DG Environment. Together they are working on a roadmap with concrete actions for the transition to a circular economy, which is expected to be presented in 2017.
The EU has made 600 million euros available for innovative research into recovering raw materials from waste
600 million euros for innovation
The European Commission is serious about stimulating the transition to a circular economy. At the end of 2015 European Commissioner Frans Timmermans published ‘Closing the Loop’, an EU action plan for the circular economy containing numerous measures for the 26 member states. Gislev confirmed that the EU has made 600 million euros available for research into innovative ways of replacing primary raw materials with secondary materials recovered from waste. ‘We have drawn up a strategy for critical raw materials. Already 980 companies across the whole of the EU are working together to meet our raw materials challenges,’ said Gislev. He encouraged the recycling and reuse sector to use more of this research funding.
International resources roundabout
At the conference Robine van Dooren of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, explained what the North Sea Resources Roundabout is doing. This initiative is a practical exercise outside the usual grant-funding channels. In this first international Green Deal, four North Sea countries are looking into the opportunities and constraints for free trade in secondary materials between them. One example is exporting Dutch compost produced by Twence for use in the north of England. Another is exporting aluminium and silver recovered from bottom ash in Dutch waste-to-energy plants for use in Flanders. ‘Yet another case is the trade in PVC waste between England, France, the Netherlands and Belgium,’ said Van Dooren. A fourth case on struvite – or secondary phosphate – has also been added to the list. Waste legislation, REACH and transport are being examined in more detail as part of the Green Deal.
Circular lime granules
Aalke Lida de Jong of the Dutch Industrial Secondary Raw Materials Association for construction and civil engineering (VIB) described several inspiring examples of innovative recycling and reuse. One of these concerns the use of lime granules. ‘Lime granules produced during the process for softening drinking water are increasingly used in the manufacture of new products. They are used as substitutes for sand grains in Desso carpet backing and can also be used as a source of calcium for laying hens. Their use in solar cells is also being investigated.’
Learning from frontrunners
Some people consider the North Sea Resources Roundabout cooperative arrangement to be a sort of ‘mini EU’ within the EU. Van Dooren denied this, insisting that the intention is that the lessons learned by these frontrunners will inspire other member states to take steps towards the circular economy. ‘We want to develop more cases, for example for electrical waste and tyres. We are looking at what the current legislation permits and we report bottlenecks directly to the European Commission,’ said Van Dooren. She stressed that companies take part in the Roundabout entirely of their own accord and without any significant subsidy. ‘Taking part in a case study is no guarantee of success.’
A Circular Economy in the Netherlands by 2050
The circular economy is high on the government agenda in both the Netherlands and Flanders. In September the Netherlands launched a government-wide programme for a circular economy called ‘A Circular Economy in the Netherlands by 2050’. Its interim objective for 2030 is to reduce the use of primary raw materials by 50%. The environment minister, Sharon Dijksma, expects this will lead to more innovative small and medium-sized enterprises which will generate an additional annual turnover of 7.3 billion euros and create 54,000 extra jobs. They will enter into ‘circular economy agreements’ between ‘relevant businesses and societal stakeholders’, which will then set out concrete measures in ‘transition agendas’.
Flanders is also working towards a circular economy, as explained by Lieze Cloots of the Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM). Thanks in part to efforts by the Flemish government – with a coordinated approach to separate collection, recycling centres, landfill bans and an incineration tax – Flanders is a European frontrunner which recycles 70% of its waste, incinerates 27% incineration and landfills 1%. The statistics show that this circularity has itself become part of the economy. ‘Our waste industry is enjoying a 5% growth rate and with 12,000 jobs we account for 0.5% of the labour force,’ said Cloots.
But despite this, the improvement in Flemish waste management performance is stalling. OVAM has therefore come up with Plan C (C for circular). ‘In 2020 materials recycling will save us 3.4 billion euros and create 21,000 extra jobs,’ said Cloots. ‘Construction – including ageing-in-place buildings – the bioeconomy, metals and chemicals are the themes for the creation of circular cities, where the port is not just for exporting products, but is a recycling hub.’
Gold from bottom ash
Jan Peter Born of HVC talked about the new washing plant for cleaning incinerator bottom ash from the HVC waste-to-energy plant. Born passed around a heavy pot of metals. ‘Those are all non-ferrous metals recovered from the bottom ash in the washing plant,’ he said. ‘One tonne of this reusable material is worth no less than 5,000 euros. Two-thirds of that value comes from the 120 kilograms of gold it contains,’ he added.
Waste-to-energy plants lend a hand
The circular economy is not just about using secondary raw materials; waste-to-energy plants are also part of the equation by producing sustainable energy in the form of electricity, steam and heat. ‘What’s new is that we are investigating whether it is possible to supply CO2 by pipeline between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Along the way, greenhouse growers in Aalsmeer can tap into this CO2,’ said Peter Simoës of AEB Amsterdam. ‘We are also involved in an innovative research project on converting waste sludge into kerosene.’
Same quality as primary
However interesting, useful and economically lucrative many of these projects may be, the panel debate nevertheless ended with the complaint that the waste industry is still too busy trying to turn waste into useful products for the circular economy. ‘We must consult more with manufacturing industries and find out which fossil resources we can replace with secondary materials,’ said Dick Hoogendoorn, director of DWMA, who believes secondary materials should be of the same quality as the raw materials they replace. ‘If necessary we will have to make less of them, or no longer collect all materials if that impairs the quality of the most urgently needed and valuable secondary materials,’ he argued.
The market will have to do its work, but the public sector, especially the European Commission, should not only use pull measures like subsidies and fiscal incentives, but also introduce push measures, such as prescribing minimum percentages of secondary materials in new products. The energy benefits of CO2 emissions avoided by using secondary raw materials should also be taken into account. Progressive manufacturers and bulk users of primary raw materials will surely be invited to the next EuroDay, where they can be cross-examined about their ambitions for the circular economy.
Magnus Gislev (European Commission):"Already 980 companies across the whole of the EU are working together to meet our raw materials challenges."
Robine van Dooren (Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment):"We are looking at what the current legislation permits and we report bottlenecks directly to the European Commission."
Lieze Cloots (OVAM):"In 2020 materials recycling will save us 3.4 billion euros and create 21,000 extra jobs."
Dick Hoogendoorn (DWMA):"We must consult more with manufacturing industries."
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Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 (Hardback)
Elizabeth Andros Foster (author)
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Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in colonial Senegal between 1880 and 1940. In doing so she illuminates the nature of the relationship between the French Third Republic and its colonies, reveals competing French visions of how to approach Africans, and demonstrates how disparate groups of French and African actors, many of whom were unconnected with the colonial state, shaped French colonial rule. Among other topics, the book provides historical perspective on current French controversies over the place of Islam in the Fifth Republic by exploring how Third Republic officials wrestled with whether to apply the legal separation of church and state to West African Muslims.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
"Foster explores the intricate web of relationship that defined colonial Senegal between 1880 and 1940 and shaped interactions among administrators, Catholic missionaries, and Africans, including Muslims, animists, and the minority of Christian converts. This complex, engaging story is deeply rooted in research in colonial and religious archives . . . Recommended." -- C. Higgs * Choice *
"Elizabeth Foster's well-written book Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 takes readers on a thoughtful journey though Senegal to explore how some of the underlying questions related to these recent conflicts played out during France's Third Republic . . . What makes Faith in Empire unique is the innovative use of religious debate to bring in perspectives from a range of stakeholders." -- Lorelle D. Semley * Journal of Modern History *
"The book's chapters explore a variety of fascinating themes and events . . . Faith in Empire has much to offer readers interested in debates about the imperial past and its legacies; historical and contemporary struggles over secularism; and the complicated relationship between religion and politics in France." -- Roxanne Panchasi * New Books in French Studies *
"[S]tudies of the French colonial empire have, until recently, either largely ignored missionaries or written them off as willing handmaidens of French Colonial administrators. Elizabeth Foster's Faith in Empire joins a growing body of literature replacing this overly simplistic view of the French colonial experience with a messier and more accurate one . . . Foster is to be commended for uncovering the existence of these tensions of empire and for demonstrating how they complicated and shaped French colonial policy in Senegal. As a result, her book is a very useful and important addition to the emerging scholarship on the role of missionaries and religion in the French colonial empire." -- Kenneth J. Orosz * H-France Review of Books *
"Elizabeth A. Foster has provided a pioneering work on the Catholic priests, nuns, brothers, and missionaries of Senegal . . . [Foster] makes an excellent case for the limits of knowledge and power in the administration and the ability of interest groups, particularly African chiefs and communities, to affect outcomes." -- David Robinson * American Historical Review *
"French Catholic missionaries, Foster argues, were important interlocutors, along with colonial officials, the French metropole, and Senegalese themselves, in the shaping of French colonial policy. Her account adds depth to the trend in colonial studies to deconstruct the hegemonic power of colonialism and to reinsert the agency of competing nodes of power." -- Zachary Wright * The Historian *
"Foster deepens our knowledge of the relations between the Fathers of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) and colonial officials in Senegal under the French Third Republic by weaving together archival documents, ecclesiastical correspondences, and journal articles . . . Foster has written a well-documented 'archive-driven' history . . . In sum, Faith in Empire is a powerful case study for understanding the importance of hesitations, confusions, contradictions, accommodation, and compromise in shaping colonial rule in French West Africa." -- Aly Drame * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
"In her first major monograph Elizabeth Foster has delivered an exceptional account of the complex relationship between religion and politics in French West Africa during the colonial period . . . In the end Foster has produced a highly accessible account of the intricate nature of religion and politics in Senegal that ably captures how religious issues and local dynamics had the ability to affect colonial politics as well as intra-imperial relations." -- Ethan R. Sanders * Fides et Historia *
"Overall, Foster's study is an important and welcome addition to the scholarship of French colonialism and Senegalese history. It offers a new analytical framework as well as a unique window into the colonial experience." -- James E. Genova * Catholic Historical Review *
"Foster's excellent archival research allows her to present a nuanced picture of how imperial and missionary goals interacted and conflicted with one another in Senegal. This book is an extremely valuable addition to the historical literature on empire and missionaries." -- Owen White * University of Delaware *
"This richly researched and highly original case study deepens our understanding of how colonial politics worked on the ground in Senegal, and offers a fresh interpretation of the relationship between metropole and colony, between missionaries and colonial administrators, and between ideology and practice." -- Alice L. Conklin * Ohio State University *
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Wet spring creates havoc for school sports
April rain could mean a packed prep athletics schedule in May
Wet spring creates havoc for school sports April rain could mean a packed prep athletics schedule in May Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: http://wdhne.ws/2pgMTih
Tim Johnson, Scott A. Williams and Mark Massoglia, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 6:23 a.m. CT April 25, 2017 | Updated 8:30 a.m. CT April 25, 2017
D.C. Everest's Trevor Samuelson delivers a pitch during game against Green Bay Southwest on April 21.(Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
Central Wisconsin's high school athletic directors mapped out prep schedules more than a year ago for their respective programs this spring.
But Mother Nature always has the final word on outdoor sports. And as the spring season started, that word was foul.
Just how much havoc has a wet and cool April played havoc on the schedule? Last Thursday alone, 10 of the 17 varsity events scheduled that day in the Wisconsin Valley Conference were either postponed or canceled because of the inclement weather.
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In the second week of April, Wausau West twice postponed a matchup between the Warriors and Stevens Point Area Senior High baseball teams in a span of three days and postponed a soccer and softball game in that stretch.
“Our indoor track season was fabulous (this spring), but everything else has not worked that well,” said Pat Galligan, who is in his first year as Wausau West’s athletic director. “As a new athletic director this year I’m kind of learning some things (about scheduling) while we’re kind of in the middle of a mess here. That even started this winter as I was told by my fellow ADs that it was one of the worst in the past decade, given how many Tuesdays and Thursdays we seemed to be out of school.”
The April rain could result in packed May schedules with baseball and softball teams in particular playing almost every day of the week to make up for the postponed games.
Fans try and remain warm while watching a matchup between the Wausau East and Wausau West softball teams last week at Wausau East. (Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Central Wisconsin has received rain or precipitation on 14 days in April, according to weather.com, including 0.91 inches of rain on April 20. The Wausau area has received 3.85 inches of precipitation this month — enough to make local baseball and softball fields all but unplayable for some scheduled games, even when steps were taken to improve drainage.
“We have put in a lot of effort in both baseball fields at (Wausau) East and West and basically recreated the entire infield structure from well below the surface,” Galligan said. “But when you are getting as much as we did, I’m not sure how much rebuilding, outside of putting a dome over the top (of the field) would have helped.”
The D.C. Everest baseball team beat Merrill on April 17 in its first game in nine days after three straight schedule matchups were postponed or canceled because of the weather. The Evergreens ended up playing four games in the week and have played six overall this spring.
“You wake up and it might be beautiful out and you’re excited for the game (that afternoon), but you look at the forecast and next thing you know it’s raining,” said Austin Gilge, a junior on the Evergreens baseball team. “We’ve been waiting all winter to play … and now, I don’t know how many games we’ve had rained out this spring, but it’s been frustrating.”
Pittsville is one local baseball team to have few bumps in its schedule, with just one postponement through last week.
“Two things have happened for us. We’ve played in several games that have been overcast and in the 40s, but it hasn’t rained,” Pittsville baseball coach Bill Urban said, “and our field is tiled, so it drains well. We can have 6 inches of standing water in left field and still play the next day.”
Rescheduling games can also be a headache for local school officials.
“With some conferences and athletic directors scheduling two to three years in advance, finding umpires for rainouts (later in the season) is a long and sometimes impossible task,” Rosholt athletic director Steve Schoofs said. “We also have to balance athletic reschedules with drama, band, choir, class field trips, forensics, prom and (Advanced Placement) tests. They are student-athletes, family members, active school organization participants, not (just) athletic students who only play sports in the spring. Balancing this is challenging, but necessary.”
Megan Donahue, starting pitcher for the Marshfield Tigers, makes a run for third base against Eau Claire North at the Marshfield Fairgrounds Park on April 17,. (Photo: Tyler Rickenbach/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Inclement weather also has forced teams to remain indoors for practices at times, which has restricted their normal workouts. Spring practice time can also be limited late in the year when teams are playing four to five times a week to catch up on rescheduled contests.
“When you need to work situations — outfield work and getting your pitchers on sand — it's hard to do it when you are confined to the gym,” Pacelli softball coach Ann Molski said. “Then you get the games stacked on top of each other and you don't really have any good practice time to tweak what needs to be tweaked.”
The D.C. Everest girls soccer team has tweaked its schedule the past few years to increase its chances of getting games in early. The Evergreens played most of their games in the opening few weeks of the spring in southern Wisconsin and on turf fields, to avoid bad local conditions, said coach Lucas Kollross said.
“But, actually it has been one of the best springs we’ve had," he said. "We’ve been able to get out on the grass sooner as our field drained well (from the snow melt this winter).”
Tim Johnson: 715-845-0731, or twjohnson@gannett.com; on Twitter @timmyjo11
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Creating Disney Magic at Home
by Kathleen M. Reilly
If there's one word tightly intertwined with Disney, it's "magic." You feel it the minute you cross over from the outside world onto park property. It's there when you see the castle rising up in front of you, and when you open the door at your resort. It's intangible, undeniable…and you feel it calling you "home" when you've been away too long.
But what happens when you (sniff!) leave the parks behind or when you don't have another trip planned for a while? When you return to your everyday life and realize the most magical thing in it is hitting all green lights on the way to work? Some days, it can feel like you're living in a grainy black-and-white flick, knowing there's a Technicolor feature film somewhere out there.
Good news: Walt and his battalion of Imagineers aren't the only ones who can create a little magic in your life (but you knew that, right?). You can add a burst of that Disney pixie dust right at home. Here's how to bring the Disney-esque sparkle into your everyday life.
MAGIC AT HOME: DISNEY NIGHTS
Many families have game night. Couples have romantic "home date" nights. And folks living solo have special pampering-at-home evenings. Add the Disney touch to your home events by creating magical "Disney nights."
Over on the DIS discussion boards, members have dreamed up some fantastic "Disney Theme Nights" to keep the magic alive at home with their families. From lavish, all out events complete with games, prizes, and themes galore to low-key dinner-and-a-movie, it's all good. In a nutshell, you choose a Disney theme—usually based around a movie—and expand from there. Here's how:
Choose a theme. Are your kids Toy Story crazy, or your sweetie can't get enough Tron? Plan your theme around those elements. That's the good thing about Disney—you'll probably never run out of themes. You could do a specific movie (Tangled, Pirates of the Caribbean), a general theme (classic movies, Adventureland, World Showcase countries), or character-based (Kim Possible, Donald Duck).
Plan the chow. Admittedly, this can be easy (Finding Nemo: fish sticks, goldfish crackers, and hot dog "octopi") or a bit tougher (Pollyanna: uh…smiling potato fries?). Make it easy on yourself by starting with the obvious: Were there certain foods that played a major role in your theme? Snow White's apple could be transformed to apple pie or candy-coated apples, for instance.
Expand on ideas with plays on words ("motor oil" pudding for Cars) or creative foods (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: miniature hamburgers, drinks served in shot glasses, tiny corn). Try Oriental food for Mulan, or a tea party for Alice in Wonderland.
Deck the halls. Immerse yourself in an undersea world by hanging strips of blue crepe paper from the ceiling to enjoy an underwater theme, create a tropical paradise with inflatable dollar store palm trees, or travel to Mexico by dangling a piñata and hanging that old sombrero from college on the wall. Serve food in clever containers (why stick to boring bowls?) and anchor your table with a dozen balloons to kick off your Up night. You can find Disney-themed table cloths easily, or head to the party store for themed cups and plates.
MAGIC AT HOME: EDIBLE DISNEY
Whether you're on the dining plan or not, Disney is no doubt an edible experience. It's not just about hamburgers and hot dogs (although you can certainly find those, too). You can sample foods from far away places, stuff yourself with pastries and fancy desserts, or try whimsical edible creations. And guess what? That's right. You can certainly "Disney up" your cuisine at home, too.
Mickey everywhere. Mickey waffles, Mickey-shaped sprinkles on your ice cream, the ubiquitous Mickey ice cream bar…it's all about the mouse in every edible variation. You can find Mickey-shaped waffle makers, cake pans, chocolate molds, pancake makers…you name it. Not into gadgets? The iconic three circle Mickey ear logo can easily be replicated in pancakes, cookies, sliced cheese, and over-easy eggs.
Food from the parks. So, you're not a top chef, and you're not sure about whipping up sweet potato hash with poached eggs topped with arugula. That's okay—take a peek at "The 'Official' DISNEY RECIPE Exchange" and find that creamy lobster soup from Coral Reef, or Banana Bread Pudding from Boma. Mmm-mmmm.
MAGIC AT HOME: MOUSE BEAUTIFUL
Part of the magic at Disney is wrapped up in the details. If you're not caught up in the rushing crowd to get in line for Dumbo, you can stop and marvel at the neatly trimmed topiaries or enjoy the dancing fountains. You don't need to have a Ph.D. in Imagineering to make some magic come to life in your own home.
Garden fun. Even if you're not van Gogh, you can still create a decent topiary. Start with a simple shape (save the scene from Lion King for later), follow basic directions, and have patience! If your green thumb is looking a bit purple, try making a faux topiary—attach three foam balls together and use hot glue to cover them with artificial greenery.
It's in the details. As Mousekeepers know, sometimes all you need to create magic and whimsy is a clean towel.
Dream on. Whether you go big or small, "magic" is all about imagination. Walt himself believed if you dream it, you can do it. So whether it's that backyard monorail, a small pond shaped like a Mickey head, or serving Mickey-shaped hamburgers…you can capture that magic at home.
Tap into your inner Imagineer, go forth, and spread pixie dust!
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A sizzling story of a woman who risks her life and her heart to find a wealthy man’s missing sister—the first novel in a sexy new romantic suspense series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks
When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, this scion of a powerful and wealthy family turns to an unlikely source for help: a beautiful and sensitive woman with a gift for finding answers others cannot.
While Ramie can connect to victims and locate them by feeling their pain, her ability comes with a price. Every time she uses it, it costs her a piece of herself. Helping the infuriatingly attractive and impatient Caleb successfully find his sister nearly destroys her. Even though his sexual intensity draws her like a magnet, she needs to get as far away from him as she can.
Deeply remorseful for the pain he’s caused, Caleb is determined to make things right. But just when he thinks Ramie's vanished forever, she reappears. She’s in trouble and she needs his help. Now, Caleb will risk everything to protect her—including his heart. . . .
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Caleb Devereaux turned out of the sharp switchback and onto the driveway leading up to the tiny mountain cabin, swearing when he hit pothole after pothole. Fury and impatience simmered in his blood but the anticipation of having finally found Ramie St. Claire after an exhaustive search kept his mood from being completely black.
Ramie was his sister, Tori’s, only hope.
The moment Tori was kidnapped, Caleb had begun his search for Ramie St. Claire. She certainly wasn’t the first person on most people’s go-to list when looking for a loved one. Ramie was psychic and had been helpful in locating victims in the past. While many would be skeptical, Caleb absolutely believed in Ramie’s abilities.
His own sister had psychic abilities.
He and his brothers, Beau and Quinn, had always been extremely overprotective of their baby sister. With good reason. Caleb was the head of a veritable empire. Security was always top priority. They’d always feared kidnapping for ransom, but in their worst nightmares they’d never imagined that Tori would simply disappear and be at the mercy of a madman.
There’d been no ransom demand. Simply a video of Tori bound hand and foot and the maniacal laughter of her captor as he told Caleb to kiss his sister goodbye.
He just prayed he wasn’t too late. God, don’t let it be too late for Tori.
It infuriated him that Ramie St. Claire had simply dropped off the map three months ago. No trace of her, no forwarding address. No evidence that she even existed. How could she simply disappear when she was such an invaluable aid in finding kidnap victims and missing persons? How selfish of her to simply refuse, by her actions, to help anyone?
He’d worked himself into a rage by the time he finally pulled up to the small cabin that looked as though it wouldn’t weather the upcoming winter at all. He wasn’t even certain there would be electricity. Only a person determined not to be found would live in a place like this.
He got out and strode to the ramshackle front door, his fist up and pounding. The door shook and rattled under the force of his knock. Only silence greeted him and it sent his blood pressure soaring.
“Miss St. Claire!” he roared. “Answer the goddamn door!”
He beat on the door again, shouting again for her to answer. He likely looked and sounded like the madman holding his sister, but at this point he didn’t care. He was beyond desperation. It had taken every resource available to him to finally track Ramie down. No way in hell he was leaving until he’d gotten the information he’d come for.
Then the door swung open and he was greeted by the sight of a petite woman with wary, gray eyes. He was momentarily taken aback, going silent as he stared at Ramie St. Claire for the first time in person.
The photos he’d seen of her didn’t do her justice. There was a delicate air to her as though she were recovering from an illness, but it in no way detracted from her beauty. She looked…fragile. He felt a brief moment of guilt for what he was about to ask her to do, but he brushed it away. There was no price too high to pay for his sister’s life.
“I can’t help you.”
Her softly spoken words slid like velvet over his ears, a direct contrast from the anger her refusal caused. He hadn’t even made his request yet and she was already giving him the brush-off.
“You don’t even know what it is I want,” he said in an icy tone that would wither most people.
“It’s rather obvious,” she said wearily, fatigue drooping her eyelids. “Why else would you come all this way? I don’t even want to know how you found me. It’s obvious I did a piss poor job of covering my tracks if you managed to find me here.”
Caleb frowned. Had she been ill? Was that why she’d dropped out of sight so she could recover? It didn’t matter why now that he’d found her. He didn’t care what her reasons were.
“With your abilities why would you purposely make yourself difficult to find?” he demanded. “My sister’s life is at stake here, Miss St. Claire. I’m not merely asking you to help me. I’m not leaving until you do.”
She shook her head adamantly, fear chasing the lethargy from her eyes. “I can’t.”
There was quiet desperation to her words that told him there was more to her refusal than what appeared on the surface. Something was wrong and yet he couldn’t summon any regret for forcing her compliance. Not when Tori’s life hung in the balance.
He reached inside his jacket and pulled out Tori’s scarf. The one item they’d found at the sight where she must have been taken. In the parking lot of a grocery store beside the open door of her car. He should have never let her go alone. He’d failed her. Failed to protect her. Failed to ensure proper security.
Ramie immediately backed away, a desperate cry on her lips. He shoved forward, forcing the scarf into her hands and holding her and the scarf so there was no escape. She emitted a broken sob and she looked up at him, stricken, her face going unnaturally pale. Her pupils flared and then clouded, pain and devastation clearly outlined on her features.
“No,” she whispered. “Not again. Oh God, not again. I won’t survive it.”
Her knees buckled and she would have gone down, but he caught her, ensuring the scarf never lost contact with her hands. He watched in horror as Ramie’s body sagged, slipping from his grasp despite his best effort to support her weight. She was simply lifeless, as limp as a rag doll. He quickly followed her down to the floor, determined that she not lose her grip on Tori’s scarf. But it didn’t seem to matter now. Ramie was somewhere else.
Her eyes glazed over and her body began to twitch spasmodically. She curled into a fetal position, the fragility of such a self-protective measure gutting him. She moaned softly and then began to weep.
“Please don’t hurt me again. Please, I’m begging you. I can’t take any more. If you’re going to kill me, just do it. Quit torturing me.”
Chill bumps spread rapidly up Caleb’s nape as Ramie’s voice, which sounded nearly identical to Tori’s, filled his ears. Dear God, was he witnessing what was happening to his sister through Ramie?
The scene Ramie was painting was horrifying. Not only for the fact that his sister was even now enduring the absolute worse. But from all appearances, Ramie was suffering with her
. He’d certainly done his research on Ramie St. Claire’s abilities but there was little information beyond her astonishing success record. No mention of how she managed to help victims or what it did to her. God help them all. What had he done?
Her body jerked and it took only a moment for Caleb to realize what was happening. It was too unmistakable. Bile rose in his throat and he had to suck in steadying breaths to keep from heaving the contents of his stomach on the floor. Tears burned his eyelids as he helplessly watched his sister being raped through the window of Ramie’s awareness.
Ramie’s weeping tore at his heart and he gathered her into his arms, not knowing what else to do but rock her gently. “Tori?” He whispered his sister’s name experimentally, not knowing if a link had been established through Ramie. “Can you hear me? It’s Caleb. Tell me where you are, honey. I’ll come for you. Hold on please. Don’t give up, no matter how bad it is.”
Ramie’s head jerked sideways and the imprint of a hand immediately appeared on her cheek. Caleb was horrified, unsure of what to do now that he’d crossed a line he couldn’t come back from. He tried to push back his guilt, telling himself that anything that helped him recover his sister was worth it. But was torturing an innocent woman worth it?
He hadn’t given her a choice. She’d told him no and yet he’d forced this on her not knowing the heavy toll it would take. He had no idea how her powers worked and now that he did he was sick to his soul. No wonder she’d been so resistant. No wonder she’d told him she couldn’t do it anymore.
“Ramie. Ramie!” he said in a more forceful voice. “Come back to me, Ramie. Come back so you can tell me how to find her.”
Ramie’s eyes were opened but so distant that he knew she wasn’t here. The imprint of the hand on her face was bright and vivid, red against deathly white skin. There was a look of such defeat and despair in her eyes that once again he found himself battling tears.
Suddenly she hunched inward, her entire body jolting as though absorbing a blow. She wrapped her arms around her stomach and he realized that she’d been kicked. Or rather Tori had been kicked. It was a horrific, helpless feeling to know that two women were being victimized, one because of him.
Then she simply rolled away, her cheek lying against the cold floor, her eyes fixed and vacant. She was completely still and terror gripped him. Was Tori dead? Oh dear God! Had he just witnessed his sister’s murder?
“Ramie! Wake up! God, please wake up. Tell me how to find her. Tell me that she’s still alive!”
He picked Ramie’s slight weight up, swearing because she was so thin and fragile, weighing nothing in his arms. He carried her to the worn sofa and carefully laid her down, not wanting to hurt her any more than she’d already been hurt.
He sat on the edge, gathering her icy hands in his, rubbing, trying to infuse warmth. He had no idea what to do. Should he take her to a hospital?
Then after several long moments, she blinked and seemed to come out of her trance. Pain immediately swamped her features and she began to silently weep again, each tear cutting him to ribbons.
“Is she still alive?” he asked anxiously. “Do you know how to find her?”
“Yes,” Ramie said dully.
Hope surged in his heart and he found himself nearly crushing her hands in his.
“Tell me where,” he urged.
Slowly and painfully she whispered the location down to the minutest detail. Chills once again slithered up his spine at the precision in which she described not only the location but the kidnapper. She even provided a license plate number.
He picked up his phone and immediately called his brother, relaying the information that Ramie had provided. When he was done, he stared helplessly down at Ramie, grateful and yet deeply regretful for what he’d just subjected her to.
“What do I need to do to help you?” he asked softly.
Resignation dulled her eyes even further. “There’s nothing you can do,” she said in a flat voice. “Just go.”
“The hell I’ll just leave you here!”
He was already calculating in his head that he could simply bring her with him. He could get her the care she so obviously needed at the same time Tori was receiving what she needed.
“Your sister needs you. Just go. I’ll be fine.”
The lie was so obvious, but it seemed to be all she could muster. He was torn between rushing to be with Tori and staying to ensure Ramie would be all right. But how could she be? Two women would live with this for the rest of their lives. His precious sister and the woman he’d forced to help him never knowing the price she’d pay.
“Please,” she begged, her voice breaking. “Just go and leave me be. I gave you what you wanted. I helped you, now go. It’s the least you can do.”
Caleb stood, wiping a hand over his hair and down the back of his neck in agitation. “I’ll go, but I’m coming back, Ramie. I’m going to make this up to you.”
“You can never take this back,” she whispered. “There’s no making up for what’s been done. Just go and take care of your sister. She needs you.”
She closed her eyes, tears seeping from her eyelids. How could he just leave her like she asked? And yet how could he not go and ensure that his sister was safely recovered? He’d never felt so torn in his life.
“If you have any humanity whatsoever, you’ll leave and never tell anyone where you found me,” Ramie said hoarsely. “Please, I’m begging you. Just go. He plans to kill her tomorrow. At dawn. You don’t have much time.”
Her words proved to be the impetus, driving him to action. But goddamn it, he would make this up to her. Somehow, someway.
Regret swamped him. Worse was the fact that even knowing now what he hadn’t known before, he couldn’t say he would have done anything differently. Not when it meant the difference between Tori’s life and death. But at least now he better understood Ramie’s resistance. No longer did he look at her and think she was selfish and cruel. Now he realized her disappearance had been self-preservation. He didn’t know she’d survived this in the past. He just prayed he wasn’t the tipping point in pushing her so far over the edge she’d never recover.
Caleb closed his eyes and then gently touched her cheek. “I’m so sorry. You’ll never know how much. My family and I owe you more than I can ever repay. I’ll go for now and pray to God I’m not too late. But I’m coming back, Ramie. Count on it. I’ll make this up to you if it’s the very last thing I do.”
Shelby – ☆☆☆
Ramie is a psychic who is on hiatus from using her gift to find missing people. Caleb is frantically searching for her as his sister, Tori, is missing and he and his 2 brothers are willing to do anything in order to get her back.
Upon finding Ramie hiding out in a cabin in the backwoods of Colorado, he forces her to locate Tori. In turn, he witnesses how her "gift/curse" works to his dismay.
Fast forward a year – Ramie finds herself in a terrible situation, she's being harassed/hunted by someone with a similar skill to her own – and she needs help.
She only has 1 person she can think to call for help: Caleb Devereaux. (Who, in true "savior" fashion, comes to her rescue immediately.) This is the point where the story really starts.
The romance wasn't really believable, I didn't feel any chemistry between them – the 1st night together (immediately after Ramie's rescue) she's freaking out and he's putting the move on her?!?
Ramie is broken, she's paranoid (understandably), and she fears for her life. Caleb is an Alpha, he's assured, and overly confident in everything he does. He takes on the responsibility of keeping Ramie, and his family, safe.
The dialogue between Ramie & Caleb was repetitive: Ramie's “I'm weak and scared,” Caleb's “I'm so sorry for putting you in this situation.” was annoying at times and frustrating at best. I was hoping for more insight on them individually, but never got it.
I liked the suspense angle of the story – and the events that unfolded, but again, I had a few issues with the details. Without listing spoilers, I have to say the “last” event of the story was just ridiculous and it negatively impacted my opinion of this book.
I will say that I wouldn't be surprised if my opinion is among the minority.
Overall, this was a fast paced, suspense-filled, sometimes violent story that involved a bit of romance, a touch of eroticism which held my interest even though moments were unbelievable and frustrating.
Mary Jo – ☆☆☆
I liked the premise of this book and wanted to like it more than I did. I thought the romance aspect was a little rushed. Ramie was on the run, hiding and calls Caleb Devereaux, who comes to her rescue.
Ramie has been hiding out for over a year, away from the person who is stalking her, both physically and on the psychic level. Caleb owes Ramie -- she saved his sister's life but there is also something about her that calls to his protective side.
Maya Banks has delivered another solid story and beginning to this series, but I hope that the romance elements are set up a little more gradually in the next book.
Shannan – ☆☆☆
Ramie is psychic. She helps people find missing or lost loved ones. When she upsets the "killer," he directs his anger toward her. His game of hide and seek has her fleeing and fearing for her life. When Caleb shows up after she's dropped off the grid demanding she help him find his missing sister, she knows she hasn't hidden herself well enough. If Caleb can find her can her stalker?
I really liked the idea of this book, but I felt the execution was off. There seemed to be a lot of repeating of the same things. There was a lot of inner-dialogue. I liked that Ramie was a psychic, it added something to the story. I enjoyed Caleb's character and his brothers. To me this wasn't the typical Ms. Banks book, it lacked something for me.
Mary – ☆☆☆☆
Ramie has a gift that is a curse most times. She has the ability to help find people who are lost or kidnapped just by holding something of the victim’s. She never knew that when Caleb Devereaux finds her, he wants her to help find his sister, Tori. When Ramie refuses, Caleb shoves Tori's scarf into her hands and all hell breaks loose. Ramie's physic touch connects her to the victims and the kidnapper/killer too. She feels everything the victim feels. Each time she connects with a victim, she loses something of herself too. When she connects with a killer and he wants Ramie or he will keep killing, she thinks that running away and hiding will keep her safe. Caleb gets the help he needs and Ramie is off and running again. Still being chased in her mind and in person. When she needs help, she calls Caleb. That is where the paranormal physic action really starts. This is a first for me from Maya Banks and I loved this story and can't wait for the next one in the series.
Johanna – ☆☆☆
This book is truly unlike what I've read from this author so far, so I was a bit surprised where this storyline went. When Caleb's sister is stolen and at the mercy of a madman he will do anything to get her back. Even put another woman through the terror of a psychic vision to find her. In reality though this storyline was all harder than fiction, and world building didn't suck me in. I would definitely read from this author again but I'm pretty sure I won't continue with this series. It just didn't appeal to me although I read its entirety. Overall entertainment was three stars.
Though different in pace to what one may expect from Ms. Banks, the quality of storytelling and writing was as usual, excellent. I enjoy psychological thrillers that have me wanting to turn the page, but also just a little bit nervous to find out what actually transpires. And this certainly delivered for me. The series title of Slow Burn is entirely appropriate, as the layers of story built to something hot and hopeful. There are times when a light plot and plenty of heat is all you want from a book; if that is the case, this will disappoint you. Instead, here is an intelligent take on a horrendous possibility, which brings two people together, and at times that demands comfort more than sex. I'm already looking forward to the next one!
Maya Banks is a #1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author whose chart toppers have included erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, Scottish historical romances. She is the author of the Breathless Trilogy, the KGI novels, the Sweet series, and the Colters Legacy novels.
She lives in the South with her husband and three children and other assorted babies, such as her two Bengal kitties and a Calico who’s been with her as long as her youngest child. She’s an avid reader of romance and loves to dish books with her fans and anyone else who’ll listen! She very much enjoys interacting with her readers on Facebook and Twitter as well as in her Yahoo! Group.
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Gates, J. et al.
rigor mortis encodes a novel nuclear receptor interacting protein required for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila larval development.
Pulses of the steroid hormone ecdysone trigger the major developmental transitions in Drosophila, including molting and puparium formation. The ecdysone signal is transduced by the EcR/USP nuclear receptor heterodimer that binds to specific response elements in the genome and directly regulates target gene transcription. We describe a novel nuclear receptor interacting protein encoded by rigor mortis (rig) that is required for ecdysone responses during larval development. rig mutants display defects in molting, delayed larval development, larval lethality, duplicated mouth parts, and defects in puparium formation--phenotypes that resemble those seen in EcR, usp, E75A and betaFTZ-F1 mutants. Although the expression of these nuclear receptor genes is essentially normal in rig mutant larvae, the ecdysone-triggered switch in E74 isoform expression is defective. rig encodes a protein with multiple WD-40 repeats and an LXXLL motif, sequences that act as specific protein-protein interaction domains. Consistent with the presence of these elements and the lethal phenotypes of rig mutants, Rig protein interacts with several Drosophila nuclear receptors in GST pull-down experiments, including EcR, USP, DHR3, SVP and betaFTZ-F1. The ligand binding domain of betaFTZ-F1 is sufficient for this interaction, which can occur in an AF-2-independent manner. Antibody stains reveal that Rig protein is present in the brain and imaginal discs of second and third instar larvae, where it is restricted to the cytoplasm. In larval salivary gland and midgut cells, however, Rig shuttles between the cytoplasm and nucleus in a spatially and temporally regulated manner, at times that correlate with the major lethal phase of rig mutants and major switches in ecdysone-regulated gene expression. Taken together, these data indicate that rig exerts essential functions during larval development through gene-specific effects on ecdysone-regulated transcription, most likely as a cofactor for one or more nuclear receptors. Furthermore, the dynamic intracellular redistribution of Rig protein suggests that it may act to refine spatial and temporal responses to ecdysone during development.[1]
rigor mortis encodes a novel nuclear receptor interacting protein required for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila larval development. Gates, J., Lam, G., Ortiz, J.A., Losson, R., Thummel, C.S. Development (2004) [Pubmed]
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6 of the best walks in Cornwall
Amabel Buck 5th September 2019 AdventureHiking
Jack Pease Photography
Author: Adventure Travel X AKU
There’s something quintessentially British about a ramble in Cornwall’s countryside, whether it’s the picturesque seaside towns, abundance of cream tea shops or that enticing smell of fish of chips as you near the sea. Walks in Cornwall are popular during the summer thanks to regular blue skies, but we love heading there in autumn, when the hordes of tourists have departed for the season and windswept coastal hikes await.
To celebrate these fantastic hikes, we teamed up with the folks over at AKU, who have just launched the new Selvatica GTX multi-terrain shoes, available in both mid and low versions for summer 2019. The Selvatica features a Vibram Megagrip sole for excellent traction on rugged coastal paths, with a Gore-Tex comfort lining which makes them ideal for the changeable conditions you’ll experience in autumn. Check them out here.
In the meantime, here are six walks in Cornwall you absolutely can’t miss on an adventure down south.
Photo: David Wilson
St Michael’s Mount looks like something akin to a fairy-tale, erupting from the sea at high tide as through it had once-upon-a-time risen from the murky depths. The small island is actually a civil parish, but makes for a picturesque end point for a nine-mile coastal hike along the South West Coast Path.
The hike begins at Lamorna Cove and takes in the impossibly quaint village of Mousehole and the famous port of Penzance, along with sweeping coastal views.
Photo: jules:g
Due to the popularity of Cornwall’s coastal hikes, the inland countryside is often overlooked, but there’s a rich history to discover here. From Bronze Age ritual sites to immense rock formations, a walk on Bodmin Moor is a lesson in geology and geography, with superb views to boot.
As an open access area, you don’t need to stick to the trails here, but to give you a steer, this three-mile route gives you a real taste of what these moorlands have to offer, passing by Bronze Age monuments such as The Pipers and a curious pile of rocks known as The Cheesewring.
Land’s End loop from Cove Hill
Photo: Giuseppe Milo
Explore picturesque bays and hidden shipwrecks on this five-mile loop around England’s most westerly point. The hike begins at the fishing village of Cove Hill, from where you’ll follow the rocky coastline with the deep blue waters of the Celtic Sea crashing down below. Upon reaching the iconic sign at Land’s End, you’ll head back inland through quaint countryside to reach your start point.
Lizard Point to Mullion Cove
Photo: Barney Moss
Walks in Cornwall don’t get much more stunning than this five-and-a-half-mile coastal hike from Lizard Point to Mullion Cove. It’s also tougher than it looks, thanks to a sprinkling of inlets and coves that require you to scramble down to beach level and a clamber back up the other side to re-join the clifftop path.
You’ll get to check out mainland Britain’s most southerly point, as well as the spectacular Kynance Cove. Keep an eye out for grazing migrants such as Dartmoor ponies, and even more bizarrely, Highland cattle.
Porthallow to Gillan
Photo: Derek Voller
A wonderfully varied four-and-a-half-mile walk that sees you following the coast from Porthallow to the mouth of the Helford River and then on to the beaches of Gillan, before turning back inland to follow bridleways and a pretty wooded footpath back to the start point. The authentic fishing village of Porthallow makes a lovely place to bookend your walk with a hearty cream tea or post-walk pint at The Five Pilchards.
Hell’s Mouth to Godrevy
Sea-life lovers will enjoy this coastal hike, which boasts beautiful views of the coast and Godrevy lighthouse, along with the opportunity to spot seals, dolphins and other wildlife. You’ll begin the five-mile hike at the Godrevy National Trust car park and head through the sand dunes up onto the clifftop, where a stunning view of St Ives bay opens up.
Following the coastal path around the Godrevy headland, you’ll eventually reach the dramatic cove known as Hell’s Mouth, from where you can retrace your steps back to Godrevy.
The right shoes for walks in Cornwall
Walks in Cornwall will often make use of rugged coastal paths, traverse swathes of marshland and cross picture-perfect beaches, meaning you need something on your feet that’s capable of tackling a variety of different terrain.
AKU’s new Selvatica shoes have excellent traction thanks to the Vibram Megagrip outsole and are perfect for the warmer southern climes thanks to the Gore-Tex extended comfort lining, which has excellent moisture management.
The Selvatica shoes are also incredibly lightweight and comfortable, thanks to a new welding technology that eliminates the need for uncomfortable stitching, making them a versatile option for a range of adventures.
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Amabel Buck
Junior Staff Writer
Growing up, I was the only girl at Scouts – finding thrills in the camping, rock climbing and night hikes that were rarely offered at Girl Guides. Since then I've continued to seek adventure wherever I can, from volcano boarding in a remote corner of Nicaragua to spending seven months in the French Alps attempting to perfect those parallel turns.
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“Although I have always loved the sea, I was a late starter into the marine world, and didn’t do my first snorkel until I was 21. And I was surprisingly nervous! But I can still remember it now, and it truly changed my life. There is a whole world beneath the ocean surface that is just mesmerising. I want to be a part of the team of people working to keep it that way.”
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Bec has had a varied career in the scientific research sector, starting her career over 15 years ago in toxicology and pharmacology research. Bec has always been fascinated by the marine world but her first encounter with manta rays and whale sharks in Australia in 2005 during a career break, which also saw her learn to dive, had her hooked! Bec returned to work in the UK, knowing her future path was forever changed. A couple of years later, answering the yearning to contribute to something worthwhile and close to her heart, Bec spent time abroad in Borneo and Vietnam working on community conservation projects with Raleigh International and later worked as a dive instructor; experiencing first-hand the challenges our oceans face, working with local communities and the tourism industry, Bec knew she wanted to be a part of the solution.
Bec returned to the UK and undertook an MSc in Marine Environmental Management, which saw her spend three month’s in the Maldives with the Manta Trust’s Maldivian Manta Ray Project, conducting research into manta tourism, and more specifically, human interactions, behavioural impacts and management implications; this would later be used to help inform a Code of Conduct for manta ray tourism. After completing her MSc, Bec worked in marine conservation as a Researcher and later as a Marine Lead Adviser for Natural England, and was a Trustee of the Manta Trust for several years before spending three years as the Manta Trust’s Director of Operations.
“I have loved the sea for as long as I can remember, and have always been drawn to being near it, on it or under the surface at every given opportunity! There’s nothing quite like seeing someone’s face when they learn to dive or snorkel and get to experience the wonder of the underwater world or a coral reef for the first time. I am deeply passionate about ocean conservation and the role we can all play in ensuring we, and future generations, can continue to enjoy it and most importantly, that it teems with life and thrives such that all life that depend upon it can continue to do so. I am excited to be a part of the WiseOceans team, where education and communication is at the heart of getting us all inspired to make a difference, and making sure that we all play our part”.
Charlotte Orba, Education & Communications Manager
Charlotte’s first career was in music, ending up as a Head of Department for degrees in Popular Music and Music Production at Leeds College of Music. She took a career break and joined a three-month marine conservation volunteer project in Seychelles. This led to a career change and a job with WiseOceans as a Marine Educator – combining her experience in education with her newfound love of marine life. After three years in Seychelles, Charlotte returned home to the UK and now leads on all aspects of Communications for WiseOceans as well as our Dive into the Classroom programme. She has a particular passion for encouraging others to make sustainable lifestyle choices that help protect and conserve our marine life.
“The ability to make a difference to the planet we live on and the oceans within was the impetus for my career change from music to marine conservation.”
Krishna Ashok, Marine Discovery Programmes Manager (based in Seychelles)
Krishna grew up by the South-East coast of India. He then travelled to Newcastle, UK to study for an MSc in International Marine Environmental Consultancy. He returned to India to work and time as Education Officer with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Environmental Team made him realise that environmental education was where his heart lay. Krishna moved to Seychelles to become a WiseOceans Marine Educator – working on Mahé and Desroches in Seychelles as well as in Mauritius. He now manages WiseOceans’ Marine Discovery Programmes, helping to develop innovative and quality marine education across the globe and supporting our growing team of Marine Educators.
“I used to go swimming in the sea since a very young age with family and friends. Soon I started to wonder what was under the waves! The fascination that there are such incredible creatures thriving in an environment so drastically different than the one we are used to is never-ending.”
Ben Taylor, Education & Outreach Manager (based remotely)
Ben studied Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc at Aberystwyth University, Wales, complementing his studies with practical experience as an environmental educator in Georgia, USA and turtle conservation in Cape Verde and Seychelles. After completing an MSc in International Marine Environmental Consultancy at Newcastle University Ben returned to Seychelles to work as a science officer for a marine conservation volunteering programme. Joining WiseOceans, he led and developed exciting schools and community programmes in partnership with the Seychelles Department of Education. Ben is currently working remotely and developing further opportunities for innovative marine conservation and outreach.
“Education is at its best when it is fun, engaging and passionate! One inspirational teacher is all I needed to become a marine biologist. Now it is my turn to share this knowledge and help to inspire the next conservationists of the future, and help to preserve the marine environment.”
Bernard Toinette, Marine Educator (Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita)
Bernard comes from the beautiful island of Mauritius and, having always lived near the coast, feels very connected with the oceans and the marine life within. He worked as forest guide at Valley de Ferney Nature Reserve and then on the ocean as a skipper, diver, sailing and water skiing instructor. Seeing the degradation of the reefs in Mauritius after spending 20 years on the sea made Bernard want to join the WiseOceans team and contribute to its conservation and protection. As well as taking guests and resort staff out on guided snorkels, Bernard takes a lead on the La Passe Cadet Reef Restoration Project which aims to restore 10,000 sqm of the reef close to the Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita.
My aim is to raise awareness to protect our coral reefs and through the Reef Restoration Project, give our corals a second chance.”
Lois Nippard, Marine Educator (Team Leader) (Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita)
Lois spent most of her adult life travelling, working abroad and working in the travel industry doing a range of jobs from working as cabin crew for Virgin to planning tours for a sustainable wildlife tour operator in Nicaragua. After which she returned to England to complete a BSc in Earth and Ocean Science. Lois, since, worked for the RSPB, volunteered for the Sussex IFCA, completed a traineeship with the Kent Wildlife Trust in the marine team and developed a programme called The Urban Beach Project with the Marine Conservation Society. Lois started as a Marine Educator with WiseOceans in Seychelles and has since moved to Mauritius where she leads the team. She feels privileged to have gotten to know the marine life of both locations. She has a true passion for education and knowledge sharing.
“I have always been captivated by the ocean and everything that lives in it. The more I have learnt, the more my desire grew to pass this knowledge on. If everyone knew some of the wonders that are beneath the waves and how important the oceans are to life then together we can make sure it’s protected.”
Georgina Beresford, Funding & Project Manager (based in Seychelles)
Georgina has loved the sea since her first dip aged two and has been lucky enough to make a career in what she loves. She has an MSc in Tropical Coastal Management and has worked on research and conservation projects in Indonesia, the Caribbean, Fiji, Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius. Georgina specialises in coral reefs, reef restoration and working with marine resource-dependent communities. Since witnessing the 2016 global coral bleaching event she has also developed a keen interest in behaviour change and large scale reef restoration innovations. Georgina manages and develops WiseOceans Seychelles’ conservation, education and reef restoration projects.
“The ocean has always been a source of wonder and fascination to me. I believe by connecting people to their oceans and all the benefits they bring, we can also connect people to the solutions we need to sustain these incredible ecosystems for future generations.”
Emily Daniels, Wise Work Administrator
Emily has always had a sense of adventure, this led to her travelling to Australia at the age of 18 where she began her career in marine conservation. As a PADI instructor she has work in marine operations, and research station management in countries including Indonesia, Philippines, Honduras and Seychelles.
Now based in the South of France, Emily works remotely for WiseOceans as the Administrator for the Wise Work section of the company, her responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of the sales, promotion and recruitment for marine conservation organisations through the Wise Work job board and weekly newsletter.
“The combination of introducing students to the world of marine research and diving was inspiring and I found that education was key to ensuring the next generation continued to be passionate about the underwater world. “
Jordan Sutherland, Marine Educator (Team Leader) (Four Seasons Resorts Seychelles)
Jordan worked as a Divemaster and Scuba Instructor in several locations across the world before deciding to study Marine Biology and Oceanography at the University of Southampton. She kept diving whilst studying and absolutely loved connecting what she was learning in the classroom with the environment she was seeing underwater.
At WiseOceans, Jordan leads the Marine Educator team with additional responsibility for the day to day operations of the Reef Restoration Project in Petite Anse. Jordan really enjoys engaging with people about the ocean, hoping to help them find or enhance their passion for it. Of course, she also adores her corals!
“Many people are able to appreciate how important education is, yet the education we receive about our oceans is often underrepresented. It is my belief that by providing the information and taking the time to explain topics in a fun and engaging environment, that inspiration and true change will emerge”
Flavio Joseph, Marine Educator (Four Seasons Resorts Seychelles at Desroches Island)
Flavio is from Mauritius, from Curepipe more precisely. The interest to engage in this field came from watching documentaries about the marine world. He enrolled for a BSc in Marine Science and Technology at the University of Mauritius in 2014 and spent his holidays as a volunteer in NGOs engaged in marine conservation. He discovered the beauties residing in the ocean through training in dive centre where he got his diving certificates.
Flavio is now based at the Four Seasons Resort on Desroches Island where he enjoys connecting with guests about the marine diversity of this remote island, cycling around to guide them on amazing snorkel where they can discover the beautiful seagrass meadows.
“Before I even knew how to swim, I was already going into the sea with my mask and snorkel because of the fascination I felt for what is underwater.”
Stephanie Cybèle Clarisse, Marine Educator (Four Seasons Resort Mauritius at Anahita)
Stephanie was born and grew up in Mauritius. The wonder of Mauritius’ marine ecosystems and diversity alongside the concerned felt about the threats it faced made her decide to pursue her tertiary studies in this field. Having interned and worked with several conservation organisations in Mauritius in 2016 Stephanie received a Scholarship from the Government of China, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Mauritius, to complete a Masters in Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering at Hohai University in Nanjing, China.
Now, she is back in Mauritius working with WiseOceans as a Marine Educator – combining her two passions, education and the sea.
“My aim is to protect the coral reefs through marine education, reaching as many people as possible so that not only do we get a chance to witness the survival of our impressive marine life but future generations do too.”
Ashley Taylor, Marine Educator (Four Seasons Resorts Seychelles)
After graduating from Texas State University with a BFA focused in Education, Ashley had accrued extensive experience across the globe as a scientific diver, dive shop manager, and guide aboard eco-conscious boats. In addition, she has developed and implemented educational programming for community groups and schools in Bali and led reef restoration projects there.
More recently, she received her US Coast Guard license and completed a season on the Arctic Ocean in Alaska as a Boat Captain.
Ashley’s role as a WiseOceans Marine Educator combines her passion for education alongside her experience and love for marine conservation.
“I believe that education is the foundation to conservation”
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10-year-old girl battles rare brain-eating amoeba
Posted: Sep 14, 2019 / 05:09 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 15, 2019 / 10:08 AM CDT
BOSQUE COUNTY, TX (CNN) – A Texas girl is hospitalized and in the fight of her life.
She contracted a deadly, brain-eating amoeba that usually kills people within three to five days.
“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare,” Crystal Warren, Lily Mae Avant’s Aunt, said.
As 10-year-old Lily lays unresponsive in a hospital bed in the neurointensive care unit of Cooks Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth.
Her family, friends and school are rallying behind her.
“She is just an outstanding young girl and we are all devastated but we’re also we’re also very hopeful,” Chris Dowdy, Valley Mills Elementary Principal, said.
“We just need everybody to pray and continuously think good positive thoughts she will be number five to survive,” Warren said.
In Valley Mills, last night more prayers from classmates and their families, and prayers are what’s needed says her Aunt Crystal and for Lily’s body to keep fighting.
“The doctors told us there is nothing more that they can do for her and they have exhausted all resources due to the fact that this is such a fatal disease and it claims it’s victims so quickly. They haven’t had time to really study and learn from it,” Warren said.
The show of support for Lily is online, in Whitney and in Valley Mills as well.
Her elementary school principal Chris Dowdy says many people are thinking about her.
“Well you have a huge support system from this campus from this city in this community all over the state,” Dowdy said.
“She cares about everybody and she loves babies. Those are her favorite things and all of her babies are just praying for her to come back to them,” Warren said.
Doctors and members of the Center for Disease Control say they haven’t figured out where she contracted the amoeba, whether it was when she swam in the Brazos River near her house in Laguna Park, or at Lake Whitney on Labor Day.
“For this to happen to her when there were so many other people in the same waters on the same days we just don’t understand why it was her,” Warren said.
Many people who get this dangerous parasite die within three-to-five days after starting to feel the effects.
Lily is about to finish her sixth day and that could be good news.
“We have high hopes. She is a fighter and she’s always been a fighter,” Warren said.
“We’re behind you. We’re here for you and we can’t wait to get Lily back on this campus,” Dowdy said.
The scientific name of the amoeba is Naegleria Fowleri.
It is typically found in bodies of fresh water, such as rivers, ponds, and lakes.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Health says the amoeba is present in fresh water all over the country.
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When the films of Walt Disney Studios ushered in the era of popular American animation in the 1930s, animated films were strictly aimed at young audiences. Even when the films had a broad appeal and could be enjoyed by adults as well as children, the subject matter and storylines were always intended to be appropriate for children. The same was true of animation on television through most of the twentieth century; animated shorts and half-hour series on TV were geared toward children and, for the most part, excluded adults.
That changed in the 1960s, when The Flintstones debuted. This half-hour animated series was structured like a live-action situation comedy, and it borrowed heavily from popular live-action series like The Honeymooners. Although the show was still appropriate for young viewers, the humor and satire were often pitched at a level that could be fully appreciated only by adults.
The current trend in adult-oriented animation began in earnest in the 1990s, when The Simpsons became one of the most popular shows on TV. Like The Flintstones, it was heavily influenced by situation comedies, but The Simpsons reversed the focus of The Flintstones; in The Simpsons, the satire was sharp and sophisticated, and although children might have been able to appreciate it, the program was clearly intended primarily for adults.
Since The Simpsons, adult-oriented animated series often characterized by crude humor and adult themes have become nearly as widespread on TV as kid focused animation. Many of them are not only entertaining for adults, they are entirely unsuitable for children, a complete turn-around from the origins of animation.
In addition to the adult animation on American television, animated films from other cultures are often created with adults or at least mature young people in mind. Japanese anime, with its frequent violence and sexual situations, is a genre that seeks an older audience.
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WorkForce Software Announces Global Reseller Agreement with SAP
by WorkForce Software | Aug 11, 2015
SAP to Provide Comprehensive Cloud-based Workforce Management Solution with SAP® Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software
LAS VEGAS (August 11, 2015) – WorkForce Software®, a leading cloud-based provider of enterprise workforce management solutions, announced today at SuccessConnect 2015 the signing of a global reseller agreement with SAP (NYSE: SAP). Through this agreement, SAP will resell three components of WorkForce Software’s cloud-based EmpCenter workforce management suite – Time and Attendance, Advanced Scheduler and Absence Compliance Tracker – under the name SAP® Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software.
This reseller arrangement adds a robust, cloud-based workforce management solution to SAP’s portfolio, complementing the company’s market-leading core human resources (HR) and global payroll solutions. With the ability to automate the most complex time, scheduling and leave administration requirements, the SAP Time and Attendance Management application streamlines compliance with wage and hour laws and leave regulations and gives employers greater visibility for strategic decision-making.
“WorkForce Software is committed to providing some of the most flexible and complete workforce management solutions on the market,” said Kevin Choksi, co-founder and CEO, WorkForce Software. “We are excited about this new partnership with the undisputed leader in enterprise application software—SAP— as it will enable more organizations around the globe to automate time and labor processes, simplify compliance and help boost workforce productivity.”
WorkForce Software’s EmpCenter suite integrates with SAP SuccessFactors® Employee Central and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, allowing SAP customers to automate their most complex time, scheduling and leave-management requirements with a proven, global solution.
“Customers moving to the cloud demand choice and flexibility in the platforms and vendors they work with – allowing them to maintain their investments in what works well today and to evolve as they grow,” said Mike Ettling, president, HR Line of Business, SAP. “By offering SAP Time and Attendance Management integrated with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, some of the most flexible core HR products available, we can help an ever-growing number of enterprise customers overcome the challenges often associated with workforce management. These solutions provide the choice and flexibility they require, allowing them to benefit from an easy-to-use, cost-effective and compliant strategy.”
About WorkForce Software
WorkForce Software is a leader in workforce management software for organizations with complex policies and compliance concerns. Through its EmpCenter® workforce management suite, WorkForce Software enables organizations to fully automate time and attendance processes, effectively manage employee absence and leave, optimize staff scheduling, gain real-time visibility into labor costs and productivity, and mitigate the risks associated with employee fatigue. Hundreds of leading organizations rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance, reduce labor costs, and provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR on a global basis.
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VIKING TAKES DELIVERY OF FIFTH OCEAN SHIP
Viking Orion Will Officially be Named in Livorno, Italy
Los Angeles (June 7, 2018) – Viking® ( www.vikingcruises.com) today announced it took delivery of Viking Orion®, the company’s fifth ocean ship. The delivery ceremony took place this morning when the ship was presented at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Ancona, Italy. On June 14, the ship will arrive in Livorno, Italy, where she will officially be named by her ceremonial godmother, Dr. Anna Fisher, American chemist, emergency room physician and retired NASA astronaut. The ship’s name was inspired by the prominent constellation and Dr. Fisher’s work on NASA’s Orion exploration vehicle project. Viking Orion will spend her maiden season sailing the Mediterranean, before journeying to Australia, Asia and Alaska, where she will be Viking’s first ship to call on the northernmost U.S. state.
“Today we celebrate the delivery of our fifth ocean ship, just three years after launching our ocean business,” said Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “We are pleased to welcome Viking Orion to our award-winning fleet and look forward to introducing more guests to the Viking way of travel, through culturally-immersive and destination-focused itineraries as we expand to new destinations in Asia and Alaska.”
Viking’s ocean ships have a gross tonnage of 47,800 tons, with 465 staterooms that can accommodate 930 guests. Viking Orion is the fifth addition to Viking’s award-winning ocean fleet, which also includes Viking Star®,Viking Sea®, Viking Sky® and Viking Sun®. With the arrival of Viking Jupiter® in Spring 2019, Viking will be the largest small ship ocean cruise line. Ten additional ships are also planned for delivery starting in 2021, which could bring Viking’s ocean fleet to 16 ships by 2027.
Designed for discerning travelers with interests in history, art, music and cuisine, Chairman Torstein Hagen often says Viking offers guests “the thinking person’s cruise” as an alternative to mainstream cruises. Ships are small to get guests closer to their destination, with more time in port and more overnights. On board, guests find serene Scandinavian spaces, where every room is both beautiful and functional, quiet and filled with light. With the most al fresco dining opportunities at sea, featuring regional cuisines and always-available American classics, Viking’s guests can truly dine in their destination. A focus on cultural enrichment brings immersive experiences ashore and on board. And only The Viking Way of Exploration provides guests with itineraries that feature Local Life, Working World and Privileged Access experiences.
In addition, Viking offers the best value at sea, with each cruise fare including much more than what competitors offer—an included value of more than $200 per person per day for an average cruise. Every cruise fare includes an exterior stateroom, a complimentary shore excursion in each port of call, all onboard meals, and all port charges and government taxes. Guests also enjoy many complimentary amenities as part of their fare, including: beer and wine with lunch and dinner service; alternative restaurant dining; Wi-Fi; self-service laundry; access to the Thermal Suite in the LivNordic Spa; and 24-hour room service.
From now through June 30, 2018, Viking is offering U.S. residents 2-for-1 cruise fares on select 2018, 2019 and 2020 ocean and river cruise itineraries, with additional savings on international air. Call Viking toll free at 1-855-8-VIKING (1-855-884-5464) or contact a travel agent.
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Viking was founded in 1997 with the purchase of four ships in Russia and is now the leader in river and small ship ocean cruising. Designed for discerning travelers with interests in science, history, culture and cuisine, Chairman Torstein Hagen often says Viking offers guests “the thinking person’s cruise” as an alternative to mainstream cruises. In its first two years of operation, Viking has been rated the #1 ocean cruise line in Travel + Leisure’s 2016 and 2017 “World’s Best” Awards. Viking currently operates a fleet of 69 vessels, offering scenic cruising on rivers and oceans around the world. By 2027 the company will operate 16 930-guest ocean cruise ships and will be the largest small ship ocean cruise line. In addition to the Travel + Leisure honors, Viking has also been honored multiple times on Condé Nast Traveler’s “Gold List” as well as recognized by Cruise Critic as “Best Overall” Small-Mid size ship in the 2018 Cruisers’ Choice Awards, “Best River Cruise Line” and “Best River Itineraries,” with the entire Viking Longships® fleet being named “Best New River Ships” in the website’s Editors’ Picks Awards. For additional information, contact Viking at 1-855-8-VIKING (1-855-884-5464) or visit www.vikingcruises.com.
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The mist-shrouded swamps, the prairies of Acadiana and the gray Spanish moss cascading from the old trees all add up to the special feeling that is Louisiana. The streets here are filled with an eclectic mix of people whose ideas, tastes and roots translate into the cuisines, music and art that characterize the Pelican State. Louisiana features a multicultural, multilingual history, influenced by the people who make up the state. The people of Louisiana came from France, Spain, Haiti, French Canada, the Caribbean, Africa and Vietnam. While there is no official state language, the state constitution acknowledges “the right of the people to preserve, foster, and promote their respective historic, linguistic, and cultural origins.”
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To many, Louisiana is known as the birthplace of jazz, where over-stuffed po’ boys are bountiful, and where the greatest Mardi Gras celebrations take place. The list of lesser-knowns from this swampy Southern state is deliciously new to the outsider: a steaming hot bowl of seafood gumbo, freshly-made beignets and drive-through daiquiri shops. Thankfully, the uninitiated can head down one of Louisiana’s Culinary Trails to acquaint themselves with the distinctive Creole/Cajun flavors, and the history behind them.
Then there’s the unmistakable beat of zydeco music, eerily-beautiful bayous and the sacred temples of Voodoo priestesses (where you go to get your juju on track). Here, the Cajun and Creole musicians (who created the tunes of swamp pop in a hybrid of rock, R&B and blues sounds) live on in a new generation of talent that moves the crowds at the intimate local music haunts. Another cure for the unaccustomed: one evening at the Blue Moon Saloon and Guesthouse, a historic honky tonk that hosts roots music every night. Louisiana is a place where artistic expression flourishes and where artists have an outlet for their creativity that remains unhampered by convention, which is reflected in the many galleries showing outsider art as a mainstay.
Nowhere Else Like It
Only in Louisiana has Spain’s running of the bulls been transformed into folks strapping on rollerblades and helmets – with horns – to roll around chasing each other as “rollerbulls.” And only in Louisiana are there frog shows in place of dog shows and inmates performing as cowboys in prison rodeos. This is a state that knows how to throw a good party – and to tease its arrival all year long: The 365-day countdown to Mardi Gras, which commemorates Fat Tuesday, is the most-anticipated event of the year across the state. This Pre-Lenten/Easter festival about parties, parades, beads, costumes and eating traditional king cakes is one of the most popular events to attend in all of the U.S.
The majority of the New Orleans’ French Quarter is actually Spanish in architecture.
Nottoway Plantation in White Castle is the largest antebellum mansion in the south and was the inspiration for the mansion in the Disney film, “The Princess and the Frog.”
The ascension of Elvis Presley’s musical career began at the Louisiana Hayride, a recurring radio-broadcast concert series at Shreveport, Louisiana’s downtown municipal auditorium in 1954.
New Orleans French Quarter
You came, you saw, you mardi gras’d: There’s no visiting Louisiana without a trip to the iconic community that acts as the crossroads for so many cultures and traditions. Explore this National Historic District’s unbeatable food scene, museums, music and notorious thoroughfare, Bourbon Street.
New Orleans Neighborhoods
Creole Nature Trail All-American Road
Consider this 290-kilometer path through the marshlands and coastline of Louisiana a drive right into the heart of Cajun culture. You’ll encounter gators, beaches, crabbing, fishermen, wildflowers and plenty of chances to sample the seafood along this scenic path.
Louisiana’s Culinary Trails
Avery Island
This small, salt dome island in Iberia Parish is home to TABASCO, where you can take a tour and sample the products and then explore the lovely environment. Visit Jungle Gardens to take in the serenity of the island as well as its wildlife.
Atchafalaya National Heritage Area
The basin here is the USA’s largest river swamp, home to hardwoods, bayous, backwater lakes and teeming with swamp wildlife (including crawfish). Don’t miss a tour of the water heritage trail in this spectacular environment; it tells the richly complex story of the water, land and people of the area.
Vermilionville Living History & Folk Life Park
In Lafayette, this folk life park illustrates Acadian, American Indian and Creole culture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Highlights include 19 attractions, seven restored homes, costumed guides and local artisans.
Lafayette Travel
Oak Alley Plantation
The very picture of a historic antebellum home, a tour of Oak Alley takes you through the Big House, a Civil War Encampment Exhibit and Slave Quarter Exhibit. A Cajun/Creole lunch buffet is also available, as well as the “Spirits” Bar and a shop.
New Orleans Plantation Country
St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square
The USA’s oldest Catholic cathedral in continual use presides over Jackson Square. Tours of the historic landmark are self-guided, and you’ll want to follow up with a stop at the Catholic Cultural Heritage Center and at the Old Ursuline Convent Museum. Afterwards, explore Jackson Square, the iconic French Quarter park bursting with character.
Preservation Hall
There’s no better place to catch classic New Orleans live jazz than here, where they’ve been keeping the tradition alive since 1961. Get tickets for a show any night; past performances have even included rock, country and hip-hop styles.
New Orleans Live Music
Poverty Point
See the 22-meter tall mound, concentric half-circles and other earth works, built by hand 3,400 years ago by American Indians. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is in Pioneer.
Day Trips from Poverty Point
Five of the nine museums in the statewide system are in the French Quarter: Cabildo, Presbytere, 1850 House, Madame John’s Legacy and New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint. Visit one or all.
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Roses at War
How the Wars of the Roses turned into Europe’s biggest sporting rivalry
by Jamie Summers
This summer, York’s campus erupted with excitement as sports teams representing the York snatched back the Roses crown from Lancaster University. Jamie Summers traces back the sporting spectacle that has dominated the calendar each of the last 51 years.
What has become a unique varsity tournament over the last few decades is steeped in centuries of history. For years, the historic counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire have been arch-enemies, stretching back, you could say, to the fifteenth century Civil War between their respective Houses.
The varsity Roses Tournament began in 1965, pitting the White Rose of York against the Red Rose of Lancaster. It was the brainchild of Lord Eric James, York’s original Vice-Chancellor, who proposed a boat race between the two new universities.
Lord Eric James
In the spirit of the occasion, students added other sports to the calendar, and it has grown in size, intensity and rivalry ever since. The first victory went to York, and a pattern quickly developed where the home team usually triumphed.
Much of the 70s were dominated by Lancaster; they claimed victory in every year between 1972 and 1977, with the exception of 1974 – which remains the only draw to date.
A Dry Spell for York
Another barren spell came for York in the mid-1980s, but as the century drew to a close, the White Rose rediscovered their competitive spirit. The building of the original JLD Astroturf, funded by alumnus and future Chancellor Greg Dyke, helped to raise York’s sporting profile.
Ironically, it was also during the 1990s that the darkest hour came for the White Rose, as they were thumped 170.5-60.5 on the west coast in 1996.
The twenty-first century has brought Roses victory to the sportsmen and women of Yorkshire:
There have been 16 tournaments since 2000
Lancaster have won just six
York have won ten
The year 2009 saw the teams in white claim the smallest win ever away from home.
The fiftieth anniversary of the tournament came around in 2014, and having been on the wrong end of a bruising defeat a year earlier in YO10, Lancaster were determined to win back the title to mark the occasion.
It was a superb contest in the West of Lancashire, but Roses were indeed Red last year. Our rivals pulled out all of the stops, erecting an impressive temporary stadium to mark the event. Current York Sport President Cass Brown, then serving her first term in office, took heart in the fact that York’s defeat was the narrowest away loss ever – a swing of just five events would have seen York retain the title.
YUSU’s Cass Brown
Roses 2015: York Victorious
That promise was duly fulfilled in a sensational event this year, in what must surely go down as one of the greatest ever Roses Tournaments. Lancaster, spurred on by a huge following styled the ‘Red Army’ descended upon both of York’s campuses, intent on causing an upset.
But the White Rose had other ideas, setting a new standard for future competitors to follow. The tournament was opened by University Chancellor and current Football Association Chairman Greg Dyke, alongside the England Football manager, Roy Hodgson, and they watched as boxing officially opened proceedings for the first time.
Greg Dyke
An electric atmosphere pervaded Central Hall as 1,000 people looked on, coupled with a further 6,000 packed into Vanbrugh Paradise outside as a series of bouts ended in a draw. The intensity of the evening set the tone for five days of competition.
By Sunday evening, York had pulled off something incredible: the largest winning score ever. The White Rose thumped their rivals by 225.5 points to 139.5 to reclaim the esteemed Carter-James Trophy, so named after the company that originally sponsored the event in 1965.
This latest victory means that York’s formidable form on home soil continues – they have now won every single tournament in Yorkshire since 1985, and it was fitting that, in Dyke’s final year as Chancellor, the Trophy would return home once again.
Amid the excitement of the sporting competition, inclusivity was the focus of this year’s tournament, as part of a broader co-operation between the two universities; 2015 saw a women’s event in the boxing open the competition for the first time, whilst the inaugural disabled students’ event, sitting volleyball, also proudly took its place in the extensive fixture calendar.
Regardless of the eventual victors each year, what makes Roses so distinctive is the manner in which all involved revel in the occasion – over the past few decades, the tournament has expanded to become the largest of its kind in Europe.
A hugely diverse range of sports, from football to kendo are on show, and this year alone saw the introduction of boxing, sitting volleyball, rugby league, futsal and octopush for the first time. The excitement in the build-up to this year’s tournament was palpable, and the buzz around campus afterwards was infectious.
York had aimed to reclaim their title, and what they delivered was, in the words of Current York Sport President Cass Brown, “the best Roses in history.” This is a battle that, like the original war between the Houses of Lancaster and York, will rumble on for decades to come. For now, though, Roses are White…
Roses 2015 was made possible via generous donations from York alumni to the Roses Crowdfunding Campaign, via Alumni Platform, YuStart. Take a look at the YuStart website to view more worthy campaigns.
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Slope #2: How’s the Annunciation doing these days?
Saturday, December 22nd, 2018
[ by Charles Cameron — art historian manqué ]
Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar, recently beatified. His Annunciation the San Marco convent in Florence is accordingly a work of devotion, free of irony {upper panel, below]:
The New Yorker’s current cartoon [lower panel, above] caption reads:
“I’m really excited about this opportunity, but I’m hoping there’s room to negotiate the title? What about ‘Rises-to-the-Occasion Mary,’ or ‘Cool-Under-Pressure Mary’?”
Posted in art, art history, Charles Cameron, christianity, Doublequotes, italy, new yorker, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Slope #2: How’s the Annunciation doing these days?
A Tale of Two Places – Dabiq and Rumiyah
[ by Charles Cameron — Rumiyah is a city for sure, Dabiq not so much ]
The Islamic State has a new magazine out, and it’s titled Rumiyah, not Dabiq. Here’s the first inside page of the first issue of Dabiq, together with the cover of the first issue of Rumiyah:
And here’s the back cover of each magazine:
What’s significant here is that the names of both magazines, like bookends, refer to a significant location in IS eschatology — but not the same place, two different places. And thereby hangs my Tale.
The front cover of Rumiyah, the new magazine, opens with a quote from Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir, who was Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi‘s immediate successor as emir of Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI), the precursor to the Islamic State:
O muwahhidin, rejoice, for by Allah, we will not rest from our jihad expect beneath the olive trees of Rumiyah (Rome)
Moreover, the back page of Rumiyah, the new magazine, features a hadith about Rome:
Allah’s Messenger (saw) was asked, “Which of the two cities will be conquered first? Constantinople or Rumiyah? He (saw) replied, “The city of Heraclius will be conquered first,” meaning Constantinople (Reported by Ahmad and d-Darimi from ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Amr).
By way of contrast, the first issue of Dabiq opens with a quote from Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, the founder of AQI and thus “grandfather” to the Islamic State:
The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify – by Allah’s permission – until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq.
The back page then offers this hadith concerning Dabiq:
Abu Hurayrah reported that Allah’s Messenger (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,
“The Hour will not be established until the Romans land at al-A’maq or Dabiq (two places near each other in the northern countryside of Halab).
Then an army from al-Madinah of the best people on the earth at that time will leave for them. When they line up in ranks, the Romans will say, ‘Leave us and those who were taken as prisoners from amongst us so we can fight them.’
The Muslims will say, ‘Nay, by Allah, we will not abandon our brothers to you.’ So they will fight them.
Then one third of them will flee; Allah will never forgive them. One third will be killed; they will be the best martyrs with Allah. And one third will conquer them; they will never be afflicted with fitnah.
Then they will conquer Constantinople. While they are dividing the war booty, having hung their swords on olive trees, Shaytan will shout, ‘The [false] Messiah has followed after your families [who were left behind.]’ So they will leave [for their families], but Shaytan’s claim is false. When they arrive to Sham he comes out.
Then while they are preparing for battle and filing their ranks, the prayer is called. So ‘Isa Ibn Maryam (‘alayhis-Salam) will descend and lead them.
When the enemy of Allah sees him, he will melt as salt melts in water. If he were to leave him, he would melt until he perished, but he kills him with his own hand, and then shows them his blood upon his spear.”
[Sahih Muslim]
It looks to me that Rodger Shanahan has the difference nailed in his Lowy Interpreter piece, Australia stars in first edition of new ISIS magazine:
First is the name change; no longer is ‘Dabiq’ the title (unless this masthead continues to put out editions separately); ‘Rumiya’ [sic] (formal Arabic for Rome) has replaced ‘Dabiq’. As most marketers will tell you, when a company’s brand is on the skids then it’s time for a refresh.; the same applies to jihadists. Jabhat al-Nusra has (to date) unsuccessfully tried to re-brand itself as a non-Al Qaeda jihadist group by changing its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, as its old name long ago became a dead weight on its leadership aspirations.
With its hold on territory becoming more precarious by the day, ISIS has possibly decided that naming your social media magazine after a town that will likely soon fall out of your control would not be a good look ‘going forward’. Re-naming your publication after the centre of Christendom is a way to show what you aspire to, rather than what you have lost. It’s also in line with the late Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent claims that IS did not fight for territory as a way of extolling the virtues of continuous jihadi resistance.
Recent posts featuring the idea that we may be near the end of ISIS, at least as a proto-state:
Kyle Orton, The End of the Islamic State by Christmas?
Kyle Orton, Is This the Beginning of the End for the Islamic State?
Anthony Cordesman, Syria and Iraq: What Comes After Mosul and Raqqa?
Washington Post, Flow of foreign fighters plummets as Islamic State loses its edge
Posted in Australia, Charles Cameron, Dabiq, Doublequotes, IS, ISIS, italy, magazine, media, scriptures, turkey, Uncategorized, washington post | Comments Off on A Tale of Two Places – Dabiq and Rumiyah
Rome, Rome, or Rome?
[ by Charles Cameron — on Graeme Wood’s latest, the goals of IS, and geographic slippage ]
Graeme Wood, who wrote the Atlantic piece that broke the apocalyptic side of the Islamic State’s ideology wide open in March of last year, has a related piece out this month: Donald Trump and the Apocalypse, with the subtitle, Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”? It’s a fun read, discussing the confusion that is possible over the use of the word Rome in Muslim prophetic literature — a topic I’ve discussed before.
Just for the record, then, here’s a screengrab from the Islami State’s magazine Dabiq, issue 4 page 37:
As a Newsweek item from September 2012 notes, there have in fact been three claimants to the title of Rome:
When Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first Tsar of All Russia in 1547, the church announced Moscow to be the “Third and Final Rome,” the inheritor of St. Peter’s Rome and Byzantium, and the last bastion of Orthodox Christianity standing up to a Europe mired in heresy.
Russian commentator Yuliya Latynina quoted..
Filofey of Pskov’s 1510 claim that “Two Romes have fallen; the third stands; and there will not be a fourth”
This was in Novaya gazeta, February 2015, and she suggested that Russia..
many of whose residents view it as the third Rome, may suffer the fate not of the first Rome but of the second, a fate that cannot be reassuring to many of them because in the end the residents of the second Rome in Constantinople “considered that Islam was better than the West.”
Wood mentions in his piece that the Australian jihadist ideologue Cerantonio argues:
The Rum of the end-times hadith is not the Rome of Pope Francis but the Rome of the Republic of Turkey.
Putin might take offense if he knew..
And then there’s the matter of Quranic translation and the Quranic verse 30.2, as Wood also notes:
Arberry, always interesting to read, translates that verse:
The Greeks have been vanquished.
The historical commentary in The Study Quran, p 984-85, clarifies that this verse refers to Sassanid (Magian) successes against the (Christian) Byzantine empire — which the following verse says will be reversed — and terming it “the only reference in the Quran to political events conetemporary with Muhammad and his followers beyond the Arabian Peninsula”.
All things considered, oy veh: it seems that history does strange things to geography, time to space.
Posted in Charles Cameron, christianity, Geography, history, IS, ISIS, Islam, italy, pope, russia, scriptures, turkey, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Intelligence vs the Artificial
[ by Charles Cameron — who believes that detours are the spice of life ]
Craig Kaplan:
Maurits Escher:
There’s a fasacinating article about Craig Kaplan and his work with tiling that I came across today, Crazy paving: the twisted world of parquet deformations — I highly recommend it to anyone interested in pattern — and I highly recommend anyone uninterested in pattern to get interested!
Kaplan himself is no stranger to Escher’s work, obviously enough — he’s even written a paper, Metamorphosis in Escher’s Art — the abstract reads:
M.C. Escher returned often to the themes of metamorphosis and deformation in his art, using a small set of pictorial devices to express this theme. I classify Escher’s various approaches to metamorphosis, and relate them to the works in which they appear. I also discuss the mathematical challenges that arise in attempting to formalize one of these devices so that it can be applied reliably.
I mean Kaplan no dishonor, then, when I say that his algorithmic tilings, as seen in the upper panel above, still necessarily lack something that his mentor’s images have, as seen in the lower panel — a quirky willingness to go beyond pattern into a deeper pattern, as when the turreted outcropping of a small Italian town on the Amalfi coast becomes a rook in the game of chess…
Comparing one with the other, I am reminded of the differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding, of SIGINT and HUMINT in terms of the types of intelligence collected — and at the philosophical limit, of the very notions of quantity and quality.
Posted in AI, art, Charles Cameron, games, IC, italy, mathematics, metaphor, Patterns, quant & qualit, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
Review: Mussolini’s Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship 1915-1945 by R.J.B. Bosworth
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen“]
Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R.J.B. Bosworth
This book was Fascist Italy not of the newsreels of frenzied Roman crowds cheering bombastic speeches by Mussolini but how fascism’s imperial grandiosity were an ill-fitting facade for an Italy that underneath remained substantially an impoverished, traditionalist, parochial society of peasant squabbles and regional jealousies. Bosworth, one of the world’s top experts on the period takes a granular look at Italy under Fascism and the reader comes away amazed at how Mussolini fooled the great powers into taking his regime seriously for as long as they did.
At 692 pages, including 88 pages of endnotes, Mussolini’s Italy lays out in exhaustive detail how ordinary Italians carried on as best they could under the dictatorship, with the traditional reliance on corruption and the influence of kin and “men of respect” to undermine and ameliorate “totalitarian” rule. Repeatedly the regime sanctions dissidents (usually politically naive -or simply drunken – tradesmen or villagers) to “confino”, internal exile to faraway unpleasant regions only to have the intervention of some Fascist bigwig result in a swift amnesty.The brutality of the regime’s informal sanctions – the beatings, castor oil, kidnappings and murders – carried out by roving Fascist squadrists or at the orders of a local Fascist Ras (boss) like Cremona’s thuggish Roberto Farinacci, were by contrast, real enough.
Outside of the violent hooliganism of blackshirt squadrism there at times seems little to have held Fascism together as a political movement without Mussolini’s tin cult of personality, there was seldom agreement among fascists about such fundamental political issues as the role of the state vs. the party, capitalism vs. autarky, the sanctity of private property, the need for unions, whether Fascism should be antisemitic or the role of the Catholic Church in Italian life? An incoherence that left Mussolini, who was never much of a stickler for consistency, as supreme arbiter. A role he kept secure by arbitrarily moving his preening, intriguing, womanizing and feuding cabal of uniformed henchmen and party apparatchiks from job to job all the way into his bitter gotterdammerung of the Salo Republic, where Mussolini was reduced to being the puppet gauleiter of Lombardy and eventually patheitic victim of popular revenge.
Bosworth does a scholarly take-down of the original Fascist regime, demonstrating the deep propensity for cultural continuity in any society in the long term, even in one under the heavy hand of self-proclaimed revolutionaries and Roman tyrants.
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Politics of Definition: Labels
Here’s a brief editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch today.
If, as so often is the case, it’s the “conservative” House, or “conservative Republicans” in the House, then why is it so often the “centrist” or “moderate” Republicans in the State Senate — and not with equal frequency (or ever) the “liberal” Republicans? Since when was insisting on tax hikes in a surplus hour ever merely “moderate” and not resolutely left-wing?
It’s fair to ask why one side is tarred with a definition toward the end of a spectrum. “Conservative” is not the middle but not the far extreme of “reactionary,” while “liberal” is not the far extreme of “radical,” although the term “radical right” has been used.
At the end of the day, the labels mean little. I watched part of a discussion (if that’s what you can call the shout-fests that are cable news shows) on the “Scarborough Country” last night. In addition to the host, there were Joe Klein, the Newsweek columnist and author of an excellent book I’m reading, “Politics Lost,” and Tucker Carlson. Highlights are mine.
CARLSON: To see Mrs. Clinton triangulating this early out, you know, and is actually being more right wing on the war than I am, you think, “Well, what do you stand for, exactly?”
KLEIN: Well, I disagreed with her on the war. I was against it. But, you know, why can‘t we just believe that she believes what she believes?
I mean, I believe that the future and the most progressive force in the country isn‘t on the left or the right, but it‘s in the middle, and that‘s how you govern in this country. She learned it the hard way in health care.
I remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan said to me, in 1994, you pass a piece of legislation like health care, or immigration reform right now, with 75 or 80 votes in the Senate or it doesn‘t pass. You have to govern from the middle to govern successfully in this country.
George Bush has certainly failed governing from the right, and Bill Clinton failed in his first two years governing from the left.
CARLSON: I must say I don‘t buy—with all due respect, I don‘t buy that at all. I don‘t think this current president has been governing from the right, and I think that‘s his problem. I think you look at Bush and you sort of wonder, in the end, what are his principles? In contrast to Reagan. I think the most successful presidents are those who aren‘t extremists, but do have an ideological cast to the way they govern. They stand for these principles.
KLEIN: You want to know what his principles are? His principles are:
Rich people shouldn‘t have to pay taxes on their wealth.
CARLSON: Oh, come on, that‘s a talking point. There‘s a talking point.
KLEIN: And his other principle is that we should be able to go off and do anything we want in the world without planning.
CARLSON: I‘m not sure that‘s a serious point at all.
KLEIN: You don‘t think? Well, look at Iraq. Look at what happened…
(CROSSTALK)
SCARBOROUGH: I‘ll tell you what, we‘re going to debate—I‘ll you what, guys. We‘re going to debate George W. Bush on another night. But Joe Klein and Tucker Carlson, I appreciate you being with us.
I do want to say this, though. I believe Hillary Clinton is going to win the Democratic nomination and could be the next president of the United States for the exact point that Joe was making, that she has—as a senator, she‘s played to the center.
She hasn‘t played to the left. That‘s why the left is angry with her. She‘s more conservative than Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan when it comes to the war in Iraq. She‘s more conservative than the president from time to time on issues like immigration.
Give credit to Klein for saying can’t Hillary truly believe what she says? But that’s beside my point: Both Scarborough and Carlson describe support for the war as “conservative.” Getting entangled in foreign wars is not a “conservative” stance, whether Hillary Clinton or George Bush holds it. True conservatives would be very cautious before becoming involved as we have in Iraq. But Klein wasn’t wiling to make that point.
Just like the labels the RTD wants to plaster on Commonwealth lawmakers, at the national level, we throw around labels that define our opponents because no one says, “Hold on, that label doesn’t stick.”
There’s a lot of mileage to be gained by questioning labels. A good politician can position himself as a moderate, a reasonable person, not by claiming to be such, but simply by counterattacking those who insist on labeling us.
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse s main canvas remained that of prewar English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett Sean O Casey famously called him English literature s performing flea , a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes 1934 and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern s Show Boat 1927 , wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin Romberg musical Rosalie 1928 , and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers 1928.
Ian Wood
Written at the height of his powers ‘Hot Water’ is Wodehouse’s most ambitious farce and certainly his most successful. It is possibly one of the most overlooked of Wodehouse’s farces due to it featuring none of his regular characters, although plenty of his regular types, and although is not unique in having a French location, it certainly is one of the few full novels to be entirely set in St Rocque, Wodehouse’s fictional Monte Carlo.That none of Wodehouse’s regular characters appea [...]
Mistaken identities. Compromising letters. Unfortunate engagements. Long-lost loves. Confidence men and safe-blowers and drunk people. Deliciously absurd and absurdly delicious, this is typical Wodehouse, and I mean that in the best way possible. There are reasons I love Wodehouse so much, and this book embodies all of them.The only problem with his books is how quickly you get through them, even when you're making an effort to savor them. Still, in the end, you're left with a warm, satisfied fe [...]
Roger Pettit
In my view, PG Wodehouse is the the greatest ever writer of English in terms of pure style. His prose is elegant, light, airy and seemingly effortless. There can surely be no more readable a writer. Wodehouse chose to devote his enviable talent to the creation of stories that can best be described as trifles. They are invariably fluffy comedies with preposterous plots and larger than life characters. Their sole purpose is entertainment. He is, of course, best known for his Jeeves and Wooster tal [...]
Excellent. And I finished it again in August of 2017.
John Frankham
This time, I listened to Jonathan Cecil's narration, rather than reading it. Usually brilliant, this was a bit of a struggle as so many of the characters are American, French, or Americans pretending to be French. But, ignoring this, I thought some of the exposition was more laboured than Wodehouse was at his very best, but the dialogue was as good as usual, and the complicated, but easy to follow, plotting was absolutely stunning, with some good surprises near the end. So, overall a 4*.The GR b [...]
booklady
Hot Water is a delightful farce set in the north of France at the Chateau Blissac, Brittany and in London, containing a mixture of romance, intrigue and Wodehouse's brand of humor.The story recounts the various romantic and criminal goings-on during a house party, hosted by the Vicomte Blissac. It was another reminder to me what a ‘serious business’ comedy is. Supposedly one of Wodehouse’s more elaborate farces; I appreciated ‘visiting with a very different set of characters—not that I [...]
Brilliant. As ever!
A jolly good read from dependable PGWd so pleasing to know that there are many more where that came from
Peter Tillman
Typical brilliant PGW romantic farce. Great stuff. Definite reread!
Wodehouse is hilarious. A smile on every page!
Anthony Peter
I came round to this at the end. I've discovered that the way to enjoy Wodehouse fully is to make sure you read good stretches of him at a sitting: the plots are so intricate that if you read just a few pages before drifting off at night, you are hopelessly stuck as to who was pretending to be whom when you next pick the book up.Anyway, I think this was the most elaborately plotted piece of his I've read, and I'm not going to attempt any sort of summary. Suffice it to say that I wanted all the t [...]
Subtle humour is probably the most challenging kind of humour there is. The art of making people laugh with simple, but insightful observations as opposed to crude, in-your-face one-liners has been attempted by many, but mastered by few. The stalwart of subtle humour in the vocal form is undoubtedly Jerry Seinfeld. In literature, there is no one to match the genius and the cutthroat delivery of P. G. Wodehouse.“Hot Water” is a work testimonial to Wodehouse’s impeccable writing flair. After [...]
Aaron Wittwer
This is the most intricately woven Wodehouse that I've read so far. A bubble map or flow chart type diagram would be required to fully explain the plot. Yet, somehow, it still feels like the same simple, pleasant, wonderful Wodehouse. This story finds around a dozen or so characters converging on the Château Blissac. Only about half of them are who they say they are. Nearly everyone has designs on breaking into the Château's safe for one reason or another. And nobody has a clue what is going o [...]
One of Wodehouse's best works! The plot was excellent, with a few unexpected twists that made for an exciting read. It also helped that the main character, Packy Franklyn, was thoroughly likeable. Fairly intelligent (unlike Bertie and some of the other young men that Wodehouse commonly portrays), warm-hearted and a 'man of action', his bright ideas enable him to get out of quite a few scrapes and eventually save the day!
Tamizhmarai
The plot gets inextricably entangled towards the end and just when you begin to think that this time PG Wodehouse has overreached himself, he pulls off a fantastic climax and brings about a denouement that leaves everyone happy, satisfied and smiling. Brilliant!
Like Wodehouse's book "French Leave", this is a twist on the usual Wodehouse with a plot centred on Americans in France, no doubt to appeal to his growing American public at that time. The format doesn't work that well for me.
Jack Lane Barry
finished it on Friday updated now.
One of the funniest books I've ever read; Wodehouse is quickly becoming one of my very favorite authors.
Mark Barrett
After a harrowing novel or two, I always go back to Wodehouse for a bit of light relief. He supplies that in bucket-loads here. Just the quality of the prose, which flows so elegantly mixing deep satire with nonsensical farce in a light way that is so easy to read, makes this worth the read alone. Add to that some of Wodehouse's most ridiculous coincidences and a brand new range of typecast yet strangely three-dimensional characters, and you have a real gem.For the stalwarts - there are no regul [...]
This novel is set in a French town, in a chateau which is being rented out by the wealthy Mr and Mrs Gedge. A steady stream of visitors arrive, many of them not who they seem to be There’s a large cast of main characters in this book. I found it difficult, at times, to keep track of who was whom, particularly when so many were masquerading as someone else. By the time I was about three-quarters of the way through I had to re-read the first couple of chapters, as I’d forgotten some of what ha [...]
Bit below par it seemed to me. I was thinking about the cliche "X on a bad day is still better than most Ys at their best", and it seems to me that it doesn't apply here: sometimes with Wodehouse you get the impression he's straining after his own tone, and when he misses it, he can be pretty pedestrian. Example: there's a little running bit on the theme of an imaginary German sociologist with precise statistics for how young men rejected in love will react. On a good day Wodehouse could no doub [...]
One of the most underrated books of P.G.Woodehouse. This book has such a convoluted plot that even Woodehouse felt that there was "too much of plot", nevertheless; it makes for an irreproachable humorous story telling experience in the famous technique of his. A casual read which necessitates that the technicalities and feasibilities of such happenings not be taken too seriously. Most characters show a lack of common sense and moral turpitude leading to unpredictable twists and hilarious turns. [...]
Arthur Pierce
Nothing new plot-wise, incorporating, as it does, domineering wives, young people in love, professional criminals, American politicians, and various persons pretending to be what they are not in pursuit of something (in this case, some priceless jewels and a compromising letter). But it represents the author at the top of his form. It is a particularly pleasant novel coming, as it does, directly after three distinctly disappointing Wodehouse opuses, and it is wonderful to find he is still a mast [...]
A wonderful hilarious farce with hijinks throughout. Two couples mismatched a couple of crooks, a chateau in France all add up to laughter. Senator Opal, Packy, a Vicounte and Soup Slattery to name a few characters all add to the laughter. Jewels, blackmail, lots of booze and twists and turns throughout. The wordplay Wodehouse uses is simply superb and funny. A great easy book to read and I can see why he is such a popular author.
(Shared read-aloud.)If you generally like Wodehouse, you'll like this book, too. I wouldn't say it was one of my personal favorites (maybe a bit repetitive at times, too many American characters, lacking the typical English country house setting and the cozily familiar recurring characters), but it was still very good.Hot Water is light and funny, with all the twisty plotting, witty humor, and charm you'd expect from the author.
I randomly picked this up for a quarter at a library sale, best quarter I've ever spent. This book is absolutely hilarious, and a complete breath of fresh air from the normally depressing material I read. The situations these characters get themselves into are just so ridiculous and wacky, all building up to a fantastic climax. I can't wait to read more Wodehouse.
Francis Pellow
much fun.
kerrycat
absolutely hilarious, of course
Elizabeth Mallory
I could read this over and over. Classic Wodehouse, with the usual cast of stock characters, but fresh plots, intrigues, and relationships. I've read this 3x and it never gets old.
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The Evolution of the Byzantine "Divine Liturgy"
Robert F. Taft, The Byzantine Rite, A short History, ed. American Essays in Liturgy, Minnesota 1992, pp. 28-41
Apart from its civil importance as the new capital and the preaching of Chrysostom, early Constantinople was known for little either culturally or ecclesiastically. It produced almost no literature of any importance, it was not a great intellectual or monastic center, and it was not the cradle of saints and martyrs. Furthermore, its homiletic and theological production was slim. The one exception was the notable interlude at the end of the fourth century during the episcopates of Gregory Nazianzen (379-381) and John Chrysostom (398-404) -but even their theology was Cappadocian or Antiochene and not Constantinopolitan. In none of these respects could Constantinople hold a candle to the great eastern ecclesiastical centers Alexandria and Antioch (1). Yet its civil attributes-its sheer size, monumental architecture, and imperial court life-were legendary. Soon Constantinople would also become known for the splendors of its ritual, both imperial and ecclesiastical.
The Golden Age of Justinian and Beyond
By the sixth century, especially under the influence of Justinian I (527-565) who constructed the new Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine Rite became "imperial." Its eucharistic service in particular acquired greater ritual splendor and theological explicitation, especially as a result of the christological controversies. It accomplished this, in part, through the addition of new feasts, the creed (511), and several new chants such as the Trisagion (ca 438-439), the Monogenes (535-536), and the Cheroubikon (573-574) (2). More significant for the development of the liturgy than these chants, however, were the processions they were meant to accompany. Indeed, except for an occasional reference to the dedication of a church (3) or to night vigils(4), the sources in this epoch tell us almost nothing about Constantinopolitan liturgical services other than the eucharist and stational processions.
Inside Out: City as Church
I have already insisted on the singular unity in the Byzantine synthesis of the liturgy and its architectural/iconographic setting. But things were not always that way. The church as building, house of prayer, gathering place of the Christian assembly- ho kyriakos oikos rather than he ekklesia -became a significant reality in the rite of Constantinople only with the construction of Justinian's Hagia Sophia, dedicated on 27 December 53 7. Before that, Byzantine sources are remarkably reticent in attributing any symbolic significance to the church building (5). As Cyril Mango points out in his anthology of Byzantine texts dealing with art and architecture:
The "anagogical argument" (namely, that images serve to elevate our minds to immaterial realities), an argument derived from neo-Platonism, via the pseudo-Dionysian writings, does, in fact, appear from time to time, but it is the exception rather than the rule (6).
There was little of symbolic or theological import attached to the Byzantine church building before Hagia Sophia. In fact, there was nothing distinctively "Byzantine" about pre-Justinianic churches in the capital. Most Byzantine liturgical description before Justinian-indeed, much of it in the entire period anterior to Iconoclasm (726-843)-simply ignored the church building. It dealt, rather, with what took place outside the church in the stational processions and services along the principal, porticoes streets (little more than alleys by modern standards) of Constantine 's city.
Stational Liturgy (7)
From the new monumental center, southwest of the Acropolis and containing both the Constantinian Great Church (360) and the Imperial Palace, ran the city's four main arteries. Two of them ran along the coast of the peninsula, on the Golden Horn to the north and on the Propontis to the south. More important liturgically was the Mese, the traditional central cardo, which started as one at the Chalke Gate of the palace and ran past the Milion and through the Forum of Constantine to the Forum Tauri, where it divided. One branch headed southwest, threading the Fora Bovis and Arcadii and passing the Monastery of Stoudios (early fifth century) to exit the Theodosian Walls (413) at the Golden Gate and join the Via Egnatiana to Old Rome. The other arm branched north past the Holy Apostles Basilica to the Charisian Gate. Much of the liturgical activity that the Byzantines of the time thought important enough to record took place along these arteries and in their fora. This liturgical activity was fostered by the sheltering colonnades of these thoroughfares: the mid-fifth century Notitia urbis claims that there were fully fifty-two porticoes in the city (8).
Disasters and heresies-both of which plagued the early Christian history of this city, if not in equal proportions then at least with equally portentous liturgical results-provided the main occasions for these outdoor services. Between 404 and 960 Constantinople was rocked by eighteen earthquakes (9). Such earthquakes, as well as droughts or the fallout from volcanic eruptions, and man-made threats like the Avar siege of 626 or that of the Russes in 860 (10), would bring the populace into the streets to plead for salvation. And when granted, as it always was, the anniversary of this grace would be commemorated yearly in liturgical processions. Baldovin documents these occasions in detail, from the well-known myth of the heavenly origins of the Trisagion during the lite following the earthquake of 25 September 437 to the end of the millennium. He concludes, "Clearly, liturgical supplications and processions were the usual response to unusual danger in the liturgy of Constantinople, even well into the ninth century" (11).
Heresies were fewer, perhaps, but equally ominous. Arianism's multitudinous variants bled into the disputes over the Holy Spirit, and then gave way to Nestorianism and the far more subtle yet tenacious Monophysite christologies. Such theological disputes were the impetus behind many outdoor services in this emerging stational liturgy. Further, if less dramatic, occasions for such services were provided by church dedications, the transfer of relics (12), and funerals (especially imperial). Later, with the developing calendar of memorials, one must include the cycle of synaxis celebrations in a determined church on set days.
The first evidence for this emerging stational liturgy appeared during the Arian ascendancy, when the beleaguered Gregory Nazianzen -Orthodox bishop of the capital from 379 to 381-attacked the pomp of church feasts and heaped scorn upon "the processions of the Greeks," which was an obvious reference to the Arians at that time (13). The new emperor, Theodosius I (379-395), restored the churches to the Orthodox in 380, and by the time John Chrysostom took charge of the see in February 398, the Orthodox had regained the upper hand. But the Arian threat was not yet dissipated. According to Socrates (d. after 439), Chrysostom embarked on a vigorous policy of competitive stations to offset the still popular services of the Arians:
The Arians... held their assemblies outside the city. So each week, whenever there was a feast-I mean Saturday and Sunday-on which it was customary to hold a synaxis in the churches, they congregated in public squares within the city gates and sang antiphonally odes composed in accord with the Arian belief. And this they did during the greater part of the night. In the morning, chanting the same antiphons, they processed through the center of the city and went outside the gates of the city to their place of assembly.... John [ Chrysostom ], concerned lest some of the more simple faithful be drawn away from the Church by such odes, set up some of his own people in opposition to them, so that they too, by devoting themselves to nocturnal hymnody, might obscure the effect of the Arians and confirm his own faithful in the profession of their own faith (14). Chrysostom's flock took up his initiative with gusto, bearing in procession silver crosses illumined with lighted tapers designed by the saint himself and paid for by the Empress Eudoxia (400-404). The torch lights of such processions along the coast turned the Propontis, according to Chrysostom, into a river of fire (15).
Evidently the custom caught on, for Sozomen informs us that the processions continued even after the emperor put a stop to the Arian stations-thus, removing the original reason for the Orthodox counter-practice. Maybe the real reason why these popular outdoor services were maintained is to be found in Chrysostom's frequent complaints that Christian liturgy was not always the winner in its competition with the Hippodrome or circus for the people's attention (16). Palladius refers to Chrysostom's nightly processions (nychterinai litaneiai), adding that some of the clergy, who preferred sleeping at night to watching and praying, were not enamored of their bishop's initiative (17).
What began as a scrimmage with the Arians (and later the Monophysites) for control of the streets in the religious struggle for the soul of Byzantium (18), thus perdured as a ploy in the less dramatic but longer-lasting competition with the blandishments of worldly entertainment for the attention of the urban populace of Late Antiquity. John of Ephesus (d. after 585) was a Monophysite Syriac church historian who was in Constantinople at the time of Justinian's predecessor (Justin I, 518-527). He describes in his Church History how the citizens and foreign visitors in the capital flocked to watch the entrance of the imperial retinue into church (19), in the same way that crowds still gather in Rome for every appearance of the pope at some city church.
These Constantinopolitan stational services left an indelible stamp on the Divine Liturgy and other rites of the Great Church (20). Entrances, processions, and accessions came to characterize all Byzantine liturgy. The enduring symbolism of these rites is demonstrated by their central place in the works of classic liturgical commentators, beginning with Maximus Confessor (ca. 630) (21). They could still be the subject of a brief treatise as late as Constantinopolitan Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios, leader of the Orthodox at the Council of Florence in 1438-1439 (22).
Stational Impact on the Early Constantinopolitan Church
These outdoor processions had to end somewhere, and that somewhere was usually a church. The results were predictable. This processional activity was directly responsible for the characteristic shape of the early Constantinopolitan church, with numerous entrances on all four sides (23). The major entrances were in the west façade (24), which was preceded by an atrium or courtyard enclosed by a square portico. Processions would pause in the atrium-to await the completion of the introit courtesies of the hierarchs and dignitaries in the narthex, and the recitation of the Introit Prayer before the Royal Doors leading into the nave-before flooding into the nave with the dignitaries. Inside the church, the longitudinal axis between entrance and apse was emphasized, and the processions were guided to the sanctuary by floor markings (25) and the walled pathway of the solea, that funnelled the clergy and imperial entourage around the ambo and up to the gates of the templon or chancel that enclosed the sanctuary.
In this instance, form follows function: the liturgical arrangement of the Justinianic church building appears to have been dictated by the stational character of the urban rite. Its requirements were multiple:
1. a place for the people to gather while awaiting this solemn entrance, since-unlike in Old Rome-the people did not enter the church beforehand to welcome the arrival of the introit procession: hence the large west atrium;
2. an outbuilding, for the same reason, where the people could offer their gifts before the basilica was "opened liturgically" with the Introit Prayer and solemn entrance of the clergy and the imperial party: hence the emergence of the skeuophylakion rotunda, a separate building outside the church (26);
3. Since in the Constantinopolitan Introit (unlike the Introit of Old Rome) the clergy and people entered the church together, the need to provide easy and rapid access to the nave and galleries from outside: hence, the monumental doorways, not only in the west facade but on all four sides of the church, and multiple outside entrances to the gallery stairwells;
4. a sheltered place for the patriarch and his escort, a) to await and greet the emperor before the Introit on days when the imperial party participated in the liturgy publicly; b) to await the arrival of the stational procession on days when the dignitaries did not take part in the stations; c) to say the Introit Prayer before the Royal Doors or principal west entrance into the nave; and d) at other services, to perform the rites that preceded the patriarch's solemn entrance into the church: hence the monumental narthex (27) .
A further peculiarity of the Constantinopolitan arrangement was the elevated synthronon and cathedra in the apse. This came about not because of the stations, but so that the bishop could be seen while preaching from the throne: another fundamental element in the liturgy of this period (28). Other characteristics-such as the chancel and ambo, and the enclosed solea walkway connecting them (29)-are not peculiar to Byzantium and are found, mutatis mutandis, in Late Antique church arrangements in Rome, Syria, and Mesopotamia. The galleries and their use remain a separate problem, but they, too, are found elsewhere and cannot be considered proper only to Constantinople and its liturgy (30). What was peculiar to Constantinople in these arrangements was required by the urban cathedral rite: the liturgical disposition of the preStudite Constantinopolitan monastic church remains to be discovered.
The Importance of the Entrances
Lest one think I am attributing too much importance to the processional Introit, let the sources themselves speak of the lengths to which the Byzantines would go to formalize and stylize this major feature of church life in old Constantinople. For this, one must turn to imperial ceremonial. By the time of Justinian, Constantinopolitan imperial corteges were so impressive that they had become a topos for regal splendor. Leontius the presbyter, a popular preacher in the capital around 552-565, used them regularly as a homiletic foil to the humility of the Heavenly King (31). It is little wonder that the participation of the emperor gave a special "imperial" tone to liturgical services.
The imperial ritual, both ecclesiastical and secular, is described in fragmentary fashion by numerous sources. Especially important are the ex professo ceremonial books of the imperial court, such as the De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae or Book of Ceremonies compiled from earlier sources by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-920, 945-959) (32), and the mid fourteenth century De officiis or Office Book of Pseudo- Codinus (33). The emperor's progress to the church for the liturgy as detailed in the Book of Ceremonies was a stational procession in microcosm, in which the cortege moved from designated spot to designated spot, with a set ritual order for each stop along the route. The force with which this struck the onlooker is obvious from the description of Harun ibn Yahya, an Arab prisoner held hostage at the court of Basil I (867-886) in the last quarter of the ninth century. His fantastic description of the imperial progress from palace to church, with an entourage of over 55,000 imperial officials, illustrates the impact of this solemn accession (34). Things seemed to have changed little in the succeeding centuries if we are to believe the Russian pilgrim Ignatius of Smolensk who was present at the crowning of Manuel II Paleologus (third from the last of the Byzantine emperors, 1391-1425) in Hagia Sophia on 11 February 13 92. According to Ignatius' equally exaggerated account, "The imperial procession was very slow-paced, so that three hours [were consumed going] from the main doors to the chamber" (35).
Outside In: Church Building as Cosmos
In fact, things had changed and changed considerably. From the time of Justinian I, Byzantine liturgical description and commentary became more and more concerned with what took place inside the church, with the church itself, and with its symbolic meaning. The Justinianic era introduced changes not only in church arrangement but also in perception. Previously, commentators on churches in the capital remarked on their great beauty, and waxed eloquently on what would eventually become a topos : the startling effect created by the light flooding in from the windows. They even referred to the domed roof as the heavens (36). 6 With Hagia Sophia and its liturgy, the perspective changed. In no liturgical tradition has one edifice played so seminal a role as Justinian's Hagia Sophia. Both the shape of the Byzantine Rite and the vision of its meaning-enacted on a smaller scale in later buildings-were determined in this cathedral church. What was most new about this building, far more than its startling architecture, was the vision created by its marvelous interior. This vision was to have a formative influence on the spirit of the ritual Hagia Sophia was built to house.
A Christian church is not a temple. Originally the community, and not some material shrine, was the dwelling of God's presence (37). In time it became customary to see the church building as a symbol of the mysteries it housed. Not until Justinian, however, did Constantinople have a vessel worthy to reflect this reality. With Hagia Sophia the domus ecclesiae became the New Temple and Justinian surpassed Solomon, as the legend has him exclaim on the occasion of its dedication in 537 (38).
The Byzantines did not invent the notion of the church as a Platonic image of the cosmos, reaching from God's throne upon the Cherubim to the lower realm where human life is enacted (39). Hagia Sophia, however, gave a completely new expression to this concept. The awesome splendors of its vastness and the sparkling brilliance of its light led observers to exclaim with remarkable consistency that here, indeed, was heaven on earth, the heavenly sanctuary, a second firmament, image of the cosmos, and throne of the very glory of God (40). As with all great buildings, the structure itself-not its decoration-created this impression. The original decoration of Hagia Sophia was minimal (41). Only later would much smaller structures of a poorer age require the explicitation of this symbolism representatively, in mosaic and fresco, in accord with the more literal spirit of the post-iconoclastic age.
The Cosmic Liturgy
Long before such explication in mosaic and fresco, the cosmic symbolism was embedded in the liturgical texts of the epoch. Let us return to the Introit. The procession has arrived, the liturgy is about to begin. The patriarch is in the narthex, where he has greeted the emperor; both are awaiting the signal to enter the church. From their chamber beneath the great ambo, the psalmists intone the Ho Monogenes troparion (42), traditional refrain of the Introit Psalm ( LXX Ps 94:l-6a).
At this signal, the patriarch goes before the Royal Doors to say the Introit Prayer: the opening collect of the Divine Liturgy in the two traditional Constantinopolitan formularies of St. Basil and St. Chrysostom. To the patriarch-his gaze into the nave framed by the open doors and interior western buttresses, his view encompassing the central axis of ambo, solea, and sanctuary, brilliantly bathed in the rays of the sun as it streamed through the windows in the conch of the apse (43)-the words of the prayer must certainly have seemed fulfilled, evoking the vision of the heavenly sanctuary resplendent to the East, as if before his very eyes:
O Lord and Master, our God, who in heaven has established the orders and armies of angels and archangels to minister unto your majesty, grant that the holy angels may enter with us, and with us serve and glorify your goodness... (44)
This typology-in which the earthly church is seen to image the heavenly sanctuary where the God of heaven dwells, and the earthly liturgy is a " concelebration " in the worship which the Heavenly Lamb and the angelic choirs offer before the throne of God-was the first level of Byzantine liturgical interpretation, reflected in such fifth-sixth century liturgical additions as this Introit Prayer and the Cheroubikon (a.d. 573-74) (45). Such liturgical interpretation was systematized in the Mystagogy of Maximus Confessor ca. 630 (46).
On the eve of Iconoclasm, therefore, a certain synthesis of liturgy and mystagogy had already emerged. In the next period this system would undergo developments radical enough to be called changes, but in sufficient continuity with what preceded to be deemed evolution, not revolution.
1. Beck, " Constantinople " (previous chap., note 1) esp. 31-35.
2. See my entries under these titles in ODB ; for the Creed and Cheroubikon, see Taft, Great Entrance chs. 2 and 11. The Trisagion first appeared in Constantinopolitan processional rogations in 438-439, but became a permanent element of the eucharistic liturgy only at the beginning of the 6th century.
3. John Malalas (ca. 490-570's), contemporary of Justinian, Chronographia 18, ed. L. Dindorf, loannis Malalae Chronographia, CSHB (Bonn 1831) 495.9-16 = PG 97:716; Theophanes Confessor (ca. 760-817), Chronographia 18, ed. C. de Boor, Theophanis Chronographia, 2 vols. (Leipzig 1883-1885) I, 238.18-24 = PG 108:520; cf. Taft, Great Entrance 110 (where I identify Malalas with John III Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople from 565-577, an identification now rejected by Byzantine historians; see B. Baldwin, " Malalas, John," in ODB 2:1275).
4. As in Justinian's ruling of 528 ordering all the clergy in each church to chant nocturns ( nykterina ) daily, and not just matins and vespers; Justinian, Code I, iii, 42:24 (10), P. Kriiger, Corpus iuris civilis, vol. 2 (Berlin 1900) 28; cf. Taft, Hours 186 and ch. 9 passim.
5. This is borne out by a perusal of the relevant Byzantine texts in Mango, Art.
6. Ibid., xiv.
7. On this concept and its development in Late Antiquity, the basic study is Baldovin.
8. Ibid., 171.
10. Ibid., 189.
11. Ibid., 186-189.
12. For an early instance, see the procession described in the Vita of St. Marcian, in R. Taft, "Byzantine Liturgical Evidence in the Life of St. Marcian the Oeconomos : Concelebration and the Preanaphoral Rites," OCP 48 (1982) 159-170.
13. Oratio 38, 5-6, PG 36:316; Baldovin 181.
14. Socrates, Church History VI, 8 = PG 67:688-9. Cf. Sozomen (ca. 439-450), Church History VIII, 8, ed. J. Bidez, GCS 50 ( Berlin 1960) 360-361 = PG 67:1536.
15. E.g. Horn, dicta postauam reliquiae martyrum ... 2, CPG 4441.1 = PG 63:470, describing a transfer of martyr's relics to the suburb of Drypia on the Via Egnatia, 13.5 km west of the city, towards the end of his first year in Constantinople: Baldovin 183. Cf. Chrysostom, De S. Hieromartyre Phoca, PG 50:699, which Baldovin (183) cites.
16. Horn, dicta postquam reliquiae martyrum ... 1, PG 63:461; Horn, adv. eos qui non adfuerant 1, CPG 4441.4 = PG 63:477; Horn, in Mud: ' Pater meus usque modo operatur ' 1, CPG 4441.10 = PG 63:511.
17. Palladios, Dialogue on the Life of St. John Chrysostom V, 147-150 = Palladios, Dialogue sur la vie de Jean Chrysostome I, ed. A.-M. Malingrey, P. Leclercq, Sources chretiennes 341 (Paris 1988) 124.
18. Baldovin 18 4-186. As Baldovin (186) points out, the attempt of Emperor Anastasius to gain control of the processions ca. 496, as reported by Theodore Lector, underscored their political and civil importance: Theodoros Anagnostes, Kirchengeschichte , ed. G. C. Hansen, GCS 54, 2nd ed. ( Berlin 1971) no. 468, p. 134.
19. Church History III.3, Iohannis Ephesini, Historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, ed. F. W. Brooks, Corpus scriptorum Christianorum orientalium 105-106: Scriptores Syri 54-55 (Paris/ Louvain 1935-1936) text 138, versio 102.
20. See Mateos, Celebration; Taft, Beyond East and West ch. 11; Mathews chs. 4-7; Baldovin ch. 6.
21. See Taft, " Liturgy."
22. Peri ton hieron eisodon ("On the Sacred Entrances"), in L. Petit, X. A. Siderides, M. Jugie ( eds.), Oeuvres completes de Gennade Scholarius, Tome III : Oeuvres polemiques, questions théologiques, écrits apologetiques (Paris 1930) 196-99.
23. Hagia Sophia, for example, has fifty-six doors on the ground floor: nineteen of them leading into the nave and six of them at the main processional entrance area in the narthex. On all questions of church planning in the early churches of Constantinople, see Mathews.
24. See the work of Strube, cited below in note 30.
25. On floor markings and their ceremonial use, see G. P. Majeska, "Notes on the Archeology of St. Sophia of Constantinople : The Green Marble Bands on the Floor," DOP 32 (1978) 299-308; P. Schreiner, " Omphalion und Rota Porphyretica. Zum Kaiserzeremoniell in Konstantinopel und Rom," in S. Dufrenne (ed.), Byzance et les Slaves. Mélanges Ivan Dujcev ( Paris 1979) 401-410. They are mentioned in 1200 by the Russian pilgrim Anthony of Novgorod, Xr. M. Loparev (ed.), Kniga palomchik. Skazanie mest svjatyx vo Tsaregrade Antonija Novgorod- skago v 1200 godu, Pravoslavnyj Palestiniskij Sbornik, vypusk 51, vol. 17.3 (St. Petersburg 1899) 78, 81; French trans, in Mme. B. de Khitrowo, Itinéraires russes en Orient (Geneva 1889) 95, 99.26. See Mathews, esp. 155-162,178. George P. Majeska of the University of Maryland is working on a new study on the skeuophylakion, incorporating the latest archaeological and literary findings. I am grateful to Professor Majeska for providing me with a copy of the initial draft of this excellent study.
27. The perdurance of the narthex and, in some cases, the esonarthex (in the Justinianic period-surely not afterward), cannot be ascribed to the catechumenate, which was largely nonexistent probably during the 6th, certainly by the 7th century.
28. See my article "Sermon" in ODB 3:1880-81.
29. This enclosed walkway served to keep the sanctuary area free for liturgical use and to facilitate the comings and goings of the lectors and others from the sanctuary to the ambo.
30. I discuss this question in my review of Ch. Strube, Die westliche Eingangsseite der Kirchen von Konstantinopel in justinianischer Zeit, OCP 42 (1976) 296-303. See also, T. F. Mathews ' review in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 70 (1977) 385.
31. Horn. 2.141-162; 3/3a. 18-29, 61-96; 22.127- 142, C. Datema, P. Allen ( eds.), Leontii Presbyteri Constantinopolitani Homiliae, Corpus Christianorum, series Graeca 17 ( Turnhout 1987) 90-91, 150-153, 156-159, 385-386; English trans., by the same authors, Leontius Presbyter of Constantinople, Fourteen Homilies, Byzantina Australiensia 9 (Brisbane 1991) 44, 51-53, 175.
32. Vogt, texte I-II.
33. Ps.-Kodinos, Traite des offices, ed. J. Verpeaux ( Paris 1966).
34. A. A. Vasiliev, " Harun-ibn-Yahya and his Description of Constantinople," Seminarium Kondakovianum 5 (1932) 158-159. These awesome imperial entrances have been studied at length by D. Th. Beljaev, " Ezhednevnye priemy vizantijskix tsarej i prazdnichnye vyxody ix v xram Sv. Sofii v IX-XI vv.," Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago arxeologicheskago obshchestva, n.s. 6 (1893) i -xlvii, 1-309; esp. chs. 4-5; id., " Bogomol'nye vyxody vizantijskix tsarej v gorodskie i prigorod-nye xramy Konstantinopolja," Zapiski klassicheskago otdelenija Imperatorskago Russkago arxeologicheskago obshchestva 4 (1906) 1-189.
35. G. P. Majeska, Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 19 (Washington 1984), text 106-107; commentary 423-424. The "chamber" ( chertog ) was the metatorion or imperial loge in the nave of Hagia Sophia where the emperor attended services; cf. Mathews 96, 133-134; Vogt, commentaire I, 61; J.-P. Papadopoulos, "Le mutatorium des eglises byzantines," in Memorial L. Petit, Archives de l'Orient Chr é tien 1 ( Bucharest 1948) 366-372.
36. For example, Gregory Nazianzen, Or. 18, 39, PG 35:1037; Mango, Art 26.
37. Mk 14:58; Jn 2:21; 1 Cor 3:16, 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16; 1 Pet 2:5; Eph 2:19-22; cf. Y. M.-J. Congar, The Mystery of the Temple (Westminster, Md. 1962) ch. 8.
38. See the 8-9th c. account in Anonymi Narratio de aedificatione templi S. Sophiae 27, ed. Th. Preger, Scriptores originum Constantinopolitana -rum, BSGRT (Leipzig 1901, reprint 1989) 105.
39. Though first systematized for Byzantium ca. 630 by Maximus Confessor (d. 660) in his Mystagogy (1-5, PG 91:664-84 = Maximus Confessor, Selected Writings, The Classics of Western Spirituality [N.Y./Mahwah, N.J./Toronto 1985] 186-195), the notion of temple as microcosm is a commonplace of human religiosity. Cf. M. Eliade, Images and Symbols. Studies in Religious Symbolism (N.Y. 1969) ch. 1; idem, The Myth of the Eternal Return ( London 1955) ch. 1; idem, The Sacred and the Profane (N.Y. 1959) ch. 1. It is apparently first applied to the Christian church building in a 6th c. poem on the cathedral of Edessa : H. Goussen (ed.), " Uber eine ' Sugitha ' auf die Kathedrale von Edessa," Le Museon 38 (1925) 117-36 (trans. Mango, Art 57-60); cf. A. Grabar, "Le temoignage d'une hymne syriaque sur l'architecture de la cathédrale d'Edesse au VI e siècle et sur la symbolique de l'édifice chrétien," CA 2 (1948) 41-67.
40. E.g., Procopius, De aedificiis I, i.61, ed. H. B. Dewing and G. Downey, Procopius VII, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass. 1954) 26 = Mango, Art 76; Adammanus (ca. 705), De locis sanctis libri tres. Itinera Hierosolymitana saec. Ill-VIII, Corpus scriptorum ecclesiastico -rum Latinorum 38:28; Germanus I (ca. 730), Historia ecclesiastica 1 and 4, P. Meyendorff, Germanus 56-59; Michael Psellus (11th c), Oratio 35, Michael Psellus, Oratoria minora, ed. A. R. Littlewood, BSGRT (Leipzig 1985) 131-132 = PG 122:912; Nicetas Choniata (1206), Historia 4, ed. I. Bekker, CSHB (Bonn 1835) 782.
41. Its present decorative program dates from ca. 866-913, after the defeat of Iconoclasm: Mango, Materials 93-4.
42. See my article " Monogenes, Ho" in ODB 2:1397.
43. There is a photograph of this exact view in Kahler, illustr. 23; cf. the description, ibid. 28ff.
44. LEW 312.15-30 (left col.). This is the original Constantinopolitan Introit Prayer. The text, given loc. cit. (right col.) with the Chrysostom Liturgy, is an Italo -Greek peculiarity unknown in the Constantinopolitan redactions of the euchology : Jacob, "Tradition," 109-38; cf. Taft, Great Entrance xxxi-ii, 128-9.
45. On this chant, see Taft, Great Entrance 53-118.
46. See note 39 above.
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The main view of the Origin of Aids is the Hunter theory. As seen from this website:
"The most commonly accepted theory is that of the 'hunter'.
In this scenario, SIVcpz was transferred to humans as a result of chimps being
killed and eaten or their blood getting into cuts or wounds on the hunter.
Normally the hunter's body would have fought off SIV, but on a few occasions it
adapted itself within its new human host and become HIV-1. The fact that there
were several different early strains of HIV, each with a slightly different
genetic make-up (the most common of which was HIV-1 group M), would support this
theory: every time it passed from a chimpanzee to a man, it would have developed
in a slightly different way within his body, and thus produced a slightly
different strain.
An article published in The Lancet in 20043, also
shows how retroviral transfer from primates to hunters is still occurring even
today. In a sample of 1099 individuals in Cameroon , they discovered ten (1%)
were infected with SFV (Simian Foamy Virus), an illness which, like SIV, was
previously thought only to infect primates. All these infections were believed
to have been acquired through the butchering and consumption of monkey and ape
meat. Discoveries such as this have led to calls for an outright ban on bushmeat
hunting to prevent simian viruses being passed to humans."
I embraced this view until I started to think about the fact that the green monkey lived next to Central Africans for centuries, if not for thousands of years. Yet this outbreak was a 20nth century outbreak. Why was the green monkey only a problem now? But then again, if mad cow desease can spread that way, then why can't SIV/HIV? So I still feel that the hunter theory has some merit, so I can't give it up completely.
I found this website to be balanced, and helpful, although it tends to lean toward the hunter theory.
But what I found more interesting, was not the mainstream theory, but another view, this idea talks about the possible link of a Central African Polio vaccine to HIV(1). (HIV 1 is the form of HIV that caused the Worldwide outbreak. There is another form called HIV 2, which is not that common).
http://www.documentary-film.net/aids/originsofaids.php
Or Watch it Here
I don't want to be a pusher of "Conspiracy Theories", but I thought this documentary was interesting. Maybe the modern outbreak of HIV has a multiple source. Maybe through both monkey hunters, as well as the hunt for new Polio vaccines, along with Contaminated/unclean needles to help vaccinate Polio in 3rd World countries.
But this is only a guess, for I really don't have a clue.
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The recent release of Davis Guggenheim’s film Waiting for Superman has contributed to a flurry of discussion over how to fix failing American schools. I’ve read quite a bit on thoughts regarding school reform and find that there is a striking absence of discussion of American family policies and the abusive family law courts as major contributors to poor student performance. Yet studies show that divorce has a major negative impact on student performance.
(from More Studies Show Divorce Hurts Kids’ Education)
Adverse impact of divorce upon education has skyrocketed as divorce has been more common. Divorces in 1920 caused a 3.6 month loss of education, but since 1970 they have blown up to about a year in lost education. This timeframe roughly corresponds with the rise of “no fault divorce” in Western nations.
Multiple divorces had an even worse impact on high school graduation rates. While students who parents stay together average a 78.4% rate of graduation from high school by age 20, one divorce drops the graduation rate to 60%, about the same as for children whose mother or father died. Divorce and remarriage did not significantly change the graduation rates for children versus divorce with no remarriage. But with divorce-remarriage-divorce (two divorces), the graduation rate drops further to only about 40%, half of that for children whose parents remained married.
Parties as diverse as social scientists, economists, and national security experts point out that America’s under-performing educational system is a threat to the future of the nation. The United States has long maintained the economic and military superiority over its adversaries that lead to a secure and prosperous nation in large part due to the educational opportunities available to American children. Universal K-12 education means every child is supposed to have access to the knowledge and skills needed to get a start in life. American universities attract the best and brightest students from around the world. The inventiveness of these students is immense. They often become scientists, entrepreneurs, and other major contributors to the advancement of knowledge and wealth of the nation.
America’s academic performance has been on a steady downward slope for decades. This decline parallels the destruction of families via no-fault divorce that has made divorce far more common as well as the laws and court behaviors that create conflict and place children into traumatic and contentious custody battles. Often these children are stripped of most or all contact with one of their parents due to wrongful sole custody decisions and the courts enabling and encouraging parental alienation child abuse. The two phenomena of poor school performance and poor family life are directly related. While parents do make their own share of mistakes, failed government policies are the glue that binds together these interconnected disasters into a destructive spiral.
Americans Kids Are #1 — In Their Own Minds
Guggenheim’s film points out that the only area in which American students excel is self-confidence. They are sure they are the best, after all they are so often getting excellent grades — never mind they don’t deserve them or that their actual competency versus students in other nations is sorely lacking.
(from Why Narcissism and Other High Conflict Personalities Are On the Rise)
Ask any university professor about the degree of entitlement in recent generations of students who believe they should get A’s just for showing up. Oftentimes, when these young adults get the lower grades they deserve (e.g., poor attendance, incomplete work, poor test cores or not following assignment directions), the students complain to the professor and then escalate to the dean and right on up to the university president or, worse yet, get their outraged and enabling parents to do it for them.
Small Changes in Parent’s Attitudes Can Lead to Huge Outcome Differences
Authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s book NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children discusses some of the ways that parents are creating this narcissism problem in children. They cite research by psychologist Carol Dweck that shows even small differences in how parents interact with their children can make huge differences in academic performance.
One such observation is that the way parents praise children affects what kind of risks the children are willing to take. Dweck found that telling kids they are smart actually hurts them. It creates a perceived psychological risk that they may fail and then be seen as not so smart after all. So when it comes time to choose between stretching to learn something new and risk failing or doing the same old thing again and doing well, the kids who have been inundated with praise of their intelligence will not stretch to try something new because doing so risks failure. Praising them for effort, by contrast, doesn’t set up this perverse disincentive for stretching to learn new skills.
Other research shows that variations in corrective style also have huge impact on kids. Bronson describes research that shows what happens when mothers are told their children did not do well on a test and take differing approaches to help their children cope. Psychologist Florrie Ng did an experiment with American kids in Illinois and Chinese kids in Hong Kong. She found that after telling mothers their children didn’t do well on a test, American moms don’t bother to try to help their children do better, unlike Chinese moms. The Americans ignore reported poor performance and talked about anything but the test, as if to shield their children from failure. The Chinese instead try to encourage their children to do better. The results? On a retest, Chinese students have more than twice as large a performance improvement as their American counterparts. The American kids seem to get the message that it doesn’t matter how they do, the Chinese get the message that they are loved but can do better.
(from Excerpt: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children)
Brushing aside failure, and just focusing on the positive, isn’t the norm all over the world. A young scholar at the University of Illinois, Dr. Florrie Ng, reproduced Dweck’s paradigm with fifth-graders both in Illinois and in Hong Kong. Ng added an interesting dimension to the experiment. Rather than having the kids take the short IQ tests at their school, the children’s mothers brought them to the scholars’ offices on campus (both in Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Hong Kong). While the moms sat in the waiting room, half the kids were randomly given the really hard test, where they could get only about half right inducing a sense of failure. At that point, the kids were given a five-minute break before the second test, and the moms were allowed into the testing room to talk with their child. On the way in, the moms were told their child’s actual raw score and were told a lie that this score represented a below average result. Hidden cameras recorded the five-minute interaction between mother and child.
The American mothers carefully avoided making negative comments. They remained fairly upbeat and positive with their child. The majority of the minutes were spent talking about something other than the testing at hand, such as what they might have for dinner. But the Chinese children were likely to hear, “You didn’t concentrate when doing it,” and “Let’s look over your test.” The majority of the break was spent discussing the test and its importance.
After the break, the Chinese kids’ scores on the second test jumped 33 percent, more than twice the gain of the Americans.
The trade-off here would seem to be that the Chinese mothers acted harsh or cruel — but that stereotype may not reflect modern parenting in Hong Kong. Nor was it quite what Ng saw on the videotapes. While their words were firm, the Chinese mothers actually smiled and hugged their children every bit as much as the American mothers (and were no more likely to frown or raise their voices).
Po Bronson on the Inverse Power of Praise
From this research, it is clear that minor differences in how children are praised or corrected can create enormous differences in outcome as measured by academic performance.
Given this, how do you think big differences like having two loving cooperative parents versus two warring parents will affect academic performance?
American has turned its children into mediocre kids who are little narcissists suffering from insecurity complexes. Parents are contributing factors, as the research mentioned above shows.
But parents are often being driven to fail their children by failed government policies. The government and its “child protection” agencies and family law courts pit parents against each other in custody wars, sapping the family’s resources that could have been better allocated to education and raising children.
The parental warfare often results in children learning that being emotional manipulators is a path to success as parents cave in and reward these behaviors due to the fear their children will turn against them and the courts will strip them of their roles as parents if they do not. A parent in a custody battle may shy away from telling little Johnny and Jane that they need to work harder in school because that parent might never see them again as a result. All it takes for that to happen is the other parent making false accusations of emotional abuse or using the corrective comments as propaganda in a parental alienation brainwashing campaign.
Most of our readers know people who have lost their children to parental alienation, false child abuse allegations, or bribery by a selfish parent. Many of them have had it happen to them.
High-conflict parents driven by high-conflict courts create narcissistic children who will engage in their own selfish and high-conflict behaviors in the future. Such children are often emotionally immature, suffer from increased insecurities, and are frequently exposed to damaging conflicts between parents that teaches them severe conflict is normal and they can’t count on the people who supposedly love them. Their troubled lives mean they cannot effectively focus on education, taking reasonable risks, and “just being kids” like most children used to be able to do.
The parental warfare also means that educational enrichment opportunities are fewer for them as their parents are paying their life savings to the divorce industry that is destroying their families and are so busy writing declarations, testifying, scheming, and/or defending against false allegations that they pay much less attention to their children.
Family Conflict Impedes Academic Achievement
The connection between divorce and poor school performance is not a new discovery. The 1991 study Academic performance in children of divorce: psychological resilience and vulnerability found children of divorce suffered lower academic performance compared to children of intact families. Yet the researchers noted that not all children of divorce fared equally poorly. There appeared to be two subgroups of children of divorce, those who were not far different from their peers in intact families and those who performed drastically worse. I call the second subgroup the “children of conflict” to emphasize that it is not merely a divorce that is causing the trouble, it is a conflict-prone family life that leaves children feeling very insecure.
Why do the children of conflict fare so much more poorly? There is more than one answer to this.
First, the level of conflict they experience hurts their emotions and mental health, leaving them less able to focus on schooling. If you’re being taught to hate your other parent and don’t know when you’ll see dad or mom or grandma and grandpa next, a lot of your attention and mental energy is being wasted on conflicts and feelings of insecurity rather than learning.
Second, the economic resources sucked out of their families into the greedy hands of the divorce industry and the government probably would have been spent in part on enrichment activities. Some parents might choose camps, others may choose educational vacations, others arts and crafts or fix-it projects, and still others might work part-time to spend more time with their kids. But American style divorce means that all of these options are largely lost except for the very wealthy.
Third, even if somehow the money wasted doesn’t preclude opportunities, the wasteful court process causes many parents to spend countless hours hiring and consulting with lawyers, writing court papers, testifying, and attending hearings and mediations. The courts often pile on mandatory counseling and parenting classes in a deceitful attempt to make it look like they are trying to pour water on the conflict when in reality they are doing all they can to light a fire under both parents to scare them to death and motivate them to pour their time and money into the war. After all of this, there is a lot less time remaining for the children and a lot less energy for them, too. Parents are emotionally burned out by the warfare and it drastically worsens the quality of time many of them have with their children. Some parents no longer see their children at all despite all their efforts. The children suffer badly from this.
Cycle of Abuse and Poor Performance
Kids exposed to extensive family conflict are more prone to develop mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. All of these interfere with academic performance. They are also more likely to have difficulty with trusting others and having successful relationships. Anybody who can remember being a teenager or young adult probably recalls the hours spent pining over some confusing love interest. Kids who can’t trust, are self-centered, and are mentally unhealthy are likely to spend even more time pining away, not just about potential love interests but also about when they will get to see each parent next, whether they parents will keep fighting, and so forth. This is stressful time that could have been better spent on education.
When these kids grow up and have families of their own, they are far more likely to repeat the destructive examples they observed in their youth. The result is that the problems pass from generation to generation.
Michelle Rhee
Current School Reform Efforts
Educational reformers like Michelle Rhee of Washington D.C. are making progress on firing abusive and poorly performing teachers, shutting down failed schools, and raising student performance. It appears they are well-motivated and are having some success. But reformers like her are dogged by criticism at every step of the way, even when she is right and is measurably improving the really bad schools in the city.
(from Michelle Rhee: Tenure as chancellor of D.C. Public Schools)
Rhee has also told a national business magazine that some of the 266 teachers laid off in October’s budget reductions had sex with children or had hit them. “I got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school. Why wouldn’t we take those things into consideration?” she said. At the time, she did not provide evidence of her accusations nor comment when asked why these accused teachers were allowed to be in the district prior to the dismissals. Union leadership responded that an apology from Rhee was owed to the 266 teachers for making such remarks which, they stated unequivocally, were without basis in facts.[36] On September 2010, a lawsuit was filed by a high school student who said she had been impregnated by her teacher in 2008.[37] Paternity tests confirmed the teacher was the father of the student’s child.[37]
Can Rhee Succeed At Massively Boosting Student Performance?
Let’s say Rhee somehow succeeds at firing every bad teacher, hiring plenty of good new ones, and cuts wasteful bureaucratic overhead so that tax dollars are actually being spent on education rather than fancy titles, fancy offices, corruption, and all the other ways that government wastes taxpayer money on itself.
Do you think that Washington D.C. students are going to become star performers if she accomplishes all of that?
Kids in D.C. suffer from a much higher rate of conflict-prone and insecure families. Single-parent households, poverty, teen pregnancies, and mental health problems including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse are all quite common. Every one of these problems is a substantial impediment to educational attainment.
All of these problems flow directly from the failed American family policy perpetrated by the US government and its political subdivisions.
As an example, consider the AFDC program that ran from 1936 to 1996 and was intended to provide a financial base for kids in single-parent homes (i.e., homes without fathers). The way it was run created incentives to destroy families. Among other destructive outcomes, mothers were expected to kick fathers out of their homes or their AFDC payments were at risk if they stayed. The government was clearly sending the message that money is more important than having two parents.
AFDC was ended in 1996, but there have been plenty of other anti-family policies that have come in to fill the vacuum.
For instance, VAWA is ostensibly supposed to help stop child abuse. Yet it creates an environment in which any angry and malicious mom can have the father of her children turned into a criminal banned from seeing the children on almost a moment’s notice. Such a banned father might not understand how he can be stripped out of his children’s lives with nothing but baseless accusations. So Dad calls to check to see if the kids need help with homework, next thing you know he’s being arrested and prosecuted and put in prison for several months as according to VAWA a falsely accused father who calls his children is obviously a criminal and should be imprisoned.
Moms are increasingly being affected by this insanity, too, but this is being covered up the the male-bashing feminist thought police who are willing to sacrifice some number of their sisters to skewer as many men as possible.
A full explanation of how the US government is destroying families and creating bad environments for raising children is important but is far beyond what could be covered in a single article. One of the better books on the topic is Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family . We have a review of this highly recommended book to give you an idea of what it covers. Summing it up, the government is attempting to take tighter control of the American population by destroying families and social institutions that are obstacles to government domination. In the process, it is violating the US Constitution, ignoring due process, treating people as guilty until proven innocent, and inventing new “crimes” so that it can throw virtually anybody in prison at any time. The problems go to the very core of the values held dear by the founders of the United States.
US Divorce Rate Related To Family Destruction
The United States has the highest annual divorce rate in the world. The US specializes in destroying families and making its citizens subservient to the government. All the huff-and-puff from the “family values” politicians is largely posturing and lies — they almost universally fail to do anything that really stops the destruction of families. Divorce and the resulting problem of warring parents are probably the biggest contributors to family conflict and insecurity.
Now an astute reader may point out that Washington D.C. has a lower divorce rate than many other areas in the US and therefore my connection between divorce, family conflict and insecurity, and poor academic performance looks iffy.
(from U.S. Divorce Statistics)
In 2004, the state with the highest reported divorce rate was Nevada, at 6.4 (per 1,000). Arkansas was a close second, with a divorce rate of 6.3, followed by Wyoming at 5.3. The District of Columbia had the lowest reported divorce rate, at 1.7, followed by Massachusetts at 2.2 and Pennsylvania at 2.5. (Figures were not complete for California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, or Oklahoma.)
But consider why D.C. has a lower divorce rate. It is in part because so many people there are having children without getting married. No marriage, no divorce. It’s that simple.
It’s clear that you can have a low divorce rate and a low rate of two-parent homes at the same time. Simply have a bunch of teenage girls have babies and not have the fathers living with them. D.C. is that kind of place.
Author Po Bronson keeps a bunch of interesting family statistics on his website that help show the massive breakdown of families directly correlates with poor outcomes for children:
“As the divorce rate soared after 1960, three other major trends started to emerge that were part of the 20th century’s transformation in pair-bonding in the Western world: the rate of marriage decreased, while the rates of cohabitation without marriage and nonmarital births increased . . . . This nonmarital birthrate increase is particularly impressive because it occurred at the same time that women in the West had more contraceptive choice than ever before in the history of the human species.”
26 percent of U.S. children under the age of 18 lived in a single-parent home.
12 percent of U.S. children live in single parent families with householders who had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 9 percent of children living with neither parent and 30 percent of children living in a married-couple family.
Children growing up in a single-parent family are twice as likely to have a child before the age of 20 than those raised in a two-parent family.
Children growing up in a single-parent family are one and a half times as likely to be out of school and out of work in their late teens and early 20s as those who grow up in a two-parent family.
While the number of single-mother families has grown dramatically, so has the gap between their incomes and those of married-couple families. “From 1969 to 1999, the income gap between [U.S.] families maintained by women with no husband present and married-couple families widened. During that time, [U.S.] families maintained by women with no husband present had a smaller percentage increase in median income (32 percent) than that of married-couple families (44 percent).”
There should be no question that kids growing up outside of environments with two involved cooperative parents are going to suffer.
Is Having Married Parents the Key to Children’s Success?
Unlike some, I am not convinced that it is marriage in and of itself that helps children be more successful. I suspect it has more to do with the children getting the benefit of two loving and involved parents along with their extended families who nurture, teach, socialize, and provide for the children in different ways. The benefits of increased economic resources also likely has something to do with the difference in results.
Kids get a greater diversity of experience to different ways of thinking, interests, and ways of living when they have two involved parents rather than one. Having two involved parents also means it is more likely that the kids will be around somebody with an advanced education who will encourage them to pursue college and graduate school. If their parents get along, even if they are not married, they also see that people can cooperate and that it benefits the children. They may also learn successful coping and negotiating strategies for when family members are not in total agreement. This is likely to help them cope with difficulties in their own relationships, be it with friends, family members, and love interests.
But American family policy does not encourage intact families. It doesn’t encourage parents to get along, either. Instead, it rewards malicious parents who kick the other parent out of the home, falsely accuse them of being criminals or abusers, and keep the children from seeing them. VAWA, divorce laws, the pervasive tendency for courts to issue sole custody orders, and a child support system that rewards abusive parental alienators with money all hurt children and rightly infuriate the target parents, causing them to fight for justice and expend large quantities of time and money doing so. These problems are part of the systemic abuse against children and families by the government.
The single biggest enemy of American children is the American government and its destructive policies towards families.
Problems with underperforming American school kids cannot be fully fixed without fixing the broken family policies in this country. Any politician who advocates school reform without also advocating reform of this country’s abusive family policies, laws, and courts is uninformed, a coward unwilling to fight the strong lobby of divorce industry profiteers, or has some agenda that is not good for the nation and its children.
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September 27th, 2010 at 14:34 | #1
Why Kids Don’t Do Well in School
January 22, 2010 by Phyllis Schlafly
Let me share with you an interesting article from the Washington Post about the
teacher of an all-black class in a high school in Alexandria, Virginia, who
expressed his frustration at how poorly the students were performing. The class
included both native-born African-Americans and kids who had immigrated from
Africa. In a moment of exasperation, the teacher blurted out this question to the native-born students: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” One of them shot back the answer.
The kid replied, “It’s because they have fathers who kick their butts and make
them study.” Another student called out: “Ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us.”
The teacher did ask the class, and not one hand went up. The students had
figured out, even if school teachers and administrators are still in the dark,
that the essential difference between kids who make it in school, and those who
don’t, is whether they have their father in the home.
It isn’t a matter of race; the African-Americans and the Africans are the same
race. It isn’t because the school doesn’t have enough money; this school has so
much money that it gives every student a laptop of his own.
The basic problem is the lack of fathers in the home. And why didn’t these kids
have fathers in the home?
For the majority of them, the reason is the liberal welfare system which
transformed the people who were given “free” money called “welfare” into a
society of single moms. In this matriarchy, fathers were made unnecessary, even
an impediment to the flow of taxpayer handouts.
Now we see the terrible consequences of what Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously
predicted in 1965 when Lyndon Johnson started his Great Society spending.
Welfare reform was passed in 1996 and even signed by Bill Clinton, but President Obama had those reforms repealed in his Stimulus bill last year.
The anti-marriage feminists are unwilling to fault the matriarchal society, and
so the academic feminists keep looking for other causes of poor grades by
minority students. An outfit called the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task
Group is trying to get the University of Minnesota to make race, class and
gender the “overarching framework” of all teacher education coursework.
This busybody Task Group is part of the University’s Teacher Education Redesign
Initiative, which is premised on the notion that Minnesota teachers’ lack of
“cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of minority
students. The plan would require teachers to be re-educated so they will teach
Minnesota minority kids that America is an oppressive, racist, sexist,
homophobic country.
According to the final report of the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group
last year, in order to effectively teach a diverse class of students, teachers
must understand how “white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity,
and internalized oppression” have impacted their thinking.
The report demands that teachers be trained to instruct students on the U.S.
“myth of meritocracy, ” the “history of white racism,” and “demands for
assimilation to white, middle-class, Christian meanings and values.”
This Task Force even has plans to browbeat into submission those who don’t
accept these new liberal dictates. The Task Force calls on the University to
develop “a remediation plan” for non-performing students and teachers.
Such outlandish proposals have not gone unnoticed. The Foundation for
Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) accuses these re-education plans of
violating “the freedom of conscience of the university’s students,” and the
American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) charges that these plans “ignore
academic goals and lead to a politicized determination of who is qualified to be a teacher.”
The University of Minnesota may pretend to back off from the more outrageous of
these proposals, but they are totally in sync with William Ayers’ “social
justice” teaching and the more recent buzz word “cultural competence.” The
bottom line is to teach the younger generation that they are victims of an
oppressive and unjust America, and that they should organize and demonstrate (a
la Saul Alinsky) to take power and money away from those who have those things.
Another ominous straw in the wind is Obama’s appointment of six way-out
radicals to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and
Integrity (NACIQI), whose mission is to evaluate whether accrediting agencies
are properly assessing the quality of colleges and universities. The appointees
are the sort of Obama extremists who will be likely to try to enforce diversity
mandates and social engineering on institutions seeking accreditation.
The most important thing schools should do to for minority (and other)
schoolchildren is to teach them how to read by phonics in the first grade. They
could do this inexpensively with my First Reader, and if the schools refuse,
this book is the perfect tool for parents to teach their own children.
* ‘Social Justice’: Code Word for Anti-Americanism
Phyllis Schlafly Report, Jan. 2009
* Decoding Teacher Training
by KC Johnson, 11-30-09
* At U, future teachers may be reeducated: They must denounce exclusionary biases and embrace the vision. (Or else.)
by Katherine Kersten, 12-02-09
Paul, thanks for mentioning this Phyllis Schlafly article. When posting quotes, it would be great if you could provide the link to it so the original site gets credit. We’re fine with posting links so long as they are not just spam. For others, here it is.
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2010/jan10/10-01-22.html
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Here it is: My list of kooks at Capitol
by Laurie Roberts, columnist - Jul. 18, 2012 12:00 AM
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Comes now my long-awaited, much anticipated list of Arizona legislators who seem to regularly transform our fair state into a punch line.
That's right, fire up the phone lines to the editor because today I'm unveiling my kook list. Now, I acknowledge that the word "kook" may seem harsh. Normally, I don't go in for name calling, but, sometimes -- in desperate times -- you have to call it as you see it.
This list is all Republican. No shock there. Democrats barely register a blip at the Capitol, much less the ability to turn us into a laughingstock.
For more detailed information on Operation Dekookification, check out my new Web page: dekook.azcentral.com. It'll be online later this week.
Meanwhile, to the list:
Rep. Carl Seel of Phoenix continues his quest to root out Barack Obama's birth certificate while the rest of us continue our quest to figure out how this guy ever got into the Legislature. When he's not on birther patrol, he's sponsoring bills battling AHCCCS fraud -- which he hasn't yet found despite serving a fake subpoena on the agency this spring -- and thwarting conspiracies to create a one-world order and a North American Union.
Sen. Lori Klein of Anthem will forever be associated with her "cute" pink pistol -- the one she pointed at a reporter, the one she brought onto the floor of the House just days after the Tucson tragedy. Last year, Klein brought us nullification. This year, she championed the rights of dogs to run free as long as they have liability insurance, even as she sought to limit the free-speech rights of teachers.
It was Klein who read a letter on the Senate floor about Hispanic students who aspire to be gang members and refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This, without verifying that it was true. (It wasn't.)
Sen. Judy Burges of Sun City West has led the way both on the "birther" front and in efforts to foil the United Nations' plot to interfere with our God-given right to pollute any darned corner of this country that we so desire. She was a big supporter of guns on college campuses, reasoning that if you're old enough to go to war, you're old enough to pack heat on the way to a frat party.
Recalled Sen. Russell Pearce of Mesa makes the list because of his obsession with guns and illegal immigrants. In 2010, he brought us concealed weapons without a permit -- or any sort of basic gun-safety training. He caught lightning in a bottle with Senate Bill 1070, capitalizing on justifiable frustrations with illegal immigration. But his obsession continued in 2011, prompting his colleagues and the business community to say, "Enough already."
Rep. David Stevens of Sierra Vista catapulted onto my kook radar in April, when he warned that a proposal to build a highway between Phoenix and Las Vegas is really a plot to create one North American country. "You may have heard the term 'Amero'...," he told his colleagues.
Rep. David Gowan, also of Sierra Vista, authored a pair of vetoed bills: one to allow guns in any government building not equipped with armed guards and X-ray units, the other to require federal agents to check in with the local sheriff before enforcing federal law. Not even the sheriffs liked the latter bill.
Rep. Chester Crandell of Heber has his own ode to state sovereignty, declaring dominion over the air, water, wildlife and most land. It's Proposition 120, and if it passes in November, backers apparently believe they'll be able to get around federal regulations aimed at ensuring clean water and clear air and such. More likely, it'll land us in court as the feds sue us. Again.
Sen. Al Melvin of Tucson also sought control over federal land, but unlike Crandell's bill -- which went to the ballot -- Melvin's bill went to Gov. Jan Brewer, where it was promptly vetoed. Melvin also proposed a new industry for our state: dumping ground for the nation's high-level nuclear waste.
Rep. Michelle Ugenti of Scottsdale embraces all the crazy bills, but it's her mouth that makes her a standout. To a colleague who mentions during a televised hearing that he has a hot date: "Your right hand doesn't count." Bill-wise, she's best known for changing city elections -- prompting a lawsuit from Phoenix -- and for a new law requiring parents to call police within 24 hours after their preschoolers disappear.
And finally, Rep. Debbie Lesko of Glendale, who hoped to reverse a 10-year-old state law requiring employers to cover contraception in their insurance plans. Eventually, she had to scale back her bill, covering only religious employers.
Left unanswered is why Lesko and so many of her colleagues are obsessed with birth control when actual problems in this state cry out for attention.
None of them involving the uterus or even the United Nations.
Next up: the keepers.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8635.
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Potentiometer, International OHM
Serial no. 6680. Very similar to ST-MU-06, but larger. Calibration record inside top is dated Nov. 1947. Imported by James Biddle, Philadelphia. Mfg: Otto Wolff, Berlin.
ST-MU-12
Cloud chamber, miniature
Original description calls this instrument “Apparatus for shewing the tracks of alpha and beta particles and x-rays.” Mfg: Cambridge and Paul Instrument Co.
ST-PH-12
Ion chamber, early (B)
Small cylindrical electroscope with clock and photographic drum. Used by Millikan and Bowen in 1932. See Phys. Rev. 44:246-52 (1933). Mfg. CIT Physics Shop.
ST-CR-11
Triode, Western Electric 710A
Not clear from Mendenhall notes just what this is. Has a number 822 incised on it. Three contacts, radiator in the middle. Mfg. Western Electric.
Globe, new terrestrial
Mfg: C.S. Hammond & Co., NY.
Cloud chamber, pieces
Pieces of cloud chamber apparatus used by Carl Anderson in his discovery of the positron/mesotron, for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1936.
Bulb, unidentified
Function unknown. Mfg. General Electric.
Typewriter, standard Underwood no. 5
Potentiometer, type B high precision #2780
Serial #52904. Mfg: Rubicon Co., Philadelphia, PA.
Microscope of Max Delbrueck
Bausch & Lomb, Model No. ZD1335, S/N 159185. 9” x 4.5” x 6”. Includes six extra lenses and two extensions.
ST-BI-09
Polyphase slide rule; ivory and wood in original box with original manual, “The Mannheim and Polyphase Slide Rules.” Mfg. Keuffel & Esser Co, NY.
ST-CH-09
Ion chamber, spare
According to Victor Neher, was used in Mariners II and IV in 1962 and 1964. Inscribed by Neher: “the last chamber.”
Demonstration model, electron wave theory
According to Mendenhall notes, this appears to be the demonstration model for C.J. Davisson's electron wave theory, which won a Nobel Prize in 1937. No more information is available. Glass hull, many contacts, partially painted grayish-black.
Claude Lorraine mirror in box
Nothing more in known about this item.
Grating, concave
This grating was ruled on speculum; a light aluminum coat has since been applied. The plate was prepared by the John A. Brashear Co., Allegheny, PA. It was ruled on Prof. Henry Rowland's engine at Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Used by Bowen and Millikan from 1919 on.
Cell compartment, DU spectrophotometer
Black metal, heavy, trough-shaped, one end mounted and raised on adjustable legs. Not shown in Instruction Manuals for DU spectrophotometer as standard equipment. Possibly shop-made.
ST-BE-08
Manufactured by Houston Glass Fabricating, and used by Max Delbruck. 16” x 9” 5”.
Oxygen meter, Pauling, Model K
Serial no. 2. Wood box, handle on top. On/off switch on front; dial lacking indicator card. Mfg. F&P Co.
Ion chamber (B)
Nothing is known of this ion chamber, except that it closely resembles ST-CR-06. Mfg. CIT Physics Shop.
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Caltech-Armed Forces meteorology training course
Students inflating pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
10.43.1-2
Students inflating pilot balloon and leveling theodolite. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Observer and recorder waiting for buzzer signal to release pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Beginning of pilot balloon run. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Students observing and recording pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice in keeping theodolite cross-hair centered on pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice of following and reading of vertical and horizontal angles of theodolite. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Observing pilot balloon. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Practice in use of clinometer for measuring ceiling of clouds. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Demonstration in principles of ceiling projector. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Equipment for cloud observations and recording. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Gimbal nephoscope for cloud observations. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Polarus and topographical chart used for determining local points for visibility check. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Sunshine duration electrical transmitter. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Student measuring amount of precipitation in eight inch rain gauge. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Reading of sling psychrometer by student. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Venturi tube aspirated psychrometer used by student. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Top deck of Caltech meteorological station. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
Interior of Caltech meteorological station. Photograph from the portfolio compiled to acquaint fully “the Army Air Corps, the Navy and the Weather Bureau with the curriculum offered to students in Government sponsored courses at the California Institute of Technology.” (Historical File A12.4)
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The Lecturers
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Application form 2020
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Course Schedule 2019 - PDF
Student presentations 2019 - PDF
Alghero, Italy - June 8-12 / 2020
Contact: biometricsummerschool@gmail.com
APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15th 2020
From the early days, when security was the driving force behind biometric research, today's challenges go far beyond security. Machine learning, Image understanding, Signal analysis, Neuroscience, Robotics, Forensic science, Digital forensics and other disciplines, converged in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced systems to facilitate the interpretation of signals recorded from individuals acting in a given environment. This is what we simply call today "Biometrics".
For the last seventeen years, the International Summer School on Biometrics has been closely following the developments in science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course, always up to date with the current state-of-the-art.
What are the most up-to-date core biometric technologies developed in the field? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention? What can we learn from human perception? How to deploy current Deep Learning approaches? How to deal with adversarial attacks in biometric recognition?
This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003. In this 17th edition, the courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:
Biometrics for social interactions and emerging applications;
How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and security applications;
Evaluation and assessment of biometric and forensic applications;
Deep Learning for biometrics, forensic identification and Identity Science.
The courses will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains.
The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry.
An advanced feature of this summer school will be some practical sessions to better understand, "hands on", the real potential of today's biometric technologies.
Download Draft Schedule 2020
The school is open to about 50 highly qualified, motivated and pre-selected participants. Phd students, post-docs, researchers, forensic examiners, police officers and professionals are encouraged to apply.
The expected school fees will be in the order of 1,600 euro for Phd students and 2,200 euro for others (subject to change). The fees will include full board accommodation, all courses and handling material.
A limited number of scholarships, covering a portion of the fees, will be awarded to Phd students, selected on the basis of their scientific background and on-going research work. Precedence will be given to active members of Eurasip, IAPR and IEEE. The scholarship request form can be downloaded HERE.
Phd students and post-docs are encouraged to submit a short paper (6 pages maximum) for an oral presentation on their recent research activity.
Poster boards will be also available to all participants to display their current research or professional advances.
The school will be hosted by hotel Dei Pini in Porto Conte, near Alghero, Sardinia, one of the most beautiful resorts in the Mediterranean sea. The Hotel faces out over one of the most beautiful of Alghero's beaches, Le Bombarde, and is immersed in the Porto Conte Nature Reserve, a location of which we are very proud and which we go our utmost to preserve year after year.
Located just 9 km from Alghero Fertilia airport and 7 km from the city centre (transport links include a cycle route), the Hotel dei Pini can boast decades of experience in providing hospitality.
All the facilities you would expect of an excellent 4-star hotel, together with a magical atmosphere that will engage with all of your senses. The clean, crystal-clear tract of sea, just a few yards from the marine protected area; the lush pine forest and fragrant vegetation; the private beach, only a minutes walk away; the kind, courteous staff; the delicious, fresh food; and the swimming pool with sea-view hydromassage corner; these are some of the facilities that will allow you to savour your holiday in great comfort, without feeling the need to leave the hotel hardly at all.
The hotel Dei Pini is a renowned conference center, fully equipped for scientific events. The entire structure, as well as the surroundings, proved to be a perfect environment for the school activities.
Getting there: Regular bus and hotel shuttle to/from the town center.
Alghero Fertilia Airport (Aho) 10 min. From the center of Alghero or the Airoport follow the signs for the Fertilia area, and then for Porto Conte - Capo Caccia on the "S.S. 127 bis" highway until you reach the interchange for Bombarde beach ("spiaggia delle Bombarde")
Olbia 136 Km. From the airport and sea port of Olbia, take the "S.S. 597" highway towards Sassari, then follow the signs for Fertilia
Cagliari 249 Km. From Cagliari, take the "S.S. 131" highway to Sassari, then follow the signs for Alghero - Fertilia
Send a filled application form to the school together with a short curriculum vitae, via e-mail to Massimo Tistarelli: biometricsummerschool@gmail.com
Submission of applications:
Submission of applications: February 15th, 2020
Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2020
Registration: April 2nd, 2020
Massimo Tistarelli
Computer Vision Laboratory
University of Sassari, Italy
Josef Bigun
Halmstad University, Sweden
Enrico Grosso
Anil K. Jain
Biometrics Laboratory
Michigan State University, USA
Distinguished lecturers from past school editions:
Vincent Bouatou
Morpho-Sagem Securité, France
Thirimachos Bourlai
West Virginia University, USA
Deepak Chandra
Google Inc., USA
Rama Chellappa
Univerity of Maryland, USA
John Daugman
Cambridge University, UK
Farzin Deravi
University of Kent, UK
Andrzej Drygajlo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
James Haxby
Dartmouth University , USA
Joseph Kittler
University of Surrey, UK
Davide Maltoni
Università di Bologna, Italy
Swansea University, UK
Aldo Mattei
Arma dei Carabinieri, Italy
Didier Meuwly
Nederlands Forensisch Instituut (NFI), Netherlands
Emilio Mordini
Responsible Technology, Italy
Mark Nixon
University of Southampton, UK
Alice O'Toole
University of Texas, USA
Maja Pantic
Imperial College, UK
Jonhaton Phillips
NIST, USA
Nalini Ratha
IBM, USA
Arun Ross
Tieniu Tan
CASIA-NLPR, China
Università di Sassari, Italy
Alessandro Verri
Università di Genova - Italy
James Wayman
University of San Josè, USA
Lior Wolf
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4)
European Association for Signal Processing
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“I'll Take Your Dead is a gem of a genre mash-up that's well worth tracking down.”
– Patrick Bromley, Daily Dead
“...Features ghosts, dismemberment, mobster mythology and home invansion - all of which are secondary to some surprisingly moving family drama."
– Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
“I'll Take Your Dead is haunting and heartbreaking in equal measure."
– Kat Hughes, The Hollywood News
“The taut, original, and unpretentious Canadian thriller I'll Take Your Dead is a no frills sort of production that boasts a wonderful idea, some appropriately nasty and gory flourishes, and an exemplary cast."
– Andrew Parker, The Gate
“This one's at its best when it's just watching its characters figure each other out in their domestic isolation, and slowly bonding in the face of a common threat."
– Norman Wilner, Now Magazine
“...the stroy and strength of the cast make it a compelling film."
– Ricky Church, Flickering Myth
“...a portrait of a very unconventional family which finds its own way of accomodating, even moving on from, the deaths that have haunted it."
– Anton Bitel, Sci-Fi Now
Aidan Devine
Ava Preston
Jessica Salgueiro
Chad Archiabld
William has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. His country farm house has become a dumping ground for gang related casualties while his dughter Gloria is convinced that some of them haunt their home. After a woman's body is dropped off on their doorstep, William realizes that she's not actually dead. As he tries to figure out what to do next, the woman's assailants get word that she's still alive and make a plan to finish what they started.
I'LL TAKE YOUR DEAD
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Men’s Basketball Drops 69-62 Decision at Curry Saturday
Eastern Nazarene (4-8) 32 30 62
Curry (4-7) 33 36 69
Pts: Noah Cheney - 16
Reb: Jacob Waldroop - 7
Ast: Ricky Shearman - 4
Pts: 2 Players (#01, #02) - 19
Reb: Jared Thorpe-Johnson - 13
Ast: Angelo Sardegna - 4
MILTON, Mass.- The Eastern Nazarene College men's basketball team suffered a 69-62 setback at Curry Saturday afternoon.
The Lions slip to 4-8 on the season with the result while the Colonels improve to 4-7 overall.
Noah Cheney (Bend, Ore.) poured in a team-high 16 points and grabbed four rebounds. David Lopez (Miami, Fla.) netted 11 points and collected three boards off the bench. Garrett Crandell (Bristol, Tenn.) chipped in with nine points while Jacob Waldroop (Newland, N.C.) finished with eight points and seven rebounds.
The home side started the contest with seven consecutive points to claim an early 7-0 edge.
The visitors clawed back to nab a one-point lead with 8:09 left to play in the first half, 17-16, as Cheney converted a pair of free throws.
Curry responded with five-straight points to seize a 21-17 advantage with 6:41 remaining in the opening period.
Back-to-back-to-back layups by Crandell pushed Eastern Nazarene ahead 23-21 with 4:25 on the clock.
The Colonels knotted the score at 30-30 with 48 seconds left in the first frame on a layup by Jared Thorpe-Johnson.
The Lions reclaimed a two-point edge with nine seconds to go in the half as Josh Rice (Hanson, Mass.) tossed in a put-back layup, 32-30.
The hosts sported a 33-32 lead at the halftime break after Angelo Sardegna's three-point play in the final seconds of the first stanza.
The guests opened the second half with three unanswered treys by Cheney, Crandell, and Waldroop to establish a 41-35 advantage.
Curry pulled even at 56-56 with 6:42 remaining in regulation on a three-pointer by Daymeann Stewart.
The Colonels ended the game with a 13-3 run to secure their first win over the Lions since 2013.
Eastern Nazarene shot 35.8% from the floor and connected on 8-of-36 from beyond the arc on the day. Curry finished with a field-goal percentage of 42.4% to go with 8-for-29 shooting from three-point distance.
Sardegna and Stewart both scored 19 points to lead the Colonels while Thorpe-Johnson registered a double-double with 11 points and 13 boards.
Looking ahead, Eastern Nazarene will begin NECC play January 8 at home against Becker.
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Comics, Comics Reviews
Review time! with ‘Arcane Sally & Mr. Steam’ #1
By Greg Burgas October 3, 2016 October 6, 2016
“Not long now ’til the ultimate experiment, he’s breaking all the rules”
I received Arcane Sally & Mr. Steam in the mail some months ago, but thanks to the rather tumultuous summer I’ve just had, both in my real life (moving to a new house) and in my blogging life (the new web site), I haven’t had a chance to review it. I have a pile of books to review, however, and I hope to make a dent in due course!
The book is written by David Alton Hedges, drawn by Jefferson Costa, colored by Adão José and lettered by Comicraft. You can read the comic at the web site that I linked to above, or buy it in digital form for $3 or print for … I’m not exactly sure. I thought it was $5, but I can’t find any verification for that. My copy doesn’t have a price. Anyway, Hodges and Costa are into Chapter Two on the site, which is not included in this issue, but that’s okay – I’ll just deal with what I have in front of me!
In many ways, Arcane Sally & Mr. Steam is too similar to many comics we see these days – it’s set in Victorian England (1881, to be exact), and Mr. Steam works for a secret branch of the government that was founded in 1796 to combat supernatural threats to the realm. Nothing we haven’t seen before, in other words. However, as with almost everything, the execution is crucial, and in this first issue, at least, Hodges and Costa (along with José’s colors, which I’ll get to) do a fine job with it. Hedges wisely begins the book with an exciting event so that we get involved, and it shows Mr. Steam and his valet, Runnymeade, in fine form – Steam is obviously the more adventurous, while Runnymeade relies on bureaucracy (he tries to stop the monster they meet by reading it a royal proclamation), but he can also handle the action well. Then we get the inciting event of the book, as a different monster menaces a man and a woman in a spooky castle. We get a look at Mr. Steam at home, and then he gets his mission – find this monster, who has been cutting a swath through Steam’s “non-existent” agency (they can’t be known to the public, of course), and deal with a new partner, Sally (who is not seen in this issue). There’s absolutely nothing James Bondian at all about Steam’s boss (it’s probably Gladstone, who was Prime Minister in 1881) and the various code names the agents get. NOTHING WHATSOEVER!!!!
It’s a fun story, and Hedges follows a fairly standard protocol for setting everything up, but that doesn’t mean it’s not effective. I admit that I’m a bit of a sucker for Victorian adventures, so this is in my wheelhouse, but Hedges still does a good job. The mystery is intriguing, the characters are a bit clichéd but still interesting, and everything moves along at a nice clip. The fact that it’s called “Arcane Sally” will probably ruin the surprise of her appearance a bit (“Gladstone,” who is not like M at all, simply calls her Miss Sally), but that’s just a speculation about part of the story I haven’t read yet. The way Steam will contact Miss Sally is nice and creepy, so there’s that.
Costa and José do a marvelous job with the art, which makes the story that much more fun. Costa’s angular characters and scratchy line work remind me a bit of Noelle Stevenson, which is never a bad thing in my mind. He draws a fine Mr. Steam and a portly but sturdy Runnymeade, but his secondary characters are a lot more fun, with their crooked noses and wrinkled faces and suspicious eyes. The woman in the book is beautiful but harried, as the giant chases her and her companion through the castle. The primary monster himself is well done – he’s human and obviously so, but Costa makes him just crazy enough that his menace becomes much darker than if he were just a big angry dude. The first monster in the book, the one Steam and Runnymeade dispatch in the prologue, is also terrific – it’s a giant, rampaging bull, and Costa makes it look like it came directly from hell. José’s coloring is astounding, too. The prologue is all blues, making it dark and spooky without obscuring anything. The brief chase through the castle is amazing – the woman wears a deep purple dress, helping her stand out among all the slightly pinker stones of the castle and the blues of the night sky, and perhaps linking her to the monster, whose clothes are also colored purple, although not quite as richly as hers are. José gives us a London that can be dark and dreary, but with small spots of color struggling against the black. We also get nice shapes of lightened color which José uses to highlight certain things within the panels. It’s not a new innovation, but when it’s used well, it’s very clever.
Arcane Sally and Mr. Steam is a neat comic. It’s fun and exciting, and the creators do a nice job bringing the world to life. As I noted above, they’re into the second chapter at the web site, so if you feel like checking it out, you can head on over there. Maybe throw some ducats their way while you’re there!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
Author: Greg Burgas
Greg is a person of strange passions and mystery. He likes nothing more than sitting down to eat a good marble omelet while listening to Metal Machine Music on 78 rpm. He has worked as a shepherd, a pirate, and president of Andorra, but his most rewarding experience in life was inventing bacon. He lives on an island in Lake Chad, where he raises attack slugs and writes best-selling novels in Tagalog.
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October 3, 2016 at 12:46 pm 3 years ago
Seems like nice coloring indeed, some not unlike Kevin O’Neill’s watercolors? Art-wise, the top illo also made me think of LOEG, but the cover reminded me more of Sfar’s VAMPIRE. (But I can’t click pics for a big version. In fact, the HTML source has only IMG thumbs and no A link around?)
– “I’m a bit of a sucker for Victorian adventures”
Including VICTORIA’S SECRET?
October 3, 2016 at 1:20 pm 3 years ago
Simon: I don’t think we can supersize the images yet (if ever). I’ll probably go back and do them “full-size” instead of medium-sized so they’re easier to see.
Victoria’s Secret should be a conspiracy comic about the queen. I mean, really – it writes itself!
Sorry, but we’re limiting the size of images, at least until we see whether a few Google ads are going to be enough to pay the bandwidth costs on the site. (I re-sized the images on this post to reduce their narrowest dimension to 1000 pixels, which will be our standard for the time being.) When our traffic reaches the point that we can get on better-paying ad networks and work some sponsorship deals, then we can add super-size images and other luxuries.
But even then, we want to limit the crass commercialism as much as we possibly can and still keep the site operating. We’ll never have pop-ups, ads that cover up the site, ads that make noise or anything like that. We won’t be re-skinning the site to sell whatever the Mega Studio is promoting. Our goal is to maintain the most pleasant viewing experience we can, out of respect for our audience.
@Watson:
Thanks for the larger images! I’m not sure what you mean by “super-size”, but the new one (max=1000px) feels alright, as it’s now possible to read the text and see the linework, which should be good enough for screen samples.
If need be, it seems you could halve the bandwith by getting them down to just max=800px with 22% Jpeg compression, shrinking them from 300kb to 150kb while retaining legibility.
Regardless of size, compression could especially be useful: on Flippin’, some big JPEGs are 200kb but others of the same dimensions are 500kb, and some PNGs are 900kb, which could be an issue? (You prolly know there are plugins to automatically convert/resize/recompress pics, but I remember some bloggers praising the free and pay versions of “WP Smush”, for instance.)
Maybe something strange about the cover-image file: it’s a happy 180kb (650×1024px) here, but on the homepage it’s a fat 475kb (1440×1440px) — isn’t that kinda big for the frontpage?
tomfitz1
You know, when CBR renovated their website, I was annoyed for 2 reasons:
1) there were no comments that you could leave at your pleasure/displeasure;
2) there were no Mr. Burgas and his sidekick TP around anymore!!! 🙁
Now, here both of you are, in front of the whole Internet and information highway.
A fond welcome back, Mr.. Burgas, TP, and Mr. Hatcher.
Regale us with your wisdom and lore!!!
Sidekick?!
Man, Tom, your avatar is even friggin’ creepier now that I can see it a bit bigger. Eww!
Good to have you back, sir!
Jeff Nettleton
Sounds cool. For those interested in this kind of stuff, Kim Newman’s latest, the Angels of Music, should be released this week. It features his stories from tales of the Shadowmen (an anthology series, with French pulp literary characters and others), expanded into a novel. He excels at this kind of stuff, with the Anno Dracula series, the Diogenes Club stories, and The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (a pulp fiction take on English boarding school stories). highly recommended and filled with easter eggs, for fans of this stuff.
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Review by waxbanks
If you've heard the Went then you know what you need to know already. If not, just get it today. The boys were just playing on an ungodly level at this point in their history; the Went beats the hell out of the Ball, which is saying something. The first set is full of well-played tunes and detailed summer funk, plus a 4:20pm Makisupa (if you care about such things) and the rest of the previous year's Harpua. Swell.
The rest of the show is just magic.
1997 was arguably the best year for Wolfman's Brother, and this version is nearly on the same plane as the first 20 minutes of 11/30/97's masterpiece; the segue into Simple is old-fashioned full-band improvised songwriting, and if Trey inexplicably bobbles the Simple opening, what follows renders such a small matter wholly immaterial. The Simple jam builds to a soaring climax, then cools out to a weird full-band 'Odd Couple' jam, which naturally leads into My Soul. Which, in turn, they *slaughter*. The jam before Slave is charming, Slave is gorgeous, and Julius is Julius. It's the kind of second set we would've killed for in 2009, full of organically blended tunes and closely-observed improvisation.
The final set is weirdest of the three: Halley's simmers down into noisy sludge-rock, out of which bubbles another molasses-slow 1997 Cities (akin to 7/1 in a way). Midtempo dance rhythms congeal and blow up a la the colossal 8/17 version of 2001 - then the band accelerates into the rock'n'roll lightning storm known as Llama. That's 32 minutes of music right there, but the show's not over: after a restful Lawn Boy, an extended LxL brings band and audience back to the heavenly fields. It's the version I love best, a fleet intricate group improvisation that floats from raucous peak to delicate coda without any visible effort on the band's part. Awesome. And though Funky Bitch would get her finest showing (in 'Type II' jam finery) on 11/30/97, the brief set closer is just nasty fun.
What is there to say? Get this show.
In the three months between the Went and the start of Fall Tour, the boys found a way to interstellar spaceways they'd never even seen before, but the Went represents the perfection of an early pure strain of Phish funk, which was just beginning to diffuse and blend into the band's overall approach to improvisation. Phish hadn't yet uncovered the 'space jam' style that helped unify and elevate Fall '97, but they had the open-field summer spirit, a huge audience with a lot of time to kill, and a still-evolving formula for intricate but danceable polyrhythmic improvisation - which added up to a classic festival that bridged between Phish's spry mid-90's sounds and the dark mysticism of their pre-hiatus stuff.
(Sidebar: How does the Went compare to Lemonwheel? I'd say the Went is stronger front-to-back, but the ambient set at Lemonwheel is one of Phish's iconic achievements, a step beyond any previous set into a freely improvised musical realm and a prelude to the 'Long Set' at Big Cypress sixteen months later. The best moments of Lemonwheel, like the Gumbo that circulates in SBD form, are superb. But the Went was a more joyful time - more innocent, if that makes sense. Oddly enough, I'd take the IT festival over Lemonwheel too, modulo that ambient set; between the Tower Jam and the handful of long-but-controlled jams at IT (e.g. Chalkdust, Ghost, 46 Days, Waves) it's much much further-out than the 'wheel, though the 1998 festival probably shows more stylistic variety.)
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BILLINGS MONTANA PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER – FASHION TEST WITH CHRISTINE
I love working with Christine! She’s so awesome! We recently did a big fashion editorial shoot with some major brands and to get ready for the shoot we did a few test shoots to dial in the look we were trying to create. The final shoot went really well, with styling by Sydney Ross, the best hair and makeup artist in Montana by a long shot. We can’t share the editorial images until they come out in print, so until then I’ll give you a few teasers from our test shoots. Stay tuned for more!
It’s been a busy spring! I’ve launched the new headshot website www.pbheadshots.com and have been doing a lot of editorial work lately. I’m really excited to show the cover shoot I did recently with some celebrity athletes in Nebraska. While all of this is going on I’ve been designing new websites to separate the various types of photography that I do and will be rolling them out later this summer. Stay tuned for a lot of changes soon.
Tips for photographers: This is a two light portrait, with a large key light camera left to create the dramatic shadows and falloff. The second is a small beauty dish nearly on camera and set about 3 stops darker than the key for a very slight fill light. I’ve been using this setup a lot lately because of it’s simplicity and versatility. I was turned on to this type of lighting by reading books by Gregory Heisler and Dan Winters, both of whom often use a hard light source nearly on camera for fill. Check out their books for tons of amazing insights.
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Tag Archives: polonium-210
Bob McCarty’s Weekly Recap: Jan. 25-31
My recap for the week of Jan. 25 offers looks at a wide variety of topics — some of them radioactive! Hope you enjoy and share what you find at BobMcCarty.com!
On Jan. 25, I found a check — dated Sept. 14, 1970, and payable to yours truly that appears to have never been cashed — and decided to look up the bank online to see if I might be able to cash it today. I was astounded by what I discovered. Details in my post, Author Finds Uncashed Check in Box of Memories!
Click on image above to read article.
As an author who recently spoke to law enforcement investigators from around the world about my second nonfiction book, I was intrigued by the findings of a recent scientific study about why innocent people confess to crimes. Read about it in my Jan. 26 post, Why Innocent People Confess to Crimes; Scientific Study Supports Findings of Nonfiction Book, The Clapper Memo.
On Jan. 27, I shared a link on my Facebook page to an article about former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who is thought to have been poisoned with polonium-210 on Oct. 16 and Nov. 1, 2006. Along with that link, I wrote, “This reminds me of something I read — after I wrote it, that is — in my just-released crime-fiction novel, The National Bet.”
Click image above to order a copy of the book.
Twenty-nine years ago this week, I was a young Air Force second lieutenant attending the Public Affairs Officer Course at the Defense Information School, then located at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis. During a break from morning classes, I gathered with a dozen or so of my classmates from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps in front of a breakroom television to watch the Space Shuttle Challenger launch. I share more details about that day in my Jan. 28 post, Challenger Disaster Recalled 29 Years Later.
After reading about Andrew Sullivan informing his readers about his decision “to stop blogging in the near future,” I felt obligated to offer him a belated “thank you” for the sarcastic honor he conferred upon me a few years back. Find out why I thanked him in my Jan. 28 post, Former Blogger Offers Sarcastic ‘Thank You’ to Sullivan.
On Jan. 29, I offered a look back at a subject to which Americans should pay attention as the 2016 swings into gear. Details appear under the headline, FLASHBACK 2009: Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ Reviewed.
Also on Jan. 29, my attention was drawn to news about the Malaysian government declaring the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 an “accident. On my Facebook page, I wrote:
No worries. It was simply an accident. Barely a month ago at http://bobmccarty.com/?p=1654, I couldn’t help but try to draw connections between Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-370 that disappeared in March and a second Malaysia-owned jetliner that also disappeared. Do you believe MH-370 was an accident? Do you think there’s a connection between the two incidents?
The last item worth noting about Jan. 29 is the fact that I went to see the film, American Sniper, at a theater. Upon returning from that experience, I had a Facebook message conversation with Kelly Stewart, the former Army Green Beret sniper — and sniper instructor — whose life story is chronicled in my first nonfiction book, Three Days In August:
Me: “I went and saw American Sniper today. Did you see it Saturday? Thoughts? I thought it seemed a little too much Hollywood. Am I right?
Stewart: “Haven’t seen it yet. Gonna wait ’til it’s on DVD.”
Me: “I wish I had saved my money until it was at RedBox instead of wasting big $$ at theater.”
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While Chris Kyle’s exploits are legendary, the film seemed to lack the kind of emotion I expected to see. And, perhaps I’m biased, but I think Stewart’s story would make a better film.
Because another updated Weldon Spring (Mo.) Cancer Report is due to be released by early January 2016, I decided to revisit the subject of radioactive contamination dangers in the St. Louis area. Read about it in my Jan. 30 post, New Weldon Spring Cancer Report Due Out Early 2016.
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Startseite › Car factories › Pars Khodro launches sales of locally-made Brilliance H330 and H320 in Iran.
Pars Khodro launches sales of locally-made Brilliance H330 and H320 in Iran.
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Pars Khodro, a subsidiary of Saipa Auto Group, has announced the sales launch of Brilliance products in Iran. Currently the H330 sedan and the H320 hatchback models can be ordered, with the Haise minivan set to join the line-up later this year. The H330 and H320 models are made by Pars Khodro and wear the Pars Khodro badges, not Brilliance badges. The H330 which is powered by a 1.5-litre petrol engine is priced from IRR 438,000,000 (about €13,500). Deliveries set to begin in May.
Pars Khodro, a subsidiary of Saipa Auto Group, has announced the sales launch of Brilliance products in Iran.
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Home Faith Methodist church heads for breakup over gay marriage
Methodist church heads for breakup over gay marriage
The Methodist church appears headed for a split in two as a result of an intractable dispute over the church’s current ban on gay marriage and LGBT clergy.
The ban will be considered at the church’s annual conference in Minneapolis, set for May, and if lifted would break the denomination into traditionalist and ‘progressive’ camps. The former branch would continue to oppose LGBT marriage and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy, while the other will open its doors to anyone, regardless of sexual orientation.
“The protocol provides a pathway that acknowledges our differences, respects everyone in the process, and graciously allows us to continue to live out the mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ,” said New York Conference Bishop Thomas Bickerton, who helped draft the proposal.
Detailed in a 9-page document released on Friday, the schism plan proposes setting aside $25 million in church funds for the traditionalist branch to ease the separation process, and would not alter ownership of local church properties.
While church leaders say the split would impact Methodist organizations around the globe, potentially affecting millions of members, a Washington DC-based council of bishops hailed the idea on Friday as the “best means to resolve our differences.”
Traditionalist Reverend Keith Boyette said much the same, calling it a “fair and equitable solution that puts decades of conflict behind us and gives us a hopeful future.”
Same-sex marriage was legalized across the United States by the Supreme Court in 2015, but religious organizations retain the right to decline to officiate gay wedding ceremonies.
The United Methodist Church, a Protestant denomination, is the third-largest Christian body in the US, with over 7.5 million members, coming in behind the Southern Baptist Convention and the Catholic Church.
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#PRESENTATION / Julyen Hamilton / July 3, 2020
Julyen Hamilton
with Zuriñe Benavente e Ignacio Monterrubio
I have been making dances, directing and teaching for the past 40 years.
I was born in England, then lived in Amsterdam and am now based in Girona in northern Spain.
Trained in a period of experimentation in London in the mid 70s, I have constantly made work from a radical point of view.
My work, both in company (ALLEN’S LINE) and solo, develops dance for the theatre – a place where an atmosphere of transformation, insight and understanding is permitted without resort to thin conclusions.
In this ambience dancers and light designer are directed to compose pieces instantly;
we practise a process of improvisation in rehearsal and in the moment of performance.
These are refined skills; they are a way of tunnelling down into ourselves with the light of spontaneity and producing material.
This material is fresh to the intelligence of the moment and also linked to the months, years and epochs that it has been gestating in the individual and the individual’s history.
Since 1990 I have made more than 100 solos which have been seen all over the world. They are an original interplay between dance, live text and decor. Each piece is made specifically for each venue thus harnessing the architecture and ambience of the performing arena as forces which support and amplify the inherent themes of the piece.
In this work the voice is one which comes naturally from the body in motion; from a mind which is housed in a dancing body.
It is the voice of the itinerant more than the sedentary being. I sense that the intelligence of the mover comes from the whole body thus the rational lives alongside a vision of things as they change – as they are being and becoming.
The solo ’40 Monologues’ in which 100 separate solos were made, was lit by light artist and theatre director, Svante Grogarn; a recent meeting and collaboration can be seen in the version of the solo ‘The Immaterial World’ in Göteborg, Sweden 2011. The solo Cell premiered in Barcelona on 2004 and has been performed regularly since then; the next solo ‘How It Is Made’ premiered in Paris, subsequently playing throughout Europe.
The most recent solos ‘The Immaterial World’ / ‘The Forerunner’ and ‘Landscape Portrait’ and ’Interview’’ have and are being performed throughout Europe and in the States. Over the years I have had three companies, the present one based in Brussels, Belgium is named: Allen’s Line’.
As director of Allen’s Line’., I develop a communal language where movement and text constantly intertwine as they are passed amongst us; it is our way of manifesting a sharing of the imagination.
Allen’s Line’ will perform their latest piece ‘B U R S T !’ in France, Belgium, Rome, Paris and Berlin during 2019.
I have also been invited to choreograph for other dancers and to collaborate with other directors. Pieces made in this context have included:
‘No Man’s Gone Now’ for Opiyo Okach; ‘Queen’ for Françoise Leick
‘S.K.I.N.’ co-directed with Iztok Kovac for both performance and then in the film ‘What Are You Going To Do When You Get Out of Here?’
My work with musicians includes much rich work as a dancer and in recent years, as poet/voice artist.
(see Lily’s Band, Marjolaine Charbin, Wilbert de Joode).
It has been a pleasure to perfom with amongst others : Barre Phillips, Michael Moore, Fred Frith, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Humair, Alfred Spirli, Xavier Garcia, Christian Reiner, Jean-Claude Jones, Vladimir Volkov, Tristan Honsinger, Sebi Tramontana, Axel Dörninger, Ritsche Koch…
My teaching work comes straight from the stage experience; it goes deeply into the compositional aspects of creativity through the areas of the physical body, space, time, objects and voice.
I have always written poetry and yet rarely have I published it. In the last few years, with the poetry readings with Lily’s Band in Amsterdam, I started making music to accompany recordings of some of the poetry. Venturing for months into the world of recording and composing, I eventually produced a whole range of tracks;
in 2011 the CD of poetry and music “The Edge of Letters” was released on the Sibyl Sings label in Holland.
In 2017 the CD of live poetry and bass ‘Jack Gets Out of Prison’ with Wilbert de Joode.
It is for sale via iTunes / Amazon and CD Baby
My label Blue Dog DVDs produces videos of selected performances on dvd.
http://www.julyenhamilton.com/
#Creation lab / Mark Tompkins / August 27>31, 2020
#workshop / Julyen Hamilton / June 29 > July 3 / 2020
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Catalogue Today Contacts Museum History Technology
2002. A Diploma of the prize-winner of the All-Russian competition programme "100 Best Goods of Russia"
2001. A Diploma "For Active Participation in the Tenth International Consumer Goods Exhibition-Fair "Baltika-
2001. A Medal for the constant prize-winner "1000 Best Enterprises of Russia, 2001"
2001. A Diploma "Company of XXI century". To evaluate this achievement the OJSC "Dyatkovo Crystal" was
awarded "Crystal Dragon"
2000. The Patriarchy Medal for a number of items dedicated to the Orthodox Church teaching
1999. A Bronze Medal for participation in the programme "The Best Goods and Services in the Markets of Russia"
1996. Madrid. "The World Prize, Demanding Quality"
1996. Vienna. "The XVII International Prize for Technology and Quality"
1996. "The X European Prize for Quality" and the gold badge "The International European Prize for Quality"
1995. A Russia Federation Certificate "The Russian Economy Leader"
1995. Paris. "The European Prize for Quality"
1993. Madrid. "The International Gold Star" for distinction in creating image and for quality"
1993. Mexico. "The International Diamond Star for Quality"
1980. "The Gold Mercury International Award" for production development and international cooperation
1967. The Memorial Banner of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, the RSFSR Council of Ministers and the USSR Trade Unions Central Committee was presented to the plant's collective at its grand meeting
1966. "The Labour Red Banner" Order was awarded to the Dyatkovo crystal plant for achievements in fulfilling the state targets in producing top-artistic crystal ware
1958. The plant participates in the World Exhibition in Brussels. The produce of the Dyatkovo plant was awarded a Bronze Medal
1937. The plant was presented with the Challenge Banner of the Light Industry People's Committee and the Trade Unions Central Committee for achievements in socialist competition .
1893. The plant's produce was awarded some special medals at the International Exhibition in Chicago.
1829. The factory's produce was highly appreciated by the jury of the first All-Russian Exhibition of manufactures. I.A.Maltsov, the owner of the factory, was awarded a "Big Gold Star".
More history...
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The Catalogue of Crystal • Contacts • The Plant Today • The Museum of Crystal • The History of the Plant • Technology • Artists of Glass • Awards • Site map
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While Trump is Stealing the Show his Cronies are Stealing us Blind
By Ramona on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:03pm | Politics
I'm sick of hearing Trump, seeing Trump, laughing at Trump, agonizing over Trump. I'm sick of Donald J. Trump, the squatter in the White House, making a mockery of our presidency.
He's a president like a third rate comic spoofing the highest job in the land would be president. His stake is only in drawing an audience; he has no feeling for what the real job would be like. It's beyond his capacity to get that deep into the role, and nothing says he has to. He revels in his "free to be me" rhetoric and the crowds keep on coming.
A president, no matter his politics or biases, has to, at some point, recognize he's the leader of a country and not just the spokesman for his base. Donald can't do that. He snuggles into his base, comfy and worry-free, and if there are people screaming for his head on the outside, they're really, really bad, aren't they? (Chorus: We love you, Donald! Donald: Thank you! Thank you very much! Me, too!)
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc.
He came into politics as a reality star and he'll go out as a reality star. One quick read of his off-the-wall, stream-of-consciousness, look-at-me, CPAC speech the other day cements any claim that his main concern is, always has been, and always will be how people react to Donald Trump. (The transcript is here.)
He's not speaking to his country. He's not even speaking to all Republicans. He's rallying his fans.
This one small section, distilled in a couple of paragraphs, is the essence of Donald:
"So, thank you, everybody. You’ve been amazing. You’ve been amazing. What Matt [Schlapp] didn’t say, when I was here 2011, I made a speech. And I was received with such warmth and they give, you know, they used to give, I don’t know if Matt does that, he may not want to be controversial, but they used to give the best speech of CPAC. Do they still do that? You better pick me, or I’m not coming back.
But — and I got these — everybody, they loved that speech. That was, I think, Matt, I would say that might have been the first real political speech I made. It was a love fest, 2011, I believe the time was. And a lot of people remembered and they said, we want Trump, we want Trump. And after a few years, they go by, and I say, 'Here we are. Let's see what we can do.'"
Trump runs his 24-hour-a-day clown act as a distraction, and the GOP loves him for it. While he's on stage they're free to go about their business--which has nothing to do with our business. They're putting in place right wing judges who hold life-time positions, cozying up and giving unprecedented power to gun lobbyists like the NRA, dissolving long-standing protections for women, children, minorities, the sick, the poor, and the working class. We barely recognize ourselves anymore.
We have real problems that need grown-up intervention. Trump is not going to be that grown-up. They can slap any label they want on him, including POTUS, but he'll never be anything but a callous showman doing a bad imitation of a real president.
November is coming. We need to work on getting our people elected and throw those bums out.
We need to work at ending the obscene profits currently the deciding factor in every aspect of our lives, including health care.
We need to repair our crumbling structures, our roads and bridges.
We need to convince our allies we're capable of more than saber-rattling and meaningless flag waving.
We need to work at keeping our children safe from killers with assault weapons.
We need to have some pride.
We don't have time for the kind of mind-numbing side show Trump, the GOP, and yes--the Russians--have been forcing on us. The media's fascination with Trump's silly shtick has to stop. I don't care what he says, I care what he does. When he's not trying to destroy programs and departments we've held sacrosanct for half a century or more, he's busy filling every top cabinet job with agenda-laden, know-nothings famous for their cruel streaks. His administration holds the record for the most scandals ever to come out of the White House, and barely a year has gone by.
We have to stop treating Trump like the best copy ever and get back to reporting on the things that matter to Americans with the most to lose. He's a distraction we can't afford. He's a joke gone on too long.
(Cross-posted at Ramona's Voices and Crooks & Liars)
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Thanks Ramona. Great piece.
by HSG on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 9:35pm
Trump runs his 24-hour-a-day clown act as a distraction, and the GOP loves him for it.
Absolutely. While we all focus on tweets and outrageous statements the Republican establishment is going about their business right under our noses. We actually believe reports written daily and ad nauseam detailing how McConnell, Ryan and their ilk swallow the bile that is Trump reluctantly; unwillingly but necessarily because he's, well, their President. He was legally and duly elected, so they have to work with him ... let's get real here. They love having a figurehead to placate while they do what the conservative right has always wanted to do: dismantle our government. And we're all helping them do it.
"Trumpism" is a phrase that Democrats love to use as a hammer against conservatives, but what it really is is a useless term that denotes nothing more than right-wing ascendency shrouded in euphemism. However, none of it means that Trump is a silly clown. What you say here: "When he's not trying to destroy programs and departments we've held sacrosanct for half a century or more, he's busy filling every top cabinet job with agenda-laden, know-nothings famous for their cruel streaks." proves that he's not. Thinking he's less than dangerous, even on his own without a willing Congress (remember, even if by some miracle Democrats take both Houses, he may still be re-elected), gives him the power he will never deserve, but may still have.
Careful action is required here. Pinpointed GOTV efforts - state-by-state and district-by-district. Bit by bit, piece by piece, Ramona. Eyes always on more than the clown in front of the curtain but never forgetting that other eyes are on him.
by barefooted on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:04pm
"Like a huckster selling patent medicine, the real danger is the pickpockets working the crowd while the film flam man keeps your attention."
by NCD on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:22pm
Hi Ramona.
There ya are again; I forget about Crooks & Liars!
And yet, our Prez is a crook and a liar; among other things. hahahahaah
You have to admit though Ramona; after all these decades; I mean to see repubs erase a line in their
thingy so that Russians do not get mad? THIS IS NUTS.
But again, what if this sombitch knew what he was doin? What if we did not have an incompetent fascist running things. hahahah
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. It almost got up to 40 F today up here in the great white north.
I bet it was nice in Mich?
Spring is comin.
Things are warmin.
We might smash repubs from coast to coast in just 8 months or so.
THINGS ARE LOOKIN BETTER!
by Richard Day on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 7:20pm
Hi Richard, what if Trump knew what he was doing? Yes, he just might. Either way, dupe or dope, it's how the rest of the country reacts to him that gets my goat. He wants more than anything to be the Celebrity-in-Chief and it grinds me that he's getting his way.
Glad you're warming up up there. I'm just a tiny bit ashamed to admit I'm one of those wimpy snowbirds who leaves for the winter. We're in the south--rebel territory--but I try to stay away from that bunch and hang around with yankees who know better. Lol.
Yesterday was quite a day for scandals, huh? I'm not sure how much more of this the Trumpians can take before they're finally swept under and out. Spring would be a good time for some heavy-duty House cleaning.
by Ramona on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 12:59pm
Mike Bloomberg shifts presidential ad campaign to focus on...
Mike Bloomberg shifts presidential ad campaign to focus on impeachment
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New: Mike Bloomberg shifts presidential ad campaign to focus on impeachment. Message will go into states with vulnerable GOP senators like Arizona, Maine, Colorado and N.C. https://t.co/QbEcT92AfZ
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) January 21, 2020
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As a leading WENA expert, respected academic journal BuzzFeed sought my opinion about the troubles in France. https://t.co/YinGw29T5c
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Sanders counters
In response to Hillary Clinton's suggestion that "nobody likes him," Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday said, "On a good day, my wife likes me."
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Midnight Mitch
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Said Bernstein:
The most important moment for the Republican Party since the censure of Joe McCarthy and the impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon, in which Republicans became great heroes and patriots. Now, we’re looking at ‘Midnight Mitch’ and the so-called world’s greatest deliberative body really embracing a cover-up that is there for all to see. That’s what this is about. It’s about preventing information from becoming known and seen by the American public.
Bernstein noted how in the impeachments of former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton there had been “no problem about knowing the truth of the facts.”
Read the article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-bernstein-mitch-mcconnell-nickname_n_5e26b165c5b674e44b9d2620
Sacramento Bee: Nunes Betrayed His Voters
For months, Nunes has acted as Trump’s attack dog, defending the president from accusations that he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden. Nunes sat in House Intelligence Committee meetings and derided the impeachment proceedings against Trump as a “hoax.” Yet he was sitting on a ticking time bomb the entire time. The newly-released texts prove that Nunes’ staff also engaged in secret efforts to damage Biden.
Read the article at https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article239465588.html
A community in Florida is proposing a name change. Harriet Tubman Highway is one suggestion
“This nation is looking more deeply at our history, including the parts that are shameful,” said DaniellaLevine Cava, a Miami-Dade County commissioner. “Confederate statues have been revisited. Naming roads is another important area for reconsideration.”
“Dixie is a reminder of slavery and Jim Crow. Even lynching comes to mind,” Ms. Levine Cava said. “Driving every day on a highway that recalls those times isn’t aspirational. I think we should create a new narrative.”
Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/dixie-highway-change-florida.html
Trump's MAGA supporters and Twitter Bernie Bros have...
Trump's MAGA supporters and Twitter Bernie Bros have this ugly tactic in common
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Bernie Twitter operates under the self-righteous guise of being the true progressives of the internet. But their harassing tactics are anything but progressive.
Op-ed by Kurt Bardella, NBC News THINK contributor, Jan. 19
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Lev Parnas Asks Barr to Recuse Himself From Criminal Case
Clever lawyer.
Lev Parnas Asks Barr to Recuse Himself From Criminal Case https://t.co/KMF1WCjSsT
— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) January 21, 2020
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Brazil’s Culture Secretary Has Been Fired After Quoting...
Brazil’s Culture Secretary Has Been Fired After Quoting Joseph Goebbels in a Chilling Speech That Sparked Immediate Outrage
Roberto Alvim had pledged to create a "cultural war machine" against progressive ideas.
By Zachary Small @ artnet.com, Jan. 17
The culture secretary of Brazil has been fired after releasing a video on Thursday announcing a multimillion-dollar investment in culture—by quoting Joseph Goebbels and playing one of Hitler’s favorite songs.
A few minutes into the speech, secretary of culture Roberto Alvim said, “The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and it will be national, it’ll be endowed with great capacity for emotional involvement and deeply committed to the urgent aspirations of our people, or it will be nothing.”
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3 Organizers for 3 Candidates, Under One Roof: This Is...
3 Organizers for 3 Candidates, Under One Roof: This Is Campaigning in Iowa
The candidates may be getting a bit testy, but organizers for three Democratic presidential campaigns amiably share a farmhouse that reflects Iowa’s culture of grass-roots politics.
By Trip Gabriel @ NYTimes.com ,Jan. 20
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From Russia with love: Turkish and Syrian spymasters meet...
From Russia with love: Turkish and Syrian spymasters meet in Moscow
Turkish (Fidaan) & Syrian (Mamluk) spymasters met in Moscow - a first since 2011
Syrians asked Turks to cajole rebel groups of Idlib to join Assad’s forces.
Urged Ankara for timetable of withdrawal fr Idlib, then Afrin & Jarablus/al-Bab and fr NE Syriahttps://t.co/ztJXzyibaV
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) January 20, 2020
Read the article at https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/01/turkey-syria-russia-fidan-mamlouk-meeting-normalization.html#ixzz6BbZSvvM6
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Enchantment of the Maiden: Dana-ana
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111,950 words
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Fiction, Anglo-Saxon, Ancient England, United States, South, Goddess, Dana-ana, Badb, Macha, Fairies, MI, British Military Intelligence, State Department, Britain, Standing Stones, Suspense, Stone Circles, Archeology, Mystery, Norman French, Wales, Ceridwin, Gaelic, Celts, Queen Elizabeth, Baptist, Catholic, Dolmen; will fascinate anyone interested in mystery and suspense—will appeal particularly to those who enjoy archeological historical mystery and suspense novels.
The conceptual theme of Dana-ana is unique. It has almost no similarity to other novels. It is in some ways a coming of age novel with a supernatural twist, but the supernatural basis is not similar to anything in popular or classical fiction.
Who really is Dana-ana Goewyn?
Byron Macintyre didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he rescued his high school’s most infamous lunch thief, dirt magnet, and problem child. Dana-ana Goewyn was his rescue. She had a strange name, lived in a tarpaper shack on the bayou, and never spoke to anyone. Until she met Byron, Dana’s life was made up of taking paper and pencils from wastebaskets so she could do her homework and hanging around the local KFC dumpster so she could scrounge something for supper. Then Byron rescued her.
Byron helped Dana back to her shack after one of her regular fights because she had a concussion and the school nurse wouldn’t take care of her. The nurse had been burned by Dana-ana before. What happened when Dana brought Byron into her house, changed their world. Dana greeted him by washing his feet and then spoke to him. No one had heard her speak before. That’s when Byron began to learn about this person—Dana-ana. She was starving, but would only accept something as a gift or if it was discarded. She would not speak unless directly invited to talk. She wouldn’t enter a house unless welcomed with foot washing or bread and salt.
When Byron brought Dana home for dinner, his mother wondered what kind of rescue he had made, but after she saw the life Dana lived, the Macintyre home accepted Dana into it. That’s when they discovered she understood a host of ancient British languages. That’s when they discovered they had invited a girl who imagined she was an Anglo-Saxon maiden into their home.
Byron’s father was a professor of ancient British languages. His mother was a nurse who had been a professor of medical history. Although Dana seemed harmless, the question for the whole family was exactly who was this young woman. Through her professional sources, Mrs. Macintyre discovered Dana-ana was listed by the State Department as an immigrant refugee, and they informed her Dana had been banished from Great Britain to the United States.
Is Dana-ana mentally ill, a time traveler, a spy, a banished member of the British royal family, a criminal? In the world that spun around Dana-ana nothing made sense.
Then the family readied itself to make their usual summer trip to England, and a letter from the Queen of England allowed Dana to return to Britain for the summer, but admonished and restricted her movements. In Great Britain, perhaps everything about Dana-ana would be made clear…
Author's reviewer’s quotes:
Who the heck is Dana-ana? She’s a woman seeking redemption of the most unusual kind. The world seems to revolve around this most unassuming person and that makes her even more intriguing to Byron Macintyre.
Byron Macintyre rescues a strange girl whom everyone seems to hate. Why won’t she speak? Why won’t she take anything unless it is a gift? Why does she state over and over she is not allowed to tell them certain things? She’s just a girl, maybe seventeen. Her school records don’t say. She has no birthday, no family, no money, no knowledge of the modern world—just who is she?
Dana-ana seems to be the most blessed and most cursed person in the world. She found her household. She now has food, a place, a family, and maybe a boyfriend—if she knew what a boyfriend was. But there is something wrong about Dana-ana that won’t let her enjoy the peace she has found, and she still seeks redemption.
Short descriptive teasers:
Dana-ana Goewyn is an enigma—she could be delusional girl, a criminal, a spy, a member of royalty, a time traveler. Who is she? She won’t tell and no one else knows.
Byron Macintyre rescues the most disliked girl, Dana-ana Goewyn, in school and finds out there is much much more to her than anyone ever expected.
All Dana-ana seeks is redemption and peace, but those things will surely not be allowed her, and who is she really?
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The Photobook Bubble, Bubblelet, and Bubblelettino
pictures from, er, Home
This article by Liz Jobey on Photobooks was published in the FT at the weekend. Jobey interviewed many people who talked about many recognisable things like the herd instinct, the bubble and buzz over content. I certainly recognise the herd thing and try to resist sometimes buying books that are going to sell out just because I know they are going to sell out. At the same time, I like all that buzz nonsense. It makes it all fun and exciting and when you get books which have a big buzz, the reason is almost always because of the content, because they're really good books. And buzz gives people a rationale to buy books. It's not a rationale that has a basis in what actually happens or what actually sells. If you want secondary markets, you're probably better off buying a Peter Lik landscape than a photobook - even the ones that supposedly go for huge prices on ebay. Except of course that they don't. What you see is not what you get.
We all know what the photobook bubble is, but I have to say it's a piss-poor bubble as bubbles go and it's only a select few publishers and photographers who sit within that bubble. If 500 people constitutes a bubble it's about time we redefine what a bubble is, or come up with a new term for it. Maybe a bubblelet would be more accurate. The photography world is made up of little clubs and cliques and most of it sits outside the bubblelet. I like to think that Straylight (ok, I'm a bit of a fanboy and have written about it lots so it's in my tiny little bubblelettino) is outside the cool and noteworthy cliques. It sits in a different more functional territory that is strangely real-world in a non-real-world way.
Two new books from Straylight fit right into that functionality and show social media transformed in to book form; Timothy Archibald's Home is an adaptation of a Tumblr site while Tony Fouhse's Attack and Confusion/Asleep and Waking Up is a greatest hits of Fouhse's killed blog - including work from his excellent Live Through This project.
Archibald is best known for his collaborative project with his son, Echolilia, and Home follows on from this. But now his marriage is breaking up and change is in the air. The book starts with a black and white rainbow and then we're into a double page spread; on one side there's a picture of his two sons on a raft, on the other the raft is there and the kids are gone. The theme is repeated so we get to see what is and what might be; there's presence, there's absence and there's a deep sadness and fear inscribed into the simple black and white pictures. There is distance and isolation here.
There's a hole in a yard which changes throughout. It fills with air, it fills with water, it fills with Archibald's youngest son Wilson. It's a place where things get buried; the past, the future, or the children. Because accompanied this sense of change, loss and loneliness there is danger. A puddle, a pool, a road and a boarded up gateway behind which Archibald's youngest stands. And with that danger is an overwhelming sense of responsibility; death lingers. And so does loneliness.
There is a snippet of text in the book.
You really think you buried it?
Yeah, I'm positive.
Oh well, it's buried so deeply even I don't know where it is any more.
Tony Fouhse's book comes in two parts, and act as a mapping of the making of his photography projects as recorded on his blog Drool, in particular User and Live Through This. The first part is Attack and Confusion and this goes through the thoughts, opinions and stories Fouhse has as he works on portraitute from California, New Jersey and a street corner in Ottawa where the crack addicts gather.
This forms the major body of the book and shows how the portraits were made, tells the story of the people Fouhse photographed, and shows how it was exhibited. It also leads into the other section of the book; one of the users Fouhse photographed was Stephanie, who became the subject of Live Through This, his project on how Stephanie got herself clean.
pictures by Tony Fouhse
The story is told in Asleep and Waking; Journals from Live Through This. It begins in 2010:
'Steph and I have decided to embark on a project together. Expect to see it as it happens, here on drool.'
And then it continues. In a very different way to Live Through This. There is more confusion, less certainty, an emphasis on not knowing what is happening and a focus on things that are completely outside Fouhse's control; in particular the emergency brain surgery Stephanie has for an abscess on her brain. There ups and downs as Stephanie moves back east to Nova Scotia to a happy ending of sorts.
The book ends with Stephanie's own words that say how the project gave her;
'...a chance to stand back and look in actually see what I looked like in the mornings or late afternoons and that pushed me to clean up alot seeing the pictures first for myself. And when its a book then people get to read about my life and I'll always have something to look back on and maybe this will also become a movie (lol)'
It's a diary of a project in other words, complete with the doubts and fears that accompanied its making. In that sense it both demystifies it because it shows you exactly what Fouhse did. But it also mystifies it in the sense that you can see how difficult it was to make Live Through This. As with all good work, it's not easy. Nothing's easy.
But that is nothing to worry about. Don't be afraid of difficulty. Don't be afraid of anything. As Fouhse says:
Fear just keeps you in your box. Which sucks. Live a little.
Buy Home by Timothy Archibald here.
Buy Attack and Confusion/Asleep and Waking by Tony Fouhse here.
Labels: asleep and waking, attack and confusion, drool, ft, home, live through this, photobooks, straylight, timothy archibald, tony fouhse
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Tale Of Love & Passion: Urvashi & Pururava
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The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are the two greatest sources of stories which almost all kids of India have grown up hearing. These epics are the inexhaustible sources of the most fantastic stories which leave us wonderstruck. The innumerable stories of kings, princesses, mighty warriors and celestial nymphs have always fascinated each one of us. Love, hatred, arrogance, greed are some of the themes around which these fascinating fables are woven. These tales have lived on for centuries and passed from one generation to the other and yet they do not seem to lose their charm.
THE LEGEND OF AN IMMORTAL: ASHWATTHAMA One such fascinating story from the Mahabharata is about the love of the famous apsara (celestial nymph) named Urvashi with a human king Pururava. Celestial beings falling in love with humans is a popular theme in Indian mythology. The stories of Menaka and Vishwamitra, Rambha and Shukracharya are some of the examples of love stories between apsaras and human beings. Apart from these stories, there is another beautiful love story of Urvashi and Pururava. This is a tale of love, passion, jealousy and the ultimate separation. Let us hear out the story of Urvashi and Pururava.
Pururava: The King Of Lunar Dynasty Pururavas was the first of the Lunar Kings (Chandravanshi), and was the son of Budha and Ila. Budha was the son of Som (or Chandra, moon) and Tara (who was actually the wife of sage Brihaspati). Pururavas was a brave warrior and was many a times invited by Lord Indra to help them during battles with the asuras. Once Urvashi, an apsara in Indra’s court, got bored of the heavens and along with her friends came down to earth to enjoy the difference. She preferred the life of earth with its emotions and turmoil to the ever-happy life of heavens. While returning from one such trip to earth, during dawn, she was kidnapped by an asura.
The Magical Touch Urvashi was returning to heaven just before dawn with the other apsaras when she was abducted by a demon. Pururava saw this and chased the demon on his chariot and freed Urvashi from his clutches. The brief period their bodies touched changed their lives forever. For the first time, Urvasi experienced the warm flesh of a mortal and experienced a strong infatuation. Similarly, Pururava also felt drawn towards the nymph. However, none of them were sure if the feelings were reciprocated.
The Love Blossomed During a drama, where she was acting as Goddess Lakshmi, Urvashi took the name of Pururava as her lover, where she ought to have said ‘Purshottama’, a name of Vishnu. This annoyed sage Bharata, who was directing the play and he cursed her that since she was smitten by a mortal, she too would have to go and live with him as a mortal and beget his children, something unknown to apsaras. Urvashi did not care for the curse as she was too smitten with Pururava. On the other hand, Pururava was also sad because he could never imagine a celestial nymph coming down to him and love him. He was also depressed because his wife did not bear any children. At this time, Urvashi came looking for Pururava and they confessed their feelings for each other.
The Conditions Urvashi agreed to stay with Pururava for the rest of life. But she had a few conditions. The first condition that she will bring two goats whose safety had to be ensured by the king, second that during the time she stayed on Earth, she will eat only clarified butter (ghee) and third, they should never see each other nude except for the time of lovemaking. The day any of the conditions were surpassed, Urvashi would have to leave for the heavens. Pururava agreed to all the conditions and they started living together at the Gandhamadan garden.
The Plot Of The Gods The Gods, on the other hand, became very jealous of the love between Urvashi and Pururava. The heavens seemed dull without Urvashi. So, they decided to hatch a plot. Late one night, the gandharvas took away the goats. When the goats started bleating, Urvashi got worried and asked the king to immediately go and save them. Pururavas, who was wearing nothing at that hour, got up in a hurry. Just at that moment, the gandharvas flashed some light from the heavens and both Pururava and Urvashi saw each other naked.
The Tragedy As the third condition was surpassed, it was time for Urvashi to go back to heavens. With a heavy heart, she left the king, who was shattered. At that time, however Urvashi carried the child of Pururava. She asked the king to come near the region of Kurukshetra after a year where she gave him his child. Later, a lot of other events produced circumstances where Urvashi came again and again to the Earth and bore Pururava many more children.
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