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2017 Q1 Global M&A Trend Report Press Release
04 April 2017 - 04:22 pm UTC
Mergermarket's 2017 Q1 Global Trend Report shows that global dealmaking so far has remained resilient in the face of an uncertain year, with 3,554 deals worth US$ 678.5bn announced in the first quarter representing an 8.9% increase in value compared to the same period last year (4,326 deals, US$ 622.9bn). Due to ongoing uncertainty regarding upcoming European elections, transactions will be viewed as more precious, with larger sums being invested in fewer deals. This is reflected in the average size of disclosed value deals (US$ 403.m), which reached its highest Q1 level on Mergermarket record (since 2001) due to nine recorded mega-deals (>US$ 10bn), up from eight in Q1 2016.
The number of Consumer mega-deals announced reached record heights, with three deals valued over US$ 10bn resulting in the sector deal value (395 deals, US$ 136.1bn) reaching its highest valued Q1 since 2008 (497 deals, US$ 180.2bn).
A reversal of fortunes was seen for Chinese dealmakers investing abroad, who after a record-breaking 2016 have had their ambitions thwarted by strict regulation imposed on transactions valued over US$ 2bn.
Political uncertainty in Europe appears to have affected activity from international dealmakers pursuing deals in the region. Despite this, US dealmakers had a strong quarter investing into the continent, with 150 deals worth US$ 55.7bn up 16.0% by value compared to Q1 2016.
British American Tobacco Plc's acquisition of Reynolds American Inc was the largest deal of the quarter worth US$ 60.7bn. Goldman Sachs led the financial advisor league table, having advised on 70 deals worth US$ 194.5bn. Click here to access the full report including all financial advisor league tables. Click here to access the full report including all legal advisor league tables.
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Flip the ratio: Taking IT from bottleneck to battle ready
By Nagendra Bommadevara, Steve Jansen, Lauren Klak, and Maneesh Subherwal
A new way to focus on outcomes and results can free IT organizations to spend more time on business priorities.
What if an investor managed your IT? One thing it would likely hit on quickly is an important detail: for many companies, a larger proportion of the IT organization is focused on support and administrative work that’s often manual and inefficient—testing, deployment, maintenance, code fixes, and so on. At two financial services organizations we analyzed, a stunning 90 percent of the IT organization was focused on these kinds of tasks. That left just 10 percent of technologists’ capacity for business priorities and market-differentiating work (Exhibit 1).
This state of affairs partly explains why IT is often viewed as a cost center and a bottleneck by the business. It also highlights one of the reasons that incumbents are struggling to keep up with tech companies. With just 10 percent of IT allocated to generating new business value, incumbents are not battle ready when it comes to contending with nimble tech players.
As any investor would tell you, place your resource bets where you believe there is value. For IT, that means flipping the ratio, so that the great majority of IT resources are working on products that build value for the business. As simple as that may sound, few IT organizations have been able to do it. Some companies have managed to pull it off, however, by following a specific recipe that allows them to work better and smarter. Typical payback in making this shift—freeing as much as 30 to 40 percent of IT labor costs—occurs within 18 to 24 months. Flipping the ratio can improve time to market and quality. The framework also allows organizations to quickly evaluate the business value of new technologies (cloud, microservices, automation, AI) and then rapidly scale adoption.
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How to escape the trap
IT leaders have been trying to increase the productivity of their teams, and many have made good progress. But too often, cloud and other solutions languish in proof-of-concept stages with little funding and, in many situations, no business case. Meanwhile, the day-to-day pressure of running an IT shop—improving service levels while lowering costs for existing systems—continues.
To flip the ratio, four things need to happen.
1. Extend agile to back-end IT
One of the main reasons back-end systems demand so many resources is that they do not take advantage of agile ways of working that have become second nature to most software developers. Either back-end teams confuse “doing” agile rather than actually “being” agile, running waterfall projects using the scrum method but not working in small teams rapidly iterating on small chunks of code, or agile doesn’t even make it to the back-end teams. Even application maintenance and IT infrastructure can benefit from agile principles, which is significant, since these areas often make up 40 to 60 percent of the IT organization. By introducing true agile methods—small, cross-functional teams or squads working in rapid iterations—to relevant enterprise IT work, companies can radically reduce the resources needed to support those systems while substantially improving service quality and the potential for automation.
One midsize US-based financial services company discovered just how much value using agile for back-end IT functions could be realized. At first, application-maintenance and IT-infrastructure functions—about 40 percent of the organization—did not use agile. Making matters worse, most of the demand on this group was reactive, handling incidents—data fixes and batch updates, for example—that required handoffs across multiple product teams and caused frequent interruptions, significantly reducing productivity.
The company decided to move to an agile operating model. It started by rigorously quantifying demand to improve transparency and looking at products based on how they fit into the end-to-end value chain, which allowed the company to better understand the dependencies across multiple products.
With better insight into demand, the company created small, self-sufficient teams to not just meet demand but figure out how to reduce it. By better understanding business needs, teams eliminated some demand by providing self-service options. Cross-functional teams had the people needed to not only identify the root cause of incidents but correct them immediately. They also focused on preventive maintenance and predictive monitoring to address issues before they became significant problems (Exhibit 2).
Within six months, the company had reduced application operations spend by more than 30 percent and improved system stability (reduced incident volume and elimination of false alerts) by more than 20 percent. Further, the company was on track to reduce capacity dedicated to administrative IT by another 20 to 30 percent and improve system stability by 30 to 50 percent over the following six months.
2. Measure the things that create value
You are what you measure. That old adage still applies, and it is one of the keys to improving how IT works. IT collects an overwhelming volume of data and metrics but often struggles to use them to drive business value. For example, the common metrics of product-delivery time and budget incentivize teams to release products quickly and under budget. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, except that it can mask a very real issue: a product could perform well against these metrics but still be a bad product that demands lots of time to fix its defects or maintain it.
IT leaders need instead to measure the performance and health of the organization based on the desired outcomes. In the case of the financial services company’s application-operations team, elimination of reactive demand was the desired outcome, and percentage of false alerts was a key metric. The best metrics not only show progress but also are specific and useful enough to be tracked every day, easy to measure, and highlight what changes are needed. YouTube, for example, realized that the amount of time people viewed a video (viewed hours) was the most important determinant of increasing revenue, so it focused all activities on improving that metric. 1 1. John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018. The right metrics can also be measured at the squad, tribe, and organizational level, which allows for higher levels of self-governance through objectives and key results (OKRs) while providing the transparency that leadership needs (Exhibit 3). 2 2. For a good introduction to OKRs, see John Doerr, Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018.
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3. Harness market dynamics to develop ‘IT for IT’ solutions and drive their adoption
There are typically multiple improvement opportunities that cut across many teams or products in IT—for example, a platform for the creation of application programming interfaces (APIs). These “IT for IT” solutions can help teams work more efficiently and effectively by standardizing processes and making code easy to reuse, for example. However, one of the big issues contributing to IT administrative bloat is that these sorts of IT-for-IT solutions often end up languishing unused. Not only are resources tied up in developing them, but further work is often needed because they don’t work as expected.
At one insurance company, this became a glaring issue. The API enablement team had done what it was asked to do: establish an API platform to let developers build new APIs more efficiently. Yet after investing in the platform, fewer than 100 APIs had been created on it, and worse, fewer than ten of those had been referenced more than five times—and this was in an organization of 500 developers. Why weren’t they using the platform? It turned out that it was just too difficult to use. Developers had to submit a manual request, which took a week to fulfill, so they found it easier to just write new code.
A better solution relies more on market-demand mechanisms. Agile teams create demand for tools and solutions they need to help hit their OKRs. As developers spot these needs, they propose a solution (such as developing a platform for API development or a portal for developers to find existing code) to meet the demand, which is quickly reviewed and funded (or rejected) by an oversight team. If approved, an enablement team is formed, made up of people with the right skills. IT organizations provide incentives for enablement teams to form, such as bonuses and recognition. The key difference, however, is that enablement teams have specific OKRs for not just delivering the product but showing that it works and is adopted. Developed tools and solutions need to solve the problem, be easy to use, and easily deployed (Exhibit 4).
We have found that a venture-capital (VC) funding model, in which IT leadership acts as the venture capitalist, works well to fund IT-for-IT solutions. In this system, anyone in the IT organization can submit an idea for creating a new enablement team; if an idea is deemed attractive, IT leadership provides seed funding and sets OKRs. Quarterly assessments show progress, and leadership decides whether to allocate another round of funding to that enablement team and what OKRs to pursue next (Exhibit 5).
In this model, the company’s executive committee acts as investors in a VC fund, so IT leadership goes to them annually (or more often, depending on the need) to demonstrate impact from the enablement teams and request VC funds for the next year. The effect is to force the teams in the tribe to behave like start-ups, moving quickly to demonstrate the value of their work.
4. Stay focused on driving the program
As in any transformation, time is the enemy. After an initial set of wins, progress often bogs down because teams run into problems, issues become more complex, or leadership simply loses interest. Without firm leadership and guidance, the full value potential of the resource allocation isn’t met, or—worse—the organization slides back to the old way of working. But too much leadership control stifles enthusiasm and the sense of autonomy that’s necessary for teams to be successful.
We have found that a thoughtful and disciplined quarterly IT review (QIR) process can be helpful (Exhibit 6). Similar to the quarterly business review (QBR) at most highly mature, agile organizations, the QIR process allows IT leaders to take stock of the progress, resolve issues, reallocate budgets as needed, and provide guidance on the next quarter’s priorities for pushing forward to flip the ratio. For their part, each agile squad/tribe assesses its progress on its top-level metrics, sets aspirational OKRs for the next quarter, and submits them to their peers and leadership for review.
To be sure, flipping the ratio is not easy. But if IT organizations want to help build business value, they can only do so if their resources are allocated to value-creating activities.
Nagendra Bommadevara is a partner in McKinsey’s New York office, Steve Jansen is an associate partner in the Charlotte office, Lauren Klak is an associate partner in the Cleveland office; and Maneesh Subherwal is an associate partner in the New Jersey office.
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Michael WhelanBlog, News, and More
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PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS 2
The artistic process remains mystery to me even after painting for over 35 years as a professional.
As Norman Rockwell wrote, “Some come easy, some come hard.” And so it has proven for me. Whether in the form of an illustration done as a commission or a personal work painted for myself, there is no predicting how straight or convoluted the path to resolution is going to be.
There are times when I’ve been lucky enough to have an image appear complete in my mind’s eye, leaving me with little to do but render it as if it were there before me, already done. Other times, I’ve known the feeling that I was after, or the ideas I wished to convey, but felt uncertain about how best to express them…requiring rafts of preparatory sketches and studies before I felt ready to tackle the final composition.
PRINTING A WHELAN COVER
A MEMORY OF LIGHT GOES TO PRESS
Irene Gallo, Art Director at TOR books, recently visited Coral Graphics in NY to review sales proofs for the jacket art of A MEMORY OF LIGHT.
On bigger books, like AMoL, we will go through the entire printing process to create an early version of the jacket for two reasons:
1) To give our sales force a shiny cover to show off to the various bookstores we’d like to carry stacks and stacks of the book…
2) So that we can get a good look at how all the pieces fit together before we print a small forest’s worth paper.
Continue to TOR.com for more insights about the printing of Michael Whelan’s cover for the final book in Robert Jordan’s WHEEL OF TIME series:
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2012 CHESLEY AWARD NOMINATIONS
MICHAEL NOMINATED FOR CHESLEY
Since 1985, the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) has recognized the achievement of artists with the Chesley Award, named after the late Chesley Bonestell. This year’s awards ceremony will take place at Chicago Worldcon (Chicon7), taking place August 30th-September 3rd.
Michael is nominated for BEST PRODUCTION ILLUSTRATION for Gift from the Sea, Dragon*Con 2011 promo art.
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AT THE EDGE: ART OF THE FANTASTIC
ART EXHIBITION IN ALLENTOWN, PA
JUNE 3 – SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is pleased to showcase an exhibition that will introduce contemporary fantastic art to the museum setting. At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic will not only be the most comprehensive exhibition of fantastic art to date, it will also be the first time that this discipline has been presented on such a large scale.
Among the art on display will be THE WHITE WOLF, Michael Whelan’s classic cover for The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock.
The Preview Party is Saturday, June 2 at 6 pm. Michael and many of the artists will be there.
http://www.allentownartmuseum.org
SPECTRUM 19 AWARDS
MICHAEL WINS GOLD IN KC
Michael received a Spectrum Gold award in Kansas City for his painting UNMASKED. The painting, Michael’s personal interpretation of the Crimson King done for Halloween last year, was recognized in the “Unpublished” category.
Congratulations to Michael and all of the artists recognized for their work this weekend. Follow the link below for a recap of the awards.
TOR.COM REVEALS WHELAN COVER ART
A MEMORY OF LIGHT COVER REVEAL
TOR.com: “We are very excited to reveal the cover to A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. The artwork for this final edition is by, arguably, one of today’s most beloved illustrators, Michael Whelan.
“The task of jumping into a 14 volume series on its last installment must have been a daunting one but Michael rose to the occasion. Harriet McDougal, Jordan’s editor and widow remarked, “that is the Rand I have waited to see for twenty years.” when she saw the image. And while the artwork clearly has all the earmarks of a Whelan painting, it’s theme and coloration make it a fitting heir to Darrell K. Sweet’s series of Wheel of Time covers.”
SPECTRUM FANTASTIC ART LIVE
MICHAEL IN KANSAS CITY
Michael Whelan is a featured exhibitor at the first Spectrum Fantastic Art Live event at the Grand Ballroom of the Kansas City Bartle Hall Convention Center, May 18-20.
For 18 years, the Spectrum Annual has been a leading source for the best in contemporary fantastic art and this is their first conference.
Open to fans and the general public alike, it will be a great opportunity to meet the artists and see amazing paintings and sculptures. Please join us!
http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com
NEW KINDLE BOOK WITH A WHELAN COVER!
NEW MUTANT HUNTER RELEASE FROM STEPHEN R. COX
Between the beginning and the end lies what really matters: the chase. This is a tale of adventure, heartbreak and a race through the future. It takes place in a world where your only real friend has a trigger and hope flees from you like a ghost. This is where redemption comes through violence.
Stephen R. Cox has teamed with Hugo Award-winning artist Michael Whelan to present a series that is becoming a classic of post-apocalyptic literature. The premise is brutally simple: survival comes first then you grab the bits and pieces of life that still make you human. At least you try…
Mutant Hunter: Legends of the Fallout – available at Amazon.com
Mutant Hunter: The Slicks – available at Amazon.com
http://www.stephenrcox.com
A MEMORY OF LIGHT
WHEEL OF TIME COVER ART
Michael has just finished the cover art for A MEMORY OF LIGHT, the 14th and final book in the classic Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and now Brandon Sanderson.
The first book was published in 1990 and over the years has garnered a huge fan following. Sadly, Robert Jordan died in 2007 after the 11th book, but he had mapped out the rest of the series and author Brandon Sanderson is finishing the epic.
Noted illustrator Darrell K. Sweet did the covers for all the other books, but he passed away unexpectedly late last year. Michael Whelan is honored to be a part of this enduring project and Tor Books will be releasing more news soon.
HOLIDAY SCENES
A selection of images from the Whelan family cards.
“The change of seasons, each with its own palette of colors and endlessly varying skies, is a joy to experience here in the Northeast. While taking my daily walks this time of year, my thoughts seem to drift away from day-to-day concerns to pleasant memories of holidays past when my children were little. These seasonal feelings more often than not lead to a small painting for our family holiday card.”
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“Why and how should I learn Hungarian if even finding room is so difficult?”
In January 2016, Migszol resumed its regular visits to the open refugee camp in Bicske to meet some of the people currently staying there. The camp is situated at the edge of the town. To get there from the train station means to pass through the whole small city with its bakeries, closed down flower shops and the Tesco, which has become a bit of an attraction due to the lack of leisure facilities around. To bring our bicycles on the train is the quickest way of reaching the camp, as it is then only a 15 mins ride. For refugees staying in the camp it is a long 45mins walk to the train station, bicycles would probably help a lot to reduce the effort and time that it takes them to visit Budapest. As we are not allowed to enter the camp, we talked mainly over the fence, always under the disapproving look of the securities at the camp’s entry. It was cold and foggy outside and after we arrived the first people to see and talk to us were those standing outside the buildings on the camp area in order to have access to the WIFI, which is not working inside, as they explained. Gradually more and more people came to the fence to chat with us and share their experiences.
There are many new arrivals to the camp, some of them deported back to Hungary from other European countries. To support them in their everyday lives in this new environment, we brought with us our a small “Basic Hungarian Survival”-booklet, a collection of introductions to Hungarian civil and social administration. Also, we handed out invitations to our next event on 6th February, which addresses issues concerning the process of integration to life in Hungary. According to people’s own estimate, there are around one hundred people in the camp. Only a few of them are families and the rest are mainly single men. They are mainly from Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia and some North African countries. Many are Dublin deportees from other EU countries.
Bicske team on 30th January
During the last two visits in Bicske, we met old and new friends: we joked about things like politics and cricket, but also discussed serious matters such as asylum interviews gone wrong because of bad translation services and incorrect knowledge of case officers at OIN. As far as we could, we also translated some official documents to those who didn’t understand what was written on them. Furthermore, we also talked about our Hungarian school, and experienced that people are very motivated to study the language in order to start a new life in Hungary. Nevertheless, people we spoke with were also sceptical about their future in Hungary, or, as someone said: “Why and how should I learn Hungarian if even finding room is so difficult?” That is why we are extremely glad that we have now found some Hungarian volunteers from the Let’s Help Together!-group that help newcomers in finding apartments and navigating through the desperately complicated Hungarian bureaucratic landscape.
Another Afghan friend, who is also taking part in Migszol’s Hungarian language school, has learned enough Hungarian to have a good conversation with our Hungarian members. He introduced us to his new friends who are now volunteering in the camp. The two volunteers, one from Brazil and the other from Singapore, arrived a few weeks ago and they were very enthusiastic and happy to help us spread the word about our upcoming integration event. We were especially glad to meet a group of Indians and Pakistanis, who were laughing at the political conflict between the two countries, saying that between people, there are no problems, and we met some more people who have now gotten their refugee status and are looking forward to bringing their families to Hungary.
A man who was in Hungary for a few months last year in the summer explained to us how he reached Germany to apply for asylum. He managed to get an appointment from immigration office after three months and was told that his first interview was in July 2016. He realised it will take a very long time to have his request processed, and that he might be sent back to Hungary eventually, so he decided to come back to Hungary on his own. We also met someone who got a negative decision and should now be deported back, except that due to political reason his country of origin will not accept him back. In this case, why is he not granted a permission to stay, so that he can find work and integrate in Hungary, like he would like to?
We also spent some time with a young Afghan boy who explained to us that, like many other minors, the birth date on his documents was changed by the Hungarian authorities to January 1st 1998, a decision that renders minors artificially overaged to allow for a harsher treatment. He is now going to school in Budapest and is very eager to discover Hungary and get to know Hungarian people. Indeed, many people expressed their sadness that they cannot meet more Hungarians, and we all agreed that the way to combat the racism of the government is to forge links between Hungarians and people seeking protection. Many also expressed their desperation on the practice of detention in Hungary, especially detention of families with small children. Together, we were thinking about what could be done to stop this - and agreed that it will take a long time, but that the most important is to raise awareness through creating a dialogue between different groups of society in Hungary.
If you want to help us in this effort, come to our event on Saturday 6 February 2016, but what is most important: if there are people at your workplace, in your group of friends, or in your family, who don’t want foreigners in Hungary - educate yourself, so that you can engage in a dialogue with them!
The foggy train station in Bicske on 30th January
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Culture of silence contributes to lack of progress on patient safety
Hospitals fall short of patient-safety goals 20 years after 'To Err is Human'
Md. task force begins work on malpractice solution
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Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich on Tuesday kicked off the work of a task force he created on medical malpractice insurance with an invitation to the healthcare industry, insurers and trial lawyers to work together to solve what he said is a crisis in the state.
But he said that "to the extent any group on the right or left wants to play politics with the crisis . . . there's the door and just go."
The governor asked task force members to come up with recommendations that could be presented at a special session of the legislature later this year or in January when the 2005 session begins.
He told the 16 members present for the first session of the task force that they begin their work "with no predetermined outcome."
"I want you to think outside the box and make this structure better, make a better mousetrap," Ehrlich said.
The governor announced last month during a news conference at Anne Arundel Medical Center that rapid increases in premiums for medical malpractice insurance are driving doctors out of some high-risk specialties, including obstetrics. Hospitals and nursing homes also have been hit with big rate increases.
Ehrlich introduced legislation during the 2004 session that was intended to reduce pressure on insurance rates, but it was killed in House and Senate committees. The House passed its own bill, which incorporated some of the governor's proposals, but that also was killed by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in the face of opposition by President Thomas V. Mike Miller and Sen. Brian Frosh, chairman of the committee.
Don Hogan, an Ehrlich aide, told the task force that malpractice rates increased 10% two years ago and 28% last year. The state's primary insurer of doctors has a request pending for a 41% rate hike this year.
Doctor charged in 25 deaths sues hospital for defamation
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FBM holds presser in London on HR conditions in Balochistan
London, [UK], Dec 12 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) held a conference on the deplorable human rights situation under which people are living in Iranian and Pakistani-occupied Balochistan.
Human rights activists and political leaders from both sides of the border attended the 'Human Rights in Balochistan' conference in London. Representatives of Turks and Arabs of AlAhwaz have also participated in the conference.
Speaking at the conference, Professor Shahsavar Karimzadi, vice President of the Free Balochistan Movement, said that Iran and Pakistan do not respect and implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because it is an "antithesis" to their very nature. He read the first 10 articles of the UDHR and explained how these rights are being violated by Pakistan and Iran.
He highlighted the cases of the recent abduction of Baloch women by Pakistan army and said Pakistan's Punjabi Army is a worse colonial army that oppresses the most vulnerable members of the society.
The world was shocked when they saw ISIS's brutalities and use of rape as a weapon of war but the world forgets that Pakistan's Punjabi Army record is worse than ISIS because it raped hundreds of thousands of Muslim Bengali women during 1970s', he said.
Karimzadi said that until the world does not recognize the colonial and oppressive origin of these fake state there cannot be peace and prosperity in the region. The conference was moderated by Jamal Nasir Baloch.
Abdullah Arif, a representative of, Baloch campaign, a human rights organisation, shed light on the Iranian state policies towards the Baloch nation. He said that the Baloch people are facing human rights violations in Iran for the last 90 years.
Arif said that the demography of Balochistan is being changed and Iranians have publically announced that they will settle six million non-Baloch ethnic groups in the coastal areas of Makuran, Iranian occupied Balochistan.
Ismail Amiri, the representative of the Baluchistan National Movement (Zrombesh), said that the human rights of Baloch people are being violated at all levels. He said Iranians want to eliminate the Baloch nation and such attempts were made in the past too but Baloch people survived.
"Iran claims that they will bring people into Balochistan and develop the region, it is not development but exploitation and colonialism, look the conditions of Ahwazi Arabs in their own native country. Iran built plants only to steal their oil wealth", Amiri informed the participants.
Graham Williamson, leader of Nations without State, began his speech to explain the nature of human rights law and international laws for the minorities. He informed the participants about World War II and the development of the right to self-determination and the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He said that members of all oppressed nations who are living in free countries should contribute to their national cause because "people back home are being oppressed and it is their duty to tell the world about their country".
Efe Oguzlu, the representative of the South Azerbaijani Independence Party, talked about the division of Azerbaijan. He said that they achieved freedom of whole Azerbaijan but it was very brief and lasted for two years. "Now, Iran is killing Turks of Azerbaijan publically and they do not hesitate to show their brutality," he said.
Haider Ali, a member of the Free Balochistan Movement's UK Branch and a victim of torture, read his ordeal. He informed the participants that how he was enforced disappeared by the Pakistani intelligence agencies and tortured for three years. He said that he is a witness of kill and dump policy and know many people who were in the secret torture cell and then later murdered, and their bodies were founded from desert areas of Balochistan. (ANI)
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Working With Children programme
Download a copy of the show programme for Working With Children before you head to the theatre.
Production programmes are just $2 and are available for purchase in the theatre foyers.
You can also download a copy of the show programme for Working With Children before you head to the theatre, and a range of other information about the show – ranging from interviews to podcasts – can be found throughout the season here at mtc.com.au/backstage.
Following her acclaimed Green Screen as part of NEON Festival 2014, it is a great pleasure to welcome Nicola Gunn back to MTC and present her latest creation, Working With Children.
Nicola is one of Australia’s most innovative theatre makers, creating incisive contemporary performance works that are sought after internationally.
She has an unrivalled ability to combine several art forms to enhance the performance narrative and tell complex stories, often exploring moral and ethical situations with her signature subversive humour.
To have the world premiere of Working With Children as part of our 2018 Season is a great thrill, as is the news that the work will have its international premiere in Seattle at On The Boards in February 2019.
At MTC we are committed to supporting independent artists in the development, production and showcase of their works and have done so through various successful collaborations in recent years. Working With Children is an example of these partnerships, as a work commissioned and produced through our NEON NEXT initiative.
Enjoy this world premiere production.
MTC Executive Director & Co-CEO
Download the programme for Working With Children
Working With Children plays at Southbank Theatre from 30 August 2018.
Working With Children on stage
See Nicola Gunn on stage as she explores the moral and ethical minefields of Working With Children
Nicola Gunn on Working With Children
Nicola Gunn ask herself a few important questions ahead of Working With Children.
Working With Children in rehearsal
See Nicola Gunn and her team in rehearsal as they explore the moral and ethical minefields of Working With Children.
Video | Working With Children trailer
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Season 07 Season 07
Angel & AntonioLaura joins Nev to help Angel find her online love, Antonio. He claims to live in Angel’s small town, yet is never able to meet her! It’s clear Antonio is keeping a major secret, but will the truth be more than Angel can handle. S07 E40AIRED August 27, 2019
Cherie & AvionSexy Avion swayed Cherie to send him explicit photos, but Cherie’s worried she has trusted the wrong man with her pics. Nev and Justin Combs try to help, but when they get an angry call from Avion’s wife, things go south fast!”s S07 E39AIRED August 27, 2019
Tristyn & Lara"Tristyn is head over heels for Lara, a mystery girl who he's been talking to for years, but can never meet IRL! As Nev and Kamie investigate, facts surface leaving everyone wondering if anything about Lara and her love is legit." S07 E38AIRED August 20, 2019
CJ & ShanaJustin Combs joins Nev to help CJ find Shana, a womanthat CJ's been having a steamy relationship with for 8 years and has never met! But as they close in on the hunt for Shana, Nev and Justin discover that she is lurking on their every move. S07 E37AIRED August 20, 2019
Shirlene and JamesNev and co-host Kamie help a lovestruck Navajo girl on her vision quest to find the Zuni man she loves, a man who not only admitted to being a drug smuggler but also claimed to have died, leaving everyone desperate for answers! S07 E36AIRED August 13, 2019
Matthew & ChanceKimiko Glenn joins Nev in helping Matthew find his elusive Instagram love, Chance. But as they search for answers, they run into unsurpassable roadblocks that make them question whether we’ll ever have a chance to find Chance. S07 E35AIRED August 13, 2019
'Keeping It 100' Official Sneak PeekTo celebrate 100 episodes of the series, Nev and Max are giving fans a special episode every Wednesday night at 9/6e on MTV.ADDED March 12, 2018
'We've Got Mail' Official Sneak PeekNev and Max read an email from a son who is concerned that his mother is being catfished. Watch a new season of Catfish: The TV Show beginning Wednesday, January 3rd at 9e/6p on MTV.ADDED January 02, 2018
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NEV Host
Nev Schulman is a writer, producer, social advocate and TV host. He is best known for the 2010 documentary film "Catfish" and the follow-up MTV series "Catfish: The TV Show," which he hosts and executive produces. In 2014, Nev published his first book, "In Real Life: Love, Lies and Identity in the Digital Age." It gives both his personal history and observations gleaned from his work on "Catfish." Nev and his wife Laura Perlongo are the proud parents of daughter Cleo and son Beau. Together, they host the Facebook series "We Need to Talk," on which they offer relationship advice for real-life situations in the millennial era. Aside from his entertainment career, Nev spends time supporting local organizations and charities, including New York Road Runners, the Urban Justice Center and Dance Against Cancer.
Kamie Host
Kamie Crawford is a TV host, content producer, model and former Miss Teen USA with a love for all things beauty, fashion and pop culture. Kamie has always had a passion for investigative journalism and is now putting her own "FBI" skills to the test while working alongside Nev Schulman as the co-host of MTV's hit series "Catfish." When she's not in front of the camera, Kamie is collaborating and creating social content with major beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands like Swarovski, Lancôme, Dove, Rent the Runway and so many others. Working as a model in a fashion world that deems anything over a size 4 as "plus-sized" and in a digital space that often lacks inclusion has sparked Kamie to use her influence to spread the importance of body positivity and diversity in the digital sphere and beyond.
Catfish: The TV Show brings together couples who’ve interacted solely through LCD screens. Over the course of months they’ve supposedly fallen in love — but what will happen when they meet in real life for the first time?
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Blast from the past: Roland MT-32
By Computer Music (Computer Music) 2018-05-28T13:11:20.147Z
This cost-effective alternative to the D-50 introduced computer-savvy musicians to the concept of the ROMpler and paved the way for General MIDI
The reign - and legacy - of Roland’s MT-32 began quietly, in 1987. While professional musicians (as well as those with professional aspirations!) patiently awaited shipment on the company’s blockbuster D-50 synthesiser, the consumer-friendly MT-32 was providing scads of users with many of its more famous sibling’s features at a much lower price. Better still, it offered some things that were not available to the D-50.
Released before the terms ‘ROMpler’ or ‘workstation’ had come into regular use, the MT-32 offered features of both in a compact, MIDI-ready desktop module. Its rakishly angled front-panel offered access to 128 preset and 64 (volatile!) user patches derived from the same ‘LA’ synthesis technique that powered the D-50’s now legendary sounds. The idea was simple: sampled attack transients were coupled with sustained, synthesised waveforms. Up to four of these ‘partials’ were layered to create lively sounding instruments that were a world apart from the standard sawtooths and squares of the analogue domain.
As was the case with the D-50, the 8-bit sounds could be a bit noisy, with any number of nasty artefacts behind a gauzy haze of cheap reverb.
In addition to the synthesised tones, the MT-32 contained a healthy collection of sampled drum sounds, culled from the TR-626.
Though the instrument was advertised as possessing 32 voices, this number assumed each sound would comprise a single partial. Given that up to four partials might be used for a given patch, the practical voice count was nowhere near as high.
Additionally, the MT-32 was multitimbral, allowing for up to eight channels for instruments, plus another dedicated to drums. In other words, just enough for a reasonably complex arrangement.
We take these sorts of features for granted today, but the electronic music market wasn’t so clear in 1987. Roland themselves didn’t seem convinced that the features of the MT-32 would appeal to professional musicians, and aimed the MT-32 at the educational market and the emerging ‘computer music’ scene.
It was the latter that pushed the MT-32 to the fore, and it quickly became something of a standard among gamers, to the point that an ‘MT-32 emulation mode’ would become a common feature on soundcards.
More than that, the MT-32 was, in effect, the rough draft for General MIDI, as exemplified by its direct descendant, the SC-55 Sound Canvas, released in 1991. Initially snubbed as a creative dead-end by dyed-in-the-wool electronic musicians, General MIDI made it possible to exchange small data files that could be played back on compatible multitimbral instruments with some assurance that they’d sound at least vaguely similar to what the composer had in mind.
Today, the MT-32 is primarily admired for its nostalgic value among gamers and old-school computer musicians. Its sounds are too complex for chiptunes, but lack the realism for modern arrangements. Not obscure enough to be hip again, it can be had for next to nothing on the secondhand market. Nevertheless, its impact still resonates, even if its sounds do not!
Three great plugin MT-32 alternatives
Roland D-50 (via Roland Cloud)
As pointed out above, the MT-32 used the same LA synthesis that fuelled the D-50, so the D-50 itself makes a natural (and in some ways superior) substitute. As it happens, Roland have brought the D-50 back to life in both hardware (Boutique D-05) and this software incarnation. You’ll need to pony up a subscription fee to use it, though.
Read more about Roland D-50
Roland Sound Canvas iOS
Based on the successor to the MT-32, Sound Canvas iOS is far more sophisticated than either the MT-32 or 1991’s SC-55 Sound Canvas. This one offers 1600 sounds, 63 drum kits, and effects such as reverb, chorus, delay, EQ, plus the ability to play MIDI music files made for Roland’s SC-88 Sound Canvas.
Read more about Roland Sound Canvas iOS
This one takes a bit of effort, as it requires ROM files that can't be distributed with the source code. However, if you’re game, Munt offers MT-32 emulation in a free, open-source app. It’s a cross-platform standalone app that runs on Linux, Mac and Windows machines. A Windows-based VSTi version is also available from Falcosoft.
Read more about Munt
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Frozen 2 sets new record as the highest-grossing animated film ever at £1billion
Frozen 2 has become the highest-grossing animated film ever after earning £1billion in just three weeks at the box office
Molly Pike
Frozen 2 has become the highest-grossing animated film ever after taking £1billion at the box office.
The Disney film, a sequel to the 2013 original, has proved to be a roaring success since its premiere on November 7 and worldwide release on the 22nd.
It has surpassed the first Frozen, which earned around £970,000 in the same amount of time.
The figures mean Frozen 2 is the third biggest film of 2019 following two more Disney films: Marvel's Avengers: Endgame (£2.12billion) and The Lion King (£1.26billion)
Disney considers The Lion King a live action remake and so it isn't counted as the best performing animated film.
Frozen 2 has become the highest-grossing animated film ever
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The sequel saw Kristen Bell (Princess Anna) and Idina Menzel (Queen Elsa) reprise their roles.
Snowman Olaf and reindeer Sven also return for another adventure.
They head to an enchanted land and face danger to find the origins of Elsa's power and save their kingdom.
Trusted reindeer Sven and snowman Olaf returned for the sequel (Image: Disney)
Elsa is based on The Snow Queen who has the ability to create ice and snow and accidentally turns the fictional kingdom of Arendelle into an eternal winter.
The original was a smash hit and won two Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original song for Let It Go.
It took Frozen 2 around three weeks to pass the £1billion mark, beating the 15 weeks it took for the original to get to the same milestone.
It took Frozen 2 around three weeks to pass the £1billion mark
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It was recently revealed that Let It Go was the most streamed Disney song on Spotify with over 300million plays.
Artists get paid £0.0034 for every stream on Spotify, meaning Menzel's hit has generated around £1.1million so far.
With the release of the highly anticipated Frozen 2 last week, Menzel looks set to cash in even more, with her vocals featuring on three new catchy tracks - Some Things Never Change, Into the Unknown and Show Yourself.
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Home > News > Pipeline
Publish Date August 8, 2016
Opdivo bet backfires, creates opening for Merck to pursue DTC
Kevin McCaffrey
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s clinical trial bet on its immunotherapy treatment, Opdivo, backfired when the study missed its primary endpoint.
The Phase-III trial, dubbed CheckMate-026, investigated Opdivo as a therapy for previously untreated patients with non-small cell lung cancer and compared those patients to another group receiving chemotherapy, the standard of care. Opdivo failed to demonstrate that it was a superior treatment to chemotherapy in terms of progression-free survival.
Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson gave the edge to Merck’s competing treatment, Keytruda, saying that the drugmaker now will be allowed to promote its therapy as “the only one that has been proven to improve survival in first-line lung cancer,” in direct-to-consumer advertising. “This puts BMS on its back foot from a commercial perspective, as it tries to defends its franchise,” he noted.
See also: As immuno-oncology therapies evolve, so will the marketing
Keytruda will likely gain “significant” traction in the overall market, and that traction in the long-term could mean more combinations with chemotherapy agents or other immunoncology therapies over time, Leerink Partners analyst Seamus Fernandez said in a research note. He added that Merck will “dominate” the first-line lung cancer market for at “least the next 12 months” in certain lung-cancer patients.
Mark Schoenebaum, an analyst for Evercore ISI, wrote Friday that the first-line lung-cancer market is worth more than $12 billion. He estimates that Merck’s current label for Keytruda in this setting opens the drug up to 30% of that market.
Opdivo has been the market leader in terms of sales. Opdivo brought in $942 million in 2015, compared to Keytruda’s $566 million. The marketing spend for Opdivo was also significantly higher last year, to the tune of $125.9 million for Opdivo compared to $7.3 million for Keytruda, according to Kantar Media.
See also: Merck’s Keytruda versus Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo
The trial’s failure is considered a serious disappointment by both Bristol-Myers Squibb’s management and analysts. The misstep can be traced back to BMS’ attempt to pursue the broadest possible label by including too vast a patient population in the study, which ultimately created a bigger risk. This setback will likely open the door for Keytruda to gain market share and pins Bristol-Myers Squibb’s hopes for a first-line treatment on its combination trial studying Yervoy and Opdivo. That trial is not expected to be completed until January 2018.
Anderson wrote in the same analyst note that “the missed result reflects the fact that BMS pushed the envelope too far in designing the trial.”
Merck, on the other hand, studied a narrower patient population in its monotherapy for Keytruda — a move that increased its chance of success. BMS, for this trial, chose a population of patients with tumors that express a specific protein — PD-L1 — at levels equal to or greater than 5%. Merck, on the other hand, chose patients for its trial with much higher levels of expression: with 50% and greater expression of PD-L1. The level of PD-L1 within lung-cancer tumors is considered an important bellwether for how well immunoncology agents will perform.
Oncology Pipeline
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Why Is Dragomon Hunter So Fun To Play?
Rate this Article Delve into the immersive world of Wyveria and become the greatest dragomon hunter there is in this amazing MMORPG, Dragomon Hunter. Read on to find out more!
Dragomon Hunter is an incredibly fun MMORPG that combines the best elements of monster-hunting games like Pokemon with elements from classic role-playing games. There are plenty more reasons why Dragomon Hunter is so fun to play... let’s find out!
The first and main reason why Dragomon Hunter has been so successful in appealing to players from different backgrounds and preferences is because of its very addictive gameplay. In this game, you’ll be able to fight and capture a huge variety of dragomons in the wild, as well as dragomon “bosses” in the many dungeons available. For players who have the irresistible need to “collect em all” will definitely be hooked by the wide range of dragomons that they can collect.
Not to mention, unlike mere collectibles that you put on shelves and let them gather virtual dusts over time, the dragomons you’ve captured can be interacted with. They can act as your mounts and help you travel the vast lands in Wyveria a lot quickly. Some of them can be used as combat mounts as well! Amazing, isn’t it?
The semi-action-based combat system utilized in Dragomon Hunter also makes the game so much more interesting to play. After all, standing in the same place, while spamming your character’s skills, can be a very boring thing to do. Due to this, the game makes time a factor in combat. Although you’ll be given some form of warning that the enemy is about to use its ability, the very short window that you’ve given to initiate the accurate response can make anyone feel like they are in the last leg of a 100m sprint. It can be truly exhilarating if you managed to pull off that timely dodge!
Similar to most MMORPGs, Dragomon Hunter has several professions that you can choose from. They are mostly the generic sort, but there’s this 1 profession that is very much unique – dragomon breeding. You can set up your own dragomon ranch in this game and breed your dragomons together to get a variety of new dragomon breeds – breeds that you can’t readily find and capture in the wild. Of course, along with the breeding process, you’ll also need to tend to and nurture the baby dragomon so it can grow into a strapping adult dragomon.
In addition to dragomons, you are also assigned an adorable companion called a Hoppalong, who will be accompanying you on your journey. Do not underestimate these fluffy and lovable companions though – they do pack a punch when it comes to fighting the enemy! Interestingly, the game allows you to create and customize your Hoppalong. You can even decide which character class they should specialize into.
Last but not least, let’s not forget about the game’s astonishing graphics! The visuals in Dragomon Hunter are designed in such a way that the background has a dream-like quality to it. I personally enjoy game graphics that have this sort of effect as I feel that it increases the immersion of the game. However, this is an entirely subjective advantage for the game though.
All in all, Dragomon Hunter is an excellently-developed MMORPG that will definitely appeal to players who enjoy Pokemon-like games. Even if you don’t have an obsession in collecting all the dragomons, you could also stop by, and have fun running through exciting dungeons and exploring the beautiful world of Wyveria with your friends.
Sounds like just the game for you? Well, do check out our review of Dragomon Hunter for more details and set off on the adventure of a lifetime to become the greatest dragomon hunter there is!
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https://www.myplainview.com/news/local/article/Ramsower-announces-run-for-Precinct-1-County-14894150.php
Ramsower announces run for Precinct 1 County Commissioner
Plainview Herald
Published 5:50 pm CST, Monday, December 9, 2019
Brent Ramsower announced this week that he’s running for the office of Hale County Commissioner of Precinct 1.
Ramsower is a Plainview native.
He owns a landscape and water extraction company and is manager of a farming operation and cattle business.
“My experience not only includes business ownership and management, but also hands-on knowledge of equipment, facilities and road maintenance and drainage systems,” he said in his announcement.
Ramsower is a fourth-generation Hale County native. He is the son of Vernah Ramsower-Sprous and the late Brad Ramsower and he’s a single father to Kylie Ramsower, who is a Plainview ISD student.
“I understand that the Commissioner’s Court has kept the best interest of our taxpaying citizens in mind and works to hold the line on spending where possible and avoiding tax increases,” he said in his announcement. “This is my goal as well.”
The republican candidate will be listed on the March 1 primary ballot against Precinct 1 incumbent Harold King.
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Southwest-Airlines-Will-Beef-Up-Summer-Service-14903060.php
Southwest Airlines to add additional nonstop flights to Las Vegas out of San Antonio
Increased nonstop flights to four other cities also planned
By Randy Diamond
Updated 6:51 pm CST, Thursday, December 12, 2019
The Dallas-based airline will operate as many as three flights a day to Atlanta and Nashville, and as many as four to Denver and Las Vegas.
Photo: Roman Kharkovski // Wikimedia Commons
Southwest Airlines, San Antonio International Airport’s biggest carrier, plans to beef up nonstop service on key routes — including Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas and Nashville — starting this summer.
The additions will bring the number of Southwest departures to 58 on Sunday, the heaviest flight day, a Southwest spokesman said. Monday through Friday, Southwest will have 57 fights out of San Antonio, and 49 on Saturday.
Visit our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com, for additional details on the additional flights.
The summer schedule begins June 7.
Also this summer, Southwest will schedule a Saturday nonstop flight to Albuquerque, N.M. — though the airline is offering direct flights to the city from San Antonio twice this month, on Dec. 21 and 28.
Randy Diamond covers energy and manufacturing in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read his stories and more local coverage on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | randy.diamond@express-news.net
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article/Your-Turn-Dec-6-14885444.php
Your Turn: Dec. 6
Published 7:00 pm CST, Thursday, December 5, 2019
Flowers honor the victims at the site of the recent London Bridge stabbing attack. A reader says the blame doesn’t lie with the weapon.
Photo: Peter Summers /Getty Images
The recent knife attacks in England and Europe prove one thing: It’s not weapons that kill people; it’s people who kill people.
The education route
Re: “‘Massive gap’ in pay keeps families, city in poverty,” Editorial, Saturday:
I agree that a massive income gap exists in San Antonio for women of color but, in reality, it also exists for men of color, which Rogelio Saenz did not point out.
To his credit, he did mention the status of both boys and girls of color reaching kindergarten who are already behind and emphasized that pre-K is important, but he failed to mention that the real start of education should begin at home long before pre-K age. I would urge that we reach out to poverty-stricken parents to help them start educating their children at home. Would it cost as much as the current cost of Pre-K 4 SA — about $13,000 per child per year? No, it would cost a lot less.
I would think positive parental interaction, along with reading to them 15 to 30 minutes per day using books from our public library system, would go a long way to spark intellectual thirst and a positive attitude toward learning in children. This would allow them to start kindergarten on equal footing and hopefully give them a fighting chance to improve themselves via the educational route.
John A. Menchaca
On ExpressNews.com: Editorial: The wage gap between men and women must be eliminated
3-ring Oval Office
Re: “Dem circus is in town,” Your Turn, Tuesday:
Unfortunately, the letter writer did not have to wait to see his favorite circus act come to town when the ringmaster and biggest clown of all, surrounded by his sycophants, has occupied the Oval Office for nearly three years.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus would be hard-pressed to top the buffoonery generated by that clan of clowns.
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Overdose Prevention: An Infectious Disease Program Responsibility
By Magalie Lerman August 31, 2016
Magalie Lerman, Beth Weinstein Fellow, NASTAD
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Today, on August 31st, NASTAD (National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors) joins hundreds of organizations across the globe in remembering people who have died from overdose as part of International Overdose Awareness Day. It has been more than a year since the CDC announced that the United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic, and overdose rates continue to rise. More than 47,000 Americans died in 2014 due to drug overdose and over 28,000 of those deaths were opioid-related. Hepatitis C infection (HCV) rates among people who inject drugs are rising at a similarly alarming rate. Health systems are under pressure to adapt to meet the complex healthcare needs of people who use drugs.
National overdose-related death rates and national HCV-related death rates are both increasing year-by-year
Health department overdose prevention and care efforts are unique in that they don’t reside in any one program within health departments. Some states, such as New Mexico and New York, have harm reduction programs where overdose prevention is integrated into the infectious disease program. In other jurisdictions, behavioral health programs take administrative responsibility; and in many jurisdictions, injury prevention has primary responsibility for overdose prevention and care. No matter who leads the charge, we all have a role to play in preventing overdose and the most effective responses have been those that mobilize resources, commitment, and political will from across state agencies and executive offices. Infectious disease is but one aspect of comprehensive healthcare and people who use drugs have to stay alive in order for us to help keep them disease free or virally suppressed. Furthermore, drug overdose is a common cause of non-AIDS death among people living with HIV.
Perhaps a “silver-lining” to the opioid epidemic is that it has required infectious disease, injury prevention, and behavioral health partners to work more closely with one another. While overdose is not an infectious disease, state HIV and HCV prevention programs have extensive expertise in serving injection drug users, who are at-risk for HIV, HCV, and overdose, including through the integration of preventive services into drug and alcohol treatment programs and primary care. Once everyone gets past turf wars, programs can work together to ensure the best practice of offering naloxone alongside HIV and HCV testing at syringe services programs (SSPs), jails and prisons, methadone clinics and substance use treatment facilities, as well as homeless shelters and drop-ins. Furthermore, ensuring payers and systems cover and provide naloxone and that overdose prevention education is available in healthcare settings and community-based organizations (CBOs) ensures the widespread scale up and sustainability of these efforts. Leveraging partnerships and third-party reimbursement mechanisms takes the burden off of CBOs and syringe service programs (SSPs) who often use their limited funds to purchase naloxone at the wholesale acquisition price. As a safety net, health departments should be supplying naloxone wherever possible.
Health departments also play an important role in advancing sensible drug user health policies in their jurisdictions. For example, health departments have successfully supported local advocacy efforts to pass effective Good Samaritan laws that provide immunity to anyone who calls 911 in the event of an overdose. In addition, laws that allow for the widespread and uninhibited distribution of naloxone will advance overdose prevention efforts, as will innovative programs for people who use drugs such as supervised consumption rooms and pre-booking diversion programs. Health departments have an important public health voice to add to these state initiatives. On a federal level, NASTAD has called on Medicaid and commercial payers to remove discriminatory limitations that have barred people with a history of drug use from accessing curative HCV treatment. We commend the White House for their leadership on addressing the opioid epidemic and we are excited about the passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). On the Hill, we work to make the connection between the opioid epidemic and HCV and HIV epidemics so that Congress might extend the attention given to substance use recovery services to include the infectious disease needs of people who use drugs.
I came to NASTAD a year ago to work on removing systemic barriers that impede drug user health. I had been providing direct services at a SSP and realized that I can only help people so much before hitting up against a broken system. I gave positive test results but couldn’t connect people with HCV treatment. I taught safe injection practices but couldn’t provide sterile supplies 24/7 because of the lack of funding for SSP. I provided naloxone to people who use drugs via standing order but people are often using alone out of shame and stigma and therefore dying alone. I want to erase the “but” and everything that comes afterwards. My time at NASTAD working with health departments has reinforced the unique role that health departments play in breaking down the silos between programs in order to address the comprehensive healthcare needs of people who use drugs; ways in which infectious disease programs are accelerating drug user health infrastructure and addressing stigma within healthcare settings. Last year, Congress adjusted a 30+ year ban on federal funding for syringe service programs. I know we still have a long way to go, but look how far we have come. We have more tools now – we can prevent overdose; we can save lives.
This blog is dedicated to all the people I have lost in my life to overdose: Zach, Derick, Brittany, Trey, Indie, Fuzzy, Ty, Will, Raven, and Kenny. May their loss prevent the loss of many more like them. Rest in peace my friends.
Learn more about overdose prevention by visiting www.overdoseday.com and reading these stories:
Overdose Prevention from a Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator’s Perspective
Andres’ story
The following resources were referenced for the development of this blog post:
Green TC et al. HIV infection and risk of overdose: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AIDS. 2012 Feb 20;26(4):403-17.
CDC. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance, 2011.
NIDA Research Report: “Prescription Drugs: Abuse and Addiction”
HHS Technical Consultation: Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Young Persons who Inject Drugs, 2013
NASTAD. Statement of Commitment: Promoting Injection Drug User Health
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A Checklist to Help You Spot Hearing Loss
Even in the earliest months of life, babies begin learning how to communicate by listening to and imitating the sounds they hear around them. But if your baby has a hearing problem, his or her ability to speak and understand language could be affected. That’s why it’s important for parents to recognize the signs of hearing impairment early. Roughly half of children with hearing impairments have no risk factors for it.
Early detection and treatment of hearing impairment can help avoid speech delays and other communication problems. But experts say many hearing-impaired children aren’t diagnosed early enough. This could be because many parents don't know the signs of hearing loss. Hearing loss can also accompany other disabilities and could be overlooked.
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders offers this checklist to help you recognize signs of a hearing problem at various stages throughout your baby’s first year.
At birth to 3 months, does your child:
React to loud sounds?
Seem soothed by your voice?
Turn his or her head when you speak?
Smile when spoken to?
At 3 to 6 months, does your child:
Look up or turn toward a new sound?
Respond to “no” and changes in tone of voice?
Imitate his or her own voice?
Enjoy rattles and other sound-making toys?
Begin to repeat sounds (like “ooh” and “ba-ba”)?
Seem scared by loud sounds?
At 6 to 10 months, does your child:
Respond to his or her name, a ringing phone, or someone’s soft voice?
Know words for common things (“cup,” “shoe”) and sayings (“bye-bye”)?
Make babbling sounds, even if alone?
Start to respond to requests such as “come here”?
Look at things or pictures when someone talks about them?
At 10 to 15 months, does your child:
Play with his or her voice, enjoying the sound and feel of it?
Point to or look at familiar objects or people when asked to do so?
Imitate simple words and sounds, and use a few single words meaningfully?
Enjoy games like peek-a-boo?
If you answered no to any of these questions, talk with your pediatrician. Even if it’s not a hearing loss issue, there may be another medical problem that is hindering your child’s development.
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The Division has state-of-the art oceanographic and survey equipments required for acquisition of field data for implementation of different projects of the Division. Some of these are:
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures current speed and direction by transmitting high-frequency bursts of sound though the water column. Particles in the water column scatter the sound back to the ADCP, which listens for these echoes, records them as data, and labels the different depths from which they have returned. Motion of the particles in the water column (such as movement with the current) causes the echoes to change in frequency. The ADCP measures this change, the Doppler shift, to determine current speed and direction at the different depths in the water column. The ADCP can measure current velocities through the water column either looking vertically downwards or vertically upwards. The measurement can be from a moving boat for synoptic current measurement of a large area or moored on the seabed.
Valeport & Dobie Wave Gauge
Valeport is also called as Directional Wave Recorder used for measuring waves and tides with a direction measuring mechanism called a flux gate compass and Valeport 2-axis EM current sensor. It has a range of 0 to 360° with accuracy ±1° and resolution 0.1°. It performs full onboard directional data analysis, allowing real time directional information at an unsurpassed 2° resolution. It is a cost-effective solution to directional wave monitoring requirements in all shallow water coastal applications. The current sensor works in the range ±5 m/s with accuracy of ±1% and a resolution 0.001m/s. This “PUV” type wave recorder use Linear Wave Theory to analyse the pressure and current oscillations generated by the wave action. The data processing is all carried out on board, giving you descriptive statistics, energy spectra, and high resolution directional spectra all in real time. All the raw data is logged as well, so it can be used in customised post-processing routines as well.
Dobie Wave Gauge is a self-recording system based on a pressure sensor to measure waves and water level changes. The Dobie is mounted inside a cylindrical steel housing welded to a steel gate that provided a stable platform resistant to sinking into the sea floor. When waves are passing overhead the Dobie deployed at the seabed, the fluctuating pressure, associated with the rising and falling of water, is recorded by the instrument. The fluctuations in pressure due to waves actually decrease in amplitude with depth below the mean water level (MWL), and the rate of decrease with depth depends on the wave period. Thus, pressure under long period waves can be readily felt, and measured at depth, but pressure fluctuations under short-period waves may not actually penetrate to the same depth.
S4 Current Meter:
S4 Current meter (spherical yellow colour) attached to stainless steel frame. The Dobie wave gauge is also seen attached to the same frame at one corner.
S4-Current meter – an electromagnetic current meter manufactured by InterOcean – is used to record near-bed water velocities. The S4 is designed to measure true magnitude and direction of horizontal current motion in any water environment. Water flows through the electromagnetic field created by the instrument, produces a voltage (potential gradient), which is proportional to the magnitude of the water velocity past the sensor. This voltage is then sensed by the two pairs of titanium electrodes located symmetrically on the equator of the sensor.
Shallow Seismic Profiler
The Shallow Seismic Profiler or FM Sub Bottom Profiler manufactured by M/s. Edge Tech, USA is a versatile field instrument used for studying the stratigraphic structure and nature of the bottom sediments in the water bodies. It generates cross-sectional images of the seabed or lake and collects digital normal incidence reflection data over frequency range 2 to 16 kHz.
The sub-bottom profiler system consists of three components viz., the deck unit consisting of processor, amplifier, monitor, keyboard and track ball and the under water unit consisting of underwater cable and a towed vehicle. A 12-bit D/A converter generate the FM pulse. This FM signal is amplified approximately to100 V p-p by linear power amplifier in the deck unit. A piston transducer source converts the high voltage signal to an acoustic pulse. The acoustic returns from the sea floor are measured with the receiving array. The preamplifier mounted on the tow vehicle amplifies the output of the receiving array. A digital matched filter compresses the FM data into a sequence of high-resolution reflections. This passes into filters to display different bands of the processed spectrum. This instrument allows the user to select two overlapping frequency bands within the total bandwidth of the tow vehicle. The sonar display shows two sub-bottom images, one for each of the selected bands. The overlapping frequency bands enable the user to observe sediment structure of the bottom in different frequency bands. The system has the ability to strip away the water bodies and provide high-resolution sub-bottom images.
Piston Corer:
The Piston corer is a long, heavy tube with a gravity weight attached on top, that is used to collect the sediment core from sea or lakes. The corer can be operated from the mechanised boat with a davit and winch facility. Corer can operated easily in areas of soft sea or lake bottoms where the penetration is higher resulting in the recovery of long cores. The sediment cores are useful in studying the Quarternary paleoclimate, sedimentology and volcanic history.
Echo sounder:
Echo sounder is used for depth measurement, and preparing the bathymetric map and data input for numerical modeling. The echo sounder used in the study is a portable shallow water echo sounder capable of measuring up to a depth of 60m. It operates with a combined 35/200 kHz transducer as transmitting and receiving transducer. The transducer can be mounted at the boat’s bottom or as portable version attached on the side of the boat/vessel. It can be operated at four depth ranges :0-18m, 15-33m, 30-48m and 45-63m with an accuracy of 0.25% of selected scale range. The echo sounder uses analogue recording paper for recording the bottom echo. The analogue data can be read for the precise depths at different positions.
Differential Global Positioning System:
GPS is a navigational aid, which is used to locate the position and altitude based on satellite positioning. The equipment used for position fixing initially was the Magellan GPS NAV 5000, which is manufactured by Magellan Systems Corporation, California. The NAV 5000 is generally capable of better than 100 meters horizontal accuracy in autonomous operation. It uses five channels working simultaneously to locate and collect data from the GPS satellites. The data received from the satellites is rapidly processed to compute current position, altitude, velocity and navigational data in less than one minute. Though it can compute the altitude it is not a reliable estimate. A Real Time Kinematic GPS- SR9400 with accuracy of the order of 1m was procured subsequently under the project. This is manufactured by Leica, Switzerland. It consists of two sets of receiver and controller, one as a base unit and the other as a rover unit. The real time surveying is made possible by using a radio modem, which links between the base and the rover.
Sediment Traps:
The sediment trap is a field instrument when deployed in the sea, provides the quantum of suspended sediment load in the seawater over a period of time. It is made of PVC pipe with a diameter of 9 cm and length 35 cm. The bottom end is closed using an end cap. Two types of sediment traps could be used. Those placed in the bottom layers or in zones of high sedimentation have a nozzle or a reducer in the top to provide a reduced opening of 4 cm. This is to take care of the anticipated higher sediment load in the bottom layers that might result in overfilling. Further from the seabed where the suspended load is less, there is no need for a nozzle. The trap, which is kept very close to the bottom, is made in such a way that it can be kept in a horizontal position with an opening on its side using a connector. The sediment traps mounted on the sensor housing are open when deployed in the sea. Before retrieval the traps are closed by sending a diver to the depth of deployment.
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Our List of High-Volume, Pro-Trump Twitter Accounts Up to 450
Dec 9th - As we have previously discussed, we’ve begun a project to locate and publicize high volume pro-Trump accounts on Twitter. These “amplifiers” are a critical part of the modern social media ecosystem and are also an important part of how Trump and his allies move their narratives through the body politic here in the US. It's our sense that all of us need to get a better understanding of these accounts and how they influence our domestic discourse.
You can find some of the most aggressive accounts below, or you can see all 450 of the accounts we’ve found so far in the attached pdf. Feel free to use this information for whatever work you are doing in this space. Our goal is get a better sense of how many of accounts like these are out there – is it a few hundred? A few thousand? More? Help us figure that out.
List updated as of 12/09/19 930am.
The House Should Consider Breaking Impeachment Into Three Parallel Tracks
I have a new essay on up on GEN, a Medium affiliate, which makes the case that the House should break the Impeachment process into three parallel tracks: the crimes, the co-conspirators, a security review. You can read it on GEN, link above, or below.
The House Should Consider Breaking Impeachment Intro Three Parallel Tracks
Given Republicans’ stated intent to turn the Senate impeachment trial into a wildly partisan Sean Hannity-inspired circus, it is critical the House keep the inquiry into the Trump-Ukraine affair open past the trial — it must be far more challenging for the president to corruptly claim exoneration, as he did, malevolently, in the Mueller process.
The more we have come to understand about President Donald Trump’s months-long effort to illegally pressure two Ukrainian governments into doing political favors for him, the more difficult it has become for the House to move swiftly and to keep the process “narrow.”
Consider what we’ve learned: We know now the scandal involves many more people than just the president — dozens perhaps. A parallel federal criminal investigation into the scandal is currently underway. Already, two Trump associates have been arrested, implicating the president, Rep. Devin Nunes, Rudy Giuliani, and others. And once again, the scandal raises the spectacle of Russia’s influence over the president and his team — an issue so serious it cannot be wished away.
Breaking impeachment into three tracks will allow the House to make an initial set of time-sensitive criminal charges for the Senate to consider.
The Mueller investigation took almost two years. Ken Starr looked into Bill Clinton for more than four. The House has been scrutinizing Trump’s interactions with Ukraine for only a few months, and while some brave administration officials have come forward to testify, access to critical witnesses and documents has been illicitly withheld by the president. There is a real chance that a swift and narrowly focused process that ends in a few weeks with the president’s “exoneration” by the Senate will prevent the American people from seeing the complete picture of what has happened. This would allow senior government officials who have committed crimes to walk away without being held accountable.
So, to best serve the American people and fulfill its constitutional obligations, Congress should consider breaking down the impeachment process into three separate tracks: focusing on the criminal, the co-conspirators, and a national security review. Let’s look at each in turn.
Track one: Clearly establish the president’s crimes
In the coming weeks, and in preparation for an early 2020 Senate trial, the House should develop its core argument for why President Trump’s removal is required and why it should happen now, before the 2020 elections. Congress can establish that the president broke election laws in 2016 and illegally obstructed a legitimate investigation into his campaign throughout 2017 and 2018. In the Ukraine affair he has done it again — broken election laws and illegally obstructed. If he is not removed, it is reasonable to assume that he will attempt to break laws again next year. As sworn guardians of the Constitution, the House just cannot let that happen.
While the House can establish the gravity of the president bribing and extorting a foreign ally, Democrats must also bear down on the repeated election law violations and work to explain just how serious a crime “cheating” is in a system like ours. It speaks to a profound contempt for democracy, a disregard for what at the end of the day has been the central source of American greatness. It is the very definition of a “high crime” — a crime not against a person but the very idea of America itself.
In the recent press conference announcing the arrest and indictment of two of Trump’s associates in the Ukraine affair, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, law enforcement officials went out of their way to explain the gravity of election law violations. FBI Assistant Director William Sweeney declared, “These allegations aren’t about some technicality, a civil violation, or an error on a form. This investigation is about corrupt behavior and deliberate lawbreaking.”
The Justice Department has a decades-long policy of declining to prosecute a sitting president, but former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner has a compelling argument for why election law violations should be exempt from this policy. “If a president can act unlawfully to influence an election, he does not deserve the protections of his ill-gotten office,” Kirschner wrote. “This incongruity encourages lawlessness in the quest for the presidency and then rewards that lawlessness by inoculating the criminal president against prosecution. Such a construct is dangerous.” In other words, unless Congress and the Department of Justice aggressively punish election law violations, we will be creating huge incentives for Trump and future candidates to make cheating a core part of their electoral strategy.
What ethical leader has had so many around him fall under investigation, or get indicted or jailed? Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Igor Fruman, Rick Gates, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort, Devin Nunes, George Papadopoulous, Lev Parnas, Richard Pinedo, Roger Stone, and Alex van der Zwaan. Or so many Cabinet officials resign due to scandal? Rampant criminal activity and lawlessness around Trump is something that will also need to be firmly established in the months ahead.
It is evident that the president is a serial criminal and should be removed from office. That he has repeatedly violated U.S. election laws and cheated and committed crimes against our democracy itself makes his removal before the 2020 general election an urgent and patriotic endeavor.
Track two: Prosecute the co-conspirators
In order to allow Congress to focus on the case against the president, the House should create a process where his co-conspirators in the crimes of bribery, extortion, election law violations, and obstruction of Congress are allowed to face the evidence against them and defend themselves in public. This should be separate from the parallel federal criminal investigation that’s currently ongoing. Perhaps Congress can focus on one conspirator per day, and at the end of each proceeding, the House Committee overseeing this process can vote on whether the evidence available and testimony warrants a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
Fortunately, the DOJ has already established a team overseeing the criminal prosecution of those in the Ukraine affair. The House-led criminal referrals can be made directly to that established team. In theory, the whole process can be completed in a few weeks, and executed shortly after the Senate trial ends for expediency’s sake.
Among those who should be compelled to defend their actions are Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Attorney General William Barr, and others the House has reason to believe committed crimes in service of the president’s illegal scheme.
Track three: Review how the president has damaged our national security
In the Ukraine affair, the evidence suggests the president put his own interests above those of the United States; he not only betrayed the nation, but also, in the process, damaged our standing in the world and national security. Even more evidence suggests this is not the only time the president has done this, and Congress must investigate his dealings with Russia and all other nations. The awful possibility that the president has serially betrayed the nation, leaving us far weaker on the global stage, is such a grave matter that it must undergo a thorough review that is separate from the more rapid consideration of his recent lawbreaking.
At the very core of this security review should be a comprehensive assessment of the president’s repeated actions to benefit our most significant historic adversary, Russia. Wherever one looks in the world, one sees the American president taking steps to align our policies with Russia’s foreign policy aims, weakening America and elevating Vladimir Putin: the years-long refusal to condemn Putin’s repeated attacks our democracy, his decision to abandon Syria and the Kurds, his reversal in Venezuela, his efforts to undermine Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Ukraine, his embrace of Brexit and denigration of Europe and NATO, his recent easing up on Iran, and his withdrawal from the Paris climate accords. Just in the past few days, new worries have emerged about his ultimate aims in Afghanistan and Lebanon. The cumulative record is astonishing.
Trump’s lawlessness and his repeated willingness to dangerously sacrifice our national interests leaves Congress no choice but to proceed.
That a week ago the president repeated a false and frankly ridiculous story, which originated in Russia about the 2016 attack on America’s democracy, adds fresh urgency to this vital task.
A security review would be the most serious of all the steps Congress could take in the coming months, and should not have any timetable associated with it. While the review could be led by the Intelligence Committee and look and feel a lot like what we’ve experienced over the past month or so, the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees should be expected to proceed with concurrent public hearings and investigations to help ensure a thorough and complete review. Efforts should be made to allow those members with significant national security experience to play leading roles in the proceedings.
In order to conduct these investigations with the kind of thoroughness that the American public would expect, Congress should work to aggressively compel the Department of Justice to turn over all materials gathered by Robert Mueller in his two-year-long look at Russia’s efforts to penetrate and influence domestic U.S. politics. That the full Mueller report has still never been turned over to Congress remains among the significant outrages of the Trump era.
There is a powerful logic for Congress to move swiftly to remove the president. He has shown a dramatic disregard for U.S. election law; that cannot stand. Breaking impeachment into three tracks will allow the House to make an initial set of time-sensitive criminal charges for the Senate to consider, keep the criminal inquiry open in case more matters arise, hold those who have been involved in the president’s vast Ukraine conspiracy accountable, and conduct a thorough review of the damage done to U.S. national security by the president’s illicit foreign dealings.
Congress was reluctant to go down this path. But the president’s lawlessness and his repeated willingness to dangerously sacrifice our national interests leaves Congress no choice but to proceed, and to do so in a way which reminds the American people and the world that this great democracy is something very much worth fighting for.
Analysis: Trump Is The Least Popular First-Term President Since WW2
This piece was originally published on May 1st, 2019 and was updated with the latest polling data on November 21st, 2019.
Since the midterm elections last November, perceptions of Trump's popularity have swung rapidly as highly visible controversies such as the government shutdown and the release of the Mueller Report and Barr Summary have unfolded. Over the next few weeks, I'll take a look at some interesting developments in the polling, including Trump's popularity, the Democratic presidential primary, and the general election in 2020, and will comment on important take-aways from the data.
To start, how popular is Trump right now? While much of the conventional wisdom still portrays the President as a strong figure, the reality is that he continues to be by far the most unpopular first-term President in the modern era. According to FiveThirtyEight, Trump today sits at a -11.7 net approval rate. How does this compare to previous Presidents? Firstly, the lowest net approval rate that either Obama or George W. Bush hit during the entirety of their first 3 years in office was -8.7, so Trump is significantly lower than his immediate predecessors. Secondly, looking at all 11 Presidents since 1953, net approval at this point in their first term averaged +14.6, so Trump is more than 25 net points worse than his predecessors (and this average isn't skewed by potential problems with polling several decades ago - the average net approval of just Obama, Clinton, both Bushes, and Reagan at this point in their terms was +9.8).
Finally, let's look at how often Presidents over the past 60 years have experienced the type of heightened disapproval that Trump sees today. From Eisenhower until Obama, looking only at the first 3 years of each President's first term, Presidential net approval has been at -10 or worse for a total of 262 days (or just 2.0% of the time). By contrast, Trump has been under -10 net approval for 871 days (or 84.1% of the time).
In the 2018 midterm elections, this dramatic level of disapproval (-10.4 net on November 8, 2018 compared to -11.7 today) led to Democrats winning the popular vote by the largest margin of any midterm since 1986. Also within that midterm victory was a significant rejection of Trump by almost all of the emerging demographic groups that will form an increasingly large share of the US electorate in years to come, especially non-white and young voters. This trend has only accelerated since election day. According to Civiqs polling data, Trump today has a -36 net approval rate among voters under age 35, and is -49 among Latino voters. Similarly, the Republican Party currently has a net favorability rate of -42 among under 35s and -50 among Latinos, whereas the Democratic Party is net even among under 35s and +22 among Latinos. This represents an enormous decline since 2004, when George W. Bush actually won voters under 45 and lost Latino voters by only 9 points.
While much of the media continues to hold up Trump as a powerful political figure who can conjure up electoral victories out of nothing, in fact he continues to be the most unpopular first-term president in over six decades and is leading Republicans down the path of the California GOP by ignoring those demographic groups that will over the next decade become more and more critical to winning elections. Indeed, the future for Republicans in critical battleground states looks grim, with voters under 35 disapproving of Trump by a net 34 points in Pennsylvania and 28 points in Florida. Even in solid red states, Trump is losing the argument with the next generation of voters, with net approval among under 35s at -25 in Texas and -13 in Mississippi.
Is VP Biden In Better Shape Than Conventional Wisdom Holds Right Now?
While Mayor Pete has deservedly gotten headlines for his strong showing in the early states this week, an equally consequential shift seems to be happening in the national polling. Using the RealClearPolitics Democratic Primary aggregate, the Vice President has gone from even with Elizabeth Warren on Oct 5th (26-26) to up 13 today (31-18). Today's newly released YouGov national poll, which has historically been the best pollster for Warren, went from Warren up 3 last week (29-26) to Biden up 8 this week (30-22).
A review of the early state polls also finds Biden in a very competitive position in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and far ahead in the more ethnically diverse states which follow. According to RealClearPolitics, Biden is ahead of Warren for 2nd place in Iowa by 1 point and behind her for 1st place in New Hampshire by 2 points. Meanwhile, he is up 19 in South Carolina, 9 in Nevada, 10 in Texas, and 17 in North Carolina. Warren seems to have lost ground in most polls we’ve reviewed in recent weeks; and one has to wonder whether the President’s efforts to smear Biden with Ukraine is actually backfiring on the GOP, and making him into a stronger national figure.
For more on NDN's insights into the 2020 elections, click here.
NDN Calls on Pres. Trump To Forcefully Condemn Russian Attacks on US Politicians
In response to the news that Facebook took down a sophisticated Russian-based malign influence campaign involving Democrats running for President, NDN is calling on the President and his Administration to take four immediate steps:
Denounce The Action, Implement Sanctions – The President should immediately denounce this interference in our domestic politics, ask the intelligence community to review Facebook’s findings, and if confirmed work with Congress to implement sanctions against Vladimir Putin himself, not just his government.
Work With Congress To Pass Bi-Partisan Election Protection Bills – The President should meet with Congress this week and settle on a package of bills he would sign which would improve our nation’s ability to protect itself from foreign interference.
Fill Critical Vacancies – The President should immediately appoint a permanent DHS Secretary and work with the Senate to put a fourth Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, turning it back on.
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Syria Fiasco Makes The Case For Removing Trump Far Stronger
Trump’s reckless decision to surrender Syria to Russia and Turkey has made the case for his removal far stronger. For we now have clear evidence of the threat posed by leaving this desperate and dangerous man in office for the next 15 months – Russia strengthened, ISIS revived, and America humiliated. Removing him to prevent further damage - and yes there is much more damage he could do to America and our interests - is now an urgent task, something that cannot wait to the election in 2020.
That this decision also involved a country where the President has hundreds of opaque investments also gives the House’s quest for greater visibility into his finances more gravity. As we’ve seen in recent court decisions siding with the House on access to information, and the cooperation of top Trump officials with the Intel Committee, the absurd blockade that Barr, Trump, and the White House have erected has begun to erode. The scope of the Ukraine scandal remains extraordinary, as it involves not just Trump but Pence, Pompeo, Barr, Perry, Mulvaney, Maguire, Rudy, and dozens of staff. And as all of this once again involves felony level election law violations, it is time for Congress to force the re-opening of the FEC which was shuttered on August 26th, the same day that the White House learned the Ukraine scandal would become public.
At the Democratic debate tonight we should expect far more attention to urgent foreign policy matters, Syria/Ukraine/Russia, giving both Biden and Buttigieg a chance to better showcase their experience and competency on security issues. How Biden manages the President’s attacks on him and his family and their work in Ukraine could be one of the primary’s most important moments – and in my mind a huge opportunity for the Vice President. Trump himself, and impeachment, will also now be front and center – all in all it is likely to be a very different debate in tone and substance than what we’ve seen in the first three gatherings this year.
Trump Needs To Re-Open The FEC Right Now
This analysis was updated on the afternoon of October 9th, a few hours after it was posted.
While it is hard to keep track of the flood of malevolence flowing from the White House these days, I want to draw folks' attention to one action from Trump world that looks increasingly sinister - the shuttering of the Federal Election Commission, an independent regulatory body which enforces American election law.
The FEC has six commissioners, with no more than three from one party. This past summer the Commission was already in a depleted state, as the White House and Senator McConnell had left the FEC with only four Commissioners, three of whom were already serving past the expiration of their term. On August 26th, one of the two remaining Republican commissioners abruptly resigned, giving just five days notice before his departure, a highly unusual move in this process obsessed town. This left the FEC with only three commissioners (again all serving past their terms), not enough to achieve a quorum. More than a month later neither the White House nor Senator McConnell have announced plans to re-open nominations or bring to a vote any new nominee. The FEC appears to have been taken off line permanently by Trump and McConnell just as the 2020 campaign ramps up.
For some perspective, here is how the New York Times covered the departure of the 4th FEC commissioner in its August 26th edition:
The resignation of Vice Chairman Matthew S. Petersen, announced on Monday and scheduled for the end of August, will effectively freeze the F.E.C.’s governance, leaving it one person short of a quorum and thus unable to take on some of its most basic actions, including holding board meetings, starting audits, making new rules and levying fines for campaign finance violations.
“Voters should be extremely concerned,” said Ann M. Ravel, a Democrat and former F.E.C. chairwoman who stepped down in 2017 and who has not been replaced. “If you do not have the ability to do any kind of enforcement, then there isn’t any kind of respect for the law.”
It is course scandalous that the White House would allow our election watchdog agency to be taken offline given Russia's successful undermining of our elections in 2016 and judgments from all, including the new Senate Intel Committee report, that these activities haven't ceased and that our elections are in danger again this time. But a review of new reporting and a timeline of recent events suggests something more venal and permicious about the timing of the FEC's shuttering - for the FEC was shut down on the very same day that the White House learned that credible allegations the President broke felony level election laws here in the US would become public, and just 12 days after a criminal referral of the President was made to the DOJ by the CIA's general counsel. Let's review:
July 26 - Original whistleblower memo written, quotes US official who had been on the Trump-Zelensky call this way - "the official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official's view, the President had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own reelection bid in 2020."
Aug 12 – Ukraine whistleblower complaint filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
Aug 14 – CIA General Counsel makes criminal referral to Department of Justice about the President’s actions based on the whistleblower report. Among possible laws broken include election laws. How the White House and DOJ became aware of the potential legal problems for the President and other senior Administration staff. One would assume significant efforts to mitigate potential damages began on this date.
Aug 22 - In a somewhat suprising turn of events, the President announces he will force a debate at the upcoming G7 about lifting sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Demonstrates how front of mind Ukraine is to the President at this moment, and how extensive the explicit and implicit threats to Zelensky were during this period. Indeed the G7 meeting which runs from Aug 24-26 features a very public and spirited debate about forgiving Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Aug 26 – DNI Maguire officially notified of "credible" and "urgent" whistleblower complaint by the IC Inspector General. Initiates process which guarentees that at some point the complaint will become public.
Aug 26 – Also on this day, the FEC is hastily taken off line by the unanticipated resignation of Commissioner Petersen.
Sept 26 - Whistleblower complaint released, first time we learn of Attorney General Barr's direct involvement in the scandal. DOJ admits they reviewed whether the President broke any laws, and importantly, cleared him of breaking US election law (NDN believes this argument, like so many legal arguments emenating from the WH and DOJ these days is absurd on its face, and any official public or private who pressured Ukraine for information on Biden committed felony level election law violations).
Reviewing the timeline, WH/DOJ learn on Aug 14th of potential election law violations by the President and other senior advisors, including potentially the Attorney General himself. DOJ, after an unserious review of the charges, rules the President broke no laws. However, in the interim, the independent regulatory body overseeing US election law is hastily taken off line in a move that can now only be understood as preventing any kind of investigation into these charges outside the control of the President's compliant DOJ.
Calls for the re-opening of the Federal Election Commission should be very loud now. It is bad enough Trump and McConnell have blocked several common sense bills which would have made our elections far more secure. But it cannot be that they get away with taking the FEC offline this cycle, particularly as the issue of whether there was a huge criminal conspiracy to violate US election laws by Trump, his Administration, and his advisors has already become central to the 2020 campaign; and Russia, Iran, and other nations are likely to attack our democracy once again.
As I wrote in this essay a few months ago, crimes which undermine our elections and our democracy more broadly are the gravest "high crimes" a President can commit while in office, and need to be understood that way.
Our Mad King
Part of what made the investigation into Trump and Russia so challenging was its size, complexity, and significance. The nation is about to face a prolonged look into a far bigger scandal now, one which will soon be understood to be the biggest scandal in all of our history – the Ukraine affair. It involves not just the President and his family, but his entire government – Pence, Pompeo, Barr, Maguire, Perry, and Mulvaney – and dozens of staffers at the WH, State, and DOJ. It of course is also directly tied to the still unresolved first big scandal, Trump and Russia, as the President throughout this Ukrainian debacle has seemed far more interested in advancing Russia’s interests than our own.
Which brings us to what happened late last night – without warning, consultation, or deliberation, and overruling his advisers, the President decided to pull American troops out of Syria altogether, abandoning our allies the Kurds and leaving open the possibility of a resurgence of ISIS. I will let this early thread from former US Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS Brett McGurk explain it all, but of course this new Syria policy directly benefits Russia and Putin, who’ve wanted the US out of their client state for many years now; and sends a very Russian inspired signal that the US is indeed feckless, unreliable, and weak - a spent force on the global stage. The gravity of the moment cannot be overstated.
The President’s recklessness here, and making big calls which do not clearly advance the interests of the United States, is why his removal from office is an urgent national priority now. There is no version of the Founder’s vision which contemplated a Presidency like this one – it was indeed the very thing they worked so hard to prevent for our young and inspiring nation. Additionally, the further damage he could do to the US – through ignorance and incompetence, fealty to Putin, and greed and corruption – is just far too great to leave him in office any longer.
Finally, on the 2020 landscape. The Dems debate next week – will be important. Early polls on Trump’s impeachment are far worse for him than any of us could have imagined, and show what a weakened state he’s in. Fears about Dem overreach appear completely unfounded at this point. Trump should be removed, and the nation appears ready to see him go.
NDN Statement On Trump's Threatened European Tariffs
In light of this week’s WTO ruling on European subsidies to Airbus and the Administration’s announcement of new tariffs on $7.5 billion of EU imports effective October 18th, NDN President Simon Rosenberg has released the following statement:
“NDN welcomes this week’s WTO ruling against illegal state aid to Airbus, and hopes that this decision can help bring an end to the decades-long Airbus/Boeing conflict. However, NDN is very concerned by the Administration’s announcement of new tariffs on the EU, and urges the Administration to drop the tariff threat before new escalation occurs between the US and the Europeans.
The US also provides illegal state aid to Boeing, a case that will be ruled upon by the WTO in coming months, and the WTO in this week’s ruling strongly hinted that they would deliver the same result to the US, stating that: “The WTO has already found that the US failed to address illegal subsidies causing harm to Airbus. This will provide the EU with ground to claim countermeasures on US products at a level that could exceed US sanctions.”
As a result, NDN hopes that the Trump administration will now forgo its announced tariffs and enter direct negotiations with the EU to reduce state subsidies to both Airbus and Boeing. Anything less can only be seen as a reckless escalation of trade tensions by President Trump that isn’t intended to solve the Airbus/Boeing conflict. With the global economy already suffering immensely from trade tensions, and US manufacturing contracting at its worst level since 2009, a new trade war between the US and EU will only cause greater economic pain both at home and abroad.
Finally, Speaker Pelosi should make clear to the President that advancing the trade pact with Mexico and Canada will be far easier if the Administration lessens trade tensions with Europe and China. Congress cannot appear to be looking the other way when it comes to the President’s reckless trade policies. An escalating trade war with Europe will make it much harder to sell the propriety of the President’s trade policies to the public, and to wavering Democrats.”
New Polls Show Impeachment Moving Into Dangerous Territory For Trump
Submitted by Chris Taylor on 10/1/19
When Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment inquiry against President Trump on September 24th, all eyes turned towards the move’s impact on public opinion. While Trump has been the consistently least popular first-term President in the postwar era, Americans have in fact largely opposed impeachment proceedings, something which undoubtedly played a role in Democrats’ hesitation to fully embrace impeachment. However, over the past week, public opinion has dramatically changed, and it is now very likely that more Americans support both an impeachment inquiry and impeaching the President than oppose them.
First, support for starting an impeachment inquiry has significantly increased over the past week. Five polls – CNBC, CBS, Politico, The Hill, and Monmouth – asked this question both in August/early September and this past week. Averaging those five polls together, just 38.8% of Americans supported the inquiry in August/early September, compared to 50% who opposed it (net -11.2 percentage points). Over this past week, however, those same polls found that 47.6% of Americans supported the inquiry, compared to just 44% who opposed it (net +3.6pp). In a matter of days, support for the inquiry increased by a net 14.8pp, a very significant development given that new information involving the Ukraine scandal and others continues to surface daily.
Net Support For An Impeachment Inquiry
Second, and potentially more surprising, support for the outright impeachment of Trump has now risen to a plurality of Americans. Five polls – Quinnipiac, CNN, Ipsos, Civiqs, and Monmouth – have asked this question in August/early September and this past week (some of these polls specify impeachment and removal, while others just say impeachment). Averaging those five polls together, only 39% of Americans supported impeaching Trump in August/early September, compared to 52% who opposed it (net -13pp). Over this past week, however, support for impeachment surged to 46.4%, compared to 46.2% who opposed it, meaning that a slightly larger number of Americans want Trump impeached now versus those who do not.
Net Support For Impeachment
Finally, this rapid change in support for impeachment proceedings has been paralleled by a large drop in Trump’s approval rating over just the past week. On September 24th, the day that Pelosi launched the inquiry, Trump’s net approval stood at -9.8 according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling aggregate. In just seven days, it has fallen to -12.1. This decline of 2.3pp is especially notable because, over the 20 months from January 2018 to the present, the total range of Trump’s net approval has been just 7.8pp (from a low of -16.7 to a high of -8.9). As a result, this decline in just 7 days represents almost 1/3 of the entire movement in Trump’s approval over the past two years.
Overall, then, this first round of polling since the Ukraine scandal and the beginning of the impeachment inquiry represents very dangerous territory for the President. Larger numbers of Americans want him impeached than not, and this is before the House of Representatives conducts new impeachment hearings and likely even more leaks from the White House, two events that could increase support for impeachment even further.
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Iran and Bulgaria Pledge to Deepen Ties
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Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, in a meeting in Turkmenistan’s Awaza, on the sidelines of the First Caspian Economic Forum, voiced their countries’ resolution to develop bilateral relations, writes Tehran Times.
During the meeting on Monday, Jahangiri and Borissov discussed the avenues for boosting the level of economic cooperation between the two countries.
Jahangiri expressed Iran’s readiness to enhance ties with Sofia in a wide range of economic fields, especially in the transportation of goods and road transit.
Borissov also said the two countries share considerable capacities in expanding their all-out cooperation, highlighting that the already good relations between Tehran and Sofia will improve in the near future.
In March, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the then chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, and Bulgarian Parliament Deputy Speaker Veselin Mareshki, in a meeting in Tehran, called for tapping into the two countries’ potentials for broader bilateral relations.
Early in February, Bulgarian President's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Dimitar Arnaudov, in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi, said that the nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers is of high importance to regional and international security, and Sofia completely supports it.
Bulgarian official expressed hope that political consultations between the two countries would lead to the further development of political, economic and cultural relations.
Bulgaria attaches great importance to developing relations with a country that plays a key role in the Middle East region, he added.
He described the JCPOA as a key element in preserving peace in the Middle East and announced his country fully supports the deal.
In a related front, late in January, Bulgarian Transport Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov underlined his country's firm decision to continue cooperation with Iran despite the U.S. pressures and sanctions.
Zhelyazkov made the remarks in his meeting with Araqchi.
He hailed historical and traditional relations between the two countries and the 120th anniversary of the establishment of the two countries’ political ties, saying close cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of his country’s priorities.
To revive the past economic relations and achieve the desired level of relations require taking advantage of transportation and agricultural capacities of the two countries, Zhelyazkov said.
He also voiced his country’s readiness for holding the 19th joint commission of the two countries in the near future.
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House of Handsome in Dormont. Photo Courtesy of Michael B.
House of Handsome brings glamorous grooming to Dormont
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As I interviewed him about his new business, House of Handsome, Michael B. was proud to show off his in-house facial cream made with 24-karat gold leaf.
In a room that looks more like an upscale supper club than a traditional barbershop, House of Handsome Barbershop & Boutique in Dormont offers haircuts and shaves. But you’ll also find bottles of bourbon-scented shampoos and conditioners, and the house-made cologne ($92) scented with orchids.
Along with the gold-flecked face cream, House of Handsome has its own brand of tobacco-scented conditioner. The price of a shave starts at $40. And forget bringing in your rambunctious little boy for a buzz cut after baseball practice: This upscale space has a politely worded no-children-allowed policy.
NEXTpittsburgh writer Bill O’Toole getting groomed at House of Handsome in Dormont.
House of Handsome, located at 2906 W. Liberty Ave. and open seven days a week, fits snugly into the wave of “new traditional” hair stylists that continue to crop up around the city, even as traditional shops like Cercone’s remain staples in many neighborhoods.
When Michael begins his work on me, we start with a neck and shoulder massage, followed by a hot towel for the face. The week’s fragrance? Lemon jasmine.
As the cutting begins, Michael B. keeps up a steady patter of jokes and the kind of common sense haircare tips that our culture rarely gives to young men. He tells me several times, with evident pleasure, that I really needed a haircut.
“I like to take something that’s super rough, and craft it into something immaculate,” he says before the first snip.
Once the haircut is finished and the sea salt spray is applied, he asks if I have another 30 minutes to spare. I say yes, and ask what he has in mind.
Michael B. grins like the Cheshire Cat. “I guess we’ll see.”
This is where he brings out the hot wax. Four swabs. Two in the nostrils, one in each ear. After letting them set for a few minutes, Michael B. pulls them out of my face with a flourish.
The discomfort is minimal. The difference, for a hairy man, is life-changing. Now I’m ready for my facial.
As strange as some of this might sound to the regulars at traditional neighborhood barbershops, there is actually a direct link between the two.
Many of Michael B.’s cutting-edge services are a throwback to a Kennedy-era sense of cool. You can easily picture Don Draper from “Mad Men” reclining in one of the monogrammed black leather chairs with a glass of bourbon in hand.
Michael B. himself wears a suit vest while he works, and his dad comes in several times a week to give shoe shines.
(Note: despite several attempts, NEXTpittsburgh was unable to learn what the cryptic “B” in Michael’s name stands for. “That’s been my trade name since I started cutting hair in Pittsburgh,” was the most information we could extract.)
So despite the many ways that the newly opened House of Handsome, which bills itself online as “offering an elegant, unparalleled grooming experience,” is a departure from the deliberately un-glamorous barbershops that dot Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods, their goal is the same.
Solid skills and good haircuts always matter, but the real key to good barbering is less about style and more about the social, communal aspect of the experience.
In the end, Michael says, “it’s all about the person in the chair.”
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Jaime Guerrero’s exhibit at the Pittsburgh Glass Center sheds light on America’s refugee crisis.
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The glass sculptures of children stand silently, yet say so much about America’s refugee crisis.
Cuando el Río Suena (When the River Sounds), artist Jaime Guerrero’s exhibition at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, draws attention to the fragility of life and the dangers migrants face when they attempt to cross the U.S. border.
During a nine-month residency, Guerrero sculpted these 14 pieces using photographs of young detainees and asylum seekers as inspiration. The ones who died in custody are represented as guardian angels.
Photo by Nathan J. Shaulis. Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
“I wanted to illustrate the stories of real children who were going through the migration process,” Guerrero says. “They’re unknown and vague for a reason; they’re meant to disappear. It’s symbolic of the children whose faces we see on TV or in different news sources, but know nothing about.”
This striking body of work is displayed throughout the gallery. One life-sized sculpture is of a 2-year-old Honduran girl whose audio went viral as she was being separated from her mother while crossing the border. Although disturbing, the sounds and pictures from her experience help to humanize her for visitors to the Glass Center.
On view through Jan. 26, 2020, the exhibition also features hundreds of letters from people who have gone through the immigration process. A Los Angeles native, Guerrero started the project in his hometown by gathering stories of family separation from local residents. When the show moved to the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts, he started to receive letters from all over the world, including some from people who survived the Holocaust.
In addition to the letters on display, the exhibition features clothing and personal items collected, and discarded, at detention centers along the border. Fellow artist Tom Kiefer, who was working as a janitor at one of these facilities, salvaged nearly 10,000 pieces and photographed them for his own exhibition, El Sueño Americano (The American Dream), currently on view at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Guerrero, now a Pittsburgh resident, doesn’t consider his work political. But he’s aware that there are political undertones to it. Through his platform as an artist, his goal is to give a voice to the speechless.
Jamie Guerrero. Photo by Tracy Certo.
In conjunction with Cuando el Río Suena, the artist partnered with Casa San José, a community resource center based in Beechview that advocates for and empowers Latinos by promoting integration and self-sufficiency.
Guerrero, who has practiced the art of glass blowing for 25 years, is giving free lessons to children affiliated with Casa San José.
Pittsburgh Glass Center also invites local students to tour its facilities. In preparation for each gallery exhibition, they send out a curriculum to area educators and schools. It provides a way for teachers to bring the show into their classrooms before taking their pupils on a field trip.
“For Jaime’s show, we invited students to research their own migration and immigration history to see what stories and information they could find,” says Ashley McFarland, Pittsburgh Glass Center’s education and accessibility manager. “We then invited them to share these stories with us by coming to PGC, walking through a guided experience of Jaime’s exhibit and then leaving their story with us to potentially be displayed at another location. By exploring their own histories, we are hoping that this will help children at least identify with those talked about in the show.”
As his exhibition garners international attention, Guerrero, a husband and father, hopes to connect with some of the children and families depicted in Cuando el Río Suena.
Casa San JoseJaime GuerreroPittsburgh Glass Center
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Ada Lovelace and the Number-Crunching Machine
Zoë Tucker
NorthSouth Books
Marissa Moss
“light and breezy . . .”
Ada Byron Lovelace, the 19th century woman who invented coding as a way of giving instructions to computers, is the subject of this picture book. The tone is light and breezy, geared to very young children. Ada's numerous accomplishments and impressive experiments (she tried to invent a flying machine as a young girl) are described vaguely, “Ada loved numbers and solving problems. Big problems, little problems, and tricky complicated problems. She read all the books in the library, solved big sums, and invented crazy contraptions.”
These kinds of generalities may seem more suitable to younger readers, but the summary shortchanges both Ada and picture book readers. We never see any of her inventions, never experience her hard work and determination. Keeping the tone light throughout, the final insult comes when the author, Zoe Tucker, reduces the collaboration between Charles Babbage, the mathematician, and Ada to a fun invention, short-changing Ada for her role in computer science. “Charles imagined a big machine with lots of moving parts. The machine would be fed with large cards, each punched through with a pattern of holes. These holes would tell the machine what to do.”
Yes, in fact, Charles Babbage built an “analytical engine,” a mechanical machine that was the first computer. He demonstrated to Ada how you could turn gears to input a math problem, and the machine would calculate the answer. It was Ada, not Charles, who figured out that the computer needed mathematical instructions to work. These instructions are now called “coding,” what Tucker refers to as punch cards. Charles may have built the first computer, but Ada wrote the first code, figuring out first that coding was necessary to fully utilize the computer. In Tucker's book, it sounds as if Charles figured out coding. Ada just happened to write the first one. This is misleading at best, inaccurate at worst.
Fortunately there are three much better picture books already out about Ada Byron Lovelace and her truly impressive achievements. All three have very different tones and illustration styles, but any one of them is far better than this book. For lavish illustrations and a clear, compelling story about Ada from young girl to computer programmer, try Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark (herself a professor of computer science), illustrated by April Chu. For a similar story with more whimsical art, in a humorous Maira Kalman-like vein, try Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley, illustrated by Jessie Hartland. The writing is not quite as clear, but the cut-paper art is strong is Fiona Robinson's Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer. There is a wide choice of picture books out there about Ada and her singular achievement. Give this new one by Tucker a miss.
Marissa Moss is author and illustrator of numerous children's and young adult books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent titles are Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective and Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.
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Project Daedalus
By Thomas Hoover
Retired agent Michael Vance is approached for help on the same day by an old KGB adversary and a brilliant and beautiful NSA code breaker. While their problems seem at first glance to be different, Vance soon learns he’s got a potentially lethal tiger by the tail – a Japanese tiger. A secret agreement between a breakaway wing of the Russian military and the Yakuza, the Japanese crime lords, bears the potential to shift the balance or world power. The catalyst is a superplane that skims the edge of space – the ultimate in death-dealing potential. In a desperate union with an international force of intelligence mavericks, with megabillions and global supremacy at stake, Vance has only a few days to bring down a conspiracy that threatens to ignite nuclear Armageddon.
G-load is now eight point five. Pilot must acknowledge for power-up sequence to continue.
The cockpit computer was speaking in a simulated female voice, Russian with the Moscow accent heard on the evening TV newscast Vremya. The Soviet technicians all called her Petra, after that program's famous co-anchor.
Yuri Andreevich Androv didn't need to be told the force weighing down on him had reached eight and a half times the earth's gravity. The oxygen mask beneath his massive flight helmet was crushed against his nose and the skin seemed to be sliding off his skull, while sweat from his forehead poured into his eyes and his lungs were plastered against his diaphragm.
Auto termination will commence in five seconds unless you acknowledge. Petra paused for a beat, then spoke again: Four seconds to shutdown . . . He could sense the blood draining from his cerebral vascular system, his consciousness trying to drift away. He knew that against these forces the human heart could no longer pump enough oxygen to the brain. Already he was seeing the telltale black dots at the edge of his vision.
It's begun, he thought. The "event." Don't, don't let it happen. Make your brain work. Make it.
Three seconds . . .
The liquid crystal video screens inside his flight helmet seemed to be fading from color to black and white, even as his vision closed to a narrow circle. The "tunnel" was shrinking to nothing. The first stage of a G-induced blackout was approximately two and a half seconds away.
You've done this a hundred times before at the Ramenskoye Flight Test Center, he told himself. You're Russia’s best test pilot. Now just do it.
He leaned back in the seat to lower his head another few millimeters, then grasped for the pressure control on his G-suit, the inflatable corset that squeezed critical blood paths. He ignored the pain as its internal pressure surged, gripping his torso and lower legs like a vise and forcing blood upward to counter the accumulation at his feet.
Two seconds . . .
With his right hand he rotated a black knob on the heavy sidestick grip and turned up the oxygen feed to his mask, an old trick from fighter training school that sometimes postponed the "event" for a few milliseconds.
Most importantly, though, he strained as if constipated in the snow, literally pushing his blood higher—the best maneuver of all. He liked to brag that he had upped his tolerance three G's through years of attempting to crap in his blue cotton undersuit.
It was working. The tunnel had begun to widen out again. He'd gained a brief reprieve.
"Acknowledged." He spoke to Petra, then reached down with his left hand and flicked forward the second blue switch behind the throttle quadrant, initiating the simulated hydrogen feed to the outboard scramjet tridents, portside and starboard. Acceleration was still increasing as the flashing green number on the video screens in front of his eyes scrolled past Mach 4.6, over four and a half times the speed of sound, already faster than any air- breathing vehicle had ever flown.
Only a few seconds more.
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Choose the show.
Select the director and producer.
Hold auditions and call-backs for the cast.
Production meeting to assemble all the people who will be responsible for the various components, including stage management, backstage crew, set construction, set dressing, sound & lighting technicians, props, makeup & hair, and publicity. The producer and director set the schedule for rehearsals based on room and stage availability.
Week 1 - Table read. The cast gets a feel for the characters and story line. Set, prop, costume, and publicity requirements are determined.
Week 2 - Blocking on stage, to determine the positioning, movement, and interaction of each character in each scene, using a mock set and ghost props. Actors learn their lines.
Week 3 - Blocking on stage and working with props. Actors learn their lines.
Week 5 - Off-book rehearsals, actors know their lines. The director meets with the sound & lights technician for a "paper tech" i.e. a walk through the script to set the sound & lights throughout the show.
Week 6 - Tech week. The stage is prepared with the constructed set (walls, doors, stairs, windows, etc), dressed (sofas, chairs, paintings, etc) is the props are laid out on and off stage, actors dress in costume as required to rehearse. Back stage crew rehearse scene changes. Programs are printed.
Day before the first performance - Full dress rehearsal
Day of performance - Set, sound, and lighting checks are made. The cast is made up, costumed, mic'ed and ready.
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The Future of Healthcare Reform Under President Trump
Former CMS acting administrator expects some of the federal power in healthcare to dissolve under the new administration.
President-elect Donald Trump
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Charlene Frizzera, President, CF Health Advisors12.14.16
One of president-elect Donald Trump’s core campaign promises was the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so it is only natural that executives, providers, payers and policy analysts have questions about the possible direction of healthcare reform under his leadership. The new administration has already sent out strong signals of its intent with the appointments of Tom Price, M.D., as secretary of Health and Human Services and Seema Verma to head the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).
Based on what we know today, here are three ways I expect the Trump presidency to affect healthcare reform:
Regardless of who is in charge, healthcare costs must be reduced
The 2016 Medicare trustee’s report projects that the Medicare Trust Fund, used to cover 55 million Americans, will be insolvent by 2028—two years earlier than estimated in the 2015 report. The Trump administration’s proposals will have to be at least cost neutral to the ACA. Value-based care initiatives, like bundled payments, are the undisputed rising stars of healthcare reform with strong data proving that alternative payment models provide higher quality of care at lower costs. Bundled payments are valuable for offsetting future, more experimental reforms.
Medicaid will be a core focus for this administration
Medicaid enrollment grew by 15 million people from October 2013 to June 2016, making it the most prevalent way the newly insured access coverage under the ACA. This means changes to Medicaid are high stakes as they will affect the largest swath of voters who benefited under the ACA.
Currently, Medicaid expansion is at the discretion of the states. Seema Verma worked with former Gov. (now vice president-elect) Mike Pence to design a Medicaid expansion program that would be accepted by the conservative majority in Indiana. The Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 (HIP 2.0) requires enrollees to make a small, income-based payment to access health insurance. The plan also includes a health savings account-like register called a POWER that participants use to pay their first $2,500 of medical expenses. Verma’s plan is designed to make participants treat health expenses with discretion by requiring them to contribute small amounts to their POWER accounts and giving them the ability to roll over unused funds.
This design is being used as a template for Medicaid expansion programs in other conservative states like Kentucky, Iowa, and Ohio. Given the direction of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to increase state control over Medicaid, it is likely that plans that resemble HIP 2.0 will be approved.
Bundled payments will continue their rollout, but new bundles may be rolled out differently
The general consensus is that Price, being an orthopedic surgeon himself, will be sympathetic to physicians. On March 23, 2016, Price introduced a bill calling for the delay of the start of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundle from April 2016 to January 2018. Moreover, Price co-authored a letter to acting CMS Administrator Andrew Slavitt protesting what he regards as an overreach by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation group (CMMI) to make programs like CJR mandatory for large groups of providers.
It is important to note that Price has never disagreed with bundled payments as a cost-cutting solution. Rather, his dispute is with the speed and scale at which CMS made them mandatory. Price is expected to be confirmed at the tail end of year one of CJR. This confirmation will be too late for making significant changes to the program without throwing a monkey wrench into years of industry planning. In fact, hospitals are already investing in products like PeerWell, that improve patient self-care before and after joint replacement surgery and help control costs under the bundled payments model.
Expect some of the federal power in healthcare to dissolve as individual states gain more control over their Medicaid expansion. Also, brace for changes in the ways other bundled payment models roll out over the coming months. The tides are changing, but the goals for healthcare reform and policy makers remain the same.
** The author is a former acting administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Kidney disease claims 12 lives in Odisha's Jharsuguda district
Even as the villagers blame contaminated drinking water for spread of the disease, their repeated appeals for getting the samples tested have yielded no result.
JHARSUGUDA: The district administration seems oblivious to the plight of residents of Tareikela village in Kolabira block where 12 people have allegedly died of kidney disease in the last four years.
Even as the villagers blame contaminated drinking water for spread of the disease, their repeated appeals for getting the samples tested have yielded no result. The villagers said at present 15 people are suffering from kidney disease. People affected by the disease complain of stomach ache and weakness. Later, swelling is noticed on their face, legs and limbs.
Dukh Pasayat, one of the affected, said several people in the village have not come forward to report the ailment. Kailas Singh Naik of the village said the disease claimed the lives of his two brothers. One of them Aswini Singh Naik was a former sarpanch while the other Susil Singh Naik was a painter. "Their children are now leading a miserable life. The district administration and Health department should come forward to address the menace," he said.
Urbasi Parekh of the village lost her 20-year-old daughter to the disease. "Her legs and belly were swollen. In spite of the treatment provided to her, she could not be saved," she said. Similar is the plight of Brusav Das whose mother died of the disease. Now, he too is afflicted with it.
Meanwhile, CDMO Dr Dolamani Parel said a team of doctors was sent to Tareikela village on Monday. The affected people have been called to the district headquarters hospital for treatment. Two patients were found to have been suffering from the disease on the day. The team will visit the village again on Tuesday to examine the patients. Dr Parel said the villagers’ claim that 12 people have died of the disease will be verified.
Tareikela village Kolabira block Odisha kidney ailment Jharsaguda
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Emergency doctor suspended after rape and murder comments about women online
A Victorian doctor has been suspended after being caught behaving badly online, saying one woman deserved to be “repeatedly raped”.
Stephanie Bedo@stephanie_bedo
news.com.auApril 25, 20193:21pm
Dr Lee has been suspended from his job.Source:Supplied
A self-described “mongrel doctor” has been found guilty of professional misconduct after launching a series of “foul-mouthed” comments online, including that “some women deserve to be raped”.
Victorian emergency physician Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, 31, was working for the Tasmanian Health Service in Hobart when he made the first of a series of “offensive” statements in forums where he also posted pictures in uniform.
Dr Lee has been suspended for six weeks after the Health Practitioners Tribunal found him guilty of professional misconduct. The 31-year-old currently works for Eastern Health in Box Hill.
The tribunal’s hearing into Dr Lee last month revealed he had been cautioned by the medical board on July 23 last year related to “his inappropriate access of a patient’s hospital records”.
He accessed Royal Hobart Hospital patient records on 21 occasions between July 2015 and December 2016, which was determined “inappropriate because it was done without consent or clinical need”.
“The applicant submitted the conduct that resulted in the imposition of a caution is not of the same nature as the conduct referred to in this application,” the chairman of the tribunal wrote.
“Nevertheless, it was submitted that in each instance the conduct which Dr Lee engaged in demonstrates he has difficulty appreciating and acting at all times in a professional and ethical manner, as is required, for him to meet the expected and accepted standards of a medical practitioner.”
Dr Christopher LeeSource:Supplied
The tribunal detailed how, even after Dr Lee received notice he was being investigated, he went to online Singaporean forum Hardware Zone again on December 2, 2017.
Referencing an article about an Egyptian lawyer who was sentenced to three years in prison for saying women who wore ripped jeans should be raped in punishment, he wrote: “I’m surprised they didn’t give him a medal instead.”
In a profile created for social media site WikiBot about January 9, 2018, he described himself as a “mongrel doctor who claims to know all manner of s**t on earth”.
He also wrote of himself: “It is rumored (sic) that his hospital in Australia has the highest casualties in the world due to him not attending to his dying patients.”
While that blurb appears to be removed from WikiBot, his profile still reads: “The doctor is the devil … Not dead. Just sleeping.”
The photo Dr Lee has on his WikiBot profile and his Facebook page.Source:Supplied
The tribunal said Dr Lee made his profession clear by posting photos like this.Source:Supplied
The tribunal detailed a series of comments made in 2016 where Dr Lee wrote: “I can just as easily condemn your mother for a whore (if the situation warranted it) as I can save your life or even hers.
“You really ought to meet me in real life. My online personality is exactly the same as my offline one. I don’t just talk big here. I talk big EVERYWHERE.
“What would you rather me say, hmm? That hers was a misguided outburst? That she should be let off the hook? Well that ain’t my style, mister. If I don’t like you, there won’t be any kid gloves. Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little b***h fits the bill in every way.”
“She needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped in order for her to wake up her idea.
“You give her too much credit. She’s too bloody thick skinned to know guilt or regret. If I turn out to be wrong, though, it won’t be any skin off my nose. With her suicide, nothing of value would be lost.”
He said his comments were made in the context of a sociopolitical situation in Singapore and Malaysia where, as a result of certain events, a local female college student made disparaging remarks about servicemen.
Dr Lee conceded his anger over the woman’s comments clouded his judgment.
In January last year he again took to tech site Hardware Zone and wrote that if his marriage fell apart it would not end in divorce but murder.
Dr Lee told the tribunal he was relatively young and inexperienced when he posted the comments.
“He had a brash and opinionated bent to his conduct on social media,” the tribunal’s chairman wrote.
“It is agreed he did not fully appreciate that posting comments on a Singaporean online forum would have consequences on his practice of medicine in Australia.
“He says they were not made in the context of patient care and he has not allowed his views to ever colour his care of patients.
“He has treated many patients from the ethnic and gender groups mentioned in the posts and he has not behaved in a discriminatory fashion towards those patients. He said he understood the posts could be perceived as inflammatory, misogynistic or racist in tone and the posts were clearly associated with him.”
Dr Lee was accompanied at the hearing by former supervisor, Dr Jay Weeraratne, with whom he worked closely as a registrar in Latrobe Regional Hospital’s emergency department in 2018 and 2019.
Dr Weeraratne wrote a letter of support for his colleague, saying he was professional, punctual and he has an excellent work ethic.
The hospital declined to comment to news.com.au.
Eastern Health did not respond.
Dr Lee was imposed with conditions on his registration requiring him to undertake education on ethical behaviour and communications, particularly in the use of social media.
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LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Charles Oakley slam Charles Barkley
THE NBA’s hottest feud exploded overnight after LeBron James — and other stars — slammed Charles Barkley.
news.com.auFebruary 1, 20179:38am
Charles Barkley has found himself in the firing line.Source:AP
LEBRON James refused to stay quiet any longer.
Following the Cleveland Cavaliers’ disappointing 104-97 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, James vented his frustration to ESPN — targeting former basketball great and current NBA TV analyst Charles Barkley.
Barkley recently criticised James for publicly calling on Cavs management to acquire him “help” via the trade market, calling the comments “inappropriate, whiny, all of the above. The Cleveland Cavaliers, they have given him everything he wanted”.
James held nothing back in response. “He’s a hater … What makes what he says credible? Because he’s on TV?” James told ESPN.com.
“I’m not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that. I’m not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, ‘I’m not a role model.’ I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.
“All I’ve done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that.”
LeBron then issued a declaration directed straight at Barkley: “And if this makes him want to talk to me, the schedule’s out there ... He knows every road arena I’ll be in. Don’t just come up to me at All-Star and shake my hand and smile ... Screw Charles Barkley. I’m tired of biting my tongue ... There’s a new sheriff in town.”
Former NBA enforcer Charles Oakley, who beefed with Barkley during and after his playing days, also took a swing, tweeting: “I love everything LeBron James said about the hater. He needs to stop drinking at work. TNT can I stop by and get a drink.”
D-Wade has LeBron’s back.Source:Getty Images
Bulls guard Dwyane Wade applauded his former teammate for finally speaking out against critics.
“Thank God he finally said something. LeBron, a lot of guys take a lot of shots at him — for whatever reason. He just has kept his mouth closed and continued to focus on what he needs to. But it’s about time he said something, man. Guys ride him, especially ex-players. When you have a history, when you can go and Google your history, you better be a little careful with what you say,” Wade told the Chicago Tribune.
“Sometimes, when guys get a microphone in front of their face, they just talk and talk and talk and forget about their history. We all make that mistake, but especially that guy on TV. He acting like he just walks on water. And I like the fact that LeBron called him out and told him about himself a little bit. Humble yourself.
“LeBron is who he is. We all have flaws. But when your flaws are a little bit more, you should shut up. I’m glad LJ finally said something and stood up for himself from that standpoint. He said there’s a new sheriff in town. So I’m excited to see what’s next.”
Carmelo Anthony also weighed in on the kerfuffle. “We all are human,” Anthony told ESPN. “Even though we are considered these kind of superheroes, super athletes, and nothing is supposed to affect us and we just go through life just taking it on the chin, it affects us in certain ways.”
Barkley responded to the criticism in various outlets this morning. “I’m just gonna keep doing what I do,” he told the Washington Post.
“I’m not there to be friends with these guys,” Barkley added, via ESPN.com. “I’m there to do my job.”
Charles Barkley on ESPN Radio right now, calls LeBron "whiny" again but says he is not going to "get personal" the way he says LeBron did.
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) January 31, 2017
"Clearly he Googled me and found out some things"
(tho first Barkley asked 'what's it called when you go on the internet & look things up?')
Barkley: "This notion that we have to be friends - we're never going to be friends."
Says the young generation "always takes it personally."
Barkley asked on ESPN's @WaddleandSilvy show about sitting down w/LeBron "Why I got to clear the air? It's not going to change my opinion."
Charles Barkley adds that LeBron forgot a few insults about him, like that he finished last on Jeopardy.
(Barkley his golf buddies have been telling him that they're going to give LeBron suggestions on other insults he could use.)
On LeBron bringing up that he once threw someone through a window: "We were on the 1st floor. I told the judge I wish it was the 3rd floor"
Charles Barkley now suggesting to @WaddleandSilvy that he and LeBron should go at each other with paintball guns as an event at All-Star.
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Molewa launches rhino project
The government is looking for partnerships to create 300 000 new jobs in the green economy, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says. (File, Volksblad)
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Pretoria - Environment Minister Edna Molewa on Wednesday announced the official launch of the UNEP-GEF Rhino Project.
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The co-operation agreement between the United Nations Environment Programme and her department was signed on 8 May this year.
Key partners include the SA Police Service, the University of Pretoria's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL), SANParks, CITES, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
"The UNEP-GEF Rhino Project seeks to strengthen our law enforcement capabilities through improved forensic capacity, strengthened data gathering systems, and enhanced co-operation mechanisms at an international level," Molewa said.
Speaking at the event, deputy director general legal authorisation, compliance and enforcement, Ishaam Abader, said forensic technology, which involved DNA sampling of rhino horns, would aid the prosecution of poachers and smugglers.
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Molewa said GEF (the Global Environment Facility) had allocated US2.7m to the project for use over the next four years.
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The India edition of the first biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook, ‘Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level’, will hit the stands here on April 18, publisher Penguin India said.
The book will draw on authorised insiders to give a peek into the life of the man who led Apple to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company. He is also the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation.
Penned by journalist and Apple expert Leander Kahney, the book spans Cook’s entire career — from joining Apple to becoming its COO to being appointed CEO by Apple founder Steve Jobs on his deathbed.
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an event to announce new products, Oct. 30, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. VOA
San Francisco-based Kahney has ealier author ‘Inside Steve’s Brain’ and ‘The Cult of Mac’.
According to the publisher, the new book will uncover six values that Cook has been pushing at Apple — accessibility, education, environment, inclusion and diversity, privacy, security and supplier responsibility.
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“From the massive growth of the iPhone to new victories such as the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success. But he has also spearheaded a cultural revolution within the company. Since becoming CEO, Cook has introduced a new style of management that emphasizes kindness, collaboration and honesty, and has quietly pushed Apple to support sexual and racial equal rights and invest heavily in renewable energy,” Penguin said.
The book’s paperback edition is priced at Rs 699 and is available at e-commerce sites Amazon and Flipkart. (IANS)
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Hisense Announces the "Road Map": The World's Leading Laser, LED to QLED Français
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2017 /CNW/ -- "The year 2017 is significant for the development of TV industry" said Liu Hongxin, President of Hisense Group. "Global TV manufacturers are in the technical route and business development of their different crossroads." Mr. Liu Hongxin officially announced technology and product line.
The Dual Color 4K Laser Cast is a highlight of the Consumer Electronics Show in 2017 for Hisense. As a dual illuminant, the Dual Color 4K Laser Cast presents us more abundant and meaningful color level. Brightness of the Dual Color 4K Laser Cast had up to 360 nit, which is comparable with high-end LCD TV. The color gamut rated at 110% NTSC, far better than normal TVs rated at 72% NTSC. Depending on the cost and price, the Dual Color 4K Laser Cast now has the competitive power to overturn large-screen LCD TVs.
Aside from Dual Color 4K Laser Cast, Hisense will focus more on QLED in the future. Quantum dots is one of the technologies that's driving the creation of high dynamic range TVs (HDR) and the creation of the new UltraHD Premium standard and will be an important component of next generation's display screen. As President Liu Hongxin said, Quantum dot has played a significant role in improving color quality of LED TVs. The reason for choosing QLED in the new generation of display technology is that it has much higher peak brightness, better color accuracy, lower cost and more stable performance. "Hisense's role in the quantum dot display and QLED field, is also a natural extension of ULED technology." President Liu Hongxin said, from the perspective of enhancing the quality, ULED and quantum dot technology is a perfect match. Hisense's new generation of quantum dot display products will be officially listed in 2019, and later will continue to introduce better quality QLED TVs.
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EMF Microwave Radiation Damages Your Health: all the Key Scientific Papers
This article is about proving beyond doubt that wireless, microwave radiation causes harmful biological effects in organic life.
The best resource for tracking all the news on harm done by radiation that we have found is the Environmental Health Trust.
Below is the link from the EH Trust website which compiles all the significant research on each aspect of health which has been proven to be affected or damaged by EMF:
Fertility and Reproduction
Neurotoxic Effects .
Cognitive and Memory Function
Genotoxic Effects (including gene and DNA damage)
Endocrine System Damage
Disruptions to Heart Functioning
CLICK HERE - ALL THE IMPORTANT SCIENCE REPORTS
There is a reason why EMF effects the human body in a vast range of areas. It is because it affects us our cells on a vibrational level. So it's as if microwave radiation is like a bully: if the body has a weak point, the radiation will seek it out and attack.
There is little consensus in the mainstream scientific community as to exactly 'WHY' the effects listed above are caused by exposure to non-ionising radiation (which had for so long been deemed safe for the human body). There must be effects that are NOT related to heat which cause these many diseases observed in rats. A theory has been put forward that it is because of 'pulsed' effects of the radiation which exacerbate the strength of the field. However we would like to counter this.
The work which was done by Dr Martin Pall has been the key finding in terms of singling out a 'mechanism' between wireless radiation and disease in the body. He reported on the increase in calcium levels due to the sensitivity to microwvae radiation of the voltage gate calcium channel. This is the membrane outside certain cells which lets the calcium (and other minerals) into the cell in exact proportions. When this membrane is excited by microwave radiation, it lets too much calcium into the cell and this causes imbalanced effects, namely oxidative stress which leads to free radicals. Free radicals are the pre-cursor to disease.
But the question remains: WHY does the cell membrane (the VGCC) get excited by such a low level of radiation.
Omnia's science shows that it is because of the vibrational imbalance of the wireless radiaiton field, which causes imbalanced effects in the cell. The science of Dr Ilija Lakicevic, detailed in his paper 'The True Concept of the Atom, Particle and Cell' gives us the reason why this vibrational imbalance is caused and why the health effects listed above are then observed. It is based on our concept of the 'Centredness of Wave Fields' and you can read this in the 'Understanding Radiation' section.
This is unique understanding which gives us the knowledge of what we have to do to balance these radiation fields and bring them to a state that no longer causes disharmony in the human body.
Not all radiation is bad - look at the Sun, it is the giver of all life on the planet. So the question is: can we transmute an imbalanced radiation field into a balanced field?
The key point to make is that the biologists who have observed these effects in the cell have done the most amazing and important research to show us what wireless radiation is doing to us.
See all the key health findings in detail:
The BioInitiative Report
And here is a key presentation of all the findings of health effects explained by one . of the key figureheads in raising awareness of the hazards of phone radiation:
(Please note: the subject of this interview does NOT endorse nor support Omnia, this is purely a link to content where a top scientist proves that radiation is causing disease):
So if we step back to ask ourselves why the membrane of the cell got excited in the first place, what we offer at Omnia is an explanation for this, which is that there is imbalance in the radiation field and this is picked up by the normally balanced and centred wave field of the human cell.
So you see.. the Omnia explanation of the cause dovetails perfectly with the biological observations of the health effects laid out above.
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Post by Stanley » 06 Jul 2018, 03:22
I missed John by five minutes! My fault not his. He left me the book, a bunch of small sweet tomatoes and a tin of Erinmore Flake. We've spoken and he is coming again for a general natter. His book is very good, see the reading topic.
Dry weather was a good thing for women in long skirts as the hems weren't trailing in the mud of the unsealed roads but it brought its own problems. Dust was a nuisance and remember it contained faecal matter, animal and human. Much food was on display uncovered and it's not surprising that public health reports of the time talked of a constant low level of diarrhoea. Summer was a time of epidemics of stomach and bowel ailments as levels of dust rose and food deteriorated very quickly, no refrigeration. In contrast a hard frost was seen as cleansing. As late as the 1950s my mother still referred to cold dry weather as 'healthy weather. and a common saying was 'A Green Winter means a full churchyard". Many researchers say that the arrival of cheap Chloride of Lime and chlorine bleaches resulted in an instant depressing of general levels of infection. Dry toilet buckets were routinely dusted with chloride of lime when the pail was emptied by the night soil men. A considerable innovation for those times.....
I saw this on a piece of waste ground in the town one day and never snaffled it. Pity because it's the only original night soil bucket I have ever seen.....
When all water had to be carried and there was a drought the weekly bath became a problem even though the same water was used for all the family. It was no bar to cleanliness, as Florence Nightingale once said "Given a quart of water and adequate privacy any woman can maintain personal hygiene". The solution was a stand up rub down of the nooks and crannies with warm water, soap and a face cloth. If someone was handy to do your back so much the better. I once read that miners reckoned that the heart shaped patch of skin between the shoulders where you couldn't reach and so never got cleaned properly was a protection for the lungs. There's a thought for today's shower freaks who have multiple showers each day......
One forgotten corner is the lifting of heavy weights in everyday jobs. A 1cwt sack (1cwt = 112lbs=51kg) was common, flour and grain were usually 240lbs and hire sacks could hold almost 300lbs of things like beans. A galvanised steel milk kit holding 12gallons was 168lbs and in my youth I had to lift hundreds every day. All these would be illegal now under modern H&S regulations. At the mill, shovelling 4 or 5 tons of coal was accepted every time we had a delivery, we had to get the overspill into the bunker to close the boiler house door. No wonder we were all fit and had bad backs!
I once asked Johnny Simpson why he used a number 3 shovel for muck and he said that he could move just as much with that as a number 12, the largest size. He was right, we favoured a number 8 for coal and used to sharpen them on the grindstone in the tackler's cabin, they were easier to use if they were clean and sharp. All this has been lost today and a good thing too!
My Forgotten Corner today is an old mate of mine, Danny Pateman. This pic of him is him visiting me in Bancroft Engine house in 1977. Danny was a big bloke! His overalls always wore out first at the front where his belly rubbed against the steering wheel. A driver all his life I first got to know him when we were tanker drivers at West Marton. I remember having a conversation with him one day about the fact that when we had a day off and someone else had driven our tanker we could feel a difference in the smoothness of the action of the gear lever. He told me that when he was learning to drive his teacher told him that when changing gear you should always imagine you had a live mouse in your hand and the object was to effect the gear change without injuring the mouse. I know that sounds fanciful but it works! He was a good driver and when I was in the garage at West Marton we had to change the break linings on his Leyland tanker annually, not because they were worn out but because he used his brakes so lightly that he polished the linings to the point where they became inefficient!
His vice was beer and one armed bandits..... I've seen him go into the Green Street Club on pay day and put a large part of his wages into the bandit, I think he was addicted to them. Vary fond memories of him nevertheless, we got on well together and I miss him. He died many years ago. That's one of the bugbears of old age, you lose your mates as they drop off the perch!
The old Albion tanker at Marton in 1968.
This tanker was a good example of what the state of wagons was before the 1968 Traffic Act which brought in proper testing of heavy vehicles. This tanker was new in the 1930s and was driven by the man who was Transport Manager for Associated Dairies in the 1960s. Apart from its other shortcomings it had no brakes worth speaking of and we were always complaining about it. It was a major achievement getting it from third gear into top, the gearbox was so worn. When compulsory brake testing came in after the passing of the Act it was found that the handbrake was more efficient than the foot brake! That did it! The old Albion was retired and scrapped and nobody shed any tears for it. The thing was that it never had an accident. As Danny Pateman said, you just drove according.....
Today's forgotten corner is a man called Wallace Neave. I got to know him at West Marton where he was mechanic in the garage and worked with him a lot especially when I was in the garage with him for about six months. I learned a lot from him. He had no formal training but lots of experience and was a competent man.
However Wallace had one characteristic that we could all have done without, he was possibly the most fiery tempered man I have ever known. Today he would be sent off on an Anger Management Course but in those days we had to put up with it. He was noted for his temper, at one time he did the Barlick Town milk delivery in the early morning to the milk chaps and shops that sold milk. One morning Ned Town had the temerity to ask him for an extra crate of milk in pint bottles, Wallace threw one at him!
I was careful and got on well with him but even so his temper still popped out every now and again. I remember him being in a bad mood one morning and found out later the reason why. For a while his sleep had been disturbed by the yowling of the feral cats at night, we had a lot in the village. The bedroom of his cottage opposite the dairy was level with the gardens at the back because of the rising ground. On this particular night the cats woke Wallace but he was prepared! He had loaded a couple of 12 gauge shotgun cartridges with peppercorns and had them handy. When the cats started in the back garden he got out of bed, loaded his shotgun with the two cartridges and let fly with both barrels. He said later that he knew immediately from the way the gun kicked that he had made a mistake. That's right, in the dark he had picked up the wrong cartridges and had blown a lot of glass out of his beloved greenhouse! I've seen him lose it when a rat hid under the dropping board in one of his hen huts. He lay down on his side and stabbed it with his pocket knife. Doesn't sound much but would you do it?
Funny thing is that Mrs Neave was a lovely lady and mothered the whole village.....
I don't have a pic, I suppose I never plucked up the courage to take one of him.......
Elslack reservoir in 2005. Out of sight, out of mind. I wonder how many people in Barlick know that this is where most of our water comes from in Barlick?
I was asked the other day what the origin of Hague was for the farm between Kelbrook and Foulridge. This intrigued me for years and many of the explanations I found tended towards a variant of 'ague' the old name for the fevers associated mainly with low lying land. The proximity of Salterforth Bottoms which were very extensive at one time seemed to support this but I was always a bit leery about it. Then I found out that 'hey' and the variants of it were all from Old English and Saxon and broadly indicated boundaries but more specifically in this area hedges used as boundaries instead of the usual stone walls. Very often they are on bottom land where stone is thin on the ground and growing hedges was easier than carting stone. So I have plumped for the origin of Hague being hedge and that will do me until I come across a more convincing explanation. You can never be sure with interpretations of place-names but some are better than others and you go with your instinct.
To get an idea how complicated it can get have a furtle into the etymology of 'ing'. It's a minefield but keeping it simple in a place-name it usually refers to a meadow or an indication of tribe as in 'Birmingham'. You pays your money and takes your choice! I'll go for meadow in Long Ing in Barlick.......
Post by Tizer » 13 Jul 2018, 10:10
Out of curiosity I looked up the origin of the surname Haig and found this:
Anglo-Saxon origin, and may be either a topographical name from residence by an enclosure, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "haga", cognate with the Old Norse "hagi", hedged field; or locational from Haigh in West Yorkshire, or in Lancashire. Haig
That's my understanding also Tiz. Hey Farm was enclosed by hedges...... some of them very old, lots of species.
Today's forgotten corner is not in the manor, it's at Ellenroad. During our refurb of the building I realised that there was a void under the floor of the lobby at the entrance to the engine house but nothing corresponding in the cellar. As I was blessed with plenty of labour I told the lads about the mystery and asked if they would like to help me solve it. Unanimous approval so I set them on cutting a hole in the wall in the cellar.
We found a perfectly serviceable room but it had just been used as a void for dumping rubbish in. So we cleared it out, painted it and installed a door from the cellar. We ended up with a very useful secure storage space.
What intrigued me was why they hadn't done this when the place was built? It was just left to become a real forgotten corner.
This was Butts beck a year ago...... At the moment a forgotten corner! The beck has only a trickle of water in it. Bad times if you were running a water mill! We forget how important water power was!
No sooner had I spoken than we got flow again. The power of Oneguy!
Still on water.... I wonder how many people are aware that this small piece of waste ground behind the railings between the joiner's shop and the chapel in Wapping is actually the course of the culvert that takes Gillians Beck from Clough dam site down to the Pigeon Club.
I've always thought that opening this culvert up and making a water feature in what is now the Clough play area would be an asset to the town and make it easier to ensure that the culvert under the road is kept clear. This is one of the choke points in our water management in the town and blockage of this was the trigger for flooding in Wapping in July 1932. Lest we forget.........
Butts Beck yesterday after the rain. In the days of water power this would be a respite for the millers because work could start again! In the early days of the industry there was a saying; "One foot in the field and one in the shed". This referred to the fact that when low water stopped work in summer there was always the possibility of seasonal employment on the harvest. Many manufacturers had land holdings for this reason.
When I puzzle over forgotten corners I often go back to the maps, you always learn something. My mind went to what is now Valley Road between Skipton Road and Long Ing. This is the First Edition OS 1853 and as you can see pre-dates Wellhouse Mill which was building in 1853. It repays some careful study!
This is the bit that fascinates me. Same map in 1892. Look for the changes that have happened but also those still to come. Wellhouse Road is not adopted yet and Valley Road is only a footpath. All the housing is yet to happen.
Post by PanBiker » 20 Jul 2018, 08:19
Interesting to note that we both live in a couple of the earliest terrace houses built in the town. I am still hoping to find a picture of the short row of 4 houses that used to stand at the top of Robert Street. They were there on the 1853 map and only demolished in the 1960's. I cant understand why I don't have any memory of them.
Here's the best resolution I can get on the Croft and the adjoining area Ian. This is the 1853 map.
This is the 1892 25" map......
Yes they are there on the 1853 along with what is now Croft Cottage and the first row of terraced cottages on St James Square. We discussed this at length in another thread when Matt Swinscoe was looking for information about his cottage property. There must be a photo somewhere.
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Annoying isn't it..... These things usually become clear after a time but in some cases they continue to nag you.
This stonework in the side of the beck at Paddock Laithe is a good example. I know it's something to do with the original 18th century course of the beck at that point but have never been able to work it out!
I went digging for an earlier map but couldn't find one. However, I tripped over this 1930 6" map of the Butts area and unless I am mistaken those cottages are still there Ian.
They were there in 1963 also, clearly visible on the aerial series of the town. Holy Trinity taken from above the coal yard shows them side on behind Croft Cottage.
Here is a zoomed section:
I would like to see a front ground level view from St James Square.
It's a puzzle..... I've looked on my original 1963 negs and no better info.....
Until they were demolished sometime in the mid 60's and the road remodelled there was only pedestrian access to the houses on the Croft from St James Square. According to Donald Harrison the path ran in front of Croft Cottage up onto the back street of East View Terrace. Vehicle access to Robert, Alice and Bessie streets Pleasant View and our row on the top would have had to be via Commercial Street.
That would work.....
You can always learn something from close study of maps! Here's the 1892 25" of Calf Hall and Butts. Remember me saying that the masonry at Paddock Laithe intrigued me. The answer was there all the time. There was a kink in the original course of the beck before the road was realigned and the bridge built. In case you're wondering, the grey object at the back of Butts Mill is the gasometer, they were coking coal and making their own gas for illumination.
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Windows 10 news recap: Microsoft Edge caught running Flash on Facebook without permission, Google Chrome adds Windows Mixed Reality, and more
Jack Wilkinson Email @TheJackah Feb 24th, 2019 in News
Welcome back to our Windows 10 news recap, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s flagship operating system.
Microsoft Edge runs flash on Facebook without your permission
Microsoft’s web browser, Microsoft Edge, has been found to be running Flash on Facebook and many other websites without requesting permission from the user, despite Flash not supposedly being able to run without permission, for privacy and security reasons.
The default Flash whitelist in Edge (https://t.co/JxStUIxByE) really surprised me. So many sites for which I'm completely baffled as to why they're there. Like a site of a hairdresser in Spain(https://t.co/50xdJvzksA)?! I wonder how the list was formed. And if MSRC knew about it.
— Ivan Fratric (@ifsecure) February 19, 2019
Microsoft’s new Office app for Windows 10 is now available for all users
A new Office app has been launched in the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. It acts as a central hub to access all of your other Office apps, similar to office.com.
Google Chrome gets Windows Mixed Reality support, available now for Canary testers
Google Chrome is adding support for Windows Mixed Reality. Users of Google Chrome’s Canary builds can now make use of the newly-added support, This allows virtual reality within Google Chrome to be used with Windows Mixed Reality devices.
Microsoft’s Windows Timeline feature comes to Google’s Chrome browser
Microsoft has launched a new extension for Google Chrome. The extension, called Web Activities Chrome, adds support for Windows Timeline to Chrome, helping bring all of your Chrome browsing history to Windows Timeline.
That’s it for this week. We’ll be back next week with more Windows 10 news!
Further reading: Google Chrome, Microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Windows 10, Windows Mixed Reality
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La Dolce Vita in the Italian Lakes: Visiting Como, Italy
Lake Como epitomises La Dolce Vita – conjuring up images of 1950s film stars speeding across its sparkling waters on motorboats or zipping through narrow streets on a Vespa. This famous lake lies to the north of Milan, where Italy meets Switzerland. In the summer months it’s overrun by glamorous crowds of second-homeowners and day-trippers from Milan, but in spring and autumn it’s a lot more peaceful. The town of Como is often used as a stepping stone to luxury hotspots like Bellagio and Varenna, but it’s got plenty of charm of its own – and some not-so-A-list prices. So here are the best things to do in Como, Italy – on and off the water.
Read more: The first-timer’s guide to visiting the Cinque Terre
Things to do in Como, Italy
The funicular to Brunate
Take the funicular to Brunate
For the best view around, head into the hills above Como town to the village of Brunate. The climb to the top starts from an unassuming wooden building alongside the lake in Piazza Alcide de Gasperi. Since 1894 a funicular railway has been carrying people between Como and Brunate. Trains run around every 30 minutes and cost €3 one way or €5.50 return, and the journey only takes seven minutes, with the two trains passing each other halfway.
The funicular’s gradient is as steep as you can get at 55°, with the red roofs of Como town and the blue of the lake spreading out in front of you as you rise up. If you can tear your eyes away from the lake, look out for muntjac deer among the trees next to the tracks. Brunate is a holiday resort for well-heeled Milanese who built smart Art Nouveau villas looking out over the lake. It’s nicknamed the ‘balcony of the Alps’ and on a clear day you can see why.
The funicular and one of Brunate’s churches
In winter it’s covered in a thick layer of snow, and most villas were still shuttered up in April, but there are churches to explore and a few cafés and restaurants where you can take in the panoramic views. There’s also a network of walking paths from Brunate, including a 6km mule path which takes you down to Torno on the lakeside. But we decided 700 metres wasn’t quite high enough, so we headed on up towards the Faro Voltiano – Volta’s Lighthouse.
The lighthouse is named after physicist Alessandro Volta who lived in Brunate for a while, and was built in 1927 to mark the centenary of his death. The route to the top took us about 30 minutes, running through the narrow streets of Brunate and on up a rocky path to the lighthouse. From the top you get a view over the lake from a different angle, looking down at the towns of Chiasso and Cernobbio, and over the border into neighbouring Switzerland.
Looking out from the lighthouse
Set sail on Lake Como
The lake is the hub of life in Como, with a constant streams of boats – from vintage cruisers to car ferries – as well as seaplanes coming in to land. Lake Como is the third largest lake in Italy, stretching 50km from one end to the other and shaped like a wishbone, with the town of Como at the bottom of the left fork. Along the lakefront are a string of towns, villages, opulent palazzos and gardens. So one of the best ways to explore Lake Como is on the water.
There are tons of different options for boat trips on the lake. We took a one-hour circuit of the Basin of Como with Navigazione Laghi, which calls at Cernobbio, Moltrasio and Torno. Tickets cost €7.60 per person or €8.90 for a day ticket where you can hop on and off along the way. With the sun shining and the breeze fluttering the flag behind us, it was a relaxing way to soak up the views, with villages spilling down from the surrounding hills to the water’s edge.
A boat tour around Lake Como
There are also longer day tours to the central part of the lake and the towns of Bellagio and Varenna, Villa Carlotta’s art museum and botanical gardens, and Piona’s Cistercian Abbey. Or ferries shuttle between towns from Como to Colico, with normal and faster hydrofoil services. Or if you want to channel Sophia Loren, you can hire a classic wooden Riva speedboat and captain for a spin around the lake – headscarf, giant sunglasses and prosecco a must.
A bit more affordable are the self-hire motorboats, which you can hire by the hour (with or without boating experience). Having your own boat means you can go wherever you like, and take a closer look at villas with famous owners or a film star past, including Villa del Balbianello which has featured in films like Casino Royale and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Seeing the lake in style
Explore Como’s old town
There’s more to Como than just the lake, and the historic heart of the centro storico stretches back from the waterfront. Most of it is pedestrianised so it’s easy to wander through its medieval squares, cobbled passages and churches. There are also some of the original city walls and gates still standing. Where a lot of Lake Como’s villages are straight from a postcard, Como feels more like a ‘real’ place with locals shopping and downing espressos in its pavement cafés.
The giant dome of the cathedral, the Duomo di Como, dominates the town’s skyline. It took from 1396 to 1740 to build so mixes up different architectural styles. Head inside to take a look at its paintings and tapestries – and don’t forget to look up to where the ceiling is decorated with blue and gold. Como is also famous for its silk, and there’s a museum about silk-making called the Museo della Seta as well as shops where you can buy locally made fabrics.
Como’s Duomo
Walk the waterfront
Join the locals for a promenade along the lakefront walkway – there’s a steady stream from pram-pushing mums in the morning to elderly gents putting the world to rights before their evening aperitif. Head west from Piazza Cavour past rows of boats to the Tempio Voltiano, a Greek-style temple that’s another memorial to Alessandro Volta. It houses a museum about his life and work, with the instruments he used to create the first electric battery.
Just before you reach the temple, a narrow pier juts out into the harbour with a new Volta-inspired sculpture called Life Electric at the end of it. It was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind to look like voltage flowing between two poles of a battery (or so they say) and is made from reflective steel. Back on the waterfront you can watch the seaplanes coming into land at the Como Aero Club before reaching the lavish yellow and white Villa Olmo.
Villa Olmo
This neoclassical beauty was created by a Swiss architect at the end of the eighteenth century. Now it’s owned by the city and is used for exhibitions and events. But you can stroll through its gardens with their sculptures and fountains. From the villa it’s about a mile back to the centre of Como. Or if you want to to carry on walking it’s another 30 minutes on to Cernobbio, where you can catch the boat back to Como if you don’t fancy the return walk.
Or head east from Piazza Cavour along the quieter path towards the water jet of the Como fountain. In April the trees lining the path were draped with blossom but in the summer there’s a public beach with pool next to Villa Geno, a smart waterside wedding venue. It’s just under a mile, and if you fancy a drink with a view on the way back, you can pick up a bargain €4 takeaway Aperol Spritz from the funicular station and grab a bench by the lake.
Walking the waterfront
Day trips from Como
A couple of days is enough to see the highlights of Como, but if you have more time there are some great day trips, including Milan which is under an hour away. We took the train from Como Lago station to Milan Cadorna. You can change onto the Metro to reach famous landmarks like the Duomo or the elegant Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Or just outside the station is Castello Sforzesco – a huge Renaissance citadel surrounded by parkland that’s home to a diverse group of museums, from musical instruments to archaeology – perfect for a rainy day.
The Swiss border is even closer, and you can catch the train to Lugano in just over half an hour. This lakeside city is part of Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region. There are more boat trips available on its lake, funicular railways to the top of Monte San Salvatore or Monte Brè, a beach and pool to cool off in on a sunny day, or you can visit nearby Bellinzona with its hilltop castles. Though beware the prices in Switzerland are a lot higher than in Italy.
A boat on the lake
How to get to Como, Italy
The region’s roads can be crazy, especially at weekends, but Como’s easy to reach by train. From the main station Como San Giovanni it’s an hour to Milano Centrale, or head north into Switzerland (35 minutes to Lugano or just under 3 hours to Zurich). There’s also the smaller Como Lago station with trains to Milan Cadorna. The nearest airport to Como is Milan Malpensa, which has some direct trains to Como or you can change at Milano Porta Garibaldi.
Where to stay in Como
We rented a one-bedroom AirBnB apartment, a few minutes from the lake close to Como Lago train station. It’s a light and spacious place with a terrace for evening drinks. The apartment cost £104 a night for two people, including fees (and if you’re new to AirBnB you can save £25 with this link). Or splash out at the five-star luxury VISTA Palazzo Lago di Como, a converted 19th-century palazzo overlooking the lake with a guest-only rooftop bar and restaurant.
The Life Electric sculpture
What to eat in Como
Each region of Italy has its own local specialities, and Como is no exception. There’s freshwater fish from the lake, like perch which is served with a creamy white risotto in the dish risotto con il pesce persico, and sun-dried lake shad (which are a bit like sardines). There are also polenta dishes, cassoela (pork stew) and cheese from the mountains. And leave room for ice cream from Gelateria Lariana, whose lakeside location always has a queue out of the door.
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Johanna Bradley
It’s every bit as beautiful as I remember, Lucy. 🙂 🙂 Many years since my visit and we didn’t manage the funicular. Shame! If ever I’m back that way… 🙂 Thanks for sharing! Hope you had a lovely Easter!
Thanks Jo – such a lovely place, I was eying up a few waterfront villas which will do nicely! Hope you had a lovely Easter too, mine involved a lot of house painting and DIY but enjoyed the sunshine.
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Sharon Rausch
I learn so much from you as well! Thank you so much for sharing your helpful information.
Anna Parker
Love the beauty of the Italian lakes! We popped out to the lake when we were in Milan and visited the little towns by boat, better than staying in the city by a country mile (but didn’t find George Clooney..)
So lovely being out on the water!
Such a beautiful spot and one which I need to sort out a visit to soon! Lakeside walks, sailing and funicular to get the best views from – something for every kind of visitor!
There really is a bit of everything – and the food and drink is a bonus too!
The Italian Lakes look beautiful. You capture the feel of Como really well, I’d love to ride the funicular to see those awesome views from the hills.
Can’t beat a view from up on high!
Sally Akins
Oh this is definitely somewhere I want to visit! The architecture and scenery look gorgeous, and I definitely like the idea of the self-hire motorboats
I need to go back just to do the motorboat trip, it looked so glamorous!
I’ve longed to visit this part of Italy for so long. I’m very envious, to say the least. I didn’t know anything about Como old town though. That ceiling in the cathedral looks fabulous! So pretty.
I didn’t know much about Como itself either but it was a really nice surprise!
Saved your list for my future trip to Italy. Thanks
Hope it comes in handy!
Lake Como looks so beautiful, I’d love to get there in the next couple of years! Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful tips.
Hope you do get to visit, it’s a lovely place!
Albert Brown
Hi Lucy, your blog on Como is a complete guide for anyone visits this beautiful lake. It helps a great deal on a visit to this place. Thank you
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You should definitely take a spring tour in the northern Albania. The blue eye in Theth is fascinating and more fascinating is the road to go there. The view in every mountain top is spectacular. To top it all of the people are so friendly that will make you feel more like a guest than a traveler.
Stefan Dorfling
Wow… thank you so much for all this great information! I am going there in June (yes, I get excited too easily and too early), and there are not a lot of posts on Como specifically, so thanks so much!
Thank you, really glad to hear it was useful – I had a similar problem when I was researching the trip and couldn’t find much out about Como so wanted to fill the gap!
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Canadian Formula Atlantic
CASC made two significant changes to their national championship for 1974, opening it to non-Canadian drivers and adopting the name and regulations of the British Formula Atlantic series. It was felt that Formula B was not a good name for Canada's main national championship as it raised the obvious question of where was Formula A. The cars would be the same, coming as before from the English constructors March, Chevron, Brabham and Lola but the new rules introduced Ford BDA engines which were available from Brian Hart, Nicholson McLaren and Alan Smith.
Although CASC remained involved throughout, the series expanded into the USA in 1978 and was marketed as the North American Formula Atlantic Championship and as the FIA Formula Mondial Championship for 1983. After the Mondial fiasco CASC were unable to continue and the focus of Formula Atlantic in North America moved to the US-based WCAR/ECAR series.
The 1974 CASC season: Westwood, Edmonton, Gimli, Mosport Park, Sanair, St Johns, Halifax, (Trois-Rivières), (Waterford Hills)
The 1975 CASC season: Edmonton, Westwood, Gimli, Mont-Tremblant, Mosport Park, Halifax, (Trois-Rivières)
The 1976 CASC season: Edmonton, Westwood, Gimli, Mont-Tremblant, Halifax, Mosport Park, (Trois-Rivières)
The 1976 IMSA season: Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca, Ontario Motor Speedway, Mid-Ohio, Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca
The 1977 CASC season: Mosport Park, Gimli, Edmonton, Westwood, Halifax, St-Félicien, (Trois-Rivières), Québec City
The 1978 season: Long Beach, Westwood, Québec City, Lime Rock, Road America, Hamilton, (Trois-Rivières), Montréal
The 1979 season: Long Beach, Mexico City, Westwood, Québec City, Halifax, Road America, Mosport Park, Trois-Rivières, Bridgehampton, Montréal
The 1980 season: Long Beach, Sears Point, Westwood, Brainerd, Lime Rock, Road America, Trois-Rivières, Bridgehampton, Montréal, Mexico City
The 1981 season: Long Beach, Mexico City, Mosport Park, Mid-Ohio, Road America, Edmonton, Westwood, Trois-Rivières, Montréal
The 1982 season: Long Beach, Mexico City, Mosport Park, Montréal, Mid-Ohio, Road America, Westwood, Trois-Rivières, Mosport Park
The 1983 Formula Mondial season: Willow Springs, Riverside, Sears Point, Westwood, Detroit, Montr?al, Road America, Trois-Rivi?res, Mosport Park
Non-championship races in brackets.
Canadian Formula B
1974 (CASC)
1976 (CASC and IMSA)
North American Formula Atlantic
1983 (Mondial World Cup)
WCAR Formula Atlantic
ECAR Formula Atlantic
All Canadian and North American Formula Atlantic results have been compiled by Chris Townsend using Canadian Motorsport Bulletin, Formula, Racecar and On Track magazines and Competition Press and Autoweek.
Most of the cars to appear in the championship over the period were from the production lines of March, Chevron, Lola, Brabham and Ralt but surviving production records usually only give the name of the agent. Where possible, chassis identities have been worked out by Chris with the help of former owners and some surviving team documentation. More help is needed - if you owned one of these cars or raced in the series, please get in touch.
Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you have any additions, corrections or comments.
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Why Everyone Speaks The Flowing Language Of Blood
After a long tyranny of neglect, the State speaks in wartime euphemisms
Nandini Sundar 26 October 2009
Illustration by Sandeep Adhwaryu
Nandini Sundar October 26, 2009 00:00 IST Why Everyone Speaks The Flowing Language Of Blood
Sri Lankan style operations against the Maoists in central India have already begun. In fact, it isn’t clear if they ever stopped after 2005, when the Salwa Judum herded thousands of villagers into camps. The only difference now is that war has been openly declared, in contrast to the government’s fiction of a “people’s movement”. The talk of using airpower, even if in self-defence, is being accompanied by propaganda blitzes, such as a home ministry ad containing gruesome photos of people killed by the Maoists. Clearly meant to desensitise the public to the civilian carnage that could follow a paramilitary sweep, the ad’s violent tone was also calculated to strike fear and signal the government’s seriousness in acting against the Maoists. As if on cue to prove the government right, the Maoists committed their ghastly beheading of Francis Induwar, a police officer. Faced with two belligerent parties, what are ordinary citizens to do?
For one, intellectuals—despite that word being the latest swear word for the government and media—must try and provide history and context to the situation. The Union home minister is talking of a “clear and hold” operation, after which he hopes to introduce development in the region. What he does not explain is what prevented development for 62 years or what hinders it in areas where the Naxalites are not active. Spending enormous resources on waging war rather than battling hunger—especially in a drought year—shows the government’s perverse priorities.
In talking about regions in maoist control, the Prime Minister & home minister never mention one crucial word—justice.
At a recent conference with director-generals of police, the prime minister asked why Naxalism showed no signs of abating despite the deployment of ‘Cobras’ and other paramilitaries. The crucial word that neither the prime minister nor the home minister mention is “justice”. While the home ministry spends taxpayers’ money calling Naxalites “cold-blooded murderers”, not a word is said about the hundreds of victims, including children and old people, murdered by the security forces and Salwa Judum vigilantes. These are citizens too, and their deaths are equally horrific. But no newspaper carries photos of them, no inquiry is held, their relatives get no compensation. Human rights activists are repeatedly called upon to condemn the Maoists, even if their statements are blacked out. However, I have yet to see one instance when the home minister has acknowledged, leave alone condemned, the increasing number of encounters faked by the police. You cannot speak of violence by one side while remaining silent on the other.
When people are attacked and see no hope from the state, who else will they turn to but insurgents? If a rape victim complains to the SP asking for an FIR to be filed, and his only response is to actually ask the rapists for their explanation, what is she supposed to do? Such has been the practice in Chhattisgarh for the past five years. It is this which accounts for the massive growth (22 per cent by intelligence estimates) in recruitment by the Maoists since Salwa Judum began.
When it comes to telling off Pakistan, both the prime minister and home minister reject the autonomy of non-state actors, with the prime minister noting that “it was the duty of their (Pakistani) government to ensure that such acts were not perpetrated from their territory”. But in their own country, they support Salwa Judum vigilantism, despite findings by statutory bodies like the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights that the Salwa Judum and security forces have been responsible for widespread arson, rape, forced disappearances, suspect encounters and extra-judicial killings. The NHRC report on the Salwa Judum states that “villagers were even killed (no criminal cases were, however, either reported or registered). Though the State has taken action against spos in some cases... these...do not pertain to the violence let loose on innocent villagers during operations against Naxalites”.
Of course, the NHRC also lost a golden opportunity to ensure justice, and thereby peace, by allowing a biased police to whitewash the truth. To cite just one example of the NHRC’s investigation: the death of Vanjam Mangu of Kotrapal. Villagers told the NHRC that he was killed by the CRPF and Salwa Judum in 2005 after being brought to the village. FIR 15/05 says he was a Naxalite killed in a police encounter. The NHRC, on the other hand, “finds” on the basis of “police records” and “Salwa Judum camp residents” that he was killed by Naxalites because his relatives had accepted government compensation (which is available only to victims of Naxalites and not to victims of Salwa Judum). It did not go into the basic discrepancies and ask how, in police records, he could be both a Naxalite and a person killed by Naxalites, or question how selective compensation was influencing the truth.
In ‘Operation Green Hunt’, which took place in September 2005, despite the then DGP claiming (Hitavada, September 6, 2005) that 10 armed Maoists were killed in an encounter on September 2, FIRs registering it as a case of villagers from Hariyal Cherli being killed in police-Naxalite crossfire, and relatives saying they were all innocent villagers who were lined up and shot by the Naga battalion while fleeing a Salwa Judum attack, the NHRC has concluded that eight of them were killed by Naxalites.
The current ‘Operation Green Hunt’ is equally suspect. A fact-finding by PUCL, PUDR and the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram has found that at least seven innocent adivasis were killed from Gachanpalli and Palachelma villages on September 17. The encounter in which security personnel died took place elsewhere. Another round of eight civilian killings took place on October 1 in village Gondpad, in which several young boys were picked up from Mukudtong and other villages, and several houses were burnt. While journalists in Dantewada have always been a threatened lot, the West Bengal government has done even better by sending policemen posing as journalists to arrest Chhatradhar Mahato. Not only do such strategies put all journalists working in combat zones at risk, they ensure that it is the insurgents who pre-emptively shut off access to the media. Democracy cannot work without a free flow of independently verifiable information from all sides.
When the home minister says that the Maoists are “the gravest challenge to our way of life”, he must clarify which “way of life” he means—the right of ministers to live in five star hotels while 50 per cent of Indians are below the poverty line in terms of calorie intake, the right of companies to fraudulently and forcibly acquire land, the right of farmers to commit suicide? If “our” way of life depends on exploiting the resources that the adivasis of Chhattisgarh live on, taking their lives falls perfectly into place. For many years, the Naxalite movement was seen as a socio-economic problem. By ignoring this aspect of it completely, and instead repeatedly terming it the “greatest national security threat”, the government has only added to that security threat. This is precisely what political scientist Jef Huysmans calls the “performative function of security labelling”.
‘Naxal-infested’: this description reduces maoists to vermin, and thus allows state killings to be taken as a mere necessity.
In Chhattisgarh, even the Supreme Court’s demand for action on the NHRC recommendations, including compensation and rehabilitation for displaced villagers and moving security forces out of schools, are being ignored by a government confident of its own impunity. Schools and ration shops do not function in the villages, even though a majority of people have now gone back from the camps and desperately need these services. In Andhra Pradesh, the internally displaced people from Chhattisgarh are suffering from Grade III malnutrition. In their case, there is no lack of area domination. Even if the government wrests back Maoist territory, the fact that it will work through the same corrupt, authoritarian police force and the same exploitative traders who are currently its mainstay will mean that discontent is bound to revive.
The language of counter-insurgency sees “success” when populations are controlled, regardless of the human cost. As insurgents get dehumanised as vermin (as in the phrase “Naxal-infested”), the civilians get reduced to statistics, enabling displacement and death to be seen as an administrative necessity, a simple case of “broken eggs”, as a senior government official recently put it, rather than a fundamental violation of citizens’ rights. Besides, since it is mostly just the ordinary CRPF jawan who dies, the government is happy to choose a military option rather than dialogue.
The Maoists follow the same dehumanising practices, when they see nothing morally wrong in killing the security forces. Their language reeks of blood-sacrifice, their own and others. Their intolerance towards other groups working in their area and their disregard for the consequences of their actions on ordinary citizens hardly makes them a model of alternative democracy.
If Sri Lanka is the current flavour of counter-insurgency, the government would also be wise to remember the US debacle in Vietnam and now in Iraq and Afghanistan. And if the Maoists have China as their model, they must equally think of Peru, where the violence imploded on the very people they were claiming to represent. Certain wars can never be won with force, but only with justice and reconciliation, dialogue not death.
(The author is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.)
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Robin Cook #622
by pauly | Jan 12, 2020 | Pauly Cast, Podcasts | 0 comments
What a joy to welcome back my friend and New York Times Bestselling author, Robin Cook. For you writers out there, this is a Master’s Class from one of the most successful of our time. He and I also talk about his fantastic new book, Genesis, and the cutting edge new world of DNA exploration. Robin also talks about his mega-hit Coma and how that idea was conceived.
Robin Cook’s literary career began with his first novel, The Year of the Intern, which he wrote underwater while on board the nuclear submarine, Kamehameha. It was written to illustrate the less than salubrious psychological impact of graduate medical education on the psyche of young physicians. It was followed 5 years later in 1977 with Coma, which had been written at night while he was a senior ophthalmology resident and which was published while Dr. Cook was a student at the Kennedy School of Government. This novel created the genre of the medical thriller, and changed the public’s perception as well as the media’s portrayal of medicine. Prior to Coma, medicine was on the proverbial pedestal (e.g. Dr. Ben Casey and Marcus Welby, M.D.); post Coma, there were questions, meaning bad doctors and bad hospitals exist and should be avoided.
To date Robin Cook has written a total of thirty-three worldwide bestsellers, which have sold over one hundred million copies. Most all of Dr. Cook’s books have been written to elucidate various medical/biotech ethical and public policy issues. From his first novel on, it had been Dr. Cook’s intention to use entertainment as a method of doing this.
The issues have included the supply of organs for transplantation (Coma), stem cells and egg donation (Shock), the collision of politics and bioscience regarding therapeutic cloning (Seizure), food poisoning (Toxin), bio-terrorism (Vector), xeno-transplantation (Chromosome 6), managed care (Fatal Cure), the impact of the decipherment of the human genome on the economics and sociology of medicine (Marker), medical nanotechnology (Nano), and the digitalization of medicine (Cell) to name a few.
There have been almost a dozen theatrical movies, television movies, and mini-series made from Robin Cook’s work. In 2009 Robin Cook created and produced with Michael Eisner the world’s first full-length V-cast movie in 50 three-minute segments as a prequel to his book, Foreign Body. Recently Dr. Cook has teamed up with several successful businessmen to form Cook-Blackwood Productions to make feature movies and TV series from his work.
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by McCutcheon
The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls. They were coached by Vince Lambardi. The Super Bowl Trophy was named after him. This was in the late 60’s. Then…nothing. Green Bay lost, they lost games and they lost pride and they lost respect in the NFL.
Every Fall as the leaves turned colors on the trees people in Wisconsin got excited about football. Green Bay had lost everything but their fans. Would the Pack be back? No. Something had to be done.
The Packers hired Bart Starr, the star quarterback that played under coach Lambardi. The quarterback who beat the Dallas Cowboys in the Ice Bowl. The man who lead the team to the Super Bowl victories. Bart brought in Lynn Dickey to play his quarterback. The man had an arm. He didn’t have any legs though. He couldn’t scramble but boy could he pass. Finally the Packers had an offense. But they didn’t have a defense. Dickey would throw touchdowns then the other team got the ball and the Packers folded. They lost games by scores like 51-48.
Every Fall as the leaves turned colors on the trees people in Wisconsin got excited about football. Would the Pack be back? No. They could beat our Pack but they couldn’t lick our Dickey. Then Dickey just collapsed in the pocket like a star imploding on itself. Something had to be done.
The Packers hired another coach that had played under Lambardi. Forrest Gregg came in and turned our beloved Pack into criminals. Not only were the Packers now losing but they were getting fined on and off the field. Surely something had to be done.
Enter new management. Enter a new coach. Enter a new quarterback. The Packers got Brett Favre.
Brett was a small town boy from the rural south. He was white trash. What was this hillbilly gonna do in the North? Only win back to back league MVP’s. Only lead the Packers to a Super Bowl victory and bring the Lombardi Trophy back to where it belongs, to the smallest town to own a professional sports team in North America, Green Bay, Wisconsin. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I once read an article by some unarticulated clumsy man who wrote in Sports Illustrated a couple years back about why the Packers would never win another Super Bowl. --Fuck you man.
But it wasn’t easy. Brett had problems with his family getting incarcerated back home while he perfected his passing. One of his closest friends died. And there were drunken nights of debauchery. But hell, when people who like to drink come to Green Bay they just drink even more because there is nothing else to do. You have to remember this is Wisconsin. There was once a study to find out what state was the most overweight. Yeah, it was Wisconsin. And America is the fattest country in the world. So you’re talking about the fattest people in the world here. They like to eat and drink. Eating and drinking and football is their culture. If you doubt this just check out the drunks eating Gilbert Burgers.
So who can blame the new star quarterback for living his life?
But this wasn’t the biggest hurdle Brett had to overcome. It was the pills. No Brett didn’t become an ecstasy popping acid house raver, he was in too much pain. He turned to Vicodin to help the pounding he was taking on the Frozen Tundra. He would pop the pills and throw them up in the shower. He would then reach down, pick them back up and swallow them again. He would send his wife to the dentist to get more pain pills. Brett was so far down in the Valley of the Dolls he had to get an enema to help him even take a shit.
Brett landed himself in one of the most boring of places, rehab. He spent long summer hours fighting addiction when most people in his profession were vacationing at some far out location or back home with family. When Brett got released he was banned by the NFL from drinking. But Brett was a rebel with a cause. A few days before the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the holiest of holy games in the city of sinners, Brett had a few beers. What happened? Only a Super Bowl victory and his second MVP award in a row. Then it was time to hit Bourbon Street.
P.S. For all you out there who make fun of Brett’s braces just remember who has the coolest sideburns in the NFL.
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LaCie Mobile Drive Review
By Rod Scher
Best External Hard Drive or SSD$94.95 (as tested) External hard drives have long been commodity items, but now and then, a design breaks out from the pack. A metal-skinned gem of a platter hard drive, the LaCie Mobile Drive is one of those designs. The body looks great, with slant-cut edges in its aluminum housing, and the drive performs on point. (It comes in capacities from 1TB to 5TB; we tested the 2TB version.) It's geared to macOS users (the silver shell will complement any modern MacBook well), but it will please anyone with an eye for style in their gadgets.Read the Full Review
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Slick, faceted design.
Solid-feeling aluminum enclosure.
Useful LaCie Toolkit software handles backup and restore, as well as mirroring.
On-the-mark performance.
A little hefty.
Toolkit utility requires a download.
A metal-skinned gem of a platter hard drive, the LaCie Mobile Drive looks great and performs on point. It's geared to macOS users, but it will please anyone with an eye for style in their gadgets.
If you're looking for spiffy-looking, pocket-size mega-storage, you're living in the right era. Drives these days are inexpensive (pennies per gigabyte), and the release of LaCie's Mac-complementary Mobile Drive shows how fashionable they can be, too. A sleek, sophisticated-looking entry in the storage sweepstakes, this minimalist portable drive offers compatibility with USB Type-A or Type-C ports and comes in capacities from 1TB to 5TB. You can cram many thousands of audio, image, or video files onto even the smallest; the 2TB model (in Mac-friendly Space Grey) that we're looking at here goes for $94.95 via Apple's online store. More colors will hit Amazon and other retailers soon. It's a winner and goes well with any of Apple's laptops, as well as any slick silver ultraportable.
Metal Makes Everything Better
It's hard for makers of external platter-based hard drives to differentiate their products these days. Most perform and cost about the same at a given capacity. And after all, they all do the same job, right? So, in a commoditized niche, how to make your device stand apart from your competitors? The answer is design. Performance numbers and prices may be a yawner, but they don't have to look the same.
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And LaCie's Mobile Drive does not look like the other guy's portable drive. It's a 2.5-inch, 5,400rpm drive housed in a sheer slab of faceted aluminum. It's a smooth wedge measuring 4.8 by 3.5 inches lying flat, and 0.39 inch thick. Much unlike the touchy-feely, fabric-wrapped Backup Plus Ultra Touch from LaCie's parent company, Seagate, the Mobile Drive's whole body is milled metal with mitered edges. It weighs a touch more than some similar devices (7.1 ounces, about 1.7 ounces more than the Backup Plus Ultra Touch), but that heft feels right in a device like this one. It would fit right in sitting next to your high-dollar gaming laptop or Apple MacBook Pro.
Simply put, the Mobile Drive is a stunning little piece of gear. That's not something you can say all that often about something as pedestrian as an external hard drive, especially one coming in at less than 5 cents per gigabyte for the 2TB version. The cost per gig drops even more if you opt for the 3TB, 4TB, or 5TB units. (The 4TB and 5TB versions on the Apple Store at this writing went for $139.95 and $159.95, respectively.)
What's on the Drive, What's in the Box?
Out of the box, you get the standard stuff, plus one more cable than you might expect. The bus-powered drive itself is the biggest thing, of course, in all of its milled-aluminum glory. The drive-side data connection is USB Type-C; you get a pair of cables—one USB Type-C-to-A, and a double-ended USB Type-C—along with a very minimal Quick Start guide.
That said, you don't need much in the way of instructions. Just plug it in, and click the Start Here applet that's already on the drive. You'll get walked through the rest. Mac users, though, may need to reformat this exFAT-formatted drive to HFS+ if they wish to use Apple's Time Machine. And some Windows users may prefer to reformat the drive to NTFS.
In another attempt to differentiate its offering, LaCie also includes the LaCie Toolkit, easy-to-use software that includes backup, restore, and mirroring utilities. Toolkit allows you to either back up manually or just set-and-forget, in the latter case so that your content is constantly being backed up whenever anything changes. The Mirror function, not surprisingly, lets you sync files in a folder on your computer with a folder on the drive. Whatever you place in (or remove from) a mirrored folder will show up on (or be removed from) the other folder.
One minor irritation: The LaCie Toolkit is not provided on the drive itself. You'll need to download it from the LaCie website during product registration.
As an additional incentive, LaCie includes a one-month subscription to all apps in the Adobe Creative Cloud lineup, an offer that comes available when you register your drive. (You'll need an Adobe ID, which is free.)
Looks Slick, Is It Speedy?
I've summarized the PC Labs test results below, but the bottom line is that, when using a USB 3 connection (whether over a Type-A or a Type-C port), the LaCie Mobile Drive is plenty fast, but not significantly faster than any other late-model 2.5-inch portable platter drive. No surprises here. (And yes, it will work just fine with USB 2.0, but be prepared to spend a lot of time waiting for backups to complete, due to the port being a bottleneck.)
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PC Labs starts out the testing with the drive in NTFS, on a Windows 10 storage testbed. LaCie promises 130MBps transfer speeds; in the real world, our testing verified that the manufacturer's estimate was dead on in a straight-line, best-case testing scenario...
On our Crystal DiskMark test, we got read and write speeds right on the mark from the drive. Only the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch and the WD Elements drives did better (on the read portion of the test), and that only trivially so.
Next up, the PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test, which simulates real-world productivity tasks, to measure drive performance...
On the test, the LaCie Mobile Drive scored 1,148, slightly lower than its sister drive, the Seagate Mobile Backup Ultra Plus, and a bit further below the WD My Passport Drive. The ADATA HD830 and WD Elements both outscored the Ultra Touch, but all five drives were close enough that in the real world, performance differences would be minor except in edge cases.
Onward to Apple-based testing. PC Labs runs the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test on a 2016 MacBook Pro, with the drive formatted in the exFAT file system. All of the scores on this test came in within a few digits of one another, with the LaCie Mobile Drive near the head of the pack...
The 2TB version of the sibling Seagate drive posted very similar numbers, and the WD My Passport brought up the rear.
Last is a drag-and-drop folder transfer test, in which a 1.2GB folder gets copied from one location on the drive to another...
In that test, the Seagate and LaCie sisters tied; both required 11 seconds to make the transfer. The other drives tested took a second or two longer, but on the whole, the differences are not meaningful.
A Drive in Shining Armor
Let's face it, external SSDs offer lighter, faster, and quite literally cooler storage, but you're going to pay a premium per gig for all of that. If you're after decent performance, voluminous storage, and the biggest bang for your buck, external hard drives are the way to go—and LaCie's Mobile Drive is at the head of the pack. At about 5 cents per gigabyte for our tester, the Mobile Drive offers solid value and strong performance in a beautiful package, plus some handy tools to help you get your money's worth. And you won't find a drive that looks better with your Mac (or for that matter, most PCs). It's our new Editors' Choice among Mac-focused portable hard drives.
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About Rod Scher
Rod Scher is a former director of technology of Cliffs Notes and several other companies, and is a retired teacher and software developer. For many years, he was the editor of Smart Computing Magazine. He is the author or annotator of several books, including Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology. Scher spends much of his time traveling the country in a small motorhome with his wife, which gives him an excellent opportunity to test mobile computing gear, while attempting to explain to the IRS that all of his travel expenses are therefore tax-deductible.
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Threatened animals suffer for gas project
Narelle Towie Environment ReporterNews Corp Australia
NATIVE animals are being killed almost daily on Barrow Island by workers on the controversial Gorgon gas project.
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal "specially protected" species on the nature reserve off the Pilbara coast are being mown down, sometimes several in a day, as workers move about the island.
More than 1550 animal deaths have been recorded since construction began on Chevron's $43 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project in September 2009. Documents show that to July 2011, 377 of them were listed as threatened or vulnerable species and protected under state and national laws.
The maximum fine for killing or taking a specially protected animal is $10,000, but the Department of Environment and Conservation says no fines have been issued for the deaths because they were accidental.
Chevron says that some of the 1558 recorded animal deaths were due to natural causes.
An exhaustive review of hundreds of fauna event reports by The Sunday Times showed that 193 priority-listed animals were killed from January to July as a result of the project.
At least 150 Barrow Island golden bandicoots, 30 Barrow Island spectacled hare-wallabies, three wallaroos and 10 boodies lost their lives in that period, with 65 fatalities occurring in May alone.
The reports reveal how workers have wiped out more than a dozen animals by stepping on them. Other animals have become trapped in pits or stuck between pipes, and some were crushed during land clearing.
Injured or orphaned animals are euthanised by trained fauna handlers, sometimes using "blunt trauma", the reports say.
The threatened golden bandicoot is the worst affected species, often hit by vehicles after dark or at dawn.
A Chevron spokesman said rigorous processes were in place to minimise animal deaths and the company takes all practicable measures to minimise and prevent incidents involving local fauna.
"We have a range of measures in place to limit the impact of construction activities on the environment, including lowering speed limits to 40km/h during dusk and dawn when the animals are most active and using extra buses to transport workers to and from work sites to reduce the number of light vehicles," the spokesman said.
But the company could not say if reducing speed limits in a fauna casualty "hot spot" had made any difference to the number of animals being hit by cars.
Meanwhile, the DEC said the island is home to a thriving population of 60,000 bandicoots, 5000 boodies, and up to 10,000 wallabies.
Greens MP Robin Chapple said part of the problem is that the island's animals are not afraid of humans.
"This level of accident is just obscene and is one of the main reasons why the Environmental Protection Authority said Chevron shouldn't take their Gorgon gas facility to the island," Mr Chapple said.
Independent environmental regulator, the EPA, twice rejected Barrow Island as a suitable site for the gas project because of the island's "very high and unique conservation and environmental values".
In an April 2009 report, the EPA wrote: "That it previously advised that due to the very high environmental and unique conservation values of Barrow Island it held the view that, as a matter of principle,industry should not be located on a nature reserve and specifically not on Barrow Island."
In June 2010, The Sunday Times revealed that a endangered juvenile hawksbill turtle was sucked into equipment during dredging to deepen the port.
While few sea turtles have been killed as a result of the project, internal DEC documents note that: "usually only a percentage of actual turtle events will be detected when using overflow screens and that this may be as low as 20 per cent of turtle mortalities."
Chevron said that it does not consider the killing of animals an acceptable consequence of the process and that it has introduced vehicle monitoring systems, fauna exclusion fencing, fauna exit ramps in trenches and regular inspections, as well as ongoing education and awareness initiatives with contractors.
The spokesman said that the project, which takes up 1.3 per cent of the island, was deliberately situated to avoid areas of "conservation significance".
Journalist Narelle Towie can be contacted on: towien@sundaytimes.newsltd.com.au or on twitter @narelletowie
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12 LGBT podcasts you should be listening to right now
Laura Hampson November 22, 2016
Looking for a quality queer podcast to binge for your commute? Here are some of the best LGBT+ podcasts to date.
From podcasts discussing LGBT+ lifestyle and entertainment to LGBT+ history and gay sex, we list an array of queer podcasts that are worth listening to.
The Internet’s answer to radio allows anyone to tell their stories, talk about things that matter to them and project them into the world. These days, there’s a podcast for almost anything. You can find out favourite LGBT podcasts below.
1. Throwing Shade
A weekly podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who discuss women’s issues, gay rights, politics and pop culture. The pair met while performing at the Upright Citizens Brigande in L.A. and debuted their first episode in 2011. Their main focus is to address issues ‘affecting ladies and gays’.
You can find Throwing Shade here.
2. Ramble Redhead
Ramble Redhead has been running since 2005 and is hosted and produced by an unnamed gay man living in the States. He says the point of the podcast is to share his thoughts, victories and mistakes so others can learn from them. The podcast features interviews with members of the LGBT community and has been nominated for several awards.
You can listen to Ramble Redhead here.
3. Straight Talk with Ross Matthews
Since his debut as ‘Ross the Intern’ on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2001, Ross Matthews has gone on to write a book and host Hollywood Today Live. His weekly podcast, which began in 2014, allows us insight into his views on the news of the week and the entertainment industry while he also gives advice to listeners.
You can listen to Straight Talk with Ross Matthews here.
4. PsychoBabble
American LGBT YouTube sensation, Tyler Oakley has teamed up with his best friend, Korey Kuhl, to deliver a weekly half-hour round up of gossip, stories and pop culture news.
You can listen to PsychoBabble here.
5. This Way Out
When it comes to LGBT world news, there’s no better place to turn than This Way Out. Their radio show has been on air since 1988 and their weekly podcast updates you on everything happening in the LGBT community around the world.
You can listen to This Way Out here.
6. The Read
Hosted by queer friends, Kid Fury and Crissle West, The Read is billed as a “weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture’s most trying stars”. Yet really it’s just two friends bouncing off each other, taking down casual racism while systematically becoming the best friends you wish you had in the process.
You can listen to The Read here.
7. Homoground
Homoground is an hour-long weekly celebration of queer music and queer musicians and the hosts have featured over 400 independent singers and bands since the show’s inception in 2011. The podcast also includes interviews with up-and-coming queer musicians.
You can listen to Homoground here.
8. Cocktails and Creampuffs
For all you pervs out there, the boys of Cocktails and Creampuffs, Joey Bucheker, Marc Sacco and Matthew Crehan Higgins discuss the intimate details of their lives. The podcast, which is released every Thursday, also discusses celebrity culture and has been nominated for the Peoples Choice Podcast Award for the ‘Best GLBT Podcast’ three times.
You can listen to Cocktails and Creampuffs here.
9. Savage Lovecast
LGBT activist, Dan Savage started writing his sex advice column ‘Savage Love’ in 1991. 15 years later, in October 2006, he began recording a podcast supplement to the column (hence Savage Lovecast) which features telephone advice sessions.
You can listen to Savage Lovecast here.
10. Transition Transmission
Transition Transmission is one of the only podcasts around made solely for a transgender audience. The hosts, who call themselves the ‘Transgender Trio’, consist of Amber Neko, Alexandria Tribby and Ramona Knotts. The podcast tackles everything from gender reassignment to issues in the transgender community.
You can listen to Transition Transmission here.
11. What’s the Tee?
RuPaul’s flagship podcast launched in April 2014. He hosts alongside fellow ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ judge Michelle Visage. The bi-weekly show feature behind-the-scenes thoughts on the show along with general chit-chat, life advice and interviews.
You can listen to What’s The Tee here.
12. The Sewers of Paris
Named after the legendary ’70s Southern California gay bar, this weekly podcast, hosted by Matt Baume, speaks to a different guest every week and examines gay culture through pop iconography. “Each week my guest plucks a piece of entertainment from their past and answers the question, ‘How did this change your life?'” Baume said.
You can listen to The Sewers of Paris here.
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Q&A with Rachel Beck, Ph.D.: What Do Analytical Chemistry and Forensic Toxicology Contribute to Drug Development and Formulation Evaluation?
Categories: Abuse Deterrent
Dr. Rachel Beck is an expert in analytical chemistry and forensic toxicology. In 2018, Dr. Beck joined PinneyAssociates where she is a key contributor to our abuse-deterrent formulation strategy and evaluation team. She has been qualified as an expert witness in both criminal and civil courts of law and is a fellow of the American Board of Forensic Toxicology. While on the faculty at the University of Alabama, in the Department of Pathology, she developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) confirmation laboratory for both prescription and pain management drug analytes for the hospital.
How does your expertise in analytical chemistry and forensic toxicology support PinneyAssociates’ clients?
My background is especially relevant to testing of abuse deterrent properties and drug development.
Drug development in general depends on good analytical chemistry. I can help sponsors evaluate metabolic processes and determine the PK profile of a drug. If the drug is metabolized, companies need to understand the effect of any metabolites. Further, assessing chemistry laboratory data and discerning potential anomalies depends on understanding the testing protocols. My experience in developing laboratory workflows and protocols puts me in a position to “read” the data and assess any irregularities. Missing or additional data and tracking data trends are key to discerning and interpreting Sponsor’s data. It may be as simple as a missing data point, or trend data may be accurate and point to a potential problem.
Rigorous abuse deterrent testing depends on accurately simulating drug abuse behaviors. In my 11+ years in forensic toxicology, I focused on how people prepared drugs for abuse: what methods they applied; what the time course of their efforts was; how much effort drug abusers are willing to put in to maximize the effect of a substance and minimize the time to obtain that effect. Development of abuse deterrent products depends on a deep understanding of drug abuse behaviors.
Your work was key to identifying a new fentanyl analogue (fentalogue) within Jefferson County, Alabama. What does that expertise mean for pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers of controlled substances and other drugs that act on the central nervous system?
The process of identifying a novel psychoactive substance (NPS) requires an understanding of how to apply laboratory methods and resources. Also key to the process is perspective into what drugs people are abusing and how they are abusing them. For developers and manufacturers of compounds and formulations potentially resistant to manipulation and abuse, effective assessment of a drug pipeline requires efficient merging of innovative laboratory methods with insights into real-world abuse of drugs.
How has the increase in novel psychoactive substances impacted medical examiners offices? How does your experience in this setting benefit industry?
Statements and reporting that attribute morbidity and mortality to specific substances depend on accurate data. Good data on drug abuse behaviors and solid drug abuse assessments provide the basis for accurate interpretations.
During the years I worked in forensic toxicology, first at the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and then later at the Jefferson County Coroner and Medical Examiner’s (JCCME) Office, we saw both the number and volume of novel psychoactive substances increase, together with recurrent shifts in these substances. We needed to be able to identify these substances to protect the health of anyone potentially touched by them, including drug abusers, first responders, health care providers treating patients in the emergency department, and even laboratory personnel responsible for managing and testing evidence.
In the face of this public health challenge, I designed and validated a multi-pronged methodological approach in order to identify and report new novel psychoactive substances, which combined known information (i.e., suspect/decedent history and investigator notes), with analytical data (i.e., positive immunoassay screens, spectrum, molecular ion, retention time, etc.), and insights from discussions of illicit drug use on social media. This process not only helped accurately report the drug analytes to the Medical Examiner but ultimately allowed for proper transmission of the data to the Department of Public Health, CDC, and beyond.
Forensic sciences, especially the toxicology and chemistry fields, are charged with determining if a prescription or illicit drug analyte were involved in a particular incident (traffic crash, overdose, etc.). Part of this responsibility is to report findings on drug behaviors to local and state regulatory and public health entities. These data affect new regulation requirements which in turn affect pharmaceutical companies’ processes. Ultimately, to successfully design and receive FDA approval for new drug analytes and formulations, we have to understand current and past use, misuse, abuse, overdose and diversion behaviors.
Atherton D, Dye D, Robison CA, Beck R. (2019) n-Ethyl Pentylone-Related Deaths in Alabama. J Forensic Sci. 64 (1), pp 304-308.
Beck RC, Kloda S, Whiddon J, Davis GG, Robinson CA. Methodical approach for the identification of novel psychoactive substances. Presented at Society of Forensic Toxicology 2017 Annual Meeting. Boca Raton, FL. (January 2018).
Beck RC, Kloda S, Whiddon J, Dye WD, Robinson CA. Jefferson County fentalogues: A 6 month review. Presented at Society of Forensic Toxicology 2017 Annual Meeting. Boca Raton, FL. (January 2018).
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Eclipsing Expectations
With perfect planning and a bit of luck, one Pitt team prepares for a celestial experience.
Adam Reger
The students huddled around a cardboard canister packed with chords, cables, and computer components. An unexpected problem had arisen—a wire soldered to a tiny, single circuit-board computer had somehow detached. Grace Chu, a Pitt sophomore majoring in physics and astronomy, leaned closer to troubleshoot.
“Nine minutes to launch,” announced David Turnshek, professor of physics and astronomy. The tension inside the Allegheny Observatory mounted.
Chu and her teammates were racing to launch a high-altitude balloon carrying a cache of technology to a height of 85,000 to 105,000 feet. From there, the gear—cameras, computers, and light sensors—would gather data and return video to the young scientists on the ground. This was the final test launch before the team members’ trip to Springfield, Tenn., where they would be perfectly positioned to capture the total solar eclipse from more than 16 miles above the Earth.
The six-person Pitt team was part of NASA’s Eclipse Ballooning Project. On Aug. 21, their balloon obtained a live video of the eclipse from near-space. The group, aptly dubbed the Pitt Shadow Bandits, also gathered information to study “shadow bands,” mysterious ripples of light observed during previous solar eclipses.
Back at the test launch in Pittsburgh, Chu worked quickly but carefully as the seconds ticked away. Soon, Marshall Hartman came in from the Observatory lawn on Pittsburgh’s North Side, where he was helping to fill an enormous white balloon with helium. As he offered his teammate a hand, Turnshek and physics and astronomy faculty member Russell Clark hung back. This project was an opportunity for students to learn by doing—on their own. That’s part of what made the experience so valuable, said Hartman. He graduated from Pitt in the spring but chose to remain a member of the Shadow Bandits before heading to Wisconsin to start work as an engineer.
“These are the kinds of problems engineers face every day,” he said. He and Chu reattached the wire with minutes to spare.
“Alright, folks,” said Turnshek, glancing at his watch. It was time to go.
The group carried the canisters outside, where the balloon hovered 30 feet above the ground. Once everything was attached, the signal was given. Released, the balloon shot straight up, trailing its payload behind it like the long tail of a kite. Within minutes, the balloon was invisible behind a thick bank of clouds.
The test launch was a success, but the day wasn’t over. After 30 minutes in the air, the balloon parachuted to the ground as planned. The team followed GPS coordinates to track where it landed and recovered it two hours later near Saltsburg, Pa.
A couple weeks later, the Pitt group made another successful launch, this time in Tennessee, where members gained valuable data for their NASA-funded project and a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But as their final test launch came to an end, the Shadow Bandits already had something to celebrate: they were another step closer to capturing a truly heavenly sight.
To see what the Shadow Bandits’s balloon captured during the eclipse, check out pi.tt/pitteclipse.
This article appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Pitt Magazine.
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Casey Dreier • November 15, 2018
When Space Science Becomes a Political Liability
This is why you don’t see more politicians going to bat for space exploration
Representative John Culberson, an 8-term Texas Republican and staunch supporter of NASA and planetary exploration, lost his re-election bid to Democrat Lizzie Fletcher last week. Many factors played into this outcome, but one bears consideration by space advocates: his support for the scientific search for life at Europa was seen as a weakness and attacked accordingly.
Over the past four years, Culberson used his chairmanship of the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) appropriations subcommittee to increase spending on NASA and missions to search for life on Europa. He directed hundreds of millions of dollars to this effort and played a critical role in getting the Europa Clipper mission officially adopted by NASA and the White House. And he did this without cannibalizing other NASA programs. His motivation was passion, not parochialism, as the prime benefactor of these federal dollars was California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located far outside his Houston-area congressional district.
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Robert Picardo and Rep. John Culberson discuss planetary exploration
Robert Picardo, a member of The Planetary Society's board of directors, discusses Europa science with Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), co-Chair of the Planetary Science Caucus during the caucus' launch event on May 9th, 2018.
Culberson's unusual and commendable commitment to the scientific exploration of space ended up as a political liability, as opponents painted the congressman as out of touch with his district.
The first salvo came from the Houston Chronicle, which endorsed his opponent Lizzie Fletcher, and had this to say about Culberson's support for the Europa missions:
His career has been spent promoting his own pet projects rather than serving the local needs of his home district. That's why it took the greatest natural disaster in Houston history to compel him to act with necessary passion.
It's not that Culberson doesn't care about water. He does. But most of the time, he seems to care a bit more about the water on Europa, an icy moon orbiting Jupiter, than he does the water in the Addicks and Barker dams. Or in our bayous. Or in our homes. Culberson has expended untold political capital trying to force NASA to send probes to Europa in search of alien life. That's an admirable scientific mission, even if some planetary researchers think the limited resources could be better spent.
The editors at the Chronicle ignore the fact that Europa was repeatedly declared one of the top priorities by the National Academies of Sciences in the decadal survey reports. They misrepresented a single scientist's dissent as proof of broad scientific division, and suggested that Culberson was unable to support Europa (a relatively minor program within the $56 billion jurisdiction of the CJS subcommittee) while addressing local issues. Europa's remoteness and extraordinary promise of discovery served as a handy literary device—the false dichotomy of choosing water on some distant moon versus addressing flood waters here.
The editorial was distilled into an attack ad by the Independence USA PAC, a pro-Democratic political action committee which, to be clear, is unaffiliated with the Lizzie Fletcher campaign. The ad ignored the scientific caveats from the Chronicle editorial board and went full-on anti-space:
The ad, as you can see, dredges up dismissive tropes used to caricature space science and exploration advocates: cartoonish aliens, "Jetsons"-style futurism, and false dichotomies of space versus "real" issues.
Make no mistake, this ad is anti-science. This dismissal of a scientifically valid area of study—one that could potentially reshape entire fields of science—should be roundly rejected by any citizen committed to a modern scientific society, regardless of political affiliation.
The point here is not to draw conclusions about Republicans versus Democrats, or whether Culberson deserved to be reelected by his district. Nor is it to say that this ad was the primary factor as to why Culberson lost his seat. The point is that supporting space science was seen as a liability—something to be exploited instead of commended—and it was used to diminish and embarrass the candidate for having the nerve to embrace far-reaching scientific goals. No doubt this lesson will be internalized by other politicians: space science and exploration should be pursued quietly and apologetically, an extravagance to be indulged only after "real" issues are addressed.
It is likely that the individuals who made this ad did not think about these implications, nor do they consider themselves anti-science. But the message they sent was clear: to anyone who dares to dream about exploration and discovery, to anyone who finds their soul stirred by the thought of discovering life beyond Earth, to anyone who finds the courage to take the cosmic perspective—you do not belong here, and you do not deserve to have access to power. And in that sense, we as a nation, as a polity, and as a species, are diminished.
A new congress convenes next year. There will be many new faces, including Lizzie Fletcher, that have yet to understand the awesome scientific potential of planetary exploration. The political implications from this election are a setback, but they are not permanent. It's up to us as Planetary Society members and supporters to ensure the new Congress learns that an ancient ocean on a distant moon has value—and is worth their support—in addition to issues here on Earth.
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sepiae: 2018/11/16 01:38 CST
Thanks for this item. I haven't yet managed to get the psychology of space-related issues appearing, on average, to be more popular among Republicans, as it seems from here on the other side of the Atlantic puddle. There are a few profound issues many Democrats don't seem to quite get. I'm glad and relieved about the recent Midterm-outcome, would I live in the U.S. and as a citizen I'd have voted Democratic whatever the state might have been just to get some proper say back into the House - which doesn't prevent me at all from being ashamed while watching this ad, outright ashamed (while, again, not even being an American), as it's abound with ignorance, ashamed because I feel personally ridiculed by this inadequacy, and consequently quite angry. I agree with the main gist of this article as summorized at its botton, this is potentially very damaging. Meaning thrice the work for you guys.
Brian Schmidt: 2018/11/17 12:50 CST
Thanks Casey, as a Democrat I agree that the ad constitutes a Democratic Party War on Science, and is shameful. I hope Fletcher denounces it and takes a serious look at supporting Culberson's legacy on these issues. My own take, citing this post, is here: http://rabett.blogspot.com/2018/11/call-it-our-party-housecleaning-or-just.html Sepiae: I wouldn't say Republicans are better than Democrats on space issues, but rather it's a very rare situation where they're not obviously far worse. I guess the Republican support is some combination of: Republican fascination with big government military spending leaking over to space issues; that much space-related funding going to states in the American South with strong Republican representation; and some effort to deny they're anti-science. And also a few genuine enthusiasts like Culberson.
TonyMach: 2018/11/18 01:15 CST
"When Space Science Becomes a Political Liability" ??? Pushing for a Europa Lander at this time is not "Space Science"! It is a irresponsible waste of resources, resources we would need elsewhere. What Culbertson fought for was the same type of lobbying-by-space-industry problem that brought us a the STS and the SLS, a giant waste of resources, with its giant attached opportunity costs - good riddance to people like him, they are not our allies in a fight for more "Space Science", and if you think they are, then neither are you.
Brian Schmidt: thanks for the clarification, as I said, I haven't yet wrapped my head around it, and this helps me a step further. Though, no matter what the course, it still seems on average so, even where motivation might be ulterior. TonyMach: and this is asking outside the context of any individual, like Culbertson - how is wanting to land on Europa and trying to find out what's under that ice crust not Space Science? With the argument of 'irresponsible waste of resources' in mind, what mission or general area in space science would you deem not to be such an irresponsible waste? After all, this is the dilemma every single mission proposal finds itself in, until being definitely picked they all find themselves in danger of being left on the cutting floor. Finding out whether Europa's ocean is indeed habitable doesn't sound like waste to me. NASA is not the 1st agency coming to my mind when it’s about wasting resources.
Sepiae: I completely disagree with TonyMach despite being generally opposed to the Republican Party. There is a case to be made that the Europa Lander is premature and too likely to fail, but the scientific rewards from a lander that could make it to the surface are staggering, better than any landers we've had, even Viking. I even agree with Tony that SLS is a boondoggle but using it on actual space science like Europa launches is a slight improvement. Slight tangent - as a Planetary Society member, I welcome what I see as its increased emphasis on space science over human spaceflight.
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Heather Hoch | December 6, 2013 | 10:00am
Though best known for their spiny rind, burr gherkins, a West African cucumber-like veggie, have been a gardener's secret for a number of reasons. Probably the most obvious reason: Burr gherkins grow like crazy. Even in less-than-hospitable environments (like, say, a desert), growers are impressed and a little overwhelmed by their yield from one plant. These little cukes are an ideal step into heirloom gardening because they're easy to maintain since they don't have the same pest issues as cucumbers. If you're just looking for a couple to try out before you make the plunge into plant ownership, McClendon's has plenty of organic burr gherkins for the picking.
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The versatile burr gherkin is as great in the kitchen as it is in the garden. Burr gherkins brine well, making for unique-looking pickles. Also, unlike some kinds of gherkins, these don't have to be pickled to enjoy -- simply throw them in raw anyplace you'd use a normal cucumber. Plus, looking how they do, with the light green coloring and the spiky skin, they'll add visual impact in any dish. Be aware that burr gherkins do have a mild lemony flavor, much like our old friend the lemon cucumber. Finally, you can also cook burr gherkins sort of like zucchini, since they're a bit more firm in texture than typical cucumbers.
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Correction for Jiménez-Díaz et al., (+)-SJ733, a clinical candidate for malaria that acts through ATP4 to induce rapid host-mediated clearance of Plasmodium
PNAS October 20, 2015 112 (42) E5764; first published October 1, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518632112
(+)-SJ733, a clinical candidate for malaria that acts through ATP4 to induce rapid host-mediated clearance of Plasmodium
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PHARMACOLOGY Correction for “(+)-SJ733, a clinical candidate for malaria that acts through ATP4 to induce rapid host-mediated clearance of Plasmodium,” by María Belén Jiménez-Díaz, Daniel Ebert, Yandira Salinas, Anupam Pradhan, Adele M. Lehane, Marie-Eve Myrand-Lapierre, Kathleen G. O’Loughlin, David M. Shackleford, Mariana Justino de Almeida, Angela K. Carrillo, Julie A. Clark, Adelaide S. M. Dennis, Jonathon Diep, Xiaoyan Deng, Sandra Duffy, Aaron N. Endsley, Greg Fedewa, W. Armand Guiguemde, María G. Gómez, Gloria Holbrook, Jeremy Horst, Charles C. Kim, Jian Liu, Marcus C. S. Lee, Amy Matheny, María Santos Martínez, Gregory Miller, Ane Rodríguez-Alejandre, Laura Sanz, Martina Sigal, Natalie J. Spillman, Philip D. Stein, Zheng Wang, Fangyi Zhu, David Waterson, Spencer Knapp, Anang Shelat, Vicky M. Avery, David A. Fidock, Francisco-Javier Gamo, Susan A. Charman, Jon C. Mirsalis, Hongshen Ma, Santiago Ferrer, Kiaran Kirk, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Dennis E. Kyle, Joseph L. DeRisi, David M. Floyd, and R. Kiplin Guy, which appeared in issue 50, December 16, 2014, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (111:E5455–E5462; first published December 1, 2014; 10.1073/pnas.1414221111).
The authors note that Fig. 5 appeared incorrectly. The corrected figure and its legend appear below.
Induction of eryptosis by SJ733 triggers rapid clearance in vivo. When (+)-SJ733 is added to erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium spp., it prevents the action of the putative Na+ ATPase PfATP4 and causes a significant increase in cytosolic Na+ within the parasite, reaching maximal effect within 90 min after treatment. This process results in the immediate arrest of parasite motility and blockade of intracellular parasite replication that reaches maximal potency after 24 h of exposure. Simultaneously, infected, treated erythrocytes begin to enter eryptosis, as characterized by their shrinking and becoming more spherical, becoming significantly more rigid, and exposing PS on their plasma membrane. These effects maximize by 7 h after treatment. In vitro, the drug effects lead to complete arrest of replication within 24 h of treatment, followed by slow death, which is maximal by 96 h. In stark contrast to the in vitro setting, the induction of eryptosis leads to rapid clearance of the infected, treated erythrocytes in vivo.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2015, 112 (42) E5764; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518632112
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Interview: Meryl Meisler on Disco Era Bushwick
"Rejected from Studio 54 No No," Studio 54, NY, NY, October 1978© Meryl Meisler
"Boyz to Men," Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, October 1982© Meryl Meisler
"Woman with Bouffant and Letters T and M," Studio 54, NY, NY, July 1977© Meryl Meisler
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"Pink Twins," Bushick, Brooklyn, NY, Circa 1983© Meryl Meisler
"Wild Wild West Double Joined Contortionist," Hurrah, NY, NY, March 1979© Meryl Meisler
"Boy in a Tire," Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 1984© Meryl Meisler
"Holding Head as Hair Flies While Dancing," Studio 54, NY, NY, July 1977© Meryl Meisler
"Puddle Jump," Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, February 1983© Meryl Meisler
"Dancing Busboy," Studio 54, NY, NY, July 1977© Meryl Meisler
"Open Jaw Bulldozer," Bushwick Brooklyn, NY, April 1983© Meryl Meisler
Meryl Meisler was in her mid-20s when disco broke. She was a regular at famous clubs like Studio 54 and Xenon. She also always had her camera in hand, ready to document whatever insanity the night might hold. As the parties raged in Manhattan, other areas of the city slipped into chaos. When the 1977 Blackout hit certain neighborhoods, like Bushwick, were decimated. The Blackout led to looting of storefronts along Broadway and an "All Hands Fire" on the corner of Knickerbocker Ave. and Myrtle Ave. that wiped out 30 buildings and left a hundreds of families homeless. At that time Meisler had never heard of the Brooklyn neighborhood, but four years later she would take a full-time teaching job there, photographing the area as it slowly recovered from the aftermath of the Blackout.
Meisler’s first book, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick, combines her work from these eras: juxtaposing images of New York’s wild disco scene with the post-blackout Bushwick, which for many New Yorker’s felt was a bit like the wild west.
Working with Jean Stéphane Sauvaire (owner of Bizarre Bar and Bizarre Publishing, Meisler put the book together in two months. Familiarity with her Bushwick photos and meticulous labeling of her disco photos allowed Meisler to work quickly to bring the images together. Meisler talks about her experience photographing these two worlds.
Interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
How did you start photographing the late ‘70s New York disco scene?
I was 25 years old, I went on a bus to Mardi Gras and coming back there was another woman on the bus who was quite out there, quite wild. I said, “Do you want to do a photo shoot together?” And we did and we became friends. Her name was Judith Delong. We just immediately hit it off and started going to CBGBs, the punk scene, just going out all the time. Then discos opened up, Studio 54 came on with a splash, I believe it was June, I think two weeks later we were already there. Going out, like young people do, running around and hitting all the clubs. She contacted one of the PR firms to let them know that we were interested and got on the list. I always carried my camera with me wherever I went.
Did you consider yourself "on assignment" for the PR firm, or were the photographs more of a personal project?
I was photographing all the time, but I was not on assignment. I barely ever did photography on assignment. It just wasn’t my style. Maybe we did a few things, some photo shoots that got into magazine’s that have long closed, PR events, but very few. Really, I was just carrying my camera everywhere I went.
What was photographing the disco scene like?
The late 1970s disco scene was as wild as it looked, and wilder. I edited [the images] a lot, thinking, I can’t even show it all yet. This is my first time ever looking back at work and showing it at all. Even some of the images, I remembered them in my head, taking them and they were as shocking as I remembered.
© Meryl Meisler
Do you remember the first time you heard of Bushwick?
The first time I heard about Bushwick was literally the night of the [1977] blackout. [Judith and I] were invited by one of the owners to come to a private party at Studio 54 that evening. That was really big. I don’t remember anything other than the fact that I was very excited. She talks about like going on assignment. It wasn’t an assignment, we were going to a party! At that point Judith was staying at my apartment, living there, and as we go to get ready to go out the lights went out. It got dark. Having grown up in the North East I had experienced the blackout of the ’60s, but didn’t have any idea what the extent of it was. We got on our bikes and went down to Studio 54 and it was closed. It was locked up. We’re banging on the door, but no answer. So we went back. The next day I was photographing on the streets, people were hanging out and it was like a small town USA. Bushwick was in the newspapers and on the radio. There was this neighborhood that I had never heard of that was in flames, in riots, it went on for days. Burglaries. It was chaos. That’s when I heard of Bushwick and I thought, like everybody else, not some place you would probably want to step into.
What was Bushwick’s reputation like after the 1977 Blackout?
Bushwick had a much worse reputation than East New York at the time. East New York was populated, there were people living there, there were not all these abandoned buildings. It was a neighborhood, where people lived. The unknown and emptiness [of Bushwick] was scary to me. I didn’t know how burnt out it was until I arrived there, but all you heard about was the black out and then a few weeks later when the all hands fire came on. You only heard bad news.
Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, April 1982© Meryl Meisler
You started photographing Bushwick years later as a public school teacher, what do you remember thinking about the neighborhood when you saw it for the first time?
I got out of the subway and almost the whole block was shuttered up, most of the buildings were burnt up, there were a few that looked like people lived there. It looked like the day after a huge disaster. It was empty and it looked like a bomb had hit it. I got off the subway and I said in my head, it’s the week before Christmas, I thought: Was the other art teacher killed? That’s really what I thought.
Why did you start photographing the neighborhood?
I immediately started noticing when I left [the school] kids making make-shift basketball games, people coming out and playing jump rope, life was normal. That is what attracted me the most. There was a lot of light, especially if the whole acres behind you were all leveled—there is a lot of beautiful light. I was very aware of the beautiful light. I was intrigued about this neighborhood. I could tell by the housing stalk that it was obviously a pretty comfortable place at one point. By the spring acres of buildings that were burnt out, dead buildings—people started to take them down. I saw change happening really quickly.
What was your process like? How were you working?
I bought one of the first point and shoot cameras and started carrying it with me, walking to and from the subway and photographing from the classroom windows. Most of my photographs are in a two to three block radius because I really was just coming and going.
When did you start showing the Bushwick work?
I didn’t start reshowing the work till 2007 when a stranger contacted me named Adam Schwartz. He was looking into doing a show on the changes in Bushwick from 1977 to 2007. He was trying to find photographs and he couldn’t find anything besides the blackout. That was in 2007, I showed the work at Brooklyn Historical Society. After the show was over I realized, you know, it doesn’t matter that these were taken with a point and shoot and that they’re fuzzy or not clear all the time. I realized they were gorgeous images. I started going through them again, scanning them and becoming obsessed with them. I kind of said I know these are fantastic and I can’t stay away from them.
When did you decide it was time to show your photographs from the discos of the ’70s?
[Bizarre Bar] was doing the official opening of the Black Box gallery, I’m looking up and there was a disco ball and it just hit me. This was the connection. That club itself is so wild it reminded me of a lot of the things I went to and a lot of the parties. When I have gone out in Buswick, it’s very familiar—I went to things like this all the time and more, for years. It never even dawned on me until that very moment, you see a disco ball above, you go to the bathroom there is a disco ball and that was the connecting point.
Bushwick, Brooklyn, 1984© Meryl Meisler
Why did you decide to combine these two seemingly disparate collections of work together for your first book?
I knew I wouldn’t really want to do [a book] just on Bushwick. I really thought the connection was this disco Bushwick scene. I didn’t quite have what it was yet, the Tale of Two Cities, but the contrast… I could see it being a match up, in my head I knew there were things that answered to each other.
Why do you think the disco photos and the Bushwick photos work together?
It does show the contrast of the times. It shows just a few miles and years apart, but I saw it as more of a personal story. I started seeing the real contrast in my life, in the work, the images, everything about it. [The disco photos] are medium format, which is insane considering I was dancing, with flash. These are artificial environments for the night. Even if it was a disco that didn’t change, it was always a new scene. These are people who are out of their home life in a place that they are calling home to be with people that they consider like-minded and feeling very free. [The Bushwick photos] are daytime. The people here, this is where they are, not usually by choice, more circumstance, or where they could afford to be or what’s left. Putting it together I thought it was a total weave. Selecting them to match, they seamlessly seemed to talk to one another.
Work from Disco Era Bushwick will be on-view at Bizarre Bar’s Black Box Gallery through September 10.
Les Mouche, NY, NY, June 1978© Meryl Meisler
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Photographer Theo Westenberger four months ago, when she shot her last story for Architectural Digest. Westenberger's website, which is still up, notes that over her career she shot three presidents and actors like Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, and Jennifer Aniston.
Photographer Theo Westenberger died last Thursday, February 28, and the news has been slowly filtering through the a photo community that mourns her loss. She passed away at her home in New York after a four-year battle with lung cancer. She was 57. According to Photo District News, she worked up until about four months ago, when she shot her last story for Architectural Digest. Westenberger's website, which is still up, notes that over her career she shot three presidents and actors like Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, and Jennifer Aniston. Photo editor Laurie Kratochvil, who worked with Westenberger on several jobs at Rolling Stone, recalls Westenberger as one of photography's sunniest figures: "She always brought laughter, fun, and energy into every place she ever worked. Her laugh made you laugh. Her work had a positive, uplifting quality to it, and people had a good time on her shoots."--David Schonauer
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Cloth $48.00 ISBN: 9780226008691 Published February 2014
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The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian
Nancy J. Troy
320 pages | 22 color plates, 65 halftones | 7 x 10 | © 2014
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our understanding of his oeuvre. In The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, Nancy J. Troy explores the controversial circumstances under which our conception of the artist’s work has been shaped since his death, an account that describes money-driven interventions and personal and professional rivalries in forthright detail.
Troy reveals how collectors, curators, scholars, dealers and the painter’s heirs all played roles in fashioning Mondrian’s legacy, each with a different reason for seeing the artist through a particular lens. She shows that our appreciation of his work is influenced by how it has been conserved, copied, displayed, and publicized, and she looks at the popular appeal of Mondrian’s instantly recognizable style in fashion, graphic design, and a vast array of consumer commodities. Ultimately, Troy argues that we miss the evolving significance of Mondrian’s work if we examine it without regard for the interplay of canonical art and popular culture. A fascinating investigation into Mondrian’s afterlife, this book casts new light on how every artist’s legacy is constructed as it circulates through the art world and becomes assimilated into the larger realm of visual experience.
Note to the Reader
1 MONDRIAN AND MONEY
2 (UN)BECOMING ART
Mondrian’s Furniture and the Walls of His New York Studio
3 MONDRIAN’S LEGACY IN NEW YORK
4 THE MONDRIAN BRAND
“Takes the reader on an eye-opening tour across the battleground of the artist’s posthumous reception. . . . This is an important, meticulously researched contribution to the story of how modern art was embedded in and exploited by corporate wealth and how it influenced every aspect of visual culture.”
Oxford Art Journal
“Superb. . . . Extraordinary and bold. . . . Postmodern receptivity has made us open to seeing many sides and audiences. And Troy has delivered a convincing demonstration of the ways in which Mondrian has become discursive effect.”
“Troy’s riveting text represents a major contribution to the history of modernism, offering new insights into matters of authorship, reproduction, taste and the market that shaped (and continues to shape) its history.”
“What’s a real Mondrian, and what isn’t? The answer is pursued here by the chair of the department of art and art history at Stanford—with the suspense we’d expect from Raymond Chandler or Rex Stout.”
“This absolutely terrific book should be required reading for all students of 20th-century art, artists, and anyone else interested in how an artist’s reputation is made.”
“By casting an academic gaze at the incremental rise in the Dutch abstract painter’s importance and popularity, Troy teases out some of the veiled mechanisms that can solidify an artist’s legacy—and maps a new model for the study of art history in the process. . . . [S]he makes a strong and necessary case for further exploration into aspects of private art collection, gallery politics, and intellectual property manipulation that are severely lacking from art history discourse.”
Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
“This fast-paced, riveting narrative carries a strong punch. That financial considerations play a large role in the afterlife of artifacts probably will not surprise anyone, but the point rarely has such force as when Nancy Troy tracks the commercial forces at work in this case. Smart, fresh, and engrossing, The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian describes the material mechanisms of canonization in all their gritty and lurid detail.”
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“Nancy Troy’s wise and meticulously researched book takes the reader to a new level in understanding how a seemingly stable body of great art is in fact the outcome of complex human drama, encompassing friendship, aesthetic passion, scholarly anxiety, monetary interests, conflicted institutions, stylistic glamour, national prestige, and sheer confusion. Rivetingly narrated, her deep investigation of Mondrian’s afterlife opens an essential way forward in our comprehension of modern art across the board.”
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Paper $12.95 ISBN: 9780984201082 Published November 2014
Academic Malware
Marshall Sahlins
Distributed for Prickly Paradigm Press
64 pages | 4 1/2 x 7 | © 2015
In recent years, Confucius Institutes have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and universities receive considerable contributions from the Confucius Institutes’ head office in Beijing, including funds to cover the cost of set-up, the provision of Chinese-language instructors, and a cache of other resources. For their part, the Confucius Institutes are able to further their mission of spreading knowledge of Chinese language and culture.
But Marshall Sahlins argues that this seemingly innocuous arrangement conceals the more dubious mission of promoting the political influence of the Chinese government, as guided by the propaganda apparatus of the party-state. Drawing on reports in the media and conversations with those involved, Sahlins shows that the Confucius Institutes are a threat to the principles of academic freedom and integrity at the foundation of our system of higher education. Incidents of academic malpractice are disturbingly common, Sahlins shows. They range from virtually unnoticeable acts of self-censorship to the discouragement of visits from the Dalai Lama and publicly notorious cases like the scandal caused by the director-general of the Confucius Institutes at a recent meeting of the European Association for Chinese Studies when she had certain pages ripped out of the conference program and abstracts.
As prominent universities are persuaded by the promise of additional funding to allow Confucius Institutes on campus, they also legitimate them and thereby encourage the participation of other schools less able to resist Beijing’s inducements. But if these great institutions are to uphold the academic principles upon which they are founded, Sahlins convincingly argues that they must reverse this course, terminate their relations to the Confucius Institutes, and resume their obligation of living up to the idea of the university.
Official Chinese Views on the Politics of Culture and Confucius Institutes
Censorship in University Activities: Self- and Other
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Installing and Rejecting Confucius Institutes: The Conflict of the Faculties
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by Erica R. Williams, Special to The New Tri-State Defender • July 25, 2019
The vigil held for Brandon Webber was in stark contrast to the violence that erupted after he fatally shot by U.S. Marshals.
Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) recalled the grim day that he witnessed violence outside of his apartment as a four-year-old growing up in Los Angeles.
“I remember seeing a man lying outside on the steps, and he was bleeding out,” Parkinson said. “My mother told us to walk around him and don’t touch him. I remember just looking back in shock.”
It’s exposure to violence like this incident that Parkinson attributed to his poor and sometimes violent decision-making as a youth. It’s also one of the reasons he spearheaded a mental health initiative for those affected by the recent shooting death of Brandon Webber, a father of two. The 20-year-old was killed by U.S. marshals June 12 while they were trying to arrest him.
To kick off the initiative, Parkinson enlisted the assistance of local pastors in Frayser, the area where Webber’s shooting death occurred. It’s also part of the district Parkinson serves as state representative. Through the free counseling sessions, Parkinson said he hopes to address the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) related to the aftermath of Webber’s death and other rampant acts of violence that children and families have witnessed within their homes and communities.
A rotation of local counselors is dedicating two hours of their time to help with the initiative that kicked off June 16. Parkinson said it’s something that’s needed in communities plagued with violence.
“Those seeds get deposited into the psyche of kids. The first time it’s shocking, and over time it gets less and less shocking. And after repeatedly seeing incidents of violence in their communities and households, it becomes their norm,” he said. “Eventually, those seeds begin to sprout and bear fruit. So my intent in coming up with this strategy is to kill those seeds so that the kids and families get the help that they need.”
Parkinson’s analysis is backed up by research from myriad health and education advocacy organizations. According to one study conducted by the Violence Policy Center, exposure to community violence appears to represent a unique form of trauma that is particularly associated with the development of PTSD symptoms,
especially among children and adolescents. The study also concludes that repeated trauma can lead to anger, despair, and severe psychic numbing, resulting in major changes in personality and behavior.
Parkinson linked the aftermath of Webber’s death to this type of trauma. After the father of two was killed, protests erupted in Frayser. Dozens of Memphis police officers were injured during the unrest.
“I saw people who were just angry and scared. Many of them just didn’t know what to do with those emotions,” Parkinson said. “It’s not normal to live in a space where violence is all around you.
Rev. Ricky Floyd of Pursuit of God Transformation Center joined Parkinson in the initiative, allowing his church to serve as one of the participating locations where residents could come to seek counseling. According to Floyd, it only made sense to join forces with Parkinson, because it’s something his church already does in collaboration with Agape.
“The good thing about a crisis is that it gives an opportunity to make people aware of the systems we already have in place,” Floyd said. His church also offers a grief class each Wednesday night.
Despite the need, both Parkinson and Floyd said that it’s not easy to get people to participate, mainly because of the stigma attached to counseling within many Black communities.
“There is still a stigma on mental health counseling in our communities, so there are barriers for us to even seek the counseling that’s readily available because of this stigma,” Parkinson said.
Floyd agreed, citing a familiar adage.
“You can take a horse to water, but can’t make him drink,” he said before adding, “I’ve been praying to God to give me an anointing so that I can make people thirsty.”
Although the mental health initiative wrapped up June 21, Parkinson hopes resources and participation will allow an extension. “Our goal is to continue on with this counseling in partnership with churches in our community. And I hope statewide we will adopt this strategy to make mental health counseling as assessable in as many communities as possible.
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by a California prisoner August 2015 permalink
I want to inform you about a new torture tactic being used here in the Security Housing Units (SHU). Since August 3 [2 weeks ago] the staff have been doing what has been termed "security/welfare checks" which entails staff walking by every prisoner's cell every 30 minutes 24/7 and pressing a button that has been installed next to our cells. Due to the design of the SHU the sound everyone and everything makes is louder than it should be and at night we are woken up every thirty minutes due to staff opening/closing the pod door, which is extremely loud, stomping up the stairs to the top tier and back down, and making a loud bang sound when hitting the button next to our cells as they are hitting metal on metal.
During the day it's the same thing except the wand makes a high-pitch beeping sound when hitting the button. So 24/7 it's non-stop excessive noise that doesn't allow us to sleep longer than 30 minutes without being woken up. I feel like I'm living in a dream 24/7 as I'm always stirred and feeling the effects of being denied sleep and not being able to go through my normal sleep cycles. Anyone with common sense can see this is cruel and unusual punishment. The ironic thing is staff say it's to prevent suicides. Yeah let's make a bunch of excessive noise all day and night and not let anyone sleep longer than 30 minutes at any given time, that should prevent suicides. If it's driving relatively stable prisoners crazy I'm sure it's pushing those with mental health issues over the edge.
Also by doing this, even though it's misguided and unnecessary, the CDCR is admitting that the SHU makes people more likely to commit suicide if they need to check on everyone every 30 minutes. I have filed an administrative appeal on this to have it stopped or modified and plan to file a lawsuit if we are not allowed to sleep normally again. In the mean time I'm writing friends/family to call the prison/CDCR head quarters and complain about this, and I'm writing all prison organizations and public servants to make them aware of this new form of torture being conducted.
MIM(Prisons) adds: This sleep deprivation torture tactic has been reported on from San Quentin for some time, and we recently received word from a comrade on pending litigation on this issue:
"I am challenging a blatantly obvious psychological torture program put in play by Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of the gulag system in California, as a payback to the SHU guys for the hunger strikes. The CDCR had to throw us, death row, under the bus too, to make it less obvious who the target really is.
"There is a program whereby they come and shine lights in eyes, bang and yell, using a 'beeper' stick to hit the cell tray slots, every 20 to 30 minutes, all day and night.
"In my moving papers I proved it is utterly pointless as stated, as a suicide prevention program. Anyone knows you can commit suicide during the half hour between walks, and also in our unit it takes them over 20 added minutes to get the keys, get shields, and race in and pounce on a guy hanging by the neck. It is specious.
"So I filed saying this is far too onerous to be a mere act of stupidity, it is a malicious torture of the SHU units only (including PSU, psych wards, all lock-up units). If this does not cause suicide, what would? Ha!"
This latest tactic of inhumane sleep deprivation reinforces our point that the settlement of the Ashker v. Brown lawsuit will do nothing to end torture in California prisons. As the comrade above points out, this is not rogue COs, this is facility policy. We received reports over a year prior about the new Guard One torture program. As one comrade pointed out at the time, most deaths in cells are due to medical neglect.
Calling this a "new tactic" is a bit of a misnomer. This same exact system of "security checks" every 30 minutes has been used in recent history in Texas and North Carolina. Though in these cases they seemed more targeted, and the comrade in North Carolina grieved the abuse and won. In fact, this type of sleep deprivation dates back more than 50 years when prisoners suffered similar conditions in Walpole, Massachusetts. All these examples go to show that the system is inherently oppressive, and only by overthrowing imperialism will we ever begin to see humane treatment of prisoners.
We view the latest behavior by guards at Pelican Bay as a form of retaliation against the prisoners held in SHU, to show them who is in charge and that torture is alive and well in spite of the "successful" settlement. Exposing this consistent mistreatment of prisoners in California is a must to counter the narrative that the modern prison movement has succeeded in transforming the CDCR, or the conditions they submit their prisoners to, in any way.
The acute threat of this form of torture requires an immediate response.
A concerted effort has been taken up by a number of groups supporting the California prison movement to contact the warden to demand an end to this torture.
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Salary Cap Deep Dive: Nashville Predators
September 8, 2019 at 3:31 pm CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg Leave a Comment
Navigating the salary cap is one of the more important tasks for any GM. Teams that can avert total cap chaos by walking the tightrope of inking players to deals that match their value (or compensate for future value without breaking the bank) remain successful. Those that don’t see struggles and front office changes.
PHR will look at every NHL team and give a thorough look at their cap situation heading into the 2019-20 season. This will focus more on those players who are integral parts of the roster versus those who may find themselves shuttling between the AHL and NHL. All cap figures are courtesy of CapFriendly.
Current Cap Hit: $80,165,476 (under the $81.5MM Upper Limit)
Entry-Level Contracts
D Dante Fabbro (two years, $925K)
F Rem Pitlick (one year, $925K)
F Eeli Tolvanen (two years, $894K)
Potential Bonuses
Tolvanen: $2.85MM
Fabbro: $850K
The team has a few players with entry-level contracts who could make an immediate impact. Fabbro is the obvious one, especially after the team traded away P.K. Subban to New Jersey in a cap-saving move. Fabbro, the team’s first-round pick in 2016, finally signed in late March after three seasons at Boston University, playing in four regular season games, followed by six playoff games, combining for one goal and two points in amongst those 10 games. Now with Subban gone, the team has to hope that Fabbro will be ready to immediately take over the open top-four spot in the team’s defense. If not the team could have some issues at that spot. The team also inked Pitlick, the team’s third-rounder in 2016, after three years at the University of Minnesota. After tallying 47 goals in three years, the team hopes that Pitlick can make his mark on the team immediately.
Tolvanen, who dominated in the KHL at 18 years of age, failed to make the Predators team last year and spent most of his season with the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL, scoring 15 goals and 35 points in 58 games and will try to force his way into the Predators lineup this year with a good training camp.
One Year Remaining, Non-Entry-Level
F Mikael Granlund ($5.75MM, UFA)
F Craig Smith ($4.25MM, UFA)
D Roman Josi ($4MM, UFA)
D Dan Hamhuis ($1.25MM, UFA)
F Austin Watson ($1.1MM, UFA)
F Rocco Grimaldi ($1MM, UFA)
F Miikka Salomaki ($750K, UFA)
F Daniel Carr ($700K, UFA)
D Matt Irwin ($675K, UFA)
D Yannick Weber ($675K, UFA)
F Frederick Gaudreau ($667K, UFA)
The most well documented story is the Predators’ desire to lock up Josi to a long-term deal. The 29-year-old has proven to be an excellent defensive blueliner, but has also shown off quite a bit of offense, putting up 40 or more points for the past six seasons, including a 56-point performance last year. Josi has indicated that he wants to stay in Nashville, but evidently is waiting to see how the restricted free agent market pans out before signing any deal.
With significant cap issues coming up over the next few years, the Predators will have to make key decisions on what they want to do with Granlund and Smith. Nashville acquired Granlund at the trade deadline last year, swapping a younger Kevin Fiala for the 27-year-old, who will be a free agent at the end of the season. Granlund, who scored 47 goals in his two previous seasons, stepped back last year, scoring just 16 goals last season and only one of those in 16 games with Nashville. If Granlund can return to his 25-goal ways, the Predators are likely to find a way to keep him in the future, but another poor season could end their relationship early. Smith is a different situation. He’s been a 20-goal scorer for five of his last six seasons, but will be 31 when he signs his next deal. The question is whether the team wants to lock him up when he’s on the wrong side of 30.
Most of the other players listed here are depth options, with a number of bottom-pairing forwards and defensemen.
Two Years Remaining
G Pekka Rinne ($5MM, UFA)
F Nick Bonino ($4.1MM, UFA)
G Juuse Saros ($1.5MM, UFA)
D Steven Santini ($1.42MM, RFA)
The next two years could be the final two for Rinne, who will be 38 at that time. The veteran goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner put up another impressive season last year with a 30-19-4 record and a .918 save percentage. He will likely carry the load for the next two years, but Saros, the team’s goaltender of the future, will likely see more and more games before taking over as the Predators’ No. 1 goaltender in 2021-22. Saros played 31 games last season and while posting a 2.62 GAA, he did sport a .915 save percentage and should eventually get an extension.
Bonino was brought in from Pittsburgh to be the team’s third-string center and jumpstart the team’s bottom-six. He has done that, but also has found himself dropped down to the fourth line in the meantime and at $4.1MM, that’s a lot of money to be paying a bottom-line player. The only long-term hope, is that room is made so that Bonino, who posted 17 goals and 35 points last season, can return to his third-line role eventually.
Three Years Remaining
F Filip Forsberg ($6MM, UFA)
D Mattias Ekholm ($3.75MM, UFA)
F Calle Jarnkrok ($2MM, UFA)
The team has a solid bargain going with Forsberg making just $6MM per season. The Predators have gotten impressive production out of the winger, who posted 28 goals and 50 points last season (surprisingly his worst season of his career so far) and there is still hope that the 25-year-old may take his game up another notch and return to his 30-goal, 60-point mark that he has reached twice in his career or even take his game even further. However, the skilled winger remains an impressive player at a reasonable price for the next three years.
Ekholm may be the biggest bargain of the lot as the 29-year-old is one of the most underrated players in the league, showing off great defensive skill as well as posting 40 points for the first time in his career last year. Ekholm scored eight goals and 44 points last year and at under $4MM, the team has a cheap top-four player for quite a few years to come. Jarnkrok also gives the team a discounted player as the depth winger is a solid value at just $2MM per year.
Four Or More Years Remaining
F Matt Duchene ($8MM through 2025-26)
F Ryan Johansen ($8MM through 2024-25)
D Ryan Ellis ($6.25MM through 2026-27)
F Kyle Turris ($6MM through 2023-24)
F Viktor Arvidsson ($4.25MM through 2023-24)
F Colton Sissons ($2.86MM through 2025-26)
The team had to finally pay out to get themselves the No. 2 center that they desired. They thought they did that a few years ago when the traded for Turris and extended him, but so far that match hasn’t been what the team hoped for. However, after moving out Subban, the team had enough cap room to replace him on the roster with their biggest need, which will be filled by Duchene, who should be the perfect top-six center the team has coveted for year. Duchene is coming off a 31-goal, 70-point season and if he can continue to post numbers like that should be a solid value as well at $8MM per year. Turris, on the other hand, now moves down to the third-line center position and the team has high hopes that the 30-year-old will rebound from a seven-goal, 23-point disappointment last year. However, after a solid showing at the World Championships this summer, the team hopes he can rebound.
It’s hard to believe that people talk about the Nashville defense constantly, but only one of them is signed longer than three years. However, Ellis signed his long-term deal, which looks like a bargain for the team. The 28-year-old broke 40 points for the first time in his career and with his exceptional defense, is going to be a key member of their blueline for a long time.
Johansen’s goals have been down since coming over from Columbus, but he continues to be a dominant passer and put up a career high in assists this year with 50 as well as 64 points, the second-best of his career. The 27-year-old should only get better. Arvidsson is also locked up long-term as the 26-year-old scored a career-high 34 goals last season and has proven to be a top-line winger and even looks like a bargain at $4.25MM. Sissons also was just recently signed to a long-term, seven-year contract at a low price as the team believes he should be part of their bottom-six for a long time.
Retained Salary Transactions
Still To Sign
Best Value: Ekholm
Worst Value: Turris
The Nashville Predators have been put together impressively, using their no-tax situation to their advantage as players have made it clear that they want to stay in Nashville. The team has a solid core, but after a disappointing playoffs, the team must prove that they can return to their old dominance, especially in a challenging division like the Central, and continue to be one of the top teams in the league. Adding another top-six center should help and if they can get the most out of their players, the Predators should be a dominant team for years, but if head coach Peter Laviolette can’t get some of his players to take the next step in their development, they may be in trouble too.
Austin Watson| Calle Jarnkrok| Colton Sissons| Craig Smith| Dan Hamhuis| Daniel Carr| Dante Fabbro| Eeli Tolvanen| Filip Forsberg| Frederick Gaudreau| Juuse Saros| Kevin Fiala| Kyle Turris| Matt Duchene| Matt Irwin| Mattias Ekholm| Miikka Salomaki| Mikael Granlund| Nashville Predators| Nick Bonino| P.K. Subban| Pekka Rinne| Peter Laviolette| Salary Cap| Salary Cap Deep Dive 2019
Pacific Notes: Boeser, Brodie, Schmaltz
May 19, 2019 at 11:47 am CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg Leave a Comment
While the names of Mitch Marner, Sebastian Aho, Brayden Point and William Karlsson are popular names brought up amongst the multitude of upcoming restricted free agents this summer, one name that often gets missed is Vancouver Canucks winger Brock Boeser. The 22-year-old has been a key figure with the Canucks the past two years as he’s combined for 51 goals and 111 points in the last two seasons, making him quite an interesting figure, considering Vancouver needs to lock him up.
The Athletic’s Harman Dayal (subscription required) analyzes what it might take for the Canucks to sign Boeser this summer. While the Canucks have the cap space to be generous to their young forward, the scribe writes they need to be cautious as both Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes will be watching as they will also be looking for new record-breaking deals in the next two years, but when noting that it took Boeser a couple of years to break into the league before his entry-level deal kicked in, the best comparisons are Filip Forsberg and Jordan Eberle. With those numbers in mind, the scribe says that a rough estimate puts Boeser at approximately $7.25MM with Boeser likely asking for $8MM, while the Canucks hoping to keep it as close to $7MM as possible.
However, with no eligibility for arbitration or a potential offer sheet to use as leverage, Boeser isn’t exactly in the prime situation to force the Canucks to pay $8MM unless he wants to hold out.
While there has been talk that the Calgary Flames might be ready to move on from defenseman T.J. Brodie with their influx of talented blueliners ready to take bigger roles in the near future, The Athletic’s Kent Wilson (subscription required) does an in-depth look at Mark Giordano as well as his impact on Brodie. The scribe notes that Brodie, who looked to be on the decline a year ago, had an improved year when paired with Giordano, but when he wasn’t playing with the star defenseman, Brodie’s numbers were extremely mediocre, even more suggesting that Calgary might be best served in moving Brodie now before his value slips even more. The 28-year-old will be in a contract-year at $4.65MM, which might make him even more valuable to other NHL teams.
Craig Morgan of The Athletic (subscription required) writes that Arizona Coyotes forward Nick Schmaltz, who the team acquired last November but only appeared in 17 games before going down with a season-ending meniscus injury, is changing his diet in hopes of being in the best shape of his career. With a history of eating burgers and cheese curds, the team has asked him to start eating healthier this summer. “I have never really cooked in my life,” he said. “It was always easier to go out or order something, but learning how to cook healthy food is a big step, and you can really focus on that in the summer.”
Arizona Coyotes| Brayden Point| Brock Boeser| Calgary Flames| Elias Pettersson| Filip Forsberg| Injury| Jordan Eberle| Mark Giordano| Mitch Marner| Nick Schmaltz| Quinn Hughes| Sebastian Aho| Vancouver Canucks| William Karlsson
Snapshots: Hart, Forsberg, Ferland, Debrusk, Hirose
March 9, 2019 at 8:54 pm CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg Leave a Comment
The Philadelphia Flyers got some good news as it looks like rookie goaltender Carter Hart is healthy once again and could find himself in net as early as Monday against the Ottawa Senators, according to Philly.com’s Sam Carchidi.
Hart has been out since Feb. 21 with an ankle injury, but he was also coming off two of his worst performances, having been pulled in back-to-back games in which he allowed three goals on just six shots in both appearances. If the team opts to start him against Ottawa, it would be an opportunity to ease him back into the lineup as the Senators are 1-8-1 in their last 10 games.
The 20-year-old Hart is having a impressive season considering he was not meant to spend it in the NHL. Originally slated to spend his first professional season in the AHL, he appeared in just 18 games before being promoted alongside interim head coach Scott Gordon when he was hired. Since then, Hart was helped the Flyers rebound from a tough start with a 13-8-1 record with a 2.79 GAA. While that number doesn’t stand out, his .917 save percentage does.
Paul Skrbina of The Tennessean writes that Nashville Predators forward Filip Forsberg missed Saturday’s game and remains day-to-day with an upper-body injury, according to the team. Forsberg missed practice Thursday and Friday, but was believed to be available for Saturday’s game, but didn’t play in the end. Forsberg missed 19 games with an upper-body injury earlier this season, although there is no word on whether this injury is related to that one. The 24-year-old has 22 goals and 41 points in 52 games this season.
Michael Smith of NHL.com reports that Carolina Hurricanes forward Micheal Ferland remains day-to-day with an upper-body injury and did not travel with the team on their three-game roadtrip that started in Nashville today, according to head coach Rod Brind’Amour. Ferland has been having a solid season, putting up 17 goals and 35 points in 52 games. The 26-year-old has played under 14 minutes combined over the last two games.
The Boston Bruins’ Jake Debrusk is expected to miss a few more games as the forward is still in a walking boot, according to The Athletic’s Fluto Shinzawa. While he’s expected to miss this weekend’s games, he could be back not long after that as head coach Bruce Cassidy said that Debrusk was the closest, of all their injured players, to return.
Fox Sports’ Jon Rosen reports that the Los Angeles Kings are interested in undrafted Michigan State forward Taro Hirose, currently the NCAA leading scorer. According to Rosen, Hirose is friends with Kings’ prospect James Anderson-Dolan and could be convinced to sign with L.A. although there is no word on whether the junior forward is ready to leave college. He has 16 goals and 37 points this season for Michigan State.
AHL| Boston Bruins| Bruce Cassidy| Carolina Hurricanes| Carter Hart| Filip Forsberg| Injury| Jake DeBrusk| Los Angeles Kings| Micheal Ferland| Nashville Predators| NCAA| Ottawa Senators| Philadelphia Flyers| Snapshots
Winnipeg’s Adam Lowry Suspended Two Games
March 2, 2019 at 7:31 pm CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg 1 Comment
Winnipeg Jets forward Adam Lowry was suspended by the Department of Player Safety for two games for his high stick against Nashville Predators forward Filip Forsberg on Friday.
The incident happened during 14:35 of the third period after a struggle between the two players on the boards. Forsberg registered a hit against Lowry, who then swung his stick and hit him in the face (video here). Lowry had a hearing earlier today and contended that he did not intend to hit him in the face, the Department of Player Safety made it clear that Lowry’s intent was still to hit him with his stick. He received a two-minute minor for high sticking on the play.
Lowry will have to sit out two important games for the Jets as he’s slated to miss Sunday’s game at Columbus and Tuesday’s game at Tampa Bay. The 25-year-old forward has 185 hits this season as well as eight goals and 17 points. The loss of two games will cost Lowry $31,362 for the two game suspension as he is not considered to be a repeat offender.
Adam Lowry| Filip Forsberg| Nashville Predators| Winnipeg Jets
Jaden Schwartz Receives Max Fine For Cross-Checking
March 2, 2019 at 11:30 am CDT | by Zach Leach 2 Comments
Cross-checking is apparently the flavor of the week for the NHL Department of Player Safety. After handing Winnipeg Jets defenseman Ben Chiarot a maximum fine for cross-checking on Monday, they have assigned the same punishment to St. Louis Blues forward Jaden Schwartz, per an announcement. Schwartz will be out $5,000 as a result of his actions, the most he could be fined under the CBA.
The hit in question was on Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Dougie Hamilton in last night’s game between the two teams, a convincing 5-2 Hurricanes win. Late in the first period, Hamilton delivered a hard, but legal check on Schwartz along the boards and Schwartz decided to retaliate with a cross-check up high on Hamilton. The decision cost Schwartz a two-minute minor right away, but has cost him even more in retrospect. It’s another knock against Schwartz in a disappointing season for the 26-year-old winger. Schwartz has just 28 points through 58 games and it could be that his offensive frustration is beginning to boil over into his checking game.
Player Safety might not be done dolling out discipline today. They have also announced that New Jersey Devils forward Kurtis Gabriel will have a hearing this afternoon in regards to a boarding penalty against the Philadelphia Flyers’ Nolan Patrick last night. So too will Winnipeg Jets forward Adam Lowry for what’s being called “high-sticking/slashing” on Nashville Predators forward Filip Forsberg. With the Devils set to face the Boston Bruins tonight, the department will likely act swiftly in their punishment of Gabriel following his hearing, while they can take more time with the Lowry decision as the Jets are off today.
Adam Lowry| Ben Chiarot| Carolina Hurricanes| CBA| Dougie Hamilton| Filip Forsberg| Jaden Schwartz| Legal| Nashville Predators| New Jersey Devils| NHL Player Safety| Nolan Patrick| Philadelphia Flyers| St. Louis Blues| Winnipeg Jets
Deadline Primer: Nashville Predators
January 23, 2019 at 8:53 pm CDT | by Zach Leach Leave a Comment
With the trade deadline fast approaching, we will be taking a closer look at the situation for each team over the coming weeks. Where do they stand, what do they need to do, and what assets do they have to fill those needs? As we continue with the Central Division, here is a look at the Nashville Predators.
The core of the Nashville Predators remains unchanged since the team was a Stanley Cup finalist two years ago and are all signed long-term, likely keeping the Predators a contender for years to come. However, the team has shown a willingness to make moves at the deadline each year to maximize their odds of taking home the title during this stretch. Last season, GM David Poile made a whopping seven trades total, six of which came in the month of February, and notably added Kyle Turris and Ryan Hartman to the roster. While it’s doubtful that the team makes a similar number or caliber of deal this time around, expect the Predators to again be busy.
29-18-4, second in the Central Division
Deadline Status
Deadline Cap Space
$29.88MM in a full-season cap hit, 0/3 used salary cap retention slots, 44/50 contracts per CapFriendly
Upcoming Draft Picks
2019: NSH 1st, NSH 2nd, FLA 3rd, COL 4th, NSH 4th, NSH 5th, NSH 6th, NSH 7th
2020: NSH 1st, NSH 2nd, NSH 3rd, NSH 4th, NSH 5th, NSH 6th, NSH 7th
Trade Chips
More and more often, and specifically this season, it has become easier to identify the likely pieces that a trade deadline buyer is willing to give up to land a veteran player. Trade boards now include just as many young roster players and prospects from contenders as they do the typical rentals from sellers.
This is not the case for the Predators. There are no clear trade chips that Poile and company are actively using to bait teams into making a deal. However, there are plenty of players one could speculate that they will dangle.
Prospect defenseman Dante Fabbro definitely heads up that list. Fabbro, 20, is the junior captain of the Boston University Terriers and is developing into quite the two-way defenseman. Fabbro is on pace for the best offensive season of his collegiate career and looks likely to turn pro this off-season. However, three of the Predators’ famous top-four are all signed long-term, with Roman Josi likely to be extended, and the team has seven defensemen overall under contract for next season already. Fabbro does not have much opportunity to play in the NHL next season in Nashville, but many other teams would be happy to give the recent first-rounder guaranteed minutes as a rookie. Fabbro would undoubtedly be a valued piece on the market. To a lesser extent, so could BU teammate David Farrance and leading AHL defender Frederic Allard, who also lack a clear route to play time in Nashville and thus become expendable.
The Predators also have some intriguing young forwards, including several with NHL experience. The Predators are looking to add a forward or two at the deadline, making some current contributors superfluous. 25-year-olds Miikka Salomaki and Frederick Gaudreau have failed to make the most of ample opportunity this season and are part of why the need up front exists. The pair have combined for just ten points despite playing in the majority of Nashville’s games, but have shown great ability before. Both have another year left at a minimal cap hit, which would make them an even more attractive get for interested teams. Anthony Richard, the Milwaukee Admirals leading scorer, is another young forward who could garner some attention, as could University of Minnesota standout Rem Pitlick.
Five Players To Watch For: D Dante Fabbro, F Miikka Salomaki, D Frederic Allard, F Anthony Richard, F Rem Pitlick
Team Needs
1) Top-six Winger: Injuries to top-six forwards Filip Forsberg, Viktor Arvidsson, and Kyle Turris this season have made it difficult to truly evaluate the Nashville offense. The team is still more than capable of scoring, currently 12th in goals per game, but there’s room for improvement. That includes on paper, as well. Even once everyone is healthy, there still seems to be a gap in talent between Forsberg, Arvidsson, Turris, Ryan Johansen, and the rest of the roster. One of Kevin Fiala, Craig Smith, or the disappointing Ryan Hartman can surely continue to fill a second-line role, but the Predators could use an upgrade to round out the group. More specifically, the team is lacking size and grit up front and could use a power forward if possible. The Philadelphia Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds seems like a perfect fit and has already been linked to the team, while the Carolina Hurricanes’ Micheal Ferland and, if made available, the New York Rangers’ Chris Kreider would also be ideal. Outside of bigger wingers, the New York Rangers’ Mats Zuccarello and the Detroit Red Wings’ Gustav Nyquist also make sense.
2) Depth Winger: Compared to their stellar defense and goaltending and even compared to their depth down the middle – Johansen, Turris, Colton Sissons, and Nick Bonino – winger is definitely the position of weakness for Nashville. Even if they do acquire a top target to fill a scoring line role, don’t be surprised to see Poile add another piece as well. The veteran GM showed a willingness to use the deadline to land a young forward last season in Hartman and could do the same this year. The last time the Predators bought low on a Washington Capitals forward, it worked out pretty well, making Andre Burakovsky an interesting target. The Vancouver Canucks’ Nikolay Goldobin is another intriguing possibility.
AHL| Andre Burakovsky| Chris Kreider| Colton Sissons| Craig Smith| David Poile| Deadline Primer 2019| Filip Forsberg| Frederick Gaudreau| Gustav Nyquist| Kevin Fiala| Kyle Turris| Mats Zuccarello| Micheal Ferland| Miikka Salomaki| Nashville Predators| Nick Bonino| Nikolay Goldobin| Prospects| Salary Cap
Filip Forsberg Activated From Injured Reserve
January 7, 2019 at 12:50 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee Leave a Comment
The Nashville Predators have been waiting for this day for over a month. Filip Forsberg has been activated from injured reserve according to Adam Vingan of The Athletic, and could make his return to the lineup tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Miikka Salomaki has been moved to injured reserve to make room. Forsberg hasn’t played in a game since November 29th, but is still on the ballot for the fan-voted “Last Man In” All-Star appearance.
Forsberg, 24, has turned into an offensive dynamo for the Predators and was off to the best start of his career before suffering an upper-body injury. With 22 points in his first 26 games he was on pace to set career-highs in goals and points, while still registering excellent possession statistics. It’s not like Nashville has really struggled without him, but getting him back once again makes them one of the most dangerous teams in the league and quite capable of overtaking the Winnipeg Jets for first place in the Central Division.
The Predators will take on the Maple Leafs tonight in the third game of a six-game road trip through the Eastern Conference (with one game against the Chicago Blackhawks sprinkled in) and currently sit second in the Central with a 25-15-3 record. It’s hard to imagine they drop much further than that through the second half of the season, especially if they can avoid the major injuries they’ve dealt with so far. Forsberg, Viktor Arvidsson and P.K. Subban have all missed long stretches but are expected to be in the lineup together tonight.
Filip Forsberg| Miikka Salomaki| Nashville Predators
“Last Man In” All-Star Ballot Candidates Announced
January 2, 2019 at 7:09 pm CDT | by Zach Leach 7 Comments
The NHL has already announced the initial ten-man All-Star rosters for each of the four divisions, but new this year is an additional fan ballot to add an eleventh and final member to each squad. The “Last Man In” ballot, an idea invented by Major League Baseball, pits one skater from each team in each division against one another for a chance to participate in All-Star festivities. Fans will decide, with online voting opening tomorrow and lasting until midnight ET on January 10, which of the following players will get the final nod:
F Leon Draisaitl (EDM)
F Logan Couture (SJS)
F Anze Kopitar (LAK)
F Ryan Getzlaf (ANA)
F Brock Boeser (VAN)
F Jonathan Marchessault (VGK)
D Mark Giordano (CGY)
D Oliver Ekman-Larsson (ARI)
F Gabriel Landeskog (COL)
F Zach Parise (MIN)
F Patrik Laine (WPG)
F Tyler Seguin (DAL)
F Vladimir Tarasenko (STL)
F Filip Forsberg (NSH)
F Jonathan Toews (CHI)
F Brayden Point (TBL)
F Jeff Skinner (BUF)
F Dylan Larkin (DET)
F Aleksander Barkov (FLA)
F Patrice Bergeron (BOS)
F Mark Stone (OTT)
D Morgan Rielly (TOR)
D Shea Weber (MTL)
F Nicklas Backstrom (WSH)
F Kyle Palmieri (NJD)
F Anders Lee (NYI)
F Jakub Voracek (PHI)
F Teuvo Teravainen (CAR)
F Nick Foligno (CLB)
F Mats Zuccarello (NYR)
D Kris Letang (PIT)
Due to the limits on selections by team, both in the initial rosters and the “Last Man In” vote, there are several star players who cannot be saved by fan voting this year. The Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mitch Marner, the No. 6-ranked scorer in the league, highlights the snub group, which also includes Calgary Flames forwards Sean Monahan and Matthew Tkachuk, Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel, and Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter. Other odd omissions, not necessarily forced by the format, are Columbus’ Artemi Panarin, Nashville’s Ryan Johansen, and Montreal’s Max Domi and Jeff Petry. However, the new final vote option does largely do a good job of giving each team and their fan base one last chance to get a deserving player into the All-Star game.
Aleksander Barkov| Anders Lee| Anze Kopitar| Brayden Point| Brock Boeser| Dylan Larkin| Filip Forsberg| Gabriel Landeskog| Jakub Voracek| Jeff Skinner| Jonathan Marchessault| Jonathan Toews| Kris Letang| Kyle Palmieri| Leon Draisaitl| Logan Couture| Mark Giordano| Mark Stone| Mats Zuccarello| Morgan Rielly| NHL| Nick Foligno| Nicklas Backstrom| Oliver Ekman-Larsson| Patrice Bergeron| Patrik Laine| Players
Nashville Predators Claim Phillip Di Giuseppe Off Waivers
January 1, 2019 at 11:20 am CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg Leave a Comment
With injuries mounting, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports the Nashville Predators claimed forward Phillip Di Giuseppe off of waivers from the Carolina Hurricanes and to make room for the young forward, the team placed center Kyle Turris on injured reserve once again with a lower-body injury, according to The Athletic’s Adam Vingan.
In Di Giuseppe, the Predators gets themselves a 25-year-old forward with 147 NHL games under his belt, but the winger hasn’t been able to lock down a full-time role in all the years he’s been with Carolina. He has one goal and four assists in 21 games this season with the Hurricanes. However, with the Hurricanes struggling themselves and Di Giuseppe being a healthy scratch for four straight games, Carolina opted to risk losing him by putting him on waivers. The team already lost Valentin Zykov on waivers to Edmonton (and then Vegas), so it’s another key loss for their minor league team.
Nashville has been plagued with injuries as the team is currently without forwards Filip Forsberg and Colton Sissons. Turris has also missed a game and was expected to be out Monday before the team returned him to IR and with Eeli Tolvanen playing at the World Junior Championships, the team opted to bring in Di Giuseppe to provide some added depth. The team also recalled Nicholas Baptiste to help fill in as well. There is no word whether Turris’ trip to injured reserve will be a long one. It’s very likely the Predators used Turris’ injury to open up a roster spot so they could take Di Giuseppe. Turris last played on Dec. 27, so assuming the trip to the IR is retroactive to that game, he won’t be eligible to return until their game on Friday at Detroit. He already spent almost three weeks on IR in late November and early December.
Carolina Hurricanes| Colton Sissons| Eeli Tolvanen| Elliotte Friedman| Filip Forsberg| Injury| Kyle Turris| Nashville Predators| Nicholas Baptiste| Valentin Zykov| Waivers
Predators Notes: Sissons, Burakovsky, Fabbro
December 21, 2018 at 7:04 pm CDT | by Zach Leach 1 Comment
The Nashville Predators have taken another hit up front, announcing today that forward Colton Sissons has been placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury. While it’s unclear when Sissons suffered the injury, he was not in the lineup when the Predators faced the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night. The team did not give any timeline for Sissons’ return, but any extended absence will hurt Nashville, who are also still without Filip Forsberg and Viktor Arvidsson. Sissons has been a key contributor while those two have been sidelined, recording seven goals and nine assists in 35 games, tied for eighth on the team in scoring. Sissons also has a tremendous +17 rating and is an invaluable defensive presence among the forward corps. For the Predators’ sake, hopefully Sissons will return after the minimum ten days on the IR.
With yet another starting forward out of commission, Predators GM David Poile may feel even more pressure to land some help via trade. Nashville was already expected to pursue scoring help before the trade deadline to help out their middling offense and was one of the teams speculated to have interest in Washington Capitals forward Andre Burakovsky, who hit the trade block last week. The Capitals are reportedly looking to make a deal that would bring back a player that can help them immediately this season, of which the Predators have options. Pressed into regular action due to the rash of injuries, Miikka Salomaki and Frederick Gaudreau have both played well at times this season and could be of interest to Washington. The team could even be willing to dangle Calle Jarnkrok if they’re high on Burakovsky. The two teams would seemingly be a good fit for a deal, although there still could be lingering feelings from the last time the Capitals traded a young winger to the Predators (see Forsberg-for-Martin Erat).
Speaking of reinforcements, Predators fans should be excited to see defensive prospect Dante Fabbro listed on the Team Canada roster for the upcoming Spengler Cup. The team’s first-round pick in 2016, Fabbro has been a productive member of the Boston University blue line for three seasons now and has even evolved into the Terriers’ captain. However, playing alongside pros at the Spengler Cup is the next step for Fabbro and could give the young defenseman the experience needed to step in to the Predators’ lineup later this season. Although Fabbro has another season of NCAA eligibility remaining, he is heavily expected to leave school when BU’s season is over. A strong showing in Switzerland could convince Poile and company that Fabbro is worth signing and playing immediately this year. The young puck-mover could be a nice depth addition for a Nashville team that is looking to make it back to the Stanley Cup Final this year.
Andre Burakovsky| Calle Jarnkrok| Colton Sissons| David Poile| Filip Forsberg| Frederick Gaudreau| Injury| Miikka Salomaki| Nashville Predators| NCAA| Spengler Cup| Team Canada| Viktor Arvidsson| Washington Capitals
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Femmes Fatales Sep 7 2019
Everywhere she went brought a change in the weather.
You know the difference between weather and climate? Los Angeles has beautiful women. That's climate. Dana Wynter stood out in L.A. for being unusually hot. That's weather. Glad we could clear that up. Wynter was born in Berlin and raised in England, but made her name in U.S. movies such as Something of Value and Shake Hands with the Devil. Today she's mainly remembered for Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which we briefly mentioned back in May. Check here.
GermanyBerlinSomething of ValueShake Hands with the DevilInvasion of the Body SnatchersDana Wynter
Vintage Pulp Sep 5 2019
We're going to have fun. I'm well known as the life of the Communist Party.
This cover for M.E. Chaber's 1952 spy thriller All the Way Down is uncredited but pretty nice. The rear pleases the eye too. If we had to guess we'd say it was painted by Rafael DeSoto, who was often utilized by Popular Library during the early ’50s, but with no interior credit, alas, we cannot know for sure. What we do know for sure is that Chaber's real name was was Kendell Foster Crossen, and under various pseudonyms he wrote pulp fiction and sci-fi, and well as other spy novels. Most of the latter category starred franchise hero Milo March, heavy drinker and quick with a quip, with the above coming second in a series devoted to the character. It was originally called No Grave for March, but the good folks at Popular Library thought All the Way Down was a better fit, and of course when it comes to title changes they're always right.
All the way down where? Why into the underbelly of German communism. At the center of the plot is a superweapon—one of those hilarious sci-fi contrivances unique to 1950s mass market literature. March heads to Berlin bearing microfilm concerning this technological atrocity and poses as a member of the American Communist Party in order to infiltrate the German commies. Chaber's descriptions of post-war pre-wall Berlin, the streets, subways, and parks, are obviously written from experience, and those passages add considerable interest to the proceedings as Milo tries to earn the trust of suspicious enemies, stay alive while doing so, and—best case scenario—keep a low level brandy buzz intact the entire time. And of course there's a love interest. Greta is her name. She's German by birth but American by nationality and a member of the Denver Communist Party. Milo wants to march into her panties, so naturally smalltalk brings him around to asking why she joined the movement. Part of her answer:
“Then in 1942, after we Americans were at war against Hitler, someone wrote a name on the window of my father's store. It was the same name that the Nazis had written on his store window in Berlin—only it was written in English instead of German this time. The next day I became a Communist.”
She joined the Communist Party to oppose fascism. Why do we highlight that quote? Well, let's just say people are becoming confused these days about Nazis. It was once universally known that Hitler persecuted and imprisoned leftists, despite the deliberately deceptive name of his political party. Those episodes are mentioned time and again in All the Way Down, as Chaber makes clear that Nazis and communists were at opposite ends of the political spectrum. He probably never would have believed there would be confusion about this, yet here we are in 2019, and increasing numbers of Americans believe (or at least pretend) Nazism and communism were both leftist movements. In any case, Chaber has written an entertaining book here, in which a skirmish between communists and capitalists is deftly won by the capitalists. That's not a spoiler. In 1952, in a Popular Library paperback, it's obviously the only ending that could ever be.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 27 2019
Crazy for feeling so lonely.
Above, a really nice West German poster for Roman Polanski's quasi-horror flick Ekel, better known as Répulsion, with Catherine Deneuve as a woman who goes crazy in the isolation of her apartment. We talked about this one briefly and shared two Japanese posters for it a while ago. After opening in France and the UK, the film received its debut for German viewers at The Berlin International Film Festival today in 1965.
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Intl. Notebook Jan 20 2019
Is there anything sweeter than a beautiful movie palace?
You probably recognize Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles. These days it's called TCL Chinese Theatre, because it's owned and operated by TCL Corporation—based in China, ironically. Since we write so often about movies we thought it appropriate to discuss the beautiful buildings in which the films were exhibited. Back in the day these were usually purpose-built structures, though some did split duty for stage productions and concerts. While many of these old palaces survive, nearly all surviving vintage cinemas in the U.S. were under threat at some point. Generally, if they hadn't been given historic protection they wouldn't be upright today.
Other times, if a city was poor, real estate costs didn't rise and old buildings stood unthreatened, usually idle. This happened often in the American midwest, where movie houses were neglected for decades before some were resurrected amid downtown revitalizations. It sometimes happens in Latin America too, although occasionally the formula fails. For example, Cartagena's majestic and oft photographed landmark Teatro Colón, located in the historic section of Colombia's most popular coastal tourist city, was torn down fewer than six months ago to make way for a Four Seasons Hotel.
Some of the cinemas below are well known treasures, while others are more unassuming places. But even those lesser known cinemas show how much thought and work was put into making moviegoing a special experience. The last photo, which shows the Butterfly Theatre in Milwaukee, exemplifies that idea. The façade is distinguished by a terra cotta butterfly sculpture adorned with light bulbs. As you might guess, many of the most beautiful large cinemas were in Los Angeles, which means that city is well represented in the collection. Enjoy.
Paramount Theatre, Oakland (operational).
Cine Maya, Mérida (demolished).
The Albee Cinema, Cincinnati (demolished)
Cooper Theatre, Denver (demolished).
Paras Cinema, Jaipur (operational).
Cathay Cinema, Shanghai (operational).
Academy Theatre, Los Angeles (operational).
Charlottenburg Filmwerbung, Berlin (demolished).
Pacific's Cinerama Theatre, Los Angeles (operational).
York Theatre, Elmhurst (operational).
La Gaumont-Palace, Paris (demolished).
Essoldo Cinema, Newcastle (demolished).
Théâtre Scala, Strasbourg (operational).
Teatro Colón, Cartagena (demolished in 2018).
Teatro Coliseo Argentino, Buenos Aires (demolished).
Pavilion Theater, Adelaide (demolished).
El Molino Teatro, Barcelona (operational).
Fox Carthay Theatre, Los Angeles (demolished).
Kino Rossiya Teatr, Moscow (operational).
Nippon Gekijo, aka Nichigeki, Tokyo (demolished).
Cine Impala, Namibe (operational).
Cine Arenal, Havana (operational).
Teatro Mérida, Mérida (operational, renamed Teatro Armando Manzanero).
Ideal Theater, Manila (demolished).
Odeon Cinema, London (semi-demolished, converted to apartments).
Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles (operational).
Rex Cinema, Port au Prince (being restored).
Urania Kino, Vienna (operational).
Tampa Theatre, Tampa (operational).
The Butterfly Theater, Milwaukee (demolished).
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Sex Files Aug 7 2018
De Sade administers shock treatment in new art book from Goliath.
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and author of novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. But he's best known, of course, for his libertine sexuality. Since his death in 1814 he has continued to enthrall scholars, social critics, and historians. Now Berlin based art publishers Goliath, a group always fascinated by the sexually bizarre, have taken their own careful look at de Sade, publishing Marquis De Sade - 100 Erotic Illustrations, a collection of art from various Marquis de Sade books, put together as a hardcover volume.
Goliath points out that everyone knows what sadism is, but nobody actually reads de Sade. They've solved that problem by doing away with text entirely. It's a canny choice, because for all de Sade's renown, critics remain passionately divided over his literary worth. There are those who say his writings were merely a fig leaf for his obsessions. If that's the case his fig leaf has been ripped away in this book, and you get a set of ink drawings that detail everything he loved without trying to intellectualize, condemn, or justify it.
The illustrations are shocking, of course, but de Sade lived to shock. He'd probably be thrilled to know he still manages to do that more than two centuries after his death, as well as to learn of his influence on Japanese roman porno cinema, women-in-prison movies, bondage literature such as Fifty Shades of Grey, and other odd niches of modern media.
Considering de Sade's fame, those who don't know his history might assume that French society was hopelessly depraved to tolerate his acts. Actually, the opposite was true. He spent thirty-two years of his life in prisons and asylums, and escaped having his head and shoulders separated by the guillotine—more than once—due only to political upheaval.
When examined by psychiatrists the diagnosis was that de Sade was “insanely obsessed with vice.” There can be little doubt this diagnosis was spot on, as he gambled away his fortune, consorted with prostitutes, staged orgies, forced servants and maids to perform sexual acts, drugged the unsuspecting, indulged in corporal punishment, and of course engaged in every sexual variation and deviance known.
Though 17th century France didn't find much humor in de Sade, with the passage of two hundred years the illustrations in Goliath's book do provoke a few laughs—from us at least—as lords and ladies relentlessly diddle, fondle, suckle and paddle each other. We don't mean to make light of de Sade's crimes—the French were probably right to stuff him away. But considering the fact that his work has been routinely banned and burned—even by his own son at one point—it's instructive to be able to look at the contents of a mind that has had such an influence on our own weird and depraved age. You can find more information about Marquis De Sade - 100 Erotic Illustrations on the Goliath website.
Marquis De Sade - 100 Erotic Illustrations
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It's not perfect, but it's pretty close.
The colorful magazine Mr. was published out of New York City by the imaginatively named Mr. Magazine, Inc., and was in the mold of male oriented publications such as Man's Life or Adventure for Men. This issue is from May 1953 and we grabbed it from the now idle Darwin's Scans website. Queen Cristina of Sweden pops up inside, which surprised us, considering we just learned about her for the first time in our lives less than a month ago and here she is again. You also get contemporary figures such as Billy Graham (the boxer), Kid Gavilan, and Hubert F. Julian, aka the Black Eagle of Harlem.
But the magazine focuses mainly on fiction and true adventure. We like the story about Berlin as a center for vice, with “horrible sex cults flourishing” in the post-war rubble. Ludwig Dietzler writes, “I am one of the few non-Berliners who have witnessed the orgies [snip] which thrive in basements, cellars, and other suitable hiding places.” Hmm... it doesn't sound all that bad to us. Elsewhere in Mr. you get beauty queens Carlyn Carlew and Trula Birchfield, as well as Apache dancer Yvonne Doughty. What's an Apache dancer? You'll just have to look. Scans of that and everything else appear below.
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Musiquarium Mar 17 2018
Monroe goes for a spin in Italy.
Marilyn Monroe fronts this RCA soundtrack album sold in Italy featuring songs from the film Follie dell'anno, which originally appeared in the U.S. as There's No Business Like Show Business. There are four numbers written by Irving Berlin here and Monroe handles the vocals. If you want this platter it'll cost you probably a hundred dollars or more, so good luck with that. We're content to enjoy the sleeve. The shot of Monroe turned backward in her director's chair is one we've never seen before.
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Femmes Fatales Nov 27 2017
Even paradise can be improved.
Italian actress Elsa Martinelli makes a beautiful beach look even better in this nice promo image, and we can only assume she didn't go in the water with all those necklaces on, because otherwise she might have sunk and been lost forever. Martinelli was an era spanning star who debuted onscreen in 1953, made numerous excellent films, including The Indian Fighter and Et mourir de plaisir, won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival in 1956, and accumulated more than fifty screen and television credits through 2004. The above photo was shot in Brazil around 1970.
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Intl. Notebook Nov 20 2017
Goliath goes miniature with a new collection of vintage erotica.
Nobody makes erotica quite the way Berlin based art book publisher Goliath does. In the past we've featured its erotic photo volumes Private Pornography in the Third Reich, Strictly Bondage, Kinky Bondage Obsession, and Dirty Rendezvous. Now Goliath has a new collection out called Photographia Erotica Historia, a compendium of hundreds of vintage erotic images compiled in mini-book format. It's leather bound, just about three inches high, close to 400 pages in length, and stored in its own snazzy little slipcase.
The miniature format was chosen by Goliath as homage. Mini books were popular in the late 1800s when erotic images needed to be easily concealable. Such items are collectible today, as are the individual studio photos and naturist shots from which much of Photographia Erotica Historia's content is culled. As a bonus you get some drawings and ink renderings to go along with the photos. The version you see above has French text, but the volume is available in five languages, including English.
Goliath publishes an array of material, but its erotic output is our favorite because it makes people challenge their own assumptions about art, sex, desire, and the idea of the past as a place where people were less devoted to matters of the flesh. Spoiler alert: maybe they weren't, as a scan through Photographia Erotica Historia will illustrate. Our previous Goliath books—which we tend to leave laying around when guests come by—have provided endless hours of conversation and entertainment, and we expect this one to do the same. We have a few sample photos below, and you can visit the Goliath website here.
Photographia Erotica Historica
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Vintage Pulp Aug 31 2017
Hey solider—ever made it in a smoking ruin with the stench of death in your nostrils?
We don't know if there were enough prostitution-in-the-ruins novels written during the postwar period to qualify as a sub-genre, but it seems to us we've seen quite a few of them. We highlighted Scott Graham Williamson's Torment around this time last year, and now we have another—Erika, aka Fräulein, by James McGovern. The book revolves around a woman who is tricked into becoming a prostitute in divided Berlin before finally finding Mr. Right and escaping. She's named Erika Angermann, a symbolic name if ever there was one, hinting at what the men in her life put her through. Erika aka Fräulein was a hit when published in 1956, and became a 1958 movie with Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer. The book is bit obscure today, but was well regarded in its time. We'll look into how many novels like this are out there and if there are enough maybe we'll put together a group post.
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Sometimes the end of the line can be a new beginning.
Check out this beautiful Mexican promo poster for the melodrama El tren expreso. It can be difficult sometimes to determine provenance for Spanish language items, but we know this piece is Mexican because it says Filmex, S.A. at upper left, telling us it was printed for Mexico's Cinematográfica Filmex. But the movie was originally shot in Europe with mainly Spanish participation, including from director León Klimovsky, who was Argentinian but after 1950 emigrated to and worked mostly in Spain.
We watched the movie and it deals with a burned out concert pianist who takes a sabbatical and while on a train journey stops an unhappy widow from leaping to her death. These two broken souls travel together and fall in love, but matters of the heart are never simple in cinema. If you want to see the movie you can watch it at this link, but keep in mind we described it as a melodrama advisedly. Also you'll need to understand Spanish.
Anyway we're mainly interested in the poster, which is amazing, but uncredited. We hit the internet for info and drew blanks for days. We eventually learned it's part of a collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but it was listed as by an unknown artist there too. So that settles it, pretty much, if professional art curators have no information. The world may never know who painted this masterpiece. El tren expreso premiered in Spain today in 1955.
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Friday 11 May 2018 | 11:39 AM Damascus Local Time
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US Says Iran Nuclear Inspections Must Continue
Agencies (Qasioun) – US senior officials told AFP that the White House wants intrusive inspections of Iran's nuclear sites to continue despite President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a landmark accord on Tehran's atomic program.
Days after the US president walked away from a three-year-old deal that mandated rigorous scrutiny of Iranian facilities, senior administration officials said monitoring should continue regardless.
Known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal between Tehran and major world powers forces Iran to open any site to inspectors within 24 days at most and introduced 24-hour remote surveillance at some sites.
Supporters of the Obama-era accord argue it provided "the world's most robust" monitoring regime, allowing access to the Islamic republic's most sensitive nuclear sites.
Making his withdrawal announcement on Tuesday, Trump pilloried the accord for lacking mechanisms to "prevent, detect, and punish cheating" or provide immediate access to suspicious military sites.
Still, the White House is demanding those inspections, however imperfect, continue under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog.
"We expect Iran will continue to implement the Additional Protocol and cooperate with the IAEA whether or not the JCPOA remains in place," one senior administration official said.
A second official confirmed to AFP on Thursday that Washington still wanted the inspections.
Other signatories to the Iran deal -- including Tehran, China and European powers -- have vowed to press ahead with the agreement's implementation.
But officials are privately skeptical about how long it can survive, particularly if the United States imposes sanctions on European companies doing business in Iran.
And non-proliferation experts have warned that a vital window into Iran's nuclear activities could be lost.
"If the agreement collapses, Iran is under no obligation to implement any of these provisions, either the Additional Protocol or the deal-specific measures," said Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association.
"The nuclear deal with Iran put the country's program under a microscope," she told AFP, saying the measures serve as "an early warning system that will set off alarm bells if Iran tries to cheat on its commitments or conduct illicit activities."
- Are inspections effective? –
Since the nuclear accord was reached in 2015, the IAEA has carried out hundreds of inspections inside Iran.
That includes monitoring at Fordo, an underground fuel enrichment plant inside a base used by Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The JCPOA adds an extra layer of scrutiny not found in existing accords, including monitoring of mines and restrictions on multi-point detonation systems and nuclear computer simulations.
The IAEA has so far confirmed that Iran is adhering to its "nuclear-related commitments," although the US administration questions that conclusion.
"You cannot say that Iran is in compliance unless you are 100 percent certain that the IAEA and our intelligence are infallible," said US national security advisor John Bolton.
That approach has left some questioning why the administration wants monitoring to continue at all.
"If they don't trust the inspections, I don't know why they would be strongly encouraging Iran to comply," said Corey Hinderstein, a fuel cycle expert who previously worked on implementation of the deal at the Department of Energy.
"The fact is the inspections are and have been effective," she said.
American citizens are working on the IAEA inspection team, but are based in Vienna, not on the ground in Iran.
Hinderstein said there is every indication that the US is preparing to pull out of other non-inspection mechanisms in the agreement, including converting the Arak heavy water reactor and the "procurement channel" that regulates the import of dual use materials to Iran.
Trump has described the agreement as "the worst deal in history" and vowed to renegotiate it.
He has also warned that Iran will be punished if it returns to military-scale uranium enrichment.
"If the regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before," Trump said.
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10 Things Your Vagina Wants You to Know
If those lips could talk (yup, went there), this is what they'd tell you. Read on so you can stop stressing and stay healthy.
By Kim Tranell
1. Calling it your vagina is OK.
Yes, the word "vagina" can sound weirdly formal for something that is attached to your body, but it's not Voldemort. If you need to talk to your doctor about an itch or a bump, lose the synonyms and just say it. It'll make the convo less awkward in the long run. "If you tell me you have itching 'down there' — what do you mean? Down where?" says Melisa Holmes, MD, an ob-gyn and co-founder of Girlology.com. "But if you give me specifics, it's much easier to help you."
2. What you're calling your vagina might not actually be your vagina.
At some point in human history, "vagina" somehow became a catch-all for everything between our legs (?!). But the truth is, that's not technically correct. "I can't tell you how many people — even grown women — ask me about the hair on their vagina," says Dr. Holmes. "I have to tell them: That's not your vagina. You don't have hair on your vagina!" So here's a super-quick anatomy lesson to get us all on the same page: Your outer genital area, aka the stuff you can see, is known as your vulva. This consists of the labia majora and labia minora (outer and inner "lips"), the clitoris (it's at the top point of your labia), the mons (that area of flesh above your clitoris, which is covered by your pubic hair), and the *openings* of both your urethra (where you pee) and your vagina. Now the vagina itself — THAT is somethingyou can't actually see. It's the tube that connects the outside parts of your reproductive system to the inner parts.
3. Go ahead, introduce yourself.
Now is as good of a time as ever, so lock your door, grab a mirror, and take a peak at what's down there. "It's important to know the parts and what they look like," says Dr. Holmes. "Every woman needs to have her baseline of what's 'normal' for her so she can notice changes or problems down the road."
4. Your labia aren't supposed to be symmetrical.
Seriously! Uneven, pink or brown, smooth or wrinkly, tucked in or poking out — whatever your worry is about the lips, you can probably stop stressing. "Just like everyone's face looks a little bit different, everyone's vulva looks a little bit different too," says Dr. Holmes. You're literally a special snowflake. ❄️
5. That discharge? It's most likely normal.
In fact, it's probably good for you. "The vagina is like a self-cleaning oven," explains Jennifer Ashton, MD, an ob-gyn and author of The Body Scoop for Girls. "Your body makes mucous to flush out bacteria — that's what discharge is." Clear or white-ish is totally fine, but if it's clumpy, yellow-green, brown-ish/tinged with blood, or fishy-smelling? Don't freak — just talk to your doc. These could be signs of an infection.
6. Soap and water only, please.
Even though discharge is normal, that doesn't mean it won't gross you out — and your instinct might be to spend a solid segment of your shower scrubbing up between your legs with your regs body wash. But ironically enough, trying to clean yourself down there is only going to upset the pH balance inside your vagina — and that will cause the sort of stuff (infections, smells, icky-colored discharge) you're trying to prevent in the first place. "Nothing, not even water, needs to go up there!" Dr. Ashton explains. Instead, put a dab of shampoo on your hand — it's milder than soap — and gently clean the outside with your fingers. (Just be sure to wash between the labia majora and labia manora, aka the outer and inner lips, where discharge can get stuck.)
7. Lemme breathe!
No joke: You should go commando at night. (That doesn't mean you can't sleep in loose sweats or boxer shorts, but the goal is to wear something airy — so your vagina can breathe.) "When you sleep, you sweat — and the yeast and bacteria that cause infections love these dark, damp areas," explains Dr. Ashton. The same goes for other clothing that can hold moisture in. That's why you should always, always change out of your wet swimsuit or sweaty gym clothes ASAP.
8. What you do with pubic hair is your business.
But know this: It's not only OK to resist the pressure to go bare — it's functional, too. "Pubic hair exists to trap vaginal discharge and bacteria away from your skin, so that it doesn't irritate you," explains Dr. Holmes. So while shaving/waxing are probably fine, you may want to talk to your doc if you've been all kinds of red-and-itchy lately, or if you notice bumps on your outer labia. While these maybe signs of an infection, the solution could be as simple as switching up your shave-strategy.
9. Yes, there's a smell.
Every female on this planet has a natural vaginal odor. And if you're generally healthy, it's not going to be foul — it's just going to be a little bit…different. "It's not supposed to smell like flowers!" says Dr. Holmes. Some words to describe the normal scents you may or may not notice at times: musky (when you're turned on); "tinny" (during your period); and BO (there are tons of sweat glands down there, after all!). And what about the abnormal ones? It's tricky, but the docs we talked to say their biggest advice is to watch out for fishiness and/or any overwhelmingly strong smell that's accompanied by OTHER symptoms, like itching or burning.
10. Nope, you can't lose something inside of me.
Not a tampon, not a condom — nothing can be set loose into the abyss of your body through the vagina, and here's why: There's an end to it! (That end = your cervix, which is the lowest part of your uterus/womb.) "I hear this question all the time, but it's just not possible," says Dr. Ashton. "At maximum length, it's about six inches—tops."
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The trip was smooth like butter, all 40,000 pounds of it.
An autonomous truck from Silicon Valley startup Plus.ai made what appears to be the first cross-country trip of a commercial freight truck, from California to Pennsylvania, in November 2019. A safety driver was behind the wheel, but the truck drove mostly autonomously. (Courtesy of Plus.ai)
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PUBLISHED: December 11, 2019 at 12:20 pm | UPDATED: December 11, 2019 at 12:25 pm
A California startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare to Quakertown, Pa., for Land O’Lakes in under three days. The trip was smooth like butter, 40,000 pounds of it.
Plus.ai, a 3-year-old company in Cupertino, announced the milestone Tuesday. A safety driver was aboard the autonomous semi, ready to take the wheel if needed, along with a safety engineer who observed how things were going.
“We wanted to demonstrate the safety, reliability and maturity of our overall system,” said Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder and chief operating officer of the company, in an interview Monday. The company’s system uses cameras, radar and lidar — laser-based technology to help vehicles determine distance — and handled the different terrains and weather conditions such as rain and low visibility well, he said.
The truck, which traveled on interstates 15 and 70 right before Thanksgiving, had to take scheduled breaks but drove mostly autonomously. There were zero “disengagements,” or times the self-driving system had to be suspended because of a problem, Kerrigan said.
Plus.ai has been running freight every week for about a year, its COO said, but this is the first cross-country trip and partnership it has talked about publicly.
The year’s end is peak butter time, according to Land O’Lakes.
“To be able to address this peak demand with a fuel- and cost-effective freight transport solution will be tremendously valuable to our business,” said Yone Dewberry, the butter maker’s chief supply officer, in a statement.
How long will it be before self-driving trucks are delivering goods regularly across the nation’s highways? Kerrigan thinks it’s “a few years out.”
Dan Ives, managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities, predicts there will be quite a few autonomous freight-delivery pilots in 2020 and 2021, with the beginning of a commercial rollout in 2022. Like other experts, he believes the trucking industry will be the first to adopt autonomous technology on a mass scale.
The timeline will depend on regulations, which vary state to state, he said.
About 10 to 15 companies nationwide are working on autonomous freight delivery, Ives said. That includes San Francisco-based self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks, which last year completed a five-day, 2,400-mile cross-country trip. But that truck carried no freight.
“When the (freight) trucks can go long distance, that’s when there will be significant ROI” on the autonomous technology, Ives said.
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Mad Men Recap: The Runaways – 7×5
Barbara Benham
By now you may have heard that this week’s episode of “Mad Men,” titled “The Runaways,” was a doozie. The tipoff was a warning about adult content at the top of the broadcast. (I’m not sure how many previous episodes have come with that warning.)
In short, Stephanie, Don Draper’s niece, calls Don collect from L.A. at his office in New York. Don sends her to Megan’s, who welcomes the far-along pregnant and bedraggled woman, only to snap when Stephanie states that obvious, that she knows Don Draper’s secrets, and sends her packing with a $1,000 check. (Which is $6,564.76 in today’s dollars, according to an online inflation calculator.)
Lou Avery is an aspiring cartoonist. (Scout’s honor!) Don, once in L.A., watches Megan dance all sexy with a man, possibly an artist from her acting class, at her party. Don, who looks increasingly out of place in Megan’s place, doesn’t react. Instead, he goes out for drinks with Harry Crane, who happened to show up at Megan’s party with an aspiring actress.
Later that same evening, Megan lures Don into a threesome with one of her L.A. friends (some subservient chick named Amy who randomly happens to be from Delaware and who also happens to be an aspiring actress).
Back in New York, Ginsberg is losing it over the computer. This deterioration leads to a breakdown, with Ginsburg offering his severed nipple to Peggy in a box. The self-mutilation made complete sense to Ginsberg, who describes the gaping wound as a valve, a release of all the ills the computing was imposing on the office’s inhabitants – including turning the men into homosexuals. He’s taken away on a stretcher. Sad, but not entirely surprising.
As for other agency developments, Lou and Ken Cutler have been wooing Phillip Morris, unbeknownst to Don, who you may recall took out a full-page ad in the New York Times in season four declaring that the agency would no longer take cigarette companies as clients. Harry Crane dishes as much to Don in L.A.
What does Don do? Shows up at their meeting, unannounced, stunning everyone, but perhaps setting the stage for either his ascendance at or exit from the agency.
And let’s not forget Betty, who – ha – might be running for office. (Betty Draper for Mayor! Wouldn’t that be rich. These comments stem from Betty telling Henry that she doesn’t know what she’s going to do when he tells her she should run for office.) She and Henry, domestically blissful in season six, are at loggerheads about all sorts of things. He wants to end the war, she supports it—and says as much at a progressive dinner that starts in their home. Later, Betty wants to sit in the kitchen and read, and Henry wants her to come outside. Sally comes home, injured in a sword fight with golf clubs, and is nastier than nasty.
My head is spinning from writing this summary. This was one of the more unsettling episodes for me as a viewer. Ginsburg’s self-mutilation and descent into madness were disconcerting, even though we’ve had clues that he was on the edge, or possibly just on the spectrum, all along. Otherwise, the ménage à trois was both provocative and mindless and left a dull void. Megan seems a social dominatrix with her friend Amy, who is giving her a pedicure when Don calls about Stephanie and who also washes Megan’s dishes. What the what? In the bedroom, Don seems disconnected, as if he’s going through the motions, too bewildered and too tired to take a pass. Which is what he seems genuinely to want to do.
The only time Don lights up in this episode is when he talks about or to Stephanie. And the thing I can’t stop thinking about in this dense episode is Don Draper telling Stephanie that she is his niece. Because of course she’s not. Because he’s not Don Draper. (She knows that. She even calls him Dick in her first phone call to him.) This is an identity relapse of the highest order. Don Draper, who at the end of season six seems to be accepting his Dick Whitman past, is clinging to a personal history, one that includes Anna and Stephanie, that exceeds simple identity fraud. And that is perhaps the most puzzling aspect of this episode.
Taken together, it’s as if many of the characters here are internalizing the hierarchical chaos of the 1960s. Where’s the internal peace and love?
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Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? — “Trump, Inc.” Extra
We talk with the ProPublica reporter who helped uncover the Trump administration’s plan to bring nuclear technology to the Saudis.
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For a year, “Trump, Inc.” has been digging into the 2017 inauguration. That reporting led us to look closely at the man Donald Trump picked to run the event, Tom Barrack, a wealthy businessman who’s been friends with Trump for decades.
As we were finishing our Barrack episode — just out this week — the House Oversight Committee released a report detailing how the Trump administration pursued a plan to export nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
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The plan had been championed by then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, who could have profited from it. The efforts continued despite warnings from ethics officials and staff at the National Security Council.
And who was in talks to lead the initiative? Tom Barrack.
The House investigation confirmed some reporting by ProPublica reporter Isaac Arnsdorf that goes back to late 2017. So we decided to bring Isaac in for this podcast extra to help us understand who was behind the plan and what they wanted.
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Close Enough A New Show From Regular Show Creator JG Quintel
May 17, 2017 May 18, 2017 by RegularCapital
Today (17/05/2017) was the Turner Upfront 2017 event in Madison Square Garden in New York City. At the event, Turner’s main general entertainment channel in the United States – TBS announced that they ordered a brand new animated series called “Close Enough” created by J.G. Quintel, the creator of Cartoon Network’s Emmy-award winning Regular Show. Close Enough is a surreal animated series about life in between the late 20’s and early 30’s. The show focuses on a married couple handling parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care. Initially, 13 episodes has been ordered by TBS.
The animated series is a collaboration from Cartoon Network Studios and Studio T and it’s their first joint project together, both studios are divisions of Turner. Close Enough is J.G. Quintel’s first project after Regular Show ended on Cartoon Network USA in January this year. It’s not exactly known when Close Enough will premiere on TBS but the show is slated to premiere in 2018.
From The Turner USA Press Release: TBS Greenlights Close Enough, New Animated Series from J.G. Quintel Series Marks First Collaboration Between Cartoon Network Studios and Studio T
Turner’s TBS has greenlit Close Enough, a new animated series from Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel. The surreal comedy about a family growing up without getting old marks the first collaboration between Cartoon Network Studios and Studio T, both divisions of Turner. It also marks Quintel’s first project for the company since his Emmy®-winning work on Cartoon Network’s long-running Regular Show. TBS has ordered 13 episodes of Close Enough, which is slated to launch next year.
Close Enough is a surreal take on transitioning from 20-something to 30-something. The show centers on a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care.
“We couldn’t be more excited to add one of animation’s most impressive and popular voices, J.G. Quintel, to our growing slate of animated series,” said Brett Weitz, executive vice president of original programming for TBS. “J.G. hit the center of the demo target with Regular Show, and we’re counting on him to bring this younger and more engaged audience to our network.”
Close Enough is the latest series to join TBS’s slate of premium comedy series. Last year, the network launched six consecutive hits, including five of cable’s top 15 new comedies of 2016: Wrecked, The Detour, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, People of Earth and Angie Tribeca. TBS also claimed some of the most critically acclaimed comedies of the year, led by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Search Party, both of which earned 100% Fresh critical ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. All six of TBS’s 2016 comedies were renewed for new seasons.
This summer, TBS is scheduled to launch The Guest Book, an anthology comedy from writer/executive producer Greg Garcia. In addition, the network will launch The Last O.G., a new scripted comedy starring Tracy Morgan and created by executive producers Jordan Peele and John Carcieri.
On the animation front, Close Enough joins TBS’s iconic hit American Dad!, from Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, which will return with new episodes this summer; The Cops, a buddy comedy created by and starring Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks; Tarantula, a dark comedy about the residents of a seedy hotel from Carson Mell, scheduled to launch this year; and Final Space, an interstellar comedy created by independent filmmaker, actor, comedian and entrepreneur Olan Rogers.
https://www.turner.com/pressroom/upfront-2017-tbs-greenlights-close-enough-new-animated-series-jg-quintel
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Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Research Report 2020
Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market: Drivers and Restrains
The research report has incorporated the analysis of different factors that augment the markets growth. It constitutes trends, restraints, and drivers that transform the market in either a positive or negative manner. This section also provides the scope of different segments and applications that can potentially influence the market in the future. The detailed information is based on current trends and historic milestones. This section also provides an analysis of the volume of production about the global market and also about each type from 2015 to 2026. This section mentions the volume of production by region from 2015 to 2026. Pricing analysis is included in the report according to each type from the year 2015 to 2026, manufacturer from 2015 to 2020, region from 2015 to 2020, and global price from 2015 to 2026.
A thorough evaluation of the restrains included in the report portrays the contrast to drivers and gives room for strategic planning. Factors that overshadow the market growth are pivotal as they can be understood to devise different bends for getting hold of the lucrative opportunities that are present in the ever-growing market. Additionally, insights into market experts opinions have been taken to understand the market better.
Market Segment AnalysisThe research report includes specific segments by Type and by Application. Each type provides information about the production during the forecast period of 2015 to 2026. Application segment also provides consumption during the forecast period of 2015 to 2026. Understanding the segments helps in identifying the importance of different factors that aid the market growth.
- Organic Corn Steep Liquor
- Conventional Corn Steep Liquor
- Animal Feed
- Fermentation
- Fertilizers
Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market: Regional Analysis
The report offers in-depth assessment of the growth and other aspects of the Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) market in important regions, including the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Brazil, etc. Key regions covered in the report are North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
The report has been curated after observing and studying various factors that determine regional growth such as economic, environmental, social, technological, and political status of the particular region. Analysts have studied the data of revenue, production, and manufacturers of each region. This section analyses region-wise revenue and volume for the forecast period of 2015 to 2026. These analyses will help the reader to understand the potential worth of investment in a particular region.
Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market: Competitive Landscape
This section of the report identifies various key manufacturers of the market. It helps the reader understand the strategies and collaborations that players are focusing on combat competition in the market. The comprehensive report provides a significant microscopic look at the market. The reader can identify the footprints of the manufacturers by knowing about the global revenue of manufacturers, the global price of manufacturers, and production by manufacturers during the forecast period of 2015 to 2019.
The major players in the market include Tereos, Cargill, Tate & Lyle, ADM, Tereos Starch & Sweeteners, Sanstar, Ingredion Incorporated, Gulshan Polyols, MAAR, Global Bio-Chem, Juci Corn Biotechnology, BLB Group, Lushun Huitong, etc.
1 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
1.2 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Segment by Type
1.2.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth Rate Comparison by Type 2020 VS 2026
1.2.2 Organic Corn Steep Liquor
1.2.3 Conventional Corn Steep Liquor
1.3 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Segment by Application
1.3.1 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Comparison by Application: 2020 VS 2026
1.3.3 Fermentation
1.3.4 Fertilizers
1.4 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market by Region
1.4.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Size Estimates and Forecasts by Region: 2020 VS 2026
1.4.2 North America Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.4.3 Europe Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.4.4 China Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.4.5 Japan Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.5 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Growth Prospects
1.5.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.5.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
1.5.3 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Estimates and Forecasts (2015-2026)
2 Market Competition by Manufacturers
2.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity Market Share by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
2.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Share by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
2.3 Market Share by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3)
2.4 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Average Price by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
2.5 Manufacturers Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites, Area Served, Product Types
2.6 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Competitive Situation and Trends
2.6.1 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Concentration Rate
2.6.2 Global Top 3 and Top 5 Players Market Share by Revenue
3 Production Capacity by Region
3.1 Global Production Capacity of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
3.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
3.3 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
3.4 North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production
3.4.1 North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth Rate (2015-2020)
3.4.2 North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
3.5 Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production
3.5.1 Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth Rate (2015-2020)
3.5.2 Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
3.6 China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production
3.6.1 China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth Rate (2015-2020)
3.6.2 China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
3.7 Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production
3.7.1 Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth Rate (2015-2020)
3.7.2 Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
4 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Regions
4.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Regions
4.1.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Region
4.1.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Region
4.2.1 North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries
4.3.1 Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries
4.4.1 Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Region
4.4.5 Taiwan
4.5.1 Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries
5 Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Type
5.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
5.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
5.3 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Price by Type (2015-2020)
5.4 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Share by Price Tier (2015-2020): Low-End, Mid-Range and High-End
6 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Analysis by Application
6.1 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
6.2 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2015-2020)
7 Company Profiles and Key Figures in Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Business
7.1 Tereos
7.1.1 Tereos Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.1.2 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Product Introduction, Application and Specification
7.1.3 Tereos Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.2 Cargill
7.2.1 Cargill Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.2.3 Cargill Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.3 Tate & Lyle
7.3.1 Tate & Lyle Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.3.3 Tate & Lyle Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.4 ADM
7.4.1 ADM Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.4.3 ADM Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.5 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners
7.5.1 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.5.3 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.6 Sanstar
7.6.1 Sanstar Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.6.3 Sanstar Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.7 Ingredion Incorporated
7.7.1 Ingredion Incorporated Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.7.3 Ingredion Incorporated Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.8 Gulshan Polyols
7.8.1 Gulshan Polyols Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.8.3 Gulshan Polyols Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.9 MAAR
7.9.1 MAAR Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.9.3 MAAR Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.10 Global Bio-Chem
7.10.1 Global Bio-Chem Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.10.2 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Product Introduction, Application and Specification
7.10.3 Global Bio-Chem Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.11 Juci Corn Biotechnology
7.12 BLB Group
7.12.1 Juci Corn Biotechnology Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.12.3 Juci Corn Biotechnology Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
7.13 Lushun Huitong
7.13.1 BLB Group Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
7.13.3 BLB Group Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
.1 Lushun Huitong Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
.2 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Product Introduction, Application and Specification
.3 Lushun Huitong Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
.4 Main Business and Markets Served
8 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Manufacturing Cost Analysis
8.1 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Key Raw Materials Analysis
8.1.2 Key Raw Materials Price Trend
8.3 Manufacturing Process Analysis of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
8.4 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Industrial Chain Analysis
9.2 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Distributors List
9.3 Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Customers
10.2 Opportunities and Drivers
10.4 Porter's Five Forces Analysis
11 Production and Supply Forecast
11.1 Global Forecasted Production of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) (2021-2026)
11.2 Global Forecasted Revenue of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) (2021-2026)
11.3 Global Forecasted Price of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) (2021-2026)
11.4 Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Forecast by Regions (2021-2026)
11.4.1 North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production, Revenue Forecast (2021-2026)
11.4.2 Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production, Revenue Forecast (2021-2026)
11.4.3 China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production, Revenue Forecast (2021-2026)
11.4.4 Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production, Revenue Forecast (2021-2026)
12 Consumption and Demand Fprecast
12.1 Global Forecasted and Consumption Demand Analysis of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
12.2 North America Forecasted Consumption of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Country
12.3 Europe Market Forecasted Consumption of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Country
12.4 Asia Pacific Market Forecasted Consumption of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Regions
12.5 Latin America Forecasted Consumption of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
13 Forecast by Type and by Application (2021-2026)
13.1 Global Production, Revenue and Price Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
13.1.1 Global Forecasted Production of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type (2021-2026)
13.1.2 Global Forecasted Revenue of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type (2021-2026)
13.1.2 Global Forecasted Price of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type (2021-2026)
13.2 Global Forecasted Consumption of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Application (2021-2026)
14 Reseach Finding and Conclusion
Table 1. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate Comparison by Type (2015-2026)
Table 2. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Size by Type (K MT) (US$ Million) (2020 VS 2026)
Table 3. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Comparison by Application: 2020 VS 2026
Table 4. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) by Manufacturers
Table 5. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
Table 6. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Share by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
Table 7. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million USD) by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
Table 8. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Share by Manufacturers (2015-2020)
Table 9. Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3) (based on the Revenue in Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) as of 2019)
Table 10. Global Market Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Average Price (USD/MT) of Key Manufacturers (2015-2020)
Table 11. Manufacturers Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 12. Manufacturers Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Product Types
Table 13. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Manufacturers Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)
Table 14.Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion
Table 15. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Capacity (K MT) by Region (2015-2020)
Table 16. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) by Region (2015-2020)
Table 17. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) by Region (2015-2020)
Table 18. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Table 19. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 20. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 21. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 22. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 23. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 24. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Market by Region (2015-2020)
Table 25. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Table 26. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries (2015-2020) (K MT)
Table 27. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries (2015-2020) (K MT)
Table 28. Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries (2015-2020) (K MT)
Table 29. Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption by Countries (2015-2020) (K MT)
Table 30. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) by Type (2015-2020)
Table 31. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 32. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) by Type (2015-2020)
Table 33. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 34. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Price (USD/MT) by Type (2015-2020)
Table 35. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) by Application (2015-2020)
Table 36. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 37. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2015-2020)
Table 38. Tereos Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 39. Tereos Production Sites and Area Served
Table 40. Tereos Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 41. Tereos Main Business and Markets Served
Table 42. Cargill Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 43. Cargill Production Sites and Area Served
Table 44. Cargill Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 45. Cargill Main Business and Markets Served
Table 46. Tate & Lyle Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 47. Tate & Lyle Production Sites and Area Served
Table 48. Tate & Lyle Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 49. Tate & Lyle Main Business and Markets Served
Table 50. ADM Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 51. ADM Production Sites and Area Served
Table 52. ADM Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 53. ADM Main Business and Markets Served
Table 54. Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 55. Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Production Sites and Area Served
Table 56. Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 57. Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Main Business and Markets Served
Table 58. Sanstar Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 59. Sanstar Production Sites and Area Served
Table 60. Sanstar Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 61. Sanstar Main Business and Markets Served
Table 62. Ingredion Incorporated Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 63. Ingredion Incorporated Production Sites and Area Served
Table 64. Ingredion Incorporated Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 65. Ingredion Incorporated Main Business and Markets Served
Table 66. Gulshan Polyols Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 67. Gulshan Polyols Production Sites and Area Served
Table 68. Gulshan Polyols Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 69. Gulshan Polyols Main Business and Markets Served
Table 70. MAAR Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 71. MAAR Production Sites and Area Served
Table 72. MAAR Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 73. MAAR Main Business and Markets Served
Table 74. Global Bio-Chem Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 75. Global Bio-Chem Production Sites and Area Served
Table 76. Global Bio-Chem Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 77. Global Bio-Chem Main Business and Markets Served
Table 78. Juci Corn Biotechnology Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 79. Juci Corn Biotechnology Production Sites and Area Served
Table 80. Juci Corn Biotechnology Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 81. Juci Corn Biotechnology Main Business and Markets Served
Table 82. BLB Group Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 83. BLB Group Production Sites and Area Served
Table 84. BLB Group Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 85. BLB Group Main Business and Markets Served
Table 86. Lushun Huitong Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Sites and Area Served
Table 87. Lushun Huitong Production Sites and Area Served
Table 88. Lushun Huitong Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT), Revenue (Million US$), Price (USD/MT) and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Table 89. Lushun Huitong Main Business and Markets Served
Table 90. Production Base and Market Concentration Rate of Raw Material
Table 91. Key Suppliers of Raw Materials
Table 92. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Distributors List
Table 93. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Customers List
Table 94. Market Key Trends
Table 95. Key Opportunities and Drivers: Impact Analysis (2021-2026)
Table 96. Key Challenges
Table 97. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Forecast by Region (2021-2026)
Table 98. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Forecast 2021-2026 (K MT) by Country
Table 99. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Forecast 2021-2026 (K MT) by Country
Table 100. Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Forecast 2021-2026 (K MT) by Regions
Table 101. Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Forecast 2021-2026 (K MT) by Country
Table 102. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Forecast by Regions (2021-2026)
Table 103. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
Table 104. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
Table 105. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Price (USD/MT) Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
Table 106. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Forecast by Application (2021-2026)
Table 107.Research Programs/Design for This Report
Table 108.Key Data Information from Secondary Sources
Table 109.Key Data Information from Primary Sources
Figure 1. Picture of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
Figure 2. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Market Share by Type: 2020 VS 2026
Figure 3. Organic Corn Steep Liquor Product Picture
Figure 4. Conventional Corn Steep Liquor Product Picture
Figure 5. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Application: 2020 VS 2026
Figure 6. Animal Feed
Figure 7. Fermentation
Figure 8. Fertilizers
Figure 9. Others
Figure 10. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate (2015-2026)
Figure 11. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate (2015-2026)
Figure 12. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate (2015-2026)
Figure 13. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate (2015-2026)
Figure 14. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) (2015-2026)
Figure 15. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT) (2015-2026)
Figure 16. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Share by Manufacturers in 2019
Figure 17. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Share by Manufacturers in 2019
Figure 18. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Market Share by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3): 2015 VS 2019
Figure 19. Global Market Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Average Price (USD/MT) of Key Manufacturers in 2019
Figure 20. The Global 5 and 10 Largest Players: Market Share by Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue in 2019
Figure 21. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Figure 22. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Market Share by Region in 2019
Figure 23. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Figure 24. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share by Region in 2019
Figure 25. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate (2015-2020)
Figure 26. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate (2015-2020)
Figure 27. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate (2015-2020)
Figure 28. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate (2015-2020)
Figure 29. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Growth Rate (2015-2020)
Figure 30. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Figure 31. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Region in 2019
Figure 32. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 33. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Countries in 2019
Figure 34. Canada Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 35. U.S. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 36. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 37. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Countries in 2019
Figure 38. Germany America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 39. France Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 40. U.K. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 41. Italy Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 42. Russia Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 43. Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 44. Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Regions in 2019
Figure 45. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 46. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 47. South Korea Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 48. Taiwan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 49. Southeast Asia Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 50. India Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 51. Australia Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 52. Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 53. Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Countries in 2019
Figure 54. Mexico Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 55. Brazil Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 56. Production Market Share of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type (2015-2020)
Figure 57. Production Market Share of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type in 2019
Figure 58. Revenue Share of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type (2015-2020)
Figure 59. Revenue Market Share of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) by Type in 2019
Figure 60. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Growth by Type (2015-2020) (K MT)
Figure 61. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Figure 62. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Market Share by Application in 2019
Figure 63. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Growth Rate by Application (2015-2020)
Figure 64. Price Trend of Key Raw Materials
Figure 65. Manufacturing Cost Structure of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
Figure 66. Manufacturing Process Analysis of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
Figure 67. Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Industrial Chain Analysis
Figure 68. Channels of Distribution
Figure 69. Distributors Profiles
Figure 70. Porter's Five Forces Analysis
Figure 71. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Capacity (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 72. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 73. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 74. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Price and Trend Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 75. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production Market Share Forecast by Region (2021-2026)
Figure 76. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 77. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 78. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 79. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 80. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 81. China Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 82. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 83. Japan Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue (Million US$) and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 84. Global Forecasted and Consumption Demand Analysis of Corn Steep Liquor (CSL)
Figure 85. North America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 86. Europe Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 87. Asia Pacific Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 88. Latin America Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption (K MT) Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026)
Figure 89. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Production (K MT) Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
Figure 90. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Revenue Market Share Forecast by Type (2021-2026)
Figure 91. Global Corn Steep Liquor (CSL) Consumption Forecast by Application (2021-2026)
Figure 92. Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches for This Report
Figure 93. Data Triangulation
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International Weeks (IW) take place at 22 universities all around Europe and Asia. The University of St. Gallen is one of them. All IWs are based on the same core concept: during one week organized by a local students´ committee, a group of guest students – up to two from each other participating university – explore the host country. Every IW contains manifold opportunities for exchange of information and ideas as each delegation presents its country and university. There are tours to local companies which represent local industries and economic growth engines as well as cultural activities which show the respective country from its best side. Equally important, the social structure of this week creates friendships and social networks, which inspires future cooperation between different people from different countries. The customary International Dinner in which each delegation makes traditional dishes accompanied by its own stories, drinks and cultural merits, is one such example.
Upcoming International Weeks
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The Swiss International Week
We will invite about 20 students from foreign partner universities (usually one or two from each university) for an unforgettable week in Switzerland. The week will be organized and accompanied by our IW team, which consists of four students of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). The aim of the International Week Switzerland is to show the participants our beloved Switzerland and to introduce them to the economic, political, ecological and cultural peculiarities. We will travel around to cities like Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, and St. Gallen and enjoy activities including company visits, workshops, city tours and other cultural events.
What is an International Week (IW)?
The IW is our multicultural project where in total 22 universities from all over Europe and Asia take part. Every university organizes a one-week-tour around their own city or country and the students from all other universities can apply for that. As a result, you have a mixed group of around 20 students from all over Europe and Asia to participate in an IW.
For what can I apply as an HSG student?
You can apply for every foreign IW and we chose up to two participants from the HSG. The application for the different IWs will be open around four months before they take part.
How can I apply for an IW?
You have to fill out the application form online and you will then be invited to an interview with our Team of IW Switzerland. We will then choose two applicants from the HSG and send the applications to the foreign project team. They will then choose at least one of our applicants (but normally they choose both of them) depending on their budget. Around three months before the IW starts you will get your confirmation and can book your flights.
Can I also participate in the Swiss International Week?
Unfortunately, you cannot participate in IW Switzerland as a participant. You can just participate as a host and you will be matched with a buddy who will sleep at your place. Nevertheless, you can then participate in a few activities. You will get all information about being a host prior to the IW Switzerland in April 2020.
What does it cost to take part in an IW?
The participation is for free. You just have to cover your flights by yourself, the program, accommodation and food for the full trip are covered by the organizing team and their sponsors in the respective foreign university.
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Our patrons support our projects with their experience and network. Their help is of great value for us and we are deeply thankful for their commitment!
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Without these amazing partners, our projects would not be possible. We are immensely thankful for their generous and continuing support!
Omega SA ist ein Schweizer Uhrenhersteller, der hochwertige Armbanduhren fertigt. Das Unternehmen wurde im Jahre 1848 gegründet, baute bis 1984 eigene Kaliber und ist heute eine Tochtergesellschaft der Swatch Group mit Sitz in Biel/Bienne.
Glencore was founded in Switzerland over 40 years ago and is now one of the world’s largest commodity companies. Glencore extracts, produces and markets raw materials for everyday consumer goods. Their customers are industrial consumers such as steel producers and automobile manufacturers. Glencore employs more than 158,000 people worldwide – 850 at their headquarters in Baar, where they manage all corporate functions, their metals and minerals operations and their coal division.
We were formed in 1999 when our parent company JT Group acquired the non-US operations of R.J. Reynolds. Since then, our international workforce has driven two decades of growth.
Today, we have more than 45,000 employees driving our success all over the world. Our mission is to nurture our internationally recognized brand roster while leading the way in Reduced-Risk Products and new ways of doing business.
We are committed to making our business not only the fastest growing of its kind, but also the most innovative and sustainably run.
Endress+Hauser ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Messgeräten, Dienstleistungen und Lösungen für die industrielle Verfahrenstechnik. Wir bieten Prozesslösungen für Durchfluss-, Füllstand-, Druck- und Temperaturmessung, für analytische Messungen sowie Messwertregistrierung und digitale Kommunikation und optimieren so Prozesse hinsichtlich wirtschaftlicher Effizienz, Sicherheit und Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt. Unsere Kunden arbeiten in den unterschiedlichsten Branchen, wie Chemie, Energie und Kraftwerke, Grundstoffe und Metall, Lebensmittel, Life Sciences, Öl und Gas sowie Wasser/Abwasser.
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Jordan Springs is located 7km from Penrith City Centre, with easy access to the M4 and Great Western Highway
Set your own pace, value your independence and enjoy the intimate charm of village life at Kingfisher Grove, a vibrant community with lakeside living at it’s heart.
Kingfisher Grove's Sales Centre is located at the Jordan Springs Sales and Information Centre, located just off The Northern Road at the corner of Lakeside Pde and Jordan Springs Blvd.
Choose from spacious villa designs ranging from 2 or 3 bedrooms, some with media rooms and wrap around outside alfresco spaces with level internal garage access.
Introducing Kingfisher Grove
Walk to parks, playgrounds and the picturesque lake
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Just 7km from Penrith CBD and amidst the quality amenity of Jordan Springs, and bordered by Wianamatta Regional Park, Kingfisher Grove provides the best of both worlds! Experience the bush right outside your home, and conveniences on your doorstep.
Jordan Springs is a master planned community and one of the fastest growing suburbs of Western Sydney. Its thoughtful urban design combines the intimate charm of village life with all the easy conveniences of contemporary living.
Set your own pace, value your independence and let your social life flourish. Kingfisher Grove will offer all the ingredients for a rewarding lifestyle – from stylish homes, friendly neighbours, generous amenities and picturesque surrounds. It’s a recipe Lendlease has perfected in over 25 years of building retirement communities. Located within easy walking distance of local shops and lakeside walking trails, Kingfisher Grove will provide a sense of safety and security with comfort and convenience at the forefront of its design. It will be socially engaging, environmentally conscious and above all, resident focused.
If you’re thinking about retirement and making the most of its rewards, call 1800 550 550 or complete the registration form below. You’ll be amongst the first to receive exciting updates, invitations and VIP information about this new development.
The benefits of retirement village living
The number of Australians living in retirement villages is growing each year, and the benefits are plenty. From the great sense of community, low maintenance living so that you can do more, and a feeling of safety and security living amongst like-minded neighbours, it’s the perfect combination for a brand new lifestyle. Find out more about retirement living at Kingfisher Grove.
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Situated approximately 7km from Penrith’s CBD, Jordan Springs is nestled between St Marys and Penrith.
Enjoying close proximity to both St Mary’s and Penrith train stations, it is approximately 45 minutes ride into the city and just 15 minutes from the entrance to the M4. With major landmarks such as Penrith Leagues Club, Nepean River, Penrith Westfield and the Sydney International Regatta Centre are all close by, Kingfisher Grove enjoys convenient access to first class amenities and has a lot to offer retirees and growing families.
Shopping and local business
At the heart of the community sits Jordan Springs town centre where you’ll find a Woolworths supermarket, specialty shops, restaurants, cafes, chemist, medical centre and a gym. The town centre is connected to the community by footpaths so you can walk or ride to the shops and also has ample parking for cars.
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Trusted Shops vs. Bazaarvoice
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Trusted Shops is originally a German company founded in 1999, and has a presence in most European countries including the United Kingdom, Poland, France, Spain and Germany. The company brands itself as the "European trust brand in e-commerce", offering both a business solution and a consumer-facing money-back guarantee of £2,500 per purchase.
Working with over 25,000 shops in Europe, they strive to create a safer e-commerce experience for consumers, powered by authentic reviews, a money-back guarantee and a trustmark which aims to show consumers that a brand can be trusted. Trusted Shops' pricing is somewhat complicated, as it's correlated with a companies annual online revenues. Further, they have line item charges for several aspects of their service, including a €99 application fee to become a member.
BazaarVoice is an American publicly listed company (NASDAQ: BV) with global offices that offers extensive software solutions specializing in user-generated content. They work with some of the largest retailers in the world, including Dell, Kraft, HTC, Oakley and hundreds more. Bazaarvoice Conversations forms one part of their offering, which provides solutions for ratings and reviews, questions and answers, review sampling technology and more.
BazaarVoice runs in the thousands of dollars per month, so is geared towards large and established retailers. The benefit of their service is that they offer a one-stop solution for most of your user-generated content, ranging from your reviews, social content, advertising and more.
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Trusted Shops offers a strong and time-proven service for the European market which companies big and small can benefit from. Given that they use reviews as one of three pillars of their service, companies do need to keep in mind the commitments required from the other two. Their pricing does seem to need an update, given that it requires a calculator to figure out a base price, and will likely incur additional charges given the setup.
BazaarVoice has an incredibly strong offering aimed at the enterprise, that helps with a range of user-generated content. As opposed to consumer-facing review platforms, they help brands and retailers generate and manage this content on their own sites, as opposed on the review platform. The BazaarVoice network similarly syndicates reviews across millions of store-fronts around the world, giving you a broad reach for your content.
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Morals and Markets II
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 00:00 |
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Morals and Markets II programme
For this second symposium on Morals and Markets we continue to look at the topic from different disciplinary angles.
11:00-12:00 Introduction by the Chair - Professor Alun Jones MRIA (School of Geography, University College Dublin)
Professor Emeritus Marilyn Strathern (Girton College and Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Persons and money: a Papua New Guinean translation of morals and markets What kind of person does money make of one? That depends somewhat on where one is. A visit in 2015 to Hagen in the Papua Guinean Highlands is the basis for reflections on the eloquence of money and the making of persons in an unusual context: ‘repatriating’ fieldwork photographs. Some unexpected demands raised questions about ethics, politics and commerce.
12:00 – 12:15: Coffee break
12.15 – 13:15: Keith Tribe (Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study)
The economy of shortage. Grain Markets in the Eighteenth Century
The moral economy of crowds as a means of social and economic regulation is an idea first raised by the work of Georges Rudé and E.P. Thompson, and developed by Steven Kaplan in respect of grain markets in later eighteenth century France. This presentation will consider how this approach might be brought to bear on the English debates over grain markets, population and distribution in the early nineteenth century, linking pre-Revolutionary French discourse to post-Napoleonic ideas of free trade.
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: Ivar McGrath (History, University College Dublin) with Andreas Hess (Sociology, University College Dublin)
Swift's moral economy: a suggestion for a modest paradigm change
This paper suggests a paradigm change in relation to the way we look at how markets and morals are entwined in Swift. We argue that it would be wrong to apply contemporary notions of economics retrospectively and somewhat a-historically to a thinker of an axial time in which economics as a separate sphere did not exist, and in which morals and markets and the way they relate to each other were about to be radically re-conceptualized. We argue that it is thus no accident that Scottish Enlightenment thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith took to Swift. They admired more than the expressive or rhetorical skills in Swift; in the first instance, they read Swift as somebody who managed to express moral sentiments (and even outrage) in an appealing, that is mostly satirical way, thereby identifying the gap between rhetoric and reality and criticising hypocrisy and the double standards of the time. We will use two famous examples of Swift's work to illustrate our case, “A Modest Proposal” (1737) and “Directions to Servants” (1745).
15:00-16:00: Discussion and closing remarks
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IHTA Seminar 2020
When: Thursday, 14 May 2020
Next year's Irish Historic Towns Atlas Seminar will take place on Thursday 14 May 2020 in Academy House.
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'The global politics of climate emergency'
When: Wednesday, 29 April 2020
A highlight of our calendar, this year's International Affairs Conference will include a keynote by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Mary Robinson MRIA will provide the plenary.
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"We have found a better way, boys": Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell
Library Lunchtime Lecture series 'Sisters II'. Dr Diane Urquhart, Professor of Gender History, QUB, will give the fifth lecture in this new series.
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Rafiq: Clean power repeal threatens Virginians' health
Nila Rafiq Rafiq is an internist in Falls Church and an Assistant Professor at George Washington University and Georgetown University and a member of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action.
By Nila Rafiq
Rafiq is an internist in Falls Church and an assistant professor at George Washington University and Georgetown University and a member of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action.
Air pollution may be about politics and money in Washington, but as an internist caring for adults with chronic lung disease in an intensive care unit, air quality directly affects my patients’ lives.
Sarah is a 63-year-old woman who is hospitalized three or four times per year for exacerbations of her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In July 2016, poor air quality tipped her into a severe attack. She was admitted to the ICU and placed on a ventilator for several days. Sarah later shared that she had been having difficulty breathing for many weeks; she felt she could not continue to work and planned to retire.
For people with chronic respiratory disease like Sarah, reducing air pollution is not about the environment. It is critical to their ability to breathe, work and stay out of the hospital. This fact makes the recent decision by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and the Trump Administration to repeal the Clean Power Plan extremely troubling.
The Clean Power Plan has the potential to set national standards to reduce harmful carbon pollution coming from power plants. In 2015, the EPA estimated that the Clean Power Plan would prevent up to 90,000 asthma attacks in children and 3,600 premature deaths each year. Revoking the Clean Power Plan denies Americans these health benefits. This news also comes on the back of drastic proposed cuts to the EPA’s budget and rolling back of fuel economy standards.
Hazardous air quality because of air pollution from tailpipes and power plants affect our health directly through worsening of chronic heart and lung disease. These conditions are a major public health concern. COPD affects 12-16 million people in the United States and is our third-leading cause of death. Asthma, which affects 25 million Americans, caused 1.8 million ER visits and 439,000 hospitalizations in 2010. Nearly 13 percent of Virginia’s population suffers from either asthma or COPD.
The effects of air pollution on health are also exacerbated by climate change. Rising amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, emitted through burning of fuels like coal and gas, are causing our planet to warm. This fact is accepted by virtually every scientific academy in the world and should not be a political issue.
As temperatures rise, the life cycles of plants and animals are changing. Higher temperatures are allowing Lyme disease-carrying ticks to live in northern regions like Maine and Canada, where it used to be too cold for them to survive. Plants are blooming earlier and longer, lengthening the allergy season. Allergies are a leading cause of asthma exacerbations.
Toni is a 54 year-old woman with poorly controlled asthma. Every year, her allergies cause her asthma to flare. In May, allergies precipitated an attack that landed Toni in the ICU. I cared for her for seven days as she was treated with high-dose intravenous steroids, inhalers and anti-histamines before she was able to breathe comfortably.
While the health of all people can be affected by climate change, certain groups, including children, pregnant women and the poor, are particularly vulnerable. Health conditions lsuch as heat illness, lung disease and climate sensitive infections are getting worse as our climate changes. That is why 17 of the nation’s leading medical organizations released a statement defending the Clean Power Plan, and calling on the EPA “to heed the clear scientific evidence and protect public health by cleaning up major sources of carbon pollution from power plants and taking steps to avoid the worst health impacts of climate change.”
Americans deserve clean air to breathe and a safe climate in which to raise their families. The rollback of higher fuel economy standards, the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, and the proposed cuts to the EPA’s budget all put American families at increased risk. Sarah, Toni, and every one of my patients deserve an EPA that is fully funded and empowered to do its job protecting our health.
In the fight for a clean and healthy future, physicians are on the frontlines. We are ready to do our part, but Congressional representatives from Virginia need to ensure that Washington does theirs.
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Handprint Poem Printables. Jack (age 5) mounted his handprint poem on orange A3 paper. He then drew around his handprint and cut out lots in co-ordinating colours. He glued these to the orange paper to make a frame. "This is the hand You used to hold When I was only xx years old." "I miss you when we’re not together I’m growing up so fast
Grandchildren Handprint Poems #2. Sometimes you get discouraged Because I am so small And always leave my fingerprints On furniture and walls. I’ll be grown some day And all those tiny handprints Will surely fade away. So here’s a little handprint Just so you can recall Exactly how my fingers looked When I.
Funeral Poems for Dad Poetry to read at a Father’s memorial service. On this page, we provide several funeral poems for Dad that can be read at a father’s funeral or memorial service. A memorial poem can also be included in the funeral program. Or, a single poem or.
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"I’m going to miss hearing her say ‘I love you Daddy’ in the morning every day," he said. Three pit bulls mauled his. of.
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FATHER’S DAY Artists Answer: ‘What Does Father’s Day Mean to You?’ Compiled by Jennifer E. Jones CBNmusic Producer. CBN.com – “What’s special about this Father’s Day is that I know every one of my kids loves me. I’ve had a really blessed relationship with all of them.
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also paid tributes to her father calling. Rai Bachchan’s famous poem ‘Agneepath’. “You will always be my hero”, she wrote along with the image.
VB shared a photo of the poem titled. I love you Daddy and hope you have a special day. Harper xoxoxoxo.” The other Beckham children also shared messages on Instagram. Brooklyn, 19, chose a black.
Jax Taylor paid tribute to his dad on Father’s Day with a touching message. “Happy Father’s Day to the best dad ever!! I miss you so much every day pop, I know you are with me every day,” he tweeted.
Until we meet that day with you. Poems about Losing a Father. Poetry can heal your soul when you just lost your father. Read this dad in heaven poem every time you miss him and want to cry. You will find the reason to live. No one can take our “Father’s Place” May the choirs of the angels receive you
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If your dad/ friend/ loved one is far away, bridge the distance by sending our Father’s Day ecards and let him know you are thinking of him on Father’s Day. Browse all 33 cards » Rated: 2.87 | Views: 41,257
I’ll make sure to check your DVD collection and watch those flicks for old times’ sake this coming Father’s Day. you were content with spicy sardines and cold rice from the fridge. As a kid, I.
Sharing a poem with your lover or just reading poetry expressing how much you miss them is therapeutic. Grieving for your loss is a long process including denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Support from family and friends can be invaluable. Take all the time you need.
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The title refers to Tate’s father. day looked bright to me. Tate’s walk home, filled with elms, maples, and a near-death experience as “a car swerved to miss me,” would likely have taken him right.
Father’s Day is just weeks away (1 September), and if you’re struggling to find something for your dad, there’s a good chance.
My life was more fun, more colorful, and more complete because of you. I will always miss you. But I’ll also know that a part.
(Photo: AFP) New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday penned an emotional note for his father and. s famous poem ‘Agneepath’. “You will always be my hero”, she wrote along with the.
Miss you daddy 9 Father’s Day Poems That’ll Make You and Your Dad Tear Up See more. Father Poems Fathers Day Songs Dad Poems Fathers Day Cards Toddler Arts And Crafts Toddler Activities Preschool Gifts Preschool Ideas Children Images. Toddler Activities: Make a Card with a Special Poem for Fathers Day. Choose from our selection of Fathers Day poems
An amazing sketch of my father given to me by my family for Father’s Day years ago. Maybe writing this entry on Medium. years since you passed. Then again I said that at 5 years, 10 years 12.
#74 Happy Father’s Day. T his is a poem to make you appreciate your daddy. I was very close to my father and I miss him very much. I wrote this on fathers day in 1993, the year after he died. In Loving Memory Of My Daddy William Randall Sartor This poem originally was published in Sad Poems -.
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He tweeted: "A husband, a father, a grandfather. We will miss you like crazy, it will be hard but I hope we will make you proud." “On behalf of my mother, sisters and the rest of the family I would.
She kept her tribute short and sweet: "Happy birthday Dad. I love you. it the "worst day" of her life, adding, "grief is omnipresent and relentless." Last year tomorrow, August 25th was the worst.
Leah-Mae Lewis, 12, led the tributes from family and friends to her dad John Lewis, who died following an alleged stabbing on Crescent Road The daughter of alleged murder victim John Lewis has.
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Here We Provide Fathers day Poems,Fathers Day Poems From Daughter Happy Fathers day Poems Father day Poems These Poems You Can Share With Your Father Father’s Day poem – but applies to all the adults in a child’s life and what an impact they can have either positive or negative.
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Dad’s in Heaven Quotes & Poems with Images. 22,776 likes · 2,030 talking about this. Dad’s in heaven quotes poems with images. Jump to. Sections of this page. Love You & Miss You Mom Dad In Heaven. Personal Blog. I Miss my dad. Community Organization. Missing Loved Ones In Heaven. Community Organization. Strong women & relationships.
but most of all you were my Dad. I will miss you more than you will ever know. I knew this day would come but some how always.
Download best Father’s day poems for your husband : – “You are a wonderful husband, great Father By your side step the highlights I wish you many congratulations on this Father’s Day. “ Category : Father’s day poems for my husband – “I decided to marry you because you are a special man In these years I have learned to love you more I am very happy to have started a family by your side Have a nice.
Perhaps it’s not macho to write such poems. If you feel this amateurish effort should be shared with others, I’d be honored to see it in your column on Father’s Day. William W. Read on: So dearly I.
The widow of TV presenter Greg Boyed has shared a moving poem on the anniversary of her husband’s untimely. "And that’s.
Priyanka Gandhi shared the poem, "Agneepath", by noted Hindi poet and Amitabh Bachchan’s father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, on Twitter in a post titled: "You will always be my hero. love & respect all.
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The nine-year-old daughter of a missing man from Sheffield has written a poem urging her father to come home. "Any problems can be dealt with. We all love and miss you." Police said Mr Mead is.
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Lines 5-6. In the first line of the second quatrain, the pronoun “Her” refers to nature, in this case perhaps Mother Nature. The poem’s speaker has captured nature’s message in poetry, and that message is “committed,” or delivered for safe keeping, to “Hands” that the speaker will never meet.
Jul 07, 2016 · In Alone, the poet Maya Angelou addresses one of the grave problems of the world- isolation. This problem transcends time. Thinkers have devoted countless hours to this cause and only concluded that we are a social animal i.e. people need people.
Full Answer. In the poem, Taylor describes himself similar to the wheel that is used for spinning and weaving. Each part of his spiritual life is described as one of the parts of the spinning wheel. The distaff is compared to the word of God; it is a piece of equipment on the machine that holds the wool and prepares it.
The mother love is strangely absent in the beginning of the poem. But the mother does move from a strange alienation to a kind of instinctive sweeping emotion, when she lives with the child for some time and when the child happens to breathe and cry; this probably happens after the intense labor pain is over, so that the mother could feel the love.
Fathers Day Poems For Divorced Dads Sometimes the generic ‘Happy Father’s Day’ just isn’t enough and that’s where a heartfelt quote, poem or wish can make poignant message. And with Father’s Day coming up this weekend, here are a few. Father’s day poem quotes are an excellent solution to this problem. Everyone can’t be a wordsmith, so why not take advantage
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Related Book. The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience. The tone in a poem of praise is approval. In a satire, you feel irony. In an antiwar poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation. Tone can be playful, humorous, regretful, anything — and it can change as the poem goes along.
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Her mastery of the conversational tone, one of the most striking attributes of much of her poetry (Shankar 147), an effect she notes frequently in others (see her essay on Abraham Lincoln, for example [Predilections 197-204]), is one of the most forceful organizing factors of the poem "Poetry." Which is to say, that her response to her audience.
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In line 11 the poet’s verses are going to be looked upon by the whole of posterity, but in line 14 only by the ‘lovers’ section thereof. And line 13 is hopelessly ungrammatical, even if we accept Beeching’s explanation that that = when (Forrest, 44).
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The rhythms of this poem imitate both its deliberativeness and uneasy anticipation. It is as close to blasphemy as Emily Dickinson ever comes in her poems on death, but it does not express an absolute doubt. Rather, it raises the possibility that God may not grant the immortality that we long for.
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“The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as ‘Who made. or the Hindu Vedas that introduces all of the myths’ characters and stories. Instead, the earliest Greek.
The children of Athena, Apollo. or obstructing campers as they complete their missions throughout the park. Each quest is based on Greek mythology stories — campers may need to help Hercules with.
From this womb sprang her firstborn, her favourite and most evil of her children — Hastar. to note that the myth of Hastar being of brought down by his family bears resemblance to the elder gods -.
Although Greek mythology is considered a staple of childhood literature today, before Nathaniel Hawthorne, these stories were considered to be too adult in theme for children, according to Sheila.
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As origins stories go, Hercules’ is a doozy: Born of an affair between his human mother and Zeus, Hercules would become the best-known hero of Greek mythology by. But this is mythology-light geared.
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Every Greek myth should be so lucky as to get the fast-paced, flippant and fiercely funny treatment that “Jason and the Argonauts” receives in Oregon Children’s Theatre. a Hades who looks like the.
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The Titans. Bruce Shelley came by this week to let us play through a bit of the game and discuss some of the new features we can expect. For those who don’t know, Age of Mythology presented a massive.
Age of Mythology: The Titans adds a fourth mythology, the Atlanteans, to the. A new single-player campaign will add yet another chapter to the expansive.
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Dec 05, 2017 · From Age of Empires co-creator Brian Sullivan and Braveheart writer Randall Wallace comes an innovative action role playing game set in ancient Greece, Egypt and Asia. The Titans.
Microsoft has issued a demo for Ensemble Studios’ recently released RTS Age of Mythology: The Titans. In the trial version. tutorial and first scenario of the brand-new single player campaign. You.
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Age of mythology the new atlantis The New Atlantis is the campaign in Age of Mythology: The Titans, and continues the story from Fall of the Trident. Kastor, son of Arkantos, is manipulated by Krios into worshiping the Titans instead of the Olympian Gods. Krios.
Microsoft has released a playable demo for Age of Mythology: the Titans, allowing you to try out the recent. demo includes the tutorial and first scenario of the single-player campaign, as well as.
Age Of Mythology The Titan Expansion. The story is set ten years after the events of the Age of Mythology storyline. His plan is that the Norse will not be expecting an attack. Age of Mythology Extended Edition includes Age of Mythology, Age of Mythology: The Titans and Golden Gift Campaign.
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then the Titan each civilization gets it’s own special Titan to lead into an army at the ladst age. although the game has newly added. a few new maps not many, but the Campaign has been well made.
Sep 22, 2018. Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, the DLC campaign behaves weird. from the original campaing and the original extension (Titans).
This expansion features 12 levels in a new "Titan" campaign, featuring Kastor instead of Arkantos as the main character. Kastor's abiltiy to instantly kill human.
And while gamers have already been able to feast on the expansions for the Warcraft and Command and Conquer series, it’s taken us just a bit longer us to finally get our hands on the expansion to.
Includes: Age of Mythology, Age of Mythology: The Titans, Golden Gift Campaign, Tale of the Dragon DLCThe classic real time strategy game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and. Region free. Aug 01, 2017 · Age of Mythology: The Titans Free Download PC Game setup in single direct link for Windows.
Download [PC GAME] Age of Mythology The Titans Expansion Torrent. The campaign follows adventures of Brokk and Eitri, the dwarves who appeared in the.
As the expansion to age of mythology, Titans introduces a new civilization (the Atlanteans) along with the ability to summon a mighty Titan which can easily turn the tide of battle! Short summary.
Inspired by a number of popular myths, and the Age of Mythology: The Titans single player campaign. Twelve Legendary Civilizations Players guide their people.
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Sep 22, 2017. In the Age of Mythology single-player campaign, players advance through. The expansion for Age of Mythology, The Titans, also expands the.
Age of Mythology is a spin-off from the Age of Empires series. Nearly all Titan units are bad in the Titans campaign, except for Gaia, who the player must.
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Its campaign follows an Atlantean admiral, Arkantos, who is forced to travel. In 2003, it was followed by an expansion pack, Age of Mythology: The Titans.
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Titans are absurdly powerful. the most glaring being predictability. Unfortunately, Age of Mythology’s single-player campaign doesn’t fare much better. Previous series entries had the grounding of.
Poetry In Quotes Or Italics
As for enclosing titles in quotation marks or italicizing them, you can get pretty far by following the “Big/heavy equals italics” (like books) and “Small/light equals quotes” (like poems) generalizations, but Associated Press style doesn’t italicize nothin’ and Chicago style has layers of specificity and if-then statements. Fun!
Do not add a hyphen and never break the protocol (http://). When you give the title of an essay or a poem, you put the title in quotation marks – you do not italicize or underline. When you give a.
Here is how Raine handles the matter (there’s no other way to demonstrate his technique than to quote at length): "These are very difficult poems. Yet Julius is prepared. One imagines the sentence.
Book Titles and More: Underline, Quotation Marks or Italics? In the typewriter age, titles were set off with quotation marks or underlining: “Charlotte’s Web”
Mar 13, 2008 · 3 Simple Tips For Properly Formatting Titles Of Books, Stories, Poems. 1) Underlining and italics serve the same purpose. Never do both. Do NOT use quotation marks, underline, or italics together. 2) For any work that stands on its own, you should use italics or underline. (Stories or chapters from within a book are considered PARTS of the book.)
Dec 20, 2006 · The titles of short poems go in quotes. Really long poems (that are book-length) are underlined (or italicized). A general rule to follow is that if the title would be visible on the spine of a book sitting on the bookshelf, underline it. If you would have to open that book to find the title among other titles inside, put it in quotes.
A rare excitement ran through the The New Yorker’s copy department last week when it was discovered that a line of Middle English poetry quoted in a piece by. who looked up the source of the quote.
Capitalize the principal words in the names of computer programs. Do not use italics or quotation marks. Use the company’s conventions for spelling. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint But when a name with a.
Underline or italicize titles of books, plays, films, long poems, magazines, Put quotation marks around titles of short works–such as poems, short stories, and.
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Apr 16, 2015 · When quoting material, it is important to clarify if the italics were in the original quote, or if you are using an editorial voice to highlight something important. Einsohn suggests using the phrases [emphasis added] or [emphasis in the original] in quotations where italics have been used for emphasis.
. television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches and works of art. Instead, use italics for titles, for emphasis, and for words, letters, and. book titles, quotation marks for stories, and italics for the necessary.
Underline or italicize large works or works that contain other works. Epic poems, Regular poems. Do not use italics, underlining, or quotation marks on it.
Feb 6, 2014. Do you ever wonder whether to use quotation marks, italics, Use quotation marks for the titles of short works: A poem. “The Road Not Taken”.
(In print these are italicized.) Enclose titles of reports, songs, and poems in quotation marks. Long things that can stand on their own like books, CDs, or movies are underlined. Short things that are part of something bigger like chapters, episodes, or poems are enclosed in quotation marks.
Oct 23, 2009. Learn when you need to italicize, when you don't, and when italicization is optional. plays, short stories, very long poems, newspapers, and magazines;. Alternatively, though, you could probably also use quotation marks.
Dec 3, 2018. The titles of the following types of material should be italicized in the text of. In the example below, there is a quote about the poet John Keats.
Essay titles underlined or italicized – Cokid Org Essay titles underlined or italicized. Uses italics written or essay, should be in paper. Commas, journal article major titles of italics. individual. Should I italicize, underline or quote poetry titles? – Quora Should I italicize, underline or quote poetry titles?.
Titles should be marked with italics (underlining) or quotation marks, depending on the work being discussed. 1. Titles of works that appear within a volume, such as short stories, poems, and essays, should be placed in quotation marks: " Araby," "The Prophecy," "Dulce et Decorum Est."
He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal—a book that had. And it was prompted, I think, by the problem of quotation. Baudelaire’s writing is a deeply unstable.
Dec 02, 2013 · How To Punctuate Titles: When to Use Italics, Underlining, and Quotation Marks, and How to Use Correct Capitalization How to Properly Punctuate Titles Properly punctuating titles of literature, music, art, movies, and other works can be confusing, and the rules aren’t always consistent from resource to resource regarding this topic.
Below is a summary of the most common citation forms in the MLA citation style. You are responsible for proper. you put the title in quotation marks – you do not italicize or underline. When you.
Do you italicize poems? The only type of poem that has its title in italics is the epic poem, which is a complete work of its own. Epic poems are divided into smaller parts — which may be referenced in a citation to make an excerpt easier to find. Here are some well-known examples: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey ; Virgil’s Aeneid ; Dante’s Divine Comedy
When to use italics. Often italics and underline can be used interchangeably. For example, chapters in a book, poems, sections of newspapers, songs in a CD. Instead we use quotation marks (We heard the song "Billie Jean" by Michael.
Bob Kaufman Alley. layout of many of Kaufman’s poems, and his trademark incessant usage of capital letters: “The way his poems are written in capital letters, that’s the way Bob spoke. He spoke in.
Newspapers tend to favor quotation marks in place of italics for most titles. newspapers; online databases (MLA); operas; paintings; plays; poems (long); radio.
If you start using italics, don't switch to underlining within the same document. newspapers, films, TV shows, a complete symphony, plays, long poems, albums:. Neither italics nor quotation marks are used with titles of major religious texts,
Dec 3, 2018. Place titles in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger work. If the title mentioned is usually indicated by italics, use italics for the title within the title. Examples of these titles are poems, short stories, book chapters,
Slash Pine Press, a creative internship program at The University of Alabama, will be creating a chapbook featuring poems written for Poetry Out Loud. “I’ve learned, to quote Brian Oliu, that.
(italics in original) Perhaps Codrescu has tried to write a Ghost-Companion. Regardless of how it’s labeled, The Poetry Lesson is a brilliant work, filled with sentences and images you’d want hung on.
Verb: italicize. In handwriting, the equivalent of italics is underlining. As shown below, italics are most commonly used for the titles of works that stand by themselves, such as the names of books, films, and video games. Another customary use of italics is to give emphasis to.
For a man who started writing poetry at the age of 19, eight volumes of poetry written over a span of 45 years have captured not only his own journey of life but every experiment with style, technique.
. the custom to enclose all titles in quotation marks: titles of books, titles of poems, largely disappeared, and the modern custom is to write most titles in italics.
Mar 04, 2016 · Though italics tend to be more common, quotation marks can be used when talking about words. For instance, you could use quotation marks when discussing the difference between “its” and “it’s,” but it’s more common to use italics: its and it’s.
Quotes, Italics, or Nothing? The following list offers guidance on how to handle the many diverse titles, works, and events referenced in College communications, including titles of published works, original art, musical productions, journal names, etc.
In general, italicize the titles of works published independently. Titles to. include the names of books, plays, long poems published as books, Quoting Poetry.
Jul 16, 2019. Underline or italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films. • Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, Also use quotation marks for the titles of short stories, book chapters, poems,
Use italics or underlining for titles of books, long poems and playsEXAMPLES.
A Laying On Of Hands Poem In one 15th-century illustration of a French Estoire de Merlin (a 13th-century life of Merlin derived from Geoffrey’s Historia), the demon embraces her sleeping form, a clawed hand preying on. such. Jul 18, 2013. heartbreaking. Today, she shares a poem that she feels expresses the experience of letting a pet go. But don't let grief
When is it appropriate to use underlines, italics, and quotes for different. (short) poems, essays, songs, and articles go in quotation marks.
There are whole sentences in Hindi and no italics, no translations and no glossaries. This edition prints Sappho’s original poems in ancient Greek – which survive in different-sized fragments, some.
Burt’s poems have. haunted by italicized voices, by half-remembered scenes. When both Minerva and Stephanie occupy the same poem, Minerva tends to get the last word. Are both of these voices.
Text features include italics, bold fonts, headings, and captions. Italics are used to indicate titles or emphasis. When writing, you should italicize the titles of books, plays, long poems, pieces of.
text, and do not use quotation marks for the block quotation. Quoting Poetry Short quotations When you quote a single line of poetry, write it like any other short quotation. Two lines can be run into your text with a slash mark to indicate the end of the first line. Use quotation marks.
Titles of poems are set sometimes in bold, sometimes italics, implying structures within the larger structure. Drawing both on black music and the technical innovations of American Modernism, Jones.
Use underlining, quotation marks, or italics to indicate titles of works. Punctuating. Enclose titles of reports, songs, and poems in quotation marks. Think: short.
Also, the titles of shorter works, like TV shows, magazines, or poems, should be placed in double quotation marks. Longer works, like books or movies, should be italicized without quotation marks.
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Dec 2, 2013. When to Use Italics, Underlining, and Quotation Marks, and How to. magazines, journals & newspapers; book-length poems, collections,
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The Last Ride Together Poem Jun 22, 2012. ANS: The title of the poem, The Last Ride Together is fully justified. It refers to the single theme of the poem, namely the attempt at seeking a. And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away. The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray.
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When you’re planning for the future, remember that you may be entitled to some pension benefits from the Government (in addition to any benefits from the Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme). There’s the State Pension – and there are other benefits for pensioners, such as free prescriptions and bus passes.
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It’s an amount of money and usually it will be paid every four weeks. The amount you get depends on different things, like when you were born and whether you’re a man or a woman. To be eligible, you need to have made a certain amount of National Insurance contributions over the years.
There are two types of State Pension:
For people whose State Pension age is on or after 6 April 2016, there’s the new State Pension
For people who reached State Pension age before this date, there’s the Basic State Pension and possibly an Additional State Pension too.
If you’re eligible, you should get an invitation to claim within four months of your State Pension age. If you’re eligible but your invitation doesn’t arrive, call the Pensions Service on 0800 731 7898 or visit their website to claim online.
The State Pension rules do change from time to time – so, check the Government’s website to see what you can expect to receive.
Your State Pension age depends on whether you’re a man or a woman, and when you were born. The Government is gradually making the State Pension age for men and women the same. They’re also gradually increasing the State Pension age for everyone over many years. You can check your State Pension age using the Government’s calculator.
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Pensioners are entitled to all kinds of benefits, from Council Tax Support to free prescriptions and eye tests. The consumer organisation ‘Which?’ offers a helpful list of pensioner benefits that could apply to you.
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Startling Milky Way mapping discovery reveals ENORMOUS gas structure in our galaxy
The Gaia mapping survey of the Milky Way has made a shocking discovery which is forcing scientists to rethink their understanding of our galaxy’s construction: a massive structure of gas that stretches 9,000 light years.
In 1879, astronomer Benjamin Gould discovered a long cloud of dust and gas, the remnants of interconnected stellar nurseries stretching 3,000 light years across, which later became known as Gould’s Belt. After recent readings were taken by the Gaia mapping survey, however, it turns out Gould’s Belt is part of an even larger structure, the largest of its kind ever discovered in our Milky Way galaxy.
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According to scientific models, the new structure is a wave of gas and dust that measures 9,000 light-years long, 400 light-years wide, and extends 500 light-years above and below the galactic plane.
It has been dubbed the Radcliffe Wave, after Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study which analyzed the data from the mapping survey.
“No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas, or that it forms the local arm of the Milky Way,” said astronomer Alyssa Goodman of the Smithsonian Institution.
Visualisation of the Radcliffe Wave and the position of the sun. © Harvard University
Goodman said that both she and her team were “completely shocked when we first realised how long and straight the Radcliffe Wave is” when viewed from above.
“The Wave’s very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way’s 3D structure.”
While it is the largest gaseous structure identified in the Milky Way it is far from the largest object we have observed. Fermi gamma-ray bubbles, for example, stretch some 50,000 light-years.
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The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, tasked with producing the most accurate 3D map yet of our home galaxy, so if any of our endeavors into space were going to come across the Radcliffe Wave, this was it.
“The Sun lies only 500 light-years from the Wave at its closest point. It’s been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn’t see it until now,” explained physicist and astronomer João Alves of the University of Vienna in Austria, who postulates that the shape may be the result of some massive object interacting with our galaxy, creating a ripple in our cosmic pond.
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Santoni’s Pizza Ridgewood
Santoni’s Pizza Garfield
Behind every great meal…is a story.
Santoni’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant in Garfield was founded in 1988 by Ed Lewer and Joe Parillo. Both coming from a vast variety of restaurant experience they set out to create mouthwatering food using only freshest ingredients and the highest quality products. Santoni’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant was an instant hit and over the years has become a staple in the town of Garfield. Ed and Joe believed in not only providing a great product as a key to their success but staying involved in the community. For decades they have been highly involved in the community. Santoni’s has sponsorship many fundraising events, nonprofit organizations, and various town sports teams. This community involvement led the business to win Business of the Year in 1994.
Santoni’s Pizzeria has always been a family run and operated business. Joe and Ed’s sons worked in the pizzeria since they young kids and are continuing their father’s principles and philosophy. In 2013, Santoni’s opened its second location in Ridgewood, NJ with the same idea and principles in mind. Since the grand opening Santoni’s has been an instant success in town and has won several awards for best pizza in Ridgewood voted in a blind tasting by the Ridgewood High School pizza club.
Much more than just another pizza joint, Santoni’s embodies what your favorite neighborhood pizzeria should be– A warm, welcoming place where you can have a delicious meal with your friends and family. We pride ourselves on making the only best quality food while using only the freshest ingredients. Santoni’s aims to be your favorite neighborhood pizzeria and restaurant.
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Register by Oct. 21 for Fall renewal courses
10/09/2019 in: Education
By Bette Jamison
Still time to register for ETV Teacher Recertification Fall session! Offered are 20 renewal credit courses, approved for SC teachers by the SC Department of Education, facilitated online, self-paced, $75 each. Register by Oct. 21. Must complete work by Dec. 3.
Farm to School at Briggs Elementary
10/07/2019 in: EducationHealthHome
By Sean Flynn
"Making It Grow" visits Briggs Elementary School in Florence, SC to learn more about Farm at Briggs. While holding chickens, Clemson Extension Agent Amanda McNulty and teacher Jeff Murrie talk about the garden and its purpose. Amanda also talks to the students about what they have learned and what they have enjoyed about working in the garden. Mr. Murrie is also a graduate of Clemson Extension’s School Gardening for SC Educators which is a horticulture-based program designed to help SC educators grow successful school gardens to address childhood obesity and improve academic outcomes.
Kindness, Acceptance, Inclusion
By Kimberly Singletary
Did you know that October is National Bullying Prevention Month? National Bullying Prevention Month is a campaign in the United States founded in 2006 by PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center. The campaign is held during the month of October and unites communities nationwide to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention.
Navy SEAL Robert "Bob" Coggin - Apollo 8 Recovery Interview
By Andrew Davis
The South Carolina State Museum hosted a special screening of Robert Stone's " Chasing The Moon " on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Museum guests, and members of the SCETV Endowment alike came to see this special screening, and took advantage of the opportunity to speak with several guests of honor, including astronaut Charlie Duke. Earlier that afternoon, the museum hosted a meet-and-greet with two extraordinary South Carolinians who actively took part in the Apollo Program. These two gentlemen - Robert "Bob" Coggin, and Milt Putnam, served in the U.S. Navy, and took part in the recovery...
Photographer Milt Putnam - Apollo 11 Recovery Interview
On the evening of Thursday, July 25, the South Carolina State Museum hosted a special screening of Robert Stone's " Chasing The Moon ." Museum guests, and members of the SCETV Endowment alike came to see this special screening, and took advantage of the opportunity to speak with several guests of honor, including astronaut Charlie Duke. Earlier that afternoon, the museum hosted a meet-and-greet with two extraordinary South Carolinians who actively took part in the Apollo Program. These two gentlemen - Robert "Bob" Coggin, and Milt Putnam, served in the U.S. Navy, and took part in the recovery...
Co-Creator of new PBS Kids series visits Columbia
By Stephanie Frazier
A new PBS Kids Series, "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum," debuts on November 11. The series is based on the children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos. Join us at EdVenture Museum on November 7 to meet Chris Eliopoulos, who is visiting Columbia as part of the series promo tour.
Scared of online learning?
By K.Finger
Think you’ll be bored to death? Think again with PBS TeacherLine!
Teaching gratitude and kindness using technology
By Carla Jefferson
From our Educator Guest Blogger Series No doubt about it - being an educator can be extremely stressful. Admin, students and parents, oh my! Juggling the workload that comes from this work can be overwhelming. When consistently working in stressful situations, it is sometimes difficult to remember that despite the challenges we face - we have so many things to be thankful for. The kid who gives you the biggest of hugs as they walk out the door. The student who normally struggles in class but was spot on with their answer in small group. The student who gives you “just a bit” of trouble on...
PBS Kids - October 2019 Programming
PBS KIDS’ October programming, including when to watch, is included below: MOLLY OF DENALI Kindness & Bullying Prevention Explore kindness and Alaska Native values like showing respect, sharing and taking care of others, with new episodes in this new PBS Kids series from October 7-11, 2019 “Northern Lights/Fiddlesticks” Premieres and streams October 7 “Turn on the Northern Lights” - When Trini confesses that she’s never seen the Northern Lights, Molly makes it her mission to show them to her. But after several sleepless nights, they still haven’t seen the Aurora Borealis. Can a little...
Fall is in full swing for Training & Research
By Salandra Bowman
As promised, ETV Education is excited to launch our new Educational Workshop and Training Request Portal ! The portal includes a list of our new and re-designed training and workshop offerings. Remember that we do offer customized trainings. So, if our titles do not meet your PD needs, let us know and we will do our best to deliver.
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What FamilyTreeDNA sharing genetic data with police means for you
Law enforcement can now use the company’s private DNA database to investigate rapes and murders
GENETIC JITTERS The ancestry DNA testing company FamilyTreeDNA is working with law enforcement to solve cold cases with genetic evidence. That partnership has left some customers uneasy.
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A popular at-home DNA testing company has announced that it is allowing police to search its database of genetic data just as customers do when looking for family members. But there’s one big difference: Police are trying to track down rape and murder suspects using relatives’ DNA.
Since Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested as the suspected Golden State Killer last April, police have announced the identification of suspects in at least 25 cold cases, including five in January (SN Online: 4/29/18). Until now, law enforcement agencies had mostly used a public database called GEDMatch for these “genetic genealogy” investigations.
But FamilyTreeDNA has granted police permission to upload data from crime scene DNA and search the company’s more than 1 million records to look for relatives of potential suspects. While some people support the company’s effort to help catch suspected rapists and murderers, privacy advocates and some customers of DNA testing services are alarmed by the idea that police could poke around in people’s genetic data. Here’s what the announcement really means.
Why are we doing this story?
Customers of FamilyTreeDNA learned that police can use the company’s private DNA databases to search for suspects in murder and rape cases. Giving police access to genetic data raises privacy concerns.
Where did the idea for this story come from?
Tina Hesman Saey, the reporter covering the story, got her DNA tested by FamilyTreeDNA for a series about genetic testing. After the story broke that FamilyTreeDNA was working with the FBI, the company sent customers — including Saey — an email explaining why.
Who did we interview?
We spoke to a forensic genealogist, Melinde Lutz Byrne, to learn more about how police and genealogists use DNA data and how hard it is to steal genetic information. FamilyTreeDNA and two other companies declined interviews, so we quoted from the email and other written statements.
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What genetic information can law enforcement access?
Police are interested in determining how much DNA people in the database share with genetic samples from crime scenes. Genealogists can then use the closest matches possible to build family trees and identify a likely suspect.
The process is similar to looking at someone’s LinkedIn profile to see who is in the person’s social network, says Melinde Lutz Byrne, a forensic genealogist at Boston University who is involved in helping law enforcement solve rape and murder cases.
FamilyTreeDNA’s Gene-by-Gene laboratory has “processed a handful of cold cases for the FBI,” company president and founder Bennett Greenspan said in a letter emailed to customers on February 3. Those FBI investigations are being conducted on behalf of other law enforcement agencies to find suspects in violent crimes and to identify remains of deceased people.
But that doesn’t mean law enforcement has unfettered access to customers’ DNA. Police can see data only from people in FamilyTreeDNA’s database who are a genetic match with those crime scene samples. Law enforcement “cannot search or ‘dig through’ FTDNA profiles any more than an ordinary user can.” For any additional information, police would need a warrant or subpoena, the letter said.
Should FamilyTree DNA customers be worried about their privacy?
Neither police, nor other customers, have access to individuals’ raw genetic data, which includes the chemical letters of DNA — A, T, C and G. The sequence of those letters determines how proteins and other biological molecules will be built. Ancestry testing companies sample hundreds of thousands of single DNA letters (known as SNPs) in a person’s entire genetic instruction book, or genome, to determine information about ancestry, appearance and health.
Some people worry that law enforcement, insurance companies and other entities might use such sensitive information against them. But customers, including police, can’t access other customers’ raw genetic data, which may help protect customers’ privacy.
The company “came to the conclusion that if law enforcement created accounts, with the same level of access to the database as the standard FamilyTreeDNA user, they would not be violating user privacy and confidentiality,” Greenspan said in a statement released January 31.
Far less genetic information is available in FamilyTreeDNA’s database than through the publicly available GEDMatch, says Byrne. Data uploaded to GEDMatch can be accessed by any user.
Getting at the chemical letters of DNA in that more-accessible GEDMatch database would be an onerous task, though not impossible. But, in most cases, even the most dedicated DNA thief wouldn’t be able to figure out a person’s entire genetic makeup. All the SNPs combined make up less than 1 percent of the more than 3-billion-letter genome, and relatives share only small fractions of DNA with each other.
“I think it’s ludicrous” to worry about someone stealing DNA through genealogy searches, Byrne says.
Byrne and other genetic genealogists are also not interested in the nitty-gritty genetic information. Genealogists build family trees that may ultimately lead to crime suspects mostly from other types of records, such as birth, death and marriage certificates and obituaries. DNA matches just tell investigators where to begin. “I don’t need to see the A, T, C, G stuff at all,” Byrne says.
Are other consumer genetic testing companies also sharing data with police?
At-home DNA testing giants 23andMe and AncestryDNA have both said that they will not allow similar searches of their much larger databases (more than 5 million people are in 23andMe’s data banks, and more than 10 million are in Ancestry’s).
“We have clear policies stating we will not voluntarily work with law enforcement, and use all legal means to safeguard our customers’ data,” Kathy Hibbs, 23andMe’s chief legal and regulatory officer, said in a statement. “We have never shared customer information with law enforcement.” As of October 15, 2018, the company had received five such requests for user data, none of which were granted.
Ancestry provided data to law enforcement for 31 of 34 requests in identity-theft cases in 2017, but did not have any requests for genetic information, Ancestry said in its latest report, from 2017. However, genetic genealogy did not come into use for crime solving until 2018 (SN: 12/22/18, p. 22).
What can worried FamilyTreeDNA customers do to protect their genetic data?
FamilyTreeDNA customers can adjust their accounts’ privacy settings to disable matching so that police won’t be able to compare crime scene samples with an individual’s DNA. But that also means previously unknown relatives won’t be able to connect with the person.
Or customers may elect to have their DNA pulled from the site, which may require contacting customer service. But the company says it can’t guarantee all genetic information will be taken down if customers have joined projects within the site, such as ones that trace all descendants of a particular couple or with particular last names.
It’s safe to assume that no information that is available through the internet is completely secure, Byrne says. “If you put it up there, there’s a way to get it,” she says. Still, other than companies that are collecting DNA information for research, it’s a mystery to her why other people, including hackers or other potential thieves, would want that genetic information. “They want your credit card more than your DNA,” she says.
Press Release: Connecting Families and Saving Lives. Family Tree DNA, January 31, 2019.
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By Tina Hesman Saey June 7, 2018
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Mid-Career Investigator Award
SAEM identifies up to two (2) recipients for the Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes those SAEM members who have demonstrated commitment and achievement in research during the mid-stage of their academic career. The Society’s core mission includes the creation of knowledge, and this award recognizes those who have achieved success in this sphere. The awards committee is committed to an inclusive process of granting awards, reflecting the full spectrum of diversity of our membership. We encourage you to nominate a diverse pool of candidates for all SAEM awards.
Award Nominations are Now Closed.
Any SAEM member may nominate a candidate.
The specific criteria for the award include:
Training and certification in emergency medicine or an ABEM subspecialty
Candidates must have completed initial residency training between June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2012, unless the candidate meets criteria for extension of young investigator status (as per the NIH Early Stage Investigator policy, available here (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/...). Contact grants@saem.org to request an extension.
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Academic accomplishments (which may include):
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Publications: original scientific manuscripts (one of the two most weighted criteria), abstracts, review articles, chapters, case reports, etc.
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Pune passengers stranded at Goa Airport due to flight delay
Sushant Ranjan
“Some passengers asked why weren’t they informed earlier about the delay. There was a lady with a baby who complained that she didn’t bring along baby food with her as it was assumed she would reach Pune by 3 pm. Finally, the aircraft departed at 4.20 pm,” said the passenger.
PUNE: As the SpiceJet flight from Goa to Pune got delayed for over two hours, more than 150 passengers were stranded at Goa Airport. The flight was connecting from Pune to Bangalore and thus passengers at Pune Airport too had to wait for more than two hours.
Flight number SG 517 was scheduled to depart from Goa Airport to Pune at 2 pm but it departed at 4.20 pm and arrived at 5.15 pm at Pune Airport instead of 2.55 pm.
A passenger travelling from Goa to Pune said on condition of anonymity that the airline staffer was not informing them properly. However, some passengers had heated arguments with the airline staff at Goa airport.
“The flight was supposed to depart at 2 pm, however, the airline announced that it got delayed by 30 minutes. After which they asked the passengers to queue up for boarding and after 10 minutes they said the flight had been rescheduled for 3.30 pm; delaying it by 1 and a half hours. No proper communication and updates were given by the staff members. They cited technical problems for the delay and their engineers said a few operational checks were required, so it would take one-and-half hours to fix it,” said the passenger.
“Some passengers asked why weren’t they informed earlier about the delay. There was a lady with a baby who complained that she didn’t bring along baby food with her as it was assumed she would reach Pune by 3 pm. Finally, the aircraft departed at 4.20 pm,” she said.
The same flight was to depart from Pune to Bangalore at 3.35 pm but departed at 5.45 pm. The flight was delayed by more than two-and-half hours. The same flight was to depart from Bangalore to Kolkata at 6.10 am but was delayed by 2 more hours.
“SpiceJet flight SG 517 operating between Goa and Pune was delayed due to a technical issue. The flight has departed,” said a SpiceJet spokesperson.
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Thiem downs Djokovic to reach 2019 French Open final
SAMAA | AFP - Posted: Jun 9, 2019 | Last Updated: 8 months ago
SAMAA | AFP
Posted: Jun 9, 2019 | Last Updated: 8 months ago
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Novak Djokovic’s dream of becoming just the second man in history to hold all Grand Slam titles at the same time twice was crushed by Dominic Thiem at Roland Garros on Saturday.
Thiem downed the world number one 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to set up a repeat of last year’s final against 11-time winner and defending champion Rafael Nadal.
Djokovic, who was second best to Thiem when it came to mastering the gloom, wind and damp of Paris, was bidding to join Rod Laver in the Grand Slam history books.
However, it’s 25-year-old Austrian fourth seed Thiem who goes on to face Nadal where he will be buoyed by having defeated the 17-time major winner four times on clay in his career.
He will also attempt to become just Austria’s second Grand Slam men’s champion after Thomas Muster won in Paris in 1995.
Thiem did it the hard way, squandering a 4-1 final set lead and two match points before he sealed his place in the final.
“It was an amazing match. It was my first five-set match at Roland Garros so it was a good one to have,” said Thiem after the four hour 13-minute match which was played over two days. “To be in the semi-finals with the three best players of all time (Nadal beat Roger Federer in the other semi on Friday) is really amazing.”
On the challenge of facing Nadal, who has had a day more to recover, he added: “It seems that anyone who gets to the final here plays Rafa. He will be the favourite but I hope to just leave it all out on the court again and we will see.”
The semi-final had been controversially suspended overnight Friday with Djokovic complaining about the ‘extreme wind’ in the stadium.
When play was halted, with the top seed trailing 1-3 in the third set, there was still around two hours of daylight remaining.
However, tournament organisers defended the decision after winds of up to 80km/h were forecast throughout the evening in Paris.
‘Hurricane conditions’
“I congratulate Dominic, he played great, especially in the important moments,” said Djokovic. “Obviously, when you’re playing in hurricane-like conditions it’s hard to play your best.”
On the resumption Saturday, Djokovic retrieved the break in the seventh game but slipped behind again in the match when Thiem converted a fourth set point.
For his pains, the Serb picked up a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct having already been slapped with a time violation.
Djokovic broke for a 2-1 lead in the fourth set only for the Austrian to level courtesy of an outrageous net cord which flew over the stranded Serb’s head.
The top seed broke again for 3-2, held for 4-2 but the dogged Thiem would not relent and brought the set back on serve at 4-4.
However, Djokovic prevailed to send the match into a decider.
With the bulk of crowd support behind him, Thiem dug deep and stretched to a 4-1 lead in the decider as Djokovic’s error count at the net piled up.
Rain then forced the players off for just over an hour.
Djokovic rallied to break for 3-4 but handed the initiative right back, allowing Thiem to serve for the match.
The Austrian had two match points but choked as Djokovic went to 5-5.
There was one final twist as Djokovic’s 53rd unforced error on a wild forehand set up a third match point which the Austrian gobbled up with his 52nd winner.
Nadal had powered past Federer 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 as the 33-year-old booked a 12th appearance in the championship match.
He could also move to within two of Federer on the all-time Grand Slam title winners’ list with an 18th major on Sunday.
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IDW Publishing’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ reaches 100th edition milestone
After eight years of producing the series, Point Loma-based IDW is releasing the 100th issue of the comic today
Is a Gaslamp Quarter pedestrian plaza a good idea?
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Photos: Faces of Comic-Con 2019: Day 4
Thousands fill the San Diego Convention Center and the Gaslamp Quarter during Comic-Con on Sunday.
At Comic-Con 2019, Marvel — not movies — is the main attraction
Besides Marvel’s “Phase 4" slate, this year’s Comic-Con was defined by a dearth of major studio movies. The question is, did anyone care?
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Comic-Con 2019 💥 The live blog that was
We did up to the minute updates on San Diego Comic-Con, Thursday through Sunday
A Muslim superhero’s trip to Comic-Con is a lesson on togetherness for faith leaders
A pair of religious leaders discussed how to have better communication among religions at a talk at Ner Tamid Synagogue in Poway on Sunday. The talk comes about three months after a gunman opened fire at the Chabad of Poway, killing one woman and injuring three.
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The 50th Comic-Con brought with it massive announcements from Marvel Studios and others, tons of surprises and memories to last a lifetime. Here are some of the highlights of Comic-Con International 2019.
‘The Good Place’ cast and crew on saying goodbye after season four
Show-runner Michael Shur and star Kristen Bell praise the show’s ending as an appropriate conclusion
Comic-Con 2019: For Scarlett Johansson, ‘Black Widow’ movie is perfectly timed
After seven years of Scarlett Johansson playing Black Widow, the character is finally getting her own movie
Photos: See the best moments from Comic-Con
Comic-Con 2019: Here’s what you missed on Sunday in San Diego
It’s the final day of Comic-Con International but there’s plenty to be excited about as beloved shows like “Supernatural” and “Riverdale” hit the stage.We’re bringing you the latest from the San Diego Convention Center, where all the magic unfolds, but also the sights and scenes from the downtown area where the pop culture celebration is out in full force. Here’s the latest.
Guillermo del Toro unveils newest monster from ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’
Guillermo del Toro, a master of making on-screen monsters, unveiled his latest at Comic-Con 2019: the Jangly Man, from his upcoming film “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”
Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes imprint their legacy at Theatre Box San Diego
The iconic film duo, known for their roles as Jay and Silent Bob in ‘Clerks,’ participate in TCL Chinese Theatres’ longstanding handprint ceremony
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Marvel shared details on Black Widow, Thor, The Eternal and more at Comic-Con
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Sesame Street, you look great at 50. You too, Scooby Doo.
Sesame Street and Scooby Doo each hit 50 this year, and each celebrated Saturday with packed panels at Comic-Con.
Voices from the early days describe Comic-Con as it used to be
Organizers and volunteers share stories from before the San Diego convention became a worldwide draw
Disney, with the help of Questlove, gets its disco on at Comic-Con
Disney doesn’t have much in the way of official offerings at San Diego, but it did come to dance.
‘The Good Place’ creator calls out Emmys for D’Arcy Carden snub
Kristen Bell, D’Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil and showrunner Mike Schur shared tidbits about the NBC sitcom’s farewell season
‘Westworld’ stars explain how they keep track of the series’ twists
Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson, Jeffrey Wright and newcomer Aaron Paul discuss the series’ complex plotting
Comic-Con 2019: Here’s what you missed on Saturday in San Diego
It’s Saturday at Comic-Con International in San Diego and there’s plenty of excitement ahead for the pop culture celebration’s third day.The schedule includes panels from Marvel Studios and animated favorites like “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy,” but you can be sure there will be news and updates that no one will see coming. This is Comic-Con, after all.We’re sharing all the latest news, surprises and fun from in and around the convention center in San Diego.
Mayor’s office denies actor’s claim that Faulconer left Comic-Con immigrant exhibit
“Carnival Row” actor Orlando Bloom claimed San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer left Amazon Prime’s pop-up experience shortly after finding out it featured ‘a mythological scrappy immigrant.’
Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ looks at abuse of power and the fallout of a world with superheroes
The new Amazon series combines the worst of celebrity and politics, and offers a harsh reflection of the world today, according to showrunner Eric Kripke
Faster than a speeding $1,000 bill: Comic-Con’s frenzied market in used comics
The mint condition Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, on display at the Torpedo Comics booth? The asking price is $1.2 million.
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Two more Navy aircraft carriers to bring economic boost of almost $2 billion to San Diego in 2020
Carriers Abraham Lincoln and Carl Vinson will each soon call San Diego home
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This is a wrap: Lettuce makes for the best wrap — with a little prep
By Ari LeVaux
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When I was a teenage prep cook, I created a dish that never made it onto the menu, even as a special, even though it was called the Ari Special. It was a favorite among the staff, and everyone, from the absent manager to the Austrian baker, the waitress I was crushing on to the waiter who was on cocaine, loved the Ari Special.
It consisted of an eight-inch baguette end stuffed with chopped deli turkey, onions, tomatoes, parsley and mayo. The mix mingled with the spongy bready insides, while the browned exterior stayed dry.
That was decades before this kind of dish would rocket to popularity under the name “wrap,” the universal architecture of a which holds different ingredients together, so they can be chewed just so, like a sandwich, only tighter. Whether it’s a tortilla-clad burrito or a spring roll held together by chewy rice paper, everyone loves a wrap.
A wrap’s character is mostly determined by its filling. At least it should be. The wrapper’s job is to contain the filling, and carby tortillas and rice paper make supple, forgiving, leak-proof shells. The Ari Special, with its no-leak, tapered end, was ahead of its time.
In addition to its one job of holding the insides where they belong, a wrapper can also contribute to the culinary experience. A quality sourdough baguette or a warm corn tortilla can elevate a wrap, but many wrappers trade healthfulness for convenience or performance. Whole grain, multigrain, sprouted grain, spelt grain, grainy-grain and the likes don’t do it for me. They may pack fiber, protein and other nutrients, but they are boring to eat, especially when cold.
When the wrapper is made out of lettuce, there are no empty calories. There is not a single diet on Earth, fad or classic, from the Mediterranean to South Beach, that would shun a lettuce wrap. The only problem is that lettuce wraps, technically speaking, barely exist. At least the durable, tubular, burrito-like variety. Most recipes for lettuce wraps are for boats, often overloaded, getting soggier by the minute.
Other leaves, like chard, cabbage, grape or collard greens, make superior wrappers to lettuce, but only if they are steamed, which increases their flexibility and prevents cracking. Plunge the leaves in an ice bath after no more than 30 seconds of steam. Once dried, these leaves have a durable elasticity that can hold a wrap together in a firm grip, with or without an under layer of lettuce. It can even be folded at the bottom to prevent drip, for truly burrito-like performance.
But I prefer my leaves raw. And I’ve always been more of a taco guy, if not a corn chip guy. I prefer my food in smaller units, because they’re easier to micromanage into perfect mouthfuls. Boats, it turns out, are on the right track.
My initiation into the small wrapper society came at Saigon Restaurant in Albuquerque. I thought I had just ordered a fried fish. It came with a pile of leaves and a salad bar’s worth of chopped veggies, herbs and sauces. The trick, we quickly realized, is to not overload the wrapper — a universal truth in the world of wraps.
Loading lettuce leaves is an intuitive and fun way to eat. To help get you started, I’ll share a deconstructed version of the Ari Special, heavily influenced by the late NPR commenter and food writer Kim Williams. Her recipe for a corn-stuffed tomato was not only a contemporary of the Ari Special, but similar.
Alas, a tomato isn’t much of a wrapper compared to a baguette end or tortilla, but Williams’ corn-basil-tomato filling is spot-on. Adding chopped deli turkey brings it closer to old-school Ari Special territory, but protein is optional.
• 1 head’s worth of raw lettuce leaves, cleaned and organized on a platter or large plate
• 1 ear’s worth of raw corn kernels
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup chopped sweet onions
• 2 tablespoons mayo
• 1 bunch basil leaves
• 1 pound tomatoes, cut into ½-inch chunks
• ½ pound protein, chopped coarsely (deli meat like turkey, ham or fake) (optional)
Mix the corn with the salt. Arrange the ingredients on a platter, in little piles or in little bowls, and serve.
To eat, load a leaf with a modest amount of filling. Aim for pieces of one and a half bites each. You don’t want the pressure of having to get the whole thing in your mouth. Just take a nice bite, and leave relatively few remains in your fingertips for a follow-up. And that’s a wrap.
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E3 2011: Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary brings the original console classic to the modern era with upgraded visuals, online co-op, and links to the newly announced Halo 4.
Xav de Matos
QUICKTAKE: Ten years after it helped put the Xbox on the map, Microsoft brings Halo: Combat Evolved back with a high-def upgrade. While the game sports upgrades expected of a re-release this generation, it also includes a few other bells and whistles that are aimed directly at fans of the franchise. THE DEMO: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary includes the original campaign from the 2001 Bungie-developed release, along with updated, modern visuals. At E3, Microsoft showcased these new visuals by playing the beach battle in the famous "Silent Cartographer" level of Halo: Combat Evolved. Being able to play in HD isn't the only trick the re-release includes on the visual front, though. Players will be able to turn the HD upgrade off and on with the press of a button, at any time during gameplay. Demoing this feature really shows off the difference between the look of the original Halo: CE and the new upgrade. Anniversary also includes online campaign co-op for two players and a "special" version of Halo: Reach's multiplayer, with six competitive maps and one Firefight map inspired by the original Halo. DETAILS: With the help of developers Saber Interactive and Certain Affinity, Microsoft's Halo team at 343 Industries is bringing the game that created the iconic franchise to the Xbox 360. In a world where we've seen a half dozen of high profile, this re-release was entirely unsurprising (and the news was leaked months ago anyway). What is surprising is detail attached to the project. 343 Industries is working with Skywalker Sound to re-record the audio, music, and effects throughout the game. The only thing that won't be re-recorded is the in-game dialog, 343 Industries' Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor told me. Then, there's the ability to turn off the HD upgrade on the fly. This feature exists because Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary uses two different engines at one time. In order to preserve the gameplay of the original game, Anniversary runs the original game (graphics, physics and all) in the background and layers the new HD coat of paint on top of the game. Everything that you were able to do is possible once again, O'Connor notes. Warthog jumps? Done. The only change to the original code appears to be changing it to a 16x9 widescreen aspect ratio. (Turning the new graphic layer off means players can play the original Xbox game in widescreen on the console for the first time.) The game also adds Terminals in the mix that will give players a tease at future events of the franchise, particularly next year's Halo 4 (one was teased during the demo). Add to that achievements and the ability to play the campaign co-op over Xbox Live and it sounds like a solid package for Halo super fans, especially with its respectable $40 price.
It may look different, but this is the same Silent Cartographer you remember from 2001.
But multiplayer is where it gets confusing. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary doesn't offer an HD version of the original game's multiplayer . Instead, the game includes a slimmed down version of Halo: Reach's multiplayer mode that boots into its own menu once selected on the single-disc release. When loaded, this version of Reach includes only seven maps: six for competitive play and one for Firefight. The maps are inspired by classic Halo: Combat Evolved maps and run in the Reach engine. It's essentially a melding of classic locales and new features (like Armor Abilities). When asked if the seven new environments would be available for Reach players to download, O'Connor confirmed the new environments would be made available as separate DLC for Halo: Reach down the road. Additionally, he notes that installing the Anniversary disc will eventually add the new maps to standard copies of Halo: Reach. Halo has become a franchise some gamers love to hate. I'm still a big fan of the franchise and the ability to play the classic game--and I mean the actual classic game--along with the new HD remix is enticing. Being a budget game instead of a full priced affair like Halo 3: ODST makes it that much more exciting. I'm looking forward to revisiting one of my favorite games of the last decade when Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary releases on November 15. Watch the Shacknews E3 2011 page to follow all our coverage of this year's show. You can also subscribe to it with your favorite RSS reader.
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pigvomit
I wish the were releasing a redone Halo 1 & 2 in the same package. That way we could have all of the games in roughly the same engine.
bozer
I want the maps from Halo 1, 2, 3 and ODST all in halo reach. I love the MP in reach but the map selection is the worst of all Halo games. It pisses me off.
okellyc
Am i the only one that hated Halo? i got it on the PC and it was so bad
sm00v3d
Didn't hate it but didn't think it was overly spectacular either. Maybe an 8/10 for me.
thecatinthehat
Halo 1 is still pretty good especially coop mode. Also wasn't this announced about a week ago?
saunders45
Great AI, cool open levels, and amazing co-op. I dunno, it's awesome.
cloud8521
it was bad. but since it was the first of its kind on xbox that .... was not too hard. people thought it was great
Khakimon
As good as any pc game. It was two games in one. SP and MP.
techx4
halo is a POS, boring and uninspired.. i absolutely hated the aliens
It was more or less revolutionary on the console, but stuff like it had been done a hundred times on the PC.
The games get better as the series goes on and a narrative is created. It's really one of my favorite series now.
Vorlonesque
I think that could be what hurts this...if its just Halo CE with better graphics...I don't think it would hold up well compared to its sequels. If they fix some of the shittier parts of the game (Library for example) it could be ok.
I never really developed any antipathy against the Library. Sure, it was overlong, but I guess it just didn't bother me. It certainly didn't bother me as much as the office locations in FEAR did. Talk about repetitious.
CruelLEGACEY
I'm re-playing it now, and trust me... it holds up great :)
derelict515
it really hadn't been done a hundred times on the PC at all...
Halo came out in what, 2001? By that time, we'd already had Half Life, System Shock, and a bunch of other very well written games. Consoles barely had shooters at that time. It was the first console game that came close to replicating the same FPS experience that PC gamers had been doing for years.
Dave-A
Neither of those games had the combat AI or vehicles like Halo did.
MercFox1
Tribes blew Halo MP away years before Halo existed
podung
Yea, tribes was awesome, but vehicles were still weak. But everyone had jet packs anyway.
Fpsnut
Played a bit of Tribes too back in the day and I have to agree. It was extremely cool for its time, but vehicles in Tribes were just big floating platforms. Halo is the first game to do ground vehicles right.
Vehicles, yes, but Half-Life had amazing squad AI way before Halo.
Half life AI was like like a special Ed group in comparison.
I'm going to have to disagree. Played couple hours of Halo and didn't see anything special AI wise. Same old mindless cannon fodder, some of it with shield in front. Maybe I didn't play it enough but I hate fighting thumb sticks all the time trying to aim, so I space my shooters out on consoles. Next time I'm bored and feel like continuing Halo 1 I'll pay more attention to their AI.
Half Life AI though, and I'm talking specifically about squad AI (soldiers) was absolute blast to play against, if not a little frustrating. At the time when Half Life came out, it was highly praised for its AI. You try to hide behind some box so you can shoot it out from safety and you get flanked by two guys while other two will keep you under fire. If you try to get high ground advantage and they can't flank you, they will lob a grenade and flush you out, ect.
Yes there were shooters on PC. That doesn't mean they had done all the things Halo did numerous times. From AI to co-op with air and ground vehicles to the various FPS mechanics that have now become standard (the graphics were also as good or better than anything on the PC at the time).
"the graphics were also as good or better than anything on the PC at the time"
Haha no.
As for the rest, even more ludicrous. Tribes was out three years before the Xbox. Tribes 2 came out before the Xbox.
And SkyNet came out years before tribes.... SP what? Fact is Halo did alot of things right, which is why people still play it today. And halo did have amazing graphics for a 2001 game.
list some games with better graphics than Halo when it was released.
I always felt it was overrated, but it had its moments. The problem is that it had a lot of repetitive/annoying parts that the later games minimized as time went on.
Not at all. It combined a good scifi story with great, albeit limit to a off line, lan style game, fun multiplayer.
What you said doesn't really contradict what he said. I quite like the Halo universe, but Halo 1 did have some segments that were repetitive to the point of annoyance.
It was a good game, yes, but by no means did it "reinvent" the FPS or much of the other BS that's been thrown around. What it did do was bring that to the consoles as hadn't been done before, and that's a solid achievement - there's no need to inflate it into something else.
weaselmeister
Of course it was bad on PC. It was a shitty half-assed port that came out 2 years late.
If you compare the xbox version to other console shooters that were available at the time, it was pretty awesome. It definitely had some problems, but it was overall really good.
retarded talking dinosaur
I got it on the PC and still fire it up on occasion because it is so great. It still has a huge online community too IIRC
boredguy
Halo gets shit on constantly around here.
That's because there's a lot of PC fanboys here.
Dschinghis Khan
I guess i would be considered a PC fanboy by some and i fucking loved Halo. BAM! Shows what the fuck you know
DasCracky
The PC version was pretty bad, at least performance-wise.
I thought they were all pretty good on consoles, though.
deathmuppeter
same here. played PC version until the library level. that level was awful; stuff before it was ok, but nothing made me want to keep going.
Stoned Gargoyle
Halo was the first console game to get FPS controls right.
EvilDolemite
nope you're not, not at all, so we can end the thread now
halo threads! they're so...2002
Frank_Mackey
Played it on PC and enjoyed it. Didn't need 5 sequels though.
kagath
It's not like you are required to play them...
the archvile
In a way, you are. Look at how many other FPSes went to two-weapon systems and regenerating health.
master_disaster_17
I loved Halo1. sucks to be you.
thetangent
I loved it on PC, though I first played it on a friends Xbox. It's a fantastic game, I don't understand how anyone could hate it.
sonicdeathwalrus
After Goldeneye, it redefined console FPS. The controls were great, much better than anything before, very close to mouse/keyboard (also because things like auto-aim and the use of vertical space was well tuned).
Outside of that, it had great AI and weapons, amazing co-op, tank/jeep/flying bits that were seamlessly integrated, mostly strong levels, an interesting story, and on top of it all a balanced, addictive and competitive multiplayer. Regenerating health (was it the first game to do this?) combined with the strong enemy AI made all encounters very intense and gave it a great flow.
jayacheess
Halo 1 pc multiplayer was one of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had.
matrixneo42
Chipwarrior
Halo 2 MP ate my life.
I don't begrudge the series anything, I think they were well made games. It might not have appealed to everyone who was looking for a high impact FPS, but I really appreciated the mechanics of the MP objective gametypes. It was fairly slow paced with an emphasis on teamwork and weapon/vehicle control over accuracy.
It was also the first and last time I extensively used voice chat to coordinate and call out targets "they have the sniper, hes on the left side"
Also grew to like the movement in that game, there was an inertia to running, and maps had quirks you use to make precision jumps into a base, or pick up some speed by clipping the far corner of a wall as you jumped over it. Obviously not to the level of quake movement or anything, but enough to get the enemy flag a couple more feet before you die.
It wasn't necessarily better or worse than PC games of the time, but scratched a specific bug, just like CoD does for millions of people now.
I loved it. Played it at a friends and then immediately went out and bought an Xbox. It was so innovative and refreshing compared to anything I'd played before. The graphics were amazing, the AI, the blend of vehicular and on foot action, the weapon balance. I loved everything about it. It's basically what got me into console games having been a childish PC snob until that point.
Challenging solid AI. Best vehicles in game still to this day, awesome levels. Greatest Multiplayer split screen since Perfect Dark, awesome customization of multiplayer modes.
All the haters just had no friends to play with, or never went to any LAN parties for 8v8 action.
I will definitely be picking this up. Probably not at launch, but I will pick it up at some point.
Wait, only 2 player online co-op? Come on.....,
nwillard
XAV YOUR TASK FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS IS TO FIND OUT IF THE CO-OP ONLY ONLINE OR IF THERE IS SPLITSCREEN
there has in every other halo game to date and me buying this game hinges on split-screen being in there :(
Why wouldn't there be?
Twice in the article it says something like "...and it also features 2 player co op over Xbox live!" sort of implying there might not be splitscreen. Seriously, the reason I would pick this up is playing through with a friend on the same console.
XAVdeMATOS
I resent the addition of an exclamation point to the article.
Because this is done in the reach engine, which so far hasn't supported that?
LoioshDwaggie
This remake is running in the original Halo engine in addition to a new engine (running the same code). It has split-screen.
Only the multiplayer is in the Reach engine. That's because the MP is just maps for Halo: Reach.
wat. Source? I know that the MP porten is Reach-only, but I figured they wouldn't bother to port the ancient Xbox1 engine to the 360 when they had a brand new engine lying around....
Evil Benius
It has been stated a few times due to the way you can swap between the old and new graphics with a button toggle. It is the old engine with two graphic engines you can swap between on top. Multiplayer is just a map pack running in the Reach engine.
Well bugger. That kind puts a damper on my enthusiasm. I wonder if this means there won't be widescreen support either??? Surely not.
Anniversary's widescreen increases horizontal screen realestate rather than cropping the vertical. FOV is adjusted slightly to ensure that it actually feels like you're playing Halo 1 "with extra on the sides." Incidentally, Halo PC's widescreen is achieved by cropping the 4:3 frame.
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1078007
The source is this story you're commenting on. It requires you to read. I'm sorry.
I won't. I won't. I WON'T. And YOU can't MAKE ME!!!!!!!
So much anger in this room.
Tawler
I'm excited, Xav... I'm excited.
I'm hard right now!
Mexistache
Dat frontpage rage.
So is the AI the same from the original? Because the Halo series has come a long way...
Godhatesfatpeople
This looks awesome
scary_monster
This looks sweet! Is it being released on PC?
MeestaNob
Hahahaha! Cute!
Microsoft renewed their commitment ot the PC, they never said they were going to put games on it.
Nope. Reach engine.
Ofcourse. Probably in 2015.
Loved HALO 1, but I don't really think it needed remake. At least not yet. The visual are still good. The style kind of allows for the blocky geometry, I think. Oh well, I guess it couldn't hurt.
otoh, forced 4:3 kind of validates a remake all by itself.
JhonBrown19
MatthewPhillips
For those who've played it, does Halo Reach ever recapture some of the epic feeling from Halo 1?
I'm only a short way through Reach (to where you meet your first set of Hunters) and while the visuals are a great upgrade and everything has the Halo feel (which I felt was lost on what I played of Halo ODST), all of the battles/encounters have been ho-hum & less than epic.
The first time I met Hunters in the game was not met with a big surprise entrance or any tension.
The Hunters were just there, at the bottom of a long walkway, with their backs to me. There was no "oh shit!" moment. I played enough of Halo 1 to not really fear the Hunters anymore, but I always enjoyed battling them, and every new enemy in Halo 1 and 2 was always met with a cool/epic intro that you remember.
I'm not disliking Reach so far, but I'm hoping it becomes way more exciting.
To me, nothing in the Halo series has recaptured the epic feel of Halo1. One of the reasons I'm really looking forward to the remake.
Yeah, some of the later stages are pretty badass. Almost done with a 3 player co-op run on heroic, then we're gonna run it on legendary before Anniversary comes out.
Ok. Online coop is good and to be expected. But can I match up with randoms? In other words, I need match making for coop or it's almost worthless. It's sad that it only supports 2 players in coop but it doesn't really surprise me if the engine hasn't been changed that much.
But the multiplayer deathmatch sounds like a real bummer. I wanted to play some old school blood gulch vehicle ctf. Doesn't sound like that's going to happen. Also I was hoping for matchmaking custom games or at least not having to suffer through playlists. It doesn't sound like that's there either. I won't hold my breath but it really sounds like it will be missing the old school deathmatch/ctf maps.
I have the pc version of Halo 1. It at least supported the ability to find a game mode you wanted and pick and choose a server that's playing the level you wanted. But I doubt there's enough players for it anymore and I don't really pc game anymore because of ergonomic reasons and other issues too (I prefer console gaming because it's much simpler to deal with and it's truly plug and play and no tweaking of graphic settings are required... etc...).
So it's sad. The magic experience of Halo 1's multiplayer is hard to recapture.
Lukiopimp
Cool looking forward to playing it in 2016 or something like that when its totally outdated.
pompousdawson
Everything sounds great. Would love for them
To include the split screen MP of yester-year, and even provide
XBL play, but that was wishful thinking. Curious about the 7 dlc
Maps that are included on disc. Can't wait to play!
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State of Local Media 2016
Published on Oct 19th, 2016
Facebook Live, Live Video, Local Media, Native Video, Social Video, Webinar
by Gloria Stitt
This week I presented The State of Local Media from a social perspective, to a small group of Local Media TV folks representing some of the largest groups in the business. The dialogue was thought provoking. Here are some highlights:
State of Local Media
We focused social performance for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (the 3 main platforms for this vertical) and discovered some interesting insights.
Total actions on video content increased by +35% out performing total actions from January – September 2016 vs PY.
Local TV is producing 45% of their total content on Facebook and driving 96% of total actions on it! (vs National TV which produces 41% of content on Facebook and drove 57% of total Actions.) This is mainly due to National TV growing their audience and increasing more engagement on Instagram – that is a topic in and of itself.
While Local TV represents a huge portion of content on social especially video content; Local Newspapers had the highest growth in both total actions +26%, and Video actions +379% vs PY.
What does this all mean?
When diving further into the local universe (TV, Newspaper, Radio) the data suggests that while Local TV is still dominant, Local Newspapers are leveraging social very aggressively. As the chart below shows, Local Newspapers have increased their content by +70%; this increase in content has been carefully thought out with tremendous focus on Video content (both Native and live). Though Local Radio has had the largest increase in content, they continue to focus on memes and photos of celebrity interviews, concerts and not as much on video content (but I suspect not for long).
What kind of Content do Local TV audiences want?
There is for sure a science to knowing precisely the right time, cadence and type of content that should be produced. It starts with understanding what even makes content shareable. The results vary depending on sex and age. There are some core things an audience looks for though; Social Currency (makes them look good, look intelligent, appear in the know, connected to the community, for example). Content that evokes an emotion is useful in context and tells a story. Those things vary slightly by sex as illustrated here:
So now balance that with being a news organization that needs to manage multiple tasks such as:
Use social to Drive traffic to a website
Monetize website
Deliver news
Drive tune in
Increase ratings
Putting together content truly is a balance of art & science; a mix of water cooler and news/information. It is a difficult balance especially when trying to maintain brand loyalty. Here is the good news; Local TV has a ton of content to work with. More and more they are creating video content and really diving into Facebook Live video to drive activity. The key with live video here is not do a highly produced video - it’s about really showing your viewers you are in the moment and there on the spot; all you need is a cell phone.
Also, remember – telling a story is so important; stories help your audience feel connected to community, they spark an emotion and this will prompt sharing and commenting.
So what are the Key takeaways?
The analytics show that video is almost 3x’s more likely to be shared amongst brands and it outpaces other content types in terms of content creation as well as overall engagement. Live video continues to gain momentum creating an experience that helps their audiences feel more connected to their communities. Finally, the fact is video actions increased 35% on Local Media content outperforming actions on other content. If you haven’t joined the video game perhaps it’s time to take the plunge. Be smart, study the market, benchmark yourself against competitors and the industry and know your audience.
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03.01.2014 – Announcement according to security markets act, chapter 9, section 10
During the review period, one flagging announcement was made. The Mutual Insurance Company Pension Fennia and LocalTapiola Mutual Pension Insurance Company announced a merger, in which they will form Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company starting from 1.1.2014. The realization of the merger led to the change in ownership, which was announced on 3 January 2014. Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company owns more than 10% of the shares and votes in Solteq Plc.
02.04.2013 – Announcement according to security markets act, chapter 2, section 10, about an arrangement which will, if realized, lead to a change in ownership
During the review period, five flagging announcements were made. As a result of the directed issue of shares carried out in relation to the funding of the corporate acquisition in March, Mutual insurance company Eläke-Fennia’s share exceeded the 10% flagging threshold in accordance with the Securities Market Act, Ali Saadetdin’s share decreased below the 25% flagging threshold in accordance with the Securities Market Act, and Profiz Business Solution Plc’s share fell below the 10% flagging threshold in accordance with the Securities Market Act. The fourth flagging announcement was caused by a correction regarding Markku Pietilä’s ownership share. In May Profiz Business Solution Plc’s share exceeded the 10% lagging threshold and the fifth flagging announcement was made. After the directed issue of shares during the review period, Mutual insurance company Eläke-Fennia’s ownership of Solteq is 13.3% and Mutual pension insurance company Varma’s ownership is 4.3%.
08.06.2012 -Announcement in accordance with chapter 2, section 9, of the securities market act on a change in holdings
23.3.2012 – Release on change in ownership shares in accordance with chapter 2 section 10 of the securities markets act
20.03.2012 – Release on change in ownership shares in accordance with chapter 2 section 10 of the securities markets act
16.03.2012 Correction concerning Markku Pietilä’s share of ownership
During the review period two changes of ownership were flagged, when Profiz Business Solution Plc’s ownership of Solteq shares and votes exceeded 28.5.2007 the 5% threshold and 17.12.2007 the 10% threshold set in the Finnish Security Markets Act.
During the review period one change of ownership was flagged when as a consequence of the share issue deviating from the shareholders’ pre-emptive right of subscription made on 14.2.2006 Seppo Aalto’s share of ownership decreased below the notification limit of 15% set in the Finnish Security Markets Law.
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Cooper Cove was the site where the flow line was being assembled.
Our water pipeline adventure
Historian Elida Peers writes about the past in the Sooke region
Elida Peers
Mar. 19, 2014 1:00 p.m.
We take it for granted, but an adequate water supply is surely one of society’s foremost needs. When it was determined late in the 1800s that the growing City of Victoria needed a source of water that would serve long-range needs, the city fathers searched for a solution.
Sooke Lake was chosen as the best available source and plans were set afoot. Late in 1911 Westholme Lumber Co. was contracted to construct a flowline that could carry water from Sooke Lake to Victoria. For two years this company employed hundreds of men to survey and slash out a grade on which a concrete pipeline could be laid.
The plan was to construct a dam at Sooke Lake, lay 27 miles of concrete pipeline that would carry water by gravity to a reservoir that would be built at Humpback (Goldstream) and then deliver the water for distribution to Victoria residents via a riveted steel pipe.
The scene here shows Coopers Cove in 1914, when the inlet was a hive of activity. If you were standing on the upper side of the highway east of the cove, where this picture is taken from, today you would see a restaurant/kayak college where the main construction shed stood, and where the road runs westward in the upper right of the picture you would now see the Shell station.
While the picture shows hundreds of concrete pipe sections, 4 feet diameter and 4 feet in length, there were actually more than 35,000 sections manufactured. Though you see high voltage hydro poles here, carrying electricity from Jordan River to Victoria, it ran right through Sooke with no transformer station that would have allowed local access to electricity.
The concrete was mixed by steam powered boilers fueled by oil. Gravel, sand, cement and oil barrels were brought in by barges, and again, hundreds of men were employed, both in the manufacturing process and the challenging task of installing the pipes along the prepared grade.
Walking along the pipeline as a youngster, I saw it as a fun outing and had no concept of the incredible challenge that these hardy men undertook. First, to survey a route that would provide a gravity flow, following along all those gulleys and canyons, with a drop from Sooke Lake to Humpback Reservoir of only 171 feet; then to slash brush and blast rock to create a level grade, build concrete trestles over the gorges, manufacture the pipe sections and transport them on a narrow gauge railway the 18 miles to Sooke Lake and nine miles to Humpback Reservoir. What a feat of engineering!
Perhaps it was small wonder that the first contractor and the city parted company and new management took over early in 1913, completing the job throughout the next two years. A firm called Pacific Lock Joint Pipe Co. from Tacoma was contracted to produce the concrete pipes, which carried water to serve Victoria between 1915 and 1971. Since then, the water has flowed through the bored Kapoor Tunnel, but somehow that doesn’t sound nearly as adventurous as this early heyday of construction.
Elida Peers,
Sooke Region Museum
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Vail Resorts to spend big in Utah; Tahoe resorts see dip in pass sales
Business | December 10, 2014
Scott N. Miller
smiller@vaildaily.com
BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Industry-watchers suspected Vail Resorts had big plans for Utah when it purchased Park City Mountain Resort earlier this year. The first of those plans are now public, and the industry-watchers were right.
During a Monday conference call with industry analysts to discuss the company’s performance in the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz announced plans for $50 million in capital spending to link Park City with the Canyons, the Utah resort the company took control of in 2013.
The big part of the plan is a gondola to link Park City with Canyons, as well as a new, six-place lift and a new quad lift at the resorts. Other plans also call for building a 500-seat restaurant at Park City, and upgrading a 250-seat restaurant at Canyons.
The plan also includes upgrading snowmaking at in the Iron Mountain area of Canyons, and as much as $5 million in what the company calls “catch-up” maintenance at Park City.
The gondola, and the ability to ski both resorts on one lift ticket, will create what is effectively the largest ski resort in North America, with more than 7,300 acres of skiable terrain.
Katz called the coming work in Utah “transformative,” and a release from the company anticipates that revenue will improve as the ski experience is upgraded.
Since the resorts in Utah are on private property, the construction work depends on approvals from town and county officials.
While the Utah resorts drew much of the attention, Katz also noted that Vail’s Avanti lift, currently a quad, will be replaced by a six-place lift in time for the 2015-16 season.
Vail Resorts’ fiscal year begins Aug. 1, and as is usually the case, the company lost money during the period, since there’s little in the way of resort activity during that time. But, Katz added, the ski season to come looks strong in several ways, including:
• Snow. Colorado resorts in particular have the best early season snow in years. California resorts, which have been hit hard by a multi-year drought, received some snow in recent weeks, and a major storm this week could bring “multiple feet of snow.”
• Pass sales. Katz said pass sales have increased by 13 percent — and 16 percent in revenue — over the previous years. Despite what Katz called a “dip” in pass sales for Tahoe-area resorts, increases have been particularly driven by news about the Utah resorts. Katz said pass sales in some of the company’s main destination markets, both international and domestic, have also shown strength. Overall, roughly 400,000 people have purchased some sort of pass. That represents about $200 million in revenue for the company.
• Lodging: Roughly 50 percent of Vail Resorts’ ski-season lodging is already booked, and at higher daily rates.
• Real estate: The company closed sales of two units at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Vail and one at One Ski Hill Place in Breckenridge.
• Guidance: The company expects its total “earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization” to be between $327 and $354 million.
— Scott Miller is business editor of the Vail Daily, a sister paper of the , Tahoe Daily Tribune, Sierra Sun and North Lake Tahoe Bonanza.
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A J-15 carrier-borne fighter jet conducts a ground-based landing training last month. [Photo by Chen Zebing/China Daily]
Dubbed "blade dancers", pilots of carrier-borne jets maneuver through honorable parade
Five carrier-borne J-15 fighter jets with Flying Shark logos painted on their vertical stabilizers flew in a perfect V-shaped formation over Tian"anmen Square in Beijing on Oct 1 during a military parade to celebrate the People"s Republic of China"s 70th birthday.
The J-15 fighter force, established in 2013, is China"s sole carrier-based air combat unit. Representing a major milestone in the People"s Liberation Army Naval Air Force"s combat capability, the force"s crown jewel has participated in all five military parades in China in the past four years.
Zhang Ye, the pilot of the lead aircraft in the J-15 formation, said it is no easy task flying a warplane at high speed, low altitude and in tight formation while coping with turbulence produced by aircraft ahead and distractions from celebrations on the ground.
The carrier-borne fighter jet is one of the key frontiers in the PLA"s endeavor to become a world-class force and the "iron fist" of the Chinese Navy, capable of protecting national sovereignty and overseas interests, he said.
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