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Posts Tagged ‘ FBI ’
NSA Whistleblower on Bush’s Domestic Spy Program Secerts
NSA whistleblower Russell Tice was back on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program Thursday evening to expand on his Wednesday revelations that the National Security Agency spied on individual U.S. journalists, entire U.S. news agencies as well as “tens of thousands” of other Americans.
Tice said on Wednesday that the NSA had vacuumed in all domestic communications of Americans, including, faxes, phone calls and network traffic.
Today Tice said that the spy agency also combined information from phone wiretaps with data that was mined from credit card and other financial records. He said information of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens is now in digital databases warehoused at the NSA.
Most Popular Politics News 12.10.08
Obama calls for Illinois governor to resign
AP – Wed Dec 10 WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday joined others calling for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign, distancing himself further from the unfolding scandal over allegations that the governor schemed to barter Obama’s vacant Senate seat for personal gain. Full Story»
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ABC: Jackson is ‘Candidate 5’ Politico – Wed Dec 10ABC News has a law enforcement source telling them that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is “Senate Candidate Five,” the one who was — according to Blagojevich — willing to supply campaign cash in exchange for the Senate seat.
Analysis: Scandal threatens to dog Obama AP – Wed Dec 10WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama hasn’t even stepped into office and already a scandal — not of his own making — is threatening to dog him.
Obama hopes to reboot US image among Muslims AP WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama says he will try to “reboot America’s image” among the world’s Muslims and will follow tradition by using his entire name — Barack Hussein Obama — in his swearing-in ceremony.
Supreme Court hears case on Ashcroft, Mueller immunity AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday on whether cabinet-level officials could be held accountable for controversial tactics President George W. Bush ordered as part of the US-led “war on terror.”
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Illinois list of past investigations and convictions
A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.
“Obviously like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney’s office today,” said President-elect Obama this afternoon in Chicago, speaking of the criminal complaint against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich for corruption. “But as this is a ongoing investigation involving the governor I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time.”
Following is a list of some other high-profile investigations and convictions in the state:
* Operation Greylord, a federal probe into the Chicago court system, was completed in 1988 with convictions and guilty pleas from 87 court personnel and attorneys, including 13 judges.
* Operation Silver Shovel, a federal probe into Chicago city government, ended in 1996 with 18 convictions and guilty pleas from public employees and six aldermen.
* Illinois Auditor Orville Hodge was convicted in 1956 for embezzling $2 million in state funds.
* Gov. Otto Kerner, a Democrat, was convicted in 1972 on income tax charges involving stock in race tracks acquired while in office.
* Illinois Attorney General William Scott was convicted in 1991 on income tax charges involving misuse of campaign funds.
* U.S. Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, a Democrat, was convicted in 1996 on mail fraud charges related to public corruption.
Source: Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
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FBI: Illinois Governor Sought To “Sell” Obama’s Senate Seat
Blagojevich was overheard by the FBI saying “I want to make money,” complaining he was “financially hurting.”
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted President-elect Barack Obama “to put something together&something big” in exchange for going along with Obama’s choice to fill his vacant US Senate seat, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed following the Governor’s stunning arrest.
“I’ve got this thing and it’s f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there,” Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit.
Click here to read the full affidavit.
It is conduct that would make Lincoln roll over in his grave,” said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in announcing the charges today in Chicago.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrested on corruption charges Chicago Tribune
Ill. Governor Is Charged With Corruption New York Times
Tapping the Governor’s Phone Washington Post
(VIDEO) DELIVERED RIGHT ON SCHEDULE! NEW TERROR THREAT
http://cspanjunkie.org/ | November 26, 2008
An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says the FBI has received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al-Qaida terrorists in late September may have discussed attacking the subway system.
Click here to read the full FBI warning.
“We have no specific details to confirm that this plot has developed beyond aspirational planning, but we are issuing this warning out of concern that such an attack could possibly be conducted during the forthcoming holiday season,” the report said, according to the Associated Press.
CIA, FBI start ‘Facebook for spies’
At long last, US intelligence agencies have created a new system of sharing their information with one another to prevent another terrorist attack.
And it’s a lot like Facebook.
Not to be left out of the social networking action, the FBI, CIA and the other 14 U.S. intelligence agencies are getting a new site called A-Space designed specifically for spying, CNN reported.
Police Tasered and Beat Man to Death
A Pennsylvania man has died after being tasered by local police, and the Civil Rights section of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office has now opened a preliminary investigation. Although the cause of death has not yet been determined, witnesses insist the man was kicked and beaten by police officers after he was forced to the ground and handcuffed.
However, witnesses insist that Thomas was then brutalized by police, with one telling KDKA News that “after he was tased and handcuffed, one officer used a football-type kick and stomped him in the head.”
Something better happen to these out of controlled officers. None of that bullshit were the officers take a paid leave and the end nothing happens. Taking human life instead of protecting it.
Video is from KDKA News 2
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Shawn Cotter Talks Boston's Wicked Queer Film Festival (AUDIO)
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In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Shawn Cotter the new Executive Director of Wicked Queer Boston's LGBT Film Festival that’s celebrating its 35th year bringing the latest in queer cinema from across the globe and runs from March 28th to April 7th. There are over 169 features and shorts participating in this year’s film festival with 7 premieres, 2 world premieres and 5 U.S. premieres. Opening night on Thursday March 28th will feature Ellen Smit's lighthearted Dutch romance “Just Friends” at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 7:30P followed by an opening night party at Beat Brew Hall in Harvard Square. With this being the 50th anniversary of Stonewall there will also be a special emphasis on our LGBTQ history addressing those who made it and looking forward to our future with Wicked Queer Throwbacks revisiting some of the classics of queer cinema. There will also be an abundance of lesbian and transgender feature and short films. The closing night film will be “The Heiresses” (Las Herederas) on Saturday April 6th at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA at 7P co-presented by Boston Latino International Film Festival, LatinX Pride and The Theatre Offensive with an after-party at Serafina in Downtown Boston. We talked to Shawn about the importance of the Wicked Queer Film Festival in the current political climate and his spin on our LGBT issues.
When asked how he sees our LGBTQ community moving forward in this Trump administration Cotter stated, “I feel like our history and our identities are being slowly erased and eroded. We fought so long for different rights, marriage equality, LGBT people in the military, trying to get workers rights, all of those kind of things are slowly being eroded by our government. So I feel like what is on us is to take back to the community, the local community and build support and grow and get strong because we have a fight ahead of us. You know nothing is easily won or easily gained. We still have a bit to go…”
Since coming on board to the film festival in 2011 Shawn has had many roles in the operations of Wicked Queer. He started as a location manager and then served as Operations Manager and Director of Programming before taking his most recent position as Executive Director. Cotter is also an experimental handmade filmmaker whose Super 8mm films have shown internationally. Wicked Queer runs from March 28th to April 7th with screenings at the Museum of Fine Arts, The Brattle Theatre and The Paramount Theater at Emerson College.
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A Fresh Start in Coventry
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Matt Robinson coordinates the Fresh Start project in Coventry – partnering with churches to offer a warm welcome and sense of companionship to recently-arrived refugees and asylum seekers.
WEC is delighted to endorse Fresh Start as a brilliant example of a project partnering with local churches. Several of our workers also love joining in with their football project on Saturdays!
‘I started following Jesus around five years ago, when I was a student at Durham University. After graduating, I worked as an intern at King’s Church in Durham, and it was during this time that I felt God call me to this ministry. (As well as meeting my wife!)
During a prayer meeting, I felt the Spirit prompting me to read Jonah, despite never having read this book before. As I read about the repentance of the city of Nineveh, God just broke my heart. The former ISIS stronghold of Mosul is built upon the ruins of Nineveh and I found myself in floods of tears – for Iraqis, Syrians and all who have been forced to flee their homes.
‘Soon after, I moved to Coventry and, while doing the cathedral's internship programme, I began helping with English classes at the Refugee and Migrant Centre. Many of the people I was supporting kept saying the same thing: that they were struggling to build friendships with people who were not from their country and therefore felt like “outsiders” here.
‘This was the prompt to launch Fresh Start. We’re aiming to create opportunities to build relationships, and to develop the kind of culture of welcome that Jesus himself calls us to in Matthew 25.
Matt playing football with local refugees and asylum seekers in Coventry
We currently run three main projects: 1. Fresh Start Football on a Saturday morning, using the universal language of football to bring people together; 2. English Conversation Cafes, offering people the chance to meet together, twice a week, and practice speaking English; and 3. Fresh Start Companions, pairing up volunteers with recently-arrived families, to help children with their schoolwork or simply offer companionship for the parents.
‘These projects have been very successful, with around 40 young men currently playing football every Saturday, and around 15 learners coming to our Conversation Cafes.
It's an incredible privilege to lead this project, though certainly not what I expected to be doing, three years out of uni!
In total, we work with around 90 individuals from 17 different countries. Most of them are from Sudan, Eritrea or Iran. It's an incredible privilege to lead this project, though certainly not what I expected to be doing, three years out of uni! And it’s so encouraging to know we’re making a difference.
Osman, a Sudanese asylum seeker, told me: “You have really helped me to improve my conversational skills and to feel at ease here and make friends. Thank you Matthew!”’
Please pray for Fresh Start: for more Christians to get involved and for God to use the project to extend his love and welcome to people who feel like ‘outsiders’.
If you’re local to Coventry and want to reach out to refugees in the name of Jesus, contact Matt to find out more about Fresh Start. If you’re based elsewhere in the UK, why not partner with WEC to reach immigrant communities near you?
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luciana achugar: Reclaiming Pleasure and Revealing Labor (Equality)
luciana achugar, Franny and Zooey
Photo: Alex Escalante
Uruguayan choreographer luciana achugar believes that dance has the power to do many things. She deliberately chooses to write her name without capital letters in a way to minimize hierarchy. Through her creations and the process of making each one, she deliberately instills philosophies in the dance’s structure and performance qualities to transmit her beliefs. When witnessing her work live, one is drawn into a unique experience of sensing the motivations of the dancers within its contemporary theatrical framework. Her values, based in labor equity and post-colonial thinking, infuse the environment with a sense of togetherness and being in the moment that is conscious and inclusive of the audience and every one of the performers. Her works progress with ritualistic repetition and easily engage the audience, while, as the director, achugar possesses the determination to reclaim the uncivilized female body and derive her movement vocabulary from the pelvis, as the root of pleasure.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Uruguay was in a state of political unrest. The government faced constant labor disputes and economic challenges. Her parents were staunch Marxists who demonstrated with their friends, hoping to provide support for a third political party and actively reporting missing persons to Amnesty International. Her family eventually fled the country to avoid becoming political prisoners themselves when she was four and a half years old and went into exile in Venezuela. From abroad they continued to aid Amnesty International’s civil justice efforts in their homeland. By twelve years old, achugar was a self-professed Communist. Looking back on it now, achugar thought her parents were “silly, thinking that they could change the world” (achugar, interview). Yet, she does hold true the importance of shifting consciousness that she learned from them. She translates this into her own passion for art, making works that concentrate on the individual inside of the group. About her process, she says, “I poured all that idealism [from my childhood] into the art making, because art making to me is an exercise in utopian kingdom. You are playing out a way to imagine what could be, what is next” (achugar, interview).
Currently living in Brooklyn, achugar moved to the East Coast after graduating from Cal Arts in 1995. She began her professional career dancing for notable contemporary choreographers from New York’s Downtown scene, including John Jasperse, Wil Swanson, and Chameckilerner. The companies she worked for had a traditional top down leadership model. Even though the majority of the choreographers honor and credit the contributions of their dancers in the creation of their works, there is a lead directorial role that dictates the outcome of the final production. (Note that Chameckilerner was a dual directorship of the combined visions of choreographers Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner melded into one.) It was during this time working for choreographers who perpetuate a single vision auteurs when she realized that audience members weren’t necessarily connecting to the experience of the performances. She could see the disconnection in their faces, some asleep, as she executed deeply embodied movements that had more visual impact than capacity to generate emotional empathy. This was her first ah-ha moment that motivated her to establish a path for creating dances her own way—”Dance is a visual art form but it is an experience with feeling” (achugar, interview).
As a child of political activists, achugar’s first impulse was to choreograph in partnership. She developed a collaboration with fellow dancer Levi Gonzalez that lasted from 1999 to 2003. By starting her creative pursuits with a peer, she laid a foundation of dialogue and exploration that inform all of her subsequent efforts (achugar, e-mail). Together they discussed and developed the context for the scenes they were setting and brought their whole selves to the research and discovery of movement material. At that time, the Downtown dance scene in New York, an evolution from the Judson Dance Theater lineage, valued an apparent ‘neutral’ body as the canvas to open interpretative possibilities and allow for a ‘released’ musculature. It was a call for a corporal training seemingly removed from any particular training style. In ballet, jazz or modern techniques, there are certain trademarks within their respective movement vocabularies. Alternately, the ‘Downtown’ aesthetic of the day relied on a fluid yet ‘pedestrian’ starkness that was void of emotive or spectacular emphasis. Gonzalez and achugar consciously added tension and holding patterns in their body and into their choreography to infuse meaning and emotion to their movement choices.
Another popular inheritance from the Judson era was partnering duets with two dancers sharing each other’s weight. These were derivative of Contact Improvisation, with flowing, sweeping gestures and smooth rolling landings. In contrast, Gonzalez and achugar were challenging their lineage by using socially weighted actions, pushing their identities to the forefront, and exploring ideas in a horizontal structure. Sexuality and theatricality were other devices they introduced into their collaborations. Their 2002 duet Hit consisted of the dancers literally slapping each other repeatedly. The promotional photographs of the piece illustrated both performers in bloody make up with bruises and cuts on their faces. achugar’s “desire to be expressive” may not have been a popular trend in the 90s, but she none the less found willing collaborators in Gonzalez initially, and, after 2002, in casts of female dancers. She deliberately worked exclusively with women as they were the majority in the dance work force and regularly passed up for male counterparts. She structured her group choreography as collaborative laboratories, based on her socialist upbringing, believing that “everything should be a collective… [it] sounds beautiful to have full consensus” (achugar, interview). The sense of equality is elevated with the dancers wearing the same uniform, a worker’s navy blue smock. Being together, the trust and confidence that is gained is essential to cultivating the strength necessary to access expressivity, rooted in deeply personal aspects of the female anatomy, exposing energies and body parts from within the craft and forms of the dances. achugar’s performances channel the feminine, removing shame that has been imposed on women over decades of colonization, patriarchy, and capitalism. Having recently heard that scientists believe that the honeybee, a social community-based being, could be relaying information to one another through vibration, achugar feels validated by this hypothesis of a system of vibratory intercommunication as it is the basis of her dance movements (achugar, interview).
It wasn’t until achugar stumbled upon the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, that she fully recognized these tendencies from her passionate political upbringing. As Occupy state on their website, Occupytheory.org:
On September 17th, 2011 Occupy Wall Street was born. A hundred people occupied Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and opened a space for imagination. We began to share food, clothing, and shelter. We sought refuge in the shell of a concrete jungle and found community. Inspired by our actions, occupations began throughout the globe. In a matter of months nearly all of them were crushed by the weight of repression and co-optation, but occupy cannot be stopped. It is a collective unleashing of anger and frustration at a dying capitalist system and points toward a new world. Let us create this world together.
Unlike her parents, she does not identify as Marxist but still strongly feels that making a profit from someone else’s labor is wrong. “I had an immediate fascination with the occupy movement and followed it online. I wonder why in the dance world we don’t talk about labor, why didn’t dance get involved, dancers are used to struggling [financially]” (achugar, interview).
Once achugar started her own group productions, she decided to lay out the economic reality of each project for her dancers from the very first meeting together. “I explain payments in advance [because] you need to know” (achugar, interview). This sense of transparency and fairness extends to how she treats her dancers in creation too. She foregrounds the chorus and does not establish any soloist roles, giving the platform for all and not the exceptional. As a result, one feels the power of the group when watching her choreography, established from the process to the finished production.
From the perspective of Hilary Clark, achugar’s dancer since 2005:
Pleasure in the body, and the feeling and being in the experience, is the highest value. Like deepening into a meditative state, in luciana’s work there is a similar task as to meditation, only we deepen and experience one’s self through the frame of what we were are working in, the pleasures of sensation in the body, the endurance, and emotional landscape of the body. How I am experiencing it is the driver of the host of ideas we are working within.
The realness of the sensations is the key. The dancers must exude this sensual vibration as communication with each audience member as absorbent extensions and witnesses. Clark continues to explain that achugar “creates a communal feel by envisioning the potential of the audience, [who] are considered in the experience, they are experiencing, and have the potential to feel what we are doing and performing.”
luciana achugar, Super Natural Return to Love
Photo: Briana Blasko
That communal feeling is a practical aspect in the movement generation but is also part of the structure of the choreography as a whole in space. The working relationships between the dancers provide the unity of the group, each body the site of communication, and the use of the architecture is vital to the enveloping of the moment. In each of her works, achugar considers the surroundings as part of the performance, often having the performers enter and/or exit from the audience area. Each completed work takes on a ceremonial tone, acknowledging the agreement, we as audiences and artists have together, within the inhabited theatrical experience.
Her first group work premiered in 2004 and was called A Super Natural Return to Love. She describes this work as a manifesto, a collective return to feeling, privileging the female body’s experiences, and moving from a place of pleasure. Her website lists that “A Super Natural Return to Love takes over the stage with six uncivilized women in a hyper-drama in perpetual transformation.” The dancers, all wearing navy blue factory worker smocks, perform staggered unison movement phrases weaving in and out of formation with a similar camp aesthetic to Busby Berkeley choreography for musicals from the 1930s. Unlike Berkeley, achugar’s sequencing erodes over the course of the work as the initially synchronized movements based on typical flight attendants’ demonstrative safety gestures break down to unearth the true motivation for the performance, “pleasures of the flesh, desire and excess of emotion” (lachugar.com). With leading the movement choices from their pelvises, achugar and her dancers don’t repeat the Berkeley-esque objectification of women and his display of their cookie-cutter body parts. Her dancers with various body types take liberties as they embody sensuality, exposing fishnet stockings under their identical smocks, and the blood red stains which leaked onto their hips from the red paint previously stored in their dress pockets. The piece ends with the dancers inverting their bodies in crab-like positions literally using their pubic bones to guide them around in space.
From the original assembly line workers movement patterns, parading around the stage, to their informal waiting against the constructed wall on a break as individuals, achugar quietly comments on the nation’s current activities in the Iraq war by illustrating a nostalgic vision of women working during World War II on the factory floors, supporting the war effort at home by building needed equipment for the Allies. However the ending sequence of Super Natural brings in a twist with dancers moving like B-movie groin-headed creatures from an alien invasion theme. The image is uncomfortable and tormented. One could translate this to display how far today’s society has pulled women out of their body’s sexual core energetic centers competing for places in a man-dominant world. Additionally this scene could also reenact the perception of colonizers arriving to a foreign land, seeing ‘natives’ for the first time, and judged indigenous peoples as strange, ignorant and without a mastery over their bodily urges, seen as these genitally driven mindless animals.
Her follow up piece, Exhausting Love at Danspace Project from 2006 was meant to name the various locations it was performed in as part of the title but was never toured beyond the premiere at Danspace Project, an influential dance venue housed in Saint Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery’s sanctuary in the East Village of New York City. As described on her website, this group choreography where “the dancers become the blue collar working class of the art form; performing the labor of the body, the labor of dance, the labor of love,” circles the audience and wraps them into the movement repetitions in a conceptual communion experiencing sensations and emotions. There is never a narrative in achugar’s creations and this one is no exception. There is however clearly felt logic and transformation derived from the innate sense of being built into the choreography. By enrobing the audience with the choreography, they are woven into the performance. The retention of the blue workers uniforms from the previous piece eliminates the layering of meaning that a customized costume for this spiritual structure would have added. Audience members have the ability to see the work over the design of the visual environment. The church’s sanctuary is iconic, the costumes recycled from the last work, the group of women performing are nearly the same. It is the content of the work, the dance and its reason for being that is foregrounded. The movements become hypnotizing as the dancers sway into position in the space and keep pace with their breath, audible and inviting. Village Voice dance critic Deborah Jowitt writes about being spellbound by achugar’s work and how “she makes you intensely aware, sometimes at very close range, of the performers’ breathing, their body heat, their sweat.”
Turning not only the performers’ focus inwards as is the case in her first two group works with women exploring internal sensations of their bodies, the 2007 group piece Franny and Zooey was reflective of the rehearsal process it was born out of and the established “challenge to be as transparent as possible about the creative process. Making the work not as a representation of something but rather as the thing itself” (lachugar.org). Through ritual and dedication, her actions demanded to be executed in the moment and not repeated for the sake of an audience to witness. Within the evolution of her group work, achugar’s choreography continued to strip layers of unnecessary design and superfluous aesthetic inspirations and get closer to the dancers’ labor and political purpose within the performance, almost as a protest or activist demonstration in itself. Performed on stage, with a video background of rehearsal footage, the dancers in Franny and Zooey often face the back relating to their practice of the performance from the past (projected video), putting their attention to the raw and uninhibited dancing. In contrast, the piece starts with a hypnotic light show that bleeds into the audience seating and illuminates the surfaces in the theater in a spectacle of circling follow spots and pulsing flashing colors. In the video we see a dance studio with a cat lounging on the floor. As the recorded dancer enters the frame, she is warming up her wrists, pressing into the floor, entertaining the cat. We observe the cat watching, teaching us to be attentive to weight and texture as the dancer feels her way into fuller movements. One can almost taste the sensations within the dancer’s body. The live choreography builds from there. We see the dancers articulating their legs and arms inside their joints. We can feel the sensuality of rotating limbs from the inside. Video footage voyeuristically examines notes in a journal about the future, video projection that becomes the actual light design and cues for the show. The video lingers, revealing the improvisational testing of final choreographic ideas. As dancers on stage act out the images projected on the back wall, a ghost of the past’s internal landscape of the dancer’s practice is mirrored with the external exhibitionistic live presence. Dancers take turns with the material, entering the stage dressed with the top buttons undone sometimes, and panties off and smocks hiked up other times. The follow spots return at the end of the work, reminding us of our active gaze on their exposed body parts. The piece ends with the dancers undressed, smocks in the air, tossing them in celebration of their ecstatic embodied state. No longer a need to unify the bodies, each bares their individuality.
Berkeley specialized in musicals, innovatively creating elaborate sets and parading women in identical costumes doing geometric movements. There are clear patterns of spectacle and unison in achugar’s early works that draw on his influence. His tactics created trance and fantasy encouraging the male gaze. Although achugar enjoys a kaleidoscopic aesthetic with mesmerizing patterns of spiraling movements, adversely to Berkeley, she empowers the women in the performance’s roles to share their experiences of themselves and not negate their ability to enjoy and display sensation that is distinctively not pornographic. This is similar to feminist artist Carolee Schneemann’s placement of nude bodies in her visual and performance works from the 1960s and 70s. Schneemann explains:
The body has always been central to my art because the eyes are part of the body and the hand receiving the energy and information from the eyes is part of the body, and the sexual body is the energizing core to feeling and thinking, even if it’s displaced conceptually as it often is. But for me, it’s always had an integration. It’s fluid. It’s dynamic.
In response to works such as Schneemann’s famous Meat Joy from 1964, Performance Art research pioneer RoseLee Goldberg claims that, “in terms of Feminism, it reflects as much as leads the way in terms of consciousness-raising. Performance allowed artists to really go out and activate—put into action—these various ideas that they were looking at.” Schneemann’s ‘Kinetic Theater’ was combating the negative sexual image women had in society, confronting taboos, eroticizing performance and skirting pornographic stereotypes. achugar brings emotional resonance to contemporary dance exploration from a conceptual non-narrative foundation. From her early political upbringing in Latin America to now a recognized contemporary choreographer in New York City, her stated mission is that “within my process there lies the fantasy of erasing hierarchical power structures to allow the collective experience of the group to become the content of the work…” and that “there is an almost utopian desire of being transparent and sharing the process; and there is an almost childlike, innocent desire to be closer to or “touch” the audience.”
The Sublime is Us, achugar’s 2008 work for women continues with the navy blue worker’s smocks but strips back yet another layer of theatricality and brings the audience into the actual dance studio where the piece was created, seated in chairs closely facing the room’s rehearsal mirrors. At the beginning, dancers trickle into place as audience members get acclimated to the unorthodox performance setting. Dancers take time to feel their way around the space and add waves of movement which the close any gaps between the viewers and the performers, pushing the air around. Dance scholar Susan Foster defines labor and dance as opposites:
The phrases dance as labor, or the labor of dance are at one level oxymoronic: labor is alienated, dance is completely engaged; labor is productive, that is, it produces things, dance is non-productive and vanishes as it is performed; labor is useful, dance is not useful; labor is hard and dull, dance is easy, spontaneous, sexy, and fun.
The Sublime is Us contradicts Foster by remaining “easy, spontaneous, sexy and fun” and at the same time demonstrates and initiates the audience in the true conditions of the dancer’s tasks, observing through the mirrors the dance, tracking performers’ movements, immersed in the proximal ‘live’ choreography. The New York Times review noted that “by turning the mirror into the principal means of seeing the piece, Ms. Achugar also suggests that the audience personifies the critical gaze that dancers direct at themselves during rehearsal.” This further emphasizes the labor aspects of the dance making. achugar at one point in the performance turns off the lights and gives verbal visualization cues to her dancers prompting them to move from the pelvis. It is an unofficial invitation for the audience to do the same in the privacy of the darkness. The Sublime is Us is the work to become a dancer and to perform a dance. It is all ‘dance’ from the outside stemming from an internal narrative and all ‘labor’ on the inside resulting in transparency for an outside perspective. The audience experiences it through clever placement of participants in relation to the material. Foster does conclude that:
However, there have been some new developments in the organization of the work place and some new theorizations of the nature of labor within the global economy, and these may make it possible to think productively about what it would mean to approach dance as a form of labor and also to envision what dance can say about the act of laboring that might help us understand work better.
luciana achugar, Exhausting Love at Danspace Project
Her final in this loose series of works is FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebration-holyFORM. This kaleidoscope of naked bodies (the smocks are gone), straight hair (wigs with long locks to their waists), and the velvet stage curtain, is a true amalgamation of each of achugar’s previous pieces. Ritualistic repetition of articulated leg positions bond the female dancers into one unidentifiable being behind the hair lengths. The piece progresses from their initial placement in the audience front row to their slow interactions with the stage’s drawn main curtain. Labor is executed in a majority of the dance when each one of the dancers endeavors to put on their denim blue jeans without using their hands. The amount of effort it takes for a pair of stiff pants to be coaxed against gravity up the uneven surface of their legs requires tension, tenacity, wiggling, thrusting, humility, and improvisation. achugar explains, “it’s a lot about sensation and indulgence, which is how I think of movement.”
achugar’s group works with women are more like chapters in the same book. Through her works she is reclaiming a feminine perspective and sharing it as a communal experience. achugar, “I was making work that spoke very much about what the role of the dancer is. All of those pieces with women had a lot to do with the anger or resentment or rage that I had about how hard it is to be a dancer.” The strategies she uses derive from her fundamental beliefs that every dancer must be treated equitably, and their contributions honored to each oeuvre they perform. All the while uncovering the primal intelligence rooted deep in the female bodies’ sensual experience of dance movements in the moment. This consciousness expands into how achugar includes the audience in the structural design and contextual integrity of each of these choreographic works since she began directing group pieces for women. Visual arts curator Mary Jane Jacob instructs that environment can be felt and we, “as a culture, understand organic in another way: it’s natural and living; it is also responsive, and in the process things can grow or wither; it all depends on the conditions.” Through achugar’s behavior, her choreographic works thrive and generously expand our consciousness to our surroundings and everyone in them. After watching achugar in performance, Village Voice dance critic Deborah Jowitt noted that “the night air outside the theater has never seemed so fresh and bright.”
I wrote this research essay as part of my studies at the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance and invite any feedback you may have. Thanks!
Walker Art Center is a NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). Michèle Steinwald was supported by the NPN Mentorship and Leadership Initiative to attend ICPP. Major contributors of NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), MetLife Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Additional sources not linked directly to text above:
achugar, luciana. Personal Interview. 30 October 2012.
achugar, luciana. “Re: Choreographic process.” Message to author. 12 November 2012. E-mail.
Clark, Hilary. “Re: Working with luciana.” Message to author. 2 March 2013. E-mail.
Foster, Susan. “Performing Authenticity and the Labor of Dance.” Unpublished Essay. 17 October 2012. Microsoft Word file.
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How Becoming A Parent Made Me Claim My Feminism
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By Suzanne Hemming – I gave birth to my daughter in 2013 and it was as if my eyes suddenly opened and for the first time I saw the world we live in properly.
I grew up during the second wave of feminism, when the message was that women can have it all: the family; the career and the 80s shoulder pads to go with it. I never once questioned that I couldn’t go out into the world and that I had a place in it. So off I went, with a degree in engineering (how thoroughly modern is that: a girl who studies a male dominated STEM subject eh?) a move to the capital city, and career in TV production. I could vote, had an income. Equality: done.
The 90s came and brought mens’ magazines down from the top shelf to mix with other more mainstream lifestyle publications, and the ladette was born. How wonderful, thought my 20something self: we can behave more like men, we can drink and go crazy, and women have taken ownership of their bodies, choosing to flaunt them if they want to. If people made sexist jokes it was just banter, bants, having a laugh. It wasn’t really sexist was it (this wasn’t the 60s and 70s anymore, Carry On was gone) and we could just banter back, it didn’t mean anything.
So it was all dealt with. The feminists that had gone before had sorted it all out (and so I definitely didn’t have to call myself a feminist as that now meant hating men and we were all equal now right?). The UK equal pay act was put into place in 1970 and the equality act took it all one step further in 2010, so you know, job done.
And then I had my daughter. A beautiful, tiny little human being who I had the responsibility to guide and prepare to go out into the world, which is both wonderfully amazing and totally terrifying: quite the responsibility! Baby girl you can be and do anything you wish – I will tell you that and show you that, always. And so we began to teach, and read, and I nostalgically reached for the fairytales of my childhood. And what did I discover reading them as an adult? That Ariel literally gives up her voice for the man she loves, who doesn’t know she exists. That Sleeping Beauty is fast asleep when a stranger walks into her room and kisses her, and she’s grateful for it. That Prince Charming doesn’t recognise Cinderella in daywear but once the shoe fits, it’s up the aisle for Cinders. Holy stereotype Batman! What are we teaching kids?!
“The feminists that had gone before had sorted it all out, and so I definitely didn’t have to call myself a feminist…”
Once you see you it, you can’t un-see it; you spot these message everywhere: the pink for girls and blue for boys in the toy shops (there’s nothing wrong with the colour pink, I love pink, but other colours are available); the kids’ clothes or toys that have only dinosaurs and spaceships for boys, and butterflies and cupcakes for girls (again, give me all the cupcakes, do, but Princess Leia kicked ass way back in ’77); and of course the ‘taps into victim blaming’ messages that ‘boys will be boys’ and ‘he only does it because he likes you’. I quickly realised that my daughter would receive 1000s of messages everyday, telling her who she should be, how she should act, and what she should like.
So what could I do about this? Moan about it? Worry about it? Before I became a parent, I confess I was a bit of a ‘bury my head in the sand’ kind of person, too afraid to use my voice, or to rock the boat. But now it’s not just about me; now it’s about my little girl. So I started writing, first in a blog, and eventually I started trying to re-write the fairytales. See, it’s not that I don’t like a fairytale with a happily every after: my secret guilty pleasure is a romcom with a fashion related montage sequence and a cheesy pop tune (mind you, I guess that secret’s out the bag now). But surely the princesses don’t need to sit around passively waiting to be saved? My reworking of Cinderella had them becoming friends and heading off to university, Ella declaring they were too young to commit to marriage. Then I had an idea, about a little girl who loves sport, and a little boy who thinks she’ll be rubbish at sport just because she’s a girl. They soon both discover they are equals, that their gender does not have to determine the outcome. Once I started writing, I realised that maybe this could be the way that I could make a difference for my daughter. Just a small difference, but all small changes can add up to create big results.
She’s Not Good for a Girl, She’s Just Good! and the setting up of Thea Chops Books is the result, and now a second book is on the way. This next story is about Florence again (the main character in the first book) and now she’s a princess, but a princess who wants to be an engineer. You see I think we all wear many hats in life. For example I’m a mum, a wife, a daughter, a friend, I was a TV production manager, I did an engineering degree, and my husband might tell you I’m occasionally a bit of a princess (I think he means it affectionately….).
You can wear a crown or a hard hat, in fact you can wear any hat you wish. If my books teach just a handful of girls and boys that they can be who they wish to be, then hopefully the next generation of men and women will view each other as equals, and my daughter will grow up in a world with wide open eyes and every opportunity to be herself.
Thea Chops Books began life when blogger and mum-of-one, Suzanne Hemming, noticed the lack of children’s books that presented males and females as equals. She never intended to become a publisher, but her commitment to the cause of equality coupled with the possibilities of the self-publishing process meant one thing led to another… ‘She’s Not Good For a Girl, She’s Just Good!’ is her first book.
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5/21/2018 – Father trying to get in my house after sending me to jail as a planned excuse to get something I have that incriminates him
Posted: June 6, 2018 in Community Mobbing
Related and associated with this persons setup attempts and frame jobs: LAPD and Officer Sean Dinse, working on their mental illness tactics to try to make me look crazy, then wanting a psych evaluation, which is really an ANGLE to remove me from society to cover up their endless crime spree against me – https://kevinperelmantarget.wordpress.com/2017/11/23/officer-sean-dinse-jenson-and-toros/
Lorena Escobar, Gwen Suazo, Patti googin, Shanna Briantseva, Fernanda Sime Stalking Tactics at Golden State Sports Medical #cnnireport – https://kevinperelmantarget.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/lorena-escobar-gwen-suazo-patti-googin-shanna-briantseva-some-of-the-people-that-have-been-hunting-me-in-this-30-year-campaign/
Link to Police Refusing to help me ever in life!
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Archived Data of their mass 40 year operations, tactics, you name it, but unorganized and unedited
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After my father spend years trying to lock me away in jail, as I found out he was doing at the age 29 met with Mike Huntley’s death threats that they were going to remove me from society.
The judge on these bunk convictions for some strange reason threw me straight in jail saying I am possibly violent, bypassing normal procedures to figure out sentencing. While he had seen me for 5 months, showing no signs of anything, he was extremely angry with the prosecution for speaking out to someone about the illegal operations at lunch, as well as telling my lawyer, “If my father thinks he has punished me, he is wrong, he is a pathological liar”.
When the prosecution had some harmless pictures he was mad about which no one would normally care about.
This picture of me holding the toy dart gun which was on my twitter profile years ago, was the end all be all of crimes according to my father who could not comprehend that their is an art, and social world out there with billions of artists or people creating, art, movies, music. In his yes, this picture shows that I am crazy and need to be removed from society. Yet he can’t keep things in context. Like I am an Artist, Who has worked for Universal Studios, Modern Video Film, Saban, with a College and BFA in Computer Science, and Electronic Media. That’s like saying your an Artist who isn’t allowed to create art.
But do you really think if I was anyone else, he would pitch the same song and dance, or he could not care less? In other words, it is personal, he does not like me, and has MOTIVE to rid me of the world about something he is involved in and is trying to cover up.
If someone says these pictures are offensive? I question if they are out killing people for blinking wrong. Because this imagery is seen all day and night, especially in Hollywood, the Art World, even google Studio Shoot searches. There is nothing that odd about any of this, only that I am being HUNTED for it for some reason.
So what is so important in this imagery that I am told I will be Incarcerated for life for? And that they want coerced false confessions that I am a murderer?
Hence throwing me in maximum security prison for misdemeanors and no fines or sentencing procedures and immediately trying to get in my house that night pretending he is concerned about the cat.
Only crime I really committed was telling people they have been lied too. Which isn’t a crime, it’s my 1st amendment
But that is not what the Police believe. When one Sheriff at Pitchess (wayside) sarcastically said to me, “You are special” and I said back to her, I am only special because of the government crimes against me. The other female one in anger responded that if I have enough time on my hands to speak out about what is going on, then I need to move to Afghanistan. I proceeded to talk about the 1st amendment, speaking out about Bills that need to be past, changes in Government which is our government for the people. She responded in rage thinking that she is god and that they can do whatever they want in the judicial system. Exposing the corrupt illegal operations. That our judicial system is not about law, order, protections, safety. It is a social club of people who want power. This sheriff didn’t even have the education of a High School level, and didn’t even know what her job description was, while exerting communistic or Nazi behaviors. She had no concept of right or wrong. Just do what we say or you are labeled a criminal. And made it clear that things like freedoms of speech are crimes to her.
Would you feel safe walking into a police station reporting a crime against you with that mentality? Look at what has been done to my life for it? Do you think that we need checks and balances in the Government and Judicial system now? Especially on NSA and FBI level operations? If someone like me is writing this? You damn well better be worried!
They Sent me to (IRC) Los Angels, Then to Pitchess Detention Center (Wayside), Valencia. North (Maximum Security Prison)
Inmate Number: 5307978
Already sentenced and went to jail for now reason now they are trying to sentence me again. Remember. The punishment must fit the crime. Even if I really were guilty of anything, no one has even come close to getting hurt. No fines imposed.From a court who told me “We just want one conviction”, meaning they do not care about right or wrong. They just want what they want.
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And I can’t fund much public Record of me being an inmate other then then at Van Nuys when pulled out of the court room on sentencing showing that all the things being done to me are off the record.
Remember, these are all Misdemeanors: Even if true, no one even got hurt. And they are resentenching me a second time based on the court Summary Information which shows I didn’t go to jail, even though I did.
Pitchess (Wayside) The Hole (Maximum Security – Solitary confinement – 2 people rooms, out for 15 minutes a day for a shower and phone call
Cell Block 928 – Room 13 – 2 days
Cell Block 928 – Room 9 – 1 day
Cell Block 922 – Room 9 – 3 days
Dorm 629 – 3 Days – With continual thugging terror tactics related to my fathers officer and his employees trying to put me in the ground with Lorena Escobar and Elsie Sandoval, and many others to keep me quiet. Even with them letting me know it’s from Elsie with their art
Dorm 612 – 1 day – After going to Van Nuys court getting bailed out, the clerks MAGICALLY lost the paperwork and put me back in within minutes of being paid to get me back in jail despite bail being paid after sentenced
Moved to South side for 1 day
While using the term “Gang Stalking” Against me notifying Gangs worldwide I am somehow doing something to them or wrong Here for details
Blogs Related to this illegal case
Cops Endlessly Called on me for going to the park to talk walks in between their 15 years of mass attacks to me for leaving my house
Officer Sean Dinse, illegal personal vendetta with Officer Jensen back in 2013, Mike Huntley showing his true colors 17 years ago working with NSA/FBI to rid me of the world since 5 on these cover up arrests
Also in these prison’s Gang Memebers were all told by the police that GangStalking (http://www.KevinPerelmanTarget.com) has something to do with Gangs literally leaving out the concept of group stalkings, and a lot of them government operations which I prove is being done to me since 5 years old.
Do you really think this is about me being a violent paranoid schizo, or about what I know? Hunted for being given a toy dart gun for my 30th birthday by people working with my family? Does that make any sense? And then the crime switches to things like Doing Photo shoots with black girls on Chess Board, composites with 3D Animation with no weapons?
I had made it clear I didn’t want him anywhere around me, even in court. Yet I believe he wants this toy dart gun he was using to try to scare or thug me into false confessions because it probably incriminates him in illegal operations.
Sending people after me like Victoria Walker, and Micheal Bialys. Victoria Giving me the gun for my 30th birthday, in a surprise box mimicking me for giving Kelly Hatch a joking Surprise box at Southern Oregon State college that had things like trippy toys Oil/water/food coloring in a bottle and fun things like this. Victoria had Toy guns in hopes she could get coerced false confessions with my father working with the government.
This toy gun establishing a connection between all sorts of illegal government operations and my family. Who could care less if I owned a toy gun or a real gun. The 2nd amendment states I am allowed to have a gun. But yet, I am being hunted for a toy gun with a clean record until last week in 40 years of all day and night 24/7 setup attempts and frame job operations I found out at 29 years old was going on.
Does that sound a little strange? While I can go deeper and deeper into these operations, this is just to show you how much energy my father has spent over the last 20 years to get this gun back for some reason, and try to keep me quiet about all the illegal activities and stalkings done to me he is involved in since a young child
Why would he and the court remotely care about harmless art like this the world see’s all day and night every day with cover up lies that I am a crazy violent paranoid schizophrenic?
“I have given you enough rope to hang yourself with”, “We are using the system against you”, “You had better live a careful life”, walking around our office singing “World of paranoia” over and over and dropping papers on my desk about making people mentally ill to control them, while telling me to go to my father to tell him something.
I found out I was being hunted by my family, police, NSA/FBI operations with worldwide support in endless setup attempts, frame jobs, you name it to incarcerate me for life still going on.
Recently, at 46 years old my father got what he wanted with his lies to the world since 5 years old that I am a crazy violent paranoid schizophrenic with no self control. And am a danger to myself or others.
What was the reason they wanted to put me in jail for, and so quickly for no legitimate reason?
That has to do with the setups and the fact my father seems to want something I have. And why does he want it?
While using my artwork against me going through each and every one. Focusing on the ones with guns in them working with the police to try to make me look crazy.
While in the court on some frame jobs the police arrested me for. Pictures my father didn’t like came out for circumstantial evidence showing the connection back to him and what he has been doing.
Once he got me convicted and thrown in jail, even though I had broken all contact with him, and he was told not to even show up to sit in court. He proceeded once I was arrested to go to my house with keys he asked for 20 years prior in hopes he could get in my house, with an excuse to feed my cat. The cat that Patti Googin wanted me to get so bad, who didn’t like my 16 year old watercolor grateful dead painting with a skull holding a gun which after this the police and my father put a hole in his 300E mercedes telling the world I tried to kill or scare him. And having people hunt me my entire life in hopes to scare me into false confessions while off at colleges trying to make a life for myself working with Lorena Escobar his office manager paid to do these types of things
While this goes much deeper. You can see the intricacies and planning involved to simply try to get in my house. The question of what he wants?
The toy gun he had Victoria Walker give me for my 30th birthday in which he was hoping for a confession from? which is in my art is my guess?
Which shows I not only don’t have any guilt, but it incriminates him and shows the truth of who he is and the types of things he does.
So why is my family and the police really so mad about this toy gun in my art? Well, by trying to thug and scare me into false confessions, then me showing I have no fear. It shows I have no guilt, or shame or have done nothing wrong. But more importantly, not only does it show I have done nothing wrong. It’s EXPOSES the truth, that they have endlessly wronged me over and over.
By simply having this toy gun, and it being in my art to the world makes the statement that I have done nothing wrong, and they have committed every crime known to man against me and don’t want that coming to light.
Hence they don’t want any imagery with this harmless toy gun which no one could care less about normally. They don’t want the message to the world that I have been stalked and targeted since 5 years old and want to try to make me look like a crazy violent paranoid schizo. But the art in itself shows the obvious. That it is merely a prop in a photo. A Prop that incriminates the person who bought it, and the people told to go buy it, to give me to to try to thug and coerce me in false confessions to lock me away.
During these recent arrests with Terrance Scroggins endless setup attempts and frame jobs working with the Police, they asked me about the toy gun and my photography. What relevance does that even have? What does that have to do with the tea in china, other then they are hunting me and showing their true colors?
Marksman Repeater (Given to me as a present in the Kelly Hatch Mimic Surprise box by Victoria Walker and Matt Von Maloki for my 30th Birthday who is working with the government to lock me away)
Victoria Walker – Penal Code 187 physical Attacks with LAPD setup/frame job operations and 40 year campaigns with NSA/FBI and Worldwide support –
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Well, is most in the world know, this is not out of the norm. But just to post proof of what the rest of the world is doing which is no different, here is a simple search of millions of similar pictures by people doing the same thing on a serch. So why is this OK for the world, but not Kevin Perelman? I think the Important questions need to be asked
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So now the real question of why my family, the Police and Government have been working on me with these types of Gun smear operations since 5 years old with worldwide support to figure out how to remove me from society with every lie known to man and Billions of government resources invested in me to remove me from society
Keep in mind, most photographers and movie studios use real guns on set and no one could care less. I also had problems like this renting Samuri props for photoshoots, so you understand what this is really about.
Do you really think this is about a picture of me or anyone else holding a toy gun? Remember, these types of things start at a very young age being done to me to make people think I am crazy.
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Brexit – what next?
Posted: November 16, 2018 in Political musings
Tags: Brexit, Brexiteers, Conservatives, EU, negotiations, politics, Referendum, Theresa May, UK
Regular readers will know (a) that I think Brexit is a really, really bad idea, and (b) I have blogged about why often, or waffled about it on Facebook, or whatever.
But after the shambles in the UK Parliament yesterday (Australian time) I thought this BBC graphic might be useful for anyone trying to understand what on earth happens (or can happen) now.
The UK Parliament yesterday was a seething mass of regret, ambition, determination and anger.
The problem, as one Brexiteer friend complained to me this morning is that Prime Minister Theresa May was never a Leaver, and therefore the entire negotiation has been bumbled along incompetently in order to leave the British sort of still in the EU and sort of out of it. As Aussies would say, paraphrasing a famous old advertising slogan: “It’s the Brexit you’re having when you’re not having a Brexit.”
Theresa May under pressure in the UK parliament yesterday.
There’s only one problem with this analysis, which is that the current situation could well cost Theresa May her job, and politicians don’t generally engineer a situation which seems tailor-made to see them sacked.
If May wanted a Brexit deal that left the situation essentially a status quo, one suspects she would have dressed it up better to mollify the right-wing anti-European segment of her party, rather than enrage it. (Which presumes that they were capable of being mollified, which is by no means certain.) But when the Minister in charge of the deal enunciated yesterday, as Dominic Raab did, that he’s resigning because he can’t support the deal he himself negotiated, then we are in uncharted political territory.
It is likely that the Brexiteers in May’s party (by no means a majority, but incredibly determined and vocal) were simply waiting for this moment to topple her in favour of one of their own. They won’t get one of their own, but they will succeed in making their party look ungovernable and fractured. Why they would want to do that you will have to ask them.
Nevertheless, putting a deal to Parliament which seems to please no-one apart from a small core of May loyalists seems a failure of political strategy. Doing something to unite the right wing of the Tories, the increasingly marginalised Lib Dems, the much more significant Scots Nats, large swathes of Labour (if not its increasingly unimpressive leader) and even the DUP (nominally part of the government, in effect) is quite a feat.
It may simply be that May has simply run out of time, and had to do something. She may, indeed, prefer to go down fighting on the principle that the people voted for Brexit, and she’s going to deliver the Brexit she can, or die trying. Certainly her performance in the Commons – against a barrage of criticism unlike anything seen since Chamberlain was removed in 1940 – was bullish, determined and courageous.
The problem, of course, is that in terms of what is right for Britain, this is a disaster.
If the deal cannot survive the Commons, then a “No Deal, Crash Out” outcome becomes very likely. Passionate opponents of the EU will say (are saying) “Well, so what? We survived two World Wars, we can manage a bit of trade disruption!” The problem is that this is mere wishful thinking – “magic thinking” – and terrifyingly naive.
The UK currently trades with the EU under rules set down by the EU customs union, which is an agreement that goods can be traded freely, and the single market, which sets a common regulatory structure and allows the free movement of goods, capital, people and services.
Leaving these two arrangements overnight would, first, mean the UK would trade with the EU on the basis of rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This would end the free movement of goods between the UK and the EU, and mean that tariffs, or special import taxes, would apply on some products. Secondly, customs checks would also be immediately needed between countries where they aren’t currently. Chaos.
Aviation is an example of another key area where problems will arise. At the moment the UK aircraft industry operates under EU regulation both within the EU and for flights to other countries such as the US. If the UK leaves suddenly next March, then some new regulatory arrangement would be needed. This could be worked out in advance, or could ground flights between the UK and EU countries for a period if not. On some scenarios, flights might halt for a few days before things are worked out – but much will depend on what the mood is between the two sides at the time. Any any such disruption would cause untold problems. Similarly in pharmaceuticals, the UK is part of the EU regulatory regime and questions would emerge over pharma exports from the UK,and vice versa. Stockpiling of vital drugs in both the UK and EU countries is already at the planning stage as a fallback. The UK Health Secretary reportedly told the Prime Minister and her cabinet that he ‘could not guarantee that people would not die’ if no Brexit deal was agreed. Matt Hancock is reported to have said that lives will be at risk due to a shortage of medicine in a no deal scenario during the stormy No 10 five-hour meeting on Wednesday.
Britain is also highly dependent on imported food. By value, imports make up more than 90% of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK and half of the meat. A “hard” Brexit is expected to suddenly and substantially increase trade costs and make food imports more expensive, something that could lead to changes in diets and dietary risk factors that influence health. In fact, Brexit could lead to up to 5,600 diet-related deaths per year by 2027, additional healthcare expenditure of £600m, and increase the GDP losses of Brexit by up to 50% according to estimates Florian Freund and Marco Springmann published in a new Oxford Martin School Working Paper.
The stupid thing about all this is that it is only Theresa May’s dogged determination (although disgracefully supported by the grinning idiot Jeremy Corbyn) that “Brexit means Brexit” and therefore there is nothing for it but to “keep on buggering on” in Churchill’s famous aphorism, that is the real problem here. She is full of Thatcher-like passion that “there is no alternative”. But there is an alternative, which is commonsense.
During the Brexit process, and increasingly as the negotiations have become mired in the very complexity that many of us predicted from day 1, the British people have gradually woken up to the fact that they don’t really like the look of what they voted for.
The original referendum was advisory only, and even if we elevate that to the level of Holy Writ as some have (with no basis in law), arguing that it places a moral obligation on the Government to deliver Brexit (this is May’s oft-stated position), this does not allow for the very obvious fact that people change their mind.
When a Government is elected, it undoubtedly has a mandate (of some strength or other, depending on the details of a result) but that Government is elected in sure and certain knowledge that it can be removed if it loses the confidence of the House, or a subsequent election. So why should the result of a referendum be somehow locked eternally in stone, when no other Governmental process is?
The Government has struggled hard to deliver Brexit. And failed. It was always a quixotic and incredibly complex goal.
The terms of the deal May has now put on the table actually leaves Britain economically worse off than staying in the EU, but with none of the advantages that Brexit was supposed to deliver. Far from “taking back control”, it actually cedes further control to the bureaucrats. Crashing out without a deal would be political and economic insanity, although it would be the preferred option for the Brexit fanatics. But in reality they have never truly been in a majority, either in the Conservative Party, or the country as a whole.
Opinion polls now suggest that there is a solid majority of the British electorate who have changed their minds on Brexit as the details have become clear. An even larger majority want the chance to vote on the terms of the deal in a so-called “People’s Vote”. May stubbornly refuses.
It is simple ornery-ness to deny them that chance, especially as it might well produce a result – staying in the EU – which would instantly resolve the current impasse. Such a result would not, of course, prevent the UK seeking to continue to renegotiate any of the terms of membership which it finds especially onerous.
Sadly, such commonsense is in short supply at the moment. Götterdämmerung works in Wagner operas. It’s no way to run a country.
Pat A says:
Excellent and thoughtful precis of this whole Brexit debacle, Yolly, thank you.
Unfortunately many people seem to be naive to the point of stupidity including major politicians – how they summon the intelligence to cross the road unaided is beyond me. Dominic Raab (who has just resigned on a point of what he seems to think is principle) was called by his staff Raab C Brexit (people in the UK will know of Rab C Nesbit, a fictional character and [accidental] gormless comic genius) – and Dominic Raab openly said a couple of days ago that he didn’t realise the Dover-Calais trade was so vital to the country!!! Presumably he thought the channel tunnel had been put there just for holidaymakers – but this was a then government minister and (then) member of the Cabinet openly admitting his TERRIFYING ignorance of a) trade and b) how this country works – and he is one who said Brexit would bring untold benefits to the UK and no consequences. Idiot.
For anyone with a) intelligence and b) a fully functioning conscience, this is an awful time to be around here. The trouble is that even now, many people don’t seem to have a clue what is happening and what the horrible consequences can be – how they can have missed all this is beyond me, but lots of people have, I was talking to one only last week. The prime Brexiteers are reported to have been getting a lot of their assets out of the country – most of them are multimillionaires and Jacob Rees Mogg is reported to have moved a mass of his business dealings to the Republic of Ireland because of Brexit. Ah the gentle whiff of hypocrisy!
To take but one example of the thousands, take medicines – we import £37 million of medicines per month from the EU – people don’t take these for fun, they save lives. If they can’t be flown/shipped in without border problems, people will sicken and die. One days delays at customs has in the past caused 25 mile tailbacks – that is just for one day, imagine how vast and all encompassing the lorry parks will be if there is border chaos – people will die and it worries me to pieces.
And we haven’t even got on to the car industry and other industries that now have a 40 minute window to get their new parts delivered – two or three delays would mean plants closed down and moved abroad along with hundreds of thousands of jobs – they have warned the government and been ignored
Oh yes, and as for that meaningless piece of Mrs May’s propaganda ‘Brexit means Brexit’ – well ‘idiot means idiot’, ‘Kafka means Kafka’ etc etc.
I could write so much on this – but I will just say about the old saw ‘people get the government they deserve’ – no we don’t, we get the government the most clueless deserve – God help us all.
Stephen Yolland says:
You may care to engage with Paul’s comment on this article, Pat, if you can be bothered.
Paul Brixey says:
Don’t bother as I’ve heard enough old tosh from the likes of him. Brexiteers are even more adamant that we will be leaving due to the attitudes of Remainers, the Political Elite and the EU. And your attitude of “if you can be bothered” just about sums up the arrogance of the Remainers over here. We have had enough. We’ve had every insult thrown us but we will stand firm.
Except you’re not standing firm. The Leave side is shedding supporters daily and has been for a year.
What you hear and what is happening could well be two different things. A People’s Vote will never happen but the nasty streak in me says ‘bring it on’. Then what would Remainers do if they lost….again?
A people’s vote is now the only way out of the mess that you are your far right loons have foisted on the country. The fact that you can’t understand that is typical of the level of ignorance shown by Farage, Johnson, Rees-Mogg and the rest of your idiot born-to-rule crew. Incidentally, ever wonder why Farage has insisted his children have German nationality? Hmmm?
Wake up.
“Far right loons”……and the abuse continues…..very Liberal of you Yolly.
I have no respect for far right loons. You call it abuse. I call it not being a bullshit artist.
In your labelling of Brexiteers as ‘Far right loons’ you include people like me and I am far from ‘far right’.
I never hear you express anything but far right views.
I find that insulting to be honest. Think you misunderstand what ‘far right’ means now.
If you want to class me incorrectly as ‘far right’, go ahead but I’ll class myself as just RIGHT.
I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Typical smart arse response by a Lib Dem and so like the comments that spew out of Tom Brake’s mouth in Parliament for cheap jibes.
You really are an unhappy person nowadays, aren’t you? Eaten up by bile. Pity.
Yes I am. The big reason being totally fed up with the whinging and whining of remainers who just can’t accept the result of a democratic vote. The funny thing a large majority of them tend not to even live in the UK
Snide little comment. You do have a very poor understanding of democracy, don’t you?
“Poor understanding”, I think not. Funny thing is we have a Lib Dem on our local council who is trying to defy a clear majority vote by the Full Council. Seems like a trait amongst Lib Dems. Sorry way to go for a once proud Party.
You seem to think democracy is a once-off event. It isn’t. It’s a process.
Ignoring the result of a democratic vote is a dangerous thing to do especially at a time when the public has little faith in our elected MP’s and system. It will not be good for our country and I for one probably wouldn’t bother to vote ever again.
You keep ignoring the points that (a) the referendum was only advisory (b) there is nothing undemocratic about one vote overturning another vote – that is the very BASIS of democracy.
If you don’t answer my other question asking you to speak plainly I will be forced to delete all your comments and ban you from this site.
I notice you don’t argue with the fact you’re being snide. A most unpleasant characteristic.
Because we would have no control. I would have no faith in an army that involved some of the countries involved. I take it you’re in favour.
You can take it I see very little difference between NATO and an EU defence Force. As for “having no control”, for decades you have been perfectly happy to have American aggressive nuclear weapons on UK soil over which we genuinely have no control. Does that bother you?
I’m not happy with it but not overly concerned one way or the other. I would much rather have americans on our side than some tinpot EU beuracrats acting way above their station. I love the way you use the word ‘we’ as if you’re still on UK soil.
I love the way you imagine a conflict in Europe would not affect where I live, let alone the family and friends that are still domiciled in the UK. I note you trust Donald Trump over Macron or Merkel. I don’t. I would much rather be allied with Europe than America. Europe is more stable and less belligerent.
I wouldn’t trust Merkel or Macron with my car keys. In any case both of them will be on their way soon.
Woke up this morning expecting a long blog from you which ultimately would lead to a demand for a so called ‘People’s Vote’ and surprise, surprise you didn’t let me down.
The Prime Minister has made a mess of the negotiations, or rather not allowed her negotiators to do the job that they were being paid for. With support from her sidekick Olly Robbins she has gone against the will of the people who voted in a democratic vote. Not only that she has broken a manifesto commitment.
She may be tough (stubborn) but she deserved everything she got in the commons yesterday.
When Cameron proposed the referendum he said that the Government would do what the people decided so it was not advisory at all.
One thing I do agree with you is that the Lib Dems have been increasingly marginalised. You’re spot on there but I think the description ‘increasingly more insignificant’ would be more appropriate. Their input yesterday was some waffle from Vince Cable and the usual smart arse comment from Tom Brake.
You will never get a ‘People’s Vote’ or a re-run of the referendum just because you didn’t like the result. It wouldn’t be democratic and would cause even more damage to the fabric of the country and the future of democracy which is something I thought you would be worried about.
I admire you’re perseverance but not sure you really understand what’s going on over here or got any idea of the anger in the country.
I just watched three hours of analysis on Sky News where speaker after speaker said “a second referendum is by far the most likely outcome”. When it happens you will, of course, rush back here to admit I was right all along.
As for “it was not advisory at all”, whatever rubbish was spoken by Cameron at the time is utterly irrelevant, particularly because he thought he was going to win and therefore he could use the result as a stick to beat his own far right loons over the head with – idiot – but primarily because the referendum was set up by an act of parliament – a law – which clearly states it was advisory only. Your mates Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson and the rest of the liars can waffle on all you like, but a fact is a fact.
“Three hours of analysis where speaker after speaker……..”, exactly, biased and blatant anti Brexit reporting by Sly. At one point the reporter described Brexiteers as Far Right and had to retract it quickly.
So a Government can issue a nationwide leaflet saying that they will abide by the will of the people yet it’s advisory’. Cue the end of democracy if that’s the case.
Whatever the leaflets or the politicians said, what matters is what the BILL said that Parliament passed. Why can’t you people get that into your thick skulls? Anyway, as the article said, even if you consider it not advisory only, why can’t people be allowed to change their minds?
Also: We originally voted in a referendum to go INTO the EU. How come it’s ok to overturn THAT Referendum, but not the one a couple of years back. You really haven’t thought any of this through, have you?
“Thick skulls”….yet another insult to add to the many.
Of course people can change their minds but you can’t keep over turning election results on a whim. If Remainers were so keen on staying in then maybe they should just get off their arses and exercise their democratic right.
They might in elections in the future but the effect will be negated by the banning of multiple voting.
Multiple voting? What far right nonsense are you spouting now?
Evidence? Note, you are not allowed to quote a lunatic conspiracy theory website to support your rankings.
You obviously missed the open admittance from students in such places like Canterbury and Oxford. Are you denying that it happened?
Nope. I am denying it’s relevant. A handful of votes at most. Compared to, for example, the utter dishonesty of the Leave campaign that you can’t confront.
A handful…..my arse. I didn’t even raise the issue of gathering of bulk votes in some areas because I know I would be accused of racism.
You’re not racist for pointing out that Tories collect bundles of votes from old folks homes 😉
Ha ha or a particular group of people collecting them in Tower Hamlets, Bradford etc etc
A “particular group of people”? Who could you possibly mean? Speak plainly.
I would but we’re not allowed to anymore. Another sop to the PC brigade.
I think we all know what you’re referring to or implying Paul. Why are you too cowardly to speak plainly?
If you are not prepared to speak clearly I am afraid we cannot continue the discussion.
As a committed and angry Brexiteer you obviously now blame May for not being able to deliver the impossible like those who share your point of view. Fair enough, you’re entitled to think what you like. But it’s a nonsense. Brexit was never going to happen because you can’t detach Britain from its biggest trading partners.
I do blame May as a Remainer should never have been in touch. Funny that you ignored my comment about the involvement of Mr Robbins and the insignificance of the Lib Dems.
I’m not ignoring it, you were repeating what I wrote in the article.
As for calling the referendum “democratic”, a referendum built on outrageous lies is many things, but democratic isn’t one of them. How’s that extra money for the NHS going for you, Mr Brixey?
If you’re referring to what was written on the bus then forget it. that was an example as you well know. Project Fear was full of lies
Can you hear your own confirmation bias? It was no “example” it was a bloody promise! Do you need a photo of the bus reproduced to remind you?
I know exactly what was on that bus and nowhere did it mention the word ‘promise’. I don’t think Remainers should try and take the moral high ground after the claims by Project Fear and dare I say it, still going on to this day.
There was no project fear – what you are seeing now is absolutely what the Remain camp said would happen. You’re so locked in your bias you daren’t admit it.
Ditto. If there was no Project Fear then you’re living in cuckoo land.
If you want to defeat something, and you have no evidence to place against the argument, then you label it “Project Fear”. “Project Fear” as you call it is coming to pass, right now. I sincerely trust that none of your family need medication that is going to get stopped at Calais in March 30th.
Oh do me a favour. You’re far too intelligent for a comment like that.
On the contrary, you just don’t wish to admit it. The Leave campaign was a tissue of lies that completely conned millions of people, including you.
I beg to differ and didn’t need any persuading whatsoever and I’m even more determined now.
Wonderful Yolly, I think you’ve done it for me, thank you! Mind you, we haven’t even touched on Aaron Banks who so heavily funded the Leave campaign, and the money from strange sources, Russia being mentioned;or the fact that Farage is now under investigation by Robert Mueller…. or the fact that it wasn’t ‘the will of the people’ as so many Brexiteers like to call it – 17 million out of a total voting population of 46.1 million at the time (Office of National Statistics) doesn’t make it the will of 64 million people – it makes it the tail wagging the dog – and in a non binding referendum at that.
Nor does it mention the fact that in 1998, during the Northern Ireland Peace Process, every single household in NI had a copy of the proposed declaration delivered to their door so that they could vote on it. We deserve no less, particularly since the Brexit deal that has been agreed is so very far from the original that even Brexiteers don’t like it. No-one voted to be poorer – particularly that much poorer!
Then there’s the fact that up to the very day of the referendum Farage said that if the vote went 52 – 48 in the Remainers favour, he would call for a second referendum….
We could go on, couldn’t we Yolly, but we pay attention!
Oh, BTW, the People’s Vote campaign now say that Jeremy Corbyn is now on board for a People’s Vote – he might at last have got off the fence, sensing some possible political advantage to himself. In today’s email they say “Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has demanded his party vote against the deal adding: “If we cannot get a general election… we will support all options remaining on the table, including campaigning for a public vote.””
They also say “It’s not just the Brexiters in Parliament who want to tear up May’s lousy deal. A YouGov poll shows that 63% of the public want it rejected when ‘don’t know’s’ are excluded. Some 59% want a People’s Vote – a figure that rises to 64% if the deal is voted down.”
Thanks Yolly!
Yawwwn. The clock is ticking.
Hope you’re ready for the call up when the EU army is in operation……the one that Cleggy said wouldn’t happen.
What do you have against an EU army, by the way?
As always you are right Yolly – thank you for doing such a wonderful job – I notice Paul couldn’t argue with any of your points, just call it project fear – when the disaster predicted is ready to unfold and more people are realising the scale of the disaster. That is telling the truth, but the lying leave campaign couldn’t tell the truth if they tried.
I prefer the democracy and decency of Europe any day over lunacy and lies.
As do I.
What points are you referring to?
So now we’re accused of ‘lunacy’. You couldn’t make it up.
Oh BTW Yolly, if you can manage to see last night’s The Last Leg on Channel Four over here, the first half an hour will make you roar with laughter – it wasn’t just funny it was so very, very true! I don’t know how easy it is to see other countries’ programmes but it is really worth trying.
I’ll try and find it Pat, thank you.
Sorry, I don’t think this is the place to put this, but I have just seen this excellent article in The Grauniad, which I think you would like to read Yolly,
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZW5kLTE4MTExNw%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email
“UK Austerity has inflicted great misery on its citizens, UN says” – inset into the article is the 24 page report by Professor Philip Alston – the report is excoriating on the parlous state of our country, yet it is written with sadness, compassion and logic, never anger. It is so very well worth reading and I agree with every word, God bless the dear man.
Well, it is very relevant in the sense that austerity measures will be introduced if Brexit results in a further reduction in Government revenues through falling taxation …
Ah, The dear old Grauniad. I’ve only ever been reported on the front page of one national newspaper, and they managed to spell my name wrong …
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S. Demeyer, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, '''Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns'''. World Scientific, 2002. ISBN 981-022826-0
S. Demeyer, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, [http://scg.unibe.ch/download/oorp/ '''Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns''']. World Scientific, 2002. ISBN 981-022826-0
M.M. Lehman, L.A. Belady, [ftp://ftp.umh.ac.be/pub/ftp_infofs/1985/ProgramEvolution.pdf '''Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change''']. Academic Press, London, 1985. ISBN 0-12-442440-6.
Only add articles here that have been (co-)authored by members of the ERCIM Working Group.
1 In ERCIM News
3 Book chapters
3.1 Chapters in other books
4 Journal special issues
5 Journal articles
6 Conference articles
In ERCIM News
M. Wermelinger, P. Wernick. EVOL 2008 - Fourth International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution and Evolvability. ERCIM News 76: 6, January 2009
T. Mens, L. Seinturier. Evol@Mons 2008 - Doctoral Research Seminar on Software Evolution. ERCIM News 73: 6, April 2008
T. Mens, K. Mens. EVOL 2007 - Third International ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution. ERCIM News 72:11, January 2008
T. Mens, J.-M. Favre, S. Sadou. ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution spawns local chapters. ERCIM News 67:8, October 2006.
T. Mens, M. D'Hondt, L. Duchien. ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution. ERCIM News 66, July 2006.
T. Mens. Workshop on Challenges in Software Evolution. ERCIM News 62, 2005.
T. Mens. ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution. ERCIM News 60: 9, January 2005.
O. Nierstrasz, S. Ducasse. Moose: A language-independent reengineering environment. ERCIM News 58: 24-25, July 2004.
T. Mens, K. Mens, T. Tourwé. Aspect-Oriented Software Evolution. ERCIM News 58: 36-37, July 2004.
Software evolution related books according to Google Books: [1]
T. Mens, S. Demeyer (Eds.). Software Evolution. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-76439-7. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-76440-3
A. April, A. Abran, Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement. Wiley, 2008. ISBN 978-0470-14707-8.
N.H. Madhavji, J. Fernandez-Ramil, D. Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice. Wiley 2006. ISBN 0-470-87180-6
P. Grubb, A.A. Takang, Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice. Second Edition, World Scientific, 2003. ISBN 981-238-425-1
S. Demeyer, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns. World Scientific, 2002. ISBN 981-022826-0
M.M. Lehman, L.A. Belady, Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change. Academic Press, London, 1985. ISBN 0-12-442440-6. Free electronic edition
This seminal book on program evolution is currently out of print. With permission of the author and the publisher, we are pleased to offer you a scanned-in version of the book. It is a must-read, if only because it is one of the first books treating software evolution as a problem in its own right.
Indididual book chapters of the aforementioned Software Evolution book can be consulted here [2]
Chapters in other books
S. Ducasse, T. Gírba, M. Lanza,S. Demeyer, Moose: a Collaborative and Extensible Reengineering Environment. In Tools for Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 55-71, Franco Angeli, 2005.
T. Mens, R. Van Der Straeten, J. Simmonds, A Framework for Managing Consistency of Evolving UML Models. In Software Evolution with UML and XML, pp. 1-31, Idea Group Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1591404630
Journal special issues
P. Heymans, P.-Y. Schobbens, J.-C. Trigaux, Y. Bontemps, R. Matulevicius, and A. Classen. Evaluating formal properties of feature diagram languages. IET Software Journal, Special Issue on Language Engineering, 2(3):281–302, 2008.
A. Zaidman, A. Hamou-Lhadj, O. Greevy. Special Issue on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis. Journal on Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 20 Issue 4, July/August 2008
T. Mens, K. Mens, M. D'Hondt, E. Van Paesschen. Online Postproceedings of EVOL 2007: Third International ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution. Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 8, 2008. ISSN 1863-2122 [3]
T. Mens, M. D'Hondt. Proceedings of the ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL 2006). Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 166, Pages 1-126, Elsevier, 2007
R. Heckel, J.-M. Favre, T. Mens. Online Postproceedings of SETra 2006: International Workshop on Software Evolution Through Transformations . Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 3, 2006. ISSN 1863-2122 [4]
R. Heckel, T. Mens. Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Evolution through Transformations (SETra 2004) Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 1-217, Elsevier, 2005.
A. Zaidman, B. Van Rompaey, S. Demeyer, A. van Deursen. Comparing the co-evolution of production and test code in open source and industrial developer test processes through repository mining. Int'l Journal on Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, –to appear, 2009.
B. Adams, K. De Schutter, A. Zaidman, S. Demeyer, H. Tromp, W. De Meuter. Using aspect orientation in legacy environments for reverse engineering using dynamic analysis - an industrial experience report. Journal of Systems and Software, – to appear, 2009.
Conference articles
A. Classen, A. Hubaux, P. Heymans. A formal semantics for multi-level staged configuration, Proc. Third International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS’09), Sevilla, Spain, January 2009. University of Duisburg-Essen.
G. Saval, J. Pinna Puissant, P. Heymans, T. Mens. Some Challenges of Feature-based Merging of Class Diagrams, Proc. Third Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS'09). Sevilla, Spain, January 2009. University of Duisburg-Essen.
S. Cook, K. Nakata, P. Wernick. European Laboratory for Software Evolution (ELSE): Vision Statement. Proc. ERCIM Int'l Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL 2008), L'Aquila, Italy, 2008
A. Classen, A. Hubaux, F. Sanen, E. Truyen, J. Vallejos, P. Costanza, W. De Meuter, P. Heymas, W. Joosen. Modelling Variability in Self-Adaptive systems: Towards a Research Agenda, Workshop on Modularization, Composition and Generative Techniques for Product Line Engineering (McGPLE'08), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, October 2008
A. Hubaux, P. Heymans, D. Benavides. Variability modelling challenges from the trenches of an open source product line re-engineering project. Proc. 12th Int'l Software Product Line Conf. (SPLC’08), 2008.
A. Hubaux, P. Heymans, H. Unphon. Separating Variability Concerns in a Product Line Re-Engineering Project. Proc. Int'l workshop on Early Aspects at AOSD, 2008.
A. Cleve, J.-L. Hainaut. Dynamic analysis of SQL statements for data-intensive applications reverse engineering. Proc. 15th Working Conf. Reverse Engineering (WCRE), pages 192–196. IEEE, 2008.
A. Cleve, J. Henrard, D. Roland, J.-L. Hainaut. Wrapper-based system evolution - application to codasyl to relational migration. Proc. 12th European Conf. Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR’08), pages 13–22. IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
A. Cleve, J. Lemaitre, J.-L. Hainaut, C. Mouchet, J. Henrard. The role of implicit schema constructs in data quality. In P. Missier, X. Lin, A. de Keijzer, and M. van Keulen, editors, Proc. 6th Int'l Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB’08), pages 33–40, 2008.
J. Henrard, D. Roland, A. Cleve, J.-L. Hainaut. Large-scale data reengineering: Return from experience. Proc. 15th Working Conf. Reverse Engineering (WCRE’08), pages 305–308. IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
A. Kuhn, B. Van Rompaey, L. Haensenberger, O. Nierstrasz, S. Demeyer, M. Gaelli, K. Van Leemput. JExample: Exploiting Dependencies Between Tests to Improve Defect Localization. Proc. Int'l Conf. Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP 2008), pp. 73-82, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 9, Springer, 2008
A. Zaidman, B. Van Rompaey, S. Demeyer, A. van Deursen. Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production and Test Code. Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2008), pp. 220-229, IEEE Computer Society, 2008
S. Demeyer, Y.-G. Guéhéneuc, A. Keller, C. F. J. Lange, K. Mens, A. Kuhn, M. Kuhlemann. Object-Oriented Reengineering, Report on the Workshop WOOR'07 at ECOOP 2007 10th Anniversary Edition. In Object-Oriented Technology, ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader, LNCS 4906, pp. 142-153, Springer, 2008
C. F. J. Lange, B. Du Bois, M. R. V. Chaudron, S. Demeyer. An experimental investigation of UML modeling conventions. Proc. Int'l Conf. Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS'06), LNCS 4199, pp. 27–41, Springer, 2006
O. Nierstrasz, S. Ducasse, S. Demeyer. Object-oriented reengineering patterns — an overview. Proc. Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE’05), pp. 1–9, LNCS 3676, Springer, 2005.
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and in a lighter vein, [http://marylaine.com/party.html Librarians: The Party People], a wide-ranging listing of activities to trigger public relations. A presentation by Marylaine Block for the Nevada Library Association, October 4-6, 2007.
===Special Topics===
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Public relations activities manage external communications of an organization to ensure a strong, positive public image. Public relations activities include helping the public or user group to understand, accept and support the programs or initiatives of an organization. Public relations are also the means by which the communications are disseminated, often using broadcast or print media, and may include research functions such as tabulation of public attidues or definition of the policies.
Cutlip, Scott M., Allen H Center and Glen M Broom. Effective public relations. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.
Gould Mark R., editor. The Library PR Handbook: High-Impact Communications. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.
Gross, Valerie J. "Transforming Our Image Through Words That Work: Perception is Everything." Public Libraries, September/October 2009, p. 24-32.
Karp, Rashelle S., editor. Part-Time Public Relations with Full-Time Results: A PR Primer for Libraries. Publications Committee of the Public Relations Section of the Library Administration and Management Association. Chicago: American Library Association, 1995.
Newsom, Doug, Judy VanSlyke Turk and Dean Kruckeberg. This is PR: the Realities of Public Relations. 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2007.
Public Library Association (PLA). Libraries Prosper with Passion, Purpose, and Persuasion: A PLA Toolkit for Success. Chicago: American Library Association, 2007.
Reed, Sally Gardner. Making the Case for Your Library: A How-To-Do-It Manual. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2001.
Russo, Michele C. and Nancy Wootton Colborn. "Something for (Almost) Nothing: Public Relations on a Shoestring in an Academic Library." Library Administration & Management 16:3 (Summer 2002), pp. 138-143.
Savard, Réjean, editor. IFLA Satellite Meeting (2001: Quebec). Education and Research for Marketing and Quality Management in Libraries. IFLA Publications, 99. München: K.G. Saur, 2002.
Seacord, Stephanie. Public Relations Marketing: Making a Splash Without Much Cash. Central Point, Or.: Oasis Press, 1999.
Siess, Judith A. The Visible Librarian: Asserting Your Value with Marketing and Advocacy. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003.
Wallace, Linda K. Libraries, Mission, & Marketing: Writing Mission Statements that Work. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.
Weingand, Darlene E. Marketing/Planning Library and Information Services, 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
Wilson, A. Paula. Library Web Sites: Creating Online Collections and Services. Chicago : American Library Association, 2004.
Wolfe, Lisa A. Library Public Relations, Promotions, and Communications, Second Edition: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2005.
Increasing Relevance, Relationships and Results: Principles and Practices for Effective Multicultural Communication Written by the Metropolitan Group, the article defines eight principles and practices for effective multicultural communication.
Speaking Up for Library Services to Teens The toolkit focuses on collaborating with community organizations to maximize outreach to teens, gaining support from administrators and library trustees and taking advantage of funding opportunities.
Developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association in conjuction with The Campaign for America's Libraries.
@ your library® Toolkit for Academic and Research Libraries Increase visibility and support for academic and research libraries and librarians with key messages, outreach strategies, media relations materials and tips for marketing and promotion.
Developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries in conjuction with The Campaign for America's Libraries.
your library® Toolkit for School Library Programs Features materials to help you develop a strategic marketing plan for your library, downloadable graphics specifically designed for school libraries, customizable publicity materials and more. Developed by the American Association of School Librarians in conjuction with The Campaign for America's Libraries.
Small but Powerful Guide to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library Online toolkit will walk you through developing your message, communications strategies and more. Print version also available. E-mail olos@ala.org.
Developed by the ALA Committee on Rural, Native and Tribal Libraries of All Kinds in collaboration with the ALA Office for Outreach and Literacy Services (OLOS) and The Campaign for America's Libraries.
Kids! @ your library Online Toolkit Designed by children's librarians for children's librarians, the Kids! @ your library Campaign was developed to help libraries reach out to kids and their parents and caregivers. Toolkit includes downloadable logos and an "@ your library" song developed specifically for the campaign, promotion tips, sample press materials and more. Developed by the Association for Library Service to Children in conjuction with The Campaign for America's Libraries.
"10 Cool Technologies That Can Impact the Public Relations Plan @ your library®" (Microsoft Word doc) the 2007 program for library public relations and marketing professionals coordinated by the ALA PR Assembly.
Institute for Public Relations (IPR) An independent foundation dedicated to the science behind the art of public relations.
Public Relations, Resources for School Library Media Program Development From the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
PRSA's PRC Search Communications and public relations articles and case studies from the PRSA archives.
and in a lighter vein, Librarians: The Party People, a wide-ranging listing of activities to trigger public relations. A presentation by Marylaine Block for the Nevada Library Association, October 4-6, 2007.
Book Cart Drill Teams
Responding to Challenges to Library Materials
Use of Photographs in Publicity Materials
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Dick (surname)
Dick (film)
Tucker Clellan
Nora, Sweden
Dick, Dicks or Dick's may refer to:
Dicks (surname)
Dick (film), a 1999 American comedy film
Dick (slang), a euphemism for the penis as well as a pejorative epithet
Dicks, pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine of Luxembourg
The Dicks, a musical group
Dicks Butte, a mountain in California
Dick's Drive-In, a fast food chain
Dick's Sporting Goods, a sporting goods retailer
Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer stadium in Denver, Colorado
Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) or DIC(K), a political party
Dicks., botanical author abbreviation for James Dickson (1738–1822)
Dick, a diminutive for Richard
List of people with surname Dick
Dicky (disambiguation)
King Size Dick, German Rock music singer
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As a surname, Dick is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to Northern Ireland. It is most common in West Lothian, where it is the 78th most common surname with 1,742 bearers. Other notable concentrations include Northumberland (146th, 1,630), Tyne and Wear (335th, 1,738) and Berkshire (365th, 1,704) and in Norfolk.
Currently, in the U.S., it ranks at 1,388 out of 88,799 surnames.
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Dick is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin. It is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which ended the presidency of Richard ("Tricky Dick") Nixon and features several cast members from Saturday Night Live and The Kids in the Hall.
Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams star as Betsy and Arlene, two warm-hearted but not overly intelligent 15-year-old girls who are best friends, and who, through various twists and turns, become the legendary "Deep Throat" figure partly responsible for bringing down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Dan Hedaya plays Nixon.
Betsy Jobs (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Michelle Williams) are two sweet-natured but somewhat ditzy teenage girls living in Washington D.C. in the early 1970s. Betsy comes from a wealthy family in the Georgetown area, while Arlene lives with her widowed mother in an apartment in the Watergate building. One night, on a quest to mail a letter to enter a contest to win a date with teen idol singer Bobby Sherman, the two girls sneak out of Arlene's home, at the same time as the Watergate break-in. They manage to enter and leave through the parking garage by taping the latch of a door, accidentally causing the break-in to be discovered. They are seen by G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer), who they believe to be committing a jewel robbery; they panic and run away. The security guard, startled by the taped door, calls the police, who immediately arrest the burglars.
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Nora or Norah may refer to:
Nora (name), English and Irish feminine personal name
Arlind Nora (born 1980), Albanian footballer
Pierre Nora (born 1931), French historian
Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (born 1950)
Nora Ephron (born 1941), Journalist
Norah Jones (born 1979), Singer-Songwriter
Norah Head, New South Wales, headland on the Central Coast
Mount Nora, a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Pula, known in Roman times as Nora
Nora (island), island in the Dahlak Archipelago of Eritrea
Nora, Italy, archaeological site in Sardinia
Nora Municipality
Nora and Hjulsjö Mountain District, district of Västmanland
Nora, Idaho, an unincorporated community
Nora, Illinois, village in Jo Daviess County
Nora, Indianapolis, Indiana, a neighborhood
Nora, Nebraska, village in Nuckolls County
Nora, Virginia, unincorporated town in Dickenson County
Nora, Wisconsin, unincorporated community in Dane County
Nora Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota
Nora Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois
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Tucker "Duck" Clellan is a fictional character from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.
Duck served as a Colonial Viper pilot aboard the Battlestar Galactica and was a central character in the webisode series "Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance".
In the episode "Scar", Duck's wingman, a nugget, is killed by the Cylon Raider nicknamed "Scar".
When the fleet settles on New Caprica, Duck settles down with Nora, a fellow Viper pilot. They start planning for a family. Unfortunately, due to Colonel Tigh's practices in the New Caprica Resistance, Cylon Centurions massacre people worshiping in the temple, and Nora is killed. Nora had been religious, and Duck had refused to accompany her to temple that day. Duck later confronts Tigh about hiding weapons.
Getting suicidally depressed, Duck decides to get one back at the Cylons by joining the resistance and becoming a suicide bomber. Duck infiltrates the New Caprica Police, and detonates explosives strapped to himself during the graduation ceremony, killing some 30 other graduates.
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Nora is a locality and the seat of Nora Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 6,526 inhabitants in 2010.
Nora received its charter in 1643. The government had requested the inhabitants of both Nora and the adjacent town Lindesberg to move together into a newly chartered city called Järle. However, the government proved unsuccessful, and instead granted both Nora and Lindesberg independent charters at that year.
Many wooden houses built in the 18th and 19th century have been spared from fires and demolition, making the town Nora one of Sweden's best preserved wooden towns. Eksjö and Hjo are two other examples, and they have together with Nora initiated a wooden-town development project. Also part of the old city structure are cobbled streets with small houses and shops by small windling street. "Så liten stad, så mycket smak" (Small town, much flavor/taste) Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish author.
The first normal gauge railway in Sweden was opened to the public in 1856 between Nora and Ervalla. It is today a museum railway, worked by a preservation society.
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The I, KRS-One
The I
Where shall we land, there?
Which city shall we destroy today?
This one, or that one? This one?
[KRS-One]
Take a look a look around, we last forever
We carry books around, manuals are bound in leather
We rock the center, the only point that's in the circle
We free MC's, what we decree will not desert you
We know what we doin, we wise and we chillin
We calculate against the continued cries of our children
They may be cryin now but they won't be cryin later
We love hip-hop, because WE are it's creators
So we, build the Temple, write the books, teach the classes
Create instrumentals, write hooks and rock masses
NONE passes, without studyin this flow
It's all good as long as you know Kris know!
[Chorus: Mad Lion]
While I deal with I, Jah talk to I
When I dem go alike, only de one comply
Whatchu see with de I, look twice toward de I
If you don't unify your children them a gon' cry
I stand with the rejected, the unsuspected, the unconnected
The neglected the one you, never suspected
It seems you forget hip-hop plays the back
Sayin that's my sound, and that's my sound
And that's my track, and that's my rap
And that's some chorus they did way back, look honey bringin it back
I'm actually, I'm everywhere at every time
Animating every rhyme and every dare in every mind
KRS is my representative on Earth
Challenge him not, he's been hip-hop since birth
His main objective, is to put hip-hop in perspective
Show pity, and DESTROY these wack cities
[Mad Lion]
Inna style dem a {?}, yo alla dem a cry
Dey worship slackness and to be under sky
We lead dem to de water but we cyan't make dem drink
Pussy to take a sip, cause it gon' make you t'ink
We don't usually {?} shit {?}, yo alla dem a sing
Wisdom wort more den any diamond and gold
People use it and find it like de Dead Sea Scrolls
[KRS] Take dem Lion, take 'em, take it over!
Cause of dem outer, dem outer, dem outer inter outer inter
Outer inter outer inter out of control
Dey neva find wisdom til dem dead ohhh
Mad Lion make de {?} roll
KRS make up a sea and bulge ya
Of the story of never been told-a
Cause we outer, outer, inter outer outer ese
Out of control, out of control
I'm so serious ay (what?)
We don have no time fi play, ay (tell 'em again)
Some people diss dem {?} hell's in this world
But dey'll come around one day
Yo, yo, only Beezlebub think my voice is aggravatin
Children of light hear my voice and start congregatin
The mind's debatin, is he a prophet or is he Satan?
But the tree is only known by it's fruit, what am I creating?
What am I stating? Have I stood the test of time?
Or am I fading, or has God blessed my rhyme?
Settle your dissin, you better be listenin, forever we glisten
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Saturday Night Live (season 20)
The twentieth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 24, 1994, and May 13, 1995.
Much like seasons six and eleven, this season was lambasted by critics for its decline in quality. Season twenty suffered from having sketches based on very thin premises, a high number of which focused on or mentioned O. J. Simpson's 1995 murder trial.
Much like the 1980–1981 season and the 1985–1986 season, NBC worried over SNL's decline in quality (and in the ratings) and initially decided that now would be the best time to pull the plug on the show once and for all. According to the prime time special Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation, Lorne Michaels credits this season as the closest he's ever been to being fired. In the end, the cast member firings and crew turnover resulting from this season represented the biggest involvement into the show's affairs by NBC executives since the 1980–1981 season and the biggest cast overhaul since the 1985–1986 season.
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Athlone Town AFC are the newest club to be welcomed into the Só Hotels Women's National League ahead of the 2020 season.
Jarrett wins Só Hotels WNL Player of the Year
It has been a year to remember for Rianna Jarrett and she capped it off by collecting the Só Hotels Women's National League Player of the Year award.
The So Hotels Women's National League Team of the Season has been confirmed.
The nominees for the So Hotels Women's National League Player of the Year awards have been confirmed.
REPORT: Peamount United 8-1 Cork City
Eleanor Ryan Doyle scored four times, including a hat-trick inside eight first half minutes, as Peamount United cruised to victory over Cork City to clinch the Só Hotels Women’s National League championship in style at PRL Park, Greenogue.
Potential play-off details confirmed
Details of a potential play-off match to decide the winner of the 2019 Só Hotels Women's National League championship have been confirmed ahead of this weekend's final games.
REPORT: DLR Waves 0-4 Shelbourne
REPORT: DLR Waves 0-8 Peamount United
REPORT: Shelbourne 2-1 Wexford Youths
REPORT: Galway WFC U17 3-1 Wexford Youths U17
REPORT: Peamount United 2-0 Shelbourne
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Team 10: Don't get scammed by fake tickets to major events in San Diego
Posted: 7:32 PM, Jul 05, 2016
By: Adam Racusin
Criminals try to prey on innocent fans by selling them counterfeit tickets.
This week San Diego will play host to Major League Baseball’s All-Star activities and experts warn consumers should watch out for people looking to make a quick buck selling counterfeit tickets.
According to the Better Business Bureau, one issue common with big sporting events, like the MLB All-Star Game, is fans unknowingly purchase counterfeit tickets.
Most ticket mishaps occur as a result of buying tickets from unofficial retailers.
The BBB saying, “The safest option is to purchase tickets from official and well-known retailers.”
There are multiple events happening All-Star weekend where people could try to take advantage of consumers.
Fan Fest will be taking place at the convention center and the MLB All-Star concert series brings A-List headliners to town for concerts.
According to MLB’s concert website tickets were free and not for resale, but Team 10 found some of those concert tickets already for sale online.
Homeland Security Investigations tells Team 10 they will have a presence at San Diego’s events.
“Anytime there's a major event we conduct operations with the local police department, with major league baseball,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Feldman.
BBB advice for fans still looking for tickets
Be careful buying tickets from someone on the street. This is a common practice but very risky.
Ticket broker or scalper? A ticket broker is a legitimate and accredited reseller, while a ticket scalper is an unregulated and unlicensed seller.
Check the website. Make sure the URL begins with “https://” and has a little lock icon, which signifies that the website is secured.
Look up the seats. Ask for the section, row, and seat numbers of the tickets you’d like and compare them with the venue map so you don’t end up with an obstructed view or other surprise.
Refund policy. Make sure you only buy tickets from a seller that provides clear details about the terms of the transaction, including the refund policy.
If you buy tickets through an online auction site, choose a seller with a long history of satisfied customers.
Scammers can hijack old accounts; so make sure the seller has recently sold other tickets.
Buyers should be wary of sellers who try to lure you from a legitimate site to another site for a “private” transaction. Scammers often want to conduct business on sites with names that mimic well-known companies, but are actually fakes.
Stick to credit cards when buying tickets. A purchase made with a credit card is protected under the Fair Credit Billing Act that allows you to briefly hold payments if an issue arises. Never wire money to someone you don’t know.
If you buy from an individual seller, be sure to meet at a public location. Before handing over money, ask to see the seller’s ID to confirm the name they told you matches.
Check bbb.org where you can find more information about online ticket sellers. Read customer reviews and complaints to help you make the best decision before buying.
How to spot a fake ticket
Check the date on the ticket and make sure it matches the date of the event.
Look for spelling and grammatical errors; these are clear signs of a fake.
Look for authentication of pictures and logos printed on the ticket by checking the alignment and even the color.
Make sure the ticket has a barcode.
If possible, compare your ticket with one bought from an official retailer.
Currently, there are no longer tickets available for the All-Star Game through Major League Baseball. However, you can still find tickets.
According to TicketCity, the average resell ticket price for this year’s game will change day to day, but the current trend shows a 37 percent increase in the average ticket price between 2014 and 2016.
(as of 7/5/16) -
All-Star Game Current Average Sale Price: $698.00
Minimum Price of Current Listed Tickets: $284.99
Maximum Price of Current Listed Tickets: $20000 (Lexus Home Plate Club 4)
Home Run Derby Current Average Sale Price: $350.03
Minimum Price of Current Listed Tickets: $120
Maximum Price of Current Listed Tickets: $5500 (Left Field Lower Box 128)
Full Strip Current Average Sale Price: $925.29
** Full Strip refers to tickets to the All-Star Sunday, Home Run derby, All-Star Game
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Commuters suffer in searing heat..
Commuters suffer in searing heat on packed trains
3AW NEWS
It’s been a dramatic night on the train network, with two signal faults on the Geelong line keeping passengers stuck on a packed, hot train.
3AW received multiple reports of trouble after 6pm on Thursday.
Passengers reported being stuck on a full train with poor air-conditioning and concerned commuters.
VLine later confirmed two signal faults, at Corio and Lara, were causing delays of up to an hour.
Melbourne and surrounds roasted in heat of up to 40 degrees throughout the day, with the temperature still 38 degrees at 7pm.
Almost every line across Melbourne was impacted by delays at some point on Thursday evening.
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Home News Archive Awesome Player joins Brother on the Pitch
Will, James and John Addyman recently ran out together for Keswick Rugby Club second team, the brothers making it a really memorable day for mum Sue and family and friends.
With 17-year-old Will making his senior rugby debut and Jon playing while on leave from the Army, James was back on the pitch after surgery to remove his right arm and shoulder joint due to an aggressive form of cancer. A former Keswick first team and Cumbria player, James usually plays number 8 and for this special match the 22 year old came on for half an hour of the Cumbria Shield League game against Workington Steelers. Keswick won 29-14, and James was happy with how it went. “It was good to play with my brothers,” he said. “I wasn’t sure it would happen. Catching the ball was a bit hard, but my tackling was OK. I played because it was Will’s first senior game and John had come from Belfast for the weekend to play, but I won’t be playing regularly yet.” James, who lives at the family farm at Asby, near Rowrah, West Cumbria, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, last June and learned that he would have to lose an arm and shoulder joint.
“I took it pretty well, really. You’ve just got to get on with it. I still need some surgery but the chemotherapy finished in January and I’ve been training quite a lot since Christmas. I’ve been rugby training at Keswick and going to the gym locally,” he said.
Will, who plays for Keswick juniors, was making his senior rugby debut, while John, aged 25, returned from the Army, where he plays rugby, to take part. Keswick Rugby Club chairman Trevor Keough said: “It was impressive to watch all three brothers playing together, but more so to see James tackling, rucking and scrummaging and Will putting in a near man of the match performance in the back row of the scrum.”
Keswick School and former Keswick RFC coach Alan Gray began working with James when he was in Year 7. “Right from the start James was an X-factor player,” said Alan. “When they were under-17s we had a really good run in the national RFU knockout plate competition, and drew at West Park Leeds to go through to the semi-finals. James was regularly man of the match.”
James left Keswick to play at Carlisle for two seasons and then went to Australia. He was also a Cumbria player and had North under-18 trials. “James is probably one of the best innovators I ever coached,” said Alan. “Playing with one arm will not represent the handicap for him that it would for some people. All he will be bothered about is doing the best job he can - he is an awesome player.”
This story is written by Joe Ogden and features in Touchdown the online newsletter from England Rugby
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Yoda was right.
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
There was a Girl who was not an athlete. She wanted to be, but she just wasn't. She and her partner won their first two high school intramural tennis matches...because the other teams didn't show up. The third match left them no doubt that they weren't going to be invited to Wimbledon. Her senior year, Girl went out for track. It's just running, right? One foot in front of the other, repeat quickly. And basically, the team was small enough that they usually found spots for everyone who came out. That year, only two people were cut from the final squad. Yes, Girl was one of them. Ouch.
Over time, Girl found active things she was pretty good at doing -- or at least not totally inept. At one point, water aerobics was her thing. It was a pseudo-athletic thing, and gravity didn't get in her way. (And being underwater, nobody could tell if she messed up her left foot from her right!) But life took its toll, and it got set aside. Eventually, she tried to climb to the tops of two different mountains, and the only thing that got her there was the knowledge that her preschool aged child managed to climb them. She had some pride! You could say that the girl hit rock bottom while gasping at the top of a mountain.
Clingman's Dome, SC
High Point, NJ
But then Girl had a friend who is a Runner. A Runner is someone who runs for fun. Runner Friend not only thinks running is fun, she even does half-marathons, "just because." One day, Girl and Runner Friend signed up for a virtual 5K and decided to run it together for the bling, despite living two time zones apart. The plan was to set a starting time, text each other, "Go!" and start, then text "FINISH" at the end. Girl ran-walk-limped-gasped over the 3.1-mile finish, with Runner Friend texting her "Keep going! You can do this." We won't talk about how long it took, but there was definitely a sense of awe: "Wow! I did it, and I'm still alive."
Who wouldn't want a Flat Hat medal?
But even though Girl still didn't consider herself an athlete, there was a little voice inside that said, "You know, if you actually got your butt moving, next time, you might do better." And she found another virtual running group with cool bling and joined it. (Girl decided that she liked seeing something tangible to remind her to run some more -- since for her, often "out of sight" is "out of mind.") Little by little, she got stronger and faster.
She thought about running at Disney World's Marathon Weekend. She had been there during other Marathon Weekends and knew there were multiple distances. The 2016 Weekend coincided with a trip already planned, so maybe the 5K...
But she was too scared. The virtual runs were fun, but the only "corraling" she had to deal with was getting the cat off the treadmill. Real runs meant risking other people seeing her flounder. And the live ones have a "minimum time rule" -- what if she couldn't keep up? Maybe it would be better to skip. It would be safer.
Then Girl saw lots of runners with their medals in the parks, and she was mad. She wasn't jealous of their accomplishments; she was mad that she let her fear get in the way. This was supposed to be her year to try new things. She belonged on the Moana float in the Main Street parade...she was a bigger chicken than Hei Hei.
Then she realized that she could get a second chance at Spring Break. It happened to overlap with the Dark Side Half Marathon Weekend, and the Friday of the 5K was the family's last full day at Disney. In a fit of pique, she took a deep breath, handed over her credit card, and signed up. She was going to do this. And really, she had no choice...Disney had her money!
She kept training. The virtual running medals kept her motivated.
Every medal that arrived in the mail brought her miles closer to her real run. She slowly whittled her time down but was still awfully close to that 16-minute mile. Her goal wasn't to be fast -- it was to finish upright and not get swept from the course. Her Cute Son, thinking she was racing to win the whole thing told her, "Mommy, it's ok if you don't win. I'll love you anyway, even if you're a loser." (Thanks, kid.)
Days followed a pattern. Live real life, put kids to bed. Corral the cat, run. Repeat. Sometimes alternate "run" with "cross-train." Repeat. Plan a costume.
Disney runners often wear costumes...Girl wasn't quite sure that her butt needed the extra girth of a tutu, but she didn't want to stand out even further in her usual "whatever clothes are clean" attire. Runner Friend even graciously went on a recon mission, since her weather was closer to Florida's climate. She reported in how many layers at what time of day she needed to feel comfortable, capris vs. pants, and together they debated the merits of running sleeves. Running tights and a themed T-shirt would do. Girl decided to channel Ariel, one of her favorite Disney Princesses, and combine with a Star Wars twist.
Finally, Girl packed her suitcase, with all her stuff, and texted Running Friend to double check she had everything. She got sent off with a cheer!
(forgive the overlapping conversation...we were also debating tolerable scents of teen body wash. Life isn't all running! )
The day came for Girl to go get her race bib. Girl stood on the floor of the Expo Center and was overwhelmed. So many people - people who seemed to know what they were doing. The volume of people was dizzying. And Girl realized that while couldn't be prouder of her Bambi sisters who had competed in that very arena and become National High School cheerleading champions, she thought back to her high school days where she was so obviously not an athlete, and everyone had finished their laps long before she did. Would she find herself passed by everyone again? It seemed this race was going to be as mentally tough as physical. Slightly embarrassed because she needed to brush tears aside, she put her game face on and dove into the melee. Finally, bib in hand, she headed back to the hotel.
The morning of the 5K came, and the alarm went off in what felt like the dead of night. She got dressed, found her gear, and headed off into the darkness. The "Dark Side" takes on a new meaning when you're standing outside Epcot at 4 am.
What an experience! It's a little hard to party at that hour, but the energy was infectious. Girl soaked up the atmosphere, took a picture with Darth Vader, and texted her husband that she was heading to the corral.
The husband texted back that he was already at the finish line. She could only laugh. "Cheater," she teased.
Standing in the corral, nerves started to overtake her again. Could she keep up? She had trained, even getting up extra early on vacation for a few extra training runs. (Disney may be magical, but "Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust" isn't a training plan!) Doubts and tears threatened again, but Girl was determined. Finally, it was time. The elite runners began, and the horde behind them began to creep forward.
Husband-at-the-Finish texted "First guy crossed already!" but Girl still was nowhere near the front. She guessed Cute Son would have to love Loser Mama. Finally, she texted, "Next wave. Bye!" She popped an earbud in and started her playlist. Game on.
Set...Go!
Trusting her training, Girl started off. She managed to get off a few texts to update Husband.
Mile 1!
She finally texted that she was in the park, and as much as she wanted to beat the clock, she forced herself to take it all in. She was in the middle of a three-mile run, and she was in Epcot! Cast members from Norway and Germany and Italy cheered the passing crowd, shouting and waving their countries' flags. Girl turned her head and saw the sun rising over Spaceship Earth...the big sphere her kids affectionately called "The Magic Golf Ball." It sure looked magical.
Her watched buzzed on her wrist as she chugged into the American Pavilion -- she was halfway! Japan, Morocco, France, over the bridge to England...she wove through the crowd, passing the slower moving runners. Hey, when "Eye of the Tiger" plays in your ear, the only way for a Philly girl to maintain her self-respect is to run. Rocky didn't walk, so Philly Girl didn't walk either.
Girl (and crowd) headed back over the bridge from World Showcase and into Future World. "Try. Try. Try!" became the mantra with every step as she kept her eyes on the glowing ball.
She thought she was close, and suddenly, the line veered left, into the western side of Future World. Girl laughed...trust Disney to make you think you were really close...and then boom, the path turns, and there's a hidden queue!
Tiredly emerging back into the middle, she spied a topiary of Figment in the corner of her eye. As she turned her head to look at it, a flood of memories of visiting Disney World as a child hit her. In her mind, she saw a visit with her Grandmother that included a ride with Figment as the star. As she sighed, "Oh, Gram!" the fatigue melted away. A giggle began to rise. Girl started to think she just might make it.
(The sun is on the wrong side because Girl went back to take a picture later in the day.)
Pulling alongside Spaceship Earth, she pulled out her phone for a (terrible, in-motion) selfie. She sent it to Husband-at-the-Finish, as it was their pre-arranged signal for "I'm almost there, start paying attention to the finish line!" and headed through the side entrance towards the finish.
She again became aware of the music in her ear. "Two by Two" from The Book of Mormon swelled, and the words "I pray I get sent to my favorite place...ORLANDO!!" caught her attention as she saw the next marker - Mile 3!
She picked up the pace one more time...
And Girl crossed the finish line, upright. Husband-at-the-Finish managed to catch her (and a big mob - Girl has on a black headband) crossing the finish line.
And as she stopped the timer on her watch, she saw her time: 48 minutes and 18 seconds, average per-mile time of 15:06. And that's allotting for an extra tenth of a mile -- bobbing, weaving, and selfies! Goal time was 50 minutes, so more than a minute under. Girl was thrilled.
When Girl and Husband returned to the hotel, the kids were awake. (Their adult-child had been left in charge.) Cute Son said, "You got a medal! I knew you would be a winner. I believed in you."
The moral of Girl's story:
Fear is the path to the Dark Side.
Do or do not, there is no try.
So Girl did.
(And with Girl. She's signed up for Marathon Weekend 10K. She might just turn into a Runner yet.)
©2012- 2016 Adventures with Jude. All rights reserved. All text, photographs, artwork, and other content may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written consent of the author. http://adventureswithjude.com
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Multifocal contact lenses are yet another way to tackle presbyopia, a condition making it difficult to focus on objects up close. Presbyopia, or farsightedness, affects nearly 111 million people in the United States with a large effect on individuals in their mid 40’s. If you suffer from near and farsighted vision, you may have thought glasses were your only option for corrective lenses. Think again! Similar to progressive or bifocal lenses , you can also wear bifocal or multifocal contact lenses to provide a natural transition between your near and distance vision.
What is presbyopia?
Presbyopia, a very common refractive error often referred to as age-related farsightedness, is a gradual, age-related loss in the ability to clearly view up-close objects. If you begin experiencing eye strain after reading or are holding reading materials at an arm's length away to clearly view, schedule a visit with us to talk about your vision. While there is no way to stop or reverse the effects of presbyopia, factors that can lead to a higher risk of developing presbyopia include age, medical conditions, and drug use. Our practice offers a wide range of eyecare services, and vision correction including frames, lenses, and contact lens options to fit your vision needs and keep you seeing your best.
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Multifocal contact lenses create a more natural viewing for the wearer because both eyes are corrected for distance and near vision. There are a variety of options available for multifocal contact lenses that can be worn depending on your preferences and lifestyle. From single and part-time to everyday use, there is a multifocal contact lens option for you.
If you have started experiencing signs of farsightedness and are interested in multifocal contact lenses, schedule your next appointment today to talk with our team. It is much easier to adjust the multifocal lens correction provided on lower prescription needs. If you have a strong prescription and would like to try multifocal contact lenses, contact our office today.
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Pros of Multifocal Contact Lenses
Provide a variety of powers in one lens to allow for great vision at all distances
Offer a smooth transition between different prescriptions without the distinct lines found in bifocal contact lenses
Cons of Multifocal Contact Lenses
Some wearers find their vision is not perfect at both near and distance, in these situations a compromise is made so one distance vision is better than the other.
Adjustments are difficult with higher prescriptions
More difficult to adjust when compared with standard contact lenses
People who suffer from dry eyes may have more difficulty wearing contact lenses, which may not make the multifocal lenses a good solution to their presbyopia.
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Simultaneous Design
The simultaneous vision design provides a gradual change between near and distance vision. Different zones of the lens are made for near, far, and intermediate vision providing a more natural transition and viewing experience.
Concentric and aspheric lenses are the most common simultaneous vision designs. The concentric design allows for the center of the lens to be the primary viewing zone and the rings around it gradually switch between near and distance vision. Aspheric lenses have a more gradual shift in prescription throughout the lens.
Segmented Design
Segmented contact lenses have a bifocal design. The distance vision is in the upper and central parts of the lens and the near vision is in the lower section of the lens. The two zones are separated by a visible line. When the user looks down the contact lens remains in place due to the flattened bottom edge.
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Temperament: Alert, Intelligent, Brave
Height: 24.5-29 inches
Weight: 77-132 pounds
Life Expectancy: 10-14 years
Group: Foundation Stock Service
The AKC has grouped all of the breeds that it registers into seven categories, or groups, roughly based on function and heritage. Breeds are grouped together because they share traits of form and function or a common heritage.
The Estrela Mountain Dog is not only an excellent livestock guardian, but is also known for his love of children and family. Proper socialization and training as a puppy is very important so that the dominance in the Estrela's personality does not become aggressive.
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About the Estrela Mountain Dog
The Estrela Mountain Dog is named for the Estrela Mountains in Portugal and is believed to be the oldest breed in the region. The breed has several distinctive physical characteristics including rosed ears, a black mask and a hook at the end of its tail. He is an inseparable companion of the shepherd and a faithful flock guardian, bravely protecting it against predators and thieves. A wonderful farm and house guard, he is distrustful towards strangers but typically docile to his master.
As a companion in the home, an Estrela will bond for life. He will love and protect his whole family, but a piece of his soul will belong to that one special family member of his choosing. As an Estrela owner tells us: “There is nothing compared to the love of an Estrela.”
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You are going to want to feed your Estrela Mountain Dog a formula that will cater to his unique digestive needs throughout the various phases of his life. Many dog food companies have breed-specific formulas for small, medium, large and extra-large breeds. Estrela Mountain Dogs are a large breed and may have a lifespan ranging from 8 to 10 years.
What you feed your dog is an individual choice, but working with your veterinarian and/or breeder will be the best way to determine frequency of meals as a puppy and the best adult diet to increase his longevity. Clean, fresh water should be available at all times.
The Estrela has a thick outer coat that resembles the texture of goat hair and comes in longhair and shorthair varieties. Beyond regular weekly grooming, the occasional bath will keep them clean and looking their best. Grooming can be a wonderful bonding experience for you and your pet. Their strong, fast-growing nails should be trimmed regularly with a nail clipper or grinder to avoid overgrowth, splitting and cracking. Their ears should be checked regularly to avoid a buildup of wax and debris which can result in an infection. Teeth should be brushed regularly.
Grooming Frequency
Occasional Bath/Brush
Specialty/Professional
Weekly Brushing
The Estrela is a relatively calm breed, but with children he knows and especially as a puppy, he can be quite playful. If not a working dog, options for exercise could include play time in the backyard, preferably fenced, or taken for daily walks. In inclement weather, indoor activities like chasing a ball rolled along the floor or teaching him new tricks can be good ways to expend energy. This breed, as indicated by his past, needs space and freedom to roam and is not suitable for apartment living. If not given adequate stimulation, he will become destructive in the home. Training for dog sports like agility, obedience and rally can also be a great way to give your dog exercise and mental stimulation.
Like all breeds there may be some health issues. Some dogs may be faced with these issues in their lives, but the majority of Estrela Mountain Dogs are healthy dogs.
Working with a responsible breeder, those wishing to own an Estrela Mountain Dog can gain the education they need to know about specific health concerns within the breed. Good breeders utilize genetic testing of their breeding stock to reduce the likelihood of disease in their puppies
The earliest of the Estrela ancestors were herd-guarding dogs in the Serra da Estrela, in what is now Portugal. Since there are no written records, it is uncertain whether the ancestors which contributed to this breed were brought by the Romans when they colonized the Iberian Peninsula, or later by the invading Visigoths. Regardless, there is no disagreement that the Estrela is one of the oldest breeds in Portugal.
Those early guardian dogs were not the distinct breed we know today, rather, the Estrela developed over a period of hundreds of years. Shepherds would have chosen to breed the dogs that had the characteristics necessary to survive in their mountain environment and to do their job: large-sized, strong, having endurance, agile, deep-chested, able to tolerate a marginal diet, a proper set of the legs, a powerful mouth, a tuft of hair around its neck, an easy, jog-like gait, a warm coat, and a watchful, mistrustful, yet loyal temperament.
Life changed little for the people and dogs of the region, even into the 20th century. The isolation of the region meant the breed was relatively unknown outside it until the early 1900s, and even then, they were mostly ignored in early dog shows. The Portuguese admired foreign breeds much more than their own and shepherds often castrated their dogs to prevent them from leaving their flocks to mate. These factors had a negative effect on the Estrela, so from 1908 to 1919, special shows called concursos were held to promote and preserve the Estrela Mountain Dog breed in the region. Special livestock guardian working trials were included in these shows. The trial consisted of an owner bringing his dog into a large field with many flocks of sheep. The dog was observed by judges for its reactions coming into the field and as the shepherd was ordered to move the flock, which inevitably produced stragglers. The dog was expected to move from his spot of guarding to bring the stragglers back, and then assume a leadership position at the head of the flock. During this period, there was some attempt at a registry, of which there is no surviving record.
The first tentative, recorded breed standard was published in 1922. This standard just reflected the functional features naturally found in the best dogs of the time, although it did mention the dew claws as reflecting a “perfect” dog. The hooked tail and the turned-back ears, which later became part of the official standard, were not mentioned. The first official breed standard was written in 1933. This standard attempted to differentiate the Estrela as a distinct breed. This led to the hooked tail and double dew claws becoming a requirement. All colors were allowed.
Prior to World War II, the Estrela’s breeders were still primarily the shepherds and farmers of the region. Since they were mostly illiterate, they did not make any attempt to follow the official breed standard, if they even knew one existed. But by the early 1950s, interest in the breed returned, and the annual concursos were reinstated. Again, the intent was to stimulate interest among the Serra residents and to encourage them to adhere to the official standard. During this period, the long-haired variety was most popular at shows, but show dogs represented only a small portion of the Estrela population in Portugal, and still do. Many of the working dogs were, and are, short-haired.
To this day, the Estrela Mountain Dog remains true to its guardian heritage. It is still a working dog, guarding flocks in its native Portugal and elsewhere. The Portuguese also use it as a police dog. In the home, it is an ideal family pet because of its alertness, loyalty, intelligence, and its instinct to nurture young, all features it needed in its earliest days.
The Estrela Mountain Dog is known as the Cão da Serra da Estrela in his native Portugal.
The breed is used by the Marine and Portuguese Police.
The Estrela Mountain Dog has been assigned the Working Group designation.
Estrela mountain dogs can be used to pull small carts.
The Estrela has been eligible to compete in Companion Events since January 1, 2008.
The Estrela Mountain Dog has been recorded in the Foundation Stock Service since 2004.
Estrelas can move like wolves - head parallel with their body.
Large, mastiff-type molossoid dog. There are two varieties of coat: long and short. Rustic, substantial, with brisk gait and an impressive attitude. The breed has a lively, calm and expressive look; it is well proportioned; well made with harmonious appearance, which is traditionally how the breed has been recognised since a long time.
Important Proportions: Moderately long (sub- longilinear), tending to mediolinear. The depth of the chest is less than half the height at withers. The muzzle and skull should be approximately the same length; if not, the skull should be slightly longer.
Strong, voluminous and long and slightly convex seen in profile. Well inserted and in good proportion to the body, with the skull in proportion to the foreface; all parts in perfect harmony. Smooth skin on the skull and cheeks.
Skull: Well developed, rounded, with slightly divergent longitudinal superior cranium-facial axes, convex profile, slightly developed superciliary arches with slightly apparent frontal furrow, occipital protuberance not prominent.
Stop: Only slightly marked and at approximately equal distance to the tip of the nose and the occipital protuberance.
Nose: Straight and in line with nosebridge; well opened nostrils; large and black.
Muzzle: Long, tapering to the tip, without being pointed; tends to be straight but very slightly convex at the tip.
Lips: Well developed but not thick, well overlapping, not pendulous; mucous membrane of mouth, palate and edges of lips with intense black pigmentation.Jaws/Teeth : Clean cut mouth with well developed jaws; full dentition with strong, white, well implanted and close-fitting teeth, preferably with scissors bite, pincer bite acceptable.
Eyes: Medium sized, tending to small, oval shaped, level set, equal in size and well open, with a keen and calm expression; preferably dark amber in colour. Close fitting lids with black rims. Eyebrows slightly apparent.
Ears: Set on at medium height; hanging, carried falling backwards and laterally against the side of the head, with inner edge visible (so called rose-ear); thin, triangular, rounded at the tip; small in comparison to the body.
Neck: Short, straight and thick; well set and well connected into the shoulders; with a slight dewlap, not exaggerated.
Topline: Straight. Almost level.
Back: Preferably short, well muscled.
Loin: Short; broad; well muscled; well connected to the croup. Croup : Slightly sloping; short, broad and muscled. Height at croup should be equal or slightly superior to the height at the withers. Chest : Broad; deep; well sprung without being cylindrical; well let down to the elbow or slightly below it.
Underline and belly: The underline should rise gradually but smoothly from sternum to the groin; belly not too wide, in proportion to the animal’s substance and harmoniously connected to the body.
Tail: Set on at medium height; long; thick; carried below the horizontal, scimitar-shaped, with a hook at the end.
At rest it hangs naturally between the thighs, reaching at least the hock; when excited and in motion, the tail rises above the horizontal, curving upward and forward, sideways and downward, without being carried over the croup. It should be well furnished with hair, and feathered in the long-haired variety.
General appearance: Upright with strong bone and thick joints, moderately open angulation, with easy movement.
Forearms: Straight, parallel, long, with strong bone and almost cylindrical in shape.
Forefeet: Proportioned, neither too round nor too long, between cat and hare feet (not splayed); thick, tight toes with abundant hair between toes and pads; dark nails, preferably black, well developed; pads thick and hard.
General appearance: Upright, strong bone with thick joints, moderately open angles, with easy movement.
Hock: Slightly let down; moderately open, neither turned in nor out.
Metatarsus (rear pastern) : Vertical, almost cylindrical. Possible presence of single or double dewclaws.
Hind feet: Identical to the forefeet.
Hair: Strong, very abundant, slightly coarse, without excessive harshness, the texture is similar to goat hair.
The undercoat is composed of fine hair, short, abundant and entangled, normally lighter in colour than the outer coat.
– Long-haired variety: Straight or slightly wavy top coat, uneven in some areas. It is shorter and more dense on the limbs, below the elbows and hocks, as well as on the head; on the ears, it becomes gradually shorter from the base to the tip, becoming thinner and softer. It is longer on the tail, which is bushy, thick and feathered, around the neck and throat and on the buttocks, which are abundantly feathered, as well as the back side of the forearms.
– Short-haired variety: Short hair, evenly distributed over the body, slightly shorter on the head and limbs, without feathering.
The following colors are accepted and considered typical:
– Solid: yellow, fawn and grey in all ranges of color intensity.
– Wolf Grey: fawn, yellow and grey tones, commonly in lighter and darker shades.
– Brindle: Fawn, yellow or grey base color with blackish brindling. In the cranium-facial area, a dark coloued mask is typical.
White markings are admitted only at the extremities of fore- and hind feet and on a small extension on the lower region of neck and chest.
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Description Standard Colors Registration Code
Brindle Check Mark For Standard Color 057
Fawn Check Mark For Standard Color 082
Wolfgray Check Mark For Standard Color 227
Yellow Check Mark For Standard Color 232
Description Standard Markings Registration Code
Black Mask Check Mark For Standard Mark 004
White Markings Check Mark For Standard Mark 014
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Paris, France. 22nd Apr, 2017. An activist caries a sign that reads 'No science = no future'. A few hundred people participated in the 2017 Earth Day in Paris under the slogan ‘March for Science'. It was part of a worldwide day, held in many cities all over the world. Photo: Cronos/Michael Debets Credit: Cronos/Alamy Live News
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Paris, France. 22nd Apr, 2017. Several hundred activists have assembled for the March for Science. A few hundred people participated in the 2017 Earth Day in Paris under the slogan ‘March for Science'. It was part of a worldwide day, held in many cities all over the world. Photo: Cronos/Michael Debets Credit: Cronos/Alamy Live News
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Motown’s New Prince – Detroit Tigers sign batting sensation to nine year deal
February 3, 2012 Geoffrey Knight Headline, Sports, Uncategorized 0
The Detroit Tigers made big headlines this offseason by signing free-agent slugger Prince Fielder.
Fielder surprised a lot of people by signing a nine-year, $254 million contract with the Tigers. The deal was unexpected as the Tigers were not one of the teams thought to be interested a long-term contract with Fielder.
His signing helps to fill the void left by injured designated hitter Victor Martinez, whose injury cast a lot of doubt on the Tiger’s upcoming season.
“I was very excited [about the Fielder signing], we did pay him a lot of money but we do need more hitters on the team,” said Rebecca Satawa, Royal Oak senior. “His fielding could use some work but I am definitely excited to have a better hitter in the line up.”
Fielder has been one of the most productive big bats in Major League baseball of late, hitting the second most home runs since 2007 only behind Ryan Howard. Fielder’s numbers and production are exciting for the Tigers and their fans, but his salary is somewhat of a risk.
“Signing a player to that long of a contract, especially in baseball, is risky because baseball players have their ups and downs,” said Matt LeFevre, Canton sophomore. “Nine years is a long time and with Victor Martinez out it could be a little rough, but when he returns, we will have the best hitting trio in Major League Baseball.”
Martinez tore is anterior cruciate ligament last year during off-season workouts. He has undergone micro fracture surgery and will receive surgery to fix his ACL in the next six to eight weeks, putting his season to an almost certain end.
Martinez was among the top three Tigers in runs batted in, batting average and total runs with 103, .330 and 76 respectively.
“I think that they have a chance to make it to the World Series this year but I don’t know if they can win it all,” said Alex Padilla, Grosse Pointe first year. “It all depends on what happens if and when Martinez returns; if they can maintain a solid lineup upon his return they have a really good shot.
Fans and experts alike have the Tigers winning the American League central division with little difficulty and subsequently making it to the playoffs. What happens in the playoffs is anyone’s guess.
“We’ll just have to wait and see how the season plays out,” said Satawa.
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70 years on, The Second Sex is as relevant as ever
Pakistani political activist and writer Fatima Bhutto sees a disappointing lack of progress in the last 70 years. Louise Kennerley
Nov 8, 2019 — 11.01am
At over seven hundred pages long, it is hard to imagine how Blanche Knopf – the wife of the American publisher Alfred Knopf – ever imagined that The Second Sex was a literary sex manual. That this misunderstanding was what brought her to champion the book to Knopf publishing is a sign of how Simone de Beauvoir would forever be one of the most popular yet misread feminists of the past century.
Seventy years later, de Beauvoir’s seminal work is as relevant as ever. The Second Sex addresses itself, in its wry tone, to the current struggles of women in the West in particular, women lulled into a complacent stupor born from the misplaced sense that it is only women in the East, in the Global South – women out there, far away – who are in need of the very liberation that Western women imagined had already been fought for and achieved by their ancestors.
When Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex was first published 70 years ago it was pitched as 'A personal and unique analysis of what it means to be a woman'.
It was as urgent then as it remains now for de Beauvoir, a Western, white woman to write of the systemic inequality of the sexes, rubbishing the notion that women here were free while women there were not. One’s religion, race or ethnicity is no protection from the ‘separate but equal’ status granted to women. "The duality of the sexes," de Beauvoir wrote, "like all duality" would be one of conflict.
Writing in 1949, de Beauvoir’s interventions on gender pay gaps, the subjugation of women on the basis of sex, the oppressive demands of femininity, and who exactly gets to be called and considered a woman speak very much to the landscape of modern feminism. Leaving aside de Beauvoir’s personal life with Jean Paul Sartre (as well as her views on marriage and maternity), The Second Sex has always seemed to me an intensely political book, then and now. In 2019, at the height of the #MeToo movement, one can – and should – read The Second Sex as a rebuke to the limits of white, capitalist feminism.
Economically, de Beauvoir wrote, men and women "almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages and greater chances to succeed than their female competitors." She was not speaking of Senegal or Syria but of France. "The ‘modern’ woman accepts masculine values" without fully comprehending why that does not free her from continuing to operate with a "masculine mediator between her and the world."
French writer Simone De Beauvoir at her desk in 1953. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Regardless of her modified economic position, regardless of the vote that has been belatedly granted to her, woman remains a "vassal", as de Beauvoir put it, neither money nor political power strong enough to transform her secondary position. Humanity’s very structure was built around man, de Beauvoir posited, and as such it is man that defines woman, not herself. She can only be seen in relation to him, as the Other.
The conflict of the sexes will last for so long as men and women do not see each other as peers and as long as femininity (whatever that is) is presented to women as a "fallacious treasure" that they are required to defend and uphold. Only an "inner metamorphosis" could bring woman to transcendence.
I read The Second Sex when I was a college student in America. My literary understanding of the struggles of women up till that point had come from legends that felt much closer to home – from Fatima Mernissi, the pioneering Moroccan feminist who documented the political role of women in early Islam, from Leila Ahmed and Nawal al Saadawi, Egyptian feminists who wrote on gender and Muslim feminism, as well as from Audre Lorde and Bell Hooks.
Today’s feminism, however, is represented on the global stage by corporate millionaires, war profiteers and actresses. Modern establishment feminism is sanitised from politics, from the struggles of black and brown women, and thoroughly de-radicalised. De Beauvoir would be rightly sceptical of celebrating nudity is a feminist empowerment tool and I doubt she would agree that solidarity is best achieved through the incessant posting of bikini and bottom selfies as many self-proclaimed feminists proudly insist.
The capitalist doctrine of Lean In isn’t feminism – it isn’t feminism because it only applies to those women at the table, in the building, on the ladder – not to those out struggling, shivering, under the stars. It cannot be feminism when with one hand it guides you to lean in and with the other it embraces a man like the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, as Sheryl Sandberg did, under whose watch countless women were raped and murdered in the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Gina Haspel, the director of the CIA, who oversaw waterboarding and torture, is presented as a feminist though her credentials are singular: her gender. It is difficult to call the fact that four out of the United States’ four largest defence companies are run by women progress for womankind. That we can now rise up to be arms dealers in skirts is hardly worth anyone’s excitement.
De Beauvoir, for all her faults, was a witness to France’s colonisation of Algeria – a history that informed her feminism. "I needed my self-esteem to go on living and yet was seeing myself through the eyes of women who had been raped 20 times, of men with broken bodies, of crazed children," she wrote of France’s imperial brutality. "I wanted to stop being an accomplice in this war, but how?"
She attempted to answer the how in The Second Sex. The book brooks no triumphalism nor insistence on exceptionalism. In reading The Second Sex it is impossible not to see de Beauvoir’s woman as the subaltern. Why don’t women contest male sovereignty, why do they accept their submissive position, the author asks as she examines the othering of minorities and oppression that naturally follows? After all, women – unlike African Americans, whose struggles she references – are not a minority, rather "there are as many women as men on the earth."
From the start, women are suspect and must work double as hard only to be given a chance. She camouflages herself in order to compete, though she can never win at this disguise. Misogynists will flay women for "letting themselves go" while simultaneously lecturing them to "stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails" if they want to be considered serious equals.
Simone de Beauvoir was suspicious of identity and its narrowing politics.
"In general, the superior caste is hostile to the parvenus of the inferior caste…" de Beauvoir writes insightfully, "but individuals of the lower caste, imbued with feelings of their generic inferiority and often full of resentment of someone who has prevailed over destiny, will also prefer to turn to the masters; in particular, most women, steeped in adoration of the male, avidly seek him in the doctor, lawyer, office manager".
Society, which is codified and organised by men, decrees women to be inferior and this – like all oppression – necessitates a state of war. And in this war, de Beauvoir advises, combat must take a different form. Not for women to drag men into their dark prison, but to emerge from their own confines "into the light of transcendence".
The richness of The Second Sex, its fire not dulled by the decades, lies in this deeply political and surprisingly Buddhist understanding of political engagement and thought: the free woman is just being born. Her struggle has no end date and operates on no linearity. It must avoid replicating the denigration woman herself endured and most of all, requires a "forgetfulness of self".
Simone de Beauvoir was suspicious of identity and its narrowing politics. One is not born but becomes a woman, as she famously said. The Second Sex is not the definitive feminist guide of our times, nor would de Beauvoir have defended it as such – she was as bored as the rest of us by the idea of definitive guides to women, calling them "volumes of idiocies", none of which illuminated anything. Only when women themselves see clearly, casting aside generations of education which conspires to hold them back from "paths of revolt and adventure", will they finally have the courage to "penetrate the shadows beyond the clarity".
Fatima Bhutto is appearing at the Wheeler Centre’s Broadside Festival of feminist ideas on November 9 and 10 at Melbourne Town Hall.
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21 October 2004 Edition
Morgan predicts United Ireland before Tories regain power
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Louth TD Arthur Morgan set veteran Tory MP Michael Mates' veins popping at the British Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body meeting on Monday, when he told him that Ireland will be united before there is a Tory government in Britain.
The Sinn Féin TD told the meeting in Wales that he was pessimistic about the Conservative Party's chances in future general elections.
"We'll have a united Ireland before the Conservatives get back into office in Britain," he told the meeting, which, apart from the Tory contingent, dissolved into laughter.
Mates had opened the debate with a tirade against republicans but was slapped into place by Morgan, who referred to "leaving fringe elements like the Conservatives to one side".
"I would have expected an old soldier like Mates to have respected another old soldier like myself," Morgan told An Phoblacht, "but the only organisation he mentioned was the IRA and the only impediment to peace was republicans. He's living in the past."
Morgan reminded the 68 British and Irish parliamentarians that there are still 15,000 British soldiers in Ireland. "Those people out marching this weekend against the stationing of 8,000 troops in Iraq, do they even know about this?" he asked.
He also said that the Body needs to be more than a talking shop and do something constructive if it is to justify spending taxpayers' money.
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Bitcoin on the Apple II
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Every April 1st, Juiced.GS publishes an April Fool's joke, such as that we'd be encrypting all print issues, or cryogenically freezing our staff. Most readers find it amusing; some find it confusing ("Is this real?"); one found it so offensive that they cancelled their subscription.
To avoid a repeat of any extreme reactions, I aimed for this year's to be so absurd that no one would ever believe it or feel betrayed by it: Juiced.GS was introducing JuicyBits™, an 8-bit cryptocurrency. How ridiculous! The processing power of the Apple II, while impressive for its time, was nowhere near the minimum to compute modern blockchains. Clearly the impossibility of anyone attempting such a thing made the press release an obvious joke.
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As detailed in his thorough blog post, Mangin was inspired not by Juiced.GS, but by last month's KansasFest, to mine Bitcoin on the Apple II for real. With plenty of time on the ride home from Kansas City to theorize his approach, followed by some insightful assistance from Peter Ferrie, it wasn't long before Mangin had an actual, working algorithm for computing cryptocurrency on his Apple II. Not only that, but he rigged a setup that outputs the computer's video to Twitch, the popular streaming network, allowing us to watch the computations in real-time.
Watch live video from 8BTC on www.twitch.tv
Don't sit on the edge of your seat waiting for that magic moment when a Bitcoin is mined, though:
… mining Bitcoin successfully at 3.8 hashes per second will happen, on average, once in 256 trillion years. But it could happen tomorrow. It's a lottery, after all.
At this point, I'm not sure if the joke is on Charles or on Juiced.GS.
The Oregon Trail Card Game
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I spend my workdays at Workbar, a co-working space that lets me host a monthly game session. This month, I volunteered my copy of Oregon Trail: The Card Game.
I'd picked up the game from Target when it was released in the summer of 2016, but I never got around to playing it or its expansion pack. Finally, five of us gathered into a covered wagon to collaboratively make our way through a round.
Before departing, I read the enclosed instructions but found them lacking clarity. This complementary video helped clarify a few things.
Then the five of us departed Missouri. We didn't choose our roles (farmer, banker, carpenter), nor did we elect how to spend our allowance — supply cards were randomly distributed to us.
An unlikely family of pioneers.
We each had a hand of trail cards that we played to span the distance between the starting card of Independence and the ending card of Willamette Valley. The trail cards fell broadly into three categories: no effect; ford a river; or calamity strikes. The latter two cards occasionally left room for interpretation, which confused our merry band. For example, "Roll an even number to cross the river; roll a 1 and die!" But what about 3 or 5? What I should've done before playing was read the Pressman Toys website for "Oregon Trail Rules Updates", whose three bullet points address some of these concerns.
Even with that added knowledge, the game relied mostly on luck of the draw. The rules imply there's some strategy, such as "Sometimes you may want to let one of your friends die", rather than expend a supply card. But we didn't encounter such a scenario, nor could I imagine one. Now I understand what Kate Szkotnicki meant when she reviewed this game for Juiced.GS:
Some people may also be put off by the amount of luck the game is based on—players looking for a game where they can finesse the rules, manage their cards and play well against their opponents may be disappointed.
A complete round, including occasional pauses to consult the instructions, took about a half-hour. Now that we better understand how to live and die on the Oregon Trail, I expect future games will be faster, and that the expansion pack might introduce additional options and choices. Still, it's not a game I recommend rushing to Chimney Rock to buy.
A noble (and notorious) death.
Traveling with Agent USA
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My grade school had an Apple II computer lab filled with educational software from Scholastic. As one of the few students with an Apple II at home, I was allowed to borrow from this collection over the weekends. While issues of Microzine attracted most of my attention, I fondly remember another title: Agent USA, from Tom Snyder Productions.
This game takes the horror of a pandemic (think a cross between Dustin Hoffman's Outbreak and the Borg) and makes it fun! Players control a government agent (represented as a hat with feet) in a United States whose population is being slowly converted to mindless drones. The only thing that can save them is a self-replicating crystal in the agent's possession. A single crystal can turn a drone back into a citizen, but a hundred of them can defeat the brains of the operation, the Fuzzbomb. If Agent USA can cultivate the crystals, read the train schedules, buy train tickets, and adjust to time zones, he just might save the day.
Wikipedia says this game teaches "spelling, US geography, time zones, and state capitals", though I'm unsure how much of that I absorbed. For example, with many cities to be explored, capital cities were distinguished by an info booth where players could see projections of the Fuzzbomb's spread — but I don't recall memorizing which cities had these maps. Learning how cities connect to each other has transferred to understanding which airlines fly to which cities and where their hubs are, but reading train schedules might've proved more useful had I lived in a city that had good public transit.
What I remember most fondly about the game was not the moral lesson my Catholic school wanted me to learn! Trains left the station every thirty seconds, and if you tried to board without a ticket, you'd be summarily ejected. There was little reason to encounter this scenario, since tickets were free (provided you could spell the destination's name). But if you were strapped not for cash, but for time, you could bypass the ticket booth entirely. Trains would call all-aboard moments before departing, and in that brief window, boarding the train would not leave enough time for the player to be returned to the platform; the train would leave with player in tow.
Having only ever borrowed this game as a kid and wanting it for myself as an adult, I bought a copy of this game five years ago on eBay from Ian Baronofsky, whom I would later meet at KansasFest. I didn't get around to opening it until just last month. It's not the clamshell-edition packaging I remember, but inside is the same train-jumping adventure I grew up with.
Feeling Floppy Happy
August 5th, 2019 11:39 AM
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Steve Weyhrich, purveyor of fine Apple II music videos such as "Week of the KFest", "KFest Funk", and "The KFest Show", as well as creator of the Apple II in Minecraft, has done it again. Although he debuted the video "Boot Up and Run" just a month before KansasFest 2019, he followed it up in short order at KansasFest by premiering "Floppy" a parody of "Happy" by Pharrell Williams.
This latest creation already has more views than many of Steve's previous music videos. I attribute that to two qualities of his song: its source material is well-known; and the video incorporates many members of the Apple II community, lending itself well to being organically shared.
But even without the visual component, it's still catchy! Using iTube Studio for Mac, I downloaded Steve's entire playlist in audio format, quickly and easily adding them to my iTunes library.
If you've ever wished your iPhone could play floppy disks, well, now it kind of can.
Thank you for yet another hit, Steve!
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Production on brominated compounds in the alga Ceramium tenuicorne
New scientific publication in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Induced production of brominated aromatic compounds in the alga Ceramium tenuicorne
In the Baltic Sea, high concentrations of toxic brominated aromatic compounds have been detected in all compartments of the marine food web. A growing body of evidence points towards filamentous algae as a natural producer of these chemicals. However, little is known about the effects of environmental factors and life history on algal production of brominated compounds. In this study, several congeners of methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs), hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDEs) and brominated phenols (BPs) were identified in a naturally growing filamentous red algal species (Ceramium tenuicorne) in the Baltic Sea. The identified substances displayed large seasonal variations in the alga with a concentration peak in July. Production of MeO-/OH-PBDEs and BPs by C. tenuicorne was also established in isolated clonal material grown in a controlled laboratory setting. Based on three replicates, herbivory, as well as elevated levels of light and salinity in the culture medium, significantly increased the production of 2,4,6-tribromophenol (2,4,6-TBP). Investigation of differences in production between the isomorphic female, male and diploid clonal life stages of the alga grown in the laboratory revealed a significantly higher production of 2,4,6-TBP in the brackish water female gametophytes, compared to the corresponding marine gametophytes. Even higher concentrations of 2,4,6-TBP were produced by marine male gametophytes and sporophytes.
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Mera Sultan Poetry In Urdu
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The Musalman publishes Urdu poetry and messages on devotion to God and communal. The pinnacle of a katib’s achievement meant a seat at court and a chance to earn the sultan’s ear. Similar to spoken.
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Like several other Muslim Sufi saints in South Asia, Sultan Bahu was also the legendary poet. He has around 40 books dedicated to Sufism. Most of his books are based on specialized subjects like.
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Over time, the gorgeous sight of a full-Moon sky became the mascot for romance and the muse of poetry. Not surprisingly. Bollywood’s dependence on the Urdu shaayar and the Hindi kavi for lyrics is.
LAHORE: The Urdu translation of a Nobel prize winner novel — ‘Surkh Mera Naam’ — was launched at a hotel on. thing because world has turned into a global village. He said poetry was the most.
A people’s poet, Neeraj says his poetry was shaped by his broken heart, desire and years of suffering. “Mera tan rogi, man bhogi. One of the few Hindi poets who embraced Urdu with an open mind, he.
Jam Saqi with his father Mohmand Sachal, mother Mehi Bai, sister Marvi and brother Sultan. —Photo from Ahmed Saleem. He is the author of an anthology of Urdu and Sindhi poetry translated into.
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Riaz, a formidable figure of Pakistani literature, authored over a dozen books on poetry and fiction, and ran a publishing company. She translated the writings of Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and the.
A gifted orator, he had an equal command over Urdu, Kashmiri and English. His appreciation of Kashmiri poetry and prose and his taste for. the caretaker of the family of journalist Pervaiz Sultan,
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Mahmood, a barrister and aficionado of Urdu poetry, selects eight poets whose roots were entrenched. where he was banished by the colonial powers: ‘Lagta Nahin Hai Jee Mera Ujjre Diyar Mein’ [My.
The novels were in Urdu. Sultan Bukhari. In 1990, Ibn-i-Haq’s book Ibn-i-Safi ne kaha was published. Now its new, revised edition has been published by Karachi’s City Book Point. It contains.
For the first time in a 29-year history which began with WH Auden drunk in a cupboard – the festival is holding a mushaira, a "gathering of poets", in Urdu, Bengali and Hindi. mostly published by.
One of the most popular Turkish shows in Pakistan right now is Mera Sultan, or My Sultan. voice-over artists who translate the dramas from Turkish into Urdu. The pay isn’t great, $20 to $40 per.
Sampooran Singh Kalra, better known as Gulzar, is the pride of Hindi and Urdu poetry. Such is his impact on the modern. The music was composed by R.D Burman, and the song Mera Kuch Saamaan (sung by.
Firaq brought themes from Sanskrit poetry to Urdu. Josh, Sardar Jafri and Makhdoom established. been the tarana or the official song of Aligarh University ever since: yeh mera chaman hai mera.
His interpretation of Mirza Mohammed Hadi Ruswa’s Urdu novel never achieves. masters the art of dance and poetry. In her first public performance itself, she falls hard for the dashing Nawab Sultan.
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Warner Bros Loses Out On Joker’s Profits
October 19, 2019 Movies By Ishita Chatterjee October 19, 2019
In the world of Superheroes, making a movie about a villain was an extremely risky business venture for Warner Bros. The movie seemed to be on an even more of a shaky ground because it was being directed by a man who is most well known for the Hangover trilogy. But now, Joker is smashing records at the box-office and yet Warner Bros isn’t happy.
Joker’s Success Story- from An Underdog to A Box-Office Hit
Joker has gone on to be an unexpected box office hit. Pic courtesy: thewrap.com
Joker was always a underdog movie in the world of superheroes even though it had the name of Joaquin Phoenix attached to it. As it drew close to its release date, media decried the movie for possibly being able to incite violence. This led to Warner Bros putting out a reply and banning journalists from the premiere. Many theatres even gave warnings to its moviegoers as well.
On its debut, the positive buzz surrounding Joker began to grow and it soon became a juggernaut for WB. It is currently on its way to earning more than $600m globally. This is less than two weeks after its release.
Warner Bros Upset Over Losing Out On Joker’s Profits
Warner Bros loses out on Joker’s profits. Pic courtesy: forbes.com
After the disappointment of Justice League, Joker was approached with a lot of fear. But even its success doesn’t bring too much good news for WB and it’s all because of their own fault.
A recent report has revealed that Warner Bros. saw Joker as a huge risk. So they opted to co-finance the movie with Village Roadshow and Bron Studios in an effort to minimize their losses in case the movie bombed. But now that Joker is a roaring success and has made more than ten times its approximate budget, the studio is missing out on hundreds of million dollars worth of profits.
But Warner Bros doesn’t have much to lose especially since it has a lot of surefire box office hits lined up like Aquaman 2, Wonder Woman 1984 and more. Still after this little disaster with Joker, Warner Bros won’t be making the same mistake again.
With Joker already at about $600m, it’s not impossible for the movie to net $1bn. But will it be able to? check out the video below to know more:
(Source: wegotthiscovered.com and forbes.com)
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Lotus reportedly gives the go-ahead to Esprit replacement
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Lotus Esprit replacement delayed to 2011, hybrid on option
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Profichip celebrates its 15th anniversary
July 21, 2014 - In 1999, Wolfgang Seel founded Profichip and initially developed microchips for the PROFIBUS system – one of the most important bus systems in the automation industry.
In 2003 the company finally succeeded in developing a completely new PLC processor that was faster than anything that existed in the automation industry at that time. Equally quickly, profichip were able to win recognition for the solution. Profichip has been growing steadily since then and today most of the market leaders in the automation industry today put chips from the Herzogenaurach Company in their products.
Meanwhile, 21 highly specialized developers work at the company headquarters on ever new and innovative solutions and in 2013 achieved a turnover of 8.5 million euros. “Our strength lies in our manageable size”, Wolfgang Seel explained. “This allows direct communication amongst us. Flat hierarchies and little bureaucracy make space for creativity and provide for an exceptionally high level of innovation. Thus, despite its growth, profichip remains quick and flexible – and this is necessary because the development in the automation industry is racing ahead very fast.”
The semiconductor chips are manufactured in Taiwan. “The specialists there also do the manufacturing for global players in the IT and telecommunications industry”, said Seel. Our own production at the company headquarters could not be operated economically, so we restrict ourselves here to our own core competency, which lies in engineering, and also take care of worldwide sales and marketing. A thoroughly successful business model as the many prizes and awards show. The company is recognized today as a leading ASIC design house and still focuses on complex chip solutions for fieldbus systems (such as PROFINET, CANopen, EtherCAT etc.) for industrial automation and communication. Thanks to years of experience and cutting-edge design methods, profichip has repeatedly been convincing with unique products, which have found the world’s attention and a growth in demand.
profichip is a subsidiary of VIPA GmbH, which already celebrates its 30th birthday next year. YASKAWA Europe GmbH has been the majority shareholder of both companies since 2012.
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Air France–KLM Group expands wide-body fleet
10 new A350-900s will be operated by Air France, taking group’s total order for aircraft type to 38
By Aviation Business
The Air France–KLM Group has placed a firm order for 10 additional wide-body A350-900s, which will take its total order for the type to 38 aircraft.
The A350s are intended to be operated by Air France.
The group’s CEO, Benjamin Smith, said: “Rationalising and modernising the fleet is central to our effort to regain our leading position in Europe.
“It will strengthen our performance from both an economic and operational standpoint, and will help us deliver on our ambitious sustainability agenda.
“Offering a 25% reduction in fuel consumption compared to previous generation aircraft, the Airbus A350-900 is a jewel of European expertise and a passenger favourite. We are excited to see it become a core asset of the Air France fleet.”
Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO, said: “Ben is leading an impressive transformation at Air France-KLM and we feel honoured that our A350 aircraft have been selected as part of this endeavour.
Air France-KLM currently operates a fleet of 159 Airbus aircraft.
By the end of November, the A350 XWB Family had received 959 firm orders from 51 customers worldwide.
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Great Music Quotes
Music, Art, Mad
George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
Art, Literature, World
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Inspirational, Change, Music
No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.
Music, Healing, Matter
Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
Music can change the world.
Music, Peace, World
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Funny, Music, Night
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music, Wisdom, Art
Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love, Inspirational, Romantic
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Inspirational, Music, Lonely
Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music, Wisdom, Wine
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Music, Art, Men
Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
Music, Thinking, Cities
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press
I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.
Sorry, Heart, Play
Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
Music, Healing, Thinking
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Inspirational, Motivational, Music
FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Funny, Music, Wisdom
Song: Trenchtown Rock
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Life, Motivational, Music
"LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.
Motivational, Music, Wisdom
Music at Night (1931) p. 17
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music, Wisdom, Philosophy
Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
Where words fail, music speaks.
Inspirational, Music, Art
Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Inspirational, Music, Rocks
1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music, Fake People, Peace
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.
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Sample of Pitman’s shorthand. Image public domain, via Wikimedia.
Pitman’s shorthand is a phonetic system of writing, based on a somewhat stylised standard English or British pronunciation (for example, it assumes that written ‘r’ is always sounded, and the phonology of the system of vowels represented is inevitably rather unsophisticated.) Consonants are represented by strokes, circles and loops, and hooks, which are joined to form a single ‘outline’ for each word (or for more sophisticated writers, occasionally for more than one word.) The vowels are represented by a dot or a short dash, or a semicircle or arrow-head in the case of diphthongs. Each of the consonant strokes is (ideally) written either thick or thin, and the vowel dots and dashes are written either light or heavy; these are phonetically significant distinctions. The main consonant strokes are either a straight line, horizontal, vertical, or at 45° to either left or right; or a curved quadrant, four of them derived by dissecting a circle at north, south, east and west, and four by dissecting at NE, SE, SW and NW; each denotes a different consonant, with thick and thin mostly corresponding with voiced and unvoiced sounds respectively. The vowel marks are placed adjacent to strokes, either ‘in front’ or ‘following’ as the sounds require, and the vowel-sound which each dot or dash represents is determined by its position, either at the beginning, middle or end of the consonant-stroke as it is written. The whole ‘outline’ should be written either ‘above the line’, or ‘on the line’, or ‘below the line’ according to the position of the first vowel dot or dash, at the beginning, middle or end of its stroke respectively; this (when the writer actually does it, clearly or at all) provides almost the only element of ‘redundancy’ which may help in elucidating ambiguities. In the everyday use of Pitman’s shorthand, most or all of the vowel signs are (or were) commonly omitted.
The foregoing is a summary of the absolute basics of the system. Without attempting a more complete description, the further refinements include for example a system of small and large circles and loops, used at the beginning, middle or end of an ‘outline’, mostly to denote ‘s’, ‘z’ or combinations of these sounds; initial and terminal hooks denoting ‘r’, ‘l’, ‘n’, ‘f’ or ‘-tion’, dots at the beginning or end of an ‘outline’ (the former, for example, denotes ‘com-’ or ‘con-’), halving the standard length of a stroke to denote the presence of an additional ‘t’ or ‘d’, or doubling it to express ‘-ter’, ‘-thor’ or something similar. In addition, for many words there are simplified symbols, which though bearing some phonetic relation with the word in question have each to be learned individually.
It may be inferred – correctly – from the foregoing brief explanation that Pitman’s shorthand needs to be fairly meticulously written for it to be decipherable 100 years later by a reader who has no personal knowledge of the events being recorded. ALL would not have claimed that his diaries fully satisfied this requirement. Even though three of the diaries were written on lined pages, it is usually unclear whether an ‘outline’ is ‘above’, ‘on’ or ‘below the line’; the thick-or-thin distinction is scarcely ever discernible; vowels are only very sparsely indicated, and their positioning usually ambiguous; it is often impossible to tell whether a stroke is upright or at an angle, or whether a stroke is ‘halved’ or not; and even the distinction between a curved and a straight stroke is often difficult to perceive. Added to this, of course, there is the fading and sporadic marking which 100 years of ageing have contributed; while vowel dots and dashes are not often marked, one becomes certain after a time that some apparent vowel signs are just irrelevant marks in the paper.
In these circumstances, it is not surprising that decipherment and transcription are often problematical, and at times quite impossible. The fact that a good deal of what is recorded is repetitive routine certainly helps, and, for example, topographical probability sometimes helps in deciphering place-names; on the other hand some of the personal names will probably always remain dubious or unidentifiable.
But one thing of which I and the reader can be certain is that (however repetitive and boring at times) this transcription is as far as humanly possible (or possible for this human, anyway) a complete one; my decipherment, bordering as it may do at times on surmise, may well be at fault in places, but the only omissions, which are always indicated in the text, are due to complete illegibility or to my sheer inability to grasp what ALL was writing.
A. Denis Linfoot
See also: Wikipedia – Pitman shorthand
7 thoughts on “Pitman’s Shorthand”
13 April 14 at 12:21 am
This is fascinating. I discovered this today. (I can’t remember how I wound up here, but that’s the nature of following interesting links on the Internet, isn’t it?)
I read everything from January 1 to April 12, 2014 this evening, and I will follow the rest daily as you go forward. History, particularly history viewed from the perspective of ordinary individuals going about their normal daily lives is seductively interesting to me!
Forty years ago, in high school, here in the US, I took Gregg shorthand. I used it in high school, (for class notes, but mostly to pass messages to my friends in class and avoid being immediately humiliated by the teachers if they caught it and confiscated them!) and never had an opportunity to put it to work afterward in the working world. I remember at the time, being shown Pitman shorthand and finding it incredibly difficult to even begin to fathom. Did you learn it specifically to be able to transcribe these diaries, or was this already a skill of yours? Either way, so wonderful for your family and your countrymen and us out here in the rest of the world, to be able to read these, because of your careful work!
13 April 14 at 4:28 pm
Re Did you learn it specifically to be able to transcribe these diaries, or was this already a skill of yours?
ALL had shown DL the rudiments of Pitman’s some years ago, but not enough to enable transcription of the diaries. DL largely taught himself more recently in order to transcribe the diaries.
Fascinating blog.
I have one request: can you add a navigation bar so it’s easier to go to a specific year and month? Backing up through the “older posts” is not going to work later, when people arte trying to see what Linfoot was doing on a certain day.
There is a navigation bar. Hover over “Archives” and you will be able to select a specific year and/or month.
PS if using a mobile device, select “menu” and year and month archives are there.
Sue Tidswell says:
14 January 14 at 10:31 am
As one who struggled through with Pitman’s shorthand, and experiencing difficulty in translating my own after only a short time (indeed, often making my own interpretation) I completely admire A. Denis Linfoot’s extremely arduous task. I look forward to reading each entry and acknowledge it will become more horrific.
John Pearson says:
9 January 14 at 10:55 am
Fascinating, looking forward to future posts.
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Jakarta (Antara) – A flash flood triggered by heavy rains inundated and damaged tens of houses in South Aceh district Friday night. By Saturday evening, the flood had reportedly damaged tens of houses and affected 1,417 residents.
"Alhamdulillah (Thank God), the disaster claimed no lives. However, we are still assessing the extent of the damage," acting chief of the South Aceh District Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) Cut Syazalisma said when contacted from Meulaboh, West Aceh, Saturday evening.
It was believed that the flash flood was triggered by heavy rain that caused the river in the area to overflow.
The flood caused moderate damage to nine houses in Jambo Dalam village, Trumon Timur sub-district, South Aceh district, affecting 1,250 residents. It also damaged a number of houses, affecting 167 people in Kapai Seusak Village.
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Aspen Junior Hockey 16U girls set to make return trip to national tournament
News | March 27, 2018
Austin Colbert
acolbert@aspentimes.com
The Aspen Leafs girls 16U AA hockey team.
The Aspen Junior Hockey players said they were treated like royalty at the 2017 USA Hockey National Championships, and that’s part of the reason they are excited to go back. But this year, they also hope to get a little more done on the ice.
“We didn’t make it to the elimination tournament, but the girls got a good taste of what we need to do to play at that level,” Aspen coach Keith Howie said of last year’s national tournament. “This year we are going back again and will have a better understanding of what is going on and obviously hope to do better and we’ll see how far we go.”
The Aspen Leafs girls’ 16U AA hockey team will compete April 5-9 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, in the 2018 national championships after recently winning the Rocky Mountain District title. More than half the players also played for the 14U AA that team made nationals last season. That team was believed to have been the first Aspen youth hockey team to make a national tournament since AJH was founded in 1972.
With many of those girls having aged up to the 16U team, they’ll get to carry that national experience into next week’s tournament. Last year in Troy, Michigan, Aspen’s 14U team struggled against the elite competition in large part because of their lack of experience. They hope the script will be flipped next week.
“It’s a great opportunity and it’s really cool to play against better teams, because we don’t get that much competition here,” said 16U player Charlotte Howie. “So it’s really fun to go to nationals. This is the second time an Aspen team has gone after last year.”
Keith Howie coached last year’s 14U team to nationals and is coaching the 16U team this year. His daughter, Charlotte, played on last year’s 14U team before moving to the 16U team this year alongside her father.
While based out of Aspen, the 16U team includes many players from around the Western Slope. With athletes living so far from each other, the team rarely practices and often must learn on the fly during games.
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Aspen’s group includes the Livonia Knights, East Coast Wizards and Highland Park Falcons.
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Overall, Aspen Junior Hockey brought in its fair share of hardware from the 2017-18 season.
The same weekend in which the girls 16U team won its district championship, AJH had two other teams win state championships at the Pepsi Center in Denver. The boys 10U Squirt A team defeated Littleton 2-1 to win the first Squirt A state championship in AJH history. Jack Freitas scored the game-winner for Aspen.
AJH executive director Shaun Hathaway said they taught the team a new defensive zone system only days before the tournament, hoping it would stay in their young minds long enough to be useful when it mattered the most.
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The best on the box: from Orange Shirts to Posh Pets
July 29, 2017 Best on the Box, Broadcasting Shaun Linden
ATV Today Editor Shaun Linden picks the best from the box for the coming week, July 29th to August 4th, in ATV Saturday.
BBC highlights this week begin on Monday (July 31st, 9pm) with British novelist Patrick Gale making his screenwriting debut with BBC Two drama Man in an Orange Shirt. This two part series features cast including Vanessa Redgrave. The story charts the challenges and huge changes to gay lives from the Second World War to the present day. It is 1944, and in the chaos of war British Army Captain Michael Berryman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) meets the artist Thomas March (James McArdle) in Southern Italy. Despite the fact he has a young fiancé Flora (Joanna Vanderham) waiting for him back at home, straight-laced Michael finds himself falling for Thomas’ bohemian charms.
When the war ends they steal some time away at Michael’s secluded cottage, where they briefly experience life as a couple and Thomas paints Michael’s portrait, ‘Man In An Orange Shirt’. Against Thomas’ protestations, Michael then returns to the very different life in London he left before the war – back to Flora, marriage, and their plans to start a family. Thomas returns to the relative freedom of Soho where, at great personal risk, he can live the life of a gay man.
Will their old lives be enough to satisfy Michael and Thomas in the wake of what they had before? Or can they find a way for their love to survive against the pressures of conventional marriage, 1940s society, and the law? And what about Flora, now a mother – how far will she go to hold her new family together? – BBC
Also on Monday night its the third episode of Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, which sees the Great British Bake Off winner travel to the East of England to learn about the food she loves to cook for her family. (July 31st, 8.30pm.) In the BBC Two series Nadiya begins her exploration of family food favourites by putting a twist on the classic ploughman’s sandwich, and cooks a tangy pickle and mature cheddar tart.
Setting off to explore the East of England, her first stop is in Cromer where she boards a sea fishing boat for the first time ever to catch the area’s hugely popular sweet Cromer crabs. Her next stop is in Ely to meet a potato farmer she also creates an ‘Ode to East Anglia’ celebrating the farming heart of the country.
And also this week its the final outing for Wild Alaska Live (Sunday, 7pm) on BBC One.
In this edition Matt Baker, Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall look at the impact of ‘the feast’ across the vast state of Alaska. If the beeb’s predictions are right, salmon should have arrived, in their millions. Liz Bonnin will be live at Katmai National Park to witness bears and if viewers are really lucky, wolves running up and down the rivers chasing after salmon.Steve Backshall will be on board a boat heading to the epicentre of the marine feast, on the trail of orcas and humpbacks while Matt Baker will be at the salmon finishing line, the end point of their incredible migration where they undergo incredible body changes from silver to red, their entire shape shifts and the males compete in violent fights.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Michael with James McArdle as Thomas in Man in an Orange Shirt, BBC Two, July 31st, 9pm
The pick of ITV shows for televisual pleasures start with the final in the current series of The Secret World of Posh Pets. In this last outing of the show (Friday, August 4th, 8pm) viewers meet Rory who at just 21 has already cornered the market in supplying pet jellyfish. He is so successful that he employs his dad to help him export his jellies all around the world. His latest project is his biggest yet, installing a massive tank in a high-end electrical shop and settling 5 rare Japanese nettle jellies into their new home.
While if game shows are your thing Bradley Walsh is at the helm of another daytime delight from Monday through to Friday. Cash Strapped (5pm from July 31st) sees six contestants attempt what ITV describe as “one of TV’s most strategic quiz shows.” The contestant who has amassed the most money over the show gets a chance to escape with their individual prize pot. If the other five contestants succeed in blocking him, they all return the following day to play again, with the escapee starting on zero in this rollover show . If the escapee cash traps all five of his opponents they all leave with nothing, and he leaves with his winnings.
Sport fans will also be able to take in the goings on down at Glorious Goodwood as Ed Chamberlin and co-presenter Francesca Cumani host exclusive free to air coverage live from the West Sussex racecourse for ITV Sport. The broadcaster is covering this highlight of the British flat racing calendar with four races over each of the five days including highlights like the Goodwood Cup, the Sussex Stakes and the Nassau Stakes.
Coverage, ITV note, includes their cameras going behind the scenes at the course, featuring interviews with key figures including everyone from stable staff, trainers and owners through to the jockeys as well as racing legends, sampling the atmosphere in the grandstands, with pundits bringing an expert insight into the challenge the course presents. ITV Racing starts on August 1st. (1.30pm)
Ed Chamberlin hosts ITV Racing from Tuesday 1st August on ITV.
Best of the Rest… this week Channel 4 brings us another social experiment this Tuesday. Ten four-year-olds are about to meet some unusual classmates. For six weeks they will share their classroom with 11 pensioners in Old People’s Home for Four Year Olds. (August 1st, 8pm). Both groups will follow the same timetable in a new nursery set within a retirement village near Bristol. As part of the experiment, the older group undergo tests to measure mood, memory and mobility during their daily contact with the young kids. Can a situation where four-year-olds and 84-year-olds work and play together drastically improve the health and happiness of the older group the programme asks.
Have the energy and activities of the younger group had a measurable impact on the older group? Have new friendships been formed? Can this ambitious experiment transform the way Britain cares for its ageing population?- Channel 4
While over on Sky Atlantic on Thursday Issa Rae returns with her comedy show Insecure, Hella Great. It’s been described as ‘an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary, reliable and delightful person’ (Boston Globe). The series follows two modern day women as the production returns to UK screens with its second series. In the first episode we find out how Issa is getting on following her relationship breakdown, how her work life is getting on as well as best friend Molly bringing her own problems to the table (3rd August, 10.30pm).
Former EastEnder Ross Kemp continues his wander around our Extreme World in the fourth edition of his latest Sky 1 series. (Sunday, July 30th, 9pm). In Naples Ross investigates a bloody street war that has claimed over 4,000 lives. The actor turned presenter also delves into the world of the Mafia and finds out more about the crime organisations who are battling each other to be top of the Sicilian heap. He also discovers how women are taking over the reins of gangs after a crackdown put their husbands, sons and brothers behind bars.
Ross Kemp hosts Extreme World for Sky 1. Sunday at 9pm.
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Long Black Curl
A Novel of the Tufa, Book 3
By: Alex Bledsoe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Series: Tufa, Book 3
Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy
Long Black Curl is the latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's acclaimed urban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-old rivalries simmer just beneath the surface.
In all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson Powell. They were cast out, stripped of their ability to make music, and cursed to never be able to find their way back to Needsville. Their crime? A love that crossed the boundary of the two Tufa tribes, resulting in the deaths of several people.
Somehow, Bo-Kate has found her way back. She intends to take over both tribes, which means eliminating both Rockhouse Hicks and Mandalay Harris. Bo-Kate has a secret weapon: Byron Harley, a rockabilly singer known as the "Hillbilly Hercules" for his immense size and strength, who has passed the last 60 years trapped in a bubble of faery time. He's ready to take revenge on any Tufa he finds.
The only one who can stop Bo-Kate is Jefferson. Released from the curse and summoned back to Cloud County, even he isn't sure what will happen when they finally meet. Will he fall in love with her again? Will he join her on her quest to unite the Tufa under her rule? Or will he have to sacrifice himself to save the people who once banished him?
©2015 Alex Bledsoe (P)2015 Blackstone Audio
He Drank, and Saw the Spider
The Sword-Edged Blonde
The Hum and the Shiver
Battlefield Earth
Speaker for the Dead
Our Tufa Returns ( in more ways than one!)
If you could sum up Long Black Curl in three words, what would they be?
Bittersweet, well crafted and a worthy continuation of the story.
Alex Bledsoe has created a backwoods mix of magic, fairy lore and modern day realism in his Tufa novels. It feels inviting and real enough that you might want to crawl between the pages and live there for a while - but only if your pure Tufa!
What about Stefan Rudnicki’s performance did you like?
With his caramelized voice and perfect intonations, Mr. Rudnicki seamlessly melds his performance with the story. His British accent flawless, his Appalachian tones spot on and consistent with his other readings of the 2 previous books.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Hard to say with out sending out a spoiler alert! The death of a main character was a mixed bag of shock, justification and Cheshire cat grin!
I felt that that this book was more sex and F-bomb laced than the other two. That detracted from the pure enjoyment of visiting Needsville again. That said, the ending left wide open another novel from Mr. Bledsoe, and I can hardly wait.
Scatterbrained
The whole book felt disjointed, as though the author couldn't get comfortable with what he was writing. There were at least 17 or 18 different plots that made an appearance and at the end everything wrapped up in a neat little bow by killing off all the characters so The author didn't have to think of a way to end it. The ending just felt slimy. I'm really disappointed because I really enjoyed the first novel in the series as well as wisp of a thing, but this one was just really poor.
Cheryl W.
Mesmerizing story
Still, the narration is terrible. Unbelievable. Nigel's accent sounded like some stuffy old English aristocrat. And once again, people who didn't have accents got one, those that did, occasionally lost it. Pssst: Luke Daniels.
naruvoll
I don’t know what it is. There’s plenty of stuff that bugs me in the moment and it just doesn’t matter. These books are wonderful and magical in all the best ways. Their flaws feel like part of the beauty. It all feels like an old fairy tale in the very best way.
Lisa B.
Hauntingly tragic faerie tale
There’s no way my review will ever do this book justice. There are no words good enough to describe the beauty of it but I will try. Just like how the music in the story comes alive and is magical, so is this book. All books touch the heart in ways but rarely do they touch the soul. This author has the ability to do just that. The faeries in this book aren’t shiny like the pretty baubles in my favorite genre of Urban Fantasy. No, this is more like an urban legend. This is a tale of a people in the mountains of the Appalachia in Tennessee. The Tufa are a shy secretive people. It’s been said that they were here before the Indians. They mind their own business and stay untouched by the outside world for the most. You won’t find them on any map, and if you hear stories of them and try to find their town, you won’t be able to. Only if the night winds allow it. One would think they were just another bunch of rednecks growing up in the mountains. But there’s magic and power in them. Power for the good mostly. But sometimes people start out selfish and greedy. Thinking only of themselves. This is what happens with one young lady from Needsville, Tennessee. She was born Tufa. At a young age her and her boyfriend were like poison to the town. They did unspeakable things and were banished for good, never to find their way back. Or so they thought. As time went on, the young lady only grew more bitter and filled with more rage. Always longing for the place she was from and the magic. One day she shows back up, back to take what she believes is rightfully hers. She is back to be the leader. What she leaves in her wake is nothing but tragedy, one after another. I cried during sone of it because it felt so real. This author’s characters are so real from the first chapter. This is a tale of how the Tufa set out to stop the woman. I rooted for them all the way. This series is so epic! It should be part of literature for college. Right up there with The Iliad. It’s a classic. It puts me in the mind of Neil Gaiman but still the most original work. A masterpiece. I loved how the band from Tutha Da Danaan (spelling)Pigeon Forge, Tennessee was in the book at the end. They wrote and perform the songs that go with these books. That’s something to experience. It sends the shivers up my arms, just like the title of the first book. I read this book second. I had the second one and was going to read it but needed an audiobook so I got the third. It makes sense reading it that way but there is so much I missed that happened to characters in the second. Throughout the series, the same characters will be in it. It appears that characters from the outside world are introduced and the affect the Tufa leave on them. They are never the same.
If you never listen to but one audiobook in life, this series should be the one. I could see a movie of it playing in my head. The narrator was perfect! I really wish this series and author were advertised more. But it appears the author is a humble man who is as aloof as Rockhouse Hicks in his books. Hope you guys read this series. You won’t regret it.
Symara
Tufa fans will love it!
For all the Tufa fans you will love this story! Especially the end!
Forbidden love, internal and external war... Everything in one book!
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Dentists Fall for Cavity Illusion
By Stephen Luntz
An optical illusion is causing dentists to drill unnecessarily large holes in their patients' teeth.
Prof Robert O'Shea says that making this fact known could decrease the time involved in dental work and possibly the risk that teeth need to be removed.
O'Shea is an expert in perception and illusions at Southern Cross University, and was asked by A/Prof Nick Chandler of the University of Otago whether dentists drill larger holes in larger teeth even when the area that needs filling is the same size.
The result was a paper in PLoS ONE, but in the process they found, in O'Shea's words, that “it is not as simple as that – it's not that dentists made larger holes in larger teeth. The critical aspect for the illusion is the ratio between the size of the tooth and the size of the area to be drilled.”
The pair drew on the Delboeuf illusion, known since 1865 to trick people when they attempt to estimate the size of circles inside larger shapes. They, along with Dr Ranjeesh Roy, studied the holes drilled by eight endodontists into real human teeth, finding them on average 50% larger than necessary when the properties of the illusion were suitable.
In the Delboeuf illusion, people overestimate the size of circles surrounded by small circles and underestimate the size of circles surrounded by large ones. The neutral point is when the ratio of the outer to inner circles is seven. Dentists for whom the tooth as a whole acts like an outer circle with a ratio greater than seven may misjudge the size of the hole they have drilled and keep on drilling unnecessarily.
"Although the operations were not conducted on patients, we nevertheless asked the endodontists to operate on each tooth as they normally would, using their usual instruments. We reminded them to remove as little tooth as possible," says Chandler.
O'Shea says that checking whether patients are being affected is “not impossible but very, very difficult”. Potentially more useful would be studies of the way people perceive ovals, because the holes cut are seldom circular, unlike most of the research on illusions.
“Psychological research suggests it is possible to overcome this illusion if people are aware of it,” says O'Shea. “We need to incorporate this information into training and see if dentists start making more appropriate holes.”
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Mark Fields to white-collar crew: "How do you feel?"
Frank Filipponio
Mar 23rd 2007 at 12:33PM
If you are still here after seeing your friends and colleagues pink-slipped (or encouraged to take buyouts or early retirement), then we want to know how you're feeling. That was the basic message sent to Ford's white-collar workers today by Ford's President of the Americas Mark Fields. Top Ford managers received an email from Fields along with Ford's quarterly Employee Engagement Surveys. According to The Detroit Free Press (Freep), the e-mail also discussed Ford's new Way Forward portal online and changes to employee benefits, but it mainly dealt with the anonymous surveys. Fields apparently "strongly encouraged" managers to get workers to fill out the surveys by March 28.
Fields pointed out that the results will help Ford understand the views of employees on the issues covered, so management can better shape future plans and the company can "move forward as a team." Although 6,000 of its 48,000 salaried workers have left Ford since February, those who are still on the job might show a different attitude towards Ford's future.
[Source: Freep]
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The Baja Storyteller
Baja Adventures
She Walked Here Over 800 Years Ago
She lived on the coast of Baja California when the land was free of boundaries and borders, when nothing was named as we know it today. It was one vast untouched land that stretched out forever and it belonged to no one. Those who found her, called her Mujer de Humo, The Woman of Smoke. She was a holy woman and carried a sacred pipe. Her story instantly captured me and would not let me go until I sat down to write.
There is a science to her story of course. It started when ground breaking for new development uncovered an ancient burial site. The land was once a lovely marine terrace overlooking the Pacific, north of Ensenada. Ancient discoveries fascinate me and I often wonder what it would have been like to have lived so long ago. We might think of it as harsh, because today we have something to compare it to. This woman simply lived with the land the way it was without modern stresses we have today.
Terra Peninsular, a nonprofit organization based in Ensenada, shared two geological abstracts by Raúl Valadez and Danilo Drakic Ballivién, written between 2006 and 2008. These gave an introduction to the archaeological work they had been doing. Earth moving equipment had disturbed this burial site and by law the developer was required to cease all work for a period of time due to the historic significance. The research team had only a certain amount of time in which to gather as much information as possible. What they encountered surprised even them.
There were two marine terraces investigated. Living spaces, called “middens” were evident for food preparation and grinding seeds. Twenty-one metates were found, as well as hundreds of points, hammers, scrapers, knives and blades. A third area revealed discarded materials and remains of seals, sea otters, shark, whale, fish, deer, rabbits and birds. Canine skeletons were found in living spaces, suggesting that the early coyote-dog breed had domestic status.
The most exciting find were the six interments from three distinct time periods. Four females and two males were discovered ranging in ages from 20 to 40. A six year old child was one of the three earliest inhabitants. No one knows for sure when the first people came to live here, however the research team was able to date some of the remains back to 5300BP and a cranium was found to be of the Paleoindian group. These remains were almost completely fossilized. The first people were specialized hunters on land, but did not appear to be skilled in hunting marine life.
Two women were from the middle occupation in 4610. The archeologists found that since the very early times, “a sacred space has been considered an appropriate place to leave the dead in their eternal rest. Based on the discovery of distinct individuals and specific offerings for each, it was seen that the different groups used the defined sacred area for their burials.”
What a thrill it must have been to uncover Mujer de Humo, who was from the late occupation and interned 800 years ago. She was given the name Mother of Smoke because she was buried with her sacred pipe. She was 30 years old, laid gently to rest and not tightly bound in the traditional way. She was found in the area where ceremonies were performed. This was significant in archeological records as her remains lay very near a wooden pole. Kiliwa and Paipai groups performed ceremonies around a sacred pole. It is said that it helped them to connect with the spirits. Mujer de Humo was also buried with her two canine companions and a ceremonial stone tablet.
Mujer de Humo walked here over 800 years ago. Science discovered her, sifted through the burial site, carbon dated her remains, but they will never make her bones come alive. We will never hear her voice or her sacred songs, but one can imagine how she spent her days in this pristine environment.
She gazes at the sparkling ocean filled with abundant life and listens to the surf breaking against black volcanic rocks. The sky, a brilliant blue clarity, backdrops the flash of white as a seagull flies by. There can be no doubt that she swam in the sea to collect the tiny abalone with its delicate, sweet meat. The castoff shells are still found in abundance 800 years later. At night this woman gazed at the same full moon we know today. Without ambient light the blazing star- studded heaven was fully reflected. An open fire warmed her at night as she sat closely with friends, while they boasted about the catch of the day.
Near what is now modern Highway 1, Mujer de Humo walked through the coastal scrub; her two faithful canine companions bounding off to chase after a rabbit. She would know where to find the fragrant white sage for her ceremonial pipe; the sacred knowledge of its healing benefits were passed on to her by the elders. On her long silent walks she watched the vulture soaring on the thermals. The breeze softly spoke to her as she moved through great stands of agave. The agave was an important source of food and fiber for weaving nets and fishing lines. During the blooming season the agave’s tall shaft with a mass of yellow flowers at the top, exuded a sweet nectar. The people collected the aquamiel, drinking it with gusto. This juice fermented naturally into a drink called pulque.
Her people told stories that kept the ancestors alive. This oral tradition was the way they taught their children the ancient wisdom of survival in the pristine wilderness. Around a night fire with a few cups of pulque and laughter, romances were sure to develop. Mujer de Humo lived a rich and full life in her 30 years. She experienced being respected and loved by her people for her soothing gift of sacred smoke.
Terrapeninsular.org
Danilo A. Drakíc Ballivián
Centro INAH Baja California
AMMVEPE Vol. 22 No. 6 Diciembre 2011
Permission for use of the picture of the pipe was given by a representative of the Mexican Government, Luis Delgado.
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Tracking security and privacy trends across UK, Europe and beyond
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , Governance
'Data & Leads' Site Disappears After Data Exposure Alert
Data Aggregator Exposed 44.3 Million Individuals' Details via Unsecured Servers Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • November 29, 2018
The Data & Leads website remains offline after the company exposed 44.3 million individuals' personal details online. (Source: Wayback Machine)
Another day, another "Have I Been Pwned" alert, this time involving 44.3 million individuals' personal details, which were exposed by Toronto-based data aggregator Data & Leads.
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Have I Been Pwned is the free service created by Australian information security expert Troy Hunt, which allows anyone to register their email address. Anytime that registered email address is found in a data dump, Hunt's service automatically emails to alert them. At the very least, anyone who has been pwned should change their password with the service, when possible (see: Troy Hunt Discusses His Data Breach Message to Congress).
"The database is no longer exposed to the public, however, it is unknown for how long it has been online before Shodan crawlers indexed it."
Unfortunately, that's not possible with a new breach that's been found, which appears to have resulted from a marketing services firm having left its open source Elasticsearch servers publicly exposed and unprotected by passwords or other forms of authentication.
So says security researcher Bob Diachenko, director of cyber risk research for security firm HackenProof, who reports that he found 73 GB of sensitive data during a routine search of publicly exposed servers using Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices.
Shodan search results identified three open Elasticsearch servers. (Source: Bob Diachenko)
"While the source of the leak was not immediately identifiable, the structure of the field 'source' in data fields is similar to those used by a data management company Data & Leads Inc. However, we weren't able to get in touch with their representatives," he says in a blog post. "Moreover, shortly before this publication Data & Leads website went offline and now is unavailable."
Diachenko says the first of three publicly exposed Elasticsearch instances, indexed by Shodan on Nov. 14, exposed what appeared to be personal information for 56.9 million U.S. citizens, "with information such as first name, last name, employers, job title, email, address, state, ZIP, phone number and IP address." The information appears to have been scraped from third-party sources.
Source: Bob Diachenko
After Hunt reviewed and de-duplicated the data, the total number of individuals' details included in the database appeared to be 44.3 million, according to the Have I Been Pwned breach notification.
Another database, Diachenko says, included 25 million records containing corporate data, including company names and details, ZIP code, latitude/longitude and other information.
It's possible this information was scraped from open, yellow pages types of sites.
Call It 'Data & Leak'?
Data & Leads describes itself as being "a data & lead solution company from Toronto, Canada," according to a cached version of the company's website.
Email notification distributed on Wednesday by Have I Been Pwned to registered users whose email addresses were exposed by the unprotected Elasticsearch server apparently set up by Data & Leads
"We have been providing business from all over the world with exclusive, high quality leads for the last 10 years," the website says. "Over this time, we have build [sic] a loyal customer and strong suppler base. No need is too big or small, and our large supplier network allows us to be a one stop shop for all your data and lead needs."
Diachenko tells me his efforts to contact the company have not been successful, except that they may have driven the company to take its website down.
As of Wednesday, "the database is no longer exposed to the public, however, it is unknown for how long it has been online before Shodan crawlers indexed it on November 14th and who else might have accessed the data," Diachenko says.
As of Thursday, the firm's website, including its grammar-challenged boilerplate, continues to remain offline, as does a contact form for the company. The cached version of the website lists no phone number or email address for making contact.
For too long, without a service such as Have I Been Pwned, many breaches that spilled individuals' personal details - especially outside the EU - would have never come to light.
In the EU, Europeans' personal details are now protected by the General Data Protection Regulation, which requires organizations to report certain types of breaches to authorities within 72 hours and penalizes organizations that fail to have sufficient data security processes and technology in place to protect individuals' personal information.
Breach reporting rules in Canada - the new Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA - and in place in each of the 50 U.S. states offer less protection. But they typically at least do require organizations to alert consumers in a timely manner after their personal details get spilled (see: Canada's Mandatory Breach Notification Rules Now in Effect).
Canada's privacy watchdog, however, says that Data & Leads has yet to file a breach report. "At this point in time, our office has not received a breach report from the company. We are monitoring the situation and will follow up with the organization if appropriate," Corey Larocque, a communications adviser for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, tells me.
"As you may know, organizations are now required to notify our office of serious breaches of security safeguards involving the personal information of Canadians," he says. "Generally speaking, in cases where a company determines that Canadian customers were affected by an incident and there is a real risk of significant harm, we would expect them to notify those individuals and our office."
Hackers' Open Season on Open Elasticsearch Instances
Many of these data breaches trace to cloud-based storage - especially Amazon's S3 Simple Cloud Storage Service buckets - that have been incorrectly configured, leaving stored data publicly accessible.
Diachenko regularly warns organizations when he finds open S3 buckets that have been configured to allow public access, which they do not do by default. He also reports regularly finding publicly exposed instances of Elasticsearch that are not password-protected, which unfortunately is their default.
Elastic, which develops the Elasticsearch stack, has said they're not meant to be publicly exposed, and that it's developers' responsibility to protect them using passwords or other authentication if they choose to expose them publicly.
"It is very important to secure all Elasticsearch instances, especially those that are accessible over the internet," Diachenko tells me. Attackers, he says, can easily abuse open instances of Elasticsearch to install ransomware or other types of malware on the server (see: Robocalling Firm Leaves Virginia Voter Data Online).
[NEW REPORT] Please don't be surprised when you receive another data breach alert from @haveibeenpwned and @troyhunt and we tell you why here: https://t.co/QX1VdiBITQ
— Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) November 28, 2018
"The public configuration allows the possibility of cybercriminals to manage the whole system with full administrative privileges," he says in his blog post. "Once the malware is in place criminals could remotely access the server resources and even launch a code execution to steal or completely destroy any saved data the server contains."
Elasticsearch: 3 Security Essentials
For any organization that uses Elasticsearch, Diachenko advises they should always follow these three security rules:
Backing up: Back up all Elasticsearch data only to a secure location;
Reconfigure: Only run Elasticsearch "on an isolated non-routable network";
Remote security: "If you must access the cluster over the internet, restrict access to your cluster from the internet via firewall, VPN, reverse proxy or other technology."
When Data Aggregators Leak
Data and Leads' data aggregation practices resemble those of another data aggregator that also lost control of its data: Dun & Bradstreet.
In 2016, 33 million corporate U.S. individuals' names, physical addresses, email addresses, employers and job titles were leaked, apparently via someone who had obtained them from Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex service.
Again, the breach came to light in part thanks to Hunt's efforts (see: Yes, I Have Been Pwned).
Dun & Bradstreet, however, declined to notify victims, saying that it was the type of information that it supplies to its customers on a daily basis. In other words, so long as they don't leak people's financial details, the penalty for firms that buy, sell, scrape or trade in U.S. and Canadian residents' personal information and then lose control of it appears to remain nil.
Updated with comment from Canada's OPC.
Mathew J. Schwartz
Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe
Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.
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Grand Designs: Northern Ireland home in running for House of the Year
House Lessans
By Sarah Tulloch Twitter Email
A breathtaking Northern Ireland home is in the running to become the Grand Designs House of The Year.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/house-home/grand-designs-northern-ireland-home-in-running-for-house-of-the-year-38670430.html
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Located in the gently rolling landscape of Saintfield, Co Down, sits House Lessans, an L-shaped building of perfectly pitched zinc roofs over cool, concrete blockwork built next to an existing barn.
Presenter Kevin McCloud and the Grand Designs team explored the property alongside four others homes in with a chance of winning the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) House of the Year title - all of which have been fuelled by a desire to innovate and pioneer and at the cutting edge of contemporary design.
The Co Down home was entered in the Down to Earth category, which McCloud described as an accumulation of "plain-speaking, simple, honest homes".
"The sort of houses you’d want to go to the pub for a drink with," he said.
"They are quietly spoken - but don’t let that fool you. These are also brave homes that take risks. They make bold choices but never just for the sake of showing off."
House Lessans was designed by McGonigle McGrath, a RIBA Chartered architectural practice based in Belfast, formed by Kieran McGonigle and Aidan McGrath.
Kieran said the intention was for the new home, completed in 2018, to look like an agricultural building.
"The existing barn is basically corrugated steel on a masonry base. The client knew they wanted to maintain the barn and add a building on to the side which complimented it," said the architect.
With interiors McCloud called “a lesson in grey minimalism, all geared round the views,” the building has been divided into sleeping and living zones.
The generous double-height sitting room with an open-plan kitchen and pantry boasts lots of space and light. Beyond this, there’s a snug and above the pantry is a study with a gallery.
Across the hallway is the sleeping block, also double-height, which features three bedrooms of equal size looking out onto a courtyard, with only one bathroom between them.
Owners Sylvia and Michael said this was a deliberate decision they made to "save on cleaning".
The building's huge volumes have been broken up with one horizontal line that runs around the entire house: white above, grey below, to give the rooms a familiar scale and "avoid any whiff of an art gallery".
Completed in 2018, the estimated cost comes in at about £1,400 per square metre - less than half the cost of the average top-end self-build.
To do this, Kieran put a lot of thought into what to build the house from, with the knowledge that they "could create interesting spaces using very basic building materials".
McCloud praised the architects' savvy use of concrete bricks coupled with his careful attention to detail.
He said: "Kiaran has made inexpensive materials look high end by finishing them beautifully, with flush mortar joints and careful painting, which has allowed him to spend the real money on keeping the rain out with the zinc rooftop."
Architect John Pardey, the chair of this year's judges, selected House Lessans and The Secular Retreat, a home in rural Devon, to be shortlisted for the prestigious House of the Year title.
Speaking about the Northern Ireland home, Pardey said: "Low budget materials brought together with creative flare... That’s powerful."
Last year, Maison Wedge in Killinchy, Co Down was shortlisted for the accolade, but lost out to an off-grid “modest, sustainable home” in the Scottish Highlands.
This year's winner will be unveiled in the finale of Grand Designs: House Of The Year which airs on Channel 4 on Wednesday, November 13 at 9pm.
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By Allan Preston A former Limavady school turned colourful country residence is on the market for just under £500,000.
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Review: Hasbro Star Wars Black 6″ Jannah (From “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”)
By ThaMENACING1 on December 28, 2019 in Action Figures, Newsfeed, Star Wars
The wait is over! “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is here and…yeah, it was okay. We got some of the answers we were looking for. We had some good WTF moments and some bad WTF moments…and then there were the parts that were just…THERE.
One of those “THERE” moments comes in new character, Jannah. Without spoiling the movie, this is a character that could have easily been removed from the movie and it genuinely would not have changed a thing. The reason for this is because most of her character building moments were cut from the movie, so we’re left with this generic character that really could have been anyone.
What it does give us is another Black character for an action figure. Honestly not sure if this is good or bad, but let’s check out the review and see how it turned out…
I have to say, packaging felt almost as generic as the character. The front shows a drawing of Jannah and her name. That is pretty much it. We have no idea where Jannah is from (Kef Bir is where she is found, if any of you were wondering).
All right, cool, that was the front. The back must be good. Nope, more of the same. We do learn that Jannah is from an “oceanic moon” and leads a “band of warriors” but that’s about it. Oh, and if you care about such things, this is figure 98 in the Star Wars Black series (let’s not even start on the numbering system…).
I really don’t care anything about this packaging outside of the fact that it contains a figure of a new character…and that’s it. At the time of purchase I was hoping that the movie would shed light on the backstory of “Jannah”. Unfortunately, the character is as generic as this packaging.
Packaging Score: 7.5 out of 10
I was actually excited to see the amount of accessories that came with this figure. And all of them are significant to the character and the movie.
The accessories included are a bow, a quiver, a single arrow that fits in the bow, a group of arrows that fit in the quiver, and a blaster that looks more like a pistol from the 1700s than a laser gun (the blaster fits in the figure’s molded holster).
My excitement for such great accessories began to wane greatly when I started to discover a few things. For one, the quiver looks like you should be able to sling it across her body, but only if you feel brave enough to remove the figure’s head. Problem is, I tried and was pulling with significant pressure to no avail. Okay, no quiver across the body.
Then I tried out the bow and arrow and placing it in the figure’s hand. Okay, second problem…there is no bow string on the bow. There is a strap that again can be slung around the body of the figure, but I really wanted that bow string. I mean, I could jury rig some thread to play as the bow string, but that was putting in too much effort, so I gave up even trying to pose the figure with the bow and arrow altogether. Not to mention the fact that trying to do poses with it in the figure’s hands is pretty much useless.
Blaster it is! At least it fits in the figure’s hand and the holster on the figure’s belt. Thanks Hasbro for including accessories and then limiting actually wanting to use them. A 9.5/10 for good accessories -1.5 for actually being able to use them and another -.5 for missing something as simple as a bow string…
Sculpt/Likeness
Naomi Ackie is still a relative newcomer but still recognizable from the small amount of work she has done. I still had to Google search some images of her to compare to the likeness of the headsculpt. And I have to say…it’s aiight (“all right” to those who are not familiar with that colloquialism). It’s not ugly…but it’s not pretty. Well, not as pretty as Naomi Ackie herself. To me, this is probably one of the lower quality jobs since Hasbro has been using the new face sculpting technology. Definitely a downgrade from awesome sculpts of characters from Hasbro like Okoye and Nakia.
Even the expression on the sculpts face leaves a lot to be desired. Again, as generic and bland as the character itself.
The costume likeness is technically correct, but I don’t get the feel of “weather-worn” of the outfit like the one the character is wearing in the movie. Customizers will usually suggest a “wash” of some type to give it a worn look, but if you’re not that saavy, you will have to deal with that “fresh out of the dryer” look the figure is rocking.
The hair is okay and it gives customizers another option for a head sculpt of a Black female with natural hair. Somehow though, the hair never feels or looks quite the same as the character and again the likeness is lost on me.
Sculpt/Likeness Score: 7.5 out of10
With 26 points of articulation, this should potentially be a high scoring category, but little things take away from the score. Stiff joints in the ankles almost didn’t allow me to bend the ankles causing the figure to be seriously off-balance, mainly because of the cape. The hair on the figure, which is usually a deterrence of articulation, doesn’t fail to disappoint and hinders a full range of motion in the neck area. And the articulated elbows have a limited range of motion which does lend to working a bow and arrow accessory very well.
All in all, an okay effort.
Sculpt/Likeness Score: 8 out of10
Some Final Thoughts…
Before the movie, I was generally excited for some side-arc tangent storyline of this character. After the movie, I almost could care less about this character. If this wasn’t a Black female figure in the Star Wars universe, I honestly would have left it warming the pegs next to the countless Wasp and Pink Ranger action figures.
I’m kind of wondering if the movie left a bad taste in my mouth. If you have watched the movie, I encourage you to Google this character to find out some more backstory and why it was left out of the final edit.
With all the promo shots of her and Finn, you would almost think that she could have potentially been an added point to Finn’s love triangle square pentagon dodecahedron and still could very much be, but we will never know. The Skywalker saga is over…
7.6 Meh.
New Star Wars Character action figure
Lots of accessories
Lots of articulation
Likeness is lacking
Accessories kind of suck
Articulation does not do what you want it to do
Packaging 7.5
Accessories 7.5
Sculpt/Likeness 7.5
Articulation 8
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3.98 (24,091 ratings by Goodreads)
By (author) R.F. Kuang
Paperback US$11.34
Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018
`The best fantasy debut of 2018' WIRED
A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.
When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who had hoped to get rich by marrying her off; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free from a life of servitude. That she got into Sinegard - the most elite military school in Nikan - was even more surprising.
But surprises aren't always good.
Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Fighting the prejudice of rival classmates, Rin discovers that she possesses a lethal, unearthly power - an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of psychoactive substances and a seemingly insane teacher, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive - and that mastering these powers could mean more than just surviving school.
For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most people calmly go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away...
Publication date 23 Apr 2018
Imprint HarperCollins
Bestsellers rank 46,927
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`An outstanding debut'
`A book that will go down as one of the best grimdark/military fantasy debuts of all time'
`A masterpiece by grimdark's newest and perhaps darkest daughter'
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`A wholly unique experience'
`R.F. Kuang's fresh approach to magic and hard-hitting story is a punch to the gut fantasy has needed for a long time. I can't wait for THE DRAGON REPUBLIC'
Peter V. Brett, bestselling author of The Demon Cycle
`Enthralling from start to finish ... I thought myself prepared. I was now. R.F. Kuang's debut is a masterful must-read, and I've no doubt the best is yet to come'
Nicholas Eames, author of KINGS OF THE WYLD
`A blistering, powerful epic of war and revenge that will captivate you to the bitter end'
Kameron Hurley, author of THE LIGHT BRIDAGE
`Fresh, assured, character-driven fantasy that's choc full of magic, war, and betrayal. I loved it from start to finish'
Peter Newman, author of THE VAGRANT
`A powerful, emotional journey, compellingly written'
Adrian Tchaikovsky, award-winning author of THE CHILDREN OF TIME
`An original and engrossing tale of the coming of age of a talented young soldier amid the horrors of invasion and genocide'
Anna Stephens, author of GODBLIND
`I so enjoyed The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang ... It is all about survival, and how a person's will and determination can change the course of their life. I loved the central character, felt her pain and her far-too-brief moments of joy, and just loved how Kuang breathes fresh life into the warrior training school ... Highly recommended'
John Gwynne, author of MALICE
About R.F. Kuang
Rebecca F. Kuang immigrated to the United States from Guangzhou, China, in 2000. She has a BA in International History from Georgetown University, and she will pursue her graduate degree in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship in 2018. Her research focuses on Chinese military strategy, collective trauma, and war memorials.
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Tag: Concerto
JON LORD’s ‘Concerto For Group And Orchestra’ to Release September 25th
Jon Lord, the long-time Deep Purple keyboardist, always wanted a studio recording of his famed Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Only recently did he publicly make this wish a reality. In what turned out to be his swan song, he recorded Concerto For Group and Orchestra. Lord assembled guest musicians such as Iron Maiden singer …
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Free Opeth Download
I just received this tidbit of information from RoadRunnerRecords… For a limited time, Sweden’s prog masters Opeth are offering a free download of “Dirge For November” in anticipation of the September 21st DVD release of In Live Concert at Royal Albert Hall. The performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall (recorded on the 5th of April, …
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Stigma Premiere “The Undertaker” at Metal Injection
Italian horror inspired extreme metal act STIGMA has premiered a new track, entitled “The Undertaker,” via Metal Injection at Italian horror inspired extreme metal act STIGMA has premiered a new track, entitled “The Undertaker,” via Metal Injection. STIGMA’s Concerto for the Undead was produced at Fear Studio by ex-BLEEDING THROUGH and current BRING ME THE …
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Stigma Frontman Steps in for Viatrophy’s Last Ever London Show
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Stigma Offer More “Concerto for the Undead” Details
Set for North American release on May 4th via Pivotal Rockordings, STIGMA’s Concerto for the Undead is the highly anticipated follow-up to the Italian extreme metallers’ When Midnight Strikes! debut from 2008. Concerto for the Undead also features lyrics centered on the cult-classic comic book series Tales From the Crypt and includes guest vocal appearances …
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Stigma Unveils First Single from “Concerto for the Undead”
Extreme metal act STIGMA has unveiled its first single, “Prove You Are a Man!” Coming off of the band’s sophomore effort Concerto for the Undead, the track features a guest appearance by Jon Hunt (ex-DEAD TO FALL). “Prove You Are a Man!” is available at the band’s MySpace where Concerto for the Undead is available …
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My foot hath held His steps; His way have I kept, and not declined.
My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
“My feet have carefully followed His steps; I have kept His ways and not turned aside.
My foot has held fast to His steps; His ways have I kept and not turned aside.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.
My feet have stayed right in his tracks. I have kept his way and not left it,
My feet have stayed in his footsteps; I keep to his way without turning aside.
I have never refused to follow any of his commands,
My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
I have always lived the way God wants. I have never stopped following him.
My feet have followed his footsteps closely. I have kept to his way, and I have not turned aside.
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
My feet have ·closely followed [L held fast to] his steps; I have stayed in his ·way [path; Prov. 4:10–11]; I did not turn aside.
My foot hath followed his steps: his way have I kept, and have not declined:
I have followed his footsteps closely. I have stayed on his path and did not turn from it.
I follow faithfully the road he chooses, and never wander to either side.
My feet have closely followed his steps. I have stayed in his way without turning aside.
My feet stay where his footsteps lead; I kept on his pathway and haven’t turned aside.
My feet have held to his steps, I have kept his way, and have not departed.
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
“I have stayed in God’s paths, following his steps. I have not turned aside.
“But he knows where I am and what I’ve done. He can cross-examine me all he wants, and I’ll pass the test with honors. I’ve followed him closely, my feet in his footprints, not once swerving from his way. I’ve obeyed every word he’s spoken, and not just obeyed his advice—I’ve treasured it.
My foot has always walked in his steps; I have kept his way and not turned aside.
“My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
My feet have closely followed his steps; I have stayed in his way; I did not turn aside.
My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
My feet have closely followed his steps. I’ve stayed on his path without turning away.
My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
My foot has kept close to His steps. I have kept His way and have not turned aside.
For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
My regel hath held to His steps, over His way have I been shomer, and not turned aside.
My foot has held closely to His steps; I have kept to His way and have not strayed.
My foot has been securely set in His tracks; I have kept to His course of life without swerving;
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
My foot followed his steps; I kept (to) his way, and I bowed not away from it.
On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,
Job 23:10Job 23:12
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Joe Giudice Can't Wrap His Head Around the Toilet Situation in Italy
The Real Housewives of New Jersey husband mused, "How 'bout tryin' to take a squat on this thing?"
Is Joe Giudice Going to Become an MMA Fighter?
Joe Giudice is adjusting pretty well to his new life in Italy, despite fiercely missing his family back home. He has a sweetly simple new apartment overlooking the Italian countryside, he's starting a new job, and he has a smart new look to boot.
But one thing The Real Housewives of New Jersey dad still has to get used to is the discrepancy between toilets in the states, and some of the more interesting toilets in Italy.
In a recent Instagram post, the Italy native hilariously narrated a short video a of toilet that was built into the floor. (It was about as savory looking as it sounds.) "Quite a sh--ter they got in this place, huh?" he said. "How 'bout tryin' to take a squat on that thing? Make a hell of a mess there, if you don't hit the hole."
Luckily, Joe didn't have to test out his aim. "Good thing I didn't have to go number 2!!" he shared with his 202K followers in the caption. Well, phew!
Hell of a toilet good thing I didn’t have to go number 2 !!!
A post shared by Joe Giudice (@joe.giudice) on Dec 4, 2019 at 12:11pm PST
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Flasher targets Hove schoolgirls
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Brighton & Hove Albion: LuaLua sorts the summer out for the Seagulls as the Albion win again
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Faulty fan caused fire in Brighton flats
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Jobs at risk for Brighton and Hove staff working for Legal and General at Kingswood
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Alternative Titles: hearing impairment, hearing loss, impaired hearing
Deafness, partial or total inability to hear. The two principal types of deafness are conduction deafness and nerve deafness. In conduction deafness, there is interruption of the sound vibrations in their passage from the outer world to the nerve cells in the inner ear. The obstacle may be earwax that blocks the external auditory channel, or stapes fixation, which prevents the stapes (one of the minute bones in the middle ear) from transmitting sound vibrations to the inner ear. In nerve deafness, some defect in the sensory cells of the inner ear (e.g., their injury by excessive noise) or in the vestibulocochlear nerve prevents transmission of sound impulses from the inner ear to the auditory centre in the brain. Deafness at birth is nearly always of the nerve type and cannot be improved by medical means.
Impaired hearing is, with rare exception, the result of disease or abnormality of the outer, middle, or inner ear. Serious impairment of…
Impaired hearing is, with rare exception, the result of disease or abnormality of the outer, middle, or inner ear. Serious impairment of hearing at birth almost always results from a dysfunction of the auditory nerve and cannot be improved by medical or surgical treatment. In…
nervous system disease: Vestibulocochlear nerve
…and other symptoms such as deafness. Deafness, if not caused by middle-ear disease, suggests damage to the cochlear portion of the nerve. Compression of the nerve at the cerebellopontine angle by a tumour, an aneurysm, a meningioma, certain systemic diseases, drug toxicity, small strokes, or Ménière disease may cause hearing…
human behaviour: Language
Deaf children learning sign language from deaf-mute parents show in their signs the same course of development that is apparent in the speech of children with normal hearing. Deaf, like hearing, children make their first signs for objects and later display signs for more complex…
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The church and its history
The essence and identity of Christianity
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The alliance between church and empire
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Liturgy and the arts after Constantine
New forms of worship
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Political relations between East and West
Literature and art of the “Dark Ages”
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The Photian schism
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Papacy and empire
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Christianity from the 16th to the 21st century
Contemporary Christianity
The Eastern churches
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The nature and functions of doctrine
Scripture and tradition: the apostolic witness
Evangelism: the first teaching about the God of Jesus Christ
Catechesis: instructing candidates for baptism
Liturgy: the school and feast of faith
Ethics: obeying the truth
Aversion of heresy: the establishment of orthodoxy
Apologetics: defending the faith
Restatement: respecting language and knowledge
Inculturation: respecting places and peoples
Dogma: the most authoritative teaching
Consensus: patterns of agreement
Theology: loving God with the mind
Symbolics: creeds and confessions
Development: the maturation of understanding
Schism: division over substantial matters
Controversy: fighting over the faith
Ecumenism: speaking the truth in love
Characteristic features of the Christian concept of God
The specific concept of God as Father
The belief in the oneness of the Father and the Son
The revelatory character of God
God as Creator, Sustainer, and Judge
The view that God is not solitary
Modern views of God
Satan and the origin of evil
Different interpretations of the person of Jesus
The Christological controversies
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Introduction of Neoplatonic themes
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What it is to be human
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Human redemption
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Christian perfection
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Christianity has exhibited a characteristic tension toward tradition from its very beginnings. This tension, which is grounded in its essence, has been continued throughout its entire history. It began with rejecting the pious traditions of piety of the Hebrew Scriptures and synagogue practices. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus set forth his message as a renunciation of the Old Testament tradition of the Law. Yet he created a new tradition, a “new law,” that has been carried on in the church. The dogmatic controversies of the Reformation period give the impression that the tradition of the church has to do primarily, if not exclusively, with ecclesiastical doctrinal tradition. Tradition, however, includes all areas of life of the Christian community and its piety, not just the teachings but also the forms of worship service, bodily gestures of prayer and the liturgy, oral and written tradition and the characteristic process of transition of the oral into written tradition, a new church tradition of rules for eating and fasting, and other aspects of the Christian life.
The break with the tradition of Judaism was not total. The Scriptures were adopted from Jewish tradition, but their interpretation was based upon the concepts of salvation that emerged around the figure of Jesus Christ. The book of Psalms, including its musical form, was taken over in Christian worship as the foundation of the liturgy. The new revelation became tradition in the oral transmission of the words (logia) of the Lord and the reports (kerygma) concerning the events of his life that were important for the early church’s faith in him; his baptism, the story of his Passion, his Resurrection, and his Ascension. The celebration of the Lord’s Supper as anticipation of the heavenly meal with the Messiah–Son of Man in the coming kingdom of God, even to the point of preserving in the liturgy the Aramaic exclamation maranatha (“O Lord, Come”) and its Greek parallel erche kyrie (“Come, Lord!”) as the supplicant calling for the Parousia (Second Coming)—all this became tradition.
Of special significance is the unique tradition of the oral transmission of teachings developed in Judaism. According to rabbinic doctrine, orally transmitted tradition coexisted on an equal basis with the written Law. Both text and tradition were believed to have been entrusted to Moses on Mount Sinai. The doctrinal contents of the tradition were initially passed on orally and memorized by the students. Because of the possibilities of error in a purely oral transmission, however, the extensive and growing body of tradition was, by necessity, fixed in written form. The rabbinic tradition of the Pharisees (a Jewish sect that sanctioned the reinterpretation of the Mosaic Law) was established in the Mishna (commentaries) and later in the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud (compendiums of commentaries upon the Torah and lore). Because the essence of tradition is never concluded—i.e., by its very nature is never completely fixed in writing—the learned discussion of tradition by necessity continued in constant exegetical debate with the Holy Scriptures. The written record of tradition, however, never claimed to be equal to the Holy Scriptures in Judaism. A similar process of written fixation also occurred among the sectarians of the community at Qumrān, which in its Manual of Discipline and in the Damascus Document recorded its interpretation of the Law, developed first orally in the tradition.
In the Christian church a tradition proceeding from Jesus himself was formed. The oral transmission of the tradition was written down between the end of the 1st and the first half of the 2nd century in the form of various gospels, histories of the Apostles, letters, sermonic literature, and apocalypses. Among Christian gnostics the tradition also included what was believed to be secret communications of the risen Christ to his disciples.
A new element, however, inhered in the Christian in relation to the Jewish tradition. For Jewish piety, revelation encompassed two forms of divine expression: the Law and the Prophets. This revelation is considered concluded with the last Prophets, and its actualization further ensues through interpretation. In the Christian church the tradition is joined not only to the teachings of Jesus and the story of his life as prophet and teacher but also to the central event of the history of salvation, which his life, Passion, death, and Resurrection represent—namely, to the resurrected Christ who is henceforth present as the living Lord of the church and guides and increases it through his Holy Spirit. This led to the literary form of church tradition—the Holy Scripture. As the “New Testament,” it takes its place next to the Holy Scripture of Judaism, henceforth reinterpreted as the “Old Testament.” The tradition of the church itself thereby entered into the characteristic Christian tension between spirit and letter. The spirit creates tradition but also breaks tradition as soon as the latter is solidified into an external written form and thus impedes charismatic life.
Throughout church history, however, the core of this field of tension has been formed by the transmission of the Christ event—the kerygma—itself. On the one hand, the kerygma is the bearer and starting point for tradition; on the other hand, it molds the impetus for ever-new impulses toward charismatic, fresh interpretations and, under certain circumstances, suggests or even enforces elimination of accumulated traditions. Decisive in this respect is the self-understanding of the church. According to the self-understanding of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches, the church, as the institution of Jesus Christ, is the bearer of the oral and the written tradition and the creator of the New Testament canon. The church’s selection of canonical writings presupposes a dogmatic distinction between “ecclesiastical” teachings—which, in the opinion of its responsible leaders, are “apostolic”—and “heretical” teachings. It thereby already presupposes a far-reaching intellectualization of the tradition and its identification with “doctrine.” The oral tradition thus became formalized in fixed creedal formulas.
Accordingly, in the history of the Christian church a specific, characteristic dialectic has been evidenced between periods of excessive growth and formalistic hardening of tradition that hindered and smothered the charismatic life of the church and periods of a reduction of tradition that follow new reformational movements. The latter occurred, in part, within the church itself, such as in the reforms of Cluny, the Franciscans, and the Dominicans; they also took on the form of revolutionary movements. The Reformation of the 16th century broke with the institution of monasticism, the liturgical and sacramental tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, and certain elements of doctrinal tradition. Luther, however, was more conservative in his attitude toward the Roman Catholic Church than were Zwingli and Calvin. The Anabaptists and other Enthusiasts (Schwärmer) went even further, demanding and practicing a revolutionary break with the entire Roman Catholic tradition. The churches that arose from the Reformation, however, soon created their own traditions, which emerged from the confessional writings and doctrines of the reformers. The rejection of the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church had practical as well as dogmatic effects—e.g., the eating of sausage on fast days in Zürich at the start of Zwingli’s reformation or the provocative marriages of monks and nuns.
In the 19th century, a period of progressive political revolutions and anti-Catholic movements such as the Kulturkampf, the Roman Catholic Church sought to safeguard its tradition—threatened on all sides—through an emphatic program of “antimodernism.” It endeavoured to protect tradition both by law and through theology (e.g., in returning to neo-Thomism). The representatives of this development were the popes from Pius IX (reigned 1846–78) to Pius XII (reigned 1939–58). With Pope John XXIII (reigned 1958–63), a dismantling (aggiornamento) of antimodernism and a more critical attitude toward “tradition” set in; this extended to traditional dogmatic views as well as to the liturgy and church structure. The Second Vatican Council (1962–65) guided this development into moderate channels. On the other hand, an opposite development took place in the Soviet Union and the eastern European countries. In these nations the remains of the Eastern Orthodox churches, which survived extermination campaigns of the Leninist and Stalinist eras from the 1920s to the 1950s, preserved themselves in a political environment hostile to the church precisely through a retreat to their church tradition and religious functioning in the realm of the liturgy. From the late 1980s Orthodox churches experienced greater religious freedom and new growth, as the openly hostile governments in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe dissolved with the fall of communism. In the World Council of Churches, Eastern Orthodoxy in the latter part of the 20th century viewed its task as the bearer of Christian tradition against the predominant social-ethical tendencies of certain Protestant member churches that disregarded or de-emphasized the tradition of the church in a wave of antihistorical sentiment.
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Professor Joanne Begiato
Head of School of History, Philosophy and Culture
School of History, Philosophy and Culture
Phone number: +44 (0)1865 483732
Email: jbegiato@brookes.ac.uk
Joanne Begiato joined Oxford Brookes in March 2005 from Murray Edwards College, Cambridge where she was a fellow and director of studies in history. Prior to this she was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford and read for her BA and PhD at the University of Durham. She became Head of the School of History, Philosophy & Culture in 2016.
Joanne is a specialist in the history of emotions, the family, marriage, masculinities, material culture, and law from c. 1700-1900.
U67779 Making Men: masculinities in England 1700-1918 (Third Year)
U67723 Culture, Community and Family (Second Year)
P67501 Key Concepts and Methods for Humanities Research in History
Professor Joanne Begiato is a historian of early modern, Georgian and Victorian Britain, with particular interests in marriage, marriage breakdown, family relationships, the domestic economy, parenting, masculinities, and identities. She is fascinated by the ways in which people encountered their material and emotional worlds and draws on a range of different types of primary sources to investigate them, from the printed word, to visual images, to objects and spaces.
She recently completed Manliness in Britain 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2020. This book uses the concept of emotionalised bodies and material culture to explain how ideas about manliness and unmanliness were constructed, disseminated, sustained, and fixed in individuals and society.
Her book Sex and the Church in England 1688-1832, co-authored with Professor William Gibson was published by I B Tauris early in 2017. It reassesses the role of the Anglican Church in ideas about sex, its discipline, and its practice.
Joanne published Parenting in England c.1760-1830: emotions, self-identity and generation in 2012. See a review here. This study traces parenting both as a concept and a mode of being in an era marked by the cultures of Sensibility and Romanticism. The golden thread connecting these movements was the expression of emotion and this research therefore analyses the interplay between practices, feelings and ideas during a period of change in ideas about childhood, family, gender and self.
Her first monograph was Unquiet Lives: marriage and marriage breakdown in England 1660-1800 (CUP, 2003, re-issued in paperback in January 2009). See a review of this book.
In addition Joanne has published numerous articles on topics as diverse as nostalgia and the family, changes in embodied manliness through the long nineteenth century, depictions of the Jack Tar, representations and experiences of fatherhood and masculinity, the role of space and material culture in constructing domestic violence, pauper parenting, the relationship between memories of parents and the formation of personal identity, married women's experience of coverture and an analysis of the use of church court records as an historical source. She has also published chapters in edited collections on the emotions of pregnancy, the links betweeen unmanliness and bodily and mental decline, dysfunctional family life, and many other aspects of family, gender, and material culture.
Begiato J, Manliness in Britain 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture, Manchester University Press (2020)
Lobban M, Begiato J, Green A, Ed., Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, Cambridge University Press (2019)
Brown M, Barry A, Begiato J, Ed., Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the long Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press (2019)
ISBN: 9781526135629 eISBN: 9781526135643
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy. This collection will be required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.
Begiato J, Gibson W, Sex and the Church in the long eighteenth century: religion, enlightenment and the sexual revolution, I B Tauris (2017)
Bailey J, Parenting in England, 1760-1830: emotion, identity and generation, Oxford University Press (2012)
Abstract Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was responding to new cultural trends of sensibility, romanticism and domesticity, along with Enlightenment ideas about childhood and self. All these shaped how people, from the poor to the genteel, thought about themselves as parents, and remembered their own parents.Website
Begiato J, Ed., Unquiet lives: marriage and marriage breakdown in England, 1660-1800, Cambridge University Press (2009)
Abstract Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges preconceptions about authority in the household, by showing the extent to which husbands depended upon their wives' vital economic activities: household management and child care. Not only did this forge co-dependency between spouses, it undermined men's autonomy. The power balance within marriage is further revised by evidence that the sexual double standard was not rigidly applied in everyday life. The book also shows that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved in the eighteenth century, influenced by new models of masculinity and femininity.Website
Begiato J, 'Selfhood and "Nostalgia:" Sensory and Material Memories of the Childhood House in late Georgian Britain'
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2019)
ISSN: 1754-0194 eISSN: 1754-0208
Focusing on autobiographies written from the 1790s to the 1820s, this article demonstrates that material, emotional, and sensorial memories of the childhood house and its location were integral to constructions of self. Firstly, it traces the interplay between prevailing cultural forms, family memory, and identity, and proposes that these changed over time, shaped by cultural, social and economic factors. Secondly, in analysing these personal memories, it contributes to the debates around the meanings of the ‘emotional disposition’ of nostalgia, arguing that it was central to the formation of both national culture and individual selfhood.
Begiato J, 'Beyond the rule of thumb: the materiality of marital violence in England, c.1700-1857'
Cultural and Social History 15 (1) (2017) pp.39-59
Abstract Marital violence is profoundly shaped by the material world. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century court cases catalogue abusive husbands’ use of dwellings and domestic objects to imprison, beat, threaten, and intimidate their wives. Print culture from this era similarly viewed wife beating in material terms. The author of ‘Overcrowded Dwellings’ (1857) for example, linked cheap, poor quality houses to domestic violence. Cramped and dirty, the ‘male portions of the households dislike the appearance and the noisomeness of their room, and they stop at the parlour of the public house.’ Their wives followed suit or became slatterns; the result ‘a perpetual motion of a moral and immoral character,’ expressed in marital violence. This article contends that investigating the materiality of marital abuse through its articulation in and around particular places, spaces, and objects focuses our attention upon its intensely visceral dimensions, exposing the human suffering at its centre. It also adopts the conceptual premise that spaces and objects are ‘actants,’ a term coined by the theorist Bruno Latour ‘to describe anything that has agency (and for Latour, everything does).’ Thus, the article explores the patriarchal tensions embedded in the physical structure of the household and its control, arguing that space and objects shaped marital violence both as an act and an idea. Moreover, it proposes that the material culture of marital abuse performed 'emotional work' in the sense that it acted upon people’s perceptions, influencing social and cultural constructions of wife beating across the period. Website
Begiato J, 'Between poise and power: embodied manliness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture'
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 26 (2016) pp.125-147
This article explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of masculinity were culturally viewed and utilised. First, it provides a chronology of the manner in which the ideal manly body changed over the two centuries, demonstrating that abstract masculine values were always rooted in male bodies. Secondly, it proposes that although most idealised masculine identities were elite, attention to the more corporeal aspects of gender offers evidence that there were features of the manly body, for example hardness, that appealed across social ranks 1 Elite men valorised idealised working-class men’s bodies and saw in them something to emulate. Moreover, working-class men used classically-inspired figures to represent themselves when formulating class and gender identities.
Begiato J, 'Tears and the manly sailor in England, c. 1760–1860'
Journal for Maritime Research 17 (2) (2015) pp.117-133
Abstract This article explores the apparent paradoxes in representations of the British Jack Tar in order to reconsider the ways in which his figure came to embody idealised attributes of manliness in the period 1760–1860. Naval historians have revealed that images of sailors were closely related to ideas about class, sex, and nation, identifying distinctive types of Jack Tar such as the drunken carouser, the fatalistic, fearless but simple Tar, and the domesticated family man. Notions of heroism changed over the period too. The officer was the hero in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and notions of valour only extended to the lower ranks by the mid-nineteenth century. Thus the picture is of the ordinary tar emerging as manly hero once his character was scrubbed clean of its less salubrious aspects. This article argues that there were not diverse and distinct Jack Tars successively climbing the ladder of morality over time. The tar was not sanitised and civilised, but was given feelings. In particular, tears identified the sailor as a man of feeling as well as a fearless fighter, stressing his tenderness, fidelity, duty, and self-sacrificing love for his brother sailor, his ‘Poll’, and his nation. But he still loved grog, dance, and girls. The Jack Tar was thus the everyman, which aided his popularity and democratised the manly hero.Website
Begiato J, 'The history of mum and dad: recent historical research on parenting in England'
History Compass 12 (6) (2014) pp.489-507
Bailey J, 'Marital cruelty: reconsidering lay attitudes in England, c.1580 to 1850'
History of the Family 18 (3) (2013) pp.289-305
Abstract The mid-eighteenth century is seen as a turning point after which English legal and lay attitudes to cruelty expanded from life-threatening violence to include a wider range of behaviours. This article reconsiders this chronology of changing ideas about marital cruelty. It follows the lead of recent scholarship that challenges the thesis of a ‘civilising’ process in attitudes towards state-violence and inter-personal violence and draws on new conclusions about marital relationships, spouses' gendered roles, and early modern manhood, which complicate simplistic views of patriarchal unions. Focusing upon the full array of acts – not just life-threatening ones – discussed in cruelty cases from c. 1580 onwards, this article questions the convention that social toleration for husbands' use of violence against their wives declined from the 1750s as part of an overall civilising process.Website
Bailey J, 'Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of indulgent fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century'
Abstract Historical and literary studies have identified shifts in paternal power in Britain from authoritative and patriarchal to benign and affectionate during the long eighteenth century. This article re-examines the power of fathers through the prism of paternal indulgence with insights gained from histories of masculinities. Historians have mostly commented upon the association between indulgence and mothering, drawing particular attention to contemporary pejorative accounts of such maternity. While indulgent mothers could be blamed for spoiling their children, this term is also very revealing of attitudes towards fathers' authority. Its analysis reveals that paternal power was not transformed in the long eighteenth century and was riven with tensions. As the primary bearers of authority in the family and household, men had to coordinate tenderness and appropriate levels and types of paternal discipline with notions of manhood. Too much of either severity or indulgence damaged their children's wellbeing and future, undermined the filial bond, and injured their masculine identity. Overall, an examination of indulgent fatherhood shows that acting with tenderness and power was a burden as well as a dividend for men.Website
Bailey J, 'The "afterlife" of parenting: memory, parentage, and personal identity in Britain c. 1760-1830'
Journal of Family History 35 (3) (2010) pp.249-270
Abstract Remembering parentage and parents in life writings in Britain c. 1760-”1830 served four functions. First, recounting parentage enabled the writer to situate himself or herself in terms of social status, personal value, and worth. Second, memories of parents helped an individual understand and make meaning of the path his or her life had taken. Third, the process was bound up with a range of emotions, which gave parents power after childhood and had repercussions and meaning throughout the writer" s life. Finally, the memories selected and accorded specific significance were often those from times of emotional crisis and disruption and recalling them may have enabled writers to impose some stability upon the insecurities of life. Overall, such memories offer insights into attitudes toward family, indicate the emotional significance of the role that parents played in their offsprings" lives from childhood to old age, and were important in the formation of personal identities.Website
Bailey J, '"Think wot a mother must feel" : parenting in English pauper letters c.1760-1834'
Family and Community History 13 (1) (2010) pp.5-19
Abstract This article examines the representation of parenting in a series of pauper letters received by parishes in Berkshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire. It shows that labouring parents saw themselves as thwarted providers for their children and argues that this was not a gender-specific role, but one shared by fathers and mothers. Through a close reading of the descriptive terms used to illustrate the paupers' needs as parents and their sufferings in failing to support their children, it proposes that writers called upon a rhetoric of family and benevolence that originated in the wider cultural discourse of sensibility.Website
Bailey J, '"A very sensible man": imagining fatherhood in England, c.1750-1830'
History 95 (319) (2010) pp.267-292
Abstract Fathers are at once everywhere and nowhere in the historiography of eighteenth-century England. They interact with children in family history, bear authority in histories of women, gender and marriage, use the role to demonstrate virility, and the capacity for household mastery and citizenship in the history of masculinity, and are metaphors in political culture. Yet there is little sustained work on what constituted the key attributes of fatherhood before 1830. This article shows that the ideal father in the period c.1750 to 1830 was tenderly affectionate, sensitized and moved by babies; he provided hugs, material support and a protective guiding hand. Engrossed in his offspring to the exclusion of much else apart from his wife and national duties, he offered his children a moral example and instruction and possessed a deep understanding of his children's personalities. The genesis of this imagined fatherhood lay in fundamental eighteenth-century concerns about social, class, gender and familial relationships, and national strength. His form and the language used to describe him owed much to the combined forces of the culture of sensibility and of general Christian ideals antedating Evangelical revival.Website
Bailey J, 'I dye [sic] by inches: locating wife beating in the concept of a privatization of marriage and violence in eighteenth-century England'
Social History 31 (3) (2006) pp.273-294
Bailey J, 'Favoured or oppressed? : married women, property and "coverture" in England, 1660-1800'
Continuity and Change 17 (3) (2002) pp.351-372
Abstract In the eighteenth century, the condition of English wives under ‘coverture’ was both defended as one of privilege and attacked as worse than slavery. This article suggests that married women were not in reality confined within coverture's regulations on credit and property ownership. Their economic activities were fairly broad and flexible and they had an instinctive sense of possession over some goods during wedlock, perceiving their contributions to marriage as a pooling of resources for familial benefit. It will be suggested that wives did not necessarily think that their conduct in acting as if some marital property was legally theirs was illegitimate, because it was facilitated by coverture and the legal devices that allowed it to function.Website
Bailey J, 'Voices in court: lawyers or litigants?'
Historical Research 74 (186) (2001) pp.392-408
Abstract Written records of litigation lie at the heart of numerous studies of English society and culture. Although some documents appear to demonstrate individuality, historians advise that they be used cautiously since the words of litigants and deponents were filtered through the legal profession. This article uncovers the process of mediation by exploring the interaction between litigants and their legal advisers, using correspondence received by church court proctors. It reveals that some parties had an active role in their litigation and, crucially, that their own motives could obscure the reality underlying their lawsuits as much as the legal process.Website
Brown M, Begiato J, 'Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth century Britain: Memory, masculinity and nation' in Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the long Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press (2019)
Begiato J, '"So now you are wed enough": clandestine unions in the north-west of England in the first half of the eighteenth century' in Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato, Adrian Green (ed.), Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, Cambridge University Press (2019)
Begiato J, 'Punishing the unregulated manly body and emotions in early Victorian England' in Joanne Ella Parsons, Ruth Heholt (ed.), The Victorian Male Body, Edinburgh University Press (2018)
Begiato J, 'Bearing Grudges: Marriage and the Inter-generational Family' in DiPlacidi, Jenny; Leydecker, Karl (ed.), After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century Literature, Law and Society, Palgrave (2018)
Abstract Joanne Begiato draws upon a wealth of accounts of marital experiences in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century correspondence, diaries and autobiography to explore conflictual marital relationships. This expands our understanding of marital conflict by shifting the focus away from the litigation records that resulted from the couple’s interaction with the law following marriage breakdown and recourse to formal separation. The chapter confirms that economic issues and lack of marital respect undermined marital relationships, as previous scholarship demonstrates, but it also reveals the significance of religious differences, temperamental clashes, and the crucial role of other family members in marriage disputes. Strikingly these informal records also show that conflict impacted the inter-generational family as well as spouses, and it could endure across generations for as long as people’s capacities to bear grudges.Website
Begiato J, 'Afterword. Moving Objects: Emotional Transformation, Tangibility, and Time-Travel' in Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles (ed.), Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History, Oxford University Pres (2018)
Begiato J, '"Breeding" a "little stranger": perceptions of pregnancy in the Late Georgian Period' in Meehan C, Evans J (ed.), Perceptions of pregnancy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Palgrave Macmillan (2017)
Pregnancy was a routine, often regular, experience for women across their childbearing years in the long eighteenth century since the majority of women wed in their mid-twenties and bore children until menopause. Pregnancy was limited only by fertility, health, and sexual abstinence before the “fertility transition”. As such pregnancy from its earliest stages to birth was a topic consistently discussed in family correspondence and diaries among the literate social ranks. Although individual circumstances were often different, one common theme emerges across these relatively mundane commentaries on pregnancy: a pervasive sense of apprehension. This chapter surveys the language used to describe pregnancy and the unborn child in order to shed more light about the bodily and emotional experience of pregnancy in late Georgian England.
Begiato J, 'Pregnancy and childbirth' in Susan Broomhall (ed.), Early modern emotions : an introduction, Routledge (2017)
ISBN: 9781138925748;9781138925 eISBN: 9781315441368
Bailey J, '"All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the girl": broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century' in Rebecca Probert (ed.), Cohabitation and non-marital births in England and Wales, 1600-2012, Palgrave MacMillan (2014)
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Bailey J, 'Masculinity and fatherhood in England, c.1760-1830' in What is masculinity? : historical dynamics from antiquity to the contemporary world, Palgrave Macmillan (2011)
Abstract This chapter explores the ways in which a research agenda focused upon gender and identity advances the history of men as fathers. It suggests that our understanding of fatherhood is enriched when historians use a conceptual framework informed by four themes that have emerged from the theorising of masculinities: the plurality of masculinities, the concept of a hierarchy of masculinities, the recognition that masculinities are constructed in relation to each other, not simply in opposition to femininities, and that masculinities change over time and place. This chapter also proposes that explicitly addressing the relationship between manhood, fatherhood and fathering offers new directions for research into masculinity more broadly.Website
Bailey J, 'Cruelty and adultery: offences against the institution of marriage' in Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000 , Macmillan Publishers (2010)
Abstract Providing a rounded and coherent history of crime and the law spanning the past 400 years, Histories of Crime explores the evolution of attitudes towards crime and criminality over time. Bringing together contributions from internationally acknowledged experts, the book highlights themes, current issues and key debates in the history of deviance and bad behaviour, including: - marital cruelty and adultery - infanticide - murder - the underworld - blasphemy and moral crimes - fraud and white-collar crime - the death penalty and punishment. Individual case studies of violent and non-violent crime are used to explore the human means and motives behind criminal practice. Through these, the book illuminates society's wider attitudes and fears about criminal behaviour and the way in which these influence the law and legal system over time. This fascinating book is essential reading for students and teachers of history, sociology and criminology, as well as anyone interested in Britain's criminal past.
Bailey J, 'Family relationships' in Elizabeth Foyster and James Marten (ed.), A cultural history of childhood and family. Vol. 4, In the age of Enlightenment, Berg Publishers (2010)
Bailey J, 'Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century' in Quilts, 1700-2010 : hidden histories, untold stories, V&A Publications (2010)
Abstract Quilts evoke the past ' they stimulate our earliest memories of security and comfort and resonate with historical and cultural references challenging the assumption that stitching is simply 'women's work'. Using stunning new photography, this book explores the personal and social histories which reveal the maker's complex engagement with the wider world. The myths and narratives handed down with each intricately pieced patchwork and stitched whole cloth are as much a part of our heritage as the silks, velvets and cottons which document our textile history. Primary sources, such as inventories, diaries and letters add context to the personal narratives documented by the quilts, exploring responses to marriage, childbirth, love and loss. The book includes contemporary material to show how artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin respond to the tradition of quilt making.
Bailey J, review of Mans Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities C. 1660-1900., in Continuity and Change 28 (2013) pp.149-151ISSN: 0268-4160
Bailey J, review of Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices, in Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies 35 (2012) pp.251-252ISSN: 1754-0194
Bailey J, review of Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: a Reassessment, in Journal of Legal History 32 (2012) pp.241-244ISSN: 0144-0365
Bailey J, review of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain, 1600-1900, in Journal of British Studies 51 (2012) pp.1025-1027ISSN: 0021-9371
Bailey J, review of Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, in Scottish Historical Review 90 (2012) pp.328-330ISSN: 0036-9241
Bailey J, review of The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-century England, in Textile History 41 (2010) pp.137-138ISSN: 0040-4969 eISSN: 1743-2952
Bailey J, review of Marriage and Violence: the Early Modern Legacy, in English Historical Review 124 (2009) pp.971-972ISSN: 0013-8266
Bailey J, review of Gender and Space in Early Modern England, in Social History 34 (2009) pp.386-386ISSN: 0307-1022
Bailey J, review of Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past, in Continuity and Change 23 (2008) pp.365-366ISSN: 0268-4160
Bailey J, review of Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction, in Journal of Womens History 19 (2008) pp.144-153ISSN: 1042-7961 eISSN: 1527-2036
Bailey J, review of Marital Violence: An English Family History, in Journal of Womens History 19 (2008) pp.144-153ISSN: 1042-7961 eISSN: 1527-2036
Bailey J, review of Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857., in Continuity and Change 21 (2006) pp.374-375ISSN: 0268-4160
Joanne is a member of the Advisory Board for the Bibliography of British and Irish History.
She served as a member of the Advisory Group for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Database Project (2007-2010): Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York 1300-1858, Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.
Invited Plenary and Conference Presentations:
‘Tender Maternity’, Basic Instincts Symposium, Birkbeck, Nov 2017 (part of Basic Instincts Exhibition Sept 2017-Jan 2018), Foundling Hospital, London.
‘”John, the soldier, Jack the tar”: Emotional Objects and Manliness in Georgian and Victorian England’ at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History in Umeå, 26-29 June, 2017 (panel: ‘Materialising Love and Loss: Objects and Identity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain)
Plenary Roundtable, Histories of Religion and Sexuality, University of Nottingham, April 2017
‘a hardy man and bred up in pitch and tar”: Manliness and the Jack Tar’. At Maritime Masculinities 1815-1940, Dec 2016, St Anne’s College, Oxford
'Anxiety, Anger, and Tears: Emotions and Masculine Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Royal Holloway University of London, Centre for Victorian Studies, Oct 2016.
‘Emotional Lives’ Professorial Inaugural Open Lecture, Oxford Brookes University, June 2016
‘Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century’ with Bill Gibson, Long Eighteenth Century Seminar, IHR, June 2016
‘Manly bodies before muscular manliness: grace, strength and dexterity, England 1750-1850’, Royal Historical Symposium: Masculinity and the Body in Britain, 1500-1900, University of Northampton, 18 June 2015
‘Village Heroes and Hearts of Oak: the cultural power of the military in constructing English masculine identity 1790-1850, Military Masculinities in the Nineteenth Century, University of Hull, 20-21 May 2015.
‘Medieval and Early Modern Pregnancy and Parents’, Perceptions of Pregnancy Conference, July 2014, University of Hertfordshire.
‘English Manly Intimacy and Power in Representations of St George and the Dragon c. 1750-1950’ at Royal Historical Symposium: Intimacy, Power and Authority in European Perspectives, Bath Spa University, October 2013.
‘Pandora’s Box: opening up the cultures of domestic violence’ at European Perspectives of Cultures of Violence conference, University of Leicester, June 2013.
'Beds and the Making of the Domestic Landscape’ with Dr Angela McShane, ‘The body in bed’ Seminar series, The History Department, Royal Holloway University of London, October, 2010.
‘Problems and opportunities in investigating gender identities: the case study of parents’, ‘Engendering Gender: production, transmission and change’, University of Exeter, July 2010.
‘Being, doing, and embodying: rethinking histories of masculinities’, Conceptualising Men: Collective Identities and the 'Self'’ conference, University of Exeter, July 2009.
‘Fashioning Fatherhood in eighteenth-century England: or, the rise and influence of the 'Sentimental Father in visual and textual culture', Masculinity and the Other Conference, Balliol College, August 2007.
Invited Conference Papers (from 2008):
Chair/organizer ‘Law and Society Memorial Symposium in Honour of Professor Christopher Brooks, University of Durham, March 2016
'The Voice of the House: Material Culture and Emotion', Small Worlds Symposium, No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, Nov 2015.
One of four invited panel members, Emotions Round Table, Royal Holloway, held at IHR Oct 2015
‘From the 'kicking districts' to Andy Capp: wife-beating and working-class masculinities’, Crime & Legal History Group, Oxford Brookes University, 5 March 2014.
‘From the 'kicking districts' to Andy Capp: wife-beating and working-class masculinities’, Industrialism and Masculinity in Comparative Regional Context, c. 1840-1939’, Aberystwyth University, September 2013.
“all he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl:” Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century’, Workshop: Changing Relationships? Cohabitation and births outside marriage, 1600-2012, University of Warwick, Dec 2012
'"Mr Bulcock could no more marry you than that Dog": marriage and the regulation of society', 'Taming the Many-Headed Monster: Regulating Society in Early Modern England', A colloquium and reception in honour of Dr Martin Ingram, University of Oxford, June 2012.
‘In the bosom of the family: visualising parents 1700-1830’, Exeter Early Modern Seminar, University of Exeter, March 2012.
‘Changing relationships: parents and the life-course in Georgian England’, Life-Cycles Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Oct 2011.
‘Marital Law and Lawlessness in Eighteenth-Century Society’ at the Interdisciplinary Workshop, ‘After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century,’ University of Kent, June 2011.
‘Re-facing marital cruelty in England from 1590 onwards’ With Professor Loreen Giese, Medieval and Tudor London Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, May 2011.
‘Marking Marital Respect in English Ecclesiastical Court Records from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries’ With Professor Loreen Giese at ‘Sex, Violence, and Religion in the Northern Provinces 1300-1858’, a conference celebrating the launch of the York Cause Papers Database, 13 Nov, 2010.
‘Getting the measure of marriage and household authority in 17th and 18th century Britain’, Workshop on Marriage, University of Warwick, 5 February 2010.
‘The Convergence of the Twain': analysing the ‘twin' categories of masculinity and fatherhood‘, Gender & History Seminar, Wadham College, Oxford, October 2008.
Press, publicity and reviews
Activities outside the University include contributing to television and radio history programmes on BBC1, BBC2, BBC 4, and Radio 3.
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Queen of The Waves by Janice Thompson
A rags to riches romance set on the Titanic
Summerside Press, October 1, 2012
Review copy provided for free from LitFuse in exchange for this review
Burton Book Review Rating: 3 stars
When pampered Jacqueline Abington secretly elopes with the family gardener, she asks another woman to take her place on the much anticipated maiden voyage of the Titanic. Tessa Bowen hails from a poor corner of London but has been granted the opportunity of a lifetime—a ticket to sail to America aboard a famed vessel. But there’s a catch: she must assume Jacqueline’s identity. For the first time in her life, Tessa stays in luxurious quarters, dresses in elegant gowns, and dines with prestigious people. Then a wealthy American man takes an interest in her, and Tessa struggles to keep up the ruse as she begins falling for him. When tragedy strikes, the game is up, and two women’s lives are forever changed.
From the synopsis I knew it would take a lot of faith in the storyline for me to enjoy this one. I absolutely love Titanic novels even though it was such a tragedy, there is something about it that I love to continue to explore in novels. The major issue with this plot point is that of a pig farmer's daughter impersonating a wealthy young lady in a very wealthy first class on the Titanic, with only two weeks 'training'. As a pig farmer's daughter, Tessa apparently has only tended to pigs and barely left the farm in her life so the believability factor is a major stretch. Impersonating the well-bred Jacquie, it is amazing that Tessa is able to form intelligent words and mingle with the best of the best who are traveling on the epic Titanic.
Tessa is impersonating Jacquie so that Jacquie can stay behind to marry Peter, Tessa's brother. Peter is the gardener at Jacquie's estate, and even though Jacquie should be engaged to a very eligible and sweet young man, she follows her heart and sends Tessa on the Titanic so that Jacquie can stay behind with Peter. Of course, the fact that a beautiful high society London girl falls in love with a lowly gardener is yet another unlikely thing to happen in real life. She hides her intentions from her parents, so while the story follows Tessa's journey to riches on the Titanic, we also follow Jacquie's possible path to eventual rags.
Ignoring the incredulity of the plot in itself, the events on the ship and the people described were all well done. There were several conversations with crew members and the staff of the Titanic offering details of the Titanic adding to the atmosphere which tingled with excitement. The normal mentions of the famous people aboard such as the Astor's and the Straus' were here as well, along with an eccentric fashion designer Edith Russell.
Jacquie sits at a hotel waiting for Peter to visit her, while on the Titanic Tessa-now-Jacquie catches the eye of Nathan Patterson, the same scripture quoting man who had admired the real Jacquie once before. He notices immediately their eyes are different shades, and another man Tessa-now-Jacquie meets remarks on this as well, but she somehow is able to reassure the men. Nathan's character offers a side story as well, with the odd relationship of his mother and another gentleman which offers a bit of mystery.
The total amount of believability required of a reader such as myself renders this story a bit contrived. There were no faults with the author's writing or the tone, and I really wanted to like this one, but I couldn't bring myself to feel invested in the characters, probably because of the improbability of the basis of the story. The plot twists of who will end up with whom were what kept me reading, and the emotionally charged ending with the sinking ship was my favorite part of the book. The awakening of faith in a merciful God for Tessa was another theme, so there is a strong Christian element with both Tessa's and Nathan's character and I only mention it for those who were strictly looking for a Titanic themed novel. Those who do not like the preachy tones of Christian novels will certainly get a dose of preachiness from another traveler who acts as a bit of a confessional for Tessa and Nathan.
I am intrigued by the American Tapestry series that Summerside Press has created: novels that focus on epic moments of our history such as the Oregon Trail, and an upcoming novel on the Alamo. Queen of The Waves has been well received in the historical romance market, and you can follow along the blog tour to gauge differing opinions. If you can easily get past the improbability of the rags to riches storyline, this could be an exciting romance set amongst a tantalizing setting of the great ship Titanic.
Labels: #histnov, 2012 Releases, 2012 Review, Christian Fiction, Titanic
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RBI outlines measures to support MSME sector
PTI Last Updated: February 7, 2018 | 16:20 IST
Mumbai, Feb 7 (PTI) The Reserve Bank today announced a slew of measures for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), impacted by GST rollout and demonetisation, and gave them additional up to 180 days to clear their dues to banks.
The formalisation of business through registration under Goods and Services Tax (GST) adversely impacted cash flows of the smaller entities during the transition phase with consequent difficulties in meeting their repayment obligations to banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), RBI Deputy Governor N S Vishwanathan said.
"As a measure to support their transition to a formalised business environment, it has been decided that for the GST- registered MSMEs which were standard as on August 31, 2017 and for which the aggregate exposure of banks and NBFCs does not exceed Rs 25 crore as on January 31, 2018, the amounts overdue as on September 1, 2017, and payments due between September 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018, be allowed by banks and NBFCs to be paid not later than 180 days without a downgrade in asset classification," he said.
MSME is the focus sector of the government as it is the largest employer. The sector also got benefit in the Budget 2018-19 announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley last week.
The corporate tax rate was reduced to 25 per cent from 30 per cent for the enterprises with a turnover of Rs 250 crore to give a fillip to the sector that contributes 40 per cent to the GDP.
The central bank also removed credit caps on MSME in services sector under priority sector.
"In the light of feedback received from various stakeholders and in line with the increasing importance of services sector in our economy, it has been decided to remove the currently applicable loan limits of Rs 5 crore and Rs 10 crore per borrower to MSME (Services) respectively, for classification under priority sector," it said.
Accordingly, it said, all bank loans to MSMEs, engaged in providing or rendering of services as defined in terms of investment in equipment under Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006, shall qualify under priority sector without any credit caps.
In order to achieve level-playing field in the priority sector lending guidelines for banks, RBI said, "it was stipulated in April, 2015 that post 2018 (i.e., after three years from the issuance of guidelines), the sub-targets for lending to small and marginal farmers and micro enterprises shall be made applicable for foreign banks with 20 branches and above."
"It has been decided that the sub-target of 8 per cent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANBC) or Credit Equivalent Amount of Off-Balance Sheet Exposure (CEOBE), whichever is higher, will be made applicable for lending to the small and marginal farmers for foreign banks with 20 branches and above from 2018-19," it said.
Further, the sub-target for bank lending to the Micro Enterprises in the country of 7.50 per cent of ANBC or CEOBE, whichever is higher, will also be made applicable for foreign banks with 20 branches and above from 2018-19. PTI DP CS MKJ
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Germanwings to launch Manchester-Cologne route
19 Jun 2009 by Mark Caswell
Low-cost carrier Germanwings is to add Manchester to its UK network, when it commences flights between the northern city and its base at Cologne Bonn airport this October.
The airline will ply the route five-times weekly using A319 aircraft, with flights leaving Manchester at 1010 on Mondays and Tuesdays (arriving 1245), 2040 on Thursdays and Fridays (arriving 2315), and 1555 on Sundays (arriving 1830). The return legs will depart Cologne Bonn at 0900 on Mondays and Tuesdays (arriving 0935), 1935 on Thursdays and Fridays (arriving 2010), and 1450 on Sundays (arriving 1525).
Germanwings says the announcement is part of an “ongoing focus” on business travel, with over 40 per cent of its customers now made up of corporate travellers. Tickets for the new service are available from today (Friday June 19) at germanwings.com.
German rival Tuifly (with which Germanwings held unsuccessful merger talks last year) currently flies six-times weekly between Manchester and Cologne Bonn. Germanwings is itself a subsidiary of Lufthansa.
For more information visit germanwings.com, tuifly.com.
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Are Primary Care Doctors Prepared to Discuss Cancer Treatment?
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many primary care doctors feel ill-equipped to discuss cancer treatment options with patients, according to a new study.
Researchers surveyed 517 primary care doctors who had 1,077 female patients diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
Doctors were asked if they had discussed surgery, radiation or chemotherapy options with their patients; how comfortable they were doing so; and whether they felt knowledgeable enough to help patients make treatment decisions.
Thirty-four percent of doctors said they had discussed surgery options with patients, 23 percent had discussed radiation and 22 percent had discussed chemo, the study found.
Doctors who said they felt more comfortable discussing cancer treatment were more likely to have such talks with patients.
However, 22 percent of doctors who discussed surgery options with patients said they were uncomfortable doing so, and only 17 percent said they had the necessary knowledge. Findings for radiation and chemotherapy were similar.
"If we are going to promote their involvement, we may need to start doing that earlier, around the time of initial treatment, and ensure PCPs [primary care doctors] have the information they need to effectively participate in the decision-making process," said lead author Lauren Wallner. She's a health services researcher at the University of Michigan's Rogel Cancer Center.
Primary care doctors can play an important role in helping patients weigh cancer treatment decisions, she suggested. Those with a longstanding doctor-patient relationship likely have a good idea of the patient's values and preferences and may be able to help the patient weigh their choices.
"Inundating them with detailed information about all possible cancer treatments is not feasible. But these providers are likely to start becoming even more involved with the more prevalent cancers, such as breast or prostate cancer. They need to have sufficient resources and support to be prepared for these conversations," Wallner said in a university news release.
The study was recently published in the journal Cancer.
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YIELD GROWTH Closes Agreement to License 126 Product Formulas to Subsidiary Flourish Mushroom Labs
Ryan Allway
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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – November 7, 2019) – The Yield Growth Corp. (CSE: BOSS) (OTCQB: BOSQF) (FSE: YG3) is pleased to announce that on November 6, 2019 Yield Growth closed an agreement to license 126 product formulas to subsidiary Flourish Mushroom Labs.
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As part of the closing, Flourish Mushroom Labs made the first payment of $1,800,000 due under the license agreement with the issuance to Yield Growth of 90,000,000 common shares of Flourish Mushroom Labs issued at a deemed value of $0.02 per share. The shares are subject to escrow provisions pursuant to NP 46-201 and will be released as follows: 10% on the completion of an initial public offering by Flourish Mushroom Labs, and the balance of shares released over a 36 month term after an initial public offering.
The Yield Growth licensed formulas may be used in foods, beverages, personal care, skin care, cosmetic and other wellness products that are infused with functional mushrooms or psilocin or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or any combination thereof.
In consideration for the non-exclusive 50 year license, Flourish Mushroom Labs has agreed to pay $3,000,000 to Yield Growth. The first payment of $1,800,000 has been made. The remaining sum of $1,200,000 may be paid in cash over 24 months, but if Flourish Mushroom Labs is successful in listing its stock on a Canadian stock exchange within 6 months, then $200,000 shall be deducted from the purchase price, and if a listing is achieved between 6 – 12 months, then $400,000 shall be deducted from the purchase price.
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The Yield Growth Corp. is building and operating hemp, cannabis and edible mushroom assets in what the Global Wellness Institute reports is a $4.2 trillion-dollar global wellness market. It owns the cannabis wellness brands Urban Juve, Wright & Well and Jack n Jane. The Yield Growth management team has deep experience with global brands including Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, M·A·C Cosmetics, Skechers, Best Buy and Aritzia. Its all natural hemp skincare brand, Urban Juve, has signed distribution agreements in Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Greece and Cypress and through its distributor network has access to over 8,000 retail locations. Urban Juve has been featured in UK Vogue, Vanity Fair UK and Elle Canada and has an alliance with leading online beauty community, ipsy. Yield Growth’s Wright & Well brands are launching a THC/CBD line of topical products in Oregon and a CBD from hemp topicals line in California this winter. Jack n Jane is launching cannabis products in Canada in 2020. Yield Growth is launching a line of edible mushroom wellness products in 2020.
Through its subsidiaries, Yield Growth has over 200 proprietary beauty, wellness, edibles and beverage formulas for commercialization. It had filed 12 patents to protect its extraction method and formulas. Yield Growth is in revenue through multiple streams including licensing, services and product sales.
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This press release includes forward-looking information and statements (collectively, “forward looking statements”) under applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates, forecasts, beliefs and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and factors include, but are not limited to: risks related to the development, testing, licensing, intellectual property protection, and sale of, and demand for, Urban Juve, Wright & Well, Flourish Mushroom Labs, Jack n Jane and UJ Beverages products, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties, delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals where applicable, and the state of the capital markets. Yield Growth cautions readers not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements provided by Yield Growth, as such forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future results or performance and actual results may differ materially. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Yield Growth expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Overview and recent form:
Charlton are set to host Wigan Athletic tomorrow afternoon in the first home game of the season. The two teams sealed a draw in the opening game of the season, Charlton earned a 1-1 draw against Brentford and Wigan drew 2-2 against Reading last week.
Rosler and his team are travelling a 450 mile round trip for this Saturday’s fixture. The Latics are yet to score a goal at The Valley and The Addicks will be aiming to keep up that record.
Bob Peeters experienced his first game at The Valley on Tuesday night in the Capital One Cup. Charlton beat Colchester United 4-0 and the home crowd experienced a Wilson wonderland when he scored double to secure The Red’s place in the second round.
Bob Peeters’ pre match comments:
Bob Peeters faced the press ahead of this weekends clash and gave some honest and positive comments.
“We did well second half against Brentford and we controlled the game, I want the same effort from my team, I think we need to pass the ball a bit more- use more of the pitch. “ I want the team to put everything into it what they have got.”
“On Tuesday I asked them to pass the ball a little bit more and that’s what we need to do in the next couple of games, to be patient.”
“We have seen that we are pretty solid at the back and with passing the ball well, so the only thing we can do now is punish the opponent when we get the chance. If we can do that on Saturday then we can achieve.”
A look at the Opponents – Wigan Athletic:
Having drawn their first game of the season 2-2 against Reading last Saturday with goals from McManaman and McArthur, Roslers’ Wigan side will be looking for the three points against Charlton.
The Latics are one of the bookmakers’ favorites to be promoted this season after they missed out on their play off final place by Queens Park Rangers last season, losing 2-1 in the second leg of the play off semi finals.
Wigan have had a busy summer of signings, with 11 new faces including the loan signings of Jack Collinson from West Ham, Emyr Huws from Manchester United and Ryan Tunnicliffe from Fulham.
Fans reactions:
Some Addicks fans have taken to twitter this week:
@_DanSheed Looking as if we'll be well in the top half this season #CAFC
— chris gray (@chrisgray71) August 13, 2014
Free Charlton ticket just came through the post for the first home game on Saturday! Wow thanks @CAFCofficial
Bob has a huge dilemma going in to Saturday, surely Wilson has to play the wingback/ midfield role again, it's perfect. #cafc
— Harry (@HarryEllis_CAFC) August 13, 2014
Previous meetings:
Last season, Wigan visited the Valley in October, which resulted in a 0-0 stalemate. Charlton then travelled to The Latics in February and lost 2-1 at the DW Stadium.
I think that it is going to be an exciting season for Charlton and the fans, so lets hope that the positive start to this season continues..
COME ON YOU REDS!
Written by Becca James @Becca_James
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won’t reveal pre-draft secrets
It has been a while since we’ve seen Kentucky point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, so when he popped up at the NBA’s pre-draft interview sessions, there were some obvious questions. While other prospects have been trotting to cities around the league for team workouts, frequently speaking to the media afterwards, Gilgeous-Alexander has made zero trips to any NBA arenas.
This story of a draft-day trade — Nowitzki and No. 17 pick Pat Garrity for Traylor — comes to a tragic end. Tractor Traylor dealt with weight issues that ended his NBA career after seven seasons and left him dead of an apparent heart attack in May 2011 at age 3About a month later, Nowitzki was named Finals MVP as the Mavericks won their first championship.
This one came up a lot during Curry’s run of winning consecutive MVPs and a championship as the star of two all-time great Warriors teams. Flynn hasn’t played an NBA game in more than five years. Making matters worse, the Timberwolves took another point guard, Ricky Rubio, fifth overall. So they passed on Curry twice for two guys who play the same position.
According to ESPN, which cited unidentified team sources, the Nets are willing to make it work and both sides are negotiating to make him an unrestricted free agent this summer.
I want to be in a situation where I have an opportunity to help a team win, Howard said in a phone interview with ESPN. That’s my only goal. All I need is a real chance and a clean slate where it’s not people talking about my past.
The trade, which won’t become official until the league moratorium ends July 6, reportedly sent Howard to the Nets for Timofey Mozgov, two second-round picks and cash.
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After a 13-69 season in 2004-05, the Hawks had one clear-cut position of strength: forward. So with two proven point guards on the board, they of course ignored that need in favor Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Site of drafting a forward who was a college sixth man. Paul and Deron Williams (who went third overall) became All-Stars, while Williams has had a solid but unspectacular NBA career.
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the Seattle Mariners outscored the Orioles by a total of six runs and twice prevailed in extra innings.
The difference between the two teams, to a large degree, is that Seattle finds a way to win, and the Orioles keep coming up with a variety of ways to lose.
Nelson Cruz homered and drove in three runs, and the Mariners capitalized on two 10th-inning errors in a 4-2 victory Thursday that completed their first four-game sweep at Baltimore in franchise history.
The Mariners improved to 8-0 in extra innings this season. They won in 11 innings on Wednesday, after winning the first two games of the series 5-3 and 3-2.
We won four games, four different ways, manager Scott Servais said with pride. It shows what kind of team we are. Different players on different nights, all pitching in. We are playing pretty good baseball as a team right now. This sweep was a great turnaround for us.
Gordon’s speed and Cruz’s power have proven to be a potent combination for the Mariners. It was certainly too much for Baltimore.
Guys like Gordon put such pressure on you because you know any little bobble, anything, he’s going to take another base, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. A groundball that probably 95 percent of people are out on pretty easily, it’s a base hit. That’s why they’re having a good year and winning some games, because of things like that.
Doncic also cuts his fingernails with a meat cleaver, does barefoot fire-walks in his spare time and killed a bear when he was only three. So, yeah, the guy is tough. The Mavs added NCAA champ Jalen Brunson in the second round, as well as the final pick, Kostas Antetokounmpo, who is hoping to avoid the inevitable nickname, The Greek Meek.
It was strange to see Michael Porter Jr. onstage at the Barclays Center on Thursday, because he somehow managed to walk there on his own and without the help of a personal scooter or a cane, which — according to some teams’ reading of his medical records — should have been physically impossible. A full-body scan of Porter was said to have revealed that he has the joint structure of a young Pinocchio, before he became a real boy.
Despite those profound concerns, Denver took the gamble on Porter that the Sixers (Hinkie would’ve drooled over a guy with so many medical red flags), the Hornets (really?) and Clippers (only months away from dumping gimpy star Blake Griffin) would not take. In the second round, the Nuggets took small forward Jarred Vanderbilt, who only played 19 games at Kentucky because of foot and ankle Cheap Jerseys UK injuries, and also added UCLA center Thomas Welsh, who offered to throw himself down the stairs if Cheap Jerseys Supply it would help him fit in with his fellow draftees.
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NBA free agency rumors: Dwight Howard, Nets negotiating buyout
Dwight Howard may not be with the Nets for long.
One day after reports surfaced that Howard has been traded from Charlotte to Brooklyn, the eight-time NBA All-Star says he wants a buyout of his $23.8 million expiring contract to become a free agent.
A lot of teams (including the Warriors, twice!) passed on Green. So maybe pegging him to the Celtics seems like a stretch. But Boston needed big men desperately and drafted two. Sullinger has become an OK rotation player, while Melo was one of the worst first-rounders to actually play in the NBA in recent memory. Green, meanwhile, has blossomed into a star for the Warriors, and the Celtics are desperate for a star and want to play the exact style that fits Green’s skill set perfectly.
Hopson averaged 29 points a game for a decent Ohio State team, so the mistake is understandable. But man, this was a huge miss. Pippen, playing the same position, was the unproven but ridiculously athletic guy out of the small school (Central Arkansas). And while Hopson played five NBA seasons, Pippen was the second-best player on six NBA championship teams en route to the Hall of Fame.
It turns out Gilgeous-Alexander has been working out in Los Angeles ahead of the draft, and rather than traveling to workouts, sources told Sporting News that his agent, Thad Foucher of the Wasserman Group, had teams interested in drafting Gilgeous-Alexander visit LA to watch him.
Gilgeous-Alexander could go as high as No. 6 to Orlando. Cleveland had interest, too, at No. 8, as well as the Hornets at 1One reason the flow of teams to watch Gilgeous-Alexander was so tightly controlled, a source speculated, was a desire to have him drafted by the Clippers, who have back-to-back picks at Nos. 12 and 13.
Toronto reportedly would like to trade into the top 10 to draft Gilgeous-Alexander, but such a deal would be difficult to pull off — the Raptors might need to dump either Kyle Lowry or DeMar DeRozan to make it happen.
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Wade Davis worked the ninth to earn his 23rd save in 27 chances.
Rich Hill (1-3) pitched solidly in his third start since coming off the disabled list because of a finger blister. Only one of his six hits was for extra bases, a double by Trevor Story in the sixth.
The Rockies began the month getting swept by the Dodgers in a three-game series, with Los Angeles scoring 33 runs in those games. Colorado improved to 5-2 against Los Angeles this season.
Anderson collected a career high-tying two hits with singles in the third and seventh. Hill had an 0-2 count against him in the third and appeared annoyed when Anderson made contact. He’s a good hitting pitcher, Hill said.
Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp singled in the fifth, snapping an 0-for-15 skid. In his last 23 games against the Rockies since Sept. 20, 2015, Kemp has hit .389.
RHP German Marquez (5-8, 5.53 ERA) starts for Colorado, which has won four of his seven road starts this season. He has a 3.07 ERA away from home compared to 7.93 in Denver. RHP Kenta Maeda (5-4, 3.44) goes for the Dodgers. In eight career games, including six starts, Maeda is 5-2 with a 2.11 ERA to go with 48 strikeouts and nine walks.Cardinals, Diamondbacks open 3-game series
In the NBA, he should be a multi-positional defender capable of sliding up and down the lineup as well.
Williamson is undoubtedly the most well-known prospect in this class. He is also probably its most divisive. The 17-year-old is functionally a power forward or center in a wing’s frame. Still, he possesses two incredibly positive traits.
First, he’ll be one of the youngest players in the class. Williamson will play his entire freshman season at age 1For comparison, his Duke teammate Cameron Reddish is nearly a full year older. Second, Williamson is a powerful and explosive athlete. There’s a lot of leeway for young prospects who are outliers in that area.
At No. 46, the Rockets picked up USC’s De’Anthony Melton, a 6-3 combo guard who Cheap Jerseys Paypal missed this Cheap Jerseys Youth season due to eligibility issues. According to the LUCARIO model developed by Nylon Calculus’s Senthil Natarajan, Melton has star equity as a defender. His freshman year stats heavily mirror Jrue Holiday’s. If he can generate any level of offense similar to Holiday, he has the potential to be a steal.
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wild files: marine life at maratua
2014 • Maratua Island
Maratua Island is situated in the Derawan Archipelago, off the coast of East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
2014 • Maratua Islandview the infographic
384 square kilometers of pristine beaches and mangrove forests
Surrounding waters are believed to host the third-highest level of marine biodiversity in the world.
1,000+ marine species in the Derawan Archipelago
Maratua has more than 20 dive spots where a variety of species can be observed, such as:
green sea turtles
Maratua Island has a population of about
Most belong to the Bajo Tribes, also known as Sea Gypsies,
an ethnic group with deep knowledge of the coastal ecosystem.
However, Maratua’s biodiversity is threatened by:
rising temperatures
higher tides
land erosion
destructive fishing practices
To protect Maratua’s biodiversity, the Maratua Ecotourism for Sustainable Small Islands program (MESSI) was formed as a collaboration between:
the KEHATI foundation, a non-governmental organization
local government agencies
After rigorous consultation with stakeholders, MESSI partnered with locals to:
develop ecotourism plans for Maratua diving
raise the community’s awareness of climate change
implement reef rehabilitation and conservation programs for protected species like the green sea turtle
These turtles are listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Major threats include:
loss of nesting beaches
grow to a length of 4 feet
live to be 80 years old
breathe air but can stay underwater for up to two hours
return to the same beach every year to lay up to 100 eggs, which hatch two months later
MESSI’s Maratua Eco Dive Center
Encourages the use of homestay programs managed by women
Additional monthly income of about $80 (or 1.2 million Indonesian rupiah) generated for the 200 homestay families in a nearby fishing village called Bohe Sellian
MESSI’s ecotourism activities have influenced residents to participate in environmental conservation and reduce pressure on natural resources.
The program also provides hospitality and management training to help elevate ecotourism standards for local businesses.
reef manta rays
Reef manta rays are listed as a vulnerable species by the IUCN.
primary threat comes from fishing and habitat degradation
large size and slow swimming speed make them an easy target
grow to an average width of 400 centimeters (about 13 feet)
females have an estimated life span of 40 years
• begin breeding at 8-10 years of age
• typically give birth to a single pup at a time
On November 13, 2017, Chevron’s conservation work in Maratua was presented internationally at the 23rd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) in Bonn, Germany.
our actions were consistent with our goal
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With USMCA Moving Forward, American Farmers Seek More Trade Deals
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - Since the Trump administration began reshaping trade policy in early 2018, U.S. farmers have endured fluctuating prices and uncertain destinations for what they grow and harvest amid increasing tariffs on grain exports.
"We want trade, we don't want aid, but right now the bankers want paid," Steve Turner recently told hundreds of attendees at the Illinois Farm Bureau's annual meeting in Chicago.
In Washington, meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Democrats had reached an agreement to support passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, delivering a major trade victory to Republican President Donald Trump. Just a few days later, the White House announced a breakthrough in trade negotiations with China.
But as diplomats and lawmakers work to turn trade negotiations into long-term agreements, Steve Turner is among many farmers across the country receiving payments from the U.S. government to compensate for income lost due to trade battles. The Department of Agriculture's Market Facilitation Program is distributing about $14.5 billion overall to farmers in 2019 on top of an estimated $12 billion in 2018.
The MFP is intended to offset the immediate impact of tariffs on U.S. crop exports, helping farmers get through the resulting economic hardship while the Trump administration negotiates with key trading partners.
"It made a big difference to our bottom line, absolutely, there's no question about it," Megan Dwyer told VOA while gazing out on her soybeans fields situated near Colona, Illinois.
"If we're going to have tariffs, we ask that we be taken care of," says farmer Jeff Kirwan, who tends land in Mercer County, Illinois.
Trump Pushes Congress to Pass USMCA as AFL-CIO Steps on Brakes A major US labor leader on Monday said there was more work to do on the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement
The USDA reports that Illinois, where Dwyer and Kirwan both farm - is the state receiving the most MFP funds in the country. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota round out the list of top aid-receiving states.
But many farmers say they prefer trade agreements over the MFP payments.
"No one is looking for a handout," says Dwyer.
Kirwan agrees, and says he supports what President Trump is trying to do in the hopes it makes the U.S. more competitive internationally on trade.
"I think it's important when you talk about trade agreements that we want good, fair trade," which is also why Kirwan and Dwyer say they are relieved the USMCA is moving forward.
The USMCA replaces the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. A key part of the new agreement is to lower or end tariffs and boost markets for U.S. crops - most notably corn and soybeans - in countries bordering the United States.
"One success leads to hopefully more successes," Kirwan said to VOA on the sidelines of the Illinois Farm Bureau meeting. Kirwan and Dwyer both see passage of the USMCA as a sign of things to come as the Trump administration continues to press for a comprehensive trade agreement with China.
"It's just building some confidence with our other foreign markets," says Dwyer, "To show that the U.S. can come up with an agreement."
On Friday, the White House announced progress in trade negotiations with China, agreeing to delay tariffs on Chinese-produced electronics and toys while reducing existing tariffs on other goods. In return, China is promising to buy more American agricultural output.
First Phase of US-China Trade Deal Announced Officials in Beijing and Washington say the agreement will mean both sides will not impose further tariffs on each other
Advocates for U.S. agricultural producers called the news a good first step.
"America's farmers and ranchers are eager to get back to business globally," American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement Monday. "China went from the second-largest market for U.S. agricultural products to the fifth-largest since the trade war began. Reopening the door to trade with China and others is key to helping farmers and ranchers get back on their feet. Farmers would much rather farm for the marketplace and not have to rely on government trade aid."
Similarly, the Illinois Farm Bureau called Friday's announcement "welcome news," adding that farmers in the state have "a profound desire to recapture lost export demand due to the prolonged trade war with China." The group expressed hope for "more good news yet to come."
Illinois farmer Evan Hultine says he is "very excited" about the prospects of the purchase commitment China is making in the current phase of negotiations, but that the "residual stress" of the trade war has him taking a wait-and-see approach. "I don't think my nerves or trepidation will completely fade until China starts making physical purchases and commodities and money changes hands," he told VOA.
Trade announcements take time to be implemented and even longer to benefit farmers economically. For all the trade headlines emerging in Washington, Turner says many farmers across America continue to struggle.
Trump Touts USMCA in Meeting with Canada PM Trudeau Trump says two countries will be 'significantly expanding' trade relations once agreement is done
"The economic damage to us on prices has still been done out here," he said.
"Let's say that we have a [final] trade agreement [with China], and things really get moving - we know that the farm income situation has been affected and can't be turned around overnight," said Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky during a visit to the Illinois Farm Bureau's annual meeting.
Censky said he hopes further MFP payments in 2020 won't be needed if negotiators can reach a full and comprehensive trade agreement with China, which is one of the largest buyers of U.S. soybeans.
"All of us want to have trade and not aid," says Censky. "None of us wants to have this level of government payments going to farmers. We want the markets."
Farmers echo the sentiment but also want to know the U.S. government will continue to support them if further trade progress doesn't materialize and their list of worries continues to extend beyond omnipresent factors, like the weather.
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Culinary Connections
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How can restaurants make healthy eating appealing?
While healthy eating has certainly become more of an issue recently as consumers realize its benefits to their wellbeing, it is still a contentious subject as obesity levels are soaring across the globe.
Food in Canada highlights how individuals still aren't consuming enough fruit and vegetables, which emphasizes how important it is for restaurateurs to ensure they are providing a good range of nutritional and tasty dishes for diners.
Women need to eat seven to eight portions a day, while men should consume between eight and ten. However, the figures show women tend to average 4.3 while men are significantly lower on just 3.5 on a daily basis, according to research from the Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA).
Founder of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa Dr Yoni Freedhoff is quoted as saying: "Regular home-cooking from fresh, whole ingredients, including fruit and vegetables, has become much less common. We have been taught that restaurants and boxes can provide us with the health and nutrients we need. So that's where we look because it is now normal to believe it’s possible to do so."
While it is important that individuals rediscover healthy home-cooking, this stresses the importance of well-balanced meals being not only available in restaurants, but also marketed sufficiently to encourage consumers to opt for them.
Potential ways of doing this could include highlighting the calorie counts or number of portions of fruit and vegetables to enhance the dishes' appeal as patrons decide what to order. Additionally, posting appetizing pictures of these meals on social media pages or on the menu itself could help them to gain further traction.
An initiative launched earlier this year by the CPMA called 'Half Your Plate' is designed as a way of encouraging the public to meet their daily intake of fruit and vegetables.
Director of Market Development Sue Lewis said: "Rather than people counting servings or worrying about serving size, our premise is that at every meal, make half your plate fruit and vegetables. By the end of the day, you’ll have your recommended number of servings."
One issue that could explain why individuals are not meeting their daily quotas of fruit and vegetables is that when they go out to eat, they deem it as a special occasion and do not necessarily want a healthy dish.
This could especially be the case in light of the recent economic turbulence that means consumers have less money to spend. So, when they do choose to dine out, it is a treat and therefore a vegetable-laden dish may not be top of the priority list.
The onus on restaurateurs is to make such dishes as tasty and flavoursome as possible, as these tend to be key selling factors. Innovative ways of combining healthy ingredients in appetizing meals is encouraged as patrons often like to try something different when they're out, especially something they wouldn't normally make themselves at home.
In addition, doing everything possible to ensure healthy dishes are reasonably priced can help operators to bolster the appeal of these menu options.
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Instagrammers warned against swimming in turquoise lake -- that's actually a toxic water-filled quarry
Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN • Published 18th July 2019
(CNN) — Instagrammers have been warned not to dive into an idyllic-looking, turquoise lake in northern Spain, because its toxic waters could lead to health issues.
Monte Neme, in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, offers a stunning setting for Instagrammers looking for the perfect selfie.
But, not for the first time, the pursuit of envy-inducing images is leading to risky behavior.
The site is actually a water-filled open pit from a disused mine and its waters are contaminated with toxic chemicals.
It was mined for tungsten and tin from 1915 and for quartz and construction aggregates in the 1980s, Ramón Varela, journalist and spokesman for the local Salvemos Cabana environmental group, told CNN.
He said that Galicia's water agency had confirmed its composition had very high levels of aluminum and a low pH, meaning the lake was acidic.
While there haven't been any serious accidents yet, medical authorities have warned people against diving into the tempting waters for safety reasons.
"Bathing for a brief time could cause irritation to the skin and the eyes while drinking the water could cause colic, diarrhea and vomit," Manuel Ferreiro, doctor at the nearby A Coruña hospital, told CNN. "Those are not very serious problems, but the water is contaminated."
He added that the turquoise color is due to the pit's silica sand, which is not itself toxic.
But these warnings didn't stop Instagrammers from posting pictures of themselves diving into the quarry.
One Instagrammer who recently shared a picture of the pit, Antonio Outeiriño Lopez, told CNN he took the picture of the lake in 2015, before it became a social media sensation.
He said he is aware of the toxic nature of the lake and didn't think about swimming in it. "I'm not an ignoramus who exchanges life for a like," Lopez said. "The place is beautiful, but it shouldn't be open to the public."
According to Varela, another hazard lies in the surrounding slopes, which in some places drop off for more than 30 meters.
"The place is very dangerous, there is only one sign in the whole complex and it is an area where families sometimes get close," he added.
Salvemos Cabana has called on the Galician authorities to seal off the quarry.
Just last month a Russian company that controls a coal plant in Siberia issued a statement asking Instagrammers not to swim in an ash dump which has become a magnet for social media influencers.
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Crossrail Surface Works: South East Spur (Interim)
CEEQUAL Excellent (84.5%) – Interim Client & Outline Design Award
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Client: Network Rail / Crossrail Ltd
Designers: Balfour Beatty / WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Assessor: Daniela Eigner (WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff)
The Crossrail Kent project encompasses the design and build for works on the two-mile stretch from Plumstead to Abbey Wood in South East London. The station itself is undergoing a complete rebuild to facilitate the new Crossrail services. The new two-level station will house a bright and spacious concourse, improved ticket hall layout and two new island platforms for both the North Kent and Crossrail services.
Big changes are also underway in the railway corridor. To make space for the new Crossrail tracks the existing North Kent lines are being moved southwards. Two footbridges have been replaced so that they can now span the new four-track railway and rise above the overhead electric lines which will be used to power the Crossrail trains.
CEEQUAL was used to inform design and has been a useful tool in driving sustainability throughout all stages of the project. The project has achieved an ‘Excellent’ interim rating and is aiming for an CEEQUAL Excellent Award for the final assessment stage.
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Station design and material use
The design philosophy of the project has been to provide a durable station, which can operate safely and efficiently whilst improving connectivity to its surrounding area. Abbey Wood station has been seen as an opportunity to provide a catalyst for urban regeneration in the local area. This has led to the design being developed concurrently with a separate urban realm programme supported by the two Boroughs. The final design brings together various design components which address the station’s use, layout, scale, appearance and access arrangements.
CEEQUAL has provided a platform to include design and material consideration at a very early stage. Sustainable building techniques and materials have been chosen to prolong the lifespan of the station. Likewise, the design has been ‘future proofed’ to enable upgrade and integration with its urban setting as new design opportunities come forward.
A Designing out Waste workshop was held to gather specialists together and to find potential opportunities for minimising waste throughout the various stages of the project. Throughout this process, the design team made a number of recommendations such as the use of an alternative material to timber noise barriers and considered options for materials based on whole life cost. Regular discussions have taken place between the design teams to develop the station layout.
‘Zero net loss’ target for biodiversity
As a result of the widening of the railway corridor, there has been a loss of a number of mature trees that lined the old railway boundary fence. To counteract this loss of vegetation, the project has committed to a target of “No Net Loss” for biodiversity and is one of the first schemes of its kind in Europe to calculate the net score of biodiversity on an infrastructure scheme. This target will be robustly calculated and reported using the DEFRA offsetting accounting methodology.
The team realised that an opportunity to plant new trees earlier than planned would be beneficial and show the public the importance the project attributes to environmental protection. A voluntary tree planting event was held in March 2014 to plant semi-mature trees nearby a housing estate within sight of the railway and was the first sustainability event on Crossrail Kent.
This was a great opportunity to actively and positively contribute towards the neighbourhood in which the project is placed; to gain an improved understanding of the impacts a major railway construction project has on the environment, and how potential negative impacts can be mitigated by restoring biodiversity. The voluntary tree planting event has been an important step in ensuring that biodiversity is re-instated and considered not only for the last phase of construction but for the whole duration of the project. It not only provides new habitat for nesting birds and other species but also reduces carbon emissions and increases the amenity value for local residents.
Relations with local community and stakeholders
The project managed to arrange a number of public information events held in Abbey Wood Community Centre to gather and understand the views of those impacted upon by Crossrail. This has been a key element as residential areas are located close to the rail corridor and therefore, impacts such as noise, lighting and dust had to be areas of main focus. Community and environmental engagement are essential to the project as they are an effective way to establish a positive relationship with residents and to improve the local environment.
As part of Crossrail Kent’s commitment to continual improvement in sustainability and providing equal opportunities, the team in Abbey Wood has become part of the Kotuku Environmental Labourer Project (KELP) scheme, and provided a young Londoner with a placement as an environmental labourer on site.
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Sustainability opportunities such as greywater harvesting were sought after and the CEEQUAL process was a key contributor to assist the project to outline new opportunities on how sustainability, design and mitigation measures could be incorporated at all key stages of the project.
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Announcement of the winner of the CFA UK and Brandes Investment Essay Competition
Announcement of the winner of the CFA UK and Brandes Investment Essay Competition in honour of Benjamin Graham
Liam Nunn, CFA, awarded £5,000 for essay on value investing principles
Liam Nunn receiving his cheque from CFA UK Chief Executive, Will Goodhart
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) and Brandes Investment Partners announced at the Aberdeen Road Lectures event this year’s winner of the investment essay competition honoring Benjamin Graham, the founding father of both value investing and the CFA program. Liam Nunn, CFA, equity analyst at Old Mutual Global Investors, was awarded the £5,000 prize for his essay on how Graham’s principles of investing safely and successfully reflect the way he practices today.
The competition, which launched at the inaugural Aberdeen Road Lectures event last year, awards a prize provided by Brandes Investment Partners annually to one winner for a paper that draws on Graham’s thinking and work as well as promotes financial analysis as a profession. It is open to all members of CFA UK under the age of 35.
“We were encouraged by the many submissions that demonstrated a keen understanding of and reflection on Ben Graham’s value investing principles, and we are pleased to present this award,” said Charles Brandes, CFA, founder and chairman of Brandes Investment Partners. “My work with Graham was integral to the founding of Brandes Investment Partners, and it is an honor to help impart his vision as a value investor to young members of the CFA community.”
“This prize was launched to encourage and inspire our members who are just entering the profession to delve into the philosophy and practice of Ben Graham,” said William Goodhart, chief executive of CFA UK. “We continue to learn from his work, and CFA UK is committed to maintaining the professional standard that he envisioned.”
The winning essay will be published in the autumn issue of Professional Investor magazine and available on the Brandes Institute website.
About Brandes Investment Partners, L.P.
Brandes is a leading investment advisory firm, managing global equity and fixed-income assets for clients worldwide. Since the firm’s inception in 1974, Brandes has consistently applied the value investing approach, pioneered by Benjamin Graham, to security selection and was among the first investment firms to invest globally using a value approach. The independently owned firm manages a variety of active investment strategies and applies its investment philosophy consistently in all market conditions. Headquartered in San Diego, Brandes and its related entities have offices in Milwaukee, Toronto, Dublin and Singapore.
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CAP Workshop | Argentina
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The Articulate Arts Researcher
Tandil, Argentina
Led by Vida L Midgelow
Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices, Middlesex University, UK
‘Human beings do not exist on the ‘other side’ of materiality,
but swim in an ocean of materials’ (Tim Ingold 2011:24)
This short course will consider the underlying methods of Practice as Research (PaR) and explore the processes of the Creative Articulation Process (CAP) (Bacon and Midgelow 2014). It asks: What can be discovered and shared in and through practice as research that other approaches do not reveal? What might otherwise be lost or remain silent? What modalities of knowledge and ways of working are at play in this research? How can these modalities be made evident, and therefore shareable, in line with the responsibilities of researchers to make their research available to others?
Whilst the methods of PaR remain contested, there are shared understandings of this approach to artistic practice emerging that cohere around concepts of praxis. In this short course I propose how we can develop artistic research through emergent processes are that subjective, material, situated and curatorial. Through these processes PaR enables us to rethink art making as research, revealing how it encompasses ‘the work of the feet, as well as the hands and the head’ (Ingold 2011:16).
This outlook will be supported through the use of the Creative articulation process (CAP). A particular interest of CAP is how we effectively bring the subjectivity of the researcher into the frame of the researched. Through a series of strategies drawn from somatic practices and the felt sense, CAP supports the development of performance works and related materials in ways that build upon such subjective and embodied positions.
Through openness and curiosity our materials and materiality-in-motion become the basis for research.
The course will include:
Daily warm-up and focusing exercises for the bodymind as drawn from somatic practices and improvisation
Shared selected readings and debates around keys issues in Practice as Research
Exploring through embodied material thinking and creative processes
Working together to generate and reflect on artistic work
Experimenting through individually developed projects
Using (self) curatorial and articulation processes
Aims and learning outcomes;
The course aims:
to enhance understanding of Practice as Research as a materially embodied research mode
to introduce the ‘Creative Articulation Process’ as a tool for Practice as Research
The course will be taught through a group workshop and shared discussion. Throughout participants will develop a (individual) new work and test out experiments in articulation through this work.
Throughout we will share our ideas and practices with each other in the spirit of collective learning and experimentation.
A short presentation/installation of selected fragments of the practice developed through the course and its articulation. This sharing of your work should also demonstrate in what of processes introduced through the course has facilitated changes to your established ways of working.
Bacon, Jane and Midgelow, Vida (2014) Creative Articulation Processes (CAP). Choreographic Practices, Vol 5/ No 1.
Ingold, Tim (2011) Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. Routledge. London and New York
Journal of Artistic Research: http://jar-online.net
Selected background reading / viewing
Allegue, L., Jones, S., Kershaw, B., & Piccini, A. (eds.) (2009). Practice-as-Research in Performance and Screen. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Barbour, K. (2011). Dancing Across the Page: Narrative and Embodied Ways of Knowing. Bristol: Intellect.
Barrett, E. & Bolt, B. (eds.) (2007). Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. London: I.B. Tauris.
Biggs, M. & Karlsson, H. (eds.) (2010). The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London: Routledge.
Borgdorff, H. (2012). The Conflict of the Faculties – Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
Freeman, J. (2010). Blood Sweat and Theory: Research Through Practice in Performance. Libri Publishing.
Nelson, R. (2013). Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Participants should have experience of making artistic work in performance or related fields, and be comfortable with exploring through movement (although no particular or extended dance technique training is required).
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Muslim Militants Threaten Christians and Europeans
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinian militants angry over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers issued threats against Europeans on Thursday, while a Christian group said there may be a link between the Danish cartoons and a recent wave of attacks against Iraqi Christians.
A dozen caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, originally published in a Danish newspaper in September and recently reprinted in six other European countries, have sparked protests and an expanding Muslim boycott of Danish goods.
Aside from the fact that one of the cartoons depicted Mohammad as a terrorist, Muslims consider any depiction of the seventh century figure to be blasphemous.
Attacks on Iraqi Christians
A British-based advocacy group that monitors Christians living in the Muslim world released a statement on Thursday saying that the beating of Christian students and the bombing of at least four churches in Iraq on Sunday could be linked to protests over the cartoons.
Muslim students beat Christian students at Mosul University on Sunday. Several days earlier, sheiks in the city had issued a number of fatwas (Islamic religious decrees) calling for Muslims to "expel the crusaders and infidels form the streets, schools and institutions because they insulted the person of the prophet in Denmark," the Barnabus Fund said in a press release.
In separate incidents on the same day, at least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured in near-simultaneous bombings outside at least four churches in Iraq. The attacks apparently were timed to happen during worship services.
"Many Christians in Iraq are connecting this week's church bombings with the growing furor across the Muslim world caused by the publication of some cartoons caricaturing Mohammad in a Danish newspaper on 30th September 2005," the Barnabus Fund said.
Churches in Iraq have been attacked previously, but some Christians believe that this new wave of attacks was ignited by the by the issue of the cartoons, one source said.
A Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Wednesday that Islamic cleric Sheikh Nazem Mesbah issued a fatwa calling for people who insulted Mohammed to be killed, but the fatwa reportedly was rejected by other Islamic clerics.
In another development, an al-Qaeda-affilitated group Abu Hafez al-Masri Brigades reacted to the cartoons by threatening "blood war" on Denmark.
In a message sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi on Wednesday, the group threatened to carry out September 11-type attacks on Denmark, the Israeli website YNet reported on Thursday.
A number of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Syria, have recalled their ambassadors from Copenhagen in protest.
Palestinians jump on cartoon bandwagon
In the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian gunmen surrounded the office of the European Union, firing guns into the air and demanding an apology for the cartoons within 48 hours.
A spokesman for the two groups -- Islamic Jihad and the Yasser Arafat brigade of the Fatah faction -- said they would keep the E.U. offices closed "until the government makes an apology."
One European Union source said the office was closed on Monday anyway, following the first protest outside the building earlier this week.
Two other Palestinian militant groups, the Popular Resistance Committee and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, threatened to harm all nationals and diplomats of countries involved in the controversy.
In a joint statement the groups said the diplomats and nationals "can be considered targets."
A spokesman for the two groups said the threat was serious. The statement demanded that the offices and consulates of the countries involved be closed -- "Otherwise, we will not hesitate to destroy them."
European Commission spokeswoman Emma Udwin said security measures had been taken following the threats but she did not offer details.
"We support the freedom of expression but respect [the differences] between cultures," Udwin said.
Speaking by phone from Brussels, Udwin said she had not been authorized to make any apology but stressed that those who profit from newspapers where the cartoons were printed do so in their own name and are not government organs.
"Europeans in the region are generally there to improve the living conditions of Palestinians," said Udwin. "Those who make threats should bear that in mind," she added.
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Around Emilia
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The tiny world of the lowland of Emilia
“Here is the village, here is the little world of a small world planted somewhere in Northern Italy.
There, in a fat and flat piece of land located in between the river and the mountain, the Po’ river and the Apennines.
Dense and frozen fog oppresses during the winter, and during the summer a ruthless sun furiously hammers on people’s brains and here everything is exasperated. Here political passions explode violently and the struggle is tough, but men will be men and the things that happen here could not happen anywhere else”.
That’s how the first episode of the movie Don Camillo starts.
A character created by the pen of Giovannino Guareschi, an extraordinary writer that was able to put on paper the spirit of the Lowland of Emilia. He was born in those lands, in Fontanelle di Roccabianca (in the Province of Parma), and he has represented, with sublime irony and elegance, the subtleties between the parish priest and the mayor of this tiny world.
A world that, for those who are not familiar with it, is not easy to penetrate and capture.
Those are places where the water, the river, the flats that extend as far as you can see, represent the protagonists of a peasant soul that makes this part of the Pianura Padana a suggestive and melancholic place. It does not matter if we are talking about of the province of Modena, Parma or Ferrara, when it’s about the Lowland of Emilia, because its identity doesn’t have boundaries of Provinces.
In this story I would like to talk about the tale of Don Camillo, for those of you who see in those characters memories and nostalgia accumulated in their minds, just like I do.
It is incredible how these tales, written at the end of the 40s, are able to take us back to our roots, to a dream through which we feel, each time, the belonging to our lands.
Feelings that come out and give us emotions, episode after episode, despite the fact that the cinematic transposition is filtered by the idea that the director had of the Lowland of Emilia. Brescello is the town chosen by Julien Duvivier, since it adapted well to the filming scenes.
In fact the Lowland of Emilia is a little world that encloses the characteristics of a community that, in my case, I was able to enjoy and experience since I was a child, and maybe that’s the reason why I am so bounded to this landscape melody.
I was able to taste freedom walking around the white streets by my uncles’ country home, learning that life in the country revolved around the main piazza, surrounded by little houses painted in pastel colors, while in the evening, from the surrounding fields, the scent of tomatoes and watermelons spread around and found its ideal environment here.
I remember how the horizon was endless and how a summer home in the vast country side could be lit by sun rays at sunset, and look like a star in the twilight of the wheat field.
Here the sky looks enormous, maybe that’s why every time I went to visit my uncles I felt such a sense of tranquility I have never felt anywhere else. I also feel gratitude and a deep pride in knowing that the episodes of Don Camillo have become a literary masterpiece even outside of the national boundaries.
It was 1948 when the first collection with the title of Don Camillo came out and the book had a lot of success from the start. It has been translated into the main languages and more. In fact, it has reached also the most unusual states like Japan, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States. It has also been translated in Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese for the broadcasts on the radio for the BBC.
Over 20 million copies have been sold worldwide, together with many dedications made to the character of Don Camillo, like a Lambrusco wine and a woman overcoat.
But let’s go back to that small world, where in the summer, the sun hammers on people’s heads and that is hugged by a dense and frozen fog during the winter. Lowland of Emilia is just like a place we look for in our minds through memories and emotions, which we can reach every time with our imagination. We can smell the scents, feel the steaming hot and the fog that descends in the winter hiding the landscape, while everything around is silent.
There are some quotes that touched me in a particular way in the book that narrates the life of Guareschi through the voices of his children: “you will always be in my heart, my city”.
“I will never forget those beloved places where I spent my childhood, my mates, my abandoned house (…) the little cemetery where my grandparents are buried (…)”
Simple quotes that encloses a deep meaning for each of us who keeps in his minds the childhood places, those of carefree and strong emotions.
The Lowland of Emilia, narrated by Giovannino Guareschi in Don Camillo, turns into a memorial walk, where the details and nuances of a territory where the river (no matter which one it is), the vast clay plain, the dense fog, the burning sun, the streets narrowed by the banks, are the protagonists of the life scenarios of that small Emilian world that will take us back in that past that has prepared us for our present.
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Why state trooper faced misdemeanor, not felony, in traffic death
The Clermont County grand jury that indicted a state trooper on misdemeanor charges after a crash that left a man dead could have chosen a felony.
Why state trooper faced misdemeanor, not felony, in traffic death The Clermont County grand jury that indicted a state trooper on misdemeanor charges after a crash that left a man dead could have chosen a felony. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/08/09/state-trooper-sentenced-sept-20-fatal-crash/1968637001/
Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 3:11 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2019
Trooper Jeremy Ault (Photo: Fox 19)
The Clermont County grand jury that indicted an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper on misdemeanor charges after a crash that left a Goshen man dead could have chosen a felony charge.
That’s according to Zachary Zipperer, an assistant Clermont County prosecuting attorney, who said the panel was presented the option of returning a felony charge of aggravated vehicular homicide against Trooper Jeremy Ault, who recently pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular homicide and will be sentenced Sept. 20.
Felony aggravated vehicular homicide is punishable by a state prison term of one to 15 years, based on the circumstances of the case and the criminal history of the defendant.
It applies to defendants who cause the death of another person while operating a motor vehicle recklessly, under the influence of drugs, with a suspended license or with a prior conviction of vehicular homicide or vehicular assault.
Grand jury thought misdemeanor a better fit
The Clermont County grand jury decided instead to indict Ault on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of vehicular homicide – to which he subsequently admitted guilt – and an alternative second-degree misdemeanor charge of vehicular manslaughter.
That’s because the panel felt those charges better fit what happened the night 36-year-old Anthony Bertram lost his life, said Zipperer, who declined comment on whether he agreed with the grand jury.
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Investigators say a light rain was falling and the pavement was wet the night of Jan. 4 when Ault, who was on duty and driving south on Ohio 132, crossed the center line near the intersection with Diana Avenue just outside Batavia and struck a Ford pickup Bertram was driving.
Misdemeanor vehicular homicide involves a defendant who causes the death of another person while operating a motor vehicle negligently and carries a possible county jail term of up to six months.
Misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter involves a defendant who causes the death of another person while operating a motor vehicle as the result of a misdemeanor traffic violation and carries a possible county jail term of up to 90 days.
September sentencing
The vehicular manslaughter charge Ault was indicted on will be dismissed when Clermont County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Ferenc sentences Ault for vehicular homicide in September, Zipperer said.
Ault is eligible for probation. He also faces a maximum fine of $1,000 and a mandatory license suspension of one to five years.
Zipperer said the prosecution and defense each will present sentencing recommendations to the judge on the day of sentencing. He expects Bertram’s family to request restitution for damages to which they are entitled by law.
Ault's attorney, Joshua Crousey of Amelia, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Ault is on occupational injury leave due to injuries he suffered in the fatal crash, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s public affairs office in Columbus.
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Mark Wahlberg Admits That The Happening Was A Bad Movie
Nov. 21. 2010 4:22 PM
Believe it or not, actors aren't dumb. Sure, they sometimes decide to make bad movies and smile and nod through promotion, but that's just because they are contractually obligated. Once removed from the whole circus, though, they are free to express themselves all they want and let their true opinion be heard. That's exactly what Mark Wahlberg did this weekend.
This past Saturday I attended the press conference for The Fighter, Wahlberg's newest film that will likely be a heavy contender (no pun intended) come Oscar season. But when asked about what it was like to work with co-star Amy Adams, the actor mentioned that he had actually met with her before for "a bad movie that [he] did" that she eventually decided not to do. At first he was hesitant to say what the title of the movie was, but then quickly blurted out "The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan." As the room erupted - seriously erupted - in laughter, Wahlberg continued, saying "Fucking trees, man, the plants. Fuck it. You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher, you know? I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."
I'm wondering if Shyamalan's year could seriously get any worse at this point. First he was responsible for one of this summer's worst films in The Last Airbender, then theaters across the country cackled when his name showed up during the trailer for Devil. I actually kind of respect actors more when they make this kind of admission. Sure, it's not like they're giving their paycheck back or anything, but it demonstrates and healthy mind and a lack of ego when they can say that one of their previous projects was bad. Lord knows you're not going to find Shyamalan admitting it any time soon.
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In Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that employers may not jettison the results of an otherwise fair promotion test solely because minority applicants score lower than non-minority applicants. The decision was a victory for New Haven firefighters, who challenged that city’s decision to throw out the results of a civil service exam for fire department promotions because of political pressure from groups dissatisfied with minority performance on the test. CIR General Counsel Michael Rosman discussed the ruling in various newspaper articles and on television:
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In January 2009, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Ricci v. DeStefano, a case that could materially limit the use of hiring and promotion preferences by employers. A favorable ruling in Ricci could further undermine the use of the diversity rationale as a pretext for racial balancing not just by employers but also by educational institutions.
CIR filed amicus briefs at two points that helped develop the precedential significance of the case. First, CIR
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urged the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to hear an appeal of the case in an amicus brief filed in January 2007. CIR asked the court to address the City of New Haven’s “mixed” motives for jettisoning a hiring test on which black applicants had not scored well enough to be considered for promotion. Although city officials said they feared the test might be discriminatory, it also appeared that City officials were simply trying to satisfy noisy political constituent groups demanding greater minority hiring.
Although the law encourages employers to use hiring tests that do not unfairly disadvantage minority groups, it does not permit employers to jettison carefully constructed hiring tests solely to boost minority numbers for political reasons. The trial court largely ignored evidence of the city’s racial motive and instead focused solely on the city’s desire to avoid litigation.
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After a three-judge panel rejected the appeal (and ignored CIR’s amicus brief), a unknown judge on the Second Circuit moved on his own to ask the full court to rehear the case en banc. That judge’s request was denied, but not before a number of judges published opinions suggesting that CIR’s brief raised significant issues that should have been considered by the court, including the question whether New Haven was acting out of “mixed” motives.
CIR asks the Supreme Court to review the case.
The plaintiffs then petitioned the Supreme Court to review the case. CIR filed another amicus brief and broadened its attack. Once again, we wrote that there was more at stake than what the plaintiffs’ petition had suggested. Specifically, we took aim at a vexatious precedent in the Second Circuit that allows employers a free pass whenever they use facially neutral means to address racial disparities in hiring and promotion.
It’s one thing to allow employers to fix hiring tests that might subject the employer to a discrimination lawsuit. It’s quite different to allow employers to refuse to hire applicants who are successful on a hiring test just because the employer would prefer a greater number of minority individuals for political reasons.
Racial politics in New Haven
That’s pretty much what happened in New Haven in the Ricci case. Officials hired a well known testing firm to design a work-related, nondiscriminatory test to use in fire department promotions. The firm spent months crafting a test specifically for New Haven’s fire department.
Although several dozen applicants took the test, no blacks scored high enough to be considered for promotion. But officials could find nothing wrong with the design of the test.
Rev. Boise Kimber, a black minister and political supporter and
“PERMITTING EMPLOYERS TO REFUSE TO HIRE APPLICANTS WHO WERE
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vote-getter for the Mayor nonetheless threatened the Civil Service Board with unspecified “political ramifications” that might “come back upon [them]” if they certified the result. The Mayor made it clear that he would ignore the test even if the Civil Service Board certified its results.
Racial politics, in other words, demanded that the test results be set aside, no matter whether the test was fair and regardless of any real fear of legal liability. The district court passed over this direct evidence of a racial motive by city officials, claiming that the city was interested only in producing a better racial result.
The judge dismissed the firefighters’ various claims that this was simply a pretext for discrimination because, in the Second Circuit, efforts to address hiring disparities are never treated as discriminatory. (That’s a lot of what CIR is fighting about in our U.S. v. NYC Board of Education case.)
Ricci could set an important precedent
CIR’s brief to the Supreme Court asked it to settle the broad question of when an employer’s legitimate efforts to avoid legal liability cross over into an impermissible effort to manipulate racial outcomes for political reasons. The Court has never answered this question, and much hangs on the answer.
Ricci could be an important case, one that goes well beyond employment discrimination. At issue are supposedly “race neutral” efforts to increase racial diversity. Not just employers but schools, colleges and universities are all trying to find ways to manipulate admission procedures to boost minority enrollment without using explicit racial preferences.
A lot of this is thanks to the Supreme Court’s weak decision inGrutter, which all but said that efforts by colleges to achieve diversity are exempt from the searching judicial scrutiny normally reserved for race conscious decision making. The question in Ricci is whether facially neutral but racially motivated efforts designed to boost minority representation should be held to the same standard as any other kind of intentional race discrimination.
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Nation Current Affairs 22 Nov 2019 Hyderabad: Pollution ...
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Hyderabad: Pollution woes too pose huge problem
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Published Nov 22, 2019, 12:40 am IST
Updated Nov 22, 2019, 1:08 am IST
The rise in the number of vehicles has led to an increase in pollution on and around roads.
The situation in the city, they say, has been worsening. If there were a total of 2 lakh vehicles in the city in 2009, it is projected to reach 74 lakh by 2025. (Representational Image)
Hyderabad: Walking the roads of this city has become increasingly difficult in recent days with a majority of pedestrian spaces being converted into road space in order to accommodate the constantly rising number of vehicles.
What’s worse, that’s not all: the rise in the number of vehicles has led to a proportional rise in pollution, say environmentalists.
The situation in the city, they say, has been worsening. If there were a total of 2 lakh vehicles in the city in 2009, it is projected to reach 74 lakh by 2025.
“The rise in the number of vehicles has led to an increase in pollution on and around roads. It is pedestrians who are at the receiving end, as they have bear the brunt of the pollution that comes from the exhaust pipes,” Dr D. Saha, an air pollution expert empanelled with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), told Deccan Chronicle. He also added that these exhaust emissions consist of improperly burnt hydrocarbons which cause very adverse health impact. “The fumes let out from these vehicles have left pedestrians with breathing difficulties. Over 99 per cent of the roads are teeming with vehicles,” he adds
Mr T. Venkateshwara Reddy, assistant professor at the Nalanda Institute of Engineering and Technology, says, “There is a lot of exhaust smoke that emanates from the buses. There has to be a means to control it.”
Also, a large number of people have developed respiratory symptoms in locations that are close to traffic-prone areas. The exhaust of these vehicles is largely released into the open air which is breathed in by pedestrians, said an official of the TSPCB.
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Activists protest in front of Maharashtra Sadan, New Delhi against arrests, raids
A group of activists, intellectuals, lawyers, scientists, journalists, feminists, students, cultural groups and progressive citizens protest at Maharashtra Bhavan, New Delhi, against what they called “unlawful arrests” of five human rights activists, Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonzalves, Arun Ferreira and Gautam Navlakha. Organized by the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), the participants condemned “the outrageous act” of Maharashtra Police, which raided the houses of Father Stan Swamy, Prof K Satyanarayana, Kranthi Tekula, KV Kumaranath, Anand Teltumbde and Susan Abraham.
Prominent participants in the protests were scientist-activist Gauhar Raza, Dr Sunilam (national convener, NAPM), Rakhi Sehgal (New Trade Union of India), Priya Pillai (Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS), Sideshwar Shukla (Centre of Trade Unions), former DGP (Uttar Pradesh) SR Darapuri, Shamshul Islam (Nishant Natya Manch), Mohit Pandey (Former President, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union), among others.
Rakhi Sehgal and Priya Pillai, who were with Sudha Bharadwaj till the time she reached home at 3 am, narrated the whole incident of the arrest and the complete violation of laws by Maharashtra police. Despite the orders from HC the police arrested and kept her in custody till midnight.
The protesters called this situation as ‘undeclared emergency’ where culprits/criminals like representatives from Sanatan Sanstha roam freely and innocent people are being raided and arrested. Activists also demand release of all illegally arrested activists including Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen and Mahesh Raut who are behind the bars since June. Citizens warned the government to mend its ways and withdraw all the false cases imposed on the activists.
A memorandum submitted by the activists to the resident commissioner, Maharashtra Sadan, addressed to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis called for the release of human rights activists and withdrawal of “false and fabricated case against them”, even as calling upon the state to “immediately stop the simultaneous multi-city raids and imposition of false and fabricated accusations and charges against them.” It also demanded revocation of “false and fabricated charges” on the five activists (Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen and Mahesh Raut) “illegally arrested” in June 2018.
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A Labor of Leave
By Amy Alkon
I haven't had sex since my last breakup, and I'm all lusty. I really like this guy, but he seems to have some intimacy issues. We went on a coffee date, and the chemistry made things go further than I would have wanted or expected (making out like crazy in the car). My friends keep reminding me to build trust and friendship before sex. But can you really go backward? Like, is it possible to just hang out and chat once things have gotten hot and heavy? — Lustbucket
A nice thick pane of bulletproof glass between two people is an underappreciated chastity helper, which is to say, in a perfect world, you'd plan your dates around one of you getting a job in a check-cashing place or getting arrested and held without bail.
There's a tendency when you've initially gone a little too heavy into the heavy petting to be all: "Oh, well...cat's out of the bag. Let's just go straight to the sex dungeon." However, for women especially, having sex right away can lead to a sort of psychological blinding to their sex partner's shortcomings.
Women seem more prone to getting attached when they have sex. This is thought to result from surging oxytocin, a hormone associated with emotional bonding between mothers and children, as well as lovers. Oxytocin is released in both men and women through cuddling, kissing, and especially through orgasm. However, in men, having sex also sets off a big blast of testosterone. Testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer on oxytocin, blocking it from getting to its receptor. So just as a woman's going all melt-o about a guy, if the guy has no pre-sex emotional attachment to her, his neurochemistry is prodding him to say something sweet and romantic, like "Thanks for the ride! Have a great life!"
In other words, the bulletproof glass suggestion isn't all that outrageous. It's a form of "precommitment," a strategy by economist Thomas Schelling that involves preparing in advance to make it difficult for you to break a promise or duck a goal. Incorporating precommitment could mean only scheduling lunch dates in restaurants and only on days when you have a work meeting right afterward. Another idea is getting to know each other over the phone more than in person — with the caveat that you only do it in relatively public places, where turning FaceTime into PenisTime is likely to lead to, um, jail time.
Fade To Bleh
I'm a very obsessive person. I went on one date with this guy, and it was immediately apparent that he's emotionally unavailable and broken. I deleted his number but soon dug it back up. I texted, but he never responded. I know he's bad news, but I still think about him constantly. It's especially bad when I'm trying to go to sleep. How do I stop these intrusive thoughts? — Besieged
It's like that spinning teacup ride, with Satan as the carny: "Wanna get off? Too bad!"
You're doing your best to avoid thinking about the guy. Unfortunately, there's a problem with that. Research by psychologist Daniel Wegner on "the paradoxical effects of thought suppression" suggests our minds have something in common with a defiant 2-year-old, meaning that telling yourself not to think about something gets your mind doing exactly the opposite: thinking about that thing with a vengeance.
This is just how the mind works. When you tell yourself not to think about something, it's an immediate fail. The mind sweeps around to monitor how well you're doing at not thinking about it, which of course involves thinking about whatever you're not supposed be thinking about.
Helpfully, Wegner and his colleagues found a possible way to stem the flood of intrusive thoughts: distraction. This requires thinking of something positive and unrelated to the thoughts you're trying to suppress. Even a red Volkswagen — the example they used in their experiment — could do the job.
What's more, psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can keep your mind from constantly bouncing back to a thought if you shift your focus: admit that not thinking about it is hard. As I explain in "Unf*ckology," "Removing the need to patrol your thoughts ... removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland with a flashlight to see how well you're doing at it."
Finally, because the mind cannot multitask, meaning think two thoughts at once, it might be helpful at bedtime to tire yourself out reading aloud or following a guided meditation on your phone: You're walking down a beach...you're looking out into the waves...and...um...oops! Just remind yourself that not thinking about something is hard and yank your mind back to Swami Doodah after you inevitably picture yourself holding the guy down and drowning him in the ocean.
Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email [email protected] (www.advicegoddess.com). Her weekly radio show can be found at http://blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon. Order her new book, "Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence."
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Crichton Foundation > News > Events > Crichton Foundation Lunch
The Annual Crichton Foundation Lunch took place on Friday 15th November. This autumn event was established in 2018 in response to the many requests received for us to host an event equivalent to the Women of Dumfries and Galloway Lunch, to which men are also invited.
This year 190 guests gathered in Easterbrook Hall for a drinks reception. This was followed by the presentations of The Sir David Landale Prize to Scott O’Donnell and the Terry Prizes to Chloe Watson and Emma Watson.
Lady Landale presenting Scott O’Donnell with the prize
Chloe Watson and Emma Watson receiving their prizes from Miss Evelyn Hastings OBE and Andrew Walls
After a delicious two-course lunch guests then relaxed and enjoyed listening to our two guest speakers. The Right Honourable the Lord James Wallace of Tankerness gave a wonderful insight into his journey from Annan to the House of Lords, via local politics and the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments. Jim’s tales of the inner workings of the House of Lords were fascinating, who knew about the egg timers? Everyone then enjoyed listening to Sandra Thomson’s “jute journey” and how she has spent over 30 years trying, unsuccessfully, to close MacGregor Balfour, the company she suddenly became responsible for following the death of her father. Sandra’s stories of her trips to the mills in Kolkata and some of the less successful jute products were hilarious.
Fiona Kerr, Jim Wallace, Karen Isles, Fiona Lee, Netta Moffat, Andrew Walls and Liz Griggs
The Fundraising surplus of approximately £4700, will be used 100% to support the students and institution of the Crichton Campus. The Crichton Foundation would like to thank all of those who purchased tickets for the event, gave donations, bought an advert in the event programme, donated a gift for the prize draw or helped in any other way to support the Lunch.
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval). The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Archival introduction by Jean Renoir
New video interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
Excerpt from a 1967 Cinéastes de notre temps program, featuring Renoir and Michel Simon
French television conversation between director Eric Rohmer and critic Jean Douchet
Interactive map of 1930s Paris, highlighting the film’s locations
New and improved English subtitle translation
Plus: a new essay by Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner
Cover based on a theatrical poster
DVD 1 Disc $23.96 SRP: $29.95
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The Lifelong Friendship of Jean Renoir and Michel Simon
The late 1920s and early 1930s were wonderfully productive years for Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, a simpatico director-actor duo who produced four films together: Tire au flanc (which gave Simon his first starring role), On purge bébé, La chienne,…
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Over at his New Yorker blog, The Front Row, Richard Brody dives back into Jean Renoir’s Boudu Saved from Drowning, the Criterion edition of which is his DVD pick of the week. Over a lovingly assembled montage of clips from the film, Brody provides …
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The son of the great impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean Renoir was also a master of his medium: cinema. After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send-up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular-front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences—until history provided vindication). After a brief, unfulfilling Hollywood stint during World War II, Renoir traveled to India to make his first Technicolor film, The River, and then returned to Europe in the early fifties to direct three visually dazzling explorations of theater, The Golden Coach, French Cancan, and Elena and Her Men. Renoir persisted in his cinematic pursuits until the late sixties, when, after the completion of The Little Theater of Jean Renoir, a collection of three short films, he decided to dedicate himself solely to writing, leaving the future of the medium to those who looked to him in reverence.
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Richmond Catholic Diocese adds 6 clergy members to sexual abuse list
WTKR ABC News 3, Virginia/June 27, 2019
By Nick Boykin
Richmond, Virginia -- Six names have been added by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond to a list of clergy who have credible and substantiated accusations of sexual abuse of a minor against them.
The six names added by the Diocese are Stanley F. Banaszek, Anthony M. Canu, Patrick J. Cassidy, Leonardo G. Mantei, Thomas D. Sykes and Vincent The Quang Nguyen. The only one not known to be dead already is Vincent The Quang Nguyen.
The list, which was first released by the Diocese in February, contains names of priests and their status in the Church. Some have passed away and others are listed as removed, laicized, convicted or suspended if their status is known.
“Back in February, when we published a list of clergy against whom there are credible and substantiated claims of child sexual abuse, we acknowledged the list would be updated,” said the Barry C. Knestout, bishop of Richmond. “As we continue to engage with survivors of abuse and learn more about the history of our diocese, we continue our commitment to transparency. It is my sincere hope that the additions of these individuals will help provide healing for anyone who suffered at their hands.”
The announcement by Bishop Knestout was part of an additional announcement that Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School in Virginia Beach would be renamed Catholic High School. Bishop Walter Sullivan is not on the list mentioned in this story.
Covering some 36,000 square miles, the Catholic Diocese of Richmond goes from coastal Virginia to West Virginia and Kentucky and down to Tennessee and North Carolina, and extends to Northern Virginia, according to its website.
As of 2019, the Diocese covers more than 220,000 active Catholic churches in its 149 parishes; 202 work within the Catholic Diocese of Richmond.
The Diocese of Richmond urges individuals who have been sexually abused by a priest, deacon, religious, lay employee or volunteer of the diocese to report abuse directly to law enforcement, including Child Protective Services (CPS) at 1-800-552- 7096, and by calling the Attorney General’s Clergy Abuse Hotline at 1-833-454-9064.
Individuals are also encouraged to contact the 24-hour confidential Victim Assistance Reporting (VAC) number at 1-877-887-9603 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to report sexual abuse.
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The Plant Pulse September 2, 2011
Volunteer Opportunity: Danforth Center Needs Help Sending 500,000 Meals to Africa
- Sprout & About "Each package of food provides nutritionally complete servings for six children," said Melanie Bernds, public relations manager for Donald Danforth Science Center. "The food is designed to reverse the starvation process, help restore health, and improve mental and physical alertness."
Biofuels Potential to Transform the Global Economy
- Costa Rica News After years of existing largely as an environmentalist’s fantasy, commercial production of biofuels for the world civil aviation industry is slowly becoming a fact, with production starting up across three continents.
Lindbergh Student Receives Top STARS Research Award
- Patch “The students in the STARS program are getting a big head start,” said James Carrington, president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, in a statement. “For many of the participants, this experience will be the most important event in their decision to pursue a career in science.”
What do Bling, Cardinals and Science have in Common?
- Roots & Shoots Danforth Center spent the weekend at LouFest displaying how algae key prospects in biofuel research and reached out to Cardinals' fans at Busch Stadium fans to showcase World Food Day Oct. 14-15.
NSF/Gates: Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
- ASPB, American Society of Plant Biologists The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are partnering to support a new research program to be administered by NSF. The objective of the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) Program is to support innovative basic scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder agriculture in the developing world.
Kenya: Genetic Engineering - the History, Science And the Economics of the Technology
- All Africa “GM foods currently available on the international market have passed risk assessments and are not likely to present risks for human health," says the World Health Organization. "No effects on human health have been shown as a result of the consumption of such foods by the general population in the countries where they have been approved," adds WHO.
Little plant has big stories to tell
- Phys Org Understanding which genes control traits, like when a plant will flower, what soil type is best or its ability to persist in drought conditions provides insight into the ability of plants to adapt to new environments. This type of scientific data is important for crop improvement and significant to human well-being.
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Enrique "Kike" Hernandez has Been Called Up - Carl Crawford to DL
One of the players acquired over the winter as a part of the Dee Gordon trade with Miami is now in Los Angeles wearing Blue. Congrats, Kike! It's great to have you here. He'll be making his Dodger debut tonight as the starting center fielder.
In a corresponding move, Carl Crawford, who came up lame during yesterday's game, will be placed on the DL with a torn oblique. Man-O-Live! When it rains it pours, right? Over the past week Puig, McCarthy, Peralta, and now Crawford have gone on the disabled list. There's no word yet on how long he'll be out, but it's likely to be at least a couple of months.
Hernandez has had a bit of a rough start in the early going with the Dodgers farm club in Oklahoma City. He is currently slashing only .169/.219/.254. Considering the recent machinations within the Dodgers front office that has players freely moving in-and-out of the 25-man roster there's no telling how long he'll be up with us. Nevertheless, he is very versatile on the field and aims to be a positive piece off the bench.
Kike had this to say on twitter:
Hello LA!! It's been way too long! 😎
— Enrique Hernandez (@kikehndez) April 28, 2015
In celebration of Hernandez's arrival to the Dodgers I made the above fantasy card for him. I used a photograph taken by Dodger photoagrapher Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015 and the 1972 Topps Baseball card design.
Below are his career stats, via Baseball-Reference:
UPDATE: Per a Dodger press release:
The Los Angeles Dodgers today placed outfielder Carl Crawford on the 15-day disabled list with a right oblique strain and recalled infielder/outfielder Kiké Hernandez (pronounced: key-que) from Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Hernandez, 23, batted .169 with two doubles, a homer and nine RBI in 16 games with Oklahoma City prior to his recall, appearing in games at shortstop (7), center field (4) and second base (3). The native of Puerto Rico tied for the club lead with six homers during Spring Training, batting .267 with two doubles and 12 RBI in 29 Cactus League games. He was acquired from the Marlins as part of a seven-player trade on Dec. 10, 2014 after seeing his first big league action last year and appearing in 42 games with Miami and Houston.
Crawford tripled in his only at-bat last night before being removed from the game in the third inning with right side tightness. He has a .245 batting average with a homer and three RBI in 15 games.
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A Bunch of Paco's Added to My Collection
I've been absent lately when it comes to sharing any new acquisitions for my collection, so here is something new. I recently came across a small lot of autographed Paco Rodriguez card on eBay and couldn't resist making a bid. There were four cards in total; including a chrome variation redemption card (not shown), and put in my number. A few days later I realized I was the only one to put in a bid. For the price of about $2 a card I took them home. Yeah!
Paco has been quite good so far. He's come into nine games this season, and has allowed just two hits and only one run in 4.2 innings. Rodriguez has primarily been a situational pitcher, but I suspect he'll be called in to complete a full inning more often as the season goes on. In the meantime, he is quickly solidifying his place in the bullpen.
At the top is a 2013 Topps Chrome auto'd card (left) and a 2013 Bowman Chrome auto'd card (right). Below is a 2013 Topps Finest auto/ jumbo relic x-factor parallel card.
Below are the reverse of the cards.
Links Labels: Collection, eBay, Paco Rodriguez
Blog Kiosk: 4/28/2015 - Dodger Links - Joc Pederson, Needle Nose Wright and Mike Bolsinger
Joc Pederson has just been outstanding. He's slashing .296/.458/.556 with three home runs and five doubles at the plate. That's not shabby for a young kid. Best yet, he has shown that he can more than handle the center field position.
Case in point, last night he turned a potential run scoring double off the outfield wall into a spectacular over-the-head running catch and double play. (Watch it here) Via Earl Bloom and Chris Haft at MLB.com:
"He hit it well," Pederson said. "Earlier in the day, we worked on angles, with [coach] Lorenzo Bundy. I kept my eye on the ball, and it worked out pretty well."
Something tells me that his numbers in Albuquerque were not some altitude-aided fluke. That's not to say he'll be that same home run slugger, but he will certainly impress. Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider:
“We just think Joc’s gonna keep improving,” manager Don Mattingly said. “He’s got a really good eye, and he’s going to strike out less as time goes on as he sees pitchers and knows how they’re attacking him and how to set himself up. I think he’s gonna get better.”
The photo above of Joc was taken by Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015. Go here to check out more pics by him from yesterday. Below are some links to check out:
Via WM Akers at Vice Sports, "The Forgotten Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Line With Jackie Robinson." Here's a fantastic bio on former Dodger prospect, Negro League ace pitcher and Robinson roommate John "Needle Nose" Wright.
Thanks for the memories, Xavier! Via Steve Adams at MLB Trade Rumors, "Rays Acquire Xavier Cedeno From Dodgers."
Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider, "Brandon McCarthy speaks about torn UCL."
“For the next couple of hours, I’ll keep talking it through and I’ll talk to the doc when he gets here,” McCarthy said this afternoon, “but it certainly (points) in one direction, and I don’t want to be one of those guys who plays out the string for a few months, only to waste everybody’s time.”
Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Carl Crawford leaves game in 3rd with tightness in right side."
"He has some tightness in his right side. We'll just have to see overnight," Mattingly said. "Tightness in the right side usually sounds like [an oblique], but I don't want to be the doctor.
Via Craig Edwards at Fan Graphs, "Mike Bolsinger to the Rescue."
Bolsinger is not going to provide the production the Dodgers thought they were going to get from Brandon McCarthy, but he could provide above replacement level pitching until reinforcements arrive or perhaps even hold down the fifth spot all season.
Kudos to Orioles COO John P. Angelos for stepping up. Via Cindy Boren at the Washington Post, "Son of Orioles owner Peter Angelos tweets perspective on Freddie Gray protests." Unfortunately, this all got lost in the ensuing disturbances around Baltimore.
“The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importances of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ballgame irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.”
Links Labels: Blog Kiosk, Brandon McCarthy, Carl Crawford, Don Mattingly, John Wright, Mike Bolsinger, Orioles, Xavier Cedeno
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Manager John Read retires from Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM
Manager John Read retires from Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM Manager John Read retires from Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: https://www.demingheadlight.com/story/news/2019/01/30/manager-john-read-retires-pancho-villa-state-park-columbus-nm/2705972002/
Billy Armendariz, Deming Headlight Published 8:00 a.m. MT Jan. 30, 2019
Pictured, from left, are: Armando Martinez, acting Pancho Villa State Park Manager; John Read, retiring manager; and Martin Nunez, park maintenance. A new State Park manager will be announced at a later date. (Photo: Ric Lambart Photo)
COLUMBUS, N.M. – Retiring Pancho Villa State Park Manager John Read was honored on Wednesday, January 23 at a surprise celebration held in the Camp Furlong Recreation Hall, which once housed U.S. Army troops under General John “Blackjack” Pershing during the Punitive Expedition 1916-1917. U.S. Army infantry, cavalry and Signal Corps Aviation troops held various activities in this building more than a century ago.
Read’s retirement comes after nearly 12 years working for New Mexico State Parks. He spent 10 of those years at the state park in Columbus and previously worked at Bottomless Lakes and was a park ranger at Roswell State Park.
The excitement of the southwest and employment opportunities initially brought Read and his wife Elly to New Mexico from their home in Tampa, Florida. Read has long been a dedicated student of history and the events which surrounded Columbus prior to the United States entry into World War I drew him to the Pancho Villa State Park on the border.
Read’s contributions to Pancho Villa Park, which greatly enhanced its status as a historical site and landmark for visitors and history buffs, include:
• Obtaining new donations of historic Expedition Artifacts; original 13th Cavalry Army uniforms; a large collection of mounted photo plaques re: the Raid; a valuable 48 star U.S. flag used by the 1917 expedition in Mexico
• With the help of Columbus Chamber of Commerce, he acquired from Pancho Villa’s grandson, Francisco Villa Campa from Durango, Mexico, a first copy of the original death mask of Villa handcrafted in aluminum by Mexican artisans. All of these items are currently displayed in the exhibit hall.
• Expanded the Park’s annual Antique Car Show
• Managed and orchestrated a “Raid Centennial” extravaganza in 2016
Elly and park manager John Read were surprised by retirement party at Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM. (Photo: Ric Lambart Photo)
Before retiring Jan. 26, Read completed all the details and speaker schedules for the upcoming Camp Furlong Day which will be held on Saturday, March 9 at the park.
The 20th Cabalgata Binacional and Fiesta de Amistad hosted by Columbus Chamber of Commerce and co-hosted by the Village of Columbus, will be observed the same day in downtown plaza along with the Columbus Historical Society’s annual Raid Day Memorial Service at the Railroad Depot Museum.
Read said he’s loved his work in Columbus and has developed a close attachment to his state park staff, volunteers and many local Columbus residents. Still, he is going to enjoy his retirement.
“My plans include some tennis and golf and I’ll probably slowly drift back to my night owl nature as I wait for Elly to retire,” he said.
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Letter: Gov. Cuomo shows moral ambiguity
Does Gov. Andrew Cuomo really care about the killing of children?
Letter: Gov. Cuomo shows moral ambiguity Does Gov. Andrew Cuomo really care about the killing of children? Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/17Vg7mB
ROC Published 2:07 p.m. ET June 11, 2013
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents his 2013-14 Executive Budget address on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Cuomo's budget proposal to the Legislature provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal to improve instruction, including longer school days and school years. State aid to municipalities outside New York City wouldn't increase at a time when many counties and smaller local governments worry about insolvency amid rising costs and shrinking tax bases. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)(Photo: Mike Groll, )
Despite his rhetoric, does Gov. Andrew Cuomo really care about the killing of children?
The governor rushed the SAFE Act through the Legislature in light of the Newtown shootings. He reacted strongly to the killing of children. On the other hand, he is vigorously pushing a bill of which one item includes stronger pro-abortion protections. Abortion involves the killing of unborn children. In addition, the governor and his ilk are against capital punishment for those convicted of first-degree murder, of which a number of victims are children.
No matter how Cuomo tries to rationalize his position with glib pseudo-intellectual arguments, two things stand out: contradictions in the justifications for his positions; and the killing of innocent children.
A characteristic of moral ambiguity is to either lack morality or to change morals to suit one's needs. This is something practiced by shady salesmen and politicians. Gov. Cuomo acts like both.
RICHARD G. BARNED
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Cadence Launches Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP Featuring Exceptional Out-of-the-Box Performance for Compute-Intensive Signal Processing Applications
SAN JOSE, CA -- 26 Jul 2016 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the availability of the new Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion G3 digital signal processor (DSP), a multi-purpose, high-performance DSP ideal for compute-intensive system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP is exceptionally easy to program and ideal for use in automotive, consumer, internet-of-things (IoT) and industrial applications that combine intensive audio, imaging, communications, radar and embedded DSP computation. For more information, visit: cadence.com/go/FusionG3.
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The Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP expands on the multi-purpose Tensilica Fusion DSP product family introduced in 2015. When compared to the Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP, the Fusion G3 DSP shares the same base Xtensa instruction-set architecture (ISA), while adding richer and higher throughput DSP instructions. Ideal for more compute-intensive applications including radar, imaging and mid- to high-end audio pre/post-processing, it delivers this performance with quad 32-bit integer MACs and quad single-precision 32-bit floating-point MACs.
“Cadence has long supplied function-specific DSPs for audio, imaging/vision and baseband signal-processing workloads. In fast-evolving markets like automotive and IOT, however, where DSP requirements are known to be changing, a narrowly-focused DSP is not always the best choice,” said Mike Demler, senior analyst of The Linley Group. “In these markets, there is an emerging demand for high performance, multi-purpose DSP IP which supports a wider range of data types and operations, including both fixed and floating point. A single, extensive, DSP instruction set architecture (ISA) that handles many different compute-intensive signal processing tasks, can future-proof SOC designs in fast changing markets.”
Combining high-performance signal processing with configurability and extensibility allows significant customer flexibility in hardware and software design choices. The Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP was co-designed with a lead customer and has already been taped out in silicon earlier this year. The Fusion G3 DSP will be available for broad licensing in October 2016.
Tensilica processors have been licensed by 17 of the top 20 semiconductor vendors, have over 250 licensees, with 1000s of different cores in silicon. The Xtensa architecture is one of the most popular licensable processor architectures, shipping over 3B cores in 2015, in products spanning sensors to supercomputers.*
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Players with Indian passports in I-League have future in national team, says Igor Stimac
Speaking at the launch ceremony of the 13th edition of the I-League on Friday, Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac said that the players with Indian passport would have a future in the national team.
Igor Stimac at the launch event of I-League. (Photo/Indian Football Team Twitter). Image Credit: ANI
Speaking at the launch ceremony of the 13th edition of the I-League on Friday, Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac said that the players with Indian passport would have a future in the national team. "The players need to know that each player in the league with an Indian passport is one of the possible future candidates for the national team. It's up to them -- how they perform for their respective teams, how they present themselves and how many points they win for their clubs," All India Football Federation (AIFF) quoted Stimac as saying.
"I am very excited about the upcoming games in the I-League. I came here (at the launch) to send a good and positive message to everyone involved in the competition. I will keep coming to watch the matches whenever I can," he added.The head coach also mentioned how most of the players in the Blue Tigers unit came through the ranks in the I-League and offered his assurance that he will support the players as much as he can."Most players in the Indian senior national team came through the I-League. I look forward to seeing the players in action and supporting them in what they do as much as possible. I want to assure them that they should not feel lonely or forgotten because they have great importance for Indian football and its future," Stimac said. The I-League 2019-20 begins on November 30, as Aizawl FC host Mohun Bagan at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Aizawl. All the matches will be broadcast on DSport. (ANI)
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Welcome to the Fast XPS beamline!
High resolution core-level photoemission spectroscopy (HR-XPS) allows in depth investigations on the electronic and structural properties of a variety of samples that ranges between single crystals, thin films as well as new nanostructured materials.
SuperESCA (the first beamline operating at Elettra since 1994) brings the possibilities of this technique even further: by combining high resolution capabilities with the high flux of linearly polarised photons in the 90 to 1500 eV range, in the beamline end-station it is possible to obtain high resolution spectra also for low-density systems (such as thin films or supported nanoparticles) and follow in real-time their evolution, e.g. during functionalization processes or surface reactions.
SuperESCA Highlights | Publications
Dual-route hydrogenation of epitaxial graphene
In this study it is investigated the room temperature hydrogenarion of the graphene/Ni(111) system. It is found that at the beginning of hydrogenation H atoms chemisorb on graphene, while at higher H doses intercalation below the graphene layer takes place. Data point out that the amount of intercalated hydrogen can be more than twice larger than the quantity of H that con be adsorbed on the bare Ni(111) surface.
D. Lizzit et al., ACS Nano. 13, 1828 (2019).
Low-dimensional benzotriazole-copper assemblies
A combination of several surface sensitive techniques (NEXAFS, XPS, HREELS and STM) and DFT modelling allowed investigating the interaction of Cu atoms (supported on a less reactive Au(111) surface) with benzotriazole (C6H5N3) which is known to enhance the corrosion resistance of copper.
F. Grillo et al., Nanoscale 11, 13017 (2019).
Tungsten disulfide on Au(111)
In this work, we combined several techniques to provide a characterization of single-layer (SL) WS2 grown on Au(111). In particular, we used x-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD) to determine the structural properties of the interface, proving that we have a WS2 layer with a single orientation.
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Silicon on Ir(111)
Fast X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements and density functional theory calculations were used to establish whether at low coverage, Si adatoms float on the Ir surface or displace substrate atoms and are incorporated into the metal. The results show that the interface is unstable with respect to the formation of Si–Ir alloys, a behavior that excludes the formation of a silicene layer on the Ir(111) substrate.
M. Satta et al., Nanoscale 10, 7085 (2018).
Single-oriented epitaxial MoS2
Using a combination of surface science techniques, including XPS, XPD, STM and ARPES we succesfully demonstrate a protocol for the synthesis through physical vapor deposition of SL MoS2 on Au(111) with a single domain orientation featuring large area and a low concentration of defects. The observed complete spin reversal of the states near K and –K points of the Brillouin zone makes this layer ideal for spin-valleytronics applications.
H. Bana et al., 2D Mater. 5, 035012 (2018).
Stable self-assembled monolayers on ferromagnetic 3d metals
The carboxylic group of prototypical benzoate molecules is found to ensure a thermally robust anchoring and strong electronic coupling of organic monolayers to 3d transition metals such as Ni, Co and Fe, at the same time hindering facile dissociation on these reactive surfaces.
R. Han et al., Chem. Commun. 52, 9805 (2016).
Graphene nanoblisters on nickel
Argon intercalation below a graphene layer grown epitaxially on Ni(111), followed by annealing at 940 K results in the formation of Ar-filled graphene nanoblisters sealed directly to the bare Ni surface. The process was monitored with real-time High-Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy (HR-XPS) and the atomic structure of the blisters was studied with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM).
R. Larciprete et al., NanoLetters 16, 1808 (2016).
Molecular twisting, lifting and curling
Coronene molecules undergo major conformational changes during surface-assisted dissociation on Ir(111): they tilt upward, then they undergo a rotation and they settle to form a dome-shaped nanographene.
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D. Curcio et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 3395 (2016).
We invite users and collabrators to discuss their proposals with the beamline local contacts well in advance before the submission deadline. This is crucial for a careful assessment of the experiment feasibility and may lead to improvements in the proposed experimental plan. Our website provides a wealth of information on experiment feasibilty and proposal submission. For more info, please vist the user info section.
The deadline for proposal submission for beamtime allocation from January 1st to June 30th, 2020 will be September 16th, 2019.
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How to Use Natural Comfrey Plant to Heal Bones and Sports Injuries Faster (Video)
By Susanna Sisson May 29 2017 - 1:24pm
People who are very active tend to eventually get injuries and if you’re a parent you dread the days your children get hurt, but did you know there’s a natural plant called comfrey that helps heal bones and sports injuries faster?
You may not have heard of comfrey but long before there were available care clinics and doctor’s offices on every corner the American Indians and pioneers used this natural plant to heal broken bones, sprains, and soft tissue injuries. In fact, cultivation of the plant dates back to around 400 B.C. when Greeks and Romans used comfrey to stop heavy bleeding, treat bronchial problems and heal broken bones. The more common name for the comfrey plant because of its ability to heal bones is knit-bone and it actually has a Latin derivative meaning “grow together”.
Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) has been studied for its medicinal power. To use externally the plant can be dried into a powder then water is added until it makes a thick gel-like paste and applied immediately for the most benefit. The comfrey “cast” dried to a leather-like consistency which will mold to the affected body part. It can them be wrapped with cloth to keep the “cast” from falling off. For broken bones a splint would also need to be applied. Note I am not recommending treating broken bones at home in lieu of seeking the help of a medical professional but as an adjunct.
I have personally used comfrey when on camping and kayaking trips when medical help was not readily available and as a nurse and massage therapist, believe the plant has a place in alternative therapies.
Twenty years ago I was in the process of adding massage therapy to my list of credentials. My instructor, Wendy, was very knowledgeable in plant based medicine and often foraged the Ozark forests for her plants. She was also a black belt martial artist and runner. During massage class she told a story of going for a long run cross country from her mountain home and falling into a ravine near a road construction site, breaking her leg in two places. The area she chose was extremely remote and being a Sunday there would be no one around for at least 24 hours, so, injured and without a way to call for help since this was the pre-cell phone era, she crawled back to her house. She also didn’t believe in landlines so she had no way to call for medical or family help. Instead she applied a comfrey cast and iced her leg. The next day her mother stopped by and took her into town to see an orthopedic doctor who was a friend and massage client. After he did an x-ray he exclaimed, “Wendy, I have no idea how you stood the pain. Your leg should be bruised from you ankle to waist. I am amazed!” It was then she explained she had crawled almost a mile home, and administered first aid on herself using a comfrey poultice and ice until help arrived. This may sound a bit a bit far-fetched except she was the female version of Rambo and I happen to also know her doctor and parents so I heard the story from them as well.
Medical studies show comfrey to have powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and that the plant is beneficial in wound and burn healing. The Amish often use comfrey to treat burns.
A Pubmed review of comfrey concluded that the plant is beneficial in ankle distortion, back pain, abrasion wounds and osteoarthritis.
Another study revealed comfrey works surprisingly well in the treatment of pressure ulcers while a 2010 study in Brasil found comfrey enhances bone formation. Comfrey has also been found to induce apoptosis or cell death in human prostate cancer cells.
Comfrey can be used in veterinary medicine to treat parasites and heal bones and sprains. In fact I know people who raise horses and regularly used comfrey for lame horses. This amazing plant can also be used in agriculture as a fertilizer.
Comfrey can be grown and is best planted in April but in warmer areas like California and Hawaii can be grown year round. I must warn however, that unless you are an experience herbalist and know how to definitively identify the comfrey plant you should only purchase the plant or products from a trusted supplier like Kauai Farmacy in Hawaii.
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Oil & Gas / Americas
ExxonMobil hid ‘catastrophic’ climate prediction, state suit says
by Bloomberg
Attendees stand near Exxon Mobil Corp. signage during the World Gas Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. The 27th World Gas Conference, themed Fueling the Future, is held every three years in the country holding the Presidency of the International Gas Union (IGU). Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Exxon Mobil Corp. was sued by Massachusetts for allegedly hiding its early knowledge of climate change from the public and misleading investors about the future financial impact of global warming, two days after a trial started on similar claims in New York.
The 205-page complaint, filed Thursday in state court in Boston, goes further than the suit filed a year ago in New York by alleging Exxon misled the general public as well as shareholders by concealing the looming crisis.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who’s seeking unspecified monetary damages, says Exxon predicted high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as early as 1982 and effectively hid the information.
According to the complaint, Irving, Texas-based Exxon went so far as to disregard the findings of one of its own scientists, who decades ago correctly predicted the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2019 and said that climate change would become “catastrophic.”
Healey, who’s been investigating Exxon since 2016, claims Exxon’s actions violated the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act.
“The Massachusetts attorney general‘s office has filed a baseless complaint three years after announcing its politically motivated investigation, during which they have not interviewed a single Exxon Mobil employee or gathered one piece of evidence from the company,” Exxon said in an emailed statement. “We look forward to refuting the meritless allegations in court.”
Healey said Exxon refused to cooperate with an investigation, so the state gathered information from banks, advertising agencies, New York’s investigation and other sources. Among obstacles Exxon put up, she said, was a lawsuit alleging the probe was politically motivated and an attempt to depose her.
“Exxon has fought us every step of the way,” Healey said in the call. “Internal documents show Exxon tells Massachusetts investors one thing and does another. And that’s illegal.”
The company had previously said the probe in Massachusetts was politically motivated and accused Healey of conspiring with other Democrats and wealthy environmentalists.
Fighting Probe
The suit in Massachusetts also differs from the New York case by alleging Exxon misled drivers who filled up at the company’s 300 gas stations in the state by falsely claiming that it’s “green” gasoline products are better for the environment.
“It’s deeply misleading,” Healey said in a phone call with reporters after the suit was filed. “Exxon says nothing about the greater damages caused by producing and using such products.“
In the New York trial, Exxon is accused of misleading the public about its use of various proxy costs to account internally for the impact of climate change on its business. Exxon says the metrics are used for two different purposes — one for future reductions in demand and the other as a stand-in for carbon expenses on specific projects. It says the state is conflating the figures to show a discrepancy where there is none.
Both suits seek to stop Exxon’s allegedly illegal behavior, as well as unspecified monetary damages.
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Erick Morillo Tour Dates
Born in New York and raised in Colombia and Union City, New Jersey, Morillo has been a DJ since the age of 12! As a producer, he was the mastermind behind Reel 2 Real's worldwide smash 'I Like To Move It'. Meanwhile as a high profile international House DJ, Erick is one of the most in-demand and instantly recognisable. He has won both the coveted 'Best House DJ' and 'Best Inernational DJ' award from the DJ Awards on three occasions and continues to be one of the hardest working DJs in the world.
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