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Harmonic Analysis Software for WT3000/WT3000E
CT60/ CT200/ CT1000/ CT1000A/ CT2000A AC/DC Current Sensor
VB8300/VN7100 SIGNAL GENERATOR AND ANALYZER FOR WIDEBAND DIGITAL MODULATION
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Application of NX4000 40-Gbps Transport Analyzer
If there is a temperature coefficient listed in the specifications of the instrument's user manual, that coefficient is to be applied in the following conditions:
The unit is calibrated within the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit changes in the range of the Standard Operating Conditions after calibration
The unit is calibrated within the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit changes to outside the range of the Standard Operating Conditions after calibration
The unit is calibrated outside the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit does not change after calibration
The unit is calibrated outside the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit changes after calibration
Case1:
If the unit is calibrated in the Standard Operating Conditions and if the temperature of the unit does not change, the accuracies of the measurement are only fundamental accuracies. If the unit is calibrated in the Standard Operating Conditions but if the temperature of the unit is changed in the range of the Standard Operating Conditions after the calibration, the temperature coefficients (only Zero) will be applied to the fundamental accuracies.
If the 701250 is calibrated at 23°C and the temperature does not changed after the calibration, the measurement accuracy is 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.5% of 10 div).
If the 701250 is calibrated at 23°C, and the temperature changes to 25°C (in the Standard Operating Conditions), the measurement accuracy is 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.5% of 10 div) and Zero point: 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.05% of 10 div)*(25°C-23°C).
If the unit is calibrated within the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit changes to outside the range of the Standard Operating Conditions after calibration, the temperature coefficients (Zero and Gain) is applied to the fundamental accuracies. The calibrated temperature value of the Zero coefficients and the calibrated temperature value of the Gain coefficients are not same.
Zero coefficients: the calibrated temperature value is the difference from the calibrated temperature.
Gain coefficients: the calibrated temperature value is the difference from the Standard Operating Conditions.
If the 701250 is calibrated at 23°C, and the temperature changes to 30°C (outside the Standard Operating Conditions range), the accuracies are 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.5% of 10 div) and Zero point: 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.05% of 10 div)*(30°C-23°C) and Gain: ±(0.02% of 10 div)*(30°C-28°C). The Standard Operating Conditions are from 18°C to 28°C. So the Gain coefficients are calculated from 28°C.
If the unit is calibrated outside the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit does not change after calibration, the temperature coefficients(only Gain) is applied to the fundamental accuracies.
The 701250 is calibrated at the 30°C, but the temperature does not change, the accuracies are 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.5% of 10 div) and Gain: ±(0.02% of 10 div)*(30°C-28°C). The Standard Operating Conditions are from 18°C to 28°C. So the Gain coefficients are calculated from 28°C.
If the unit is calibrated outside the Standard Operating Conditions and the temperature of the unit changes after calibration, then the temperature coefficients (Zero and Gain) is applied to the fundamental accuracies.
The 701250 is calibrated at the 30°C, but the temperature becomes to 32°C(out side of the Standard Operating Conditions), the accuracies are 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.5% of 10 div) and Zero point: 5 mV/div to 20 V/div: ±(0.05% of 10 div)*(32°C-30°C) and Gain: ±(0.02% of 10 div)*(32°C-28°C). The Standard Operating Conditions are from 18°C to 28°C. So the Gain coefficients are calculated from 28°C, but the zero coefficients are calculated from the 30°C calibrated point.
The DL750, DL850, and 701280 modules do NOT list a Temperature coefficient in their specifications
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What is YouGov Ratings?
YouGov Ratings is the biggest and boldest attempt ever made to quantify what America thinks. We’re doing this by publishing nationally representative popularity scores for thousands of things. YouGov Ratings is built on top of our accurate and precise methodology, which the Pew Research Center says "consistently outperformed" other online polling companies.
What is the purpose of YouGov Ratings?
Based on over 20 million responses, and growing daily, YouGov Ratings provides a way to determine the nationally representative popularity score for thousands of things, from brands and products to companies and people.
We’ve then connected each popularity rating in our enormous database to offer a deeper insight into fans of these things. For example, we show you what the fans of each entity are like not only in terms of age-group and gender but all the other things they especially like, giving you a real sense of what distinguishes different groups in the population.
By publishing these nationally representative popularity scores together with our other data, YouGov Ratings showcases the breadth and depth of YouGov data. The richness of the information is astonishing, even to us.
What can I do with YouGov Ratings?
Want to know how popular Taylor Swift really is? Find out with YouGov Ratings. Want to know what the world thinks of your favorite brand? Find out with YouGov Ratings. Want to know what matters to the supporters of the Chicago Cubs? Find out with YouGov Ratings. Want to know… you get the idea.
Where can I access YouGov Ratings data?
We’ve created a new website for anyone to access YouGov Ratings data for free. On the website, you will be able to explore the data in two main ways.
The first is through Rankings Pages where we publish lists of things organized by category in order of their popularity score. This view of the data will enable you to easily see which things in particular categories are most popular among the US population.
The second view is through the individual Ratings Pages we have created for everything we ask about.
How are the results on the Ratings Pages calculated?
You will see on the Ratings Pages we’re showing a lot of data and information. Below is an explanation of the results you see on the page and how they are calculated.
For each thing in YouGov Ratings we show nationally representative popularity percentage scores. The positive popularity score shown at the top of the page (on the left) is calculated by taking the proportion of people who view something positively and showing it as a percentage of all of the people who have given any opinion about that thing, including “have heard of”. The same calculation is used for the neutral, negative & have heard of percentage scores. Our sample mirrors the demographics of the US and the data is weighted to be nationally representative. Nice and simple!
Below the headline popularity scores you will find more information about the people who view a particular thing positively (aka the fans). For this deeper dive into the fans of a particular thing, we show two different types of results.
1. Wherever you see data (or numbers) on the page, we’re simply showing absolute percentages. For example, for Gender we show the percentage of men and the percentage of women who view that thing positively. For Age, we show the same thing by generation i.e. the percentage of Millennials, Baby Boomers and Generation X who view that thing positively. In this case, Age is defined in generational terms per year of birth:
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1965-1981
Millenials: 1982-1999
This data in the form of absolute percentages provides a clear breakdown of the people that view a thing positively.
2. We also show other information on the page which, instead of percentages, is in the form of showing what fans of something are more likely to think, like or do. These are correlations. In these instances, instead of looking at fans of something in the form of absolute percentages, we compare the opinions of the fan group with the opinions of the population as a whole to find out what most differentiates them. To do this comparison, we use a statistical method called a Z Score, which helps to highlight what is particularly true of fans compared with another group of people. Crucially, the top Z Score doesn’t necessarily show the majority opinion of the group, but what is most different about the opinions of that group compared to the general population. For example, if we take a group of 1,000 people that like a certain mobile application and see that 20% of them are fans of David Bowie and we take another group of 1,000 people (e.g. a nationally representative group) and find that only 15% of them are fans of David Bowie, in this case, even though just 20% of people that like the mobile application are fans of David Bowie (which isn’t a majority) we are able to see that compared with the rest of the population, the people who like that mobile application are more likely to be fans of David Bowie. The Z score is therefore a very interesting statistical tool used to better understand audiences because it brings to the surface information that particularly differentiates a group that might otherwise be missed, or be difficult to see just looking at absolute percentages or majority proportions.
Over what period of time is YouGov Ratings data collected?
We collect data for YouGov Ratings each and every day, and it’s updated every Monday. The data we collect accumulates and what you see on the website is an average of all the data we have collected since we began YouGov Ratings in November 2017.
When did data collection for YouGov Ratings begin?
For the majority of things in YouGov Ratings we started collecting data on 11/15/2017. However, we are always looking to add more entities to our data collection systems which means there is a chance that some entities were added after this date.
How is the data weighted?
As with any nationally representative survey, we use weighting to fine-tune the demographic balance of the YouGov Ratings sample. We calculate weight values using rim weighting (raking), which ensures that the marginal proportions in the sample match those of the target population across a set of key demographic variables.
In the US, the key demographic variables we target and weight to are:
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Conan O'Brien is the 29th most popular contemporary TV personality and the 15th most famous. Conan O'Brien is described by fans as: Funny, Entertaining, Quick-witted, Intelligent and Likeable.
What America thinks of Conan O'Brien
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The observations of actor, author, comedian, critic, director, humorist, journalist, m.c., performance artist, playwright, producer, publicist, public speaker, songwriter, and variety booker Trav S.D.
December 15, 2014 December 15, 2014 travsd
A New Book About Coney Island Theatres!
Thanks Tricia Vita and Jim Moore for tipping me off to this great new book about the theatres of Coney Island. I’ve long known about the work of Cezar Del Valle — he is THE go-to guy for Brooklyn theatre history. I’ve read his work and we’ve corresponded throughout the years but we’ve never met, so I was delighted to get the chance yesterday to attend his talk at 440 Gallery which is just a couple of blocks from my house. His illustrated slide show hit some of the high points of his fascinating new book, Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume III: Coney Island, Including Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
In which a different kind of history is made
Del Valle is an extremely entertaining presenter. Too many historians have a tin ear for what’s interesting. Absolutely the opposite with Del Valle. I am posting this now because I KNOW that so many readers will either want this new book for themselves, or know someone who would like it for a holiday gift. It’s actually volume three of his series on Brooklyn theatres, but let’s face it, Coney Island’s history is special. It may not be well known but there were tons of theatre-theatres out in the amusement district back in the day: not just sideshows and restaurant floor shows and the like but also vaudeville and burlesque houses, cinemas and plain old playhouses. Scores of them. Did you know that Joe Franklin ran his own nostalgia cinema out there? Harpo Marx made his vaudeville debut? Cary Grant was a stilt-walker? And a hundred things like that.
Anything I could add to Tricia Vita’s glowing write-up would be superfluous, so here’s hers: http://amusingthezillion.com/2014/11/22/autumn-reading-the-brooklyn-theatre-index-of-coney-island-brighton-beach-manhattan-beach/
And like me, you’ll inevitably want to get columes I & II of Del Valle’s Brooklyn Theatre Index as well. Get it here: http://www.theatretalks.com/brooklyn-theatre-index.html
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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival. View all posts by travsd
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16 trigon movies
2019 La cordillera de los sueños
2019 Ema y Gastón
2017 Shadow Girl
2016 Aqui no ha pasado nada - Much ado about nothing
2016 Rara
2015 El botón de nácar
2015 La memoria del agua
2011 Gatos Viejos
Order by Year Title Director
Patricio Guzmán – 2019
After Patricio Guzmán had travelled to the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile for «Nostalgia de la luz» and to the deepest south for «El botón de nácar» in Patagonia, he deals in the last part of the trilogy on his homeland with the central chain of Andes and the memory of the moving images. All his films are personal, but in some respects «La cordillera de los sueños» is the most intimate, leading the artist back to the ruins of the house of his childhood. X More
Ema y Gastón
Pablo Larraín – 2019
Ema, a young dancer, decides to separate from Gastón after giving back Polo, the son they both adopted and were unable to raise. In a desperate search through the streets of the port city of Valparaíso, Ema seeks love affairs in order to overcome her guilt. However, she has a secret plan to recover everything she’s lost. More
Maria Teresa Larrain – 2017
While editing her last film in Toronto, filmmaker Maria Teresa Larraín starts to lose her sight. She decides to experience her pain alone and close the doors to her past, convinced she’ll never be able to work as an artist again. However, the news of her mother’s passing means she returns to her native Chile, which she left behind 30 years back. Walking the streets of Santiago she gets to know a new world which inspires her: that of the blind street vendors of La Alameda, the city’s main avenue. More
Aqui no ha pasado nada - Much ado about nothing
Alejandro Fernández Almendras – 2016
Vicente is a young, reckless loner who comes back to his parents’ beach house after a year studying in LA. One of those random nights of downing shots and chasing girls changes his life forever when Vicente becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run that kills a local fisherman. Vicente was wasted. His memories are a blur. Yes, he was in the car, but he swears he wasn’t driving. And what’s worse, the guy he remembers being behind the wheel is the son of a powerful politician. A tangled web of lies engulfs the truth, crushing out a social scandal before it can begin. More
DVD Aquí no ha pasado nada
Pepa San Martin – 2016
Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is hardly any different than it is for other families. The situation is actually totally fine with Sara. But not everyone sees it that way – her father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she’s feeling rather overwhelmed: her first crush, a body in the midst of changes and to top it off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents ... Everything feels wrong. More
DVD Rara
El botón de nácar
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. More
DVD El botón de nácar
La memoria del agua
Matias Bize – 2015
A moment of inattention is all it took to change the lives of Javier and Amanda forever. Lives that are now divided between "before" and "after." How everything was and should have been... Even though it was an accident that neither of them could have prevented. The young couple know that it will take a long time to reach closure on the death of their four-year-old son. More
DVD The Memory of Water
Gatos Viejos
Sebastian Silva Pedro Peirano – 2011
Isidora and Enrique are about 80 years old and live with their equally aged cats in an elegant apartment in Santiago. But it is on the eighth floor and will quickly make Isidora a prisoner if the lift fails again. On such a day, of all days, the daughter announces her visit. That can't bode well. Soon the fidgety Rosario sweeps through the apartment like a hurricane. She's allergic to cats, but that's not all. After her girlfriend "Hugo" has joined her, the real reasons for the visit shine through: They're going after the apartment. More
DVD Gatos viejos
DVD trigon-film edition: Latin Ame...
El salvavidas
Maite Alberdi – 2011
Mauricio is a lifeguard who loves order. He puts out all the flags and writes down the sea conditions for that day in an old notebook. He meticulously cleans up all the rubbish from the day before, because if he doesn’t do it, no one will. His senses are alert. For him it’s essential to watch, be patient and not get distracted for even a moment. He is undoubtedly the most responsible lifeguard on the beach. More
Nostalgia de la luz
In his documentary essay film, Chilean Patricio Guzmán takes a double look at the past: On the one hand there are the astronomers who look up to the sky in the Atacama Desert and explore the origin of the universe, on the other there are the women who search in the desert sand around the observatories for the mortal remains of their loved ones who have become victims of the military dictatorship. A journey into the light. More
DVD Nostalgia de la luz
Alicia Scherson – 2009
Carla duda. Tiene 37 años, está casada, posiblemente embarazada y debería estar feliz mientras viaja hacia las vacaciones de verano con su marido y una moto de agua enganchada al auto. Pero quizás no quiere estar ahí. Quizás preferiría estar en la carretera con algún mochilero noruego, yendo a un hermoso parque nacional donde podría caminar entre grandes árboles y hablar sobre pájaros y viejas canciones pop con el guardaparques. Sí, quizás eso sería mejor. More
DVD Turistas
El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia
José Luis Torres Leiva – 2008
El Rey de San Gregorio
Alfonso Gazitúa Gaete – 2006
“The King of San Gregorio” is a story about a pure and simple love. The film talks about the life of Pedro Vargas – who plays himself – a 30 years-old man living in the slum of San Gregorio and presents a physical handicap and a certain grade of mental disability. Nevertheless, none of these factors will stop him from being the protagonist of this beautiful love story with his “princess” Cati, a girl who has a severe mental disability. As any other romantic drama, there are antagonists who do not approve this love. More
DVD The King of San Gregorio
DVD Play
One from the heart, “Salvador Allende” is the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s plaintive look back at the rise and violent fall of the world’s first democratically elected Marxist president. Mr. Guzmán, who went into exile after the Sept. 11, 1973, coup that led to Allende’s death, has returned to the country of his birth with a camera in hand and a storehouse of passionate memories. Alas, little of that passion informs the filmmaking in this documentary dirge, a memento mori about “the other Sept. More
DVD Salvador Allende
El entusiasmo
Ricardo Larraín – 1999
"El entusiasmo" is set in Chile in 1980. Three young people, Guillermo, Fernando and Isabel meet and become friends during the dictatorship years. Ten years later, Fernando and Isabel are married and have a baby, and, enjoying the new political freedom, they move to another part of the country where they meet Guillermo again. It is the story of the chilean society right after Pinochets military dictatorship. More
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4-Year-Old Girl With Down Syndrome Walks The Runway In Fashion Show And It’s Simply Heartwarming
4-year-old Francesca Rausi has Down Syndrome and she put quite a spell on her audience as she walked the runway at a fashion show for disabled models in Malta.
Alongside, Madeline Stuart – the world’s first catwalk model with Down Syndrome, Rausi walked the ramp with extreme confidence. Stuart, the 23-year-old, Australian model has been previously credited for proving society’s perception of beauty wrong. She also got the opportunity of walking at the New York Fashion week and meet some of Hollywood’s biggest stars recently.
Francesca’s mother Michelle hopes that her daughter would follow her footsteps and become a professional model. Praising her little girl’s talents, Michelle states that her little girl can perform just like any other kid and believes that her blooming modeling career could further help raise awareness about Down Syndrome.
Francesca has been modeling since she was very young,” she said during an interview with Metro. She loves it and was the first toddler in Malta to take part in a modeling competition and won junior top model.
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Additionally, she shared how Francesca is “very comfortable on the catwalk,” and that her latest appearance was actually her fifth time on a runway. “I feel very emotional watching her because I see the happiness in her eyes. It’s out of this world,” said Michelle adding that Francesa would be competing in upcoming Malta’s Junior Miss Christmas next week. It was started last year by Charity organizer Tiziana Randisi to challenge the prevalent thought about the limitations of people with disabilities.
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The fashion show featured 22-models between the ages of four and 24. “Our goal is to create a real inclusion, trying to involve all the different disabilities by breaking down the mental barriers of those who see disability as a limit,” said Randisi. “Instead, we see it and live as a resource and wealth to share.”
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Michelle has set up an Instagram page for her daughter showcasing many adorable photographs of Francesca. As for Madeline, she had walked for at least 18 designers, including the likes of Tommy Hilfiger. Her Instagram profile boasts of over 300,000 followers!!!
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ANR Employee News
News for UC Agriculture & Natural Resources employees.
Emma Fete
Fete joins 4-H as advisor for San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties
Emma Fete joined UCCE as an area 4-H youth development advisor for San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties on Dec. 4, 2017.
For five years prior to joining UCCE, Fete taught and developed various courses including online and hybrid variants as an instructor for the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. As a part of an interdepartmental team, she evaluated general education requirements for undergraduates. Fete also served on the Diversity Committee, analyzing and recommending departmental policies, hiring and recruiting strategies, and implementing training programs to best represent and serve diverse populations. From 2010 to 2012, she worked as an assistant language teacher for the Hiroshima Board of Education in Japan, where she taught and developed coursework in three prefectural high schools and a special needs school. From 2007 to 2010, Fete worked at WOSU Public Media, where she helped manage WOSU radio programming, fundraising and development efforts, and the station's community activities. She also has experience in local and state government as well as child-focused local non-profits. Fete is a dedicated horsewoman who was an enthusiastic 4-Her in her youth and continues to coach 4-H participants today.
Fete earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in communication at The Ohio State University and a B.A. in broadcasting from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
Fete is based in Stockton and can be reached at (209) 953-6118 and emfete@ucanr.edu.
Kate Wilkin
Wilkin named area forestry/fire science and natural resources advisor
Katherine “Kate” Wilkin joined UCCE on Sept. 18, 2017, as an area forestry/fire science and natural resources advisor in Sutter, Yuba, Butte and Nevada counties.
Prior to joining UCCE, Wilkin was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley where she developed techniques for the California Air Resources Board to better estimate wildfire emissions and collaborated on an ecosystem services project, including water and carbon, of restored fire regimes. From 2011 to 2016, she was a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley, and at Cal Poly from 2007 to 2009. Wilkin also worked at Yosemite National Park, National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Program, California State Parks, and The Nature Conservancy on complex environmental issues including forest health, wetland restoration, fire management, visitor-use, and mine reclamation. She has been a member of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council since 2011.
Wilkin completed a Ph.D. in environmental science, policy and management from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in biology from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and a B.S. with a double major in biology and interdisciplinary studies (environmental science) from The College of William and Mary.
Wilkin is based in Yuba City and can be reached at (530) 822-7515 and kwilkin@ucanr.edu.
Oguns joins ANR as financial analyst
Tayo Oguns
Tayo Oguns has joined Resource Planning and Management Office as a financial analyst.
He serves a critical role in strategic planning for future UC ANR staffing and personnel initiatives.
Prior to joining ANR, Oguns was a financial analyst at UC Berkeley.
He earned a bachelor's degree in finance at University of Massachusetts – Amherst and an MS in business analytics at Saint Mary's College of California.
Oguns is based at UCOP and can be reached at (510) 987-9028 and Tayo.Oguns@ucop.edu.
Pete Goodell
UC IPM members win international awards
Three of the twelve awards announced for the upcoming International IPM Symposium will be given to UC Integrated Pest Management Program members.
Peter Goodell, UC IPM advisor emeritus, and Frank Zalom, professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and former Statewide IPM Program director, were selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The European Grapevine Moth Team was selected for an IPM Team Award for achieving the eradication of European grapevine moth only six years after its discovery in 2009. Team members helped growers in infested counties to monitor the pest and apply control measures on a timely basis. The team's research and extension efforts helped growers avoid losses to the pest every year until it was finally eradicated in 2016.
Frank Zalom
The European Grapevine Moth Team includes Lucia Varela, UC IPM advisor for the North Coast; Monica Cooper, UC Cooperative Extension viticulture advisor in Napa County; Walter Bentley, UC IPM entomologist emeritus; Larry Bettiga, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Monterey County; Kent Daane, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Rhonda Smith, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Sonoma County; Robert Van Steenwyk, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in UC Berkeley ESPM; Joyce Strand, UC IPM academic coordinator emeritus; and Zalom.
Goodell started his IPM career in 1981 as an area IPM specialist during a time when farmers sprayed their fields based on a calendar date. Determined to reduce the use of broad-spectrum pesticides being used while still increasing yields, Goodell worked with growers, other IPM experts and organizations including the Natural Resource Conservation Service to promote the use of scouting for pests and the reliance on thresholds and degree-day models to determine when to treat.
Zalom, extension entomologist at UC Davis, also has an impressive record of furthering IPM. Zalom began in 1980 as the IPM Coordinator in California. Although he was responsible for advancing IPM in the state, Zalom championed the idea of promoting IPM on a regional and even national level. For 16 years, he co-chaired the American Public Land-grant University National IPM Committee, leading to the development of the Regional IPM Centers. Zalom believes that the science and implementation of IPM will reduce the impact of pests and pest management on agriculture and the environment.
One of Zalom's most successful projects was IPM implementation in almonds. Because of his research on navel armyworm, damage from the pest fell from 8.8 percent in 1978 to less than 1.5 percent in 1990, with a 40 percent reduction in insecticides.
The winners will receive their awards and recognition at the 9th International IPM Symposium March 19-22, 2018, in Baltimore, Md.
From left, Bob Van Steenwyk, Lucia Varela, Rhonda Smith and Frank Zalom of the European Grapevine Moth team show in 2016 accepting a UC ANR Distinguished Service Team Award.
CAL FIRE honors Quinn-Davidson
Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Lenya Quinn-Davidson, UCCE fire advisor in Humboldt County, has been selected to receive a CAL FIRE Partnership Award.
“As one of the team members helping work towards the statewide goals for using prescribed fire, your work with CAL FIRE, local cooperators and other stakeholders has created invaluable partnerships and expanded the training opportunities that many agencies were previously unable to access,” Ken Pimlott, CAL FIRE director, wrote to Quinn-Davidson. “It is important to CAL FIRE to work collaboratively with our partners to achieve our common goals. In this instance, your cooperative approach produced results which exceeded the normal expectations. I thank you for your efforts to further the mission of CAL FIRE.”
Yana Valachovic, UCCE director and forest advisor in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, said, “This is an incredible achievement for someone early in their career and it is strong evidence of her leadership skills and all around excellence!”
Quinn-Davidson will receive the award on Jan. 8 at a ceremony at the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento.
Tags: December 2017 (15), Emma Fete (1), Frank Zalom (7), Joyce Strand (2), Kate Wilkin (1), Kent Daane (4), Larry Bettiga (3), Lenya Quinn-Davidson (4), Lucia Varela (5), Monica Cooper (3), Peter Goodell (3), Rhonda Smith (2), Robert Van Steenwyk (2), Tayo Oguns (1), Walt Bentley (1)
ANR honors 13 academics with Distinguished Service Awards
Diane Barrett receives research award from VP Glenda Humiston.
VP Humiston has announced the 2015-16 recipients of the ANR Distinguished Service Awards, which are given biennially for outstanding contributions to the teaching, research and public service mission of the Division.
Awards were given in five categories:
Outstanding Research – Diane Barrett, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Food Science & Technology at UC Davis, whose research program benefits both the California food processing industry as well as consumers of processed fruits and vegetables.
Adina Merenlender was honored for outstanding extension work.
Outstanding Extension – Adina Merenlender, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, who designed and developed the California Naturalist Program to bring an awareness of land use issues to Californians.
Outstanding New Academic – Brad Hanson, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, whose research and extension program for weed management in woody perennial crops has gained recognition on state, national and international levels.
VP Glenda Humiston presents Brad Hanson with the new academic award.
Outstanding Team – the European Grapevine Moth Team:
o Walter Bentley – UC Integrated Pest Management entomologist emeritus
o Larry Bettiga, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Monterey County
o Monica Cooper, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Napa County
o Kent Daane, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley
o Rhonda Smith, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Sonoma County
o Joyce Strand, IPM academic coordinator emeritus
o Robert Van Steenwyk, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley
o Lucia Varela, UC Cooperative Extension area IPM advisor in the North Coast
o Frank Zalom, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in the Department of Entomology at UC Davis
Humiston presented the team award to, from left, Bob Van Steenwyk, Lucia Varela, Rhonda Smith and Frank Zalom on behalf of the European Grapevine Moth team.
The European Grapevine Moth Team coordinated a program that saved the wine and table grape industries from economic disaster caused by an invasive insect. The impact of the team's work has reduced quarantines for European grapevine moth from 10 counties in 2010 to a portion of one county at the end of 2015 and no moths have been trapped in the last remaining quarantine zone since 2013. If no European grapevine moths are trapped in this zone in 2016, the last remaining quarantine for the pest will be lifted.
The team is an excellent example of UC ANR working with government and industry partners under the Endemic and Invasive Pests and Diseases Strategic Initiative.
Pete Goodell received the leadership award.
Outstanding Leader – Peter Goodell, UC Cooperative Extension IPM advisor, Kearney Research and Agricultural Extension Center, whose leadership throughout his 35-year career has contributed to the success of the Statewide IPM Program. He has led the IPM advisors, first as IPM advisor coordinator for 12 years, and more recently as associate director for Agricultural IPM. As interim director 2006 to 2009, Goodell provided consistency during a time of budgetary challenges and leadership vacuum, and was a leader in the Western Region IPM coordinators group, where he promoted greater state collaboration in IPM research and extension. He has been a thought leader in the application of techniques from the social sciences to the extension challenge of changing people's actions.
The DSA nominations were reviewed by the Academic Assembly Council Program Committee, which sent its recommendations to the vice president. The committee was chaired by Becky Westerdahl and included Keith Nathaniel, Susie Kocher and Jennifer Heguy.
Tags: Adina Merenlender (4), Brad Hanson (1), Diane Barrett (2), Frank Zalom (7), Joyce Strand (2), June 2016 (21), June 2016 (21), Kent Daane (4), Larry Bettiga (3), Lucia Varela (5), Monica Cooper (3), o Walter Bentley (1), Peter Goodell (3), Rhonda Smith (2), Robert Van Steenwyk (2)
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Tone Tribune
Your Alternate Source For Music and Gear Reviews
Tag Archives: Grunge
Greg Sage
October 3, 2012 by tonetribune
This enigmatic guitarist/songwriter has influenced generations of guitar players with his vast catalogue of obscured releases (now available directly from the source here http://www.zenorecords.com/shop/store1.htm) under the legendary Wipers moniker and his own name.
His origin story is particularly interesting and almost a reversal of the usual rehearse, record and release process that most musicians follow.
Here are his own words from his own website/label zenorecords.com…..
“I think I got that concept early on as a kid. I was very lucky to have my own professional record cutting lathe when I was in 7th grade due to my father being involved in the broadcast industry. I would cut records for friends at school of songs off the radio and learned the art of record making long before learning to play music. I would spend countless hours studying the grooves I would cut under the microscope that was attached to the lathe and loved the way music looked, moved and modulated within the thin walls. I might have spent too much time studying music through a microscope because it gave me a completely different outlook on what music is and a totally opposite understanding of it as well. There was something very magical and private when I zoomed into the magnified and secret world of sound in motion. I got to the point that I needed to create and paint my own sounds and colors into the walls of these grooves.”
As he describes above using words “like magical and private”
and likening sounds to colors, you can see from the beginning his motives for making music were not the typical cars, chicks, sun and fun aspirations surfing the radio waves of the early sixties. Indeed being incubated in the wet, rainy environment of Portland, Oregon watered the seeds of a whole new sound.
In 1977 punk rock was the headline hoopla. Most of the great bands of the era were still on major labels and though the sounds, ideas and attitude were fresh, new and exciting, many were still puppeteered behind the scenes by big collared business men and subjected to the same pressures and processes that any other record-company rock band had to endure. This fire and ice combination lead to the demise or homogenization of many of the first wave.
Greg Sage and his Wipers operated completely outside this rat race of media and music and consequently pioneered the DIY boom of the early to mid 80’s with fiercely emotional music that transcends genre and time. Most of his lyrical messages deal with the human condition directly and his delivery is a pure signal uncontaminated by pretension or inhibition. He speaks just as articulately with his guitar and uses different shades of distortion, fuzz, vibrato and reverb to drench the listener in epic sonic journeys of pain, joy, sadness, love and paranoia, sometimes all at once.
Greg Sage’s exemplifies unyielding independence in every facet of his art even down to building his own amplifiers and recording equipment. This self-reliance has ensured his own sonic signature that will be bold and legible for as long as people still listen to music made by humans.
It would seem that this is an artist who prefers to let his music speak for him so listen closely and discover for yourself…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgF3k0yIHs
Category: Artist Profiles | Tags: Alternative, DIY Music, Greg Sage, Grunge, Indie, Portland Punk, The Wipers, When it's Over, Zeno Records
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TV presenter Larysa Switlyk sparks anger after posing with dead goats in Scotland hunt
Sky News 25 October 2018
An American TV presenter has been criticised on social media after posting photos of herself with dead goats and a stag during a hunting trip in Scotland.
Larysa Switlyk suggested she shot one of the goats and her friend Jason killed the other animals on the picturesque island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides.
The huntress, who hosts her own show Larysa Unleashed in the US, posted an image on Twitter of her fellow hunter posing with one of his kills.
She wrote in the post: "Congrats on Jason on his gold medal (sic).
"A unique hunt."
Judy Murray, the mother of tennis star Andy, who is from Scotland, replied: "A unique hunt? Disgraceful.
"It's a goat. And it's in Scotland, on a beautiful island.
"Stop this please @scotgov."
In another image Ms Switlyk was crouched down next to a goat she apparently killed, and wrote: "Beautiful wild goat here... Such a fun hunt!
"They live on the edge of cliffs of the island and know how to hide well (sic)."
She added: "We hunted hard for a big one for 2 days and finally got on this group. Made a perfect 200 yard shot and dropped him."
The tweet attracted more than 5,000 comments by Wednesday afternoon, with many social media users expressing their disgust with the image.
Twitter user Mererid wrote: "This is truly dreadful!
"Get her back to America! Pure Evil!!"
Nuala Bugeye wrote: "I can't imagine how inadequate one must be to kill and then be photographed with their 'trophy' goat."
Ms Switlyk, who is described as a "world renowned hunter" on her website, also shared a photo of herself with her hunting partner next to a dead stag.
She wrote: "Proud of Jason and his 2nd montrous Red Stag here in Scotland... talk about Gold Medal Status."
Twitter user Siobhan Thompson replied: "Stay away from our wildlife.
"You're not wanted here or any of your kind."
After the images surfaced, Argyll and Bute MSP Mike Russell said he would be raising the issue with the environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham.
He tweeted: "As the local member of @ScotParl I am raising this as a matter of urgency with @strathearnrose - if this is actually happening on #Islay, and laid on by some sort of tour company I would want to see it stopped immediately."
Sarah Moyes, activist for OneKind which campaigns against animal cruelty, said: "It's utterly shocking to see these images of Larysa Switlyk and other hunters posing for photos with the wild animals they killed on a recent trip to Scotland.
"Yet again, instead of celebrating Scotland's magnificent wildlife, we are seeing these beautiful animals exploited in the name of sport.
"This is not the kind of tourism we should be encouraging in Scotland, let alone allowing to happen in the 21st century."
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Podcast: Charles Leclerc discusses life as a Ferrari driver
Podcast: Leclerc discusses life as a Ferrari driver
Charles Leclerc marked himself out as a title protagonist in Formula 1 after a stellar first year with Ferrari in 2019, which included two breakthrough victories.
A promising talent through his junior career, Leclerc vindicated Ferrari's decision to place him in its team for his sophomore campaign by outclassing four-time world champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel across most of the year and beating him to fourth in the championship standings.
All of this netted him a contract extension until 2024 with Ferrari.
Ahead of a 2020 season in which Leclerc is expected to become Ferrari's outright number one driver, he sat down with Motorsport.com's F1 Editor Jonathan Noble at Autosport International to discuss the upcoming season, his relationship with Vettel and his new contract.
Afterwards, Leclerc took to the main stage at ASI to answer questions from the fans. You can listen to his grilling at the end of the podcast.
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Resolution No. 223
Approving The Execution Of A Contract In Excess Of $50,000.00 Entered Into By The County – Saint Anne Institute – Department Of Social Services
Resolution Information
RESOLUTION TEXT +-
Referred to: The Public Health and Social Services Committee (Chairman Lopez and
Legislators Allen, Belfiglio, Heppner, and Roberts), and The Ways and Means
Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs,
Maio, and Maloney)
Chairman of the Public Health and Social Services Committee, Craig V. Lopez, and
Deputy Chairman Chris Allen offer the following:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section C-11(O) of the Ulster County Charter and
Section A2-5(15) of the Administrative Code, the Ulster County Legislature shall
have the power to approve the execution of certain contracts and amendments in the
amount of $50,000.00 or in excess of $50,000.00 entered into by the County; and
WHEREAS, a contract for execution by the County with Saint Anne Institute
has been submitted for approval by the Ulster County Legislature, which is described
WHEREAS, said contract has been reviewed by the Contract Manager,
County Attorney’s Office, Director of Purchasing, and the County Executive; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, the Ulster County Legislature has examined the contract, and
hereby approves the contract in the form as filed with the Clerk of the Ulster County
Legislature or as modified with the approval of the County Attorney and Legislative
and move its adoption.
ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: 22 NOES: 0
(Absent: Legislator Loughran)
Passed Committee: Public Health and Social Services on April 4, 2016
Passed Committee: Ways and Means on April 12, 2016
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
$3,000,000.00 – 2016/2017/2018 APPROPRIATION DOLLARS
STATE OF NEW YORK
ss:
COUNTY OF ULSTER
I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is
the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 19th Day of April in the year Two Thousand and
Sixteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 20th Day of April in
the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.
|s| Victoria A. Fabella
Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk
Ulster County Legislature
Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this
21st Day of April, 2016. 29th Day of April, 2016.
|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein
Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive
Current Text: PDF
Craig V. Lopez
Votes on this Resolution
yes no abstained no vote
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 Ulster County Legislature
Vote to Adopt Resolution No. 223
Chris Allen, Tracey A. Bartels, Carl Belfiglio, Jennifer Schwartz Berky, Thomas J. (TJ) Briggs, James Delaune, David B. Donaldson, Dean Fabiano, Richard A. Gerentine, Manna Jo Greene, Jonathan R. Heppner, Ronald G. Lapp, Jr., Herbert Litts, III, Craig V. Lopez, Mary Beth Maio, James F. Maloney, John R. Parete, Richard A. Parete, Kevin A. Roberts, Hector S. Rodriguez, Kenneth J. Ronk, Jr., Mary Wawro
Abstained
Peter M. Loughran
Tue, Apr 12, 2016 2018-2019 Term: Ways and Means Committee
Chris Allen, Carl Belfiglio, Thomas J. (TJ) Briggs, Richard A. Gerentine, Mary Beth Maio, James F. Maloney, Kenneth J. Ronk, Jr.
Tracey A. Bartels
Mon, Apr 4, 2016 2018-2019 Term: Public Health and Social Services Committee
Chris Allen, Carl Belfiglio, Jonathan R. Heppner, Craig V. Lopez
Kevin A. Roberts
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Not Even Past by, Dave White
When Jackson Donne saw the eight-year-old picture of himself, he thought the email was the weirdest form of spam he'd ever gotten.
With that sentence, Dave White's New Brunswick based private eye returns to print. Not Even Past is White's first book in 4 years and the first to feature Jackson Donne in nearly 7. It doesn't seem that long as White seamlessly brings us back into Donne's life. In my review of When One Man Dies, I said "White rips Donne’s heart clear out of his chest and stomps on it with a size 13 boot covered in dog crap.". After this book, Donne must wish it was only dog crap.
Three years have passed since we last saw Donne. He's closed up his private investigator's shop, returned to school, and gotten engaged to a woman named Kate Ellison. In fact, he's about to graduate and his wedding with Kate is only a couple months away when the mysterious email arrives. Donne clicks the link and sees a video of his former fiancee Jeanne Baker, who supposedly died in a car crash six years ago, very much alive and in peril. Donne believes the video is real and the only person he can turn to to save Jeanne is his old nemesis Bill Martin. What starts out as a search for his long-thought-dead former flame eventually pulls Donne into the corrupt world of New Jersey politics.
The book is divided into three sections, each taking its name from a recent local slogan. "Jersey Comeback" was the tagline for Governor Chris Christie's economic program, while "Restore the Shore" and "Stronger Than The Storm" were rallying cries after the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. Each could also be applied to the trials Donne goes through in the sections. The first and third blow through at a breakneck pace, while the middle section gives the characters a little time to breathe.
As always, White has a good grasp of place. Donne moves around New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, and several other locations, and each time the reader feels he or she is really there. His characters feel like people you'd want to hang out with at a diner at 3am (or in some cases, avoid at 3am).
Toward the last couple chapters of the book, I had a feeling of where White would leave Donne at the end of it and started cursing him for making me have to wait to the next novel for more Donne.
The whole series is Highly Recommended.
Labels: books, Dave White, reviews
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The geographical center of Asia
Whilst there are plenty of regions to explore throughout Siberia, Tuva is one of the most stand-out locations within this great wilderness as it is a semi-autonomous republic that has maintained a strong appreciation for its history, traditions and nomadic culture. The capital city, Kyzyl, is home to the geographical centre of Asia, and is an ideal starting point for all trips throughout Tuva. There’s so much to see and do here, ranging from trips on horseback visiting small nomadic settlements, exploring the multitude of rivers which carve their way through the remote taiga forest, to immersing yourself in its rich music and artisanal crafts-making culture.
MONGUN TAIGA
Standing at 3970m high, this is Tuva’s highest peak and its name means ‘Silver Forest’. Reaching the foot of this permanently snow-capped peak located in the border zone with Mongolia is an expedition in itself and for those wanting to attempt this rarely climbed summit an additional adventure is guaranteed. Be warned though, even in summer this peak can be very cold, but you’ll at least get fantastic views in to the Altai Republic and even Mongolia.
Aside from being the capital of Tuva, Kyzyl is also the geographical center of Asia and directly overlooks the Yenisei River. A day or two in Kyzyl is well worth one’s time where you can see the bustling black market in the city centre full of local foods from the taiga forests, the Tuvan Cultural Centre and on the outskirts one can even check out the monstrous remains of abandoned buildings from the Soviet times.
KUNGURTUG & POR-BAZHYN
Kungurtug is tucked away in the isolated SE corner of Tuva alongside the Mongolian border and is regarded by the Tuvans as being the most beautiful place in the Republic thanks to Lake Tere-Khol. In the middle of this marshy and placid lake, home to hundreds of eagles, are the remains of an 8th Century fortress/palace, called Por-Bazhyn, which was built by the Uyghurs when the region was part of their extensive empire.
AZAS LAKE & TODZHA
Located in the north-east of Tuva this is the Republic’s most isolated region and is accessible only by one road to the main village of Toora-Khem. From there on it is untrammeled and trackless wilderness which extends throughout the Todzhinsky Basin and Azas Lake, the largest in Tuva. For the few who visit this region there’s also the possibility to meet with local Todzha reindeer herders who live deep inside the taiga more than 2 weeks away from the nearest civilisation. One quirky fact about Azas Lake is that it is Putin’s favourite spot to hunt and fish in between his busy schedule.
YENISEI RIVER
The longest River in Russia and also the largest river which flows in to the Arctic, the Yenisei, is as impressive to look as it is to paddle. The river holds such a presence in Tuva that it is impossible to avoid wherever you travel!
BAI-TAIGA
Covering the western section of Tuva is the region of Bai-Taiga and it’s a great place to seek out and explore traditional Tuvan nomadic culture and crafts in the surrounding mountains and villages of Kyzyl-Dag and Bay-Tal.
January temperature range: -9.2 °C to −31 °C. July temperature range: +11 °C to +35 °C.
Reliable wifi in Kyzyl. Little or no internet connection outside of main towns.
Typical of Russia: Dill. Dill. And more dill. Lots of potatoes, beetroot and root vegetables. Meat and fish centre in most dishes. Bulgar wheat is a popular grain. Tuvan cuisine includes: araka (milk vodka), hoytpak (sour milk), kumis (fermented horse milk), shay (milk tea), han (blood sausage), various meat dishes made from yak/camel/deer/beef/goat/horse.
Russian. Tuvan (a Turkic language) is widely spoken.
The FCO considers Republic of Tuva to be a low risk region to travel.
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey by Richard Leighton
Interested in a trip to Republic of Tuva?
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Samsung Gear 2 Neo review
3 cm (1.2 in)
Cheaper and slightly better value than the Gear 2
Michael Sawh from TrustedReviews ( 21 Oct 2014 00:00 )
The Gear Neo 2 is definitely an improvement on the original Galaxy Gear smartwatch, but it's still a deeply average product. Yes, it does have a better battery life, a more intuitive interface and some interesting fitness-based features, but it’s let down in so many other areas.
The app support is a bit laughable at the moment. There needs to be less of a focus on the ridiculous nature of making calls on a watch and a greater emphasis on running apps and offering the kind of bite-size information that will be at the heart of Android Wear smartwatches...
The app support is a bit laughable at the moment. There needs to be less of a focus on the ridiculous nature of making calls on a watch and a greater emphasis on running apps and offering the kind of bite-size information that will be at the heart of Android Wear smartwatches.
While the battery life is better, it’s still not close enough to a week that we feel ought to be the minimum for any smartwatch.
It doesn’t have the metal design of the Gear 2, but the plastic look it’s not terribly cheap or as unattractive as we thought it might be. Omitting the camera is not such a big deal when you read what we had to say about its performance on the Samsung Gear 2 as well.
There’s not a great deal of alternatives to consider but the Pebble smartwatch provides the most compelling argument for a wrist-worn device at the moment. It’s cheaper at £129 and while it only has an e-ink display, it works with the iPhone and Android phones and has greater app support.
The best full-featured smartwatch from the biggest of the big tech companies
Dan Sung from Wareable ( 04 Aug 2014 00:00 )
It's £70 cheaper than the top-end Gear 2 and only missing the questionable camera and the superior metal finish. It still looks good, has a superb screen and brings all the notifications away from your phone and straight to your wrist in a very effective and usable manner. If you’re a...More
It's £70 cheaper than the top-end Gear 2 and only missing the questionable camera and the superior metal finish. It still looks good, has a superb screen and brings all the notifications away from your phone and straight to your wrist in a very effective and usable manner. If you’re a Samsung Galaxy smartphone user looking to jump into wearables, the strong features and performance here will see you right.
The mainstream smartwatch for the summer
Ewan Spence from Forbes ( 20 Jul 2014 00:00 )
What the Gear 2 Neo provides is a mainstream smartwatch at one of the most competitive prices on the market. Yes, the Pebble smartwatch system is slightly cheaper, and the geeks and hackers are probably going to appreciate the Palo Alto based upstart more than any others, but for the mainstream u...More
What the Gear 2 Neo provides is a mainstream smartwatch at one of the most competitive prices on the market. Yes, the Pebble smartwatch system is slightly cheaper, and the geeks and hackers are probably going to appreciate the Palo Alto based upstart more than any others, but for the mainstream users the Gear 2 Neo is one of the most accessible and practical smartwatches at the moment. Android Wear may turn out to be a more competent system by Christmas 2015 after eighteen months of iterative improvements, but out of the respective boxes the Gear 2 Neo is probably the best smartwatch for the mass market.
Ditches the camera for a less expensive price tag
Alex Colon from PC Magazine ( 19 May 2014 00:00 )
The Neo has the same general measurements as the Gear 2, at 1.49 by 2.31 by 0.39 inches (HWD), but the lack of a camera makes it even lighter, at 1.94 ounces (not counting the adjustable strap). The Neo comes in three different colors, including black, orange, and a brownish gray. The display is surrounded by the same brushed metal design as the Gear 2, but the rest of the face is made of polycarbonate instead of metal. It doesn't make for a dramatically different look, and in the case of the orange model, I actually prefer the brightly colored polycarbonate to the subdued metal model...
The Neo has the same general measurements as the Gear 2, at 1.49 by 2.31 by 0.39 inches (HWD), but the lack of a camera makes it even lighter, at 1.94 ounces (not counting the adjustable strap). The Neo comes in three different colors, including black, orange, and a brownish gray. The display is surrounded by the same brushed metal design as the Gear 2, but the rest of the face is made of polycarbonate instead of metal. It doesn't make for a dramatically different look, and in the case of the orange model, I actually prefer the brightly colored polycarbonate to the subdued metal model.
The only other difference is that the Gear 2 Neo lacks a camera. That's no big deal. While the Gear 2 features a 2-megapixel sensor at the top, photos taken with the watch can't compare to even basic smartphone cameras. It also has a non-suppressible sound effect every time you take a shot, and video recording is limited to 15-second clips, both of which limit its utility. Considering you need a companion device to use the Neo in the first place, you're better off using the camera on your connected smartphone.
Offers the best balance of features and price among Samsung's three 2014 smartwatches
Scott Stein from Cnet ( 15 May 2014 00:00 )
The Gear 2 Neo is the best Samsung smartwatch yet, but it's not yet an essential smartwatch.
The biggest problem with all of Samsung's current wearables are their dependence on Samsung phones to pair with. If the Gear 2 Neo worked with more phones, I'd like it more. It's priced lower than the Pebble Steel, and losing the Gear 2's camera and metal design are well worth it for the extra hundred dollars in savings. There are clear hardware advantages to the Gear 2 Neo's many extra features, but they're collectively a jumble versus being a coherent wrist-worn whole...
The biggest problem with all of Samsung's current wearables are their dependence on Samsung phones to pair with. If the Gear 2 Neo worked with more phones, I'd like it more. It's priced lower than the Pebble Steel, and losing the Gear 2's camera and metal design are well worth it for the extra hundred dollars in savings. There are clear hardware advantages to the Gear 2 Neo's many extra features, but they're collectively a jumble versus being a coherent wrist-worn whole.
On the eve of new Google wearable devices, due possibly as soon as at Google's developer conference in late June, you're better off waiting. Samsung may have improved its wearable hardware, but the software it's running could be a lot better. And, by the end of this year, Samsung may very well have other watches that are better still. I'd want to see what Android Wear is all about before making the leap to Gear. But if you really want a smartwatch now, and you want one that works with Samsung phones, the Gear 2 Neo is the best bet. It's a very solid leap forward...it's just not fully there yet.
Impressive and good value for money
Chris Martin from Tech Advisor ( 12 May 2014 00:00 )
At a more reasonable price tag than the flagship model, the Samsung Gear 2 Neo is decent smartwatch with plenty of features - we don't care about the lack of a camera. However, the need for a specific Samsung companion device and a limited amount of downloadable apps detract somewhat.
Beautiful display and looks good with reasonable price
Britta O'Boyle from Pocket-lint ( 06 May 2014 00:00 )
The Samsung Gear 2 Neo does a brilliant job of what it sets out to do: acting a go-between to your Samsung phone. Despite effectively hitting the reset button and ditching Android in favour of Tizen, Samsung has resolved many of the issues with the original Galaxy device.
The display is fantastic and both the design and user interface grew on us the more we used the device. As a watch it's rather accomplished and we're fans...
The display is fantastic and both the design and user interface grew on us the more we used the device. As a watch it's rather accomplished and we're fans.
But while the Korean company has been busy improving its system, the impending arrival of Android Wear threatens the Gear's potential success. Samsung has opted to lock the Gear to Samsung smartphones only, which in addition to the limited number of apps on its Tizen platform could be a costly move.
Given its £169 price tag, the Gear 2 Neo delivers a lot of tech and is steps ahead of the original Galaxy Gear. Whether it's for you is another question, however, as you may still find the addition of a "middle man" device a pointless endeavour. Not us, though, as we've been swayed into the camp that finds the Neo an exciting prospect, even if it's one that's not fully bloomed just yet.
A worthy offering
Lanh Nguyen from Android Authority ( 26 Apr 2014 00:00 )
The Samsung Galaxy 2 Neo is everything the Samsung Gear 2 is, except for the camera and metal construction. The Neo is lighter, which makes it more comfortable to wear during extended durations. The plastic construction makes it look and feel less polished and premium than its flagship counterpart, however...
The Samsung Galaxy 2 Neo is everything the Samsung Gear 2 is, except for the camera and metal construction. The Neo is lighter, which makes it more comfortable to wear during extended durations. The plastic construction makes it look and feel less polished and premium than its flagship counterpart, however.
If you’re not so concerned about smartwatch photography and the higher-end feel, then you might appreciate the Neo better, especially with its $199 price tag. Keep in mind that Samsung’s entire current smartwatch lineup is compatible only with Samsung devices, so if you’re not so keen on this particular brand or ecosystem, the Gear 2 Neo might not be the device for you. However, if you’re already using Samsung devices, then the Gear 2 Neo, and likewise the Gear 2 and Gear Fit, do offer added functionality over other brands of smartwatches.
The best smartwatch on the market so far
Gareth Beavis from TechRadar ( 24 Apr 2014 00:00 )
The Gear 2 Neo is a step forward for Samsung, and one that's very much in the right direction. It's the best smartwatch on the market right now, no question, perhaps only challenged by the Pebble Steel.
It lacks the longevity of the Pebble, and needs more developers on board still to be a truly decent option, but there's a lot going on here to like...
It lacks the longevity of the Pebble, and needs more developers on board still to be a truly decent option, but there's a lot going on here to like.
I'm looking forward to an improvement in the fitness abilities, perhaps not with this model but subsequent upgrades from Samsung. Given the speed with which the first Galaxy Gear was replaced, we'll be on version five of the Gear by the end of 2014... probably.
The Gear 2 Neo is a long way from perfect, but whether it's the high quality screen, heart rate monitor, water-resistant capabilities, infra-red remote or just the move of the home button, Samsung has put a lot of thought into how to make the first Gear better.
Some might baulk at the plastic finish, but the Gear 2 Neo looks the part and offers some real benefits if you're willing to spend that much to supplement your Samsung smartphone or tablet.
A truly geeky accessory for Samsung users but far from essential
Sophie Charara from Stuff ( 17 Apr 2014 00:00 )
Having said all that about the looks, we’d still take the Neo over the Gear 2. Losing the camera really isn’t a loss at all, and while the Neo is less premium, the Gear 2 isn’t that gorgeous to begin with.
£180 is still a load to spend on an accessory for a Galaxy phone, though, and next to the more open, more apptastic Pebble it looks like pretty poor value...
£180 is still a load to spend on an accessory for a Galaxy phone, though, and next to the more open, more apptastic Pebble it looks like pretty poor value.
Perhaps the bigger problem, though, is Android Wear: Google Now-powered smartwatches are coming from LG, Motorola and more, and they certainly look and sound to be a step-up from the current smartwatch crowd. If you must geek out right now, the Neo is the Gear we’d get. But we’ll be waiting for Wear.
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Nov 24, 2018 · 8:38 pm
Amanda Fleming on concussion and stitches and the serial killer Countess
Amanda: Originally, we were going to talk about The Countess
So I arranged to chat via Skype with my namesake but non-relation actress Amanda Fleming in Manchester. She has not been heard of in this blog since May 2015.
We were going to talk about her play The Countess, which we last talked about in February 2015.
But we got sidetracked…
JOHN: So, your vampire Countess woman…
AMANDA: She wasn’t a vampire; she was a serial killer.
JOHN: Well, she was Countess Dracula, in the Hammer horror film.
AMANDA: Yes. Ingrid Pitt. She’s still alive, isn’t she?
JOHN: Of course; she is one of the undead.
AMANDA: No, Ingrid Pitt… Well, the… I… Oh… Someone here wants to say hello… (A WHITE CAT APPEARS ON SKYPE AND SNIFFS THE SCREEN)… I have two cats now. This is Misty.
JOHN: Hello Misty. Lovely pink ears. Not the cat, of course. You.
AMANDA: Pink ears. But no earlobes.
JOHN: You or the cat?
AMANDA: Me… Look.
JOHN: No earlobes.You must be Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
AMANDA: What?
JOHN: From the James Bond films… You have no earlobes.
AMANDA: The Plantagenets didn’t have earlobes.
JOHN: You are a Plantagenet?
AMANDA: According to ancestry.com I am.
JOHN: Related to whom? Not Richard III, I hope.
AMANDA: Edward I… Longshanks.
JOHN: The Hammer of the Scots? I am Scottish. I am shocked and saddened.
AMANDA: Well, I have my Celtic side. My bloodline from about 1500 upwards is a bastardisation of the Tudors and the Plantagenets and then they married into Irish aristocracy from Wexford.
Forget the Planagenets and James Bond – clock the pink ears
JOHN: Accidents of birth.
AMANDA: I had an accident.
JOHN: You had an accident?
AMANDA: I had an accident. A window fell on me on 5th May this year. I finished work and went to the theatre pub where we were doing a show to do a bit of work on the synopsis. I was sitting in the beer garden, typing away on my laptop computer. I had had literally two sips out of a glass of Chardoney and I heard this crack and the edge of a pane of glass from an upstairs window hit me on the head.
JOHN: The pane or the frame?
AMANDA: The whole section of the middle part of the glass.
JOHN: It hit you flat or the edge hit you?
AMANDA: The edge. Luckily it was not two floors above me or I would have had time to look up and I would have been a goner. It was excruciating pain. I didn’t even know it had cut all down my face. The shock.
Apparently there was an improvisation performance going on upstairs and there was only a very thin wood panelling covering the window and blacking out the room and a guy bumped into the wood panelling. That loosened the centre part of the window which broke loose and fell down on me – about this size.
JOHN: Bloody hell! That’s about what? Two feet wide?
AMANDA: The circular centre with a jagged edge broke loose and fell and just thank God the jagged edge didn’t hit me or I would be dead. It hit the corner of my skull and slit down off the side of my face and that is why I have a big gash there.
JOHN: It was mostly impact damage?
AMANDA: Yes. It smashed on the floor. The police who came said: “Amanda, you’re very lucky. It would have been a lot worse if it had smashed on your head.”
You know when you bang your head sometimes? You come up too quickly and you hit your head on something? Imagine that, but five times more painful. I thought a piece of metal had hit me on the head. I didn’t realise it was glass. I got up and went: “Oh! What was… Aaaargghh!” and then it all went Boooofff! – There was blood everywhere.
The guys in the beer garden were going: “Shit!! Shit!!!” and all running round.
Amanda Fleming’s head cut – in May 2018
I had no idea of the extent of it. There was a 9 cm gash and I had to have two lots of stitches. I had them under, because it had cut an artery – That was why were was so much blood. Apparently I had lost half my body weight in blood by the time I got to the hospital.
It was a surreal experience, because I was talking and trying to crack jokes, but I could hear my voice slurring.
JOHN: Because of the impact; because of the concussion.
AMANDA: Yeah. I tried to do yoga breathing to keep myself calm, because I could feel myself… you know… the adrenaline. I was telling everyone else: “It’s OK! It’s OK, yes…” Crack a joke, crack a joke, crack a joke. But, inside, I was thinking: KEEP ALERT! KEEP ALERT! KEEP ALERT!
JOHN: You were trying to crack jokes?
AMANDA: I think it’s just a kind of survival instinct thing with me. To not think about what is actually happening.
By the time I got in, the surgeon realised the secondary artery – not the main carotid artery – the one next to it that goes down – had been sliced and that was why I had lost so much blood. So he had to do two lots of stitches: one lot to secure underneath and then on the top of the head as well.
There was a lot of work I had to cancel. I had about £2,500 of work booked in for the next six weeks and I had to cancel it all.
For the first couple of weeks afterwards, I was just numb everywhere. Now, near where the scar is, it’s like a weird kind of tingling. And, if I touch the right side of my head here, I feel it on the left side. It’s the weirdest thing ever.
JOHN: I was hit by a truck in 1991 and the back of my head hit the corner – the edge – of a low brick wall as I fell – My brain wasn’t even remotely right for about nine months with concussion coming and going. You must have had problems with the concussion.
AMANDA: It was weird. I had never had concussion before. I have noticed some of my words I have to think about a bit more now. And, when I’m typing fast, some of the letters go wrong… not all of them… just like, for example, if I mean to type WEAR it sometimes comes out as WAER.
As directed and produced by Amanda – The Countess in Salford, Manchester
JOHN: It hasn’t affected your acting?
AMANDA: Well, I think I’m going to go fully into directing now. It has changed my life – the way I look at my life now. Definitely.
JOHN: You look up a lot more?
AMANDA: Don’t even get me started on that… That’s still an anxiety I’m trying to get over… When I see scaffolding ahead of me, I have to cross the road.
JOHN: But it’s changed your life more fundamentally?
AMANDA: Yes. I used to over-think things all the time. Things I could not really do anything about. It would frustrate me and get me angry and make me bitter about things. But, since this happened – even though lots of negative stuff came with it – the sensations and shooting pains and things – on a personal level, it has made me realise that, right now I should be doing everything to enjoy myself and do what I love rather than worrying about what could have been or what people think or whatever.
JOHN: And why has that happened? Because you could have been killed?
AMANDA: That’s it, yes.
JOHN: Why have you decided not to act?
AMANDA: I haven’t decided I’m not going to act – if something comes up in films or commercials or voice-over or whatever, I will still do it, but I’m not going to act in theatre any more: I’m going to direct theatre and I’m getting a strong passion for film-making and directing.
JOHN: Why?
AMANDA: I think because I have more scope and creativity there. When you’re an actor, you only have a specific area where you can create. Having been in acting for like 30 years, I can bring my actor’s side to directing. You are in charge of your own creativity.
JOHN: Anyway, we are supposed to be talking about your Countess woman thing.
The Countess was a success in Todmorden’s Gothic church
AMANDA: I wanted to make it historical but with a supernatural twist. We put it on for three performances at Todmorden, because they have an amazing Gothic church there. Ideally, we would like to tour round the country in those types of venues. We did two performances in Manchester last month, because people who saw it in Todmorden told people in Manchester and there was a demand… It sold out in Manchester.
We cant afford to stage it in Edinburgh, but we are trying to get the funding together to take it to the festivals at what they call The Three Bs – Brighton, Buxton and Bath. But we would like to tour it round rural venues like barns and village halls.
JOHN: Or castles?
AMANDA: We’d like to! We are going to get a video – a 60 second ‘taster’ – and press pack together.
JOHN: Sounds like it has movie potential, too.
AMANDA: Yes. Or maybe an amazing Gothic opera.
JOHN: And it’s the Countess Dracula woman?
AMANDA: Well, she wasn’t a vampire, though some sources say she was somehow distantly related to Vlad the Impaler.
JOHN: Blood relatives.
AMANDA: Maybe. Might not be true.
JOHN: But she was for real.
AMANDA: Yes. Countess Elizabeth Báthory. She was a Hungarian aristocrat in the 1500s who murdered at least 650 people – 90% women plus some men – probably more than 650, but those were only the bodies they found.
JOHN: 650 is going it some… Was there a ‘trigger’?
AMANDA: She started by knocking off peasant girls and bathing in their blood. She didn’t want to grow old. Blood is kind of soft and moisturising – it’s the plasma in it. She must have thought: Ooooh! It makes yer skin go really soft! That was the trigger.
The Countess – by Amanda Fleming – “Historical but with a supernatural twist”
Filed under Acting, Drama, Horror
Tagged as accidents, Amanda Fleming, concussion, Countess Dracula, Countess Elizabeth Báthory, drama, Edward I, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, female serial killer, Gothic, horror, Plantagenets, Todmorden, vampires, Vlad the Impaler
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We Are Not a Resort but We Still Want Your Business
Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge, Don't Use the R-Word: Hotels Find Trick to Business Bookings, Renaissance Orlando at Sea World, Wall Street Journal, Westin Stonebriar
In the January 26, 2010 Wall Street Journal, the article, “Don’t Use the R-Word: Hotels Find Trick to Business Bookings,” hotels (or resorts) that used to have the word “resort” in their name, are now dropping the “resort” from their name to attract corporations to hold conferences at their hotels. After the 2008 financial meltdown, and with those large banks that received bailouts funded by the taxpayers, these same companies are attracting media scrutiny, and the last thing you want to be accused of is getting a spa treatment using taxpayer money.
“The Ballantyne Resort in Charlotte, N.C., changed its name during the summer to the Ballantyne Hotel & Lodge after several corporate clients indicated it would have a better chance of landing their business if it weren’t called a resort. Same for the Westin Stonebriar near Dallas, formerly the Westin Stonebriar Hotel & Resort. Ditto the Renaissance Orlando at Sea World, no longer the Renaissance Orlando Resort at Sea World.“
“Other than the name-dropping, little else has changed. The bedsheets at the Ballantyne remain Egyptian cotton, and guests still can book an appointment at the spa. Guests at the Westin Stonebriar still can get a tee time for the property’s Tom Fazio-designed golf course. “It doesn’t change who we are,” Renaissance Orlando sales director Gary Dybul said. Resorts must also contend with public backlash against the conferences they host.“
One resort closed due to the lack of business:
“The resort stigma was stoked by widespread outcry late in 2008 about a $400,000 sales retreat that American International Group Inc. planned to host at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point, Calif. Facing scorching criticism, AIG, the recipient of $180 billion in taxpayer assistance, canceled the event. The 400-room St. Regis couldn’t recover from the bad publicity and was foreclosed upon by one of its lenders, Citigroup Inc.“
As always, it is how you are perceived that is the key:
“Companies “are just being very conscious of the location selected, because everybody’s so paranoid about perception,” said Jennie Jacobson, president of event-planning company Unique Events Inc. in Agoura Hills, Calif. Allstate Insurance Co. early in 2009 canceled all its off-site meetings, including gatherings meant to reward its sales force. Not until last fall did Allstate resume the gatherings. “Our meetings were completely canceled by perception, not cost,” Allstate meeting manager Laurie Fitzgerald said at the Professional Convention Management Association’s conference in Dallas in January. “
This change may have actually done some good as business seems to be improving:
“Dale McDaniel, general manager of the 493-room Loews Lake Las Vegas, says a name change has improved his property’s bottom line. The change so far has helped the Loews Lake Las Vegas land five conferences totaling 1,000 room nights—four with pharmaceutical companies and one with an insurance company, Mr. McDaniel said. He declined to identify those companies. But two that held conferences at the property after its name change—Medco Health Solutions Inc. and Astellas Pharma U.S. Inc.—say their meetings there were all work and little play.”
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By 1999, I had completely lost interest in new music. There was one aberration from this disconcertingly reactionary development: my obsession with an album by a ‘band’ called Position Normal. I knew nothing about them except that the album was entitled Stop Your Nonsense.
I later discovered that Position Normal was a guy called Chris Baliff who had been experimenting with tape-to-tape multi-tracking since his early teens, using his family’s Amstrad hi-fi and an SK1 drum machine. At college he borrowed a Marantz tape recorder to do a project on ice cream vans, and from there began utilising guitars and other instruments. In the guise of Position Normal, with help from John Cushway, Baliff inhabits a discomfiting subconscious world of nonsensical gibberish, dreams and nightmares, delirium and hysteria. All conventional ideas about how music should sound have been abandoned, liberating him to create discombobulated aural collages which – depending upon the listener’s own psychological state – have the capacity to amuse excite and disturb in equal measure. If he has cultivatied his own mystique over the years (sporting faceless masks for example), resolutely maintaining a deliberately low profile, there is certainly nothing taciturn in his willingness to completely mess with your head.
Stop Your Nonsense is one of the most fearless records I’ve ever heard, made without the remotest concern for commercial viability. That is fairly unusual in itself, but what makes the album even stranger is that it is constructed almost exclusively from obscure samples of found sound. [‘Plunderphonics’, according to at least one website] In sharp contrast to DJ Shadow’s painstakingly seamless reconstructions on Endtroducing however, Position Normal layer the samples on top of one another in the most anarchic way imaginable: visualise a Banksy mural stencilled over a fresco by Botticelli or custard being thrown over a plate of sausages. Take ‘The Blank’ for instance, where a mechanical clang of Beefheartian guitar locks horns with what sounds like some syrupy children’s (loonee) tune knocked out on a xylophone. Meanwhile, vocal samples from a television quiz show (“What is the blank?”), manic bouts of laughter, and an obscure loop of eveningwear jazz arrive to gatecrash the party. It’s all utterly disorientating, rather marvellous and somehow makes perfect sense.
Everything sounds fractious, frenetic, desperate not to outstay it’s welcome, as much the perfect recipe for those suffering from attention deficit disorder as once was Pink Flag. Things move quickly here. You might struggle to keep up. Perhaps the strangest juxtaposition of styles is on ‘Rabies’ where the lyric (“Missing her like I miss rabies”) read by the narrator in a ludicrously accelerated tempo, fades into a devastatingly poignant moment from some ultra-solemn piano sonata. ‘Undada Sea’ likewise begins with looped varispeed voices before a playbarn bossa nova party is bashed out on flutes, tin cans and glass bottles.
‘Drishnun’ could be Broadcast or Stereolab on downer acid. Then there is ‘German’, where a strident rendition of what sounds like some theatrical composition by Kurt Weill (perhaps sung by his wife Lotte Lenya?) dissolves away through the addition of some sumptuous sonic phasing. Despite this Teutonic phonic interlude, the sounds Baliff harnesses together are typically unmistakably English, from the lumpen cockney accents on ‘Whoppeas’ and ‘Jimmy Had Jane’ (“Pickled egg, pickled egg, pickled egg eyes…”, which could be Derek & Clive or the Monty Python team reworking Rock Bottom) to taped telephone calls and source material extracted from UK children’s television and radio shows of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Simon Reynolds has detected elsewhere the same spirit of adventure characteristic of the UK post-punk scene of the early ‘80s, even comparing some of the eerily disembodied guitar to the work of Vini Reilly (check ‘Pepe Pepaymemimo’ or the haunting and genuinely hypnotic closer ‘Bedside Manners’), as well as citing other reference points as diverse as St. Etienne, Nurse With Wound and De La Soul. Perhaps another might be The Residents or early Matt Johnson (check the heavily reverbed guitar on ‘Bucket Wipe’)
It’s all defiantly lo-fi, at times making The Fall’s Dragnet sound as smooth as late period Steely Dan. Mind you, there are so many snippets and samples it becomes a challenge in itself to discern which sounds are authentically original. In the end, that doesn’t really matter, for in the early years of the noughties, when I like many others, had been left utterly unmoved by Coldplay, The Strokes, Primal Scream et al, this beautifully unhinged little gem contrived to keep my sanity intact. (JJ)
October 25, 2018 July 13, 2019 tejopa Tagged Chris Baliff, Kurt Weill, Plunderphonics, Rock Bottom, Simon Reynolds Leave a comment
Experimental, Indie / Alternative, Post rock
Disco Inferno: A Sense Of Otherness Somehow I contrived to miss Disco Inferno. They arrived either ten years too early or ten too late, it’s hard to tell, but by the time they had established themselves, popular music’s few remaining visionaries were retreating into hibernation. 1991 proved a pivotal year. It was the year of Laughingstock and Loveless, as well as the last significant records by Public Enemy and The Young Gods. And then, suddenly, as those few flickering wicks burnt out, indie music was plunged into its Dark Ages. The air was thick with the stench of grunge and grebo – Neds Atomic Dustbin and their ugly ilk – while the nightmare of Britpop hovered vulture-like, ready to strip its rotting carcass. Britpop would become a model of retro complacency, mostly underwhelming, largely uninspired. Many of us felt queasy and headed for the dancefloor. I had a pretty good time there. The one regret I have is that I missed Disco Inferno.
DI were, on the surface, a conventional post-punk (guitar/bass/drums) trio – Ian Crause, Paul Wilmott & Rob Whatley – with a penchant for early Joy Division and Wire. They began to suffuse those primary influences with the spirit of ’88 (AR Kane, Public Enemy, Young Gods, My Bloody Valentine), and then, following the release of their first album Open Doors Closed Windows in 1991, they stretched out into genuinely new and uncharted territory augmenting their sound with sampling technology alongside a proliferation of inspirational ideas. Crause recalls: “I had been at home with my guitar synth and sampler since late ’91. We came back in to rehearse again with the sampler and what I had written on it in about April or May ’92, not really knowing how it would all piece together as a band. We had a whole week of rehearsals booked and by the end of the week we were kind of stunned at ourselves ‘cos none of us had ever heard anything like it before, not even stuff like Public Enemy or the Young Gods. It just sounded so fucking odd…all of us were completely thrown by the noise in that room.”
A succession of spellbinding EPs followed between 1992-94, gathered together here on this 5 EPs compilation. And they are brilliant. At the time, those critics in the know wilted, quickly running out of fresh superlatives with which to embroider their reviews. Crause knew the band possessed something very special indeed, but the public wasn’t ready. And there was nobody else doing what they were doing. “Oh we were in the middle of fucking nowhere from the start of using samplers ’til we split.” Despite that, by the time Britpop hijacked the airwaves, DI were continuing to make authentically original music, uncompromising, challenging, visceral and at times breathtakingly beautiful. “When we were recording ‘DI Go Pop’ and ‘Summer’s Last Sound’, Charlie, our producer, did say he was finding it hard going as we had chosen the sounds for their narrative and not musical qualities.” Lyrically, Crause steered an uneven path from (poetically) documenting existential crises (“All the joy in my life had rotted away/I saw a vision in blue and my blues flew away/And just for a second I truly believed/Though I don’t know what in” – from ‘Second Language’) to caustic social commentary. It was often dark stuff.
“And the gulls are coming in off the coast/the smell of corpses pour from in/mass graves uncovered/must be abroad, it can’t be here/I can sense your violence, but I still don’t understand/the way the past looks dead when you’ve got the future in the palm of your hand.” And so begins ‘Summers Last Sound’ a magnificently unsettling fanfare to this most fertile of periods.
Shrill screams undercut a naggingly insistent guitar riff on ‘A Rock To Cling To’ while ‘The Last Dance’ & ‘The Long Dance’ (from ‘The Last Dance’ EP) are poppier, more infectious, almost straying into mid-period New Order territory. But it is the more experimental tracks which sound positively scintillating. Crause has expressed his distaste for ‘Scattered Showers’ mainly due to what he regards as its lyrical deficiencies (“they really let the thing down. I was so far off the mark with it.”) but I can’t help but hear The Velvet Underground’s ‘The Murder Mystery’ being leaked through a distorted PA system at Brands Hatch. Here and elsewhere, the band utilise their Foley’s Sound Effects toolbox to its full potential, yielding extraordinary results.
Then there are the glistening guitar lines of the aforementioned ‘Second Language’, which alongside those on ‘At The End Of The Line’ recall Vini Reilly’s wonderfully inventive work with The Durutti Column. In actual fact, as Crause explains, those songs bore a more surprising influence: “The original guitar sound I had, with a lot of delay lines, was inspired by a German guy I saw on telly called Eberhardt Weber. He put his cello through massive delay lines and I was stunned by it. I liked Durutti Column what I heard, but I didn’t hear an awful lot to be honest…I realise it can sound very similar sometimes.”
There is huge variety here, a veritable smorgasbord of sonic adventurousness. Best of of all is ‘Love Stepping Out’ which sounds like Kraftwerk’s ‘Europe Endless’ playing as the wedding guests spill out into an old English churchyard. It is simultaneously naturalistic and disorientating, and crucially, entirely devoid of rock cliche. “Punching women, kicking men/Five on one, one on ten/These fuckers getting all that they deserve/It’s just tricks with mirrors/that makes them think they’re in the right.” There is so much going on here musically and lyrically, it needs a dozen listens to unmask its own face. What was the aim behind it? “To try to create a sonic environment where the real world conducts itself like music but stays psychoacoustically in situ so it feels like the world is playing itself like a composition.” Crause wrote it on his electric guitar, “but I ripped the pickup off so had to use the nylon acoustic guitar sample which came on a floppy with my sampler to replace it. That just went through a delay like the original guitar had done.” Suffice to say, like everything else on here, it is bloody magnificent.
Disco Inferno may now be considered a seminal influence on ‘post-rock’ while Crause has continued to make stunning music of his own. Despite their inability to make any commercial breakthrough, he continues to be much respected “by the same people who were well receiving the Disco Inferno records in ’92 and ’93 like Stubbs, Reynolds, Kulkarni, etc, who understood what we were doing and what I do.” And rightly so. If I missed Disco Inferno the first time round, then it has been a fascinating late discovery. Sometimes one can have the most bewilderingly thrilling time catching up. (JJ)
September 2, 2016 September 7, 2016 tejopa Tagged A Rock To Cling To, AR Kane, David Stubbs, Durutti Column, Ian Crause, Joy Division, Love Stepping Out, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Kulkarni, New Order, Post-rock, Public Enemy, Scattered Showers, Second Language, Simon Reynolds, Summers Last Sound, The Velvet Underground, The Young Gods, Wire Leave a comment
Dreampop, Indie / Alternative, Post rock, Shoegaze
Melody Maker famously called 1988 “rock’s greatest year” – perhaps with some justification. Across the Atlantic there was a proliferation of post-hardcore experimentation in guitar noise (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Butthole Surfers etc) while at home, others (AR Kane, MBV) absorbed some of that inspiration to create something even more ravishingly beautiful and radical. If the apex of this first ‘blissed out’ generation was AR Kane’s aptly titled Up Home! EP (which Simon Reynolds memorably described as “rock’s Antarctica…it’s final petrifying spell – the sound of a million icicles”) …then Hugo Largo’s Mettle was stretching the limits in the opposite direction. Their only full-length album was released on Eno’s Land label, but the crucial rule here was not to remain on terra firma. As if Brian would sanction that. If the likes of MBV were rocketing through the sonic stratosphere, then it was only natural that their visionary (distant) cousins should aim to go back down again, down as far as one could go, even into the womb – to the warm blue belly of a new aquatic Eden.
Their singer Mimi Goese probably believed in new age crystals. She sang about turtles and Native American philosophy. She threw a few words of Japanese into the mix. All in the name of art you see. Pretentious? Perhaps. Don’t you know it’s dangerous to play with knives girl? But did it matter? Not a bit. The band broke all the rock rules. No guitar in sight. Hearing and seeing them for the first time in 1988 (supporting That Petrol Emotion bizarrely!) that seemed strange enough, but it took me a bit longer to realise that the drummer hadn’t simply been given the night off. Instead the soundtrack was provided by two bass guitars and a solitary violin. You might think there’d be something missing from the sound, but no, it surrounded and enveloped the listener like a velvet glove.
Hahn Rowe’s undulating violin tugs like the undertow around the rippling melodic lines of the brace of bass. The songs are strong, the melodies soporific yet full of surprises. Mettle may not be a post-rock blueprint (AR Kane’s 69 has a greater claim to that title) but it is a post-rawk blueprint. It is also the bluest album ever made, and by that I mean azure, the colour of the ocean, rather than morose. In fact it’s quite the opposite of blue in that sense. “Try taking off your noisy head; rest it on a pillow soaked in melting wax” Mimi sings with almost evangelical zeal on ‘Hot Day’. Quite. (JJ)
January 30, 2015 January 12, 2018 tejopa Tagged Adam Peacock, AR Kane, Brian Eno, Butthole Surfers, Dinosaur Jr, Hahn Rowe, Hugo Largo, Land, MBV, Melody Maker, Mettle, Mimi Goese, Pixies, Post-rock, Simon Reynolds, Sonic Youth, That Petrol Emotion, The Perfect Collection, Tim Sommer 10 Comments
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Amazon Studios will select and develop original comedy and children’s series for Amazon Instant Video
by Anna Heim — in Media
Amazon Studios is launching a call for original comedy and children’s series projects, Amazon announced today. Once selected, the best ones will be distributed through the company’s digital video streaming service, Amazon Instant Video.
Amazon Studios, launched in November 2010, is the proof that Amazon wants to take a new approach to content sourcing by finding interesting original ideas and developing them through this arm.
“Amazon Studios wants to discover great talent and produce programming that audiences will love,” said Roy Price, director of Amazon Studios. “In the course of developing movies, we’ve heard a lot of interest from content creators who want to develop original series in the comedy and children’s genres. We are excited to bring writers, animators and directors this new opportunity to develop original series.”
Writers and series creators can submit their ideas to Amazon Studios via a dedicated page, where they will find additional details about the whole selection and development process:
It is interesting to see that Amazon is committing to distribute the best series on its own Instant Video platform. In practice, it means that Amazon Studios is becoming an additional, crowdsourced content source for Amazon, while the company is increasingly venturing into original programming.
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Video: Honda Explains Dual Clutch Transmission & I-4WD Featured On 2019 Talon
Its better than you think!
2009 Honda FourTrax Rancher AT with Electric Power Steering.
For nearly a decade Honda has been developing and using the Dual Clutch Transmission on everything from ATV’s and dirt bikes to high end race cars and the new Talon.
2019 Talon 1000R
DUAL CLUTCH TRANSMISSION
Honda debuted the Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) for production powersports use on the 2010 VFR1200F sport-touring motorcycle, and while similar systems can be found in a number of high-performance sports cars, DCT remains a Honda exclusive in motorcycles, ATVs, and side-by-sides.
As the name indicates, DCT uses two clutches that are controlled by sophisticated electronics and hydraulics. One clutch, which rides on a hollow outer shaft, controls odd-numbered gear sets (1, 3, 5); the other clutch rides on an inner shaft and controls even-numbered gear sets (2, 4, 6). Multiple gears are engaged simultaneously so that the transmission is constantly prepared for the next shift. Data, collected by a series of sensors, is processed by the ECU, which uses an advanced algorithm to determine when the shift-control motor should electronically trigger gear-changes. At those moments, one clutch disengages and the other engages, resulting in shifts that are quick, smooth and seamless. A geared transmission that shifts automatically, DCT enables a direct, connected feeling between the foot pedal and the rear wheels, as well as an efficient transfer of power. It also boasts durability, flexibility, true engine braking, and quick, smooth gear changes.
The Talon’s six-speed DCT offers two fully automatic modes, Drive and Sport. The former allows the engine to operate at a lower rpm, for relaxed driving or in situations where reducing load on the drivetrain results in smoother driving over rough terrain, and the latter holds gears longer, shifting up or down at higher rpm for more aggressive driving. There’s also a Manual mode that gives the driver full control over the transmission, enabling him or her to change gears up or down via a pair of easily reachable, steering-wheel-mounted paddles, for heads-up driving. Even when driving in either of the two automatic modes, the system can be overridden via use of these paddles, with the transmission returning to automatic mode several seconds after each shift.
The Talon’s DCT has high oil flow to the clutch to minimize heat, and the dash has a clutch-temperature indicator. The Talon also has a sub-transmission that provides high and low transmission ranges, effectively doubling the number of gears. During acceleration, the Talon’s DCT provides the visceral and audible thrill of running through the gears with a sport-oriented feel and sound, no matter the selected mode. In addition, the Ignition Feedback Control system allows for quick torque reduction during shifting, for fast, precise gear changes.
Even the reverse gear has been optimized for Sport use for easily exiting from tight situations.
For the meat of the info skip to the 2:00 mark.
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Three more bands confirmed for Bloodstock
Posted in News with tags 2014, Bloodstock Open Air, boa, Carcass, Cristina Scabbia, down, Emperor, Festival, Jeff Walker, Lacuna Coil, Megadeth, Primordial on 28th November 2013 by Hannah
Lacuna Coil, Carcass and Primordial have been announced as the latest acts on an increasingly epic bill for Bloodstock Open Air 2014!
Italian metallers Lacuna Coil will be bringing their sonic wall of Gothic-tinged sound to Catton Hall for the second time, performing the Ronnie James Dio stage on the Saturday. Frontwoman Cristina Scabbia reflected on their return with a sneak peek of what fans can expect from their set:
“It will be LACUNA COIL’s second time there and I’m curious to see how the festival has grown. We will have songs from the new album and some LC classics, so see ya all in the summer!”
The legendary Carcass will be acting as Saturday’s Special Guests , and after their triumphant debut release with Nuclear Blast, Surgical Steel, gained wide acclaim and rave reviews, they have promised to be ‘firing on all cylinders’ with their set. Also announced are Irish gaelic metal outfit Primordial, returning after a victorious set in 2011. This may be one of your only opportunities to catch them next year, so don’t miss it. All three bands join an exceptional roster including Emperor, Down, Megadeth, Saxon and Amon Amarth, and with Early Bird tickets selling fast, it might be time to secure your place at what is promising to be the metal event of the year.
As Jeff Walker commands, “Let there be rot!”
Bloodstock Amon Amarth Exclusive!
Posted in News with tags 2014, Amon Amarth, Bloodstock, BOA 2014, down, Emperor, Festival, Hatebreed, Megadeth, prong on 19th November 2013 by Hannah
Bloodstock Open Air 2014 continue their run of amazing announcements with three more great bands added to the bill. Swedish melo-death giants Amon Amarth have been announced as filling the Sunday Special Guest slot, with their BOA performance a UK-exclusive show for the year. Joining them over the weekend will be metalcore stalwarts Hatebreed, returning after their triumphant 2012 performance, and Prong, who will be making their BOA debut performance. Running order is still unconfirmed as the BOA website is currently down for maintenance, but you can be assured as soon as we at Valkyrian HQ know the updated order of ceremonies we will let you know!
The date for the start of VIP Serpent’s Lair ticket sales has been confirmed as being the 16th of December, and ordinary weekend camping tickets are onsale now. BOA 2014 is looking to be an unmissable metal experience, with three solid headliners in the shape of Down, Emperor and Megadeth, and an array of fantastic bands during the weekend. Valkyrian will, as always, be in attendance and we hope to see you there!
Emperor Announced as Bloodstock Open Air 2014 Headliners
Posted in News, Uncategorized with tags 2014, Black Metal, Bloodstock, Emperor, Festival, Ihsahn, Lamb Of God, mb of God, NEws, Wacken on 13th August 2013 by Hannah
Legendary reforming black metal giants Emperor have been announced as the first confirmed headliners for Bloodstock Open Air festival, 2014. The buzz in the arena at Catton Hall was electric on Saturday night as the hordes descended upon the main stage, both to await headliners Lamb of God and the promised announcement, and roars of delight erupted amongst the masses as the infamous ‘E’ shield logo and a promise of the ‘hordes’ returning flashed upon the screens.
Emperor, who have recently revealed their reformation in order to coincide with Wacken Open Air’s 25th anniversary celebrations, last played British shores in 2006, though Ihsahn brought his progressive-tinged solo project to Bloodstock in 2011. Their headlining performance will surely be a roaring success, and the BOA team’s coup of booking them seems like a gift to the throngs of dedicated metalheads who descend upon Derby each summer. Conversely, however, it seems that the increasing quality of acts booked have pushed ticked prices skyward, with 2014 Early Bird tickets retailing at over £120, already £20 up from last year. Even so, many would say with yet another gigantic name on offer, Bloodstock are proving their reputation as the UK’s best metal festival.
New Behemoth album postponed until 2014
Posted in Metal, News with tags 2014, Behemoth, Brutal Assault, Death Metal, European tour, German Metal Hammer Paradise, Metal Hammer, new album, Satanism, Satanist, Studio album on 7th August 2013 by izaforestspirit
The legendary Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth have just announced that their upcoming tenth studio album The Satanist, which was previously scheduled for release this fall/autumn, has now been postponed to early 2014. It will be accompanied by an extensive headlining tour – further information including the exact dates to follow soon!
Until then, you have two chances to catch the band live in Europe: their forthcoming show at Brutal Assault Festival in Czech Repulic on August 10 and their exclusive show at the German Metal Hammer Paradise from November 15 to November 16. For further information, check out www.metal-hammer-paradise.de.
Behemoth online:
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New Behemoth album postponed until 2014 (valkyrianmusic.com)
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Celebrating 100 in Weslaco
By: Ricardo Cavazos
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Early downtown Weslaco
Debby Rektorik has a signature saying when it comes to describing the lengthy list of activities that are celebrating her hometown’s birthday in 2019.
1960s Weslaco
“You’re only 100 once,” she will say.
Weslaco began on Dec. 8, 1919 when the W.E. Steward Land Company invited one and all to buy property lots that were put up for sale. Prices ranged from $50 to $400 per lot. For the next two days, individuals had the opportunity to make a property claim. They had to camp on the lot of choice until the day of the sale.
The town that would rise from the sales of those lots would be called Weslaco. The name is derived from the land company that gave birth to the city. In December 2019, 100 years later, Weslaco will look back at its century of existence while also looking forward to what city leaders see as a bright future.
“We’re doing our best to bring people together and get excited about all that we have going on,” said Rektorik, the vice chair and events director for Weslaco 100, a committee formed to organize the city’s centennial celebration. “We want to celebrate the past and present and look to the future as our city continues to move forward.”
Weslaco’s enduring landmark, the El Tinaco water tower
The events for Weslaco 100 will intersperse throughout 2019 with a bevy of events running from Dec. 6-10. This is the same time period of the sale of property lots that gave birth to the city in 1919. Parade floats featuring the different decades of the city’s history will be a highlight during a special Weslaco Centennial Christmas Parade Dec. 7. A Saturday street dance that same night on Texas Boulevard will feature music from the last 100 years. Participants are encouraged to dress in the era they would like to represent.
Pioneer families and their descendants will also be a highlight through the event. The recognition celebrates their importance in laying down the roots of the community. There’s a neighborhood dance at La Plazita to bring back good vibes of yesteryears. A Fiesta Cien will run throughout the celebration days. The celebration features live music, antique shows, and displays and activities downtown on Texas.
Young men from Weslaco, including Harlon Block, enlisting together into Marines in 1943.
Weslaco, as a city, has seen many memorable events and had its sons and daughters serve their country. In early 1943, a group of young men, 13 in all, got permission to graduate early from Weslaco High School so they could enlist together in the Marine Corps. One of those young men was Harlon Block, who, two years later, would be one of six Marines raising an American flag at Iwo Jima, in what is perhaps the most iconic image of World War II.
“The kids growing up today (in Weslaco), we want them to be proud of where they come from,” Rektorik said of what she hopes youth will get out of the Weslaco 100 celebration.
Debby Rektorik Fiesta Cien Harlon Block W.E. Steward Land Company Weslaco Weslaco 100 Weslaco Centennial Christmas Parade
Ricardo D. Cavazos is a journalist and business executive who has over 30 years of experience as a reporter, editor and publisher and is currently managing allied health schools in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo. Working for Freedom Communications, Cavazos served as editor of The Monitor for eight years and was publisher of The Brownsville Herald for 14 years. He also served as publisher of the Valley Morning Star for one year and launched two Spanish-language publications - El Nuevo Heraldo and El Extra. He is an Edinburg native currrently living in Harlingen.
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NEWS Russia Deploys Major Fleet Off The Coast of Syria
Posted by Aaron Kesel | Oct 22, 2016 |
Back in the summer of 2013, just around the peak of the first major escalation involving Syria and the US attempt to remove its president al-Assad, the Mediterranean briefly looked like a parking lot, with US and Russian ships on anchor just off the Syrian coast prepared for any eventuality.
(ANTIMEDIA) Moscow is sending a blunt message to its American counterparts by dispatching a major aircraft carrier battlegroup to conduct operations in Syria, while another Russian spy ship appears to be surveying underwater internet cables in the region.
The Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, is currently conducting live-fire exercises with its escort vessels between Scotland and Norway and is expected to remain on-station off the coast of Syria for at least four months. It is leading a fleet of eight Russian ships.
The move comes as Russia and the United States continue to disagree over the fate of the Syrian conflict. It is speculated to be in anticipation of an expansion of the Syrian war. As U.S.-backed Iraqi forces look to liberate ISIS’s last major stronghold within Iraqi territory, many are rightly predicting the focus of the so-called war against ISIS will shift to Syria.
As observed by Kingston University historian and Russian navy observer, Dr. Alex Clarke:
“The war against Daesh will be moving into Syria, more focus will be on there – just as it is, there were will [sic] a large Russian led task force off its Mediterranean coast. This is going to shift the balance of power within the area, even more in favour of Assad; simply because it will complicate the task for other nations wishing to support their own allies within the conflict.”
Dr. Clarke also suggested such a move would represent a shift in the balance of world military power, particularly in light of the timing of joint Russian-Chinese exercises being conducted in the disputed South China Sea.
Although it is unclear whether the U.S. will be deterred by Russia’s military posturing in Syria (especially once the country has sworn in an all but certain President Clinton), Russia may have some hidden strategies in deploying these warships to the region. As reported by the New Zealand Herald:
“Author and military analyst H.I. Sutton is one of several observers who have noted the unusual activity of a suspected Russian survey ship, the Yantar, in waters between Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey in recent weeks.
“Pentagon officials last year noted a number of Russian submarines and warships had been lingering in parts of the Atlantic Ocean containing arterial undersea fibre-optic cables.
“If these cables were to be cut in such remote locations, it could take weeks – or even months – to repair them.
This could lead to enormous international economic and governmental disruption, Dr. Alexey Muraviev of Curtin University told news.com.au as reported by the New Zealand Herald.
It appears the Russians have tricks up their sleeves that may ultimately shift the balance of power within Syria and the wider Middle East region. However, the U.S. and its allies are unlikely to back down from their regime-change agenda plans in Syria anytime soon, and the public should be prepared for the worst in this conflict.
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Air infiltration — that’s what energy efficiency experts call those chilly drafts across the floor in the winter and the extra load of hot, humid air on the air conditioner in the summer. And it’s expensive. Here’s what to do to tighten your home before temperatures fall this year.
“The first thing to do is easy and free,” says energy efficiency expert Scott Hanauer. “Make sure your windows are shut during heating and cooling seasons. And locked. This is especially important with double-hung windows. The upper sash slides down, and you can’t see it behind the curtains or mini blinds. Locking creates tighter, better weatherstripping.”
Second, caulk around windows and door trim boards, inside and outside, with an acrylic latex caulk, Hanauer says, and make sure weatherstripping around doors is tight. If you can see light around a closed door on a sunny day, he says, you need new or better weatherstripping between the door and frame.
Builder Keith Moore provides weatherization services for homeowners and adds that gray, cracked rubber is another sign the weatherstripping should be replaced. “Over time, that rubber can turn hard,” Moore says.
After those initial steps, consider scheduling an energy audit by the local utility company or a private weatherization contractor. The audit should include a blower door test, which Hanauer likens to a large whole-house fan inside an adjustable frame. “It depressurizes the house, so air from the outside is sucked in through any openings,” he says. The test shows leaks in windows and doors, as well as exterior wall outlets and switches, plumbing chases, attic accesses, water spigots, electric lines, places where round pipes pass through square holes and more.
Then check your home’s insulation, particularly in the attic. “If you poke your head into the attic and you can see the floor joists, you don’t have enough. You should be able to see a sea of insulation,” Hanauer says.
Insulation is measured by R-value. The higher the R-value the less heat transfer there is in winter and summer. How much is enough varies by region, but in general, Hanauer says, more is better.
Moore agrees. “Adding insulation in the attic is where you’ll get the biggest bang for your buck,” he says. “That’s where most of your heat goes out. You can do it yourself with batt insulation, but hiring it done is still relatively inexpensive.”
The price will depend on the size of the house, roof pitch, attic access and any other special conditions. Even in the most complex situation, Moore says, the cost is only about $1 to $1.50 per square foot for materials and labor. “It’s not a huge expense,” he says.
Moore cautions not to put any insulation, whether batt or blown-in, over old knob and tube wiring. “This is a fire hazard,” he says.
Homeowners also may consider replacing loose windows and doors. “In some older homes, the doors are wood, the thresholds are wood and the weatherstripping is outdated, which allows air and bugs to come through,” Moore says. “We put in a new metal door with a hard plastic thermal break between the two metal sheets and metal weatherstripping with a neoprene seal between the door and jamb.”
For those evaluating replacement windows, Hanauer suggests casement windows, which crank out, rather than double-hung windows, which slide up and down. “Casements have a compression fit that creates less friction and wear on the weatherstripping and provide a tighter seal,” he says. Windows should be double- or triple-pane with a low-emission, or low-e, reflective coating.
However, Hanauer says, the decision to replace windows is more about personal preference than it is about saving money. “From a strict energy efficiency standpoint, it’s not a good investment,” he says. “It’s about a 20-year payback (in energy savings). But there are noneconomic factors, such as ease of operability and cleaning, improved appearance and comfort.”
Don’t know where to start? “Start at the upper levels and work your way down,” Hanauer says. “That’s the most efficient way to control not just the draft blowing across your easy chair but all air infiltration and air stratification (having a hot upstairs and cold downstairs).”
But “don’t get obsessive trying to seal your house completely,” he adds. The entire volume of air in a home can be exchanged with fresh air every three to five hours and still be considered tight. Some new construction is so tight that the air becomes stale, and humidity buildup encourages mold growth.
“Do what you can, and don’t worry about what you can’t,” Hanauer says. Just closing those little holes and cracks is a big step in the right direction. “Homeowners can save as much as 20 percent in energy costs. And you’ll be more comfortable.”
For a description of insulating materials, recommendations by ZIP code, information on federal tax credits and more, visit http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/insulation.html and http://www.EnergyStar.gov.
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"'''Silence of the Lamb'''" was the eleventh episode of the [[Season One|first season]] of ''[[Veronica Mars (series)|Veronica Mars]]''. It aired, and was released, as the eleventh episode, but was intended to be the tenth.
"'''Silence of the Lamb'''" is the tenth episode of the [[Season One|first season]] of ''[[Veronica Mars (series)|Veronica Mars]]''. It aired, and released on DVD, as the eleventh episode, but it was intended to be the tenth.
In this episode, Veronica helps Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie find and reconnect with her birth parents and siblings. Meanwhile, Keith is temporarily reassigned to the sheriff's department in order to help with a case involving a serial killer.
== Synopsis ==
One morning, [[Veronica]] talks to [[Keith]] about an old case involving a serial killer, the E-String Strangler, who has made a reappearance. [[Wallace]]also complains to her about the panic that's been going throughout the town because of the killer. Meanwhile, another student, Jackson, asks Veronica to track his parents. Sheriff [[Don Lamb]] and the mayor of the town meet with Keith. After the conversation, Keith comes out and tells Veronica gleefully that he's going to start working at the sheriff's department again. But Keith says that it is only temporary, but he is getting paid his regular salary. Later, another student asks Veronica for help with her parents. Sheriff Lamb and Keith explain the case to other police officers, but they have conflicting styles. Meanwhile, Veronica's parent-seeking business takes off, and [[Cindy Mackenzie|Mac]] notices. Mac comes up with an idea to double their fees, so they will eventually have enough money for retirement savings. Veronica says she'll think about it. Veronica also finds that Mac's parents once sued the Neptune hospital for 1 million dollars. Veronica finds that Mac was switched at birth. Keith and Sheriff Lamb visit a record shop, but they find nothing. Veronica visits Mac's house, and she shows Veronica her room. Veronica tells her that she was switched at birth with a popular cheerleader, Madison Sinclair.
One morning, [[Veronica]] talks to [[Keith]] about an old case involving a serial killer, the E-String Strangler, who has made a reappearance. [[Wallace]] also complains to her about the panic that's been going throughout the town because of the killer. Sheriff [[Don Lamb]] and the mayor of the town meet with Keith. After the conversation, Keith comes out and tells Veronica gleefully that he's going to start working at the sheriff's department temporarily to help solve the E-String Strangler case, but he is getting paid his regular salary. Sheriff Lamb and Keith's conflicting styles immediately become evident.
Keith and Sheriff Lamb talk to a suspect, who leads them to a man called "The Worm" (Aaron Paul), who responds hesitantly. Both of them think he is the killer given that he had a guitar. Veronica, Mac, and Wallace invite themselves over and crash [[Madison Sinclair]]'s 09er party. Mac looks around the house and meets her biological sister, with whom she connects. The new police officer tells Keith and Sheriff Lamb that "The Worm's" guitar strings match the strings which were used to strangle the victims. Veronica bribes the new police officer and steals the [[Lilly Kane]] murder files with the help of [[Weevil]]. Veronica listens to the tapes she stole, and doesn't find anything until she hears a suspicious synthesized voice. Keith and Sheriff Lamb talk to "The Worm", who sexually abused both the victims. "The Worm" demands a lawyer. Veronica contacts Mac about the synthesized voice and tells her that there was a reason why she was not switched back to the right parents.
Meanwhile, Veronica has is being paid by students to dig up "dirt" on their parents' past. As the business takes off, and [[Cindy Mackenzie|Mac]] notices. Mac proposes creating a website for the service and launching it nation-wide, while doubling Veronica's standard fees. Mac casually asks Veronica to look into her parents' past. Veronica finds that Mac's parents once sued Neptune hospital for 1 million dollars. Upon further digging, Veronica finds that Mac was switched at birth with cheerleader (and 09er) [[Madison Sinclair]]. Before Veronica broke the news to Mac, Mac's (adoptive) mother walked in the room. Mac's entire family has blonde hair, like Madison, unlike Mac (who has black hair).
Keith and Sheriff Lamb visit a music store to confront the owner about the E-String Strangler's "signature," a type of guitar string. The eccentric shop owner offers little help to Keith and Sheriff Lamb, who then talk to the bartender from the bar which the latest victim was abducted, who leads them to a man called "The Worm" (Aaron Paul). Both of them think "The Worm" is the killer given that he has home-made videos recorded of the murdered girls. "The Worm's" guitar strings also match the strings which were used as the killer's signature. "The Worm" demands a lawyer.
Veronica, Mac, and Wallace invite themselves over and crash Madison's 09er party. Mac looks around the house and meets her biological sister, with whom she connects. Madison kicks Veronica and Mac out of her party, but Mac forgets her purse in the library.
Veronica flirts with a new officer at the Sherrif's department, [[Leo D'Amato]], and steals the [[Lilly Kane]] murder files from the evidence room with the help of [[Weevil]]. Veronica listens to the tapes she stole, and hears a suspicious synthesized voice. Veronica contacts Mac about the synthesized voice and asks her to help decode the voice.
[[File:1x11VMMacMom.jpg|thumb|left|[[Mac]] "meets" her real mother.]]
Mac goes to Madison Sinclair's house under the guise of looking for her purse. A woman runs screaming into the Sheriff's department reporting a missing daughter. Keith tracks Veronica out of fear for her. He finds Veronica and tells her about the new missing girl. Keith breaks into the record shop he earlier entered with the man who previously mocked him. Mac tells Veronica that she's decoded and the message. Veronica eventually says that she knows whose voice it is. Mac sees her biological mom waiting in the car outside with tears in her eyes. She puts her hand on the window and touches her mom's hand before her mom drives away. It turns out that the voice is [[Clarence Wiedman]]'s voice, the man who took unauthorized photos of her. Veronica takes pictures of him and his family and sends them to him as revenge.
Mac goes back to Madison's house under the guise of looking for her purse. Madison's mother immediately recognizes Mac as her biological daughter, evidenced by their similar physical appearances. Mac quickly storms out of the house, returning home to her adoptive parents who are about to take Mac on a camping trip. Mac sees her biological mom waiting in the car outside her house, with tears in her eyes. They share a brief connection before Mac leaves to go camping.
Meanwhile, a woman runs screaming into the Sheriff's department reporting a missing daughter who was at a nightclub. Keith breaks into the music store from earlier, citing a hunch. Keith finds a woman locked in a confined box, and is quickly attacked by the murderer: the eccentric shop owner from earlier. Keith is saved by Leo, who was keeping watch for Keith. Later, we learn that the Leo is suspended after Lamb learns someone broke into the evidence room on his watch.
Mac tells Veronica that she's decoded and the message. Veronica eventually says that she knows whose voice it is. The voice is [[Clarence Wiedman]]'s voice, the man who took unauthorized photos of her. Veronica takes pictures of him and his family and sends them to him at work as revenge.
== Arc significance ==
* [[Veronica]] takes advantage of new Deputy [[Leo D'Amato]] to steal the [[Lilly Kane]] hotline CD and has [[Mac]] demodulate the voice, revealing that it was [[Clarence Weidman]] who gave the anonymous tip.
* [[Veronica]] takes advantage of new Deputy [[Leo D'Amato]] to steal the [[Lilly Kane]] hotline CD and has [[Mac]] demodulate the voice, revealing that it was [[Clarence Weidman]] who gave the anonymous tip accusing Koonz.
== Cultural references ==
Many cultural references are made in the episode:
*Madison's parents send her a string quartet which plays "Birthday" for her birthday.
*Keith is surprised that Sheriff Lamb has never seen This is Spinal Tap.
*Mac and Veronica mention Fievel Mousekewitz, a character in the 1986 animated film An American Tail.
*Mac's blood sister is reading The Westing Game.
* When [[Mac]] comes across [[Lauren Sinclair]] in the library, Lauren says she is reading ''The Westing Game.'' This is a young adult novel by Ellen Raskin, originally published by Dutton in 1978. The plot revolves around a teenage girl who solves a complicated murder mystery involving a large group of possible suspects -- just as [[Veronica]] does over the course of the first season.
*Mac derides Madison's art appreciation by saying that she wouldn't recognize Claude Monet's Water Lilies unless Revlon created and named a nail polish after it.
*Keith and Sheriff Lamb decide whether or not to play "Good cop/bad cop" with their suspect.
*Mac's adoptive father references the 2000 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
* The title '''Silence of the Lamb''' is a reference to film ''The Silence of the Lambs'' starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
*When Cindy's mom brings Mac and Veronica some snacks, she remarks that she isn't sure if Veronica was "a normal eater or one of those freakball vegans, like Cindy." Veronica replies that she is "more normal than freakball." Kristen Bell, who plays Veronica Mars, is a vegan in real life.
== Cast ==
== Trivia ==
*This episode marks the first appearance of [[Leo D'Amato]].
== Goofs ==
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Silence of The Lamb
Episode №
Original Broadcast Date
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Teleplay by
John Kretchmer
An Echolls Family Christmas
Clash of The Tritons
"Silence of the Lamb" was the eleventh episode of the first season of Veronica Mars. It aired, and was released, as the eleventh episode, but was intended to be the tenth.
Synopsis Edit
One morning, Veronica talks to Keith about an old case involving a serial killer, the E-String Strangler, who has made a reappearance. Wallace also complains to her about the panic that's been going throughout the town because of the killer. Sheriff Don Lamb and the mayor of the town meet with Keith. After the conversation, Keith comes out and tells Veronica gleefully that he's going to start working at the sheriff's department temporarily to help solve the E-String Strangler case, but he is getting paid his regular salary. Sheriff Lamb and Keith's conflicting styles immediately become evident.
Meanwhile, Veronica has is being paid by students to dig up "dirt" on their parents' past. As the business takes off, and Mac notices. Mac proposes creating a website for the service and launching it nation-wide, while doubling Veronica's standard fees. Mac casually asks Veronica to look into her parents' past. Veronica finds that Mac's parents once sued Neptune hospital for 1 million dollars. Upon further digging, Veronica finds that Mac was switched at birth with cheerleader (and 09er) Madison Sinclair. Before Veronica broke the news to Mac, Mac's (adoptive) mother walked in the room. Mac's entire family has blonde hair, like Madison, unlike Mac (who has black hair).
Veronica flirts with a new officer at the Sherrif's department, Leo D'Amato, and steals the Lilly Kane murder files from the evidence room with the help of Weevil. Veronica listens to the tapes she stole, and hears a suspicious synthesized voice. Veronica contacts Mac about the synthesized voice and asks her to help decode the voice.
Mac "meets" her real mother.
Mac tells Veronica that she's decoded and the message. Veronica eventually says that she knows whose voice it is. The voice is Clarence Wiedman's voice, the man who took unauthorized photos of her. Veronica takes pictures of him and his family and sends them to him at work as revenge.
Arc significance Edit
Veronica takes advantage of new Deputy Leo D'Amato to steal the Lilly Kane hotline CD and has Mac demodulate the voice, revealing that it was Clarence Weidman who gave the anonymous tip accusing Koonz.
Cultural references Edit
Madison's parents send her a string quartet which plays "Birthday" for her birthday.
Veronica mentions Rod Serling.
Sheriff Lamb compares the E-String Strangler case to the Hillside Strangler murders, a real life incident in which two men strangled tens of girls to death.
Veronica references the Internet Movie Database.
Keith is surprised that Sheriff Lamb has never seen This is Spinal Tap.
Mac and Veronica mention Fievel Mousekewitz, a character in the 1986 animated film An American Tail.
When Mac comes across Lauren Sinclair in the library, Lauren says she is reading The Westing Game. This is a young adult novel by Ellen Raskin, originally published by Dutton in 1978. The plot revolves around a teenage girl who solves a complicated murder mystery involving a large group of possible suspects -- just as Veronica does over the course of the first season.
Mac derides Madison's art appreciation by saying that she wouldn't recognize Claude Monet's Water Lilies unless Revlon created and named a nail polish after it.
Keith and Sheriff Lamb decide whether or not to play "Good cop/bad cop" with their suspect.
Mac's adoptive father references the 2000 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
The title Silence of the Lamb is a reference to film The Silence of the Lambs starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
When Cindy's mom brings Mac and Veronica some snacks, she remarks that she isn't sure if Veronica was "a normal eater or one of those freakball vegans, like Cindy." Veronica replies that she is "more normal than freakball." Kristen Bell, who plays Veronica Mars, is a vegan in real life.
Main Cast Edit
Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars
Percy Daggs III as Wallace Fennel
Teddy Dunn as Duncan Kane
Jason Dohring as Logan Echolls
Francis Capra as Eli "Weevil" Navarro
Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars
Guest Stars Edit
Tina Majorino as Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie
Michael Muhney as Don Lamb
Max Greenfield as Leo D'Amato
Aaron Paul as Eddie LaRoche
Steve Monroe as Gabe
Christopher B. Duncan as Clarence Wiedman
Carlie Westerman as Lauren Sinclair
Music Edit
"Brilliant Sky" - Saybia
"Fireflies" - Amy Cook
"The Way You Are" - 46bliss
Production details Edit
This episode was originally supposed to air before "An Echolls Family Christmas".
Despite being credited, Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls) and Teddy Dunn (Duncan Kane) do not appear in this episode.
Veronica: Can I get anybody anything? Water? Coffee? [to Lamb] A banana?
Lamb: Is your daddy here, or is he busy peeking in people's windows?
Veronica: You stop dressing up like Little Bo Peep, he'll stop peeking.
Madison: What are you doing here?
Wallace: I came to celebrate your birth, but these two just wanna hook up.
Weevil: Well then, you leave the sheriff a note: he shouldn't expect Eli Navarro, Esquire's vote this year!
Veronica: [voiceover] Same old story. Girl uses boy, girl falls for boy, boy saves girl's dad's life, girl gets what she deserves.
Jackson Douglas: I hear you do detective stuff for people.
Veronica: I do favors for friends.
Jackson Douglas: I can pay.
Veronica: Sit down, friend.
Jackson Douglas: I don't care what people say about you, Veronica. You rock!
Veronica: Yes, I do. I also take cash.
Keith: [in a guitar store] Hello Cleveland!
This episode marks the first appearance of Leo D'Amato.
Goofs Edit
When Veronica brings Leo the food to give to her dad, Leo's computer monitor shows a "Low Battery Warning" from the Mac OS X operating system. There is no laptop in the scene. Desktop computers don't get low battery warnings.
When the mother of the newest girl who is missing comes to make the complaint, Leo is the person at the front desk who takes the complaint. In the next scene, Keith interrupts Leo's band's practice to find Veronica. Leo is there, and has no idea that another girl is missing.
The employee at the music shop's guitar has sound coming out of it, and not the amplifier which must be at least ten feet away.
Soulful Spike Society's Open Case.
Television Without Pity Recap.
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Bogachiel State Park
The Hoh Rainforest in the Olympic National Park is one of the world's iconic forests. Known for its vibrant greens, curtains of moss and dense, old-growth canopy, the Hoh is nearly half a day's drive from Seattle. But campers at Bogachiel State Park, a lush rainforest in its own right, enjoy a 40-minute drive to this natural wonder. Relaxation and Olympic Peninsula exploration are the name of the game at Bogachiel. After a leisurely morning along the Bogachiel River, take Highway 101 to the Hoh Rainforest and spend a day among moss and mushrooms. Take a stroll on the mighty Hoh River, give elk herds the right of way and hope for a glimpse of the snowy Olympic Mountains. Also 45 minutes away are the wild peninsula beaches. Check out the rock pillars of Ruby Beach and nose around in the tide pools at Rialto, Beach 2 and Beach 4. Then enjoy dinner at Kalaloch or in Forks, where you also can pick up "Twilight" souvenirs for the vampire story fan in your family.
Back at Bogachiel, soak your feet in the river and take your time in this green-enshrouded forest. You have now seen a part of the world that few will ever experience.
Bogachiel State Park is a thickly forested, 127-acre camping park on the banks of the Bogachiel River. The park provides an excellent base for touring the western Olympic Peninsula. Beginning Feb. 21, 2018, campsites can be reserved for arrival dates between May 15 - Sept 15. To make a reservation, visit online or call (888) 226-7688.
ADA amenities/facilities
Use our interactive ADA recreation map to search for other state parks with ADA amenities and facilities.
Picnic & day-use facilities
The park provides three picnic tables in the upper day-use area. The lower day-use area has a kitchen shelter with electricity, lighting, a large grill and three parking spots, all on a first-come, first-served basis. A restroom is nearby.
1 mile of hiking trail
Other activities & features
During mid-summer visitors have been known to float the small section of river at the park.
A recreational license is required for fishing and shellfish harvesting at Washington state parks. For regulations, fishing season information, or to purchase a recreational license, visit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Printable park brochure (PDF).
Campsite information
The campground offers 26 standard sites, six sites with power and water, one ADA, two hiker-biker sites, one dump station and two restroom buildings with showers. Main campground restroom includes ADA accessible restrooms and showers. The park accommodates RVs and combinations of 40 feet or less in length. Check-in time is 2:30 p.m.
Check-out time is 1 p.m.
The park has one group camp for tents. It provides a covered shelter and two sheltered picnic tables. The camp accommodates 16 to 20 people.
Reservations can be made online or by calling (888) CAMPOUT or (888) 226-7688. For fee information, check out our camping rates page.
Bogachiel State Park lies within the traditional territory of the Quileute Tribe. The Bogachiel River, which runs through the park, derives its name from an English approximation of the Quileute word for the river, meaning "muddy water."
The park was established on March 19, 1931, through an act of the Washington State Legislature to set aside certain publicly owned lands for use as state parks. At the time, Washington's recently established state park system had no operating funds, so the agency formed an agreement with the Bogachiel Improvement Club and the Chamber of Commerce of Forks to manage and develop the park.
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Get the latest state parks burn ban information (PDF).
185983 Highway 101
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The park is open year round for camping and day use. Some campsites are closed in winter. All campsites are first come, first served.
Park winter schedule
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QUIZ: Which University of Michigan Basketball Starter Are You?
Noah Greco Michigan • March 20, 2017
Our Wolverines are genuinely surprising us this March, but we ain’t mad about it. We don’t typically tout ourselves as a basketball school, but we will for the rest of the month. The Black Sheep believes you have the right to know who you would be in a water gun fight with Coach Bleilein.
What is your favorite breakfast food?
Grass.
A triple stack of pancakes.
Joe Frazier.
Something complicated that sometimes works, like souffle.
What is your preferred method of travel?
A modded Subaru racer with an engine that starts half the time.
A Mercedes.
BMW 3 Series.
Floating, like a butterfly.
Running on all four limbs and occasionally tripping over yourself.
What do you do in a group project?
Figure out what needs to be done and who needs to do it.
Leave the group and do your own project.
Eat the paper that the group is taking notes on.
Hang out until the deadline gets close, then do all the work.
Make a montage of you working out and show up in a bathrobe.
Who is your favorite Disney character?
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Berlin, Germany.
The MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
A forest clearing.
Detroit.
My parents live in Indiana, but I live in the moment.
Which University of Michigan Starter Are You? %%personality%%
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North Carolina Fires head coach Butch Davis
July 27, 2011 By TheCollegeFootballGirl
June 27, 2011 The fact that University of North Carolina head coach Butch Davis was fired was not surprising. After all, starting about one year ago, the NCAA began investigating the football program and had numerous findings, all which could have resulted in Butch Davis’ termination.
There were 16 players who were suspended for all or part of 2010 as a result
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of a two-pronged NCAA investigation into athletes receiving improper benefits from agents or others, and academic misconduct. The investigations ended three players’ college football careers (Marvin Austin, Robert Quinn and Greg Little) and one football coach’s career at North Carolina (Defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator John Blake). And finally, in June of this year, UNC received Notice of Allegations from the NCAA on which detailed nine major violations, including a failure to adequately monitor the program.
And yet, even though they’ve had an entire year to act on the situation and even recently sent Davis to the ACC media day, UNC waited until just eight days before training camp begins to fire Butch Davis. The timing is clearly questionable and although I didn’t think I would ever say this, I agree with ESPN’s Pat Forde in his assessment.
The timing leaves UNC’s football program unnecessarily unsettled and unprepared heading into camp. Last year, they couldn’t have avoided the problem. But this year they knew what was going on and chose to wait…but wait for what?
The North Carolina 2011 Preview has been updated accordingly and there will be follow-up as we learn more about the situation.
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Switched at Birth Season 5 Spoliers, Release Date, and Air Date
Amit Sharma
Switched at Birth Season 5: The famous American TV show had marvelous 4 previous seasons. The previous seasons had attained a brilliant side of the audience and were very good in the story line.
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The audience was eagerly waiting for the next season that is season 5 after those marvelous 4 seasons of Switches at Birth. The creator of the show, Lizzy Wiess has officially announced that the first episode of season 5 of Switched at Birth will be aired on 24th of January, 2017.
We all had known the fact that the wait for the next season will be of great time but the show will begin from the next year’s January. As we all know that this is going to be the last season in the freeform series.
Switched at Birth Season 5
According to some people this is the reason why they have switched the day of showing from Monday to Tuesday. We all are well-known that this show is gonna rock again the audience with the skills it has got. And surely the credit goes to its creator Lizzy Wiess.
Switched at Birth Season 5 Info
In the last episode of season 4 we had seen that Bay played by Vanessa Marano and Daphne played by Katie Laclerc were doing there internships in China. They are doing their interns very peacefully and happily.
But suddenly they get a call from the home asking them to return as soon as possible. Now the show is stopped at this point. Everyone is thinking what is reason behind calling them back to the home. What is the cause. Why they have been called. What was said to them on the call.
All these questions have left the fans of the series in a great dilemma as to what will happen next in the show. The show is off since 10 months, a really long time for the suspense to come out, but curiosity is killing the cat.
Will the outcome be soothing to everyone, that is a very big question. Even the show runners have not disclosed any kind of clue to let the audience know what is going to happen next. No one has any guess.
But a good news for the fans is that the show creator Lizzy Wiess has told that the trailer will be aired late in December this year. She also said that she will answering some of the questions about the show after the release of the trailer.
The show is believed to have 10 episodes in this final season. Lizzy Wiess, the show creator has told another thing. She told that some of few loose ends will be tied up in the upcoming season. And also the Fight On of Natalie Taylor will be becoming the one of the iconic scenes if the background of the final season.
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Election analysis: LV lost big, bigger than you think
Posted on January 14, 2017 by Frank Gruber
I haven’t written here for a while. It’s easy for a little hiatus to become a long vacation, especially over the holidays, and especially, if you write a column about local news, when national news is all consuming. Yet given a national election where the electorate divided along the spectrum from urban to rural, has it ever been more evident that “all politics is local?”
Here in Santa Monica the November results are still resonating. The sensitivities of the losers of the election over Measure LV are raw, as evidenced by Tricia Crane, one of the authors of LV. Last week Crane, who is active in both Residocracy and Northeast Neighbors, criticized City Manager Rick Cole for identifying in an email “longtime vocal critics of city government, particularly on the controversial issue of development” as “longtime vocal critics of city government, particularly on the controversial issue of development.”
As reported in the Lookout News, Crane objected to Cole’s characterization of longtime vocal critics as longtime vocal critics because, “As one who believes that democracy depends upon the free exchange of information and ideas, I find the label ‘longtime vocal critics’ to be troubling.” This coming from someone who personally and through her organization has never found it troubling to call anyone who supports building anything in Santa Monica to be, if a politician, corrupt and, if not a politician, a tool of developers.
But wait, there’s more. Crane then told the Lookout that, “Measure LV was supported by 45 percent of Santa Monica voters.” This, as anyone who has studied the election results knows, is false. While LV received the votes of 45% of those voters who voted on the measure, a trouncing in and of itself, about 17% of Santa Monica voters did not vote on LV. As a result, far fewer than 45% of Santa Monica voters supported LV.
The numbers? The total number of ballots cast in Santa Monica in November was 51,662. The number of Yes votes for LV was 19,786. Divide the latter by the former and you get 38.3%. Yes, I know, only the votes cast for or against a measure count when it comes to victory or defeat, but consider the rhetoric that we’ve heard from the anti-development crowd over the years, about how they are the residents, and about how unhappy the residents are. Given that that’s been their mantra, and that’s why they put LV on the ballot, isn’t it their burden to show that that is true? (If you want to review the numbers yourself, click here to access a PDF of all the Santa Monica November results.)
To repeat: only 38.3% of Santa Monica voters supported LV. (By the way, the figures for RIFT in 2008 were about the same.)
About now LV supporters will tell you LV lost because of the money developers spent against it, but go ask the aviation industry whether money wins elections in Santa Monica.
Getting back to the results, there were only two precincts in the city where LV won, but even in those precincts (which are on the eastern edge of the city between Wilshire and Montana) the Yes vote was less than 50% of the total number of ballots cast.
What about self-appointed neighborhood associations that supported LV? They didn’t reflect their residents. Two of the most anti-LV neighborhoods were North of Montana, the home of historically anti-development NOMA and the base for the Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC), and the neighborhood between Wilshire and Montana west of 20th Street, the home of the WilMont Neighborhood Coalition. LV lost also in Sunset Park.
But the LV numbers tell only half the story. Any measure will get a certain number of votes just for being on the ballot, particularly one that promises to solve traffic congestion. Thirty-eight percent of Santa Monica voters voted for LV, but how many are truly up in arms about development?
We received an answer to that question in November, courtesy of Residocracy’s founder, spec-mansion developer Armen Melkonians. Melkonians ran for City Council on a hard anti-development platform. In past elections most serious candidates running on an anti-development platform (and all of them who have won election) have run with the endorsement of Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR). Melkonians, however, was an anti-development candidate who ran a strong campaign without a SMRR endorsement. Not only that, but (future write-in candidate) Phil Brock cleared the decks for Melkonians by not filing papers to run for council, and SMRR left an open seat by not endorsing incumbent Terry O’Day.
How did Melkonians do? He received 12,603 votes. Divide that number by 51,662, the total number of voters, and Melkonians’ tally was 24.4%. Meaning that not even a quarter of Santa Monica voters were angry enough about development to pay attention to local politics and then vote for the candidate who channeled that anger.
That doesn’t mean government shouldn’t continue to regulate development. Government regulates lots of businesses and industries. But we shouldn’t let the most extreme “vocal critics” set the agenda and control the debate.
These election results are, by the way, consistent with data from the City’s surveys over the years about the attitudes of residents. Most are happy to live in Santa Monica, and when asked (open-ended and unprompted) to name issues that concern them, only about a third mention traffic (and many fewer mention development).
Yet we have a political class that runs for cover whenever Residocracy or SMCLC say they speak for the residents.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Armen Melkonians, Measure LV, Residocracy, Rick Cole, Santa Monica politics, SMCLC, Tricia Crane by Frank Gruber. Bookmark the permalink.
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Linda on January 14, 2017 at 9:11 am said:
Thank you for this clear and concise analysis and pointing out the ‘other’ residents’ views and setting record straight as to who speaks for who in the various city neighborhoods.
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W. Bro Ted Foskett celebrates 50 years in the Craft
by West Kent Masons | Aug 6, 2015
Bro Ted was initiated into The Old Fraternity Lodge, 3547 on the 28th April 1965 and was welcomed into Kentish Round Table Lodge, 8685 in 2004. His attendance at KRTL was curtailed over the past year or two due to Alzheimer’s, that cruel and disabling disease. When the Lodge Secretary received a letter from the Provincial Office advising of the proposed Presentation of Ted’s 50 year celebration, this proved a problem due to Ted’s condition.
He’d had many falls and epileptic fits and it would be difficult to arrange a venue and date, as Ted was regularly in and out of hospital. The Lodge Secretary asked me, as Almoner, to discuss the matter with Ted’s wife Mo. The concern lay with Ted’s confused state. We felt it best if the presentation was made in the company of faces he recognised, and in a more informal atmosphere. The Provincial Office were very understanding and agreed to our proposal.
I collected the certificate and lapel badge from Bromley. In the meantime Ted was admitted to the RMBI Home at Chislehurst, and the presentation was planned for Friday 17th July. I accompanied our WM along with Fred Carey, our Grand Officer and KRTL Past Master, Fred having proposed Ted into KRTL and known him for over 35 years. The Home found us a nice quiet room overlooking the garden and, as Ted was having one of his “better” days, we all, including Ted, changed into our masonic regalia. Fred chose some kind and thoughtful words in presenting the certificate. The occasion was both emotional and memorable, a great privilege for the three of us and hopefully for Ted.
Richard Butler, Almoner, Kentish Round Table Lodge, No 8685
Note: The Executive have, on a number of occasions, presented certificates to Brethren in their homes when a Brother has been unable to attend Lodge meetings through illness or disability. On a couple of occasions the Executive have also presented a certificate to the Lodge, to enable the Lodge to celebrate the occasion and Lodge members to onward present the certificate in similar circumstances to the above.
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by: CNN Wire
The holidays are the perfect time for shoppers to hunt for a good deal. It’s also a prime opportunity for bad actors to scam consumers.
Hundreds of malicious Black Friday apps and websites will be looking to steal personal data and credit card information this year in the United States and United Kingdom, according to a new report from cybersecurity company RiskIQ.
Cybercriminals create fake mobile apps and landing pages with realistic branding, especially around major holidays and events like Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. They want to convince consumers to download bad apps or visit bogus sites and ultimately “phish” for sensitive data.
A scam circulating on popular messaging platform WhatsApp ahead of Black Friday promises 99%-off discounts on Amazon.com. On Twitter, Amazon’s official help account wrote: “Please don’t share your order/account/personal details in such websites.”
Consumers are especially vulnerable when shopping on smartphones.
Mobile browsers have a much shorter address field, and consumers may not see the full URL on their phone. This makes it harder to spot a scam.
According to marketing firm Criteo, over 40% of all sales in November and December 2017 were made on mobile phones, and the trend is only expected to grow.
Steve Ginty, senior product manager at RiskIQ, says to check that the website has a valid “HTTPS” connection with a lock symbol, not “HTTP,” which is vulnerable to attacks.
Users should also be careful when downloading apps. Bogus holiday deal apps made by scammers can fool users into typing in their credit card information, while other apps feature malware that can steal personal data or lock a smartphone until the user pays a ransom fee.
According to RiskIQ’s recent report, 5.5% out of the 4,324 Black Friday-related apps on global app stores are deemed malicious and unsafe, and 4.6% of Cyber Monday apps are malicious. The firm recommends scrutinizing who developed the app, and only downloading apps from official app stores like Apple and Google.
Yair Levy, a cybersecutity and information systems expert at Nova Southeastern University, says to only shop with retailers you trust.
“Don’t try to look for offers that are too good to be true. At the end of the day, that’s what they are,” he said.
Levy also suggests having a credit card dedicated to online shopping. This makes it easier to track purchases and identify fraudulent activity.
Shoppers should be wary of email deals, too. Phishing emails can look similar to those sent by top retailers, and consumers should ignore or delete these emails, no matter how good a deal seems. Cybersecurity company BullGuard says the aim of these fraudsters is to get consumers to click on a link within the email, and enter their personal information.
Some experts anticipate more scam activity this holiday season than last year.
“Every year we see this growing significantly,” said Levy. “Why? Because it becomes more successful. Every year more people shop online.”
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ACLU • Death Penalty
Following Passage of Prop. 66 and Efforts to Resume Capital Punishment in CA, ACLU Files Suit to Stall Executions
by Taylor Walker
Written by Taylor Walker
The ACLU of Northern California and the law firm Covington & Burling filed a lawsuit Tuesday that aims to block the state from resuming executions. The complaint argues the constitutionality of CA Penal Code §3604, which gives full discretion to bureaucrats at the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation rather than elected officials to “decide and resolve the key, fundamental policy questions implicated by the death penalty.”
“This law gives unelected bureaucrats too much power and it shields legislators from accountability on the death penalty process,” said Linda Lye, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU-NC Foundation. “This case is about one fundamental issue: accountability.”
There are 728 men and 21 women currently on death row in the state.
On November 8, voters narrowly passed Proposition 66, which will speed up the death penalty appeals process. Voters rejected a competing bill to abolish the death penalty. Former CA Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former El Dorado County supervisor Ron Briggs (whose father sponsored the current death penalty law back in 1978) filed a lawsuit last Wednesday, seeking a stay on Prop.66 from the state Supreme Court.
The ACLU suit calls into question the CDCR’s “unbridled discretion to develop protocols” regarding the use of lethal injection drugs or lethal gas, and the “pain, speed, reliability, and secrecy” of the process.
“The people of California, through their elected leaders, must have a say in and take responsibility for how this irreversible punishment is carried out,” said Mitch Kamin, a partner with Covington & Burling. “Whether or not you agree with the death penalty, there is no doubt that it is irreversible. It cannot be exempt from careful scrutiny in an open forum — the Legislature.”
Calling It A Spade says:
California, its time to get on with it. All the folks on death row “earned” their place in San Q. I for one believe death penalty cases are carefully reviewed by the County’s District Attorney before the decision is made to file Special Circumstances allegations. And from there, it’s a matter of delivering justice and punishment, period. So as many prisoners have said while on the table, strapped down and IV plugged in, their last words have been, “Let’s get on with it.”
Conspiracy... says:
The “people have spoken” however the ACLU does not like the words that came from their mouths. The ACLU started out protecting the rights and civil liberties of the hard working, decent citizens who were being abused and mistreated by corrupt governments and corporations. How have they degenerated into a self serving, anti-government, anarchist leaning, criminal defense organization? The very citizens who they once defended are now their adversary it would seem. I know it’s cliche, but what about the rights of the victims and their families? Alas,I guess this is what you do when you have fought all the good fights, have no real causes that need tending to and are struggling to keep your organization, bank rolled and relevant in the 21st century. And people wonder why folks have so little faith in elected officials and the entire voting process.
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Kentucky’s metal artists deserve more support
Casey Warner
Evil was still lurking the night after Halloween in the form of three shredding bands who put on a display at The A-Frame.
The Bowling Green area heavy metal scene is one that is overlooked and unknown to a lot of music fans who call Warren County home. On Friday night, though, the turnout was plentiful, and support for these three hard-working bands exceeded expectations.
“We definitely didn’t expect that many people to show up,” said Blood Curse guitarist Aaron Franks.
The Caneyville natives started the night off with speed. Consisting of bassist Scott Briggs and wedded couple Aaron and Olivia Franks on guitar and drums, this group pumps out plenty of riffs and an old-school sound metal purists can’t deny.
Guitarist and vocalist Aaron Franks’ stage presence is enough alone to grab any rocker’s attention right off the bat.
Laying down leads with long, flowing red hair and tight jeans, he can’t help but remind the audience of Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine.
Even more impressive is his wife, Olivia, laying down the beats for the band. It’s not often that you see a husband and wife collaborate as well as these two do in their style.
Bassist Scott Briggs is a jack of all trades, not only laying down the groove for Blood Curse but manning the drums for Bihargam, the second band on the bill that night.
Blood Curse ended its set with a deafening “Angel Witch” cover met with great praise from the audience.
Maybe the most impressive sight to see on this night of wicked music was Bihargam, taking the stage clothed in cult-like attire. The drummer and both guitarists wore black cloaks with hoods, while the vocalist displayed a zombified Catholic priest look.
Not only was the look of the band fitting, but so was the loudness of the music. By the time the band began its set the crowd had filled in, something not so common for these local artists.
Lead guitarist Josh Hines was absolutely primed for this occasion, not missing a note in his onslaught. His riffs sounded like those of legendary black metal bands Asphyx and Mayhem.
In his second set of the night, drummer Briggs put on a show as well, proving he was up for the task. Briggs’ powerful cymbals and fast-paced style suited the quartet very nicely.
As near flawless as Bihargam’s set was, the band members knew they had to play up to a high standard with local band Granshaw up next.
Hailing from Bowling Green, Granshaw has made itself known in the region, opening for acts such as Thy Art is Murder and Phillip H. Anselmo and the Illegals.
Of the three bands, Granshaw definitely put out the thickest and heaviest sound, proving its experience. With a sound ranging from Lamb of God to Pantera to Sepultura at times, these boys are sure to shred whenever they are present.
Granshaw’s set consisted of several songs off its 2018 EP, “Bloody Hands, Clear Conscience,” which can be found on Spotify and Apple Music.
Although it was an excellent night of music from all three bands, publicity and support is something these talented but under-appreciated acts always need. Heavy metal shows are few and far between in Bowling Green, and there is absolutely no reason this should be the case.
With a plethora of small venues in the area like The A-Frame, this incredible genre of music should be put on display much more often than it is. There are so many hard-working, talented musicians across this state that are passionate about the metal genre but don’t get the love they deserve.
With the great turnout Friday, there is room for optimism for the future of the Bowling Green metal scene.
“To me, it shows the metal and rock scene in Bowling Green isn’t dead yet,” Aaron Franks said. “In a world where MIDI beats and auto-tune rule the charts, we can still pack a venue with our pointy guitars and huge amps. I just hope we can keep it going.”
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Right now, Justin Trudeau is considering using $2 Billion of your tax dollars to bail out Texas oil giant Kinder Morgan’s floundering pipeline and tanker scheme. Dozens of First Nations still don’t have clean drinking water. We’re facing a housing crisis. Renewable energy projects are desperate for more funding. But Trudeau thinks there’s enough extra cash lying around to hand over as much as $2 billion to bail out a Texas oil giant?
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Kinder Morgan would directly result in expansion of the Alberta tar sands, further setting us back on our climate commitments. A company called Teck Resources has filed for the largest-ever open pit tar sands mine in northern Alberta. The $20-billion Teck Frontier Mine would rip up huge swaths of pristine Boreal forest, destroy critical wildlife habitat, violate the rights of local First Nations, unleash a flood of global warming pollution, and pollute sensitive watersheds that flow into Canada’s largest World Heritage Park. All this at a time when the world is rejecting Canada’s dirty, energy intensive oil. Teck Resources has signed contracts to ship oil through Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. Their open pit mine is driving the business case for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
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MP Mark Gerretsen and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected based on the promises of true reconciliation with Indigenous communities and action on climate change. Not only does support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline run contrary to these goals, but it makes those problems much worse than when they took office.
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Kinder Morgan is meeting with their investors on May 9th. We need to send a strong message that this already delayed project is on shaky ground. Kinder Morgan has also expressed they’ll be making a decision whether to proceed with the project by May 31st.
350 Kingston visited MP Gerretsen on March 23rd to give him a sample of water from the Burrard Inlet, BC for safekeeping. We explained that the best way to keep it safe (and keep our climate safe) is to not build the pipeline. Gerretsen told us that he would only act on the issue if “a steady stream of Kingstonians came to his office to express opposition to the project”.
Let’s do everything we can to make this happen.
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Argentina's peso in freefall despite central bank rate hike to 60 percent
August 30, 2018 by investing.com in Commodities & Futures
© Reuters. A man uses an ATM machine as a man walks by in Buenos Aires’ financial district
By Hugh Bronstein and Jorge Otaola
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s peso lost as much as nearly one-fifth of its value on Thursday despite the central bank’s hiking its benchmark interest rate to a dizzying 60 percent as investors panicked over President Mauricio Macri’s handling of an economic crisis.
Onerous borrowing costs combined with government spending cuts and a drought that crippled Argentina’s agricultural sector this year have slammed Latin America’s third-largest economy. It is expected to enter recession in the third quarter.
The political fortunes of Macri, who until recently had been expected to easily win re-election late next year, may also be waning.
He is likely to face mounting opposition from emboldened unions after promising further austerity measures following an International Monetary Fund warning on the government’s need to cut its fiscal deficit, with voters mindful of the 2002-2003 economic crisis and the burdensome cuts brought by past IMF deals.
“Rapid adjustment will be painful, recession could be deep, and political risk will spike amid dwindling confidence at home,” Fiona Mackie, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said on Twitter.
In an effort to stem a slide in the peso , the world’s worst-performing currency this year, and to curb inflation running at 31 percent, the central bank’s monetary policy committee at an emergency meeting on Thursday voted unanimously to raise its benchmark rate to 60 percent from 45 percent.
The surprise move, however, failed to stabilize the peso. It finished down 13.12 percent at a record closing low of 39.25 pesos per U.S. dollar, after touching 42 pesos earlier in the day.
The market turmoil erupted early on Wednesday after Macri said he had reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund to accelerate disbursement of a $50 billion loan program agreed in June, in a misguided attempt to calm investor nerves.
Instead, Macri’s admission that there was a “lack of confidence in the markets” about Argentina’s ability to finance its deficit next year sowed panic among some investors. The country has $24.9 billion in peso- and foreign currency-denominated debt payments next year.
The IMF said hours later that it was considering speeding up payments because of the financial meltdown, but that Argentina needed to adopt stronger fiscal and monetary policies.
In an effort to restore calm, senior government officials pledged to accelerate budget cuts in light of market concern about Argentina’s ability to finance the fiscal deficit, but did not provide specifics about new targets.
The central bank auctioned $330 million on Thursday, bringing this week’s interventions to more than $1 billion. In efforts to prop up the currency the bank has sold more than $13.5 billion this year, leaving it with $54.3 billion in foreign currency reserves.
The MerVal stock market () closed up 5.2 percent, led by export-focused companies that benefit from a weaker currency.
Despite the deal with the IMF, which had calmed financial markets briefly after it was announced in June, Macri has struggled to convince investors he can restore economic growth while cutting Argentina’s budget deficit, reducing inflation and making the $640 billion economy more competitive.
Elected in 2015 on a pledge to end Argentina’s repeated cycles of crises, Macri said his orthodox policies would set the stage for sustainable growth. But the private investment he counted on never materialized while cuts to public utility subsidies jacked up water and gas bills, fueling inflation.
MORE FISCAL TIGHTENING
Although Argentina’s center-left opposition has been weakened by a series of corruption scandals, a rise in poverty levels due to soaring inflation and anger at job cuts under his economic reform is galvanizing the opposition.
“I do not have enough to make ends meet, so imagine people who make less than me,” said bank worker Julio Varela. “We are struggling and I voted for Macri!”
The country’s biggest labor group, the CGT, and other unions have called for general strikes in late September to protest Macri’s belt-tightening measures.
Despite the growing social pressures, Macri’s Cabinet chief, Marcos Pena, told reporters on Thursday that the government would “find ways to hasten the fiscal tightening process.”
Argentina has already agreed with the IMF to cut its fiscal deficit from 3.7 percent of gross domestic product last year to 2.7 percent in 2018 and 1.3 percent in 2019.
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About Kathleen Bolton
Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton. She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter--both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.
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October 26, 2014 By Kathleen Bolton
photo by Corey Holms
As many may recall, in July, after a few years watching independent publishing go from vanity press to a viable path to publication, and after kicking the idea around, we took the plunge and decided to experiment with a project we are calling Writer Unboxed Publishing. We had no idea how the project would evolve – we needed a guinea pig! I offered up my novel Steel and Song: The Aileron Chronicles Book 1, to gauge the feasibility of such a venture.
Since then we’ve gathered valuable metrics. We’re still in the discovery phase of WU Publishing, but one thing is clear: the response of the WU community to both the proposed venture and to Steel and Song has impacted our thinking in unexpected ways. An engaged, active population is one of the strengths of the WU brand, and while we anticipated WU would be supportive in general, we were blown away by the magnitude of support and enthusiasm. I want to thank everyone who bought a copy, tweeted, Facebooked, blogged, left a review, and were in general amazing. We could not have asked for a better launch.
If we move ahead with this project, we’d like for WU Publishing to be more than an independent publisher. Because the strengths of WU are unique (and awesome), we would want WU Publishing to align with WU’s culture and leverage those strengths to both the benefit of the authors who are considering publishing under the WU imprint, and readers who are looking for unboxed books.
How we leverage those strengths to produce successful books is what we are currently focused on. Those strengths are: [Read more…]
Filed Under: Business, REAL WORLD, self-publishing, Writer Unboxed Publishing
October 2, 2012 By Kathleen Bolton
Kath here. It’s been a minute, hasn’t it, WU community? When Therese and I started Writer Unboxed, we never dreamed that our little blog about the craft of writing fiction would grow to the vibrant online haven for writers that it is today. We thank YOU for making that happen, and for being a part […]
Filed Under: Contest
November 19, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Kath here. I love it when we are able to feature the debut of someone who has been part of the WU (and now RU) community. Some of you many recognize Erika Liodice’s name. Her website and blog Beyond the Gray have been a source of inspiration to the online writing community for years. And […]
Filed Under: CRAFT, Interviews
September 12, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Yo, WUers! It seems like forever since I’ve posted. Like you, I’ve been busy juggling writing and real life. I do want to give you a head’s up that Therese and I have been working on an exciting new initiative that will dovetail with the WU community, and that project has been my focus for […]
Filed Under: CRAFT
July 8, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Former Washington DC journalist Sarah Pekkanen left the ratrace of covering the political beat and turned her skills to writing women’s fiction novels. Her debut book, THE OPPOSITE OF ME, garnered rave reviews and hit the bestseller lists. Her followup novel, SKIPPING A BEAT, also recieved advanced praise and earned a coveted spot on Oprah’s O Magazine “Pick […]
Filed Under: Interviews
Sarah Pekkanen seems to have begun her career as a novelist under a charmed star. Her debut novel THE OPPOSITE OF ME, recieved praise from heavy hitters such as Jennifer Weiner, and landed on many Must-Buy lists. Sometimes it’s hard to live up to a big debut, but Pekkanen did so with her followup novel. SKIPPING A BEAT […]
May 13, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Last week, we introduced you to YA novelist Alyssa Sheinmel. Known for her authentic storytelling and gripping plots, Alyssa’s latest book, The Lucky Kind, is garnering terrific reviews. I found myself savoring passages that on first glance were so simple yet when peeled back were incredibly deep. It takes a special writer to step back and […]
May 6, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Alyssa B. Sheinmel has quietly been building a reputation in the YA market for excellence. She came on my radar when her debut novel, The Beautiful Between, garnered a slew of positive reviews and buzz. The New York Post called it “Endearing, realistic and heart-wrenching. Sheinmel offers a thoughtful look at teens,” while Publisher’s Weekly […]
April 25, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Kath here. When prolific thriller author Amanda Stevens guested with Writer Unboxed last October and outlined her Strange Attractor theory of creating a marketable concept (genius!), I knew I wanted to have her back to talk about her newest series The Graveyard Queen, and its lead novel The Restorer (in stores now). Check out the insanely good trailers for The […]
March 22, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
Kath here, with some good news to share. Today is the release date of contributor John Vorhaus‘s new novel, The Albuquerque Turkey! You can read an excerpt from the first chapter HERE, then head on over to check out John’s kickass book trailer HERE. Congrats, John! Brunonia Barry‘s latest novel, The Map of True Places, has just released […]
February 11, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
February 4, 2011 By Kathleen Bolton
I love WWII-era sagas, so when Therese suggested I interview Kristina McMorris, I jumped on it. McMorris’ debut novel LETTERS FROM HOME is set in 1944 in the Chicago homefront and follows the lives of three women as they negotiate love, loss, and the social changes happening for women during the war era. Can you say literary catnip? Of […]
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National legal protection to stop national parks being turned into paddocks or logging coupes
A ‘national park trigger’ in Australia’s environment law, as proposed today by Labor, would subject commercial proposals in national parks to stronger national oversight and would be a welcome improvement, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today.
At present potentially damaging projects proposed for national parks may be assessed by the federal government, but only if they might affect ‘matters of national significance’.
Labor proposes that any commercial development proposal in a national park would require federal approval before occurring.
The everyday management and operation of national parks would remain a matter for state and territory governments.
“ACF has been calling for national protection for our national reserve system for a number of years,” said ACF campaigns director Paul Sinclair.
“Today’s commitment by Labor is an important move in the right direction.
“Proposals for activities that would damage our land, air and water, like grazing stock and logging, should be subject to rigorous environmental assessment, yet in recent years we’ve seen numerous examples of a cavalier and reckless approach to protected areas.
“The previous Victorian Liberal government reintroducing commercial cattle grazing in the sensitive Alpine National Park and the Newman government in Queensland allowed cattle to graze in protected areas, while the current NSW government has given the green light to redgum logging in the Murray Valley National Park.
“Labor’s proposed trigger would not cover the broader national reserve system or private conservation areas, which is disappointing, as these tend to be the areas most at risk from damaging commercial projects – like the China First coal mine, which is likely to wipe out the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in central Queensland.
“Neither would Labor’s trigger commit the federal government to re-establish funding for reserve system expansion – something that is critically needed to protect threatened species and water catchments,” Dr Sinclair said.
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Charter of rights should not be foisted on Australians without a referendum
Media Release: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009
The fact that the Australian Human Rights Commission can get around the constitutional role of the courts by injecting itself into the processes for a charter of rights is hardly likely to evoke confidence, and doesn’t address the central question of whether a charter is the best or even a necessary safeguard of human rights, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today.
ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said that the Australian public had already comprehensively knocked back via referendum proposals to enshrine various rights in the constitution and they should not have a charter of rights foisted on them without their agreement through another referendum.
“In September 1988 the majority of Australians (69.2 per cent) resoundingly rejected proposed legislation to place in the constitution several civil rights such as the right to trial by jury, freedom of religion, and rights regarding the compulsory acquisition of property,” Mr Wallace said.
“The AHRC has continued to push this barrow, but there has been nothing to show that public opinion has changed since then. The current National Consultation on Human Rights is showing itself to be far from representative and it certainly shouldn’t be judged as an accurate gauge of community opinion. Only another referendum could do this.”
Mr Wallace said that this is not a question of whether human rights should be protected or not – of course they should be. It is a matter of how best to do it.
“The real issue is what is the best way to protect human rights and there is a great deal to recommend the time-honoured method in Australia of doing this through specific tailored legislation relevant to the right in question,” he said.
“Charter proponents seem to forget that Australia is one of the freest countries in the world and our nation has shown itself to be very sensitive to what we see as violations of human rights – without having had a federal bill or charter of rights.
“Whether or not the constitutional impediments can be overcome, the Federal Government should not go ahead with such a momentous change unless it clearly knows the will of the people. This can only be achieved through a referendum.”
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Marketing & Communications Manager at Scottish EDGE
Before getting an opportunity through AAI, what was your experience with job-hunting?
Due to a successful and some fluky PR stunt during my studies, I was in the fortunate position of having acquired a marketing and design role shortly after graduating. However, when the time later came to find something new, I found that as a relatively recent graduate, I didn’t have the experience or qualifications to apply for many of the roles I came across on many of the job sites out there.
What I did find, however, was that the quality of position on offer via AAI was of an equal or greater standard than what I was able to find on those sites, and they were geared at my level experience.
Please describe your experiences of AAI and how your opportunity has benefited you.
AAI were great from the outset. I saw the Ad for the placement with Scottish EDGE, which I knew was a fantastic and rare opportunity. After submitting an application, I was contacted by one of the AAI team to inform me that I had been shortlisted for interview and was talked through the process to ensure I was well-prepped.
They also wanted to make sure that I was a good fit for the EDGE team and, importantly, that the EDGE team was a good fit for me. That was three years ago and I am still in regular contact with the AAI team as in my experience, they take an active and supportive interest in there interns far beyond the initial placement. I’m also friends with a lot of other former interns of AAI as there is a strong alumni network.
What were your roles and responsibilities in your position?
My role as Marketing and Communications Assistant was very varied. Scottish EDGE had undergone a rebrand just prior to my arrival and it was my job to role this out across all of the active comms channels and redesign all existing marketing collateral in-line with the new branding.
I also had to take charge of and manage the social media channels which the company was already using and establish a strong presence on others that it was less active on. I quickly got to cut my teeth in writing-up press comms and event management - two areas in which I hadn’t had a great deal of experience before, but now play a crucial role in my day-to-day.
By the end of my internship with EDGE, I was much more confident in many key areas of creative marketing, from social media strategy and campaign management to print and digital marketing design.
As a mature graduate I had, had many job roles in several sectors pre, during and post-university studies, but the months spent on this internship were by far the most rewarding of my career up until that point.
What are you doing now in your career?
Having already qualified and worked as a nurse sometime before returning to study marketing and design, a career path with purpose was something that I greatly valued. It was apparent from the get-go that Scottish EDGE, with its small but highly dedicated and effective team, was very unique in its service and operation.
Not only was I able to fulfil my desire for creativity, but I was able to do so in a Social Enterprise dedicated to offering support to those who just needed that extra boost to get their business off the ground. The notion of a funding organisation willing to take a gamble on deserving early-stage entrepreneurs who otherwise may not get support so readily was hugely appealing and very exciting.
When my internship was up, the offer of a contract extension with Scottish EDGE was offered and I jumped at it! Now, three years later I’m thrilled to be in the role of Marketing and Comms Manager and I’m hugely grateful to both EDGE and AAI for the opportunity. Most recently, I oversaw a campaign which sent our new competition trophy to the 'EDGE of Space', so that was different!
Progressing to the role of Manager has meant that as well as continuing to do many of my previous roles with much greater autonomy and responsibility, I’ve also had to become competent in delegating internally and externally and oversee effective campaign delivery from concept to execution. I’m very fortunate that the leadership approach at EDGE allows for a great deal of personal development in a supportive environment with friends more than colleagues.
What would you say to other graduates who are considering an opportunity through AAI?
To anyone else considering a placement through Adopt-an-Intern, I’d say grab it with both hands! The roles and opportunities on offer are unlike any I’ve seen on other Grad or Returner internship/recruitment/scheme sites. There are real salaries for real work.
The team at AAI aren’t a stop-over on your career path, they’re with you for the long run, from pre-interview prep to on-site follow-up and singing your praises at every career highlight from then on. They take great pride in all 1500 (and counting) of their alumni success stories and I'll be forever grateful to be number 1284.
Thanks Jack!
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The Gaia-ESO Survey: A globular cluster escapee in the Galactic halo ⋆,⋆⋆
K. Lind1,2, S. E. Koposov2,3, C. Battistini4, A. F. Marino5, G. Ruchti4, A. Serenelli6, C. C. Worley2, A. Alves-Brito5, M. Asplund5, P. S. Barklem1, T. Bensby4, M. Bergemann2, S. Blanco-Cuaresma7, A. Bragaglia11, B. Edvardsson1, S. Feltzing4, P. Gruyters1, U. Heiter1, P. Jofre2, A. J. Korn1, T. Nordlander1, N. Ryde4, C. Soubiran7, G. Gilmore2, S. Randich8, A. M. N. Ferguson18, R. D. Jeffries17, A. Vallenari16, C. Allende Prieto9,10, E. Pancino11,12, A. Recio-Blanco13, D. Romano11, R. Smiljanic14, M. Bellazzini11, F. Damiani19, V. Hill13, P. de Laverny13, R. J. Jackson17, C. Lardo15 and S. Zaggia16
1 Department of Physics and AstronomyUppsala University, Box 516, 75120, Uppsala Sweden
e-mail: karin.lind@physics.uu.se
2 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK
3 Moscow MV Lomonosov State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119992 Moscow, Russia
4 Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
5 Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia
6 Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Fac. Ciéncies, Torre C5 parell 2, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
7 Lab. d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, 2 rue de l’Observatoire, BP 89, 33271 Floirac Cedex, France
8 INAF–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Florence, Italy
9 Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
10 Universidad de La Laguna, Dept. Astrofísica , 38206, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
11 INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
12 ASI Science Data Center, via del Politecnico SNC, 00133 Roma, Italy
13 Lab. Lagrange, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
14 Department for Astrophysics, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, ul. Rabiańska 8, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
15 Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
16 INAF–Padova Observatory, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
17 Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
18 Institute of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
19 INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy
Accepted: 27 January 2015
A small fraction of the halo field is made up of stars that share the light element (Z ≤ 13) anomalies characteristic of second generation globular cluster (GC) stars. The ejected stars shed light on the formation of the Galactic halo by tracing the dynamical history of the clusters, which are believed to have once been more massive. Some of these ejected stars are expected to show strong Al enhancement at the expense of shortage of Mg, but until now no such star has been found. We search for outliers in the Mg and Al abundances of the few hundreds of halo field stars observed in the first eighteen months of the Gaia-ESO public spectroscopic survey. One halo star at the base of the red giant branch, here referred to as 22593757-4648029 is found to have [ Mg/Fe ] = −0.36 ± 0.04 and [ Al/Fe ] = 0.99 ± 0.08, which is compatible with the most extreme ratios detected in GCs so far. We compare the orbit of 22593757-4648029 to GCs of similar metallicity andfind it unlikely that this star has been tidally stripped with low ejection velocity from any of the clusters. However, both chemical and kinematic arguments render it plausible that the star has been ejected at high velocity from the anomalous GC ω Centauri within the last few billion years. We cannot rule out other progenitor GCs, because some may have disrupted fully, and the abundance and orbital data are inadequate for many of those that are still intact.
Key words: stars: abundances / stars: Population II / techniques: spectroscopic / globular clusters: general / Galaxy: stellar content / Galaxy: halo
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Based on data acquired by the Gaia-ESO Survey, programme ID 188.B-3002. Observations were made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory.
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Appendix A is available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
The majority of stars in the Galactic halo reside in the field, leaving only 2% of the total stellar mass in globular clusters (GCs, see e.g. Vesperini et al., 2010, and references therein). How large a fraction of today’s field stars escaped from a cluster and the original sizes of these clusters is a matter of much debate. With few exceptions, field and cluster stars share similar chemical compositions for alpha, Fe-peak and neutron-capture elements (Gratton et al., 2004; Pritzl et al., 2005). However, the GCs display unique abundance patterns for lighter elements that are not typically seen in the field, in particular for C, N, O, Na, Mg, and Al. The existence of such anomalies have been known for decades (Cottrell & Da Costa, 1981; Kraft et al., 1997) and have been mapped in detail in large GC samples (e.g. Carretta et al., 2009). We now know that multiple populations of stars reside within each cluster, with some stars having been polluted by the elements produced during H-burning at high temperatures by more massive stars (Denisenkov & Denisenkova, 1989; Ventura et al., 2001; Decressin et al., 2007). Consequently, a large fraction of present-day GC stars are enhanced in N and Na, at the cost of depleted levels of C and O. The second generation stars are believed to also be enhanced in He, the main product of H burning.
The correlating and anti-correlating patterns of the lighter elements characteristic of GCs are seen neither in disk open clusters (de Silva et al., 2009; Bragaglia et al., 2014) nor in the Galactic bulge (Lecureur et al., 2007; Bensby et al., 2013). Therefore, by finding out how many field stars have light element anomalies and thus likely originated in GCs, we can study the GC-field link. The largest systematic studies undertaken so far are those by Martell & Grebel (2010) and Martell et al. (2011), who focussed on C and N anomalies as traced by molecular bands in SDSS/Segue spectra. The latter study reports that 3% of field stars display the chemical characteristics of GC stars. This small number agrees well with higher-resolution studies with fewer number statistics, e.g. Carretta et al. (2010; 1.4%) and Ramírez et al. (2012; 3 ± 2%). The Ramírez et al. study could confirm both elevated Na and depleted O-abundances in two halo field dwarfs, a clear indication of a GC connection. As discussed, e.g., by Gratton et al. (2012), models of halo formation must account for much higher initial masses of GCs to explain this fraction of second generation GC stars in the field (however, see Prantzos & Charbonnel 2006; and Bastian et al. 2013).
The O-Na anti-correlation was found in all GCs where it has been investigated with enough statistics, indicating that the progenitor objects were massive enough to activate the NeNa-cycle. However, the anti-correlating abundance pattern of Mg and Al that is expected from the operation of the MgAl-chain manifests itself less uniformly. Several clusters display a small Mg-spread and a significant Al-spread (Carretta et al., 2009) while very few clusters, e.g. ω Cen and NGC 2808, show a pronounced Mg-Al anti-correlation (see Fig. 2). The likelihood of finding escaped stars in the field with clear GC characteristics for both Mg and Al is thus small and it requires a large spectroscopic survey to detect them in significant numbers. Here we report on the first discovery of a halo field star with both strongly depleted Mg and strongly elevated Al abundance.
The Gaia-ESO public spectroscopic survey (Gilmore et al., 2012) is a five-year survey with FLAMES on the VLT, which has been observing since December 2011. Two multi-object spectrographs operate simultaneously in high resolution (UVES) and medium resolution (GIRAFFE/MEDUSA), with fainter targets such as distant halo stars, allocated to the GIRAFFE fibres. Two settings are used for the halo stars; HR10, which covers 535−565 nm at a spectral resolving power of R = λ/δλ = 19 800, and HR21, which covers 845−900 nm at R = 16 200. The combined analysis of data in the two GIRAFFE settings allows for a determination of stellar parameters, Al, alpha-elements, and Fe-peak elements. For 22593757-4648029, we achieve an average S/N per pixel of 25 in HR10 and 55 in HR21 after 2 × 1500 s of exposure in each setting (see sample spectra in Fig. 1). The observational data are summarised in Table 1. A full account of the target selection, data reduction and processing will be given in a dedicated GIRAFFE data release paper.
Data for 22593757-4648029.
Several independent analysis nodes, using independent methods, participate in the determination of stellar parameters and chemical abundances in the Gaia-ESO Survey. The results of individual nodes are thoroughly examined, evaluated, and homogenised to arrive at the finally recommended values for each star. We adopt the homogenised, recommended results for 22593757-4648029, based on spectra from the internal data release 2 (GESviDR2Final). The object is classified as a metal-poor star at the base of the red giant branch with Teff = 5250 ± 34 ± 100 K, log g = 2.84 ± 0.54 ± 0.25 and [ Fe/H ] = −1.49 ± 0.05 ± 0.20 (random and systematic error). The details of all the analysis methods and the homogenisation procedure will be described in Recio-Blanco et al. (in prep.). The distance to the star was determined based on Bayesian fits to evolutionary tracks using our derived spectroscopic parameters following the methodology described in Serenelli et al. (2013).
Observed (dotted line) and best-fit synthetic (solid line) spectra of 22593757-4648029. Shaded regions indicate ± 0.3 dex in abundance.
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The peculiar chemical composition of 22593757-4648029 is reported in Table 1. While three of the alpha-elements, Si, Ca, and Ti, are compatible with the standard 0.4 dex [ α/ Fe ]-enhancement characteristic of metal-poor stars, Mg falls approximately 0.8 dex below the expected value. In contrast, Al is instead enhanced to 1 dex above solar. As discussed below, this is compatible with the most extreme populations found in GCs and we argue that the star is a GC escapee. It was discovered in a sub-sample of ~7300 FGK stars (half of all GIRAFFE targets) with detectable Mg and Al abundances in the disk and halo field. Based on a simple two-component fit to the metallicity distribution function of this sub-sample (peaks at [ Fe/H ] = −1.6 ± 0.5 and [ Fe/H ] = 0.24 ± 0.36), we expect an approximate halo fraction of 5−10%, i.e. a few hundred stars. Finding one such chemically unusual star among them is not inconsistent with estimates of GC escapees in the halo of 3% (Martell et al., 2011), noting that there are also two other marginal candidates with [ Mg/Fe ] ~ 0, [ Al/Fe ] ~ 1, and [ Fe/H ] = −0.6/−1.3. We omit these additional stars from the discussion and plots because of the significantly lower S/N of their spectra.
Mg and Al abundances of normal field stars and five GCs compared to 22593757-4648029 (red square with error bars). The average metallicity is listed after the cluster name. Abundance data represented with plus signs are taken from Worley & Cottrell (2010; NGC 362), Marino et al. (2009, 2011; M 22), Norris & Da Costa (1995; ω Cen), Yong et al. (2005; NGC 6752), Carretta (2006; NGC 2808), Carretta et al. (2009; NGC 2808), and Cohen & Kirby (2012; NGC 2419). GES recommended data are marked with bullets. Arrows indicate upper limits.
While we consider a GC origin of 22593757-4648029 the most likely explanation for its non-typical abundance patterns, one may speculate on alternative reasons, e.g., mass transfer from a binary companion in the field. The so-called CEMP-s stars (e.g. Lucatello et al., 2005) are a class of metal-poor stars believed to have been polluted with gas transferred from an AGB companion. These are characterised by enhancement in carbon and slow neutron-capture elements. The spectral range does not allow a stringent constraint on [C/Fe], but the upper limit [ Y/Fe ] < 0.11 excludes strong s-process enhancement. Further, CEMP stars are not characterised by low Mg abundances; no star in the sample presented by Allen et al. (2012, including literature studies) has sub-solar [Mg/Fe]. According to Ventura et al. (2011), AGB stars with ~6 M⊙ produce the most extreme Mg-Al-Si nucleosynthesis. If such a star was once a binary companion to our presumably old and low-mass field star, the system would have an unusual mass ratio.
Low [Mg/Fe]-ratios are commonly found in dwarf spheroidal galaxies at this metallicity, but are then accompanied by similarly low ratios of other α elements, like Ca, Si, and Ti, with respect to Fe (see e.g. Koch & McWilliam, 2008; Kirby et al., 2009). No [Al/Fe] enhancement has been found (nor is it expected) in these systems.
In Fig. 2, we compare the Mg and Al abundances of the field star to six different GCs. M 22 and NGC 3621, like most GCs, display no striking Mg-Al anti-correlation and the lowest [Mg/Fe] values of these clusters are far from that of 22593757-4648029. NGC 6752, NGC 2808 and ω Cen all show strong evidence of multiplicity and internal He variations, having at least triple main sequences and extended horizontal branches (e.g. Piotto et al., 2007; Milone et al., 2013; King et al., 2012). As seen in Fig. 2, the [Al/Fe] ratios in the most highly polluted stars in these clusters are as high as that of 22593757-4648029, while the [Mg/Fe] ratios of stars in NGC 2808 and ω Cen are almost as low. However, NGC 2808 is too metal-rich to well match the metallicity of 22593757-4648029, making ω Cen the more likely parent GC. Unfortunately, there are surprisingly few Mg abundance measurements published for this otherwise well-studied GC. The fact that [Mg/Fe] ratios as low as −0.36 can be found in Galactic clusters is evidenced by the peculiar object NGC2419, where the record holder has [Mg/Fe] ≈ −1 (Mucciarelli et al., 2012; Cohen & Kirby, 2012). This cluster, however, is instead too metal-poor to be a plausible parent.
It is easily realised that chemistry alone in not conclusive, because as many as 50 GCs have [Fe/H] within ± 0.20 dex of the field star (Harris, 1996, 2010 edition) and most of them lack Mg and Al data. However, further insight can be obtained from the known kinematics of the star (see Table 1) and about half of the candidate GCs with matching metallicity (D. Casetti2). We proceed under the assumption that the progenitor cluster is still intact, while evidence has also been found in the inner halo for disrupted GCs (Bernard et al., 2014).
We assess the likelihood that the star was previously inside a known GC by integrating the current orbit of the star and the GC 5 Gyr back in time in the Milky Way potential and look for close encounters. Following the work of e.g. Johnston et al. (1999) and Price-Whelan & Johnston (2013), the energy of the star during a close encounter is computed as where δV is the relative velocity of the star to the cluster and δr is the distance from the cluster to the star. Encounters within rGC and with E < 0 are consistent with the star having been tidally stripped with a relative velocity smaller than the escape velocity, while encounters within rGC and E> 0 are consistent with the star having been ejected with a velocity of approximately . We proceed to Monte-Carlo sample the proper motions, radial velocities, and distances of the star and of the clusters according to their error bars. Then, for each Monte-Carlo sample, we determine whether encounters occurred within the tidal radius and record the star’s energy at the time. The fraction of Monte-Carlo samples with close encounters and therefore gives us a probability that a star was ejected from a given cluster with velocity V<Vejection i.e. P(ejected,V<Vejection | GC). The plot of this cumulative probability is shown in Fig. 3.
Cumulative probability that 22593757-4648029 was ejected from a given GC with a velocity lower than Vejection within the last five billion years.
Evidently, given the current observational errors, it seems unlikely that the star has been tidally stripped from any cluster i.e. with small ejection velocity. But if we allow it to have been ejected at high velocity (>100 km s-1), which is possible in some scenarios involving black holes and binary system interactions (Gvaramadze et al., 2009; Lützgendorf et al., 2012), a handful of clusters could possibly have been associated with 22593757-4648029 in the past. Normalising the total probability to one, the top three posterior probabilities of ejections assuming Vejection < 200 km s-1 is NGC 5139 (ω Cen) 44%, NGC 6656 (M 22) 12%, NGC 362 12% while for some clusters this probability is negligible, e.g. NGC 5272, NGC 5904, and NGC 7006. More details of the orbit calculations are listed in Appendix A.
Interestingly, we note that ω Cen, which appeared most plausible already from the limited chemical information at hand is also favoured based on pure dynamical arguments. A more detailed chemical abundance analysis, including more elements, would help to verify this hypothesis. In particular, Mn and Cu abundances may help because a fraction of ω Cen stars are under-abundant in these elements compared to the field and other GCs (Cunha et al., 2010; Romano & Matteucci, 2007, and references therein). In a few years time, the Gaia mission will have greatly improved the accuracy and statistics of distance and proper-motion information for stars and star clusters. Combining this information with radial velocities and chemistry from ground-based telescopes, we will be able to connect stars like 22593757-4648029 to their parent GCs with greater confidence.
Mg and Al abundance data for NGC 362 were determined using spectra and stellar parameters obtained by Worley & Cottrell (2010).
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This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360, by the MICINN grant AYA2011-24704, by the ESF EUROCORES Program EuroGENESIS (MICINN grant EUI2009-04170), and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. A.B., M.B., S.R., and D.R. acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012” and PRIN MIUR 2010−2011 project “The Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of the Milky Way and Local Group Galaxies”, prot. 2010LY5N2T. The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia-ESO workshops and conferences supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. We further acknowledge support from The Swedish Research Council (T.B. funded by grant No. 621-2009-3911), the Swedish Space Board (U.H. and A.J.K), and the Australian Research Council (M.A. funded by grant FL110100012). A.S. was funded by EPS2013-41268-R (MINECO) and No. 2014SGR-1458 (Generalitat de Catalunya). K.L. acknowledges the European Union FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF grant No. 328098.
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Appendix A: Orbit calculations
The Milky Way potential that we used in the simulations is the analytical 3-component bulge-, disk-, and halo-potential used to model the orbits of satellites in Johnston et al. (1995), Dinescu et al. (1999), and Koposov et al. (2010). The potential of each cluster was approximated by a Plummer sphere using currently measured half-light radii and masses. The calculation of the tidal radii was done assuming constant rotation curve (e.g Milky Way enclosed mass is proportional to radius).
Since the true Galactic potential is not accurately known and the results of our simulations may depend significantly on the assumed parameters, we also run the simulations with masses of the disk and bulge perturbed by 10% Gaussian variations and see how it affects the probabilities of the star being associated
with one of the clusters. As an additional test, we also run our backwards orbit integration to 2 Gyr instead of 5 Gyr to see how it affects our results. While the individual probabilities for the clusters do change, the overall picture does not, e.g. ω Cen is always ranked within the top three.
We further note some important limitations of our calculation: we ignore the dynamical friction of the GCs, which is expected to bring the GCs closer to the Galactic centre. We also ignore the fact that all the GCs were likely to be bigger in the past and have tidally lost some of that mass, which reduces the absolute probabilities we find. Finally, we ignore secular changes in the Milky Way potential over time, which are expected although the Galaxy had a quiet recent accretion history.
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By science reporter Suzannah Lyons
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The study addresses a really important gap in our understanding of the gender dimensions of vulnerability to climate change, said human geographer Fiona Miller of Macquarie University, who wasn't involved in the research.
"They might have more responsibility to manage money, but they don't necessarily have more power to make decisions concerning that money," Dr Miller said.
In a positive case study from Nepal, women were able to improve their agency by forming a cooperative.
However, low-caste women were excluded from that cooperative.
"I think one of the wider findings of the work is that yes, we need to focus on gender equity, but we also need to …. focus on those women who are especially marginalised due to caste or class or ethnicity," Dr Miller said.
So, does that mean climate change is sexist?
When men migrate to larger towns for work, more tasks at home fall to women.
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Supplied: Nitya Rao
The research really highlights the social impact of climate change, said Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie.
"What it's saying is that the people who are most vulnerable will suffer the most, and the most quickly," she said.
How does climate change affect our health?
WHO estimates that climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year.
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It's been dubbed "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". But how does a warming climate pose risks to our physical and mental health?
And yet, while organisations like Plan International and Marie Stopes International have position papers on gender and climate change, there isn't as much awareness of it in the broader public sphere.
"I think that the social dimensions of climate change haven't been adequately discussed," Ms McKenzie said.
"We're still moving beyond understanding climate as an environmental issue, to understanding it's a human issue [with a] whole range of direct human costs."
These can be the immediate risks facing people in the middle of a natural disaster for example, or the longer-term impacts that adapting to climate change can have on people's health and the resilience of their communities.
While climate change itself is not sexist, the nature of gender and power relations means climate stress can exacerbate problems that are already there.
"Whenever there is something occurring that is damaging to our society, it tends to hurt women, people of colour more," she said.
Ms McKenzie believes there isn't enough discussion about who is paying the price and who is profiting from climate impacts.
"I think there's a sexism element there too, because the people who are profiting the most would tend to be powerful men in Western countries."
Is this research relevant to Australia?
Emergency response organisations need to be sensitive to how women and men respond to things like fires in different ways.
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Getty Images: Brett Hemmings
While the research focused on climate change hotspots in Africa and Asia, Professor Rao said it also has relevance for other parts of the world.
"[In] labour markets across the world we know there is a gender wage gap," she said.
And that includes Australia.
Talking about how climate change affects women's ability to feed their families is something we can relate to, said geographer Celia McMichael of the University of Melbourne, who wasn't involved in the work.
"When you read of other people trying to cope with climate variability, I think it's something we can increasingly empathise with because that is not removed from our lives in Australia [any more]," Dr McMichael said.
"Yeah, we can turn on the AC but we still are dealing with bushfires and things."
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One of the findings the paper identifies is that public institutions are really important in terms of supporting households and communities to respond to environmental stresses, said Dr Miller, and we need to have gender equity within those response organisations.
"If you're thinking about the fires that we're dealing with now across Australia, and particularly in New South Wales, we do tend to see an overrepresentation of men in emergency response organisations," she said.
"If we're thinking about issues around evacuation, for example, men and women may respond to that challenge in quite different ways.
"If you have emergency response agencies that are sensitive to those gendered issues … then you can give advice and support so that people can make appropriate decisions."
Ms McKenzie said the importance of educating women and girls has already been shown to be an important climate change solution by organisations such as Project Drawdown.
"I think that these solutions that involve women and girls and education, maternal health etc. are really important," she said.
"Not just for resilience, but also in getting down emissions in the first instance."
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Length of Commitment:
Collaborate over the next two years to help promote fresh fruits and vegetable consumption to kids. Sesame Workshop committed to waive its licensing fees and allow PMA’s community of growers, suppliers and retailers to use Sesame Street Characters to deliver positive messages about fresh fruits and vegetables royalty free.
PMA will review all requests by eligible suppliers and retailers (PMA members and non-members) for Sesame Workshop Assets for use in the promotion of fresh fruits and vegetables and permit use only on eligible products.
Between May 2013 and February 2017, 54 suppliers or retailers with sublicensee agreements were approved to use Sesame Workshop assets to promote 44 varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables using 10 Sesame Street characters.
PMA will Share with PHA the results over a two-year period from the Performance Start Date, with metrics including number of products given Sesame Workshop Assets through the program, number of companies participating (including eligible suppliers and retailers) and estimated sales impact.
Between March 2014 and February 2017, 95 suppliers or retailers submitted an application to use Sesame Workshop assets to promote 157 unique varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables. As of March 2018, a total of 59 suppliers had licensing agreements and 68 unique retailers representing over 250,000 stores were carrying "eat brighter!" branded produce. Between 2014 and 2016, 589 pieces of artwork were produced by sublicensees to market fresh produce using Sesame Street characters. In surveys conducted in 2015 and 2016, participants reported a 3-5% increase in sales after implementing eat brighter! branded produce.
“The eat brighter!™ initiative drives fresh produce consumption in our youngest consumers: kids 2-5. It is a partnership among Sesame Workshop, the Partnership for a Healthier America, and the Produce Marketing Association currently includes 123 companies (54 suppliers/commodity boards and 69 retailers), encompassing more than 100 licensed produce commodities grown throughout the world and marketed across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, reaching consumers and kids throughout North America.
"Citrus and grape supplier Classic Harvest notes: ‘We love using the eat brighter! packaging. It gives our retailers a major internationally recognized brand for their produce departments. Classic Harvest ships eat brighter! all over the US, Canada and Mexico; Elmo, Cookie and Grover are well-known to children and to most moms as wholesome goodness.’
"Atlanta retailer Wayfield Foods said: 'We believe that eating healthy is important. By using eat brighter!™ we are encouraging customers of all ages to make healthier food choices.’
Tropical and exotic fruit supplier Freshway Produce explained: 'We believe healthy eating is important. By supporting eat brighter!™ we envision for parents and kids to try new flavors like tropical roots and exotic fruits (e.g., malagas and dragon fruits).’
"Due to the success of the program, eat brighter! program is scheduled to run through 2021.”
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TV Everywhere services help make cable an even better deal with streaming apps
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Bundles from cable and internet providers have long been the most popular way for consumers across the country to watch all their favorite channels and enjoy the benefits of a broadband internet connection. However, with streaming services, such as Netflix and DIRECTV NOW, continuing to grow in popularity, the idea of content-on-the-go has emerged. Traditional cable and internet bundles have evolved to meet the needs of customers adopting the latest mobile and home entertainment technology.
TV Everywhere is quickly evolving into a big benefit for cable customers.
TV Everywhere, which allows cable customers to watch their favorite shows on multiple devices, has actually been available for several years. In fact, many current cable customers may not even know their provider has TV Everywhere functionality available. TV Everywhere is quickly evolving into an even bigger boon for customers as providers expand their content offerings — another reason for media-loving families to renew their cable service.
Streaming TV from cable and internet providers gaining steam
One reason that cable and internet providers are ramping up their TV Everywhere game is in response to the massive increase of interest in multi-device services from consumers. A 2017 tracking study by the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing found that 70% of pay-TV subscribers were aware their provider offered the app and 56% sign into the app on a monthly basis.
While those customers that have already made the switch enjoy the ability to stream tons of content on-the-go, a large section of the population is still in the dark about the numerous perks that TV Everywhere has to offer.
Major networks and broadcasters alike expanding their services
In 2014, industry leader Xfinity was leading the charge among major cable and internet providers in expanding the TV Everywhere option, said TechHive. Since then, a number of other providers have adopted TV Everywhere as a benefit to your cable TV subscription.
Providers offering TV Everywhere service include Armstrong, Atlantic Broadband, Cable One, Cox, Mediacom, MIDCO, Optimum, Spectrum, Suddenlink and Xfinity. In most cases, you’ll access the service through a provider-specific app.
Providers offering the service is a win for cable customers as TV Everywhere content is bound to become more accessible and robust as providers compete for control of this quickly expanding market.
TV Everywhere is an evolving feature with plenty of perks
There are plenty of benefits to taking advantage of everything that TV Everywhere (via a cable provider) has to offer. Customers looking to kill time during a lunch break at work can easily catch up on that latest episode of their favorite TV show via a tablet or smartphone and a Wi-Fi connection.
TV Everywhere apps can also be used to make content available in multiple rooms in the house, freeing up families from fighting over control of the living room television set.
Unlike consumers utilizing Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming options, like Netflix or Amazon Prime, cable customers can view new episodes of current programs via their provider’s TV Everywhere app as soon as the episodes premiere on regular cable. This final perk is especially important for television lovers who need to see the latest episodes of their favorite shows as soon as they become available.
Innovative apps are a great reason to invest in faster internet
Cable bundle customers will get the most out of available TV Everywhere features by upgrading their internet connection. Faster speeds mean that the household router is capable of supporting the bandwidth demands of multiple devices that are simultaneously streaming content. Families that choose to upgrade their internet connections will see smoother, faster performance from room to room.
Investing in a faster internet connection also acts as a bit of future-proofing for consumers. After all, next-level ultra-high-definition (UHD) 4K content is quickly becoming standard for streaming video and will require a high-end broadband connection in order to be watched smoothly on a compatible UHD television set.
Interested in TV Everywhere service? Use Allconnect® to find TV providers that may offer the service in your area and sign up today.
Originally published on 04/08/15. Last updated 12/20/18.
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Praise for Eclipse:
"Move over, Harry Potter." - USA Today
"Has a hypnotic quality that puts the reader right inside the dense, rainy thickets of [Forks]" - People Magazine
"The legions of readers who are hooked on the romantic struggles of Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this third installment" - Publishers Weekly
"[Stephenie Meyer is] the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice" - Entertainment Weekly
"Meyer's trilogy seethes with the archetypal tumult of star-crossed passions, in which the supernatural element serves as a heady spice." - The New York Times
Praise for New Moon:
-"Teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more."--Booklist
-"[A] near-genius balance of breathtaking romance and action."--VOYA
-"New Moon will ... leave [fans] breathless for the third."--School Library Journal
Praise for Twilight:
-A New York Times Editor's Choice
-A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
-An Amazon Best Book of the Decade...So Far
-An American Library Association Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of over twenty-one books, including four New York Times bestsellers. His recent works include Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon, The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion, and the biography Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Twilight...it brings back so many happy memories
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When I got this book, several years ago I believe, I was obsessed with all things Twilight. I'm now older and while I might not be a hardcore Twilight fan anymore, I still love the series and everything it represents. It's about a seemly normal girl who, against all odds, finds the love of her life, a love that comes once, maybe twice in your life if you're lucky.
I love all the facts I learned about in this book. Some of the facts I knew before, but many of them I hadn't. My favorite part of this book though is the pictures. Although I'm not obsessed with the saga anymore, I still smile and giggle when I see all the pictures from the first movie. It reminds me of my teenage years and all the wonderful memories I have watching this movie with my family and reading the books. I will always love the saga and I'm so happy I have this book for the memories.
A great addition to any Twilight fan's collection. I highly recommend!
1.0 out of 5 stars Not the best of humanity
Here is what I will say of it. I got this back in 2008 or 2009 when it was blowing up. I actually liked the first book, thought it was fresh YA. Once this went mainstream, it was destroyed. I think ever original thought the author had for this was destroyed. The movie also has ruined any enjoyment anyone could get out of the series. I would only recommend Harry Potter instead. It has so much more than this.
Jacqueline D. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars The Movie Companion
I purchased this before the movie came out. It is filled with photos, which is great...It is amazing what goes into the production of a movie. Especially this movie. I didn't discover the books until an injury kept me off my feet for 6 weeks this summer. I had read The Host, and liked it well enough to see what else she may have written. I was hooked from the first chapter. I was pleased with the choices of Bella and Edward in Kristen and Rob. It explains what the casting crew was looking for in each of the characters. Filming was difficult as the weather did not cooperate and Catherine Hardewick shares what angles she was looking for in different scenes, etc. Twilight (Twilight Saga)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true companion to the film
I like other Twilighters, purchased this book before the movie was released. It gave a thorough look behind the scenes to show us how the adaptation looks through the eyes of the director, and production staff.
The photos are excellent, and seeing how such scenes as Edward shielding Bella against the truck in the ice, the rescue in the dance studio, etc. really put you there. I am studying film and screenwriting, and it is always interesting to see how behind the cameras work.
Regardless of what you think of the casting of this film, you will, if you are a Twilighter, delight in this movie companion.
Most informative and also a great book to look back on after you've seen the movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for any twilight fan!
I just got this book today and althought I have not read all of it, I have to publish a review because it is really really good. The pictures alone are so worth the money. There are some pictures that take up whole pages and they are great. Anyone who fell in love with Bella and Edward and is anticipating the movie, will think this is a great addition to the twilight series.
If you are a fan of Rob Pattinson, and I know there are a lot of ladies out there who are, you will love the pictures of him. It is great. If you have any doubt to buy this book, don't. You will love it if you are a fan of the series.
Woundsarebleeding
3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK - not great
I never read the Twilight books - only saw the 1st movie and absolutely loved it. Kristen and Robert are just a beautiful couple and I love vampire stories. So I bought the book hoping it would be full of pretty pictures :) As an artist I'm all about pictures. While there were a few nice shots I just found this book lacking overall. I think more "on set" and movie shots could have been added. The promos/posters would have been a nice addition as well in full view. Overall not bad but not as good as I had hoped it to be. You can get prettier pictures from magazines or clipping lots on ebay.
Hazel F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Anyone who loves this movie or the books or is a fan of TWILIGHT, should definitely get this book! What can I say? The cast is hottt! The storyline is awesome! They couldn't have chosen better people for this movie! Well, seriously, I'm not complaining, they did have a lot of dazzling pictures, but I could've enjoyed it ENDLESSLY (make one as thick as a dictionary =D, just kidding). This book is great, even if you get it JUST for the pictures. Don't get me wrong, if you do read it, it's actually nice to know how involved the cast was as well, besides just the director and author.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love them. Can’t put them down.
The book came right on time, along with my second book. I love reading these books, can’t put them down 😄.
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About this committee
The Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples was appointed by a resolution of appointment in March 2018.
The Committee presented its interim report on 30 July 2018 and presented its final report on 29 November 2018.
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12 Oct 2018: Cancelled
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Tuesday, 17 April 2018 Melbourne 1. National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (PDF)
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2. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PDF)
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Palmer, Mitchell and Christie lead Red Bank's rally over Wall for Class B North victory
Red Bank rallies past Wall Palmer, Mitchell and Christie lead Red Bank's rally over Wall for Class B North victory Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1BNSMDW
Sherlon Christie, @sherlonapp Published 9:53 p.m. ET Jan. 22, 2015 | Updated 10:35 p.m. ET Jan. 22, 2015
Marcus Ashamole (10) of St. Joseph-Metuchen defends against Sadiq Palmer (5) of Red Bank during Buc Holiday Classic Final , held at Red Bank Regional High School. Red Bank won 59-54. Little Silver, NJ. December 30, 2014. Noah K. Murray- Special for the Asbury Park Press ASB 1231 Buc Holiday Classic Final(Photo: Noah K. Murray-Special for the Asbury Park Press)Buy Photo
Red Bank rallied from 13-point third quarter deficit
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FT's Dan Saunders, Tyree Wilson each scored 14 points.
TRS's Berry scores 38 points
WALL – Sadiq Palmer kept driving to the basket, Anthony Mitchell kept making free throws and Tyler Christie was a steady contributor as the No. 2 Red Bank boys basketball team rallied from 13-point third quarter deficit and defeated No. 9 Wall, 69-62, in a Class B North game on Thursday night.
Palmer (15 points) had several putbacks and drives that resulted in trips to the foul line but he had been 0-for-9 from the line until his last trip to the line with 1:34 left. He completed the three-point play and that gave Red Bank the lead for good at 57-54.
Meanwhile, Mitchell couldn't miss from the foul line in the fourth quarter as he went 8-for-8 and finished with 13 points. Christie was the steady influence as he scored 12 of team-high 19 points in the first half.
"We were settling for three-pointers, not making any foul shots, we were late on rotations, getting lulled to sleep by watching them pass the ball around in their halfcourt set and playing with zero passion, that's not how we play," Red Bank coach Scott Martin said. "I let them know that at halftime and told them to get out the locker room and go out there and play a better half of basketball."
And the Bucs (10-2, 7-2) did just that.
Red Bank trailed 13-7 after the first quarter, 30-22, at halftime and 48-35, after three quarters. With Mitchell, Palmer and Christie leading the way the Bucs scored 34 fourth-quarter points to complete their best comeback of the season.
Wall's Trent Mitchell scored 14 of his game-high 23 points in the first half, Brendan Barcas added eight of his 12 points in the first half and Ryan Janeczek supplied eight of his 10 points in the third quarter for the Crimson Knights (9-3, 6-2).
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"We always talk about adversity and being able to handle pressure type of situations. And for 24 minutes we were the aggressors. It was beautiful," Wall coach Matt Kukoda said. "And then a couple things didn't go our way, a couple turnovers, a couple fouls, and the momentum shifted quickly (in the fourth quarter) and a credit to them. They became the aggressors. Great teams are able to accept runs from other teams and then stop them. And that's just one thing we weren't able to do tonight."
Toms River South 74, Southern 66: Tymere Berry amassed a game-high 38 points and made three three-pointers as the Indians (7-4, 5-2) outlasted the Rams (9-4, 5-3) in overtime of a Class A South game. Tyler Fall and Malcolm Gillespie each added 10 points. Southern's Jake Logue scored a team-high 27 points, Peyton Wejnert added 15 points and Eric Ray supplied 12 points.
Freehold Township 61, Long Branch 47: Senior forward Dan Saunders and senior guard Tyree Wilson each scored 14 points to lead the Patriots over the Green Wave Tuesday. After being down 12-7, the Patriots went on a 26-0 run late in the first half to take a 38-17 into halftime. Junior forward Jaquel Presley and freshman guard Tyree Morris each had 10 points for the Green Wave.
Toms River North 56, Lacey 39: Senior guard Evan Martin scored 18 points to lead the Mariners past the Lions Thursday night. Lacey's Chris Iapicco scored a team-high 14 points, including the 1,000th point of his career in the second quarter. Senior forward Ted Thelemaque chipped in 13 points for the Mariners.
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Hillary Clinton is planning a Big Apple return to muster her supporters after Super Tuesday.
The Democratic presidential contender announced a free, public rally Wednesday evening at the Jacob K. Javits Center, where she will “will deliver remarks on her commitment to raise wages and break down the barriers that hold too many families back,” according to her campaign office.
Doors will open at 3:15 p.m. and the event will start at 5:45 p.m. Clinton, who served as New York’s senator from 2001 to 2009, has had several primary and caucus victories against her rival Bernie Sanders over the last few weeks.
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Android News / All News / Verizon Customers Frustrated Over Samsung Galaxy Watch Availability
Verizon Customers Frustrated Over Samsung Galaxy Watch Availability
By Dominik Bosnjak
In short: Dozens of Verizon customers took to social media and the company's official forums to voice their frustration about the lack of information on the availability of the Samsung Galaxy Watch. The wearable that Samsung officially released last month is set to become available from AT&T and Verizon later this year but no firm availability details have yet been shared by either carrier. T-Mobile remains the only network operator in the United States that's currently selling Samsung's latest wearable and is even offering a 50-percent discount on a second unit for customers who buy two.
Background: Verizon's customers have been voicing their displeasure about the lack of concrete availability info on the Galaxy Watch for several months now and a number of them even contacted the company's customers support service to inquire about the matter, only to be told that the firm is presently working on a special promotional offer but specific details will follow in the near future. Samsung's Gear S3 series was also late to arrive in Verizon's stores, with customers being forced to wait approximately eight months for the devices which officially launched in 2016 but only started being retailed by the telecom giant in mid-2017. Sprint isn't expected to carry the Galaxy Watch at any point in the future.
Impact: The fact that Verizon is once again late with releasing a Samsung-made wearable line is likely a direct result of the carrier's retail strategy and not a decision that the South Korean electronics maker can influence. Despite the aforementioned complaints, it appears that a relatively small percentage of Verizon's customer base is presently interested in Samsung's wearable portfolio, despite its glowing reviews and positive user feedback. Verizon subscribers interested in buying the Galaxy Watch as quickly as possible presently have two straightforward options – Amazon or Samsung itself.
Dominik Bosnjak
Dominik started at AndroidHeadlines in 2016. He’s approaching his first full decade in the media industry, with his background being primarily in technology, gaming, and entertainment. These days, his focus is more on the political side of the tech game, as well as data privacy issues, with him looking at both of those through the prism of Android. Contact him at [email protected]
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Sustainable Cycling For All? Race and Gender‐Based Bicycling Inequalities in Portland, Oregon
Amidst findings of increased bicycling in the United States, research continues to demonstrate that women and racial minorities are underrepresented as cyclists in the United States (Buehler and Pucher 2012). While quantitative data may reveal estimates of these disparities, we know little about the motivations or deterrents related to cycling as they are experienced by individuals.
Exploring the Benefits and Drawbacks of Age Disclosure among Women Faculty of Color
This article is guided by two questions: How is age an important aspect of social location that, when forthcoming about it with students, can be beneficial for pedagogical purposes? and How can women faculty of color—particularly those who appear youthful and/or are younger than most of their colleagues—address the marginality of their actual and/or perceived age while simultaneously operating in a space that is contested for women of color?
Carving Out a Niche or Finding a Place at the Table? The Sociology of Transgender Studies
Over the last decade, transgender studies has benefited from an explosion of interest within academia. Sociology is not immune to these developments in a field of inquiry that has existed for some time. But what does it mean for sociologists to become immersed in a topic that claims no disciplinary boundaries, no agreed-upon methodological strategies, and even a lack of consensus on how to define “transgender”?
Hegemonic Femininities and Intersectional Domination
We examine how two sociological traditions account for the role of femininities in social domination. The masculinities tradition theorizes gender as an independent structure of domination; consequently, femininities that complement hegemonic masculinities are treated as passively compliant in the reproduction of gender. In contrast, Patricia Hill Collins views cultural ideals of hegemonic femininity as simultaneously raced, classed, and gendered.
Does Socio-structural Context Matter? A Multilevel Test of Sexual Minority Stigma and Depressive Symptoms in Four Asia-Pacific Countries
In the Asia-Pacific region, individual sexual stigma contributes to elevated rates of depression among sexual minority men. Less well understood is the role of socio-structural sexual stigma despite evidence that social context influences the experience of stigma. We use data from the United Nations Multi-country Study on Men and Violence to conduct a multilevel test of associations between individual- and cluster unit–level indicators of sexual stigma and depressive symptoms among sexual minority men (n = 562).
Hashtag Syllabus
The hashtag syllabus is a crowd-sourced body of work that can, in some cases, challenge the knowledge construction of the academy. Hashtag syllabi have the opportunity to reshape how knowledge is produced, whose knowledge is affirmed, and what knowledge people are exposed to.
Even Supermoms Get the Blues: Employment, Gender Attitudes, and Depression
This study examines how gender attitudes moderate the relationship between employment and depressive symptoms using data from the 1987 to 2006 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort. Results indicate that at age 40, the association of employment with reduced symptoms of depression is greatest for mothers who had previously expressed support for traditional gender roles. This finding was robust to controls for prior depressive symptoms.
Queer Pop‐Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life
Research on sexuality and space emphasizes geographic and institutional forms that are stable, established, and fixed. By narrowing their analytic gaze on such places, which include gayborhoods and bars, scholars use observations about changing public opinions, residential integration, and the closure of nighttime venues to conclude that queer urban and institutional life is in decline. We use queer pop‐up events to challenge these dominant arguments about urban sexualities and to advocate instead a “temporary turn” that analyzes the relationship between ephemerality and placemaking.
Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality
This study examines the link between self-rated health and two aspects of gender: an individual’s gender identity, and whether strangers classify that person’s voice as male or female. In a phone-based general health survey, interviewers classified the sex of transgender women (n = 722) and transgender men (n = 446) based on assumptions they made after hearing respondents’ voices.
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LL3 Task Force Is Making Progress
The ASA Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major, Third Edition (LL3) has been working steadily on the charge put to it by ASA Council at their August 2014 meeting: to revise the ASA document Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major Updated: Meeting the Challenges of Teaching Sociology in the 21st Century (McKinney et al. 2004). Perhaps the most important as well as the most cited sociology curricular document in the United States, this revision comes at a critical time when several changes are occurring in higher education.
Contexts: With a Bullet
Winter 2015 Vol. 14 No. 1
New editors Syed Ali and Philip Cohen start their tenure with a bang, including articles on carrying (and concealing) weapons, on the lessons of Ferguson, and what uprisings in France can teach us about protests in the U.S. Also: lesbian geographies, Piketty in perspective, recollections of genocide, and “velvet rope racism” at urban nightclubs.
Contexts: The Politics of Performance
Summer 2016 Vol. 15 No. 3
Contexts: Moving through Time and Space
Sociology is all about putting people—their identities and their interactions—in social contexts. And those contexts are nested in the inescapable intersections of time and space.
Contexts: Science in Society
The social and political entanglements of science, from climate change and medical marijuana to the origins of modern American sociology.
Contexts: Suspect Evidence
Evidence is important. Even the most skeptical rely on tested and re-tested scientific certainty every day. And good sociologists hold scientific evidence suspect even as we use the best we have to make the decisions we must.
When DNA Evidence Challenges Ideas of A Person’s Racial Purity, White Supremacists Use a Decision Tree to Affirm or Discount the Results
Now that science can determine a person’s racial and ethnic origins from a cheek swab, those devoted to ideas of racial “purity,” are employing methods of mind games and logic twists to support their beliefs despite facing evidence of their own multiracial heritage.
Introducing Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2018 ASA President
How Did Our Politics Get Us Here? Research Provides a Good Answer
One year after Donald Trump’s inauguration, many pundits and citizens alike continue to try to understand the results of the 2016 election. At the heart of the matter is a legitimate question that deserves to be considered not only for its importance to Trump’s victory, but also as it relates to many other governments worldwide and throughout history. The pressing question is: How can voters find a candidate “authentically appealing” even though to many that candidate appears to be a “lying demagogue”?
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Winter 2018, Vol. 17, No. 1
Features include "After Charlottesville", "Ethnonationalism and the Rise of Donald Trump", "Trump’s Immigration Attacks, in Brief", "Making Protest Great Again", "Emasculation, Conservatism, and the 2016 Election", "Maintaining Supremacy by Blocking Affirmative Action", and "The Algorithmic Rise of the “Alt-Right."
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Aviva Investors and Allied London to create Manchester’s Enterprise City
Allied London and Aviva Investors agree long-term funding partnership at St. John’s to deliver Enterprise City as part of new St Johns neighbourhood
Manchester, United Kingdom (29 October 2018) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, today announces it has agreed a long-term partnership with Allied London, the award-winning UK property investment and development company, to create Enterprise City at St. John’s, Manchester’s newest city centre neighbourhood. The wider St Johns neighbourhood development has a total investment value of over £1.25bn.
Built on the former site of Granada television studios in the St John’s area of Manchester, immediately south of Spinningfields, Allied London and Aviva Investors will combine their experience and expertise to establish one of the UK’s leading digital, media and enterprise clusters.
Once completed, Enterprise City will comprise of over one million sq ft commercial mixed-use space, including workspace, TV and film studios, hotel/leisure and various property infrastructure across 10 buildings. It will provide a place for modern industry in Manchester and become a community for the technology, digital, media and creative industries.
Enterprise City aims to provide spaces for start-ups and small and medium-sized entities; production facilities for media companies; and buildings designed to attract global brands and industry leaders. The development has already attracted technology giant Booking.com, which will be the anchor tenant at Enterprise City, taking 220,00 sq ft at the Manchester Goods Yard buildings.
Aviva Investors will initially commit £300 million to the project, which will be a key new addition to its existing Manchester real estate portfolio of almost £450 million. The city is one of Aviva Investors’ core locations for its real estate platform due to its strong economic fundamentals. The city has four universities, a pool of highly-qualified labour and its recent success has been built around thriving digital and knowledge industries with over 62,000 jobs in the sector.*
Daniel McHugh, Managing Director, Real Estate Investments at Aviva Investors, said:
“This deal is fully aligned with our focused investment strategy and demonstrates our scale and expertise to fulfil large conviction-led investments in high-quality real estate assets. This scheme will deliver modern, vibrant space for enterprise and creative industries to thrive. We look forward to working closely with Allied London, Manchester City Council and regional stakeholders over the coming years to deliver this significant new project that creates outstanding real estate and a compelling long-term opportunity for our investors.“
Michael Ingall, Allied London Owner and Chief Executive, said:
“Enterprise City is a concept Allied London has envisioned from scratch. Within eighteen months we have created something of significant value and importance for both Manchester’s business community and the wider north-west region. The transformation, re-adaption of old disused commercial buildings and a dynamic masterplan for new buildings was the catalyst for creating a new enterprise community for use by today’s modern industry.
“A partnership with a forward thinking but long-term investor is the right way to go for such an ambitious project, and I am delighted to be partnering with Aviva Investors, who understand the potential of this exciting, important and relevant development.”
Sir Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City Council, comments:
“This is encouraging news that adds real weight and impetus to the Enterprise City ambition at St John’s. Manchester has the potential to incubate and support some of tomorrow’s great businesses and we need forward thinking enterprise opportunities, such as this, to realise this great potential.”
Manchester City Council approved planning permission for the Old Granada Studio development in May. The revised application supported Allied London’s plans to retain and refurbish the original tel-evision studios as well as incorporating new workspace elements. A new nine-storey mixed use building will replace the old annex building and consist of retail units, workspace and residential space. Redevelopment of the Bonded Warehouse and the ABC buildings is also well underway, with new occupiers expected to take up workspace later in 2018.
As part of the funding partnership, Allied London’s new studios business, All Studios, will manage the multi-functional filming, production and studio facilities at Enterprise City. The Crystal Maze Studios, located on Lower Byrom Street, does not form part of the All Studios business and remains open to the public.
Allied London launched its Enterprise City concept at Le Marché International des Professionnels de l’Immobilier (MIPIM) Conference 2017 in Cannes, France.
Aviva Investors was advised by CBRE.
* https://technation.techcityuk.com/cluster/manchester/
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About Allied London
Allied London (http://alliedlondon.com/) is an award-winning UK property development company focused on realising a simple vision – to create inspiring places that dynamically change the ways in which we work and live in Britain. Led by Chief Executive Michael Ingall, with energy and dedication Allied London devises, designs and delivers landmark mixed-use real estate developments, buildings and concepts in London, Manchester and Leeds. Recent notable projects include London’s The Brunswick, a complete urban regeneration project and Spinningfields, one of Europe’s most successful urban regeneration projects in the heart of Manchester city centre.
St. John’s is Manchester’s newest city centre neighbourhood for culture, enterprise and living, located around the former site of the Old Granada Studios. St, John’s neighbourhood will enable natu-ral innovators to live, work and play together to form an inspired and productive community. St. John’s will be a place to belong to, an opportunity for inspiration. More information is available at: https://stjohnsmanchester.com/
About Enterprise City
Enterprise City is a place for modern industry in Manchester. It’s a community made up of the tech, digital and creative industries, based at the heart of the St. John’s neighbourhood.
Enterprise City provides infrastructure that spans from start-ups spaces, to production facilities, to buildings that have been designed to attract global brands and industry-leaders. More information is available at: https://enterprisecityuk.com
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Professional Development: A Catalyst for Career Success (EDUCAUSE Review)
By EDUCAUSE Review (Eduwire) 2020-01-15T18:32:00Z
"As the higher education landscape continues to rapidly change, it's important for leaders to leverage their existing skills while cultivating new opportunities for growth and effective leadership. With that in mind, EDUCAUSE had the opportunity to interview Luis Hernandez, associate CIO for IT Services and Outreach at Amherst College, and Teresa Hudson, director of Educational Technologies and User Services at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Both of these individuals participated in EDUCAUSE Institute programs. We asked them to share their personal career journeys, discuss the role that professional development has played in their careers, and provide their advice for other career-driven professionals."—Source: EDUCAUSE Review
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Società e Scienze Sociali Politica
The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left
Di: David Horowitz
Letto da: John McLain
Editore: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Battle-scarred political warrior David Horowitz says it's time for conservatives to take the gloves off - and take our country back.
America is at a crucial turning point in its history, and Republicans have been losing ground to Democrats for too long. In Take No Prisoners, Horowitz sounds a clarion call for conservatives to use liberals' take-no-prisoners playbook against them. From his days as a founder of the radical New Left movement in the 1960s to his storied career as a leading conservative activist, Horowitz has a lifetime of experience in battleground politics. Now he lays out a winning political strategy for the Right that can save the country from sliding into economic and social ruin.
If conservatives want a better future for America, they need to be able to beat liberals at their own game - and David Horowitz is telling them how.
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Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes
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Murder in the Manuscript Room
A Swollen Red Sun
Lucky Guy
He's right
David Horowitz is a great explainer. Even if you know relatively little about history and politics, you will know that what he saying here is right. He is the rare smart person who can explain things in easy to understand language. And he's right. As someone who, like Horowitz, moved from left to right as an adult, I can tell you that the most immediate realization that followed conversion was understanding for the first time just how much "liberals" have a completely false sense of moral superiority. Horowitz attacks Democrats where they should be attacked: on their horrible record at improving the lot of black people and poor people in the last 50 years. He connects the dots in undeniable ways. He correctly diagnoses that Republicans have given Democrats the moral high ground on race, poverty, and education, which is completely upside down when measured against reality. Read this book.
Bonus: The book appears to have been mostly written between 2000 and 2014. While that might appear to be a disadvantage and make it dated, it actually has exactly the opposite effect. Hearing what Horowitz says as of 2014 is a very interesting prism through which to see Donald Trump's candidacy.
Candidates must read
Every conservative candidate and campaign staffer should read, and re-read, this book. Mr. Horowitz knows the other side (he was one of them), and he has some great ideas on fighting back.
his nail on the head
pay attention & we can make America Great & safe again
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
What did you love best about Take No Prisoners?
David calls out the Republicans for being too civilized. This is trench warfare and conservatives need to understand that others are defining us.
If you could give Take No Prisoners a new subtitle, what would it be?
Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
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Every conservative with an interest in politics must listen to this or read this book. Democrats lie, cheat and steal. Ann Coulter documents this in her books Mugged and Demonic.
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A must read for all conservative politicals
Horowitz has an insight to the mind and heart of the left like no other conservative. His intimate understanding of this provides invaluable insight that I wish we could impart into good candidates. It is information that needs to be absorbed if we ever want to win elections that don't accidentally fall into our laps. We conservatives naively want to continue trying to reach the liberal voter's center of reasoning with 'convservativethink', but it is speaking a language they don't understand. Horowitz outlines the 'why' and 'how' providing several 'Ah ha!' moments, and suddenly it will become clear to you why those mind numbing, frustrating debate attempts with your liberal friends and family never get anywhere.
I understand how evil the liberals are. I get that. Most of the book drives that point.
The last 2 chapters address the premise of the book; how to deal with the dirty politics of the left. I was expecting more case studies of what the left does to get elected and strategies of how to fight it.
I was hoping for a more business like approach instead of an emotional lecture why the left is wrong.
Great Insight
Great observation and advice for dealing with the loony left. The treacherous creatures on the left need to be attacked head on, and this book provides the information and inspiration for that.
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Watch This: Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Downey, Sr. Talk Putney Swope
PUTNEY SWOPE screens October 16 & 18 at AFS Cinema. Purchase tickets.
Robert Downey, Sr.’s brilliant 1969 cultural satire has been directly cited as an influence on comedians and filmmakers alike, including Eddie Murphy, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen Brothers, Boots Riley, and Paul Thomas Anderson—who even used Downey as an actor in BOOGIE NIGHTS and MAGNOLIA.
With PUTNEY SWOPE opening this Wednesday and in spirit of that memorable collaboration, we’d like share this conversation with Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Downey, Sr. discussing the enduring legacy of the film.
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A Must-Read for any author, novelist, or writer: Lloyd Shepherd's dialogue with a book pirate.
I love it when someone tells me they've read one of my books, and enjoyed it.
But let me tell you: I wince inside when they add: "My sister [daughter, girlfriend, whatever] lent it to me."
Admittedly, it also hurts a little when they tell me as much they took it out of a library. But because I too love libraries ( besides being a big user, I also support my library during their fundraising efforts, and by donating books I no longer use) I figure, "Okay, well then maybe they'll buy the next one...and the next one..."
I write because I have to. It's my life. It's in my blood.
And I'll do it for as long as others want to read what I write--and are willing to pay for it.
Aye, there's the rub...
I have to tell you: it kills me when I discover my books are being sold illegally on the Internet.
And no, I'm not fond of the fact that people are file-sharing them, too.
You see, not all pirates are Johnny Depp.
Let me explain something: I spend months (and in some cases, years) research, plotting, and writing my books. I see only 8 - 12 percent royalties on books that are published via large publishers.That's only $1.14 per book, and that is after I pay back an advance--in which the publisher subtracts any (gulp) returns from bookstores.
On the books I've published myself and put up as digital files that are distributed by online bookstores, I net somewhere between 35- 70 percent of my reasonabe $4.99-$2.99 retail prices. That's only $3.50-$2.10 a book -- and I see that, only after I pay a graphic designer, and editor. Let's not forget my taxes.
And I still have to make my rent. And pay for my own healthcare, like every self-employed person.
So, yeah: I'd prefer if you paid for my books.
As would every other author I know.
This isn't a rant. It's a plea. For the few hours of enjoyment you get, shell out what you would for a lunch. Or for that matter, a cuppa joe.
Call it your cuppa Josie.
In this article, which appeared in the UK Guardian, Lloyd Shepherd, who wrote the wonderful novel, The English Monster, put it quite succinctly to one book pirate.
Click onto the article to read the comments.
Guilt sucks. Here's hoping it also works.
*Picture: Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN.
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Lloyd Shepherd: My parley with ebook pirates
When the author of The English Monster found a request to pirate his novel circulating on discussion board Mobilism, he decided to respond himself – and was surprised by the results.
My novel The English Monster was published on 1 March. A week later, a Google alert dropped into my inbox with a link to a forum post on a site called Mobilism, on which a character called "Fe2" was offering a reward to anyone prepared to produce a free ebook version of The English Monster for him to use.
Most books these days are pirated in some form or another, and having worked on the web before I was a novelist I was anticipating that with a fair degree of sang-froid. But this was the first piratical move on my book, and it was also an oddity – more an incitement to piracy than piracy itself.
This, I discovered, is how Mobilism works. The site is essentially an enormous discussion board. It started, as far as I can make out, as a place where people made "mobile" versions of games and other stuff and offered them to each other. It now offers mobile (read: pirated) versions of movies and music as well as games. And books. Lots and lots of books.
However, I need to be careful about my terminology, because Mobilism is very, very careful about its own. It states, often, that it does NOT host any files of pirated material on its own servers; it only links to them. It also provides a kind of currency mechanism for people to reward each other for producing pirated material; you earn things called "WRZ$" by posting on the site, and you earn a great deal more by producing versions of content and making them available for other users.
But – and I am being careful to repeat this – these versions are NOT hosted by Mobilism. All that Mobilism requires is that you put your pirated material at a website address where other users can download it, for free, without registration. Mobilism is like a catalogue of links to other people's warehouses. It's an index, not a repository. It's exploiting a characteristic of the legal arrangements around the internet – that you should be able to link to something without becoming liable for it. This is an essential element of what makes the web work. It also allows Mobilism to create entire cathedrals to pirated content, without hosting any of that content itself.
(As an aside, this legal arrangement is now under some attack. Richard O'Dwyer is right now facing extradition to the US to feel the wrath of the Hollywood entertainment industry for building a site that contained thousands of links to pirated material. It's hard to understand why O'Dwyer is attracting this kind of legal firepower, while no one seems to be extraditing Mobilism's owners. Perhaps because, as far as I can see, no one knows who they are.)
Many writers in my position, I know, have gone into a rage when their books are pirated – particularly those with no experience of the legal ways of the internet. How can it be, they yell, that these clowns are stealing my livelihood? And I felt some irritation, of course. But blind anger wasn't getting us anywhere, and here was an opportunity to ask this guy (in my head, he's a guy, although she may well not be) what he thought he was doing. I went on to the forum to put it to him. This is what I said:
So, I'm the author of The English Monster. Can it be that you're offering to pay someone to create an ebook of the book I wrote? I'd be interested to hear your justification for this. For your interest, this book took me two years to write, and represents (on a rough estimate) perhaps 500 hours of work on my part, not to mention the time and effort put in by others to design, print, copy-edit and produce the final version. And you're proposing to pay someone else – someone who had no part in the making of the book – to produce a copy for you. Is there a good reason why you can't pay through normal channels for my book?
Please understand me – I am genuinely interested in what you've got to say about this. This is my first book, and this is my first experience of someone attempting to produce a pirate version of it (I do not use the word "pirate" pejoratively, mind). Is there any reason why I shouldn't expect to be compensated for the time I have put into this?
To my surprise, this attracted a response.
Mr Shepherd, I can tell by your measured reply that you are trying to be as fair and nonjudgmental as possible, so thank you. I am not sure how to answer you – and our messages will no doubt be deleted soon.
Bottom line is, there is no justification or reason that would or should ever satisfy the author of original content. Anyone that tries to make sense of this process (that publishing houses are greedy; that knowledge should be free … just two reasons that I have seen bandied about) is just fooling themselves. There is also a Robin Hood aspect to this, that perhaps you may understand. Either way, I don't think there is a way of putting this digital information era genie back into the bottle.
I wish you every luck in future.
This was the point at which I did, I confess, lose it for a moment. This was such a stupid collection of cliche and childishness. It's the kind of pseudo-anarchist garbage we've come to expect from the more militantly dumb wings of the anti-copyright campaign. I wrote a long reply (you can see the entire discussion here) which said, in summary, that if authors couldn't get compensation for their work there would be no authors, and didn't he know that Coleridge and Wordsworth only wrote Lyrical Ballads to fund a holiday in Germany, and why was he blaming this "digital information era genie" for his own bad behaviour. But, you know, friendly-like.
At this point, two things happened. First, the mysterious powers at Mobilism moved the forum thread from its original location under "ebook requests" to a new place called "fulfilled ebook requests". Meaning, I suppose, that they had recognised I had a problem with what was going on, but didn't want to delete the topic. For this I give them some credit (perhaps in the form of WRZ$).
The second thing was that "Fe2" sent another reply, which again I reproduce in its entirety.
Mr Shepherd, again I thank you for your considered, elegant reply. I felt replying to you was not only appropriate, but mandatory.
A small note in closing, as the thread has been moved (but not deleted – my thanks to the moderator who made that decision): it was not I who advanced those reasons that you read. I do not for one minute think that any author is being "greedy" for wanting payment for their labour, nor do I think all knowledge should be free. In fact, I cannot fathom anyone thinking that, but I wrote it because I have seen some people in other fora write those very reasons as to why they want ebooks without remuneration. Slavery, which is work without payment, was abolished in all civilised lands a long time ago, so I wish said people would read our thread and understand that.
Me, I have lived in Africa and Asia, in such remote locations that it is difficult to get internet, let alone ebooks, even if locals could afford that. Yet I've met some who try to reach for better things in life, such as current or helpful books to read, and find their options curtailed by circumstance. I know it is no excuse, but since you ask for elucidation, that is mine.
I veered from rage to puzzlement. I even wondered if this post was the product of some kind of bot. The reply did posit a reason for this guy's behaviour. There was a sort of psychology at work. But it was pretty thin: he says, for instance, that "I have lived in Africa and Asia", where presumably ebooks are hard to get hold of legitimately, but he says it in the past tense. He doesn't let on where he lives now. As a friend pointed out, he basically seemed to be saying, "Yeah, you're right, but, you know, what's a guy to do?"
I decided to go into the main Mobilism forums and start a new topic, called "Novelist seeking understanding". I asked people to explain how they justified to themselves what they were doing, or whether they even needed to. I also wondered whether they thought what they were doing would damage the culture in the long run, if authors became disincentivised to write. It's had some pretty interesting responses. The reasons and justifications given for pirating ebooks include:
• that sharing a book is great publicity for the author. Lots of quoting of Paolo Coelho and Neil Gaiman here, who've both said this sort of thing recently;
• that people who travel a lot like the convenience of ebooks, and if they already own the book in physical form they feel justified in getting a free copy;
• that this kind of "free sharing" allows people to sample books (again, it's great publicity, is the argument).
Now, two of these are not justifications for freeloading; they're after-effects. If I let people pirate my book, this argument goes, I get publicity and create a "debate" around myself which gets me noticed. Only one point (the second one) is an actual attempt to justify piracy itself.
But all of the people who replied to my original post denied being "freeloaders" – they claimed to still buy books, as many as they ever did, if not more. Their argument seemed to be that Mobilism provided a platform for discussion and, yes, sharing of books – and that this kept up a high level of appetite for, and interest in, new authors.
Obviously missing on the forum were the voices of those "pirates" I had demonised in my own head: the ones who pirate gleefully and indiscriminately, who host vast folders of free content, who give the finger to anyone in a suit and tie and believe they are changing the world one cracked DRM at a time. You know. Pirates.
I'm not naive. I do believe that in the long run I am damaged by piracy more than I am helped by it. I also know that my publisher, on whom I depend for income, support and promotion, is severely damaged by it. On that level, I want it to stop. This feeling is made even stronger by the realisation that Mobilism can sell advertising (and presumably generate a bit of revenue for someone, somewhere) on the back of well-organised and ongoing larceny. Somebody, somewhere is making money from my own labour.
But I see the sense of what the well-mannered people who responded to my question were saying, and I have some sympathy for what Gaiman and Coelho have been saying about piracy – that the more it happens, the more people find out about their books. Neil Gaiman's recent point – that no one buys their first book, they are given it by someone – is a strong one. But then, Gaiman and Coelho are established authors. Is this kind of free-for-all the best way to launch a new author? I simply do not know.
Whatever my own response, publishing as an industry could respond to this. Is there a mechanism that allows people to discuss and share books, sampling them and even giving them away, in such a way that encourages the social appetite for books and reading? Could there be a platform for people to access books in places where local deals have not made them available through traditional channels; a kind of global meta-copyright which stands where no local copyright licence has taken place? How we do either of those things is beyond me, and perhaps beyond anyone. What I can't deny is that my parley with the pirates was more fruitful than I expected it to be, and there's a lesson in that for all of us.
Posted at 10:59 PM in A Look at Books, A Million Little Publishing Industry Changes…., Art from the Heart, Author to Author, Back to Reality, Books, I've Got Some Red Hot Reads for You, REALITY BYTES, Red Hot Reads! | Permalink
Time to play "Revenge"...
Which character best exemplifies your ability to survive in the Hamptons, and why?
All comments, emailed to me at [email protected] prior to midnight PT on Wednesday March 29, 2012, will be entered in my contest for a copy of my book, THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN'S HANDBOOK.
Okay, here are your choices...and good luck!
1. Fake Emily (real Amanda)
I never forget a slight. Especially one that put me in detention.
2. Fake Amanda (real Emily)
I'm loyal, no matter how many lies you tell me.
3. Victoria Grayson
I'll save myself, no matter how many lies it takes.
4. Charlotte Grayson
When the shite flies, I look for a crutch: drinks, drugs, what ev....But I'm cute and young, so I'll recover!
5. Nolan Ross
I'm snarky, but I'm also smart and loyal, so everyone cuts me some slack.
6. Daniel Grayson
I'm clueless, but I'm also rich and cute, so everyone cuts me some slack.
7. Conrad Grayson
I'm a douche, but I'm also rich and hold all the purse strings, so everyone cuts me some slack.
8. Jack Porter
I'm in love with some little girl I haven't seen since before puberty, but I'm the only guy in this show with cojones, so everyone cuts me some slack.
9. Satoshi Takeda
I'm the only one in this show with money, brains, and real tae kwon do skills. So I must be on the wrong show...
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Game of Tomes
As a novelist, I have to keep abreast of the distribution and marketing issues that affect books. Even if you aren't part this world, you'd have to have been on an extended vacation (say, to Mars and back) not to know about the creation and sale of eBooks (digital books), and how this new format has as changed the publishing industry.
In this letter to its members, Scott Turow, President of the Writers Guild, explains how the Department of Justice's suit against five major book publishers and Apple may in fact financially undercut authors in two ways.
First, should it strengthen the largest book retailer, Amazon, eventually authors may get paid even less for their books.
Secondly, they'll have less places in which to distribute and promote their books.
For midlist authors such as myself. ePublishing is a mixed blessing. Those books which were abandoned by their original publishers can find new lives--and readers--when an author publishes his or her backlist. And those books which publishers have passed on can now find the readers we authors feel they deserve. In fact, I've had good friends make more money self-pub'ing than they ever made writing for traditional pub houses.
If you keep the book locked away in a drawer, what chance will it have to find an audience?
On the flip side, the creators shouldn't be making less money on their product than the distributor.
Competition is good for everyone: publishers, authors, readers, and booksellers. Which begs the question:
What is the fairest way to split the revenue of a book between the author (or author and publisher) and the retailer?
Yesterday's reports that the Justice Department may be near filing an antitrust lawsuit against five large trade book publishers and Apple is grim news for everyone who cherishes a rich literary culture.
The Justice Department has been investigating whether those publishers colluded in adopting a new model, pioneered by Apple for its sale of iTunes and apps, for selling e-books. Under that model, Apple simply acts as the publisher's sales agent, with no authority to discount prices.
We have no way of knowing whether publishers colluded in adopting the agency model for e-book pricing. We do know that collusion wasn't necessary: given the chance, any rational publisher would have leapt at Apple's offer and clung to it like a life raft. Amazon was using e-book discounting to destroy bookselling, making it uneconomic for physical bookstores to keep their doors open.
Just before Amazon introduced the Kindle, it convinced major publishers to break old practices and release books in digital form at the same time they released them as hardcovers. Then Amazon dropped its bombshell: as it announced the launch of the Kindle, publishers learned that Amazon would be selling countless frontlist e-books at a loss. This was a game-changer, and not in a good way. Amazon's predatory pricing would shield it from e-book competitors that lacked Amazon's deep pockets.
Critically, it also undermined the hardcover market that brick-and-mortar stores depend on. It was as if Netflix announced that it would stream new movies the same weekend they opened in theaters. Publishers, though reportedly furious, largely acquiesced. Amazon, after all, already controlled some 75% of the online physical book market.
Amazon quickly captured the e-book market as well, bringing customers into its proprietary device-and-format walled garden (Sony, the prior e-book device leader, uses the open ePub format). Two years after it introduced the Kindle, Amazon continued to take losses on a deep list of e-book titles, undercutting hardcover sales of the most popular frontlist titles at its brick and mortar competitors. Those losses paid huge dividends. By the end of 2009, Amazon held an estimated 90% of the rapidly growing e-book market. Traditional bookstores were shutting down or scaling back. Borders was on its knees. Barnes & Noble had gamely just begun selling its Nook, but it lacked the capital to absorb e-book losses for long.
Enter Steve Jobs. Two years ago January, one month after B&N shipped its first Nook, Jobs introduced Apple's iPad, with its proven iTunes-and-apps agency model for digital content. Five of the largest publishers jumped on with Apple’s model, even though it meant those publishers would make less money on every e-book they sold.
Publishers had no real choice (except the largest, Random House, which could bide its time – it took the leap with the launch of the iPad 2): it was seize the agency model or watch Amazon's discounting destroy their physical distribution chain. Bookstores were well along the path to becoming as rare as record stores. That’s why we publicly backed Macmillan when Amazon tried to use its online print book dominance to enforce its preferred e-book sales terms, even though Apple’s agency model also meant lower royalties for authors.
Our concern about bookstores isn't rooted in sentiment: bookstores are critical to modern bookselling. Marketing studies consistently show that readers are far more adventurous in their choice of books when in a bookstore than when shopping online. In bookstores, readers are open to trying new genres and new authors: it’s by far the best way for new works to be discovered. Publishing shouldn’t have to choose between bricks and clicks. A robust book marketplace demands both bookstore showrooms to properly display new titles and online distribution for the convenience of customers. Apple thrives on this very model: a strong retail presence to display its high-touch products coupled with vigorous online distribution. While bookstores close, Apple has been busy opening more than 300 stores.
For those of us who have been fortunate enough to become familiar to large numbers of readers, the disappearance of bookstores is deeply troubling, but it will have little effect on our sales or incomes. Like rock bands from the pre-Napster era, established authors can still draw a crowd, if not to a stadium, at least to a virtual shopping cart. For new authors, however, a difficult profession is poised to become much more difficult. The high royalties of direct publishing, for most, are more than offset by drastically smaller markets. And publishers won't risk capital where there's no reasonable prospect for reward. They will necessarily focus their capital on what works in an online environment: familiar works by familiar authors.
Two years after the agency model came to bookselling, Amazon is losing its chokehold on the e-book market: its share has fallen from about 90% to roughly 60%. Customers are benefiting from the surprisingly innovative e-readers Barnes & Noble's investments have delivered, including a tablet device that beat Amazon to the market by fully twelve months. Brick-and-mortar bookstores are starting to compete through their partnership with Google, so loyal customers can buy e-books from them at the same price as they would from Amazon. Direct-selling authors have also benefited, as Amazon more than doubled its royalty rates in the face of competition.
Let's hope the reports are wrong, or that the Justice Department reconsiders. The irony bites hard: our government may be on the verge of killing real competition in order to save the appearance of competition.
This would be tragic for all of us who value books, and the culture they support.
[Feel free to forward or comment. Here it is at our blog: http://tinyurl.com/759tfls]
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Game sales stagnate in October
Agnes King (ARN) 27 November, 2001 11:21
October spending in the games market tapered a little on August and September figures, as sated Grand Turismo fans moved on and the supply of low-cost PlayStation2 consoles dried up.
But with stock back in the channel, recharged for Christmas, channel researcher Inform predicts healthy levels of throughput once more.
"Games represent one of the few IT industry sectors that's overtaken last year's growth," said Inform analyst Phil Burnham. "In the case of console games, the growth is up 8 per cent for the year to date. Even PC games are unaffected by the hardware stagnation, coming in 30 per cent above last year's figures."
Burnham feels that the launch of Xbox and GameCube next year will not affect consumers' desire to buy in coming months. "Microsoft will have more problems selling over here than in the US. They weren't able to manufacture fast enough to do parallel launching so they missed the Christmas rush. What's more, PS2 in Australia has one of the cheapest buy prices in the world -- Xbox will cost an additional $100 and has only first-generation games."
Meanwhile, retail hasn't escaped unscathed as the price of games and games hardware falls. "There's still enough margin to keep the specialists in business but the real issue is that the interactive games industry is a growing industry. Some say it will rival Hollywood in coming years," said Burnham.
"It's not a matter of 'can you afford to be in it', so much as 'can you afford not to be'."
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Android apps for business users, at a glance
11 Photos Peter Wayner (Network World)
10 handy apps for Google Android phones that take the sting out of business travel and keep you productive on the road
Documents to Go No one is going to edit a novel with an Android phone, but Documents to Go lets you browse through Word files and Excel spreadsheets. The free version just lets you open and view Word and Excel files you copy to your phone, but the full version allows you to create and edit them too. It also adds PowerPoint editing and PDF viewing. Price: $29.99
Lonely Planet Guides The guides from Lonely Planet may not be as goal-oriented as the fictional Accidental Tourist line, but they strike a good balance between covering what a business traveler might need to sign a deal during the day, then find a way to celebrate at night. Price: $4.99 for each major city
Maps, maps, and more maps If the wonderful Google Maps aren't enough for you, there are dozens of specialized maps for cities, transit systems, and amusement parks. Transit Maps, for instance, lets you load up hundreds of bus and metro maps from around the world. Most are free.
Even though the market for Android apps is still emerging, there are a number of good programs for business users. Take InfoWorld's quick, at-a-glance tour of 10 Android apps that help you find where you're going, track your expenses and exchange rates, overcome language barriers, view and edit Office documents, and connect remotely to a company database or your desktop PC.
Fake-a-Call When meetings get rough, program Fake-a-Call to fake a lifesaving call. After the screen pops up, you can trigger one of several half-conversations that play just loud enough for the others to hear. Mr. Williams, for instance, can be ticked off that you never finished that IUW report. Or a woman can ask whether you're really coming to the event. The actors don't pause enough to make this truly believable, but you can always record your own script. Price: 99 cents or free with ads
BabelDroid or Google Translator You push the Start button, speak your sentence into the microphone, and wait three or four seconds -- the phone magically starts speaking the words in German, Spanish, French, or Italian. It's pocket-sized magic that's almost fast enough to replace Nicole Kidman in "The Translator." Google Translator offers more variety in languages but can't vocalize many of them. Price: Free, and worth infinitely more
You Keep Your Money You Keep Your Money is a collection of apps for recording expenses, then graphing them to keep them in control. The basic YouKym app is free, while the YouKym Family version adds trending and support for multiple accounts. Alternatives include simply using Web sites like Mint.com from the browser, also quite useful. Price: Free or €2
Currency Whether you're traveling or just negotiating borders across country lines, knowing the exchange rates is key. This app tracks the major exchange rates and converts arbitrary amounts. Price: Free with ads.
Android VNC Viewer How many times have travelers wanted to reach out and just do one quick thing on that PC on your desk? The Android VNC client is GPL-protected open source software that lets you create a secure connection to a distant machine. Price: Free, as in beer and speech
Remote DB This tool for raw access to a remote database isn't for average mortals, and only programmers will enjoy making it work. But it is a great shortcut to remotely accessing your company's data. There's no need to get someone to write a special app that's customized for in-house use. Just get your DBA to write a query to the database, then everyone on the road gets access to the data about the invoices, the inventory, or whatever fills your SQL tables. Price: $2.99
Bump One of the cuter apps around, Bump lets you swap contact information with just a fist bump or, for that matter, any rapid movement that sets off the accelerometer. It's much simpler than swapping business cards, but without the variety in texture and shape. Maybe the next version will allow you to share an animated presentation? Price: Free, at least until the VCs wonder what's happening to their cash
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As sulfur reduction does not occur in mammals, sulfide, at an oxidation state of -2, is a dietary requirement. This requirement is met with cysteine and methionine. A high availability of methionine "spares" cysteine, as it can be converted to cysteine by transsulfuration. Transsulfuration is irreversible in mammals, although not in fungi which can interconvert methion-
ine and cysteine in either direction. Enteric bacteria synthesize cysteine de novo and convert it to methionine. The main path of sulfur metabolism in mammals involves the four processes of transsulfuration, oxidation, transamination and decarboxylation (Figure 3).
Although dietary cysteine can lower the dietary requirement for methion-ine, there is an absolute requirement for methionine as it has functions in addition to transsulfuration and it is also needed for protein synthesis. These functions include methylation and polyamine synthesis. However, methionine is one of the most toxic amino acids7. It causes growth retardation, tissue damage and iron deposition in the spleen. Tissue levels must therefore be kept low, and a dietary load must be processed rapidly. A further problem with methionine is its similarity to a football mom, that overworked denizen of American suburbs. Methionine has too much to do and some of the responsibilities are mutually conflicting.
Figure 4. Methionine metabolism and the methionine-homocysteine cycle. AdoHcy: S-Adenosylhomocysteine; AdoMet: S-Adenosylmethionine; Cys: Cysteine; Cysta: Cystathionine; Hcy: Homocysteine; 5-MeTHF: 5-Methyltetrahydro folate; THF: Tetrahydro folate.
The major metabolic activities of methionine involve the methionine-homocysteine cycle (Figure 4): Adenosylation of methionine activates both the methyl group for transmethylation and the aminopropyl moiety for transfer in polyamine synthesis. Transmethylation yields S-adenosylhomocysteine, which is further converted to homocysteine. This is a substrate for three processes: transsulfuration, methyl neogenesis (from the tetrahydrofolate path), and methyl recycling (from choline via betaine, di-methylglycine, sarcosine to glycine). The conflicting demands of these processes create a traffic control problem in the cycle. Polyamine synthesis and transsulfuration drain intermediates away from the cycle, although poly-amine synthesis is a quantitatively minor pathway for methionine. A given molecule of methionine survives only two turns of the cycle. Transsulfuration and remethylation compete for homocysteine. Transmethylation must occur for transsulfuration to occur, as that is the only source of homocys-teine.
Homocysteine is toxic, producing cardiovascular disease and neural tube defects. Despite the high flux through the homocysteine pool, therefore, the pool size must be kept small (i.e. there must be rapid remethylation or rapid movement into transsulfuration). Serious toxicity has not been reported for S-adenosylmethionine1. However, the current interest in S-adenosylhomocysteine as a dietary supplement is disturbing18 in light of the toxicity of the closely related compounds methionine and homocysteine. S-adenosylhomocysteine is being widely used as an antidepressant and in treatment of arthritis and liver disease in recommended doses of up to 1.6 g/day.
Figure 5. Methylation and muscle contraction. The methyl group of creatine is not necessary for its function as a phosphokinase substrate.
The requirement that transmethylation precede transsulfuration may explain a mystery of muscle biochemistry. Quantitatively, the most significant methylation process is the conversion of guanidinoacetate to creatine (Figure 5). The methylated compound creatine is a phosphagen that maintains myofibrillar ATP levels. Muscle levels of creatine are around 3x higher than
ATP levels. Biosynthesis of this one compound accounts for 80% of mammalian methylation57. The other 20% is consumed in epinephrine synthesis, carboxymethylation of proteins and phospholipid methylation.
But why is the methyl group of creatine needed for muscle function? It probably is not. In invertebrates such as polychaetes (marine worms), various sponges and sea anemones, the unmethylated compound, guanidino-ethane sulfonate, serves as the phosphagen285576. Guanidinopropionate and guanidinoethane sulfonate are substrates for creatine phosphokinase. In mammals, creatine can be replaced by guanidinopropionate without major problems for muscle function25,68. In human males, there is a shortfall of around 5.1 mmol of methyl per day between methyl groups available from diet and methyl groups consumed in transmethylation or methyl oxidation. This shortfall is met by methyl neogenesis via 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate and 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (Figure 4). The use of guanidinoacetate as a phosphagen would alleviate the need for this expensive reductive neogenesis. However, it is only by the passage of methyl groups through the methionine-homocysteine cycle that transsulfuration can proceed. This process is required for the production of cysteine under conditions of low dietary intake of cysteine, and for the removal of toxic methionine under conditions of high dietary intake. The use of creatine, therefore, may be an inefficient biochemical way of producing homocysteine needed for transsulfuration: creatine simply provides a sink for the methyl groups that must be consumed in order for the methionine-homocysteine cycle to operate.
Transsulfuration
Transsulfuration is so called because the sulfur of homocysteine is transferred to the carbon chain of serine, yielding cysteine (Fig. 6). Transsulfura-tion serves the functions of removing toxic methionine and producing cys-teine required for GSH and protein synthesis. In the brain, for example, methionine levels are below 1 (M. Cerebral cortical synaptosomes from adult rats contain 0.2 (mol methionine/g protein compared with 25 (mol taurine/g protein53. In biopsied human brain, methionine and phenylalanine were present in the lowest concentration of all amino acids examined50. Both enzymes involved in transsulfuration are pyridoxal phosphate-dependent. The significance of transsulfuration is indicated by the consequences of genetic deficiency in cystathionine B-synthase deficiency. Deficiency is associated with homocystinuria, hypermethioninemia, and decreased conversion of me-thionine to sulfate. Clinically, there are vascular, mental, skeletal and visual abnormalities.
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Global Voices Theatre
Submitted by Rach on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 14:00
A platform for voices unheard and stories untold.
Global Voices Theatre returns with three highly anticipated events, premiering excerpts of plays in translation and from the wider English-speaking world. Performances of rehearsed readings will be taking place on the following dates:
Global Female Voices at Arcola Theatre: 8pm, Saturday 23rd February 2019
Global Female Arab Voices at Rich Mix (part of the AWAN festival): 8pm, Saturday 9th March 2019
Global Queer Voices at Arcola Theatre: 3.30pm, Saturday 6th April 2019
For Global Female Voices and Global Female Arab Voices, we are welcoming submissions from female-identifying playwrights; and we are particularly interested in reading submissions from playwrights from Arab countries and the Arab diaspora.
For Global Queer Voices, we are welcoming submissions from playwrights who identify as LGBTQIA+.
We are looking for plays from contexts beyond the UK; exploring issues and settings that audiences might not otherwise see in London theatres. Playwrights should be based (or should have previously resided) outside of the UK; or they should be part of the international community.
Plays can be any length, from any period, and with any number of characters; and must be in, or translated into, English.
If you are submitting a play that has been translated and if the play or translation is still under copyright, you must ensure that both the playwright and the translator (or the relevant rights-holders) give their authorisation for the translation to be submitted and to participate.
This is a paid opportunity, dependent on funding.
Before applying, please take a look at the questions and answers below.
Does it have to be a new play?
We only specify that the play should not have been previously staged in the UK.
I’ve written a play in a language other than English – can you help me get it translated?
We’re only able to accept plays that have already been translated.
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Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) | Literary Arts
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The Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) offers student, emerging, and professional literary translators a period of uninterrupted work on a current project. Participants will work in a trilingual environment with consulting translators and peers, resulting in a mutually beneficial learning experience.
Participants will work individually and as a group with a faculty of accomplished translators of French, English, and Spanish. Participants will also have an opportunity to consult with the author whose work they are translating.
What does the program offer?
The BILTC program offers individual work sessions with consulting translators and the program director. Accepted translators can expect to present their work-in-progress at round table sessions held three times a week and moderated by the program director and guest faculty. The round table sessions will include a broader group discussion of issues and challenges faced in the practice of literary translation.
A guest publisher will share experiences on translation in an informal talk, and translators will have the opportunity to read from their works-in-progress at an open reading event. Readings and presentations of experiences related to writing and translating may be shared at additional informal sessions.
BILTC welcomes applications from translators at various career stages including student, emerging, and professional translators. Participants seeking time to focus on a current literary project and an opportunity to connect with literary translators from around the world will benefit greatly from this program.
All applicants must be translators from the Americas translating literature from anywhere in the world, or translators from anywhere in the world translating literature from the Americas.
Eligible projects include translations of works of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, children’s literature, oral tradition, and drama. We especially welcome projects involving Indigenous languages of the Americas. Translator applicants’ program applications should be filled out in the same language that they plan to translate work into.
Application Deadline: January 30, 2019
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Design Review Shows HAMMER® Solution on Target
18 Feb 2014 2014-02-18T01:00:00+01:00
HAMMER® precision targeting system completes critical design review.
BAE Systems’ HAMMER® precision targeting system successfully completed the U.S. Army’s Critical Design Review for its Joint Effects Targeting System (JETS) Target Location Designation System (TLDS) program. This review of the system’s design and capability is a key milestone as the company works toward providing dismounted soldiers and operators with a lightweight and cost-effective solution.
“Precise man-portable targeting is a mission-critical capability for our dismounted soldiers,” said Dr. Mark Hutchins, director of Targeting Programs at BAE Systems. “Our HAMMER solution will provide forward observers and joint terminal attack controllers with the lightweight, compact, and highly advanced system they need to be successful.”
JETS is an Army-led, joint-interest program with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps aimed at developing and fielding a man-portable targeting system that provides our armed forces with the ability to acquire, identify, precisely locate, and mark targets in all lighting and weather conditions. In March 2013, BAE Systems was awarded a contract to support the JETS program with the company’s Handheld Azimuth Measuring, Marking, Electro-optic imaging, and Ranging (HAMMER) precision targeting system. BAE Systems’ offering is less than one-half the weight and cost of the targeting systems currently in the Department of Defense inventory.
When fielded as part of the JETS program, the HAMMER system will help soldiers distinguish friends from foes with satellite positioning and surveillance information, and allow them to rapidly receive, transmit, and coordinate targeting data. Leveraging these capabilities, the system will support the complex missions of today’s warfighter while significantly reducing collateral damage and friendly fire incidents.
Following completion of this design phase, BAE Systems will begin the program’s qualification phase in which several HAMMER systems will be manufactured and tested against JETS technical requirements throughout 2014 and early 2015. The program remains on schedule for initial JETS TLDS fielding in 2016.
Paul Roberts, BAE Systems
Paul.A.Roberts@baesystems.com
Ref. No. 160/2014
Nicole Gable Media Relations Electronic Systems
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Feeder Cattle May '19 (GFK19)
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Barchart Symbol GF
Exchange Symbol GF
Contract Feeder Cattle
Exchange CME
Tick Size 0.025 cents per pound ($12.50 per contract)
Daily Limit 4.5 cents per pound ($2,250 per contract) Expanded limit 6.75 cents
Contract Size 50,000 pounds
Trading Months Jan, Mar, Apr, May, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov (F, H, J, K, Q, U, V, X)
Trading Hours 8:30a.m. - 1:05p.m. (Settles 1:00p.m.) CST
Value of One Futures Unit $500
Value of One Options Unit $500
Last Trading Day The last Thursday of the contract month
The beef cycle begins with the cow-calf operation, which breeds the new calves. Most ranchers breed their herds of cows in summer, thus producing the new crop of calves in spring (the gestation period is about nine months). This allows the calves to be born during the milder weather of spring and provides the calves with ample forage through the summer and early autumn. The calves are weaned from the mother after 6-8 months and most are then moved into the "stocker" operation. The calves usually spend 6-10 months in the stocker operation, growing to near full-sized by foraging for summer grass or winter wheat. When the cattle reach 600-800 pounds, they are typically sent to a feedlot and become "feeder cattle." In the feedlot, the cattle are fed a special food mix to encourage rapid weight gain. The mix includes grain (corn, milo, or wheat), a protein supplement (soybean, cottonseed, or linseed meal), and roughage (alfalfa, silage, prairie hay, or an agricultural by-product such as sugar beet pulp). The animal is considered "finished" when it reaches full weight and is ready for slaughter, typically at around 1,200 pounds, which produces a dressed carcass of around 745 pounds. After reaching full weight, the cattle are sold for slaughter to a meat packing plant. Futures and options on live cattle and feeder cattle are traded at the CME Group. Both the live and feeder cattle futures contracts trade in terms of cents per pound.
Prices - CME live cattle futures prices (Barchart.com electronic symbol LE) pushed higher in early 2018 and posted the high for the year in February at $1.30525 a pound. Robust foreign demand for U.S. beef was positive for prices in early 2018 as U.S. 2017 beef exports rose +12% yr/yr to 2.862 bln lbs and the USDA projected U.S. 2018 beef exports would rise +5.7% yr/yr to a record high 3.025 bln lbs. Cattle prices then tumbled to a 2-year low of $1.1010 a pound in April on demand concerns and abundant supplies. The Trump administration's imposition of tariffs attracted retaliatory tariffs on a range of U.S. farm exports. China announced a 25% tariff on U.S. beef exports to China. Cattle prices were also undercut by supply concerns after the USDA projected that U.S. 2018 beef production would rise +5.8% yr/yr to a record 27.752 bln lbs. Also, the September Cattle on Feed report showed cattle on feed as of September 1 rose +5.9% yr/yr to a record for a September at 11.125 mln head as the number of cattle on feed climbed for twenty straight months. In addition, the August Cold Storage report showed U.S. beef supplies in cold storage rose to a record high for the month of August of 503.449 mln lbs. Cattle prices then crept higher into year-end as foreign demand for U.S. beef remained firm despite trade frictions. U.S. 2018 beef exports Jan-Oct were up +12% yr/yr at 2.627 bln lbs. Cattle prices finished 2018 slightly higher by +1.5% yr at $1.2480 a pound.
Supply - The world's number of cattle as of January 1, 2019, rose +0.5% to 1.007 billion head. As of January 1, 2018, the number of cattle on farms in India (the world's largest herd) rose +0.5% to 306.500 million head and on Brazilian farms (the world's second largest herd) rose by +2.5% to 238.150 million head. As of January 1, 2019, the number of cattle and calves on U.S. farms rose by +0.6% yr/yr to 95.000 million head. The USDA reported that U.S. commercial production of beef in 2017 rose 4.3% yr/yr to 27.590 billion pounds.
Demand - The federally-inspected slaughter of cattle in the U.S., a measure of cattle consumption, rose by +3.0% yr/yr to 32.654 million head in 2018, up from the 5-decade low of 28.296 million head in 2015.
Trade - U.S. imports of live cattle in 2018 fell -.05% yr/yr to 1.796 million head. U.S. exports of live cattle in 2017 rose +180.1% yr/yr to 194.600 head, up sharply from last year's 69,500. U.S. imports of beef in 2018 rose +1.0% to 3.025 billion pounds. U.S. exports of beef in 2018 rose +9.2% yr/yr to 3.124 billion pounds, a new record high.
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Download Rap Beats Online – Licenses and Samples – A complete overview
Posted on November 2, 2018 November 8, 2018 JanPosted in Uncategorized
In this article I will give a short overview on rap beats and licensing issues. I will talk about free beats and different license types such as leasing and exclusive rights. At the end I will discuss samples and if it’s necessary to clear them.
When it comes to recording and performing rap and trap music, picking beats is an integral part of your work. Instrumentals make half of your track. And no matter how tight your lyrics are, people will always like your music more, if it also sounds good.
Finding beats is surely a matter of taste. You just need to feel the vibe. Further on you should mind the production quality. Especially for live gigs and for playback in clubs, you will need well produced instrumentals to compete with other professional productions.
Free rap beats vs. paid licenses
Nowadays there are tons of free rap and trap beats in the Internet, e.g. on Youtube, Soundcloud, etc. If you are new in the game, free beats are pretty helpful to do your first demo recordings. Some free beats are of pretty good quality. Actually I have heard a couple of free beats which were even better than some other beats for sale.
As soon as you want to achieve more with your music you should have a closer look on licensing when picking beats.
The difference between free beats and free beats
If you find so-called Free Beats on the Internet, you should always have a closer look, especially on Youtube. For example a beat may be titled “Free Beat”, but what does that mean? Is it free for non-commercial use or also free for commercial use? Are there any conditions, such as author attribution, etc.?
Keep in mind: A “Free Beat” always requires further information. It does not automatically indicate it is totally free for any use. Without any license details you will not have any guaranty that you may publish a song with that beat.
In the beginning, copyright issues may seem unimportant, but if you take care too late they may turn into an even bigger plague.
Picking/downloading beats from Youtube
When picking beats from YouTube you should keep in mind that most YouTube videos are released with the Youtube Standard license. The Youtube standard license does not cover any modification (e.g. adding vocals) or re-publishing, etc. To publish songs with a beat which is published under YouTube standard license, you will need an extra permission.
Look out for creative commons beats
If the beat video is published under the creative commons license on Youtube, you may use it under the conditions which are written there, such as author attribution. More information about Creative Commons can be found on Wikipedia.
In any other case, you should contact the author to make sure you may use the beat. For example you may ask the author to grant you the rights under the terms of a common license (such as CC0) via E-Mail.
Attention: YouTube content ID protection
Also keep in mind that any beat you download may be protected by digital rights management such as YouTube Content ID. If this is the case, the instrumental may be recognized when you upload your song and the video will be claimed. Then it might happen that the music will be removed or the copyright owner will earn money with advertising on your video. If you have a license or permission to use the beat, you can easily remove the claim and everything will be fine.
Professional artists do not use YouTube converters etc.
The soundtrack of YouTube Videos is compressed with a lossy audio codec (AAC or MP3). If you download an audio file from YouTube with an external converter the quality will never be as brilliant as the original HQ beat file, which was exported from the producer. If you convert from YouTube to “HQ Wav”, it is pretty much eyewash. The lossy codec is put on the audio during the video upload, so you cannot undo this while downloading.
Further keep in mind that the YouTube terms do not allow downloading of YouTube content with 3rd party websites, converters, etc. If you find a real free rap beat instrumental on a serious YouTube channel, then there should be a legal way to download an mp3 or wav without any converter tools. In addition there should be at least some basic notes about the usage/license of the beat. Otherwise you’ll have absolutely no warranty for using the beat.
The fairy-tale of “non-commercial” use
Many people believe that you may do whatever you want with music for a non-commercial purpose. This is a misconception with a long tradition but still not true. Copyright applies to any public use and not only to commercial use.
The fairy-tale of “copyright-free” music etc.
Often you read terms like copyright free, no copyright etc. which are misleading terms, because for any creative work there is an author who is holding the copyright just for the reason of his authorship. Although an author may publish his work for free use, but creative work is never free of any copyright.
Real Free Beats under a Creative Commons (CC0) license
The most save way to use Free Beats is a Creative Commons (CC) license. There are a few common license types such as CC BY, CC BY-SA and so on. A detailed list can be found on the Creative Commons website.
YouTube is a nice tool to find beats which are released under the CC BY license. Just type in your search, then open the search filters and select “Creative Commons” in the features column.
As you filter the search to Creative Commons, you will realize that the number of search results is much smaller.
Advantages of professional (non-free) Beats
As you have read, the field of free licenses is pretty complex: Many so-called Free Beats are released without any license information or even contradictory information, so it is not always save to use them without further permissions.
Licensing a paid beat from a professional producer has a bunch of advantages. If you are aiming for a professional music career you should consider those things:
Not all Free Beats are save to use (Read the license details!)
Professional beats are more unique, not used by hundreds
Professional beats are available as wave file or stems for better quality
Paid producers may purchase better software and sounds for better quality
You may want to honor the work of a good producer
Leasing vs exclusive licenses
Most producers and beat stores offer two different license types: The so-called beat leasing is a non-exclusive license which means that others can also purchase the same license for that beat. You may find high quality beats for leasing for just 10-20 dollars. Exclusive beats are licensed just for you and therefore more expensive. Prices in reliable stores vary between 100 and thousands of dollars. Famous producers may sell beats for much higher prices.
For your first releases and demos, leasing beats may be totally fine. Especially if you are confident about your rap style, you should not care too much about some others who might use the same instrumental. In some beat stores you may also see how many licenses of a beat have been sold already. E.g. in my rap beat archive on AudioJungle, there is a small stat icon with a number indicating the “sold” count.
For example in my beats you will mostly find Leasing, WAV Leasing, Stems Leasing and Exclusive Rights:
https://www.beatstars.com/baumannbeats
The proper file format for beat downloads
For a high quality recording you should use a wave file of 16bit/44kHz or better. The beat should be exported directly from the DAW software of the producer and not have too much overall compression/limiting because a master limiter usually applies one more time to the full song (including the vocals). The most professional way is to ask the producer for stems of the beat. These are the separate tracks of the beat, e.g. drums, bass, instruments, etc. Beat stems offer a maximum of flexibility when it comes to mixing the track.
MP3 and YouTube conversion
MP3 files are compressed with a lossy algorithm and therefore not suitable for any professional studio use. Also streaming websites like YouTube, Soundcloud or others use lossy audio codecs like MP3 or AC3. Converting a YouTube video to wave format will not help at all. Once the audio was compressed, it will not have the same quality as an audio file which is delivered by the producer.
Beats with samples and loops from other music
Personally I prefer to produce beats without sampling other music. This gives more place for my own creative work and is better for rap artists and singers when it comes to copyright. But still sampling is a very common approach in modern rap and trap music. So if you want to purchase beats, it’s good for you to know some basic things:
Samples should be referenced
Maybe you have seen beats for sale with a hint saying that the instrumental includes a sample. Sometimes you may also find beats for sale without any hint but a sample is very obvious. This is a shame but unfortunately many producers do not have a good understanding of copyright (or they do not care a lot). In the worst case you may find a beat in which you do not recognize a sample. So you use that beat to record a song. Just after your release someone else recognizes the sample and the copyright owner will charge you and/or compel a take-down of the song.
Samples in Beats should be cleared
The use of a sample mostly requires to be cleared with the copyright owner. The owner might be the artist himself or a record company. In Hip-Hop music it has become popular to use samples without licensing or asking the copyright owner in advance. Indeed an artist may get away with this as long as he is not selling a lot. But the more popular your music becomes, the more risky it is to have uncleared samples in your productions.
One friend of mine who is an EDM/trap producer once used a sample and released a single. The track went pretty well in the dance charts but the copyright owner of the sample claimed 100% of all income because the single was categorized to be a “remix” of the original track. Lesson learned: My friend should have negotiated about a fair share before releasing the track.
Melodies (remixes) should be cleared
Also keep in mind, that copyright protection also applies to reenacted melodies (from other music). Your producer might play the chords and melody of a famous song himself to use it in a beat, but still a license/permission by the original artist will be required.
The save way: Use sample-free beats
To avoid copyright issues with samples, you might use beats without samples like those of Baumann Beats. If you are not sure if a beat is making use of samples, you may ask the author for confirmation. If the producer does not ensure that the beat is free of samples, then it’s better to be careful.
Jan has been a music producer and beat producer for almost 15 years and worked on various Major releases. You can Listen to his Rap Beats on Youtube and you can license his Rap Beats on Beatstars.
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THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Damocles, you may recall, was a courtier in the service of his king, Dionysius II of Syracuse. Syracuse remains a pretty little town in the southeast of Sicily.
Damocles was apparently flattering his king, which is a smart move when your boss is a brutal tyrant. He declared how fortunate his king was to be a man of such power and magnificence. Dionysius offered to swap places and the surprised Damocles gleefully accepted.
But while Damocles, reclining on a golden couch, was being treated to an opulent feast, he noticed a large sword hanging above him, suspended by a single horse hair. He begged the king to be excused, the lesson being that power and fortune are accompanied by great peril. The rich and powerful have so much to lose and almost nothing more to gain. In some respects, it’s better to be in the lower ranks where there is less to lose and so much more to aspire to.
As Cicero put it: “There can be no happiness for one who is under constant apprehensions.”
It is curious to note that almost nothing but this incident is known of Damocles, and Dionysius the king is remembered as a short-term and unpopular ruler whose performance was somewhere between mediocre and incompetent.
Only this seemingly frivolous moment endures and it does so because it so brilliantly encapsulates what it’s like at the top. You get to sit on the throne and to make the decisions, but from the start you know your reign is temporary and based on your performance. One wrong move and you could be gone.
Recently we’ve seen the demise of Fletcher Building’s CEO, Mark Adamson, for the poor performance of their business and interiors division. Adamson seems to have sought to place blame on management in that division who he described in an email as ‘a bunch of old farts’. The board, quite probably also full of old farts, weren’t about to let him pass the buck and he was gone by lunchtime. Expect a shake up of the board as well. If you’re in the business of making money in building, and it’s a building boom, shareholders expect a decent performance. That’s particularly so if you’re earning Mr Adamson’s $2M base salary.
The private sector mostly get these things right, albeit they are accompanied by nauseating spin. ‘The CEO has left for personal reasons’ or ‘He’s decided to pursue other opportunities’. Nah, he got sacked, plain and simple.
In a disaster, the ordinary person might escape on a lifeboat, while the captain goes down with his ship. The example of this most commonly recalled is that of Captain Edward Smith on the bridge of the Titanic as it went down. History may have romanticised the story but it stands in stark contrast to more recent sinkings.
This principle isn’t just some dreamy anachronism, but is laid out in the likes of aircraft law where it’s stipulated that the captain has ‘final authority and responsibility’. I think they have that the wrong way around. Great leadership starts with responsibility; authority or power come second.
One of the foibles of modernity is the putting aside of principles that have served us well for thousands of years. Examples are not hard to find. You’ll remember the Costa Concordia where the captain abandoned ship while 32 of his passengers perished. More recently a Korean ferry sank without the order to abandon ship ever being given and none of the life rafts deployed. You guessed it, the captain and most of the crew escaped while 304 passengers perished.
In the modern era self-preservation takes precedence. We live in an age of pre-nuptials, trusts, indemnity clauses and endless other mechanisms to avoid carrying the can. That might work for the ordinary citizen, but still doesn’t cut it at the top.
All this leads me to our current water woes.
Last year’s gastro crisis had 5,500 victims, 45 hospitalisations, and it seems three vulnerable citizens had their lives prematurely ended. Problems were identified perhaps as far back as 1998. Apparently, a plan to address the potential problems was drawn up, but never actioned.
The painfully slow formal inquiry into the matter laid most of the blame on the Hastings District Council, saying that they “failed to embrace and implement the high standard of care for a public drinking-water supplier”. Who has taken responsibility for this debacle?
Some of our leaders have done so in words, but no one has lost their job.
Former Mayor Yule, showing masterful political timing, has shifted to national politics. In any event he was re-elected last year, immediately after the crisis. The public did not find the alternative candidates sufficiently compelling. Yule also fronted very well during the crisis, taking the hard questions from the media at every opportunity. Still, now that more facts have come to light and the formal inquiry has castigated the HDC, he might be in an untenable position if he were still mayor. I’d wager that such soul searching was a key factor in him moving on.
CEO Ross McLeod would seem to be on shakier ground. When your staff perform well, you get the photo opportunities, the ribbon cutting and the champagne, even though you’re only taking credit for the team. When middle management mess up, you get to take the blame for them. Responsibility sits with the chief executive and the mayor. McLeod was also fairly quiet during the crisis, which is no surprise. Elected politicians always hog the limelight, as Yule did in this instance.
Yule claimed the many errors made created a ‘swiss cheese effect’, where lots of holes in lots of places meant no one could really be blamed. Maybe, but it’s not about blame, it’s about taking responsibility. The councillors in turn, have said something like ‘the best thing we can do now is fix the problem’. That’s not good enough. It’s restorative justice for fat cats. The CEO should have gone and gone a while back.
Now I’ve got nothing against these people. Yule is a capable and canny politician and McLeod is apparently a highly intelligent operator. You don’t get to the top without having some genuine ability. Sometimes the jettisoning of leaders is just bad luck on their account. They have my sympathies, but not my ongoing support.
The actions of councillors in sticking with the same team are intolerably weak. Instead of taking decisive action they’ve just extended the CEO’s contract and given him a 2% pay rise. That’s about what you’d expect for a solid performance, but is sickening when you hear of the ongoing suffering the gastro crisis caused for so many.
Not much more can be said for the Napier City Council. They seem to have only just realised that spending $21 million on a velodrome, while their water has a positive E.coli test every other month, isn’t a good idea. Politicians love glamour projects. Anything to do with sports or the arts and they’re out in droves.
Much less appealing are boring infrastructure projects, like water supplies or flood protection schemes. Edgecombe provides us with another example of this, where recent flooding seems to have been the result of failing to maintain the stop banks. Such matters are uninspiring but essential responsibilities of councils.
Leaders perform best when they understand these principles and have more skin in the game than those below them. Their sacking is not about justice and it’s not about fi xing the problem. It’s seldom the person at the top who actually made the bad calls, but someone down the ranks.
But it’s the chairman, the president, the chief executive that bears the responsibility. Their departure serves two purposes:
Firstly, a new face comes to power and says all the right things about ‘it won’t happen on my watch’. This goes some way towards restoring public confidence, which has been horribly shaken.
Secondly, and most importantly, it shows that the former leader was accountable and took responsibility. The Sword of Damocles isn’t just symbol of potential peril. The sword must actually fall from time to time and blood must flow.
In doing so, it sends a clear message to any new leader of a council and aspiring leaders too. The buck stops with you.
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Teradici Adds Support for Open-Source Hypervisor Technology to Deliver More Flexibility within Cloud Access Software
Support for kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor offers flexibility and cost efficiency for customers operating on-premises and private clouds
Burnaby, BC, April 16, 2019--(T-Net)--As the use of cloud technology and virtual machines gains traction across a wide range of organizations from media to enterprise to government, it has become clear that no single approach is suitable for every situation.
Responding to the need of customers for more control and flexibility in hosting and managing their virtual desktops, Teradici, the creator of industry-leading PCoIP® technology and Cloud Access Software, has announced support for kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor technology.
KVM is an open-source virtualization technology that offers a cost-effective and flexible alternative solution for customers using private clouds to host virtual machines.
"We have a number of customers, particularly in fields like government services and in international markets, who are interested in using an open-source solution for the level of control, customization, and cost efficiency it offers in managing their on-premises and private clouds," said David Smith, CEO of Teradici. "Adding KVM support to Cloud Access Software provides greater flexibility and enables them to tailor infrastructure to meet their specific needs."
The addition of KVM support to Teradici Cloud Access Software broadens the range of choices the company offers customers. As an open-source solution, the KVM hypervisor offers a cost-effective way to meet particular needs:
It enables broad customization, offers choice of management tools and expands multicloud deployment options;
It offers customers control in the management and features of their on-premises and private clouds;
It provides opportunities for system integrators and OEMs to tailor and augment their offerings to meet specific customer requirements.
Because KVM is an open-source solution, a variety of KVM hypervisors are available to suit different needs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Virtualization offer one of the most prominent and widely used KVM distributions, particularly in enterprise and government environments. As one of the preferred KVM solutions for Teradici customers, Red Hat's KVM-based technologies were used by Teradici to test and qualify its new KVM support.
"Open-source virtualization provides a powerful and cost-effective foundation upon which enterprises can base digital transformation efforts, pairing the stability required for existing workloads with the flexibility to support cloud-native applications," said Rob Young, senior manager, Virtualization Product Management, Red Hat. "We are pleased to see Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Virtualization supported by Teradici Cloud Access Software, providing customers with additional choice to meet their specific enterprise computing needs."
Carahsoft, a trusted IT solution provider and long-time public sector distributor of Teradici products, has built a reputation for helping government agencies find the best possible solution at the best possible value. According to Evan Slack, director of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Team at Carahsoft, KVM hypervisor support will offer immediate value to Carahsoft's public sector customers and reseller ecosystem.
"As agencies seek to accelerate their cloud migrations and increase their virtual machine offerings, KVM allows IT teams to leverage the flexibility and customization that open-source software provides, while remaining in a private cloud environment," Evan said. "KVM offers end users a higher level of choice and control to meet evolving needs, and does so while delivering an option to keep their costs effectively managed. We look forward to being able to provide this solution to our state, local and federal customers and resellers to smooth their cloud migrations and help them meet the goals of the Cloud Smart strategy."
KVM support is available now to subscribers in the beta release of Cloud Access Software 2019.05. General availability is scheduled for May 2019. Visit the Teradici website for more information on Cloud Access Software.
Teradici is the creator of the PCoIP® remoting protocol technology and Cloud Access Software. The company's core mission is seamless and secure delivery of workstations and applications for end users. Teradici PCoIP technology and Cloud Access Software offer the most secure remoting solutions for public, private, and multicloud environments, enabling visualization of even the most graphics-intensive applications. The company's solutions are deployed by Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and service providers around the world.
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Former RAINBOW And DEEP PURPLE Singer JOE LYNN TURNER Hospitalized With 'Heart Issue'
Former RAINBOW and DEEP PURLE singer Joe Lynn Turner has been hospitalized in Belarus "with a heart issue," his friend Graham Bonnet has confirmed.
Turner's hospitalization was first reported by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, which quoted the press service of the Ministry of Health of Belarus as saying that the singer's condition was "stable" after he was treated at a Minsk facility for "myocardial infarction," commonly known as a heart attack. Turner's presence at the hospital was also reported by Belarus's most influential daily newspaper, the state-owned SB Belarus Segodnya.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health of Belarus said that Turner was transported by ambulance to the hospital and that he will continue to receive treatment at the facility.
Earlier today, fellow former RAINBOW vocalist Bonnet confirmed the reports, posting a Facebook photo of him with Joe and writing in an accompanying caption: "My friend Joe was hospitalized in Minsk with a heart issue last night and myself, [GRAHAM BONNET BAND bassist] Beth-Ami [Heavenstone] and the rest of the GRAHAM BONNET BAND wish him a complete and speedy recovery. We love you, Joe."
BLABBERMOUTH.NET has reached out to Turner's representative for more information on the singer's condition and will update this story accordingly.
Joe was the frontman of RAINBOW between 1980 and 1984 and he sang on the album "Difficult To Cure", which featured the band's most successful U.K. single, "I Surrender".
During Turner's time with RAINBOW, the band had its first USA chart success and recorded songs that helped define the melodic rock genre.
1990 saw Turner reunited with RAINBOW leader Ritchie Blackmore in a reformed DEEP PURPLE for the "Slaves And Masters" album.
The 66-year-old singer is married to Maya Kozyreva, a lawyer from Minsk.
My friend Joe was hospitalized in Minsk with a heart issue last night and myself, Beth-Ami and the rest of the Graham Bonnet Band wish him a complete and speedy recovery. We love you, Joe.
Posted by Graham Bonnet on Saturday, April 14, 2018
Wishing my buddy @joelynnturner a speedy recovery, love ya bro!! https://t.co/u18mj5tzaO
— Jeff Scott Soto (@jeffscottsoto) April 14, 2018
Wishing all the best and a speed recovery to one of my heroes, Mr. @joelynnturner ? https://t.co/DS5GuY4vYK
— Ronnie Romero (@ronnieromerov) April 14, 2018
Wishing our friend @joelynnturner a speedy recovery!!!! https://t.co/W3P4HocE9J
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Please keep my friend Joe Lynn Turner in your prayers. Joe suffered a heart attack at his home in Minsk, Belarus yesterday and is listed in stable condition in hospital.
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WISHING MY BUDDY JOE LYNN TURNER A COMPLETE AND SPEEDY RECOVERY!
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-rainbow-and-deep-purple-singer-joe-lynn-turner-hospitalized-with-heart-issue/
Posted by Frankie Banali on Saturday, April 14, 2018
Want to send love and healing thoughts to my old pal Joe Lynn Turner!
— TONY HARNELL (@tonyharnell) April 15, 2018
My thoughts and prayers go out to long time friend and Big Noize alumnus @joelynnturner who is recovering from a heart attack. God bless you my friend and speedy recovery #carloscavazo @VinnyAppice1 pic.twitter.com/nLU1fI87eI
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Bexley Council seeks community management for libraries
Molly Kersey
Community groups and organisations are being asked for support.
Bexley Council is seeking community groups and organisations to help run local libraries.
They are seeking assistance to manage the libraries at Blackfen, Bostall, North Heath and Upper Belvedere.
This follows a cabinet decision in December, approving the adoption of a new library strategy and plans for remodelling the service.
The borough already has two successful community managed libraries in Bexley Village and Slade Green.
Cllr Alex Sawyer, cabinet member for community safety and leisure, said: “Community management offers an opportunity for local people and organisations to benefit from playing a key role in a local service they value.
“People who have expressed their support for the libraries need to come forward and find out how they can shape their future and contribute to running them.
“If helping to keep their library isn’t a priority for enough people it’s a signal to us that other services should have priority.
“Communities and groups that choose to work with us can expect to receive support from the council to help them realise their aspirations.
“I hope any interested groups and local people will contact us to find out more about the process.
“Given the scale of savings we need to find it is a sad fact that, if we aren’t able to find community partners we will have no other option than to close these libraries.”
Those interested in running one or more libraries can contact the council to request an application form, which will need to be returned by March 20.
For more information call 020 3045 4562 or email libraries@bexley.gov.uk
Alex Sawyer
Bexley Council
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Technologies > U-Link
U-Link is an innovation that transforms products into Bft solutions.
Full Access Specialist: that's what we have become, starting from automation in the residential sector.
A traditional area for Bft, which can count on 30 years of technological innovations.
A fact demonstrated by our solutions in the Home Automation Access category. A range of easy to install and functional products created to effectively address any situation and need.
The Home Automation Access category includes our sliding and swing operators (U-link and non-U-link), Magistro and all its applications in domestic contexts, remote controls and Thea, the only photocell with integrated flashing light.
Cutting-edge access management for public and private applications.
A specialised range for access control and protection of public and private structures.
The solutions in this sector offer the possibility to manage more than one access and more than one operator at the same time, both locally and remotely. Bft also offers automation for car parks with special needs and with structures that can only be accessed by authorised personnel.
Bft also supplies anti-terrorism systems, for sensitive sites where the control of vehicle access is fundamental for guaranteeing safety.
Urban traffic management reaches new frontiers.
Advanced parking systems, barriers and bollards integrated through the use of software dedicated to Urban traffic Management: this is the result of the most innovative research from Bft.
With a high level of interconnectivity between the products installed, the solutions presented in this section are also adaptable to the most simple as well as multi-storey parking areas and the active management of vehicle traffic. contexts that require maximum professionalism and the top performance of the Bft range. In addition, each solution offers dedicated services provided by the company to help customers before, during and after installation. The Bft Urban Mobility Access world consists of a high tech range of products that are highly customisable according to needs.
CLONIX
Allows the connection of old-generation products and non-Bft products to U-Link systems.
Old-generation Bft operators or a product belonging to other brands: can they be connected with U-link? Yes, thanks to the Clonix receivers. Accessories that know no limits.
Six prerogatives, for a unique advantage: U-Link.
U-Link is a technological platform that forms the heart of Bft products.
U-Link uses an open approach: by changing the B-Eba, Bft proprietary gateway, it is possible to adapt to many different communication languages.
U-Link is flexible: it can work with or without a network connection, depending on the B-Eba GATEWAY installed.
U-Link enables remote maintenance of the products thanks to the two-way communication.
U-Link is scalable: an infinite number of objects can be added to a single platform.
U-Link allows the creation of groups of products: various B-Ebas can be aggregated to allow individual or group control of the associated products.
B-EBA
A direct line with your operators.
B-Eba expansion cards allow external devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets to be connected to a Bft operator, a Clonix receiver or to connect several Bft products in a U-Link network. These accessories integrate with U-Link technology and Bluetooth, Z-Wave, TCP/IP protocols, as well as the RS485 serial connection. A device that fully translates what Bft intends for interconnectivity.
A single communication platform for all types of control units and receivers.
The innovative interconnectivity systems developed by Bft along with wireless connection solutions in the field of access point automation become integrated through the new U-link system communication protocol.
U-SDK
Is a programme comparable to a driver for normal PC devices. Via U-SDK, systems integrators can make other brands of home automation systems dialogue with Bft products interconnected in a U-Link network. With an extremely simple syntax, this software translates external commands into the U-Link language. Every command can be interpreted by the Bft cards, which can at the same time produce information on the system status.
U-Control is the system developed by Bft to control your home automation via smartphone or tablet, wherever you are.
The application is simple to install and use. Linked with all Bft U-link products, it is also compatible with products from other companies: because it's only a solution when it simplifies life.
U-BASE CLOUD
Proposed to U-Base 2 licence holders, this service manages and maintains the systems archived in the Bft Cloud. Via the web connection, users enabled by the licence holder can rapidly and precisely edit the system operating parameters and view the alarms log.
BLU ENTRY
Practicality and safety combined in a single system. With Blue Entry, simply touch the screen of your smartphone or just keep the application in automatic mode to open the gate of the house. A simple solution making a remote control no longer necessary. At the same time, Blue Entry guarantees top security, allowing access only to smartphones configured in the accessory receiving the signal.
Is the Bft system used to quickly and intuitively manage the whole home automation system from the home or remotely. A cutting-edge technology incorporated in Magistro Brain, the single concentrator that controls all the modules connected to the system.
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King of the Seven Climes
Daryaee, Touraj (ed.). 2017. King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE – 651 CE). UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies.
In a Middle Persian text known as “Khusro and the Page,” one of the most famous kings of the ancient Iranian world, Khusro I Anusheruwan, is called haft kišwar xawadāy “the King of the Seven Climes.” This title harkens back to at least the Achaemenid period when it was in fact used, and even further back to a Zoroastrian/Avestan world view. From the earliest Iranian hymns, those of the Gāthās of Zarathushtra, through the Younger Avesta and later Pahlavi writings, it is known that the ancient Iranians divided the world into seven climes or regions. Indeed, at some point there was even an aspiration that this world should be ruled by a single king. Consequently, the title of the King of the Seven Climes, used by Khusro I in the sixth century CE, suggests the most ambitious imperial vision that one would find in the literary tradition of the ancient Iranian world. Taking this as a point of departure, the present book aims to be a survey of the dynasties and rulers who thought of going beyond their own surroundings to forge larger polities within the Iranian realm.
Thus far, in similar discussions of ancient Iranian history, it has been the convention to set the beginnings of a specifically Iranian world at the rise of Cyrus the Great and the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire. But in fact, this notion is only a recent paradigm, which became popular in Iran in the late 1960s owing to traditions of Classical and European historiography. At the same time, there are other narratives that can be given for the history of the Iranian World, including those that take us to 5000 BCE to sites such as Sialk, near Kashan, or other similar archaeological localities. As attractive as an archaeologically based narrative of local powers can be, however, the aim of the present work is to focus on political entities who aimed at the control of a larger domain beyond their own local contexts. As a result, this book starts its narrative with Elam, the influential civilization and kingdom that existed long before the Achaemenids came to power. Elam boasted a writing system and a complex culture and political organization contemporaneous with that of Mesopotamia, and was made up of cities such as Susa and Anshan. As Kamyar Abdi shows in his chapter, the Iranian civilization owes much to the Elamites and their worldview and conception of rulership. Thus, we do not start the present narrative with 550 BCE and Cyrus, but with 3000 BCE, in the proto-Elamite Period, when signs of a long lasting civilization on the Iranian Plateau first appeared.
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Packed British holiday jet bound for Spain declares emergency over France
Darren Burke
Published: 09:54 Thursday 12 December 2019
A packed British holiday jet bound for Spain has declared an emergency over France this morning.
The Easyjet flight from London to Valencia sent out an emergency ‘squawk’ earlier this morning.
An Easyjet flight has declared an emergency.
Flight U28221, which took off from the UK at 8.30am and is due to land in Valencia at around 11.30am, declared the emergency near Poitiers in western France.
The twin jet engine Airbus A320-214, which has been in service for seven years, is believed to have signalled to make an emergency landing at an alternative airport in the area.
The plane has squawked a 7700 code – which means that the pilot has manually changed his transponder code from the one previously assigned for normal operations to alert ground radar crew to the emergency.
It is classed as the equivalent of an “SOS” radio transmission and it alerts air traffic control.
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Sitting in the Catbird Seat
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Longtime baseball announcer Red Barber often described a player in a winning situation as "sitting in the catbird seat." So what is "sitting in the catbird seat"? And what is a catbird? The Gray Catbird is a cousin of the mockingbird, and it does sound a little like a cat. During breeding season, when it's protecting its territory, the catbird competes with others of its species. The two combatants sing their way to higher and higher perches. The one who finally takes the highest perch is ... well ... sitting in the catbird seat!
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[Strains of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”]
Longtime Brooklyn Dodger and later New York Yankee announcer Red Barber often described a player in a winning situation as “sitting in the catbird seat.” [Recording of Red Barber]
So what is “sitting in the catbird seat”? And what, for that matter, is a catbird? The catbird part is easy: it’s a cousin of the mockingbird, in the bird family known as the mimids (pronounced MIMM-idz). And it does sound a little like a cat. [Mewing of Gray Catbird]
But where did that phrase come from? It’s been around since the 19th century, probably originating in the south, where there are lots of catbirds. The Gray Catbird is normally a skulker, foraging near the ground. [Mewing of a Gray Catbird] But during breeding season, when it’s protecting its territory, the catbird is likely to pick fights with others of its species. As part of the competition, the two combatants sing their way to higher and higher perches. The one who finally takes the highest perch is … well … sitting in the catbird seat, with the best view, in control, top bird, so to speak. [Song of Gray Catbird]
So, take it from the old redhead: the catbird seat is the place to be. [Strains of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”]
Audio of the Gray Catbird provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Call recorded by W.L. Hershberger. Song recorded by G.F. Budney.
Red Barber audio from Old Gold Cigarette commercials, www.youtube.com.
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Books for younger Children that Encourage Learning
It is never too early to start STEM education and an ideal way to get your kids inspired about STEM is through reading.
All Aboard the Discovery Express Open the Flaps and Solve the Mysteries
The Story of Space A First Book about Our Universe
Taking Flight How the Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies
Astronaut Academy Are you ready for the challenge
On the Train On the Construction Site ShineA Light Books
100 Steps for Science Why it works and how it happened
Experts across education and industry agree that there is a national shortage of students with a thorough understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM.) It is never too early to start STEM education and an ideal way to get your kids inspired about STEM is through reading.
Children learn the best through a combination of hands-on and minds-on experiences. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics experiences can be introduced and extended with good books that not only show the exciting stories behind innovators but give you ideas for experiments and adventures at home to further explore STEM concepts.
We had some fantastic feedback on our last “15 Books To Get You Engaged With Engineering” and wanted to compile a list of some of our favourite books for younger readers that will be published throughout 2017.
While we have linked the books below to Amazon, they are available from any good bookseller or your local library.
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All Aboard the Discovery Express – Open the Flaps and Solve the Mysteries
by Emily Hawkins (Author), Tom Adams (Author), Tom Clohosy Cole (Author)
Release – September 2017
All aboard the Discovery Express!. Welcome on board the Discovery Express! The year is 1937 and a conundrum is afoot: a professor on the verge of a brilliant discovery has disappeared. Can you help to solve the clues on this time-travelling adventure and track down the missing scientist?
This beautiful interactive lift the flap adventure challenges you to find a brilliant professor who has disappeared. On your voyage, you’ll travel the world, see some of the most important moments in the history of transportation, meet the most brilliant engineers of all time, and ultimately unveil the design of the world’s first jet engine!
Age Range: 7 – 10 years
Pre-order – All Aboard the Discovery Express
The Story of Space – A First Book about Our Universe
by Catherine Barr (Author), Steve Williams (Author), Amy Husband (Illustrator)
Release – 6 Apr 2017
Before the Big Bang there was NOTHING AT ALL. No galaxies, no space, no light and no sound. Then suddenly, 13.8 billion years ago, IT ALL BEGAN…
The Story of Space is a follow-up to The Story of Life (a beautiful introduction to Evolution) and brings to life the story of our universe for younger (6-9 year old) children.
You can travel back in time to the Big Bang, see galaxies and stars form, watch the birth of our planet and how life begins, join the first man on the moon, and wonder what mysteries are still waiting to be discovered.
Age Range: 6 – 9 years
Pre-order – The Story of Space
Taking Flight – How the Wright Brothers Conquered the Skies
by Adam Hancher
The pioneering Wright brothers dared to dream of being the first men in the world to fly… but would they ever see their dreams take flight?
In Taking Flight, the golden age of aviation is brought vividly to life through the story of determination, ingenuity and courage of the Wright Brothers.
The book is beautifully illustrated by Adam Hancher, an illustrator from The Black Country who is now based in East London. Adams work has a strong focus on narrative illustration and his thoughtful images within Taking Flight bright the story to life.
Pre-Order – On the Train
Astronaut Academy – Are you ready for the challenge
by Steve Martin (Author), Jennifer Farley (Author)
What’s it like to be an astronaut on a mission to Mars? Well, kids will not only find out but can also train for their missions in this exciting activity book. Once enrolled at the academy, they face a variety of challenges and missions that mimic the real-life tasks astronauts may have to perform in space. Specific activities include hand-eye coordination exercises, obstacle courses, building a balloon rocket, basic first-aid skills, how to deal with weightlessness, and doing fiddly things while wearing big gloves!
Informative and ultra interactive, Astronaut Academy is jam-packed full of Space Goodies that are designed to encourage you to create! Sections includes stickers, a poster, board game, press-outs, and a model space shuttle.
This is the ideal book for getting your kids excited about space science and aeronautics. It is the perfect excuse to get your kids involved and engaged in fun STEM based activities at home.
Order – Astronaut Academy
On the Train / On the Construction Site – Shine-A Light Books
by Carron Brown (Author), Bee Johnson
Release – 2 Feb 2017
Discover the excitement of life on the rails in this first transport book, perfect for budding train enthusiasts! Simply by holding the pages up to light, young readers can see inside the engine, meet the people who work on the trains, and discover where the trains they travel on go at night.
Watch a skyscraper spring up with this beautifully illustrated interactive book! By simply holding the book up to the light, or shining a light behind each page, young readers will be able to discover how large buildings are constructed, who builds them, and all about the amazing machines they use in the process.
These innovative see-through books function a bit like lift-the-flaps books but have the added interactive dimension of the child being able to see both the surface and the hidden picture at the same time. By shining a light through the page you reveal the hidden image behind the picture.
Other Shine-A-Light books in the series include the Secrets of the Rainforest, Secrets of Our Earth and Secrets of the Seashore. As well as STEM-focused books like “The Human Body” and “On the Space Station”
They are a great introduction to Engineering for younger children – especially at bedtime – and with a range of subjects to choose from you are bound to find a subject that your children will engage with.
Pre-Order – 100 Steps for Science
100 Steps for Science – Why it works and how it happened
by Lisa Jane Gillespie (Author), Yukai Du (Author)
Plunge into the world of science and learn about humankind’s ten most important discoveries, including stars, wheels, numbers, light, medicine, sound, atoms, materials, energy and life.
See how early scientific observations made by ancient civilisations went on to shape our world today, and learn how technology evolved over time in ten breakthrough moments for each of the ten fundamental discoveries.
From the invention of the wheel, which was adapted over thousands of years to power the powerful modern engines of the modern age, learn how simple steps in science led to giant leaps for mankind.
We have saved the best for last. 100 Steps for Science is a stunning book that explores ten separate stories of human ingenuity. You get to meet the scientists whose discoveries have shaped the world we live in.
Aimed at slightly older children (7-10) the book succeeds at exploring complex topics (like how the creation of numbers led to the digital revolution, the ten incredible reinventions of the wheel, how the simple log roller of early man resulted in the creation of the machines of the Industrial Revolution and modern engines and turbines of today) in an exciting and visually accessible way.
Lisa Jane Gillespie background from studying science has helped her in editing all sorts of children’s books. However, 100 Steps for Science has allowed her to combined her love and talent to pen. The book is illustrated by Yukai Du, illustrator and animator from Guangzhou, China, who’s work has been featured in Wired, TED-Ed, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Telegraph.
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Neale, a picturesque village in south County Mayo, boasts an abundance of architectural heritage including an eighteenth-century Church of Ireland church; a nineteenth-century Catholic church; a handball alley; and charming thatched houses. Adjoining the village are the eye-catching follies of the Neale House estate including a stepped pyramid introducing the spirit of Egypt to the Irish landscape; a nineteenth-century “Temple of the Winds”; and the bewildering “Gods of The Neale” whose lengthy inscription has long perplexed the observer.
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Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Dicamba
Identity, Use and Sources in the Environment
Analytical Methods and Treatment Technology
The maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for dicamba in drinking water is 0.12 mg/L (120 µg/L).
Dicamba is a broad-spectrum chlorobenzoic acid herbicide used in large quantities for general weed control on grain crops, pastures and non-crop areas. Between 500 000 and 1 million kilograms of dicamba, its amine salt or its butoxyethyl ester are sold annually in Canada.Footnote 1
Dicamba is only slightly soluble in water, but its salts and esters are freely soluble.Footnote 2 Its vapour pressure at 20°C is 3.9 x 10-6 Pa. It is stable to oxidation and hydrolysis, and it is persistent in soil, remaining three to 12 months.Footnote 3 Dicamba is not strongly adsorbed onto soil particles and is readily leached to groundwater;Footnote 4 it has therefore been considered a Priority A chemical with respect to potential for groundwater contamination by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Footnote 5
Dicamba was not found in municipal water supplies in Alberta, but it was detected on two occasions (out of 48 analyses) in municipal water supplies in Manitoba and in about 6% of private wells monitored in southern Ontario,Footnote 6 with a maximum recorded concentration of 2.3 µg/L.Footnote 8 Dicamba has occasionally been detected in trace amounts in surface waters of Manitoba and Ontario.Footnote 8 It was present in 18% of surface water samples in the Thames River basin, Ontario.Footnote 9
Based on the residue tolerance limits set by the Food Directorate of the Department of National Health and WelfareFootnote 10 and on average Canadian consumption patterns,Footnote 11 the theoretical maximum dietary intake of dicamba for an adult Canadian would be 0.0003 mg/kg bw per day, or less than 3% of the acceptable daily intake (ADI) established by the Department of National Health and Welfare, assuming that every crop for which it is registered for use contained it at the maximum tolerable level of 0.1 µg/g. Actual intake will be less than this "worst-case" assumption. The theoretical maximum dietary intake in the United States is about 10 times this value, 33% of the ADI, because of higher residue tolerances and a greater number of registered crop uses.Footnote 12 Dicamba was not included in total diet residue surveys in either Canada or the United States.
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Dicamba may be monitored in water using isotope dilution, gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric extraction,Footnote 13 methylation and gas chromatographyFootnote 14 or pentafluorobenzylation and gas chromatography with electron capture detection.Footnote 15 The detection limit in the last technique was 0.05 to 0.1 µg/L,Footnote 9,Footnote 15 and the quantitation limit is therefore about 0.5 µg/L.
Granular activated carbon adsorption is reported to be a possible technique for removal of dicamba from drinking water.Footnote 16
Dicamba is readily and almost completely absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Metabolism in rats is rapid, with 70% of the dose excreted unchanged in the urine in five hours, and most of the remainder within three days.Footnote 17
Dicamba has a fairly low acute toxicity.Footnote 4 Its principal toxic action is on the liver, with vacuolization, necrosis, fatty deposits and liver weight changes noted at high doses in rats and dogs.4 In a subchronic (15-week) study, male Wistar rats were administered technical dicamba in the diet at doses equivalent to 0, 3.8, 12, 37, 119 or 364 mg/kg bw per day. A no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) of 37 mg/kg bw per day was observed, based on increases in relative liver/body weight ratios at doses of 119 and 364 mg/kg bw per day.Footnote 18
In a 13-week study, male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were administered technical dicamba, in a formulation with dimethylamine, in the diet at doses equivalent to 41, 206, 330 and 413 mg dicamba per kilogram diet per day. At the highest dose, 413 mg/kg in the diet or about 21 mg/kg bw per day, necrosis and vacuolization of the liver were seen. The NOAEL for effects on the liver was 206 mg dicamba per kilogram diet or approximately 10 mg/kg bw per day (unpublished study, cited in reference 4).
Sprague-Dawley rats (32 per sex per dose) were administered technical dicamba in the diet at doses equivalent to 0, 0.25, 2.5, 5, 12.5 or 25 mg/kg bw per day for two years. No differences in survival, body weight, food consumption, organ weights or histology were noted at any dose, but the data presented were insufficient to allow estimation of a NOAEL.Footnote 19In a two-year study in which dogs (three per sex per dose) were administered technical dicamba in the diet at doses equivalent to 0, 0.125, 0.625 or 1.25 mg/kg bw per day, a decrease in body weight was observed in males at 0.625 and 1.25 mg/kg bw per day, with a NOAEL at 0.125 mg/kg bw per day. There were no compound-related effects on survival, food consumption, haematology, urinalysis or organ weights. No data were presented on gross pathology or histology of organs other than heart, lung, liver and kidney.Footnote 19
No compound-related increases in tumour incidence were observed in the two-year dog study or the two-year rat feeding study,Footnote 19 although it should be pointed out that these studies were inadequate to allow evaluation of the potential of dicamba as a carcinogen.
Dicamba was not mutagenic in several microbial test systems, including the Ames/Salmonella test.Footnote 4,Footnote 20,Footnote 21Further short-term tests are required for mammalian test systems, chromosome aberrations and DNA repair studies.
In a three-generation rat study in which CD rats (20 females and 10 males per dose) were fed dicamba at doses equivalent to 0, 0.25, 2.5, 5, 12.5 or 25 mg/kg bw per day, there were no effects on fertility, viability or pup development.Footnote 22 No teratogenic or foetotoxic effects were noted in albino rats administered technical dicamba by gavage on days 6 to 19, at doses up to 400 mg/kg bw per day, the highest dose tested.Footnote 16 New Zealand white rabbits were administered technical dicamba per os at doses of 0, 0.5, 1, 3, 10 or 20 mg/kg bw on days 6 to 18 of pregnancy. A NOAEL of 3 mg/kg bw per day was observed, based on reductions in both foetal and maternal body weights and increased post-implantation losses at 10 or 20 mg/kg bw per day. There were no teratogenic effects.Footnote 23
Based on evaluations of unpublished data by the Food Directorate of the Department of National Health and Welfare,Footnote 24 an ADI for dicamba was established as follows:
Long description - The equation used to calculate the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of dicamba.
The ADI of dicamba is calculated by dividing the no-observed-adverse-effects-level (NOAEL) of 1.25 mg/kg body weight per day by the uncertaintly factor of 100. This results in an ADI for dicamba of 0.0125 mg/kg body weight per day.
1.25 mg/kg bw per day is the NOAEL in a two-year feeding study in dogsFootnote 4
100 is the uncertainty factor (x10 for intraspecies variation; x10 for interspecies variation).
The maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for dicamba in drinking water is derived from the ADI as follows:
Long description - The equation used to calculate the maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for dicamba in drinking water.
The MAC for dicamba in drinking water is calculated by multiplying the ADI of 0.0125 mg/kg body weight per day by the average adult body weight of 70 kg, then mutiplying the result by the proportion of intake attributable to drinking water, 0.20. This product is then divided by the average daily consumption of drinking water for an adult of 1.5 L/day. This results in a MAC of 0.12 mg/L (rounded) for dicamba in drinking water.
0.0125 mg/kg bw per day is the ADI, as derived above
70 kg is the average body weight of an adult
0.20 is the proportion of total daily intake of dicamba allocated to drinking water (theoretical maximum food intake is less than 3% of the ADI)
1.5 L/d is the average daily consumption of drinking water for an adult.
Note that application of a 1000-fold uncertainty factor in the derivation of the ADI gives an MAC of 0.01 mg/L.
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Environment Canada/Agriculture Canada. Pesticide Registrant Survey, 1986 report. Commercial Chemicals Branch, Conservation and Protection, Environment Canada, Ottawa (1987).
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Ashton, F. Persistence and biodegradation of herbicides. In: Biodegradation of pesticides. F. Matsumura and C.R. Krishna Murti (eds.). Plenum Press, New York, NY. p. 117 (1982).
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Edson, E.F. and Sanderson, D.M. Toxicity of the herbicides 2-methoxy-3,6-dichlorobenzoic acid (dicamba) and 2-methoxy-3,5,6-trichlorobenzoic acid (tricamba). Food Cosmet. Toxicol., 3: 299 (1965).
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Remember When Experts Told Us Statins For The Heart Were Safe & A Life-Saving Drug?
Trusting the authorities and experts in the modern medical health and research fields has recently proven to be very dangerous to one's health, and costly to society.
Readers familiar with the ins-and-outs of climate science are well aware that incidents like Climategate proved that government scientists and bureaucrats, especially those with an agenda, could not be trusted to inform the public honestly.
Unfortunately for health patients, they too have blindly trusted for decades. They have trusted the advice of doctors and pharmaceutical experts claiming a "consensus" and the "settled" science that powerful statin medications must be taken to heal cardiovascular disease and prevent heart attacks.
Yet after decades of trust, the public is now learning that stains have a high potential of producing faster aging and undesirable brain effects. From the latest research:
"Statins make regular users become older faster, leaving them open to long-term mental and physical decline, according to disturbing new research...Scientists have found the heart disease drug badly affects our stem cells, the internal medical system which repairs damage to our bodies and protects us from muscle and joint pain as well as memory loss."
And it's not like the doctors and health experts had not been told that statins were proving to be dangerous. The patient anecdotal reports and medical research literature are littered with past reports of a wide variety of negative side effects that this class of pharmaceuticals has been associated with.
Despite all the damning statin evidence coming forth, the expert medical elites, with their anti-science agenda (which essentially amounted to accepting the non-evidence based claims from both pharma experts and many conflicted pharma-funded health organizations that these drugs were safe), kept pushing for the public's statin consumption to increase.
As we have stated before, it's not only the climate science advocates and their research that can't be trusted.
Simply stated: "Trust No One" and especially elites and experts with an agenda.
Remember When Climate Models Predicted U.S. East Coast Warming Oceans?
The climate doomsday-cult promoters at the Huffington Post and Climate Nexus did their usual thing, trying to convince the American public that Hurricane Joaquin was the result of global warming.
Of course, when the alarmists uttered these claims, they were based on the hurricane computer models that forecast Joaquin's path would strike the East Coast of the U.S. Fortunately for the coastal residents, the climate change doomsters were wrong, spectacularly.
And speaking of spectacularly wrong, the expert climate-change computer models predicted rapidly warming waters that the hurricane's path would traverse.
Instead, as the adjacent chart clearly documents, those ocean waters have cooled since 1940, not warmed as predicted. Another case of 'those stubborn facts'.
In summary, the empirical evidence again confirms that climate simulations and computer models are very suspect regarding their capabilities at both short and long-term predictions/forecasts. Governing elites, bureaucrats and the public should absolutely not base any expensive policy-making decisions on these research tools.
Prior climate model articles and charts.
Remember When Experts Said Antidepressant Drugs Were Safe For Children?
Source: Bing images
Government-funded climate science is not the only research field where "experts" make bogus claims, conduct fraudulent science and report only cherry-picked data.
It's recently been uncovered that young people are potentially 10 times more likely to be violent and/or suicidal if consuming prescribed antidepressant drugs.
Turns out the scientists who developed this class of drugs failed to mention that these medications would produce unwanted outcomes, and the peer-reviewed journals subsequently failed to warn the public regarding the bogus science.
"The new study, published in the journal BMJ, proves the long-suspected dangers of the drug also known as Paxil, Aropax, Extine and Paxtine. Study leader Jon Jureidini said it raised wider implications about the need for medical researchers to publish their underlying data — standard practice in genomics and astronomy, but rare in medicine."
John Cook of Univ. of Queensland & Skeptical Science ('SS') Does Identity Theft Of Luboš Motl, A Theoretical Physics Scientist
Australian universities are well on the way towards establishing themselves as the cesspool of falsehoods and fraud regarding global warming and climate change.
And John Cook of University of Queensland has again confirmed that Down Under academia has sketchy regard for ethics and morals. Here is a university that seems to condone fabrications and lies regarding science issues by hiring a person known for being truth-challenged.
Plus, he's a person possessing questionable judgment skills (see here and here why he's dressed as a 'SS' Nazi, shown adjacent).
Cook, who is also the proprietor of the 'Skeptical Science' web site, has now been exposed as literally posing in comments on certain blog postings as the famous theoretical physicist, Luboš Motl. Simply put, this is premeditated identity theft meant to deceive. This reprehensible behavior was done under the auspices of a Western Australia University's "scientific" experiment, prior to his Queensland employment.
On top of that, Cook's fake comments misrepresented Motl's views about climate science - in other words, Cook just made up lies stuff.
Certainly, global warming alarmists long ago jumped-the-Nazi, so to speak, which Cook's most recent bizarro revelations obviously confirm. Then there are the previous Cook episodes that expose the level of global warming alarmist "science" B.S. - see here, here, here and here.
Then there is the University of Western Australia's ethics debacle in approving shoddy science by university employees and Cook's associates. This is the same university of the climate-doomsday cult that then decided to double-down on their support of the cult.
Yikes! What's up with Australia, mates?
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Consensus Quackery: 30+ Years Experts Push Bad Science & The Public Pays
Article: The consensus quackery that medical dogma, experts, politicians and mainstream media have promulgated over 3 decades has proven to be a health disaster.
In America and other other industrialized countries, government bureaucrats and health research elites relying on non-validated science have essentially ruined the public's health with growing epidemics: obesity, diabetes and multiple related chronic diseases.
Similar to today's popular "consensus" obsession jihad science against CO2, the anti-fat and anti-cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease was embraced by all the right-thinking experts, special interest groups and politicos.
This was a mandated politically-correct consensus: fat and cholesterol were the enemy and needed to be eliminated - an enemy that turns out was never supported by the actual empirical evidence.
Now after 30+ years of literally wreaking havoc on the health of millions with bad medical science and absurd advice, the experts are finally being forced to admit they were stupendously wrong and skeptics were right.
In the meantime, people's lives have been shortened and healthcare costs have been increased by trillions due to an unbelievable surge of chronic diseases tied directly to government diet nutrition quackery.
But a tipping point has now been reached, with objective scientists and the public finally rejecting the quacks who remain possessed by the irrational fears of saturated fat and cholesterol.
And how much longer will it be before the public finally rejects the bureaucrat-science quacks and political/institutional/celebrity elites who continue to push the failed CO2-based anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis, whose real political agenda is not science related whatsoever.
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A House-of-Lies? The Exaggerated Claims of Columbia University's NASA/GISS Unit, 'Mattress Girl' & etc.
Is Columbia University an ivory tower of mistruths, falsehoods, fakery, lies and pseudo science?
Multiple unflattering examples begs the question.
For example, when one contemplates global warming research bogosity, Columbia University's climate research unit usually percolates to the top of any meaningful discussion and analysis.
The NASA/GISS laboratory located at Columbia has long been "enhancing" global warming trends from the raw empirical evidence - truly an art form in its own right, sans the mattress of course.
The outcome of this "scientific" art has been the reduction of public belief in global warming and climate change "crisis."
Adding a question mark to the university's scientific competence and reputation, the institution has recently been rocked by the infamous gay-marriage study. A study based on non-existent and/or fraudulent data, of which Columbia University's own Donald Green was forced to retract from Science, the esteemed peer-reviewed journal.
A warmup to the current junk science shenanigans took place a few years back. In 2001, there was the well publicized science scandal perpetrated by Columbia researchers claiming that prayer enhanced pregnancy outcomes - supposed "birth miracles" - were proven by the empirical evidence. It was a study published in the prestigious Journal of Reproductive Medicine, receiving wide-spread and prominent media coverage.
The end result of the birth-miracle study? Ultimately, a massive embarrassment for the university regarding its institutional capabilities (lack thereof?) of separating truth from falsehood - a serious shortcoming that appears to still plague the university.
And then there is the alleged rape claim by the student-artist known as the 'Mattress Girl' at Columbia University. These are allegations debunked by outside authorities, thus essentially consigning the rape charges to the ash heap of suspected art-fraud. Yet, at graduation Columbia allowed the tarnishing of the celebratory event for families by permitting this "artist's" fact-challenged allegations to be visually center stage.
Is it a House-of-Lies? Okay, that's likely too harsh of a condemnation, but be forewarned. Any future claims by those associated with Columbia University should now be automatically suspect - obviously, the university has yet to effectively clean its proverbial 'house' of fraud-like behavior, so to speak.
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May 31, 2015 at 05:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Remember When Experts Predicted That Eating Saturated Fat Would Give You Heart Disease?
The establishment's health/medical/nutrition consensus science rivals the IPCC's anti-CO2 crusade climate science in terms of producing spectacularly wrong theories and the associated fact-less, terrible predictions.
The anti-fat/cholesterol heart disease theory has been a mainstay of medical dogma for decades. In recent years though, it has been torn asunder by actual real empirical science. This non-consensus science is finally coming to the forefront due to establishment-nutrition skeptics, not the goose-stepping health elites and their press release parrots, the mainstream media.
More here, here, here and here.
Why Do 97% of Climate Scientists Agree That CO2 Is Not A Climate 'Control Knob'?
Even the most die hard, green climate scientist who spouts CO2 catastrophe hysteria does not really believe in the unicorn of climate mythology - the mythical CO2 'control knob' - an anti-science myth pushed by the likes of Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Obama and scientist Leo DiCaprio...and there is a very substantial reason why scientists don't believe it...all the empirical evidence easily refutes its existence.....
Climate scientists who are not of the payroll of 'Big Green' NGOs, nor dependent on government research grants, find it much easier to speak out against the utter nonsense and myths of anti-CO2 activists and the slimy crony-greens.
An example: As climate scientist Judith Curry indicates, there is no basis for a magical 'knob' that would allow today's politicians and bureaucrats to dial-in a desired climate outcome for next month, or the next year, or the next decade, or the next century.
The facts, simply stated: There is no science, no computer model, nor any available mechanism(s) that would allow today's humans to tweak CO2 emissions a certain way in order to produce a future climate of specific attributes by, say, 2050.
It's what is referred to as, "no frakking way."
The inner circle of establishment climate science knows this, yet due to political agenda reasons, they are forced to deliver lip service to the ludicrous 'knob' analogies.
The massive failure of billion$ climate models and the ongoing 17+ year pause in global warming provide the necessary and vivid testimonials to the fallacy of a climate thermostat knob, whether controlling natural and/or human CO2 emissions.
In addition, there is the latest empirical evidence that completely invalidates the 'knob' assertion.
This adjacent plot of 5-year temperature change versus 5-year atmospheric CO2 level change is based on the most recent empirical evidence published by the government's GISS/NASA scientists (and they happen to be some of the largest proponents of chicken little global warming calamities).
This empirical science published by NASA is undeniable, and most alarmist scientists accept, although grudgingly - the relationship between changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and changes in temperature are, at best, significantly lame weak.
Indeed, the two dataset plots reveal zero relationship with a correlation that produces a r2 barely above zero. A non-existent relationship from 1880 to the end of August 2014,
Look at the green and red fitted trends. Obviously, the green CO2 trend exhibits rapid, accelerating and even exponential growth after 1950. And the global temps? The red temperature trend depicts very little growth in temperature change, and currently exhibits a deceleration that climate models and "experts" never predicted.
In fact, one could surmise that the temperature changes reflect a natural cycle of ups/downs (ie. a pattern), which the accelerating CO2 growth has absolutely zero influence on.
Ergo, the 'control knob' proposition has the same likelihood of reality as those space alien abductions one reads about, Big Foot enrolling at Univ. of Washington, Congress balancing the budget, or Earth developing a climate of "boiling" oceans.
Which is why at least 97% of actual climate scientists categorically reject this particular brand of Hollywood anti-science fantasy.
And yes, one can be a member of the 97% who believe humans have a warming influence on climate, and yet, still completely reject the existence of this particular mythical CO2 unicorn.
Additional temperature and climate charts.
Note: Temperature dataset; CO2 datasets. Excel was used to calculate 5-yr changes (ie. differences); and to produce plots and 6th order polynomials. To calculate a 5-yr. temp. change example: subtract the August 2009 temp. anomaly from the August 2104 anomaly. The same subtraction method used to calculate 5-yr. CO2 level (ppm) changes. Starting with January 1885, the 5-yr chg. calculations can be made for each subsequent month (GISS/NASA monthly dataset commences at January 1880).
Climate FactCheck: Exactly How Much Did The Democrats' 'Cash-for-Clunkers' Reduce Global Warming?
Quack anti-science runs rampant among progressives and Democrats...a recent classic example was their 'cash-for-clunker' program.....
The Democrats' 2009 plan to stop global warming, and stimulate the economy at the same time, turned out to be a major flop on all fronts.
This article provides a synopsis of the failed "clunkers" economic stimulation; this PDF provides a detailed 41-pages of analysis.
Regarding the impact on global warming, we need to turn to the math to assess the infamous "clunker" program.
First, from Wikipedia we know there are an estimated 270 million U.S. passenger vehicles as of the end of 2013.
Next, from the EPA we know the average U.S. vehicle emits some 4.75 metric tonnes of CO2 per year.
Using these two factoids, we can do the multiplication and determine that a year's worth of auto CO2 emissions would weigh-in at approximately 1,282,500,000 tonnes.
That's a lot (1.3 billion tonnes 'a lot'). But would it affect global warming if the U.S. were to ban all passenger vehicle driving for a year and elimanate all those tonnes in one fell swoop?
The simple 'C3' estimating tool provides the answer to that. Observe the global warming impact that has a green square drawn around it in the above image - the temperature impact is zero.
Yes, that's right, banning all car and light truck driving for a year in the U.S. will have zilch impact on global temperatures. (Btw, if U.S. vehicle emissions were double, the impact would still be nothing - try 2.6 billion in the 'C3' estimator to check it out.)
Regarding the 'cash-for-clunkers' program, there were a total of 660,000 clunkers disposed of, and for our math, we assume that they spewed twice the amount of CO2 - 9.5 metric tonnes per year instead of 4.75. When the multiplication is completed, it means the "clunkers" total CO2 emissions removed from the road came to 6,270,000 tonnes (millions, not billions).
What would happen to global warming if the Democrats ran the 'ClunkerCare' program each of the next 20 years and never allowed a single replacement of the junked, CO2 belching jalopies with newer, more efficient cars?
Again, the 'C3' estimating tool provides the answers, which are the resulting numbers with a cyan circle around them on the above image. Whoo-wee...it's zero impact again, even after 20 years of ClunkerCare.
Hey, did we mention progressive quacks yet? Democratic anti-science?
Previous articles on quackery from politicians: light bulbs and plastic bags.
Climate FactCheck: The Quack Anti-Science of Democrats - Dimmer Than A 40-Watt Incandescent Bulb
These smiling Democrat senators recently held a "climate change" sleepover at the Capitol that was a rather blatant attempt to please their billionaire-crony donors.
Instead of accomplishing anything meaningful, the low-watt Democrats justifiably received a heavy round of mockery from all sorts of Americans.
The Democrats' climate science has now been in quack mode for an extended period.
An example of the economic harm imposed by this type of anti-science quackery was a legislative victory for the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate during 2007 when the "Energy Independence and Security Act" was passed. This 'Act' effectively banned the future purchase of incandescent light bulbs by Americans.
Since the beginning of 2014, those desired, cheap light bulbs have been difficult to find. And it's completely due to the quack anti-science that Democrats believe.
This fanatical belief had them convinced that America's light bulbs were causing global warming, and the only way to save the planet was to declare war on Americans favorite lighting source.
Thus, they have forced every American to buy more expensive lighting replacements instead of the old, reliably pleasing and inexpensive incandescent technology.
Democrats did this in the name of "science." But as was the case with their recent anti-science climate-pajama party, factual science was pretty much AWOL in the war on light bulbs.
So, what does the indisputable, factual science tell us about the global warming impact of keeping incandescent light bulbs out of the hands of Americans?
Simply put: It is squat - there is zero impact by doing so.
The science is actually pretty straightforward. First, Americans buy some 2 billion bulbs per year. Per the EPA, if each incandescent bulb purchased were replaced instead with an energy efficient CFL bulb purchase, it would reduce CO2 emissions by 0.0382 metric tonnes. So, two billion bulbs per year times 0.0382 tonnes totals to a yearly CO2 reduction of 76,400,000 tonnes.
Sounds impressive, no?
Well, in the scheme of things that are climate significant, it's not. As the real science dictates, by the end of the next 20 years the yearly CO2 reduction of 76 million plus tonnes will have zero impact on global temperatures. (And that's to the second decimal place.)
Let's do the math (or you can just use this 'C3' estimator whose replica is displayed below the Democrats' photo-op image): We know from the empirical evidence that since 1850 the Earth has warmed a +0.85 Celsius degree while humans have emitted approximately 1.4 trillion tonnes of CO2. As a result, to warm the Earth +0.01°C about 16.5 billion tonnes of human new CO2 emissions would be required.
How's that figure compare to the tonnes saved over 20 years by replacing 40 billion light bulbs? (BTW, it's highly likely there a lot fewer than 40 billion to be replaced.) All those incandescent light bulb CO2 savings would amount to only one-tenth the required 16+ billion tonnes.
And that then means all the CO2 savings would amount to no measurable global temperature impact. Hmmm...did we say 'squat' yet?
Just to add the appropriate emphasis to what the past 164 years of empirical science tell us, the 'C3' estimator replica above also reveals what would happen to "global warming" if the entire U.S. economy shuts down for one year, eliminating some 5.8 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion - again, it's a nothing-significant outcome for the climate.
That's a climate factcheck.
Unfortunately, despite this real climate science, Democrats will continue to demagogue the climate change issue for their billionaire donor-cronies, based entirely on the quack anti-science position that reducing current U.S. CO2 emissions would actually accomplish anything of climate-impact substance.
Additional 'C3' estimator/calculation tools.
Hollywood's Global Warming "Science" Fantasies: Are You Dumber Than Jessica Alba?
Let's start with a couple of known-knowns: 1st, Hollywood is in the business of make-believe and fantasies; 2nd, Jessica Alba is definitely a drop-dead, freaking gorgeous Hollywood actress.
Of course, Jessica might be very pleasing to the eye, as many actresses and actors are, but inherited beauty genetics does not mean one will necessarily have a high IQ (or even impressive acting abilities).
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December 18, 2013 at 06:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
U.S. & EU Govts Confirm What Skeptics Have Repeatedly Pointed Out: 'What Global Warming?'
The UN and the IPCC have pursued a political agenda that has relied extensively on fear-mongering about catastrophic global warming and climate change.
Their political agenda requires a non-science approach to emphasize doomsday fears within the political class. A fantasy science of climate unicorns, so to speak.
Unfortunately for the UN, the actual scientific research and empirical evidence does not comport with the unicorn predictions produced by billion dollar climate models.
Skeptics have been pointing this out for years. Now the U.S and EU establishment is finally waking up to the climate science reality.
Did we say crash and burn yet?
August 30, 2013 at 10:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Peer Reviewed Studies: The Global Warming Alarmists Are In 'Crash & Burn' Mode
It's been a very bad week so far for the alarmists devoted to the global warming and climate change hysteria.
Their green fundamentalist, anti-CO2 religion looks about ready to explode in their collective faces.
First, the World Federation of Scientists (10,000 strong) announced that there is no crisis or threat to human civilization from climate change.
Second, a new study was released that provides additional proof that since the late 1970s, the Earth has received much more solar energy than previously thought...that solar impact would be multiple times more powerful than the concurrent human CO2 impact.
Third, another new study determines that CO2's impact has been minor compared to the impact of a natural cooling Pacific Ocean, due to a natural oscillation named ENSO - as the prominent climate scientist said: "My mind has been blown by a new paper..."
And fourth, in another new study, scientists confirmed that climate models way overestimated global warming for the last 20 years because.....wait for it.....the models are likely unable to simulate natural climate variation correctly.
Anti-science. Fear-mongering. Alarmism. Crash. Burn. Good.
Those Stubborn Facts: Hurricane Activity Is At Its Lowest - Despite CO2
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As of this date, it has been eight years since a major hurricane struck the U.S.
All the IPCC climate "experts" predicted more hurricanes, not less.
As it turns out, these alarmists were pushing (and still are) a unicorn-type of science, based on fantasy climate change scenarios, which almost all have failed to happen.
Additional severe-weather charts and list.
Your Govt @ Work: Obama's Unicorn Green Efficiency Energy Programs Are 'Useless' Says National Academies
It's not very comforting when the nation's scientific advisory body identifies government policies as being essentially of the 'unicorn' type.
These are policies based on imaginary ideals without any empirical foundation or sound footing in science reality - thus, highly likely to be a failure.
As the experts found, in the case of Obama's many policies for reducing CO2 emissions, they either don't perform very well or they actually produce greater levels of emissions.
Okay, not a surprise - he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.
How Did Obama Ever Get Duped On Global Warming Alarmism By the Likes of Al Gore & Lisa Jackson?
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Stumped by simple geography does not suggest the brightest bulb ... apparently, he's all booster, no payload - so to speak.
No wonder he believes the globe's temperatures are "accelerating" - he just hasn't quite figured out which direction yet.
Question: A reasonable explanation as to why the unicorn (ie, "global warming") holds sway at the White House?
Unicorn Climate Science: Crackpot Scientists Have Convinced Obama That Oceans Will Boil Because of CO2
NOT going to happen, dude.
Since Obama's election, oceans have been cooling, per NOAA, at a per century rate of -1.2°C.
Obama surrounding himself with crackpot scientists and fringe, extreme advisors has harmed his credibility immensely, and obliterated job growth for Americans.
Despite the obvious failures, Obama still believes in their lunatic fantasies of boiling ocean "climate science." Hmmm...did we mention 'unicorn' yet?
Note: 'Mad scientist' image source here. Chart plots and trends produced using Excel. Data sources can be found here. More temperature and climate charts here.
Unicorn Climate Science: CO2 Causes Global Warming & Climate Change, Not
A strong correlation between CO2 levels and global temperatures is a necessary condition of the CO2-based AGW hypothesis.
So, what does a strong correlation look like?
Well, for example, the top chart (A) for two economic variables reveals an incredibly strong correlation, a 'cause and effect' that is strikingly obvious since 2007. (see original here)
The bottom chart (B) reveals the correlation between temperatures (GISS/NASA) and CO2 levels during the exact same time period as chart A.
Look carefully - THERE IS NO CORRELATION! And over the last 15 years, the R2 equals a miserably low 0.05
Unicorn climate science ignores the empirical evidence, replaced with wishful fantasies that don't exist in the real world.
P.S. Yep, the bottom chart does plot a slight cooling trend for the NASA temperature dataset since January 2007. (NASA/CO2 plot sources here; used Excel to produce the plots, linear trend and correlation)
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Connect The Dots Climate Change: Big Insurance Corrupts IPCC Climate Science To Gain Higher Policy Premiums
It's a connect the dots "climate change" moment: Insurance companies love charging higher premiums - to justify those higher premiums, Big Insurance needs the IPCC to increase the hysteria about extreme weather events
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Read here. We have written before about how the insurance industry sucks consumer wallets dry with hysterical climate change scenarios. And we've especially noted Munich Re's prior multiple attempts at bogus very questionable science.
The insurance industry stands to make billions, if not trillions, on achieving higher policy premiums by pushing the exaggerated fears and hysteria of extreme climate change. For one to understand what is going on, just simply connect the dots...to accomplish this pursuit of greed, Munich Re has realized that it's easier to do so if one buys a seat at the IPCC's "climate science" table.
"You’ve got to wonder when scientists like Stefan Rahmstorf work hand in hand with the reinsurance industry, writing doomsday reports that help fatten the bottom line. Hartmut Grassl, a climate alarmist, is also connected to Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer...points out how the Munich Re has at least two more agents at the IPCC. Working Group II AR5 Writing Teams, Chapter 10 — Key economic sectors and services, Eberhard Faust, Munich Reinsurance Company and an excerpt from a report from Dr Sandra Schuster, meteorologist with Munich Re, Sydney, who has just been appointed as a Lead Author (WG2) for IPCC AR5...It’s a real scam when the insurance industry buys up science and pays the science institutes and scientists to spread fear among its customers..."
Connect the dots climate change - big insurance is strictly motivated by greed and their official involvement simply corrupts any "findings" the next IPCC report promulgates regarding climate change impacts.
Previous postings on corruption of science by corporate concerns.
April 30, 2012 at 05:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Connect The Dots Climate Change: WWF Admits Being On Payroll of 'Big Wind' Firms - Money Talks
It's a connect the dots "climate change" moment: The ever self-righteous green organizations, such as the WWF, are being paid by 'Big Wind' companies for less than charitable reasons - obviously, what's best for the environment is no longer the primary mission for most greens
Read here. If true, it's another confirmation that big green is on the payroll of special interest groups that happen to spoil nature, harm the environment and cause climate change.
As more and more local communities do battle with the wind firms in order to save their environment, they are being back stabbed by the paragons of "green," all in the name of a greener green - the money in their coffers.
And it's not just the WWF.
"It has apparently also been revealed that Friends of the Earth Scotland are supported by Scottish Power Renewables, while the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland is also in the pay of big wind."
Connect the dots climate change has more importantly become the sleazeball issue of 'follow the money' - not the talked about issue of global warming or climate change (severe weather) events. Green groups, such as the WWF, are compromised by greed and not to be trusted to protect either nature or the environment
April 29, 2012 at 08:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Electric Car Advantages? How Does Paying $40,000 For A Tesla EV Replacement Battery Sound?
The Tesla electric car's batteries will cost $40,000 to replace when they run out of juice - how appealing are those electric car advantages at resale time?
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Read here. The Tesla electric car is produced by a company run by a whiny corporate billionaire and taxpayer welfare mooch - to the tune of $450 million in U.S. taxpayer loans provided by Obama. What did Obama see in the company? Great question, and btw, don't expect the loan to be repaid, ever.
Tesla introduced their EV Roadster back in 2008 with much fanfare but in 2011 announced they would quit producing it - lackluster sales did the car in. And now the Roadster owners are finding out that if the car is parked too long the batteries go dead, for good.
The batteries represent about one-fifth the EV's sticker price, which comes out to approximately $40,000.00. Ouch!
"DON'T leave your electric car parked for too long - by the time you get back it could have turned into a $200,000 brick. Tesla owners in the US who have parked their vehicles with low battery power remaining - for as little as a week - have found their cars had become "bricks" that could not be re-charged...Electric car maker Tesla is defending claims its cars become immobilised if the battery ever becomes completely discharged. This results in a battery replacement cost of about one-fifth the car's $206,000 sticker price...Tesla owners in the US who have parked their vehicles with low battery power remaining - for as little as a week - have found their cars had become "BRICKS" that could not be re-charged."
Unfortunately, Tesla's electric car advanatges, known as batteries, are not the only expensive ones on the market. To replace battereis in any of the current EV's on the market is incredibly expensive, especially if they frequently catch fire. The good news? When it's time for resale or trade-in, the wealthy owners of these vehicles will receive just karma for leeching off the average taxpayer.
Previous electric-vehicle-hybrid postings.
Electric Car Advantages? The Volt's Arithmetic Adds Up To Auto 'Obamacare' For GM Cronies & Wealthy
For Obama's cronies and wealthy consumers, there are definite electric car advantages - for the average taxpayer, the Volt's arithmetic is truly reeeevolting
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Read here. The rash of Volt fires during early 2012 put the kibosh on sales of the electric 4-wheel barbeques, but during March 2012 they became red-hot (ooops) again. March sales figures were...ahem...'on fire' as each Chevy dealer sold at least three-quarters of a Volt each for the entire month...hot damn!
That March sales figure represents a huuuge 277% increase over the previous month sales figure! That translates to Volt sales taking a giant leap of...well...er...from 0.27 Volts per dealer to that red-hot figure of 0.76 volts per dealer. Woooweee....now we're cookin with gas batteries!
This 'Government Motors' (Uncle Sam owns 26% of GM) electric vehicle sales fiasco has been a overdone turkey for the taxpayer since Day 1. But for the wealthy who purchase this rolling $40,000+ Weber grill, they get subsidized by all the rest of us to the tune of $7,500, which Obama now wants increased to $10,000, per wealthy consumer. OMG, thank you Obamamama.
Now that is some really ugly Volt arithmetic for the average person to swallow, but wait.....it gets worse:
"The analysis includes adding up the amount of government subsidies via tax credits and direct funding for not only General Motors, but other companies supplying parts for the vehicle. For example, the Department of Energy awarded a $105.9 million grant to the GM Brownstown plant that assembles the batteries. The company was also awarded approximately $106 million for its Hamtramck assembly plant in state credits to retain jobs. The company that supplies the Volt’s batteries, Compact Power, was awarded up to $100 million in refundable battery credits (combination tax breaks and cash subsidies). These are among many of the subsidies and tax credits for the vehicle...GM has estimated they’ve sold 6,000 Volts so far. That would mean each of the 6,000 Volts sold would be subsidized between $50,000 and $250,000, depending on how many government subsidy milestones are realized."
Conclusion: The electric car advantages are real for Obama's cronies and really, really ugly for taxpayers. We are paying Government Motors between $50,000-$250,000 per Volt that GM sells for $41,000.00. Damn that car is hot!
FAQ #1: Can I get the Fisker battery charger with the Volt?
Answer: Obama's Secret Service detail is now taking purchase orders for the enhanced, taxpayer subsidized, blonde versatile charger. Call +1 666-666-6666. Satisfaction guarnateed. No refunds. (just kidding - fake phone number, folks)
Per Wikileaks Documents, The UN's Climate Change Programs Are Total Failure - Looks Like Fraud
Read here. Wikileaks, the organization dedicated to exposing the dark underbelly of big government, has published documents regarding the UN's climate program known as the “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM). In essence, the program has been an abject failure bordering on flagrant corruption.
"What has leaked just confirms our view that in its present form the CDM is basically a farce,” says Eva Filzmoser, programme director of CDM Watch, a Brussels-based watchdog organization. The revelations imply that millions of tonnes of claimed reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are mere phantoms, she says, and potentially cast doubt over the principle of carbon trading. “In the face of these comments it is no wonder that the United States has backed away from emission trading,” Filzmoser says."
Obviously, the CDM program had two principal functions, neither of which concerned a better environment. The first was to enhance the investment profitability of wealthy "green" investors; the second being a massive transfer of wealth from the taxpayers of advanced countries to countries incapable of producing their own prosperity without some form of subsidized theft.
The entire climate change endeavor sponsored by the United Nations is essentially a gigantic fraud, propelled by leftists and greens dedicated to no growth, no prosperity policies. The actual quotes from "elites" who support the UN's "green" policies confirms everything that Wikileaks is now discovering.
UK "Scientific" Projections of Global Warming Impact Found To Be Entirely Without Merit & Misleading
Read here. The UK's highly publicized Stern report on global warming impacts has been analyzed extensively and now finds itself on the ash heap of likely fraudulent, totally misleading economic/science research.
Based on the flood of AGW rubbish coming out of Britain, one wonders if the UK's elites and ruling class have taken a blood oath to assure their country is viewed as the island of messianic idiots and imbeciles; or, are they just attempting to enrich themselves by impoverishing their subjects?
A new World Bank study by scholars has this summary of the hysterical, Lord Stern AGW climate-impact "research":
"Given empirical evidence about the link between climate and damages, climate change is calculated to increase the damages from these five extreme events by between $11 and $16 billion a year by 2100. There is little supporting evidence that climate affects deaths from these events.....These values are completely consistent with estimates in the literature per extreme event. However, they are completely inconsistent with values stated by Stern (2006) who suggests that extreme event damages could be 0.5 to 1.0 percent of GWP by 2050. Oral statements by Lord Stern even suggest values as high as 5 percent of GWP by 2200. The Stern analysis has been criticized because it confuses changes caused by what is in harms’ way (baseline changes) with what is caused by climate change (Pielke 2007b). But even this mistake cannot justify the estimates by Lord Stern. The hypothesized damages quoted by Lord Stern are completely inconsistent with empirical evidence." [Robert Mendelsohn and Gokay Saher - pdf here.]
In addition, Roger Pielke, Jr. states:
"These studies underscore the fact that efforts to try to pin claims of attribution of recent events to greenhouse gas emissions are empirically groundless, even if symbolically and emotionally satisfying. We are going to have to proceed into the future without knowing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on extremes."
February 13, 2011 at 03:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
PNAS Scientists Determine Worst-Case Warming Impact On Europe By Year 2080: At Most, $330 per Year
Read here. For some European citizens, the cost of global warming impact might reach a maximum of $330 per year; for others, it may be as low as $66 per year per person. This is the measly, almost negligible cost if existing human CO2 emission growth is not curtailed. This is infinitesimally smaller than a blip on the proverbial radar screen of potential future catastrophes. (An asteroid/meteor striking Earth over the next 70 years anyone?)
The Ciscar et al. peer-reviewed study examined aggressive, worst-case IPCC impact scenarios if CO2 emissions continued unabated, thus causing the hypothetical "positive feedback" warming. This meager EU per capita cost of speculative climate change is in stark contrast to the multiple trillions that Europeans would have to spend to achieve the highly unlikely utopia of a low/zero CO2 emitting, industrial/consumer society.
"A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that if the climate of the 2080s were to occur today, the annual loss in household welfare in the European Union (EU) would range between 0.2–1%. Furthermore, this minuscule change was derived using aggressive IPCC scenarios for temperature and sea-level rise. Regardless of the claims made by climate change doomsayers, the future is not going to suck after all.....This article [study] quantifies the potential consequences of climate change in Europe in four market impact categories (agriculture, river floods, coastal areas, and tourism) and one nonmarket impact (human health). The methodology integrates a set of coherent, high-resolution climate change projections and physical models into an economic modeling framework.....To put that into perspective, the average yearly income of an EU resident is around €24,000 ($33,000).....This means that the impact on individuals would range from €48 to €240 ($66–330) a year.....Bias not withstanding, in the end the impact turns out to be negligible, costing the average citizen no more than a dinner for two in a nice restaurant or an overnight stay in an upscale hotel. This study sends a message, and that message is simple: global warming, if it takes place at all, will hardly be noticed. [Juan-Carlos Ciscar, Ana Iglesias, Luc Feyen, László Szabó, Denise Van Regemorter, Bas Amelung, Robert Nicholls, Paul Watkiss, Ole B. Christensen, Rutger Dankers, Luis Garrote, Clare M. Goodess, Alistair Hunt, Alvaro Moreno, Julie Richards, and Antonio Soria 2011: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]
Additional peer-reviewed postings.
February 13, 2011 at 11:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
How Bogus Climate Science "Consensus" Cost Hurricane Insurance Consumers An Additional $82 Billion
Read here. Insurance companies are seeking any means to increase premiums and profits. One of the current favorite approaches is to conjure up potential disaster scenarios, due to "consensus" global warming science, so that consumer/business insurance premiums can be raised with "expert consensus" justification, so as not to run afoul of regulators.
"RMS said the change that drove Florida property insurance bills to record highs was based on "scientific consensus."
To accomplish this task, all it takes is to rent a few climate "expert" bodies for an afternoon and ask them predict natural disasters based on their simplistic religion (ooops, hypothesis) that human CO2 causes global warming, which then supposedly causes more disasters. These are the great, scientific, climate expert minds at work, on the behalf of insurance companies seeking greater profits. (Hmmm....does RICO apply to insurance companies and their scientist collaborators?)
Turns out the "experts" were totally wrong, but what the heck...it only cost those pesky, ingrate consumers/businesses some additional $82 billion in hurricane premiums and policy cancellations.
Image source. Additional postings about global warming and severe weather. Severe weather charts.
November 14, 2010 at 05:27 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The California "Green Job" Lies Made By MSM & Politicians Already Being Revealed Just 2 Days After Vote
Read here. The power elite of California are totally out of control, driving the once great state into perpetual Greece-dom. The lies and scaremongering that Big Labor, Big Wealth, Big Government and Big Media spread about the benefits of AB32 (lottsa green jobs!) and the dangers of passing Proposition 23 will continue to make news as economic reality is forced on the California voters. It's truly going to be an ugly reality show.
Did we say ugly? No sooner than the defeat of Proposition 23, a California solar company that received $535 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars closed one of its major manufacturing plants, causing California to experience a 1,000 loss of those really fantastic, secure green jobs.
"Solyndra, if you remember, was visited by President Obama and touted as being so wonderful. $535 million “wonderful”
Instead of having 2 plants, they will now close one, leaving only the new one running. (Flush!)
Instead of having 2,000 green jobs, they’ll can 1,000 people and we’ll only have 1,000 green jobs. (Flush!)
They will also eliminate 155 to 175 jobs at the new Fremont plant. (Total of 1,155 to 1,175 green jobs down the toilet – flush!)
The Obama Administration gave them $535 million in loan guarantees. (Tax dollars down the toilet?)
So, two days after Prop 23 was voted down we have our first green-tech company in California having major problems. If they are having major trouble after an infusion of about $1.535 billion dollars, I have to wonder just how good these wonderful green jobs that AB32 is allegedly going to create will be? How many hundreds of millions or billions of tax dollars will be required to subsidize them? Will there even be a significant amount of green jobs created? Or, will they end up in some other state or country where operating costs are cheaper and regulations fewer?"
The Democrats Finally Destroy U.S. Light Bulb Manufacturing; Give "Evil" Light Bulb Jobs To Biggest Polluters, The Chinese
Read here. Democrat politicians decided to crush the incandescent light bulb manufacturing sector in the U.S. as a required sacrifice to the fanatical religion practiced by the left's global warming activists. Democrat politicians pursued this goal even knowing that if every U.S. household quit using incandescent bulbs immediately, there would be absolutely zero impact on global warming, or cooling for that matter.
Regardless of climate scientific facts, leftist/liberal politicians decided to kill U.S. light bulb manufacturing and thus transfer good American jobs to the gargantuan environmental hellhole commonly known as China. (click on images to enlarge; source of images, plus more images)
Of course, in return for having these "evil" U.S. jobs transferred to China, we get crappy CFL bulbs, laden with dangerous mercury, producing inferior light, at a higher cost per bulb, and they don't nearly last as long as advertised. (Just the opposite of what compnaies like GE claim for their Chinese light bulbs.)
Want to increase more American job loss to China, and at the same time increase global pollution from the Chinese? Just vote Democratic, the loyal party of the Chinese Full Employment/Pollution Act - it's really as simple as that.
September 08, 2010 at 07:59 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Black Soot: This Major Global Warming Agent Kills Hundreds of Thousands Annually - The Problem The IPCC & Politicians Want To Ignore
Read here, here and here. It is common knowledge that the inhalation of black soot particles kill hundreds of thousands of individuals each year. It is common knowledge that black soot from combustion is a major contributor to global warming and Arctic area ice/tundra melting/thawing. It is common knowledge that reducing the production of black soot is considered easier and less painful than reducing human-based CO2 emissions. Yet the IPCC and politicians have done nothing to solve the huge black soot global problem(s) that would be so beneficial to humans and the environment. Why?
The reality as to 'why' is fairly clear. Black soot reduction neither enriches nor empowers. Understand the reality: wealthy individuals, such as Al Gore and George Soros, seek to immensely enrich themselves via various CO2 'cap and trade' schemes; in a similar vein, organizations such as the UN and the EU hoped to expand their power and control over individuals via increased CO2 regulations and emissions taxation. This combination of greedy carbon-barons and rapacious non-sovereign entities presented the perfect storm that kept the real black soot problems of death and warming from being solved.
"Compared to the larger, longer term task of getting greenhouse-gas pollution under control, limiting soot wouldn’t be hard. Unlike new energy technology and profound changes in lifestyle, the tools — exhaust filters, clean-burning stoves — already exist.....Soot has such a strong climate effect, but it has a lifetime in the atmosphere of just a few weeks. Carbon dioxide has a lifetime of 30 to 50 years. If you totally stop CO2 emissions today, the Arctic will still be totally melted.....If soot pollution is immediately curtailed, “the reductions start to occur pretty much right away. Within months, you’ll start seeing temperature differences.” According to Jacobson, climate policymakers have paid little attention to soot. “There are international efforts to limit greenhouse gases, but they completely ignore soot as something to control from a climate perspective,”.....The draft international climate treaty negotiated last year in Copenhagen doesn’t contain soot-specific provisions."
Additional black soot and aerosol postings. Update: Gore calling for protests to pass CO2 regulations, not for solving the black soot death and warming problems. Hmmmm...
August 17, 2010 at 07:21 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Renewable Energy Stupidity: Obama & UK Do Stupid While Most Countries Smarten Up
Read here. Big government loves renewable energy mandates and projects. Why? These projects require huge government handouts and subsidies that empower politicians and enrich their friends/lobbyists.
Most governments are now discovering that renewable energy initiatives are a sure path to uncontrolled government spending in the name of huge "renewable" corporate welfare. The Obama administration heartily embraces this form of corporate welfare to the painful detriment of the individual taxpayer and small businessperson.
"Renewable energy has proved an expensive and unreliable source of energy everywhere it has been tried on a significant scale. And now there is a big divide among the major European economies that have enthusiastically adopted wind, solar and the other renewables.....While the UK ploughs ahead by throwing good money after bad, Italy, Spain and Germany are cutting back on their taxpayer/ratepayer-funded generosity toward politically correct energies. France, meanwhile, with its abundant nuclear power, has smartly stayed out of the game.....Some countries are waking up to the disaster of extravagant subsidies to renewable energy. But Britain isn’t. The lesson for Americans is simply that throwing money at renewable energy tends to be an economic disaster, but that politicians buttressed by expensive lobbyists can keep the racket going regardless."
Other renewable energy postings.
July 08, 2010 at 04:48 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Spanish 'Power Act' Policies Raise Unemployment To 20% - It's Clean & Secure Energy Policies Destroys Jobs
Read here. Long before the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act legislation was introduced, Spain's economy was reeling from the disastrous energy decisions that government made in the name of clean and secure power. Now Obama and Democrat leaders want to pass and enforce similar legislation/regulations that has literally strangled the Spanish economy. Despite the disaster of Spanish energy policies, Obama embraces the big government intrusion into the energy market.
It's fairly obvious the leftists/liberals are intent on creating another man-made disaster (when you're anti-growth and anti-capitalism jihadists, producing man-made disasters is of second nature).
"We’ve now got two places strongly pushing a Green Agenda that are going down in flames. Spain and California (with our own version of Cap and Tax…). It is not just a side effect of the recession. Other places, like China, Texas, and Brazil are doing much better.....And at this point it is pretty clear that “Green Jobs” and “Cap and Tax” are a clear path to wealth destruction and poverty. It’s called an existence proof, and we have more of them staking up every day."
Why Are Some Big Companies Supporting Kerry's 'Cap & Trade'? Avarice & Greed Are The Key Motivators
Read here, here and here. We've written on this subject before. Big firm executives don't give a squat about the environment. Does anyone really believe that BP executives care about the environment and the climate. And BP and other big firms that support legislation to raise energy prices for consumers and small businesses aren't doing so because they fear global warming - they're not that stupid and gullible. It's all about big profits and gaining competitive strength via regulation that favors their firms.
To sum it up, Kerry's large corporate welfare legislation brings home the bacon, so-to-speak.
"* British Petroleum and Conoco Phillips opposed cap-and-trade legislation enacted by the House of Representatives because they thought it was insufficiently generous. In the Senate, they got a better deal. Senator Kerry said that he’s “been working very closely” with BP and C-P, and the lobbying has paid dividends. The refining industry receives twice as many free carbon credits under Kerry’s cap-and-trade scheme as the one established by the House. C-P CEO Jim Mulva even bragged in a statement that his company “is pleased with the attention that has been given our key issues.”
* Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other Wall Street firms long have lobbied for climate legislation because they would reap huge fees in brokering the trade of energy-rationing coupons (a.k.a. carbon credits) under a cap-and-trade scheme. By 2020, the global carbon market could be worth $3 trillion, according to London-based New Energy Finance."
June 05, 2010 at 07:58 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Why Do Gore, Soros & Goldman Sachs Want 'Cap & Trade'? Well, The EU Evidence Does Point To High Profit & Scam Potential
Read here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
That's a lot to read but represents only a small portion of the articles written about "green" corruption, especially regarding activities involved with cap and trade schemes. The cap and trade dollar potential is gigantic, and as it turns out, can easily be leveraged and manipulated with a variety of corrupt tactics.
What do organized crime, Goldman Sachs, Gore, and Soros all have in common? If you think it's their desiring a better planet, you've definitely got your head up your arse with blinkers on.
If you prefer viewing instead of reading, take the time to watch these videos about what 'cap and trade' is really about.
May 09, 2010 at 06:22 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Carbon Crime Exchange (CCX): Who's Behind It and Why 'Cap & Trade' Is So Important To The Left
Video's here. As only Glenn Beck could, he chalkboards the incredible entanglement of people and organizations of the Left (Progressives/Socialists/Unions/Marxists/Democrats) behind the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Literally, the entire CCX endeavor collapses if 'cap & trade' legislation isn't passed and the potential lost profit opportunities exceed trillions per year for the Left's patrons.
There are a total 7 parts to the two videos and well worth the time invested to view as an aid to clarifying what actually is being attempted. It is truly mind-boggling that the mainstream media has been virtually silent on the machinations, on the groups and on the people behind the CCX. Just more proof that old media is dying because it continually fails to serve the public's interest.
May 02, 2010 at 06:54 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Motivated By 'Money Train' Self-Preservation, Climate Alarmist Scientists Initiate Global PR Propaganda Campaign
Read here. The infamous Climategate (and other 'Gate') scientists and government agencies, which have been exposed as scientific charlatans and false prophets of climate doom, have devised a coordinated, PR propaganda campaign that puts a public face on their continuing denial of the exposed scientific malfeasance associated with global warming science. This public exposure of malfeasance has resulted, for climate scientists, climate agencies and global warming activists, an immense credibility loss, and has severely damaged the reputation of the overall science community.
Here is how a relatively small group of climate scientists and their facilitators (i.e., IPCC, Al Gore, George Soros, etc.) managed to accomplish this almost impossible to do achievement:
1. Willfully sensationalized global warming hypothetical, catastrophic scenarios.
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March 16, 2010 at 05:12 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Obama Legacy: Democracy Perverted by "Green" Corruption?
Read here. Obama and the Democrats want Americans to believe that their policies are about saving the world from global warming and at the same time creating green jobs. Unfortunately, the science proves that cutting U.S. CO2 emissions will do nothing to global temperatures, and what about green jobs? The "green jobs" farce is, well,.... er, a farce.
So, what is the goal of the Obama administration if the actual science and real economics reveal administration fanciful claims to be false?
Well, investments in solar and other alternative investments do have a "green" payback for a select few.....
"For more than a decade a Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been going to Washington as an ambassador from the high-tech industry, donating along with his wife about $800,000 to Democrats since 2000....[his] interests in Beltway policies deepened, as he bet hundreds of millions of dollars in private capital on green-energy start-ups, many of which were seeking federal subsidies and regulatory aid....Obama's energy gurus rely on advice from campaign donors, lobbyists, corporations, think tanks, unions and environmentalists to help shape policies. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process."
Will Cutting Fossil Fuel Use Save The World & Create "Green Jobs"? The Farce That The Leftist Progressives Keep Pushing
Read here. One has to be significantly brain-impaired to actually believe what's being shoveled out by the Obama administration and the special interests (big $$ lobbyists) on jobs, energy and climate. As the article points out, the politician's "green jobs" are not necessarily real jobs, as a typical taxpayer might presume.
"While the phrase "green jobs" evokes organic farmers and wind turbine repairmen, there is no clear, common definition of what a "green" job is. Without one, special-interest lobbying will transform even well-intentioned programmes. Consider corn-based ethanol, a technology with no redeeming features. Corn-based ethanol is bad for the environment, placing unsustainable demands on water supplies and increasing harmful farming practices. It is bad for people, raising corn prices for some of the world's poorest people. It provides little, if any, environmental benefit, with a net energy gain often close to or even below zero (the exact amount depends on the weather during the growing season, among other things). Yet corn-based ethanol has received billions in taxpayer support and continues to be favoured in so-called "green" energy legislation...."
Have a few minutes to learn more? Watch this video on politicians' favored "green energy," which supposedly produces "green jobs":
March 12, 2010 at 06:01 PM | Permalink
The Hypocrisy (and Greed) of Shell Oil's CEO: He Gets A Major Fisking For His Climate Crocodile Tears
Read here. Major corporations that join big government in an effort to control and manage and tax the economy, energy, healthcare and the climate are the true enemies of Americans' freedoms and liberties. Much like how Hitler and his National Socialism associates provided business/financial incentives to German executives to participate in the Nazi regime, we now have large corporations being incentivized to join forces with Obama's statist policies, which are the antithesis of free market principles, and individual free choice.
Shell Oil is a major corporate player that has eagerly turned to this dark side, literally betraying its customers, individuals and small businesses with its support of 'cap & trade'. To see how the Shell CEO rationalizes this type of behavior, read the article - it's excellent.
"This is just a green variant of what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit,” the belief that the “best and brightest” know what the “next big thing” is, and therefore should be allowed to rig the market via mandates, taxes, and subsidies to create the infrastructure of the future. Just describing this mindset should be enough to discredit it. If Odum and others are the visionaries they profess to be, they could all make a killing just by putting their money where their collective mouth is. Instead, they lobby for policy privileges because the future they envision utterly depends on the triumph of politics over markets. Their plan would lead to a net loss of jobs and wealth..."
Oh, and btw, quit buying any Shell products if you find their anti-consumer, self-greed behavior revolting (or, any of these other corporations listed below....firms with red lines gave up on the "One" and came back to their pro-consumer senses.)
Any Connection? Obama's Labor Thugs Embrace Global Warming Idiocy; Unions Now Sink To New Low In Gallup Poll
Read here and here. As Democrats and unions march in lockstep with anti-growth, anti-jobs, anti-consumer, anti-business, anti-choice and anti-democracy initiatives, it is becoming clearer that Americans are getting fed up with leftist/socialist leaders of the unions.
As more Americans come to realize that union leaders support massive energy price increases and higher corporate taxes (which will be passed onto consumers) in order to battle the fake global-warming crisis, approval of unions will plummet even further.
March 11, 2010 at 05:27 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Is Wind Power A Worthless Replacement For Fossil Fuels? Latest Data & Shenanigans Suggests Yes, It's Worthless
Read here and here. It is very obvious to objective observers that wind power is an expensive and non-robust solution to real-time energy needs. Other countries have discovered this, yet the Obama administration attempts to keep this type of information from the public.
"There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions… Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."
"They also show it was coordinated with the lobbyists for “Big Wind” and the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP)....But it is clear that senior staff in Ms. Zoi’s office, and another under her authority, were told by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) of its concern over the foreign economic analysis because of the media and policymaker attention it was receiving....The questions raised about green jobs also threatened the vast increase in Department of Energy spending to pursue green jobs. The Obama administration has poured cash into renewable-energy efficiency and renewable energy with abandon....What is clear is that the Department of Energy then worked with Center for American Progress and the industry lobby AWEA to produce an attack that would serve all their interests."
Well, That Didn't Take Long! When Soros Commands, The Obama Administration Jumps - Chu Pleads For 'Cap & Trade'
Read here. Yesterday, we posted about Soros demanding 'cap & trade' from the Obama Administration in order to make his energy investments profitable. Sure enough, when the crooks and thugs demand Obama to jump, he asks how high. Yep, hope and change for his friends and patrons.
"But he [Secretary of Energy Chu] added that creating a cost for emitting greenhouse gases – which would occur under an emissions-capping bill – provides a “long-term signal” that will drive investment decisions by energy project developers."
January 21, 2010 at 02:06 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Heeees Back! Soros Demanding Obama Give Him 'Cap & Trade' So His Clean-Energy Investments Won't Fail
Read here. Well, only a few days before Massachusetts voters made it clear to everyone that more big government is not the solution, George Soros, the leftist billionaire, was asking for U.S. government guarantees for his energy investments. In this case, a new, big government law enforcing 'cap & trade' policies would be all the guarantee he needs to make his energy investments a winner. This policy would force a lot of American consumer and business dollars to flow into the Soros' owned 'cap & trade' energy solutions. And, by golly, he would even donate $100 million to an environmental policy group to help enforce the regulations - how thoughtful.
Apparently, the Obama administration has bought into the chutzpah of the leftist-speculator-criminal and is considering pushing 'cap & trade', again. Gee, I wonder why Obama would do that? Good luck with that, guys. We'll be waiting at the ballot box if you try.
Will Chinese Monopoly On Rare Metals Drive The Final Stake In Obama's Green Job Revolution? Drill, Baby, Drill!
Read here. The idiotic claim by Democrats and Obama that the U.S. will enjoy a green job revolution has been pretty well proven to be....well....idiotic, based on other country's experiences. Also, the very flaky green job growth machine premise is additionally undercut by the Democrats' own love affair of using NIMBY or the EPA to stop any actual green job opportunities from becoming a reality. Finally, U.S. green job growth depends on having access to needed, scarce rare metals but China wants to keep the metals and green jobs for themselves.
It's time to be putting U.S. labor to work utilizing our own natural resources (oil and coal) and technology capabilities (nukes). Unfortunately, Obama and Democrats are only interested in increasing their socialist, green utopia - no real jobs, just more Washington D.C. welfare controlled by SEIU members.
January 06, 2010 at 06:07 AM | Permalink
Meet 'Al' Pachauri: Global Warming In Name, But Is Greed The Real Game?
Read here, here, here, and here. Since the Climategate scandal and Copenhagen fiasco of last month, there have numerous blog postings and articles about the IPCC and its leader, an Indian Al Gore, so-to-speak. What is developing appears to be a web of self-interest and major conflicts of interest. Reading about all the business and financial interests that Pachauri has assembled, while as IPCC chief, is incredibly impressive, and would make any big climate hypocrites like Gore and other super rich leftists proud.
Note: After reading about the wealthy "climate scientist" Pachauri, maybe big government-leaning Republicans, such as Senator Lindsey Graham, aren't so stupid after all; it's just we were previously giving them the benefit of the doubt that they were not as easily influenced by riches and power as Democrat leftist senators are, by the likes of the obvious UN/Gore/IPCC global climate scam.
January 03, 2010 at 10:39 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Copenhagen Solution: How The Indians, Russians & Chinese Might Save The World, and Then The Climate
Pure C3 editorial conjecture coming your way.....
At this point in the Copenhagen proceedings, there would seem to be absolutely no benefit for China, India and Russia to continue to kowtow to Europe or the U.S. any longer on the over-hyped climate change issues. These three countries are....
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December 16, 2009 at 02:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Al Gore: "Climategate Scandal In Runaway Mode, Temperature Data Fraud Accelerating & Bogus Warming Claims Reach Unprecedented Levels"
Read here and here. Well, of course, Al Gore did not say that because he and IPCC head Pachauri would not profit from stating the truth, nor would thousands of political, NGO and business elites. But if he did, it would reflect reality: the world's official temperature records as presented to the public are fraudulent.
As Climategate has exposed, historical and modern temperatures have been excessively adjusted to literally "prove" that dangerous, non-natural global warming exists. But as more and more individuals start examining the actual original temperatures recorded, the "dangerous" warming disappears - it never existed until pro-warming, IPCC-related climate scientists got their hands on the temperature data. That's why Copenhagen COP15 is such a farce - it's not about climate or saving people's lives.
For more information on temperature data fraud, visit these: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
December 16, 2009 at 07:01 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Global Warmining Culprit That Copenhagen Could Solve: But Pachauri, Gore & Friends Not Sure How To Profit From It
Read here. Everyone knows soot (black carbon) is responsible for a lot of warming and health problems. Everyone knows the soot problem is much easier to solve than the CO2 emissions problem. So, why doesn't the UN and leading countries solve this major carbon problem first? Because, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the climate or saving people's lives. It's all about money, more money, even more money, huge piles of money and power - a lot of both.
December 15, 2009 at 01:01 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Australian 'Awakening'? Proposed CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme By Leftists & Environmental Radicals May Now Fail - Good!
Read here. The world does not need another great wealth producing country joining the anti-CO2, cult-science realm, especially with daily revelations that the IPCC has lied and its scientists committed scientific fraud. Australians should not be burying their liberties and economic freedoms based on the bogus science of global warming and hysterical hype of the mainstream press. (image source)
November 28, 2009 at 06:35 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
The Climate Liars: Obama Administration Claims Fossil Fuels Kills Millions - A 100% Lie, Opposite of All Known Health Facts & Statistics
Read here and here. These two articles provide a clear indication of the extreme lying that is promoted at the highest levels of the Obama administration and at UN agencies, all in the name of pushing a favored political agenda to control energy supplies and prices (i.e. more tax revenues). Every scientific study, in addition to common sense, tells us that as a country's economic wealth grows, that life expectancy and overall health conditions improve exponentially, all due to the use of low cost fossil fuels. As a recent example of what happens when low cost energy becomes more expensive, here is what occurred in the UK last year during the winter: ‘Fuel bills blamed for 50% rise in winter deaths‘
Which economic-energy environment looks better for your own and loved ones' health? (click image to enlarge)
The 'Climate Liars' are promoting the life existence on the right by patently false, getting-ready-for-Copenhagen, non-stop lying.
Update: It's not only in the climate change arena that the liberal-leftists are flat-out lying; it's become the go-to strategy of Obama and Congressional Democrats on just about everything. The entire freaking Democratic Party has been ACORN-ized.
Obama Flashback:'Cap & Trade, Not In The First 100 Days' -- Should It Now Be Re-Titled "First 1,000 Days" or Maybe, "1,460 Days"?
Read here and here. As more and more Americans learn about the tiny impact of CO2, and that climate change legislation being pushed by leftists and the U.N., commonly referred to as 'cap & trade', has nothing to do with stopping global warming and has everything to do with enriching Wall Street traders and speculators, enriching existing billionaires, and those self-righteous billionaire wannabes, the less likely this pro-billionaire, middle-class tax-raising, economic-killer, anti-liberty, and god-awful legislation will be passed. Hey, so far so good this year, and let's shoot for that "1,460 Days" - a one-term president.
Africa's Chad Could Be Responsible For Climate 'Tipping' Point; Should We Seek Reparations From Chad In Copenhagen?
Read here. Based on new peer-reviewed research, the dust storms that the Chad government refuses to manage and control is wreaking climate havoc on the rest of the world. Combine these dust storms with the amount of black carbon soot the African populace throws up in the atmosphere, it becomes obvious that the majority of African nations pose a serious global threat to humanity. Africa and its leaders need to be held accountable at Copenhagen!
October 30, 2009 at 01:30 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
What A Surprise: Yankees Fool The Southern Boy, Again! Nuclear Isn't An Option, Senator Graham
Read here. By now, just about everyone knows that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham chose to embrace the Left's/Liberal global warming hysteria, and the Democrat's devastating economic agenda to control fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, Senator Graham got fooled again when he thought he could at least get the environmentalists to agree to nuclear power in exchange for his going belly-up on controlling CO2 emissions. As the PlanetGore article indicates, the regulators and environmentalists will always find a means to stop new nuclear power construction.
October 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Apple ♥'s Dirty China, Pt.1: Al Gore's Apple iPhone Pursues Largest Consumer Market In World, Also World's Biggest Polluter
Read here and here. Apple, which the world's leading environmental alarmist Al Gore is a director of, has turned its back on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because CoC disagrees with Obama/Gore massive 'cap & trade' tax scheme. Yet Apple rushes to embrace heartily the business of a country that is the world's largest and most dangerous polluter. It pollutes the atmosphere so much .......
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Christmas In Copenhagen: UN Demands U.S. Taxpayers Pay Hundreds of Billions In Climate-Change Reparations
Read here, here, and here. Fears that Obama and radical Democrats will agree to massive wealth transfer from U.S. taxpayers to less developed countries are reasonable since EU diplomats are also pressuring the U.S. to do so. The largest danger to future U.S. economic prosperity is the UN and EU anti-Americanism that Obama Administration parrots.
This Is Climate-Change Policy? Obama Gives Hundreds of Millions To Gore For $90,000 Electric Cars - Transferring Wealth To The Rich?
Read here. Let's see - not only is a Gore-backed company getting hundreds of millions to produce electric cars for the status conscious wealthy, these electric cars won't even be built in America (a non-stimulus stimulus, so to speak). Plus, the electric cars will require more coal-fired plants to be built in order to supply the extra electricity these cars will consume, which happens to result in more net CO2 emissions. Ya gotta love how the corrupt, liberal Democrats always make sure to first take care of the common American worker and the global environment.
September 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
WSJ Says Obama Buying-Off Big Business For Health Care Support; This Type of Payoff Started With 'Cap & Trade' - Consumers Being Sacrificed
Read here on health care payoffs. Below is list of large corporations that have been compromised by Obama on 'Cap & Trade' legislation.
August 07, 2009 at 09:00 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Does Global Warming Cause More Dollar Damage As Insurance Companies "Claim"?
Read here. (click to enlarge)
July 21, 2009 at 01:30 PM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Prices Soar For Largest U.S. Green Power Program; Europe's Cap & Trade 'Seriously Flawed' - What's Not To Like?
Read here and here.
July 21, 2009 at 04:15 AM | Permalink
Should Senate First Pass 'Cap & Trade' Windfall-Profit Tax On Electric Utilities?
Read here and here. Electric utility CEOs like Democrats 'Cap & Trade' regulations. Why? (They make a lot of money ripping money from consumers and taxpayers' wallets?) Should windfall-profit tax and/or executive compensation restrictions apply to utilities that are enriched by government regulations?
"The largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the U.S."
Read here - Obama's budget director stating what Waxman-Markey 'Cap & Trade' really means. Literally, the largest corporate welfare program ever devised.
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Why Wealthy Alarmists Should Be Ignored: A Billionaire Calls For $10/Gal Gas So We Will Buy His Electric Cars
Read here and here. Hypocrisy and money-grubbing of rich and famous can truly be stunning.
June 26, 2009 at 08:59 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
How Cap & Trade Scam Works - A Video Explaining
Call your Congressional Representative, today.
Waxman-Markey Climate & Economic Impacts: In Living Color, And It's Ugly. Political Suicide By Choice?
Read here and here and here. The Waxman-Markey "benefits" and the costs - click to enlarge.
Update: Will Waxman-Markey create the added benefit of new renewable energy resources? EPA says 'No.' -- "President Obama says the greenhouse-gas emissions cutting Waxman-Markey bill before Congress will “spark a clean energy transformation.” But a new analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency casts doubt on that claim."
Like Your Energy Rare and Unaffordable? Messieurs Waxman & Markey Are Your Leftist, Democrat Servers
Read here.
U.S Chamber of Commerce Is 'YouTube'-ing Its Members About Global Warming Legislation/Taxes
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New signs of Chinese military interest in Central Asia
By Stephen Blank
January 16th, 2017, The CACI Analyst
Recent evidence shows a gradual increase in Chinese military activity in Central Asia, particularly with Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, although China has for years denied any military interest in the region. In October, PLA and Tajik forces jointly participated in counterterrorism exercises in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan, following earlier activity in 2016. Whereas Tajikistan was then silent, this time it publicized the exercises, which aroused a visible anxiety in the Russian media although the Russian government has hitherto been unwilling to comment on this issue. China’s initiative could imply a major new development in Chinese policy and in Central Asia’s overall security, with lasting implications for the region.
BACKGROUND: Aside from the recent exercises with Tajikistan, General Fang Fenghui, Chief of Staff of the PLA, also announced plans during a March visit to Kabul to set up an anti-terror regional alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan reportedly endorsed this proposal.
How can we explain China’s moves and their implications? Four motives, in particular, to China’s recent military moves appear to stand out. First, the continuing rise of Chinese power in general, and in particular the aggressively nationalist foreign policy program of Xi Jinping’s government, underlies all of China’s activities. Second, one of the grandest designs of that policy is China’s Go West policy. Expressed in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) policy, now renamed the Belt Road Initiative, China has undertaken a vast economic-political project to bind Central and South Asia, including Pakistan, to its geopolitical agenda. Because China is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the area, it is increasingly concerned about the safety of its investments and geostrategic influence in Central Asia. Analysts tend to agree that these two motives are involved in shaping Chinese policy calculations about Central Asia.
Yet beyond advancing Chinese power and protecting foreign investments, at least two additional factors are evidently at play. At home, the Chinese government remains concerned over the continuing signs of unrest in Xinjiang among the Uyghur population. Coinciding with the exercises in Tajikistan, Beijing has ordered all residents of Xinjiang to surrender their passports in order “to maintain social order” and prevent people, especially young men, from moving abroad to participate in terrorist movements like ISIS or the Taliban. This move effectively makes Xinjiang residents serfs who are bound to the land, and bespeaks the regime’s ongoing failure to deal with its own domestic Muslim issues. It is therefore natural that the regime resorts to ever more repressive means to prevent the insurgency in Xinjiang from further linking up with the enduring violence in Afghanistan and Syria, which has previously seen participation of Uyghurs.
The second motive may be China’s concerns about Afghanistan and even Russia’s role there. Recent accounts in the U.S. press show that the Afghan government has made little or no progress in reestablishing control by its own means over the country and that the Taliban is probably advancing, not retreating. Second, on December 2, General John Nicholson, the Commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, publicly accused Pakistan of supporting the Taliban; and Russia and Iran of legitimizing the movement. In particular, he accused Moscow of competing with NATO in Afghanistan.
Russia has already admitted publicly its intelligence exchanges with the Taliban, suggesting that Russia on the one hand is pledging its support to NATO and Central Asian states against Taliban-inspired terrorism, and on the other supporting the Taliban against allied interests. Analysts and officials in Beijing, who no doubt are seeing the same evidence, must then question Russia’s willingness and capability to provide security in Central Asia in defense of Chinese investments there. Clearly Pakistan and Iran are also unreliable despite whatever benefits their closeness to Beijing offers China on other issues. Under the circumstances the temptation to “do it yourself” and have the PLA defend Chinese interests in these states rather than rely on unreliable local governments becomes much stronger.
IMPLICATIONS: The consequences of what appears to be a creeping Chinese military involvement in Central Asia are many and important. At home it suggests that the Chinese leadership, like many governments before it that cannot deal with internal challenges to its rule, is looking to internationalize its domestic security problems and overcome them by projecting military and other forms of power abroad. Yet for over thirty years it has signally failed to arrest or block the growth of Uyghur unrest and ethno-national or religious sentiment. There is little reason to believe that a more aggressive military policy in Central Asia will offer the government in Beijing a respite from its domestic security dilemmas.
Second, one has to wonder just how much Chinese power is able to induce Iran and even more importantly Pakistan to support China in its strategic interests. If China cannot get Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism throughout the Islamic world despite its huge dependence on China, what does that say about the relationship between China and Pakistan? And the same question can apply with even more force to Iran, which is much less dependent on China for support.
Third, if in fact Moscow is playing a double game in Afghanistan and Central Asia that negatively affects China’s interests, this would seriously undermine the “division of labor” between China and Russia regarding Central Asia that analysts have hitherto discerned. China, with Russian acquiescence, had become the leading foreign economic power in the region but has repeatedly stated its disinterest in projecting military power into Central Asia. This supposedly fostered the global alliance of Russia and China and allowed them to cooperate on regional issues in Central Asia without impinging on each other’s vital interests. If China has now decided, however cautiously, to upend that division of labor, possibly because it cannot rely on Russian policy or for other reasons, can it sustain its relationship of cooperation with Russia in Central Asia? In turn, does the manifestation of Sino-Russian rivalry and tensions in Central Asia affect the larger Sino-Russian relationship? And if so how and where?
Fourth, similar questions affect the Central Asian states. Tajikistan, which has in the past been forced to bow to Chinese pressure for border rectification and investments, may now see its military sovereignty compromised and it may not be the only state in the region to face greater Chinese pressures. How will these states react to assigns of increased Sino-Russian rivalry where they may well be pressed to choose sides?
And fifth, if China is going to try to eclipse Russia’s security role in Central Asia, how will it react in Central Asia and globally? Given the visibly growing Russian dependence upon China for economic and political support, what happens when signs of Chinese encroachment upon Russian “prerogatives” start to multiply? Does Moscow want to undertake an “agonizing reappraisal” of its total foreign and defense polices due to events in Central Asia? And will it continue to try and play its double game there?
It is too early to discern answers to these questions, yet it is not too early to raise them. As regards Russia, Moscow may have reacted to these developments by the announcement of new exercises recently conducted with Tajikistan and of major new arms sales. Exercises and arms sales have been two of the principal instruments by which Moscow has secured support from Tajikistan and its neighbors, even if the arms sales often amount to subsidized exports of Russian weapons. Of course, it is possible that some secret arrangements exist between Beijing and Moscow regarding exercises with Tajikistan and other Central Asian states. But in view of China’s earlier moves and the well documented signs of friction between Russia and China in Central Asia despite their division of labor, such cooperation is not likely.
CONCLUSIONS: Instead, it seems that China, through these exercises and its earlier calls in 2016 for a security formula for Central and South Asia, is spreading its wings and contemplating a discernible expansion of its power projection capabilities and even responsibilities. That can only occur at the expense of Central Asian states, Russia, and probably India as well. This forces us to ask if China’s already visible economic pull upon Central Asian states will be supplemented by their military dependence on China, despite their desires to avoid it or at least avoid Chinese efforts to impose such dependence? To be sure, China has established itself in Central Asia for years to come, but would a Chinese move to upgrade its powers and obligations in the region be met with equal and opposing countermoves from other powers who also have important equities and interests there? Given the nature of contemporary international relations, the answer to that question is almost certainly yes. In other words, a new chapter of the contemporary great game in Central Asia is underway. And we as analysts if not participants must get ready for it.
AUTHOR’S BIO: Stephen Blank is a Senior Fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council.
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West Indies all-rounder and Twenty20 star, Jamaican Andre Russell was banned for one year for an anti-doping whereabouts violation.
The 28-year-old globe-trotting cricketer missed three drug tests back in 2015 after failing to report his whereabouts and was penalized by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission.
He had faced up to a two-year ban if found guilty of the violation, but will sit out several major upcoming global tournaments until January next year under the 12-month sanction which takes immediate effect.
Chairman of the Commission Hugh Faulkner said; “we have found from the evidence that there was a first filing failure for the period Jan. 1, 2015, to March 31, 2015, July 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2015 and then the third filing would have been July 31 to Sept. 30 but specifically, failure to provide an explanation required by anti-doping rules when you are late with the whereabouts of the filing”
He said the rules require that there must be three missed tests and that three missed tests happen within a 12-month period and “we found that was the case as a result, the panel had no option but to apply the sanction.”
Russell has played one Test, 51 One-Day Internationals and 45 Twenty20s for West Indies and was part of the squad which won an unprecedented second Twenty20 World in India last April.
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Jung's concept of collective unconscious was developed at the time when he was working with schizophrenic patients in Burgholzli psychiatric hospital.
Though initially Jung followed the Freudian theory of unconscious as the psychic strata formed by repressed wishes, he later developed his own theory to include some new concepts. The most important of them is the archetype.
Archetypes constitute the structure of the collective unconscious - they are psychic innate dispositions to experience and represent basic human behavior and specific situations. Thus mother-child relationship is governed by the mother archetype. Father-child - by the father archetype. Birth, death, power and failure are controlled by archetypes. The religious and mystique experiences are also governed by archetypes.
The most important of all is the Self, which is the archetype of the Center of the psychic person, his/her totality or wholeness. The Center is made of the conjunction of consciousness and unconscious reached through the individuation process.
Archetypes manifest themselves through archetypal images in all the cultures and religious systems, in dreams and visions. Therefore a great deal of Jungian interest in psyche focuses on interpretation of dreams and symbols in order to discover the compensation induced by archetypes as marks of psyche transformation.
The word "compensation" refers to what Jung believes to be the psychic version of homeostasis, that is the ability of the body to maintain a certain equilibrium and stability. Thus archetypes are related to the basic functioning of our psyche.
The collective unconscious is an universal datum meaning that every human being is endowed with this psychic archetype-layer since his/her birth. One can not acquire this strata by education or other conscious efforts because it is innate.
We may also describe it as a universal library of human knowledge, or the sage in man, the very transcendental wisdom that guides mankind.
Jung stated that the religious life must be linked with the experience of the archetypes of the collective unconscious. Thus, God himself is experienced like an archetype on the psychic level.
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The collective unconscious - so far as we can say anything about it at all - appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious... We can therefore study the collective unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual. (From The Structure of the Psyche, CW 8, par. 325.)
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Life throws us curveballs. And so do hiring managers during job interviews. Specifically, those curveballs come in the form of strange, and sometimes downright insane, interview questions. We all expect some standard questions, like what our strengths or weaknesses are, or why they should hire you. But you may get a wildcard question asking you to figure out the square root of an obscure number. Off the top of your head.
Can you handle that? And what do you do when you have no clue what the answer is? Sometimes you don’t need the right answer. You just need any answer — any answer you can justify. But some employers like to take things to the extreme. A new report from Glassdoor has outlined 27 of the toughest job interview questions out there, and which companies like to ask them.
“Even with all this research ahead of the big interview, there are some interview questions that could catch you by surprise. During today’s tough interview process, almost any can be thrown your way, so you need to be prepared for anything,” the Glassdoor team said.
“To help, we’ve identified 27 Jobs With Tough Interview Questions to give you a better sense of the tough, strange, and unexpected questions that can be asked in any job interview in any industry.”
Here are the 27 questions and the employers that like to ask them. Have you ever been asked any of these crazy job interview questions?
1. ‘How do you explain a vending machine to someone who hasn’t seen or used one before?’
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This question is levied at candidates for the position of global data analyst at Bloomberg. It’s a bit of a mind-bender, too — which is the point, of course. It’s meant to test you in a couple of ways, including your ability to think on your feet. But it’s also trying to see how you think through problems, and how mechanical your mind is. If you can describe a machine and how it works, it’s a good sign.
2. ‘How many fire hydrants are there in Los Angeles County?’
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You’ll come across this question if you’re applying for the position of software engineer at Disney Interactive Studios. It’s a bit mathematical, and also a bit logical. And again, it’s meant to see how your mind works, and how quickly you can reach a conclusion. You could probably try to figure out the overall population of the county and divide by the hydrant needs of that population. But who knows?
3. ‘If your current employer had an anniversary party for you, what five words would be written on the cake to describe you?’
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If you want to become a district manager at Express — a popular clothing shop for both men and women — you might get hit with this question during the job interview. It’s not nearly as crazy as some of the others on this list, but could possibly throw you for a loop. The best way to handle a question like this? Have a sense of humor, and come up with something memorable.
4. ‘Who in history would you want to go to dinner with and why?’
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If you’re hoping to become a flight attendant for PSA Airlines, be prepared to answer this question. It’s a question you’re more likely to run into at a dinner party or with buddies at happy hour, but it can also provoke some interesting reactions and answers from job candidates. Give it some thought, and don’t just go for the default answers, like Jesus, Donald Trump, or Abraham Lincoln.
5. ‘Prove that hoop stress is twice the longitudinal stress in a cylindrical pressure vessel.’
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If you can even decipher what in the hell the folks at SpaceX are talking about when they ask you this, you’re probably going to be OK. This is a question asked of candidates for the position of test operations engineer, and, obviously, it goes way over the head of the layman. This position requires a lot of specialized knowledge and skill, and if you’ve made it to the interview process, you’ll probably be OK.
6. ‘What’s the capital of Canada?’
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Want to be a team leader at OpticsPlanet? You’ll need to know your capitals. Foreign capitals. Like the one closest to us — in Canada. For those of you who don’t know, the capital of Canada is Ottawa — not Toronto or Montreal. This may seem like a stupid question, but you’d be surprised to learn that many Americans can’t even name the capital of the United States.
7. ‘Name a brand that represents you as a person.’
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This question is levied toward candidates for brand strategist positions at Twitter. And when you think about it, it’s a pretty good, pointed question for someone who wants to work in that realm. It also digs into your psyche a bit and gets a feel for how quickly you can come up with a coherent answer. Of course, you wouldn’t want to say “Haliburton” or anything like that. Maybe Nike? Because when it comes to work, you “just do it”?
8. ‘Estimate how many employees are in the next building.’
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If you want to be a data scientist at the firm Risk Management Solutions, they’ll want to make sure you can think logically and mathematically. That’s where this question comes into the mix. You can probably manage to come up with a logical answer by looking at the number of floors, and by estimating how many people work on each floor. You’re not going to nail it, of course, but it’s a simple and effective test.
9. ‘How many happy birthday posts do you think Facebook gets in one day?’
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Yes, this is a question asked by Facebook’s hiring team. Specifically, candidates for positions in sales operations at Facebook end up trying to answer this one. And again, it’s a question that’s looking at your math and logic skills. If you know how many people use Facebook, you can probably devise an estimate of how many people have a birthday on any given day, and go from there.
10. ‘If you could take anyone on a road trip with you, who would you take and why?’
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Again, don’t just say Jesus. That’s a cop out answer, and an interviewer knows it. And if you want to be an educator at lululemon, they’ll want to hear some creativity and honesty come out of you. You can name a family member and hit them with a sob story, or you can get really creative and name an ancient philosopher or obscure celebrity. Perhaps actor Shia Labeouf would be fun on a road trip?
11. ‘What is the first thing you’d print with a 3-D printer if you had one?’
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Now, this is a fun question. Well, maybe, if you’re creative. If you want to be the next Linux systems administrator at Rackspace, you’ll need to give them a good answer, too. This is an opportunity to be creative. It may seem like a crazy, intimidating question, but think of it as a chance to be funny or lighthearted. Maybe you need a Bible, so you can pray the interview gets easier?
12. ‘If you had to take only one item to a deserted island, what would that be?’
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Again, don’t opt for the easy default answer, like “a life raft.” Or “a satellite phone.” The people interviewing you for a customer service specialist position at Squarespace want you to try a little harder than that. You can go for the Dwight Schrute answer, which is “Physicians’s Desk Reference — hollowed out. Inside, waterproof matches, iodine tablets, beet seeds, protein bars, NASA blanket, and, in case I get bored, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
13. ‘Please describe an instance where you had to make a decision without all of the necessary information.’
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A super meta answer to this question would be to reference the question itself in your answer. Because you’re trying to decide how to answer it without knowing what they want — crazy, right? If you’re trying to get a position on the analytics team at athenahealth, this question may come up. Of course, you don’t want to be a smartass, so try coming up with a real answer.
14. ‘How do you reverse a text string on the Unix command line?’
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This one is asked of candidates for the position of developer at Capital One. And like people interviewing at SpaceX, it requires some specialized knowledge and skill to answer it. It’s a fair question, and if you really feel you deserve to be a developer at Capital One, you should be able to answer it. If you can’t? Time to do some more homework until you have an answer for the next interview.
15. ‘If you are in a boat with a boulder and you drop that boulder into the lake, how does the water level before and after you drop the boulder in the lake compare?’
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Apple’s hiring team asks this of candidates for the position of mechanical design engineer. It’s a fair question for mechanical design engineers, as it’s actually probing your knowledge of math, physics, and other things. It’s basically a question about displacement — and if you’ve studied mechanical engineering and/or design, you should be able to answer it competently.
16. ‘You have been asked to lead a multi-million dollar, multi-year grant that will be supported across several companies and universities. How do you start?’
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If you want to be Mr. or Ms. future research scientist at the Ford Motor Company, you’ll need to be able to get past this doozy question during the interview process. This question is entirely open-ended. You can answer however you want, in any number of ways. But if you don’t know anything about what the question is addressing, it’ll be hard to BS your way through it.
17. ‘Sell me on one idea, and then sell me on the opposite of that idea.’
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Here’s another interesting, open-ended question. This one is asked of candidates for the position of Solarwinds administrator at Blizzard Entertainment. This one will also test your ability to be creative, and also to construct and deconstruct an argument. Pick anything you’re familiar with and take it apart. Then put it back together again. It could be something like universal basic income, or the idea that you deserve the job.
18. ‘How would you go about to find the top five Java developers in a certain area?’
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If you want to become a technical recruiter for Google, they’ll want to know you can track down people with the skills they need. If you’re unfamiliar with recruiting, you’ll probably have no idea. If you do have experience, you likely have a few tricks up your sleeve for finding people with particular skills.
19. ‘What is the probability of an integer from 1 to 60,000 not having the digit 6?’
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If you want to be a quantitative developer at Akuna Capital, you’d best be able to work numbers in your head. This is one of those questions that leave most of us slack-jawed and wide-eyed. If this is out of your element, you might as well throw out a guess. But if you’ve been trained to think in this manner, do the math. Give them an answer, and see what happens.
20. ‘If you were a Muppet, which character would you be?’
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Finally, a fun question. Unless you’re unfamiliar with The Muppets — which may be the case, depending on your age. Most of us do have at least an idea of what or who the Muppets are, but outside of Kermit or Ms. Piggy, it might be tough to come up with an answer. When in doubt, just say “Animal.” That’ll go over well, and get you a job as a donor family advocate at LifeNet Health.
21. ‘Give me 48 cents using six coins. Tell me the quantity and value of the six coins.’
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This question is asked by hiring managers at Wintec for the position of human resource manager. It’s not actually that complicated of a question if you can streamline your thinking, work out some algebra in your head, and explain your answer. Here’s a hint: You know right off the bat that three of them are going to be pennies, and one is going to be a nickel.
22. ‘Write an equation to optimize the marketing spend between Facebook and Twitter campaigns.’
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It’s not all food deliveries and rides. If you plan on becoming an analyst (data science) at Uber, you’ll need to face questions like this one in the interview. This isn’t an unreasonable question, but it can be incredibly tough. For Uber, it’s a way to thin out the herd of applicants. If you can put pen to whiteboard and knock it out of the park, you’re likely way ahead of the curve.
23. ‘What is the angle at 3:15?’
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You may think that the only real response to this question is “what’s your angle with this question?” In fact, there’s a pretty good chance, you won’t have any idea what they’re talking about. A good guess, though, would be to look at the hands on a clock at the time 3:15 — at which they’ll both be over the “3.” Meaning that the angle is zero … Unless it’s a trick question. To become an implementation consultant at Fast Enterprises, you’ll need an answer to this one.
24. ‘What part of the newspaper do you read first? What does this say about you?’
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Want to work in the audit department at BDO USA? You’ll need to talk about newspapers. If you haven’t touched a newspaper in years, then think about what news websites you visit, and what stories or sections you gravitate toward. Then, of course, you’ll need to justify your answer. Again, be creative, and have a sense of humor. It’s a chance to have fun, so jump on it.
25. ‘If a co-worker had an annoying habit, and it hindered your quality of work, how would you resolve it?’
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This is less of an “if” question and more of a “tell us about a time” question. It’s asked to candidates for the position of production technician at Procter & Gamble, and it’s another opportunity to be creative and to bring some non-fiction history into the mix. They just want to see if you can deal with people, and if you have social skills. Nobody wants a weirdo in their ranks, and this question is designed to weed them out.
26. ‘Throw your resume aside and tell me what makes you you.’
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This one is for sales executive candidates at Zillow. And it really doesn’t get much more open-ended than this. This might be the easiest or hardest question to answer. Most of us have a hard time talking about ourselves and use a resume as a bit of a cheat sheet. So, when answering, take it any way you want. It doesn’t all have to revolve around your career, either.
27. ‘How would you find the square root of 1.2?’
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For hardware engineer candidates at Jump Trading, this question might pop up. The answer? Well, you would divide 1.2 by itself (wrong, don’t say that!) — which most of us can’t do in our heads. But engineers need to know this stuff, and if you can’t answer this question, you may be in over your head.
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Polis administration complicit in disguising true health risks found by recent CDPHE study
Phillip Doe
Joel Dyer
Phillip Doe is a former environmental compliance officer and head of the Reclamation Law Administration for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He currently serves as the environmental director for Be the Change Colorado.
The Polis administration went into its finest Larry, Curly and Moe fire-drill routine last week.
The cause of all the mindless helter skelter was the release of a CDPHE report first commissioned by former Governor John Hickenlooper on the potential for benzene poisoning in the fracking fields of Colorado. As many will remember, Hicklooper held fast to the claim that fracking was safe, even as he sleep-walked through his aborted run for president. He must have thought this study would prove him right. It didn’t.
When commissioned back in 2014, citizens and grassroots groups raised objections to the study format. The industry would partner in the study and gather air pollution data. In other words, the polluters would help measure their own pollution. Academics from Colorado State, a university with close ties to the industry, would use highly suspect methodologies to interpret the chemical characteristics of the pollution from the wells. Independent scientists insisted the results, by design, would under-measure the actual air pollution, particularly benzene. Benzene is a known carcinogen, unsafe to humans at any concentration.
What could go wrong? Well, there was one miscalculation: the fracking lovers didn’t control the simulation model into which the suspect data would be fed. And what a miscalculation it was. The old scientific formulation of garbage in, garbage out didn’t quite hold up. The simulation model, even with suspect data, showed fracking was sometimes spewing benzene like late-night tweets from Donald Trump.
Polis’ lieutenants were quick to tamp down concerns. In a press conference they declared themselves on top of it — they had things under control. Mostly they had it wrong. Fearing continued civil disruptions because of the lack of progress in implementing the new law, SB 181, the public was not allowed to attend the press gathering. SB 181 is supposed to have turned the tables on the oil industry in this state. No longer is the State to prostitute itself for the industry; instead, the State is now supposed to ensure the public and the environment are protected as a condition precedent to new oil development. At least, that was the promise.
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Director Jeff Robbins announced the study showed a risk of benzene poisoning during the early stages of the fracking process called flowback. During the flowback phase at least half of the chemical mix used to frack the formation and force oil to the surface under tremendous pressure returns to the drill site. Presently, given the length of the one-mile-plus laterals, maybe half of the roughly 10 million gallons of water mixed with 100,000 gallons of chemicals used to frack the formation can be expected to stream to the surface along with the first rush of oil and gas, including benzene.
Robbins claims the study showed health threatening benzene contamination as far away as 2,000 feet from the drill site only during the flowback phase. Thus, he says, the risks were short-term. As a consequence of the study, he is going to evaluate all new permits for their potential for harm out to 2,000 feet. He will also continue to use the 1,500-foot standard he established, by fiat, in May to evaluate for potential harm. How he is to match the competing standards is a magic trick apparently known only to him. At least the Hickenlooper safe-standard of 500 feet has vanished from the conversation like the morning dew.
The fact of the matter is that graphs from the study show harmful benzene concentrations can be expected, under the simulation model, well beyond 2,000 feet, perhaps for many miles. Such a finding is consistent with actual measurements from the Boulder County Air Monitoring Station. Recently this station, the only continuous air monitoring station in the state, measured a huge spike in benzene that correlated well with a major gas leak at a frack site near Windsor. The station is 40 miles from the Windsor location, a drill site that eventually erupted into a major explosion and fire requiring all regional fire departments to engage at the site.
Senator Steve Fenberg, one of the sponsors of SB 181, is now calling for an immediate end to all permitting within 2,000 feet of human habitation. Had the state not misinformed the public concerning the study results, Fenberg’s request would be a rational and laudable reaction. However, Fenberg is acting on bad information. The model was programmed to only measure benzene to 2,000 feet. That is a far cry from saying the study showed benzene risks disappeared after 2,000 feet. Simply put, the Polis administration’s complicity in disguising the potential health impacts that could and should be derived from the study is immoral and possibly even criminal.
Courtesy EPA
Similarly, the administration’s insistence that there are no expected long-term impacts from benzene poisoning such as cancer is without foundation. The study relied on snapshots of individual wells, not continuous monitoring as required by SB 181. It is well-documented that air pollution from wells is not constant, but varies depending on the operation. With the industry participating in this study’s pollution-gathering phase, one would expect the snapshots to be taken when releases to the atmosphere were minimal, as opposed to times when flaring or venting of gasses into the atmosphere were operationally called for or state sanctioned and permitted. New studies indicate that even atmospheric conditions can influence the leak rate at oil and gas facilities. Only continuous monitoring can capture all the variances.
Thousands of people living near fracking in the state have reported nosebleeds, trouble breathing, rashes and eye irritations. The study, despite its limits, confirms these reactions are likely from benzene poisoning. Yet the State would have us believe there are no long-term impacts because a few indeterminate snapshots of operational well releases following the flowback phase allow them to basically lie, and in so doing, cause unknown levels of harm to Colorado citizens.
Indeed, the Fracking Compendium, which Colorado continues to blindly ignore in its health assessment of fracking, indicates that of the nearly 1,800 original research papers on fracking and shale oil and gas extraction, over 80% of those studies published before 2016 found harm or potential harm from fracking. That percentage has only increased in recent years with over 90% of the original studies published after 2016 finding “a positive association with harm or potential harm.”
To give some life to these deadly statistics, it is perhaps beneficial to note a few of the findings among these studies:
• 77 spills in Weld County impacted groundwater with benzene above allowable levels.
• High benzene levels were detected in urine samples of pad workers during flowback.
• Young people with lymphocytic leukemia were 4.3 times more likely to have lived near oil and gas operations.
It’s pretty obvious what’s not being done and probably won’t be done since Robbins is of the opinion that permits already approved — over 1,700 of them since Jan. 1 — can’t be recalled or reviewed. In his opinion, the mineral owners have sacred vested property rights that we the sovereigns of this state can’t diminish or impair. We apparently have a duty to die from benzene or other poisons if we happen to live near the fracking fields. Not only does this opinion show that protecting public health and the environment is not the primary goal in this administration’s regulatory considerations, as required by SB 181 and the Bill of Rights, but that Robbins is probably not a very good lawyer. The U.S. Supreme Court has always ruled the public’s safety and health are a higher social good than property rights. Moreover, the State Supreme Court has ruled similarly, as it must, of course, that the State can override vested rights provided the decision is consistent with a legitimate government interest. The protection of the public’s health and safety as demanded by SB 181 probably suffices.
What should be done? Obviously a complete halt to new drilling must be invoked until real-time monitoring can be accomplished.
A test continuous-monitoring system should be employed immediately as required by SB 181. The monitoring program should employe new laser technology. This technology is not dependent on wind direction or other weather conditions. A system being used in California at refineries can measure with great accuracy up to 70 chemical constituents and be made available to interested governments almost immediately.
Continuous monitoring should be undertaken at both a new site about to be fracked and several operational sites.
All drill sites should be well away from human habitation. Measurements should be continuous from the minute the drill bit goes into the ground until the operational phase is well underway.
Continuous monitoring should be done at several test sites, with selection of those sites done with the advice and consent of those living in the fracking fields. The data for the simulation model for benzene poisoning was from individual wells, on pads as small as one acre. This is atypical of Front Range drilling, where up to 40 wells on a pad of 10 to 15 acres is the rule. The test sites should be at these industrial mega-sites, where some have speculated the amount of air pollution may rival those at the Suncor refinery in Commerce City. Feeding this fear is the fact the State asks for no control on emissions until at least 90 days after the well becomes operational. In other words, they intentionally skip monitoring the flowback stage. The State promises to correct this insane loophole under SB 181 rulemaking. We’ll see.
It would be interesting to see this real-time data fed back into the simulation model for comparative purposes, but also to track potential pollution to its outer limits, not an arbitrary 2,000 feet that is clearly protective of the industry’s financial interests.
Finally, we would all be thankful if the governor would stop making statements such as the one he made before oil executives a few weeks back. He is reported to have said that events in oil-rich Venezuela and Russia will have more impact on the frackers’ future in Colorado than SB 181. In his opinion, he told those assembled, “Commodities pricing and the market is what drives things.”
These can’t be the words of a serious mind that got elected by vowing to regulate the industry and protect the people. He never hinted that he’d let Wall Street do it.
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Sinclair Lewis Biography
George F. Babbitt
Technique and Content in Babbitt
Summary and Analysis Chapters 1-4
On a morning in April 1920, George F. Babbitt, a 46-year-old real estate dealer, awakens in his house in the exclusive Floral Heights section of Zenith, a medium-sized, Midwestern city. Zenith is a typically expanding modern city with new factories and office buildings, modern homes, fine roads and express railroad service, as well as the usual slums and other urban paraphernalia.
Babbitt is pink-skinned and baby-faced, with a slight tendency toward heaviness. He seems prosperous, although he is a businesslike and unromantic person in appearance. He has awakened unhappily this morning — partly because he is suffering from a hangover following last night's poker game, and partly because, as usual, he has dreamed about a fairy girl with whom he is able to escape his dull, mechanical existence. This morning, he is forced to face reality and it takes him awhile to adjust.
Babbitt arises at 7:20 a.m. and carries out his regular morning ritual of washing and dressing. His actions and thoughts are the same as those on nearly every morning of his life. Myra Babbitt, his wife, also rises and begins her household duties. She is a chubby, mature woman, dressed in a housecoat. After a typical quandary concerning whether Babbitt should wear his brown or gray suit, he finishes dressing.
Before Babbitt leaves the bedroom, he views himself in the mirror and takes pride in his eminently respectable and executive-like bearing. He glances out the window and catches a glimpse of downtown Zenith, three miles away. The functional beauty of the tall, shining skyscrapers inspires him; he feels a nearly religious feeling of awe for the modern, urban way of life in America.
Babbitt's house is moderately expensive and modern. It has all the latest conveniences and appliances and was designed, decorated, and furnished by the finest and most stylish contractors. It is quite similar, both inside and outside, to nearly all the other houses in Floral Heights. The only fault with the Babbitt house, the author comments, is that it is not a home.
At breakfast, the Babbitts are joined by their three children — Verona, 22, a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr and very conscious of her culture and sophistication; Ted — Theodore Roosevelt — Babbitt, 17, a student at the local high school; and Tinka — Katherine — 10, a somewhat spoiled yet sweet little girl. Throughout the meal, the family bickers about a number of minor issues. Babbitt is suffering from his usual morning irritability, and it is finally necessary for him to shout them into silence.
The children leave for school or work, and Babbitt sets out for the office. As he drives to work, he meets his neighbor Howard Littlefield, an executive of the Zenith Street Traction Company and the holder of a doctorate in economics. Howard is one of the most highly educated men in Floral Heights, and Babbitt is one of the many admirers of his learning. The two men engage in a short, cliché-filled discussion about the weather and current politics.
Continuing his journey, Babbitt derives an adventurous feeling of personal heroism from driving recklessly. At the gasoline station where he stops, the mechanic is attentive and respectful. This behavior, as usual, tends to increase Babbitt's self-esteem, and he becomes a bit more cheerful. As on all other mornings, the drive to work through the city's many varied and industrious districts excites and inspires him.
Babbitt's office is in the Reeves Building, a modern, downtown skyscraper. The Babbitt-Thompson Realty Company (Thompson is Babbitt's father-in-law) has nine salesmen and several office clerks, most of whom are already busily at work. For some unknown reason, however, Babbitt feels out of sorts this morning and does not derive the usual satisfaction from viewing the modern fixtures of his office. Nonetheless, he settles down to the day's business. He continues, however, to feel restless. Babbitt muses for a while about the fairy girl of his dreams, and then feels ashamed, for he is a highly respectable family man and has never yet done anything to endanger his reputation in the community.
As the morning progresses, Babbitt composes several additional advertisements, including a rather tasteless one for a cemetery of which he is the agent, These ads are written in tortured and misleading purple prose, but Babbitt is proud of them and considers them to be stylistic masterpieces. When this work is finished, he becomes bored and, as is his habit, he decides once again to stop smoking. Afterward, he telephones Paul Riesling, his closest friend, and arranges a luncheon appointment.
The remainder of Babbitt's morning is filled up with petty and routine details. After describing these, Lewis comments that Babbitt is a successful real-estate broker because he is reasonably honest and dependable, has a good sales personality, and is diligent. Unfortunately, however, like many men in his field, Babbitt is ignorant of the most elementary and important matters pertinent to real-estate, such as the principles of scientific sanitation, the nature of adequate educational facilities, police and fire services, and so forth. Nonetheless, Babbitt understands real-estate values, and he is not above making a slightly shady deal once in a while if it is profitable and has an air of respectability. As a result, Babbitt's firm is one of the most prosperous in Zenith.
Babbitt is seemingly a highly virtuous man. He advocates and praises the wisdom of many laws, although he does not always observe them. He is a regular contributor to his church and other reliable charities. He does not believe in cheating — except when everyone else is doing it, or when it is necessary in order to protect himself.
The balance of the chapter contains a detailed account of the way in which Babbitt and Conrad Lyte, a local speculator, pull off a slightly dishonest real-estate deal and make a nice profit, at the expense of a helpless grocer in one of Zenith's residential districts.
Lewis begins Babbitt by describing the setting — the city of Zenith — then placing the main character, George F. Babbitt, in the setting. The portrait is of an unimaginative Midwestern America and its middle-class protagonist, and so Lewis introduces them in the best possible way: within the Babbitt-Zenith mentality. Already the standard of utility is at work.
Zenith, the city's name, is indicative of Lewis' attitude toward contemporary America. A zenith denotes a pinnacle, an ultimate, but if this city that Lewis describes is man's best effort, then the result is sorry and disappointing. Besides Zenith's towers — suggesting modern man's self-imposed prisons — man has built himself other meaningless and grotesque buildings. Mansard roofs "torture" the structures beneath. Everywhere in Lewis' description of Zenith, the houses and machines seem more alive than the people who use them.
It is dawn in the opening scene, but there are no bird songs; they have been replaced by factory whistles. The morning sun is "splintered" by the glare of steel. Man has created a monster, a metal forest hundreds of thousands of times his size. The enormity of man's creations has diminished man instead of doing what his creations were originally designed to do: ennoble him.
After a long-distance view of Zenith, Lewis focuses on the sleeping figure of George F. Babbitt. Asleep, Babbitt is not the solid citizen that he is when he is awake; instead, he is the remnant of the credulous dreamer that he was as a youth. And it is with this initial stroke of characterization that Lewis humanizes Babbitt. Granted that our first impression of the man is not wholly sympathetic, we never wholly forget that Babbitt — however fraudulent and hypocritical he proves himself to be — can dissolve at unguarded moments into a romantic who longs for peace and beauty (the world of the fairy child).
Babbitt's dream is threatened by the noises of milkmen, furnace men, paper carriers, and automobiles, and when the dream finally breaks, we witness the metamorphosis of the once-sleeping Babbitt into the now-awake Solid Citizen Babbitt.
Immediately on awakening, Babbitt begins to change. He takes strength from the fact that he is awakened by an expensive alarm clock. Significantly, the clock is one in which cathedral chimes have been shrunk to man's secular needs. In other words, cathedral chimes no longer call one to prayer; instead, they call one to work. And it is the price of the clock, not its tone, which pleases. Babbitt most. Babbitt's god, Lewis tells us, is modern appliances.
Having mentioned modern counterparts of paradise and God, Lewis next turns his satire to the matter of sin in Babbitt's Theology of Things. Before breakfast, Babbitt battles the steel, chrome, and glass controls of the bathroom; he rails at his daughter's using a smelly "heathen" toothpaste; he slides against the tub and, frustrated, wipes his hands and face on a never-before-used guest towel. With this act, Babbitt commits a household "sin" and is censured by his wife.
Babbitt's metamorphosis continues. First, he was observed in bed in baby-blue pajamas; his wife awakened him by calling him "Georgie boy," and later, dressed in his BVDs, he still looks like a little boy. Slowly the facade is applied; note the words that Lewis uses to describe Babbitt's dressing process: adornment, embellishment, donning words suggesting special, sacred vestments instead of the ordinary business suit which Babbitt is putting on.
After his suit is on, Babbitt pockets such trinkets as an elk's tooth, a pen, some keys, a knife, some notes written to himself, and again Lewis points out the seriousness of the task. These are Babbitt's modern-day holy medals. And besides the "holy medals," Babbitt carries the modern-day equivalent of a missal to guide his thoughts and deeds; he carries editorial clippings. His values are determined on the basis of printed dogma, learned by rote from his collection of newspaper editorials.
This particular morning, Babbitt continues to be out of sorts. He worries about his digestion, wondering why his apple-a-day has failed to keep him feeling fit. He worries until he looks out at the towers of Zenith. These towers of steel quiet his nerves; like silver, silent priests, they give him peace.
The Babbitts' house is described in much the same way that the Babbitts' clothes were described: both house and clothes are good, solid, and uniform; best of all, they are respectable. The house has an abundance of electrical outlets for lamps, for vacuum cleaners, toasters, and electrical fans, but between the Babbitts themselves, there is no "spark" of love. The analogy between the excess of modern electrical appliances, their outlets, and the Babbitts' lack of love seems obvious.
Myra Babbitt is described as being "as sexless as an anemic nun"; she bulges in corsets, fastens her clothes with safety pins, and takes no interest in her femininity. She treats her husband much as a fussy mother might. As for Babbitt, Lewis says that he appears "extremely married"; that is, the magic has gone out of his sex life with Myra. Babbitt is the man who pays Myra's bills; he is her solid citizen protector, but he is not her lover.
At the Babbitt breakfast table, Verona, a Bryn Mawr graduate, expresses her discontent with her paltry job as a filing clerk. Babbitt, however, is unconcerned about his daughter's desire to do something "worthwhile"; he is repulsed by Verona's naive dream of opening a small chintz-decorated welfare corner in a department store. "Rone," the Babbitt's eldest child, is a dreamer, and now that Babbitt is fully awake, he scoffs at dreams.
Ted, the Babbitts' second child, is also a dreamer. He dreams of shortcuts to success and also of becoming an adventurous secret agent. Neither of Babbitt's older children respects work as much as their father hoped they would. Ted's dreams and Verona's socialistic ideals are out of place in Babbitt's solid, common-sense household.
Commenting on the state of the world, Babbitt growls that "we got no business interfering with foreign governments"; then, seconds later, disgusted by a hint of change in the Russian power structure, Babbitt wonders why "we don't just step in there and kick those Bolshevik cusses out." Babbitt has no consistent system of values; however, he believes that his values are consistent for one reason: because he has worked hard. Hard work automatically equals wisdom in Babbitt's scheme of things. He uncritically quotes platitudes and scrap ends of editorials. Babbitt's mind only seems to think, just as the Babbitts' furniture only seems to be made of mahogany and the toilet articles only seem to be made of solid silver.
After Babbitt leaves for work, several things boost his spirits. On his way into Zenith, Babbitt has his car filled with gasoline, and, similarly, he stuffs himself with platitudes for the day. At the filling station, Babbitt collects the chatty respect of the attendant; all of these things — well-being, wisdom, and respect — help fill out Babbitt's image of himself.
Finally, one last quality — manly courage — is infused into Babbitt before he assumes his daily role of businessman. Besides the battle that Babbitt waged in his bathroom this morning, he wages two more battles before he checks into his office. He battles a streetcar (a valiant effort) and battles to park his car (a virile adventure).
Once Babbitt arrives at his office, the tones of Lewis' satire changes. It is no longer funny to watch Babbitt because now Babbitt is engulfed in a building filled with other Babbitts. All individualism has been removed, and it is from these offices that the energy that moves America is discharged. Here is the nerve center of Zenith's and Babbitt's money-making.
The motto for Babbitt's real-estate business is "Homes for Folks," an especially fraudulent motto because the houses which Babbitt sells are not "homes," nor do "folks" buy them. Lewis implies that they are cells for robots; the development, for example, at Glen Oriole contains neither a glen nor an oriole. Glen Oriole is merely a clever tag to snare prospective home-buyers who dream of living in a glen with trees filled with orioles. But Babbitt's business functions — it sells houses and it makes money.
After sharply and satirically creating for us a picture of Babbitt's narrow-minded drive to make money, Lewis cajoles us into giving more sympathy to Babbitt. Babbitt is not a happy man. He is a frustrated man. Despite the fact that Babbitt's intellect and values have greatly atrophied, his sense of sex still flickers and underneath Babbitt's clichés and posturings, he is mildly alert to every pretty ankle he sees. We enjoy seeing that Babbitt is not yet an empty husk, that while he is able to calculate the cost of repapering a room, he can also calculate the cost of an interoffice affair with his chirpy-voiced secretary.
In Chapter 4, Lewis gives us a multitude of details about Babbitt's business ethics; then he ends the chapter with a long scene in which we see these ethics illustrated. We learn, first of all, that in Babbitt's code, a businessman is not acceptable if he is not sufficiently broad-shouldered, deep-voiced, and hearty-humored. Success is attracted to such manliness, and Babbitt's buying-and-selling business is, Lewis says, a "manly" business. Zenith is manly beauty to Babbitt; it is manly poetry literally measured by the height of its buildings. Babbitt responds to the poetry of the material — the shine of steel and the energy of restless automobiles.
Babbitt begins his day manfully; he is assertive, exercising his authority. His "Do You Respect Your Loved Ones?" is rhetorical, attempting to fill readers with guilt if they have not bought a plot in Linden Lane. Note, however, that Babbitt is not wholly untainted from things "unmanly"; he enjoys a fancy word or two and indulges in such purple-prose expressions as "daisy-dotted" and "smiling fields," even though most of his advertisement is written in "manly" prose.
Babbitt has made money; that is a fact. He is a success, so he is not completely ignorant of sales maneuvers. His right hand may scribble pretentious lures for real estate, but his left hand is realistically set on making money.
A quality of Babbitt's, pointed out already but particularly evident in this chapter, is his self-deception. A resolution to take better care of his health comforts him. Likewise, an unanswered letter that he intends to answer seems already answered; and instead of using willpower and determination to stop smoking, he hides his cigars from himself. Babbitt, the great booster of willpower, is a fraud.
Concerning Babbitt's business ethics, it is not surprising to learn that Babbitt's concern is not really for the community, as he claims, but for himself and the money he will extract. He "chants" lies; he has "ironed" a meadow into a sunburnt housing development, and he has bribed health inspectors and fire inspectors. And his excuse? He is "as honest as the next guy" — that is, he is "conventionally honest." In other words, he cheats only if cheating has been "sanctified by precedent."
Point by point, Lewis indicts Babbitt as a philistine, stopping only briefly for a point of humor concerning Babbitt's worrying about sewage disposal. Babbitt regularly boasts of the efficient sewage pipes beneath the Glen Oriole housing development, just as he regularly worries about his own bowels. Lewis notes that Glen Oriole's sewage pipes are not washed clean; they do not even function well; in short, they are very much like Babbitt's life. Both are full of stagnation.
In the scene involving the small grocer, Mr. Purdy, Babbitt's "conventionally honest" ethics are in full display. Babbitt's buying of land and offering it to the grocer at many times its value, disguising his greed as a gesture of friendliness, is fiendish. When Lewis has him call Purdy "Brother" and force cigars on him, Babbitt becomes almost too villainous. In this episode, Lewis' Babbitt is too hypocritical, too overbearing, and too greedy to be anything more than cartoonish even after he collects his $450 commission.
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is achievable through hard work.
is available to anyone through good education.
means absolute conformity in thought and action.
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One of the earliest known phenological records for the Flame Robin in Victoria is its arrival at Scott's Creek, Coden from 1897 to 1902. Its arrival date ranged from the 29 March to the 9 April1.
A little later in the century, its arrival date at Albert Park Lake ranged from the 23 March to the 4 April (from 1991 to 1994) 2.
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1. Graham, G. 1903. Arrivals and Departures of Birds, Scott's Creek Cobden, Victoria. Emu II: 214 - 215.
2. Keatley MR, Chambers LE & Martin RAU 2009. PhenoARC: an Australia-wide phenological data archive. In: Greenhouse 2009: Climate change and resources p. 97, Burswood Convention Centre, Perth, Western Australia. http://www.greenhouse2009.com/images/GH09Abstracts_web.pdf
Keatley MR & Chambers LE 2010. Australia. pp 31-33 In: Phenological Research: Methods for environmental and climate change analysis. Eds: IL Hudson and MR Keatley. Springer, Dordrecht.
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Bradley University backtracks after blocking veteran reporter's access to basketball team
By Dave Eminian deminian@pjstar.com
Bradley University embraced longtime Peoria, Ill., Journal Star hoops beat writer Dave Reynolds — literally — at its watch party for the NCAA’s Selection Sunday event at Renaissance Coliseum on Sunday evening.
The university, two days earlier, had barred the three-time Illinois Sportswriter of the Year from attending its media day for the NCAA tourney, a public maneuver in what had been a season-long private feud in which the university was critical of the newspaper’s coverage.
It quickly became a free press issue, not just a basketball issue, as the incident went viral across the nation.
Twitter even came up with a hashtag: #freeDaveReynolds.
Support was overwhelming locally and nationally for the newspaper and its writer. It continued Sunday, as some fans at the watch party wore heart-shaped badges with Reynolds’ picture on it, and the words, “We support you.”
An official apology has been made and we’re moving forward together in full support of our Bradley Braves. “I felt it was a sincere apology and I accept it. Let’s move forward. I want to give this community the best coverage possible.” — Dave Reynolds, PJ Star.pic.twitter.com/Tvx0pxpZWI
— Bradley University (@bradleyu)March 18, 2019
Bradley went out of its way in an effort to make peace, as athletics director Chris Reynolds and head coach Brian Wardle each took the microphone and delivered an apology to the Journal Star writer.
“I talked with the team about the last 24 hours,” Wardle told an estimated 1,000 fans assembled. “I made a big mistake. I wanted to look (Dave Reynolds) in the eye and apologize.”
Chris Reynolds said he returned early from his stint on the NCAA Selection Committee because he wanted to apologize and “make things right.” Later, in private, he told Dave Reynolds, “It was a personal sacrifice for me to be here. And that adds value toward my sincerity of how we feel about you. Being here, physically, was something that was important to me.”
Bradley released a picture of Reynolds and Wardle together after the event, and quoted the writer as saying “Go Braves!” Reynolds says he didn’t say that, and the university later corrected the quote on its tweet.
But onward.
“It was very uncomfortable being the subject of something and not just being a reporter,” said Dave Reynolds, who received a standing ovation from the fans on hand, at the urging of Wardle and Chris Reynolds. “I’m satisfied. We met privately before the event today, and the meeting, the apologies were sincere. We discussed the need to move on, to not let this go any further.”
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Edgy Pooch is latest in OTR boutiques
From big to small, Edgy Pooch caters to the city pup.
Edgy Pooch is latest in OTR boutiques From big to small, Edgy Pooch caters to the city pup. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1bDsMAG
bliebing@enquirer.com Published 8:33 p.m. ET March 27, 2015
Reds jerseys for dogs line the walls at Edgy Pooch.(Photo: Courtesy Hennasha Chandler)
Edgy Pooch owner Hennasha Chandler knows of no other similar pet boutiques in OTR.
Edgy Pooch has dog outfits ranging from XS to 6XL. If they don't have it, you'll only wait 2-3 days for a custom order to arrive.
Walk north on the cobblestone block of Elm Street any warm day of the week and if you listen, you'll hear the sounds of life.
Barking dogs. A lot of them.
Look through the leaves and you'll see throngs of dogs – big and small, old mutt to purebred pup – playing their hearts out in the new canine paradise that is Over-the-Rhine's Washington Park.
Edgy Pooch, which opened its doors this past Sunday, is the latest addition to OTR's Main Street boutiques and a sure sign that dog care is no longer a strictly suburban affair.
Owned and operated by Hennasha Chandler, Edgy Pooch pet boutique and "Spaw" sits just south of Liberty. Two stories of apartments, housed behind a brick facade painted Caribbean blue, sit atop the storefront. The picture of a black and white puppy with big eyes and a crown on its head decorate the storefront window.
The idea is to be a one-stop shop for every type of dog, and owner, in Cincinnati. Chandler offers grooming, fur coloring, and Reds jerseys in all sizes, from teacup-poodle small to St. Bernard gigantic. (Technically, sizes run extra small to 6 extra large.)
Chandler says she's been in the business of loving dogs since childhood. "Growing up, my stepdad used to breed dogs. That's where I learned grooming. For me, it was always fun. Ever since I was little, I always loved just seeing little dogs all dressed up."
In 2012, Chandler turned her hobby into a small business, starting a grooming service from her home. Now, three years later, Chandler has opened the doors to a new store on Main and even has a deal with the Cincinnati startup Black Owned – a brand worn by the likes of rappers Rick Ross and Young Jeezy – for an exclusive pet outfit line.
Partnerships aside, Chandler says she wants "this to be a place that really brings people together through grooming, for dogs and cats and all kinds of pets. And for their owners."
Chandler says she is willing to try most anything.
"If you have a wedding and want your dog in the wedding, I can get him a tuxedo, and have it ready in three days," she says. "If you want a fur coloring, we can do that too: paws, tail, and all."
In fact, the day before opening, Chandler got a phone call. "Somebody called and asked if I could groom a hamster," she says, laughing. She says she didn't have to think about it long.
"Yes," she said, "I sure would."
Find Edgy Pooch at: 1344 Main St. in Cincinnati.
Twitter: @Edgypooch | Instagram: Edgypooch_
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I’ve headed up sustainability at AkzoNobel for 14 years now. During that time, I have often been utterly amazed – and disappointed – about how some segments of the corporate world (even in our own industry sector) have gone about adopting and incorporating sustainable business practices.
Too many short-term focused companies fail to understand that sustainability is business and business is sustainability. I’m proud to say that sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at AkzoNobel and this has been further underlined by new goals we have outlined for 2050.
In order to transform our use of resources and make our societal contribution more distinctive, we are charting a path towards zero carbon emissions – across our entire value chain. This will result in radical resource efficiency, zero waste and zero harm from our products, while delivering a positive environmental and social impact. It’s an ambitious step, but we aim to achieve our zero carbon and 100 percent renewable energy targets by 2050.
Some might say it’s a bold ambition, but it’s also an exciting one. We’ve been a leader in sustainability for the past decade and we continue to drive transformational change in our total value chain. We intend to accelerate our move towards zero carbon emissions and provide customers with solutions to help them benefit from effective resource and energy use. It’s precisely by helping our customers to avoid emissions that we’ll be able to achieve our goal of net positive.
It’s in stark contrast to those companies that still launch sustainability programs in the hope that it will make good PR and that they will be financially rewarded for doing good – even when those programs aren’t relevant to their strategy and operations. They fail to grasp the strong link between financial performance and performing well on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. In their view, sustainability comes at a cost.
This is certainly not the approach taken by sustainability leaders. Good leadership is about prioritizing key areas of sustainable development and simultaneously boosting both financial and ESG performance.
Invariably, this involves developing major innovations in products, processes and business models. Because true leadership requires a different mindset. The companies that do lead have chosen to focus on all stakeholders, which means they can identify the issues that generate economic, environmental and social “shared” value. And, rest assured, they fully understand that this will also benefit their shareholders.
At AkzoNobel, sustainability is vital for the future success of our company, our society and the planet. That’s why we’ve adopted a Planet Possible sustainability agenda. It’s a commitment to doing more with less which supports our optimism and conviction that the planet can easily support nine billion people by 2050 – but only if we understand the wide-ranging transformation and new business solutions that will be needed.
We are entirely convinced that embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. And we’ve seen the results to back up that conviction. It’s a strategy and approach which was developed by reviewing the risks and opportunities for sustainable business growth against those global trends that will impact our key market segments by 2050.
Innovation, of course, is playing a vital role. It’s at the beating heart of our activities and is fueling our progress towards a portfolio with a significant percentage of revenue from eco-premium solutions, offering both social and environmental benefits. Recent examples include the work being done by our Decorative Paints business to drive for a market transition towards clean air and water-based products; our public-private partnerships to transform the renewable energy markets; and our ongoing commitment to helping the shipping industry reduce fuel consumption and cut emissions through the use of our Intersleek marine coatings, fuel efficiency technologies (Intertrac) and carbon credits scheme.
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An email was sent to Columbus City Schools teachers from Superintendent Dan Good today, stating that performance-based bonuses that were distributed incorrectly due to administrative data tampering during the 2010-2011 school year would need to be repaid by teachers to the district. The repayment request is expected to be completed by June 2015, and includes former teachers who no longer work for the district.
The full email sent to teachers can be found below:
Dear Columbus City Schools Colleagues:
For many years, Columbus City Schools (CCS) has sponsored a bonus program for school staff commonly called Gainsharing for certificated staff and Performance Based Incentives (PBI) for classified staff. Under those programs, school-based employees, including administrators, teachers and support staff, receive a bonus if their school achieves a level of academic achievement known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The determination of whether a school made AYP was and is made by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and is reflected on the school’s state report card.
In August 2011, ODE issued report cards which showed that several CCS schools had made AYP for the 2010-2011 school year, including Africentric Early College High School, Eastmoor Academy High School, Marion-Franklin High School, Mifflin High School, Whetstone High School, Como Elementary School, Parkmoor Elementary School, West Mound Elementary School, and Westgate Elementary School. Based on the school report cards issued at that time, the District committees awarded Gainsharing and Performance Based Incentive bonuses to employees of those buildings, which generally were paid in November 2011.
Subsequent to those payments being made, student data reported to the state from those and other District schools were questioned by ODE and the report cards for the 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years were watermarked by ODE indicating that they would be subject to further review.
In light of questions about the report cards, the District delayed Gainsharing and Performance Based Incentive decisions for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years until ODE finished its examination of the District’s data. That examination was completed in August 2014. Based on conclusions ODE reached as a result of the review, ODE recalculated report cards of some CCS schools and, among other things, made final decisions about which District schools met AYP during those three years and which did not. The recalculated state report cards changed the AYP measurement for the above-mentioned schools for 2010-2011 from “Met” to “Not Met.”
The reissuance of 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-2013 report cards requires the District to recover Gainsharing and Performance Based Incentive bonuses from certain employees for the 2010-2011 school year and pay gainsharing bonus to employees who worked in schools at which ODE has determined that AYP was achieved for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years. This will be accomplished in two ways:
For current District employees who worked in one of the earlier mentioned schools and received bonus payments for the 2010-2011 school year: You will be personally notified by letter of the amount you owe and given a choice to make repayments through payroll deductions or repay in a lump sum. Payroll deductions will be made on a bi-weekly basis through June 2015.
Former District employees who worked in one of the earlier mentioned schools and received bonus payments for the 2010-2011 school year will be personally notified by letter of the amount owed and given a choice to repay the bonus in a lump sum or on a monthly basis through June 2015.
Current and former employees will receive a letter with more details concerning repayment, by October 20th. A meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 22, 2014, at 4:00 p.m., and will be held at Columbus Downtown High School. District team members will be available to answer questions regarding the gainsharing recovery.
Employees who are entitled to gainsharing, PBI, and PAS bonuses for the 2011-2012, 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years will be paid those bonuses. These are the anticipated dates for payment:
Payment for the 2011-12 school year is expected to be made on November 14, 2014. A separate check will be issued.
Payments for 2013-14 are expected to be made in December 2014. The bonus will be included with a regularly scheduled pay.
SIG bonuses for eligible employees will be calculated after gainsharing and other bonus payments are made.
I appreciate your understanding as the District makes these necessary adjustments. This is a continuation of our effort to ensure the integrity of data reported by our schools which is essential to earning the trust of our students, families, staff and community.
I encourage you to contact your association president should you have any questions.
Dr. Dan Good
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DC Design, a well known name in the field of car designing and customization, has now come-up with its highly ambitious supercar – Avanti – to take its car designing initiative one step ahead. The DC Design Avanti, which was unveiled by one of the most popular Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, is proving a showstopper at the show. The car has created a huge excitement among the car enthusiasts at the auto expo 2012, making it a major attraction at the show.
DC Design’s Avanti supercar receives overwhelming response at auto expo 2012
While elaborating the DC Design’s ambitious car project Avanti, Dilip Chhabria, the guiding tour-de-force at DC Design, said, “The Indian market for high end automobiles is on a steep uphill curve as witnessed year-on-year and our focus is at the top end of this rarified niche. The design is completely our very own as is the engineering and also the production process. Type approval and on-road tests would follow soon and we intend to simultaneously set up an all new facility at Talegaon near Pune to build this vehicle.”
The car will be offered in two engine options including a 265 bhp turbo four cylinder engine that will be sourced from Ford and a 400 hp six cylinder engine sourced from Honda. A six-speed Dual clutch transmission will be offered as standard. The car is expected to be offered with a competitive price tag of Rs 25 lakh.
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PREVIEW: Sky Blues take on Bristol Rovers in FA Cup replay
City looking to progress to FA Cup Fourth Round...
Harrisen Beale
The Sky Blues do battle with Bristol Rovers for the third time this season as both clubs look to progress to the FA Cup fourth round. Here’s everything you need to know about tonight’s opponents.
Fact File-
Name- Bristol Rovers
Founded- 1883
Stadium- Memorial Stadium
Capacity- 12,296 (3000 seated)
Nickname- The Pirates/ The Gas
Address- 33 Filton Avenue, Bristol, BS7 0BF
Pitch Size- 101 x 68 yards.
Season Summary:
Bristol Rovers have had a steady season thus far just past the halfway point and find themselves in 12th position in League One. Before Christmas the Gas found themselves firmly in the play-off picture, but a run of poor results since then has seen them slip down the table slightly.
Rovers haven’t won since their second-round replay triumph over Plymouth, which was the last in an impressive sequence of 11 games without defeat in all competitions.
Rovers have needed replays in both of the previous rounds against Bromley and Plymouth. They have seen their form slip in recent weeks mainly due to a lack of goals, but are still only two points outside of the play-offs in the highly competitive League One table.
Since the first game against the Sky Blues, Bristol Rovers have bolstered their attacking ranks with the additions of wingers Jayden Mitchell-Lawson and former Sky-Blue Josh Barrett.
Bristol come into the fixture with a decent away record this season, winning seven matches on the road in all competitions. However, they were on the losing side in their visit to St Andrews to face Coventry earlier this season. Rovers will be hoping to progress to round four for the first time since the 2007/2008 campaign.
Last Six FA Cup Ties:
2016/2017- First Round. D 1-1 v Crawley (A). First round replay W 4-2 v Crawley (H) (AET)
2016/2017- Second Round L 1-2 v Barrow (H).
2017/2018- First Round L 4-2 v Notts County (A)
2018/2019- First Round D 1-1 v Barnet (A). First round replay L 1-2 v Barnet (H)
2019/2020- First Round D 1-1 v Bromley (H). First round replay W 0-1 v Bromley (A)
2019/2020- Second Round D 1-1 v Plymouth (H). First round replay W 0-1 v Plymouth (A)
Last Time We Met:
The two sides faced off on the 5th January with both clubs aiming to progress to the next round of the FA Cup. The Sky Blues were full of confidence on the back off two emphatic away league victories.
However, a mix-up in the Coventry defence after six minutes led to Bristol Rovers being awarded a penalty, which top scorer Jonson Clarke-Harris duly dispatched. City responded well and were good value for an equaliser when Bristol City loanee Liam Walsh crashed home from outside the area.
Parity was maintained for all of one minute, before a great set piece from Liam Sercombe was headed home by Rovers captain Tony Craig to give the home side the lead going into the break.
In the second half Coventry looked threatening again and equalised when Liam Walsh’s goal-bound chip was helped in by Tony Craig who was now on the scoresheet for both teams. Both teams pushed for a winner late on, and Matt Godden’s late effort was smartly saved by Jordi Van Stappershoef meaning the game would need to be settled by a replay.
Head to Head Record:
Sky Blues Wins - 17
Draws - 11
Bristol Rovers Wins - 17
FA Cup History:
Spending most of their history in the lower reaches of the football league it is unsurprising that Bristol Rovers have never lifted the FA Cup trophy, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t had some memorable moments in the famous cup competition in the past.
Rovers’ best performance in the competition has seen them reach them the quarter-finals on three sperate occasions, including in 2008 as a league one club.
On all three occasions Rovers have bravely lost out to higher league opposition, against Newcastle, Fulham and West Brom respectively. In 2002, Rovers became the first division three club to win an away FA Cup tie against Premier League opposition when they defeated Derby County 3-1 at Pride Park.
On Rovers’ route to the quarter finals in 2008, they saw off Premier League Fulham on penalties after a replay in round three, before defeating Championship side Southampton in Round 5 also.
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