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John Elway inducted to the Football Hall of Fame
Today in Masonic history John Elway was inducted to the football hall of fame in 2004.
Elway had a career that spanned from 1983 to 1999. Elway's career totals include 4,123 completions; 51,475 yards passing; and 300 TD passes in regular season play; plus 3,407 yards rushing and 33 touchdowns scored. His playoff and Super Bowl statistics would add some 355 more completions and 4,964 yards and 27 touchdown passes.
Elway was raised during a two day class put on by the Grand Lodge of Colorado on February 22 and 23 of 2002. He is a Perpetual Member (also termed a life member) of South Denver Lodge No.93
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Public can apply for RM30 e-Tunai from tomorrow
About 15 million Malaysians are eligible to claim RM30 million from the government through one of three e-wallet operators - Grab, Boost, and Touch 'n Go - from 8 am tomorrow.
Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said the government has allocated RM450 million for this initiative which is under the e-Tunai Rakyat programme.
Malaysians aged 18 years and above, with an annual income of less than RM100,000 qualify for the e-cash payment, he said in a press conference on e-Tunai Rakyat held at his ministry today.
“The e-wallet operators will also add to the RM30 free money from the government by giving their own incentives.
“This means that through this initiative, eligible Malaysians will receive more than RM30,” he said, adding that the operators themselves will announce the additional amount tomorrow.
Lim said the RM30 can be used for all products and services provided through the operator’s platform.
He said the e-Tunai Rakyat initiative was developed to encourage more digital payments among consumers and traders, especially in the retail sector.
“The government is encouraging all traders to register with one or all the e-wallet operators so that they can benefit from the e-Tunai Rakyat initiative before March 14,” he said.
To date, he said, more than eight million traders have used the e-wallet payment services, and this number is expected to increase after the announcement of the e-Tunai Rakyat initiative.
To ensure that the initiative will boost the digitalisation process, Lim said the RM30 must be spent between Jan 15 and March 14.
“The remaining unspent balance will expire after March 14,” he said.
Lim said those who are eligible can apply for the free money before March 9 so that the process of verification and allocation of the money can be made within five working days at the latest.
He added that the verification process will go through three stages - the National Registration Department (to check the identity card), the Inland Revenue Department (to check that the annual income is below RM100,000), and a check to ensure that the individual has only applied from one operator. - Bernama
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Bumbelou — The New Face of Manufacturing Right Here in Old Town
Because clothing should be more than just beautiful!
Don Lipps
There is a growing movement that values the work of the artisan and the craftsman. Whether it is beer and wine produced in small batches, baked goods, or furniture, high quality, often hand made goods are in high demand.
Photo by Rebecca Lauren Photography – Jenna Odegard, founder and owner of Bumbelou in Mankato.
In Old Town Mankato a new micro-manufacturing business is thriving as people all around the world respond to the high-quality children’s clothing being produced by Jenna Odegard and her team at Bumbelou.
“We do everything from scratch,” Odegard explained. “We are designing our own fabrics and designing our own garment cuts. Then right here in this building, at 405 North Riverfront Drive, we have a team of women who work together to create these unique products.
“When you’re buying something from Bumbelou you’re buying something of quality. You know right where it’s coming from. From the sewing machine to hanging on the rack, you can see the whole process right here.”
Birth of a vision
Photo by Don Lipps – Anna Knish, seamstress at Bumbelou in Mankato works on binding dresses.
After Odegard first became a mom, she experienced a time of uncertainty about her purpose in life. “I was given an opportunity to sit down at a sewing machine and do some contract work for a friend,” she recalled.
“As soon as I started working at that machine, feeling the whir and my hands making something it was like therapy. It helped clear my mind and gave me a purpose. It brought me back to life in a lot of ways. I just knew at that moment that I needed to create this brand.”
“I started making products and putting them on Instagram and Facebook. Then we added a website,” she said. “We started with really small batches. If I had a pink dress, I’d make 14 pink dresses. Sometimes we’d make 5 red dresses. It was all under 20 of each style. There were 15-20 different products at first.”
I was getting emails saying things like, ‘My daughter loves this dress so much she’s wearing it every single day. I have to wash it at night, so she can wear it the next day.’
It wasn’t long before demand for the clothing Odegard was making grew to be more than she could produce herself. “I worked alone for, I think about six or nine months,” she recalled. “I started to reach out, especially through social media, to try to find people to work on my team.” Initially, that team worked out of Odegard’s home.
“It was easy to find what was working,” she said. “I was getting emails saying things like, ‘My daughter loves this dress so much she’s wearing it every single day. I have to wash it at night, so she can wear it the next day.’”
is a long-time resident of Mankato and North Mankato. He's been doing web development almost as long as there has been a web. He and his wife Tina have 5 grown boys and two daughters-in-law.
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Watercolors Hillstrom Meseum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College 800 W College Avenue, St. Peter
22janAll DayWatercolorsin the Hillstrom Museum of Art(All Day: wednesday) Hillstrom Meseum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W College Avenue, St. PeterCategories:Art,Performance & Exhibition
Watercolors in the Hillstrom Museum of Art features around 40 watercolors from the Museum’s permanent collection. These range in date from about 1850 to 2007 and include many donations from
Watercolors in the Hillstrom Museum of Art features around 40 watercolors from the Museum’s permanent collection. These range in date from about 1850 to 2007 and include many donations from Museum namesake Richard L. Hillstrom, as well as works from other sources such as the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York, which earlier this year donated a 1934 watercolor by American modernist painter and sculptor Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994). Other artists represented in the exhibit include Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Wanda Gág (1894-1946), John Marin (1870-1953), and Reginald Marsh (1898-1954).
The landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, and figurative paintings on display are accompanied by a text, titled “Joy of Watercolor,” that considers the watercolor medium and that was contributed by Betsy Byers, Professor in the College’s Department of Art and History. Byers, who joined the Gustavus faculty in 2011 and currently serves as chair of the department, works in watercolor and has taught it through her numerous painting classes for the College.
As with all programs and events of the Hillstrom Museum of Art, these exhibitions, the opening reception, and the Gallery Talk are free and open to the public.
Hillstrom Meseum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College
800 W College Avenue, St. Peter
A Century of Civic Engagement - Women's Right to Vote Blue Earth County Historical Society 424 Warren St., Mankato
22janAll DayA Century of Civic Engagement - Women's Right to VoteA New exhibit at the History Center(All Day: wednesday) Blue Earth County Historical Society, 424 Warren St., MankatoCategories:Historical
The Blue Earth County Historical Society is excited to host the League of Women Voters Minnesota’s traveling exhibit, A Century of Civic Engagement. The Minnesota Legislature voted YES on September 8,
The Blue Earth County Historical Society is excited to host the League of Women Voters Minnesota’s traveling exhibit, A Century of Civic Engagement.
The Minnesota Legislature voted YES on September 8, 1919, to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Visit this vibrant exhibit that features Minnesota’s suffrage story, highlighting the women who made it happen – and who continue to lead to make democracy work for all through the League of Women Voters.
This exhibit will be on display at the History Center through March 28.
Historical Society Hours
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am – 5 pm
Sunday-Monday: Closed
Blue Earth County Historical Society
424 Warren St., Mankato
Eloquent Objects Hillstrom Museum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College 800 W College Avenue, St. Peter
22janAll DayEloquent ObjectsAfrican Works from the Collection of Ruth and Raymond Reister(All Day: wednesday) Hillstrom Museum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W College Avenue, St. PeterCategories:Art,Performance & Exhibition
Eloquent Objects features African artworks recently bequeathed to the College from the estate of Ruth and Raymond Reister. Ruth Reister served on the College’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to
Eloquent Objects features African artworks recently bequeathed to the College from the estate of Ruth and Raymond Reister. Ruth Reister served on the College’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and was its chair from 2000 to 2002. She and her husband Raymond were avid collectors of African art.
The exhibition texts for Eloquent Objects, which will also be included in the fully-illustrated brochure accompanies the exhibit, were written by African art specialist Martha G. Anderson. Anderson has published extensively on African art and conducted extensive field research in Africa. She recently retired after over 30 years teaching art history at Alfred University in upstate New York. Anderson has a long relationship with Gustavus Adolphus College where her father, H. Milton Anderson, taught in the Department of Mathematics for over 30 years.
Hillstrom Museum of Art - Gustavus Adolphus College
Ceramics by Juana Arias Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center - Bethany Lutheran College Luther Dr., Mankato
22janAll DayCeramics by Juana AriasExhibit(All Day: wednesday) Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center - Bethany Lutheran College, Luther Dr., MankatoCategories:Art,Performance & Exhibition
Work of ceramic artist (and ceramics instructor at Bethany) Juana Arias is on display in the gallery of the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are 1 – 9 p.m. Sunday
Work of ceramic artist (and ceramics instructor at Bethany) Juana Arias is on display in the gallery of the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center.
Gallery hours are 1 – 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 1 – 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
This exhibit is on display through February 8th.
Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center - Bethany Lutheran College
Luther Dr., Mankato
Little Play Town North Mankato Taylor Library 1001 Belgrade Ave., North Mankato
22jan10:00 amLittle Play Town10:00 am North Mankato Taylor Library, 1001 Belgrade Ave., North MankatoCategories:For Kids
Kids ages 2-5 are invited to join us for Little Play Town on Tuesday, January 21st at 10:00 am. No registration is necessary.
(Wednesday) 10:00 am
North Mankato Taylor Library
1001 Belgrade Ave., North Mankato
American Red Cross Blood Drive Scheel's 1850 Adams St., Mankato
22jan1:00 pm6:00 pmAmerican Red Cross Blood Drive1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Scheel's, 1850 Adams St., MankatoCategories:Fundraisers & Benefits,Health
Be a hero. Give blood. Visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 1.800 RED CROSS to make your appointment. Open to the public. Walk-ins welcome.
Be a hero. Give blood.
Visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 1.800 RED CROSS to make your appointment.
Open to the public. Walk-ins welcome.
Scheel's
1850 Adams St., Mankato
Mankato Makerspace - Welding Mankato Makerspace 1700 3rd Ave., Mankato
22jan6:00 pm9:00 pmMankato Makerspace - WeldingBasics for Everyone 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mankato Makerspace, 1700 3rd Ave., MankatoCategories:Classes & Education,Hobby, Craft, & Making
Welding is such a versatile skill to have and comes in handy when something needs to be fixed, fabricated or your creativity kicks in. We are excited to show you
Welding is such a versatile skill to have and comes in handy when something needs to be fixed, fabricated or your creativity kicks in. We are excited to show you how to get started and help you get the basics under your belt so you can move on to the fun stuff.
In this session you will be learning MIG and Arc welding: welding safety, equipment use, proper preparation, hands-on practice of various types of welding joint techniques, as well as what quality welds should look like and how to trouble-shoot. Each student will be adding to “the rubber-band ball” that is our weld monster (aka scrap steel) because this workshop is set up as first time experience and practice session (there will be no specific project that you will be taking home at the end of this lesson).
Safety comes first so wear your Welders Best which is: closed-toe shoes, work clothes that can get dirty or singed preferably jeans and a long sleeve 100% cotton shirt (synthetic fabrics can be flammable) and your hair up.
1 ticket per student
Sign up with a partner! so you can enjoy this exciting new experience with your significant other, bestie or family member.
The class size is 4 students max.
Your ticket covers all class fees which pay for fuel and materials, equipment use and instruction.
Tickets available here.
Mankato Makerspace
1700 3rd Ave., Mankato
Yu Gi Oh! Open Play The Dork Den 603 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato
22jan6:00 pm9:30 pmYu Gi Oh! Open Play6:00 pm - 9:30 pm The Dork Den, 603 N. Riverfront Dr., MankatoCategories:Hobby, Craft, & Making
Wednesday Yu-Gi-Oh! is open play focused, and a more casual environment than tournament days. Players may decide to hold a casual tournament if there is enough interest.
The Dork Den
603 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato
Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League The Dork Den 603 N. Riverfront Dr., Mankato
22jan6:00 pm10:00 pmDungeons & Dragons Adventurers League6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Dork Den, 603 N. Riverfront Dr., MankatoCategories:Hobby, Craft, & Making
Adventurer's League is your stress-free entry into D&D. Groups are filling quickly so if you want to sign up ahead of time check out the Dork Den Facebook page. The cost
Adventurer’s League is your stress-free entry into D&D. Groups are filling quickly so if you want to sign up ahead of time check out the Dork Den Facebook page.
The cost per session is $10. $5 Goes back to you on a gift card, $5 goes to the DM.
Log Sheet
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http://www.dmsguild.com/product/208178/DD-Adventurers-League-Players-Pack
http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/DDAL_FAQv6-1.pdf
Dungeons & Dragons Double Play 633 S Front St, Mankato
22jan6:00 pm9:00 pmDungeons & Dragons6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Double Play, 633 S Front St, MankatoCategories:Hobby, Craft, & Making
Spell slingers and warrior types needed. Join us for our Store sponsored 5th Edition campaigns every Wednesday! Our store sponsored events are set up so people can drop-in/out as needed.
Spell slingers and warrior types needed. Join us for our Store sponsored 5th Edition campaigns every Wednesday! Our store sponsored events are set up so people can drop-in/out as needed. So you don’t have to stress if dragon slaying can only be a part-time job!
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The Fundación Juan March presents to the public its on-line gateway to the complete content of each of the 204 catalogues accompanying the exhibitions held at its three venues since 1973, in Madrid, Cuenca (the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español) and Palma de Mallorca (the Museu Fundación Juan March). This collection of documents will be continually updated, and its principal aims are the dissemination and promotion of research and knowledge in the fields of art and art history and the advancement of public awareness of the institution’s history of exhibitions. Each catalogue will be published online in the languages in which it originally appeared one year following its corresponding exhibition’s conclusion or once all print copies have been sold.
At its inauguration, All Our Art Catalogues since 1973 offers readers over 34,000 pages of material, including essays by more than 500 authors and images of 18,500 works by nearly 1,900 artists. An advanced navigation tool allows for interconnected searches across the entire site and within each catalogue, and results may be filtered by date, title, language and relevance. The search engine also generates recommendations for consulting similar material in other catalogues.
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Marco YMCA attains Blue Zones recognition
The Blue Zones Project helps these entities to "implement healthier practices in both their personal and professional lives."
Marco YMCA attains Blue Zones recognition The Blue Zones Project helps these entities to "implement healthier practices in both their personal and professional lives." Check out this story on marconews.com: https://www.marconews.com/story/life/2019/11/29/marco-ymca-attains-blue-zones-recognition/4307693002/
Submitted Published 5:02 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2019
Cutting the ribbon makes the Blue Zones designation official. (Photo: Photo provided)
Joining a growing group of businesses, organizations, hospitals and schools around the county, the YMCA of South Collier (Marco) is this week celebrating its "Blue Zones" recognition.
The Blue Zones Project, as it is officially known, helps these entities to "implement healthier practices in both their personal and professional lives."
Or, as Blue Zones executive David Longfield-Smith put it during a recent official ribbon cutting ceremony: it helps keep people out of the hospital by encouraging healthy living habits.
CEO of the YMCA of South Collier, Cindy Love-Abounader, reflects the excitement of the moment. (Photo: Photo provided)
A key element of the designation is an ongoing Y collaboration with Core Health Partners, with a mission of connecting "community to clinical proven health outcome programs through strategic partnerships," according to CHP executive Paul Thein.
"(This) includes providing experts from health, wellness and the medical industry to existing health facilities and HOAs."
CHP affiliated physical therapist Angela Prodanov was on hand after the formalities.
"We have had a medically integrated service at the Y since last spring," Prodanov said, "offering nursing and nutrition services (by appointment). "Next month, we will be able to accept physicians' referrals and accept patients' insurance. Previously, it was private pay."
Earlier, Y board president Ashley Lupo welcomed the Blue Zones designation.
Board president for the YMCA of South Collier, Ashley Lupo, hands back the traditional outsize pair of scissors after the ribbon cutting. Next to her is events chair Fritzi Holmes. (Photo: Photo provided)
"It provides access for all individuals, regardless of income," she said. "It amounts to measurable, sustainable change for the community."
CHP's Thein also unveiled a 3D body imaging system that will be available as part of the program at the Y, starting early next year.
Designed by NASA scientists, it measures bone density, body mass and overall fitness, and also provides risk analysis and risk reduction advice.
Also, earlier, Blue Zones Project's David Longfield-Smith said in an address that the initiative has grown from local to state to national and international in just five years.
"Locally, 670 organizations, schools and businesses have come aboard. The project wants to help people to implement healthier practices in both their personal and professional lives," he said.
Officially, the Blue Zones Project is described as a community-wide well-being improvement initiative to help make healthy choices easier for everyone in Southwest Florida.
For more on the Y's wide variety of programs and activities for adults and children, visit marcoymca.org or call 394-YMCA (9622). Follow on Twitter at ymcamarco; on Facebook @marcoymca, and Instagram at ymcamarco.
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And we're back!
We bring you our first issue in 2018! What topics do we have in this issue? Lots of OTT - the evolving TV landscape, as well as shifts in TV advertising. We've also got AI and AR - their impact to Broadcasting, Sports, and also jobs and employment.
To give you a little break from OTT and AI, we also threw in a couple of informative articles on New Rules for TV White Spaces, Flash Adoption in post-production media workflows, as well as a "management-oriented" article from Dalet on Change Management.
And because it's our first issue in 2018, we included an article on trends that could possibly shape TV in 2018.
Before we forget, if you're heading to NAB 2018 in Vegas this April 9 to 12, we'll be at the ProMAX Stand SL8730. We invite you to drop by - a great chance to share each other's insights on what's happening to the TV and Media industry.
With that out of the way, let's jump right ahead to the articles, shall we?
More Flashy Than We Thought?
New Industry Survey Reveals Four Key Flash Adoption Insights
Author: Kelly Mayeda, Quantum
Video production teams are incorporating flash-based solid-state drives into their storage environments to boost performance for key post-production tasks. In line with this, Quantum recently surveyed a broad array of video professionals to assess flash adoption trends and to better understand factors that might affect storage decisions. In this article, Quantum shares four key insights from their survey.
Cisco launches 5G Now portfolio to go 'full throttle' on wireless
Author: Conner Forrest, TechRepublic
5G connections will grow more than 1000% from 2020 to 2021, according to Cisco's 2017 Visual Networking Index for mobile. This means that the number of 5G devices will expand from 2.3 million in 2020 to more than 25 million in 2021. To further help service providers go "full throttle on their 5G roadmap," Cisco announced its 5G Now portfolio at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Broadcasting
Author: TV Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into media production workflows, taking on laborious, expensive tasks like closed captioning, metadata tagging and social media clip generation. TV Technology recently conducted a survey to investigate how the media and entertainment industry is deploying A.I. today. The survey revealed that two-thirds of the organizations that have tested AI, have deployed the technology for at least one critical role in their workflow.
TV isn't dead, it's evolving
Author: John Maxwell Hobbs for TV Technology
The way we shoot and deliver TV and film may have changed, but despite the constant cycle of change, cinema and TV is still in good health, says John Maxwell Hobbs, CEO of music technology startup Delic, media consultant and the former Head of Technology at BBC Scotland. We couldn't agree more.
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won't destroy jobs
Author: Kai-Fu Lee, MIT Technology Review
We've read a lot about how AI will affect employment by shifting jobs and roles instead of destroying them. Here's a different take (for MIT Technology Review) on how AI impacts jobs and employment from Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and president of the Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute.
TV Everywhere use encouraging SVOD adoption?
Pay television’s rollout of TV Everywhere services was a strong defensive move by the industry against the advance of online video services. Unfortunately for pay TV, new data from the UK suggests that it may have done the reverse - TVE may have actually helped the adoption of SVOD services, not hindered them.
Advertisers Tuning Out TV in Sign of Trouble for Media Companies
Author: Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg
Advertisers may be leaving TV for good - Television-advertising sales in the U.S. fell 7.8 percent to $61.8 billion last year, the steepest drop outside of a recession in at least 20 years, while sales at cable networks slumped for the first time in almost a decade. And there’s no sign of a pickup in 2018 according to data from Magna Global. Is this a sign of things to come globally?
Captioning Goes Cognitive: A New Approach to an Old Challenge
Author: IBM
AI is being used to improve many aspects of the video industry, and Captioning is no exception. Using the industry-leading AI capabilities of Watson, IBM can help unlock new Captioning capabilities and enhancements. Download IBM's whitepaper "Captioning Goes Cognitive" to learn how AI is shaking up the captioning space, and how IBM Watson Media is leading the charge.
Dawn Of A New Entertainment Era: The Future Is OTT
Author: Adam Rubins, LinkedIn Pulse
Over-the-top is the new normal, but where are the gaps in current distribution models? In this LinkedIn Pulse article by Adam Rubins, he looks at Sports and More Competition as major gaps in the changing distribution model and advertising paradigm of OTT.
Improving the Spectacle of Sport
Author: ChyronHego
AR, or Augmented Reality, is all the buzz. Video technology circles in many different industries are out to embrace it, and this is no different for Sports. Within live television production, sport has been and continues to be a major driver of innovative augmented reality solutions.
Change Management 101
Author: James Ohana, Dalet
We diverge from our usual slew of trends and news in the TV industry as we go more "management-centric" in this blog article from Dalet that tackles Change Management. We all stand to benefit from some insights and tips that we can apply to our own organizations.
5 Trends to Shape TV in 2018
Author: Brant David McLaughlin, MIPTV
2018 is set to be a landmark year for platforms like Hulu, Amazon and Netflix; but one where they'll be increasingly challenged by the likes of Disney. MIPTV has shared its take on which 5 trends will shape TV in 2018 earlier in the year and we found their article certainly insightful, intriguing, and exciting. So, we're sharing it to you as well in case you missed it.
New Rules for TV White Spaces
Author: Julian Clover, Broadband TV News
New rules designed to assist regulators with the implementation of TV White Space networks have been put forward by the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA). The DSA says the model rules will provide governments, policy makers and regulators with the tools necessary to enable the quick and efficient deployment of TVWS networks to help bridge the digital divide and support the Internet of Things.
Big Media Companies And Their Many Brands — In One Chart
Author: Alina Selyukh, NPR
NPR first released its chart on Big Media Companies and their different brands in October of 2016. It has recently updated its chart last December and provides an interesting look into who's who - competitors, their market caps, and their brands.
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Hospital board meeting, Labor and Delivery forum this week
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PUBLISHED: January 2, 2020 at 10:07 am | UPDATED: January 2, 2020 at 10:14 am
The Mendocino Coast Healthcare District is holding its board meeting on Jan. 2 and members of the hospital’s medical staff will host a public discussion on the future of the hospital’s Obstetrics Department at Fort Bragg Town Hall on Jan. 3 at 6 p.m.
The Mendocino Coast Healthcare District board of directors will meet at 6 p.m. Jan. 3 at the Mendocino Coast District Hospital Patient Registration area with a full agenda.
In closed session, among other items, the board will discuss and possibly take action on the lawsuit filed against Mendocino Coast District Hospital by former Human resources Director Ellen Hardin, and ending the board’s contract with legal firm Best, Best and Krieger.
In open session, interim Chief Executive Officer Wayne Allen will present a financial plan for the hospital expected to include significant job cuts. Board member John Redding will present a financial report for November showing a more than $480,000 operating loss for the hospital in November. Board member Jessica Grinberg and Dr./ Zoe Berna will make a presentation on the future of the hospital’s obstetrics department. Adventist Health Ukiah Valley and Willits Memorial President Jason Wells will make a presentation on the Partnership Health Plan of California Annual Quality Incentive Award.
Obstetrics discussion
On Jan. 3 at 6 p.m., Drs. Robin Serrahn and Zoe Berna will host a community forum on labor and delivery services at Mendocino Coast District Hospital, which have suffered steep financial losses and have been targeted for elimination for some seeking a solution to MCDH’s overall challenges.
According to an MCDH press release, “The purpose is for an open discussion around the challenges that we currently face and the best way to provide such services given these challenges. The meeting will be facilitated by Dr. Zoe Berna and Dr. Robin Serrahn will be the main presenters. All interested members of our community are invited to attend.”
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Army Announces Retention, Recruiting Numbers for FY 2005
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Topic: Army Announces Retention, Recruiting Numbers for FY 2005
•Sept 05 recruiting was the highest month since 9/11
•Last 4 months of active duty recruiting exceeded 100 percent each month
On October 11, 2005 the Army announced that the active-duty Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve exceeded Fiscal Year 2005 retention goals for the year, with annual recruitment numbers falling short of projected enlistments.
• The active-duty Army closed the fiscal year at 108 percent of its retention mission. The goal was to re-enlist 64,162 Soldiers and 69,512 Soldiers actually reenlisted.
• The Army Reserve closed out fiscal year 2005 at 102 percent of its retention mission, with 16,485 Soldiers reenlisting. The goal was to retain 16,248 Soldiers.
• The Army National Guard finished 2005 at 104 percent. The Guard reenlisted 33,804 Soldiers, surpassing its goal by 1,233.
September’s recruitment numbers for the Army components could indicate a stronger fiscal year in 2006 in terms of overall recruitment. Actual recruitment numbers in 2005 fell slightly short of projected enlistments for all three Army components.
• The active-duty Army gained 8,710 new Soldiers into its ranks in September, exceeding that month’s goal of 8,365 by 345. Fiscal year 2005 active-duty Army recruitment goals stood at 92 percent complete, with 73,373 new Soldiers joining the force. The mission goal was to recruit 80,000.
• The Army Reserve accessed 2,208 Soldiers into its ranks during September, exceeding its goal by 190 Soldiers. At the end of fiscal year 2005, the Reserves Army accessed 23,859 Soldiers, 84 percent of its mission goal of 28,485.
• The Army National Guard gained 6,048 Soldiers in September, 98 percent of its monthly goal of 6,148. A total of 50,219 Soldiers joined the Guard’s ranks by the end of the fiscal year, 80 percent of its recruitment goal of 63,002.
The size of the active-duty Army has increased by 13,000 Soldiers since Sept. 11, 2001. The number of active-duty Soldiers is approximately 492,600. The Army Reserve end-of-year strength was roughly 189,000 Soldiers, and the National Guard’s forces numbered about 333,200.
DoD News Release - DoD Announces Recruiting and Retention Numbers
Army Recruiting Command Recruiting and Retention Numbers
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Honda Adds Android Auto to New Vehicles
July 28th, 2015 by Millennium Honda
If you’re up on all the latest advances in automotive technology, then you’d know that Android users are going to get an exciting new feature on vehicles, including new Honda vehicles. The Accord is the first of many to have the feature, and Android users are going to love it.
With Android Auto, you can seamlessly integrate the functionality of your device with the car’s central display, giving you access to Google Maps, Google Now, messaging, music, and many more applications, just as you would on your Android device. It’s like having your phone work for you while you drive, and you can take and send any information from one device to another, which is a great benefit as well.
You can learn more about the functionality of Android Auto by checking out the video above. Our team would also be happy to help you here at Millennium Honda in Hempstead, NY, answer any questions you might have, and provide test drives in vehicles that interest you.
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If We Had To Guess, These 7 Art Prints Would Look Great In Your Home
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The art on your walls can really set the tone of your space. It's amazing how much personality and emotion can come through a frame, and some designers even think that art can be a tool for attracting more joy and abundance outside of your home too.
If you're in the market for a small picture to add to your gallery wall or a statement piece for that coveted over-the-couch real estate, we've gathered some of our favorite pieces that display empowerment, strength, and tranquillity—all things we could use more of at home. And what do you know; they're all created by talented female artists.
1. Laura Berger
The Chicago-based illustrator achieves something special with the way she arranges her figures so they're holding each other up in support. Her pieces are simple, but they always manage to speak volumes about feminine strength.
Laura Berger Closer Print ($100)
2. Charlotte Edey
Edey's mystical landscapes are dewy and inviting. The London illustrator and fiber artist blurs the lines between fantasy and reality in her work, and looking at it feels just like walking into a really epic dream.
Charlotte Edey Chapel ($154)
3. Stephanie DeAngelis
Whether it's a woman slurping ramen surrounded by houseplants or wearing a green face mask looking bored, DeAngelis' scenes turn everyday moments into relatable vignettes that make you say, "Same." Her figures have appeared in Outdoor Voices campaigns and New York Times spreads, and they encapsulate the feeling of just being a human in the world.
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4. Morgan Harper Nichols
Artist Morgan Harper Nichols has a way with words, and her Instagram feed is rife with poetic lessons written on soft, subdued backgrounds. This print, which reads "beautiful things take time," feels like an especially important reminder.
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5. Sarah Carolan
Sarah Carolan is the designer behind Studio Ashleen—a collection of magnetic portraits of women in their element. When you look close enough, it's easy to find a little bit of yourself in each one.
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6. Alex Proba
Alex Proba of Studio Proba turns recognizable shapes into addicting still lifes with her bright portraits. Her work it totally unique, which makes it all the more captivating.
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7. Leah Goren
Leah Goren's illustrations put a dreamy twist on her observations of the world, and it's easy to fall in love with her fun figures. This stylish lineup in particular is a feast for the eyes.
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Top Gear's Matt LeBlanc makes viewers laugh with Brexit joke sparking hopes the show could survive
It comes after it was claimed the show was at risk of being axed due to falling ratings
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Top Gear's Matt LeBlanc makes viewers laugh with Brexit joke (Image: BBC)
Top Gear is a hit! Or at least one joke on the show was on Sunday night's episode.
Co-host and former Friends actor Matt LeBlanc amused viewers as he introduced The Stig with a series of increasingly bizarre claims, as is usual, but this week a crack about Brexit left viewers in stitches.
He said, while introducing the anonymous racing driver's turn in an Aston Martin Vulcan: "Some say he thinks Brexit is a laxative. And for tax purposes is classified as a biscuit."
Fortunately for host Chris Evans and the much-criticised show, the joke went over well and viewers flocked to social media to gush about it.
Matt le Blanc says a Brexit joke on Top Gear (Image: BBC)
" Brexit is a laxative! The best line on Top Gear so far!" tweeted one fan while another added: "Quote of the week!"
It comes after it was claimed the show was at risk of being axed.
According to bookmakers Betway, the long-running BBC motoring series may get scrapped as ratings continue to fall.
Since its launch four weeks ago, the revamped show - which is hosted by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc - has been failing to attract the same number of viewers as it has done in previous years, when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were presenters.
Now, Betway are as sure as 5/6 that the next episode episode on Sunday will receive its lowest ratings yet, with less than 2.4 million viewers.
(Image: YouTube)
Last week's show proved so unpopular that that BBC One’s Wednesday re-run of Mrs Brown’s Boys pulled in a bigger audience.
And it only looks set to get worse if these stats are anything to go by.
READ MORE:Chris Evans has Top Gear air time 'cut in half' as Rory Reid and Chris Harris step forward
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The bookmaker quotes 5/4 for BBC to put the brakes on another series and thinks co-presenter Matt LeBlanc’s chances of presenting season 24 are in the balance at 2/1.
But the wheels haven’t totally fallen off yet, though. The firm are offering short odds of 4/7 for the show to be back with another series with Chris to return as host.
"With dwindling audience figures, the future of Top Gear could be hanging in the balance," Betway’s Alan Alger told Mirror Online. "Germany v Ukraine pulled in a significant portion of the TV audience last weekend and, at 5/6 for Top Gear’s viewing figures to slide again, the betting indicates that the motoring show is likely to lose out to France v Switzerland this Sunday."
Mirror Online has contacted Top Gear for comment.
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AshleyNew Hanover
The New Hanover (Wilmington, NC) varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Ashley (Wilmington, NC) by a score of 74-54.
Game Details: New Hanover High School, Brogden Hall
New Hanover
Final score provided by L. Williams.
Ashley (17-18)
Team Totals 52 20 45 44
3 Mikai Stanley (So) 10 4 8 50
5 Mailk Mcbride (Jr) 3 1 1 100
10 Brady Brenning (Jr) 0 0 2 0
12 Elijah Robinson (Sr) 6 3 6 50
14 Jordan Lopez (Sr) 0 0 2 0
20 Dion Sherman (Sr) 3 1 2 50
24 Taijonn Freeman (Jr) 0 0 1 0
30 S. Williams (Sr) 9 3 7 43
34 M. Janulis (Sr) 4 2 3 67
34 Daniel Stokes (Jr) 0 0 1 0
50 Jaheim Marshall (So) 11 4 8 50
Three-Pointers
Team Totals 5 12 42
3 Mikai Stanley (So) 2 3 67
10 Brady Brenning (Jr) 0 2 0
20 Dion Sherman (Sr) 1 1 100
24 Taijonn Freeman (Jr) 0 1 0
34 M. Janulis (Sr) 0 1 0
50 Jaheim Marshall (So) 1 1 100
Two-Pointers
Team Totals 15 33 45
5 Mailk Mcbride (Jr) 1 1 100
12 Elijah Robinson (Sr) 3 6 50
14 Jordan Lopez (Sr) 0 2 0
20 Dion Sherman (Sr) 0 1 0
30 S. Williams (Sr) 3 7 43
34 M. Janulis (Sr) 2 2 100
34 Daniel Stokes (Jr) 0 1 0
50 Jaheim Marshall (So) 3 7 43
3 Mikai Stanley (So) 0 2 0
12 Elijah Robinson (Sr) 0 1 0
James Garner (Jr) 0 2 0
Rebs, Asst, Steals and TOs
Tot Reb
Stls
Team Totals 5 17 22 13 7 20
3 Mikai Stanley (So) 0 2 2 1 1 1
5 Mailk Mcbride (Jr) 0 1 1 2 1 1
10 Brady Brenning (Jr) 0 2 2 0 0 2
12 Elijah Robinson (Sr) 3 0 3 1 1 1
14 Jordan Lopez (Sr) 0 0 0 0 0 2
20 Dion Sherman (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0 2
24 Taijonn Freeman (Jr) 1 0 1 1 0 2
30 S. Williams (Sr) 0 5 5 2 2 4
34 M. Janulis (Sr) 1 3 4 1 0 1
42 Will Rupard (Jr) 0 1 1 0 0 0
50 Jaheim Marshall (So) 0 1 1 3 2 3
James Garner (Jr) 0 2 2 0 0 0
Blocks, Charges and Fouls
Defl
Chrg
Team Totals 5 0 1 25 0
3 Mikai Stanley (So) 1 0 0 4 0
5 Mailk Mcbride (Jr) 0 0 0 2 0
10 Brady Brenning (Jr) 0 0 0 2 0
12 Elijah Robinson (Sr) 0 0 0 5 0
20 Dion Sherman (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0
22 Isaiah Houston (Sr) 0 0 0 2 0
34 M. Janulis (Sr) 2 0 0 1 0
42 Will Rupard (Jr) 1 0 0 0 0
50 Jaheim Marshall (So) 0 0 1 3 0
James Garner (Jr) 1 0 0 0 0
New Hanover (17-18)
New Hanover has not entered stats for this game.
Game Story
North Carolina High School Basketball - Ashley beaten by New Hanover
January 12, 2018: Wilmington, NC 28401
The New Hanover Wildcats ran past the visiting Ashley Screaming Eagle basketball team by a final score of 74-54 in Friday's league game.
In their next game, the Wildcats face the Northern Knights (Durham, NC) in a non-league game, on Saturday, January 13. New Hanover will attempt to move on its 11-2 season record. The Knights enter the game with a 9-2 record after their 52-51 league loss to Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC).
With the defeat, Ashley moves to 4-11 on the year. The Screaming eagle travel to East Duplin (Beulaville, NC) to face the Panthers in a non-league game on Monday, January 15. The Panthers enter the game with a record of 6-4. East Duplin won 50-39 in their recent league game against James Kenan (Warsaw, NC)
9,592 321 64
Conference %
9-18 8-6 5-7 3-6 1-5 .333 .571 1,499 1,623
1,048 37 9
26-5 14-0 11-1 8-2 7-2 .839 1.000 1,995 1,576
Ashley 12.2 13.3 13.3 15.4 5.3 5.0 5.0 55.5
New Hanover 14.9 13.3 17.1 17.0 - - - 64.4
New Hanover won on 1/12/2018
The Ashley (Wilmington, NC) varsity basketball team lost Friday's away conference game against New Hanover (Wilmington, NC) by a score of 74-54.
The New Hanover (Wilmington, NC) varsity basketball team won Thursday's away conference game against Ashley (Wilmington, NC) by a score of 80-49.
The New Hanover (Wilmington, NC) varsity basketball team won Wednesday's neutral conference tournament game against Ashley (Wilmington, NC) by a score of 64-37.
Rebounds Per Game
Assists Per Game
Steals Per Game
Blocks Per Game
Points/G
Rebounds/G
Assists/G
Steals/G
Blocks/G
#30 Sharome Williams8.9
#12 Elijah Robinson7.4
#50 Jaheim Marshall3.4
#3 Mikai Stanley1.0
Ashley 9-7 New Hanover 16-0
11/17/17 Jack Britt Ashley (L) 47-46 1/20/18 Jack Britt New Hanover (W) 64-49
12/12/17 Ashley West Brunswick (W) 50-38 1/9/18 West Brunswick New Hanover (W) 63-42
1/27/18 West Brunswick Ashley (W) 43-39 2/2/18 New Hanover West Brunswick (W) 70-57
12/15/17 South Brunswick Ashley (W) 50-43 12/12/17 New Hanover South Brunswick (W) 57-52
1/19/18 Ashley South Brunswick (L) 53-48 1/31/18 South Brunswick New Hanover (W) 59-44
2/16/18 New Hanover South Brunswick (W) 58-38
12/29/17 E.A. Laney Ashley (L) 61-56 1/2/18 New Hanover E.A. Laney (W) 71-52
1/16/18 E.A. Laney Ashley (W) 68-67 1/30/18 E.A. Laney New Hanover (W) 66-43
2/8/18 Ashley E.A. Laney (L) 59-56
2/12/18 E.A. Laney Ashley (W) 57-51
12/30/17 Ashley Pamlico County (L) 55-41 12/28/17 New Hanover Pamlico County (W) 56-41
1/2/18 Hoggard Ashley (L) 68-65 1/16/18 Hoggard New Hanover (W) 47-29
1/30/18 Ashley Hoggard (L) 41-38 2/8/18 New Hanover Hoggard (W) 53-44
1/9/18 North Brunswick Ashley (W) 74-62 1/10/18 New Hanover North Brunswick (W) 71-47
2/2/18 Ashley North Brunswick (W) 77-64 2/6/18 North Brunswick New Hanover (W) 68-46
2/12/18 North Brunswick New Hanover (W) 81-44
1/10/18 Ashley Topsail (W) 79-57 12/15/17 Topsail New Hanover (W) 76-54
2/6/18 Topsail Ashley (W) 66-55 1/19/18 New Hanover Topsail (W) 66-42
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Toward More Transparency: 3 More Key Changes to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA)
By Julie Robinson, Partner at McInnes Cooper
Public companies incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) escaped the new “register of individuals with significant control”requirement that applies to private CBCA companies as of June 13, 2019, but they’re facing changes too. The changes reflect ongoing efforts to modernize the CBCA and increase corporate transparency, which could also have the effect of enhanced shareholder engagement. Here’s a look at three (more) key changes to the CBCA that affect public CBCA corporations.
1. Shareholders get a “Say on Pay”
Shareholders of public CBCA corporations will get a non-binding “say on pay” vote on the corporation’s approach to director and senior management remuneration. In line with the “say on pay” advisory vote some public companies already conduct annually as a best practice, certain CBCA corporations will be obligated to develop an approach to director and senior management remuneration, place it before the shareholders for a vote at each annual meeting and disclose the results of the vote. The vote isn’t binding on the corporation, but it does offer it the opportunity to gauge and react to shareholders’ views on the board’s approach to executive compensation, and possibly foresee shareholder activism.
Tucked into the federal omnibus budget bill, Bill C-97, this obligation isn’t yet in effect, and there’s no clear indication of when it will be. The corporations and senior management members to which this obligation applies also haven’t yet been defined, and this will only be clear after the federal government introduces and effects regulations following a public consultation period. However, it’s likely they will be consistent with the regulations relating to Bill C-25’s diversity disclosure requirements, which apply to distributing corporations, and define senior management members as executive officers per Canadian Securities Administrators’ National Instrument 51-102, Continuous Disclosure Obligations.
2. More sharing with Shareholders
Shareholders of public CBCA corporations will also get more information.
The mandatory and expansive director and senior management diversity reporting in Bill C-25 the federal government introduced in 2016 will finally kick in for all distributing corporations – but notably, unlike similar existing requirements under securities laws, venture issuers aren’t exempt from this new CBCA obligation. Effective January 1, 2020, all distributing corporations must provide shareholders with information about diversity among its directors and members of senior management, including disclosure relating to women, Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities.
In addition, Bill C-97 will require, effective on an as-yet undetermined future date, certain corporations (as with say-on-pay, not yet defined but likely to be those to which Bill C-25’s diversity reporting obligations apply) to place before their shareholders at each annual meeting reports concerning:
The well-being of employees, retirees and pensioners.
The recovery of incentive or other benefits included in directors and senior management members’ remuneration.
3. Broader stakeholder interests à la BCE
More stakeholders of both public and private CBCA corporations might have a better shot at having CBCA corporate directors and officers consider their interests with Bill C-97. The CBCA now codifies the ability of CBCA corporate directors and officers to consider the interests of a broader range of stakeholders when fulfilling their duty to act in the best interests of the corporation. Traditionally, directors and officers considered the best interests of the corporation and those of its shareholders to be synonymous. However, the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2008 decision in BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders broadened this to include the consideration of interests of other stakeholders. Bill C-97 amended the CBCA as of June 21, 2019 to reduce to writing this ability of directors and officers to consider other stakeholder interests, including those of:
Employees, retirees and pensioners.
Creditors, consumers and governments.
The environment.
Please contact your McInnes Cooper lawyer or any member of the Corporate Finance & Securities Law Team @ McInnes Cooper to discuss this topic or any other legal issue.
McInnes Cooper has prepared this document for information only; it is not intended to be legal advice. You should consult McInnes Cooper about your unique circumstances before acting on this information. McInnes Cooper excludes all liability for anything contained in this document and any use you make of it.
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Which of these elements do plants need in addition to glucose to synthesise proteins?
(a) carbon
(b) nitrogen
(c) hydrogen
(d) oxygen
Nitrogen is an integral part of all proteins. Therefore, plants need nitrogen in addition to glucose to synthesise proteins.
How many chambers does the stomach of a cow have?
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three
(d) four
Stomach of a cow is complicated and has four chambers.
What kind of nutrition is seen in animals?
Heterotrophic nutrition is seen in animals.
By what methods-physical or chemical-is it possible to break a compound into its constituents?
A compound can be broken into its constituents by chemical method. For example, water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen by passing electricity through it.
What is the base of all vegetable fibres?
Cellulose is the base of all vegetable fibres.
In which method of transfer of heat do molecules themselves travel from the hot portion to the cold portion?
Convection is the method of transfer of heat in which molecules themselves travel from the hot portion to the cold portion.
If a vegetable tastes bitter, what is it likely to have in it-a base or an acid?
If a vegetable tastes bitter, it is likely to have base in it as bases are bitter and acids are sour in taste.
Name all the ingredients that are required for photosynthesis to occur.
Photosynthesis requires carbon dioxide and water as raw materials. Photosynthesis in green plants takes place in the presence of light. Green plants have light absorbing pigment called chlorophyll.
How does solid food travel down the oesophagus after it is swallowed?
After the solid food is swallowed, it travels down the oesophagus by peristalsis, i.e., wave like action of muscles of oesophagus.
What do you mean by the 'atomicity' of an element?
Atomicity of an element can be defined as the number of atoms present in the molecule of an element.
What is sericulture?
Sericulture is the breeding and management of silk worms for the purpose of obtaining silk, i.e., silk production.
What do you mean by 'temperature' of an object?
Temperature of an object refers to the hotness or coldness of that object. Higher the temperature, hotter is the object.
Water has higher heat capacity than stone. Compare the time taken by water and stone to heat up and cool down.
Water has higher heat capacity than stone. Therefore, it takes more time to heat up and cool down as compared to stone.
What effet does excess hydrochloric acid in the stomach cause?
Excess of hydrochloric acid in the stomach causes acidity.
Give a chemical reaction in which there is evolution of gas.
Reaction of metals with acids forms salt and hydrogen gas.
Mg + 2HCl →MgCl2 + H2 (gas)
What protection does a polar bear have from the extreme cold weather in which it lives?
Polar bear has a layer of fat under its skin which acts as an insulator. Further, it has two thick layers of fine fur which traps air for the protection from the extreme cold weather in which it lives.
The formation of soil by the process of breaking up of large pieces of rock into smaller pieces by the action of natural agents such as water, air, glaciers and roots of the plants is termed as weathering.
Describe the structure of a villus.
The small finger-like projections present on the surface of a small intestine are called villi. The fine network of blood capillaries is present close to the surface of each villus. Food is first absorbed on the surface of a villus and then passed on to the blood capillaries.
What is the difference between a mixture and a compound on the basis of their constituents?
Mixture Compound
Ratio of the constituents is not fixed. Ratio of the constituents is always fixed.
A mixture is a combination of two or more elements or compounds in which neither new molecules are formed and nor chemical reaction takes place. A compound is a combination of two or more elements or compounds in which new molecules are formed.
Why does matter expand when heated?
Matter expands when heated because on heating, movement of its molecules increases resulting in increasing the distance between the molecules. This increases the area occupied by them. Thus, the volume of the matter expands.
What happens when sulphuric acid reacts with zinc metal?
When sulphuric acid (H2SO4) reacts with zinc metal, zinc sulphate (ZnSO4) and hydrogen gas (H2) are formed. The chemical reaction is as follows:
H2SO4 + Zn →ZnSO4 + H2
What is the difference between weather and climate?
The daily atmospheric conditions of a place with respect to factors like temperature, rainfall, humidity etc., is termed as weather of that place. The weather pattern of a place, on an average over a long span of time like 30 years or so, is termed as climate of that place.
Which is the smallest particle of an element that can take part in a chemical reaction?
(a) atom
(b) molecule
(c) radical
(d) either atom or molecule depending on the element
Atom is the smallest particle of an element that can take part in a chemical reaction.
Cloth made out of which of these when burnt will smell like burning hair?
(a) cotton
(b) wool
(c) jute
(d) flax
Wool, when burnt, smells like hair because it is nothing but thick hair of animals like sheep.
At what temperature will the reading on a Celsius thermometer be the same as the that on a Fahrenheit thermometer?
(a) 0°
(b) 100°
(c) −40°
(d) 212°
(c) -40 ͦ
As calculated from the formula C= (59) (F-32), the temperature at which Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometer read the same is −40°.
How does the dark or light colour of an object affect the amount of heat it radiates or absorbs?
(a) Dark colour objects absorb and radiate more heat than light coloured objects.
(b) Dark colour objects absorb more but radiate less heat than light coloured objects.
(c) Dark colour objects absorb less and radiate more heat than light coloured objects.
(d) Dark colour objects absorb and radiate the same amount of heat as light coloured objects.
(a) Dark-coloured objects absorb and radiate more heat than light-coloured objects.
Dark-coloured objects absorb and radiate more heat than light-coloured objects.
Which of these is not a mineral acid?
(a) acetic acid
(b) hydrochloric acid
(c) sulphuric acid
(d) nitric acid
Mineral acids are inorganic acids as they do not have carbon. Acetic acid is an organic acid.
If a chemical equation has '+ heat' on its right hand side, it is definitely a
(a) endothermic reaction.
(b) exothermic reaction.
(c) combination reaction.
(d) neutralization reaction.
(b) exothermic reaction
The '+ heat' on the right side of reaction shows that heat is released in the reaction. Hence, the reaction is exothermic.
Which of these soils absorbs and retains the maximum water?
(a) sandy soil
(b) clayey soil
(c) loam soil
(d) sandy-loam soil
Clayey soil have very little space between its particles and thus, it can absorb and retain maximum water.
In a compound XO2, the valency of X is
(a)1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) cannot be determined from this fromula.
Compound X needs two electrons to fulfil its octet. Therefore, its valency is two.
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Private i
By Glenn Fleishman, Senior Contributor, Macworld |
Examining privacy and security in the world of Apple
Private I: Firefox and others deal with unwanted trackers, whether ads or malicious
A deep setting in Firefox lets you reduce tracking even further than Do Not Track. It seems to be a dead end, but the path is being well trod.
You’d think checking a box labeled Do Not Track would indicate a strong preference for, you know: not being tracked. And yet that is not the case. Those who sell slots to advertisers or gather demographic and other personal data to associate with individuals and improve targeting have a desperate interest in following our every move online.
The more closely advertising is targeted to our needs, the more likely we are to not just to pay attention (worth a little), click (worth something), or follow through with buying or signing up (worth a lot). Those who sell advertising slots, and the advertisers who buy them, would prefer to have the best, unmediated access to you.
The Do Not Track preference was first envisioned in 2009 as a way for web users to state affirmatively that they didn’t want to be tracked. The idea was that inserting a simple header—a bit of metadata sent from a browser to a server—would be a positive signal. The trick was convincing the browser makers and advertising industries to support it.
All the browser makers did, but the industry didn’t. There were issues about whether the setting would be “no choice” along with yes and no, or default to either yes or no. As of now, there’s essentially no mandate or requirement, whether among trade groups or governments, to honor the setting.
That’s why Firefox’s Tracking Protection caught my eye. A feature inserted into Firefox, it had the potential to offer a “Hey, Really, Do Not Track” option that would be largely effective. That fact that it’s hidden seems to indicate that it’s already controversial. No worries, though: even if it disappears or you don’t use Firefox, you have alternatives via Ghostery and other tools, as I’ll explain.
How we’re tracked
Advertising, analytics, social media, and other tracking networks use JavaScript, tiny images, and other embedded methods to install tracking IDs on your browser when you visit sites that incorporate their signals. This might be a site that uses Google Analytics, Doubleclick, GeoTrust, or dozens of others—or even dozens on one site.
Some networks go beyond using simple browser cookies, which are easy to block or delete, and employ “respawnable” evercookies. These components use various hidey-holes in offline storage and other features in HTML5, Flash, and other systems to cache an ID so that when a cookie is deleted, on the next visit to a site with the network’s scripts in use, the browser cookie is re-created. A different category, supercookies, involve a user’s ISP or cellular provider tagging their sessions uniquely.
Even in its best form, there was a dispute in the ad industry over whether Do Not Track meant, “Put a marker that someone shouldn’t be tracked” or “you can track them but you can’t make use of the data in targeting ads to them.” Evercookies and supercookies seem unethical, but may be perfectly legal. All legitimate networks offer some kind of opt-out method, but many work poorly, and you have to opt out often for every browser by network, and sometimes only for a limited period of time. And, as with the Do Not Track quibble, opting out of tracking can mean you’re tracked with a promise to not use identifying information.
Because of all this, users have increasingly installed ad-blocking software, which throws the baby out with the filthy bathwater. Poor baby! The baby is the revenue from advertising that allows sites such as Macworld and hundreds of thousands—or maybe millions—of others to pay the bills that make publications go from a part-time self-employed blogging gig to a newsroom of hundreds of reporters. A recent report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism noted:
In the UK, 39 percent have installed ad-blocking software on their PC, mobile, or tablet, whereas in the US this rises to 47 percent. The figures are even higher for 18–24s (56 and 55 percent respectively).
I won’t make a moral argument about the necessity of viewing ads when visiting a site that uses them for revenue. The business model of a site isn’t the responsibility of its users, and the number of trackers that users shouldn’t trust is so high that it’s reasonable for people to install ad blockers as a way to get rid of good and bad alike.
To understand my sentiments, I was a co-plaintiff in a suit led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in support of ReplayTV back in 2002 about ad skipping and space shifting. Turner Broadcasting’s CEO famously responded that year in an interview to this question about ad skipping, “What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?” He replied, “I guess there’s a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom.”
Likewise, I think it’s absurd to say, “If you won’t load [any or all] ads, you’re stealing.” It’s an extreme position, especially when sites reference 10 or 20 or 30 tracking elements. About half my paychecks as a freelancer come from sites for which advertising is key, and the other half from sites for which subscriptions pay a good part or a large part of the bills. (Ads for subscriptions are ads, too, of course.) The rise of ad blockers will hurt some sites and services, but also lead to development of other kinds of reader revenue, including more paywalls.
Some people simply don’t want to see ads, and those who feel that way aren’t valuable lost revenue, because they’re not going to click on things or use calls to action, anyway. But I suspect that many people just don’t want to be tracked all the time and have ads creepily targeted to them. For that group, blocking malicious sites and blocking bad actors—services that aren’t engaged in ethical tracking—would likely be enough.
Less tracking, more speed
Firefox’s Tracking Protection earned some attention in May when two researchers—one then working at Firefox’s maker, Mozilla—released a paper about the feature, which was rolled into the browser, but not enabled nor presented as a choice in the main preferences interface. (To turn it on, type about:config in a Firefox location bar, and then search for trackingprotection. Double-click to set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true.)
Firefox’s Tracking Protection blocks malicious and unwanted page elements from tracking your session.
Tracking Protection is not an ad blocker; it’s not about whether a site is presenting commercial information to you at all. Rather, it’s an unsafe-connection blocker. The developers used the software behind Google’s Safe Browsing service, which manages a list of URLs to warn surfers about, and took about 1,500 domains from the Disconnect privacy-oriented service’s list of bad players. The list is updated every 45 minutes. (Safe Browsing from Google is intended to avoid malware and phishing, while Disconnect focuses on insecure connections that carry private information and “malicious trackers, sources of malware, and identity theft.”)
The paper showed not just the quantity of connections to services identified in this fashion, but also how much faster webpages load without pulling in seemingly unwanted or openly dangerous trackers. The speed is what attracted attention.
Tracking Protection can be disabled on a site-by-site basis.
In my testing over the last few weeks, Firefox in OS X is definitely zippier, but I’ve also had to disable Tracking Protection for specific sites, especially for use with Facebook logins from other sites. You can use a pop-down menu in the toolbar to disable protection on individual sites. For the most part, most sites work just fine.
As Ed Bott noted weeks ago, however, the feature appears destined to sputter out, as the Mozilla developer, Monica Chew, has left and posted a fairly dismissive blog post about what the future of Mozilla’s interest in the area might be. (Ed also noted that Microsoft has had such a tracking blocklist in Internet Explorer since 2011, which is sadly not of use for us on iOS or in OS X. Maybe Microsoft should restart IE for Mac?)
Alternatives to Tracking Protection
I like Tracking Protection because of its integration and seemingly light hand in what it does. But Disconnect (which helped provided the blocklist for the feature), Ghostery, and others offer similar or better features. Ghostery, for instance, shows you a count of how many tracking elements on a site when the page loads, and lets you block whichever you like. Ghostery is focused on privacy, not malice. Disconnect has its feet on both pedestals.
Ghostery reveals the number of different tracking elements on a webpage, and lets you block them.
iOS 9 will also support “content-block extensions” for Safari, already available in its OS X incarnation, which can be used for ad blocking. One can imagine Disconnect and others offering these extensions.
No matter your feelings about ads, it’s reasonable to be worried about and want to block sites that have no business—literally, it’s none of their business—tracking you, and to be angry at those feeding us malicious software and trying to coax our secrets from us. Some balance would be nice. Without it, readers will continue to take matters in their own hands.
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Murphy notches first Majors win with Padres
Interim skipper earns victory in third game as manager, praises team
By Alex Espinoza
OAKLAND -- As Pat Murphy addressed the media from his office following the Padres' 3-1 win over the A's, he was soaked from head to toe in beer, and the left side of his body was sprinkled in baby powder. But it's a price he'd gladly pay for picking up his first win as an MLB manager.
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San Diego's interim skipper was quick to deflect the praise to his players before reflecting on his first big league victory.
"It resonated with me when they brought me in the shower and dumped whatever they dumped on me," Murphy said. "I thought I was having a heart attack, I'm not joking. The thought went through my head, 'Isn't this beautiful? You get your first Major League win, and you have a heart attack in the shower during the celebration.' That's truly what I was thinking."
But Murphy survived and picked up his first win in three tries with the Padres, who dismissed Bud Black on Monday and were in the midst of a four-game losing streak.
Ian Kennedy finished six strong innings, allowing an earned run on four hits and a walk while striking out four. His only blemish came in the sixth, when Josh Phegley led off the frame with a solo shot to left. Kennedy, who pitched at USC while Murphy coached at Arizona State a few years ago, said he enjoyed helping his new skipper reach the milestone.
Video: SD@OAK: Phegley puts A's on board with solo homer
"I was glad to be the guy," Kennedy said. "I've faced him so many times in college, at least I was that guy to be on the mound that day. Partly wanted to pitch well for him, and partially for the team, too. Lost the last four games, and we needed that one."
The win came on a day when Murphy made a drastic lineup change, giving catcher Derek Norris his first career start at first base while Yonder Alonso moved over to the hot corner. While the team defense didn't suffer, Norris made his bat count by belting a solo homer in the sixth to give his team a 2-0 lead.
Video: SD@OAK: Norris smashes a solo homer to left field
"It was a good ballgame," Murphy said. "I'm happy for the Padres. It's a little silly to make it about me today. It's the middle of the season, and we've got to start playing consistent."
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com.
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This will be my first time participating in #ReadSoulLit hosted by Didi over at Brown Girl Reading. If you aren't familiar with Didi's blog and YouTube channel I highly recommend stopping over there and checking her out. She is an awesome blogger/vlogger and always has something interesting on her reading lists. Not only am I going to join in on the group read, Bedrock Faith, but I am also going to attempt to participate in the daily Instagram challenges. I do not normally post to Instagram every day, but I am going to try hard to meet each daily challenge! You can connect with me on Instagram at @readermonica. If you are interested in participating it isn't too late! There are no real hard and fast rules as to how to participate, which is what makes this challenge one that I am comfortable participating in. Just click on the link above to Didi's blog and hop on board! The challenge goes from February 1st to the 28th. If you are participating let me know below so that I can check out your TBR and posts if you are participating in the Instagram challenges.
In addition to the group read, participants are encouraged to also read other books by African American authors. I have pulled two books from my bookshelves that have been languishing for a little while and added Difficult Women to the stack. I am so excited to get to these reads.
Grace by Natashia Deon I have had this one on my shelf since at least June of last year and now is the perfect time to stop passing over it and get it read.
For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amidst a revolving door of gamblers, prostitutes, and drunks, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often.
The product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles, Josey has never known her mother, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come.
Deftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom, love, and motherhood, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.
Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May This is the group read for #ReadSoulLit. I had never heard of this author and it sounds like an entertaining and hopefully multilayered story. And that cover takes me right back to the 1990's!
After fourteen years in prison, Gerald “Stew Pot” Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A frightening delinquent before being sent away (his infamies included butchering a neighbor’s cat, torching another neighbor’s garage, and terrorizing the locals with a scary pit bull named Hitler), his return sends Parkland residents into a religiously infused tailspin, which only increases when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison. Most neighbors are skeptical of this claim, with one notable exception: Mrs. Motley, a widowed retiree and the Reeves’s next-door neighbor who loans Stew Pot a Bible, which is seen by Stew Pot and many in the community as a friendly gesture.
With uncompromising fervor (and with a new pit bull named John the Baptist), Stew Pot appoints himself the moral judge of Parkland. He discovers that a woman on his block is a lesbian and outs her to the neighborhood, the first battle in an escalating war of wills with immediate neighbors: after a mild threat from the block club president, Stew Pot reveals a secret that leaves the president’s marriage in ruin; after catching a woman from across the street snooping around his backyard, Stew Pot commits an act of intimidation that leads directly to her death.
Stew Pot’s prison mentor, an African American albino named Brother Crown, is released from prison not long after and moves in with Stew Pot and his mom. His plan is to go on a revival tour, with Stew Pot as his assistant. One night, as Stew Pot, Mrs. Reeves, and Brother Crown are witnessing around the neighborhood, a teenager from the block attempts to burn down the Reeves home. He botches the job and instead sets fire to Mrs. Motley’s house. She is just barely rescued, but her house is a total loss and she moves in with a nearby family. Neighbors are sure Stew Pot is behind the fire. The retaliations against Stew Pot continue, sending him over an emotional ledge as his life spirals out of control with grave consequences. Through the unforgettable characters of Stew Pot and Mrs. Motley, the novel provides a reflection on God, the living and the dead, and the possibilities of finding love without reservation.
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay It's no secret that I think that Roxane Gay is 'it on a stick' and I am looking forward to diving into this collection of short stories by her.
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State—which earned rave reviews and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, the Boston Globe, and Kirkus—and her New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the marriage of one of them. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley Okay, this one is a little cheeky (pun intended) addition to my TBR list! Although I love to read fiction with deep meaning that spurs thought and debate, ya'll know that I still love me some sexy time reading too! I am not at all read up on Walter Mosley and I plan on fixing that over time, but I figured it would be interesting to read a story that has sexiness written by a man. It's an older title and I bought if from Goodwill at some point so if I don't enjoy it, there's no harm no foul!
This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife. When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. In that instant, the calm existence of this middle-aged New York City man becomes something unrecognizable: he wants revenge, but also something more. Killing Johnny Fry is the story of Cordell's dark, funny, soulful, and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life. His guide is a mysterious woman named Sisypha, who leads him deep into the erotic heart of the city.
Killing Johnny Fry marks new territory for Walter Mosley, bestselling author of Devil in a Blue Dress and many other books in different genres: sci-fi, politics, literary fiction. It will surprise, provoke, inspire, and make you blush. Above all, it is about a man questioning the rules we take for granted—and the powerful and sometimes disturbing connections that occur between people when these rules are removed.
Posted by ReaderMonica at 3:00 AM
Labels: African American Nonfiction, black writers, Literary Fiction, misc., Nonfiction
I enjoyed the Killing of Johnny Fry! It was definitely something different from what I am normally used to with Mr. Mosley, but it was still good.
ReaderMonica said...
I'm so glad to hear that it was good! Thanks for stopping by!
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United States and Japan Form Cybersecurity Alliance in Hopes of Building International Norms
TECHNOLOGY, OUTSOURCING, AND COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
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By Vito Petretti
// May 15, 2015
On April 28, the United States and Japan reached an agreement to form a cybersecurity alliance between the countries. Faced with the growth of hacking threats from countries like China and North Korea and nonstate actors, the White House hopes to leverage the alliance along with other efforts to encourage the growth of international cyber norms. As Cory Bennett describes in The Hill article White House Unveils Cyber Part with Japan, “U.S. officials have publicly acknowledged that several countries — including Asian power China — are sitting on the United States’ critical networks, collecting data and possibly waiting to attack.”
As part of the new alliance, Japan and the United States have agreed to share cybersecurity data such as threat data regarding hackers and assistance in strengthening cybersecurity infrastructure. The alliance also allows Japan to engage in some international cybersecurity initiatives. Bennett’s article describes the alliance as a step toward establishing broader international cybersecurity norms, noting that the countries agreed to develop “peacetime cyber norms” and to coordinate efforts with international organizations like the United Nations. The White House hopes that building international consensus behind some cyber norms will give the United States more authority to prosecute bad actors. Although the United States has expressed grave concern about the growth of hacking threats, particularly from state actors like China, it has been hesitant to retaliate. The Obama administration indicted five Chinese military servicemen last year on hacking charges, but this has been viewed as “a largely symbolic measure.” The new US-Japan cybersecurity alliance may be a model for future cooperation among other nations that may lead to new cyber norms and new policing of international cyber threats.
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The Differences Between Civil And Criminal Cases
In the United States legal system, cases are divided into two broad categories of law: civil and criminal. While there are a number of differences between the two categories, one of the most significant differences between the civil cases and criminal cases is their purpose. Whereas civil cases adjudicate disputes regarding legal duties and responsibilities between individuals or organizations, criminal cases address crimes perpetrated against the state or society as a whole.
For those with little to no experience with the U.S. legal system, these differences can seem fuzzy. However, learning to differentiate between civil and criminal law can help personal injury victims better understand the legal options available to them.
Who Brings the Case and Why
One of the biggest differences between civil and criminal cases is who brings the case. In civil cases, the lawsuit is filed in civil court by an individual or organization known as the plaintiff (or plaintiffs) – usually to collect a debt or secure financial compensation for damages. Examples of civil cases include:
Personal injury cases, such as car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, workers' compensation, product liability and slip-and-fall cases
Property damage cases
Contract violations cases
Divorce cases, including child custody, child support, and spousal support cases
In criminal cases, the charges are filed in criminal court by a representative of the local, state, or federal government, known as a prosecutor or prosecuting attorney, in response to a suspected violation of law. Examples of criminal cases include:
Assault cases
Robbery cases
Murder cases
Drug possession cases
White collar crimes cases
How the Cases Are Handled
There are also significant differences in the way civil and criminal cases are handled. For example, most criminal cases go to court, where they are usually decided by a judge and/or a jury. Additionally, defendants in criminal cases enjoy a wide variety of protections not available to a civil defendant, including:
Protections against illegal searches and seizures
Protections against double jeopardy
Protections against self-incrimination
The right to a speedy trial
While civil cases can go to a jury trial, the vast majority are settled out of court or decided by a judge. Also, while criminal defendants are provided a free attorney if they can't afford their own legal counsel, civil defendants must pay for their own representation or defend themselves.
Burdens of Proof and Potential Consequences
The standard of proof is also vastly different in civil and criminal cases. Whereas criminal defendants must be found guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt,” civil law uses a lower standard of proof where defendants are found guilty by “the preponderance of the evidence,” meaning that what the plaintiff alleged occurred more likely than not. For example, in personal injury cases, plaintiffs must show that the defendant was at least 50 percent at fault for an accident and subsequent injuries.
The two categories of law use very different guilt standards, in part, because civil infractions are generally considered less severe than criminal ones. As a result, civil punishments also tend to be less severe than those in criminal cases. For example, while civil defendants who are found guilty may be subject to paying the plaintiff compensatory or punitive damages, criminal defendants who are found guilty may face large fines, and significant jail or prison time.
Are You Considering Taking Legal Action in a Civil Case?
For Delawareans injured in a motor vehicle crash, at work, by a defective product, or in a slip-and-fall accident, filing a personal injury lawsuit in civil court is the best way to secure compensation for damages, such as medical expenses, property damage, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more. If you're considering pursuing civil legal action, our seasoned personal injury attorneys may be able to help. Contact the Morris James Personal Injury Group today to schedule a free initial case consultation.
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Ensemble Soundstreams © Claire Harvie
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Musik für das Ende
The Canadian Claude Vivier was one of the most brilliant composers of the twentieth century – not only because of his terrific, goosebump-inducing music, but also because of his lifestyle and the circumstances of his death: while working on the piece »Glaubst Du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele« (Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul), he was robbed and murdered by a 19-year-old prostitute in Paris in 1983. Death is also the theme of his »Musik für das Ende« (Music for the End) for 20 voices and percussion. The Canadian contemporary music ensemble Soundstreams now weaves a production around these two works, which sees Vivier physically resurrected. The intimate setting, in which the audience sits in a circle around a central stage, produces a particular intensity. The New York Times experienced a »shadowy, otherworldly rite, almost medieval in its soberly overlapping incantations«.
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Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion Tournament 2018! 05/28/2018 10:16 AM EST
It's been four years since Mortal Kombat X was first announced and unveiled at E3 2014!
Along with a couple of series favourites; initial previews thrust a mysterious new generation of fighters into the spotlight. Their stories were told in MKX, a mobile game, comic book tie-ins, and the expanded edition of Mortal Kombat XL. A couple of franchise legends even made the leap into Injustice 2 in time for last year's 25th Anniversary celebration!
At every step of the way, MK Online has invited fans all over the world to take stock of characters new and old. This year our annual tradition is turning our attention towards the future of the series! We're thinking about what happened last, and what will happen next, while asking the eternal question: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
You'll decide the answer as the ultimate fan voting tournament returns to Mortal Kombat Online for another year! We're inviting every fan to make their voice heard in the Fan Koliseum as we speculate about the future of the series! Read on to learn more about the ins and outs of this year's unique tournament! Keep scrolling for regularly updated results and links to each battle!
Since the dawn of Mortal Kombat there has been a single unifying truth: the will to fight! It is imprinted in all living things - an ancient battle cry echoing in the genetic survival of man and god alike! Victory is a temporary state. There can be no champions without constant challengers! No victory without amassing defeats! For this reason Mortal Kombat has always been - and must always be!
Once a year we extend a traditional invitation to all realms so that one warrior may rise above the rest! In 2015, we greeted a new generation of warriors who joined the fight against Netherrealm invasion in Mortal Kombat X! After months of debate and many tens of thousands of votes, fans chose the fantasy of an unsung hero they hoped to summon: Fujin.
In March, MKX got super-sized and welcomed even more fighters through the komplete edition package of Mortal Kombat XL. Alas; last year's Supreme Champion winner was still beyond mortal reach! With renewed objectivity we must therefore ask the eternal question: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
The ultimate fan voting tournament has become an annual celebrated tradition on Mortal Kombat Online - summoning the entire fanbase to agree on a single champion from sixty-four fighters! Mortal Kombat XL will inform the bracket for this year, introducing first-time competitors while omitting some old favorites! Read on to learn more about what it all means and how you can join in! Visit the Fan Koliseum to share your votes and discuss battles more in depth!
From the Palace Gates of Shang Tsung's Island, to the battle ravaged streets of Earthrealm 25 years later: The only constant shared by two generations is the need to fight! The tournament called Mortal Kombat has made legends of champions, and warriors of mortals. With a new generation of challengers emerging - it all begins again!
April 14th saw the long awaited release of Mortal Kombat X! Ending a four year cycle, the new game has changed the way we view the series and its fighters, challenging us to ask: Who's Next?
It is a question we've asked annually for years - each time finding a different answer! In 2014, the unknown of a looming sequel fuelled a whole new perspective. After months of debate and many thousands of votes, we crowned fan-favourite Ermac the ultimate victor! With Mortal Kombat X here, everything has changed! True champions must defend their title, and we must ask the eternal question with evolving truth: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
The ultimate fan voting tournament has become an annual celebrated tradition on Mortal Kombat Online - summoning the entire fanbase to agree on a single champion from sixty-four fighters! In 2015: the battle will be tougher than ever! Mortal Kombat X will inform the entire bracket, introducing first-time competitors and omitting old favorites! Read on to learn more about what it all means and how you can join in! Visit the Fan Koliseum to share your votes and discuss battles more in depth!
Fan Koliseum: Mortal Kombat Royal Rumble - Who's Next? 01/24/2015 08:36 PM EST
NetherRealm Studios are back in the 'rasslin business! The developer released the free fighting app WWE Immortals earlier this month - just in time for the annual Royal Rumble! We think it's such a swell game, we're celebrating with our own take on the WWE classic - and we need you to make it work!
We'll be asking "Who's Next?" when 30 Kombatants are drawn randomly at regular intervals to enter the first ever Mortal Kombat: Royal Rumble!
It will all go down tomorrow (Sunday) - with the Fan Koliseum deciding characters' fates by voting for eliminations on the forum, and boosting their chances via Twitter! Better still, every participating fan will go into the draw to win themselves a limited edition Mortal Kombat kollectible pin! Here's what you need to know:
Mortal Kombat - Royal Rumble Rules:
30 Kombatants will be drawn randomly to enter at regular intervals.
The MK Royal Rumble will begin when #1 & #2 are announced.
Each entrant will be announced via @MK_Online & the forum.
Kombatants begin with 12 elimination points.
For every 5 Retweets & 10 Favorites a Twitter entrance receives - the corresponding character will gain +1 elimination points. [Tallied during each subsequent entrance.]
Fans will vote to eliminate active characters by posting to the forum.
An elimination occurs when the voting tally exceeds a characters points total.
Fans can vote for an elimination once per entrance: Points will remain subtracted, but a new entrance will grant users the right to vote again for any character they decide.
Eliminations will give points to randomly assigned eliminators.
There must always be at least 1 kombatant active.
Kombatants remaining after the 30th entrant will be systematically eliminated based on their points and the total Retweet & Favorites received.
In the tradition of the Royal Rumble - expect surprises! The 30 entrants will be drawn randomly from a total field of 85 characters!
Prize winners will be notified within 48 hours.
Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion Tournament 2014! 05/31/2014 07:49 PM EST
From the Palace Gates of Shang Tsung's Island, to the invaded streets of metropolitan Earthrealm: The more things have changed, the more they've stayed the same! The tournament called Mortal Kombat has raged for over 20 years -- and for the first time since that momentous anniversary -- the game is about to change!
June 2nd will reveal the long awaited next instalment of Mortal Kombat! As the month of May winds to a close, we have been asked a simple question in promotional anticipation: Who's Next?
We asked a very similar question this time last year! In 2013, it was Smoke who emerged from the months of debate and thousands of votes as a controversial victor! Like the warrior himself - the conclusion was enshrouded in a fog of doubt and uncertainty. With the new game mere days from launch - and new measures in place - nothing can be taken as fact! True champions must defend their title, and we must ask the question eternal: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
The ultimate fan voting tournament has become an annual tradition on Mortal Kombat Online - summoning the entire fanbase to agree on a single champion from sixty-four fighters! In 2014: the event will reflect the promotional cycle of a brand new game - introducing newly revealed elements as the tournament unfolds! Read on to learn more about what it all means and how you can join in!
Tournament 2013: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion? 05/30/2013 12:16 AM EST
This time last year, Mortal Kombat Online put the call out to the entire fanbase. The purpose: to celebrate twenty years of Mortal Kombat by determining once and for all who could be called the true champion of the tournament!
After months of debate and thousands of votes it was Sub-Zero who emerged victorious! The MKII ice warrior was a worthy winner, but as any champion knows, there comes a time when the title must be defended! With 2013 marking the twentieth anniversary of Sub-Zero and the sequel he debuted in, it's almost inevitable that we ask the question anew: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
From the top of the Pyramid of Argus, back to where it all began at the Palace Gates of Shang Tsung's Island: a lot has changed in twenty years of a tournament called Mortal Kombat! We gather sixty-four kombatants and put the call out to the entire fanbase! It is up to you to help us find the true champion! Read on for more details, including how you can win prizes!
Tournament: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion? 05/13/2012 01:03 AM EST
From the Palace Gates of Shang Tsung's Island, to the very top of the Pyramid of Argus: for twenty long years, characters from multiple realms have battled it out in a tournament called Mortal Kombat! Now, the kombatants face the greatest fight as we call upon the entire fanbase for the ultimate challenge!
In the early days, you could take for granted that Liu Kang would be the hero of the hour, but as Mortal Kombat has developed in complexity, the question of who truly reigns supreme becomes increasingly open to circumstance. Many characters have risen through the ranks in arcade endings, offering dozens of possible outcomes in each game, but story modes and what ifs can never truly reflect the powers of the mightiest mortals in kombat history.
With the series' twentieth anniversary mere months away, it is time for Mortal Kombat Online to vote for the very first time! We hope to gather the entire MK fanbase to answer a question that has garnered debate across three decades: Who is the Supreme Mortal Kombat Champion?
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The Little Office Behind Obama’s Big Enviro Flops
Hannah Levintova
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President Obama and Cass Sunstein, OIRA administrator, chat near the West Wing.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5640471785/">The White House</a>/Flickr
For a while now, Obama’s environmental record has been mixed—at times great, at others shoddy. But a new report (PDF), released Monday from the Center on Progressive Reform (CPR), suggests that when it comes to dismantling environmental reforms, Obama’s administration is actually on par with that of former President George W. Bush. What’s worse, the report shows, is that their combined decade of damage has a common denominator: an elusive federal entity called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) that has, under the auspices of both administrations, waged war on environmental, health, and safety protections.
OIRA consists of 55 people, mostly economists, whose main function is to review regulation drafts and proposals from various federal agencies. The office doesn’t get much coverage in the media, but it’s incredibly powerful—reporting right up to the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. In 10 years, OIRA altered a whopping 84 percent of EPA rule submissions, undermining protections that the agency is trying to implement. Citing a number of studies, the report notes that “OIRA almost exclusively weakens agency rules.” When Obama took office, he appointed Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein—a buddy of his from their days teaching at the University of Chicago Law School—as OIRA’s head. As “regulatory czar,” Sunstein is at the forefront of the government’s rule-making operation—and yet he has a hefty reputation for being anti-regulatory.
Industry players—from corporate entities to lobbying firms—participate heavily in OIRA’s review process. Consider this table:
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A few examples of OIRA’s meddling: Although smog pollution—which has been linked to asthma and other lung conditions—has been steadily rising, OIRA struck down the EPA’s efforts to tighten regulations that would have reduced it. When a faulty ash pond in Kingston, Tennessee, led to a coal ash spill that was, in quantity, larger than the BP spill, the EPA wrote stricter regulations for coal ash storage—but once OIRA got the draft, it watered the regulations down to the point that they were effectively useless. In both cases, OIRA backed its changes by citing industry concerns that, the report explains, are based on incomplete research and contradict the thorough reviews conducted by the EPA.
This is not how OIRA is supposed to work. The executive order under which the group operates—EO 12,866—says this cohort of economists should focus on “economically significant” rules. And yet for years, only about 100 of the 500 to 700 rules reviewed by OIRA annually have classified as “economically significant” under EO 12,866. On top of all this, OIRA does its work in near-total opacity, even though EO 12,866 requires that the group disclose “all documents exchanged between OIRA and the agency during the review by OIRA.”
That might be because often the changes are so drastic. The document below represents a rare instance where the office’s edits have been made public by the EPA. The agency published the doc on its website after submitting several new versions of this proposal to reflect OIRA’s changes. The document contains more than 100 pages of comments and attempts to reverse a number of the EPA’s proposed measures: calling coal ash a “special” waste instead of a “hazardous” waste, allowing greater lenience on land disposal of the substance, and more. The following are just the first 11 pages of the document:
Coal Ash Spills in Lake Michigan
Kate Sheppard
The Most Anti-Environment Congress in History
When Will Obama’s EPA Crack Down on Smog?
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Thomas J. Henry's 56th birthday party
Thomas J. Henry's $4.5 million birthday bash at Miami Beach included Cardi B., DJ Khaled. Click ahead to see photos from the lavish event.
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MWRD Approves Road Project Through Canal Shores Golf Course
By Ash-har Quraishi • Published at 5:02 pm on November 15, 2018
A long-running public battle between supporters of a cherished public golf course and a developer finally came to a head on Thursday, as a ruling was made on the controversial project.
At a public meeting of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on Thursday, an approval was granted for a project that would build a road through the 10th fairway of Canal Shores Golf Course, a publicly-owned course that is operated by the Wilmette Park District.
During the long-running debate over the project, opponents had argued that the road would destroy a community park, damage wetlands, and cause flooding in the area.
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“Please don’t let this community gem be raped for the benefit of a few well-connected people,” resident Wendy Vasquez said at a public hearing Thursday.
The developer, Keefe Development Corporation, was trying to get approval for a road access to four potential home sites that are landlocked by the golf course.
“We’re asking for what virtually every other homeowner in Wilmette has: access to their home,” Joe Keefe said.
In the end, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District voted 5-4 in favor of granting the easement to the developers, but that victory isn’t necessarily the end of the line, as the project still needs to be approved by village trustees and the Cook County Board.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the Wilmette Park District has already threatened legal action against the project after the ruling, and other groups, including the Friends of the Chicago River, also voiced opposition to the project.
“I think there’s certainly some fishy politics at play, and I hope as this moves through the municipal approvals, that it gets stopped,” John Quail, Director of Watershed Planning, said.
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John Kekis | The Associated Press | December 26, 2017
Army ends successful season with Armed Forces Bowl win
Army defeated San Diego State in the Armed Forces Bowl.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Four years after he was hired at Army, coach Jeff Monken has succeeded where so many others had failed over a span of more than two decades, and the achievements are significant.
The Black Knights finished 2017 with a 10-3 record, a gutsy 42-35 win over San Diego State in the Armed Forces Bowl on Saturday the perfect cap to a memorable season.
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Army heads into the offseason with these accomplishments to build on: The Black Knights won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, emblematic of service academy supremacy, for the first time since 1996; matched the academy record for wins in a season; posted its second straight winning season, which hadn't been done in 27 years; won its second straight bowl game, which had only been done once before, in the mid-1980s; led the nation in rushing; defeated a Power Five foe (Duke) that also played in the postseason; and, most importantly, beat Navy for the second straight year.
No better way to end a great season.#GoArmy pic.twitter.com/eTVRosEWGm
— ArmyWestPoint Sports (@GoArmyWestPoint) December 24, 2017
Monken has changed the culture in his short tenure. Army now expects to win, and the academy is lobbying to be included in the AP Top 25 when the final poll is released in the new year.
"When you have a whole team of guys that have been with the coaching staff, it's really satisfying to see what they accomplished as a group," Monken said. "This means a lot to our team."
In this day of pass-happy offenses, Monken has accomplished the unthinkable with his option attack — his Black Knights have been winning regularly by pretty much sticking to the ground and not committing turnovers. Army had only five fumbles in more than 800 plays — 785 rushes, 20 receptions — in 2017, a remarkable statistic, while attempting just 65 passes.
Three of Army's victories were achieved without completing a pass, the most significant a 21-0 triumph on the road against service academy nemesis Air Force. Against archrival Navy, Army attempted to throw just once in a riveting 14-13 victory over the Midshipmen.
10 Wins @ArmedForcesBowl Champions #GoArmy pic.twitter.com/Ofn88GVZB9
— Army WP Football (@ArmyWP_Football) December 24, 2017
The Black Knights won eight of their final nine games, but there are big holes to fill on both sides of the ball.
Chief among them is the key to the offense — quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw. The Black Knights scored 42 touchdowns on 51 trips into the red zone, and Bradshaw was the catalyst, rushing for an academy single-season record 1,746 yards and scoring 14 TDs.
Army also loses Josh Boylan, Mike Houghton, Bryce Holland and Brent Toth, who started on the offensive line for 12 straight weeks and helped create the seams and holes for a team that averaged 362.3 yards per game and six yards per carry. But four fullbacks who combined for 1,871 yards rushing — Darnell Woolfolk, Andy Davidson, Connor Slomka and Calen Holt — return along with speedy running back Kell Walker.
Army goes for wins. pic.twitter.com/VqrpdOZNh6
— ESPN (@espn) December 23, 2017
Defensively, hard-hitting safety Rhyan England, defensive end John Voit (39 straight starts) and linebacker Alex Aukerman (15.5 TFLs) depart. But James Nachtigal (103 tackles), Cole Christiansen (84 tackles) and Kenneth Brinson (38 tackles) will give the Black Knights veteran leadership at linebacker while safety James Gibson (45 tackles) and cornerback Elijah Riley will help anchor the secondary.
On special teams, Army loses placekicker Blake Wilson (3 of 8 on field goals) but punter Nick Schrage (42.9 yards/punt) returns for his final season.
When Monken arrived, Army had had only one winning season since 1996. That he was one of eight finalists for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award was no surprise to Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo.
"Since coach Monken got there, he's turned it around," Niumatalolo said. "You can just see the program elevating, and he's taking them to a new level."
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First-time NCAA tournament appearances, trend-setting defensemen and a potentially historic Hobey Baker race are some of the top college hockey storylines to follow through the 2020 Frozen Four.
College hockey: Ferris State's Marshall Moise headlines the latest men's three stars
In this week's men's college hockey stars, Marshall Moise leads the pack after more than doubling his season goal output, scoring four times against Alabama Huntsville. Check out all three recipients here.
2019 Army-Navy Game: Score, live updates, how to watch
No. 23 Navy defeated Army by a score of 31-7 on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia.
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Puri is situated in the state of Orissa and has a rich culture and heritage of its own. It is quite popular for the Jagannath Temple, dedicated to Lord Jagannath, who can be seen in the form of Lord Vishnu. Thousands of devotees come to Puri throughout the year to offer prayers and seek blessings from the god. Apart from having religious importance, Puri is also extremely famous for its beaches. From the Puri Beach, Balighai Beach to the Baleshwar Beach, the city attracts a huge number of tourists who prefer to visit the beach, relax and witness the magnificent sight of the sunrise and the sunset.
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Puri experiences a tropical climate and the summer temperature ranges between 32 to 40 degrees Celsius, making it little uncomfortable for the tourists, especially from April to June. Winters are the best time to visit Puri as the temperature remains quite pleasant for tourists, making it perfect time for sightseeing. Puri receives moderate rainfall during the monsoon season.
How To Reach Puri
By Air: Biju Patnaik Airport in Bhubaneshwar is the nearest airport to Puri and there are direct flights from all major Indian cities to this airport. The airport is located at a distance of about 58.5 km from Puri.
By Train: There are many direct trains from all the major cities to Puri railway station, the terminal train station that serves the city.
By Road: Puri is well connected by roadways with the rest of India and there are a number of buses and cabs that ply regularly from this place to all the big cities in the country.
Route 1: Kolkata - Kharagpur - Balasore - Bhadrak - Cuttack - Bhubaneswar - Puri
Route 2: Kolkata - Balasore - Bhadrak - Bhubaneswar - Puri
Amongst these two routes, route 1 is the preferred route to reach Puri by road.
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Kharagpur is located at a distance of 139 km from Kolkata and is a popular industrial city in West Bengal. The town is known to have the third longest railway platform in the world. There are some tourists attractions in and around Kharagpur, such as Khargeswar Temple, Kurumbera Fort, Jhargram Palace and Joranda Falls.
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Balasore is located at a distance of about 194 km from Bhubaneswar and has gained massive popularity in recent times because of Chandipur Beach. Tourists come here from different parts of the country to experience the magnificent beauty and charm of the huge Chandipur Beach.
If you are planning to visit Balasore, then the months from October to January are the best to do so. Balasore offers a number of tourist attractions such as Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary, Talsari, Chandbali, Jhadeswar Temple and Panchalingeswar, which are worth visiting.
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Bhadrak is a small city in Orissa and has a number of temples and religious sites. Tourists can take a break at Bhadrak during their road trip from Kolkata to Puri. Maa Bhadrakali Temple is a famous temple in Bhadrak and a lot of devotees visit this temple to offer prayers to Goddess Bhadrakali.
Apart from this temple, tourist can also visit Dhamra Port, ISKCON Temple, Bankabasuli Temple and Lokenath Temple at Bhadrak.
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Cuttack, also known as the cultural capital of Orissa, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities of the state. This city, popularly known as the Silver City of India, reflects rich culture heritage and traditions, including handicrafts, dance and food. Cuttack is one of the most popular tourist destinations as the tourists can experience both the beauty of nature and historical monuments here.
Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, Stone Revetment, Dhabaleswar Temple, Barabati Fort, Cuttack Chandi Temple, Qadam Rasul Mosque and Singanatha Temple are some of famous attractions in Cuttack.
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Bhubaneshwar is quite popular for its temples and its architecture. The capital city of Orissa features a number of temples and a huge number of those temples are dedicated to Lord Shiva. Bhubaneshwar is also known as the City of Temples.
Lingaraj Temple, Rajarani Temple, Parashurameshvara Temple, Ananta Vasudeva Temple and Brahmeswara Temple are some of the famous temples in Bhubaneshwar.
Final Destination – Puri
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Final Destination - Puri
Puri is regarded as one of the popular pilgrimage sites of the Hindus and the Jagannath Temple is the biggest attraction of the city. The city, which is known to be the resting place of Lord Shiva, has rich cultural heritage and significance in the pages of history.
Apart from the famous Jagannath Temple, Puri also houses a number of popular tourists attractions, making it a perfect weekend getaway from Kolkata. Check out this list of places that you can visit in and around Puri.
Jagannath Temple
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Built in the 11th century, Jagannath Temple is regarded as the most sacred pilgrimage site for Hindus in Puri. King Indradyumna constructed the temple and dedicated it to Lord Jagannath, who can be seen in the form of Lord Vishnu.
Apart from the main deity, there are several other small temples inside the Jagannath Temple. The architure of this temples features beautiful intricate carvings. Throughout the year, thousands of tourists and devotees visit this temple to offer prayers and seek blessings from Lord Jagannath.
Distance From Puri: This temple is in Puri.
Puri Beach
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The Puri Beach is one of the most popular beaches in eastern India and a huge number of tourists flock to this place to witness the beautiful sunrise or sunset. This beach is also quite famous for sand sculptures which depict different mythological characters, temples or incidents. The Puri Beach is the perfect place to understand the culture, tradition, handicrafts and most importantly the cuisine of the place.
Distance From Puri: 3.2 km
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Chilika Lake, which is said to be the largest internal saltwater pond in Asia, is known for a variety of birds and beautiful sights of its flora and fauna. Be it flamingos, sandpipers or white-bellied sea eagles, this place is a must visit for all birdwatchers. In addition, tourists can also catch a glimpse of the adorable endangered species of Irrawaddy dolphins at Chilika Lake.
Distance From Puri: 37 km
Balighai Beach
Balighai Beach is one of the most popular beaches in Orissa. Tourists can enjoy the sight of a number of rare migratory birds here along with some cute little olive ridley turtles during the months of December and January. This beach also has boar ride facilities and the tourists can have a peaceful sunbath to freshen themselves.
Distance From Puri: 16.7 km
Markandeshwar Temple
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Markandeshwar Temple is extremely famous for its architectural beauty and magnificent artistry. Built in the 13th century, this temple features figures of different avatars of Lord Shiva at the corners. Tourists can see a huge figure of Nataraja with ten arms at the entrance of the temple.
Beleswar Beach
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Beleswar or Baleshwar Beach is another beautiful tourist attraction in Puri. This beach is less crowded than the Puri Beach and is quite popular amongst the newly-wed couples to spend some time alone amidst natural beauty. Tourists can also visit the famous Shaivite shrine in Beleswar and offer prayers at the temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.
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Dedicated to the Sun God, the Konark Sun Temple has been declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it attracts a humongous number of tourists throughout the year. This temple is known for its excellent concept and architecture that dates back to the Kalinga period.
According to history, the temple was built by 1200 artisans in 12 years following the order of King Narasimhadeva I, who was ruler of Ganga dynasty. The temple design depicts a 24-wheeled beautiful chariot drawn by 7 horses.
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Finland Diary: Destined For Nottingham
Final diary entry from the tour of Finland...
As this diary entry is being written, we sit in a traffic jam in a heavily forested area, en route to Helsinki Airport. It has been a long trip but the hard work has been put in, three wins delivered and the boys are looking forward to an exciting clash with Didier Drogba, Wesley Sneijder and the rest of the Galatasaray team.
Wednesday marked our final full day in Finland and everyone was getting used to the new surroundings in Jyväskylä. We head over to JJK’s home, the Harjun Stadion, and then move over to the training ground just around the corner.
Training is short but lively ahead of the evening’s encounter with the Finnish top-flight outfit. The lads finish up with a few kick-up games between themselves and the mood is vibrant.
Dinner is followed by a break that sees the players rest ahead of kick-off. They grab another bite to eat before heading into a pre-match meeting.
The manager informs the players of the starting line-up and reiterates the messages delivered in training throughout the week on a large flipchart situated at the front of a private room to the side of the hotel’s main restaurant. It is encouraging to see these directions put into practice in a match situation.
The team delivers another fast-paced and confident performance. Francois Zoko tucks away a penalty and Enoch Showunmi’s chipped finish is sublime, as you’ll see when the Magpie Player highlights go live.
As you will have probably read, we had a couple of loyal fans that followed us on our journey, Paul and Harry Mace. The team were eager to repay them for their commitment and Chris Kiwomya presented them with a signed pre-season matchworn jersey ahead of kick-off.
It was also a nice surprise to see another supporter join us in Jyväskylä – Martin Dabell. Chris is quick to introduce himself and gets chatting about his journey and reasons for joining us on tour.
Martin had visited a number of countries and has more lined up, including a trip on the Siberian Express, though he’ll be back in the country for the season opener with Sheffield United! It sounds interesting and Chris invites Martin to join him and the coaching staff at the hotel after the match.
We also welcomed a couple of familiar faces on the last day – chief executive Jim Rodwell and associate director Ian Roberts. The pair are enthusiastic about the stories of our stay and enjoy the final match of the tour.
Chris is extremely happy with how the lads have bonded on and off the pitch and is excited about the friendlies that lie ahead. Even more exciting is the news that a striker is on the way and this is confirmed as Danny Haynes the following day, just as we land at Gatwick Airport.
We’re informed that our team bus has broken down but a replacement is not too far behind so we’re delayed by around 15 minutes. We later hit a bit of traffic on the M25 but it does not hold us up too much and we’re back in Nottingham for 10.45pm – ready for home and bed.
The lads are in for training on Friday but will receive a much-deserved weekend off. Countdown to the League 1 kick-off is now heating up and you sense that things are coming together nicely.
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Issac Luke fined for social slur
Tue 28 Apr 2015, 01:57 PM
South Sydney hooker Issac Luke has been fined $10,000 ($5000 suspended) and will be required to undergo an education program after making a homophobic slur on social media.
The NRL said today there was no place for vilification of any kind in Rugby League.
A spokesman said Luke believed he had been provoked into posting the offensive comment and had withdrawn it and apologised soon afterwards.
"We believe that education is the most important element in dealing with vilification matters such as this," the spokesman said.
"So we will require Issac to undertake an education program in tolerance and equity in addition to the financial penalty."
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Broncos v Bulldogs: Five key points
Sat 8 Aug 2015, 06:30 AM
Canterbury solidified their top eight spot with a come-from-behind win over competition leaders Brisbane. Here are five key points from the key clash.
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Size mis-match a telling factor
Channel Nine commentator Brad Fittler described them as "the biggest team that's ever played rugby league" and the sheer size of the Bulldogs squad was always going to be the catalyst for a crucial win or their Achilles heel.
From the very first tackle of the game when Sam Thaiday was rocked by a crunching tackle from Aiden Tolman and James Graham, the big Dogs forwards pounded away at the Broncos middle third. Thaiday and Jarrod Wallace manned up bravely and Matt Gillett delivered some wonderful defence on the edge but wherever the Broncos looked there were big Canterbury bodies bearing down on them. Brett and Josh Morris threatened to power their way through with almost every touch and the introduction of David Klemmer – who amassed an extraordinary 228 metres from 20 hit-ups – allowed the visitors to continue to turn the screws as the clock counted down.
"Obviously it's plain for all to see what he brings with his strong carries of the ball," Canterbury captain James Graham said of Klemmer's contribution.
"When that 20-minute mark hits and he brings on that energy it gives that middle and the whole side a bit of a lift."
Parker etches his name further into Broncos folklore
It's a record not normally reserved for the forwards but Corey Parker notched another extraordinary achievement in his decorated career by becoming the greatest points-scorer in Broncos history on Friday night.
Although he hooked his first shot of the night, he dialled the radar in for his next sideline conversion and when he converted his own try midway through the second half from in front of the posts for his 1,192nd point the crowd of more than 34,000 responded with a standing ovation as the man he surpassed, Darren Lockyer, gave a thumbs up from the sideline.
Parker had only 18 shots at goal in his first five seasons in first grade and coach Wayne Bennett revealed after the game that his opportunity to take the role on came largely by accident.
"I only found him by accident. He was practising one day when we had Michael Ennis or someone kicking and he said, 'I can goal-kick' and I said, 'Show me what you've got,'" Bennett said.
"So he did and he's maintained the job pretty much for the rest of his career here.
"He's been remarkable, Corey, in so many ways so it's just another achievement for him."
Draw Widget - Round 22 - Broncos vs Bulldogs
Lichaa injury a double Bulldogs blow
Having been entrusted with the team's hooking duties in Round 1 Michael Lichaa has barely missed a minute of the Bulldogs' season and with Josh Reynolds still a fortnight away from returning from a knee injury, finding a short-term solution at No.9 will be coach Des Hasler's first course of business when he gets into the Belmore offices on Monday morning.
When Lichaa left the field with 20 minutes to play Moses Mbye moved into dummy-half which, given his form of late at five-eighth, takes away from the 'Dogs attack and what he offers on the left edge. Immediately after the game Hasler thought that the injury to Lichaa was only a minor one and was confident in the depth at the club to cover in his absence.
"He's got a knee injury, he'll probably be a week or two," Hasler said.
"Young Damien Cook has been running around [in NSW Cup]."
Bulldogs belief still intact
They travelled interstate to play the competition front-runners in danger of falling out of the top eight at the conclusion of Round 22 but Bulldogs captain James Graham said that their self belief has never been in question. Although they had lost three of their past four games, Graham said their performance in defeat last week against the Roosters gave their confidence a boost rather than knocking the wind out of their sails.
"To be honest, the whole season that self-belief has never gone," Graham said.
"It's plain for all to see that we've had some bad results but we'd like to think we've learnt from that but that self belief has never gone.
"This game is full of momentum swings and looking back to last week, once we had a bit of momentum we came back in but we didn't get the win and the momentum went back with the Roosters.
"It just shows us not to give in no matter what the score is and as long as there is a bit of time left we've always got a chance."
Tackling a tough assignment head-on
They are two of the most industrious players in the competition and opposing hookers Andrew McCullough and Michael Lichaa went hammer and tong for the title of the top tackler until Lichaa was forced from the field with 20 minutes left to play. At that point in the game the pair of No.9s had both amassed 47 tackles and were sitting first and second respectively on the list of top tacklers in the competition. McCullough, who moved to the back row when Kodi Nikorima was introduced for the Broncos 53 minutes into the game, finished with 53 tackles, setting Warriors skipper Simon Mannering a target of 70 against the Dragons to move into top spot.
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Help students in need, and dine all year!
August 16, 2019 Andrew Pemberton Centerpiece, Faculty & Staff, Uncategorized
NIU Campus Dining Services is providing faculty and staff with a way to support the Huskie Food Pantry, while getting a good deal on meals for themselves.
For every faculty and staff member who purchases a 30 or 60 meal plan before Aug. 26, Campus Dining Services will donate five meals to the Huskie Food Pantry. The meals will be given to students who utilize the food pantry.
The Huskie Food Pantry was established on campus September 2016 to support NIU students who struggle with food insecurity. Last year, about 80 students per week utilized its services. The pantry, which is located in the Chick Evans Field House, provides students foods such as eggs, rice, pasta, meats, soups, fruits and vegetables.
“Food insecurity is a serious problem on college campuses across the nation, and NIU is not immune,” says Dan Koenen, executive director of Campus Dining Services. “This is an opportunity for faculty and staff to work toward the goal of all students having access to nutritious food to support their health needs and educational goals.”
NIU’s faculty and staff meal plans provide access to dine in Gilbert, Neptune and New Hall, all of which offer all-you-care-to-eat dining. . In addition to daily specials, the dining halls also offer salad bars, stir fry stations, pizza, sandwiches and desserts each day. The plans can also be used at the newly renovated Stevenson food court. Specific information on daily menus at each location is available on the dining web site and thru the mobile app.
Two meal plans are available: 30 meals at $200 and 60 meals at $350. Both plans extend through the entire year. The meal plans can be purchased online via credit card or through payroll deduction.
“Not only is this a way to build community by having faculty and staff dine with students, it also allows us to support students in a very tangible way,” said Koenen.
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The story of Non Nobis Prod.
(My Kingdom of Madness)
Non Nobis Prod. story began in the late 80’s when 2 juveniles began tape trading and importing records and tapes to sell in their local community. By 1992 the project grew to became a mail-order and a record label. During the first years Non Nobis Prod. were managed by me (Carlos Faria) and Diamantino Fernades, a Templar “aficionado” who gave the name to this label after the Templar hymn “Non Nobis Domine”, we lived in Tomar the Portuguese Templar city, so it was a natural choice.
As a label Non Nobis prod. released a few tapes and 2 CDs during the 90’s. As a mail-order Non Nobis Prod. created a catalog of imports from leading underground labels like Osmose Prod., Misanthropy, Candle Light, Displeased Rec., Holy Rec., Adipocere Rec, Lion rec. … for a while we were the biggest mail-order of the country (excluding those who were both mail-order and physical shop).
By mid 90’s Diamantino as a devoted catholic, showed his dislike about the amount of black Metal we were selling. None of us were into Black Metal at all but I didn’t mind selling it, but Diamantino… he couldn’t cope with it and left Non Nobis Prod.
In 1998, for various reasons, the Non Nobis Prod. adventure was put on hold. In fact there is no activity of the label from 1998 to 2003 apart from some record and CD trading whose only goal was to feed my own record collection. By 2004\2005 Non Nobis Prod. when into ebay and Discogs (a bit later) as new and second hand record trader. In fact it was like I if have retracted to my initial activity, but this time with the help of Internet!
From 2005 to 2012, Non Nobis Prod. activity was mainly buying and selling records on-line but during those years I decided to silently rebuilt the record label’s image and intensively study the market and regaining a network of contacts, always on the prowl getting ready to be back in the business.
In Mid 2012 I felt the time was right to get back in action! Non Nobis Prod. for the second time in history mutated from a small mail-order into a record label.
The years I spent in low profile studying the market and regaining connections paid off and the last 5 years were remarkable the growth of this project went over my best expectations and today Non Nobis Prod. became a small group of services that go behound regular record releasing and on-line mail order.
Non Nobis Prod. taday stands for a:
Record Label – Specialized in Traditional Heavy Metal, Portuguese Metal in particular, distributed worldwide physically and in digital format by some of the best independent distributors.
Distribution - A service we offer to bands and smaller labels. Bands who want to release their music independently, but need distribution, labels who can't reach as many clients as we do… Some of these bands benefit from our promotion and booking services as well.
Mail-order & on-line shop – Apart from having one of the best on-line shops of the Portuguese underground, Non Nobis is maybe the only Portuguese label of is kind present in Ebay, Discogs, CDandLP, Amazon (Us, Germany and UK) , MusicStack, Bandcamp…
Booking – Our initial idea was to let bands organize their shows with little or no interference from us, but soon we learned that managers are few and unexperienced, booking agencies were almost inexistent, so we decided to create this booking service for the bands who sign with us and ask for that service. Note that we only book in Portugal (the first Spanish connections are being done now) and it is a pro bono service!
CD, vinyl, cassette manufacturing – When spend more than 20 years taking all kinds of crap from CD\ vinyl brokers, when you realize that now-a-days most CD and Vinyl manufacturers don’t understand the underground\ indie music market… where can you go? What can you do? That’s right! If what is in the market don’t sweat your needs and of those around you, your only option is to grab the opportunity and became yourself a vinyl, CD broker. That new Non Nobis Prod. Service is giving now his first steps and… So far so good!
We spent the last 5 years innovating, working hard but most of all enjoying every minute we spend here listening to Metal and creating history. Non Nobis as said before is a Latin term that comes from a 16th century Templar hymn. It means “Not for us”. This is not just a funny name, this is the base of our Philosophy. We work hard to help bands and make music available to the metal fans all over the world. Our goals are the satisfaction of bands who work with us and customers who buy from us.
Carlos Faria
Non Nobis Prod.
Physycal Distribution
- Benelux - Rock Inc.
- UK\ Eire - Code7
- Portugal\ Spain - Lusitanian Music
- Rest of the World - Plastic Head
A/c. - Carlos Miguel Faria
Rua Sao Jose a Charneca
Vivenda Maia 2
Email - info[at]nonnobisprod[dot]com
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CyrusOne official on new data center: Council Bluffs 'is the epicenter of this new digital era'
By Mike Brownlee
mbrownlee@nonpareilonline.com
A new data center is coming to Council Bluffs.
CyrusOne, a real estate investment trust that specializes in data center properties, will break ground at 4700 Gifford Road off Veterans Memorial Highway south of the Council Bluffs Recycling Center, according to the company. The first phase of the facility will open in the fall of 2020. The center will have 24 megawatts of power with roughly 60,000 square feet of data hall space for cloud customers.
The new data center campus is strategically located on the 41st parallel, with the majority of data traffic in the United States passing through Council Bluffs via a large collection of fiber optic cables from the nation’s telecommunication companies, a release from the company said. Upon completion, the new data center will provide CyrusOne customers with access to high bandwidth with close proximity to some of the world’s largest cloud companies.
“In many ways, Council Bluffs, with its location on the 41st parallel, is the epicenter of this new digital era. The world’s leading cloud companies continue to invest billions of dollars along this parallel across multiple states and planting a flag in Council Bluffs will allow our customers to capitalize on this unique part of the United States fiber network,” said Gary Wojtaszek, CEO of CyrusOne. “We are excited to partner with Mayor Matt Walsh and the city of Council Bluffs as we help bring local jobs and investment to Iowa.”
Walsh said CyrusOne is a “respected leader within the data center industry.”
A groundbreaking for the new facility is scheduled for this afternoon.
Based in Dallas, CyrusOne provides data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of information technology infrastructure for approximately 1,000 customers, including more than 200 Fortune 1000 companies, the company said.
For more information, go to www.cyrusone.com.
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November 15, 2018 Life + Outdoors » Field Notes
The Bear Harbor Railroad, 1892-1905
By Barry Evans
Courtesy of the Timber Heritage Association
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Bear Harbor Lumber Company #1 under steam at Fort Humboldt.
From May to September on the third Saturday of each month, visitors to Fort Humboldt State Park enjoy free rides behind a couple of veteran steam logging locomotives, courtesy of the Timber Heritage Association. The Falk operated for 40 years from 1884 on, including serving Noah Falk's eponymous town. The other announces her heritage in large letters on the side: Bear Harbor Lumber Company No. 1, and she has quite a history.
Hikers into the Sinkyone Wilderness south of Shelter Cove pass Bear Harbor, a rocky indentation on Mendocino County's north coast. That is where — somewhat incredibly, given the rugged topography — a steamer from San Francisco delivered her in 1892. She became the first of two locomotives to run on the short-lived Bear Harbor Railroad. She was one of just 20 "Gypsy" 0-4-0 steam locomotives built in San Francisco between 1882 and 1892. Designed specifically for California timber operations before John Dolbeer's steam donkey engines became commonplace, they combined the qualities of both log-haulers and donkeys. In the latter role, a Gypsy sat on the tracks while hauling and loading logs with the front-end capstan winch.
Five partners, all lumbermen, incorporated the Bear Harbor Lumber Company in 1893, aiming to log about 12,000 acres of virgin timber — mostly old growth redwood — in the forests surrounding Bear Harbor, although at first the main products from the area were tanoak bark (for tanning leather) and railroad ties. The Gypsy originally ran on 2 miles of standard-gauge track north from the wharf but this line was soon extended with the construction of a 1,900-foot-long incline with a rise of 600 feet up from the coastal flat. The incline used a three-rail gravity system: loaded cars coming down hauled empty cars up, passing each other midway where the rails separated. In 1895 the track was extended from the top of the incline (at present day Usal Road) to a logging camp with an engine shop and warehouse. The camp was named after Lew Moody, who built a hotel and saloon there. You can find the now-overgrown site on USGS maps on the northwest bank of Indian Creek. The Gypsy serviced the 8 miles of line from the top of the incline to Moody, while horses were used on the level 2-mile coastal stretch.
Gypsies, like most logging locomotives of the time, were built to standard gauge (4 feet 8 ½ inches). This suited the grandiose ideas of Henry Neff Anderson, chief partner in the group that acquired the stock of the Bear Harbor Lumber Company in 1903. At the time — the early 1900s — the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was vying with the Southern Pacific to build a railway from San Francisco Bay to Eureka, planning a route down the South Fork of the Eel. The flat where Indian Creek empties into South Fork was, in Anderson's eyes, the ideal location for a stop on the railroad, from where timber from the coastal forests could be shipped south to San Francisco Bay.
We'll follow the rest of the story of the Bear Harbor Railroad next week. Thanks to Jerry Rohde and Mike Kellogg for help with this story.
Barry Evans (barryevans9@yahoo.com) strives to remain objective when writing about logging history, knowing only 5 percent of original old-growth redwood remains.
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The quantitative proteome of mouse testicular cord formation
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ABSTRACT: Testicular cord formation in male gonadogenesis involves assembly of several cell types, the precise molecular mechanism is still not well known.With the high-throughput quantitative proteomics technology, a comparative proteomic profile of mouse embryonic male gonads were analyzed at three time points (11.5, 12.5 and 13.5 days post coitum), corresponding to critical stages of testicular cord formation in gonadal development.
REANALYSED by: GPM32320017393
INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap Velos
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
TISSUE(S): Testis
DISEASE(S): Not Available
SUBMITTER: Tao Zhou
LAB HEAD: Jiahao Sha
PROVIDER: PXD002563 | Pride | 2015-07-28
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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Quantitative Proteomics Reveals the Essential Roles of Stromal Interaction Molecule 1 (STIM1) in the Testicular Cord Formation in Mouse Testis.
Zheng Bo B Zhao Dan D Zhang Pan P Shen Cong C Guo Yueshuai Y Zhou Tao T Guo Xuejiang X Zhou Zuomin Z Sha Jiahao J
Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 20150721 10
Testicular cord formation in male gonadogenesis involves assembly of several cell types, the precise molecular mechanism is still not well known. With the high-throughput quantitative proteomics technology, a comparative proteomic profile of mouse embryonic male gonads were analyzed at three time points (11.5, 12.5, and 13.5 days post coitum), corresponding to critical stages of testicular cord formation in gonadal development. 4070 proteins were identified, and 338 were differentially expressed ...[more]
Quantitative proteomics reveals the essential roles of STIM1 in the testicular cord formation in mouse testis.
Project description:Data from ProteomeXchange, PXD ID: PXD002563. Experiment: group1, file: folder summary. Published as part of Mol Cell Proteomics. 2015 Jul 21 . From the Abstract: {{i}} Testicular cord formation in male gonadogenesis involves assembly of several cell types, the precise molecular mechanism is still not well known. With the high-throughput quantitative proteomics technology, a comparative proteomic profile of mouse embryonic male gonads were analyzed at three time points (11.5, 12.5 and 13.5 days post coitum), corresponding to critical stages of testicular cord formation in gonadal development ... {{/i}}
| GPM32320017393 | GPMDB
Mouse female gonad quantitative MS
Project description:We constructed a comparative proteome profile of female mouse fetal gonads at specific time points (11.5, 12.5, and 13.5 days post coitum), spanning a critical window for initiation of meiosis in female germ cells. We identified 3666 proteins, of which 473 were differentially expressed.
2017-11-27 | PXD005670 | Pride
Human testis phosphoproteome reveals kinases as potential targets in spermatogenesis and testicular cancer
Project description:Spermatogenesis is a complex cell differentiation process that includes marked genetic, cellular functional and structural changes. It requires tight regulation, since disturbances in any of the spermatogenic stages would lead to fertility deficiencies. In order to increase our knowledge of signal transduction during sperm development, we carried out a large-scale identification of the phosphorylation events that occur in the human gonad. Metal oxide affinity chromatography using TiOx combined with LC-MS/MS was conducted to profile the phosphoproteome of human testes with full spermatogenesis. A total of 8187 phosphopeptides derived from 2661 proteins were identified, resulting in the most complete report of human testicular phosphoproteins to date. Phosphorylation events were enriched in proteins functionally related to spermatogenesis, as well as to highly active processes in the male gonad, such as transcriptional and translational regulation, cytoskeleton organization, DNA packaging, cell cycle and apoptosis. Moreover, 174 phosphorylated kinases were identified. The most active and abundant human protein kinases in the testis were predicted both by the phosphorylation status of the kinase activation loop and the number of phosphopeptide spectra identified. The potential function of two of those kinases, cyclin-dependent kinase 12 (CDK12) and p21-activated kinase 4(PAK4), has been explored by protein-protein interaction analysis, immunodetection in human and mouse testicular tissue, and functional assay in a human embryonal carcinoma cell line. The co-localization of CDK12 with Golgi markers and probably pro-acrosomal vesicles suggests a potential crucial role of this protein kinase in sperm formation. PAK4 expression has been found limited to human spermatogonia, and a role in embryonal carcinoma cell response to apoptosis has been observed. Together, our data confirm that phosphoregulation by protein kinases is highly active in sperm differentiation, and open a window to detailed characterization and validation of potential targets for the development of drugs modulating male fertility, and tumor behavior.
Testicular germ cell tumor susceptibility genes from the consomic 129.MOLF-Chr19 mouse strain
Project description:Chromosome substitution strains (CSS or consomic strains) are useful for mapping phenotypes to chromosomes. However, huge efforts are needed to identify the gene(s) responsible for the phenotype in the complex context of the chromosome. Here, we report the identification of candidate disease genes from a CSS using a combination of genetic and genomic approaches as well as by using knowledge about the germ cell tumor disease etiology. We utilized the CSS, 129.MOLF-Chr 19 chromosome substitution strain (or M19), in which males develop germ cell tumors of the testes at an extremely high rate. We are able to identify 3 protein-coding genes and 1 microRNA on chromosome 19 that have previously not been implicated to be testicular tumor susceptibility genes. Our findings suggest that changes in gene expression levels in the gonadal tissues of multiple genes from Chr 19 likely contribute to the high TGCT incidence of the M19 strain. Our data advances the use of CSS to identify disease susceptibility genes and demonstrates that the 129.MOLF-Chr 19 strain serves as a useful model to elucidate the genetics and biology of germ cell transformation and tumor development. Overall design: For gene expression profiling, we used male gonads from different developmental stages, E13.5 and PN1, from the M19 and 129 strains. The idea was to detect the common gene expression changes in the gonads at stages when germ cells are known to transform to embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells. E13.5 stage was chosen because tumor development is reported to start around E13.5 in 129 strains (Stevens 1973b; Stevens and Hummel 1957). PN1 stage gonads were chosen because our studies with M19;Oct4-GFP mice, as described above, showed that both germ cells and EC cells are present at this stage suggesting that germ cell transformation may also be ongoing at this stage in the testes of M19 strain. We also compared gene expression differences in gonads to that of embryos to determine whether gene expression differences are specific to the gonads. Our goal was to identify gene(s) whose expression is consistently changed in the gonads at E13.5 and PN1 in the M19 as these would likely be candidate TGCT susceptibility gene(s). Fig. 3A indicates the 3 different tissue samples collected from the M19 and 129 strains: gonads (genital ridges) dissected from male E13.5 embryos and from PN1 mice and male embryos at E13. Because tumor incidence in M19 is approximately 80% we anticipated that gene expression changes could be masked because ~20% of cells/tissues within a sample may have normal levels of gene expression or 20% of the testes may have normal gene expression. Moreover, the amount of RNA extracted from a single genital ridge or PN1 testis is insufficient for a microarray experiment. To minimize the effect of individual samples and to isolate sufficient RNA for microarray analysis from these small sized gonads, we pooled RNA from multiple samples (Table 1). Six RNA pooled samples were prepared (Fig.3A and Supplementary Table 2): E13.5 gonad RNA from males of 129 (129-GR) and M19 (M1-GR); PN1 testes RNA from 129 (129-NBT) and M19 (M1-NBT); E13.5 embryo RNA from males of 129 (129-E) and M19 (M1-E). The six RNA samples were hybridized to six Affymetrix mouse genome genechips individually. Hierarchical clustering analysis revealed a dendrogram in which gene expression profiles of the same tissue type clustered together (Fig. 3B). Profiles of the gonads, E13.5 and PN1, were related more closely than to those of embryos. Comparison of the expression profiles of E13.5 gonads from M19 and 129 revealed 10 genes with more than a 2-fold difference in expression levels (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3A). Six of the 10 genes mapped to Chr 19. For the PN1 testes, 266 genes showed significant fold changes between the two strains and of these 13 genes mapped to Chr 19 (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3C). For the E13.5 embryos, 35 genes showed greater than a 2-fold change in expression between the M19 and 129 and 5 out of 35 genes mapped to Chr 19 (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3B). By analyzing the data of differentially expressed genes present in the 3 samples, as well as selecting those that map to Chr 19, we were able to exclude a majority of the genes but found 3 genes in common. The 3 genes map to Chr 19 and were found to be downregulated in the M19 strain E13.5 and PN1 gonads as well as E13.5 embryos. These are Zfp162, D19Bwg1357e and Cox15. These 3 genes have not been previously implicated in testicular tumorigenesis and are novel TGCT candidate susceptibility genes.
| GSE14354 | GEO
Project description:Chromosome substitution strains (CSS or consomic strains) are useful for mapping phenotypes to chromosomes. However, huge efforts are needed to identify the gene(s) responsible for the phenotype in the complex context of the chromosome. Here, we report the identification of candidate disease genes from a CSS using a combination of genetic and genomic approaches as well as by using knowledge about the germ cell tumor disease etiology. We utilized the CSS, 129.MOLF-Chr 19 chromosome substitution strain (or M19), in which males develop germ cell tumors of the testes at an extremely high rate. We are able to identify 3 protein-coding genes and 1 microRNA on chromosome 19 that have previously not been implicated to be testicular tumor susceptibility genes. Our findings suggest that changes in gene expression levels in the gonadal tissues of multiple genes from Chr 19 likely contribute to the high TGCT incidence of the M19 strain. Our data advances the use of CSS to identify disease susceptibility genes and demonstrates that the 129.MOLF-Chr 19 strain serves as a useful model to elucidate the genetics and biology of germ cell transformation and tumor development. For gene expression profiling, we used male gonads from different developmental stages, E13.5 and PN1, from the M19 and 129 strains. The idea was to detect the common gene expression changes in the gonads at stages when germ cells are known to transform to embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells. E13.5 stage was chosen because tumor development is reported to start around E13.5 in 129 strains (Stevens 1973b; Stevens and Hummel 1957). PN1 stage gonads were chosen because our studies with M19;Oct4-GFP mice, as described above, showed that both germ cells and EC cells are present at this stage suggesting that germ cell transformation may also be ongoing at this stage in the testes of M19 strain. We also compared gene expression differences in gonads to that of embryos to determine whether gene expression differences are specific to the gonads. Our goal was to identify gene(s) whose expression is consistently changed in the gonads at E13.5 and PN1 in the M19 as these would likely be candidate TGCT susceptibility gene(s). Fig. 3A indicates the 3 different tissue samples collected from the M19 and 129 strains: gonads (genital ridges) dissected from male E13.5 embryos and from PN1 mice and male embryos at E13. Because tumor incidence in M19 is approximately 80% we anticipated that gene expression changes could be masked because ~20% of cells/tissues within a sample may have normal levels of gene expression or 20% of the testes may have normal gene expression. Moreover, the amount of RNA extracted from a single genital ridge or PN1 testis is insufficient for a microarray experiment. To minimize the effect of individual samples and to isolate sufficient RNA for microarray analysis from these small sized gonads, we pooled RNA from multiple samples (Table 1). Six RNA pooled samples were prepared (Fig.3A and Supplementary Table 2): E13.5 gonad RNA from males of 129 (129-GR) and M19 (M1-GR); PN1 testes RNA from 129 (129-NBT) and M19 (M1-NBT); E13.5 embryo RNA from males of 129 (129-E) and M19 (M1-E). The six RNA samples were hybridized to six Affymetrix mouse genome genechips individually. Hierarchical clustering analysis revealed a dendrogram in which gene expression profiles of the same tissue type clustered together (Fig. 3B). Profiles of the gonads, E13.5 and PN1, were related more closely than to those of embryos. Comparison of the expression profiles of E13.5 gonads from M19 and 129 revealed 10 genes with more than a 2-fold difference in expression levels (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3A). Six of the 10 genes mapped to Chr 19. For the PN1 testes, 266 genes showed significant fold changes between the two strains and of these 13 genes mapped to Chr 19 (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3C). For the E13.5 embryos, 35 genes showed greater than a 2-fold change in expression between the M19 and 129 and 5 out of 35 genes mapped to Chr 19 (Fig. 3A and Supplementary Table 3B). By analyzing the data of differentially expressed genes present in the 3 samples, as well as selecting those that map to Chr 19, we were able to exclude a majority of the genes but found 3 genes in common. The 3 genes map to Chr 19 and were found to be downregulated in the M19 strain E13.5 and PN1 gonads as well as E13.5 embryos. These are Zfp162, D19Bwg1357e and Cox15. These 3 genes have not been previously implicated in testicular tumorigenesis and are novel TGCT candidate susceptibility genes.
2009-01-13 | E-GEOD-14354 | ArrayExpress
Anchoring ethinylestradiol induced gene expression changes with testicular morphology and reproductive function in the medaka
Project description:This study assessed the implications of a 14 day sub-chronic exposure of ethinylestradiol (EE2; 1.0 or 10.0 µg/L EE2) on male medaka fertility, testicular histology and testicular gene expression. The findings demonstrate that a 14 day exposure to EE2 induced impaired male reproductive capacity and time- and dose-dependent alterations in testicular morphology and gene expression. The average fertilization rate/day following the exposure for control, 1.0 and 10.0 µg/L EE2 was 91.3% (±4.4), 62.8% (±8.3) and 28.8% (±5.8), respectively. The testicular morphologic alterations observed include increased germ cell apoptosis, decreased germinal epithelium and thickening of the interstitium. The morphologic changes observed were highly associated with gene expression changes observed using a medaka-specific microarray. A pathway analysis of the differentially expressed genes emphasized genes and pathways associated with apoptosis, cell cycle and proliferation, collagen production/extracellular matrix organization, hormone signaling, male reproduction and protein ubiquitination among others. Six month old male medaka were exposed to ethinyl estradiol (EE2) for a 14 day time period. Treatment exposures were completed in triplicate including DMSO (vehicle control), 1.0 µg/L EE2, and 10.0 µg/L EE2. Fish were sampled for gene expression on days 1, 7 and 14 of exposure. Five male fish were placed in 2-liter beaker replicates for each treatment and sampling time point.
Human testicular matrix
Project description:ITo derive a scaffold from human testis for the purpose of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, we developed a method to produce a cytocompatible decellularized testicular matrix (DTM) while maintaining the native tissue-specific characteristics and components. The potential benefits of tissue-specific scaffolds consisting of naturally-derived extracellular matrix (ECM) have been demonstrated using a wide variety of animal and human tissue sources. However, so far, testis scaffolds have never been considered for constructive remodelling purposes. We have therefore developed a protocol for the preparation of cell-free extracellular matrix and characterized the material extensively using a combination of proteomics, immunohistochemsitry, and cell population assays. To prepare cell-free matrix, human cadaveric testicular tissue was exposed for 24 h or 48 h to 1% Triton X-100 and/or 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). The extent of decellularization was evaluated by histology. Confirmation of cell removal in DTM was done by a DNA quantification technique. The protein composition was analysed by LC-MS/MS. The retention of testicular tissue-specific characteristics was evaluated by immunohistochemistry, Alcian blue staining and scanning electron microscopy. Soluble toxicity and testicular cell attachment was assessed to check the cytocompatibility of DTM scaffolds. Histological analysis showed that DTM could be obtained by mechanical agitation in 1% SDS for 24 h. The resulting DTM was found to be clear of cells while retaining the typical three-dimensional structure. Proteomics analysis revelaed the presence of the major components of the native tissue scaffold, including collagen type I and IV, fibronectin, laminin and glycosaminoglycans. In addition, numerous additional ECM proteins in DTM were detected, indicating its complex nature. Importantly, we demonstrated that DTM scaffolds are not cytotoxic, as evidenced by MTT assay showing a normal fibroblast proliferation activity after indirect exposure, and support testicular cell attachment and infiltration.
Integrative analysis of phenotype and testicular quantitative proteome of CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing protein 4 (CMTM4) deficiency mouse reveal its association with male fertility
Project description:iTRAQ quantitative proteome of wild and CMTM4 knockout mouse testis tissue.Integrative analysis of phenotype and testicular quantitative proteome of CKLF-like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing protein 4 (CMTM4) deficiency mouse reveal its association with male fertility.
An expression atlas of human postnatal testicular cell development
Project description:Postnatal human male gonad development and function are known to involve many genes and pathways but our understanding of genome-wide developmental stage-specific and cell type-specific gene expression is far from complete. Integration of testicular and somatic data could elucidate regulatory mechanisms specifically controlling spermatogenesis and may yield insight into certain reproductive pathologies. Please note: AdMinus means that there is no Ad spermatogonia in the corresponding testicular biopsies of cryptorchid children. AdPlus means that Ad spermatogonia are present in the corresponding testicular biopsies of cryptorchid children. JS refers to Johnsen score.
2012-08-30 | E-TABM-1214 | ArrayExpress
Expression analyses to identify genes involved in testis-specific vascular development
Project description:One of the earliest morphological changes during testicular differentiation is the establishment of an XY specific vasculature. The testis vascular system is derived from mesonephric endothelial cells that migrate into the gonad. In the XX gonad, mesonephric cell migration and testis vascular development is inhibited by WNT4 signaling. In Wnt4 mutant XX gonads, endothelial cells migrate from the mesonephros and form a male-like coelomic vessel. Consequently, the XX Wnt4 mutant mice presented an opportunity to focus a gene expression screen on the processes of mesonephric cell migration and testicular vascular development. We compared differences in gene expression between XY Wnt4+/+ and XX Wnt4+/+ gonads and between XX Wnt4-/- and XX Wnt4+/+ gonads to identify genes similarly upregulated in wildtype XY gonads and XX mutant gonads that might play important roles in testis-specific vascular development. Keywords: genetic sex and phenotypic comparisons Overall design: Expression profiling was performed on gonads collected from XY Wnt4+/+, XX Wnt4+/+ and Wnt4-/- embryos at 12.0 days post coitum, using arrays spotted with the Operon Mouse Genome Oligo Set, version 2.0. Competitive dual-color hybridizations with dye-swap controls were performed in duplicate for each of two comparisons: XY Wnt4+/+, versus XX Wnt4+/+, and XX Wnt4-/- versus XX Wnt4+/+. For both comparisons, the wild-type XX sample is used as the reference.
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Amazon partners with Onida to bring Fire TV edition smart TVs
| Updated: Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 11:53 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 11: Amazon has partnered Onida to bring Fire TV edition smart TVs in India, a move aimed at helping the e-commerce company further strengthen its position in the booming consumer durable market in the country. The Fire TV edition smart TVs were first introduced by Amazon in 2018 in the US and Canada.
Earlier this year, the company expanded the range to the UK, Germany and Austria in collaborations with Dixons Carphone, MediaMarktSaturn, and Grundig.
"We have seen great momentum to the Fire TV edition smart TVs so far. India has been a very important market for our streaming product and we are seeing great uptake of it from across the country. We are confident of a similar response to the TVs also," Sandeep Gupta, Vice President (Fire TV Devices and Experiences) told PTI. He didn't comment on the targeted sales. Amazon works on a licensing model for the Fire TV smart television sets.
It has partnered with Onida to roll out products in India and is open to working with other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well.
"The Onida Fire TV Edition has the Fire TV experience built-in, enabling customers to easily find and watch movies and TV shows from Prime Video, Hotstar, Netflix and others. We are launching two variants and will continue to look at opportunities to expand the range," he said.
Currently, Amazon sells Fire TV streaming sticks in India. The company claims that Fire TV is the numero uno streaming media player in the US, UK, Germany, India, and Japan across all retailers.
Apart from Fire TV, Amazon also offers a range of Echo (smart speakers) and Kindle (e-book) devices in India. In the third quarter, Amazon had announced that it has over 37 million active users on Fire TV globally.
It does not provide country-specific numbers.
"Onida is excited to work with Amazon to bring the Fire TV experience to India. We have over 38 years of experience building TVs in India and the Onida Fire TV Edition brings superior picture quality and sound output to customers, at affordable prices," Sunil Shankar Business Head MIRC Electronics Ltd (Onida) said.
The Onida Fire TV smart TVs would be available in two variants -- 32-inch (Rs 12,999) and 43-inch (Rs 21,999).
These will be available on the Amazon.in platform from December 20. These full HD TVs come with built-in WiFi, 3 HDMI ports, 1 USB port and 1 earphone port. The move will also intensify competition with Walmart-backed Flipkart that sells smart TVs through its MarQ brand.
Flipkart has recently partnered with Motorola and Nokia to make television sets for them. Over the last few years, new brands like Micromax, Intex, Xiaomi, Detel and Vu have taken the television market in India by storm, competing against giants like Samsung, Sony and LG.
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Regional trails system
Hundreds of miles of trails connect pedestrians and cyclists to their favorite places across the region.
Regional trails
Existing trails
Proposed trails
Trail funding
From the quiet beauty of Troutdale’s earthen Beaver Creek Trail to the hustle and bustle of Portland’s Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade, regional trails are like us – they come in all shapes and sizes.
Trails are designed to serve a variety of functions. Some, like the I-205 Trail, are well suited for bike commuters seeking a fast route. Others, like the Wildwood Trail, offer recreational hikers the opportunity to wind their way through lush forests. The Sandy River Water Trail allows visitors to experience scenic basalt canyons and rare old growth forest from a raft or kayak, while the Tualatin River Greenway provides opportunities to stroll beneath circling red-tailed hawks or float past great blue herons standing regally along the riverbank.
40-Mile Loop
After a visit to Portland in 1903, pioneer landscape architect John Charles Olmsted proposed a comprehensive system of parks and natural areas connected by parkways and boulevards. Terwilliger, Sellwood and North Willamette boulevards are each part of that original plan. Olmsted’s idea was revived in 1982 and named the 40-Mile Loop, honoring the original concept’s proposed length. Since then, trail planners and advocates have updated the plan to meet the needs of a much larger metropolitan area and population.
Plans for the 40-Mile Loop now include all of Multnomah County. When it is completed, it will connect more than 30 parks along the Columbia, Sandy and Willamette rivers, Johnson Creek, and the Tualatin Mountains in a continuous 140-mile loop. The section from the Sandy River to the Springwater Trail is the last major gap in the 40-Mile Loop.
The growth of commuting by bike or walking and the popularity of outdoor recreation activities such as walking, running, bicycling, skateboarding, paddling and wildlife observation has increased the need for quality regional trails. Park and recreation providers, local cities and citizens have teamed up in an ambitious effort to establish a network of trails linking parks and natural areas to local communities and other area attractions.
When originally conceived over 100 years ago by noted landscape architect John Charles Olmsted, Portland’s trail system was envisioned to be 40 miles long, circling the city and linking public parks. The Portland metropolitan area has grown a lot since then. Today, Metro envisions a system of trails spanning the 24-city, three-county region and beyond. Plans call for a 1,000-mile network of regional trails. As of 2014, about 35 percent of those trails are complete.
What makes a trail regional?
Regional trails differ from local trails in that they are usually larger in scope – crossing neighborhood lines and linking cities, counties and even states. As excellent places for hikers, walkers, runners, cyclists, and paddlers to exercise and experience nature, regional trails are destinations unto themselves – but they also take us from the places we live to the places we learn, work, shop and play.
Regional trails are typically separated from roads. Their off-street nature make trails more pleasant for recreational users by reducing interactions with car traffic, which also make them quicker routes for pedestrian and bike commuters.
Existing trails are complete or near completion and open to the public (as of November 2017). They connect neighborhoods, schools, parks and jobs; provide access to nature; and present opportunities to hike, bike, walk, run and roll.
Banks-Vernonia Trail
Pedestrians, bikes, horses
This multi-use trail built on a former railroad line crosses farms and forestland to connect Banks to Vernonia. Pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians are allowed. Oregon State Parks manages the trail.
Beaver Creek Trail
2 miles; 5 additional miles planned
Pedestrian, 40-mile Loop
Located on the east side of Troutdale in a wooded canyon, this trail is geared for hikers. A multi-use extension of the trail will eventually connect the Sandy River in Troutdale to the Springwater Trail in Gresham, completing the last major gap in the 40-mile loop.
Rail-trails
Rail-trails are multi-use paths that follow railroad corridors. They tend to be relatively flat and straight, and can range from urban to rural settings. Rails-to-trails, built on former rail corridors, differ from rails-with-trails, which are built next to active rail lines. Examples of both can be found throughout the Metro area. Notable rails-to-trails include the Trolley Trail, Springwater Trail and Banks-Vernonia Trail. The Springwater-on-the-Willamette Trail is a classic example of a rail-with-trail. More information on rail-trails can be found at www.railstotrails.org.
Cazadero Trail
10 miles; 5 additional miles planned
Cyclists, pedestrians and equestrians can experience the beauty of North Fork Deep Creek Canyon along this rail-to-trail that will one day connect the communities of Boring, Barton and Estacada. Oregon State Parks manages the trail.
Clackamas River Greenway
Pedestrians, bikes
People can experience this trail at a number of spots including Clackamas Cove in Oregon City, Cross Park in Gladstone, and the Old 82nd Avenue pedestrian bridge that connects the two cities.
Columbia Slough Trail
15 miles; 11 additional miles planned
Pedestrians, bikes, 40-mile Loop
From Kelley Point Park at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, this trail runs east along the Columbia Slough to Gresham, passing several natural areas along the way. West of I-205 the trail is paved and open to bicyclists. East of I-205 the trail is made of wood chips and limits users to travel on foot. Portland Parks & Recreation manages the trail.
Water trails are waterway segments designated for non-motorized travel. They offer opportunities to experience the region’s rivers and natural areas from an on-the-water perspective. Water trail development provides access points to launch and land canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards, row boats and other non-motorized watercraft. To find out more about the status of these efforts, visit the websites below:
The region’s six water trails are:
Clackamas River Water Trail
Columbia Slough Water Trail
Lower Columbia River Water Trail
Sandy River Water Trail
Tualatin River Water Trail
Willamette River Water Trail
Crown Zellerbach Trail
Pedestrians, mountain bikes, horses
A former rail line and logging road, the Crown Zellerbach was converted to a multi-use trail connecting Scappoose to Vernonia in Columbia County.
Emerald Necklace Trail
Forest Grove’s vision for a greenway encircling the city well on its way to reality. The Old Town Loop Trail and the Highway 47 Trail offer joggers and bicyclists two completed sections of the Emerald Necklace.
Fanno Creek Trail
Beaverton to Garden Home. Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation and the City of Tigard manage the trail.
Gresham-Fairview Trail
This rail-to-trail connects the Springwater Trail north to the Columbia Slough and Marine Drive Trails. The City of Gresham manages the trail.
Hagg Lake Trail
14 miles; 3 additional miles proposed
Pedestrians, mountain bikes
Originating at the north end of the Yamhelas Westsider Trail, the future Hagg Lake Trail would head west along Scoggins Creek to join the 14-mile system of hiking and mountain biking trails currently encircling the lake and managed by Washington County.
Hillsdale to Lake Oswego Trail
This urban-yet-natural hiking trail connects the Hillsdale neighborhood in southwest Portland south to Lake Oswego via Marshall Park and Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Portland Parks & Recreation and Oregon State Parks manage the trail.
Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail
Once known as the King of Roads the Historic Highway is now considered by many to be the King of Trails. Sixty-two of the original 73 miles of the Historic Highway are now open to bicyclists. Once restored, the remaining 11 miles of trail segments will allow bicyclists to travel the majestic Columbia River Gorge from Troutdale to The Dalles without riding along I-84. Oregon State Parks manages the trail.
I-205 Trail
19 miles; 20 additional miles proposed
This commuter trail runs parallel to the I-205 freeway, connecting the Columbia River at Vancouver to the Clackamas River at Gladstone. Owned and managed by the Oregon Department of Transportation, the multi-use path is proposed to continue south to West Linn and Tualatin.
This Oregon Department of Transportation-managed commuter trail runs along the I-84 freeway from Parkrose to Fairview. A proposed extension would connect the trail to Salish Ponds, Fairview Woods Park and Wood Village.
Ice Age Tonquin Trail
5 miles; 17 additional miles planned
The cities of Wilsonville, Sherwood and Tualatin are collaborating to develop this new trail that will interpret the dramatic geologic landscape left behind by the historic Missoula Floods. The Ice Age Tonquin Trail is in fact a system of trails that includes Sherwood’s Cedar Creek Trail and Tualatin’s Hedges Creek Trail. Walkers, joggers and bicyclists can experience the trail at Graham Oaks Nature Park, Stella Olsen Park and Tualatin Community Park.
Marine Drive Trail
Parallel to the Columbia River, this multi-use path stretches from Kelley Point Park in North Portland to Troutdale.
Marquam Trail
Pedestrians, 40-mile Loop
The Marquam Trail leads urban hikers through several major southwest Portland destinations such as the Oregon Zoo, Hoyt Arboretum, Council Crest Park and Oregon Health and Science University. Portland Parks & Recreation manages the trail.
Mount Scott Trail
The Mount Scott Trail follows Mount Scott Creek, connecting Mount Talbert Nature Park to several Happy Valley neighborhoods. A planned extension will follow Veterans Creek to Johnson Creek and the I-205 Trail. North Clackamas Parks & Recreation and the City of Happy Valley manage the trail.
Peninsula Crossing Trail
Adjacent to the railroad, this multi-use path crosses the North Portland peninsula between the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. Portland Parks & Recreation manages the trail.
Rock Creek Trail
The Rock Creek Trail follows a scenic greenway from Bethany to Hillsboro and will connect to the Tualatin River Greenway in Rood Bridge Park when completed. The City of Hillsboro and Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation manage the trail.
Rosemont Trail
Bicyclists and pedestrians can use this paved east-west trail connecting Luscher Farm in Lake Oswego to West Linn. The City of Lake Oswego manages the western portion of the trail.
Sandy River Greenway and Trail
2 miles; 6 miles proposed
Nature lovers can experience the Sandy River Greenway at several public parks, including Dodge Park, Oxbow Regional Park and Dabney State Park. A paved multi-use path spans the river next to I-84 and connects Lewis and Clark State Park to downtown Troutdale and Chinook Landing Nature Park.
Springwater Trail
21 miles; an additional half mile planned
The Springwater Trail is a former railroad line that connects Portland, Gresham and Boring. It also connects to the Cazadero Trail in the east and the Willamette River Greenway in the west. Most of the trail parallels Johnson Creek and connects several significant parks, natural areas and wildlife refuges, including Oaks Bottom, Beggars Tick, Powell Butte and Gresham’s Main City Park. The cities of Portland and Gresham and Clackamas County manage the trail.
Sunrise Corridor Trail
Adjacent to the Sunrise Corridor Highway, this commuter-oriented path runs from the I-205 Trail east to 152nd Drive in Happy Valley. Plans are in place to extend the highway and path further east. The Oregon Department of Transportation manages the path.
Terwilliger Trail
This multi-use path stretches from Duniway Park in downtown Portland to downtown Lake Oswego, passing Lewis and Clark College and Tryon Creek State Natural Area. A short segment through the Burlingame neighborhood follows on-street bike lanes and sidewalks. Portland Parks & Recreation and Oregon State Parks manage the trail.
Tickle Creek Trail
Adjacent to Tickle Creek in Sandy, this gravel, multi-use trail will connect to the Cazadero Trail in Barton when completed. The City of Sandy manages the trail.
Trolley Trail
This multi-use path follows a former streetcar corridor from Milwaukie to Gladstone, and connects to the major Orange Line transit station at Park Avenue.
Tualatin River Greenway Trail
Walkers, joggers and bicyclists can experience the Tualatin River from the multi-use path as it passes through Cook Park, Tualatin Community Park and Browns Ferry Park in Tigard and Tualatin. Planned extensions will one day connect the trail to King City and the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in the west, and to Lake Oswego and West Linn in the east.
Waterhouse Trail
6 miles; 1 additional mile planned
This multi-use path follows a power transmission corridor from Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus to the Tualatin Hills Nature Park. Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation manages the trail.
Westside Trail
The Westside Trail connects the Willamette River and Forest Park in northwest Portland to the Tualatin River. It runs through Beaverton, Tigard and King City, and largely follows a power transmission corridor. Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation manages the trail.
Wildwood Trail
The region’s longest completed trail, the Wildwood lets hikers wind through Forest Park and other parks in west Portland, including Washington Park, Hoyt Arboretum and the Oregon Zoo. Mountain bikes are not allowed on the Wildwood Trail but are allowed on several miles of dirt roads in Forest Park, including Leif Erikson Drive. Portland Parks & Recreation manages the trail.
Willamette Greenway Trail
24 miles open; 57 additional miles proposed
Actually a series of several multi-use paths, the Willamette Greenway Trail follows the east and west banks of the Willamette River from Champoeg State Park to the river’s confluence with the Columbia in North Portland. Major built segments include trails at West Linn’s Willamette Park and Mary S. Young State Park, Lake Oswego’s George Rogers Park and Foothills Park, and Portland’s Willamette Park, Tom McCall Waterfront Park and Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. Portland has plans to complete the North Portland Willamette Greenway Trail, and upriver in Oregon City, the planned Willamette Falls Riverwalk will provide visitors an up-close experience of North America’s largest waterfall by volume. Someday a world-class trail will follow the Willamette Shore Trolley line from Lake Oswego to John’s Landing. The Willamette Greenway Trail is recognized as a trail of statewide significance.
Trail design
Explore Metro's regional trail design guide.
Trails data
Explore trails GIS data on Metro's Regional Land Information System.
RLIS Discovery
Local governments and community advocates have proposed a number of trails for future development. On the Regional Trails System Plan Map, these yet-to-be-built trails fall into two categories – planned or conceptual – according to the degree to which local cities have planned them and the community has vetted them.
Planned trails
Planning a trail is a significant effort involving local residents, trail advocacy groups, elected officials, and teams of professional planners, engineers, and landscape architects. A trail master plan, developed through a comprehensive process with many opportunities for public involvement, is the blueprint for where, when and how to build the trail. Planned trails have precise alignments and are ready to be designed, permitted and built as funding is secured.
Conceptual trails
Drawing lines on a map at a regional scale is an important first step toward the eventual development of a new trail. At the local scale these lines can show little regard for on-the-ground challenges such as streams, steep hills and property ownership, yet they are effective in communicating the general concept of a proposed trail. These conceptual trail routes are refined over time to reflect more feasible solutions.
Beaver Lake Trail
4 miles proposed
The Beaver Lake Trail would extend east from the Oregon City Loop Trail and would connect to Beaver Lake.
Beaverton Creek Trail
2 miles open; 5 additional miles proposed
From the confluence of Beaverton and Rock creeks in Hillsboro, this trail will one day connect to downtown Beaverton and the Fanno Creek Trail. The trail traverses Tualatin Hills Nature Park.
Beaverton to Milwaukie Trail
This multi-use path would connect downtown Beaverton to Milwaukie’s Trolley Trail via the existing Sunset Highway Trail, downtown Portland and the new Tillikum Crossing Bridge.
Bridgeport to Milwaukie Trail
This trail would follow a railroad corridor to connect the Bridgeport area of Tualatin and Tigard to Lake Oswego and connect across the Willamette River to Oak Grove and Milwaukie.
Learn more about the Oak Grove to Lake Oswego trail segment
Bronson Creek Trail
Bronson Creek is an important tributary of Rock Creek and the Tualatin River. The Bronson Creek Trail would pass next to a number of large wetlands and natural areas.
Butler Buttes Trail
The Butler Buttes Trail would connect the Springwater Trail in Gresham to Damascus, traversing Gabbert, Towle, Bliss and Damascus buttes along the way.
Council Creek Trail
6 miles planned
The cities of Forest Grove, Cornelius and Hillsboro recently developed a plan to link their communities with a multi-use path following an inactive railroad line.
Crescent Park Trail
11 miles proposed
Hillsboro envisions a trail loop encircling the city. Following McKay Creek, Waible Creek and the Tualatin River, the Crescent Park Trail would draw trail users from all over Hillsboro and beyond.
East Buttes Powerline Trail
As part of the Pleasant Valley Concept Plan, this trail would follow a power transmission corridor to connect the Springwater Trail to Happy Valley and the Clackamas River.
Helvetia Trail
The Helvetia Trail would follow a railroad corridor from Banks, across the Tualatin Mountains to the Willamette River, passing through North Plains and Helvetia along the way.
Hillsboro to Banks Trail
This trail would follow a railroad corridor through bucolic farmland from Hillsboro to Banks.
Historic Barlow Road Trail
20 miles open; 34 miles proposed
Mountain biking is an ideal way to trace the Mount Hood to Sandy segment of this pioneer wagon train route. Over the past 150-plus years, the segments of road between Sandy to Oregon City have been reclaimed by the landscape and have come under private ownership, meaning it probably won’t be reopened to trail users anytime soon.
Kelley Creek-Sunshine Valley Trail
Passing through Pleasant Valley and Damascus, the Kelly Creek-Sunshine Valley Trail would connect Powell Butte Nature Park to the Cazadero Trail.
McKernan Creek Trail
Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation plans to develop this future trail connecting the Westside Trail to Cooper Mountain Nature Park and the future Reedville Trail.
North Clackamas Greenway Trail
The North Clackamas Greenway would parallel Railroad Avenue in Milwaukie, linking the Springwater Trail in Sellwood to Clackamas Town Center and the I-205 Trail.
Oregon City Loop Trail
2 miles open; 12 additional miles proposed
A multi-use trail loop around Oregon City will one day connect to the Trolley Trail, the future Newell Creek Trail, Canemah Bluff Natural Area and the Willamette Greenway. The loop includes the WPA-era McLoughlin Promenade, the iconic Oregon City Municipal Elevator and a planned river walk trail above Willamette Falls.
Oregon Electric Railway Trail
This north-south commuter path parallels Cornelius Pass Road along a former streetcar line in Hillsboro. The state-owned rail corridor continues north to Helvetia, providing an opportunity for a scenic rural extension of the trail.
Pacific Greenway Trail
The Pacific Greenway Trail would connect the greater Portland area to the coast via Metro’s Burlington Creek and Ennis Creek Natural Areas, and logging roads in Columbia and Clatsop Counties.
Red Electric Trail
2 miles open; 5 additional miles planned
Many segments of this trail will follow quiet neighborhood streets, tracing a former inter-urban railroad line through southwest Portland, from Willamette Park to Garden Home.
Reedville Trail
1 mile open; 12 additional miles planned or proposed
This proposed north-south trail in Washington County would follow a power transmission corridor connecting Hillsboro to Sherwood. Short sections of this trail are built in Reedville.
Richardson Creek Trail
This proposed trail would connect Damascus to the Clackamas River Greenway.
River Terrace Trail
The River Terrace Trail will skirt the western edge of Tigard, eventually connecting the future South Cooper Mountain Trail to King City and the Tualatin River.
Scouters Mountain Trail
10 miles planned
From the Springwater Trail in Portland, this planned trail will travel past Scouters Mountain Nature Park in Happy Valley before continuing south along Rock Creek to its confluence with the Clackamas River.
South Cooper Mountain Trail
This east-west trail in Washington County would connect the Westside Trail to the proposed Reedville Trail.
Sullivan’s Gulch Trail
This multi-use path will run along the north side of I-84 from the Willamette River Greenway to the Gateway Transit Center and the I-205 Trail.
Salmonberry Trail
Using an 84-mile scenic rail corridor through the Coast Range, this trail will one day link Portland’s western suburbs to the Oregon Coast.
Stafford to Canby Trail
The Stafford to Canby Trail would connect Clackamas County’s Stafford Hamlet to the Canby Ferry and across the Willamette River to Canby.
Stafford Trail
The Stafford Trail would parallel Stafford Road and Boeckman Creek, connecting Lake Oswego to Wilsonville.
Tigard to Lake Oswego Trail
1 mile open; 2 additional miles proposed
Connecting Tigard’s Fanno Creek Trail to Lake Oswego, this trail already features a bicycle and pedestrian bridge across I-5, and a paved path along Kruse Way.
Tualatin Valley Trail
Following Tualatin Valley Highway and the railroad corridor on the south side of the road, this multi-use path would connect Beaverton to Hillsboro.
Yamhelas Westsider Trail
This multi-use trail will follow a former railroad line on the east side of Highway 47, stretching from Scoggins Creek just north of Gaston through Yamhill and Carlton to Highway 99W near McMinnville.
Regional trail projects can take years to grow from concept to reality. They are often quite complex, involving many land owners and the help of hundreds – or thousands – of citizens. Determining a workable alignment, securing the trail right-of-way and finding the resources for trail design and construction all take time, energy and money.
Regional trails are typically built in phases as funding becomes available and trail corridors are secured. Some projects have received big boosts from special dedicated funding sources – such as Metro’s two natural areas bond measures, passed by voters in 1995 and 2006. Other projects are built one section at a time, a new stretch of asphalt added year after year after year.
Federal gas tax and state lottery revenues have been instrumental in planning and building the regional trails system. Over the past 20 years a number of regional trail projects have been funded through Metro’s Regional Flexible Funding program, which disburses federal transportation money in the Portland metropolitan region.
In addition to paying for trail construction projects, Metro supported the acquisition of a number of trail easements and water trail access points. Local cities and park districts have also used local funds to acquire, plan for and build new trail segments throughout the region.
For each project, different strategies are used. Pieces of trails are built, gaps are filled, key acquisitions are made and local landowners agree to participate. Each step moves us along the path to our goal of a regional trail network linking our communities to nature and to each other.
Metro also funds trail projects through these grant programs:
Regional Flexible Funding
Nature in Neighborhoods
Regional Travel Options
2018 regional trails system plan
Jul 2018 PDF
Intertwine trail sign guidelines
Dec 2017 PDF
Recreation ecology literature review
Sep 2017 PDF
Trails: healthier, wealthier communities
Oct 2016 PDF
Regional trails accomplishments report 2013
May 2013 PDF
Green trails: guidelines for environmentally friendly trails
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Five times during the last two decades, voters across greater Portland have approved funding measures to support a network of regional parks, trails and natural areas. Learn how Metro uses the money to protect water quality, restore fish and wildlife habitat, and improve access to nature.
Intertwine trail counts and survey data
Data gathered during an annual trail count in September guides planning and development of the region's trail system and helps support requests for funding.
Connecting Green trail packages
In 2008, the Blue Ribbon Committee for Trails evaluated where trails fit in the region's priorities and recommend potential strategies for expanding the region's trail network.
Greenspaces Policy Advisory Committee: Vision
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Troutdale to Gresham trail study
Learn more about efforts to close a 6-mile gap in greater Portland’s most iconic trail system.
Council Creek Regional Trail master plan
A 15-mile trail will link Hillsboro, Cornelius, Forest Grove and Banks offering walkers and cyclists safe, enjoyable connections to jobs, schools, transit, recreation opportunities and nature.
Westside Trail master plan
The Westside Trail will connect and provide access to the region's distinctive rivers, forests and prairies, while also connecting neighborhoods and communities.
Mount Scott/Scouters Mountain Trail Loop master plan
Metro partnered with the cities of Portland and Happy Valley, North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District and Clackamas County to develop this trail master plan.
Ice Age Tonquin Trail master plan
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Trolley Trail master plan
The six-mile Trolley Trail opened in 2012, connecting Milwaukie, Oak Grove and Gladstone along a historic street car line. Review the master plan that guided development of the trail.
Fanno Creek Greenway Trail action plan
Completed in 2003, this plan identifies missing links in the Fanno Creek Greenway Trail and proposes strategies to eliminate gaps. The 45-page document includes detailed "gap maps" for each of the unfinished segments of the trail.
Smith and Bybee Wetlands trails study
Metro and the City of Portland, in collaboration with a technical working group, completed a study of trail routes to connect nearby parks, neighborhoods, workplaces and regional trails to Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area in North Portland.
Tualatin River Water Trail light watercraft access study
An advisory committee guided the selection of a river access point along the Tualatin River in 2011–12.
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Arthroscopic Wrist Surgery
Wrist is also called as carpus, a complex joint comprised of bones and joints, ligaments and tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that hold the bones together. A fibrous cartilage present between the radius and ulna (forearm bones of the hand) separates the radioulnar joint from the rest of the wrist. Wrist connects the forearm to the hand and allows it to move. Carpal tunnel is an opening in the wrist through which the nerves and blood vessels pass.
Some of the common problems of the wrist which can be treated by arthroscopy include carpal tunnel syndrome (the nerves in the carpal tunnel are compressed), arthritis, bone fractures, dislocations, inflamed tendons and ligaments, ganglion cysts, chronic wrist pain
Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that allows your surgeon to look inside the wrist joint using small incisions (portals) and instruments. Wrist arthroscopy allows the surgeon to diagnose and treat the disorders of the wrist. Your surgeon makes several incisions near your wrist joint. Through one of the incision, an arthroscope, having a small camera fixed to the end of a narrow fiber-optic tube which is inserted. The camera magnifies and projects images of the wrist on a large screen monitor which helps in diagnosing the condition. Through the other incisions surgical instruments are inserted to treat the problem of the wrist. A sterile solution is injected into the wrist to expand the joint that allows clear view of the joint and provides extra room for the procedure. After the surgery the stitches are closed and dressing is applied.
After the surgery, your surgeon will place a cast or a splint that immobilizes that will prevent the movement of the wrist until it is healed completely. The operated wrist should be elevated to prevent excessive swelling and pain. Ice (wrapped over a cloth) can be applied over the operated area which helps to reduce swelling and medications are taken to reduce pain. Always remember to keep the operated area clean and dry to prevent infection and pus formation.
Some of the advantages of arthroscopy are smaller incisions, minimal soft tissue trauma, less pain, faster recovery time, low infection rate, less scarring, earlier mobilization, and allows patient to go home the same day.
Some of the risks observed after wrist arthroscopy include infection, damage to the nearby nerves or tissues during surgery, and stiffness which can be treated through post-operative rehabilitation. Exercises are performed to strengthen the wrist and rebuild your strength.
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Terahertz imaging employing graphene modulator arrays
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez, Subrina Rafique, Rusen Yan, Mingda Zhu, Vladimir Protasenko, Debdeep Jena, Lei Liu, and Huili Grace Xing
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez,* Subrina Rafique, Rusen Yan, Mingda Zhu, Vladimir Protasenko, Debdeep Jena, Lei Liu, and Huili Grace Xing1
1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
1hxing@nd.edu
*Corresponding author: bsensale@nd.edu
B Sensale-Rodriguez
S Rafique
R Yan
M Zhu
V Protasenko
D Jena
L Liu
H Xing
Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez, Subrina Rafique, Rusen Yan, Mingda Zhu, Vladimir Protasenko, Debdeep Jena, Lei Liu, and Huili Grace Xing, "Terahertz imaging employing graphene modulator arrays," Opt. Express 21, 2324-2330 (2013)
Detector arrays
Optical depth
Real time imaging
Terahertz imaging (110.6795)
Nanomaterials (160.4236)
Modulators (230.4110)
Revised Manuscript: January 13, 2013
Manuscript Accepted: January 14, 2013
In this paper we propose and experimentally demonstrate arrays of graphene electro-absorption modulators as electrically reconfigurable patterns for terahertz cameras. The active element of these modulators consists of only single-atom-thick graphene, achieving a modulation of the THz wave reflectance > 50% with a potential modulation depth approaching 100%. Although the prototype presented here only contains 4x4 pixels, it reveals the possibility of developing reliable low-cost video-rate THz imaging systems employing single detector.
©2013 Optical Society of America
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Li-Jing Cheng and Lei Liu
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Fay, P.
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Geng, B.
Girit, C.
Gundlach, D.
Hansen, O.
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Hesler, J. L.
Hilke, M.
Horng, J.
Hoshina, H.
Hu, B. B.
Huang, F.
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Fig. 1 (a) Schematic and (b) optical image of the graphene reflection modulator array. The pixel size is 0.7x0.7 mm2. As shown in (a) the electric field intensity at the active graphene enhances by 4 times when the substrate optical thickness is an odd multiple of the quarter wavelength of the incoming THz radiation, thus leading to augmented modulation in reflectance in comparison to the transmission mode [18].
Fig. 2 (a) Sketch of the reflectance mode THz quasi-optical setup. (b) Measured reflectance (blue circles) and associated conductivity (red circles) versus voltage when the same voltage was applied between all the pixels and the back contact. The radiation was focused onto the center of the modulator array and the frequency was set at 590 GHz so that the substrate optical thickness is matched to be an odd quarter of the THz wavelength. The estimated conductivity contribution of carriers in the Si substrate is shown in green squares.
Fig. 3 Principle of the imaging experiment. (a) Sketch of an object in a pixelated and collimated illumination that is transformed by the modulator array. Each pixel of the illumination, denoted by different colors, can be turned on and off by the modulator array. (b) Sketch of the beam path showing the expanded beam is about the same size with the modulator array placed away from the focal plane so that the beam toward the detector is pixelated. No object is placed in the path of the beam. (c-d) Two pixels of illumination when an object is placed in the path of the beam.
Fig. 4 (a) Map of “pixelated illumination” without an object: ΔRi0/R0,low, where R0,low is the measured total reflectance when all the pixels are off, i.e. the minimum reflectance of the modulator array. (b-d) Map of ΔRi/ΔRi0 for three different objects placed in the path of the reflected beam. ΔRi is the detected difference when switching the ith pixel on and off while keeping all other pixels off. The two red crossed pixels crossed did not show modulation due to fabrication issues. The sketches of the objects made from the absorber material are shown below each map. The close resemblance between the map and the object indicates the graphene modulator array can be used for imaging.
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Walter Ott ; Lydia Patton
学術・一般書 > 哲学および心理学 > Philosophy > Philosophy, parapsychology & occultism, psychology
What is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? To what extent do the laws of nature permit contingency? Are there exceptions to the laws of nature? Is it possible to give a reductive analysis of lawhood, or is it a primitive?
Twelve brand-new essays by an international team of leading philosophers take up these and other central questions on the laws of nature, whilst also examining some of the most important intuitions and assumptions that have guided the debate over laws of nature since the concept's invention in the seventeenth century.
Laws of Nature spans the history of philosophy and of science, contemporary metaphysics, and contemporary philosophy of science.
1 Walter Ott and Lydia Patton: Intuitions and Assumptions in the Debate over Laws of Nature
2 Helen Hattab: Early Modern Roots of the Philosophical Concept of a Law of Nature
3 Mary Domski: Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things: Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy
4 Walter Ott: Leges sive natura: Bacon, Spinoza, and a Forgotten Concept of Law
5 Stathis Psillos: Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature
6 Angela Breitenbach: Laws and Ideal Unity
7 John W. Carroll: Becoming Humean
8 Michela Massimi: A Perspectivalist Better Best System Account of Lawhood
9 James Woodward: Laws: An Invariance Based Account
10 Marc Lange: How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily Powerful
11 Stephen Mumford: Laws and their Exceptions
12 Nancy Cartwright and Pedro Merlussi: Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?
Walter Ott is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (Oxford, 2017), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford) and Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge). His work has appeared in such journals as the Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.; Lydia Patton is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She edited Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader (Routledge), and co-edited, with Benjamin Jantzen and Deborah Mayo, the issue Ontology and Methodology (Synthese). Her work has appeared in Synthese, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Kant-Studien, and Historia Mathematica, among others, and in The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. In 2017, she will become editor-in-chief of HOPOS.
Aristotle: Metaphysics: Book Iota
Brentano's Mind
Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (7th edition)
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume 52
From Plural to Institutional Agency: 2: Collective Action
Epistemic Consequentialism
Causal Powers
The Unity of Linguistic Meaning
J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice: Social and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education
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J. Marion Legendre
The man who created Herbsaint
A very dapper J. Marion Legendre pictured in 1982.
The elusive L. E. Jung & Wulff "Milky Way" Logo
The elusive L. E. Jung & Wulff "Milky Way" Logo, which has long been a source of mystery to absinthe collectors, has been found.
The L. E. Jung & Wulff Company, was an old New Orleans distillery that made absinthe before the 1912 U.S. government ban, L. E. Jung & Wulff who also made a number of liqueurs before prohibition, would also make several non alcoholic cordials during prohibition to keep the firm in business during the long dry spell in the USA.
Following the repeal of prohibition in Dec 1933, Jung & Wulff would revive production of absinthe and made approximately 1500, cases of absinthe before being ordered to cease by the FACA (Federal Alcohol Control Administration) in early 1934. Following this action L. E. Jung & Wulff would market their own absinthe substitute called Milky Way.
An excerpt the from the Jung & Wulff booklet The Mixologist L. E Jung & Wulff Trustees of Southern Traditions "Est. 1883".
The TRUTH about ABSINTHE ABSINTHE originated in Algeria, and was introduced into Europe by the French soldiers. It is a distillation of sixteen herbs, roots, seeds and leaves, including the much discussed WORMWOOD.
Some people believe that Wormwood is a poison. It is no such thing, but is a valuable tonic and stimulant for the stomach--see Webster's dictionary--when taken in such quantities as it appears in Absinthe. It is harmful only when taken in overdoses as is the case with anything.
When genuine Absinthe was prohibited by Federal Law, L. E. JUNG & WULFF CO. developed a non-wormwood product known as MILKY WAY, as a substitute for Absinthe. From this product was omitted only the prohibited wormwood, and the formula slightly changed to replace the wormwood. MILKY WAY can not be distinguished, in taste, even by the greatest Absinthe connoisseurs, from genuine Absinthe. We recommend its use wherever Absinthe is called for.
MILKY WAY is a distilled product, superior to all present day American Absinthe substitutes."
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Spiderman: Homecoming Movie Review- An Entertaining and Relatable Watch
Shehnaaz-Rashami Compete with Sidharth-Asim on Bigg Boss, Richa Sharma Shares Pics of Kapil Sharma's Baby
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Spider-Man Homecoming Movie Review: It Makes You Root For Tom Holland as Peter Parker
A complete joy-ride from its first frame to the last (yes! Including the post-credit scenes), the film delivers on almost every level and the biggest asset turns out to be Spiderman himself.
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Updated:July 7, 2017, 4:29 PM IST
A still from the film.
Director - Jon Watts
Cast - Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei
There were several presumptions about Spiderman having a big and late Homecoming into the Marvel Universe. When the trailer of Tom Holland wearing a techy suit came out, the doubts grew darker as Iron Man was there to mentor the new kid on the block. Many thought that the influence of a big Avenger can ruin the basic essence of Spiderman- who, for so many decades has created his own identity as a next door superhero (in the Marvel comics). However, Spiderman: Homecoming proves them all wrong and emerges as the summer treat for the fans.
A complete joy-ride from its first frame to the last (yes! Including the post-credit scenes), the film delivers on almost every level and the biggest asset turns out to be Spiderman himself. The 21-year-old Tom Holland perfectly fits the bill of the new age Spidey, growing up in the age of Avengers and alien attacks. Holland feels like a natural in the skin of Peter Parker, nerd, awkward, clumsy and a nobody- kind of boy next door. He isn’t rich or dynamic and that is the strength of the character.
Peter Parker (Tom Holland), a 15-year-old high school sophomore from Queens, is a next door superhero who had his major break during Avengers’ Civil War, and after getting an uber cool suit from Tony Stark, is stopping tiny thefts and sometimes creating problems. However, amid his petty outings comes a time when he finds himself facing the Vulture (Michael Keaton) and his Alien tech.
It’s up to Peter to bust them, though as Spider-Man he’s still figuring out what the heck he’s doing. In his red-and-blue spandex costume, now layered with computer intelligence, he shimmies up and around dizzying angles with features like Web grenade and even Spider-web wings! Always in a sticky situation thanks to his immature skills as a superhero, there are real moments up in the sky, you’re up there with him, doing just what you’re supposed to be doing at a movie like this one. You forget yourself. You escape.
Tom wins hearts as a gawky, anxious deer-in-headlights teen innocence that’s so fumblingly aw shucks and ordinary that it seems almost incongruous when he’s referred to as “the Spider-Man.” What he looks (and acts) like is Spider-Boy. Tobey Maguire, who certainly seemed boyish at the time, was 26 years old when he first played Peter, but Holland was just 20 when he shot this film, and it makes a difference. Spider-Man: Homecoming is the story of a savior who’s still mucking around in the business of being a kid.
The film comes across as more engaging, funny and relaxed than its predecessors. Director Jon Watts took extra care to mingle Peter in the Avengers Universe without dominating the aloofness of Spiderman. He was and is the standalone neighbourhood hero who doesn’t belong in any team. There is, of course, Iron-Man to mentor him, but Robert Downey Jr’s presence never overpowers Holland’s ingenuity and that’s a plus.
The supporting cast of the film also fits in well. While Keaton is Sinister as a villain and turns up where you least expect him. Jacob Batalon as Ned is Peter’s best bud and the first one to discover his alter-ego. He is the perfect side-kick and of course a friend in need. Now, no Spiderman film is complete without a romance and here Peter’s crush is his high school senior Liz (Laura Harrier). However, it is Zendaya whose character stays with you despite limited screen timing. Not fully explored, looks like Watts is saving her for the sequel.
The new Young-Adult spinoff of Marvel tries its best to feed away from the classic comic hero. There is a moment where the iconic mid-air kiss is expected, but instead, the gawky Spidey falls down leaving the audience with a chuckle. There is no Uncle Ben but instead a Tony Stark, whose persona is well, not as advisable around kids anyway.
The films feel like a typical Marvel ride at moments, with basic scripts mixed with relatable moments and emotions. Overall, the Universe has successfully sent its message that this kid isn’t quite super — he’s just like you.
It’s refreshing to see a character as mythical as Spider-Man portrayed in such a user-friendly, sanded-down, grounded way. This one deserves a watch for its fresh take on the web-spinning hero and for a re-visit to your high school days.
PS: There are two post-credits scenes in the film, one promising a sequel and other, well, teaching you patience. Also, there are enough surprises in the film, connecting it with the rest of Marvel Universe. Really hilarious bits.
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New Zealand's international influence surges thanks to Jacinda Ardern's leadership
Sophie Bateman
Watch: Jacinda Ardern doubles down on NZ's 'independent foreign policy'. Credits: Image - Getty, video - The AM Show
New Zealand's influence on the world stage has surged in the last year thanks to Jacinda Ardern's leadership, new analysis suggests.
The Asian Power Index is an analytical tool released yearly by the Lowy Institute which ranks 25 countries based on their power in the region.
New Zealand came in at number 12 with a score of 19.9, which classifies us as a "middle power" along with nations like Australia, South Korea and Thailand. We scored one point higher than last year, making us one of the index's "most improved" countries alongside Malaysia and Vietnam.
Prime Minister Ardern was named the fourth most influential leader in the Asia-Pacific region for her "ability to advance her country's diplomatic interests globally".
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Lead researcher Herve Lemahieu said our international influence has increased largely because of effective leadership, specifically the strong connections Ardern has forged with other leaders since she came to power.
"You should never underestimate the capacity of leaders to shape their country and advance their foreign policy interests," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
While New Zealand benefited from our leadership, Australia has fallen in its diplomatic standing because of its "political infighting" and notorious revolving door of Prime Ministers which has seen six different people in the role in the last decade.
But both countries are still rated as "resilient powers" thanks to our strategic geographical locations, and have both benefited economically as a result of the altered Trans Pacific Partnership.
The US and China are locked in a battle of the superpowers, ranking first and second respectively. While the US's score remains unchanged since last year, China's has grown, narrowing the gap between them to just 8.6 points.
Lemahieu says the Trump administration's focus on trade wars has weakened its influence in the Asian region and undermined its network of economic relationships.
The Asian Power Index awards its scores based on eight factors: economic resources, military capability, resilience, future resources, diplomatic influence, economic relationships, defence networks and cultural influence.
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FAMILY PROMISE SIGNUP
Our church is hosting families in need from October 9 - 23.
Press the buttons to find out more, watch the video, and sign up to help.
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Watch this Introduction to the Interfaith Hospitality Network, A Family Promise Program.
Visit the Family Promise Web Site
Since children will be hosted in the church, volunteers must apply for clearance from Pennsylvania's child welfare agency and do a criminal history check. These services are free for volunteers. Press the first button to access the child welfare site, apply for an id and password, then fill out the clearance application. Processing takes several days. Press the second button to obtain a criminal record certificate for volunteers. The certificate is returned on completion of the form.
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Volunteers will also need to complete the volunteer application, the confidentiality agreement, and the family promise volunteer agreement which must be returned to the church office. These documents can be accessed by pressing the agreements button below.
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We need Lay Readers for May and June. You can sign up after pressing the button.
Lay Reader Sign-up
We will have a booth at the Grange Fair on Wednesday, August 17 and Sunday, August 21.
You can sign-up for a two-hour spot in the booth on either of these days, providing information about our church to visitors at the fair.
Contact Kathy in the church office for more detailed information.
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The Beautiful Unrelatability of Wendy Goodman’s Book About Élite Homes
By Carrie Battan
Wendy Goodman’s “May I Come In?” compiles her essayistic accounts of beautiful homes around the world and the fabulous subjects who inhabit them. Here, the artist Kathy Ruttenberg’s living room.Photograph by Thomas Loof
To spend time on the Internet is to be inundated with the everyday habits of other people. We don’t even need to turn to social media; in recent years, breezy interviews with the notable and the not so notable have penetrated nearly every outlet, offering us a constant stream of information about the more trivial aspects of daily life. Want to know Frank Ocean’s mother’s skin-care routine? Head over to Into the Gloss, high-brow beauty’s mecca du jour. Curious how John Leguizamo spends his Sundays? He’ll tell you all about it, in the New York Times’ Sunday Routine column. Across New York magazine’s sites, you can read accounts of every morsel that someone has eaten in a given week (the Grub Street Diet), all the items someone has purchased in the last month (The Strategist’s Guest Hauls) or how a particular woman manages her busy schedule (The Cut’s “How I Get It Done.”) Monthly budgets, morning rituals, bedtime routines, daily media diets—there is a seemingly insatiable thirst for the quotidian. These accounts supply the thrills of both petty voyeurism and material inspiration. They are glorified recommendation engines, guiding readers toward which moisturizers to buy, which museum exhibits to visit, which personal-budgeting apps to avoid, and which supplements to ingest before bed.
Alba Clemente at her dressing table.Photograph by Jason Schmidt
At first glance, Wendy Goodman’s new book, “May I Come In?”—which is nearly three hundred pages long and approximately the weight of three bricks—might be assumed to be part of this expansive genre. Goodman, a longtime fashion and interior-design writer who has worked at New York magazine for the better part of her career, has spent her life exploring the homes of the cultural élite and publishing photographs and essayistic accounts of what she finds. In an era when anyone can art-direct his or her home into an object of design envy—or even rent a slick, unlived-in apartment for an Instagram photo shoot, as per a ghastly New York Times article—Goodman is a rarefied gatekeeper. Her stamp of approval is highly coveted, and “May I Come In?” catalogues her best offerings—among them the homes of Valentino Garavani, Vito Schnabel, Donatella Versace, Diana Vreeland, Tina Turner, and Whoopi Goldberg—from the past three decades. The book contains abridged versions of her original pieces, which are about both the homes she has visited and the fabulous subjects who inhabit them: fashion designers, artists, bon vivants, socialites, actresses, career oddballs, and more.
But the book feels nothing like the service-y slices of life that fill the Internet. Those features are relatable, lightly aspirational, and create in readers the impulse to buy. Goodman’s work, by contrast, contains no how-tos, no suggestions for maximizing tight apartment space or doing high design on a budget. In fact, her book is anti-aspiration: no average reader would dare to create a home as spectacular, peculiar, or singular as the ones found here. “May I Come In?” is pure fantasy, designed to preserve the majesty of its subjects’ reputations, rather than flatten them into a logging exercise.
But that doesn’t mean that the book is mere interior-design porn, either. Goodman’s work is so appealing to design-world outsiders because she doesn’t focus on abstruse brand names or lavish spectacles. Nor does she traffic in of-the-moment vocabulary (she uses the term “spartan splendor” in lieu of the ubiquitous “minimalism”). Instead, she’s interested in the lives these homes contain, and in the backstories behind their furnishings: Amy Sedaris, despite not having any children, has a fantastical playroom, because she’s a sprightly shut-in; in his Capri villa, Valentino likes to be served lunch by white-gloved butlers; Whoopi Goldberg moved to a New Jersey mansion once she got too famous to live a normal life in Manhattan. Even after decades of this work, Goodman has retained a childlike wonder about the homes she visits, and, rather than listing out obscure furniture designers or layout techniques, she likes to use people’s homes as canvases on which to project a fantasy about how their lives might be lived. As she gazes around the apartment of the quippy New York socialite Anne Slater, she recalls thinking, “In her fifty-three years in the apartment, you can bet that Anne Slater never had a ho-hum day.” Flipping through this soothing book, you can bet that Wendy Goodman has never had one, either.
The Tiffany-blue living room in Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and Steven Wine’s Rockaway apartment.Photograph by Dean Kaufman
Goodman’s book has been billed as memoir, but it contains almost no autobiographical information. This is a shame, because many of its most interesting moments are when its author gives some insight into her work. The afterword features a breathtaking and profound letter from Roald Dahl that Goodman received as a young girl, in which he encouraged her to become a writer. It makes you wonder: How did she meet all these esteemed people? And how does she live? What does her apartment look like? A significant part of Goodman’s skill is her ability to accrue connections in the course of decades, and to gradually work her way into the homes of reclusive or persnickety artists. She has obviously become friends with the glitterati she covers, but she positions herself as the consummate outsider, and speaks frequently about the anxiety she feels in asking to photograph or enter someone’s home. “When the day came, I walked slowly over the Pont de Sully, breathing deeply, my heart thundering in my chest, thinking about the questions I was going to ask,” she writes, recalling the day she was due to meet the French aristocrat Alexis, Baron de Redé, at his apartment in Paris’s Hôtel Lambert. (When she does meet him, she realizes that he is ill, and she cannot bring herself to ask him questions or take photographs.) She has a longtime rule, one of the many symbols of her delicate approach: she must ask for her subjects’ permission before touching or moving objects in their homes. But, beyond this, she rarely foregrounds her own experience, choosing instead to celebrate the splendor and richness of the people and apartments she visits.
Goodman often refers to her interior-design pieces as “stories,” and to the challenge of “getting the story.” In our image-saturated era of oversharing, broadcasting the interiors of another person’s home does not seem like a journalistic feat. But for Goodman it is. Her accounts of people’s homes contain no tips or tricks, no sponsored links directing you to an Amazon shopping cart, no tidbits about how your peers maximize their productivity—just photographs and stories. Surely you will see her book on many of the holiday gift guides you read this year.
Carrie Battan began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015 and became a staff writer in 2018.
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Too loud,too young,too rowdy?Watch out
Abbe Smith, Register Staff
Published 12:00 am EDT, Tuesday, June 1, 2010
NEW HAVEN -- Police Lt. Rebecca Sweeney and her team of "quality of life" enforcers aren't looking to stomp on anyone's good time.
They just want to protect everyone's right to a good -- and safe -- night out in the downtown entertainment district.
On Friday night, Sweeney led the Downtown Nightlife Safety Task Force as it kicked off its summer initiative by stepping out on Crown Street and checking in with bars, clubs and restaurants to make sure everyone was in line with the law.
The task force is a joint effort of the Police and Fire departments, the Health Department and zoning office and state Liquor Control Board. Sweeney, who is the downtown district manager, heads the task force and has seen vast improvements since taking over the beat nine months ago.
Armed with decibel meters and ticket pads, the team goes from bar to bar looking for violations such as underage drinking, oversize crowds, excessive noise and unclean conditions.
"This is a major concern for the citizens of New Haven to have a safe and enjoyable summer," said police Capt. Joann Peterson, who accompanied the task force Friday night. "It's not just for the people who live here, but for the people who visit downtown."
The task force has been making regular, unannounced visits in the downtown entertainment district for nine months. But with summer around the corner and more people out and about, enforcement becomes more of a quality of life concern, Peterson said.
The task force made its first stop at the Black Bear Saloon, and checked for noise, proper licensing and crowd levels. Everything was in order, as it often is at the beginning of the night. It's the end of the night when bars let out and people have been drinking for hours that the scene can get dicey.
"By the end of the night, we'll be making arrests," Sweeney said. Typical end-of-night arrests include underage drinking or disorderly conduct. Again, the goal is to ensure a more welcoming downtown atmosphere, task force members say.
Later, when the team approaches BAR on Crown Street, Sweeney immediately recognizes a violation. "They are going to have to close that door," she predicts as Health Department senior sanitarian Brian Wnek pulls out his noise meter and measures 85 decibels, far over the 62 decibel limit for downtown.
The managers at BAR comply with the police orders to close the large front door that opens to a patio-type setting and several bar patrons protest the closing off of the warm summer night.
"Whose quality of life are they trying to protect?" asked Grace Sumner, a New York resident in New Haven for a night out with friends. Sumner and her friends didn't think the bar was too loud, especially for its location on Crown Street.
But rules are rules and the task force is out to make sure everyone is following the same ones.
The crackdown on noise and health violations in the entertainment district is part of a broader summertime emphasis on quality of life issues in the city.
Last week, police resurrected its "quad squad," a special detail targeting unregistered and illegal dirt bikes and quads. As summer rolls in, the problem of illegal all-terrain vehicles speeding down back streets in quiet neighborhoods starts to gain momentum.
Peterson said safety initiatives ensure a safer summer for residents all over the city.
"We all come together to address the issues. You get more bang for your buck," she said.
Contact Abbe Smith at 203-789-5615.
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Hassle-Free PC
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Smart fixes for your PC hassles
Regain your privacy with these 3 browser add-ons
With so many advertisers, social networks, and other companies interested in your data, it's pretty hard to stay private online these days. But don't reach for that tinfoil hat just yet! There are a few tools that can help privacy-conscious users shake privacy-smashing trackers off their tails.
Here's a look at three extensions that keep your connections to websites encrypted whenever possible, block companies trying to track you, and erase any browsing data cached in your browser.
HTTPS Everywhere (Chrome, Firefox, Opera)
Many popular sites and services—including Facebook, Google, and Twitter—automatically encrypt browsing sessions using HTTPS, a.k.a. the security lock icon next to the website URL. But most sites that support HTTPS don't use it by default.
That's where HTTPS Everywhere comes in. Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital advocacy group, HTTPS Everywhere forces your browser to use HTTPS encryption if the website makes it available. You don't have to actively do anything; just install the extension and let HTTPS Everywhere work its magic.
Abine Do Not Track Me (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari)
Do Not Track Me protects you from third-party tracking methods online.
First introduced in 2011, Abine's Do Not Track Me protects your web browsing from third-party tracking via cookies and other methods. These tracking companies can include ad networks, social networks such as Facebook, and other data collection outfits. Abine says DoNotTrack Me has blocked over 1 trillion attempts to track users since its introduction. That's either a nod to the popularity of DNTM... or to the high number of companies trying to track you online on any given day.
Using DNTM is easy. Just install it in your browser, and the extension keeps a running total in your Web browser of the number of cookies blocked on each site.
If you create an account with Abine and are willing to pay $5 per month, you can also use the extension to protect your email address, phone number, and credit card number when filling out web forms.
The downside of Abine's extension is that you ultimately have to put your trust in a private company. For those of you not willing to trust a for-profit business, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is working on a similar extension called Privacy Badger. The EFF extension is currently in alpha form and not ready for mass consumption, but you can still try it out if you don't mind having to deal with occasional bugs and functionality problems.
Click&Clean (Chrome and Firefox)
Click&Clean wipes out all your cached browsing activity in one click.
This useful browser extension takes your privacy to a whole other level by offering one-click erase for your browser cache, download and browsing history, temporary Internet files, cookies, and flash cookies.
But Click&Clean is not a set it and forget it type of extension. Mixiesoft, the company behind Click&Clean, recommends reading its quick start guide before use. You may also have to do a little configuration in the settings so that the extension erases everything you want.
Nevertheless, once you're up and running, Click&Clean is very easy to use.
These three tools are just the tip of the privacy add-on iceberg, but they're a good foundation for closing the prying eyes of invasive trackers. If you want even more control over your online experience, be sure to check out PCWorld's guide to 16 powerful browser extensions that bend the web to your will.
Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn't like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.
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Time to act for jobs is now, no excuses
September 9, 2011 4:47 PM CST By PW Editorial Board
President Obama gave a forceful speech and proposal for jobs Sept. 8 before a joint session of Congress. It may well have been a turning point moment in his administration.
Faced with a persistent economic crisis and growing grassroots call for action to address it, the president proposed the $450 billion American Jobs Act.
The American Jobs Act has the potential to unite broad sections of the U.S. public. A bipartisan bill drawn from both Democratic and Republican proposals, Obama’s jobs bill begins to address the unemployment crisis by spending on roads, schools and summer youth jobs, extension of unemployment compensation and tax breaks for businesses.
It is a bill that, as Obama said in his Detroit Labor Day speech, puts the welfare of the country before party.
Because it partially draws on previous Republican proposals, and the bill promises to not add to the deficit, the GOP and its tea party attack dogs will be hard pressed to explain the reason for their unanimous opposition.
Some have argued Obama’s bold job proposal faces dim prospects in the GOP-dominated House of Representatives.
The bill’s chances for passage however depends not so much what happens in Congress, but what occurs outside of it.
The president has called on the American people to join him in calling for the legislation’s passage.
Over the coming weeks, rallies, vigils, flash mobs, letter-writing campaigns, phone banks, even work place job actions directed at Congress will have to occur on an unprecedented scale to demand action in support of the president’s proposal.
The president has called for youth summer jobs program and rebuilding public schools. Young people and students have an important stake in this legislation passage. Their creativity, energy, ideas and fighting spirit will add an essential ingredient.
Millions of signatures have to be gathered in support of the AFL-CIO’s and other jobs petitions.
Last night the president made it clear that he stands four square in favor of jobs, collective bargaining, along with Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Those that favor democracy and equality can do no less.
The call has been made. No excuses. The time to act is now.
PW Editorial Board
People’s World editorial board: Editor-in-Chief John Wojcik, Managing Editor C.J. Atkins, Copy Editor Eric A. Gordon, Washington D.C. Bureau Chief Mark Gruenberg, Social Media Editor Chauncey K. Robinson, Senior Editor Roberta Wood, Senior Editor Joe Sims
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Home » Leica Geosystems Receives Major Order from Surveying Company for System 1200 Products
Leica Geosystems Receives Major Order from Surveying Company for System 1200 Products
(Norcross, Ga., 06 June 2006) Leica Geosystems today announced that it has received a large order for its System 1200 surveying instruments from ATCS, P.L.C. of Dulles, Va.
The order includes 12 Leica TCRP1205 SmartStation robotic total stations with remote controls, 12 SmartRover GPS systems, four GX1230 RTK base stations, four complete Leica GeoOffice software packages and 12 subscriptions to Loyola Spatial Systems' RTK-Net⢠GPS Reference Station Network powered by Leica technology. They will be used by ATCS for a wide range of applications including topographic surveys, construction stakeout, boundary surveys and control measurements.
The products are being supplied by Loyola Spatial Systems, Leica Geosystems' authorized dealer in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
"This major order from a highly respected surveying company represents an important validation of the System 1200 technology," said Brian Daniel, director of Loyola Spatial Systems. "ATCS was one of the first U.S. surveying companies to embrace the new Leica SmartRover lightweight, all-on-the-pole GPS technology. Additionally, the SmartRovers and robotic SmartStations are all linked to Loyola's RTK-Net⢠(the only high accuracy GPS reference station network in Virginia and Maryland). This combination provides ATCS with the most powerful surveying system available today."
"This equipment was purchased based on the relationship we have built with Loyola Spatial Systems. The equipment is extremely user friendly and is a great addition to our surveying departments throughout the firm. The use of this new equipment has increased the productivity of our surveying staff," said Joseph Coppedge, L.S., ATCS Culpepper Office Manager.
About ATCS
ATCS, founded in 1994, is a professional consulting firm that provides complete, comprehensive services including surveying, transportation planning and design, engineering, environmental and construction maintenance and inspection services. Our qualified staff, of more than 250 employees, has expertise and experience with land development, transportation, environmental engineering, water resources engineering, water resources planning and management, construction management and disaster recovery efforts. Our high standards for quality, business ethics and concern for the communities we live in and support, are a vital part of who we are and what we offer to you.
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Tennessee Edition
The Tennessee Truth-O-Meter
"Shelby County donated – I’m sorry, gave – 44 schools to the city of Memphis."
— Chris Thomas on Monday, February 6th, 2012 in a Shelby County Commission meeting.
Suburban advocates say Shelby County 'gave' Memphis 44 schools in annexations
By Zack McMillin on Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.
If suburban towns like Collierville succeed in forming municipal districts, will Shelby County "give" them schools located inside their borders, like Sycamore Elementary School pictured here?
During a Shelby County Commission discussion over the possibility of transferring school facilities to suburban municipalities, Chris Thomas made a point that has become almost a suburban mantra.
In that meeting and another held on Feb. 10, Thomas and suburban colleagues Wyatt Bunker and Terry Roland hammered home the contention that Shelby County always "gave" school facilities to Memphis, free of charge, when the city took areas through annexations. Following that precedent, they argue, the county should give buildings to suburban cities wanting to split from the controversial new unified school district and form municipal districts.
Memphis City Councilman Shea Flinn, during the Feb. 10 deliberations, vented his frustrations on his Twitter feed: "Dear comm Bunker that 44 school system (sic) given to Memphis is False. It was done by agreement an (sic) other consideration was given. Damn." And: "My head might explode with the number of times that bull (expletive) is going to come up."
So who is right here, on an issue of utmost importance as Shelby County’s system of public schools goes through an historic transition? At least since 1965, have annexations resulted in Shelby County just giving school buildings to Memphis’s special school district, Memphis City Schools?
We found a complicated set of legal and historical circumstances, and, as with other issues associated with the impending transfer of Memphis’s public schools to the county, stances that have reversed over time, depending on residency. Memphis stakeholders who once argued buildings must be given over without consideration now want the suburbs to pay up, while suburban interests who once argued a city should compensate the county now say the county should give buildings to suburban towns free and clear.
Thomas and other advocates for the suburban municipalities cite feasibility studies from suburban school consultants Southern Educational Strategies. The studies say: "Since the 1960’s, at least 44 of these facilities, plus the furniture, fixtures, and equipment held in trust for the students were transferred by Shelby County Schools to the special school district at no direct cost to the Memphis City Schools."
One figure in the study shows that for each year since 1965 exactly $0.00 flowed to Shelby County in exchange for the schools.
Thomas’s statement is worth quoting in full, because it captures the prevailing suburban view: "I think it’s funny over the past many years that Shelby County donated – I’m sorry, gave – 44 schools to the city of Memphis . . . when they annexed areas. And now all of a sudden when a municipality, when a city in the county wants to educate those children, we are going to say we are going to charge you but we were giving them to Memphis? Personally I think that stinks. I think it’s unfair."
Flinn cites, among others, blog posts from Smart City Memphis, the consultant firm run by Tom Jones, a close aide to county mayors from the late 1970s until the early 2000s. "It’s how you understand a contract — consideration is more than just cash," Flinn said.
Smart City’s blog has taken serious issue with those studies, and in particular targeted former suburban Shelby County Schools (SCS) superintendent Jim Mitchell. A post titled "Town Districts School Building Fiction" quotes Mitchell at a suburban forum saying, "That is not what’s been done in this county for 45 years." Meaning, the county had not gotten payment from Memphis for schools during annexations.
Jones wrote: "Let’s say it simply: he is wrong." He added: "There have been torturous negotiations to give county government financial consideration . . . using waivers of ADA funding requirements, offsetting financial credits, or through joint design of schools by city and county school district."
In other words, although there was not a direct cost, Memphis-partisans point out that the county was indirectly compensated in other ways, such as agreements to allow the county to forego what is commonly referred to as the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) funding requirement. ADA requirements mean that for every $1 the county gives for capital improvements to the suburban system, it has had to give a corresponding share to Memphis City Schools (MCS) based on the city’s much-larger student population.
"When I’ve heard the county commissioners, it’s like, ‘Oh, they annexed and they got the schools la dee da,’ " Flinn said. "But that’s not an accurate rendition. It was a negotiated transaction, with give and take on both sides."
Where the feasibility studies do reference negotiated agreements between the city and county over the schools, to waive ADA requirements, they do so in the form of footnotes. Ernest Kelly, the attorney at Evans, Petree who litigated for MCS for decades, said those footnotes came out of years-long legal wrangling.
Those footnotes show that Memphis ultimately agreed to allow Shelby County a $12 million waiver on ADA funds as "credit" for Memphis taking schools in annexations from the late 60s and early 70s.
To Memphis at the time, $12 million spent on suburban school capital improvements meant, because of the then $5.7-to-$1 ADA split, it stood to see $68.4 million flow into its coffers from county government. That $68.4 million equates to $229 million in purchasing power in the 2010 economy, and the website MeasuringWorth.com calculates that $68.4 million in projects in the 1978 economy equates to $433 million in projects in the 2010 economy.
For the suburban school system, the $12 million credit — equivalent to $76 million in projects today — allowed for construction or renovation of some of the very buildings municipalities want to receive for free. A Jan. 27, 1978, article from longtime Commercial Appeal education reporter Jimmie Covington, now working to help Collierville start a municipal system, points out: "For several years, the county has not had to share school construction funds with the city because of credits received from the city system for county schools which were annexed. However, about $4 million in county school building projects approved for this year have about exhausted the credits." In an April 28, 1978, article, Covington wrote that "the city system has paid the county for annexed schools by waiving" the ADA share.
Kelly does emphasize that MCS felt strongly it could have and should have received buildings without any considerations, based on an 1898 case, Prescott vs. the Town of Lennox. While cautioning that the legal niceties related to an annexation differ from the current circumstances, Kelly explained that Lennox determined facilities are a public trust and therefore "the buildings ought to follow the kids."
"We were all suited up and ready to go to Chancery Court," Kelly said Thursday, but there were other variables, some having nothing to do with schools – like the city’s desire to push the burden of costs related to the city’s public hospital over to the county. Cut a deal giving the county something for the annexed schools, MCS was told, so we can save money on the hospital issue.
"So the legal argument didn’t get resolved on one side or the other," Kelly said. "We had a compromise that . . . eliminated the risk of paying money, which would have been painful and in our view unjust. From the county’s point of view, they got something."
Two of the planners most involved in more recent transfers – longtime and recently-retired SCS chief of operations Richard Holden and former MCS director of planning Louise Mercuro — each said there were agreements in which MCS again agreed to allow the county to waive ADA requirements.
"Most of them had to do with schools that would eventually become part of Memphis City Schools," Holden said.
For some buildings, MCS and SCS cooperated with joint funding, planning and designing.
"It was never a straight policy that they give the schools, ever," Mercuro said. "The county always got something out of it, one way or the other."
Holden, now a key member of the county’s schools merger transition commission, said that after SCS became an elected board, in 1998, there was more of a push from the suburbs to get fair value from MCS for annexed schools.
"In the latter years Shelby County Schools board members thought there should be some compensation," Holden said. Longtime SCS board chairman David Pickler agreed with that assessment.
According to a Feb. 12, 2003 article, one of the initial proposals for financing what became Arlington High School involved crediting the county for $37 million for annexed schools. Both Memphis and suburban school boards "agreed to the proposal in concept" but it did not come to fruition. Arlington High School was eventually financed with bonds paid for by a tax levy on non-Memphis residents only.
Our ruling
So did Shelby County in fact "give" 44 school buildings to Memphis City Schools? As the consultants note, exactly $0.00 in real dollars has exchanged hands for the buildings MCS took over during annexations.
But there were serious past negotiations where the county received considerations of real value, even if it never got a check. Some of the suburban municipalities, in fact, benefitted from new schools or renovations made possible by Memphis agreeing to "credit" the county for some value of schools it took over.
Because of that, we rate the statement Half True.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.
Researched by: Zack McMillin
Edited by: Bill Adair, Tom Chester, Michael Erskine
Subjects: Education, Infrastructure
Audio of meetings of Shelby County’s Board of Commissioners.
Daniel Connolly, "Shelby County Commission resolution could require ‘fair market’ value for schools" in The Commercial Appeal. Feb. 7, 2012.
Daniel Connolly, "Shelby County commissioners go on record regarding schools" in The Commercial Appeal. Feb. 11, 2012.
Shea Flinn’s twitter feed, @FlinnShady
Smart City Memphis blog posts, "Town Districts School Building Fiction" and "Towns get what they paid for with consultants report on schools."
Feasibility report for a Collierville Municipal School District. The section dealing with schools is pages 62-69.
Jimmie Covington, "School board approves projects of $13 million" in The Commercial Appeal. Jan. 27, 1978.
Jimmie Covington, "County school enrollment leap may mean more money for city" in The Commercial Appeal. April 28, 1978.
MeasuringWorth.com inflation calculator.
Lela Garlington, "113-year-old lawsuit could be key as possible battle over school buildings looms" in The Commercial Appeal. Nov. 21, 2011.
Michael Erskine, "Wharton plan irks county schools," in The Commercial Appeal. Feb. 12, 2003.
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Interview with Shea Flinn, Feb. 15, 2012.
Interview with Louise Mercuro, Feb. 15, 2012.
Interview with Richard Holden, Feb. 15, 2012.
Interview with Ernest Kelly, Feb 16. 2012.
Interview with David Pickler, Feb. 16, 2012.
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The SMT8 piggy-back system follows in the footsteps of the popular SMT6 and SMT7 products, but with unparalleled performance and a quantum leap of technical innovation. This is all possible with the latest 16 bit DSP processors, crammed full of features that you've never seen before. The SMT8 is ideal for the professional tuner and engine builder at a cost competitive price.
One of the features is the fully programmable engine protection, which monitors the engine's performance. Should anything exceed the engine's specifications, the SMT8 will gradually reduce the engine's power after a programmable time delay, in essence looking after your engine. This is absolute MAGIC!
The external display output is also new for the SMT8 series. It allows our digital display to receive data from the SMT8 and selectively display the desired value without the presence of a PC. The displays are small with bright attractive LED colour options. Multiple values can be displayed on a single display by simply toggling between them.
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Detailed HELP is available on the unit while the software screen is open. Simply move your mouse over an item and right click and hold down the button. A help description will appear detailing the function of that item. This help feature is invaluable because you get the help from the unit and not from an out of date printed manual. The software manual is also provided with every purchase and should be used as a reference guide, where the item help should be treated as the Holy Grail.
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Kim Yuthana and May Kunmakara | Publication date 14 February 2013 | 05:10 ICT
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Employees of Telecom Cambodia protest in Phnom Penh, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post
More than 200 employees of Telecom Cambodia demonstrated yesterday morning, demanding the company’s general director step down and that the Anti-Corruption Unit investigate the company.
The strikers claimed general director Lao Saroeun had been involved in large-scale embezzlement, other forms of corruption and disrespect of workers throughout his five-year tenure and such misdoings had delayed the company’s listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange.
“According to the report of 2011 incomes, Lao Sareoun and his accountant and financial director took $2 million of Telecommunication Cambodia’s income,” the workers claim in a public statement.
The statement goes on to allege that in order to cover up the $2 million shortfall, Sareoun, his accountant and his financial director counterfeited a report to the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
This led to conflicting records of whether the company had made $29 million or $27 million in 2011, the workers’ statement says .
“Telecommunication Cambodia should already have joined the Cambodia Securities Exchange when the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority joined it [in April last year], but it could not because of corruption,” striker Mom Rin said.
“We need a new leader as soon as possible, because the organisation is a public enterprise of the state and has earned a large amount of money for the state.
“If [Sareoun] is still working, some of the money will be lost and the staff will not do their best work because he is a dictator.”
Lao Sareoun was not in the office during the strike and could not be reached.
Ming Bangkosal, director-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia, declined to comment on the protest, describing it as an “internal conflict”. Koy Pum, chair of the Council of Telecommunication Cambodia and an under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, told the strikers he would discuss the matter with his Minister, So Khun, who confirmed the case was being considered.
Telecommunication Cambodia is one of two state-owned enterprises the government plans to list on the securities exchange this year.
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By: Christie Duffy
New Jersey lawmakers unanimously passed a bill that would ban the sale of supplemental baby mattresses designed for playpens, after such products were linked to dozens of infant deaths.
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Senate unanimously passed a bill that would ban the sale of supplemental baby mattresses designed for playpens after they were linked to dozens of infant deaths.
“You go into stores with the impression what's on the shelves is safe," said New Jersey Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), a sponsor of the bill (A-1139 substituted for S-2616).
As the final vote was announced, 21-0, Joyce and Rich Davis smiled and embraced in the balcony up above. They lost their 4-month-old son Garrett in 2000 to an add-on mattress that they purchased to make his playpen more comfortable.
"It was very difficult," recalled a tearful Joyce Davis. "At the time there were no warning labels that the two together are a known suffocation hazard."
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In 2006, Davis founded Keeping Babies Safe. Her non-profit is dedicated to educating parents on best practices and dangers when putting their baby to sleep. They've lobbied some major retailers, including Target, Sears and Babies "R" Us, to stop selling the secondary mattresses.
"These supplemental or after-market mattresses these manufacturers are selling go against industry warnings," she said.
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission warned parents on social media in December: "Only use the mattress that comes with your crib/bassinet/play yard. No supplemental mattresses."
The New Jersey Assembly already voted in favor of banning supplemental baby mattresses. The bill awaiting Governor Christie's signature would make New Jersey the first state to outlaw this product.
Joyce Davis plans to turn her attention to New York next, where the mattresses are still being sold by major retailers like Amazon and Walmart, she said.
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Best in cheese to compete in Dodgeville
April 29 marks the sixth annual Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Championship in Dodgeville.
Best in cheese to compete in Dodgeville April 29 marks the sixth annual Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Championship in Dodgeville. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://post.cr/2odZcbB
Midwest Features Published 9:29 a.m. CT April 15, 2017 | Updated 2:25 p.m. CT April 16, 2017
Lorna Mick of Monroe (left) won the 2016 Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Championship’s Amateur Classic category.(Photo: Photo courtesy of Dodgeville Area Chamber of Commerce)
If dressing up a grilled cheese means sneaking in a slice of tomato or bacon or switching from wheat to sourdough, please take a moment to sit down. The world is changing this most common of sandwiches two slices at a time, especially this month.
It doesn’t matter that we just missed National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day (April 12) because the real hoopla happens April 29 at the sixth annual Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Championship in Dodgeville. That means competition in four sandwich categories: classic, classic plus one additional ingredient, classic plus extras (unlimited extra ingredients) and desserts. Amateurs compete separately from professionals, and one category is for ages 12-17.
The registration fee is low — no more than $10 per category, but competition is limited to 20 teams of two people per heat.
“The whole thing is about bragging rights,” says Lynn Price of the Dodgeville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Although winners get trophies, not big prize money, contestants came from nine states in 2016.
The event is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Ley Memorial Pavilion, 600 Bennett Road, Dodgeville. All VIP tickets are sold, but general admission (to watch entrants, hear music, sample cheeses, buy food, drink and souvenirs) is free, but download a ticket to give organizers a clue about how big of a crowd to expect. More than 4,000 showed up in 2016. grilledcheesewisconsin.com, 608-935-9200
New this year is a craft-beer-cheese-music event on the night before all that cheese grilling. The Brews 2 Choose Tour begins at Dodger Bowl, 318 King St., Dodgeville, is 5:30-8:30 p.m. April 28. Tickets are $30 and include shuttle services from area hotels and between tour stops. dodgeville.com/event/brews-2-choose-tour, 608-935-9200
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Unlike land and maritime military warfare, which has evolved over thousands of years, the history of war in the air is as short as it has been spectacular: only 100 years have passed since the first flight in a powered aircraft. Despite its brief history, however, military air power is not an insignificant part of the modern military machine: on the contrary, it has played a strikingly prominent role in recent conflicts and humanitarian relief operations, and is likely to take the leading position in many future ones. In the decades since World War II the skies, and increasingly space, have acquired ever more importance as the ultimate "high ground".
In Sky Wars, David Gates examines the history of military aerospace power, discussing technical developments between both World Wars and the use of air power in specific wars in the latter part of the 20th century, including the recent conflict with Iraq. At the same time he analyses the military and civil applications of airpower in the contemporary world, some of which have led to scientific and technical advances of great benefit to humanity. As well as looking at the ways in which developments in air power, military prowess and space exploration have had a major impact on our daily lives, he highlights more contentious issues, for example the so-called "CNN factor", whereby the increasing capacity for journalistic intrusion into ongoing military operations compels armed forces to be much more sensitive to public opinion.
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Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against Trump
The document depicts a campaign that expected to 'benefit electorally' from information stolen and released by Russia and a president who subsequently engaged in several alarming actions.
By Devlin Barrett and Matt ZapotoskyThe Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The report from special counsel Robert Mueller III lays out in alarming detail abundant evidence against President Donald Trump, finding 10 “episodes” of potential obstruction of justice but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller’s role to determine whether the commander in chief broke the law.
Submitted to Congress on Thursday, the 448-page document alternates between jarring scenes of presidential scheming and dense legal analysis, and it marks the onset of a new phase of the Trump administration in which congressional Democrats must decide what, if anything, to do with Mueller’s evidence. The report suggests – though never explicitly states – that Congress, not the Justice Department, should assume the role of prosecutor when the person who may be prosecuted is the president.
“The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law,” Mueller’s team wrote.
Trump once feared Mueller could destroy his presidency, but the special counsel may instead define it. By releasing a thick catalogue of misconduct and mendacity that, if not criminal, is deeply unflattering, Mueller’s report may mean long-term political problems for a president seeking reelection next year.
Still, Trump’s electoral base has not been swayed by such stories in the past, and he has already claimed victory on the investigation’s bottom line: no conspiracy with Russia, no obstruction of justice.
Since Mueller ended his investigation last month, a central question facing the Justice Department has been why Mueller’s team did not reach a conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice. The issue was complicated, the report said, by two key factors – the fact that, under department practice, a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, and that a president has a great deal of constitutional authority to give orders to other government employees.
Trump submitted written answers to investigators. The special counsel’s office considered them “inadequate” but did not press for an interview with him because doing so would cause a “substantial delay,” the report says.
The report said investigators felt they had “sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and to make certain assessments without the President’s testimony.”
Photojournalists gather around table in the House Intelligence Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill to photograph the Mueller report in Washington on Thursday. Associated Press/Cliff Owen
Trump’s legal team declared Mueller’s report “a total victory” for the president. It “underscores what we have argued from the very beginning – there was no collusion – there was no obstruction,” they said.
In their statement, Trump’s lawyers also attacked former leaders at the FBI for opening “a biased, political attack against the President – turning one of our foundational legal standards on its head.”
Trump said little publicly about the report’s release. At an event Thursday, he indicated he was having a “good day,” and adding that “this should never happen to another president again, this hoax.” Ahead of the report’s release, the president lobbed a familiar attack on the investigation. “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!” he tweeted. “The Greatest Political Hoax of all time! Crimes were committed by Crooked, Dirty Cops and DNC/The Democrats.”
If Mueller’s report was a victory for the president, it was an ugly one. Investigators paint a portrait of a president who believes the Justice Department and the FBI should answer to his orders, even when it comes to criminal investigations.
During a meeting in which the president complained about then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump insisted that past attorneys general had been more obedient to their presidents, referring to President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert, as well as the Obama administration.
Attorney General William Barr speaks alongside Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report during a news conference on Thursday morning. Associated Press/Patrick Semansky
“You’re telling me that Bobby and Jack didn’t talk about investigations? Or Obama didn’t tell Eric Holder who to investigate?” Trump told senior White House staffers Stephen Bannon and Donald McGahn, according to the report.
“Bannon recalled that the President was as mad as Bannon had ever seen him and that he screamed at McGahn about how weak Sessions was,” the report said.
Repeatedly, it appears Trump may have been saved from more serious legal jeopardy because his own staffers refused to carry out orders they thought were problematic or potentially illegal.
Video: Watch Maine’s congressional delegation react to the Mueller report
For instance, in the early days of the administration, when the president was facing growing questions concerning then-national security adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations about sanctions with a Russian ambassador, the president ordered another aide, K.T. McFarland, to write an email saying the president did not direct those conversations. She decided not to do so, unsure if that was true and fearing it might be improper.
“Some evidence suggests that the President knew about the existence and content of Flynn’s calls when they occurred, but the evidence is inconclusive and could not be relied upon to establish the President’s knowledge,’ ” the report said.
The report also recounts a remarkable moment in May 2017 when Sessions told Trump that Mueller had just been appointed special counsel. Trump slumped back in his chair, according to notes from Jody Hunt, Sessions’ then-chief of staff. “Oh my God, this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked,” Trump said. The president further laid into Sessions for his recusal, saying Sessions had let him down.
“Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your presidency,” Trump said, according to Hunt’s notes. “It takes years and years and I won’t be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
The special counsel’s report on possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russians to interfere in the 2016 election is extremely detailed with only modest redactions – painting a starkly different picture for Trump than Attorney General William Barr has offered, and revealing new details about interactions between Russians and Trump associates.
Analysis: Mueller’s report paints a damning portrait of Trump presidency
Mueller’s team wrote that though their investigation “did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” that assertion was informed by the fact that coordination requires more than two parties “taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests.”
And Mueller made it clear: Russia wanted to help the Trump campaign, and the Trump campaign was willing to take it.
“Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” Mueller’s team wrote.
The report detailed a timeline of contacts between the Trump campaign and those with Russian ties – much of it already known, but some of it new.
For example, Mueller’s team asserted that in August 2016, Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the FBI has assessed as having ties to Russian intelligence, met with Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, “to deliver in person a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort acknowledged to the Special Counsel’s Office was a ‘backdoor’ way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine.”
The special counsel wrote that both men believed the plan would require candidate Trump’s “assent to succeed (were he elected President).”
“They also discussed the status of the Trump Campaign and Manafort’s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states,” the special counsel wrote. “Months before that meeting, Manafort had caused internal polling data to be shared with Kilimnik, and the sharing continued for some period of time after their August meeting.”
Mueller’s report suggests his obstruction of justice investigation was heavily informed by an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that says a sitting president cannot be indicted – a conclusion Mueller’s team accepted.
“And apart from OLC’s constitutional view, we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct,” Mueller’s team wrote.
That decision, though, seemed to leave investigators in a strange spot. Mueller’s team wrote that they “determined not to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes.” They seemed to shy from producing even an internal document that alleged the president had done something wrong – deciding, essentially, that they wouldn’t decide.
“Although a prosecutor’s internal report would not represent a formal public accusation akin to an indictment, the possibility of the report’s public disclosure and the absence of a neutral adjudicatory forum to review its findings counseled against determining ‘that the person’s conduct constitutes a federal offense.’ ”
Barr said during a news conference Thursday that Justice Department officials asked Mueller “about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion.”
“He made it very clear, several times, that he was not taking a position – he was not saying but for the OLC opinion he would have found a crime,” Barr said.
Mueller did not attend the news conference.
Barr addressed the media before releasing the report. He made repeated references to “collusion,” echoing language the president has stressed even though it is not a relevant legal term.
Barr also described how the nation’s top law enforcement officials wrestled with investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice. He and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “disagreed with some of the special counsel’s legal theories and felt that some of the episodes did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law” but that they accepted the special counsel’s “legal framework” as they analyzed the case, Barr said.
It was the first official acknowledgment of differing views inside the Justice Department about how to investigate the president.
Barr also spoke about the president’s state of mind as Trump responded to the unfolding investigation. “As the Special Counsel’s report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the president was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks,” he said.
The report also said there was a critical distinction to be drawn when analyzing Trump’s conduct – what he did before and what he did after The Washington Post reported in June 2017 that he was under investigation for potential obstruction of justice.*
“That awareness marked a significant change in the President’s conduct and the start of a second phase of action,” Mueller’s team wrote in their report. “The president launched public attacks on the investigation and individuals involved in it who could possess evidence adverse to the President, while in private, the President engaged in a series of targeted efforts to control the investigation.”*
Mueller’s team said those efforts included attempting to remove Mueller as special counsel, pressuring Sessions to unrecuse himself from the investigation, and using “public forums to attack potential witnesses who might offer adverse information and to praise witnesses who declined to cooperate with the government.”*
The Mueller report is considered so politically explosive that even the Justice Department’s rollout plan sparked a firestorm, with Democrats suggesting that the attorney general was trying to improperly color Mueller’s findings before the public could read them.
Barr is preparing to testify to Congress about the report next month, and Democrats are moving to secure Mueller’s testimony soon after. The attorney general also notified Congress after the report’s release that a small number of senior members of each party would get a chance to review a less-redacted version of the document next week.
Democrats, who have vowed to fight to get the entire report without redactions, as well as the underlying investigative documents, immediately panned the offer, calling it a non-starter.
Prompted by a reporter, Barr responded to a call earlier Thursday from the top two Democrats in Congress to have Mueller appear before House and Senate committees. “I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying,” the attorney general said.
In a letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said they wanted testimony “as soon as possible” from Mueller. And after Barr’s news conference, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., released a letter to the special counsel seeking an appearance before his panel “no later than May 23.”
The Washington Post’s Greg Miller, Spencer S. Hsu, Karoun Demirjian, Ellen Nakashima, Philip Rucker, John Wagner and Felicia Sonmez contributed to this report.
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IPC Wins 'Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell-Side' at Waters Sell-Side Technology Awards 2019
IPC Systems, Inc.
15 Apr, 2019, 13:00 BST
IPC's Unigy Platform Receives Fourth Sell-Side Award Win
NEW YORK and LONDON, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for financial market participants, today announced its Unigy platform was named the winner in the "Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell-Side" category at the Waters Sell-Side Technology Awards 2019. This marks the fourth time Unigy has been selected for these prestigious awards.
"Year after year the industry recognizes that Unigy is the best solution for serving regulated users in their mission-critical communication and transactional needs," said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer of IPC. "Unigy helps make sell-side firms more efficient, flexible, and productive through its services-oriented architecture."
Unigy, IPC's flagship solution, has been recognized globally for years as the industry's dominant trading and communications platform. It is a widely adopted, secure, compliant, end-to-end solution purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community, and has experienced robust growth in installations over the past year. Unigy seamlessly interoperates with IPC's network community of over 6,400 customer locations in 700 cities throughout the world, and also benefits from IPC's other product areas.
"The fact that IPC's Unigy platform has now won a total of four Sell-Side Technology Awards is remarkable, given the intense competition in this space," said Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology. "This sustained success is testament to the quality of IPC's technology, its ability to address its clients' evolving needs, as well as the firm's vision."
Unigy features one of the industry's largest, most diverse portfolios of PC, endpoint device, and mobile applications, accessible across the entire trading workflow for the greatest collaboration benefits. IPC's IQ/MAX Touch endpoint has an intuitive, highly flexible touch screen interface with multiple ways to continually inform, shorten steps, and accelerate workflows. For trading fluidity throughout an enterprise, the compact Pulse endpoint provides instantaneous, seamless access to help reduce risk and ensure compliance.
About the Sell-Side Technology Awards
Hosted by Waters magazine, WatersTechnology and Sell-Side Technology, the Sell-Side Technology Awards recognize the leading technologies and third-party vendors in their area of expertise, through an auditable and transparent methodology developed and managed by WatersTechnology's senior journalists, headed up by editor-in-chief Victor Anderson.
IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Learn more at https://www.ipc.com/
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Wii U tops Xbox 360 in Japan
by Matt Tran February 27, 2014, 12:36
Nintendo’s Wii U has something new to shout about after its lifetime sales topped that of the Xbox 360. Globally the Wii U has struggled to impose itself against consoles from the likes of Sony and Microsoft, having more joy on home soil instead.
In Japan the Wii U’s lifetime sales have been recorded at a little over 1,643,000, which has been enough to see the console surpass the Xbox 360. This can be considered a positive for Nintendo but in reality the Xbox 360 is still ahead of the Wii U in virtually every other region in terms of sales.
Nintendo announced earlier that they are shutting down online multiplayer for the Wii and DS, which could trigger a new spike in sales for the Wii U and 3DS. This decision from Nintendo was a surprising one, but also a ruthless and necessary one if they are going to make things work for their newer devices.
Sony launched the PlayStation 4 in Japan last week which should shake up the games console situation over there. The PS4 Knack bundle has already sold over 310,000 units which gives an idea of the scale of the PS4’s popularity, or possibly the Wii U’s failings depending on which way you look at it.
Should Nintendo be proud of the Wii U overtaking the Xbox 360 in Japan or is it a meaningless accomplishment?
Written by Matt Tran
Matt has a passion for technology, gaming and social media, whether its using it or writing about it. He joins the Product Reviews team having graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2013, after completing an honours degree in Building Surveying. Matt will mostly keep you in the loop on gaming, tech and gadget news.
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Avalanche Notes: Rantanen, Annunen, Zadorov
September 16, 2019 at 5:02 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 2 Comments
Things are all quiet between the Colorado Avalanche and Mikko Rantanen according to Adrian Dater of Colorado Hockey Now, who tweets that there has been “little to no talk” over the last week. There was a prevailing thought in the hockey world that once Mitch Marner signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs there would be some kind of movement with the other restricted free agents, but that’s not necessarily the case in Colorado. Rantanen compares pretty well to Marner after scoring 171 points over the last two seasons, but it is hard to imagine Avalanche GM Joe Sakic was happy when he saw the six-year, $65MM deal come across the wire from Toronto.
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado’s best player, is making averaging just $6.3MM over the final four years of his contract, making it tough to see the Avalanche hand out nearly twice that amount to Rantanen even with his strong performances to date. The 22-year old Finn will almost certainly become the team’s highest-paid player however if he signs any long-term deal, just how high the Avalanche are willing to go is unclear. Colorado has plenty of cap space for this season, but has to worry about potential extensions for Gabriel Landeskog, Philipp Grubauer and Cale Makar in two years.
They won’t have to worry about Justus Annunen for a while however, as the goaltending prospect has signed a two-year extension in Finland that keeps him under contract through 2021-22. While that doesn’t necessarily guarantee Annunen won’t be coming to North America during that time—the NHL does have a transfer agreement with Liiga—it certainly makes remaining overseas a strong possibility. The 19-year old was selected in the third round in 2018 and would see his draft rights expire on June 1, 2022. Annunen was brilliant in his first game for Karpat this season, stopping 23 of 25 shots for a win against HPK.
Nikita Zadorov escaped major injury when he left the ice early yesterday and head coach Jared Bednar told reporters including Ryan S. Clark of The Athletic that it is just a lower-body “tweak.” Zadorov is considered day-to-day. It is a big season for Zadorov as he approaches restricted free agency next summer, needing to prove that he can be a top-four option for this team over the long haul.
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Philadelphia Flyers Agree To Terms With Travis Konecny
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Pay that man his money Joey. Besides with the league now running till after Seattle’s inception this cap is going up. There’s more revenue by then. You’ll have the cap space for Cale, Gruby and Gabe.
I posed a question to PHR for their mailbag about a month ago saying overpay him. Force the cap strapped teams to have to cut players to get below the cap. PHR fielded my question, (thanks again for that Gavin) saying one rogue contract doesn’t necessarily set the market. How about two rogue contracts? Joey, do it, stick it to Calgary. That bum was taking cheap shots at Gabe all series long. Let’s price that bum out of Calgary’s comfort.
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Research course
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies by Research (Chinese Studies)
University of Cambridge · Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Applicants for this course should have achieved a high 2:1 or a first at BA level from a UK university or equivalent. Good working knowledge (oral and written) of Modern Chinese.
Our MPhil programme in Chinese Studies is offered as a one-year programme which aims to give graduate students an opportunity to develop their analytical, research and writing skills in preparation for further academic research or entry to professions requiring such skills. It is designed for highly motivated future researchers who have a substantial undergraduate background in Chinese studies or related fields but need more exposure to topic-specific or discipline-based analytical frameworks and more intensive training in primary source language(s) and research skills.
At the end of the MPhil programme, students will be expected to have:
acquired the ability to read, interpret and translate primary sources in Modern and/or Classical Chinese;
acquired a good knowledge of the general scholarship on modern and/or pre-modern Chinese culture(s);
acquired an in-depth knowledge of the secondary literature relevant to the subject of their thesis;
developed the ability to formulate original research questions and produce a well-constructed argument to answer them, in the form of an independent piece of research based on the use of primary and secondary sources; and
developed independent archival and library- and internet-based research skills concomitant with successful completion of a Masters-level degree in Chinese Studies.
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Vintage Pulp Dec 12 2019
You're too late. We all got dressed ten minutes ago.
Above, The Naked Hours by Wenzell Brown, for Popular Library, 1956, with unusual bright green art by an unknown. We knew nothing about the book or the author, but this cover, battered as it is, attracted us, so job well done there. The book is good. A guy with a serious alcohol problem goes on a bender and wakes up in a strange bed with a girl he doesn't remember meeting. But she's sexy as hell so he embarks on an affair with her that evolves into a half-serious plot to kill his rich wife. Once he realizes the plot is real, he can't get out because the original transgression—that of his infidelity—will get him divorced and booted out of the Upper Manhattan good life if it becomes known. So he keeps trying to finesse his way to a solution, which involves outsmarting two hitmen intent on spousal murder. Odds on getting out unscathed are not good, but in effective crime fiction the odds should never be good. Nice one from Brown. We'll be looking for more.
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Vintage Pulp Dec 4 2019
Arizona Jim? Never heard of him. I'm New Mexico Clarence. Totally different guy.
Above, Arizona Jim, by the prolific Charles Alden Seltzer, 1949, for Popular Library. A preacher named Jim McDonald shows up in the town of Red Rock and has to deal with a gang of local outlaws led by Flash Haddam. Usually, facing lawless thugs would be a big job for a preacher, but it's only a disguise—Jim is really a government lawman. Classic motifs, including romance with a local good girl. The paperback is fronted by cover art from an unknown.
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Vintage Pulp Apr 11 2019
You'll get nowhere fast with this book.
Popular Library made a habit of retitling novels if they thought the original was too esoteric. Many companies did it, but Popular Library had some notorious instances, including changing Ian Fleming's Casino Royale to You Asked for It. Speed Lamkin's The Easter Egg Hunt appeared in 1954 to reviews that ranged from cool to tepid, which was probably all the excuse Popular Library needed to rebrand and pulpify it for paperback release. Thus a year later Fast and Loose hit bookstores in a blaze of golden color from the exemplary brush of cover artist Rafael DeSoto, who was one of the top paperback illustrators going. This effort is typically flawless, and features the trademark textural background that makes his work so identifiable, such as here and here.
We gave Fast and Loose a read. You notice the cover quotes some reviewer or other saying the book is James M. Cainish. Lamkin is like Cain the way papier mache is like origami. They're both things you do with paper, but that's about it. Lamkin is more from the Capote or Fitzgerald schools of authoring. His book is also very similar to Ramona Stewart's forgotten novel The Surprise Party Complex, though Stewart's book came later. But both deal with the events of a summer in Hollywood. Where Stewart focuses on a trio of aimless teens, Lamkin writes about adults who, though they're producers, actors, and writers, are equally aimless, partying the days and nights away.
The main character Charley Thayer works for Life magazine, though never has work to do. He observes the celestial bodies in the orbit of wealthy Clarence Culvers, who has the best party house in Beverly Hills and is determined to make his young, volatile wife a star. The people in this crowd are shallow, selfish, and bigoted, and since Lamkin spent time in L.A. we can assume he's relating what he observed, or at least thought he observed. Frankly, these folks are all so tedious that when the expected tragedy finally occurs it's a relief to have one less horrible person in the world, even a fictional one. Speed needed a limit—to about two-thirds the number of pages. Then Fast and Loose might have worked.
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Vintage Pulp Feb 20 2019
Without getting too technical, you have a condition known as vaginitus neglectus. But there's a treatment for that.
More for the medical pulp bin, sleaze subset: Doctor Paradise, by Jay J. Dratler, with a physician who likes to practice internal medicine with his patients. Check a couple of other fun medical examples here and here.
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Here's to us waking up bewildered and trying to piece together tonight from fragmentary memories and vague sensations of shame.
Above, a cover for Robert Tallant's Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night. Basically, a woman who runs a New Orleans boarding house filled with unusual renters and a ghost decides to throw a party, which turns out wilder than she expected and leads to some startling revelations about the occupants. Written to span twenty-four hours, the book was well received enough to spawn two sequels, Love and Mrs. Candy and Mrs. Candy Strikes It Rich. The success was not a surprise. Tallant was born in New Orleans, was already experienced writing about it through other published books, and obviously loved the place, quirks and all. If you're looking for real Crescent City feel in a mid-century novel, with jambalaya, voodoo, and all the rest, Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night is it. It's originally copyright 1947, with this Popular Library paperback with Earle Bergey cover art coming in 1951.
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Vintage Pulp Sep 11 2018
We both said many things last night. By light of day and from a perspective of total sobriety let's admit none of them were true.
The couple on this cover for Gertrude Walker's So Deadly Fair look less than thrilled to be together, but that happens, right? It was painted by Rafael DeSoto, and the book tells the story of a femme fatale who frames a guy for murder—her own. That sounds like we just spoiled the plot but the bulk of the narrative actually deals with what happens when the protagonist is paroled ten years later and has not, shall we say, reached a state of closure about how things went down. Revenge is a dish best served cold, especially when the recipient is your ex. Originally published as a hardback in 1948, this Popular Library edition appeared in 1952.
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Vintage Pulp Aug 19 2018
We're both starving, and frankly, the way he's behaved he's given us absolutely no reason not to eat him.
During the mid-century period, high quality cover art was seen as the key to paperback sales, thus many types of books received makeovers. Aussie novelist Ronald McKie's The Survivors is an example. You'd assume it was fiction but it's actually the true story of the Battle of Sunda Strait, which occurred in Indonesia between the islands of Java and Sumatra during World War II and pitted two Aussie cruisers against a major Japanese naval force. During a battle in which the outgunned Aussie ships fared better than could have been reasonably expected, both were sunk. In the aftermath a group of stranded men battled innumerable hazards in an attempt to survive. The book sprang from the handwritten account of an Aussie sailor who spent four years in a Japanese POW camp. He was a friend of McKie's, and when the author read the dairy pages he immediately decided to write a full accounting of the battle. As far as we know nobody ate anyone, but raft rides get pretty rough. The Survivors came out in hardback in 1953, with this Popular Library paperback appearing in 1954.
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Vintage Pulp Jul 27 2018
I could stop coloring it, I guess. But then I'd be a brunette again, and that's worse than dying young.
Above, an uncredited cover for Blondes Die Young by Bill Peters. The author is aka William P. McGivern, and the book is hard boiled action in Chicago's jazz clubs and dope dens, as the sleuth protagonist Bill Canalli tries to track down the culprit who murdered his girlfriend. Who by the way has barely cooled to room temperature before slick Bill beds another woman, but what's a hard boiled guy to do? Anything to get to the bottom—of the case. The hero's treatment of this woman will raise some eyebrows in this day and age, but this is still an involving tale and we like that it doesn't get too moralistic about the drugs angle. And we got it for four bucks, which is an absolute steal. It was written in 1952 originally, with this Popular Library paperback edition appearing in 1953.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 24 2018
Well, technically I belong to Lester back there, but if you've got the money I'm available as a rental.
Sam Ross was the pen name of Samuel Rosen, a Russian born writer who was brought to the U.S. by his parents, attended school, joined the army, served during World War II, and turned both his immigrant and war experiences into journalism, fiction, and screenplays. He was immediately successful, and later shared his valuable insights by teaching at UCLA. You Belong to Me is a wrong-side-of-the-tracks tale of a married man who gets involved with another woman while his wife is out of town and finds himself in all sorts of trouble. The backdrop for his descent into craziness and danger is Manhattan, and often Harlem, which rarely fails in literature to provide writers the tools they need to craft a picturesque tale. Ross takes his protagonist through jazz clubs and all the rest. The book appeared as a paperback original from Popular Library in 1955, and the top notch cover art is by Owen Kampen.
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Don't! That's only for salads or desserts!
This is very nice cover work for Everett and Olga Webber's U.S. Civil War novel Bound Girl. The art is by Sam Cherry, one of the best. After a 1949 hardback debut the book came out as this Popular Library paperback in 1950. The bound girl of the novel is an indentured servant living on the Kansas-Missouri border who experiences both war and various romantic ups and downs. Possibly her love problems stem from bad manners. After all, who'd want to date someone who doesn't even know that a three prong fork isn't for meat courses?
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1912—International Opium Convention Signed
The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague, Netherlands, and is the first international drug control treaty. The agreement was signed by Germany, the U.S., China, France, the UK, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam.
1946—CIA Forerunner Created
U.S. president Harry S. Truman establishes the Central Intelligence Group or CIG, an interim authority that lasts until the Central Intelligence Agency is established in September of 1947.
1957—George Metesky Is Arrested
The New York City "Mad Bomber," a man named George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. Metesky was angry about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier. Of the thirty-three known bombs he planted, twenty-two exploded, injuring fifteen people. He was apprehended based on an early use of offender profiling and because of clues given in letters he wrote to a newspaper. At trial he was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital.
1950—Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury
American lawyer Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury in connection with an investigation by the House unAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC), at which he was questioned about being a Soviet spy. Hiss served forty-four months in prison. Hiss maintained his innocence and fought his perjury conviction until his death in 1996 at age 92.
1977—Carter Pardons War Fugitives
U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all of the country's Vietnam War draft evaders, many of whom had emigrated to Canada. He had made the pardon pledge during his election campaign, and he fulfilled his promise the day after he took office.
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Papa Murphy's Celebrates 1,500th Store with Giveaway
Industry News July 15, 2015
Papa Murphy’s Holdings Inc., the world’s leading take ’n’ bake pizza franchise, announced its 1,500th store opening in Goldsboro, North Carolina. This is the first Papa Murphy’s store in the Goldsboro area owned by new franchisee Rod Gumbish, formerly an Air Force squadron commander at the nearby Seymour Johnson Air Force base. To celebrate this significant milestone on Thursday, July 16, Papa Murphy’s is giving away 1,500 pizzas at 1500 hours (3 p.m.) at the Goldsboro location. The company will also host a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Al King.
“The opening of our 1,500th Papa Murphy’s store is a major milestone for the company and a testament that our unique take ‘n’ bake concept is a valuable brand worth investing in,” says Jayson Tipp, chief development officer and senior vice president of technology for Papa Murphy’s. “Our growth is due in large part to our dedicated franchise owners and employees who are committed to consistently delivering fresh, high-quality menu items and a great customer experience. We are enthusiastic about sharing this occasion with Goldsboro residents and Papa Murphy’s fans across the country as we expand our brand into existing and new markets.”
The first Goldsboro location features Papa Murphy’s innovative CREATE store design that highlights the fresh, high-quality ingredients, which are available daily on the make-line. The CREATE store format focuses on complete transparency and personalization, allowing customers to see their pizza as it’s created. An open layout showcases the scratch-made dough prep area, hand-chopped vegetable toppings, and freshly grated 100 percent whole-milk mozzarella cheese. The location features digital menuboards to enhance the customer experience and provide a resource for local messaging.
“We are thrilled to join the Goldsboro community and introduce Papa Murphy’s distinct take ‘n’ bake pizza and its mouthwatering flavors to the community,” says Rod Gumbish, franchise owner of Papa Murphy’s. “We welcome area residents to come join us today for a grand opening celebration as we look forward to providing a solution to the dinnertime dilemma for busy families on the go.”
Papa Murphy's is widely recognized for its dedication to providing great tasting, affordable and convenient fresh meal options that moms and dads can feel good about serving their family. Papa Murphy’s pizzas are completely customizable and guests can choose to top their favorite scratch-made crust, made in-store daily, with a wide variety of fresh, wholesome, ingredients. Guests take their pizza home and bake in their own oven for 12–18 minutes and serve hot for a delicious meal any day of the week.
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Camden Ramping Up Development Pipeline
6/15/2012 | By Matthew Bechard
With demand for multifamily rental space continuing to grown, Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT) has reinvigorated its development pipeline.
In a video interview with REIT.com at REITWeek 2012: NAREIT's Investor Forum, Camden Chairman & CEO Ric Campo discussed the state of the apartment market and how his company is looking to capitalize on its continued strength. After shutting down its pipeline amid growing fears of a recession in 2007, Camden has invested $550 million in refurbishing approximately 3,000 legacy properties. The company currently has a pipeline backlog of approximately $500 million.
While the sector's bull run may have left some observers speculating that the apartment sector is close to topping out, Campo said he thinks multifamily REITs still have room to run.
"The fundamentals in our business right now are incredible," Campo said. "They're about as good as they get right now. The position from a supply-and-demand perspective is really good."
Campo estimated that the apartment sector is currently in the early stages of an up market cycle that should last as long as six years.
Camden has consistently been ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the best companies to work for in the country. Those kinds of "passionate" employees help drive shareholder returns, according to Campo.
"If you have passionate employees, they translate that passion to your customers. Customers stay longer, they pay higher rents and, at the end of the day, you make higher returns," Campo said. Campo noted that companies that have been recognized by Forbes in the rankings have tended to outperform the broader market over time.
"We focus on taking care of our employees first, our customers second, and our shareholders do well."
Commercial Real Estate Market in ‘Mature Recovery’ Stage at Start of 2020
Apartment Fundamentals Remain Stable Despite Modest Third Quarter 2019 Drop, Says Green Street Advisors
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Lorry drivers should be banned from using car sat nav
Local councils have been protesting that lorry drivers shouldn’t be allowed to use sat-navs specifically designed for cars, as many managers provide drivers with. The Local Government Association (LGA) is planning to pass a legislation introduced to ensure truck drivers in England and Wales are using GPS systems designed for HGVs.
They feel councils should have the authority to enforce drivers to stay away from routes where their vehicle is over the weight or height restriction. A recent case of a lorry crashing into a bridge close to Birmingham, ripping the roof off of the vehicle’s trailer entirely is one of many cases where a sat nav has lead a driver to a route their vehicle cannot get through without causing harm.
There have been many calls to raise awareness that many navigation systems are not designed to account for height and width restrictions with their vehicles, which is why HGV drivers should not be using them as a means to find a route for their destination as they lead them into areas lorries won’t be able to proceed in without damaging their vehicle. This has been raised following an increased amount of lorries getting stuck in narrow or low bridges across the UK.
During September in 2016 a driver caused damage to a bridge in Marlow, Buckinghamshire which lead to the bridge being closed for repairs for half a year. The vehicle was over 10 times the bridge weight limit. Network Rail spoke regarding the issue saying high vehicles need to watch out for “low bridge” warnings on the roads. One of their bridges in Hinckley was hit 11 times over the course of 12 months.
GPS systems developed for lorry drivers feature info on heights, width restrictions and alert the driver of any narrow roads they should avoid. They also let drivers enter their vehicle’s dimensions meaning the GPS can work out the best route depending on their vehicle’s information.
Police forces in Wales and Greater London already have the power to enforce weight and height restrictions on HGVs but councils are urging the government to roll this out across England. Councils have been working with major haulage firms to ensure drivers use the routes suited for their vehicles.
LGA transport spokesman, Martin Tett, called upon the government to "start taking this issue more seriously" considering the increasing amount of accidents caused to due sat-navs. While banning HGVs isn’t the solution, drivers simply need to be more aware of where they are going.
Even though most lorry drivers prove to be reputable, Mr Tett told reports communities were getting “fed up” with the few who decide to ignore any restrictions on the roads.
"It is common sense that all lorry drivers should use sat-navs designed for trucks, but this is only going to become a reality when it is a mandatory requirement. We are talking about a very small extra cost to drivers," he said.
A spokesman of the AA said that councils must ensure that warning signs are clearly visible so less drivers will miss any warning signs, also giving them a heads up as soon as possible to ensure they don’t take any turns they cannot back out of.
He said: "If a particular road has a particular problem then it is up to the local authority to come up with the signage to deal with that.
"And obviously if the lorry or any other road user contravenes that road order and that signage then they are open to a penalty."
While plenty of HGV drivers use car sat-navs, there are clearly some restrictions that the sat-nav isn’t designed to notify the driver of. Transport managers who give their drivers sat-navs must ensure it is designed to work around the size of your vehicle, meaning it can calculate each route depending on the vehicle rather than showing one simple route that some vehicles simply can’t use.
Councils also need to invest in further warning sings, meaning drivers can be notified of any low bridge well in advance and plan a different route rather than trying to plough through the low and thin bridges only to cause harm to their vehicle and themselves. As technology advances more vehicles are developing built-in sat-navs, which would be very handy to HGV drivers at a time like this.
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By Judy & David A. on 03/19/19
The Swick team arrived promptly, worked efficiently and completed the work properly.
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Our Spark Modern Fires fireplace needed service. The pilot light was on but no gas was reaching the ribbon pipe. Travis from Swick Home Service knew exactly what to look for. He not only diagnosed and repaired the fireplace, he also removed and cleaned the glass...
Our Spark Modern Fires fireplace needed service. The pilot light was on but no gas was reaching the ribbon pipe. Travis from Swick Home Service knew exactly what to look for. He not only diagnosed and repaired the fireplace, he also removed and cleaned the glass front, vacuumed the interior, replaced all the required batteries and repaired the remote control. He was personable and professional. He did a great job.
By Kevin C. on 03/09/19
The Swick employees are timely when they come to complete scheduled service. They've always done very good work on our appliances/facilities.
By Walter & Connie S. on 03/08/19
Bruce P was very professional, and thorough with my repair. He answered all of my questions and more than exceeded my expectations. I would recommend Swick based off of the service I received.
By Dennis S. on 03/06/19
The guys from Swick did a Super Job on my garage furnace installation and cleaned up after themselves.
By Jim & Carolyn K. on 03/06/19
Mike is extremely knowledgeable and a very good technician!
By Susan P. on 03/06/19
Service was timely and very professional. Hunter was very polite and personable even tho he was out and about working in sub zero degree weather. Thanks for getting my furnace up and running as quickly as you did.
They fixed my furnace in a timely and professional manner.
By Vince & Mona Jean R. on 03/04/19
Travis was very timely and professional. He is a very polite, likeable individual who is obviously knowledgeable and skilled in his craft and goes the extra mile to be sure the job is done right.
By Robert P. on 03/01/19
Travis Larson was the assigned Service Technician for our annual Swick Goldstar Furnace and Humidifier clean and tone. Travis was very courteous, knowledgeable, and efficient with his work - a true professional. 5 Stars.
Travis showed up right on time....he was very professional ...and did an excellent job with my fireplace. He explained what he was doing and why it had to be done. He was very neat - cleaned up after himself and answered all my questions about my fireplace & ...
Travis showed up right on time....he was very professional ...and did an excellent job with my fireplace. He explained what he was doing and why it had to be done. He was very neat - cleaned up after himself and answered all my questions about my fireplace & other questions I had for him....he was a DELIGHT.... thank you &Travis for a job well done
By Greg W. on 02/10/19
Thanks to Swick Plumbing & Heating for sending Jim Negri, Lead Installer, to set up a new Pressure Water Tank for my house after the original tank started to leak. Jim did an excellent very professional job of setting up the new tank and a tank tee with all the req...
Thanks to Swick Plumbing & Heating for sending Jim Negri, Lead Installer, to set up a new Pressure Water Tank for my house after the original tank started to leak. Jim did an excellent very professional job of setting up the new tank and a tank tee with all the required items, including a new pressure valve. Having the water off for a few days reminded me how important each item in the water supply line is extremely important. Thanks also to Hunter for the swift appraisal of work to be done and also to Austin who also assisted on some phone calls. Swick is lucky to have Jim Negri, he did a great job in setting up and installing the new water pressure tank, the tank tee and all it's connectors, the pressure valve and replaced a portion of the out-flowing water line. Thanks Jim, Job Well Done! Sincerely, Greg Welch
By Bill & Janis B. on 02/05/19
Hunter arrived to review our furnace and boiler. While here, he fixed our toilet and helped us figure out why our kitchen cupboard shelf closer was not working properly. We really liked him because he was so helpful.
By Melissa D. on 02/02/19
I have used Swick for years. Love them!
By Robin L. on 01/26/19
Connor did an awesome job!! He had my furnace up and running in no time. I would recommend Swick to anyone. They were very prompt and I had a great experience with them.
By Mary P. on 01/26/19
Each service person that has come to our home was friendly and courteous. Travis got our fireplace working like new. Bruce was very thorough in his explanation of the Gold Star plan and changing the pilot light assembly in the fireplace. Nathan and Hunter did a fin...
Each service person that has come to our home was friendly and courteous. Travis got our fireplace working like new. Bruce was very thorough in his explanation of the Gold Star plan and changing the pilot light assembly in the fireplace. Nathan and Hunter did a fine job inspecting our boiler. When our fireplace had issues, Swick was there in a flash to fix it to make sure it was safe to use.
Excellent service, communication, and spent time on instructing me on the operation of the boiler maker. Thank you.
Swick's employees are so friendly and prompt. Travis L did a fine job on our gas fireplace which was not operating correctly. It now works like it should and looks even better than I expected. Very personable and competent employee.
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By Russ and Rae Ann V. on 02/09/18
We recently had our furnace shut down the other evening and it was -13 out. Knowing Swick was closed had me a little worried, but when I called, the after hours person picked up. Jordan was 40 miles out working on another issue, but called and said he would be ther...
We recently had our furnace shut down the other evening and it was -13 out. Knowing Swick was closed had me a little worried, but when I called, the after hours person picked up. Jordan was 40 miles out working on another issue, but called and said he would be there asap. He did not have the equipment to fix, but did supply us with five heaters which kept the house from freezing. Early the next morning Austin called and said a tech would be out soon. Travis was very knowledgeable and had the right transformer and fuses to fix. He spent time with us explaining what may have happened and is very good at what he does. Swick has hit the jackpot hiring Travis. We loved the personal touch he has and can tell he loves what he does. Thank you Swick for the quick response.
By Bradley B. on 01/24/18
Travis was fantastic! Answered all my questions. Was very helpful with my options. Explained everything he did, why, and what I should be looking for going forward. Thoroughly impressed with everything about the service call. Thank you, Travis!
Travis from Swick was fantastic. Thoroughly explained everything he was doing, what my options were, and answered every question I fired at him. Extremely satisfied with the service call.
By John P. on 01/02/18
By John & Margaret P. on 12/26/17
Prompt service in the middle of the night. Friendly technician who solved the problem quickly. Our holiday was saved. Will not hesitate to call again if needed.
Had an emergency heating problem at 4:00am in the morning. Travis L. Arrived on time with a smile and found the problem quickly. He arrived at a solution and the smile was then on my face. We are VERY satisfied with Swick and won't hesitate to use their services in...
Had an emergency heating problem at 4:00am in the morning. Travis L. Arrived on time with a smile and found the problem quickly. He arrived at a solution and the smile was then on my face. We are VERY satisfied with Swick and won't hesitate to use their services in the future. Thanks again.
By joe on 12/19/17
Travis L. service was outstanding Recently locating to the UP we were given recommendations to utilize other heating / plumbing companies We were so pleased with Travis L . we definitely will call Swick with the expectation other technicians are as professional as TravisL.
Travis Came to our home late evening and spent a lot of time restoring the gas fireplace operation In fact he spent extra time in providing detailed guidance on how to operate the system. We were totally impressed with his patience and professionalism in helpin...
Travis Came to our home late evening and spent a lot of time restoring the gas fireplace operation In fact he spent extra time in providing detailed guidance on how to operate the system. We were totally impressed with his patience and professionalism in helping us after Travis working a long 12 hour day. Travis service definitely convinced us that we made the right choice in selecting Swick rather than other heating & cooling service companies. Travis has made us future Swick customers
By Katherine W. on 12/14/17
Service was wonderful. Travis was on time, courteous, knowledgeable and efficient. Scheduling was a problem. Had to wait a week and a half for an appointment which was then cancelled twice. Took two weeks to get service from initial phone call.
By Mary L L. on 12/13/17
Travis did an excellent job in installing a smart thermostat in my home, which had some challenges, and then took time to explain its many features. It's working great.
By Karen S. on 12/13/17
Travis was great! Professional from start to finish! He clearly takes alot of pride in his work!
Travis was A-one in professionalism and expertise. Was on time with his appointment and was patient in explaining how to operate our fireplace. Took his time cleaning it and making sure everything was in working order. Wrote down how to operate the fireplace and ga...
Travis was A-one in professionalism and expertise. Was on time with his appointment and was patient in explaining how to operate our fireplace. Took his time cleaning it and making sure everything was in working order. Wrote down how to operate the fireplace and gave us his number if we had and questions or concerns. Some difficulty in getting original appointment. When we first called we had our appointment scheduled a week and half out. On the day of the appointment we were cancelled because of workers being held up on other jobs. We were rescheduled for the next day and then cancelled again for the same reason. Couldn't schedule for the next day waited until the following week. We understand that our appointment wasn't a burst water heater or pipe or a furnace that stopped working, but felt we had to wait a longer time for service than necessary. Outside of that, Travis made up for the wait. Again, we were most satisfied with his knowledge and expertise.
By Mary L. on 12/11/17
Travis was very helpful. Explained in detail what our problem was. Got our problem solved in a timely manner.
By Grant L. on 12/10/17
Travis L. was very profesional, courtious and knowlegable. Travis worked in a timely fashion and communicated all issues well to me in a way that I understood. I would highly recommend him to family and friends. Grant Lyke
By Eileen O. on 12/08/17
Everyone was very friendly and professional, and helpful!
Travis was friendly, respectful and professional. His explanations and suggestions were clear and understandable. Everyone I spoke to was just great!
By Charlie G. on 11/17/17
Young Travis did a superior job of cleaning all of our gas fireplace, replacing a part and installing a new wall thermostat. He was very pleasant, competent and hard-working. We believe he is a strong asset for Swick.
By Stephen E. on 11/14/17
Very good communication and experienced tech.
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Fire in Coronation Street – Peter risks his life to save Simon from burning boat
But was the blaze started deliberately?
By Johnathon Hughes
Wednesday, 13th February 2019 at 11:20 am
Is there an arsonist loose on Coronation Street? It certainly looks that way when Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) sees the boat he’s been renovating go up in flames one night with his son Simon (Alex Bain) trapped on board.
On Wednesday 13 February the studly sailor’s burgeoning romance with feisty single mum Abi Franklin (Sally Carman) is all at sea when he announces he’s accepted a sailing trip around a Greek island leaving in a few weeks’ time but is taking Si instead of his new squeeze. Not only that, but he publicly tells Simon that Abi means nothing to him!
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Lashing out at Peter and going on the lash to drown her sorrows, Abi seethes while excited Simon shows pals Aadi and Asha Alahan round the vessel named Lost Buoy, currently dry-docked on the cobbles next to Underworld. Disaster strikes after the twins leave when a lamp is knocked over and the wick ignites, setting the boat on fire.
A crowd gathers and Peter panics to realise Simon is in danger, and by Friday 15 February the beleaguered Barlow dad is pointing the finger at Abi for arson. But when Cathy Matthews gives her an alibi and Peter learns factory CCTV footage that has been deleted, he accuses old flame Carla Connor for being the fire starter – but who is really responsible? Chris Gascoyne teases an explosive week on the cobbles…
Is Peter just stringing Abi along?
No, he has got feelings for her. He enjoys her company and she’s attractive. She likes him, he wasn’t planning it, they’re both in a particular place in their lives and are enjoying each other’s company. He’s not using her for anything.
Does Peter see a kindred spirit in Abi as she often turns to drink when distressed?
There’s a certain protection he feels towards her because he has been in that place himself and can see Abi’s vulnerability, and the hurt it causes. He does want to protect her from that, but he’s not there to save her.
Is Abi right when she accuses Carla of stringing Peter along?
It’s very complicated between Peter and Carla, it’s been going on for almost 12 years now. They can’t live with each other and they can’t live without each other! Sometimes Peter lets the relationship go and thinks he can move on and Carla won’t let him, and vice versa, or sometimes they have a bit of input in each other’s relationships which puts a spanner in the works and brings it all to a halt. Peter seems to be fine with Abi, he’s doing up his boat and plans to leave. But then Carla becomes involved in Peter’s life again, and therefore he automatically falls towards her.
Do you think there will always be something between Peter and Carla?
I do, until one of them leaves or gets married. They are not good for each other but they will at some point be together. I don’t know how they are ever going to have an easy relationship! It’s unfinished business and unless they move to the other end of the world, and just carried on living without each other, they could get back together. But the spark is always there while they are still living on the street.
How does Peter react when he sees the boat on fire and realises Simon is inside?
He’s terrified and is desperate to get him out. Peter can hear Simon screaming and shouting for him so he knows he is alive and he risks his own life to save his son, as any parent would. The possibility of losing his son makes him start to think about how the fire started. Everything is treated with a higher intensity.
Would it be good for Peter to get away from Weatherfield?
Yes. He is living for this dream while he is doing the boat up, but it’s almost like the dream is better than the reality…
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Train Milan → Cologne
About this journey The average travel time between Milan and Cologne is 10h23 minutes. The quickest route is 9h40 minutes. The first train leaving Milan is at 07:25, the last at 12:25. There is an average of 3 trains a day between Milan and Cologne, leaving approximately every 2h05 minutes.
Departure station : Milano centrale (Piazza Duca d'Aosta, 1 20124 Milan)
Arrival station : Koeln hbf (Breslauer Platz 4 50668 Cologne)
Fashionable Milan might have shortcomings—but it’s worth the trip
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>Economic Planning
Economic planning is the process policymakers undertake to ensure the generation, sharing, and consumption of wealth. RAND has examined the economic planning at local and national levels, the economic cycles that result, and the political issues surrounding the economic planning process.
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Deterrence Failures and Deterrence Strategies: Or, Did You Ever Have One of Those Days When No Deterrent Seemed Adequate?
The author argues that conventional thinking on deterrence is wrongheadedly preoccupied with the short-term military balance, when in fact, a nation's long-term political and economic prospects may dominate military considerations in the decision on whether or not to go to war.
A Model of External and Internal Price Equilibrium in South Vietnam
Presents an economic model of the South Vietnamese economy.
Temporary Villages for Refugees: Costs, Problems and Opportunities
An analysis of the costs and planning and operating requirements for establishing temporary villages for South Vietnamese refugees while their home villages are being secured for GVN control.
[Soviet Cybernetics : Recent News Items], No. 17.
Several articles in this issue discuss how economic planning is hampered by shortages of computers, desk calculators and abacuses, repairmen, and mathematical economists, by lack of coordination, and by the data problem. Economists and mathematicians...
Organizational structures and planning
Paper prepared for the Universities-National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on The Economics of Defense to be held at the University of Chicago, April 15-16, 1966. The author considers the influence of organizational structure on planning in...
The Future of Input-Output in Soviet Planning: Comments on a Paper by Vladimir G. Treml.
A discussion, based on Treml's analysis, of Soviet difficulty in applying input-output techniques to economic planning, and of the wider factors that inhibit mathematical economic planning in the Soviet Union. The main difficulties lie in a dichotom...
The Indian economy and defense
Comments on current Indian economic planning and development prepared for [Capital] Magazine in Calcutta, India. The author notes that the recent fighting with Pakistan has drastically changed the environment of development planning. He suggests se...
Economics of Defense
An examination of the economic aspects of defense planning. The author discusses resource management, program budgeting, cost-benefit analyses, and institutional arrangements.
Input-output and Soviet planning : a survey of recent developments
A discussion of the increasing interest shown by the USSR in the application of tools of mathematical economics to Soviet planning and economic organization. This interest constitutes a radical shift from the attitude of bitter hostility characterist...
An approach to the study of a developing economy by operational gaming
A consideration of the possible use of operational gaming, or simulation involving human players, to examine an economy as a whole. In this paper, gaming techniques are discussed entirely in terms of their applications to national economic planning....
Economic Planning in Korea
An examination of national economic planning in Korea from the first effort made in 1954 toward comprehensive planning to the present five-year plan completed in 1961.
Studies in economic planning: a trip report.
An account of a recent trip to attend an economic conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and to talk with various people in Paris and London about European attitudes toward foreign aid, economic integration, and domestic economic planning. There is a ra...
Economic planning and the military electronics industry.
A discussion of the role of the economist (1) in making overall evaluations of national economic conditions and corporate long-range planning activities, and (2) in using cost-sensitivity-analysis techniques to estimate the economic impact of alterna...
The law of value and Soviet economic planning.
A critical review of the comment in The American Economic Review (1944-1945) on a Soviet press release which asserted that, contrary to the views previously held in the Soviet Union, the law of value operates in socialist economics....
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Pink Floyd photographer Jill Furmanovsky
Catalogue No: PF006JF Artist(s): Pink Floyd Location: Nassau Stadium, New York, USA and Earls Court, London, UK Date: 1981 Era: The 1980's Edition: Rockarchive Edition 30 Print type: Giclée Print Paper type: Archival 310gsm cotton based rag paper
Jill Furmanovsky recalls "Although I had provided images for Gerald Scarfe to draw from for the films, I was not officially involved in The Wall project, so I had no idea what to expect when I saw the show for the first time in Nassau Stadium New York in 1980. Like the audience I was gob-smacked. Both the album and the live shows were the apex of all Roger's ideas in one - a work of genius. I took pictures from my seat in New York over two nights, and again when I saw the show at Earls Court. When collating pictures for this exhibition I used two pictures joined together to make this image - one was taken in New York and one in London. They are from two different points in the show but illustrate how effective the set and lighting was."
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Energetic contact sheet of The Ramones performing at the Hammersmith Odeon, London in 1980
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Gallery: Natalia Osipova and Matthew Golding’s ROH Magazine photoshoot
A glimpse behind the scenes with The Royal Ballet’s newest Principals.
By Lottie Butler (Former Assistant Content Producer (News and Social Media))
8 January 2014 at 5.40pm | 5 Comments
Royal Ballet Principals Matthew Golding and Natalia Osipova during a photo shoot for the Royal Opera House Magazine 2014 © Sean Malyon 2013
New Royal Ballet Principals Natalia Osipova and Matthew Golding have been featured in the Royal Opera House Magazine, discussing their debut as a partnership in The Sleeping Beauty in March. As part of the feature, the dancers were photographed together in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House.
Backstage at a photo shoot with Royal Ballet Principal Matthew Golding © Sean Malyon 2013
Royal Ballet Principal Matthew Golding © Sean Malyon 2013
Backstage at a photo shoot with Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova © Sean Malyon 2013
The Royal Opera House Magazine, January 2014 © Sean Malyon 2013
In the article Jessica Duchen explores what makes the perfect balletic partnership.
‘I think a great partnership is mainly about having an understanding for each other: understanding what the other person needs and bringing out the best in them', says Matthew. ‘If you can find that special thing, then the partnership develops naturally and that’s the best way to go about it.’
Natalia danced with The Royal Ballet for the first time in October 2012, giving three performances of Swan Lake. In the magazine, she describes how her performances on stage at Covent Garden felt different from those in Russia. ‘For me it was a very nervous moment, because I was doing Swan Lake only for the second time,’ she says, ‘but good partners and good teachers helped me very much. It was a very happy moment.’
The Royal Opera House Magazine, which is published quarterly, is sent to all Friends of Covent Garden. It includes a range of backstage news, advance information and features about forthcoming productions, including exclusive interviews with the casts and creative teams.
The Friends of Covent Garden play a crucial role in supporting the work of the Royal Opera House. They enjoy a range of benefits, including priority booking for all performances and events, and the chance to apply for tickets to some general rehearsals.
Friends Priority Booking for Summer Season productions opens on 18 (ballet) and 19 (opera) March, three weeks ahead of general booking. Find out more about becoming a Friend of Covent Garden.
8 January 2014 at 5.40pm
This article has been categorised Ballet and tagged by Marius Petipa, Friends of Covent Garden, Magazine, Matthew Golding, Natalia Osipova, Production, The Sleeping Beauty
Dana responded on 8 January 2014 at 10:17pm Reply
They look like they had a lot of fun. Looking forward to getting my copy!
Laurie Bayda responded on 14 January 2014 at 2:43pm Reply
Can't wait!
Veronica Ollero responded on 25 January 2014 at 9:52pm Reply
Just cannot to see the dance Sleeping Beauty. Always love to see Osipova dance.
Am so looking forward to seeing them dance Sleeping Beauty. Loved her Giselle.
Morton Paley responded on 16 February 2014 at 1:19am Reply
You are so fortunate to have Osipova in The Sleeping Beauty!
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CRIMES; EXPUNGEMENT; VICTIMS
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2009 Subd. 7a New 2009 c 123 s 16
1997 Subd. 6 Repealed 1997 c 100 s 5
1995 Subd. 9 New 1995 c 244 s 30
617.80 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1.Generally.
The definitions in this section apply to sections 617.80 to 617.87.
Subd. 2.Building.
"Building" means a structure suitable for human shelter, a commercial structure that is maintained for business activities that involve human occupation, any portion of the structure, or the land surrounding the structure. If the building is a multiunit dwelling, a hotel or motel, or a commercial or office building, the term "building," for purposes of sections 617.80 to 617.87, means only the portion of the building within or outside the structure in which a nuisance is maintained or permitted, such as a dwelling unit, room, suite of rooms, office, common area, storage area, garage, or parking area.
Subd. 3.Movable property.
"Movable property" means furniture and fixtures.
Subd. 4.Prostitution; prostitution-related activity.
"Prostitution" or "prostitution-related activity" means conduct that would violate sections 609.321 to 609.324.
Subd. 5.Gambling; gambling-related activity.
"Gambling" or "gambling-related activity" means conduct that would violate sections 609.75 to 609.762.
[Repealed, 1997 c 100 s 5]
Subd. 7.Owner.
"Owner," for purposes of sections 617.80 to 617.87, means a person having legal title to the premises, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver, or any other person having legal ownership or control of the premises.
Subd. 7a.Occupant.
"Occupant" means a person who occupies or resides in a building or rental unit with the permission of the owner or a tenant or lessee.
Subd. 8.Interested party.
"Interested party," for purposes of sections 617.80 to 617.87, means any known lessee or tenant of a building or affected portion of a building; any known agent of an owner, lessee, or tenant; or any other person who maintains or permits a nuisance and is known to the city attorney, county attorney, or attorney general.
Subd. 9.Prosecuting attorney.
"Prosecuting attorney" means the attorney general, county attorney, city attorney, or attorney serving the jurisdiction where the nuisance is located.
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MAJOR UPDATE: Missing woman found alive in remote area near California-Nevada border
Sheryl Powell, 60, took her dog for a walk from a campground in the White Mountains and didn't return. Four days later, Powell was found, exhausted but alive.
MAJOR UPDATE: Missing woman found alive in remote area near California-Nevada border Sheryl Powell, 60, took her dog for a walk from a campground in the White Mountains and didn't return. Four days later, Powell was found, exhausted but alive. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/07/15/california-woman-missing-near-nevada-family-fears-she-abducted-sheryl-powell-white-mountains-bishop/1736236001/
Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette Journal Published 11:27 a.m. PT July 15, 2019 | Updated 5:53 p.m. PT July 15, 2019
Sheryl Powell went missing Friday with no clues, 'except her footprints'
Powell and her husband, Joseph Powell, were setting up camp in California's White Mountains
Powell took couple's dog for a walk and didn't return, authorities said
Mountains near Nevada border are remote with rugged terrain, family fears abduction a possibility
Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, Calif., went missing on Friday, July 12, 2019, in the White Mountains near the California-Nevada border. (Photo: Provided by Inyo County Sheriff's Department)
Searchers and family members are celebrating after finding a woman alive after she had been lost in mountainous terrain near the California-Nevada border for four days.
Sheryl Powell disappeared from the Grandview campground in the White Mountains on Friday while taking her dog for a walk as her husband, Joseph Powell, prepared to set up camp.
Searchers worried Powell, 60, would struggle to survive in rugged terrain with no water, little shade and no cell phone signals to call for help.
Her family worried Powell could have been abducted while social media speculation centered on Joseph Powell, who investigators and the family were adamant had no connection to her disappearance.
After three dispiriting days the search hit a milestone late Monday morning when rescuers found the dog, Miley, alive about 2.5 miles from where Powell went missing.
Within a few hours rescuers reported finding Powell herself, alive but exhausted by the ordeal.
"Searchers describe her as resilient and strong but exhausted after being lost in an extremely remote area above Big Pine, (Calif.)," the Inyo County Sheriff's Office reported in a Facebook post. "We are beyond grateful for the continued support from her family, local residents, visitors, and the media. We also cannot thank our assisting agencies enough for their amazingly hard work in difficult terrain throughout this 4-day search."
Farrah Powell, a daughter who launched an online fundraising drive to help with the search and posted updates on Facebook, posted a photo of the family together in a hospital room on Monday afternoon.
"This is the happiest day of our lives," the post stated. "We can’t thank everyone enough."
The location where the couple was preparing to camp is located at about 8,600 feet in elevation in a remote area with steep terrain, no water and very little shade.
“It is primarily a lot of rocky slopes and difficult shale type terrain,” said Carma Roper, a spokesperson for the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office.
The area also lacks cellular reception which adds to the difficulty of the search.
“That has definitely been one of the challenges,” Roper said.
A hiker looking east at the Nevada desert from California's White Mountains in August, 2015. Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, Calif., went missing July 12, 2019, at the Grandview Campground in the remote, rugged range. (Photo: Benjamin Spillman)
What happened the day she went missing
According to authorities, the couple from Huntington Beach, Calif., was preparing to make camp at around 2 p.m. when Sheryl Powell went missing.
The sheriff’s department said while Joseph Powell was positioning their Jeep, Sheryl Powell took the couple’s small, black-and-white dog, Miley, for a walk and didn’t return.
When Sheryl Powell and Miley didn’t return, Joseph Powell started looking for them. After about an hour he used a satellite messaging device to call for help, authorities stated.
Authorities described Sheryl Powell as an experienced outdoorswoman.
Hazards in the area include hot weather, lack of shade, steep, rocky terrain, venomous snakes, lack of water and difficult communication.
Searchers worked via helicopter and on foot along with help from search dogs.
A Facebook post from the Inyo Sheriff’s Department listed 14 agencies participating in the search.
Authorities ruled out connection to husband
Roper said that during the search investigators quickly ruled out any connection between Joseph Powell and the disappearance, despite social media speculation that proved inaccurate.
“After thoroughly interviewing him they are confident in saying Mr. Powell had no connection,” Roper said. “We really want to eliminate that rumor.”
Facebook posts and an online fundraising page Farrah Powell said the family worried Sheryl Powell may have been abducted.
“We spent the entire day searching today as well but still no trace except the footprints she left at the campground,” the fundraising page states. “ … a major concern we have is in my mind there is a high likelihood of abduction which many rescue personnel are skeptical of.”
The page also highlighted a frustrating lack of clues, saying there's "still no trace (of Powell) except the footprints she left at the campground."
The Powells have been married 42 years
It also described the emotional strain on Joseph Powell, saying the couple has been married for 42 years.
"My parents have an extremely loving relationship and my dad (who has refused to leave the campsite) is on the verge of breakdown," the page stated.
Messages to the family sent from the Reno Gazette Journal via Facebook and the fundraising pages were not returned.
Roper said authorities didn't rule out the possibility of abduction. But efforts focused on the search and their persistence paid off when they found Powell alive.
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Report: Harrah’s Reno hotel-casino to be sold
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Kirsten Galea
Senior associate architect, Weston Williamson + Partners
Kirsten Galea has spent much of her career at Weston Williamson + Partners, developing an expertise in transport projects alongside pushing the agenda for women in the practice and architecture. She studied architecture and civil engineering at the University of Malta before joining WW+P in 2007 on an internship.
Galea's career at WW+P started with the seven stations for the DLR Stratford International Extension (SIE). She went on to work on the Victoria Station Upgrade that proposes to relieve congestion at the second busiest station on London’s tube network. Galea first managed the submission of tender drawings for the new North Ticket Hall, then led the detailed design of the Paid Area Link package and later completed the detailed design of the modifications for the existing areas of the Victoria Station. Paddington Station has been another flagship project for Galea. She was put to work on the detailed design and construction information for platform 12 and the stair, lift and escalator core connecting the platform with the new taxi facility above for the Paddington Integrated Project.
DLR Stratford International Extension.
Crossrail shafts.
Galea has also worked on international projects for WW+P. Her first secondment was to Kuala Lumpur to assist on the design delivery of 14 stations along the northern end of the Klang Valley Blue Line. Her second, where she is now, is in Australia as a subject matter expert for the independent certification team on the Sydney Metro Northwest.
Before her current secondment, Galea managed a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the Mile End Park and Eleanor Street shafts serving the Crossrail underground tunnels.
Galea has been instrumental in pushing the role of women in the office, founding the group of Women at WW+P (W@WW) in 2015. At that time, the board was eager to invest in improving gender balance in the practice, as well as in the industry. A year on, W@WW has grown in its ambitions, and is now involved in the wider agenda of gender equality in construction and rail and in other STEM professions.
Her boss, Chris Williamson, founding partner, WW+P. is confident of Galea's abilities: 'We see Kirsten progressing to partner level and being an important part of our management team.'
Paddington Crossrail.
Victoria Station upgrade.
Paddington Integrated Project.
What would you most like to improve about the industry?
I would like to see the industry be more inclusive to race, gender and sexual orientation. As a foreign woman working in London, I’m especially aware of gender inequality, and I believe we will only truly have a real chance at obtaining gender equality once the government brings in legislation to make parental leave rights equal for both sexes and provide help for the smaller/medium firms to implement this too.
Who would you most like to work with?
If I could turn the clock back, I would probably want to work at Adler & Sullivan when Frank Lloyd Wright was there. Between Sullivan, the father of the high-rise buildings who coined the statement ‘form follows function’, and Wright, designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and their environment, I’m sure it would have been an exciting place to work.
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Dry cherry tomato
The economy of Santorini was once based on this cherry tomato which has a bit thicker skin compared to the ordinary tomato and the size of a cherry. It is known as "anydro" (waterless) cherry tomato. It was introduced on the island in the late 19th century. Prior to the earthquake of 1956, there were 9 processing and canning factories on the island, some of which still stand in areas such as Monolithos, Perivolos, Vlychada. Its unique taste is due to being watered only through morning dampness.
Apart from salads these tomatoes are used to make tomato paste, spoon preserve, and tomato balls (pseftokeftedes). They have a sweet taste and chefs just adore them!
In one aspect the tomato was imported from Italy during the Venetian rule and in another the first seeds came from Suez. Agriculturist Mark Kafouros notes that processing of tomato crops started in 1880 on the slopes of mountain Prophet Ilias from the residents of Pyrgo's community and spread from there to the rest of the island displacing other kinds of crops.
For the traditional cultivation of tomato in February, they dig small pits in the ground within 30 cm from one another and throw in enough seeds (these are dried out under the sun so as not to get moldy before planted). The tomato plant reaches approximately 50 cm in height, depending on the moisture of the soil. Harvesting takes place from late June until early August.
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Sample Text-Based Questions for Common Core, Grades 4-5
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How is this text different from other types of texts? Why do you think the author chose this type/format/structure for this topic?
What is the author’s purpose? What is the author’s point of view, and how is it similar to or different from your own? How would this story be different if told from another point of view?
Describe how you use parts of a book to find information: indexes, glossaries, headings, subheadings, sidebars, captions, labels, etc.
Describe how elements of chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and/or problem/solution are used to relay information.
What words or phrases does the author use to convey information? What are the literal meanings of the words/phrases? Do any of the words/phrases have nuanced or figurative meanings? Why do you think the author chose these words/phrases?
What does the word ______ mean in the context of this sentence? [Insert word and sentence.]
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
How do the images/graphs/diagrams/maps/charts add information about the main topics/ideas? Describe some of these images. How can you find out more about these images?
What details/reasons does the author use to support the main topics/ideas? How do the sentences and/or paragraphs work together to support the main topics/ideas? Do you think the author has made a strong argument or claim? Why or why not?
Based on the text, what can you infer about . . . [Insert details to allow for specific inference(s).]? How can you find out more about these main ideas/topics?
After closely reading the text, what do you think about . . . [Insert details to allow for opinion(s).]?
How is this text/version and [Insert companion text/version] similar? How are they different? Why do you think these two texts/versions make good companion texts?
Common Core State Standards Language Arts Reading Comprehension
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Women Benefit from Mammography Screening Beyond Age 75
Screen-detected cancers were diagnosed in 16 percent of study patients older than 75.
Stamatia V. Destounis, M.D.
Women age 75 years and older should continue to get screening mammograms because of the comparatively high incidence of breast cancer found in this age group, according to a new study being presented at RSNA 2018.
Guidelines on what age to stop breast cancer screening have been a source of confusion in recent years. In 2009, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released controversial guidelines stating there was not enough evidence to assess benefits and harms of screening mammography in women age 75 and older. However, other professional groups advise that women may continue to undergo mammography screening as long as they are in good health.
Technologist performing mammography exam.
“Ongoing debate exists regarding the age to cease screening mammography,” said Stamatia V. Destounis, MD, radiologist at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care, LLC, in Rochester, N.Y. “Our findings provide important data demonstrating that there is value in screening women over 75 because there is a considerable incidence of breast cancer.”
For the study, Dr. Destounis and colleagues analyzed data from 763,256 screening mammography exams at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care between 2007 and 2017. Screening-detected cancer was diagnosed in 3,944 patients. Further analysis was performed to identify the number and type of cancers diagnosed among women 75 years of age and older.
There were 76,885 patients (10 percent) age 75 and older included in the study. The average age of the patients was 80.4. A total of 645 malignancies were diagnosed in 616 patients, for a cancer rate of 8.4 detections per 1,000 exams in this age group.
“For the relatively small percentage of our screening population that was comprised of women 75 and older, the patients diagnosed in this population made up 16 percent of all patients diagnosed with screening-detected cancers,” Dr. Destounis said.
Researchers also found that 82 percent of the malignancies diagnosed were invasive cancers, of which 63 percent were grade 2 or 3. Ninety-eight percent of the cancers found were able to be treated surgically. Positive lymph nodes were reported at surgical excision in 7 percent of the patients. Seventeen cancers were not surgically treated due to advanced patient age or overall degraded patient health.
“Most of the tumors found in this age group were invasive, and almost all of these patients—98 percent—underwent surgery,” Dr. Destounis said.
Dr. Destounis advises women over 75 who are in relatively good health to continue routine screenings. “The benefits of screening yearly after age 75 continue to outweigh any minimal risk of additional diagnostic testing,” she said.
Access the press release and abstract for, “Women Benefit from Mammography Screening Beyond Age 75,” at press.rsna.org.
RSNA Expands Global Presence with Education Outreach
Groups Publish Statements on CT Contrast Use in Patients with Kidney Disease
New Informatics Tools are Helping Patients Understand Radiology Reports
Patient Experience Coach Delivers Increased Value for Radiology Department
Education and funding
Radiology in public focus
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City of Shamokin Receives State Grant for Library Improvements
The City of Shamokin, Northumberland County has been awarded a grant, through the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) for improvements to the Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27) and Representative Kurt A. Masser (R-107). [Read More]
Bloomsburg Receives PennDOT Grant
The Town of Bloomsburg has been awarded a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27) and Representative David R. Millard (R-109). [Read More]
PA Department of Agriculture Seeking Grant Applicants for Dairy Investment Program
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has recently announced the opening of the second round of the Pennsylvania Dairy Investment Program, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27). [Read More]
Gordner, Masser Announce Reallocation of Funds for Danville Levee Raising Project
The Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) has approved the Borough of Danville’s request for the reallocation of funding to the Upper Susquehanna River and Hospital Run Levee Modifications Project, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27) and Representative Kurt A. Masser (R-107). [Read More]
Grants Announced for Two Area Projects
The Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) has awarded two grants to area projects, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27), Representative Lynda Schlegel Culver (R-108) and Representative David Rowe (R-85). Through the strong support of all three members, funds were made available by way of the Flood Mitigation program. [Read More]
The Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) has awarded two grants to area projects, according to Senator John R. Gordner (R-27) and Representative Kurt A. Masser (R-107). [Read More]
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Artist’s impression. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/CfA
New Evidence Reveals Black Hole Event Horizons Are All Too Real
PETER DOCKRILL
Scientists have found new evidence to support the idea that matter vanishes completely when it falls into a supermassive black hole, suggesting Einstein was right about these unquenchable voids lurking throughout the Universe.
The findings show that black hole event horizons – the invisible barriers beyond which nothing can escape the intense pull of gravitational singularities – are very real, meaning when something falls into a black hole, it's swallowed entirely, and doesn't crash into a hard surface.
"Our whole point here is to turn this idea of an event horizon into an experimental science, and find out if event horizons really do exist or not," says astrophysicist Pawan Kumar from the University of Texas at Austin.
"Our motive is not so much to establish that there is a hard surface, but to push the boundary of knowledge and find concrete evidence that really, there is an event horizon around black holes."
While supermassive black holes are thought to exist at the centre of most galaxies, scientists have also speculated that the phenomena occupying these galactic centres – sometimes called central massive objects – could in fact have hard surfaces.
If that were the case, the idea is that galaxies could contain a supermassive object that's not a black hole, and which has somehow managed to avoid collapsing into a singularity – a space of literally infinite density.
What a supermassive smash might look like. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/CfA
The hypothesis – based on a modified theory of Einstein's general relativity – means that if a wandering star were to collide with this mysterious supermassive hard object, we'd be able to detect the impact, whereas a black hole would consume the star entirely, meaning even its light couldn't escape.
To test this, Kumar's team ran some calculations, and figured out that if a star ran into a non-collapsed supermassive phenomenon, it would flare with intense heat and light as its gas surrounded the object, and create a cosmic light show that could be observed for months or even years.
With this incendiary prediction in hand, the researchers sifted through survey data compiled by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, looking for examples of any temporary flare events – called transients – that might match what you'd expect to see in a supermassive smash.
Intense flaring after a supermassive smash. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/CfA
"Given the rate of stars falling onto black holes and the number density of black holes in the nearby Universe, we calculated how many such transients Pan-STARRS should have detected over a period of operation of 3.5 years," explains one of the team, Wenbin Lu.
Based on the calculations, the team expected to find more than 10 examples of flaring that could have been produced by a star crashing into a hard supermassive object – but ultimately the Pan-STARRS data revealed none.
While that doesn't disprove the 'hard surface' hypothesis entirely, the team thinks it does make the notion a lot less likely, while adding further weight to the more orthodox argument that black holes are surrounded by event horizons, as Einstein predicted a long, long time ago.
"Our work implies that some, and perhaps all, black holes have event horizons and that material really does disappear from the observable Universe when pulled into these exotic objects, as we've expected for decades," says one of the researchers, Ramesh Narayan from Harvard University.
"General relativity has passed another critical test."
When you put it like that, it almost feels comforting to know that Einstein was probably right all along, and that one of humanity's most important and enduring scientific theses is still holding up more than a century after it was devised.
Except then you have to remind yourself that this research basically green-lights the existence of matter-annihilating space voids that will mercilessly devour whatever's in their path.
The findings are reported in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Scrumpy Pig Privacy Policy
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Uber Airmen Must Be Commercial Pilots
Mike McGrory
SmithAmundsen Aerospace Alert
Michael McGrory
Flytenow, Inc. was a web-based service that permitted private pilots to offer their planned itineraries to passengers willing to share in operational expenses. Private pilots have long been permitted to share expenses with passengers provided they also shared a common purpose in the trip. Flytenow sought to facilitate these arrangements by matching pilots with passengers willing to chip in. As with Uber, the ridesharing app that initially operated in the regulatory gray zone between private vehicles and taxies, it was unclear where Flytenow’s business model fell within the aviation regulatory spectrum. The FAA provided certainty, advising Flytenow that pilots arranging flights through the website would be operating as “common carriers,” and would thus require commercial licenses.
Flytenow asserted two main challenges to the FAA’s decision. First, Flytenow argued that the FAA was wrong to find that expense contributions from a passenger, which private pilots are permitted to accept under some circumstances, is a form of compensation. Second, Flytenow argued that the FAA was wrong to determine that pilots on Flytenow’s website became common carriers by holding themselves out as offering transportation to the public.
In Flytenow, Inc. v. Federal Aviation Admin, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court affirmed the FAA’s decision. The court noted that the general rule is that private pilots may not carry passengers for compensation. Under certain circumstances, private pilots may share expenses; but that does not mean that shared expenses are not a form of compensation. Rather, permitting pilots to share expenses is an exception to the rule against compensation, regardless of whether the pilot and passenger share a common purpose. Thus, the court held the FAA was correct to find that Flytenow pilots were flying for compensation.
The court then held that Flytenow pilots were holding themselves out as offering transportation to the public such that they would be acting as air carriers. Though Flytenow’s website was limited to members, in reality any person could enroll, and any prospective passenger searching online could readily book through Flytenow’s website. The lack of any rate schedules and the ability of a pilot to refuse service were insufficient to remove Flytenow flights from the realm of common carriers. The court dismissed Flytenow’s “slippery slope” argument, reasoning that the FAA’s interpretation would have no effect on a private pilot’s ability to communicate to extend invitations to passengers for common purpose expense sharing flights, provided the invitations were directed to defined and limited groups.
We may never know whether Flytenow would have been a success had it met with FAA approval. And Flytenow would have had to overcome a number of other difficult obstacles (risk management, resistance from established aviation businesses, etc.) just to make a go of it. Undoubtedly, though, Flytenow’s business model was an innovative and modern approach to general aviation -- and a novel approach with the potential to give a struggling industry a boost. Unfortunately for Flytenow (and similar businesses hoping to bring “sharing” technology in the aviation industry) its business model was a square peg that would not fit into any regulatory round holes.
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Intolleranza 1960 - Luigi Nono
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Azione scenica in two parts (1961) after an idea by Angelo Maria Ripellino
Librettoby Luigi Nono, based on texts by Henri Alleg, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Éluard, Julius Fucík, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Angelo Maria Ripellino and Jean-Paul Sartre
Sung in Italian with German and English surtitles
Intolleranza 1960 is an opera that provides more questions than answers. Can it in fact be called an opera at all? Or does it offer a statement of much greater importance? Does it transcend its own political content when it is staged today, as Intolleranza 2020?
Nono wrote Intolleranza 1960, seen as his debut in the world of theatre, following a commission for the 24th International Festival of Contemporary Music at the Venice Biennale, where it had its premiere at the Teatro La Fenice almost 60 years ago. It was considered one of the most striking pieces of music in the history of the post-war avant-garde and a culminating work of Nono’s first artistic period. He wrote the Italian libretto himself, based on an idea by Angelo Maria Ripellino and documentary writings, as well as poems, by Julius Fucík, Henri Alleg, Jean Paul Sartre, Paul Éluard, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Bertolt Brecht.
It tells of an anonymous emigrant who returns to his native land. On hisjourney, he finds himself in the midst of a protest and, although innocent, is arrested, tortured and imprisoned in a concentration camp. His longing for home becomes an urge for freedom. He succeeds in escaping, but fate strikes when a tidal wave causes a humanitarian disaster.
Intolleranza 1960 is a passionate and almost visionary protest against racism, intolerance, oppression and the violation of human dignity, with an added climatological catastrophe that directly places the opera within current discourse.
Ingo Metzmacher Conductor
Jan Lauwers Direction, Sets, Choreography and Video
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Elke Janssens Dramaturgy
Sean Panikkar Un emigrante
Sarah Maria Sun La sua compagna
Anna Maria Chiuri Una donna
Sung-Im Her, Yonier Camilo Mejia, Victor Lauwers (Needcompany) Performance and solo dance
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Front Street will be closed at Broadway in downtown San Diego for nearly two years
Project aims to increase structural safety of the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Office Building and enhance pedestrian walkways
Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s last try to keep national accreditation fails
Thomas Jefferson School of Law [U-T file]
The San Diego law school says it plans to continue as a state-accredited school
By Kristen Taketa
Officials with the American Bar Association this week upheld a decision to strip national accreditation from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in downtown San Diego.
The school will lose national accreditation effective Dec. 17, the day after the end of its fall semester.
The school plans to continue operating but with accreditation from the state.
Accreditation from the State Bar of California allows the school’s students to take the state bar exam, but not bar exams in other states. National accreditation allows law graduates to take any state’s bar exam.
National bar officials had originally voted to revoke Thomas Jefferson’s accreditation in May because the school had failed to meet certain standards in academics, governance and admissions.
The school has also struggled with its finances and posted low bar exam pass rates.
Last year 24 percent of the school’s graduates who took the bar exam for the first time passed it, which is a lower rate than any other national bar-approved school in the state and below the statewide passing rate of 60 percent, according to American Bar Association data.
Thomas Jefferson Law appealed the national bar’s decision to revoke accreditation, but national bar officials announced this week that they rejected that appeal.
School officials said they are disappointed but,"the Law School will proceed with plans for the Spring 2020 semester as scheduled,” the school said in a statement. School officials say they plan to admit new students next year as a state-accredited school.
“As it has for fifty years, the Law School will continue to play an important role in ensuring that students from diverse communities have opportunities to join the legal profession, serve people and communities in need, and pursue rewarding and satisfying careers,” the school said.
In October California’s Committee of Bar Examiners said that if Thomas Jefferson Law were to lose national accreditation, it would give the school state accreditation if it undergoes an inspection and pays all inspection fees. The committee is in the process of planning the inspection.
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Does Lillard’s big night signal turnaround for Blazers?
Portland guard Damian Lillard had a big night against Golden State and afterward talked about how the Trail Blazers are at a point in the season where they need to all step up in a push for the playoffs
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Master Gardener Lucy Warren shared strategies for incorporating native plants in a garden while presenting a California Native Landscaping program at the Ramona Garden Club’s Jan. 8 meeting.
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By Derek Wetmore | @DerekWetmore November 13, 2019 11:45 am
The Qualifying Offer can be a little confusing as it muddles the free agent waters early in the MLB offseason. With Thursday’s decision day looming, here’s a look at what the Minnesota Twins stand to gain or lose based on the outcome of those choices.
What the Twins could gain:
They have an offer extended to Jake Odorizzi. If he agrees to it, they’ll have Odorizzi back in 2020 as part of their starting rotation earning $17.8 million. In practice, he’d then earn his free agency the following winter.
If Odorizzi says no, it’s slightly trickier. He then becomes a free agent but the Twins would stand to gain draft-pick compensation. If he signs for $50 million or more BEFORE next June’s draft, then the Twins would get a 2020 draft pick immediately following the first round (somewhere in the 30’s overall).
If he says no and signs elsewhere, but the contract is less than $50 million in real dollars, the Twins’ compensation would be in the form of a draft pick following immediately before Round 3 of the June draft. If he says no and signs elsewhere, but not until AFTER the June draft, the Twins will get nothing.
Note: It’s my understanding that those draft picks also come with the increase in bonus pool money able to be paid to draft picks, which could be a couple million dollars for a draft pick in the 30’s, for example.
And the last thing tied to Odorizzi that they could “gain” is the financial flexibility to free up $18 million for other pursuits.
The other thing that the Twins stand to gain is access to more free agents. If Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rendon, Zack Wheeler, Josh Donaldson, Jose Abreu, Marcell Ozuna or Will Smith turn down their QO from their previous employer, the Twins legally would be allowed to sign any of them. Market demand stays roughly the same and the supply goes up, depending on the position of need and the clubs in the mix.
What the Twins could lose:
Well, for starters, they could lose Jake Odorizzi. Tape to tape he was their best starting pitcher in 2019, and that would be a real loss for the rotation.
They could lose access to a premium free agent is Scott Boras shocks the world and advises one of his clients, like Stephen Strasburg, to accept a one-year deal for $17.8 million. That isn’t going to happen. But if it did — or if it happened to somebody like, say, Will Smith — then it would mean one fewer good player out there that the Twins could sign. Demand stays roughly the same and supply shrinks.
Or let’s say that everybody turns down the QO and elects to go to free agency instead. If the Twins sign one of those guys, they’ll forfeit their third-highest draft pick (and the associated draft-bonus pool money). If during the winter the Twins sign two of these players who reject the QO, they’ll give up their third- and fourth-highest draft pick in 2020.
Theoretically, they could also lose leverage in trades and free agency as they hunt for pitchers. Again, this won’t happen, but let’s just say for the sake of argument that all 10 guys accept the QO. (Or worse, 9 accept and Odorizzi turns it down — gulp.) In that made-up scenario the Twins would see a good portion of the high-end market go away, and be left with the same or greater level of demand.
The staff changes throughout the organization were the first domino of the offseason. Odorizzi will be the second. Depending on how that process plays out, the Twins will set a course for the rest of the winter, as they look to make good on their word and target impact pitching.
Wetmore: Should the Twins try to bring back Jake Odorizzi?
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Photo Credit Julie Moore
I'm taking an online writing class this summer with teachers Robin Rice and Emily McDowell at https://www.bewhoyouare.com/ The writing prompts are pictures and we are free to write whatever we'd like to as inspired by the photo.
Here's what I wrote to go with the photo above:
Her parents had always told her, if she worked hard, she could be anything she wanted. High school was fun and games, but at a university in a pre-med program, she would thrive. Her mom always accented that word, “thrive.” Now, as she stood in line to take her place at the SATs, she realized it was all a lie. A well-meaning lie, but still. She had studied her ass off, but if the prep course had taught her anything, it was that evidence-based reading would eat her alive. She could kiss the college of her choice goodbye.
“Just focus on the math. Just ace the math,” she thought. Wearing her blue and white striped dress and gold sandals, she looked around at the other kids in their sweatpants and hoodies and realized she had over-dressed for the test. Better over-dressed than under-dressed, her mom had taught her. She tried to pull herself back to the moment. There were no points for fashion. Where was her mind? The proctor passed out the tests.
Her SAT-prep tutor had tried. Mostly because he knew her success or failure would reflect back on his “scholarly rep.” In the end, he had given up and just shown her how to cheat. There was always a way to game the system, he said. His nickname for her was “Trade School.”
Everyone knew Damon had gotten a perfect score on his math. He had missed one, but challenged it and proved the test was wrong, resulting in much time and expense on the part of the testing board. He had curly hair, her weakness. Everyone knew, she had made-out with him in the school library a few times. He seemed unconcerned about how that would reflect on his scholarly rep.
She could feel the sweat from her palms slick on the sharpened number two pencils in her clenched hand. Her parents, her friends, that asshole Damon - they all had their own ideas about who she was and what she could do and it was all bullshit. She didn’t belong to them. The test would be magnificent or it would be trash. It didn’t matter. She closed her eyes. She envisioned the word “thrive” and lit it on fire.
The Other Bowl
Smiling in His Sleep
Aloha: Day 6
Aloha: We Are Here
Smacksy Saturday Photo: The First Lemon
Baby Dude
Happy Anniversary, Mr. Rosenberg
Smacksy Saturday Photo: Napping
If Only When You Sleep
Very Truly Yours
A Continuation of Sorts
The Lone Flip Flop
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Virtual Jet Lag
By SmallBusinessComputing Staff | Posted August 01, 2000
by David G. Propson
With the Web, it's easier than ever to do business internationally - and it's still pretty darn hard. Even when the technological hurdles are removed, there are still many differences in culture, law, and economics to overcome. Many businesses are only now encountering these problems.
Subtle differences in culture can cause miscommunications, and sometimes these are codified into law, which every business even one operating from another country must follow. European countries, for instance, require much stricter privacy policies than the laissez-faire U.S. does. Some of these laws may strike outsiders as simply bizarre: Greece prohibits the advertising of toys.
Most online businesses have thought they were beyond the reach of other countries' courts. But that's changing. In May, a French court ruled that Yahoo had violated French law by allowing Nazi paraphernalia to be sold through its auction site. The company had already barred such material from its French-language site, but was told it must figure out how to prevent French citizens from viewing these auctions on any of the other sites plain-old Yahoo.com, for instance as well. Yahoo says the technology of the Internet doesn't permit them to be certain where visitors are actually located. Determined French users can always make it look like they're coming from someplace else.
But unless a way is found to tailor sites to each country's customs, Yahoo and everyone else doing business on the Internet could be forced to make each site comply with the laws of every country whose citizens might use it. That nagging feeling you had was right: As the world gets smaller, the headaches get bigg er.
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How to Work with Pdfs for Free
By Helen Bradley | Posted October 02, 2014
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You don’t need to invest in Adobe Acrobat to create and work with pdf documents. You'll find lots of small business software that you can use to create, complete and sign, and even split and join pdfs that don't require spending big bucks. Depending on what you want to do with your pdfs, you have plenty of options—many of which are free.
Consider How You Use Pdf Files
Before you invest time and money buying pdf software for your small business, ask yourself what you need it to do. For example:
Turn documents and reports into pdfs
Create pdf forms for other people to complete
Merge multiple scans into a single pdf
Each of these tasks lends itself to a different solution. Let's take a look at some examples.
Save Documents as Pdfs
Most office productivity software—including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, OpenOffice.org and others—includes options for saving a file as a pdf. Before you use them, make sure to save the original file in the program's native format because saving as a pdf file is a one-way street. For example, it's nigh on impossible to get the contents back out of a pdf and into an Excel file with formulas intact. Even when you go from pdf to a Word document the results aren't perfect (and often they're downright horrible).
To save as a pdf, look for that as a file format choice. For example in Word, choose File > Save As, and from the Save As Type drop-down list choose Pdf. If you're using Microsoft Office 2007, you need to download the Save as PDF or XPS Add-in.
Figure 1: PDF printers, such as Cute PDF Writer, let you print from any program direct to a pdf file.
You can also export to pdf from most desktop publishing programs including Microsoft Publisher, Serif Page Plus and Scribus allowing you to, for example, publish newsletters as pdf files.
How to Print to Pdf
If your software doesn't have a Save as Pdf option, then consider a PDF printer such as Cute PDF Writer. A PDF printer is software that you install on your PC. It then appears as a printer when you opt to print a file. When you print to the pdf printer, it creates the pdf. All you need to do is to specify where you want to save the pdf file.
Split and Merge a Pdf
Sometimes all you want to do is extract individual pages from a pdf, or to assemble multiple pdf documents into one file. A program like PdfSam, which is free and open source, can split apart a pdf into pieces as small as one page per file. It can also rotate pdfs to change the page orientation and it can merge multiple individual pdf files into a single file.
Figure 2: Using PdfSam you can split a pdf into pages or merge multiple pdfs into a single file.
Complete and Sign a Pdf
While it's possible to create a pdf that contains form fields that people can fill in easily, most pdfs aren't configured this way. If you need to complete and sign a pdf, you need pdf editing software. One of the best free applications is Foxit PDF Reader. Don't be fooled by the application's name; it's far more than a reader application.
Figure 3: Foxit PDF Reader can do more than just display pdfs—it can help you complete and sign them.
With a pdf open in Foxit, you click the Home tab on the ribbon, click the Typewriter tool, and then type anywhere on the page. A PDF Sign tool lets you create a signature that you can then add to any pdf. Foxit also provides options for annotating a pdf and adding hyperlinks. We like Foxit PDF Reader over Adobe Reader, because it's easier to find and access the tools.
Extract Data From a Pdf
Working with pdfs can be frustrating—especially when you need to get information, such as text or images, out of them in a usable format. The degree of ease or difficulty in doing this depends on how the pdf was created. Some pdfs are created from a scanned image, which means that the text is really just a picture—you can't select and copy and paste it into another application. Instead, you need optical character recognition software (OCR) to convert the picture to text.
Figure 4: Google Drive has an OCR option available that automatically recognizes text in uploaded pdfs.
If the file contains actual text, you can select it and copy and paste it into other applications. However, you'll lose much of the formatting in the process. A number of online tools can convert an entire pdf to text. We like Zamzar and—bonus—it's free. At Zamzar you upload a pdf, select the file format you want, and wait for the conversion.
You can also open pdf files in Microsoft Word to edit them, and Google Docs has an OCR feature that can convert pdfs to text on import. How successful this process is depends on the complexity of the original pdf—simpler files may convert quite well, more complex ones that include text in columns, will probably yield disappointing results.
Helen Bradley is a respected international journalist writing regularly for small business and computer publications in the USA, Canada, South Africa, UK and Australia. You can learn more about her at her Web site, HelenBradley.com
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Great Service: The Sweet Smell of Success
By James Maguire | Posted April 07, 2005
Yes, You Can Wear Duct Tape
Ten Tips for Getting Customers to Buy More
Target Marketing a Niche Business
When you're selling the same products sold by lots of other sites — and countless retail outlets — how do you earn customer loyalty? That's the challenge facing Scentiments, a South Florida-based site that sells designer perfumes like Elizabeth Arden, Givenchy and Perry Ellis.
"Our product is available everywhere," said Scentiments CEO Howard Wyner. "Our customers are pretty knowledgeable — they've done their homework and they know what they want."
Yet even with its commonly available inventory, Scentiments has succeeded in capturing noses (and the customers who come with them). Launched with basic e-commerce capability in 1998, the site now sees annual revenues near $9 million.
"People will go to Bloomingdale's to buy a shirt, and they'll get hit with this perfume and think, 'let me go home and see where I can get it online,'" Wyner explained.
Price, of course, is the prime attraction, and to reach this market, Scentiments deeply discounts its inventory.
But the site does more to earn customers than slash retail mark-ups. In addition to cheap prices, the site "backs it up with customer satisfaction," Wyner said, noting that, "repeat business, in this industry, is the most important facet."
Customer Satisfaction Techniques
Scentiments' return policy is more generous than the industry standard, Wyner said. "If you bought something two months ago and you never used it, we'll accept it and give you your money back, as long as it's in the same saleable condition."
He stresses the site's ease of navigation, and indeed, the site's 4,500 products are laid out with utter simplicity, alphabetically. And if an item is out of stock, a customer can enter his or her e-mail address, and the site assures them that it will be available within five days. "We always keep our customers informed about their order status."
The site displays Scentiments' BizRate award, "so customers can click to see how 50,000 plus customers have rated us over the years," said Wyner.
Scentiments keeps shipping rates reasonable: it charges $4.99 for one or two items, and $5.99 for three or more. "We lose on our shipping, there's no way around it, but we've found that this was the price point for us to offer the value," he says.
Wyner has placed Scentiments in many online shopping outlets, from Yahoo to MSN. Due to the site's low prices, he sees this visibility as a necessary part of his strategy.
There's a level of customer skepticism, he said. "We're selling stuff at prices customers can't believe — it retails for $100, we're selling it for $45. If they see me in every place they look, they'll get a level of comfort."
Talking to Shoppers
The site's customer focus also helps increase customer comfort. The company provides a toll-free number for phone orders seven days a week (10 to 15 percent of orders are over the phone) and it responds rapidly to e-mail — within the hour during the business day, Wyner said. Orders ship the same day.
The Scentiments home page features simple navigation, a toll-free customer service number and its BizRate award.
Scentiments keeps a fragrance guru on hand (it's actually a number of employees). In addition to answering questions about scents — the best fragrances for spring and summer, for example — the guru answers any shopper query. "He knows all, sees all, and he helps all," Wyner said. (In fact Wyner takes on the fragrance guru job at times.)
If customers have a problem, "we want them to call us, we want them to speak to a real person."
Wyner sees the site's approach as "a New-Age Internet company with the old-school philosophy of talking with our customers."
Adapted from ECommerce-Guide.com, part of Internet.com's Small Business Channel.
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Rick August, PhD :: Autobiography
Truck Driver to Driving Instructor
Disney's movie Motor Mania remains as relevant today as it did in 1950!
The transformation that persons undergo when they sit behind the wheel of an automobile—or any vehicle for that matter—and becomes a motorist fascinates me. What are the forces and factors that motivate road users to act – whether predictably or unpredictably?
That day in the late-1990s I sat in an Ayr, ON truck stop with another driver passing time. We waited to be dispatched.
At that juncture in my life, I’d worked as a long-haul truck driver for half a decade.
The incessant truck traffic thundered by on the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway – or the 401 as everyone knew it. We sat in a booth and drank filtered coffee from worn white porcelain cups. The conversation turned to speed limits on the 401.
The 800 kilometer 401 freeway runs east-to-west through southwestern Ontario from Windsor in the west to Bainsville in the east at the Ontario-Quebec border. It is claimed to be the busiest commercial highway in North America.
My counterpart argued that the speed limit was 100 km/hr – which was the posted speed limit at that time.
I on the other hand argued that the speed limit was less than 120 km/hr. It was socially acceptable at the time; if drivers didn’t exceed 118 km/hr the likelihood of getting a speeding ticket was remote.
That heated discussion—unbeknownst to me at the time—struck at the very chord of my fascination with motorists and motoring. More so when the other driver asked me if people obeyed the law because they respect it, or because they fear it?
In my move to transition from long-haul truck driving in the late-1990s, I earned certification from the Ontario Safety League to become a commercial driving instructor. The move to work as a driving instructor however, was not linear.
At that time in the province of Ontario, driver instructors were “licenced” to teach car drivers, but only “certified” to teach commercial vehicles. Although the basis of all driving, there wasn’t any Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) requirement for Ontario’s commercial driving instructors to undertake training in the fundamentals of teaching and driving.
Not surprising, numerous driving schools rejected my application – lack of experience they stated.
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One could surmise that the industry rather than government authorities controlled the acceptable training level of driving instructors. In a bid to become more employable, I earned my Class ‘B’ licence (school bus). The MTO required that new school bus drivers take a “Defensive Driving Course.”
I thought to myself, “well, how hard can that be?”
I sat in the tiered classroom at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario on Saturday morning with a score of other students, awaiting the instructor’s arrival. The room murmured with quiet chatter. From the door at the left an elderly man strode into the classroom and promptly retrieved a piece of chalk. While scribbling on the blackboard he barked
“List the 4 road signs that warn drivers of obstacles and hazards on the roadway.”
Hazard obstructions signs are everywhere on our roadways. These signs tell drivers to pass on the right, left or either the left or right.
Like most in the room, I was stumped. I simply couldn’t answer the question. When he told us the answer, he took the liberty to pontificate at length about the number of crashes that occurred in construction zones despite the plethora of black & orange signs and pylons.
Constructions signs also mark hazards and obstructions along the roadway. The mark out temporary conditions and tell you how to navigate.
Despite my arrogance and years as a long-haul truck driver I began to realize the depths and breadth of traffic safety. Oddly enough on that day, I also learned about pedagogy—the study of teaching—or more specifically, the instructor’s role of power OR empowerment.
The ‘crusty ole’ bugger teaching the defensive driving course was certainly about the former.
In 1999, my job as a safety officer at a small flatdeck company in Ottawa, ON was made redundant – it’s a fancy way of saying I was “fired”.
In light of the semantics however, self-help author Napoleon Hill wrote that:
“opportunity often comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
Through Ontario’s government sponsored employment program I enrolled in the course to earn my in-car driving instructor’s licence. At this course, I met Chris Daugherty. Chris was a big affable Irishman who wore a different belt buckle every day.
He was the chief instructor on the Instructor Trainer Course and founded DTMS (Driver Training Motoring School) driving school.
Through Chris’ teaching, I was motivated.
In a short space of time massive amounts of learning bombarded the instructor trainees. I worked hard to take on board the copious amounts of information, skills and abilities. Learning to drive is not just mental, but also kinesthetic.
Muscle memory for bulk of students is the most difficult aspect of driving to change; especially if a driver has held a licence for years and then moves to earn a commercial licence. Of all the driving tests I’ve undergone over the years, Chris’ driving instructor practical tests stands out as one of the most challenging.
More important, Chris taught me about empowerment; the importance of getting to the learning objectives of a lesson. In other words, what are absolutely essential skills, abilities, and information that the student must know to be both successful in driving and on her road test?
In the spring of 2000, I returned to London, ON. There, my instructor’s licence earned me a job at the truck driving school – a place I’d previously been rejected owing to lack of experience. In the fall of that year, I returned to the University of Western Ontario to complete the 3 courses I needed to finish my Honors degree in English & Women’s Studies.
I enrolled in 2 history courses to fill out the year; Canadian environmental historian George Warecki taught both. The university, the discipline of history, and Professor Warecki’s classroom provided a forum where I learned about questions, verifiable facts, and the interpretation of events.
The University of Western Ontario's University College Building.
Here, I became a social historian interested in the historical actor and the motivating forces that cause people to act. More specifically, my fascination with traffic, the social interaction of people, and enforcement became my research project for the next half decade.
In that same year, I began working part-time at Parkwood Hospital as a driving instructor and rehabilitator. At Parkwood we taught people to drive vehicles with hand controls and offered techniques and skills that allowed drivers with disabilities to operate a motor-vehicle according to a set of acceptable guidelines. Here I formulated “social driving” and the ineffectiveness of driver awareness programs.
One of my first clients at Parkwood was an inquisitive native Canadian named Jack – no doubt Anglicized. He was in a wheelchair; both legs had been amputated above the knee. During our driving lessons we shared stories of Canadian history.
When I told Jack of J.R. Millers’ Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada, he proudly showed me the book on our next lesson. He informed me that he had heard most of the stories.
At the beginning of one of our driving lessons, I met Jack outside the secondary hospital doors. He wheeled along the sidewalk from the parking lot. He stopped in front of me and pointed back to his blue battered full-sized Chevy van parked there.
“I’m so glad I finally got these lessons,” he said, “I’ve been driving that thing with a broom stick for 2 years.”
In my time at Parkwood Hospital, I gained valuable insights into drivers with disabilities: drivers with one eye, limited vision, physical disabilities, brain injuries, dementia and the demise of driving ability as it relates to age and seniors.
In 2001 I graduated from Western with my undergraduate degree. Yet many traffic safety questions remained unanswered. The next year, I immigrated to Australia and attended the University of Melbourne – one of the country’s top universities.
There, my questions about road users and public interaction took my research back to the beginning of the 19th century and the seminal years of the industrial revolution. Many of the ideas about road space, its use, and the laws that governed interaction in this public space had been forged in the days prior to the motor-vehicles’ arrival.
My doctoral thesis argued that the new motorized traffic brought about a revolution as road speeds increased 500% in the 40 years between 1890 and 1930; and in conjunction with other late-19th century social movements, police powers were significantly increased, thus extending their authority to all of society – not just the working class as it had been hitherto.
What happened between 1890 & 1930 in most industrialized countries is comparable to saying that in 40 years from 2015, all traffic in cities will be driving at speeds of 250km/hr.
It’s simply an incomprehensible notion, even with the push for self-driving cars.
During my years in Australia, I drove highway coaches for Greyhound. According to the Australians, they founded Greyhound. I simply took this fact on speculation.
Rick August in March 2002 while training to become a coach captain for Greyhound in Australia.
In March 2002 when I first applied as a Greyhound Coach Captain, I underwent a driving test as part of the application process. At this juncture, I had been in Australia for almost 3 months; I’d regained my truck licence and successfully completed the driving instructor course.
I’d experienced and was familiar with driving on the left-hand side of the road. That, as it turned out however, was not my challenge.
The first highway coach on which I was tested was more-or-less an automatic – 'piece of cake'. The second was equipped with a synchromesh transmission that had an “air-over-electric” shifter.
The connection between the transmission and the gear selector was electric, but to make the shifter feel like a “real shifter”, the engineers somehow used air pressure. That bus’ configuration turned out to be my nemesis for a period of some months.
I simply couldn’t get it to move without warning bells and whistles signaling “imminent death.” During the road test, I stalled the bus 2 or 3 times. To say the least it was an embarrassing experience. Fortunately, Alex—the company's operation's manager—didn’t see it as a barrier to employment.
During my training period the bus again bested me, worse yet however, I now had an audience. Craig my Greyhound trainers, couldn’t tell me either what I was doing wrong. Despite his inability to help me figure out the nemesis bus, Craig provided an insight into Australian culture and the “Aussie bloke.”
When I first met Craig, he indicated to me that he didn’t know why he’d been assigned as a trainer.
“Bit of a mystery,” he said.
He revealed a short time later that he was on his way out; he had plans for bigger and betters as he was going off to be a contract postie. Working for Australian Post, posties road mopeds up and down the footpath and delivered the mail to Melbourne residences.
Across the restaurant table at one of our meal breaks he asked, “Is your wife fat?”
“Um, no,” I muttered incredulous at the nature of the question.
“My wife is – she’s got an ass as big as a house!”
I smiled, simply not knowing the appropriate response.
A couple of years later, I was still working for the same employer, but doing the V-Line run part-time while attending university.
Melbourne V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.
The V-Line was the interurban bus line that connected the passenger rail between Melbourne and Ballarat and other towns in the state of Victoria. At the Melbourne station I ran into Craig working for the competition bus line.
I was just getting ready to depart when he saw me. He moved to the steps of my bus. We exchanged small talk.
“I thought you were off making your fortune as a postie?” I asked with a smile.
“Oh that,” he said as he turned to leave, “I gave that the ass!” He stepped off my bus and walked back to his.
After training I became a full-fledged coach captain, yet the nemesis bus continued its tyrannical reign. In Albury (pronounced Awbry), New South Wales—330 km northeast of Melbourne and is the state line between Victoria & New South Wales—I stalled the bus in the middle of a major intersection with 35 passengers sitting behind me.
I knew I was doing something wrong, but the answer was more elusive than the proverbial Holy Grail. I continued to ask the other drivers at the depots, stations, and lodgings what I was doing wrong – none could give me insight into this damned devil bus.
After about ½ dozen trips in that bus, I figured out what I was doing wrong – simply by coincidence. My previous experience as a truck driver saw me driving vehicles equipped with non-synchromesh transmissions.
When clutching on a non-synchromesh transmission, the clutch is depressed one-inch after the starting gear. For 5 years, I depressed the clutch one inch. Friends and partners would often sniggle when I stalled my personal vehicle saying something like, “Don’t you drive a truck?” I stalled the car because I depressed the clutch too little.
Like the cars I some times stalled owing to incorrect clutch use, the nemesis bus too failed to work properly when I depressed the clutch only one inch. Quite by accident I discovered that I had to push the clutch all the way to the firewall or the incorrect clutching use would set off a litany of warning lights, bells and buzzers that chagrined me and discombobulated my passengers.
Years later when I returned to driving instruction, I was always reminded of that bus as I watched truck driving students struggle to push the clutch in one inch to shift a non-synchromesh transmission.
During my time driving on the left side of the road in Australia, I had one driving indiscretion. Driving a right-hand vehicle on the left-side of the road is not complicated… if there is other traffic to follow.
The pedals are all in the same place; the only difference is that you work the gear selector with your left-hand, rather than the right. And depending whether the bus was an Australian or European model the windshield wipers and signal switch could be on opposite sides of the steering column. Always caused passengers pause when you went to activate the signal & the windshield wipers activated.
The Greyhound route between Melbourne, Victoria and Brisbane, New South Wales in Australia.
Parkes, NSW (700km north-northeast of Melbourne) was the mid-point for the Greyhound milk run between Melbourne, Victoria and Brisbane, Queensland. From Melbourne, we drove to Parkes and passed the bus to the Brisbane driver; Melbourne drivers than stayed overnight in a country motel with hewn boards nailed together for beds that had been painted deep brown.
In the morning Melbourne drivers drove the southbound bus back, leaving at 5:15am. In the winter (June, July, August) it was dark when the bus departed across the New South Wales' outback. As well, there was little, if any, traffic on the two-lane Newell highway.
I arrived at the service station early – 4.10am. I chatted with the staff and went in the kitchen and made my breakfast – filtered coffee, an omelet and whole meal toast. On a previous trip to Parkes, Sally—a plump brunette–said,
“I hate making those omelets. Every time you come in here you order one of those omelets.”
“But they’re so good,” I responded.
“Well, you know how work a stove?” she smiled.
From that time on, I made my own breakfast. After preparing my breakfast, I sat at the plastic table with plastic chairs cemented into the floor. I looked out into the dark past the fuel pumps.
Some of the town’s light punctuated the night’s tapestry. The Brisbane bus arrived just after 4.45am. It pulled in and stopped at the fuel pumps. A few sleepy passengers alighted, walked around the front of the bus, and straggled into the service station.
I finished my toast, swallowed the last mouthfull of coffee, and went out. I greeted the other driver as he collected his bag. He muttered something about being tired and walked off across the highway and into the dark toward the motel.
I checked the freight, fuelled the bus, and did a head count of the passengers. The bus departed on time. I drove around the back of the service station and exited via the alley to the highway. As I did so, I announced the time for the meal break in Finley, and our arrival in Melbourne. I also made a brief mention of seat belts and some of the bus’ safety features.
Greyhound's meal break and driver trade-off point in Parkes, New South Wales at the BP station at the south end of town.
I turned left out of the service station and drove into the right hand lane and proceeded down the highway. It was something I did out of habit. As bus travelled past the town’s periphery, I proceeded down the black highway. In the distance I saw a truck’s lights.
At night you can see for miles across the outback. At 100km/hr I continued south; yet was slightly concerned as the highway straightened. The bus came onto a straight line course with a northbound lorry.
I remember thinking, “what is that truck doing?”
The bus careened forward down the dark Australian highway. The gap between my bus and the truck narrowed to a few kilometres.
“That truck is on the wrong side of the road”, I hissed to myself.
“What the heck is he doing?” I said under my breath.
As the distance between myself and the other driver closed to less than 2 kilometres I came to the shocking realization that it was me, and not the truck driver that was on the wrong side of the road.
I wheeled the bus over to the left side of the road. Moments later the huge lorry hauling two trailers thundered past on the narrow two-lane highway. None of the passengers approached me and I hoped my indiscretion would pass unnoticed.
Later at the meal break in Finley, two young male passengers approached and asked, “Were you driving on the wrong side of the road this morning?”
“No, I was on the right side of the road…I just had to move over to the correct side”, I said with more confidence than I felt.
“You scared the shit out of us mate,” they exclaimed in unison.
“Not as much as I scared myself,” I replied.
Later, on other bus trips when I made announcements on the PA system and passengers heard my Canadian accent, they would yell jokingly: “Make sure you drive on the right side of the road.”
I would always reply:
“You don’t want me to drive on the right side, you want me to drive on the correct side of the road!”
In March 2006, I graduated with my doctorate degree from the University of Melbourne.
Shortly thereafter, I earned a contract teaching position at the University of British Columbia, at their Okanagan campus in Kelowna. In August, I returned to Canada under a dark cloud.
My teenaged niece had been killed in a car crash. Before heading West, I returned to my family in Ontario.
There we bid farewell to one of our family’s most beloved and gregarious souls.
For the first time I lived in Canada’s most Western province.
And for the 2-years between 2006-8, the economy boomed and housing pricing soared across North America.
So consumed by my new profession and teaching position, I remember little of that time. Teaching and researching a new book demanded the bulk of my attention, energies, and resources. In 2008, with the collapse of the United States’ housing market, the university teaching contracts waned. I returned to driver education.
Truck driving schools thrive during periods of economic downturn.
Despite the fact that I had been a licenced driving instructor in Ontario, and had earned my certification in Australia, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) set a high standard for someone to challenge the driving instructor licence. I was presented with a battery of both knowledge and practical tests.
As part of the criteria, I had to pass:
the ICBC Class 1-5, and air brakes’ knowledge tests;
Division 27, which governs both driving instructors and schools in the province;
teaching methods, pedagogy, and lesson planning were part of the required knowledge base;
2 in-class demonstrations and 2 in-vehicle demonstrations that included a lesson on pre-trip inspection—which was timed;
Class 1 mock in-vehicle lesson with a student.
After completing the final component of the tests – the mock Class 1 lesson with a student that was supposedly having challenges with his left turns, I met ICBC officials at a coffee shop for a debrief. When I entered, Brian and Mike were seated at a table. I overheard them talking about how they’d earned their commercial licences.
"Did you ever drive after you got your Class 1 licence?" Mike asked Brian.
“No…drove a friend's truck a couple of times. You?” Brian asked.
“Nope, went back and sat behind a desk.” Mike replied.
When I sat down, the two finished their conversation before turning to me. Brian congratulated Mike on having the lesser amount of driving experience. During the debrief, I was criticized for my pre-trip inspection lesson being too short.
Many driving examiners that test commercial licenses, do not hold the class of license for which the student is testing.
I explained that two of the three mock students were employees of the driving school that had helped me out to challenge the driving instructor ticket. After 2 students had done their portion of the pre-trip inspection, I stopped the lesson short by 10 minutes, owing to the fact that I was confident that I had demonstrated the teaching skills, which they wanted to see.
As well, one of the mock students was a driving instructor; he saw his student role as an opportunity to show ICBC officials all the aspects of the training with which he disagreed – needless to say there was a bit of tension. Despite my explanation, I was demerited for cutting the lesson short. The two also confirmed why I had stopped talking at the end of the Class 1 in-truck lesson.
My lessons follow a simple structure:
1) I teach and demonstrate the objectives of the lesson to the student;
2) I then let her practice and give some pointers on how improve – during any given 60-minute lesson the first 2 portions can take 30-40 minutes
3) The last portion of the lesson is assigned to the student practicing – at that point I say little. There isn’t much point, owing to the fact that both the vehicle and other traffic are often telling her what she’s doing wrong.
Most of the feedback was positive, despite some with which I disagreed. In 2011, I earned a contract to work at the ICBC licencing policy office; this section worked closely with the driver training unit.
There I discovered that I had been the first and only person to ever successfully challenge the Driver Instructor’s Licence in the province of British Columbia.
In 2010, my family and I moved to Vancouver Island. There I worked sporadically for the University of Victoria and than full-time for one of the island’s driving schools.
At the Complete School of Transport Training, I had the opportunity to learn about web building, design, and social media. As well, I created and wrote curriculum for the BC Instructor Trainer Course, which earned the school authority to train driving instructors.
During my time on Vancouver Island, I formulated and founded the idea for Smart Drive Test. This website combines my skills as a teacher, a driving instructor, and web designer. It is here that I work to provide the ultimate e-learning experience for those earning their licence for the first time or for those working to upgrade to a commercial licence.
In retrospect, my research revealed that the speed limit on the #401 highway has seen both myself and the other truck driver being correct. Researchers have determined that there are 3 definitions:
1) Faster than the posted speed limit;
2) Faster than me;
3) Faster than the “flow of traffic.”
And to these definitions I have added a fourth:
4) Faster than the “conditions of the roadway” allow.
Do motorists obey the law because they respect it or because they fear it? The simple answer is neither: driving is a social exercise, and motorists—most of the time—work within the parameters of motoring’s social framework to “get along.” After getting a driver’s licence most see road rules as just guidelines, and getting a traffic violation as an unfortunate incident. Rolling through stops signs, speeding (within limits), and “charging” yellow lights are only some of the acceptable behaviours. In the beginning pages of my dissertation it is written:
“You show me a traffic road-rule and I will show you road-user deviance.”
In the beginning of the twentieth century, traffic became society’s most criminalized activity. Before the 1950s, Nigel Walker stated that 2 out of 3 court cases involved traffic crimes. I once believed that driver education would solve all traffic’s problems. I no longer hold that conviction. In the 20th century, car crashes killed injured, and maimed more people than soldiers sent to war in that century. Since the late-1960s:
better roads (multi-lane highways & freeways);
better automotive technologies;
widespread use of seat-belts and children’s car seats;
medical advances—mostly as a result of the Vietnam War;
the rural-to-urban shift in our population (the majority of collisions now occur at lower speeds);
have stemmed the tide of automotive fatalities. The best-kept secret in traffic safety is that since their zenith in the late-1960s, the high number of collisions and injuries has remained relatively unchanged.
I am now of the conviction that only technology will stem the bloody flow of traffic crashes. And I say, “Bring on the driver-less car.”
The difference between a coach and a bus is that a highway coach is equipped with a toilet.
Therefore a coach captain is a bus driver that sits on a bus all day and takes crap!
Rick August, PhD
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Vaping Isn’t Smoking – Really?
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Posted by Kevin Ewbank on February 25, 2016
You’d think anyone with a brain in their head could tell the difference between vaping and smoking. For a start there’s the wording. The old adage there’s no smoke without fire is an adage because it’s true. You need fire to produce smoke. So when you light a cigarette the tobacco burns real fire, although it’s controlled enough by chemicals not to actually produce a real flame. You take a puff through the filter and inhale actual smoke into your lungs.
Vaping on the other hand is as its name suggests vapour. A coil is charged with electricity to heat e liquid which then produces a vapour which can be inhaled.
There are big differences between smoke and vapour. Smoke is a thick heavy substance that hangs in the air, but vapour is thin, light and disperses quickly. If you had to be in a room with someone smoking or someone vaping, I guarantee 100% of people would choose vaping because it’s a lot less intrusive.
So with such obvious differences, the mind boggles why councils, governments and institutions around the world class vaping the same as smoking and want to see the same stringent laws applied to both.
It took a recent court ruling in New York to spell out the obvious differences to law makers in the US.
The case came about when a vaper called Shawn Thomas was arrested for vaping on a subway platform. It’s illegal to vape in public places in New York under the city’s Smoke Free Air Act, which was amended at the end of 2013 to include e-cigarettes. I’m sure there isn’t a scientist alive that would say e cigarettes produce smoke, but still the amendment went through and vapour was classed as smoke and outlawed. But where the cops went wrong with Shawn Thomas is they arrested him under state law, where the amendment doesn’t apply.
So Shawn dutifully challenged the charge in court, and the judge had no choice but to agree that laws referring to smoking can’t be applied to vaping.
The judge stated:
“‘Smoking’ means the burning of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or any other matter or substance which contains tobacco. An electronic cigarette neither burns nor contains tobacco. Instead, the use of such a device, which is commonly referred to as ‘vaping,’ involves ‘the inhalation of vapourized e-cigarette liquid consisting of water, nicotine, a base of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin and occasionally, flavouring.’ This does not fit within the definition of ‘smoking’ under the law.”
To every right minded person alive this statement has to be the most obvious thing ever said in a court of law, but in the crazy world of e cigarettes words like ‘truth’ and ‘common sense’ don’t apply.
So, the next move for New York to prevent any other wannabe Shawn Thomas’s making a mockery of their legal system will probably be to add the amendment that vaping is indeed smoking to their state law as well as their city law.
But why do these people insist on classing vapour as smoke when it’s quite obviously not?
Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association made a good point.
“There are a lot of people who simply do not like the sight of cigarette smoke, even if it’s not smoke and it’s not coming from a cigarette. There is an emotional reaction.”
This is a valid point and may be at the heart of the matter. In an age where health is uppermost in human consciousness, and cigarettes/tobacco have been in line with the devil in the western world, people just cannot handle a product that replicates smoking. It’s a case of not being able to see the wood for the trees as e cigarettes can actually help people to quit smoking.
But seeing people vape reminds them too much of tobacco and turns their stomach to the point they want to see it banned. Even though there are no proven negligible side effects to vaping in public.
So, as vapers it isn’t enough that we have big pharma and tobacco industries conspiring against us, we also have the irrational fears of law makers to content with.
The news in New York can be considered a breakthrough for common sense, but really it was just an administration error that I’m sure they’re keen to avoid happening again.
But we vapers know the truth and hopefully we’ll move through these dark times to a more enlightened age, where vaping is seen as a genuine way to rid ourselves of tobacco once and for all.
Until that time though, we’ll keep on vaping, happy at least we aren’t paying stupid money to line our lungs with tar.
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Fulham signing this €3.5m Polish star before deadline day would immensely help them in the next few months
by Siddhant Lazar January 26, 2019, 12:38 am
Why Dawid Kownacki can help Fulham survive relegation this season
Fulham and Claudio Ranieri have a tough road ahead as they try to battle the inevitable drop back to the Championship.
The Cottagers spent heavily in the summer, recruiting the likes of Jean Michael Seri, Andre Schurrle, Luciano Vietto and a few others, but still see themselves at 19th position in the Premier League. To make things worse, they are eight points from safety and play Manchester United, West Ham United and Crystal Palace over the next few weeks.
This means that the Craven Cottage side need to add at least two new faces to their side before the January window closes. That list has to include a striker, someone who can help take the burden off top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic’s shoulders.
The Serbian international has been in good form and leads Fulham’s goal-scoring charts with 8 goals, but that has come on the back of two separate six-game droughts. This has caused major issues, which is why Fulham should make a last-ditch attempt for Sampdoria striker Dawid Kownacki.
The Polish star has struggled to get game time this season, thanks in part to Fabio Quagliarella’s renaissance, with the 35-year-old scoring an incredible 14 goals in 19 appearances. This form has made the Sampdoria captain undroppable and it has led to 21-year-old Kownacki’s downfall.
However, the Polish starlet has scored two goals this season despite making 13 of his 15 appearances off the bench. This not only shows his desire to get goals but also his ability to never give up when times get tough.
In his debut season for the Serie A side, Kownacki finished with 8 goals and 3 assists. A great return for someone who only cost €3.5million, but now after the arrival of Manolo Gabbiadini, things may get worse.
The former Southampton man is the new third-choice striker at the club and it does mean the end of Kownacki. However, for Fulham, with Aboubakar Kamara out of favour, the 21-year-old Polish striker is the perfect replacement. Dawid Kownacki’s ability to play as a winger and a centre-forward does help his cause, but it’s his finishing ability that Fulham really need.
Read More: Fulham can easily escape relegation if Ranieri works his magic to land world-class star at Craven Cottage
While it would no doubt take him time to adjust to the Premier League, few youngsters will be able to outdo him once he settles down. It only takes one goal to get your confidence back and once he scores that, he’ll become a bargain buy for the Cottagers.
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Vision TV "is a not-for-profit charitable organization. We are governed by a volunteer board of directors. We are financially supported by cable fees, viewer donations, offering air-time to faith groups at not-for-profit rates and through advertising revenue." [1]
Bill Roberts, President and CEO
1 What are VisionTV’s major accomplishments?
What are VisionTV’s major accomplishments?
"Supporting Canadian independent production: VisionTV funding has made possible such award-winning documentaries as The Corporation , ScaredSacred ( recipient of the Best Documentary Award at the 2004 Whistler Film Festival) , Talk Mogadishu (recipient of the Silver Chris Award as overall best entry in the Social Issues division for 2004), Cosmic Current (recipient of the Canada Award at the 2004 Gemini Awards) and Call it Karma (recipient of the Best Adventure Film Award at the 2004 Whistler Film Festival).
"Developing innovative new programming: The winning productions of VisionTV's Cultural Diversity Drama Competition ( Kink in My Hair , St. Jamestown and Hotel Babylon ) aired on VisionTV during the 2004-2005 season. The network will be holding a second drama competition in 2005- 2006. VisionTV, in association with Ellis Entertainment, is currently developing innovative Lifestyle programming reflecting the network's faith and spirituality mandate, to air in 2005-2006.
"Winning prestigious industry awards: The network has received numerous honours, including three Gabriel certificates, the Canadian Women in Communications Employer of the Year citation and an Award of Honour from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Our talented in-house production team has twice earned Gemini Awards for its work on current affairs programming.
"Forging an international profile: We have joined forces with Toronto-based Ellis Entertainment to establish VisionTV International , a joint venture company committed to developing, producing and distributing original programming for sale in the global marketplace. Our innovative lifestyle programming has resulted from the partnership." [2]
Accessed April 2009: [3]
Dale Godsoe - Chair
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↑ FAQ, Vision TV, accessed April 19, 2009.
↑ Facts, Vision TV, accessed April 19, 2009.
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COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression through the NF-κB/Snail signaling pathway in gastric cancer
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Affiliations: Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P.R. China, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dongying District Hospital, Dongying, Shandong, P.R. China, Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, Western Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) participates in cancer invasion and metastasis by decreasing the expression of E-cadherin. However, the molecular mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression and function have not yet been fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible molecular mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression in gastric cancer. The mRNA and protein expression of COX-2, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), Snail and E-cadherin was detected in gastric cancer cells by quantitative PCR and western blot analysis, respectively. The expression of these genes was also detected in healthy gastric mucosa and gastric cancer tissues by immunohistochemistry. We detected various levels of COX-2, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), Snail and E-cadherin expression in the normal gastric mucosa and cancer tissues; however, the expression patterns differed: the increased expression of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail was observed in the gastric cancer tissues, whereas there was a considerable reduction in E-cadherin expression in the cancer tissues compared to the normal gastric mucosa. The expression patterns of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail were similar. The increased expression of COX-2 in the gastric cancer tissues closely correlated with the increased expression of NF-κB and Snail, but inversely correlated with the expression of E-cadherin. Treatment of the SGC7901 cells (which express high levels of COX-2) with celecoxib, a COX-2 inhibitor, not only led to a marked dose- and time-dependent decrease in the expression of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail, but also led to a significant increase in the expression of E-cadherin, and this was associated with a reduction in cell invasion. By contrast, the same treatment did not alter the expression of these genes in another gastric cancer cell line, MGC803 (which barely expresses COX-2). These data suggest that COX-2 regulates the expression of E-cadherin through the NF-κB and Snail signaling pathway in gastric cancer.
Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide. It was estimated that in 2008, 998,000 new cases of gastric cancer were diagnosed (representing 7.8% of all new tumor cases) and 736,000 patients died of this malignancy (accounting for 9.7% of all tumor deaths) (1). Invasion and metastasis are major factors for poor prognosis and mortality in gastric cancer. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer is necessary for developing effective treatment options to combat this disease (2).
Cancer invasion and metastasis are generally associated with molecular abnormalities in adhesion molecules. E-cadherin is one of the most important adhesion molecules and is essential for the maintenance of intact cellular functionality. The inhibition of tumor invasion and metastasis are among the most important biological functions of E-cadherin, as its abnormal expression and function have been observed in several epithelium-derived cancers including gastric cancer (2–4).
A number of studies have shown that cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) affects many aspects of fundamental cellular processes, such as the promotion of cell proliferation, inhibition of apoptosis and the enhancement of neovascularization. Thus, COX-2 significantly contributes to carcinogenesis (5,6). Previous studies have indicated that COX-2 participates in cancer invasion and metastasis by decreasing the expression of E-cadherin (7–9). However, the molecular mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression and function have not yet been fully elucidated.
In a previous study, we focused on the role of inflammation-related gastric cancer, with particular interest in the role of COX-2 and NF-κB in the development of gastric cancer (10). In this study, we aimed to determine the correlation between COX-2, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), Snail and E-cadherin expression in gastric cancer tissues and cells in order to elucidate the possible molecular mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression. The data presented in this study may aid in the development of novel therapeutic approaches for combating the invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer.
The SGC7901, AGS, BGC823 and MGC803 gastric cancer cell lines were purchased from the Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). Celecoxib, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, was a gift from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. RPMI-1640 and other cell culture supplements were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Trading Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Calf serum was purchased from Hangzhou Sijiqing Biological Engineering Materials Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou, China). The RNA extraction kit and protein extraction kit were purchased from Shanghai Biological Engineering Materials Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). The reverse transcription kit and quantitative PCR (qPCR) kit were purchased from Takara Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Dalian, China). Polyclonal antibodies for COX-2 and Snail were purchased from Abcam Ltd. (Cambridge, UK). Polyclonal antibodies against NF-κB and E-cadherin, as well as monoclonal antibody against β-actin were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Millicell cell culture inserts were obtained from Millipore (Billerica, MA, USA). ECM Gel was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA).
Healthy gastric mucosa, gastric cancer tissues and immunostaining
Paraffin-embedded blocks of healthy human gastric mucosa (n=32) and gastric cancer tissue (n=189) were used to construct tissue microarrays (TMAs). Gastric cancer tissues were obtained from patients with gastric cancer who underwent surgery at the Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei, China. The healthy gastric mucosal tissues were obtained from individuals who underwent gastric cancer screening endoscopy at the same hospital. The diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma was based on the WHO diagnosis criteria, and was confirmed by two independent pathologists. Patient demographics and TMA construction were described in our previous study (10). For immunohistochemical staining, the TMA slides were incubated for 1 h at 37°C with primary antibody against the following proteins: COX-2 (1:200), NF-κB p65 (1:200), Snail (1:200) and E-cadherin (1:250). The slides were then washed three times with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), incubated with biotin-conjugated secondary antibody (1:150) for 60 min at 37°C, washed with PBS and then incubated with strepavidin horseradish peroxidase (SHRP) (Thermo Scientific, USA) for 40 min at room temperature, developed with 2,3-diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride (DAB) (Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China) and counterstained with hematoxylin. The tissue diagnosis and immunostaining results were evaluated by two independent pathologists, and representative images were aquired for data presentation. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrollment in the study. The study was approved by the Institutional Human Ethics Committee of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Treatment of cells with celecoxib
The dose- and time-response of SGC7901 and BGC803 cells to celecoxib was examined using various concentrations of celecoxib for various periods of time, as detailed in the relevant figures and figure legends. The effect of celecoxib on the expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin was examined by qPCR and western blot analysis as described below.
Total cellular RNA was extracted using a commercial RNA extraction kit. Approximately 30 ng of total RNA was reverse-transcribed into cDNA. The PCR reaction system contained the following: 12.5 μl SYBR® Premix Ex Taq™ II, 0.5 μl of each primer, 2 μl DNA template and 9.5 μl dH2O. The qPCR conditions were as follows: 95°C, 5 sec; 62°C, 30 sec, 40 cycles. The qPCR primers are presented in Table I. Data were analyzed according to the comparative Ct method and were normalized to β-actin expression in each sample.
Table I.
Primer sequences for quantitative PCR.
Product size (bp)
COX-2 5′-TGGTGCCTGGTCTGATGATGTATGC-3′ 5′-ATCTGCCTGCTCTGGTCAATGGAAG-3′ 493
E-cadherin 5′-TTAAACTCCTGGCCTCAAGCAATC-3′ 5′-TCCTATCTTGGGCAAAGCAACTG-3′ 139
NF-κB/p65 5′-TCAGTCAGCGCATCCAGACC-3′ 5′-CAGAGCCGCACAGCATTCA-3′ 91
Snail 5′-CGCGCTCTTTCCTCGTCAG-3′ 5′-TCCCAGATGAGCATTGGCAG-3′ 181
β-actin 5′-TGGCACCCAGCACAATGAA-3′ 5′-CTAAGTCATAGTCCGCCTAGAAGCA-3′ 186
[i] COX-2, cyclooxygenase-2; NF-κB, nuclear factor-κB.
Total cellular protein was extracted using a commercial kit, and the protein concentration was measured using the BCA protein assay (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Haimen, China). Approximately 25 μg of denaturalized protein was separated by 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and transferred onto polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes (Millipore). The blots were blocked with 5% skim milk in Tris-buffered saline containing 0.1% Tween-20 (TBST) for 2 h at room temperature before being incubated overnight with primary antibodies against COX-2 (1:500), E-cadherin (1:500), NF-κB (1:500), Snail (1:1000) and β-actin (1:500) at 4°C. After being washed in TBST three times, the membranes were incubated with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated secondary antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) (1:5,000) for 1 h at room temperature. The protein bands were then detected using the ECL detection system.
Immunofluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy
Cells were harvested at the logarithmic growth phase and placed on glass coverslips in a 6-well plate (1×105 cells/well) and incubated in RPMI-1640 medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). After treatment with 75 μM celecoxib for 12, 24 and 48 h, the coverslips were washed three times with cold PBS and fixed with cold-acetone:methanol (1:1) for 10 min. The cells were then blocked in 10 g/l BSA solution for 30 min and then incubated with rabbit anti-E-cadherin polyclonal antibody (1:100) at 4°C overnight. The cells were then washed three times in PBS and incubated with FITC conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody (1:200) for 2 h at 37°C. After three washes in PBS, the coverslips were sealed by glycerol carbonic acid. Fluorescence was observed using a Leica TCS SP2 confocal microscope. PBS was used as the negative control.
Invasion assay
Single cell suspension (5×105/ml) was prepared with RPMI-1640 supplemented with 1% FBS. Two hundred microliters of cell suspension containing celecoxib (75 μM) were added to the upper chamber of each well. The lower chambers were filled with RPMI-1640 containing 10% FBS. The plates were incubated in a 5% CO2 container at 37°C. After 24 h, the cells on the upper membrane surface were removed by wiping with a cotton swab, and the filters were stained with Swiss dye solution for 20 min. The invasive cells on the undersurface of filter were observed under an inverted microscope (×200) and the average number of invasive cells was calculated from five different fields. All assays were performed in triplicate.
Data analysis was performed using SPSS11.0 software (IBM SPSS Statistics, Armonk, NY, USA). All data are expressed as the means ± standard deviation. A comparison of the differences between each group was performed using the Student’s t-test.
Analysis of the expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin by immunohistochemistry
The gastric cancer tissues generally expressed increased levels of COX-2 (Fig. 1B), NF-κB (Fig. 1D), and Snail (Fig. 1F), compared to the controls (Fig. 1A, C and E, respectively). These proteins were expressed mostly in the cytoplasmic compartments of the tumor cells. By contrast, a high expression of E-cadherin was detected in the normal gastric epithelial tissues, mostly as a membranous protein (Fig. 1G), whereas the expression of E-cadherin was mostly lost in the gastric cancer tissues (Fig. 1H).
Immunohistochemical staining of (A and B) cyclooxygenase-2, (C and D) nuclear factor-κB p65, (E and F) Snail and (G and H) E-cadherin in normal gastric mucosa (A, C, E and G) and gastric cancer tissues (B, D, F and H). Representative images were shown. Magnification, ×100.
Expression of COX-2 in the four gastric cancer cells with varying degrees of differentiation
Using western blot analysis and qPCR, we investigated the expression of COX-2 in the gastric cancer cells with varying degrees of differentiation: AGS (well differentiated), SGC7901 (moderately differentiated), BGC823 (poorly differentiated) and MGC803 cells (undifferentiated). Using qPCR, we observed a gradual decrease in the mRNA expression of COX-2 as the degree of cell differentiation decreased, with the highest expression being found in the SGC7901 cells, and the lowest in the MGC803 cells (Fig. 2A). At the protein level, high levels of COX-2 were observed in the SGC7901 and AGS cells; the BGC823 cells had a very low expression, whereas no COX-2 expression was detected in the MGC803 cells (Fig. 2B). Based on these results, we selected the SGC7901 cells as the COX-2-rich cells and the BGC803 cells as the COX-2-deficient cells for subsequent experiments.
(A) mRNA and (B) protein expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in gastric cancer cells with varying degrees of differentiation.
Effect of COX-2 inhibition by celecoxib on the expression of NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin in the SGC7901 and BGC803 cells
In our previous studies, we demonstrated that COX-2 and NF-κB regulate the expression of E-cadherin via the Snail signaling pathway (10), and that celecoxib restored the lost E-cadherin expression in gastric cancer cells (7). In this study, we treated the SGC7901 and BGC803 cells with celecoxib, and examined its effects on the expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin in gastric cancer cells. Our results may provide clues on the innate correlation between these genes.
When the SGC7901 cells were treated with celecoxib, there was a dose-dependent decrease in the mRNA expression of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail (P<0.05, compared to the controls) (Fig. 3A). Further experiments revealed that the treatment of SGC7901 cells with 75 μM of celecoxib for 12, 24 and 48 h led to a marked reduction in the mRNA expression of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail; this reduction occurred in a time-dependent manner, although not for Snail (Fig. 3B) (P<0.05, compared to the controls). Notably, treatment of the SGC7901 cells with celecoxib rendered a significant dose- and time-dependent increase in the expression of E-cadherin (Fig. 3A and B) (P<0.05, compared to the controls). The increased expression of E-cadherin following treatment with celecoxib was also observed under a confocal fluorescent microscope (Fig. 3C).
Expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), Snail and E-cadherin by quantitative PCR (qPCR) in SGC7901 cells treated with (A) various concentrations of celecoxib, or (B) 75 μM of celecoxib for various periods of time. (C) Immunofluorescent staining under a confocal microscope for E-cadherin following celecoxib treatment (magnification, ×400). (D and E) The expression of NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin was also examined by qPCR in the MGC803 cells following the same treatment. The effect of celecoxib on the expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin was further confirmed at the protein level by western blot analysis in (F and G) the SGC7901 cells and (H and I) the MGC803 cells.
By contrast, the same treatment regimen did not alter the mRNA expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin in the BGC803 cells (P>0.05, compared to the controls) (Fig. 3D and E).
The above changes were further confirmed at the protein level by western blot analysis. Treatment of the SGC7901 cells with celecoxib caused a dose- and time-dependent decrease (Fig. 3F and G) in the expression of COX-2, NF-κB and Snail. On the other hand, the expression of E-cadherin was increased by celecoxib in a dose- and time-dependent manner (Fig. 3F and G). However, the protein expression of COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin was not significantly altered in the BGC803 cells after the same treatment regimen (Fig. 3H and I) (P>0.05, compared to the controls).
Effect of COX-2 inhibition by celecoxib on cell invasion
Treatment of the SGC7901 cells with celecoxib led to an increase in the expression of E-cadherin in the SGC7901 cells (P<0.05) (Fig. 3). We then examined the effects of celecoxib on cell invasion. Celecoxib decreased the invasive ability of the SGC7901 cells (P<0.01) (Fig. 4).
Effect of celecoxib on the invasive ability of the SGC7901 cells. Magnification, ×200.
Effect of COX-2 inhibition by celecoxib on the expression of Akt in SGC7901 cells
Treatment of the SGC7901 cells with celecoxib led to a dose- and time-dependent decrease in the mRNA expression of COX-2 and NF-κB, but not in the expression of Akt (Fig. 5A and B) (P>0.05). However, at the protein level, celecoxib caused a dose- and time-dependent decrease in the expression of p-Akt (Fig. 5C and D) (P<0.05, compared to the controls), and these changes were in parallel with the altered expression patterns of COX-2 and NF-κB.
Correlation between the celecoxib-induced alteration in cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) expression and Akt at (A and B) the mRNA level and (C and D) the protein level in SGC7901 cells.
COX-2 plays an important role in carcinogenesis and metastasis in many types of cancer, including malignancies derived from the gastrointestinal tract (11,12). COX-2 has been reported to induce cell proliferation, inhibit apoptosis and facilitate angiogenesis (5,6). The increased COX-2 expression has been widely reported in gastric cancer; hence, the inhibition of COX-2 has been suggested as a promising approach for the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer (13–15). However, the mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates gastric carcinogenesis have not yet been fully elucidated.
The high expression level of COX-2 has been shown to correlate with the downregulation of E-cadherin in prostate cancer (8). E-cadherin is an important molecule in the control of normal cell adhesion and tissue integrity. The loss of E-cadherin has been well recognized in gastric cancer and this has been linked to cancer progression, invasion and metastasis (7,2,16). The pre-operative administration of celecoxib in patients with gastric cancer for seven days has been shown to significantly decrease the expression of COX-2, VEGF and angiogenesis, but increase E-cadherin expression and apoptosis in post-operative gastric cancer tissues (7). In the current study, we observed that celecoxib inhibited COX-2 expression in the SGC7901 cells and that this was associated with the restoration of E-cadherin expression; this in turn, paralleled with a decrease in cell invasion. These data further verify that the role of COX-2 in gastric cancer development is likely associated with the observed loss of E-cadherin expression.
In order to investigate the mechanisms through which COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression, we measured the expression of Snail, a zinc finger transcription factor of the Snail super family which includes Snail, E12/E47, zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1), Smad interacting protein 1 (SIP1) and Slug. Snail binds to the promoters of various effector genes and thereby regulates the transcription and expression of that partner protein (17–19). It has been shown that Snail binds to the E-box of the E-cadherin promoter region and inhibits the transcription and expression of the latter, and thus it is considered a direct inhibitor of E-cadherin (20,21). The downregulation of E-cadherin has indeed been causally linked to the abnormal activity of Snail in several types of cancer (22,23).
In the current study, we observed that COX-2 not only regulates E-cadherin, but also regulates the expression of Snail in gastric cancer cells. Celecoxib, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, was used to treat the SGC7901 cells, in which COX-2 is highly expressed. We found that celecoxib rendered a dose- and time-dependent decrease in the mRNA and protein expression of Snail. By contrast, the BGC803 cells (in which COX-2 is barely detectable) did not show the same response to celecoxib, and this agent did not cause any changes in Snail expression. These data suggest that COX-2 closely correlates with Snail. This is consistent with a previous report on non-small cell lung cancer, showing that COX-2 regulates the expression of E-cadherin via Snail (24). We therefore hypothesized that Snail may be a critical mediator in the COX-2-induced loss of E-cadherin expression in gastric cancer.
Our results revealed that celecoxib inhibited the activity of COX-2 and that this effect was not only associated with the reduced expression of Snail, but also with a marked reduction in the expression of NF-κB subunit p65. Again, in the SGC7901 cells, the mRNA and the protein expression of p65 showed a dose- and time-dependent decrease in response to celecoxib. By contrast, the BGC803 cells did not exhibit a similar response to celecoxib, suggesting that COX-2 regulates the expression of NF-κB.
As NF-κB/p65 directly binds to the promoter region of Snail and thus induces its transcription in cancer (25,26), we hypothesized that in gastric cancer, the interaction between NF-κB/p65 and Snail may play a role in the COX-2-mediated loss of E-cadherin expression. The interaction between COX-2 and NF-κB has not yet been fully elucidated. Previous studies have provided some clues: COX-2 activates IκB kinase (IKK) through the activation of the Akt pathway (27) and the treatment of liver cancer cells with celecoxib has been shown to decrease the phosphorylation level of Akt (28). In this study, we showed that celecoxib did not change the total level of Akt as revealed by qPCR, but induced a time- and dose-dependent downregulation of phosphorylated Akt, and this change was associated with the parallel inhibition of COX-2 and NF-κB. These data suggest that under physiological conditions, COX-2 interacts with its target proteins through the activation of the Akt pathway.
In view of these data, and considering our finding that in gastric cancer tissues, COX-2, NF-κB and Snail showed a very similar expression pattern, and as the same pattern was maintained when the cells were exposed to the COX-2 inhibitor, celecoxib, it can be hypothesized that a complex interaction between COX-2, NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin exists. These factors may not operate alone during the development of gastric cancer.
In conclusion, based on the published data and those from our study, we suggest that COX-2 activates NF-κB, thus regulating the transcription and expression of E-cadherin through the Snail signaling pathway (Fig. 6), although the direct effect of COX-2 on Snail activation may also play a role in the loss of E-cadherin expression during gastric cancer. Further studies (e.g., experiments involving Snail modulation) are warranted to clarify the mechanisms through which COX-2 interacts with NF-κB, Snail and E-cadherin during the development of gastric cancer.
Diagram illustrating the possible molecular mechanisms through which cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) interacts with other molecules during the development of gastric cancer metastasis.
cyclooxygenase-2;
nuclear factor-κB
The study was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant ID, 30872478) and the Gansu Special Program for High Technology Research and Development (ID, 0912TCYA027). We thank Dr Lina Wang and Dr Meikai Zhou from the same institution for their assistance in TMA construction and immunohistochemistry.
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Chen, Z., Liu, M., Liu, X., Huang, S., Li, L., Song, B., Li, H., Ren, Q., Hu, Z., Zhou, Y., Qiao, L."COX-2 regulates E-cadherin expression through the NF-κB/Snail signaling pathway in gastric cancer". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 32, no. 1 (2013): 93-100. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2013.1376
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Summary Book X
As Eurydice is walking through the grass, a viper bites her foot, killing her. Orpheus travels to the underworld to ask Proserpina and Pluto to give back his wife. Orpheus’s song causes the harsh Fates to shed their first tears. Proserpina and Pluto agree to grant Orpheus’s request on the condition that he does not look back at his wife as they leave the underworld. Orpheus starts his ascent but, worried about Eurydice, looks back at her. This time, she is lost for good. Orpheus grieves and begins to sing. He sings of the love of boys. Jupiter transforms himself into a bird and snatches the boy Ganymede into heaven. Apollo loves the boy Hyacinthus, with whom he competes in throwing discs. Apollo accidentally strikes Hyacinthus in the face, killing him.
Orpheus sings of the lusts of women. The Propoetides are the first to prostitute themselves, for which Venus punishes them by turning them to stone. Pygmalion witnesses these actions and is repulsed by women’s immorality. He fashions his own perfect women from ivory. The statue is so lifelike that he falls in love with it. He dresses it, kisses it, and prays to the gods for a woman like the ivory statue. The gods hear his prayer, and to Pygmalion’s surprise, the statue comes alive. She bears Pygmalion a daughter, Paphos, who in turn bears a son, Cinyras.
Cinyras has a beautiful daughter named Myrrha, who is courted by princes from all over the world. However, Myrrha is in love with her father. Although she is agonized over her feelings, Myrrha tricks her father into sleeping with her for several nights. Cinyras discovers the deception and seeks to kill Myrrha. Now pregnant, Myrrha escapes and turns into a tree. Eventually she bears a beautiful son, Adonis.
Cupid accidentally pricks his mother, Venus, with one of his arrows, and she falls in love with Adonis. She prefers him even to heaven. She tells a story of Atalanta, a speedy woman whom an oracle has advised to avoid marriage. Hippomenes wants to marry Atalanta. She challenges him to a race. If he wins, she will marry him. If he loses, he will die. Before the start of the race, Venus gives Hippomenes three golden apples with which to distract Atalanta during the race. Hippomenes defeats Atalanta but fails to thank Venus for her help, so she turns him and Hippomenes into lions. After the story ends, Adonis goes hunting, and a boar gouges him to death. Venus mourns.
Ovid’s story of Orpheus and Eurydice is in conversation with Virgil’s account of it in the Georgics. Ovid fills in details Virgil leaves out and leaves out the details Virgil includes. Unlike Virgil, Ovid adds a wedding, Orpheus’s encounter with Pluto and Proserpina, and the effect of Orpheus’s song on the inhabitants of the underworld. Ovid’s additions not only harmonize and interact with Virgil’s story, but they also place a new emphasis on the power of Orpheus’s art. With his song, Orpheus achieves the impossible feat of calling his wife back from the dead. Eurydice remains in the underworld not because Orpheus’s art is flawed but because he is human and therefore flawed himself. He looks back out of natural concern for his wife. Despite this setback, Orpheus eventually succeeds when, later in the poem, he rejoins Eurydice in the underworld.
Ovid portrays Pygmalion as the literary twin of Orpheus. Through the story of Pygmalion, he foreshadows Orpheus’s reunion with Eurydice. He draws parallels between the two men. Just as Orpheus loses the love of his life, Pygmalion loses his love for women after witnessing the Propoetides selling their bodies. Just as Orpheus seeks to regain his woman through the use of song, Pygmalion attempts to regain his love for women by fashioning an ideal one from ivory. Orpheus’s art succeeds brilliantly, as does Pygmalion’s. In this book, Orpheus fails and Pygmalion succeeds. Orpheus loses his wife, but Pygmalion gains his. However, Pygmalion’s success here foreshadows Orpheus’s eventual success.
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