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Women Rock
“Do coding for yourself” – an interview with Sian Richards
I first met Sian Richards when she came along to help out as a coach at Codebar. We sat for hours discussing her passion for technology and how it came about, Sian also helps our students learn the crazy world of Javascript and is a great advocate at showing our students you don’t have to follow the typical career path into Tech. Sian did a degree in Philosophy and she had heard a lot of people say Software Development doesn’t seem an obvious path for a Philosophy grad. But they’re not too different. Sian decided to complete at intense 12 week boot camp to welcome her to the tech world, she is now a Software Developer in Test at Bud Systems.
You did your degree in Philosophy and now you are working as a Software Developer in Test… how was that as a transition?
I’ve heard a lot of people say Software Development doesn’t seem an obvious path for a Philosophy grad. But they’re not too different. In Philosophy, you have to think analytically about philosophical arguments – both when constructing and deconstructing arguments. At university, I did Logic which was a Philosophy module and we had to do proofs which is essentially a practice in “clean coding” (making your code churn out the same result in fewer lines). I’d say the greatest difference between Philosophy and programming is the fact that Philosophy trains you to think about things abstractly – which is of course still useful in programming – but it doesn’t prepare you for the practical aspect of actually writing code. But I’ll go out on a limb and say that just describes the jump from most academic degrees to the real world.
You went through an intensive course with _nology, would you recommend this route for someone wanting to get into technology? And could you talk me through the course?
I would recommend a coding camp for sure. What attracted me to _nology in particular was the fact they pushed diversity so I could be confident I wouldn’t be the only women in the room (lol), and I also liked how we spent a solid amount of the course working on a real-life client project so it wasn’t just a case of cramming us full of programming knowledge without offering any experience of the other aspects of working as a developer (which are equally as important). It should be noted though, I was in the privileged position of being able to invest my time and money into a coding course. Therefore, if you are considering doing a coding boot camp and are concerned about money, I’d recommend opting for one that allows you to pay once you start earning (like _nology, I swear I’m not trying to plug them, or for a list of online courses with deferred payment, try https://igtechnologies.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/free-or-tuition-deferred-coding-boot-camps/).
In terms of technologies: in the first few weeks, we covered the basics of HTML 5, CSS, SCSS and worked on creating our own CVs online. We then hit JavaScript week which involved lots of mini challenges (and hitting your head against the wall when you thought you solved it but didn’t quite). Then we moved onto TypeScript (more challenges and head hitting), then React where we began our client project and finally, we finished with Redux.
In terms of soft skills: at the end of every week, we presented either individually or within a group to external clients, focusing on what we’d produced that week. Week five was dedicated solely to soft skills, where we gave a TED-style talk at the end of the week. Then we had our ongoing client project and finally, we finished with mock interviews.
What advice would you give to fellow females who are looking to get into Technology?
If you haven’t tried coding at all, I’d highly recommend giving it a go – it’s essentially like learning another language but rather than the reward being “Your German is good for an English person” or the listener not switching to English as soon as they detect an English accent, the reward is seeing magic happen on a screen through essentially telling a computer what to do with a given input. I’d say don’t be motivated to code by wanting to signal to people that you’re technically adept as that’s less fun and that motivation will fade quickly. Instead, do coding for yourself: before you even touch code, do some research and find something you want to build. Then just analyse the app you want to build by looking at syntax* (if this were a newspaper article, how would it be organised?), styling (what shape is this element? Where is it positioned?) and functionality (when I click on this element, what happens?). Then focus on the syntax and look at how to build it (YouTube is a great resource!) and once you’ve nailed that, move onto styling and finally functionality.
*I trained in front-end development so I’m looking at breaking an app down into front-end languages.
You are a coach at CodeBar, what were your thoughts on the workshop?
I thoroughly enjoy coaching at CodeBar workshops. I was struck by imposter syndrome during my first session because I had only started learning to code March 2019 and here I was, months later teaching someone about JavaScript functions. But my confidence grew and I realised “Ah wait, I do know what I’m talking about”. It was so much fun, and it’s such a good way to assess your knowledge. I like CodeBar in particular because it’s very chilled – “What would you like to learn?” “I’d like to learn Python” “Oh great, I’ll teach you Python”, or in my case “Oh great, I’ll swiftly direct you to someone who knows Python” Plus, there was pizza on hand, so…
What do you think companies can do to attract a more diverse range of people?
This is a difficult question to answer as the lack of representation of diverse individuals in the tech sector stems from societal expectations of roles for specific people. If you fit the archetype of a programmer in terms of gender, race, class and so on, it would be less daunting and more welcoming for you to enter that field in comparison to someone who doesn’t fit that archetype.
However, focusing on what I think companies, in particular, can do, I think the biggest thing would be to reconsider filtering out applicants (particularly fresh graduates) based on whether they studied a STEM subject at university or not. I don’t quite understand the rationale behind this: either it’s because companies believe that individuals from STEM backgrounds would have the greatest pre-exposure to coding as part of their course OR companies believe that individuals from STEM backgrounds have had their minds moulded into the desired shape of a web developer through a focus on maths and general analytical thinking during their course OR, it’s down to laziness.
The first option doesn’t make a huge amount of sense given most computer languages are taught on the job and neither does the second point considering degrees like Music and Foreign Languages involve a hell-of-a-lot of analysis. For example, does my approach to learning how to code through breaking a page down syntactically play to the strengths of someone with an English Literature degree or a Chemistry degree? Furthermore, coding doesn’t necessarily have to involve any maths at all. It greatly depends on the requirements of the functionality of the application you’re creating. I guess that leaves the last option: laziness. And this is a poor reason to filter individuals out: the candidate misses out on becoming part of one of the fastest growing employment sectors worldwide and companies miss out on new approaches to solving problems and a wealth of analytical minds. It seems like we’re in a big lose-lose situation for not a very good reason. Therefore, I believe companies should at least give it a try rather than resting on unverified assumptions.
Thank you Sian for this brilliant interview and also for your continued support at Codebar.
An interview by Alicia Teagle
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Glossary R – Z
Radiograph
A photographic shadow image resulting from uneven absorption of penetrating radiation in a test object.
A method of nondestructive inspection in which a test object is exposed to a beam of x-rays or gamma rays and the resulting shadow image of the object is recorded on photographic film placed behind the object. Internal discontinuities are detected by observing and interpreting variations in the image caused by differences in thickness, density, or absorption within the test object. Variations of radiography include electron radiography, fluoroscopy, and neutron radiography. Commonly referred to as RT.
Residual elements
Elements present in an Alloy in small quantities, but not added intentionally.
The Engineering design, layout, and fabrication of pattern equipment for producing castings; including a study of the casting solidification program, feeding (risering) and gating, and fitting flasks.
Reservoir of molten metal from which casting feeds as it shrinks during solidification.
Riser, Blind
A riser that does not break through the top of the cope and is entirely surrounded by sand.
Riser, Open
A riser that breaks through the top of the cope; hot topping compound is applied to the exposed metal surface immediately after pouring.
Root of joint
The portion of a weld joint where the members are closest to each other before welding. In cross section, this may be a point, a line or an area.
Root pass
The first bead of a multiple-pass weld, laid in the root of joint.
Society of Automotive Engineers.
Salt fog test
An accelerated corrosion test in which specimens are exposed to a fine mist of a solution usually containing sodium chloride but sometimes modified with other chemicals; sometimes called a salt spray test.
An element added to Stainless steel to improve machinability. Element 34; Symbol: Se.
In austenitic Stainless steels, the precipitation of chromium carbides, usually at grain boundaries, on exposure to temperatures of about 550 to 850 degrees C (about 1000 to 1550 degrees F), leaving the grain boundaries depleted of chromium and therefore susceptible to preferential attack by a corroding (oxidizing) medium.
SFSA
Steel Founders’ Society of America.
Maximum shear stress a material is capable of withstanding without failure.
Shielded metal arc welding
Arc welding in which the arc and the weld metal are protected by a gaseous atmosphere, the products of decomposition of the covering on a consumable metal electrode.
Blasting with metal shot; usually used to remove deposits or scale more rapidly or more effectively than can be done by sand blasting.
Shot peening
Cold working the surface of a metal by metal-shot impingement.
Shrinkage rule
A measuring ruler with graduations expanded to compensate for the change in the dimensions of the solidified casting as it cools in the mold.
Sigma phase
A hard, brittle, nonmagnetic intermetallic phase. Found in some Stainless steels after heating to temperatures between 1300 and 1800 F (700 and 1000 C).
An important element, chemically classified as a nonmetal, metallurgically, as a metal. Added to steels as a deoxidizer, to Stainless steels to improve fluidity for casting and to control oxide film formation, to heat resisting Alloys for carburization resistance, and to some Ni-based Alloys for increased hardness. Element 14; Symbol: Si.
SMAW
Shielded Metal Arc Welding.
Prolonged heating of a metal at a selected temperature.
That material which has a tendency to resist any attempt to change its size or shape.
Solidification
The change in state from liquid to solid on cooling through the melting temperature or melting range.
In a constitution or equilibrium diagram, the line representing the temperatures at which various compositions finish freezing on cooling or begin to melt on heating.
A numerical value representing the weight of a given substance as compared with the weight of an equal volume of water at 39 degrees F (3.9 degrees C), for which the specific gravity is taken as 1.000.
The ratio of the thermal capacity (the quantity of heat required to produce a unit change in the temperature of a unit mass) of a substance to that of water at 15 C.
Specific volume
Volume of one gram of a substance at a specific temperature, usually 20 degrees C (68 degrees F).
A wide range of steels containing chromium or chromium and other elements such as nickel, molybdenum, copper, manganese, and nitrogen, exhibiting high resistance to corrosion.
An iron-base Alloy containing carbon, usually manganese, and often other Alloying elements.
A measure of the relative change in the size or shape of a body.
Strain rate
The time rate of straining for the usual tensile test.
Force per unit area, often thought of as force acting through a small area within a plane.
Stress-corrosion cracking (SCC)
A cracking process that requires the simultaneous action of a corrosive and sustained tensile stress. This excludes corrosion-reduced sections that fail by fast fracture. It also excludes intercrystalline or transcrystalline corrosion, which can disintegrate an Alloy without applied or residual stress. Stress-corrosive cracking may occur in combination with hydrogen embrittlement.
Stress relieving
Heating to a suitable temperature, holding long enough to reduce residual stresses and then cooling slowly enough to minimize the development of new residual stresses.
Stringer bead
A type of weld bead made without appreciable weaving motion.
Structure (Cast structure)
The size and disposition of the constituents of a metal as cast.
A nonmetallic element, occurring as an undesirable tramp (trace) element in most ferrous Alloys, but added to some grades to improve machinability. Element 16; Symbol: S.
SuperAlloy
An Alloy developed for very high temperature use where relatively high stresses are encountered and where oxidation resistance is needed.
In heat treatment, to reheat hardened steel or hardened cast iron to some temperature below the transformation temperature for the purpose of decreasing hardness and increasing toughness. The process may also be applied to normalized steel.
Degree of warmth or coldness in relation to an arbitrary zero measured on one or more of accepted scales, as Centigrade, Fahrenheit, etc.
The maximum stress in uniaxial tension testing which a material will withstand prior to fracture. The ultimate tensile strength is calculated from the maximum load applied during the test divided by the original cross sectional area.
A device for measuring temperatures, consisting of lengths of two dissimilar metals or Alloys that are electrically joined at one end and connected to a voltage-measuring instrument at the other end.
Tungsten inert-gas welding.
Any of a class of carbon and Alloy steels commonly used to make tools.
Transformation ranges
Those ranges of temperature within which a phase (such as austenite) forms during heating and transforms during cooling. The limiting temperatures of the ranges depend on the composition of the Alloy and on the rate of change of temperature, particularly during cooling.
Transformation temperature
The temperature at which a change in phase occurs. This term is sometimes used to denote the limiting temperature of a transformation range.
Transition temperature
An arbitrarily defined temperature that lies within the temperature range in which metal fracture characteristics (as usually determined by tests of notched specimens) change rapidly, such as from primarily fibrous (shear) to primarily crystalline (cleavage) fracture.
Literally, “across”, usually signifying a direction or plane perpendicular to the direction of rolling.
TTT curve
Abbreviation for Time-Temperature-Transformation curve.
Tungsten is added to certain Stainless steels to improve resistance to pitting and crevice corrosion. It is a very pronounced carbide former and promotes ferrite. In steels, it improves toughness and prevents grain growth. Element 74; Symbol W.
Tungsten inert-gas welding
Inert-gas shielded welding using a tungsten electrode.
Ultimate tensile strength
The maximum tensile stress a metal can stand.
A nondestructive method of testing metal for flaws based on the fact that ultrasonic waves are reflected and refracted at the boundaries of a solid medium. Commonly referred to as UT.
A groove melted into the base metal adjacent to the toe of a weld and left unfilled.
A process for remelting and refining metals in which the metal is melted inside a vacuum chamber by induction heating. The metal may be melted in a crucible, then poured into a mold.
In steels, refines the primary grain and thus the casting structure. Pronounced carbide former, thus providing increased wear resistance, edge holding quality, and high temperature strength. Element 23; Symbol: V.
Weave bead
A type of weld bead made with transverse oscillation.
A specific or relative measure of the ability of a material to be welded under a given set of conditions.
Joining two or more pieces of material by applying heat or pressure, or both, with or without filler material, to produce a localized union through fusion or recrystallization across the interface.
Welding procedure
The detailed materials, methods, and practices involved in the production of a weld.
Welding technique
The details of a welding operation that, within the limitations of a welding procedure, are performed by the welder.
White cast iron
Cast iron that shows a white fracture because the carbon is in combined form.
WPQR
Welding Procedure Qualification Record.
Welding Procedure Specification.
The ratio of yield strength to ultimate tensile strength.
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This Two-Minute Video Of Lionel Messi's 52 Free-Kicks Is The Best Thing You'll See Today
Nasir Jabbar in Football
Last updated 5:01 PM, Friday May 03 2019 GMT+1
Lionel Messi's free-kicks are next level.
He marked his 600th career goal for Barcelona in trademark fashion.
The Argentine maestro whipped in an outrageous free-kick into the top corner to cap his side's Champions League victory over Liverpool.
The angle of *that* Lionel Messi free-kick you haven't seen yet...
Superb :ok_hand:#NoFilterUCL pic.twitter.com/q8FuO9IDza
- Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) May 2, 2019
Messi has now scored 52 free-kicks during his illustrious career and a Twitter user has brilliantly complied all his efforts in a jaw-dropping video.
This two-minute video of Messi's free-kicks from his time at Barcelona and while on international duty with 'La Albiceleste' is the best thing you'll see today.
Sit back and enjoy:
En el día de su gol 600, un repaso por los ¡52! goles de Lionel #Messi de tiro libre. Una práctica que fue perfeccionando con los años... pic.twitter.com/eslY8awu8T
- Sebastián Bezzerri (@SBezzerri) May 1, 2019
There's nobody better than Messi at free-kicks. What's his secret? A lot of practice.
"It is true that many times we have stayed after training to practice," the 31-year-old said back in December about his set-piece prowess.
"Not only free-kicks, but also shots from outside the area. You get used to shooting in a specific way and increasingly discover your best form. In the end, everything is training and practice."
Image: PA
Messi takes free-kicks like they're penalties and he's brilliantly explained the difference between them.
"With a free-kick you have a barrier, the distance and it's another type of strike; you do not have the pressure to score because a free-kick can go in or not. With a penalty you have much more to lose than win. Here the goalkeeper feels more comfortable; if the player scores, it's normal as it's a penalty.
"The one who shoots is more obliged to score than the goalkeeper is to stop it. The pressure is very different."
Topics: Liverpool, Football News, Suarez, Football, Barcelona, Messi News, Free-kick, Lionel Messi, Champions League
Nasir Jabbar
Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado, and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Michael Bisping and Anthony Joshua. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.
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Free treat at Costa Coffee
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Discounted pizzas at Domino's
Say hello to a new branch of Domino's with a discount! Enjoy 30% off on all pizzas from December 5 to 27. Time to round up the gang!
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Police take 15-year-old into custody in connection to threats to Ben Franklin Junior High
The Stevens Point Area School District reported three threats of violence found inside bathrooms at two schools within in two days last week.
Police take 15-year-old into custody in connection to threats to Ben Franklin Junior High The Stevens Point Area School District reported three threats of violence found inside bathrooms at two schools within in two days last week. Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: https://www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/news/2019/12/16/stevens-point-police-take-teen-into-custody-connection-threats/2667771001/
Alan Hovorka, Stevens Point Journal Published 3:32 p.m. CT Dec. 16, 2019
STEVENS POINT — Stevens Point police took a 15-year-old boy into custody concerning threats made at Ben Franklin Junior High last week.
The threats made against the school on Dec. 12 caused school to close Dec. 13. Additional threats were found at Stevens Point Area Senior High on Dec. 13, prompting an early dismissal of classes. The Stevens Point Area Public School District reported three threats of violence found inside bathrooms at the two schools within two days last week.
Police said in a news release they continue investigate the threats at both schools and will not release additional information at this time.
Sarah O'Donnell, spokesperson for the school district, said in an interview on Friday that the district would not release the language used in the threat because of the ongoing investigation.
The district searched backpacks at SPASH on Monday morning in response to the threats, as well as holding schoolwide conversations at both schools.
Director of Secondary Education Connie Negaard's talking points sent in an email on Monday for discussions with students at the two schools said the district believes the threats were a result of a student making a foolish decision.
Conversations with students focused on making sure students felt safe and reiterating the seriousness of making such threats, according to Negaard's talking points.
Threats of school violence result in suspension, recommendation for expulsion and police involvement, O'Donnell said.
The school district's talking points for Monday also noted that the district appreciated students stepping up and reporting the threats and taking ownership of their schools. The conversations also sought to make sure students feeling anxious had a place to express those emotions and find help.
"It’s their community and they decide what the culture is and they need to take some ownership of that," O'Donnell said in a Friday interview.
Anyone with additional information should call Portage County Crime Stoppers at 1-888-346-6600.
RELATED: School canceled Friday at Ben Franklin Junior High, SPASH in Stevens Point after threats found
OTHER NEWS: Stevens Point man bags a 13-point deer, then discovers it's actually a doe
Contact reporter Alan Hovorka at 715-345-2252 or ahovorka@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ajhovorka.
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Tomah VA protest lasts seven hours
Spokesman says Veterans Affairs site investigation began Tuesday, will involve protester
Tomah VA protest lasts seven hours Spokesman says Veterans Affairs site investigation began Tuesday, will involve protester Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: http://spjour.nl/1CeKeWX
Wisconsin Published 6:37 p.m. CT Jan. 27, 2015
Ryan Honl waits to meet with the VA investigators Tuesday at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center.(Photo: Megan McCormick/News-Herald Media)Buy Photo
TOMAH — A former employee who blew the whistle on drug-prescribing practices at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center staged a sit-in at the facility for more than seven hours Tuesday while he waited to meet with VA investigators.
Ryan Honl was incensed by assertions by the center’s director in the La Crosse Tribune Tuesday that the director wouldn’t have done anything differently amid complaints that veterans were so heavily drugged they could not respond to counseling. Director Mario DeSanctis said he has already instituted solutions to address allegations of over-prescribing of opiates at the facility.
Honl posted the report on his Facebook page and then headed to the medical center, where he said he called the human resources department and DeSanctis’s office asking for the meeting with VA investigators.
Related: Baldwin’s handling of VA report ‘frustrating’ for widow
“I don’t expect the VA to properly investigate despite the press coverage which is the only reason they give a (expletive) now,” Honl wrote on Facebook.
Honl also emailed VA Secretary Bob McDonald, who announced Monday that top agency investigators had launched a probe at the facility after members of Congress asked him to review operations at the medical center following a news report earlier this month revealed a veteran from Stevens Point had died from an overdose as an inpatient in August.
“I don’t expect anything to happen with any VA investigative team,” Honl said in a phone interview Tuesday while he continued his protest. “What I do want to happen is I want the media involved. I want them to understand what’s happening in the VA with investigating itself. If they don’t want to talk, then the public is going to know that.”
Related: Baldwin fires aide over Tomah VA report
The VA Office of the Inspector General reviewed prescription practices at the clinic and concluded in a report last year that two practitioners at the VA clinic were among the highest prescribers of opiates in a multistate region — at “considerable variance” compared with most opioid prescribers. That, the report said, raised “potentially serious concerns.” But the report was not made public. A copy was provided to Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Aug. 29, but she did not call for an investigation until after the news report earlier this month, some four months later.
More from D.C.: Washington-based reporter Donovan Slack covers politics
Honl, who left his job at the Tomah VA in October and filed a federal whistleblower complaint on his way out, said he would remain at the clinic until his meeting request is granted or officials kick him out. He arrived at the medical center around 8 a.m. and as of about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday his request was not granted. Honl said he would stay until the office doors closed for the night.
He said he was staging his sit-in for the veterans and families who wanted answers about the facility’s practices.
“This is about a corrosive culture in the VA, protecting unethical and criminal people, which results in harm to patients and even death,” he said.
Honl posted on his Facebook page around 11:10 a.m. that VA police were posted outside the building and barring media from entering, so he moved to a new location in the facility. Tomah VA Medical Center Public Affairs Officer Scott Farley said police were not barring media from entering the building but were keeping them away from the patient care area.
Farley said his office would not answer questions about the investigation because it is ongoing.
Farley said Tuesday was the first day of the campus investigation and that the investigators have an itinerary that includes several interviews. A meeting with Honl is one of them, Farley said.
Reporter Sari Lesk contributed to this report. Contact her at 715-345-2257 or @Sari_Lesk.
Contact Donovan Slack at dslack@usatoday.com. Follow her on Twitter as @donovanslack.
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MarketSmith Top Stocks iPad App Review
Posted by Blain Reinkensmeyer | Last updated on Jun 12th, 2019 | Published Sep 27th, 2012
Recently the MarketSmith team demo’d for me their latest project, iPad app Top Stocks by MarketSmith, and I was impressed to say the least.
MarketSmith is a premium stock charting application, a sister company to Investor’s Business Daily (IBD). I personally use MarketSmith and have been a fan since its old days when it operated under the Daily Graphs name.
MarketSmith costs $999 per year for access, and as a result is used by predominately more serious investors who can justify the cost. Not having a product to target investors who may not trade frequently or are new to the market, Top Stocks by MarketSmith was created to allow investors as many of the same features as possible at a much lower price point.
The best part of the free version of the app is the access to MarketSmith charts for all stocks. This alone is a steal of a deal. You can look at daily, weekly, monthly, as well as intraday charts.
With the free app, each day there is a new ideas list of stocks to look at. As a non subscriber, you only get to see five stocks from the list, which is just enough to satisfy your research taste buds while leaving you wanting more.
For investors wanting fundamental research, there is arguably no one better at it than IBD. With the basic version of the app you can see full institutional grade fundamental research for the five stocks featured each day. To see research for any other equities, a monthly subscription is required.
The App itself is free, and then there are two premium tier subscriptions for those who want access to more research and data. The free app has ads but allows you to view unlimited charts alongside fundamental research for the 5 stocks that are in the day’s featured watchlist. Top Stocks Plus and Top Stocks Premier run $4.99 and $29.99 per month, respectively, but unlock additional features such as unlimited research lists, custom watch lists, complete fundamental evaluations, and more.
Overall I was extremely impressed with Top Stocks by MarketSmith and see it as a valuable tool for any investor who does not have a full subscription to MarketSmith already (MarketSmith has its own iPad app). Especially for new investors, having access to daily ideas, detailed charting, and institutional research available on demand is not something you can normally access for free.
The app can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store, and for those who do not have an iPad, do not fret, the MarketSmith team informed me an iPhone version will be released in the future.
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Skypp (photo cred. WildStyle/All317HipHop)
SKYPP is an emerging Hip-Hop artist from the ninenteenth state that is all about representing his stomping grounds. The artist and songwriter released the official music video for his hit single “Nap or Nothing” to both rave reviews and constant replays via YouTube. Skypp is riding a wave of huge accomplishments coming into 2020 with the release of his fifth studio album U4U.
Skypp- U4U (photo cred. Skypp/Patrick “GreekGod” Bell)
With a total of thirteen projects under his belt, Skypp welds two swords as he also the owner of Sophisticated Street Music LLC. His wordplay is effortless as displayed in “Nap or Nothing” where unlike the status quo of his counterparts, you can clearly hear him to get a better understanding of where he comes from.
(photo cred. Brandon Miles)
U4U is a groundbreaking project for the Circle City MC. The album has not only secured spots on the Top 100 Rap/Hip-Hop album sales on both Google Play & Amazon, but also a #7 spot for New Rap/Hip-Hop sales on iTunes. It’s noise like this that has Skypp in the #SaturdaySpotlight for the start of the new year and decade!
You can check out the music video for “Nap or Nothing” down below, which also includes another single from U4U titled “Omm Otg.” As always, we thank you the readers and followers of TenthLetterMedia & Straight Official Magazine as we capture the lifestyle and culture of Hip-Hop! Have a blessed new year and remember, it’s the #DueSeason so #GetSOM!!!
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TRAJIK (Photo cred: Cory Davidson) #GetSOM via @TenthLetterMedia Midwest recording artist TRAJIK released his long anticipated album Welcome to Traptown this month to rave reviews. The Circle City MC
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SWOE WHOA is BACK! He is on the scene with another new album release for 2019. The Syndicate Music Group artist and songwriter is not only making noise with his anticipated Black Tar Boulevard project, but he also released the official music video for the lead off single “I’m Back” that is more spoiler than spit on his return to the industry to reclaim position.
Swoe Whoa-Black Tar Boulevard (photo cred. cl.napster.com)
Swoe has been busy since his last project released in 2017, dropping two projects this year that are reminiscent of his initial rise to fame through his unique sound and rugged delivery. He is turning all doubters into followers and fans of his gritty wordplay and overall dominance over any track that he’s on.
BTB features the single “I’m Back” that reintroduces those who have missed the swag and bravado that only he exhibits. The Naptown MC by way of Nashville has always been ice cold, and he is the focal point of this week’s #SaturdaySpotlight
You can check out the official music video for “I’m Back” down below. We thank you for rocking with TenthLetterMedia & Straight Official Magazine as we capture the lifestyle and culture of Hip-Hop. Make sure to like, share and subscribe to us for more dope content and remember, it’s the #DueSeason so #GetSOM!!!
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BIG K.R.I.T. PAYS HOMAGE WITH “M.I.S.S.I.S.S.I.P.P.I.” MUSIC VIDEO
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BIG K.R.I.T. (photo cred. Respect-mag.com) #GetSOM via @TenthLetterMedia BIG K.R.I.T. released a new music video for "M.I.S.S.I.S.S I.P.P.I." this week and it's heavily trending. He is
JADAKISS RELEASES NEW SINGLE “ME”
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Jadakiss (photo cred. Complex.com) #GetSOM via @TenthLetterMedia Back in 2004, JADAKISS made us question a number of different topics with his hit single "Why" from his
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2020 Reviews Index
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Imperator: Rome Doesn’t deserve the low Steam Rating, but it raises complicated questions
By Joe Robinson 07 May 2019 1
We’re coming up on two weeks since the release of Imperator: Rome, and it’s been quite fascinating watching various community reactions solidify in the wake of the launch. At the time of writing, the game’s Steam rating sits at 39% - “Mostly Negative”. It’s not the only metric that counts, not by a long shot, but it’s a highly visible one.
While I’ve not really changed my mind from my initial review, this is still surprising. Imperator is not a bad game in the majority of senses, although it does depend on how you define ‘bad’. There are some great foundations, but not a lot of soul and it raises some complicated questions. Personally, I would have quite happily swapped out the entire Indian subcontinent to add some additional flavour for Rome and the other key factions, but different people have different desires.
As much as it can be said that Imperator is one more victim of targeted review-bombing, you can’t wholly dismiss the feedback the game’s been getting. I feel there’s just too much of it to be assigned to the hate-brigades. Many years ago I was at a press event for another title and the developer was talking about negative feedback during the beta/pre-release stage, and what he said has always stuck with me as a touchstone for analysing situations like this, whether pre or post release.
To paraphrase, even though you can largely ignore the content of what a person says in negative feedback, there is always a fundamental reason why someone decides to give such feedback. Granted, maybe it is as basic as the fact that they are part of the Anti-Paradox-DLC club, and so this kind of feedback was always coming. But in a lot of cases you’ll probably find that someone is just trying to vent their disappointment or frustration in response to a single or small group of triggers. You have to try to drill down and understand what that was and whether or not it can be addressed.
Creative Director Johan Andersson posted a thoughtful discussion on Sunday that addresses the most common feedback for Imperator so far. It’s very illuminating, especially in terms of how the dev team at large view that feedback, although in some cases it does rather paint a picture that the team ran out of time (or forgot) to do everything they wanted to do prior to launch.
To circle back to my point about trying to understand root causes, Johan addresses three issues specifically: the fact that people called it ‘Barebones’, the fact that people (like me) wanted more character and flavour; and the fact that people felt the game was a bit shallow. If you really drill down into it, these are essentially the same point just expressed in different ways.
It also suggest that, as much as you can say Imperator has more provinces than any other game, or more raw features at launch compared to other games, or whatever technical metric you like using, it doesn’t actually matter if the complete package fundamentally fails to engage the audience. I’m not saying that’s what’s happened – Sales numbers would suggest the game’s still a commercial success at least – but It can’t be a coincidence that a lot of people are saying the same or similar things about the game.
There are wider concerns – Imperator represents a focal point between several complicated issues that have never really been brought to the fore at the same time, for the same game before. Paradox’s grand-strategy experiences are now a proven long-term event: With the prospect of many years of post-launch DLC and patches ahead of it, what does 1.0 really mean anymore? What is it supposed to do? How does that affect design decisions and philosophies in terms of what you try and get ready for launch, and what you don’t? How do you draw the line between free patches and paid DLC?
If the proof is in the pudding, then on face-value it seems Imperator’s answers to some of these questions was to go for raw functionality over substance, to give a breadth of experience that’s slightly shallower, but primed to be built up tall. It has yet to be definitively proven that this is bad way to go about it (although it will be expensive), but again there is a reason Imperator, more than any other grand-strategy release, is getting so much flack.
It may be completely out of proportion, maybe even unfair, but the root cause needs to be fundamentally understood and empathised with otherwise this will keep happening and it won't matter what new content comes through via patches or DLC. Maybe it won't ultimately effect sales, although part of me wants to see the negative reviewers put their money with their mouth is. So much nonsense happens in the game industry because gamers complain and then buy-in anyway.
The truth of Imperator's existence is complicated and the nature of 1.0 releases is changing. I don't regret asking for better, but I hope Imperator gets given the same chance the other games have had. It'll be interesting to see what lessons (if any) Paradox take from this.
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By Robert Reinhardt
The Video Doctor
6 More Expert Tips for Successful Streaming With Facebook Live
As we start the new year, I predict that we’ll see a continued increase of live streaming on Facebook Live. For many groups, nonprofit organizations, and government departments, Facebook Live provides all of the tools necessary to organize a live-streaming event—an event calendar, publishing tools and APIs to get streams up and running, live interaction with audiences, and automatic archiving of the live stream for later viewing.
As I assist new and existing clients in the Facebook Live space, I encounter special situations quite frequently. I offered some advice a few months back, and here are more tips and recommendations to share:
1. Audio requirement: Given that the default behavior of Facebook video is to automatically play with muted audio in your news feed, I thought that a live stream published without an audio track wouldn’t be an issue. However, Facebook Live will not publish a live stream if there is no audio track present. Recently, with a nonprofit wilderness conservation group, I was asked to assist with an underwater live feed. There was no microphone or audio to carry with the live video image. In order to publish the feed, we added a silent, low-bitrate audio track. We were using FFmpeg to publish the RTMP feed, and silence was added by using the switches -f lavfi -i anullsrc after the video input switches.
2. Credential lockdown: In larger organizations where one or more administrators on a Facebook page manage contributors’ and editors’ access, make sure credentials are checked for validity in the hours leading up to a live-stream event. On more than one occasion with groups I’ve assisted, administrators had changed a point person’s access to a Facebook page. If possible, have a backup account ready that also has approval to publish a live stream.
3. Audio sampling rate consistency: If you are mixing multiple video sources into a live stream, make sure all sampling rates for the audio track match each other. If you initialize an RTMP stream with one sampling rate such as 44.1kHz and then switch to a 48.0kHz sampling rate, the audio pitch of the live stream will be adversely affected. Most, if not all, video mixing software such as vMix and Telestream Wirecast will resample all outbound audio sampling rates to a fixed rate, but server-side-based management of sources may not be able to resample audio rates on-the-fly.
4. Archival redundancy: Don’t rely solely on Facebook Live’s archive of a live stream. Always record to one or more locally attached storage devices. If any copyrighted music is detected in a live stream, Facebook Live’s processing engine may not allow the archive to publish after the event.
5. Active moderators: Most, if not all, live streams are going to have active online participants commenting on them. Some may post questions, expecting timely answers while the stream is happening. During your event preparation, make sure you’ve assigned more than one person to moderate and respond to the live commentary. Facebook Live enables administrators of Facebook pages and events to “post as” the page owner, instead of under the individual’s own Facebook account name. Don’t unnecessarily expose identities of individuals working for the organization in a live feed—give those admins authority to speak for the organization.
6. Proper planning: Determine the best way to find your audience. Many organizations are still learning how to use social media to expand their marketing reach. As such, initial forays into Facebook Live streaming may result in impromptu live sessions posted directly on the organization’s Facebook page without much notice to potential attendees. Depending on the size of your potential audience and the intention of your live stream, you may find it better to create an event on your Facebook page. By creating an event ahead of your intended livestream time, you can gauge audience participation by seeing who has marked themselves as Interested or Attending.
I fully expect Facebook Live to continue to thrive as a means to expand audience reach and awareness. I won’t be surprised to see more innovative features in the coming year.
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Manchester United Forum
Manchester United News & Opinion
Rojo to train with Estudiantes
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Manchester United allow Marcos Rojo to train with Estudiantes
Manchester United have given Marcos Rojo permission to train with Estudiantes, the Argentine club have said.
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Seems a strange one unless he's agreed to go back in the summer bit short and sharp could just be that he's going to train with them during the international break so he can spend some time at home.
IDFD
He’ll return to training at United at the end of the week reported by the Daily Mail.
In other news there’s talks he’ll sign for Everton in the summer
SuperRash
He needs to go, he’s played twice this season and hasn’t been seen since. I know he’s had injuries but he needs a change of scenery - and with him being 29 we need to cash in now while we can at least get a couple of million for him.
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Home Articles The Sun Winter Pageant gets ready
Winter Pageant gets ready
Community service is next for contestants
by Lohr McKinstry
Jillian McKiernan was the queen of the last Ticonderoga Royal Winter Pageant. The next pageant is March 30.
TICONDEROGA | The Ticonderoga Royal Winter Pageant will roll down the red carpet Friday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at the Ticonderoga Middle School auditorium.
Participants will be doing community service seeking donations for Friends Comforting Friends on Saturday, March 10, at Walmart from 3-6 p.m. and Stewart’s Shop and Ticonderoga Federal Credit Union from 9 a.m.-noon.
Friends Comforting Friends is a local group that helps cancer survivors.
Creator and Director Jamie Harrington has organized the non-profit event since 2011, now for girls in grades 3 through 12, in Ticonderoga, Putnam, Crown Point, Moriah and St. Mary’s schools.
“The program was designed to teach young girls how to be local leaders by teaching them to be responsible, dedicated, and hardworking in a team, respectful, and a leader,” she said. “It also teaches girls to have high expectations of themselves, self–esteem, to try new things, sportsmanship, and to be optimistic.”
The girls are expected to attend practices every Saturday, to learn an entrance routine, speak in public, a group dance routine, a talent, and a flower presentation.
“They also are expected to participate in community service by collecting bottles during the pageant and donating half to someone in need and the other half is donated to the pageant to help pay for costs,” Harrington said. “They also ask for donations for two hours and all donations are given to a local organization.”
Over the last six years, the Royal Winter Pageant has donated $11,208.56 to help others in the community.
“We have cleaned the bike path in Ticonderoga, visited the nursing home, donated to Angel Connection, Food Pantry, Feeding the Elderly, Tiny Tim, BackPack Program, Friends Comforting Friends, North Country SPCA, and Riley’s Wishes,” Harrington said. “We have donated to local individuals who were in need. The girls get to see how their hard work can help others in so many ways.”
This year the girls are selling tickets $2 a piece or 6 for $10 to win an Adirondack decorative solar powered light post donated by Kasey Warren. The money will be given as cash prizes to the winners.
“Some (girls) have continued to do the pageant year after year even when they have never won,” Harrington said. “I have seen girls start the pageant as shy young girls timid to stand on stage and speak in front of the others. In the end, they are confident young ladies who know through hard work they can accomplish anything. These girls are taught how to be gracious to those who didn’t win and those who didn’t win to say ‘great job’ to those who did.”
She said they look at themselves and what they have accomplished and are proud of themselves.
“They come the next year working on the things they need improvement on,” she said. “I hope these girls take these skills from the pageant and incorporate them into their lives to better themselves and to grow into productive, positive, leaders of their communities.”
She said they appreciate Ticonderoga Central School District allowing the event use of the Middle School auditorium.
“I want to get the message out to all of our communities about his wonderful program that inspires our children to work hard and to accomplish their goals,” she said. “I believe many people hear pageant and they think beauty pageant. This is not so with the Royal Winter Pageant. I make myself very clear from the first meeting that this is not about beauty, but instead based on hard work and dedication.”
The admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students, and 5 and under are free. Theme baskets and Adirondack items are raffled off at $1 per ticket. All money goes to the cost of the pageant.
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T. Rex / Remixes: limited triple vinyl set
July 13, 2017 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, coloured vinyl, exclusive, t-rex
Potentially controversial remix set • Very limited 3LP coloured vinyl
Demon Music are to mark the 40th anniversary of Marc Bolan’s untimely death with a project that is sure to divide fans of T. Rex. They have commissioned new remixes of classic tracks such as Metal Guru, Telegram Sam and 20th Century Boy for a two-CD set that is also available as a strictly limited 500-only triple coloured vinyl set.
T. Rex Remixes features 16 modern remixes by people you have probably never heard of, including The Reflex, Wye Oak, STOOF, Castleman, Ra Ra Riot etc. There are also 12 bonus instrumental remixes on both the triple vinyl and two-CD editions (they have exactly the same audio content).
Only 500 of the translucent red vinyl package will be pressed (click to enlarge)
I’ll admit, I was prepared to hate this, but having been given an early sneak audio preview, some of the remixes are surprisingly good. The ‘Jaxon Frank Remix’ of Children Of The Revolution is full of unexpected pathos and the STOOF remix of 20th Century Boy keeps the structure and heart of the song in place, but with a sprinkle of 21st Century audio dust.
For the most part, the remixes are respectful enough and there’s no really hideously ‘boom-tish’ club transformations, although I accept that this isn’t going to be for everyone.
However, the 500-only triple vinyl is pretty desirable and limited for a T. Rex release and it is an Amazon UK exclusive. Non-limited black vinyl is also available, as well as the two-CD set.
T. Rex Remixes will be released on 1 September 2017. Update 9pm 13/7 – Red vinyl appears to now be sold out.
Remixes - 2CD Edition
Amazon it 12.9 Order
Remixes - limited 3LP red vinyl
Amazon uk 31 Order
Amazon de 60 Order
Remixes - non-limited 3LP black vinyl
Amazon uk 13.1 Order
T. Rex / Remixes – Limited edition coloured 3LP vinyl
LP 1: THE REMIXES SIDE A
1. Children Of The Revolution [The Reflex Revision] 5.07
2. 20th Century Boy [STOOF Remix] 4.41
3. Metal Guru [Book Remix] 2.58
4. Cadilac [Bil Bless Remix] 3.53
1. Light of Love [The Reflex Revision] 6.26
2. Precious Star [We Are Dark Angels Remix] 3.01
3. Telegram Sam [Kent Rockafeller Mix] 3.19
4. New York City [Ra Ra Riot Remix] 3.23
LP 2: THE REMIXES
1. Children Of The Revolution [Jaxon Frank Remix] 3.36
2. Calling All Destroyers [Infuze Remix] 2.31
3. Teenage Dream [Castleman Remix] 2.52
4. Children Of The Revolution [Joywave Remix] 3.59
1. Light Of Love [Dr Smith Remix] 3.45
2. Born To Boogie [Wye Oak Remix] 2.12
3. Solid Gold Easy Action [DJ Sae One Remix] 2.57
4. 20th Century Boy [X. Ert Remix] 2.55
LP 3: BONUS INSTRUMENTAL REMIXES
SIDE E
1. 20th Century Boy [STOOF Remix – Instrumental] 4.41
2. Cadilac [Bil Bless Remix – Instrumental] 3.57
3. Precious Star [We Are Dark Angels Remix – Instrumental] 3.00
4. Telegram Sam [Kent Rockafeller Mix – Instrumental] 3.19
5. New York City [Ra Ra Riot Remix – Instrumental] 3.24
6. Children Of The Revolution [Jaxon Frank Remix – Instrumental] 3.36
SIDE F
1. Teenage Dream [Castleman Remix – Instrumental] 2.52
2. Children Of The Revolution [Joywave Remix – Instrumental] 3.59
3. Light Of Love [Dr Smith Remix – Instrumental] 3.45
4. Born To Boogie [Wye Oak Remix – Instrumental] 2.13
5. Solid Gold Easy Action [DJ Sae One Remix – Instrumental] 2.57
6. 20th Century Boy [X. Ert Club Mix] 5.17
T. Rex Remixes – 2CD Edition
10. Calling All Destroyers [Infuze Remix] 2.31
11. Teenage Dream [Castleman Remix] 2.52
12. Children Of The Revolution [Joywave Remix] 3.59
13. Light Of Love [Dr Smith Remix] 3.45
14. Born To Boogie [Wye Oak Remix] 2.12
15. Solid Gold Easy Action [DJ Sae One Remix] 2.57
16. 20th Century Boy [X. Ert Remix] 2.55
10. Born To Boogie [Wye Oak Remix – Instrumental] 2.13
11. Solid Gold Easy Action [DJ Sae One Remix – Instrumental] 2.57
12. 20th Century Boy [X. Ert Club Mix] 5.17
126 responses to T. Rex / Remixes: limited triple vinyl set
Bob… no it’s not utter shite and Marc will not be turning in his grave. I suspect if Marc were alive today, he’d be commissioning or orchestrating projects like this himself. Exactly as he re-invented himself in ’77 ushering in “new” acts like the Damned, Group X, etc. and revisiting/updating his older classics like Deborah, etc.
My wife bought this as part of my early Xmas gift. First listen today, loved it, actually more than I thought I would. Cadilac came on, first I got goosebumps, then when the bass kicked in, a large smile overtook my face and I turned it up. Instant sunshine.
Lastly, the artists involved in this project are testimony to the import and influence of Marc’s work. I strongly disagree with your comment about the estate mismanaging the catalog. Just the opposite, they are sharing it, liberating it, and allowing it to continue its immortal journey.
Neil Kelly says:
Paul, i didn’t get your last point what did you mean by ‘but are using a system…’? Did you just mean to say ‘but they are using a system…’?
I note it’s been available for months now after selling out on day 1. I ordered on day 1 and was very happy. I’m now VERY annoyed. Promising 500 yet making loads. How’s that allowed? Can i ask for my money back? Mine’s still sealed so i haven’t even checked to make sure it’s the red vinyl which is something i worry about but obviously i’m keeping it new and sealed for a reason! A reason which seems pointless now tbf
No, my point was “You [Straker] are using a system you don’t understand to ‘prove’ a point”. Where is your evidence that they are ‘making loads’. All you know is that they are still available on Amazon. There are many reasons for this… the primary one being they didn’t sell out of the 500. Yes, they were ‘unavailable’ for a while. So what. You don’t know the reason for that. Amazon may have had an initial inventory of 300 sold out, waited for Demon to confirm the final 200 and they’ve been available for a while. You don’t know. The best strategy is just to buy a record if you want it. If I want something because I like the sound of it, I couldn’t care less how many are being made.
Straker says:
I see this continues to be restocked with more available on the 18th. Currently able to add an unlimited amount at checkout.
Still, I’m sure there are only 500…….Yeah, right.
You don’t actually know, but are using a system you don’t understand to ‘prove’ a point. If you can order an unlimited amount then that also ‘proves’ an unlimited amount of these exist, I suppose? The record label have secretly produced an infinite amount of these and haven’t stuck to the 500.
BE WARNED – Amazon have been sending out black vinyl versions instead of the limited red vinyl release. There is an easy way to check without unsealing the product, the small black lable on the front of the shrink has a catalogue number at the bottom of the label, the red vinyl version ends with an ‘x’, the black vinyl version does not. Amazon have no replacement stock to satisfy these errors. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Wayne Savill says:
Guys and Gals, as a lifelong Marc fan I have collected over 500 pieces of vinyl 7″ 10″ 12″, flexis, coloured, pic discs, Sgl, Dbl & Triple Albums, boxed sets, demos, stock issues, white labels, pic sleeves, wax co, various other labels from the UK & all over the world both original pressings and re-issues plus 8 tracks, cassettes & cd’s, they all have their merits. The latest I have the red vinyl (& the cd’s are just for the car!!),
These specials should be welcomed and given a hearing, as I believe that Marc would have been excited that so many other artists would want to either cover one of his songs and even remix it, I say live and let live, and let’s all just Boogie On!!!
Easy Action Records are doing fab stuff, Edsel do some very good and interesting issues http://www.officialmarcbolanmerchco.com.
Danielz and T.Rextasy have been keeping the flame burning since the early ’90’s so if you want hear a true fan do a fab job of keeping Marc’s music ‘LIVE’, go see them … http://www.trextasy.com as it’s the 40th Anniversary of his passing AND he would have been 70 on the 30th Sept…
Also if you want the originals try http://www.vip-24.com record fairs .. I will be at the Olympia Weekender 18th/19th November feeding my vinyl addiction, buying and selling. Rob & John run great events..
Tanx for reading and Boogie On!
theslider1972
Mine’s just turned up. Nice wide spine. Now to give it a proper listen…..
Confused about this release. I noted around 24 August it was back in stock and came back here to see it had been noted as back in stock on the 08 August. Had it been back in stock for around 16 days after initially selling out on day 1? I was going to cancel order but don’t want to regret doing that. I’ve purely bought with selling on in the future in mind. Doesn’t mean i ever will though! Is there really only 500?
sold out again
Robert Fitzpatrick says:
I ain’t getting this release ! it reminds me of the Brian Connolly Sweet remixed album released many years ago. the original versions are still the best !
Phil Wilson says:
When Amazon put this back on sale, they had over 230 copies, so I suspect this is more than just cancelled orders. I don’t entirely trust their 500 copies only. The hank Marvin signed lp took weeks after release to be sent our, and had sold out on pre-order way in advance of release, o am fairly sure they have some left too
I’m not sure they did have 230 copies, even if the system might have let you order a large quantity.
I don’t think Amazon are that stupid to make 1000 copies and say they have only 500.
They know they are one of the most *watched* companies in the world and there are 1000s of people worldwide looking for any excuse to sue them or cause them as much trouble as possible just because they are ideologically opposed this kind of company.
I genuinely think it is a few people ducking out at the last minute and therefore a few copies make it back onto sale….
i think the t.rex has been given the goahead by his son who now owns the rights or so ive read
I think it’s down to the way that Amazon do business rather than more than the original 500 being made available.
Like many I usually go from here straight to Amazon and put in a pre-order. Sometimes between doing that and the actual release date I decide I can’t afford it – or I don’t actually need it so I cancel my order. This will usually be quite close to the release date. I guess this frees up a few copies which would then go back on release.
I am not sure if people can go on a reserve list…. if they have 500 copies do the people who are 501st, 502nd and so on get first dibs if some are cancelled or do they stop taking orders when exactly 500 are gone?
I have kept hold of this one but I let the signed Blancmange go back and a few other things where I got caught up in the moment. With only 500 I could see how this could happen, less likely if the limited edition is much larger.
Alan Wilson says:
Red vinyl back in stock as of Tuesday 8th August 11.45
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Finally >> I was able to place a Pre-Order for the Amazon Exclusive ( Red Vinyl edition ) just today :: I’ve been signed up to receive emails etc from Amazon UK & each Time I was either in bed or at work or even today I had to go out for an hour just before 8am > I got home at @ 9am and I had received an email at 8am from Amazon saying it was available to pre-order > Tried the link, IT was unavailable again :-( Then @ 10.30am I was sitting here & an email came through saying it was available & this time I grabbed one :-) Its worse than Record Store Day !!!
Dennis Cattell says:
I think it quite likely that if Marc Bolan was still alive today he’d be happy to let people have a go at remixing some of his early hits and then release them. I don’t have any problem at all with this album as such.
I’d like to think that he’d still be making music today at 70 (almost!), rather than doing the rounds of shows like Celebrity Big Brother and IACGMOOT! And that he’d have made his peace with guys like Tony Visconti and Bob Harris.
Just bagged a copy of the red vinyl set. I asked to be emailed by Amazon when the red set came back in stock. Received three emails on different days and tried to buy the red set on three occasions ( first two times I tried around thirty mins after being emailed ) Third time lucky I ordered it within a minute of the Amazon email arriving.
I guess some people must be cancelling their orders.
Does the vinyl-version include a download code?
(Sorry, should this already have been part of the discussion….)
No it doesn’t :(
Thanks a lot for this information, Paul!!!
Bolan's Zip Gun says:
I liked ‘Children Of The Revolution’ by Baby Ford. Not a direct remix of T-Rex, but definitely done in the style of Bolan for the rave era (early 90s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh5gJAEtZCc
Doesn’t anyone one this site realize how the music industry works? Sell Sell Sell…usually the same product again and again. And if people are buying a product for its cover…kerching! Reminds me of when I used to buy those A+M vinyl releases in the 70s ’cause they smelled divine.
Obviously its remixes of bolan tracks nobody is forced to buy it,500 people snapped the ltd edition up in very quick time,I suspect some will be flipped for a profit on eBay,on a personal note I ordered it for the cover,it will certainly stay in my collection for good.
I’m open minded about this. I’m not bothered about Vinyl so I’ll listen to it first and if I like it , I’ll get the CD version.
AlexKx says:
Oh, wow! Just because certain recordings were not released in an artist’s lifetime does not mean that they were not good enough or did not want them to be released! This thinking has GOT to stop!
Oh really, so what are you suggesting, that as soon as an artist is dead allow their vaults to be raided?
It is (often) up to an artist to decide what they think is good enough to release during their lifetime, that shouldn’t change once they die.
Also, do you know anything about the abuse of Bolan’s back catalogue? Over 300 compilations (many of them shockingly poor) Dozens and dozens of releases of demo recordings, a few good, most very poor. Not one person from Marc’s family has any kind of say in these releases.
No offence but your post is just plain daft.
All the preview links seem to be removed now.
This thread is making me laugh with all the fans saying Bolan would be turning in his grave at the thought of his stuff being remixed, yet at the same time are clamouring for some unreleased tat that he no doubt deemed not worthy of the public’s attention at the time it was recorded. There’s a reason why some recordings are left unreleased and that reason is because the artist didn’t think they were good enough. How about respecting those wishes, too?
Randy Metro says:
Had Marc lived a full life, he may have revisited that “unreleased tat” as he often did. One example being the Children of Rarn Suite. The demo is quite nice. Tony Visconti’s posthumous mix is lovingly done. Marc went back to it several years later with a radical rework obviously believing it was worth being heard.
Look at the even shorter life & recorded works of Hendrix. Tons of his posthumous recordings are rework after rework of songs he was determined, but did not live, to release.
Isn’t a good share of what Super Deluxe Editions is about is exploring that “unreleased tat deemed not worthy of the public’s attention”???
just gave these a listen on amazon and they sound very good and not ott at all excellent
Take note Bowie fans. This could be the future
id be up for a david bowie remix set as long as they didn’t stray too far from the originals
Pointless. Merchandising, nothing more or less. Aimed squarely at the gullible and will no doubt hit its (limited) target but not for me. If Marc ain’t involved, what is the point? I’ll stick with the original versions.
You don’t like the concept, fair enough, but it’s a bit rude to label people ‘gullible’ just because they are interested. John Lennon wasn’t involved in the Giles and George Martin remix of The Beatles’ Love album, but I wouldn’t say that means there is no point in it.
I disagree, and I can be as gullible as anybody for the right artists (for good quality live recordings anyway) but my comments are still valid and this kind of remix exercise is the worst kind of merchandising, in my opinion. There is definitely a place for the statement someone made about Joy Division – ‘they released two studio albums, everything else is merchandising’ and up to a point we are all gullible because we all buy it a some point, myself included!
Being gullible means being taking in by something that’s not true, or being easily persuaded to believe in something that turns out not to be what you expect. People ordering this remix set know exactly what they are getting, and Demon Music are not trying to deceive anyone…so your words are simply inappropriate, however much you ‘disagree’.
Sorry Paul but that is not what gullible means, only the first part of your definition is correct (up to the ‘something that turns out to be…’ bit) and as collectors we are all too easily persuaded to buy something more (that all too often does not deliver).
that must mean then that you will never buy a release but another dead artist ever again
See my comment above.
When there’s original unreleased recordings of Marc still out there, that should take priority. Find some way of getting it released before it’s too late. None of us are getting any younger – and who else would Marc have wanted to hear it. He loved his fans and he was taken from us too soon, that’s why we love discovering stuff we’ve not heard or seen before. 40 years on, Bolan is still pure genius.
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4 versions of 20th Century Boy, and no versions of Bang a Gong. Just saying.
Not in my lifetime would I ever buy this shite…..proper BolanFan
Chopdog, I don’t know whether to say Tanx or not for posting that link!
I just searched it out and listened to a few clips of the “remixes”.
My ears are still bleeding!
Lainey’s comment below says it all.
Fat old bloke says:
If they had got Steven Wilson to remix the classic songs into 5.1 on a BluRay with added videos of his hits, that would have been a better tribute to the man and a better product to buy and enjoy
Chopdog says:
You can head 30 seconds of each track on iTunes – TODAY.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/remixes/id1259322539
They are charging £4.99 for the album.
chris cummings says:
Sharon M says it all.
This may be good for Bolan’s profile out there, but the real fans want what Sharon says!!!
Actually speak for yourself, I am a huge Bolan fan and consider myself to be ‘real’, but that is not what I want.
Can we just go ahead and put an announcement out to the music industry that if you don’t want us to purchase your products than just fucking quit. Don’t bother. There is no reason for an announcement or acknowledgement of some thing (I’m not directing this to you all at all SuperDeluxeEdition! :) You all rock and are GREAT!) that will only have five hundred copies and not be possible to be bought before I can do my daily stumbling over here. How many times a day do I have to check this website out? Or WHERE EVER?! I mean five hundred copies should be enough family, friends, and industry people who will privately purchase this many copies without releasing it to the public! I don’t want you all to strain yourselves and get hurt! Five hundred copies of a release like this shouldn’t even make it out of England because that many people should have bought them all long before they could shipped out. This dumbfounding. Very disappointing yet again (in particular to the two David Bowie colored vinyl discs for “Labyrinth” that were sold out before I knew anything about them because I think the same number of discs were made as this T-Rex release.
If there are not five hundred one people to sell these products to then my interests must be seriously misplaced in thinking there is any relevance to collecting music in a physical format. Let’s just be clear. Five hundred copies is NOT a public release. It is private! It was not meant for public consumption. It is a glorified private release at best in this case! Which goes back to if there are not five hundred people who can purchase this between the Bolan Estate (or whoever), people in the industry, family, and friends then they have a much bigger problem on their hands than trying to sell whatever amount at all.
Kai Karkkainen says:
I understand what you’re saying AlexKx as I have experienced the same thing myself. I recommend that you sign up to SDE’s newsletters and deal alerts ( if you haven’t done so already ), they have “saved” me many euros and helped me to grab limited editions of records I wouldn’t otherwise even have known about ( like this T.Rex red vinyl ). So thanks again Paul for your valuable service and please keep doing what you do so well.
As for those opinions that proper Bolan fans want a deal with Thunderwing and nothing else will do, not true. I consider myself a proper Bolan fan, Electric Warrior was the start of my Bolan collection ( I was eight years old at the time, now I’m 54 ). Sure, it would be great to have unreleased music from Thunderwing, but as this is unlikely to happen, even remix projects like these are in my opinion better than nothing at all. The main thing for me is to see that Bolan’s music will live on and that younger generations also get a chance to appreciate it. Keep a little Marc in your heart, indeed.
ill be happy if these are as good as the bob marley remixes that were done the other year. stayed faithfull to the originals without being too ott with hardcore dance beats
And some of the Roxy Music ones from a few years back. The Todd Terje dub of Love Is The Drug is excellent…
I guess that Edsel / Demon / Cherry Red and the like know, to a few dozen, exactly how many of any one album they can sell. They will also have the number crunchers to know what they can charge for a particular release and a particular artist. There will be a few exceptions but generally they will get it about right. If Thunderwing are asking as arm and a leg and it is more than Demon can sell, or think they can sell then it’s no deal. If they can do a deal but the vinyl has to be £45 instead of £27 and the CDs £20 to make it pay then the moans will start coming as “Rip-off”.
Every post has a “I’m not paying these rip-off prices” with little comprehension of what has to be done to get this stuff to market.
If any of us owned the rights to the demos we wouldn’t give them away, would we? It would be good if a deal could be done though.
In the past, Thunderwing were able to get through a loophole by selling a T.Shirt for the same price as a CD and then gave the CD away free with the shirt: The Slider Sessions & The Tanx Sessions CDs. They are nothing like those pathetic “alternate versions” released by Edsel. I don’t think Thunderwing/TPL are the ones holding up the release of material. Unfortunately the 2005 Twentieth Century Rock N Roll CD sits unreleased with the artwork and track list completed. I’m not sure how their T.Rex Rock & Roll Ensemble CD EP was able to get out but I was lucky to get a copy.
Another cash in job. Do the decent thing – a deal with Thunderwing and give us proper Bolan fans something back before we all shuffle off this mortal coil or are too befuddled to care.
Well said babe
red vinyl has now gone.
don cooper says:
Tony Visconti did remixes for a Japan-only cd issue.I have that. It is the benchmark.
I expect this to be the wood-shavings below…
Won’t be getting it but it is at least what it is: a full collection of remixes, not a few remixes thrown on top of another collection of something else. Kudos on releasing a dedicated remix album. If you’re into remixes you can buy it and if not you’re not forced to buy it in order to get something else.
James Demestihas says:
If Tony Visconti isnt involved…its not authentic.
Well the ’87 TV mixes weren’t really that good, were they?
Actually, they weren’t that bad because they were lightly remixed. Those Dawn & Dusk mixes were fun if you can pretend you don’t hear those GONGS! The Free Angel remix was hardly noticeable, while I think the one T.Rex single I hate – Children of the Revolution – was improved, at least the first half of it.
Noel Brownle says:
I’ll be giving this a miss. Just another money making re-hash in my opinion. Enough remixes out there and the number of re-pakaged albums is a disgrace. I reiterate what others have said, would have been a fitting tribute in this Marc’s 40th anniversary year that we got some of the un releaded stuff from Thunderwing. Disappointing to say the least.
Since I passed on most T-Rex material the first time around, maybe I will give the remixes a try. Will try to get the red album, but black would be alright.
Marc Hartley says:
I don’t understand why the fans of Marc are not trying to get Edsel to do a deal with Thunderwing productions Ltd to get their unreleased outtakes, unheard songs and alternate mixes released..all original Bolan and just lying there not doing anything? The 40th Anniversary for Marc would have been far better served doing that than releasing this kind of thing…..saddens me to be honest.
george kilpatrick says:
Totally agree Marc, there must be so much unseen or heard material, that could have or indeed should have been released especially as this is a very special year, his 40th Anniversary, not just for his loyal fans, but for any music lover to appreciate. I personally have no urge to purchase material that is just being re-mixed by unknown artists, and for what purpose? profit perhaps. Very sad.
MamboSon says:
I heard that Thunderwing want a ridiculous amount of money for their archive..Demon/ Edsel /Spirit won’t budge..Shame this Golden Egg will soon turn rancid..Only to be heard by the “Chosen Ones”.. now that is sad..
It is not Thunderwing/DanielZ’s fault. They have contributed to recent releases when asked. As I understand, it isn’t Edsel either, but Spirit Music who currently hold the rights and won’t allow Thunderwing to do anything. TPL have leaked a couple free small acoustic downloads (Do Your Thing & Baby Hold My Hand).
Marc Arscott says:
Nobody has to buy this material from Thunderwing, they are able to licence it from them if they want to include tracks on their own releases, as they did with ‘The Final Cuts’, they have chosen not to since. Thunderwing have asked Spirit for the opportunity to release ‘new material’ for many years and as yet this has not been forthcoming. The ‘Chosen Ones’ (which I presume you mean to be Thunderwing) have been wanting this material to be heard since the moment they obtained it and find it very frustrating not to be able to share it with the fans.
Romany says:
Totally agree with you Marc Hartley !
Such a missed opportunity by Edsel to make up for the poor sound quality on the Slider Deluxe 40th Anniversary boxset.
They should of used the original multi track tapes that Thunderwing productions Ltd offered.
I gave up on expecting anything good to come out of Edsel years ago.
Snagged one as soon as I saw Paul’s email, especially given there’s only 500 of the red version – now all gone – thanks again Paul!
Paul Wren says:
It’s sold out. Whoever bought one is probably sitting on an instant profit even if they don’t like what it sounds like.
Georgia Price says:
Ha Ha Never unknown bands singing remix covers of T.Rex profit lol<
I wouldn't listen to it if u paid me !!!
Calm down Georgia Price, no one is going to pay you to listen to it.
Michel Kempes says:
Jaqob says:
Count me among the perverted. I took the swing and am having it shipped to the states. I have so much good and bad posthumous Marc that this triple red atrocity will feel right at home no matter what the quality. And as another poster wrote above, how could it possibly be ALL bad? You know, like MegaRex 1 and 2 megamix bad?
Perhaps lesser known remixers is a positive. There is room out there for more than just the “names” we know. As Frank Zappa said (paraphrased) there are so many great musicians you’ll never get the chance to hear. Maybe some of these remixers will provide a thoughtful and enjoyable remix experience. (Fingers crossed!)
This actually looks really interesting, I have heard some mixes by The Reflex which were quite good and faithful to the originals utlizing the multitracks not unlike the ZTT mixes done by Blank and Jones. Look on youtube for his excellent mix of Michael Jackson’s Rock With You. The cover looks more like Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
Well I’ve heard The Reflex mix of Children Of The Revolution and it’s very much as you describe. It’s great!
Let’s hope they don’t re-release the Bruce Springsteen 12″ mixes from the 80’s…. “US, US, USA. U,U,U US, US, USA. B, B, B, Born in the USA”. Simply dreadful.
I like the art of the cover… but in my opinion… T.Rex must leave it as it is… I don’t like the new remixes of any artist…
Tanx but no thanks Demon.
Fan of Marc since I grew up watching him on Top Of The Pops.
As others have said, he must be turning in his grave.
Trev says:
Cheers Paul just ordered. Keep A Little Marc In Your Heart.
Red vinyl ordered, many thanks Paul. As a Bolan fan since 1972 I just have to have this. Since Marc’s death we’ve had tons of unreleased songs, some excellent, some good, some unlistenable, same goes for live recordings, and also for remixes so there’s a chance these LPs might include some good ones. (And if not the set looks great anyway!)
Andy Marriott says:
sitting here with my finger over the order button, but just wish there was some audio of it somewhere. Can’t find anything other than some other artists tracks mixed by those from this album. Some of them are most definitely of the ‘boom tish’ variety, but can’t speak for the Bolan stuff. Arrghh. What to do???
I should have some audio for people to listen to tomorrow… having said that, I think this red vinyl will sell out TODAY, so bear that in mind.
Remix compilations are often hit or miss. I’m a huge remix fan myself but having said that, my experience is that most modern remixes of old songs are not great. The Donna Summer remix album “Love To Love You Donna” was atrocious and from a record exec I heard it cost an arm and a leg to remix and sold nothing. In the 80’s they remixed a song by adding an instrumental part at the beginning or the middle (often times), that kept the integrity of the song intact. Today, remixes have all kinds of extra production and I almost never think it enhances the song. That is why I so much prefer 80’s remixes. Mostly the essence and production of the song is left intact (when will we get So80s Part 11?) and you just get a longer version of a song you already like. I would not buy this album without having heard what the remixes sound like.
Spot on Kauw.
My era was really 1979 to 1985 and remixes when they came (Japan, Paul Young, Wham!, TinTin, Spandau, Nik, Howard etc.) sounded like the original song with a few new bits, intro, outro, an extra chorus and so on but the integrity of the song remained and if you liked the 7″ you will most likely like the 12″. I remember the first time I really fell foul of the “what have they done to this track” facepalm was with Mike Oldfield when they (whoever it was) destroyed so many of his beautiful tracks in the mid-1990s. Unrecognizable. Obviously encouraged by Mike who was out of his head in Ibiza.
Yes, that Donna Summer Love to Love You was a dog. She seems to be one artist who can’t be remixed. A crate full of remixes of No More Tears hit the net recently and they were pitiful as well. I do love remixes but it seems to me they only work when done at the same time as the original release.
Give it a miss a triple vinyl of unknown bands singing T.Rex even at £30 I wouldn’t want or have any desire to listen to this !!!
As far as I am aware this isn’t “unknown bands singing T-Rex”. What gave you that idea? It’s remixes of proper T-Rex songs not some kind of “You scratch my back” or “I’m Your Fan” – both of which I thought were quite good anyway.
I find it interesting the height of the horses that some here are climbing in an effort to label themselves “proper Bolan fans” as if to enjoy something like this makes it impossible to be one. Musical snobbery doesn’t make anyone a better or bigger fan. Open-mindedness must be on holiday.
T.Stanton says:
Why would any T.Rex fan want to hear his music remixed ? Leave his music the way he recorded it! How about about putting out a new retrospective of his career and promoting his importance in the history of rock and roll? He hardly gets any airplay on the classic radio formats. He seems to be remembered only for Bang a Gong. A couple of his songs are heard on tv commercials but no one knows who he is. I would also love to see his tv show Marc.
To be fair, Demon have constantly reissued and put out hits compilations. Not sure we need any more! This is a least something a bit different…
David McCallum says:
The VS. KCRW remixes a few years ago are fun so I’m optimistic about this new set:
http://blogs.kcrw.com/pressroom/2012/07/t-rex-vs-kcrw-soundclash-remix-ep-streaming-now/
Okay, I’ll bite, but I’m going to check the remixers out on Discogs and see if I can get an idea of their styles.
I can’t wait for these guys to remix all the hits of Kate Bush! Or not. Yuck!
This goes to show people will buy anything.
I’m saying this ‘blind’ (or should that be ‘deaf’) having not heard any clips or whatever, but for a 40th anniversary project, could they not have used more established artists/groups who were perhaps influenced/worked with T-Rex or Bolan? I’m all for giving new musicians a chance and from the sounds of it this is what has happened here, but might have been nice to see more ‘relevant’ remixers….?
I suspect that such a move would have pushed the price up significantly – top remixers require top money, and look at the prices of this issue…
I love stuff like this. The Beatles’ Love was proof that it can work, and in very surprising ways. I wish other bands would commission this kind of album. I personally would love to hear a Stones or Beach Boys version.
People seem to forget that just because a remix has been made, it doesn’t automatically delete the original recording! It’s the same with film remakes; the original films still exist – calm down!
Wish there was at least a sound bite of one or a few of these. Hate to order something that might be garbage.
I never met a T.Rex remix that wasn’t garbage. …. there are a few exceptions. Get It On by London Bus Stop, but, maybe that is considered a cover???
Ciaran Beattie says:
So Edsel have finally run out of ways of repackaging “The Slider”.
I like coloured vinyl Bolan releases but I won’t be wasting money on this.
Save your money for the next Easy Action release.
Puled the trigger on this – thanks, Paul.
I predict this will be gone fast.
Mylene says:
Last century the fan club did a whole album of remixes called Til Dawn. It was totally unlistenable garbage. To make maters worse there was a bonus disc of (then) unreleased radio broadcasts which was essential. History may repeat itself.
The only great thing about that wretched remix album was the beautiful front cover of Marc looking into a mirror. If I remember right, for some idiotic reason Bill Legend re-did/replayed his drums on that album??? I framed the LP cover and trashed the LP itself. I do have the CD version, though. I keep hoping my opinion of the album will mellow over the decades but it is an ear bleeder.
This shite project demonstrates is everything that is wrong with the people in charge of the Bolan/T.Rex legacy. Complete and utter tack taking us back to the 80’s when they messed about with the songs.
Marc Bolan must be truly turning in his grave. In the 40 years since his death there have been simply hundreds of cheapo compilations and barrel scraping albums of demo’s released. It is ironic that during his lifetime Marc used to take his recordings home each night from the studio such was his concern that they would get into the wrong hands, which makes the free for all on his catalogue since his death even more depressing.
I have been posting on this site for years and am usually respectful of artists and their releases, but whoever gave the go ahead for this piece of crap should hang their heads in shame.
Colin littlewood says:
I totally agree with you. I will not be buying this piece of shit.
David Regan says:
After buying the You Scare Me To Death CD on Eporio Records only to find its the 80’s Remix Crap…only original studio versions and original demos for me..I won’t be buying into this remix crap…with maybe the 40th Anniversary of his death..but they could have come up with a set of his original recordings.. And unreleased early tracks or something like that..not this crap..it maybe a limited edition..but us not going in my T.Rex collection.. A shameful way to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of his passing
Marc was cremated but I get what you mean.
pre-ordered, there’s a lot of music on those there LP’s for only £27 which is rare these days. You can expect to pay that for one LP alone!
Steve Palmer says:
Thanks Paul! Just ordered this ( red vinyl) has to be better than the remixes the Bramley’s ( fan club) did in the 80’s !
Might just look better than it sounds but it’s Bolan. A welcome addition to my T.Rex collection: Red vinyl ordered.
Noel Fitzsimons says:
Sometimes re-mixes work & at other times the original track is unrecognizable – so lets see.
However as a T.Rex fan – this sets looks very attractive overall and hey – its the 40th anniversary of Marc’s death this September – so a purchase is a must.
Remixes? How can you possibly improve on perfection?
Trusting Paul’s comments on this one! Red vinyl ordered.
Gulp! :) I’m trying to get some audio from Demon that I can share…
Andy Scoffin says:
looking forward to this – as stated will split fans but worth the risk it might actually be good.
just pre-ordered the red vinyl shame there is no autorip
expensive 1/10/17 with this omd on yellow vinyl and wasp live in the raw reissue
I’ve gone for this! Looks interesting and I like the cover. It’s T-Rex. not going to be shite is it?!
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Members: Jorge Hernández, Hernán Hernández, Eduardo Hernández, Luis Hernández, Óscar Lara
Years Active: 1968-present
Genres: Norteño, Cumbia Norteña
Grammy Awards: Five
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1972: El Cheque
1975: Contrabando Y Traición*
1976: Pueblo Querido
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1977: Vivan Los Mojados
1978: Numero Ocho
1979: El Tahúr*
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1983: Carrera Contra La Muerte (reissued in 2013 with songs)
1984: Jaula De Oro
1984: La Tumba Del Mojado - Internacionalmente Norteños
1985: A Ti Madrecita (reissued in 2015 with 4 new songs)
1987: Gracias!... América... Sin Fronteras (reissued in 2017 with songs)
1988: Ídolos Del Pueblo (last album with Lupe Olivo)
1989: Corridos Prohibidos (first album with Eduardo Hernández)
1989: Triunfo Sólido – Mi Buena Suerte
1990: Para Adoloridos
1991: Incansables!
1992: Con Sentimiento Y Sabor (Tan Bonita)
1992: Una Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
1993: La Garra De...
1994: Los Dos Plebes
1995: El Ejemplo (last album with Raul Hernández before becoming soloist)
1996: Unidos Para Siempre (first album with Luis Hernández & Guadalupe Olivo returning to the group)
1997: Jefe De Jefes
1998: Así Como Tú
1999: Herencia De Familia
2000: De Paisano A Paisano (last album with Lupe Olivo)
2001: Uniendo Fronteras
2002: La Reina Del Sur
2004: Pacto De Sangre
2005: Directo Al Corazón
2006: Historias Que Contar
2007: Detalles Y Emociones
2008: Raíces
2008: Tu Noche Con Los Tigres Del Norte
2009: La Granja
2010: La Granja: Secreta
2011: MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends
2012: La Bala
2013: Carrera Contra La Muerte (2013 Remasterizado)
2014: Realidades
2015: Desde El Azteca
2015: A Ti Madrecita (2015 Remasterizado)
2016: Ataud
2017: Gracias!... América... Sin Fronteras (2017 Remasterizado)
2018: Para Sacarte De Mi Vida
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Posted by Naithin | Aug 16, 2019 | Gaming | 2
I didn’t think I was going to cover this one. Intended to ignore it completely, in fact. An experience yesterday changed my mind. Yesterday morning, the company I work for hosted a session of the ‘Online Gaming Wellbeing‘ workshop, run by the Learn with League division of Riot.
I didn’t really know what to expect from this workshop going in. I had been forwarded the invite only a day or so prior, so I hadn’t really dug into the detail yet.
I wondered whether they were going to try and get a bunch of corporates to play a game of League. Maybe then try draw some learnings from that. That would have been amusing, to say the least. (Also, I had already mentally dibsed going support. Leona, probably.)
I felt compelled to login again just to get a screenshot. Only felt up to ARAM though, as it has been aaaages since I played a ‘real’ game of League.
So I will admit, when I turned up there a definite sense of disappointment upon entering the venue and noting that it was not, in fact, set up in preparation for a mini-LAN party.
But the session was valuable and eye-opening even so.
The question of why we were here doing this session, in light of video games inspiring violence like the Christchurch massacre was brought up.
The question was given voice by a smart, intelligent person. Yet clearly the rhetoric in American mainstream media had done its job.
I was really surprised by this at the time although, in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have been. The response it drew though was immediate.
Voiced in a near shout from another corner of the room, defying this and calling it out as untrue. I worried that this poor person was going to be left scarred by the encounter. For daring give voice to, what was to them, a legitimate and serious concern.
The hostility and derision in the room from those who in turn likely felt personally attacked by the question was palpable. But only for a moment thankfully. The room gentled almost immediately. I think there was a realisation that while perhaps not asked in the most tactful way, or with a good read of the room, it was a sincere worry.
There followed a brief discussion on the closer correlation between access to guns and gun violence. We talked to the lack of scientific evidence supporting the conclusions being espoused in the media. We also had someone in the room who had grown up in Japan. They testified from first-hand experience just how false the claim that Japan and similar cultures didn’t game was, or that it could even possibly therefore follow that the lack of gaming was the reason they had less gun violence.
Ultimately I don’t know whether we convinced the person who raised the question or not. We might have. The conversation certainly could have gone a lot worse given the knee-jerk reaction of a start it received. But the Riot host handled the situation with a surprising degree of grace. He allowed people to have their say on an extremely charged topic without allowing a total derailment of the workshop.
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Asmiroth on August 17, 2019 at 12:26 am
That question is entirely a generational one, more so than a culture, which is a change.
When I was coming of age, D&D was a gateway drug to satanism in American media. Rituals and all that. The culture for pen and paper was tiny.
Today, i haven’t met anyone under 25 who has not or does not play video games. Fortnite doesnt run on 70 year old politicians giving sound bytes to news channels.
The gap here is that only a portion of baby boomers are exposed to video games, and they are the prime target for news.
Same rhetoric from the late 90s, except today there are quite literally millions of more educated people who know better.
Naithin on August 17, 2019 at 2:10 am
Oh I know it’s not the first to fall victim to unfounded media scapegoating, and it probably won’t be the last thing.
I guess it just surprised me that the message could find purchase in quite an educated environment.
I suspect you’re right though, there is still that age group that relies on the news and feels they can trust it as a source of unbiased truth.
I don’t know that I ever wrote about this here, but I found out earlier in the year there are even Anti-Vaxxers in the corp. Significant enough in numbers that it caused a firestorm when someone made a bit of a joke at their expense on the internal comms platform. xD
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Mauritius: Small wonder
It's all but a dot in the Indian Ocean, but Mauritius still keeps visitors in thrall. The novelist Barbara Trapido sizes up a land of sun, Séga and Sir Seewoosagur
12:00AM GMT 30 Dec 2000
WITH a pinch of excitement, I lay out my summer separates on a cold grey day, so that they look like a paper doll's wardrobe. Then I pack Gerald Durrell's Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons along with Paul et Virginie, that French Mauritian classic of star-crossed young love; a novel that moistened the eyes of everyone from Dickens to Madame Bovary. The heroine goes down with the St Géran, which sank for real off the north-east coast of Mauritius in 1744.
"Go to the south," says my friend, a historian of the island. "Go to Le Morne Brabant, go to Flic en Flac, go to Père Laval's shrine, go to the Champ de Mars" - this last being the Port Louis racecourse. "And," she says, "you've got to see Séga dancing." SÈga, once banned as pagan and subversive, has emerged as the cultural treasure of Mauritius; an erotic, barefoot fire dance originally performed on the beaches by Afro-Creole slaves.
Mauritius lies in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and, for an island that can be crossed from anywhere to anywhere in an hour, it's difficult to convey the drama of its scenery. Its mountains, coral-lined beaches and waterfalls; its thousand species of fish; its unique flora and fauna, some of it being nurtured back from near extinction; its ethnically diverse population and varied cuisine - all combine with the whiff of its brutal past of plantation slavery and pirate excesses to keep a visitor fascinated.
If, like me, you grew up on the Indian Ocean, then the landscape is the more exciting for being half familiar. The green is astonishingly green and the roads wind through miles of sugar cane punctuated by rangy paw-paw and banana trees, by acacia and flame trees. Indian villages have little breezeblock grocers' shops, often called "Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam General Stores", named, as with almost everything else, for the national father figure. The half-blinded orphan son of a dirt-poor indentured cane worker, Sir Seewoosagur none the less became a doctor before leading the country to independence in 1968. Unfortunately, given the prevalence of his name, it refuses to trip off the tongue.
Unfortunate, too, that breezeblock buildings are edging out their prettier wood-and-iron forerunners, but bougainvillaea softens everything.
My biggest surprise is the mountains. From anywhere, the dramatic, jagged black mountains of this vast, largely submerged volcano are in plain view. Formidable mounds of giant larval rocks are visible in every cane field, the back-breaking labour of digging them out having once been undertaken by African slaves. Now the rocks are pulverised for breezeblocks, or they are used for public monuments, which one encounters in great numbers: monuments to 16th-century Dutch settlers, to be-wigged French governors and to Queen Victoria; monuments to the trials of African slaves and to the tribulations of indentured Indians; monuments to Chinese immigrants and to the victims of a South African plane crash in 1984; even a monument to the Franco-Mauritian plantation baron who defended slaveowners' rights.
En route from Plaisance Airport in the south east, we pass the area of earliest settlement around Mahébourg, and Vieux Grand Port, the site of France's only naval victory over the British. Then there's Ferney, one of the island's oldest sugar estates, named after Voltaire's domicile in Geneva. We skirt round the Domaine du Chasseur, a nature reserve and one of the few remaining areas of indigenous forest. We pass washerwomen laundering in the Rivière des Créoles. As well as its monuments, Mauritius has festivals - Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic and generally ecumenical. We have just missed the splash of Independence Day, while Hindu temples are ever-ready, with garlanded processional structures standing about in their forecourts.
Our first five days are spent in The Beau Rivage on the beautiful, underpopulated east coast with its gentle, lagoon-like waters. The hotel gardens are ambitiously planted with 600 palms - date, coconut, bottle and royal - all grown in nurseries within the sugar estates and planted out, fully grown, to replace the island's ubiquitous but less scenic casuarinas. I mellow with regard to the Smurf-like thatched roofs; an obligatory feature, it seems, for global paradise-island hotels. Our suite has a dreamy balcony overhanging the silky white beach, so that, rising early, I can drink my first cup of coffee while watching the man in the mini-tractor who appears at dawn to do fun-sized figures of eight as he rakes the sand.
A quick swim and then it's a breakfast of tropical fruits, which is followed by little pastries which bear witness to the island's French bakers. Mauritian food is so delicious that one is faced, daily, with the mortifying sight of expanding white guests in stretch waistbands, being served by lithe brown waiters in their smart-casual uniforms from the local Ralph Lauren factory outlets. The growth of the garment industry has been a good-luck story in a country that now boasts full employment.
For lunch we stroll down the beach to La Mediterranée, lured by slivers of smoked tuna and tagliatelle with blue marlin sauce. At night, it's a Mauritian banquet with Chinese-style seafood and spicy Creole pork; pilafs and chargrilled barracuda and dainty Hindu vegetables bought from the market gardens that can be glimpsed among the cane fields. Then there is the "Lobster Feast", offering lobster pancetta, followed by lobster carpaccio followed by three grilled lobsters on a plate . . .
Regrettably, the Séga exponents have performed on the night before we arrived and, on our night, have been replaced by an African Evening, featuring a troupe of un-special ballet girls who bang drums in skimpy leopardskin crop tops.
Next day, we rent two mountain bikes and take to the road towards real life - the nearest town, Centre de Flacq, which radiates from a lively bus depot. The cafe is full of cute Indian schoolchildren with Tommy Hilfiger backpacks. Across the street, the Babylon Bookstore sells "Seggae" on CD; an Afro-Creole synthesis of Séga music and reggae.
Having found a book on Mauritian houses in the hotel's mini Burlington Arcade, I am keen to see the houses of Afro-Creole fishermen, but the Indian tour reps are somewhat wilfully dismissive. "We don't build like that any more," they say and, when I persist, they offer the Creole House, which materialises as an elegant French settler residence, nestling luxuriously at the foot of the Moka Mountains, with stunning views across a gorge. What I'd had in mind were those humble wood-and-iron cottages with rickety shutters, peeling paint and ornamental tracery like knicker-lace running along the eaves. These are clearly "hovels" and the tour guides are ashamed of them.
So we take the east coast road as far south as Mahébourg, a lovely, winding route affording glimpses of Afro-Creole fishing villages and punctuated with evidence of industrial archaeology.
Small defunct sugar "factories", with their tall chimneys, exhibit a sort of period beauty, like the chimneys of Halifax in miniature. Mahébourg, a charming old has-been town, lost its power as a port when the focus moved to Port Louis in 1722. It was the Dutch who, landing here in 1598, stayed just long enough to wipe out the dodo, rip out the ebony and leave behind their deer and pigs to devastate the local flora.
Then, under the French, the population rose to 18,000 of whom three-quarters were slaves. Post-Napoleon, Mauritius fell to the British, who left the islanders alone to pursue their own creolised French language and culture, so that, today, the major British influence resides in a mania for English football. Manchester United shirts are everywhere and the matches are relayed on 6ft-high television screens in most of the bars. In Mahébourg, the Historical and Naval Museum is romantically sited in a crumbling French colonial house and exhibits the bell from the doomed St Geran.
In the woodland of the Domaine du Chasseur, you can observe the reclaimed Mauritian kestrel swooping and rising in flight, or you can hunt deer, or walk the woodland paths. The land rises to 1,000ft and we eat there, in the tree-top greenery of the restaurant, after taking one of the gentler walks. The "wild boar" of the Domaine are the descendants of abandoned Dutch pigs and, since sugar cane is part of their diet, the flesh is wonderfully sweet.
That night, in the hotel foyer, there is a model boat craftsman taking orders. The boats are almost irresistible and I salivate over each one: the Cutty Sark, the Victory, the St Géran . . . Model boats are a facet of the island's diversifying economy and little workshops have sprung up everywhere.
Grand Baie is our next location; the most developed resort on the island. It's one of a number of pretty fishing villages along the north coast which have become popular tourist haunts with sophisticated hotels. There's a range of ambitious watersports on offer, although all we manage is a trip in the hotel's glass-bottomed boat. Grand Baie still has its small-scale charm, with boutiques, cafes and Chinese restaurants strung along the bay. We hang out there almost daily to escape the luxurious dream world of The Royal Palm hotel, where gloved flunkies in pith helmets direct guests to beach loungers and the beach pedlar boasts that he sold sarongs to Diana, Princess of Wales.
In Grand Baie, we buy delicious little samosas from street vendors and plastic tubs of Chinese rice. We dawdle through the boutiques before settling down with an espresso to watch the macho tourists return from deep-sea fishing trips. We catch buses to various beauty spots whose names are suggestive of shipwrecks - Baie du Tombeau, Cap Malheureux - before returning to the hotel for meals of palm heart salad, black truffle risotto, oysters and guava sorbet. A cab takes us to Port Louis, the humid, seething capital. We stop en route at the thrilling Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens, where Charles Darwin visited ancient, giant tortoises and the massive wrought-iron gates won first prize at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1862.
There's a New Orleans feel to Port Louis, its history similarly marked with slavery, malaria and flooded graveyards. The vagrant lock-up is still on the quayside, although much dominated now by one of those global waterfront malls. The covered market is a feast of exoticism, where Malagasy leather goods and local textiles jostle for space alongside pyramids of spices, pineapples, whiffy dried fish and herbal cures for eczema. I buy a pink straw basket and a lifetime's supply of star anise before retiring to a café. A jumble of cultures is visible, from the statue of Queen Victoria to the hideous Jummah Mosque, to the Chinese pagodas and the shrine of Père Laval, the beatified champion of the Mauritian poor, who daily attracts multi-ethnic streams of faithful supplicants.
That night, we go to a bar which holds out the promise of Séga dancing, but it's cancelled, because Manchester United are playing Newcastle, so we return to our hotel and order room service tandoori lamb, and pig out while watching a television programme about Séga dancing, courtesy of the Mauritius University of the Air.
Then we visit the cool plateau town of Curepipe, seat of the Franco-Mauritian élite, where the houses are hidden behind tall green bamboo hedges. The town hall is a miniature wooden château, like Tintin's Marlinspike. On the town's edge is a giant volcanic crater where we stare into the dense green hole and admire the giddy view beyond it.
The next day, our last, contracts until our intention to visit the south, with its basalt cliffs and wild seas, reduces into a bone-shaking drive to look at the Rochester Falls where black cliffs have eroded into perpendicular Cubist formations. On the plane home, I read about Le Morne, the island's inaccessible south-western cliff, where a colony of runaway slaves, eking out an existence there, saw a party of soldiers approaching and, anticipating re-capture, plunged headlong to their deaths. The soldiers had come to inform them of the abolition of slavery.
Classic Connection (0870 751 9320) offers a five-night stay at the Beau Rivage in a superior room on a half-board basis, followed by a five-night stay at the Royal Palm on a b & b basis, from £1,975 per person. The price also includes transfers and economy return flights with Air Mauritius.
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Rubber marks left during NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway to be cleaned
Officials believe no permanent damage was done to Nashville's Lower Broadway during the event, part of NASCAR Champions Week.
Rubber marks left during NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway to be cleaned Officials believe no permanent damage was done to Nashville's Lower Broadway during the event, part of NASCAR Champions Week. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2019/12/06/nascar-burnouts-broadway-nashville-rubber-marks-being-cleaned/4352049002/
Mike Organ, Nashville Tennessean Published 9:07 a.m. CT Dec. 6, 2019 | Updated 9:08 a.m. CT Dec. 6, 2019
Relive every burnout from Burnouts on Broadway during NASCAR Champion's Week activities. Nashville Tennessean
Marks left on Lower Broadway after Wednesday night's NASCAR Burnouts are being cleaned and will be gone soon, according to Butch Spyridon, president and CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp.
"We always try to leave event sites better than we found them," Spyridon said. "This is no exception. While the markings are visual, it is only rubber, which ends up on the streets every day. We are in the process of cleaning, and the majority is already gone."
When crews hired by the Visitors Corp finish working on the street officials will determine if any further effort needs to be made.
Photos: NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway in Nashville
Kyle Busch during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kyle Larson does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Brad Keselowski does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch is introduced during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Joey Logano does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fireworks fill the air after the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Alex Bowman does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
NASCAR fans watch from a rooftop bar during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Tire tracks fill the road after the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Ryan Blaney waves to the crowd during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Ryan Newman does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Denny Hamlin does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Joey Logano does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Martin Truex Jr. does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Denny Hamlin does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Chase Elliott does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Clint Bowyer does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Aric Almirola does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Ryan Newman does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fans watch the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn., as seen from Rock Bottom Brewery. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Chase Elliott does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Kevin Harvick does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Aric Almirola does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Spectators watch fireworks during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Aric Almirola stalls during his burnout at the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Kyle Busch leans out of his window while doing a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Aric Almirola is introduced during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kyle Busch gestures during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kyle Busch does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kurt Busch during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Ryan Newman drives his car during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kevin Harvick does a burnout in front of the crowd during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
NASCAR driver Kyle Larson waves to the crowd at the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fans watch fireworks at the end of the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Kyle Busch bows to the fans during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Smoke fills the air as Chase Elliott does a burnout during the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
NASCAR cars line up on Broadway for the Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fans line Broadway outside Hard Rock Cafe for the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 19 car sits on Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
A worker dries the pavement with a leaf blower before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fans gather along Broadway between First and Second avenues for the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Ryan Blaney’s No. 12 car sits on Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Connie Boring, Michelle Willis and Bobbie Collins check out the cars on Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Carter Burns, 5, looks inside Kurt Busch’s No. 1 car before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Chase Elliot’s car sits on Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Workers place concrete barriers along Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Downtown Nashville prepares for the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
William Byron’s car sits on Broadway before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Racing fans line up on Broadway for the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
NASCAR fans stake out locations before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Metro Nashville Police shut down Broadway near First Ave. before the NASCAR Burnouts on Broadway event in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
"Of course, in the unlikely event there is permanent damage, we will take care of it," Spyridon said. "As of now, we don't know of any. NASCAR does this all over the country, and if there was permanent damage, they wouldn't be doing it."
The event, which led up to Thursday's NASCAR Championship Awards Show was a big hit with fans, who lined the streets to watch.
The 16 playoff finalists performed burnouts, each one trying to outdo the other.
Photos: Fans at NASCAR Champion's Week in Nashville
Cesar Virto takes a photo of his Mini Goldendoodle, Charlie, with the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Paul Burnside admires Clint Bowyer's race car as he looks inside during the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
Fans walk around the cars on display during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Ginny Newell and her family pose with the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy during NASCAR Champion's Week at Riverfront Park on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Maliyah Brogdon, 4, dances in front of Kyle Busch's race car during the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
Carol Cardillo tries to warm up in the sun while spending time at the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
A man takes a selfie in front a Monster Energy Series playoff race car during the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
The Mocaroski and Todorou families have their photo taken next to a display while spending time at the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
People carry souvenirs as they spend time at the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
People take photographs of Monster Energy Series playoff cars during the NASCAR ChampionÕs Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
A NASCAR fan looks inside Kevin Harvick’s car during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
NASCAR fan Randy Starkley of Burns, Tenn., photographs some of the cars during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Cesar Virto takes a video of his Mini Goldendoodle, Charlie, as they walk past Kyle Busch's race car during the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
Fans take photographs of Martin Truex Jr.'s race car during the NASCAR Champion's Week Fan Fest on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski/ For The Tennessean
Shallyn Pridmore takes a photo of Jeff Sahagun and Russ Savage, all of Canada, with the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy during Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Dana McLean and Melissa Libby of Maine pose with the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Chuck Gafrarar of Hendrick Motorsports cleans Chase Elliot’s car during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
David Newell, 9, poses with an M&M character during NASCAR Champion’s Week at Riverfront Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
It has become a tradition at the Awards Show, which previously took place in Las Vegas and before that in New York.
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Could Body Armor Have Saved Millions in World War I?
The follies that led to poor helmets and a lack of torso protection for men in the trenches.
Michael Vlahos
German trenches on Aisne River, in northeastern France. (Wikimedia Commons)
Unlike ancient bloodlettings lost to memory, World War I lingers in our collective DNA. The image of the trenches is our icon of hell on earth. Ten million soldiers died in mud-ditches and no-mans-land during the Great War, and we remember this dark narrative because they died for nothing. After reaching pinnacles of human achievement, civilization set about to destroy itself out of pride over imagined slights and disrespect.
In total contrast, the early 1900s's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Arms and Armor Collection was a magical place. Boys steeped in Howard Pyle's Champions of the Round Table or Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company (and N.C. Wyeth's illustrations!), would have come here to see the armor ... and dream.
But what does the Met armor collection have to do with World War I? We know from war poets like Rupert Brooke that so many of those boys would as men lead their soldiers and themselves to muddy death, still idealizing the knights they once dreamed to be.
But there is another irony, sadder still, now forgotten: Medieval armorers and men-at-arms knew a secret that would have spared perhaps 30 percent of those who died in battle. We have the evidence right at the Metropolitan Museum itself.
Bashford Dean, zoologist and curator of the Met's arm's and armor collection, knew that the techniques of medieval fighters could save lives on the Western Front: Not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of lives. In that context, the U.S. Government brought him in to take charge of the American body armor program in 1917.
As Major of Ordnance commanding the U.S Army Armor Unit, and as Chairman of the Committee on Helmets and Body Armor at the National Research Council, he showed how soldiers could survive the terrors of modern battle. There were similar big armor enterprises in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and even in Japan.
But with such knowledge everywhere, why did the body armor business produce almost nothing from 1914 to 1918?
In August 1914, it was already clear this was a different kind of war. It sucked in millions -- in fact, nearly the entire young male age cohorts of whole societies.
Casualties were horrendous as armies discovered how to best deploy massed high-angle howitzers and mortars (and to a much lesser extent, machine guns). In the opening four weeks of war, France lost 250,000 men in futile charges. As the war went on, horrendous casualties would shortly become catastrophic casualties.
So what was to be done? Ditch the red pantaloons and blue greatcoats. Check. Dig, and then dig deep and complex field fortifications -- called "trenches" -- to protect from artillery barrage. Check.
But what about protecting our own bodies from fire? In Medieval times no effort was spared to shield flesh from blade and crossbow bolt. Why not bullets and shell fragments too?
It took two long years of death before European armies even deployed helmets for their soldiers. Helmets should have been the flash-urgent priority of all armies from the start. World War II wound studies show 21 percent of all reported injuries were to the head, even though it is but 12 percent of our body area. World War I hospital reports also show about 20 percent to the head and thorax.
Two years to address even this? But when it helmets were brought in at last, the Allied results were tragically suboptimal. The Brodie (British) and Adrian (French) helmets were hugely deficient in protecting the head and neck. They seem in retrospect more intent on creating a brand icon of national identity in war -- the Adrian was a cross between a fireman's casque and the bravura Napoleonic Cuirassier helm, while the Brodie was the spitting image of the longbowmen's Chapel de Fer at Agincourt . Only the Germans created an effective helmet, borrowing liberally from one of the very best medieval designs, the Salade (or Sallet ).
A Sallet-style helmet from late 15th-century Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)
The problem was, the German Stahlhelm became so instantly iconic that no Allied design dared to come near it for fear that their soldiers might somehow be doing silent homage to Hun -- thus dooming their effectiveness! More on that later.
If Afghanistan and Iraq were blast and shock wars, World War I was a fragment war. Dean, writing after the war, cites different medical sources, but the range of casualties due to fragments (artillery and mortars) was as high as 70 to 95 percent.
Steel fragments do not come at the soldier like rifle or machine gun bullets, at high velocity (up to 3000 feet per second). Nearly all of them move at less than 1,000 feet per second. The best helmet steel could and did defeat these. But helmets only protected the head -- and Allied helmets covered the head poorly.
Still, 18 to 20-gauge helmet steel (.036-.040 inches) could stop a hot cupro-nickel jacketed 230 grain slug from a .45 Automatic Colt Pistol (ACP) fired pointblank. So alloys like silicon nickel or nickel-manganese-vanadium could protect against almost all fragments. With such steels already in high production for helmets, why not protect the torso too?
Weight was the big bugaboo of 20th century body armor. Some wanted armor panoplies that could stop machine gun and rifle rounds even at 200 yards. The Germans ramped up distributing their lobster-like suite toward war's end. Intended mostly for machine gunners, and at 22-27 pounds, it was considered too heavy for regular infantry. Was there any hope for the front line soldier?
Enter Bashford Dean and his team. Met armorers crafted a battle harness with complete torso protection, front and back, for about 8.5 pounds With pauldrons (shoulder guards), couters (elbow) and vambraces (forearm), add another 4 pounds With helmet -- and Dean offered the two finest battle helmets of modern times -- it all came to just over 15 pounds Quite wearable, you would think, given that U.S. soldiers' full panoply today can reach 40pounds, close to 15th century full-body plate armor.
Moreover, Dean's panoply was fully cushioned with "vulcanized sponge-rubber," and with the latest alloys, could stop a .45 ACP at 1000 ft. per second (and a rifle ball at 1250 ft. per second). In terms of coverage, ease and comfort, and raw protection, this was as close as anyone in the war came to the Holy Grail of personal body armor. Deployed in the big American Expeditionary Force (AEF) offensive at the Meuse-Argonne, it could have cut 26,000 battle deaths by one third or more.
Bashford Dean
Why do I believe body armor would have worked as advertised? Just think: If three-quarters of all combat casualties were from fragments, and if most fatalities from fragments penetrated the head and torso, then taking the head and torso out of reach of fragments should mean a lot. Just one data point: Army analysis of flak jackets for World War II bomber crews. There was no ambiguity: with flak jackets, 58 percent fewer casualties. Period.
Dean's "half armor" went exactly nowhere. Sure, it was worth ditching most of the arm defenses. The Springfield-Mauser battle rifle depended on smoothly reciprocating the bolt and recharging the weapon from stripper clips every five rounds. Medieval arm defenses, no matter how well articulated, were simply going to get in the way. But torso and shoulder defenses were another matter. In fact, the Met's cuirass itself was carefully cut out for effortless shouldering of the Springfield.
A Springfield rifle. (Wikimedia Commons)
So why was nothing done? I believe that there were three impediments worth noting.
The first, fear and loathing of "The Hun" by the Allies was the upfront impediment to American helmet design. Stalhelmophobia lasted for decades. When the U.S. finally adopted a new helmet, the M1 (Pot) in 1941, it was a distinct improvement over the Brodie. But it still held off protecting temple and neck -- for fear it might look too German.
Studies show that this helmet saved over 70,000 lives in World War II, but had Dean's Model 5, or better yet Model 2, been adopted, it would have saved perhaps another 5,000 American soldiers. Get this: We let 5,000 of our young men die after 1941 because we did not want them to look like Germans.
Ironically, when we finally got around in the 1970s to replacing the Pot, we went straight to the Stahlhelm. The new PASGT helmet was in fact nicknamed Fritz.
The second impediment was the myth of weight, as in: those boys will never wear this stuff; they'll throw it off the first opportunity. But in Iraq and Afghanistan, our "boys" wear stuff as heavy as a medieval Gendarme. They suffer up to 40 pounds (with helmet): Not gladly, but dutifully, because it saves lives.
Weight was not the real reason but an excuse, a rationalization. The general staffs and higher leadership of that age held a mindset wholly wrong to us. It was not exactly a mindset of death, but rather, in the spirit of that age, of sacrifice for the nation.
Hence, the third reason body armor was not the utmost priority was that leaders of World War I believed that sacrifice was inevitable and necessary in war, and moreover, society would willingly sacrifice its young men on the altar of the nation.
We know this from the outpouring at the news of war in August 1914. In Berlin, people were crying out that this was: "A holy moment," lit by the "holy flame of anger," were we passed "out of the misery of everyday life to new heights," to a "rebirth through war," "a revelation," finally to "awaken the belief in the future of our people," in a "wonderful unity of sacrifice, brotherhood, belief." Gertrude Baumer cried, "the limitations of our egos broke down, our blood flowed to the blood of the other, we felt ourselves one body in mystical unification."
The spirit of 1914 did not seek to shepherd and preserve lives at all costs. Today our soldier's lives are a precious treasure we spend at our peril. We are always afraid to lose too many, whatever "too many" might be.
But in that breathless time men were kissed and embraced on their journey to death, because their sacrifice would not only renew the nation; but in blood let it come alive. Protecting soldiers was not part of the program.
To stand in the Met's armor room as I first did in 1957, in the quiet of a late afternoon, was like entering a time machine. To face the panoply of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France: The battle harness he wore when he was taken at St. Quentin by Phillip of Spain, in the battle that made Europe a Hapsburg enterprise, was breathtaking. (Only very recently has this armor been correctly identified as belonging to Henry VIII , but for me, the boy, the Met had a different label.)
So it must have felt in 1914 at the Met, and in armor collections all across Europe, as if the armored spirits of those knights, still clad in iron, had risen to help save those men of the trenches.
But saving men was not what that new war was about.
It is heartening to have so many responses and meandering threads. Thank you! A few tropes were raised, however, about issues I did not have space to treat in a 2000 word essay. So here are a few quick responses:
About whether such armor could have been manufactured for millions: Just think, all the belligerents were producing shells, very big shells, by the millions and tens of millions. The artillery doctrines upon which such massive resource appropriation depended were, to be polite, highly flawed. How much better to have directly protected your men. It is also worth noting that it was far easier to fabricate breast-and-backplates than helmets.
And yes, French metallurgy in the urgent context of existential crisis was not able to deliver good alloys, but British manganese steel was quite acceptable. German and American alloys were superior, as my article indicates.
Remember, the Deane Panoply was never intended to be bulletproof, but rather, like all modern helmets, to stop fragments. Keeping fragments out of a soldier's torso meant survival, pure and simple. France lost 1.75 million dead out of a total population of 39 million. Would not losing a half million or more men not have been welcome to wives, mothers, and children?
Body armor would thus have lowered overall casualties perhaps only marginally. My whole thesis is about deaths, or what we clinically call KIA. That is important.
And no, no Americans would have been killed collaterally because their helmet looked German. The 2 and 5 models were fully identifiable as American, and not German!
As for mobility on the battlefield, if you all think that a nine-pound cuirass is too heavy, then how do you approach today's reality, where we all wear 40 -pound harnesses, and are proud to be alive? If soldiers could put up with a three-pound helmet, then a nine-pound cuirass (including backplate), is totally in the combat zone. Unless you guys have more relevant combat experience.
This entire exercise was what some call a "thought exercise." The whole point of such an excursion is to test out why an outcome so terrible and so preventable happened as it in fact did. In practical, realistic terms, it is of course wholly unlikely that the major belligerents could possibly have introduced effective, widely deployed body armor during the war. Only the Germans and the Brits did so, and only at the very end.
But the US might have done so, because we had the means,the expertise, and the targeted research (Deane) to do so. Plus, it might so easily have been transportable to the next war.
But it was not. Hence my piece.
Michael Vlahos is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins' Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Counterterrorism, American Exceptionalism, and Retributive Justice.
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The Pixel Project Selection: Five Fantastic Films About Fathers
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As we seek out and gather interviews with 30 exemplary Dads from around the world for our upcoming 30 For 30 Father’s Day campaign highlighting positive non-violent Dads, we hope this short and sweet list of films about fathers who exemplify good Dads who are positive non-violent male role models working through different and difficult life circumstances while raising their kids and charges (or reconciling their relationship with them).
Inspired by the list of fabulous films about fathers below? Here’s how you can take action:
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Fantastic Film About Father Figures 1 – Field Of Dreams
“If you build it, they will come” – that is the otherworldly message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. This is ostensibly a film about second chances for those who have given up on the ‘unrealistic’ dreams of their youth. However, the theme of second chances also relates to Ray’s second chance to reconnect with his late father and to make the amends he didn’t make when the latter was alive – a poignant reminder of how short our time is on this earth and how precious a good relationship with our parents are.
Fantastic Film About Father Figures 2 – My Life
In My Life, Michael Keaton plays Bob Ivanovich, a young married man who discovers that he has terminal cancer soon after his wife gets pregnant. Knowing he won’t be around to raise his little boy, Bob uses the time he has left to record home movies of himself that his son can watch as he grows up. The videos range from Bob reading bedtime stories to Bob teaching his son skills like how to shave. As Bob approaches his death, he also begins to reconcile with his own father, with whom he has had a strained relationship.
Fantastic Film About Father Figures 3 – The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid (and its sequels and subsequent remake) has always centred around father-less kids learning to stand up for themselves when facing bullies… and they learn all this from the zen male role model and father figure, Mr Miyagi. While some may cringe at the Eastern stereotyping involved, Miyagi imparts many excellent non-violent values including hard work, controlling aggression, self-discipline, determination in the face of huge personal odds and believing in one’s abilities.
Fantastic Film About Father Figures 4: To Kill A Mockingbird
Any list of films about fathers would be remiss if it did not include To Kill A Mockingbird. Lawyer and social activist Atticus Finch is at the top of our list of the best fictional Dads ever and The American Film Institute called Finch the “greatest movie hero of the 20th century.” . As a widowed single dad, he is absolutely devoted and incredibly patient with his two kids, Jem and Scout, teaching them equality, courage, empathy, kindness, non-violence, integrity and strength of character by example at the point in their lives when they are most impressionable.
Fantastic Film About Father Figures 5: We Bought A Zoo
Cameron Crowe’s film about widower Benjamin Mee and his two kids and how they bought a run-down zoo as Mee handles with bereavement after the loss of his wife to cancer is one of the best family films of recent years. At the heart of the film is the relationship between Mee and his kids – rebellious Dylan and sunny Rosie – as they embark on a new chapter in their lives and recalibrate their family dynamics to cope with not having their mother around.
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In the first week of the year, The Bank of Mexico spent on supporting the national currency about $ 2 billion. According to the regulator’s statement, the country's international reserves fell to $ 174.72 billion on 1 to 6 January.
Joaquín Martínez Rosado
"The reserve decreased by $ 1.81 billion, mainly due to sale of US currency", - said the Bank of Mexico on Twitter.
The regulator was forced to start currency intervention after the peso dropped to the lowest level against the dollar on news about cancellation of Ford plant’s construction in the state of San Luis Potosi.
Despite the measures taken by the Bank of Mexico, the peso continues to become cheaper. The bank rate on Tuesday has risen to 21.85 pesos per $ 1, or 0.2 pesos more than on Monday.
Such fluctuations in the currency market may become even more sharp as inauguration of US President Donald Trump is approaching. The politician takes office on January 20.
The Mexican peso’s landslide forced the regulator to actions, as further market devaluation of the peso could lead to disaster. The bank intruded the market with fairly significant interventions, but apparently spent billions of dollars with little or no visible result.
Speculators bought the offer quite happily. However, as soon as the influx of money ended, the peso resumed falling. If the bank continues to hold its ground, it may lead to a situation way too familiar to SNB, the Bank of Russia and Chinese foreign exchange regulator. Speculators will simply play against the national currency, increasingly depleting reserves of the Central Bank. At the same time, the Mexican regulator has incomparably less capacity than its larger colleagues, all the more even their attempts ended with back-down.
Actually, the Bank of Mexico is criticized not for obviously wrong decisions about interventions, but for neglect of available set of tools. For example, no one bothered to use a more sophisticated mechanism of currency swaps without pressing on reserves. In addition, it was necessary to borrow at least part of the Chinese experience, although this would be difficult to apply due to much stronger government regulation of China's economy.
Earlier, Ministry of Economy of Mexico on the background of statements by US President-elect Donald Trump has denied any attempts to influence business decisions regarding investment in the country.
US President-elect Donald Trump threatened the world automotive leader Toyota with high taxes on imports of its products if the manufacturer builds its plant in Mexico.
"The Ministry of Economy of Mexico categorically rejects any attempt to influence decisions of companies regarding investment by means of threats or intimidation " - said the regulator in a statement posted on its website.
"Mexico is interested in shaping competitiveness of North America and its transformation into the most attractive for investment geographical area" - the document says.
In early January, Donald Trump recalled his pre-election promises and, simultaneously, the Mexican peso collapsed. Buy American and hire Americans - that's the basic rule, which administration of President-elect would follow. Trump has already lashed out at General Motors because the automaker assembles cars in Mexico, and then duty-free imports them into the United States.
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2015 Emmy Snubs: 11 Shows That Should Have Been Nominated
Oriana Schwindt July 16, 2015 1:56 pm
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In a perfect world, every actor and writer and director (etc.) who deserved an Emmy nomination would get one. Unfortunately, we're stuck with this world, in which the members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences refuse to acknowledge many, many deserving potential nominees (steadfastly, in certain cases). Here are 11 of the most egregious snubs from the 2015 nominations.
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: This was the best season of one of the best series on television. Good on the Academy for nominating Margo Martindale for Guest Actress in a Drama and the outstanding "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?" episode for Writing. But to continue to ignore the performances of Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys (the latter for Jeff Daniels?!) borders on criminal, and the series as a whole deserved one of those Best Drama slots. What other show can deliver an impromptu-oral-surgery scene that is tender, a little sexy, and horrifying, all at the same time?
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GINA RODRIGUEZ (JANE THE VIRGIN):
A nod for JANE in the Best Comedy category was probably a long shot anyway. There was so much buzz surrounding Rodriguez after her Golden Globe win, though, that it really seemed she might get into the Best Actress in a Comedy club. JANE doesn't work without the grounded Rodriguez at its center.
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EMPIRE: Popularity is not always a barometer for quality, but it is odd to shut the biggest, hottest new drama of the year out of the Best Drama category. Especially when something as staid and stale as DOWNTON ABBEY still worms its way in. Just as baffling: "Drip Drop" not being included in the Original Music/Lyrics category. Or any of the other songs from EMPIRE, really; take your pick, they're pretty much all fantastic.
JUSTIFIED:
FX's modern Western finished its sixth and final season with a near-perfect run, and yet: bupkis. Walton Goggins' performance—by turns electrifying and deeply moving—goes unrecognized. Ditto Timothy Olyphant. No writing nominations to praise one of the few shows to nail the tone of the South without ever coming off as condescending (and staying true to Elmore Leonard's style, to boot). Absurd.
Jonathan Hession/Showtime
PENNY DREADFUL: With all the love heaped upon various other Showtime series, one would think PENNY would have at least scored a Best Costume nod, not only for the design, but for the fact that they probably have to make dozens of each piece, with all the gore that gets thrown around. They're also absent from the Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) category, but don't worry, they're there in the Prosthetic one, at least. Oh, yeah: Eva Green deserved one of those Best Actress slots.
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MASTERCHEF JR: Some day, some scientist with too much time on their hands will find a way to bottle the joy that comes from watching tiny cheflets cook incredible meals, and no one will ever be depressed again. That kind of joy should be rewarded with at least a nomination, but no, the Academy have to go and be literal killjoys.
ELLIE KEMPER (UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT): Let's try to figure this out. The Academy loved the show. They loved Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess and Jon Hamm and Tina Fey. KIMMY is even nominated for Best Casting. But Ellie Kemper, the heart of the show? Nah.
JULIE CHEN: What, no one at the Academy watches BIG BROTHER? You try making sense of the insanity that is full-grown adults playing bizarre games and scheming, three times a week, every single summer. Not as easy as you might think. She should've had a spot among the Reality Hosts.
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CONSTANCE WU (FRESH OFF THE BOAT): Wu is a damn national treasure, and how she escaped the notice of those voting for Lead Actress in a Comedy is a true head-scratcher, as Jessica Huang is one of the most fully realized Asian-American characters on TV (no matter how the real-life Eddie Huang feels about the show).
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TJ MILLER (SILICON VALLEY): We couldn't make room for one of the finest portrayals of Tech Douchebro out there? Ty Burrell has won the Supporting Actor in a Comedy category twice. Let's let some new blood in.
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ARROW: This is the third year in a row the Academy has decided that the series that delivers some of the most intricate fight scenes we've ever witnessed on a weekly basis doesn't deserve even a nomination for Stunt Coordination. It's especially egregious this year, which had that genuinely epic Flash/Arrow fight.
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Sacrifices of War
Star Trek: Errand of Fury, Book 3: Sacrifices of War by Kevin Ryan
Published January 2009
Read August 24th 2012
Previous book (Errand of Fury): Book 2: Demands of Honor
Previous book (The Original Series): Excelsior: Forged in Fire
Next book (The Original Series): Troublesome Minds
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Spoilers ahead for Sacrifices of War and the Errand of Fury series!
Poised on the verge of interstellar war, Captain Kirk's last best hope that the Federation can stop the Klingons is the people of Organia, avowed pacifists.
Forced to disguise themselves as interstellar traders, Captain Kirk and Mister Spock are trapped on the primitive world of Organia as Klingon Defense Forces occupy the planet. Determined to make the Organians see that they need not bow to oppression, the Starfleet officers sabotage Klingon materiel. In retaliation, the Klingon captain, Kor, executes many Organians. Unconcerned, the Council of Elders begs Kirk and Spock to stop the violence.
While in deep space the forces of Starfleet and the Klingon Empire scramble to position their fleets for the first onslaught of what could be a long and deadly war.
The third and final novel in the Errand of Fury series, and sadly, the final novel in the overarching Errand of... novels by Kevin Ryan. Part one of the this novel, entitled "Errand of War," involves Kirk leading a mission to destroy a Klingon weapons cache in order to prevent them being used against the Federation. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Lieutenant West and Admiral Solow advise the Federation president, Wescott, in the dark days leading up to an inevitable final conflict with the Klingons. I enjoyed the characterization of West in this novel; the feelings of hopelessness and despair when it seems that the war is both inevitable and destined to be disastrous for the Federation weighs heavily on his heart. One can see a glimmer of the attempted assassin he would become in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
During this section of the novel, we also follow Lieutenant Parrish as she travels home to Earth to have her child, the result of a love affair with deceased Klingon spy Kell, alias Jon Anderson, in the previous Errand of Vengeance trilogy. Her transport comes under attack by the Klingons, and she must protect both herself and the crew, as well as her unborn child. This dilemma came across very realistically, and I was truly concerned for Lieutenant Parrish, especially after having gotten to know her over the course of six novels. Like Kell, Karel, and both father and son Fuller, Parrish is written as a well-rounded character. It is clear that Kevin Ryan has a great deal of skill for writing both character-driven and plot-driven tales. He achieves an excellent balance.
Part two of the novel is basically
a novelization of the episode
"Errand of Mercy."
Part two, entitled "Errand of Mercy," is a pretty straight-forward retelling of the classic Star Trek episode of the same name. After all of the tension, all of the build-up, and all of the unavoidable pitfalls that led our heroes to this point, the inevitable happens: the outbreak of open war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Kirk and Spock pay a visit to Organia, a seemingly bronze-age society that lies along the invasion route of the Klingon forces. While the story plays out exactly as depicted in the television episode, it is nice to get the extra detail and insight that comes with a work of novel-style prose as opposed to a teleplay. I did notice a slight change in the tone and feel of the novel as it transitioned into part two. I wonder if that is because I have actually heard the dialogue being spoken in a live action episode, and it just doesn't quite match up with the dialogue from the non-televised portions. Not a major complaint, but it did take me out of the novel just a little bit.
While gauging reactions to this novel online, one opinion that I invariably came across was that in the original releases, the novels were too widely-spaced apart to follow satisfactorily. Seeds of Rage was published in 2005, Demands of Honor a full two years later, and this novel nearly another two years after that. I had the good fortune of being able to read all of them back-to-back (indeed, I was able to read the previous trilogy directly before reading this one as well), and so I was able to follow the story quite easily. It must have been very frustrating to have to wait so long for the next part of an on-going storyline.
The series as a whole:
I really enjoyed the Errand of Fury series. The further exploration of the Klingons and the shift their culture undergoes between TOS and TNG makes for a fascinating backdrop for some great storytelling. Errand of Fury carries forward many of the topics and themes that made Errand of Vengeance so enjoyable. The reality and horror of war, coupled with the supreme personal sacrifices involved, makes for very compelling drama.
One thing that sets Fury apart from Vengeance is the slight shift of focus away from the group experience to the personal one. In Errand of Vengeance, we got to see how the Enterprise's security detail dealt with war and loss as a group. Errand of Fury changes the focus to a more personal level. What are the sacrifices and experiences of the individual as opposed to the group? Through Parrish, Fuller, Karel, and West, we find the effects of the ensuing conflict exact a very real and personal price for each individual.
A new novel coming in
2013. Note the title change:
"Star Trek: The Original Series"
Because the Star Trek: The Original Series "reboot" experiment was not continued much past the Errand of Fury and Janus Gate series, it was very fortunate that we were able to get a continuation of the story of the characters from the prior trilogy. It seems that generic, "five-year mission" type stories sell better than the on-going narrative Pocket Books was going for with the reboot, as the novel line reverted to that style rather quickly. Interestingly enough, the Star Trek novels scheduled for release in 2013 have once again been titled Star Trek: The Original Series rather than just Star Trek. However, from the descriptions we've gotten so far, this seems to just be a name change rather than another attempt to change the dynamic of the series.
One last note: I am disappointed that Sacrifices of War was the last Star Trek novel penned by Kevin Ryan. I would love to see another novel by this outstanding writer. I realize it has only been four years since this book was released, so it is possible that we may still see another entry by him in the future. I for one am very hopeful that we do, as I find his work to be, quite simply, fantastic!
An exciting conclusion to this six-part saga, expertly penned by Kevin Ryan, leading nicely into a top-notch novelization of one of the most memorable episodes of the original Star Trek. The stakes were high, the characterizations were well done, and I have very little to complain about. The tone of the novel did change noticibly when it transitioned into the "Errand of Mercy" section, so it wasn't quite as seamless as it could have been. But all-in-all, I was very satisfied with the conclusion to the Errand of Fury trilogy.
Also by Kevin Ryan:
Star Trek: The Next Generation #32: Requiem with Michael Jan Friedman (1994)
Star Trek: The Original Series: Errand of Vengeance Book One: The Edge of the Sword (2002)
Star Trek: The Original Series: Errand of Vengeance Book Two: Killing Blow (2002)
Star Trek: The Original Series: Errand of Vengeance Book Three: River of Blood (2002)
Star Trek: Errand of Fury Book One: Seeds of Rage (2005)
Star Trek: Errand of Fury Book Two: Demands of Honor (2007)
My next read:
I let myself get way too far behind in publishing these reviews! I'm still finishing up a few more from last year. Next up on the list is a fan-favourite: from 1994, Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
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Sharell Cook lives in Mumbai full-time and has covered India for TripSavvy since its launch in 2017.
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These days, Mumbai is known more for its designer shops and malls than its markets. However, if you're after a bargain, fabulous photo opportunities or some interesting souvenirs to take back home, you won't be disappointed. Check out these top Mumbai markets for the best shopping and sightseeing. Be warned though, that many of them are located in crowded areas that are difficult to navigate. If you think you may be daunted or overwhelmed, consider taking this guided Mumbai bazaar walking tour.
Interested in handicrafts? Also check out these top places buy Indian handicrafts in Mumbai.
Colaba Causeway
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The everyday carnival of the Colaba Causeway market is a shopping experience like no other in Mumbai. Geared especially towards tourists, that infamous Indian saying of "sab kuch milega" (everything is possible) certainly applies at this market. Dodge persistent balloon and map sellers, as you meander along the sidewalk and peruse the stalls. Want your name written on a grain of rice? That's possible too. If you need a break from shopping, pop into Leopold's Cafe or Cafe Mondegar, two well known Mumbai hangouts.
Location: Colaba Causeway, south Mumbai.
Opening Hours: Daily from morning until night.
What to Buy: Handicrafts, books, junk jewelry, crystals, brass items, incense, clothes.
Chor Bazaar
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Chor Bazaar is nestled in the heart of Mumbai's main Muslim district. This iconic market has a history spanning more than 150 years. Its name means "thieves market", but this was derived from the British mispronunciation of the its original name of Shor Bazaar, "noisy market". Eventually stolen goods started finding their way into the market, resulting in it living up to its new name! Read more about Chor Bazaar and what's up for grabs.
Location: Mutton Street, between SV Patel and Moulana Shaukat Ali Roads, near Mohammad Ali Road in south Mumbai.
Opening Hours: Daily 11 a.m. until 7.30 p.m., except Friday. The Juma Market is held there on Fridays.
What to Buy: Antiques, bronze items, vintage items, trash and treasure.
Crawford Market
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Hectic Crawford Market (officially renamed Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai) is an old-style market, housed in an historic colonial building. It specializes in wholesale fruit and vegetables but sells an array of other items, including imported food and toys. It's also got an entire section devoted to pets of all shapes, sizes and breeds.
Location: Lokmanya Tilak Marg, Dhobi Talao, Fort area, south Mumbai. It's near Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) railway station.
Opening Hours: Daily from morning until night, except Sunday. Open mornings only on Sundays.
What to Buy: Fruit, vegetables, spices, food, flowers, birds, fish, and other pets.
Zaveri Bazaar
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Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai's renowned gold market, is one of the oldest and largest gold markets in India. It accounts for more than half of the country's gold trade and has thousands of shops, some of which are centuries old. Many of the buildings look dilapidated and outdated but they're full of riches. Read up on how to buy gold in India and how to buy gemstones in India before going there. In addition, be aware that some shops do sell fake items.
Location: Between Crawford Market and Mumbadevi temple. From Crawford Market, walk along Sheik Memon Street leading to Jama Masjid.
Opening Hours: Daily from morning until night, except Sundays.
What to Buy: Indian-style gold, platinum and diamond jewelry. Silver and imitation jewelry are also available.
Mangaldas Market and Mulji Jetha Market
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If you're after cloth by the meter or un-stitched dress material to make Indian outfits, Mangaldas Market and Mulji Jetha Market (also called M.J. Market) are where you should head. Located close to each other, these sprawling wholesale markets are among the largest textile markets in Asia. Rows and rows of stalls are filled to the brim with a diverse assortment of fabrics, from bling to block prints!
Location: Near Zaveri Bazaar, Kalbadevi, south Mumbai. Also in this area is the iconic Mumbadevi temple, which the city was named after.
Opening Hours: Daily from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m., except Sundays.
What to Buy: Textiles and shawls.
CP Tank
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The area around C.P. Tank (Cawasji Patel Tank) is notable for its exquisite bangles. Try TipTop Point for something special. If you want bangles to go with a sari or other outfit, be sure to bring it with you so the seller can match the colors perfectly.
Location: Bhuleshwar Road, Bhuleshwar, south Mumbai. It's northwest of Mumbadevi temple. You may also wish to visit Bombay Panjrapole cow shelter, which is tucked away in this area.
What to Buy: Bangles and imitation jewelry.
Kala Ghoda Art Plaza Pavement Gallery
The leafy pavement on either side of the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai's Kala Ghoda (Black Horse) Arts Precinct is bordered with the works of promising young artists, who gather there to exhibit and sell them. The great thing about the Kala Ghoda pavement gallery is that you can interact with the artists to learn about their techniques, and even see them in action.
Location: MG Road, Fort, south Mumbai.
Opening Hours: Daily from around 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.
What to Buy: Everything from portraits to religious paintings.
Book Street
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Love reading? Don't miss visiting Book Street, as it's fondly called by locals, where street vendors pile new and secondhand books along the pavement. There's everything from academic texts to poetry, including rare publications and commercial paperback novels. The vendors are very knowledgeable and well-informed too. Don't be afraid to ask them if you have certain interests or favorite authors. A lot of the books are sourced from bookstores that want to get rid of old stock, so they're bargain priced.
Location: Between Flora Fountain and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) railway station, Fort, south Mumbai.
Opening Hours: 10 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.
What to Buy: Books.
Sassoon Docks Fish Market
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If you don't mind getting up really early, Sassoon Docks is a fascinating place to experience local life in the morning when fishing trawlers return and get unloaded. Mumbai's indigenous fishing community, the Kolis, were the original inhabitants of the city long before it was developed. About 1,500 trawlers operate from the docks and they bring in about 20 tonnes of fish daily! It's sold in spirited wholesale fish auctions. This No Footprints' Mumbai by Dawn tour is highly recommended and includes the fish market.
Location: Azad Nagar, Colaba, south Mumbai. Follow Colaba Causeway (Shahid Bhagat Singh Road) and you'll come across it.
Opening Hours: From about 5 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.
What to Buy: Fish.
Dadar Flower Market
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Another attraction for early risers and an important part of Mumbai's infrastructure, Dadar flower market is the largest wholesale flower market in the city. Its hundreds of stalls sell flowers to local street vendors who use them to make garlands used in worship, as well as to wedding decorators and event managers. The market comes alive before sunrise when delivery trucks from all over the state arrive laden with an abundance of beautiful blooms. Mumbai Magic includes Dadar flower market on this Good Morning Mumbai tour.
Location: Next to Dadar railway station. Tulsi Pipe Road, between Dadar and Parel, in central south Mumbai.
Opening Hours: Most of the action happens from about 4 a.m. to 9 a.m., although the market is open all day. It's particularly busy during festivals, especially Dussehra.
What to Buy: Fresh flowers.
Lalbaug Market
Plump sacks of dried red chilies line Mirchi Galli (chili lane) in Lalbaug Market. Unlike Crawford Market, which is frequented by foreign tourists, this market provides an authentic local atmosphere. Sheets of chilies can also be seen drying in the street under the sun. Try the fiery Guntur Sannam from Andhra Pradesh if you don't mind a lot of burn. You can choose your own spices and have them freshly roasted, ground and mixed into a customized blend. Be prepared to sneeze during the process though! Khamkar Spices has been in business since 1933 and is popular. Perpendicular lanes sell Maharashtrian chivda snacks and pickles.
Location: Under the Lalbaug flyover, Dinshaw Petit Road, Lalbaug, central south Mumbai. It's a short distance south of Dadar flower market.
Opening Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. except for Mondays (closed).
What to Buy: Spices from all over India.
Linking Road
A fusion of modern and traditional, and East meets West, in one of Mumbai's hippest suburbs. Here streets stalls contrast with brand name shops, and you'll find a local Indian roadside food vendor on one side of the road and a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet on the other. The street stalls tend to be grouped together according to the type of goods they sell. If you visit this market on a Sunday, be prepared for the crowds! See what's up for grabs on Linking Road.
Location: Linking Road, Bandra West (starts from Waterfield Road intersection).
Opening Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.
What to Buy: Indian traditional clothes, children's clothes, shoes, bags, belts, fashion accessories.
Dharavi Leather Market
Sharia Leather Boutique
A lot of people automatically associate Mumbai's notorious Dharavi slum with poverty and misery. However, this is actually very ignorant and insulting. While the conditions are poor, Dharavi is in fact home to many flourishing small-scale industries. The leather industry is the most dominant. It's the second largest of its kind in India and it exports across the world. Quality genuine leather goods can be purchased from more than 200 shops at Dharavi and the prices are attractive. High Design is a leading store. Do bargain to get the best price.
Location: 90 Feet Road and adjoining Sion-Bandra Link Road, Dharavi, Sion, central Mumbai.
Opening Hours: Daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
What to Buy: Leather jackets, bags, backpacks, wallets, belts, shoes.
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Fashion Street is literally just that -- a street lined with fashion! There are about 150 stalls there. The market mainly attracts teenagers and college students, who come to grab the latest western clothes and fake brand names at cheap prices.
Location: MG Road, south Mumbai. Near Metro Cinema and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) railway station, opposite Azad Maidan.
What to Buy: Clothes, shoes, belts.
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Saving The Season | Summer 2015 Out Here Magazine
Diane Wortman, right and Patsy Brass fill jars with ingredients for beef stew.
LITTLE ROCK CANNERY NOURISHES A COMMUNITY AND ITS BONDS
By Carol Davis
Photography by Greg Latza
With care and precision, Diane Wortman pours beef stock over the carrots, onions, and potatoes in the clear pint jars. Through the glass she sees the fresh vegetables from her garden float and bump against the meat from her sister-in-law’s grass-fed beef farm. The savory blend is awash in the rich stock Diane made from bones, vegetables, and herbs.
She tightens the lids and places the jars in the pressure cooker. Just 90 minutes later, she has 20 pints of homemade beef stew.
The small pints are handier for her husband to carry on business trips. At the end of a long day on the road, Mike pops one of the jars into a microwave and soon finds himself enjoying a taste of home.
“It keeps him from eating fast food,” she says. “If you want to eat well on the road, you can do it.”
While her ingredients are grown at home, Diane’s savory meals in a jar come together at the Little Rock Cannery, a rare community cooperative in Brooksville, Fla., where residents who want to preserve food for their families are allowed to use a commercial-sized kitchen.
The community kitchen has six pressure cookers that can process 96 quarts at the same time, pea shellers, a heavy-duty food strainer, meat grinders, oversized pots, and a helpful staff well-schooled in preserving food safely.
But the Little Rock Cannery is much more than a place to conveniently preserve fresh food.
This rare community treasure makes it possible for people to eat more local food; eat healthier; preserve food at its freshest and most nutrient-filled; be self-reliant; stretch food dollars; and support local farmers.
Tomato Sauce after being freshly picked, processed and canned.
“Does anybody have peppercorns?” calls out a canner looking to add a little zest to her simmering pot.
“I do!” comes the quick reply.
Each canner brings his or her own recipe, ingredients, and jars; the cannery supplies the knives, chopping boards, pressure cookers, pots, and heavy commercial equipment; and the cannery operators and members provide the spirit of easy camaraderie and sharing that radiates from inside this community kitchen.
“Can I have the ends of your carrots?” Louisa Amato asks Tom Casey, who is filling quart jars with the freshly trimmed root vegetables.
Casey obliges and Louisa stuffs them into each of the 32 quart jars of food she’s canning for her dog who is allergic to beef and grains. Once a month, she visits the cannery to put up a month’s worth of dog food made from fresh meat and vegetable scraps.
Today, she’s filling each jar with chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, a vitamin pill, and Casey’s carrot scraps. Other months, she’ll create concoctions from venison, turnips, beets, or “whatever’s in season,” she says. “I give him a jar each day.”
Louisa began canning her dog’s food three years ago, and since then, the terrible itching and scratching he endured has stopped.
Patsy Brass also makes and cans dog food, but for different reasons than Louisa. She and her husband raise grass-fed beef and they have a large garden, and Patsy, like the other cannery members, wastes nothing.
Beef scraps, broccoli leaves, vegetable scraps, and leftover venison from family deer hunts are cooked and canned for their dogs. And like Diane, her sister-in-law, she cooks and cans meats, stews, fruits, pie filling, and anything that’s in season for her family.
“We come here an average of once every two weeks,” she says.
“And,” Diane adds, “if our gardens are coming in or it’s hunting season, we’re here more often.”
Retiree Tom Casey prefers the taste and nutrition of home-preserved food over that found in grocery stores.
Welcoming Spirit
The small rock building housing the cannery was built in 1941 as a schoolhouse, but would later house an orphanage, library, and finally, the cannery.
Community canneries are a rarity now, but they once were scattered around the country, particularly after World War II when Victory Gardens were popular.
But as most people filled their pantries with food from the grocery store rather than from their own gardens, the need for community canneries declined and they became scarce.
Indeed, the Little Rock Cannery has struggled to stay open through the decades, but its future looks brighter than ever now that it is supported by the Hernando County (Fla.) Board of County Commission and the General Fund, with the county Recreation Department overseeing its daily operation.
Recreation coordinator Harry Johnson hired experienced and enthusiastic canner Kathi Comandi to run the operation.
Cannery membership is $50 annually, and members can use it as frequently as they like from Tuesday through Saturday by appointment. Some use it once or twice a year; others use it monthly or weekly. There are slightly more than 100 active members.
Members are asked to make appointments to ensure that they have enough room and equipment to comfortably prepare and preserve their produce. Someone planning to process 200 pounds of tomatoes, for example, is going to require all of the available equipment for a good part of the day, Kathi explains.
But the Little Rock Cannery is an accommodating place, so if a member drops by with basketfuls of freshly picked vegetables, he or she likely won’t get turned away.
That embracing spirit is what draws people, such as Tom Casey, to the cannery.
After a life as a CEO/CFO in the banking industry and later as a chaplain, Casey, formerly of Connecticut, and his wife retired to Florida near his wife’s family. One night at dinner, when he complained about the quality of food from the grocery store, an in-law told him about the Little Rock Cannery.
He was no stranger to food preservation because his mother had canned, yet he wasn’t sure what to expect when he first visited the cannery late last year.
“I was so delighted at what I found,” he says, recalling how welcomed he felt.
Casey was “like a kid in a candy store,” Kathi says. “The first week he was here, he picked 25 pounds of tomatoes and brought them here. He had never picked a tomato before in his life.”
Kathi and others taught him safe food handling, how to prepare food for preserving, and how to process it. “I asked them a lot for their guidance and they were so helpful,” he says.
Within just two months, Casey had preserved strawberry jellies and preserves, whole beets, broccoli, cabbage, and cabbage soup to eat in a healthy manner encouraged by his vegetarian daughter.
“You get to take advantage of produce that’s coming in fresh,” he says, “and it feels so good to eat something fresh.”
Casey and other food preservers get the benefit of controlling exactly what goes into their food, which is particularly effective for those experiencing health problems, says Kathi, a retired chief nursing officer.
“We have diabetics here, and it is so important for them to make sure there is no sugar in their food, or for those with hypertension to have no salt,” she says.
Whether one is lookin to save on the food budget, eat healthy, eat fresh, be self-reliant, support local farmers, or all of these, they're welcome to become a cannery member.
Supporting Local Farmers
Local farmers and produce handlers know they’ll find willing buyers through the cannery, so they frequently call the cannery if they have an overabundance of produce to offer at low prices. Kathi, in turn, texts cannery members to see if they want to buy part of the harvest.
One local produce handler called, offering a special of 20 pounds of broccoli florets for $10, or just 50 cents a pound.
“I texted everybody and had them get their order in,” Kathi says. “They all came in and we blanched it, put it in ice water, they brought their (plastic freezer) bags, filled them up and took them home to their freezers.”
“We sold over 100 pounds of broccoli that day,” she says.
Another time, a farmer had rows of tomatoes that were destined for the compost pile if they couldn’t be sold and offered 25 pounds for just $5. After notifying the members of this great deal, Kathi picked and bought 75 pounds to make and preserve marinara sauce.
Farmers have been known to bring a truckload of corn to the cannery and sell from the back of the truck or offer deeply discounted flats of freshly picked strawberries.
“The local connection of the cannery and the farmers is paramount,” Diane says. “If they didn’t have that connection, we would not be able to can near what we do now. It gives us access to much more affordable fruits and vegetables than we could find on our own.”
Kathi finds personal satisfaction in buying produce from her neighbors.
“It gives me a sense of community,” she says, “because I’ve supported a local farmer.”
A skilled canner recognizes how eating fresh, nutritious, home-preserved food helps to keep health challenges under control.
The Little Rock Cannery’s members understand that they have a rare gem in their midst and they’re eager to share it with their Florida neighbors.
Whether one is looking to save on the food budget, eat healthy, eat fresh, be self-reliant, get back to the basics, support local farmers, or all of these, they’re welcome to join the cannery’s membership.
They’ll find willing instructors, neighborliness, lots of laughter, and a deep well of knowledge.
“It’s a win-win for local farmers and for canning people who get the freshest of ingredients,” Kathi says. “Food goes from the farm into a jar.”
Carol Davis is editor of Out Here.
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100th Anniversary of the Initiative for the First International Women's Day
Λάουρα Τουόμινεν | 08 Mar 10 | Posted under: Φεμινισμός
Speech by Laura Tuominen (Left Forum Finland) in the conference for commemorating the 100 annivarsary of International women's day in Budapest March 7, 2010
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the initiative for the first International Women’s Day it is important to think about the status of women in the current economic and social crisis.
A hundred years ago women of the working class decided to struggle for the basic rights of women. Many of the demands from one hundred years ago have been satisfied, such as the suffrage for women. In these one hundred years the equality of genders has also been recognized as a fundamental human right. However, many of the problems that women were facing a hundred years ago still remain. For example, the status of women as workers and nurturers is still precarious. This is my topic today.
According to United Nations Development Fund For Women, UNIFEM, women worldwide are concentrated in insecure jobs in the informal sector. They have low income and only few rights. They tend to have few skills and only basic education. For example 80 percent of women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In the time of economic downturn these women are the first to be fired. Women make up around 60–80 percent of the export manufacturing workforce in the developing world. This sector has suffered heavily during the economic crisis.
According to a Greek researcher Maria Karamessini who spoke at a Transform! seminar in Vienna in January, in Europe the impact of the crisis on employment is that dismissals have started from temporary workers. However, employment insecurity is now rising also among the previously so called ‘stable’ workforce. Besides mass dismissals, also a large number of workers have been affected by wage decreases. This means that income precarity has increased along with employment precarity.
In Europe men, youth, the low and medium-educated and non-EU nationals saw a larger increase in unemployment than for example women. According to Maria Karamessini, though, women have a higher tendency of discouragement and exit from the labour force than men. The crisis has strongly decreased hiring new personnel which has boosted unemployment among young labour market entrants and women returnees. Women also tend to have more precarious working conditions than men.
Besides participating in wage earning, women also have the responsibility of taking care of unpaid reproductive work. Unpaid work is perhaps the biggest contribution that women make to the economy but it remains officially ignored. According to estimations of Canadian UNPAC, unpaid work is estimated to make up 41% of GDP in Canada. Globally the number of unpaid work in the economy is estimated to be $11 trillion US. One could say, that this is one of the most important stimulus packages for the economy but it is not recognised as such.
UNIFEM sources remind us that economic downturn has also a direct impact on development. Parents are likely to take their children, mostly girls, out of school and send them either to work or to take care of responsibilities in the home. This is quite contradictory not only to gender equality in the long run but also to building a steady economy. It is estimated that if female participation in employment were as high as that of men, the GDP of the Euro zone would be 13 % higher. This most probably applies to developing countries as well.
This economic crisis not only weakens the possibilities for gender equality but also the whole starting point of the crisis has been based on gender and ethnic bias. Feminist economists such as Brigitte Young have studied the housing and financial crisis in the United States. A so-called privatised Keynesianism has replaced the principle of a publicly financed social insurance system in the US. As part of this privatised Keynesianism women and minorities were integrated into the ideology of home ownership society through private debt.
Studies show, that the banks’ approval ratings for mortgages were not merely on the basis of person’s credit rating and economic status. Women and minorities were disproportionally more likely to receive sub-prime loans at every income level. For example women with income levels twice the median income in the US were nearly 50 percent more likely to be offered subprime loans than men with similar earnings. Black Americans were twice as likely to receive sub-prime loans than whites in all income ranges.
The costs of the subprime loans are heavy. A subprime loan could mean 85,000 up to 186,000 US dollars in extra payments. This has been a major distribution of wealth from women and minorities to the banks. And they also have to bear the burden of losing their homes as a result of the financial crisis.
What does all of this mean for the left? The left has always been the strongest political movement for gender equality. However, also within the left political and economic thinking and political practises are often gender-neutral. Without analysis of the impacts of gender relations on society the left simply cannot function as a movement for social transformation. By adopting feminist analysis of politics and society the left will have more tools in making initiatives for a more just and sustainable world.
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Nika Kovač | 26 Sep 19
Long Live Non Una Di Meno!
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Road test: Mazda3 offers zoom-zoom in practical package
The Mazda3 Maxx Sport.
by vnaidoo
Vani Naidoo
7th Aug 2013 5:46 AM
THE Mazda3 has had a prolific rise to the top of the small car segment using performance, price and quality as a foundation from which to impress.
Its not-so-friendly tussle for the number one spot with the Toyota Corolla has always been an interesting fight to watch with the Mazda3 crossing the line first for the past two years.
As it stands the Corolla is ahead - just marginally so - and recently drive-away prices dropped to $19,990 for entry-level models to help maintain sales momentum ahead of the much talked-about new model arriving in the new year.
The Mazda3 is big for a small car - that is one of its appeals - and it will carry you in some comfort. The seats remain a bit flat for our liking and leg room in the rear is a stretch but it still manages to punch above most in its class.
There have been slight updates for the better to the materials used in the console and the change in colour from red to a more readable white on the instruments was also a well-considered move.
Buttons, dials and surrounds have a quality feel while the upholstery in our Maxx Sport put up a firm resistance to the dirty shoes and hands bandied about so liberally by its smallest passengers.
There is a storage pocket on the back of the front passenger seat but not the driver's which is hardly a favourable omission but storage in the doors as well as the centre console is good.
The boot at 430 litres deals well with a couple of medium sized suitcases or the weekly shop although the lack of hooks - such a little expense - is a bit annoying.
Zippy and confident, the Mazda3 delivers a pleasant driving experience doing all you ask of it with little fuss. It is agile and nifty in the busy streets of the city but also shows an ability for the open road when stretched.
Drivers more accustomed to the softer suspension of the Toyota Corolla for example could find the ride a bit firm but for our money it was easy to see why it is a car with such a large following.
Steering feel is accurate especially when pushed hard through corners, acceleration is smooth, grip good and our automatic gearbox was slick, clean and never puffed. There is at times quite noticeable road noise but those instances are few and far between.
There is certainly enough gear to keep you up with the Joneses. Bluetooth and audio streaming is standard across the range and the Maxx Sport is also equipped with dual-zone air-conditioning, cruise control, auto headlights, rain-sensing wipers, multi-function control screen and six speaker stereo.
An excellent safety package includes dual front, side and curtain airbags, ABS brakes with brake assist and electronic brakeforce distribution, traction and stability control as well as electronic throttle control and Triple H safety construction.
The Mazda3 has been able to stay ahead of an impressive pack for two years, including the likes of the Toyota Corolla (from $19,990), the Holden Cruze (from $19,490), Hyundai i30 (from $20,990) and Ford Focus (from $20,290)
Practicality
One of the Mazda3's strengths is its diversity, its ability to draw interest from professionals, young and old couples and as a good second car for a growing family.
It does a lot of things well but our Maxx Sport was hardly sporty and if that is your intent you would do better with the MPS or SP25.
The manual adjustment on our test car was awkward and the rear pillars and back window combined with the raised boot lid make it difficult to see. A reverse camera or at the very least some rear sensors wouldn't go astray.
Our test car was without the fuel-saving SkyActiv technology that will come standard across the range from next year, so economy was far from the best in the class. Despite Mazda's figures of 8.2 litres per 100km, we could only manage in excess of 10 litres/100km which is far too much for a car of this size. Mazda's passenger vehicles come with a three-year unlimited kilometre warranty.
Funky factor
The exterior of the Mazda3 with its toothy grin, chunky bumpers, high wheel arches and sculpted side panels does give it a sporty edge which is nicely complemented by new fog lights, a chrome exhaust tip and aerodynamic spoilers.
It certainly is a car that would stand out from the pack - if it wasn't so popular.
What matters most
What we liked: Reliable ride, versatility, good inclusions.
What we'd like to see: Better front seats, reverse camera or sensors as standard.
Warranty and servicing: Mazda offers a three-year unlimited kilometre warranty. Servicing is every six months or 10,000km.
Model: Mazda3 Maxx Sport.
Details: Four-door front-wheel drive small sedan.
Transmission: Five-speed auto or six-speed manual
Engine: 2.0-litre in-line four cylinder DOHC S-VT petrol generating maximum power of 108kW at 6500rpm and peak torque of 182Nm @ 4500rpm.
Consumption: 8.2 litres/100km combined average (7.9l/100km for the manual).
CO2: 193g/km.
Bottom line: From $19,990 drive-away (Maxx Sport from $24,490, as tested).
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The TVweek: Saturday 9th - Friday 15th September 2017
7.00pm Strictly Come Dancing BBC1 - Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman launch a new series of the celebrity dance contest, pairing up the 15 celebrities with their professional dance partners. 2016 champions Joanne and Ore return to perform their winning jive to show, and there are also performances from Shania Twain and Rita Ora. The celebrities take to the floor for their first group dance, and there is a very special group routine as everyone on Strictly pays tribute to Sir Bruce Forsyth.
Notable Continuing Series: From Russia to Iran: Crossing the Wild Frontier 8.00pm, Channel 4
Dragons' Den, 9.00pm, BBC2
9.00pm Strike: The Silkworm BBC1 - War veteran turned private investigator Cormoran Strike investigates the disappearance of a provocative author. Robin is caught between Strike and Matthew's hopes.
8.30pm Upstart Crow BBC2 - David Mitchell returns for a second series of Ben Elton's Shakespearean sitcom. Will Shakespeare is desperate to make a good impression with the College of Heralds so he can get his family a coat of arms and finally make the Shakespeares posh. The only problem is that his deadly rival Robert Greene is the Master of Heralds. But when a dashing African Prince comes to town by the name of Otello, Will suddenly sees a way to make a favourable impression amongst the gentry. Meanwhile, Otello has made a very favourable impression on the heart of Will's friend Kate and the stage seems to be set for Robert Greene to stir up a little jealousy.
9.00pm Rellik BBC1 - Six-part thriller from Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing) that tells the story of the murder case backwards. .DCI Gabriel Markham and his team are working to find a serial killer when a break in the case leads them to a potential culprit. Gabriel is torn between his conviction that they already know who the killer is and the seemingly irrefutable evidence found at the last murder scene. Meanwhile, there are fears that Gabriel's intimate connection to the case may be skewing his professional ability to track down the perpetrator, and his personal relationships continue to impact on his work as he is given an ultimatum to face. The rest of Gabriel's team are dealing with the conflict of their own personal and professional lives as they launch a thrilling, high-stakes operation to catch the killer. But are they targeting the right person? Gabriel makes one final connection in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to get to the truth.
9.00pm The Search for a New Earth BBC2 - Professor Stephen Hawking, engineer and radio astronomy expert Professor Danielle George and former student of Professor Hawking Christophe Galfard join forces to find out if, and how, humans can reach for the stars and relocate to different planets. Travelling the globe, they meet top scientists, technologists and engineers who are working to answer our biggest questions. Is there another planet out there that we could call home? How will we travel across the vast distances of space to get there? How will we survive the journey? And how will we set up a new human civilization on an alien world?
9.00pm Liar ITV - Six-part drama from Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing) starring Joanne Frogatt and Ioan Gruffudd. Laura Nielson is a smart and dedicated teacher, not long out of a relationship and unsure about getting back on the dating scene. When she meets Andrew Earlham, a renowned surgeon whose son is a pupil at her school, an initial attraction leads to a date. But neither fully realises the far-reaching consequences that their meeting will have on each other or their families.
9.00pm The Undateables Channel 4 - Seventh series of the lighthearted dating series. Transport fanatic Jason from Shrewsbury is autistic and finds new people and situations stressful. Paralympic hopeful Souleyman is a winner on the running track, but he describes being an athlete as lonely. The sprinter has been gradually losing his sight since birth and one day he will be completely blind. His search for love is a race against the clock. Vlogger and writer Charley, from Hastings, has cerebral palsy and is bisexual. Single for the last four years, Charley longs to find love with the right person, male or female.
9.00pm Paddington Station 24/7 Five - Documentary series going behind the scenes at one of the UK's busiest transport hubs. 20,000 football fans take to the western network for the Champions League Final in Cardiff. Extra trains have been laid on, but getting everyone home after the match is complicated by a major terrorist incident at London Bridge.
8.00pm Robson Green's Coastal Lives ITV - Series in which Robson Green explores the extraordinary lives and homes of the people who live on Britain's coastline - from families who are swapping city homes for a new life by the sea to those who have lived on the coast for generations.
Notable Continuing Series: The Great British Bake Off 8.00pm, Channel 4
Doctor Foster, 9.00pm, BBC1
9.00pm 100 Year Old Driving School ITV - Documentary series which follows some of Britain's oldest drivers as they take tests organised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), to determine whether they should still be on the road.
8.00pm My Hotter Half E4 - Series that helps couples settle an age-old question - who is hotter, you or your partner? Melvin Odoom fronts this new couples show where online daters decide who is more dateable as partner goes up against partner in an explosive and nerve-jangling Battle of Hotness. In the first episode, buff-bodied Darren takes on his girlfriend Charlotte.
9.00pm How to Stay Young BBC1 - Angela Rippon and Dr Chris Van Tulleken team up with scientists to turn back the clock on a group of volunteers, showing what can be done to reverse the ageing process. Over the course of three months, the volunteers are put through a variety of tests and placed on lifestyle plan to turn back the clock on ageing, but will it work? Can they reverse their body age?
Notable Continuing Series: Grand Designs 9.00pm, Channel 4
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9.00pm Stella Sky1 - Take one last trip to Pontyberry in the final series of Ruth Jones's much-loved comedy drama. Stella's boat is rocked when Luke discovers her long-kept secret.
9.00pm Taskmaster Dave - Fifth series. Greg Davies sets Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar and Sally Phillips brilliantly bewildering tasks, including basketball without hands!
10.00pm The Other One BBC2 - Comedy about a girl called Catherine Walcott. And another girl called Catherine Walcott. Sisters who had no idea the other existed until their father drops dead. Cathy has a fiance, a Duke of Edinburgh Award and a pension. Cat has a pay-as-you-go phone. The only things they have in common are their names (a smart move if you have got a secret daughter). Both of them have always wanted a sister - just maybe not each other.
8.00pm No Limits BBC1 - Six people with different physical disabilities embark on an ambitious and emotional adventure of a lifetime through the diverse landscapes of Vietnam. Although shadowed by film and safety crews, the group are in charge of their journey, navigating the route and the difficult access in a country ill-equipped for disability. Taking part are Vicky Balch, who lost her leg after the Alton Towers rollercoaster accident in 2015, Mary Russell, who was born with achondroplasia - the most common type of dwarfism, Olympic wheelchair rugby captain Steve Brown, who was paralysed from the chest down 12 years ago, Louise Halvey, who has progressive hearing loss and must negotiate the chaos of Hanoi traffic, marathon runner Charlie Lewis, who convinced a surgeon to amputate his right leg following a snowboarding accident, and Andy Slade, who lost his arm in an industrial accident nine years ago but soon got back to bike racing, becoming the UK's fastest one-armed man on a motorbike.
Notable Continuing Series: Ambulance, 9.00pm, BBC1
Educating Greater Manchester 9.00pm, Channel 4
9.00pm A League of Their Own Sky1 - James Corden and the boys tear up the banger racing track with Dele Alli, Rob Beckett and Stephen Mangan. Back in the studio, a terrifying challenge awaits.
9.00pm Bromans ITV2 - Roman Kemp narrates this brand new reality series which throws a group of eight modern-day lads back in time to see if they can cope with living and fighting like Roman gladiators. The handsome boys live alongside their loving girlfriends in a simulation of ancient Rome, hoping to prove they have what it takes to go down in history as they battle it out to make it to the Emperor's Games, but only one will be crowned the winner and take home the Emperor's gold.
10.00pm Celebrity Juice ITV2 - Keith Lemon returns with a brand new series of the outrageous comedy panel show. Joining team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton this time are singer Charli XCX, Love Island pals Chris and Kem and comedian Johnny Vegas.
Notable Continuing Series: Cold Feet, ITV, BBC1
Gogglebox, 9.00pm, Channel 4
10.35pm Comedy Playhouse: Static BBC1 - Rob Beckett, Alison Steadman and Phil Davies star in a new comedy pilot. Sitcom about twentysomething Rob, who jacks in a job in London to move back in with his parents in their south east London family home - except they fail to tell him that they have just sold the family home and moved to a static caravan park in Margate. Not only is Rob now jobless, but he is having to live on a sofa bed in his parents' caravan in a holiday park 80 miles from London. It seems like a disaster to start with, but his mum is delighted to have someone to cook for and his dad has figured out how to get thousands of football channels on the telly. Before long, Rob is getting used to being with mum and dad again, and through them he is quickly drawn into the world of the park, not to mention the raft of extraordinary characters within it. The question is - how quickly can he get back on his feet and get back to London? And, as time goes on, how much does he really want to?
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©2016-2017 BY DENNIS HUNTER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE FOUR REMINDERS
"Let me respectfully remind you:
Life and death are of supreme importance.
Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.
Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken!
Take heed! Do not squander your life."
– Zen chant
A Simple Buddhist Guide to Living and Dying Without Regret
by Dennis Hunter
Available Now in Paperback and Kindle
Hundreds of years ago, Tibetan monks distilled some of the Buddha’s most essential teachings into what became known as the Four Reminders. Designed to jolt you awake and break your habit of sleepwalking through life, the Four Reminders reveal the urgency of spiritual awakening and living with purpose, here and now.
The Four Reminders have remained inaccessible to most people, hidden in liturgical texts and shrouded behind centuries of Tibetan Buddhist cultural and religious tradition. Explaining these fundamental principles in fresh, contemporary language, Dennis Hunter makes this ancient wisdom tradition fully relevant to everyday life in the 21st century, and accessible to anyone. Whatever your spiritual background, the Four Reminders are a compass that can point you towards awakening.
"A smart, eminently readable Buddhist guide to achieving an inner awakening.” — Kirkus Reviews
“In The Four Reminders, Dennis Hunter offers a classic body of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and meditations on the proverbial facts of life using a refreshing and articulate voice. With a great gift for updating the language and context of these invaluable lessons from the ancient world, Hunter reminds us that Buddhist wisdom was never meant to be mystical or exotic. Instead, these pages give you something much more important: practical advice for being human.”
— Ethan Nichtern, bestselling author of The Road Home
“Reading The Four Reminders gave me the unique experience of something that few books can claim: being guided into a contemplation on what is most essential to know (and embody) if one is to live fully and freely. Dennis has woven a profound journey, rendering key and authentic Buddhist wisdom in a way that anyone can understand and apply. It is an invitation to all and any one of us, not just those already walking the spiritual path, to courageously embrace the eternal truths that lead to lasting happiness and peace.” — Yogarupa Rod Stryker, founder of ParaYoga and author of The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom
“The Four Reminders is a welcome addition to practicing what matters most. This book personally guides us through the practice so that we can reflect on our thoughts, words, and actions. May it serve to free all beings from living in fear.”
— Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, co-founder of New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care
“This book presents the transformational teachings of Buddhist mindfulness in a powerful and provocative way. Hunter doesn't shy away from challenging the reader to address deep-seated personal and cultural assumptions on the road to happiness and freedom. By grounding his insights in the ancient spiritual tradition of Buddhism, Hunter offers more than the average self-help happiness book. His years of discipline and devotion to a personal spiritual practice give his insights a level of weight and groundedness often missing from similar books. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking a key to unlock the path to peace in their lives.”
— Kino MacGregor, bestselling author, international yoga teacher, and co-founder of OmStars
“A candid, nuanced, and often playful invitation to explore the Four Reminders. May this insightful and accessible book help many people find meaning and freedom in life. I rejoice that this book is available to open the door to these teachings.”
— Gelong Loden Nyima
STUDY AND DISCUSSION GUIDE
Along with the book, a supplementary guide to studying, contemplating and working with The Four Reminders is available for download. Suitable for individual use or for study and practice groups.
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Published On: Wed, Apr 18th, 2018
Celebrity News / Movies / Television | By Brandon Jones
Benedict Cumberbatch on more ‘Sherlock’ ‘Doctor Strange 2’ and working with Robert Downey Jr
Marvel has long promoted the casting of Doctor Strange as a linchpin for the franchise during the next few phases of films. Now Benedict Cumberbatch, along with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, appears to be certain for that role.
While promoting Avengers: The Infinity War in Singapore, Cumberbatch spoke about the film during an interview with NDTV.com, opening up about the similarities between Doctor Strange and Tony Stark aka Iron Man and life on the set, which is “surreal.”
“…We are just wandering around and having domestic conversations about our age and what we eat at lunch, or we check with each other about nice places to go out and get some dinner. Guys are like, ‘Oh, you lift 300 pounds; I did 250 pounds at the gym.’ It’s very surreal.”
Cumberbatch acknowledges the excited from fans and the transition from Stark to a new era.
“I hope that expectations are met. I know it’s a very enticing prospect to see Strange and Stark together. They are both narcissists, cut from a similar cloth I would say. They have had similar journeys. The selflessness thing evolving in Stark is a bit faster. He is trying to be the bigger one in the room; there is a tiny age difference, a tiny one. I’ve been told to say that by Robert.”
Fans are concerned about the popular BBC Show, Sherlock and seeing Cumberbatch return for another season. The star admitted that everyone involved in the show is extremely busy but said he would never rule out the idea of doing more.
“I would never say never, I don’t know about another series but there is always room for negotiating something. However, with everyone involved taking breaks and working on other projects — including the writers and producers, it’s not really something I’m thinking about to be honest… I like playing him, [Sherlock] is a cool character.”
During an interview with Radio Times, Cumberbatch wouldn’t confirm that a sequel to his 2016 solo movie is even possible, a likely tactic to avoid the trappings of conversations about the pending project, likely coming in the next couple of years. In fact, the Imitation Game star makes a silly remark about Strange being killed off.
“I know the latest is that I might not make it out of this film alive… It said at the end of the first film, if I’m right, ‘Doctor Strange will be back.’ I have been back in Thor: Ragnarok and obviously in this film so there is nothing to say, either contractually or otherwise, that he’s coming back again.”
News fell recently about the script for Doctor Strange 2, setting up Nightmare as the villain as Mordo’s development happens more slowly. Check out that story HERE.
The Avengers: Infinity War arrives wide in theaters on April 27, 2018.
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Harvey Weinstein faces new rape accusation in class action lawsuit
Three women accuse the former producer of sexually harassing and attacking them in a lawsuit filed in New York
Guardian staff and agencies
Fri 1 Jun 2018 14.43 EDT Last modified on Mon 4 Jun 2018 03.31 EDT
Harvey Weinstein leaving court in New York on 25 May. He also faces a second class action lawsuit filed by six women in California. Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
Three women filed a class action lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein on Friday – a fresh blow for the fallen movie mogul, who was arrested in New York and indicted on rape and other charges related to sexual misconduct last week.
One woman, Melissa Thompson, accuses Weinstein of sexually harassing her when she went to his office to pitch a business idea, then luring her to a hotel room in New York and raping her.
Harvey Weinstein indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges
The complaint also details how she initially approached the law firm of Benjamin Brafman last year, and turned over evidence, before realizing that Weinstein was actually a client of Brafman’s.
Brafman defended Weinstein on the steps of the court house in New York last Friday after the disgraced producer was taken there in handcuffs to face charges.
A second complainant, actress Caitlin Dulany, alleges that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in Cannes in 1996, while a third woman, actress Larissa Gomes, accuses Weinstein of attacking her in a hotel in Toronto in 2000.
Weinstein denies any nonconsensual sexual conduct.
Weinstein is already the defendant in another class action lawsuit filed by six women in California. Friday’s case was filed in New York. The lawsuit accuses Weinstein of running offices at the movie companies he controlled – Miramax and then the Weinstein Company - and hotel rooms like a “casting couch”, and says this was “a choice facilitated and condoned by Miramax, the Weinstein Company and its board of directors”.
The action says the plaintiffs and “hundreds of other females” found themselves with Weinstein in such places, where he “isolated” them “in an attempt to engage in unwanted sexual conduct that took many forms: flashing, groping, fondling, harassing, battering, false imprisonment, sexual assault, attempted rape and/or completed rape”.
It adds that “at all times” his victims were at risk of being “threatened or blacklisted” by Weinstein and his companies if they refused his unwanted sexual advances or complained about his behavior.
The lawsuit sues Weinstein, a series of companies, including Disney, and named executives and unnamed plaintiffs that he has worked with, many of whom are seen as having enabled his conduct.
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Maruti stops production at Manesar plant
New Delhi, August 29, 2011 19:16 IST
Updated: August 29, 2011 21:34 IST
Heavy security was deployed at the Maruti Suzuki Manesar plant as the company shuts production, enforcing workers to sign good conduct bond before entering the factory, on Monday. Photo: Ramesh Sharma
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL) on Monday decided to stop production at its Manesar (Gurgaon) plant till all the 950-odd regular workers sign a ‘good conduct' bond in view quality issues in production. On Monday, as many as 22 workers signed the bond, but it seems that the country's largest carmaker might face yet another round of labour unrest.
“There was no production on Monday because the workers were not allowed to enter the facility as they have refused to sign the bond. The management is firm to get all workers sign the bond...if needed, fresh workers could be hired to resume production. And if this issue prolongs, we might look for alternative options to start production,” a company spokesperson said. MSIL manufactures 1,200 units a day at Manesar. MSIL officials said they had been facing serious production issues, including meeting targets and quality control in the past few weeks. On August 24, 1,230 cars were planned to be produced, but only 437 units were assembled. Out of which, just 96 cars could pass quality check. “The situation has reached to a stage where it was directly harming customers' interest and trust. The management cannot allow workers sabotage production,” said a senior MSIL official. Heavy security has been deployed at the plant. Since the unrest began in June, MSIL has so far suspended 18 workers and dismissed five.
The workers, however, alleged that the management was taking the steps to take revenge for going into a 13-day strike in June this year demanding recognition of a new union — Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU) — at the plant that has a total of about 2,500 workers, of which 950 are regular employees. Workers' leader Shiv Kumar said the management was forcing them to sign an undertaking following rejection of their application to form a union at the plant by the Haryana government.
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series on Cumberland County high school spring football workouts.
Terry Sanford football coach Bruce McClelland lost 52 seniors over the last two seasons. His new team begins fall practice Aug. 1.
“We’ve got a ton of young guys and new guys,’’ McClelland said. “We’ve got a lot of holes to fill in key positions.’’
Fortunately, there’s some talent returning at a couple of key spots that should make things easier. Among the biggest returners is an experienced quarterback, Jacob Knight, who’s been waiting in the wings behind past stars Christian Jayne and Davidjohn Herz.
“He’s been good enough to play the last two years,’’ McClelland said of Knight. The fact that both Jayne and Herz are now playing minor league baseball is a good indication of the level of talent McClelland has enjoyed at the quarterback position.
Another player who will have to step up his game is running back Dorian Clark, who shared ball-carrying duties with Leonard “Flo” Mosley.
Both Clark and Mosley ran for 1,000 yards last season. Clark had 1,662 yards to Mosley’s 1,423. Clark scored 13 touchdowns, Mosley 15.
“Dorian will have to tote the ball a little bit more with Flo gone,’’ McClelland said. Helping to block for him will be returning lineman Roscoe Blue.
Two key All-Patriot Athletic Conference players return on defense, lineman Elijah Morris and linebacker Jackson Deaver.
Morris, a defensive tackle, said spring practice has been about fitting new players into open positions and getting back to the goal of winning the conference title.
“I think we could really be a good team this year,’’ he said. “There’s a lot of leadership at every position.’’
He added teamwork is the key. “Instead of depending on one person for the whole team, we can play off each other’s strengths,’’ he said. “Working together. That’s the main thing.’’
One of the biggest players back is tight end and defensive end Ezemdi Udoh. Honorable mention all-conference at tight end last year, Udoh’s stock rose sharply after the season because he received more than a dozen college scholarship offers. He has orally committed to North Carolina State University.
It likely didn’t hurt Udoh that his brother Oli from Elon was taken by the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL draft.
“He’s 6-feet-5 and already up to 240 pounds,’’ McClelland said of Ezemdi Udoh.
McClelland expects another close race for the Patriot Athletic Conference title. “I think it’s going to be deeper this year,’’ he said. “I really think Douglas Byrd and Westover are making strides. It’s anybody’s conference.’’
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Selling sealskin by satellite
Inuit women are using social media to change the face of Nunavut business
Nothing demonstrates the ingenuity of Inuit seamstresses like baskets made from duck feet. Finding a use for every part of an animal, these resourceful artisans discovered the oily feet of the duck—or goose or loon—were perfect for keeping sinew (often caribou tendon, used as thread) pliable for sewing.
It’s one of Mona Netser’s favourite projects to teach her students. “It was just amazing how their faces lit up, that they can use [the basket] in their home and display it so their kids and their grandkids will start seeing these,” says Netser, an internationally recognized seamstress who travels throughout the Kivalliq region teaching traditional design with Nunavut Arctic College.
Just as inventive seamstresses from the past experimented and perfected their craft using furs, skins, bones and other items harvested from the land, today’s artists are finding clever ways to bring traditional clothing—or their contemporary takes on ancient designs—to market. Netser is one of hundreds of women in Nunavut using social media to sell unique products to buyers in the North, throughout Canada and internationally.
Her signature item is the sealskin leg warmer. It looks like the top of a kamik and can be placed over any pair of high heel shoes, covering the ankle and calf with sealskin. The warmers are popular in both Nunavut and southern Canada and clients almost exclusively use Facebook’s messenger function to contact Netser with their orders. “I get the measurements, like how high they want it and all that information,” she says. “I’ll ask them questions and what colour they want.”
Nowhere is the social media market more obvious than on the Iqaluit Auction Bids page, which is updated constantly with new items and boasts nearly 30,000 members. (The population of Iqaluit is less than 8,000.) A seller posts a description of an item, usually with a picture, along with a starting bid price and an auction deadline. Most items are handmade and range from entire polar bear skins and kamiit (sealskin boots) to artwork and tools. The auction takes place entirely on the Facebook page and participants bid back and forth until the clock runs out. The person with the highest bid wins. Payment is typically made via email money transfer so the seller can be paid instantly.
While Iqaluit Auction Bids has the most members, every community in the territory has its own version, usually in the form of a sell/swap page where sellers can negotiate directly with potential purchasers. And profits are quickly adding up. By using social media to connect with each other and the world, women are finding new ways to use traditional skills to earn an income.
Permanent long-term jobs are rare in Nunavut’s smaller communities. And even in communities with available jobs, the odds are stacked against women.
In 2014, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada and the University of British Columbia published a study examining the impact of Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank gold mine on women and families in nearby Baker Lake.
As of 2012, Inuit women made up nearly half of the mine’s 166 permanent Inuit workers. Though the majority of women held housekeeping and kitchen jobs, 14 out of 60 Inuit haul truck drivers were women by the end of 2012 and one of them had become an instructor. But the report noted that absenteeism at the mine was often as high as 23 percent. Without suitable childcare available in Baker Lake, women working at the mine were often at a disadvantage.
Many of the issues highlighted in the report, especially a lack of childcare, are facts of life for women in Nunavut communities. Developing traditional skills such as sewing means women can create income-generating businesses right in their own homes.
“Everybody is not going to get their college degrees or their school degree because we’re all different,” Netser says. “I love to encourage young mothers, young girls, that they can use their hands to create things and make a living and help with their family.”
A handmade amauti, a traditional coat with a pouch used to carry a baby, posted to a community sell/swap Facebook page can bring in anywhere from $300 to $700. A crocheted hat can fetch $25.
Because operating costs are minimal, social media is an ideal way for women in Nunavut to start new businesses or supplement their incomes, says Adina Tarralik Duffy, owner of Ugly Fish, a clothing and jewellery design company based in Coral Harbour, population 1,000.
“The overhead is low,” she says. “As long as you can afford [internet] then you can generate an income without travelling, without having a brick-and-mortar building.” Gone are the days when artists have to go door-to-door to sell their products. Today, they can simply post a photo and the item can be purchased instantly. “As soon as you upload a picture of, let’s say, a necklace or a pair of earrings, they could be gone within a minute,” Duffy says. “Sometimes I’m even hesitant to post online unless I’m ready to sell.”
With the exception of trade shows, all of Duffy’s business is now done through social media. “It’s so accessible. You can just take a photo and upload it. I have an Instagram following and a Facebook page. I find it easier to manage right now than having a website.”
Artists like Duffy are also coming up with fresh designs while still relying on traditional materials. Her leggings feature logos like those of Klik canned meat or pilot biscuits, easily recognized by anyone who has spent time at a cabin in Nunavut. Duffy and her partner Aaron Regnier also create jewellery from natural materials, such as seal claws and vertebrae. “There is just so much to be inspired by,” Duffy says.
Nicole Camphaug owes her business to a moment of inspiration. In 2015, while trying to figure out what to do with a grade of sealskin that was too thin for mitts, Camphaug decided to try applying the skin to a pair of stiletto heels. “I’d never seen any dress shoes or high heels or anything with sealskin and they just turned out so nice on that stiletto, I thought, ‘that’s another way to use our sealskin,’” she says.
Since then, Camphaug’s ENB Artisan (which runs under a Facebook page of the same name) has sold about 100 pairs of sealskin stilettos and dress shoes, which are quickly becoming the go-to fashion item for those wanting to publicly promote sealskin and Northern products. Nobel Peace Prize-nominee and Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier wore a pair to a talk she gave at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto last November and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, the documentary filmmaker behind Angry Inuk, also wore a pair to a Toronto International Film Festival event.
Camphaug, originally from Rankin Inlet and now living in Iqaluit, says she wanted to learn sewing skills to be able to make her own clothing. “I wanted to be able to do those things myself so I didn’t have to rely on anybody else,” she says. Now, she’s finding that these new ways of showcasing sealskin is helping to educate people about the relationship between Inuit and seal hunting. “It’s been used by Inuit since there were Inuit,” she says. “It’s sustainable, it’s environmentally friendly—there are just so many different aspects of using sealskin. For us, it’s important because it’s a part of our culture.”
The European Union banned the import and trade of seal products in 2009, but an amendment was made in 2015 to allow the import of seal products hunted by indigenous people. Still, the damage was done. The demand for sealskin plummeted and so did public opinion.
For many Inuit designers, educating people about sealskin is simply a part of doing business. Barbara Akoak, owner of Inuk Barbie Designs, uses hashtags in her posts to provide links to information, such as #eatsealwearseal and #arnaq. (Arnaq is woman in Inuktitut).
Akoak, a jewellery maker who grew up in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, derives inspiration from her Inuinnaq and Netsilik ancestry.
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Though most artists go the Facebook route to move their wares, there is a push to formalize the sales process. Akoak, for one, does most of her Canadian sales through Facebook and Instagram, but she uses Etsy for international customers in Greenland and Alaska. This is a move the Government of Nunavut is encouraging.
Etsy, an e-commerce website where sellers create personalized online stores, offers secure payment methods, including credit cards and Paypal. Facebook is the quickest way to make a sale, but there is nothing protecting either the buyer or seller from fraud. Incidents where sellers receive email money transfers but don’t send the product aren’t uncommon and because the exchange is considered a civil dispute between private parties, police are often unable to help. Etsy offers more protection to both artist and customer.
“It’s not used an awful lot for now in Nunavut, but we just thought of it as a potential interesting idea and platform for Nunavut artists to use, mainly because of the secured online payment that is offered,” says Anne-Cécile Grunenwald, senior advisor of cultural industries with the Department of Economic Development and Transportation. An Etsy workshop was a key component of the 2015 Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association’s Nunavut Arts Festival in Rankin Inlet.
There is limited data on how much revenue women are making through sales on social media, but Grunenwald says the majority of Facebook sales seem to be taking place between Nunavut residents. Platforms such as Etsy could significantly open up that market.
In the meantime, it’s clear the skills passed down from generation to generation are still as vital today—and in the future—as ever. “There’s not a lot of jobs up here, especially where I live right now in Coral Harbour,” Netser says. “It’s good that we keep our traditions alive. I’m very strong on tradition.” — Kassina Ryder
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It only takes an hour outside with Amy Maund before you begin to realize there’s food just about everywhere. She passes out some green alder catkins she’s picked. “Just nibble the tip of it. It’s strong,” she cautions, explaining these tiny, scaled cones can be used as a black pepper substitute. We bite in and the similarity is uncanny.
We’re down a well-trodden path, the ground around us covered with tufts of lichen, heading to a small swampy lake near Laughing Lichen’s off-grid headquarters, a 40-minute drive from Yellowknife. Maund stops to point out the bright green sphagnum moss carpeting the forest floor. It can be used as gauze to treat wounds; Maund plans to pad her baby’s cloth diapers with the moss. She’s six-months pregnant on this, the first day of the spring harvest.
We’re collecting Labrador tea, which Maund uses in Laughing Lichen soaps, face scrubs and Bushman’s Aftershave. We find a patch in a shaded bog and start picking—only 25 percent at most from each plant, she says. “I want to keep everything happy and healthy.” This philosophy pervades every aspect of her growing business.
What began as Maund’s hobby while at university and on contract jobs in the forests of Northern B.C. is, seven years later, a company that employs two to three staff year-round and ten “wild crafters” each summer. They spend the days harvesting spruce tips and rose hips, teas and fireweed to be incorporated into the 50-plus-and growing product list. (A Labrador tea picker can make anywhere from $20 to $40 per hour.)
Maund follows the seasons, harvesting mushrooms in the fall, chaga and spruce gum in the winter, most everything else in the spring and summer. (The down-season—March and April—is when she experiments with new products.) Armed with bear spray, a bush knife and Kenai and Gotsa, her two fluffy “husky specials,” she does her picking in the mornings, before the sun saps her coveted plants of their essential oils and medicinal properties. Then she heads back to clean and dry her harvest.
Maund was almost a victim of her own success. She was getting by with the help of her spouse Ian—“a year-round unpaid full-time employee”—and friends and family. But her daily harvests were becoming a chore as she worked seven days a week, 14 hours a day. So, she decided to hire on some staff and scale up.
Still, she has to turn down some exciting—and potentially lucrative—offers. A brewery in Ontario recently asked her for two varieties of Labrador tea and crowberry for a beer it wanted to brew, but the quantity required would have wiped out her supply. Two chain supermarkets also want to carry her products, but that would necessitate the type of mass-production that runs counter to her philosophy.
Take chaga, the miracle anti-oxidant fad currently sweeping North America. She’s been selling it for years and could drop everything to focus on just that. Instead, she harvests it in Northern B.C. for a couple weeks each year, only taking one-third of what she sees. When she sells out, she sells out. “We’ll never be able to be a big company,” Maund says. “There’s only so much that you can harvest sustainably, right? But that’s good.”
As it stands, she takes orders through her online store and sends out products to her 37 wholesale partners—mainly health food stores, museum gift shops and tourism centres in B.C. and the NWT.
“Gold!” Maund exclaims, tongue-in-cheek, pulling a small hatchet from her bag to shave golden spruce sap into a ziplock bag. Spruce pitch salve—made from the substance—is used to treat skin irritations and she can barely keep up with orders from Hong Kong. Tourists visiting Yellowknife from Asia are bringing Laughing Lichen back with them and they can’t get enough of the natural products made from wild plants.
Word is spreading in Canada too and Maund is venturing out with new products. She’s making bear and bison poop-shaped soaps for the Calgary Zoo, with educational blurbs about how animal stool is important for spreading seeds. And the Museum of Nature, opening a permanent Arctic exhibit in Ottawa, has asked her for Northern ingredients for its in-house restaurant. She and Ian are also building a harvesting facility near Lindberg Landing in the Deh Cho, where she hopes to teach educational workshops and help develop ethical harvesting economies in communities.
Maund whistles for Kenai and Gotsa, coaxing them over with a wave of a bag of moose jerky. After their snack, we begin the loop back to her facility. “It doesn’t look very lush right now, but there’s tonnes of food here,” she says, as we wade into a patch of dead cattails that will soon regrow. Those shoots can be eaten, she says. “They taste like cucumber.” And the green pollen spike up top, when steamed, tastes like corn on the cob, “but it’s better for you,” says Maund. “It’s got more protein and nutrients in it.” We pass a pine tree. A layer of bark can be ground down into flour. (This could find its way onto the product list, Maund hints.)
Though she’s willing to try most anything, there’s one item you won’t soon find Maund using. There’s a peculiar object—like a cross between a pineapple and a pair of antlers—on the shore. “It looks like it’s from another planet,” says Jessie Olson, a full-time employee.
Turns out it’s a yellow pond lily root a muskrat has pulled out to snack on. Maund smiles and shakes her head. “I did a big harvest a couple of years ago by kayak and we were diving down and ripping these things out.” She took the lily roots home, boiled them and chopped them up to eat like French fries. “It was disgusting. Like, so nasty! I almost puked.”
She puts the lily root down and leaves it for the muskrat. –Herb Mathisen
Uasau Soap
Skincare products from Iqaluit
The Clarkes paid top price for 50 pounds of blubber from a bowhead whale, hunted outside Igloolik, Nunavut last year. “I mentioned it to an older fellow Inuk and he said to me, ‘I hope you at least got maqtaaq out of it,’” laughs Bernice Clarke, co-owner of Uasau Soap, a skincare line that uses all-natural ingredients, including a few from the sea. “But you know what, we’ve come across something by accident and it’s healing and good for your skin.”
Back in 2012, on her cousin’s suggestion, Bernice started making body butters to sell at a craft market in Iqaluit alongside her table of Mary Kay cosmetics. She handwrote labels, wrapped each item in antique-looking paper she’d soaked overnight in tea, and tied each package up with hemp. She sold out quickly. “I had found a market that people were already looking for,” says Bernice.
Her husband Justin
recommended branching into soap. She was skeptical about demand at first, but it’s quickly become the company’s main seller. And Uasau Soap was born—the name adapted from ‘to wash’ in Inuktitut: uasaq. “It’s Nunavut in a bar,” says Bernice.
The Clarkes work with flora from the tundra like sassafras and through another casual suggestion they found a key ingredient: whale oil. Now, Uasau has customers proclaiming the products—that use bowhead, beluga and narwhal—are healing their eczema, psoriasis and other skin conditions.
It’s also reintroducing something that was nearly lost. In the early 1900s, Scottish whalers decimated bowhead numbers, which led to limited hunting for most of the century and an all-out ban by the federal government in 1979. Many Inuit, like Bernice, grew up without knowing the taste or benefit of the whale that helped sustain their ancestors before. As the bowhead population recovered, the ban was lifted in 1996 and annual hunts were awarded to different Nunavut communities. Bernice says one elder teared up when he saw that bowhead whale was used in their soap. “It was taken from them and we’re taking it back,” says Bernice.
Uasau soaps are sold in Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet and Winnipeg and can be shipped all over Canada. Though they have hopes to get bigger, Justin says they don’t want to go too far, too fast and compromise a truly artisanal product. – EA
Michele Genest
Writer and cook in Whitehorse
You need only glance at Michele Genest’s calendar to gain an appreciation for the growing appetite for Northern cuisine—both in and outside of the North.
In March, the author of 2010’s national bestseller The Boreal Gourmet and 2014’s The Boreal Feast was in Vancouver, working with a local chef to build a Yukon-inspired menu to promote the territory as a culinary destination. When I speak with her in mid-May, she is busy collaborating on a cookbook on ancient grains and seeds; working as a consultant for a documentary film about a Dawsonite attempting to survive for a year on food sourced in and around the town; and planning a dinner for the much-publicized ‘Across the Top of Canada’ culinary tour. “I don’t ever get bored,” she says.
In a couple of days she’ll fly to Old Crow, Yukon for Caribou Days to cook with six women with whom she recently collaborated on a cookbook—Vadzaih: Cooking Caribou from Antler to Hoof. These women taught her traditional dishes like pemmican and head cheese, and Genest brought in contemporary recipes like caribou wonton soup, inspired by other cultural cuisines. There’s an exciting exchange of knowledge and techniques happening right now, she says, between people who grew up elsewhere with other cuisines and Northerners who have always used local ingredients.
Dried spruce tips top Genest’s focaccia bread; rose hip jam fills a traditional Bakewell tart; Labrador Tea infuses a panna cotta with flavour. “That’s kind of my approach—to start with a Northern herb or berry or meat or fish, think about what I want to do with it and then look for recipes that people have done with things that might not be Northern,” she says.
Based on the popularity of her books, she’s become one of the faces of this Northern food movement. But she says everything is based on the work of the North’s first peoples who discovered what was safe to eat, what was good to travel with, and how to preserve food over the winter. “We’re all working and living in a context of Indigenous knowledge that we’re all so much the beneficiaries of.” – HM
Uncle Berwyn's Yukon Birch Syrup
Birch syrup from the Yukon
There were only 13 days this year to tap birch syrup at Berwyn Larson’s camp, halfway between Mayo and Dawson City. Despite being one of the shorter
seasons he’s had since he began commercial production 13 years ago, his stand yielded 30 percent more sap than usual.
It was a busy two weeks. “You have to process the sap every day you collect or it makes a lower-quality product,” says Larson. “So I’d be up until 4 or 5 a.m. processing my sap for the day and then up again at 7 a.m. to collect.”
Larson hires on a crew of four people to help out through the harvest—each getting their own corner of the lot. He then personally delivers the syrup to businesses in Whitehorse and Dawson City.
Uncle Berwyn’s Yukon Birch Syrup has customers across the United States. A brewery in Denmark even uses his birch syrup in its beer. (Yukon Brewing also has a birch beer that makes use of his birch concentrate.) Just last year he shipped an order to a restaurant in Saudi Arabia. His birch syrup has now been to every continent—though Larson says his efforts on the business side are meagre. “I didn’t get into making birch syrup to be a salesperson or marketer. I did it because I wanted a life out in the bush.”
Larson was living on a mining claim, concocting an all-natural root beer when the search for a sweetener led him to birch trees. After learning to tap the trees in Alaska, Larson returned to the Yukon and hiked around until he found his favourite birch forest. He built a camp and now lives there with his wife and two daughters—as well as chickens, pigs and a few goats. Five years ago, his camp reached the 1,500-tree threshold, and he has no plans to go beyond it. “The motivation is to live the lifestyle you want to live,” says Berwyn. “Once you’re doing that, there’s no need to get any bigger.” – EA
Aurora Heat
Fur products from Fort Smith, NWT
Fur is the past, the present and the future for Brenda Dragon. Her father was a trapper and when his trapping partner retired, her mother stepped in to take on the role. As a kid in Fort Smith, NWT, Dragon and her siblings grew up wearing fur trapped by her father and sewn by her mother, who would add small scraps of fur inside their mitts.
With access to ample quantities of fur, Dragon began giving out her little pieces of fur as warming gifts. When her friends came back asking for more, she started to think there might be a market out there.
That was less than two years ago. Today, Aurora Heat warmers are flying off the shelves. You slide the sheared beaver fur insert into your boot and place it on top of your toes (or inside your mittens) and the insulating layer traps in your own body heat. “It breathes. It’s natural. It’s durable,” says Dragon. “The Arctic Energy Alliance used their infrared camera and it actually demonstrated a 12- to 15-degree capture of heat.” Not only that, but the soft, plush fur also adds a layer of comfort.
Dragon sells Aurora Heat online, at retail outlets in all three territories as well as in Banff and Whistler. “One of the best things about Aurora Heat is the replacement of other disposable products,” she says. Battery-operated and single-use warmers are not renewable and sustainable like fur.
Aurora Heat has been a big hit with tourists, who keep their toes and fingers toasty while out in the cold watching the aurora. And they get the bonus of bringing home an authentic, handmade souvenir from the North. But the warmers are also catching on with locals, who are oftentimes being reintroduced to the warming and pleasing tactile properties of fur.
Dragon will be adding new products and also targeting new markets and demographics. (She’s been primarily focused on women.) And there’s a reason for this—her fur warmers are so durable, her customers don’t need to come back for a very long time. – HM
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Dec. 25, 2007 / 2:43 PM
DGA contract could undercut writers
Actress Sandra Oh joins Writers Guild of America (WGA) members as they marched down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Novemeber 20, 2007, along with supporters on the 16th day of their strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen). | License Photo
Actresses Connie Stevens and Julia Louise-Dreyfus (L-R, behind banner) march in solidarity with thousands of Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers down Hollywood Boulevard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on November 20, 2007, the 16th day of WGA's strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen). | License Photo
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Experts say negotiations between U.S. film studios and the directors union could result in a deal that undercuts demands made by the striking writers.
A new contract between the studios and the Directors Guild of America could weaken the position of the Writer's Guide of America, which is in the eighth week of striking, as well as the Screen Actors Guild, which holds a contract that runs out in June, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
The DGA and WGA share many concerns, most prominently compensation for work distributed over the Internet, but the chief negotiator for the director's union, Gilbert Cates, is considered friendlier to studios than the negotiators employed by the writers, the Times said.
"We all want a piece of the Internet. The difference is not in what we want but in the tactics we use to get it," Cates said.
A DGA deal could mean bad news for the writers, as Hollywood often operates on "pattern bargaining," where a deal struck with a talent union becomes the model for deals with the other unions.
Gilbert Cates
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works Public Private Partnerships Pilot Program
Public private partnerships (P3s) are a tool that can accelerate delivery by providing significant upfront funding, leveraging appropriations while optimizing local participation, and promoting risk sharing in project delivery. Utilizing P3s can streamline delivery, share risk, and provide significant life-cycle cost savings. The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works has directed USACE to establish a P3 pilot program with the goal of demonstrating the viability of new delivery methods that significantly reduce the cost and duration of project delivery.
The Director of Civil Works signed implementation guidance for the P3 pilot program in January 2019. USACE is to identify up to ten additional P3 pilot projects and provide guidance on the screening and selection criteria, as well as how the USACE Civil Works budget should be allocated to P3 projects. USACE P3 policy encourages innovation and can be an important delivery tool for USACE and project sponsors. USACE is pursuing a public private partnership (P3) pilot program to accelerate project delivery in a constrained fiscal environment. The P3 pilot program is part of the Revolutionize USACE Civil Works initiative to expedite delivery of our nation's infrastructure by synchronizing actions, developing new tools, and streamlining activities.
2020 Request for Information -- Coming Soon!
In early 2020, USACE CW will post a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register inviting input on conceptual P3 delivery of specific USACE Civil Works projects. This website will be updated with the link to this notice once it has been posted. The RFI will be open for 60 days.
P3 Pilot Program Status
USACE is currently working on four P3 pilot projects. More information about the projects is listed below. The development and validation phase of these projects will explore how P3 delivery compares to traditional project delivery and will identify any obstacles to implementation as a P3. This development and validation phase will take 6-24 months depending on specific project details.
Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project: Project is designed to protect the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo metro area during times of extreme flooding using river control structures, floodwalls, levees, and other flood protection measures.
Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project Fact Sheet (Please open the document in Firefox or Google Chrome browsers.)
Investment Size: $2.84B
Non-Federal Sponsor(s): Metro Flood Diversion Authority; City of Fargo, North Dakota; and City of Moorhead, Minnesota
P3 Elements: Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain
Contracting: Non-Federal
Non-Federal Revenue Source(s): State Appropriations, Sales Taxes, and Assessment District
Cost / Time Savings: $100M Federal / Completion by 2027
Additional Authorities: None identified
Website: https://www.fmdiversion.com/
Pending Implementation
Brazos Island Harbor ("BIH") Channel Improvement Project, Texas: Project would deepen the Port of Brownsville ship channel from 42 feet to 52 feet in addition to dredging berthing areas, constructing dredged material placement area capacity, raising levees, and providing aids to navigation.
Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement Project Innovative Delivery Fact Sheet (Please open the document in Firefox or Google Chrome browsers.)
Investment Size: $288M
Non-Federal Sponsor(s): Brownsville Navigation District, acting as the financial representative for the Port of Brownsville
P3 Elements: Design, Build, Finance, and possible Operate/Maintain
Non-federal Revenue Source(s): Private entities
Cost / Time Savings: $150M / Completion by 2024
Under Development and Validation
LA River P3 Pilot Concept: Ecosystem restoration project on the Los Angeles River, which includes water quality and recreation features. The proposal identified three separate elements spanning 11 miles from the northern edge of Griffith Park to Downtown LA.
Investment Size: $1.4B
Non-Federal Sponsor(s): City of Los Angeles
P3 Elements: Design, Build, Finance, Operate/Maintain
Contracting: Non-Federal; one contract for each of the three elements
Non-federal Revenue Source(s): State, local and foundation grants; usage revenue; tax assessments; general funds
Cost / Time Savings: 33% Federal cost savings / 10-20 years earlier for each element
Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay (S2G) Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Project: CSRM project will reduce the coastal storm and flood risk to this area of coastal Texas. The project has full Federal funding due to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. The non-Federal sponsors (NFS) are proposing innovative ways to capture revenue for their portion of the project costs.
Non-Federal Sponsor(s): Lead NFS is Texas General Land Office. Special Purpose Vehicle and Trust: Velasco Drainage District, Jefferson County Drainage District 7, and Orange County
P3 Elements: Design-Build and Traditional Design-Bid-Build
Contracting: Federal
Cost / Time Savings: USACE Galveston District estimates completion in 7 years vs. 11 years due to full Federal funding up-front. P3 would reduce risk of failure to pay non-Federal cost share.
Additional Authorities: No additional Federal authorities required. Action by the Texas legislature may be needed to establish the Special Purpose Vehicle and designated Trust Fund between private industry and the NFS.
Projects No Longer Under Consideration:
Soo Locks is no longer under consideration. The submission has been withdrawn and is no longer considered for this program.
P3 Program Benefits
The USACE P3 pilot program has projected Federal savings of more than $160M and 13 years.
Q - Does the Corps have a list of unconstructed projects?
A - A list of authorized and unconstructed projects can be found here. This list includes projects authorized by Congress that have not been completed, some are ongoing. Items in the "Purpose" column generally represent the following: "E" - Environmental, "F" - Flood Risk Reduction and "N" - Navigation. This list represents a snapshot in time, as of 3 May 2019, and is subject to change.
Stakeholder Webinars
The USACE Infrastructure Team hosted stakeholder webinars in February 2019 to discuss the request for information related to conceptual P3 pilot projects. The slides for the webinars can be found here. USACE previously held webinars in December to discuss the P3 pilot program. The slides for these webinars can be found here.
Questions on the USACE Civil Works P3 pilot program relevant to the USACE may be submitted electronically to: CW.Infrastructure.Team@usace.army.mil.
The documents and links listed below provide information on public private partnerships, federal budget and project planning processes, and the Administration’s Infrastructure Initiative.
Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program
Revolutionize USACE Civil Works
USACE Civil Works P3 Pilot Program Implementation Guidance
Policy for Developing the Civil Works Public-Private Partnership (P3) Pilot Program
Tapping Private Financing and Delivery to Modernize America’s Federal Water Resources by Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Third-Party Financing of Federal Projects by the Congressional Budget Office
Alternative Financing for Waterways Infrastructure Final Report by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI)
Federal Project Benefit Cost Ration and Scoring Information Paper by ASCE COPRI
USACE Infrastructure Initiative website
Information pertaining to the Fargo-Moorhead P3 project can be found on the project website at: https://www.fmdiversion.com/.
USACE Requests Information on Conceptual Public-Private Partnership (P3) Delivery of Civil Works Projects
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Identifies Candidates for Further Development as Part of the Civil Works Public-Private Partnership (P3) Pilot Program
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Great Lakes Science Center - Hammond Bay Field Station
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Commissioning of the USGS Research Vessel Arcticus
The Upper Midwest Water Science Center provides credible and relevant scientific information on critical water resources issues in MI, MN, WI, and beyond. Major focus areas include Great Lakes, ecosystems science, hydrologic monitoring networks, flood frequency and mapping, water availability, and effects of agricultural and urban practices, mineral extraction, and other human activities.
TNMCorps Mapping Challenge Summary Results for City / Town Hall Structures in MI
This challenge is now complete!! Thank you to everyone who contributed! Here is a time lapse of our volunteer contributions for this challenge:
FINISHED!! Mapping Challenge for City / Town Hall Structures in MI
This challenge is now finished! Thank you to everyone who participated!
Date published: December 18, 2019
Mapping Challenge Update (12/18/19): City / Town Hall Structures in MI
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Delineation of contributing areas for 2017 pumping conditions to selected wells in Ingham County, Michigan
As part of local wellhead protection area programs, areascontributing water to production wells need to be periodicallyupdated because groundwater-flow paths depend in part onthe stresses to the groundwater-flow system. A steady-stategroundwater-flow model that was constructed in 2009 wasupdated to reflect recent (2017) pumping conditions in...
Luukkonen, Carol L.
Attribution: Michigan Water Science Center, Michigan-Ohio Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Michigan, United States of America
Luukkonen, C.L., 2018, Delineation of contributing areas for 2017 pumping conditions to selected wells in Ingham County, Michigan: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1133, 11 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181133.
Constraining the thermal history of the North American Midcontinent Rift System using carbonate clumped isotopes and organic thermal maturity indices
The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a Late Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks exposed in the Lake Superior Region of North America. The MRS continues to be the focus of much research due to its economic mineral deposits as well as its archive of Precambrian life and tectonic processes. In order to constrain...
Gallagher, Timothy M.; Sheldon, Nathan D.; Mauk, Jeffrey L.; Petersen, Sierra V.; Gueneli, Nur; Brocks, Jochen J.
Attribution: Geology, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Mineral Resources Program, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, United States of America
Gallagher, T.M., Sheldon, N.D., Mauk, J.L., Petersen, S.V., Gueneli, N., and Brocks, J.J., 2016, Constraining the thermal history of the North American Midcontinent Rift System using carbonate clumped isotopes and organic thermal maturity indices: Precambrian Research, v. 294, p. 53-66.
Historical files from Federal Government mineral exploration-assistance programs, 1950 to 1974
The Defense Minerals Administration (DMA), Defense Minerals Exploration Administration (DMEA), and Office of Minerals Exploration (OME) mineral exploration programs were active over the period 1950–1974. Under these programs, the Federal Government contributed financial assistance in the exploration for certain strategic and critical minerals. The...
Frank, David G.
Attribution: Minerals, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, , Energy and Minerals, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Frank, D.G., 2016, Historical files from Federal Government mineral exploration-assistance programs, 1950 to 1974: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1004, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds1004.
Information by Region - Michigan
Attribution: Natural Hazards, Earthquake Hazards Program, States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes
Edge-of-field monitoring
Edge-of-field monitoring focuses on identifying and reducing agricultural sources of excess nutrients which can threaten the health of streams, rivers, and lakes. Edge-of-field monitoring assesses the quantity and quality of agricultural runoff and evaluates the effectiveness of conservation practices that aim to reduce nutrient loss.
Contacts: Todd D Stuntebeck, Matthew J Komiskey
Attribution: States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes, Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Michigan Water Science Center, New York Water Science Center, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Chemicals of Concern in the Great Lakes Basin
The Great Lakes are an important freshwater source of drinking water, fisheries, and habitat. Chemicals of concern are introduced to the environment by human activities, but resulting ecological consequences are little understood. With federal and University partners, we are characterizing the presence of contaminants and potential effects to fish in Great Lakes tributaries.
Contacts: Sarah M Elliott, Stephanie Hummel
Attribution: States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Date Published: April 9, 2019
Bacterial Pathogens
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) studies the source, occurrence, and distribution of the bacterial pathogens Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC), Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter, Enterococcus, and Staphylococcus and the relation of occurrence of pathogens with fecal indicator bacteria, land-use, season, hydrology, geology, weather...
Contacts: Natasha Isaacs, Carrie Givens
Attribution: States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes, Michigan Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Enhance Great Lakes Beach Recreational Water Quality Decision Making
Important questions about beach closures and management remain unanswered in the Great Lakes where over 500 beaches are routinely used along the nearly 11,000 miles of coastline. The economies of coastal areas are dependent on public confidence in the quality of water at the shoreline, and beach managers need reliable science-based information to make beach closure and beach management...
Contacts: Carrie Givens
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL) conducts research on antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their genes. We have concentrated our studies on antibiotic-resistant bacteria of human-health concern, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (...
Using optical sensors to detect sewage contamination in the Great Lakes
In the Great Lakes, large volumes of sewage never make it to wastewater treatment plants due to illicit discharges and leaking sewer infrastructure, but contamination can be difficult to detect. This study will define the utility and practicality of using optical sensors to identify the sources and timing of sewage contamination in surface water and storm sewers in real-time field settings....
Contacts: Steven R Corsi
Attribution: States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes, Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Isoxaflutole Monitoring
This project is investigating the potential persistence of isoxaflutole, a pesticide, and its metabolites in groundwater and surface water near agricultural fields in Michigan.
Contacts: Carol L Luukkonen
Date Published: March 28, 2019
Michigan Streamflow Data Available Online
The USGS in Michigan-in cooperation with local, State, Tribal, and Federal partners-operates 155 streamgages recording stage and streamflow, and 13 lake-level gages. There are about 7,400 streamgages nationwide; many of these gages provide real-time data in 15-minute increments, which typically are transmitted to the World Wide Web every 1 to 2 hours using satellite, telephone, or cellular...
Contacts: Thomas L Weaver
Water-Quality Monitor Network in Michigan
The USGS operates a network of real-time water-quality monitoring stations that measure up to five physical parameters. The parameters are temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. One to four of those parameters are measured at 26 sites, while all five parameters are measured at 13 sites. These data are used for decision making about hydroelectric power...
Assessing stormwater reduction through green infrastructure: RecoveryPark (Detroit, Mich.)
The effectiveness of green infrastructure (including urban land conversion and bioswales) at reducing stormwater runoff is being assessed at RecoveryPark, a redeveloped urban farm in Detroit, Michigan. This study will monitor pre- and post-construction storm-sewer flow, groundwater levels, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration.
Contacts: Christopher J Hoard, Stephanie Beeler, Ralph Haefner, Danielle Green, Bill Shuster, Donald Carpenter, Gary Wozniak
Attribution: States and Territories, Region 3: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Multi-element geochemical analyses of selected samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, USA
This data release provides multi-element data for drill core samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, USA. Gold, platinum, and palladium data were collected by fire assay; copper and silver were collected by assay; and other elements were collected by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spect
States and TerritoriesRegion 3: Great LakesMineral Resources ProgramGeology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
Downloadable Data for Superior Oil and Gas Assessments
GIS Data for Superior Province Oil and Gas Assessments
Region 3: Great LakesCentral Energy Resources Science Center
Downloadable Data for Michigan Basin Oil and Gas Assessments
GIS Data for Michigan Basin Oil and Gas Assessments
USGS Domestic Continuous (Unconventional) Oil & Gas Assessments, 2000-Present
Interactively explore assessment summary information for continuous (unconventional) assessments conducted at the USGS from 2000-2018. The assessment results data used to generate this visualization can be downloaded here in Excel Format. These data represent all assessment results for Continuous Assessments only from 2000-2018.
Energy and MineralsRegion 3: Great LakesRegion 5: Missouri BasinRegion 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-GulfRegion 9: Columbia-Pacific NorthwestRegion 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)Region 4: Mississippi BasinRegion 7: Upper Colorado BasinRegion 1: North Atlantic-AppalachianEnergy Resources ProgramCentral Energy Resources Science CenterEastern Energy Resources Science Center
Updated aeromagnetic and gravity anomaly compilations and elevation-bathymetry models over Lake Superior
New gravity and magnetic compilations and elevation-bathymetry models have been compiled for the Lake Superior region. These data provide continuous sets of observations for geologic interpretations spanning political boundaries such as US States and the US-Canada border where bedrock geology is largely concealed beneath glacial deposits and surface water. These data are providing constraints for
Region 3: Great LakesMineral Resources ProgramGeology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
National Water Information System web interface (NWISweb)
The National Water Information System (NWIS) web application provides access to real-time and historical surface-water, groundwater, water-quality, and water-use data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites across all 50 states.
Water ResourcesRegion 3: Great LakesRegion 5: Missouri BasinRegion 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-GulfRegion 9: Columbia-Pacific NorthwestRegion 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)Region 4: Mississippi BasinRegion 7: Upper Colorado BasinRegion 1: North Atlantic-AppalachianRegion 12: Pacific Islands (American Samoa, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
The USGS operates a network of real-time water-quality monitoring stations that measure up to five physical parameters. The parameters are temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. One to four of those parameters are measured at 26 sites, while all five parameters are measured at 13 sites.
Region 3: Great LakesUpper Midwest Water Science Center
Bathythermograph Data, Lake Michigan, 1954
In 1954 researchers at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center conducted 11 research cruises on Lake Michigan during which 779 bathythermographs were cast to collect temperature profile data (temperature at depth). Bathythermographs of that era recorded water pressure and temperature data by mechanically etching them as a curve on a glass slide. Data was collected from the glass slide by projecti
Core Science SystemsRegion 3: Great LakesScience Analytics and Synthesis (SAS)Community for Data Integration (CDI)Fort Collins Science CenterGreat Lakes Science Center
Shapefile and Metadata — 2003-2005 eSDT
Estimated Secchi-disk transparency (eSDT) and corresponding estimated trophic state index (eTSI) values.
Data is available for download in shapefile format with metadata: 2003-2005 eSDT
Shapefile and Metadata — 2013 eSDT
Data is available for download in shapefile format with metadata: 2013 eSDT
FishVis Mapper
The FishVis Mapper is the product of an Upper Midwest and Great Lakes LCC project, “A Regional Decision Support Tool for Identifying Vulnerabilities of Riverine Habitat and Fishes to Climate Change” that developed an approach for predicting fish species occurrence under current climate conditions and project how fish species occurrence may change under future climate conditions.
States and TerritoriesRegion 3: Great LakesUpper Midwest Water Science Center
Michigan Lake Water Clarity Interactive Map Viewer
Available online are estimated Secchi-disk transparency (eSDT) and corresponding estimated trophic state index (eTSI) values for Michigan inland lakes. To view available eSDT for Michigan inland lakes greater than 20 acres without interference from clouds, cloud shadows, dense vegetation or shoreline, go to the Michigan Lake Water Clarity Interactive Map Viewer.
States and TerritoriesRegion 3: Great LakesMichigan Water Science CenterUpper Midwest Water Science Center
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A random-walk algorithm for modeling lithospheric density and the role of body forces in the evolution of the Midcontinent Rift
This paper develops a Monte Carlo algorithm for extracting three-dimensional lithospheric density models from geophysical data. Empirical scaling relationships between velocity and density create a 3D starting density model, which is then iteratively refined until it reproduces observed gravity and topography. This approach permits deviations from...
Levandowski, William Brower; Boyd, Oliver S.; Briggs, Richard W.; Gold, Ryan D.
Attribution: Natural Hazards, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Natural Hazards, Earthquake Hazards Program, Rocky Mountain, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, United States of America
Levandowski, W., Boyd, O., Briggs, R. and Gold, R. (2015), A random-walk algorithm for modeling lithospheric density and the role of body forces in the evolution of the Midcontinent Rift. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2015GC005961
Northern goshawk monitoring in the western Great Lakes bioregion
Uncertainties about factors affecting Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) ecology and the status of populations have added to the challenge of managing this species. To address data needs for determining the status of goshawk populations, Hargis and Woodbridge (2006) developed a bioregional monitoring protocol based on estimating occupancy. The...
Bruggeman, Jason E.; Andersen, David E.; Woodford, James E.
Attribution: Biology and Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Cooperative Research Units, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Northern goshawk monitoring in the western great lakes bioregion; 2011; Article; Journal; Journal of Raptor Research; Bruggeman, J. E.; Andersen, D. E.; Woodford, J. E.
Estimation of groundwater use for a groundwater-flow model of the Lake Michigan Basin and adjacent areas, 1864-2005
The U.S. Geological Survey, at the request of Congress, is assessing the availability and use of the Nation's water resources to help characterize how much water is available now, how water availability is changing, and how much water can be expected to be available in the future. The Great Lakes Basin Pilot project of the U.S. Geological Survey...
Buchwald, Cheryl A.; Luukkonen, Carol L.; Rachol, Cynthia M.
Attribution: Water, Water Resources, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, United States of America
Estimation of groundwater use for a groundwater-flow model of the Lake Michigan Basin and adjacent areas, 1864-2005; 2010; SIR; 2010-5068; Buchwald, Cheryl A.; Luukkonen, Carol L.; Rachol, Cynthia M.
Estimated Withdrawals and Other Elements of Water Use in the Great Lakes Basin of the United States in 2005
Estimates of water withdrawals in the United States part of the Great Lakes Basin and 107 of its watersheds designated by the 8-digit hydrologic unit code (HUCs) indicate that about 30.3 billion gallons per day (Bgal/d) were withdrawn for practically all categories of use in 2005. Virtually all water withdrawn was freshwater. Surface-water...
Mills, P.C.; Sharpe, Jennifer B.
Attribution: Water, Central Midwest Water Science Center, , , Water Resources, , , Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, United States of America
Estimated Withdrawals and Other Elements of Water Use in the Great Lakes Basin of the United States in 2005; 2010; SIR; 2010-5031; Mills, Patrick C.; Sharpe, Jennifer B.
Application of AFINCH as a tool for evaluating the effects of streamflow-gaging-network size and composition on the accuracy and precision of streamflow estimates at ungaged locations in the southeast Lake Michigan hydrologic subregion
Bootstrapping techniques employing random subsampling were used with the AFINCH (Analysis of Flows In Networks of CHannels) model to gain insights into the effects of variation in streamflow-gaging-network size and composition on the accuracy and precision of streamflow estimates at ungaged locations in the 0405 (Southeast Lake Michigan)...
Koltun, G.F.; Holtschlag, David J.
Attribution: Water, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Michigan Water Science Center, Michigan-Ohio Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Water Resources, Michigan, Ohio, United States of America
Application of AFINCH as a tool for evaluating the effects of streamflow-gaging-network size and composition on the accuracy and precision of streamflow estimates at ungaged locations in the southeast Lake Michigan hydrologic subregion; 2010; SIR; 2010-5020; Koltun, G. F.; Holtschlag, David J.
Processing, Analysis, and General Evaluation of Well-Driller Logs for Estimating Hydrogeologic Parameters of the Glacial Sediments in a Ground-Water Flow Model of the Lake Michigan Basin
In 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey began a pilot study for the National Assessment of Water Availability and Use Program to assess the availability of water and water use in the Great Lakes Basin. Part of the study involves constructing a ground-water flow model for the Lake Michigan part of the Basin. Most ground-water flow occurs in the glacial...
Arihood, Leslie D.
Attribution: Water, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Water Resources, Indiana, Michigan, United States of America
Processing, Analysis, and General Evaluation of Well-Driller Logs for Estimating Hydrogeologic Parameters of the Glacial Sediments in a Ground-Water Flow Model of the Lake Michigan Basin; 2009; SIR; 2008-5184; Arihood, Leslie D.
Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from muskellunge, Esox masquinongy (Mitchill), in Lake St Clair, Michigan, USA reveals a new sublineage of the North American genotype
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) was isolated from muskellunge, Esox masquinongy (Mitchill), caught from the NW portion of Lake St Clair, Michigan, USA in 2003. Affected fish exhibited congestion of internal organs; the inner wall of the swim bladder was thickened and contained numerous budding, fluid-filled vesicles. A virus was...
Elsayed, E.; Faisal, M.; Thomas, M.; Whelan, G.; Batts, W.; Winton, J.
Attribution: Biology and Ecosystems, Western Fisheries Research Center, Ecosystems, Fish & Wildlife Disease, Fisheries Program, Michigan, United States of America
Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from muskellunge, Esox masquinongy (Mitchill), in Lake St Clair, Michigan, USA reveals a new sublineage of the North American genotype; 2006; Article; Journal; Journal of Fish Diseases; Elsayed, E.; Faisal, M.; Thomas, M.; Whelan, G.; Batts, W.; Winton, J.
Water use for irrigation in Michigan, 2001
Each year, water-use data for Michigan are compiled or estimated by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), working in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). The resulting information provides a category-by-category profile of over 4,200 facilities throughout the State. The data are reported in the Michigan Water Use...
Morenz, Michele L.; Van Til, Ron L.; Luukkonen, Carol L.
Attribution: Water, Michigan Water Science Center, Michigan-Ohio Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Water Resources, Michigan, United States of America
Water use for irrigation in Michigan, 2001; 2005; FS; 2005-3079; Morenz, Michele L.; Van Til, Ron L.; Luukkonen, Carol L.
Estimated water withdrawals, water use, and water consumption in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin, 1950-95
From 1950 through 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey tabulated water withdrawals throughout the United States, including the northcentral States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. During this period, total water withdrawals increased in each of the north-central States by at least a factor of two. Illinois led...
Kay, Robert T.
Attribution: Water, Water Resources, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, United States of America
Estimated water withdrawals, water use, and water consumption in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin, 1950-95; 2002; WRI; 2001-4116; Kay, Robert T.
GCLAS (Graphical Constituent Loading Analysis System)
GCLAS is a program designed primarily to compute daily and annual loadings of constituents transported in streamflow.
Water ResourcesRegion 3: Great LakesMichigan Water Science CenterUpper Midwest Water Science Center
Lake Erie Fish Community Data Explorer
This data exploration tool is intented for use by researchers, resource managers, and the public to better understand the status of the fish community in Lake Erie.
Region 3: Great LakesGreat Lakes Science Center
Calculate Streamflow Depletion by Nearby Pumping Well - STRMDEPL08
STRMDEPL08—An Extended Version of STRMDEPL with Additional Analytical Solutions to Calculate Streamflow Depletion by Nearby Pumping Well
Water ResourcesRegion 3: Great LakesMichigan Water Science CenterMichigan-Ohio Water Science CenterUpper Midwest Water Science Center
National Geographic Visits Hammond Bay to Photograph Sea Lamprey
National Geographic photographer, Keith Ladzinski, photographs live sea lamprey at Hammond Bay Biological Station on September 11, 2019 for an expansive article featuring the Great Lakes.
Attribution: Region 3: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Science Center
Voice of America Visits Hammond Bay Biological Station
GLSC Hammond Bay Biological Station research was filmed by Voice of America (VOA) News on June 2-3, 2019. Clockwise from top right: VOA videographer, Ailin Li, interviewing Scott Miehls, USGS; live sea lamprey; videography team at the Ocqueoc River sea lamprey barrier and trap, (L-R) Nathan Allen, GLFC, Josh Benson, Andrea Miehls, GLFC/USGS, Ed Benzer, FWS, Ailin Li, VOA,
Acoustic Telemetry Used to Track Fish
Staff from the USGS Great Lakes Science Center gaze at the Mackinac Bridge rising above the mist in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. The lines they are holding are attached to grappling hooks being used to retrieve acoustic telemetry equipment anchored on the bottom of the straits. The equipment is used to track fish movements in the Great Lakes and was deployed as part
Attribution: Ecosystems, Region 3: Great Lakes, Great Lakes Science Center
Teaching monitoring protocols for invasive Phragmites
Samantha Stanton (Great Lakes Commission, GLSC Volunteer) demonstrates the monitoring protocol to training attendees on May 29, 2019, near Centerville, Michigan.
Practicing Phragmites Monitoring Procedures
A training attendee practices the monitoring procedure.
Phragmites Adaptive Management Framework: Model Overview
This animation is the third video in a series explaining different aspects of the Phragmites Adaptive Management Framework (PAMF). This video focuses on the machine learning model that PAMF uses to systematically learn from participant's data and then provide site-specific management guidance in return. More information about PAMF can be found at our websites:
Implanting an Acoustic Transmitter into a Cisco
Cisco being prepared for surgical implantation of an acoustic transmitter at the USGS Ann Arbor aquatic research laboratory
USGS - GLSC Trawl net workshop
GLSC trawl net workshop held at the USGS vessel base in Cheboygan, Michigan, April 24-25, 2019. The USGS research vessel Sturgeon pictured in background.
Cheboygan Residents Tour the R/V Sturgeon
GLSC Cheboygan Vessel Base staff stand alongside residents of Cheboygan, Michigan, prior to touring the R/V Sturgeon and R/V Arcticus on April 24, 2019.
Variable Warming Upper Midwest Lakes and Implications for Sport Fish
Climate change is predicted to alter sport fish communities in Midwestern lakes, but managers currently have limited information on individual lakes that can be used to set local expectations or intervene with mitigation strategies. Northeast and North Central CASC supported researchers, with strong participation from the Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership, have combined
Attribution: Land Resources, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Region 5: Missouri Basin, Region 3: Great Lakes, Region 4: Mississippi Basin, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
A Smelt Closeup
Closeup view of a Smelt (Osmerus mordax)
Michigan is coming along nicely with almost another 100 points added! Keep up the nice work!
Michigan is coming along nicely with another 100 points added!
City / town halls are coming in for Michigan as well! Keep an eye out for another article on city / town halls in this month's newsletter.
Mapping Challenge Results: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI
Core Science SystemsScience SupportStates and TerritoriesNational Geospatial Program
NEW Mapping Challenge!! City/Town Halls in Michigan
City/town halls are now being added to upcoming revisions of US Topo maps! Our volunteers have been steadily collecting these structures in the eastern states, however, there is still a lot of work to be done, especially since we started with minimal seed data. Michigan maps will be updated soon so here’s a new challenge for city/town halls in Michigan!
Mapping Challenge Results: Schools in Wayne Co, MI
This challenge is now complete!! Thank you to everyone who contributed! Here are the summary results and a time lapse of our volunteer contributions for this challenge.
FINISHED!! Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, Michigan
This challenge is now COMPLETE! Thank you to everyone to participated!
Mapping Challenge Update (10/31/19): Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI
Trick-or-Treat! Calling all Standard Editors, Peer Reviewers, and Advanced Editors! We need your help reviewing cemeteries!
USGS News: Upper Midwest Water Science Center
USGS News: Michigan
USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center
1451 Green Road
Upper Midwest Water Science Center - Lansing, Mich., Office
5840 Enterprise Drive
Lansing, MI 48911-4107
Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory (MI-BaRL)
Upper Midwest Water Science Center - Escanaba, Mich., Field Office
1601 Ludington Street
Upper Midwest Water Science Center - Grayling, Mich., Field Office
1955 Hartwick Pines Road
Grayling, MI 49738
Upper Midwest Water Science Center - Lansing, Mich., Field Office
Hammond Bay Biological Station
11188 Ray Rd
Millersbug, MI 49759
michaelhansen@usgs.gov
Cheboygan Vessel Base
Cheboygan, MI 49721
jbergan@usgs.gov
Mark Gaikowski
Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center
Email: mgaikowski@usgs.gov
Ralph Haefner
Deputy Director (Data)
Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Email: rhaefner@usgs.gov
Russell M Strach
Email: rstrach@usgs.gov
John F Walker
Email: jfwalker@usgs.gov
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Alliance of Rouge Communities, Michigan
Aurelius Township, Michigan
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University
City of Ann Arbor, Michigan
City of Dearborn Heights, Michigan
City of East Lansing, Michigan
City of Flint, Michigan
City of Fremont, Michigan
City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
City of Lansing, Michigan
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Trial of Alleged Russian Arms Trafficker Offers Rare Glimpse of a Shadowy Trade
By Carolyn Weaver
Accused arms dealer Viktor Bout (file photo)
Jurors at the New York trial of a former Soviet Air Force officer and alleged international arms dealer are getting an inside look at the secretive world of illegal arms dealing.
Russian businessman Viktor Bout is accused of conspiring to sell thousands of military-grade weapons, including surface-to-air-missiles, that he believed would be used to kill American pilots in Colombia, among others. He was arrested in Thailand in 2008 after meeting with confidential U.S. informants posing as Colombian rebels from FARC, a group listed by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. He has pleaded not guilty.
Douglas Farah is author of “Merchant of Death,” about Bout’s career as what he portrays is the most prolific illegal arms merchant ever. Farah says it began when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer, gained access to unused cargo planes and weapons.
“He moved literally millions and millions of rounds of ammunition, he moved hundreds of thousands of AK-47s. In the pre-Viktor Bout era in Africa, if you wanted to buy AK-47s, you could, there were a lot of people who could provide you with 50, 100. But very few people could provide anti-tank systems, anti-aircraft systems, attack helicopters, put them on an airplane and deliver them within a matter of weeks,” Farah said.
Farah said the result was far deadlier wars in Rwanda, Congo and Sierra Leone, for example. Kathi Austin, a former arms trafficking expert for the United Nations, has been at Bout’s trial from the first day. She says Bout initiated some conflicts, by offering sophisticated arms to warlords in exchange for diamonds and other natural resources.
“They were changing the face of war in those countries, where most of the victims became civilians rather than armies and rebel groups fighting against one another. And an arms trafficker like Viktor Bout actually went so far as to initiate conflict in certain areas, just to make a profit,” Austin said.
Austin says the trial promises to reveal both the scope and details of Bout’s operations - in part through hours of wiretapped recordings of meetings and phone calls with Bout and his associates. “The general public now, through the course of the trial, is learning intimate details of how an entire illegal arms deal is put together, from the supply to the trans-shipment point, all the way to the end-user recipient,” she said.
Carlos Sagastume, the first confidential U.S. informant to testify, stated that - as heard on a wiretap played in the courtroom -- Bout advised FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC ) to buy a bank in which to launder drug money and weapons payments. Bout also can be heard on the tapes telling the agents he thought were FARC rebels to set up different companies to mask their activity, and offering them weapons training, and help falsifying documents to cover the weapons sales.
Sagastume also testified that - as heard on a wiretap recording played for the jury -- Bout said that he and FARC had the same “enemy.” His testimony will continue.
A U.N. Security Council resolution from 2004 asked member states to refuse Viktor Bout transit and to freeze his assets. Bout’s lawyer, Albert Dayan, told the court that $6 billion of Bout’s assets was subsequently frozen. He said he plans to call no witnesses.
Terrorism Trial Offers Diversion from European Debt Crisis
Many Europeans today were not even born when 'Carlos the Jackel' was in his prime
Carlos the Jackal Trial Opens in Paris
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez already serving sentence of life in prison for killing 2 French policemen, an informant in 1975
Closing Arguments in Bout Trial Under Way
US government charges that he conspired to supply weapons to Colombian rebels to kill Americans
By Larry Freund
Witnesses Testify Alleged Arms Trafficker Was Eager to Deal
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet Air Force officer, is accused of conspiring to sell thousands of military-grade weapons
Carolyn Weaver
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Baseball Coach Killed With Bryant Honored at Team's Opener
US Ponders Cutting Military Forces in Africa; Allies Worry
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Florida Theme Parks and Attractions
Fort Lauderdale's Mai Kai: Hula History in Florida
- Kevin Mims
By Gary McKechnie
If you don’t know about the Mai Kai Polynesian dinner show on Fort Lauderdale’s Federal Highway (U.S. 1), it’s a legend among fans of tiki culture, the retro kitsch style that sprang up when the South Pacific began to infiltrate the American culture through Hawaiian dance, bamboo furniture, colorful tropical prints and, of course, colorful drinks served in pineapple-shaped glasses.
Mai Kai captures this era very, very well.
Considering the Mai Kai opened in 1956 – some 58 years ago -- I arrived assuming it would be past its prime. Thankfully, I had never been so wrong.
Even on a weeknight, it was active with couples and families and locals and tourists. Even better, every accent piece was perfectly placed and fit a range of South Pacific themes. To top it off, when my wife and friend and I sat down for dinner, we found the prices were affordable, the menu diverse, the food delicious, and the service beyond excellent.
In retrospect, I shouldn’t have been surprised. You can’t run a business for nearly six decades unless you’re doing something right – and then doing it right over and over again.
And what the Mai Kai does right the best is entertain.
While the style and accents and theming and gardens and waterfalls and tropical drinks and South Seas dishes put you in the right frame of mind, putting everything over the top are the professional musicians and performers that, in a 90-minute show, dazzle the audience with variations of Polynesian songs and dances.
Yet even though a hostess explained the origin of every dance, I can’t recall much of that. All I remember is that when the ladies shook their hips, they were shaken with atomic power. When the men twirled flaming torches, they did so with a blend of athleticism, daring, and art.
Trust me. Whether you go for party, a corporate event, a wedding, or just an evening on the town, you haven’t experienced Fort Lauderdale until you’ve experienced one of Florida’s treasures: The Mai Kai.
If you go...
The Mai Kai
3599 N. Federal Highway (U.S. 1), Fort Lauderdale
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Is It True?: The facts behind the things we have been told (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
By Cryer, Max
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"In this revealing book, Max Cryer explores the truth or otherwise of ideas and beliefs we may have always been told are true, but which on closer examination may not be. In a wide-ranging book encompassing social history, language, music, politics, the natural world and much mor...e, we discover the truth behind some of our most cherished beliefs"--Publisher information.
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Superstitions: and why we have them (Paperback)
In this witty and informative book, Max Cryer explains the origins of many of the things we commonly say and observe, and why they are part of our lives: kissing under the mistletoe, number thirteen, not walking under ladders, saying 'bless you' after sneezing. So many aspects of... our lives are coloured by superstition - now you can discover why.
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The Cat's Out of the Bag: Truth and lies about cats (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
"What cats have generated for us, however, is a fascinating array of words, expressions, poems, books, movies, cartoons and artworks. It seems we cannot get enough of them: from ancient times they have occupied a special place in many different cultures around the world. In this ...book Max Cryer celebrates cats and all they have given to us. He describes the many words and expressions they have inspired, from catnip and catwalk to the cats whiskers and raining cats and dogs, as well as famous cat characters like Garfield, Felix the Cat, The Cat in the Hat and Puss in Boots, songs as varied as Whats New Pussycat? and The Cats Duet, and poems like The Owl and the Pussycat and Hey Diddle Diddle. The cats owned by famous celebrities are described, from Elizabeth Taylors Jeepers Creepers to Dr Johnsons Hodge. In other chapters he explores cats attributes, the strength of their night vision and sense of smell, their sleep requirements, life expectancy and much more."--Publisher information.
Curious English Words and Phrases: The Truth Behind the Expressions We Use (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
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Love Me Tender: The Stories Behind the World's Favourite Songs (Hardback)
Tells the remarkable stories behind 40 popular and traditional songs. Some evolved from folksongs, some are from musical theatre, while others hit the mark because a particular recording appeared at just the right time.
Curious English Words and Phrases: The Truth Behind the Expressions We Use (Trade Paperback / Paperback, Second Edition)
Language expert Max Cryer's new book is an up-to-date guide to some of the most interesting words and phrases in the English language: where they come from, why we say them, what they mean. Bulging with information, it is a useful reference book and the ideal gift for anyone curi...ous about the words and expressions we use.
Every Dog Has Its Day: A Thousand Things You Didn't Know About Man's Best Friend (Hardback)
'Every Dog Has Its Day' is a unique collection of extraordinary stories, feats and facts that will both inform and entertain. Written with a delightfully light touch, Max Cryer dispels some myths about dogs and confirms why they occupy such a special place in our lives.
Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips (Paperback)
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In 'Preposterous Proverbs', Max Cryer looks at a vast array of proverbs from around the world. Proverbs on birth, food, women and love rub shoulders with others on money, animals, sin and death. He has chosen some of the most interesting and perplexing, and with his characteristi...c wry wit he analyses their meaning and truth.
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Common Phrases: And the Amazing Stories Behind Them (Hardback)
This book is as good as gold for word buffs... I kid you not!
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The Cat's Out of the Bag: Truth and lies about cats (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
From ancient times cats have occupied a special place in many cultures around the world. They have generated a fascinating array of words and expressions, as well as poems, books, movies, cartoons and artworks. Max Cryer celebrates cats and all they have given to us. Explores the...ir attributes, night vision, sense of smell, sleep requirements, li...
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The Recruiting Guy:
Memphis guard shows his mettle at Peach Jam
By: Richard Davenport
Published: Friday, July 19, 2019
Basketball coaches watch a game during the Nike Peach Jam at Riverview Park in North Augusta, S.C., in this 2017 file photo. (AP Photo/Todd Bennett)
The Nike Elite Youth Basketball League started the spring with a record number of top national prospects from ESPN's 2020, 2021 and 2022 classes.
A total of 124 of the 185 prospects in the three classes started play in April and ended at the Nike EYBL Peach Jam Championships last weekend.
Kennedy Chandler highlights
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Highly regarded junior point guard and University of Arkansas target Kennedy Chandler made a strong case for the best performance at the tournament which lasted five days by leading Kansas City-based Mokan Elite to the 17-under championship.
Chandler averaged 14.1 points and 6 assists a game while being a mismatch for opposing guards with an explosive first step and strong defensive play during the event. Chandler received scholarship offers from Memphis, Kansas, Syracuse, Oklahoma and Arizona during and after the event to go along his more than 20 other offers.
ESPN National Director of Recruiting Paul Biancardi rated Chandler a 4-star prospect, the No. 7 point guard and No. 38 overall prospect for the Class of 2021 in the rankings released in late June.
"Super fast and athletic point guard, great in transition," Biancardi said. "His on-ball defense can be stiffing, especially when he picks up the ball in the back court. His blow-by dribble and his vision to complete the assist is special."
Chandler, 6-0, 164 pounds, of Memphis Briarcrest Christian had scholarship offers from Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio State, Alabama, LSU, Florida State, Texas A&M, Missouri and others prior to Peach Jam.
He was named to the All-EYBL Underclass Team after averaging 14 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.8 steals a game during the three sessions before Peach Jam. He shot 48.9% from the field and 36.4% from beyond the three-point line.
Chandler had 21 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds in the 85-84 overtime victory over Team WhyNot in the Peach Jam Championship game while often going against ESPN 5-star junior point guard Devin Askew.
"What impressed me the most at the Peach Jam was his lack of facial expression regardless of what just happened," Biancardi said. "He displays poise at a young age."
He led Briarcrest Christian to a 29-2 record and the DII-AA state championship while being named the tournament MVP. Chandler was named the DII-AA Mr. Basketball after averaging 19.5 points, 4 rebounds and 3.1 assists. He also earned second-team MaxPreps sophomore All-American honors.
Chandler, who plans to visit Arkansas in the near future, has been invited to the prestigious Chris Paul Elite Camp and the USA 18-under basketball training camp this month.
Biancardi would like to see improvement on Chandler's shot.
"The next step is the jump shot," Biancardi said. "It needs practice as he is an average shooter. Small in size, but has a big impact on the game."
Email Richard Davenport at rdavenport@arkansasonline.com
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Richard Davenport covers recruiting for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He is the host of Recruiting Thursday, a weekly radio show that airs from 7 to 8 p.m. on 92.1 FM in Fayetteville; 93.7 FM in Little Rock; 95.3 FM in Fort Smith; 96.3 FM in Hot Springs; 104.3 FM in Harrison/Mountain Home; and 106.9 FM in Arkadelphia.
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BICAS WTF: fixing bikes and fixing stereotypes
Published Feb 11, 2019 9:57pm
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Tommie Huffman | The Daily Wildcat Diana Englert works on a bike Monday during the women, transgender, and femme workshop at Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage (BACA).
BICAS, which stands for Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage, hosts a Women Trans* Femme workshop every Monday night from 3-7 p.m. The workshop is open to anyone who identifies as female, transgender, femme, genderqueer, transmasculine or transfeminine.
The workshop consists of teaching the attendees bicycle mechanic skills in an atmosphere where they feel comfortable. The price ranges from $6-12 an hour, allowing the members of the workshop to use communal tools and the help of the mechanics to guide and answer any questions.
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BICAS is a colorful place that sells various kinds of refurbished bikes, bike parts, bike tools, helmets and biking clothes and offers classes on the mechanics of bicycles. There are spaces that act as classrooms and work spaces with bikes galore.
“When I first started working here, I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know about just tools. People would be like ‘Go grab channel locks,’ and you’re like ‘I don’t know what those are,’ which is something that people who are traditionally more masculine learn off the bat,” said Diana Englert, one of the shop mechanics and WTF workshop instructors.
Englert explained she was interested in teaching skills in WTF worlds because she enjoyed teaching it to “folks who generally don’t have that opportunity.”
According to the Boston Globe in 2017, less than two percent of working automotive mechanics were women. No data were presented on what percentage of mechanics were transgender vs. cisgender.
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BACA (Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage) is a worker self-directed nonprofit. They hold a women, transgender and femme workshop every Monday from 3-7 p.m.
“It’s been really nice, because I’ve been able to do my own work without the help of others,” said Ryn Briggs, an attendant of the workshop. “A place like this is really good for that.”
Briggs said knowing the skills to fixing a bike are important because of the bike tours she goes on, which takes months of biking around and camping out.
“When I walked in here, someone immediately came up and asked me what I needed and then immediately got me started with the materials,” said Kate Gambel, another workshop attendant. “[This] just shows how much they thought everything through, which is really really nice, because some bike places you go in and they either kind of leave you stranded to, like, figure everything out yourself, or they try to do everything for you.”
Gambel said she has an interest in learning more about mechanics so she can fix other people’s bikes for extra money and for the sake of helping people out.
“I’m interested in learning as much as I can so that I can, like, fix my own bike on the road, especially when I’m stranded,” Briggs said.
One of the benefits of attending the workshops is, when learning how to do the skills oneself, going into a bike mechanic is not necessary. Therefore, the attendants are saving their money every time they have a bike malfunction.
“I love riding my bike, and I’ve had the pleasure to learn from friends how to fix my own bike, and I like working somewhere we can make it less intimidating for people, because I know I’ve been intimidated going into bike shops,” said Marr Mhina, another shop mechanic at BICAS.
Marr Mahina works on a bike Monday during the Women Trans* Femme workshop at Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage (BACA).
The WTF workshop provides the opportunity to learn bike mechanics to people who are not represented in mechanics.
“It’s like a safe space, and it’s also way less crowded,” Briggs said about WTF nights.
Briggs said that she also comes into BICAS on days that are not WTF days but considers it less helpful.
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Many of the people who attend the workshop use their own bikes often, some even as their main way of transportation, like Englert.
“It’s a very empowering feeling, and those of us who don’t [know how] typically weren’t taught those skills right off the bat are all the more grateful to learn it and all the more excited to learn them,” Englert said.
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General International has a new owner
Woodshop News Editors
DMT Holdings acquired General International Mfg. Co., a Montreal-based manufacturer and supplier of woodworking and metalworking machinery, and its subsidiary General International USA Inc.
DMT Holdings vice president and COO Clifford Rickmers will oversee General’s operations in Canada and the U.S. Christian Chénier will continue to serve as General International’s president and CEO, while Scott Box remains as the operations manager at General International USA in Murfreesboro, Tenn., according to a company release.
The company also announced the retirement of co-president Gilles Guerette.
“This acquisition will provide General International with an injection of fresh capital, creating an exciting opportunity to further drive company growth and expand on its already successful brands and product lines,” company spokesman Norman Frampton said in a statement.
“With its proud heritage of over six decades of service to the woodworking industry, General International invites customers across North America to look for new and improved product offerings as well as many old favorites, under the General International, General CNC and Excalibur by General International brands.”
This article originally appeared in the July 2014 issue.
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I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090846283 Title: Feast your eyes Author: Myla Goldberg Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2019. ISBN/ISSN: 9781501197864 150119786X OCLC:1090846283
New York : Scribner, 2019.
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The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season?a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation . Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: "America's Worst Mother, America's Bravest Mother, America's Worst Photographer, or America's Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking." After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school's photo club, Lillian rejects her parents' expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter's sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian's career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. Narrated by Samantha, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha's memories, interviews with Lillian's friends and lovers, and excerpts from Lillian's journals and letters?a collage of stories and impressions, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated, above all, to a vision of beauty, truth, and authenticity. Read more...
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Intro; Dedication; Introduction; Catalogue of the Exhibition; Greenwich Village, 1953-54; Lower East Side, 1954-56; Brooklyn Heights, 1956-1961; Park Slope, 1961-63; "The Samantha Series"; Park Slope, 1963-70; Cleveland, 1970-76; The Last Self-Portraits; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright
Myla Goldberg.
The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season?a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation . Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: "America's Worst Mother, America's Bravest Mother, America's Worst Photographer, or America's Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking." After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school's photo club, Lillian rejects her parents' expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter's sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian's career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. Narrated by Samantha, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha's memories, interviews with Lillian's friends and lovers, and excerpts from Lillian's journals and letters?a collage of stories and impressions, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated, above all, to a vision of beauty, truth, and authenticity.
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ZEISS Photography Award
Rory Doyle wins ZEISS Photography Award 2019
Oberkochen/Germany | 9 April 2019 | ZEISS Consumer Products
With his ongoing series ‘Delta Hill Riders’, the American photographer gives fascinating insights into Afro American cowboy culture – and purposefully breaks with stereotypes.
American photographer Rory Doyle won the fourth ZEISS Photography Award with his photo series ‘Delta Hill Riders’. Photographers from over 150 countries submitted nearly 58.000 images for this year’s contest under the theme “Seeing Beyond – The Unexpected”. Six more bodies of work were put onto the competition’s shortlist.
© Rory Doyle, USA, Winner, 2019 ZEISS Photography Award
Breaking the traditional image of cowboys
Since 2017, Doyle documents the life of Afro American cowboys and cowgirls in the Mississippi Delta. His pictures provide outstanding insights into this barely noticed community. An estimated quarter of all cowboys after the civil war were African Americans. “Nonetheless, the white John Wayne stereotype dominates the public perception of this culture”, Doyle explains. With his project he wants to put this community into public awareness.
His pictures are an astounding reclassification of the American cowboy myth and break with stereotypes dominating the public reception of Afro American culture up to today.
“My pictures show the pure joy of the cowboys and cowgirls. You can see their affection for their horses and community – and how they pass down their traditions among generations”, says Doyle. Especially regarding today’s political environment, he wants to show new facets of rural life in America and provide a counter narrative to the mostly negative coverage about Afro American culture.
Unexpected, up-to-date, fascinating
With his unique mix of a strong social message, reclassification of the topic and his photographic aesthetics Doyle convinced the judges of the ZEISS Photography Award: British photography experts Simon Frederick (artist, photographer, filmmaker), Shoair Mavlian (leader of Photoworks agency) and German picture editor at STERN magazine Dagmar Seeland had the difficult task to choose a winner from all the countless contributions. The winner’s pictures should not only fulfil professional and aesthetic requirements, but also meet the contest’s topic “Seeing Beyond – The Unexpected”.
“The quality of this year’s entries was very high, with many surprising and creative takes on the theme“, explains Dagmar Seeland. „Choosing a winner from such a crop of talent was never going to be easy, but ‘Delta Hill Riders’ was a clear favourite. Rory Doyle purposefully plays with and breaks the stereotypes attached to the subject of cowboys, and does this with great skill and warmth. His connection with his subjects is evident in every beautifully composed image. A fine visual storyteller, and a deserving winner.”
As winner of ZEISS Photography Award 2019, Rory Doyle will be invited to London and Oberkochen to receive his award and to talk with experts at ZEISS. Rory Doyle receives €12,000 worth of ZEISS lenses and €3,000 to cover travel costs for a photography project.
Shortlisted artists
Six more photo series were put on the shortlist for the ZEISS Photography Awards 2019:
Michela Carmazzi (Italy) I wish I were British
Ken Hermann (Denmark) Mallakhamba
Benedicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde (France and Belgium) Land of Ibeji
Petra Leary (New Zealand) Daily Geometry
Lara Wilde (Germany) Exposed Landscapes
Gangfeng Zhou (China) ‘Like’ and ‘Companionship’, there is no distinction
Rory Doyle’s winning photo series will be exhibited as part of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in Somerset House in London from 18th of April until 6th of May 2019, together with a selection from this year’s ZEISS Photography Award’s shortlist.
ZEISS Photography Award is held by ZEISS and World Photography Organisation.
More information to find at www.zeiss.com/zpa19.
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Images of Rory Doyle’s winning photo series ‘Delta Hill Riders’ von Rory Dole
Shortlist’s images
Press kit winner Rory Doyle (two images, profile, portrait photo)
Press kit shortlist (two images of every photo series and description)
If you are interested in more photos from each series, interviews with Rory Doyle or artists from the shortlist, please feel free to contact us at any time.
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For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world's leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses and binoculars.
With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas like digitalization, healthcare and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future far beyond the optics and optoelectronics industries. The company's significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS' technology and market leadership.
With approximately 30,000 employees, ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 60 of its own sales and service companies, more than 30 production sites and around 25 development sites. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. The Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Germany committed to the promotion of science, is the sole owner of the holding company, Carl Zeiss AG.
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Posted on March 01 2014 by Bastian
A few months back I had a weekly feature on various Zelda clones. Well, I’ve been away for far too long. Let’s talk about clones some more! The recent release of Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know got me thinking about the previous Adventure Time game, and how even though it was heavily inspired by the black sheep of the Zelda family, The Adventure of Link, it was actually quite good.
Released exclusively on the 3DS (and the DS), Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you Steal Our Garbage? takes much of its design from Zelda II. Now why exactly the developers decided to base their first Adventure Time game on what most people consider to be the worst Zelda game remains a mystery. I, however, am not one of those people who hates The Adventure of Link. I love it despite its absurdly challenging ways and its sometimes questionable game design (after dying you have to start all the way back at North Palace? Come on!). There were very few games that ever tried to recapture the side-scrolling Action-RPG genre in its day – only Battle for Olympus and Wanderers from Ys come to mind. So for a developer to take such a risk as to base their first game for a wildly popular cartoon show on such a disliked game… seemed like a terrible idea. However, not only did they take inspiration from The Adventure of Link, they actually improved upon it!
But first, some details as to how exactly this game is inspired by the second Zelda game. Just like in Zelda II, exploring the overworld is experienced in a top-down view with towns, dungeons, and battles being experienced in side-scrolling action. Icons representing enemy types will appear on the overworld and if you accidentally touch one you are “warped” into a small, repetitive battle screen where your goal is to kill the enemies.
Attacking is done mostly via sword combat with the ability to attack regularly and then a ducking attack as well – just like in The Adventure of Link. And then to seal the deal, your character eventually learns a downward thrust and then an up thrust! And a bit later they throw in the spin attack just for the heck of it. Besides all of the Zelda II rip-off attacks, this game adds quite a few extra ones, along with some fun non-combat moves, all of which are provided by Finn’s trusty sidekick, Jake the Dog, who can transform into various useful shapes. This essentially replaces the need to collect various items; instead Jake just learns how to transform into them. It basically amounts to the same thing, though. And then there’s the fact that life is represented by hearts… which is actually not in keeping with The Adventure of Link, being the only Zelda game to use a more traditional heart-less gauge.
This game is, for all intents and purposes, a sequel to Zelda II – just with Adventure Time varnish. And that “varnish” is where this game really shines. The unique Adventure Time humor is infused to nearly every single line. Simply wandering around the landscape and encountering all of the strange Ooo characters would be enough to have satisfied me, but the fact that they’re all written with the same top-notch quality from the show makes it perfect. Even the items are creatively weird: instead of hearts to replenish your life, you eat things like Shoofly Pie and Birthday Cake, or drink a carton of Bug Milk. There are various other equally strange items to use for attacking as well, including the fun Habanero pepper which lets you shoot fireballs right from your mouth!
If you happen to be an Adventure Time fan and haven’t yet played this game, you need to change that fast. Or even if you’ve never seen Adventure Time but would like to play a game which has similar (but improved) controls to The Adventure of Link, then this game is for you, too. It’s algebraic!
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Finneytown basketball standout Darius Bazley transfers to Princeton
Finneytown 2018 basketball standout Darius Bazley has transferred to Princeton for this upcoming school year, his family told WCPO.com Saturday afternoon.
“Darius Bazley is transferring to Princeton,” his mother, Lynitta Cowan, wrote in a text message. “Go Vikings.”
Bazley, a 6-foot-8 wing who is ranked Ohio’s No. 1 player in the 2018 class by ESPN.com, has scholarship offers from Ohio State, Purdue, Saint Louis, Florida and Toledo.
Cowan said the paperwork is already signed and Bazley is ready to start classes at Princeton in August.
Finneytown athletic director Mike Stevens told WCPO.com earlier Saturday he was aware Bazley had discussed transferring with his family but said nothing was official. “That is news to us,” Stevens said.
Finneytown coach Kimar Morris, who has worked with Bazley in the district since the standout's eighth-grade year, said he's sad to see him leave but happy for his opportunity ahead. Morris met with Bazley's family Thursday night regarding the family's consideration to transfer.
"He's a great kid," Morris said. "I wish him nothing but the best."
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Morris said Finneytown continues to develop players, and he's confident the Wildcats will be successful this season.
Finneytown is a Division III boys' basketball program in the Cincinnati Hills League. Princeton is a Division I boys' basketball program in the GMC.
Bazley, a left-handed shooter, averaged 15.8 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2.4 blocks and 1.5 steals last season. In late June, Finneytown was considering an opportunity to play in the nationally-recognized Flyin’ to the Hoop Invitational in January 2017.
Xavier, Butler, Dayton and West Virginia have also shown interest in Bazley.
Princeton has a new coach in Leon Ellison for the 2016-17 season. Ellison spent eight seasons as the Aiken coach and earned a 123-70 record. He led Aiken to a Division II state Final Four appearance last season.
Bazley will bring an additional dimension to the Vikings this winter and figures to make a significant impact in the GMC.
“I am honored to have the opportunity to work with such as great family,” Ellison told WCPO.com Saturday afternoon.
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Warchief to a tribe in a nearby region to Hyra's tribe, Roxi is a leader of conflict. Whereas Hyra tries to hold a tumultuous peace with nearby humans, caravans, and traders in order to protect the few remnants of her tribe and culture, Roxi takes aggressive and assertive methods of holding on her tribe's lands. She leads raids on towns, rob and pillage traders and caravans, and distrusts most humans.
In her youth, her tribe was often subject to being cheated, robbed, assaulted, and attacked by humans trying to drive them from the region. Her final shred of tolerance was lost when their enemies tried to poison their water supply and trade them clothes and blankets laced with diseases. She took charge where their current chief had failed them and launched assaults upon the humans' village and farms, razing them in the process. She quickly climbed rank in her tribe, taking the mantle of chief in a trial by combat, and with her new position, continued her campaign of terror.
She currently holds her tribe's lands with a territorial aggressiveness, leading attacks at any men they cross their borders and sometimes raiding those that come to close. She wants to see the best for her people and will take any assertive measures to preserve their lands and culture.
Roxi has a history with Ruvi. When Roxi went to lead her first assaults against the human lands in defiance of their chief, Ruvi opposed. He believed the wanton destruction and murder would make them just as terrible as the men that tried to kill them. Roxi asserted that without establishing their own validity, humans would just continue to intrude and encroach on the tribe to drive them away. After a scuffle, Ruvi fled and Roxi resumed her attacks against the humans. Ruvi, in his exile, took to adventuring, and eventually encountered the gnolls of Hyra's tribe, finding a new companionship with them.
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I love Roxi's character design. She's a battered ol' beast of a knoll, but she oozes with incredible power and determination.
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Autumn Owens
The cities of Hudson Oaks and Aledo are gearing up to celebrate the holidays with the events Christmas in CoHo and Christmas Tyme in Aledo.
Christmas in CoHo will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Dec. 6 in Gene Voyles Park featuring pictures with Santa, rides on the Texas Bank Express, a snow hill, hot chocolate and live entertainment.
“Christmas in CoHo is an event that is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Weatherford, the city of Hudson Oaks and 30 other local businesses,” Povero said. “Santa Claus will be there to take pictures with the kids and there will be a real snow hill that kids can slide down. Carolers will entertain the crowd and kids can do activities in Santa’s workshop or ride on the Texas Bank Express, a mini holiday train. There will be plenty of food trucks and free hot chocolate as well.”
Hudson Oaks also hosted its tree lighting and movie in the park on Tuesday, moved from Friday because of inclement weather.
“Cohoho has been such a successful, annual event that we wanted to expand the activities in Gene Voyles Park during the holiday season,” Povero said. “Providing more scheduled events like our Cohoho Opening Night and Christmas in CoHo allows our community to gather at the same time and fellowship together in a fun, safe environment.”
Parking will be available in the lot between H-E-B and Hudson Oaks City Hall and the event is free to attend.
“I just enjoy watching families celebrating Christmas together and seeing the children’s faces light up when they see Santa Claus,” Povero said. “That is worth every dollar spent and man-hour labored to put on this event.”
For more information visit the city of Hudson Oaks Facebook page or hudsonoaks.com.
On Dec. 7 from 5-9 p.m., the city of Aledo will celebrate the holidays with Christmas Tyme in Aledo.
“Christmas Tyme in Aledo began 19 years ago in 2000. At that time, there was a combined Aledo and Willow Park Chamber of Commerce, and it was decided to use funds from Aledo to put on this festival to celebrate the Christmas season,” Aledo Parks Director Toni Fisher said. “Today, this event is proudly our biggest and most attended, now encompassing our entire downtown area. Mayor Kit Marshall is always striving to help our businesses by involving all that will participate, and she loves bringing our entire community together for Christmas.”
Fisher said the event brings in anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 visitors and each year they try to change things up a little.
“New this year are the 35-feet dual-lane inflatable slide, Art-on-the-Go mobile art activity and the ‘Magic Mirror’ photo booth,” Fisher said. “The Christmas joy will be prevalent throughout the city with Christmas-themed pole banners and the sparkling ambiance of white lights throughout Aledo’s civic district.”
The annual tree lighting will take place at 6 p.m. with Marshall followed by photos with Santa from 6:15-8:30 p.m., live musical performances and various city businesses.
“Christmas Tyme in Aledo is a wonderful tradition and it’s a great opportunity to have the greater community come out and just enjoy being together. It’s just a fun evening and I’ve actually had people tell me that they’ve come from all over — more than 50 miles away — because they had been visiting a family friend and it just became a tradition for them. I even had someone tell me they moved here because they attended Christmas Tyme in Aledo, so it just resonates with everybody,” Marshall said. “It also draws in a larger crowd of people who then become exposed to our businesses and that’s really why it was started, to help promote economic development and give people an opportunity to see what we have here.”
The event will also feature 51 vendors in the 42nd annual Arts and Crafts Fair at the Church at the Crossing’s gymnasium.
“As with all of our events, I most enjoy seeing the smiles of families having fun and creating memories together. I enjoy being a part of that magic, and helping to enable those opportunities with the attractions we have,” Fisher said. “This event, above all, gives me pause to be especially grateful for the wonderful country we live in, our generous city who still prioritizes and celebrates its community and our businesses who sponsor and support us. Aledo is a special place to be and I’m proud to represent that.”
For more information visit the city of Aledo Facebook page or aledo-texas.com.
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Study: Hollywood collaborated with Nazis
New book says major American film studios not only passively accepted Nazi censorship, but actively cooperated with Hitler's propaganda machine to protect their interests in German market
Aryeh Savir, Tazpit|Published: 09.17.13 , 07:35
The Hollywood film industry maintained close ties with the Third Reich and collaborated with the regime, according to a new book.
The book, written by Harvard University doctoral student Ben Urwand, posits that Hollywood's major studios not only passively accepted Nazi censorship, but further actively collaborated with Hitler's propaganda machine to protect their interests in the German market.
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In the book, titled "The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler," Urwand, whose maternal grandfather and grandmother were Jews who hid in Hungary during the Holocaust, reveals documents that have never before been made public.
The book offers evidence that heads of large Hollywood studios, some of them Jews, edited films, scene by scene, at the request of senior Nazi officials. The results were films that could easily have been used as Nazi propaganda.
One document even suggests that Hollywood sent money to Germany to produce munitions.
"Hollywood (in the 1930s) is not just collaborating with Nazi Germany, it's also collaborating with Adolf Hitler, the person and human being," Urwand told The New York Times.
The fact that the Nazi regime intervened in the Hollywood's film industry is known and documented, but Urwand suggests that the relationship between Hollywood and the Third Reich was much deeper and long-lasting than previously known, that this warm relationship continued until the beginning of the 1940s.
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According to Urwand, collaboration with the Nazis began in 1930, when Carl Laemmle, a Jew who headed Universal Studios, agreed to far-reaching changes in "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930) after Nazis who watched the movie rioted.
Later on, in January 1938, the German offices of Fox studios sent a letter with a request to receive Hitler's opinion about several movies. The letter ends with the salutation "Heil Hitler."
In 1939, MGM studios hosted 10 editors of Nazi newspapers on a studio tour.
Another discovery included notes by Hitler’s adjutants recording his reactions to the movies he watched each night (he loved Laurel and Hardy but hated “Tarzan”), and a scrapbook in which Jack Warner of Warner Bros. Studious documented a Rhine cruise that he and other studio executives took with an Allied escort on Hitler’s former yacht in July 1945 as part of a trip exploring postwar business opportunities.
“That was the one time I actually shouted out in an archive,” Urwand recalled in The New York Times interview.
Urwand says he found a total of nearly 20 films aimed at American audiences in which content was influenced by senior Nazis. The most important point, he says, is that Jewish characters were almost entirely erased from films.
In relation to the State Department, which repeatedly blocked efforts to expand visas for Jewish refugees, Urwand said: “The State Department’s record is atrocious, but the State Department did not finance the production of Nazi armaments. It did not distribute pro-Nazi newsreels in Germany. It did not meet with Nazi officials and do secret deals.”
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Drought in Kenya: A National Disaster
PRESS RELEASE: Kenyan Government declares the ongoing drought a National Disaster
2.7 million people affected by the ongoing drought in 23 counties in Kenya.
People in need of relief assistance has risen from 1.3 million in August 2016 to 2.7 million in February, 2017.
The estimated number of children affected from the current drought, 14 years and below is 840,000.
Counties in alarm and alert has changed as the situation is worsening.
10th February 2017, Nairobi, Kenya – According to the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA’s) January 2017 monthly issue, the number of people in need of relief assistance in Kenya has risen from 1.3 million in August 2016 to 2.7 million, following the below-average performance of the 2016 short rains. Many of those affected are the most vulnerable, including the elderly, the sick, mothers and children who are under the age of five. The numbers represent approximately 20 percent of the population in pastoral areas and 18 percent in marginal, agricultural areas.
“Open water sources such as water pans and rivers, have dried up and the pressure on permanent water sources such as boreholes, has increased. This has led to longer queues for water and the risk of breakdown of pumps. In nearly all the counties, distances to water sources are increasing,” said World Vision Kenya National Director, Dickens Thunde.
In Baringo County, household distances to water is now three times longer than usual, while in West Pokot County; the distances are now more than twice and five times in Kilifi County. According to NDMA findings for the just concluded short rains assessment of 2016 short rains in the month of January, the most affected sectors remain food, livestock and water.
According to Mr. Thunde, the food security situation will continue to worsen over the next few months with the anticipated short rainy season, likely not to have any meaningful impact on livelihood recovery. For counties where both the long rains and the short rains are below normal, conditions are already very poor. Access to water in arid and semi-arid regions and in counties, is expected to deteriorate sharply, now that there are no further prospects of rainfall until March or April, 2017.
So far, the nine worst-hit counties are Turkana, Marsabit, Samburu, Tana River, Isiolo, Mandera, Garissa, Wajir and Baringo, where World Vision works. The assessment of the findings above was conducted from 16th to 27th January, 2017 by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group, a multi-sectorial and multi-agency body, which brings together relevant government sectors; UN agencies and technically qualified NGOs, under the leadership of NDMA. The assessment report has also identified drought-affected pockets of non-ASAL counties such as Elgeyo Marakwet, Bomet, Kisumu, Busia, Kakamega, Homa Bay and parts of Central Kenya. In areas around Lake Victoria, parts of western and central region, significantly below normal rainfall, affected crop performance resulting in decline of crop yields.
Meanwhile, the latest additional information on the drought situation from World Vision Kenya Country Food Assistance Manager Kevin Mugenya, also indicates that counties previously in alarm stage have been affected by the drought situation, yet they are part of the large farming area that provides food to other regions in the country.
Widespread crop failure, has been reported in mainly rich, agricultural areas. The prospects for the short rains’ harvest in the semi-arid counties is very poor, given the below-average performance of the season and its early ending, at a critical stage of crop development. Crops are water-stressed in Kilifi where less than five percent of farmers attempted to plant.
In West Pokot, farmers did not plant beans, being the main crop grown during the short rains, due to the late onset of rain and early end to the short/or long rainy season. In Baringo and Isiolo, irrigated, crop production, has been affected by falling river levels. It is expected that migration patterns of both human and livestock, will deviate still further from the norm, carrying the risk of conflict for scarce resources (water and pasture) and the spread of livestock diseases.
“The most serious cases of conflict in the previous month resulting in death, displacement or the loss of livestock, were reported in Baringo, Isiolo, Kitui, Laikipia, Marsabit, Meru, Turkana and West Pokot counties. Tension remains high in Samburu and Tana River counties”, said Mr. Thunde.
Water stress, will continue to increase due to long distances to water sources for pasture, while milk production will fall even lower, leading to high malnutrition rates.
Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rate, is above 20 percent in four counties - Turkana, Marsabit,Mandera and East Pokot in Baringo and West Pokot - and above 10 percent in an additional five counties - Samburu,Tana River, Garissa and Wajir. Thismeans that the health of children in the listed counties is at risk and needs serious attention. If left untreated over the next six months, the number of malnourished children will succumb to death.
About World Vision Kenya
World Vision is a global Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. World Vision began operations in Kenya in 1974 and currently has slightly over 800 development staff members working in 53 Area Development Programmes in 35 counties, countrywide. Through valued partnerships, we support communities to improve the well-being of children, especially the most vulnerable. Our aspiration is that all children will enjoy good health, be educated for life, are cared for and protected, and experience the love of God and their neighbours.
World Vision Kenya response on current drought in Kenya
World Vision Kenya Area Programmes (APs) are located in 15 of the 23 counties in Kenya currently affected by the ongoing drought. We work with partners in assessing the situation to inform response, participate in joint meetings to develop a response plan. The plans are used to raise funds (including reprogramming development funds), in order to carry out an integrated response targeting the most vulnerable. We also work with targeted communities to establish the most vulnerable people that will include children, pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disability, among others.
World Vision Kenya values people and is committed to saving lives and livelihood of disaster-affected communities. Emergency intervention protects people’s lives and livelihood, as well as enabling communities to live dignified lives, before and during an emergency. We are currently responding in 15 of the most hard hit counties (Turkana, Baringo, Marsabit, Isiolo, Makueni, Garissa, West Pokot, Kilifi, Samburu and Taita Taveta,Wajir,Narok,Kajiado,Kitui and Lamu).
In partnership with the National and County Government, World Food Programme and other development partners, World Vision's immediate response will prioritize:
Cash transfers for food
Rehabilitation of water sources and water trucking for domestic use and for livestock
School meal feeding programme to mitigate school drop-out
Support Ministry of Health to conduct nutrition surveillance and manage acute malnutrition
Other Medium and Long-term Interventions
Creation of assets that increase people’s resilience to future food security shocks such as farm ponds
Promotion of relevant climate smart agriculture technologies to increase crop/livestock productivity
Construction of water facilities for increased access to safe water
Strengthen county govern
World Vision Kenya is calling for increased support from the international community to respond to the humanitarian needs. We call for the international community to respond to needs of children who bear the brunt of the crisis.
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The first NatWest Military Education Conference on 29th October 2018 aimed to support the Armed Forces community in both employment and self-employment and explore the ways in which enterprise education plays a role in both paths.
Delegates from the serving and ex-serving community, plus representatives from supportive partner organisations, gathered at the RBS Bishopsgate premises in London to explore how best to translate military skills into their next career move or business venture in civilian life.
The conference was hosted by XFE CEO, Ren Kapur MBE, and opened by a keynote speech by Haydn Thomas Head of Business Development Business Banking at NatWest. Further keynote speeches were delivered by Major General R B Bruce CBE DSO, Ren Kapur MBE and former RAF pilot Ed Molyneux, CEO and co-founder of FreeAgent.
Ex-military entrepreneurs shared their experiences and Julie Baker, Head of Enterprise for NatWest, chaired a panel debate.
Major General R B Bruce CBE DSO, who has completed a secondment to the Royal Bank of Scotland to support the cross fertilisation of industry and military knowledge and understanding, addressed the conference:
“My biggest takeaway is that what the Army does stacks up pretty well in civvy street. My take out from my time at RBS overall is that the scale and complexities of challenges and opportunities are not dissimilar. I did not feel like a fish out of water”
“My advice to service leavers: you must be more prepared to be a bit uncomfortable and ‘unpack the detail’ of what you did. How did you deal with physical risk – something that is not often encountered in civvy street”
“Military people can see the ‘Big Team’ issue and balance this better with the smaller individual/team targets. They are good at seeing both the wood AND the trees. In civilian work I sometimes see less of this and the danger is that initiative can be stifled as a result because people are concerned about being embarrassed regarding achieving their short term targets”
Suzanne Brock, Managing Director of Nutriment, shared her experiences in business after leaving the Army:
“You don’t need to have the traditional pedigree to be successful. At 42, I set up a business. At 48, I sold it for a lot of money. At 53 I might do it again. The Army gives you confidence to do these things.
“What the Army taught me more than anything is you can walk into any situation – you are taught how to lead people and get them to follow you…to trust that you will do what you say you will do”
Sue Mark, who spent 21 years in the Royal Navy, shared her experience of taking on the franchise Bright and Beautiful:
“On resettlement, I made it my job to get a job! An interim job gave me the luxury of ‘a pause of two marching paces’ before doing my own thing, in my case franchising.”
Ren Kapur, XFE founder and CEO, said:
“What a great day for looking into the past, the now and what the future can hold. Our principle for this conference was to share the synergistic view of enterprise for both employment and self-employment however I believe we have achieved something much greater.
“Working together and debating the ‘art of the possible’ for what is needed and what could be needed for the future to grow and prosper as a nation is vital. We are of course only able to effect such great change if we communicate and then act.
“Today marks great progress. XFE and NatWest will be working together to define a strategy to build on this event; making it the first of many.”
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Ang Babaeng Humayo: Lav Diaz and Philosophy
Nonoy L. Lauzon
Why is it important for Philippine cinema to gain the recognition of the world? For so long, the country has lagged behind more advanced film cultures of other nations that many have lost all hopes that they would see the day that the Philippines would be truly at par with the most esteemed film industries across the globe.
It’s true that quite a stash of local titles have been adorned with all sorts of grand prizes and top plums in plenty of international festivals through the years. But the ones that actually matter have proved elusive even for the finest of films churned out from the ranks of the best in the domestic industry.
How else can one possibly explain that the Philippines is yet to score a nomination for the best foreign-language film category at the annual Oscars? It’s not just once that a full-length Filipino film vied for Palme d’Or at Cannes but in all instances, the country has failed to bring home the bacon so to speak.
And so it came to be a most welcome delight when Lav Diaz’s Ang Babaeng Humayo snatched the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2016. Pending the ultimate moment of winning the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film or the Golden Palm for a full-length feature at Cannes for the country, the latest Venice distinction for Lav serves now as the singular highest honor ever accorded to Philippine cinema.
The film had its recent exhibition for the current festival run of Cinema One Originals at UP Diliman. Upon watching it, one needs no convincing why the film deserves the victory it is destined for. News has been out that it is the only Filipino film from last year competing for Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong with nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay plus a Best Actress nod for lead star Charo Santos who staged an acting comeback with the film after decades of hiatus from big-screen appearances.
Lav’s latest oeuvre both takes after and departs from all the others he has done not only on account of its length but more on points of stylistics and thematic. In it, he once more pays homage to elder filmmakers he obviously reveres as one finds elements of Lino Brocka and even Ishmael Bernal as well as a smattering of Mario O’Hara, Celso Ad. Castillo and Mike de Leon.
Those one regards to be lumpen, unenlightened, apolitical and dispossessed are functional revolutionaries capable of drastic action that can shake the system and effect meaningful change and transformation. There is a magical-realism twist to the film. But it soars grandest with its statement and treatise on social revolution that must not make the mistake of excluding the wretched of the earth.
At the core of the film is vintage Lav’s preoccupation with philosophical truths such as the problem of evil and the existence of God. Is it possible that one retains the pureness of one’s heart? Is there a limit to one’s do-gooder ways? How can people mercilessly wronged enact the best they could be?
The film has managed to address all these questions in straightforward and uncluttered narrative without empty shrill and fanfare, minus hysteria and histrionics, and without having to resort to grandstanding, polemics and pontification. It is painstaking in its portrayal of the various circumstances that people get to bond with each other and in its assertion that humanity emanates from the deeply rooted instinct for imagination that all individuals since the advent of creation has been blessed with.
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The Province has committed to taking incremental steps to increase energy-efficiency requirements in the BC Building Code to make buildings net-zero energy ready by 2032. The BC Energy Step Code--a part of the BC Building Code--supports that effort.
What is it? The BC Energy Step Code is a voluntary provincial standard enacted in April 2017 that provides an incremental and consistent approach to achieving more energy-efficient buildings that go beyond the requirements of the base BC Building Code. It does so by establishing a series of measurable, performance-based energy-efficiency requirements for construction that builders can choose to build to, and communities may voluntarily choose to adopt in bylaws and policies.
Why do we have it? In addition to supporting long-term improvements in energy efficiency in the BC Building Code, the BC Energy Step Code will improve the consistency of building regulations in the Province. The Energy Step Code is a single provincial standard that replaces the patchwork of different green building standards that have been required or encouraged by local governments in the past. This will allow local governments to continue to play a leadership role in improving energy efficiency, while providing a single standard for industry and build capacity over time.
How does it work? The BC Energy Step Code takes a new, performance-based approach rather than the traditional prescriptive approach. The BC Energy Step Code does not specify how to construct a building, but identifies an energy-efficiency target that must be met and lets the designer/builder decide how to meet it.
To comply with the BC Energy Step Code, builders must use energy modelling software and on-site testing to demonstrate that both their design and the constructed building meet the requirements of the BC Energy Step Code. The new standard empowers builders to pursue innovative, creative, cost-effective solutions, and allows them to incorporate leading-edge technologies as they come available.
The BC Energy Step Code also supports consumer choice, by allowing designers and builders to use natural gas, electricity, or other energy sources for their project without imposing a penalty on this decision. This fuel-neutral approach provides builders with the flexibility to make energy-efficient buildings using all available technologies.
Is it required? The BC Energy Step Code is currently a voluntary standard builders across B.C. can use. In addition, local governments can choose to require or encourage builders to meet one or more steps of the BC Energy Step Code as an alternative to the BC Building Code’s prescriptive requirements.
When does it take effect? The BC Energy Step Code came into force in April 2017; builders have the option of building to the requirements in the Energy Step Code at any time. Local governments can set bylaw requirements for builders to meet one or more steps starting December 15, 2017 (when local governments’ authority to set technical building requirements by bylaw will change under the Building Act).
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Australia: Ambulance services under pressure to cut costs
By Mark Church
A report late last month by the Sydney Morning Herald revealed that operators at a Sydney emergency ambulance call centre are being pressured to persuade patients and their families to cancel ambulance dispatches in order to reduce costs.
The measure, which is endangering the lives of patients in New South Wales (NSW), is a result of gross underfunding by consecutive state governments and in line with the federal Labor government’s “health revolution,” which seeks to drive down public health spending.
According to the Herald, NSW Ambulance Service call centre operators received a letter in August from an unnamed operations manager. It directed them to try to convince Triple Zero callers not to use ambulances, but to make their own way to the hospital or wait and see a local doctor.
The letter stated: “Our performance in achieving a non-ambulance response has deteriorated in the last three months... Health advisers are to again focus on opportunities to achieve a non-ambulance response where appropriate.” Operators were told to emphasise the potentially long wait for an ambulance, and use other techniques to persuade callers to cancel their ambulance request.
Under the present system, if a call is deemed non-urgent, it is sent to the Health Access Coordination unit. A registered nurse interviews the caller about the nature of the emergency and decides whether an ambulance should be dispatched—a process known as triage. If the case is determined to be serious, the caller is transferred back to Triple Zero and an ambulance sent.
According to NSW Ambulance Service statistics, 5-10 percent of calls were cancelled in 2008 but an unnamed Ambulance Service official told the Herald that this figure had climbed to 10-18 percent in recent months.
Ambulance service spokesmen immediately claimed that they were being “plagued” by many irrelevant or trivial calls, such as for minor ailments or injuries, while at the same time denying that such a letter had been sent to staff.
NSW state Opposition leader John Robertson denounced the policy of encouraging cancellations as a “recipe for disaster.” But Health Minister Jillian Skinner pointed out that it was introduced under the previous state Labor government, which was in office for 16 years.
Ambulance services in NSW have been grossly underfunded for decades under conditions of rapidly expanding population, particularly in the state capital Sydney, which has grown by 1.2 million people to 4.5 million in the past decade. Despite this growth, there has been no increase in emergency ambulance crew numbers since 2007.
Paramedics often work 12 to 14 hours straight without rest and meal breaks. State ambulance management routinely relies on unqualified officers to staff rosters. No additional ambulance stations have been built in Sydney since 1988, and only two in Sydney’s southwest, a major growth area, in the past 40 years.
Annual use of the NSW Ambulance Service increased by 1.5 percent in the past financial year to a total of 1.15 million responses, with roughly three quarters of these for recognised emergencies.
Average response times have been lengthening dangerously. In 2005-6, the longest monthly average was about 9.8 minutes but in the past financial year the state average climbed to 10.6 minutes. This is expected to rise to about 11 minutes this year.
A key factor in the worsening response times is delays at public hospitals, which receive most emergency cases. Official reports on NSW ambulance waiting times in September revealed that one in eight ambulance transfers took more than twice the recommended maximum of 30 minutes. Large regional hospitals had the worst figures. At Wollongong Hospital, for example, over 500 patients requiring immediate admission, or more than a third brought by ambulance, had to wait for an hour or more before they were moved out of the vehicle.
This developing crisis flows from the federal Labor government’s “health revolution,” which includes the introduction of “case-mix” funding that pays hospitals only for actual procedures performed, and according to national “efficiency prices.” States are expected to cut costs to meet the efficiency price or face financial penalties. This creates a clear pressure on state governments to push down health care spending. (See: “Australian hospital waiting times worsen under ‘health reform’”).
Though the federal government does not directly fund state ambulance services, it is the main source of funding for health-care, and can effectively force the states to cut their public health budgets.
On August 24, in the adjoining state of Victoria, the Baillieu Liberal government sacked Ambulance Victoria’s board of management over “poor financial and operational performance.” The state ambulance service subsequently announced it would slash its annual operating costs by 12.5 percent. According to Ambulance Victoria chief executive Greg Sasella, this included “steps to reduce any areas of unnecessary expense.”
Senior Victorian paramedics have reported already coming under pressure from management to rein in their own costs, and that not all paramedic shifts were being filled or clinical support officers replaced.
The intensifying demands on ambulance workers and the grossly under-equipped and under-staffed emergency services are part of a national assault on the public health care system. It is another symptom of a medical system increasingly dominated by private profit providers and government budget bottom lines, with patient care last on the list of priorities.
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Fair Vanity
I’m obsessed with words. Big, small. Odd. Not.
How they look, how they sound. Music and meaning.
The other night, while waiting in A & E, I picked up a magazine. It was full of articles I found hard to read (they weren’t on a screen, they wouldn’t scroll), but there was a column that showed how the pronunciation of the same word can change if used as a noun or a verb. The same word. What’s more, the change is consistent. Noun, first syllable emphasized. Verb, the second.
The symmetry was bewitching, like maths or music. Diverting enough to stick long after I had turned the page.
But the Words I cannot shake is a song. Sharon O’Neill in my head. The earworm has infected my consciousness. The video is a solid gold dose of 1979. Kiwi pub-rock nostalgia played out in a TV studio. Shaggy perm and shark tooth earing, tight white jeans. Youngies shuffling side-to-side with huge grins. Par-cans glowing overhead red, orange, blue. Moustachioed backing singers, layering their sweet topping over Shazza’s ballsy swagger.
Sharon O’Neill Words
I know every word. Every line. Every melody. Every hook.
Let me out. Like the new blood at the slaughter.
Who starts a pop song like that? A brutal simile for the kids. Freedom splattered on the abattoir floor.
Words just a breath away from my hand. Breaking into tiny pieces.
When I sing along my voice drops an octave, settling into a country-Elvis croon no one needs to hear.
The day after my visit to A&E I flew to Nelson to work on a rugby game where the result was never in question. Only one team could win. The winningest team. Sport without competition.
On the way I listened to Words three times in a row, and then tried to kill it with a podcast about a crisis in women’s sport. When does natural advantage make competition unfair? Unusually high levels of testosterone gives some female athletes the advantage usually reserved for males. Larger heart, lungs and muscles. Elite sport is all about a battle of the exceptional, but our society strives to be fair. We want things to be fair. Complain if they’re not. The sexes compete separately to prevent unfair competition.
But how to resolve this need for equity, when a woman with the strength of a man competes against women?
Fairness is a word that can never be resolved. Is it fair to expect more of some, less of others? To be paid the same for doing less work? To be paid less for doing the same work? To claim success while competing at a lower level?
In Nelson, everyone knew the All Blacks would beat the Pumas. Where is the sport in such a pre-determined outcome?
As I flew back from Nelson, still wrapped in Words and fairness, a bigger discussion erupted in women’s sport. The most exceptional tennis player of our time publicly berated an official, claiming it wasn’t fair. She was being paid millions, he was getting $700. Vanity reigned from court and chair. Enough to write a novel.
This morning, staring at my phone in the midst of insomnia, I saw a new word I had only just learned disappear. Mardy. I knew the Artic Monkeys song Mardy Bum, and thought it was a regional version of Marty. But someone used it on the telly two days ago and the wife told me it meant sulky or moody.
The Guardian had headlined an interview with Graham Coxon from Blur with ‘I was a mardy brat in my 20s…I’m quite mellow now’. But two hours later it changed. On the front page he was now a ‘moody brat’, and a ‘mardy brat’ in the headline once you clicked on it. A sub-editor had changed the words in his mouth, but only in part, possibly afraid the unfamiliar word would stop people clicking.
You’re argumentative, and you’ve got the face on
Words should have been a world-wide hit in 1979, but no one outside NZ knows it. Maybe the big record companies didn’t think Sharon O’Neill could compete with the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, that no one would understand her. Back then, New Zealand music wasn’t considered good enough to play on the world stage.
It’s a touch, it’s a touch of class. It might not even last.
Today, anyone can sing a song and show it to the world. You can sell it to anyone. In this way, the music world is fairer than it ever was. But with something like 200,000 songs hitting the internet every day, the chances of your words being heard may be less than ever. It’s much the same with blogging.
When I sing this song, I feel inside of me.
The thing is, while I remember every lyric of Words, I can’t seem to recall a single example of the pretty words I read in the magazine. I wish I had taken a photo on my phone. Shared them to the digital memory. They were common words. Like re-port and re-port. Noun, verb. Name, action. This is my report. I will report you.
I cannot express how frustrated I am with my memory, and that I can’t access the article online. My brain has been rewired. It’s not fair.
But I have found the chords to Words online, and I can play it. Badly.
And I can write this; a blog of too many words, sent out into the clutter.
Vanity: excessive pride in one’s character or ability e.g. the belief that one can find words to connect an old song, Serena Williams, something you saw on the internet, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sharon O’Neill, a game of rugby, The Arctic Monkeys, that guy from Blur with the glasses, and something you read at the doctor’s but can’t quite remember.
This entry was posted in Blogs, Music, Sport, Uncategorized, Writing and tagged Arctic Monkeys, Graham Coxon, language, mardy, Sharon O'Neill, songs, women's sport, words on September 27, 2018 by Kambl.
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January 23, 2018 February 16, 2018 by pmbayobale, posted in Best and worst films, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Oscar, Oscar season, Uncategorized
Three sterling turns and an Oscar hopefully.
A mother (Frances McDormand) personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
A brooding country noir riddled with black comedy. If it wasn’t for all the profanity, you could have said it was a Fargo sequel.
Bold, brash and a little long in the tooth BUT a damn good watch all the same.
Funny how three billboards can cause so much trouble? Originally aimed at the local sheriff William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), one woman’s crusade for justice causes a stir among the community.
Frances McDormand is a brilliant actress. I knew exactly what she would bring to the table. That bitter Olive Kitteridge grit. Sharp tongued, outspoken, on the war path and not giving a damn who knows it. A powerhouse performance.
She stole every scene. You really felt for her. Her frosty reception with the town priest and her discussion on the definition of the word ‘culpable’ was worth an Oscar nod alone.
All aided by a sterling script, of course. Penned by none other than the In Bruges (Highly recommended) writer/director Martin McDonagh.
The fiery quick witted dialogue delivered that sinister comical edge as Mildred dealt with all sorts of unsavoury characters as the townspeople soon let their feelings known on the billboards. An awkward trip to the dentist made for tense viewing.
The pacing did test in places. Originally I felt the film slackened when McDormand wasn’t involved in the mix. A compliment to her performance. BUT it also allowed for some sterling turns from a highly talented supporting cast.
Woody Harrelson was excellent in the understated role of Willoughby. A man desperate to keep the peace BUT plagued by his own demons and the system he had sworn to protect. A tragic hero if ever there was one. A performance full of nuance that knocked me for six. Proof that the Cheers star can act.
I wanted more exchanges between the struggling sheriff and the militant Mildred. Despite her anger with the law, there was still respect between them.
Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out) played the simple ad clerk Red Welby brilliantly. His run-ins with Mildred delivered several humourous encounters. Ol’ Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) was wasted in his small role (No pun intended). He did his best BUT then again, this wasn’t his story.
I hope Lucas Hedges (Manchester By The Sea) isn’t going to be typecast in the grieving son role. He worked well with McDormand and I liked the fractured mother/son relationship. It was just a shame that he was pushed into the background. Especially after a heated “family reunion” with his deadbeat dad.
The uneven middle act left me wondering where this was all going. The tone jumped from moments of violent, foul mouthed mayhem to ones of tearful reflection and sorrow. BUT as much as I was getting frustrated, I still wanted to seek out the end game.
The always underrated Sam Rockwell nearly stole the show from McDormand. His character Deputy Dixon was a particular highlight. I loved the journey that this dimwitted racist country mama’s boy went through. A rollercoaster ride if ever there was one. I hated him, I laughed at him, laughed with him and by the end, I felt sorry for the poor schmuck.
The second half of the film took a much more sombre turn than I expected. Especially when we delved a little more into Mildred’s and Willoughby’s background. It turned an incredibly witty black comedy into so much more as everything came to a thrilling and heart rending climax.
The final act and the bittersweet ending spoke volumes as it tackled grief, anger, hate BUT most importantly forgiveness. It didn’t quite deliver what I expected BUT I was left smiling after experiencing this redemptive journey with Mildred and Dixon, in particular.
Something I haven’t felt with any film in a while.
Try not to buy into the awards hype too much and approach the film for what it is. A brilliantly acted and darkly comical tale of anger, grief and redemption.
Tagged Caleb Landry-Jones, Cheers, Fargo, Frances McDormand, Game of Thrones, Get Out, In Bruges, Lucas Hedges, Manchester By The Sea, Martin McDonagh, Olive Kitteridge, Oscar, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Woody Harrelson
*NEW* WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES REVIEW *NEW*
August 20, 2017 November 5, 2017 by pmbayobale, posted in 3D, Action, Adaptation, Animation, Best and worst films, Blockbuster, CGI, Cinema, Drama, Epic, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Science Fiction, Sequels, Special effects, Uncategorized
The best one of the bunch?
Let’s ask our pal Caesar . . .
Not quite. BUT a decent effort all the same.
After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar (Andy Serkis) wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.
I remember my reaction when I heard that the Planet of the Apes franchise was being rebooted/remade (again). It was very similar to ol’ Caesar’s.
However, Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a welcome addition. I was completely surprised and engrossed. Completely caught up in the origin story of the super intelligent ape.
BUT Dawn of the Apes on the other hand . . . NOT so much. A complete misfire. Bar Caesar’s fractious relationship with the ultra-violent Koba, I felt the sequel was hampered by poor pacing and a flimsy plot line.
Needless to say, I was a little anxious on watching War. Wondering if it would suffer the same flaws and ruin what could have been an impressive trilogy. Luckily, I’m not saying that today.
A visual masterpiece.
Andy Serkis was fantastic. How the hell that man hasn’t received an award for all the work he’s done surprises me (I mean, come on. Gollum, Kong and now Caesar!).
It takes a lot more than wearing a green leotard and making monkey noises to bring life to these creatures.
The movements, the expressions. I know it’s CGI BUT for two to three hours, you could almost believe they were real. The effects were impeccable. The detail. They deserve an Oscar nod for that alone.
The first person PoV perspective as Caesar makes his introduction was brilliant. All his various monkey brethren bowing down and raising their hands in respect to their leader.
The slow burning pace actually worked for the (majority of the) film and allowed the characters to develop quite nicely as Caesar fought against the advancing troops. Desperate not to cause a war. Only wanting to exist in peace.
BUT of course, the humans have another plan in mind. There were a few twists and turns I didn’t expect as Caesar seeks vengeance.
However, his clan won’t let him go it alone. And what a bunch of characters. Or should I say monkeys? Maurice the orangutan. Caesar’s overbearing conscience and protector. Forever keeping the angry ape in check.
There was such a great dynamic between the group. I loved how the conversations flicked back and forth from sign language to talking.
With Caesar as the only ape that can speak. Or so he thought . . .
Steve Zahn, take a bow! Sorry, Mr Serkis BUT there was one little chap that nearly stole the show and that was Bad Ape.
It was at the 90 minute marker that I could feel my patience wading BUT once Bad Ape made his introduction. I was back in the mix.
A loner chimp that escaped one of the compounds during the start of the outbreak. Picking up words in order to survive.
A much needed comic relief to the sombre affair as he struggles to understand why Caesar would want to face the Colonel.
I could easily watch a Maurice/Bad Ape spin-off. Those two were a fantastic duo.
Things took a more interesting turn when Caesar and co stumbled across a mute girl named Nova (Amiah Miller). Flagging up all sorts of questions; why can’t she speak? A side effect of the virus? Will Caesar show mercy?
And what a game changing performance from Woody Harrelson. I wasn’t sure if the Cheers star would be able to pull it off BUT once Caesar and The Colonel come face to face, I was on tenterhooks.
There was a striking contrast that developed between these two stubborn leaders as they fought for their kind. Both suffering losses.
BUT the Colonel (or Colonel Kurtz as I call him) was a man truly on the verge. Deluded in his own mission for finding the cure by wiping out all the apes.
The action set pieces were exhilarating to watch. I just wish the length could have been cut by 30 minutes. The elongated Great Escape style compound sequence was too drawn out for my liking.
There was only so much of Caesar wallowing in self-loathing that I could take.
Don’t get me wrong, it set up a fiery finale BUT after all the build up, it all ended a bit flat. Almost abruptly.
It was a fitting one BUT I still had questions that were hinted in the other efforts. For those who have seen it, I will impose my SPOILERIFIC question further down.
I don’t think it goes without saying that you might need to watch Rise and Dawn to appreciate the little nods.
BUT in all fairness, my mate got the gist and he chose to watch this one without seeing the others. So take your pick.
It may have fell short of Rise BUT this was still a riveting visual masterstroke with some stellar turns. One of the better ones.
I was just glad that I fought the urge not to sing this little gem.
NOW *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* After Rise introduced the Liberty 1 expedition (Well, Icarus 1 – a reference to Heston’s spaceship in the original Planet of the Apes), will that still fit into this story line? Is there going to be another one? The girl was called Nova. A hint, maybe?
Tagged Amiah Miller, Andy Serkis, CGI, Charlton Heston, Cheers, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Oscar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Steve Zahn, The Great Escape, The Planet of the Apes, The Simpsons, War for the Planet of the Apes, Woody Harrelson
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Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Kill Bill 3’ Is Definitely ‘In the Cards’
In a new interview on Andy Cohen Live, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino gives an update on the status of Kill Bill: Vol. 3. After sharing that he recently got dinner with Uma Thurman, who stars as the nameless Bride in the cult film series, Cohen prompted Tarantino on whether or not their meeting sparked any ideas. “I wouldn't wanna just come up with some cockamamie adventure, the Bride doesn't deserve that,” Tarantino explains. “The Bride has fought long and hard. But now I actually have an idea that could be interesting.”
But before you jump too far out of your seat, Tarantino also confirms that a third installment in the franchise won't move forward for a while, or at least until 2023. “It would be like at least three years from now, or something like that,” he answers vaguely. “But it's definitely in the cards.”
Will we get any other Tarantino movies before Kill Bill: Vol. 3? The short answer is no. Tarantino confirms that he will not be directing another movie for the time being. However, he informed Cohen that we will see more from him soon, just not in movie-form. In the time directly after writing OUATIH, he busted out scripts for a play and a five-episode TV series. That means he has more than enough material to tide us over until he's ready to tackle Kill Bill: Vol. 3.
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