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Osama Bin Laden, seen in an undated photo, attending a meeting with a Kalashnikov on his lap in an undisclosed place.
U.S. troops kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
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[Updated 10:01 p.m. ET] CNN's Chris Lawrence explains, step by step, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden early Monday at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan:
[Updated 9:30 p.m. ET] Addressing a group of congressional leaders at the White House this evening, President Barack Obama said that when Americans learned of Osama bin Laden's death, "I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11."
"We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for and what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics," Obama said. "I want to again recognize the heroes who carried out this incredibly dangerous mission as well as all the military and counterterrorism professionals who made the mission possible.”
THE OPERATION: Attack details | Timeline | In plain sight | The compound
THE REACTION: U.S. | World | Middle East | Healing wounds | Your thoughts
THE MAN: Bin Laden, over the years | Face of terror | Ideology lives on| His life
THE SECURITY ISSUES: What's next for al Qaeda | A deathblow to al Qaeda?
THE POLITICS: A victory for Obama, U.S. | Re-election impact?
THE ANNOUNCEMENT: Obama: Justice done | Watch | Transcript
THE PAKISTANIS: What did Pakistan know? | Pakistan's role?
[Updated 9:10 p.m. ET] A senior U.S. official says that the woman who has killed during the raid on the compound where Osama bin Laden was found was not a wife of bin Laden, and that she may not have been used as a human shield as previously reported. A wife was there, according to an official, but not killed.
Earlier Monday, John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told reporters that it was his understanding that the woman who was killed was one of bin Laden's wives. Other officials had said that the woman who died was used as a human shield in an attempt to protect bin Laden.
[Updated 8:48 p.m. ET] Time magazine contributor Omar Waraich says he spoke to Sohaib Athar, an Abbottabad resident and software engineer who unknowingly reported, on Twitter, details of Monday morning's raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Athar had written on Twitter that, among other things, he was hearing a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad.
"When he found out (the commotion was because of) Osama bin Laden, he said to me it was quite ironic," Waraich told CNN's John King. "He said he had left his native city of Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan, for the quiet of Abbottabad so he could escape suicide bombings and the sounds of explosions rattling his home and frightening himself and his wife. And he said the ultimate irony was that (in) this quiet place he'd moved to, he had found Osama bin Laden as a neighbor.”
[Updated 8:27 p.m. ET] A Time magazine contributor says people with whom he spoke in Abbottabad - the Pakistani city where Osama bin Laden was found and killed early Monday - seemed surprised at the news that the al Qaeda leader had been there.
"When they found out that it was Osama bin Laden in (the compound), expressions just ranged from varying degrees of incredulity," Time contributor Omar Waraich told CNN's John King.
Waraich said people he spoke to in Abbottabad seemed neither ecstatic nor saddened that United States forces had killed bin Laden.
"In fact, Osama bin Laden seemed a bit of a mystery to them throughout the time that they’ve heard of him. They had heard, they said, that he was in Pakistan, but they didn't imagine where, and certainly if they thought he would be in Pakistan, he would be in the tribal areas, some distance away from them," Waraich said.
[Updated 7:28 p.m. ET] More details about Monday morning's raid that killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to a U.S. official: Four helicopters were involved in the operation, but not all were on the ground.
About two dozen commandos were involved in the operation on the ground, the U.S. official said.
Officials don't know how long bin Laden was at the compound, which was completed in 2005, but they believe it was built especially for him, the U.S. official said. The U.S. intelligence community never saw bin Laden in or around the compound before the raid, according to the official.
[Updated 7:15 p.m. ET] U.S. forces shot Osama bin Laden first in the chest, and then in the head during Monday morning's raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a senior U.S. administration official said, according to CNN's Ed Henry. Previously, CNN had reported that bin Laden was shot only in the head.
[Updated 7:12 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama will travel to New York City on Thursday to visit the site of the former World Trade Center and meet with families of those who died in the September 11 attacks, a senior White House official said.
[Updated 6:02 p.m. ET] A U.S. official said multiple options were considered before settling on the assault that killed Osama bin Laden early Monday at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"A bombing would not have risked American lives but it might have left questions" as to whether bin Laden was killed, the official said. National security officials widely agreed "the best option is the one that gives proof," the official said.
A U.S. official says the United States' codename for bin Laden was "Geronimo." [Edit, 8:55 p.m. ET]: A senior administration official said later that "Geronimo" was code for the act of capturing or killing bin Laden, not the man himself.
[Updated 5:54 p.m. ET] The United Nations Security Council "welcomes the news on May 1, 2011, that Osama bin Laden will never again be able to perpetrate ... acts of terrorism, and reaffirms that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or group," the Security Council's current president, French ambassador Gerard Araud, said during a council session in New York on Monday.
"The Security Council recognizes this critical development and other accomplishments made in the fight against terrorism and urges all states to remain vigilant and intensify their efforts in the fight against terrorism," Araud said.
[Updated 5:35 p.m. ET] More from this afternoon's media briefing by John Brennan, President Barack Obama's adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism: When asked whether the U.S. forces who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden picked up any documentation in the compound, Brennan said the Americans took time to "acquire whatever material we thought was appropriate and what was needed."
"We are in the process right now of looking at whatever might have been picked up," Brennan said. "But I'm not going to go into details about what might have been acquired. We feel as though this is a very important time to continue to prosecute this effort against al Qaeda, take advantage of the success of yesterday, and to continue to work to break the back of al Qaeda."
[Updated 4:38 p.m. ET] U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Monday afternoon that news of Osama bin Laden's death "unified our country in much the same way" that the September 11 attacks did.
"Our fight for freedom and liberty around the globe continues. We face a complex and dangerous threat even today. It’s important that we remain vigiliant in our efforts to defeat terrorist enemies and to protect the American people. This makes our engagements in Pakistan and Afghanistan more important, not less," Boehner said.
"I want to congratulate and thank the hard-working men and women of the United States armed services," Boehner added. "I want to thank all of those involved in the intelligence community for their tireless efforts and perseverance that led to this successful evening. I also want to commend President Obama and President Bush for all their efforts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice."
[Updated 4:10 p.m. ET] The United States expects that a recording from Osama bin Laden - made before he was killed, with the intention that his supporters would distribute it upon his death - will be released, a U.S. official has told CNN.
[Updated 3:34 p.m. ET] John Brennan, President Barack Obama's adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, says it's his understanding that a woman who was used as a human shield in an attempt to protect Osama bin Laden was one of bin Laden's wives.
Officials have said that a woman who was used as a shield by a male combatant was one of four people besides bin Laden who were killed during U.S. forces' assault on a compound early Monday in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Brennan said it is his understanding that the woman was one of bin Laden's wives, and that she "reportedly was used as a shield to shield bin Laden from the incoming fire."
[Updated 3:16 p.m. ET] Will anyone get the up to $25 million bounty that the United States had put on Osama bin Laden? CNNMoney's Ben Rooney looks into it.
[Updated 2:38 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday that the elimination of Osama bin Laden is "a strategic blow" to al Qaeda.
"It is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient blow to lead to its demise," said John Brennan, Obama's adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism.
[Updated 2:33 p.m. ET] President Obama and his top intelligence and military officials were able to monitor in a "real-time basis" the progress of the operation on Osama bin Laden's compound, the president's top counterterrorism adviser said.
"It was probably one of the most anxiety filled periods of time I think in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. The minutes passed like days and the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel," John Brennan said. "That is what was on his mind throughout and we wanted to make sure that we would get through this and accomplish the mission. But it was clearly very tense. A lot of people holding their breath."
Brennan said "there was a tremendous sigh of relief" when they believed bin Laden was in fact at the compound.
[Updated 2:30 p.m. ET] A woman shielded Osama bin Laden from gunfire during the assault by U.S. forces, President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday.
"There was a female who was in fact in the line of fire that reportedly was used as a shield to shield bin Laden from the incoming fire," said John Brennan, Obama's adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism.
Brennan said it was his understanding that bin Laden picked up a weapon and was killed in the firefight with the U.S. forces carrying out the assault.
"He was engaged in a firefight," Brennan said of bin Laden. "Whether or not he got off any rounds, I don't know."
[Updated 2:21 p.m. ET] The decision by President Barack Obama to launch the assault that killed Osama bin Laden was one of the "gutsiest" calls by any president in recent memory, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday.
John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said that despite intelligence indicating that bin Laden was in the compound in Pakistan, there was no certainty the al Qaeda leader was actually there.
Obama "made what I believe was one of the ... gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory," Brennan said.
[Updated 2:08 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Monday that it was "inconceivable" that Osama bin Laden did not have some kind of support system in Pakistan that allowed him to live in hiding there.
John Brennan, the president's assistant on homeland security and counterterrorism, refused to speculate on what kind of support bin Laden might have received, or whether the Pakistani government or official Pakistani institutions had any role.
[Updated 1:39 p.m. ET] Officials compared DNA of the person killed at the Abbottabad compound with bin Laden "family DNA" to determine that the 9/11 mastermind had in fact been killed, a senior administration official said.
Four others in the compound also were killed. One of them was bin Laden's adult son, and another was a woman being used as a shield by a male combatant, officials said.
[Updated 12:39 p.m. ET] The compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces is located a bit more than 1,000 yards from a Pakistan Military Academy, raising some questions about how much information the Pakistan military may have had about his whereabouts.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, said during a press conference that the Pakistani army has "a lot of explaining to do."
[Updated 12:27 p.m. ET] Senior defense officials said that for a majority of the 40 minute operation at the Abbottobad compound, special forces were involved in a firefight - clearing their way through two other floors before they reached Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden was not killed until the last five to ten minutes of the firefight, officials said.
Bin Laden and his family lived on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the 3-story building, and those floors were cleared last, the official said. The official says one of bin Laden’s own wives identified his body to U.S. forces, after the team made visual identification themselves.
U.S. forces also recovered what a senior Intelligence official is calling “quite a bit of material.”
“There’s a robust collection of materials we need to sift through, and we hope to find valuable intelligence that will lead us to other players in al Qaeda," a senior intelligence official said.
The official added a Task Force has been set up “because of the sheer volume of material collected. That material is currently being exploited and analyzed.”
[Updated 12:25 p.m. ET] A soldier in a special forces unit based in Georgia told CNN on Monday that while the news of Osama bin Laden’s death is cause for celebration, elite military units have sprang into high alert.
“A lot of guys got their security clearances elevated due to what happened last night,” said Lamont, who didn’t give his last name because of what he said were security reasons. “I lot of people got called back” overseas, he said, adding that his unit already was scheduled for deployment as early as two weeks ago.
[Updated 12:22 p.m. ET] Osama bin Laden's body was buried at sea according to Islamic law because no country was willing or able to take his body for burial on land, senior Defense officials said.
"When there is no land alternative, Islamic law dictates that the body be buried within 24 hours, and that was the basis," one official said. "
A second senior Defense official said there was no country willing or able to accept the body for burial, and U.S. forces "took pains to observe Muslim law."
"Today's religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian sea. The ceremony started at 1:10am and finished at 2:10am ET," the second official said. "Procedures for Islamic body were followed. The body was washed and placed in a white sheet. A military official read prepared remarks, which were then translated into Arabic by a native speaker. The body of Osama bin Laden was placed on a flat board, which was then tipped up, and allowed to slide into the sea."
[Updated 12:16 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama said Monday that he thinks "we can all agree this is a good day for America."
"Our country kept its commitment to see that justice is done," he said. The world, he said, is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.
The successful operation to kill bin Laden reminds Americans that there is "nothing we can't do" when we work together, he said. That spirit, he said, is seen in the patriotic crowds that have gathered across the country.
"We're reminded that we're fortunate to have Americans who have dedicated their lives to protecting ours," he said. "As commander-in-chief, I could not be prouder."
[Updated 11:16 am. ET] A DNA match confirms Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. operation, a senior administration official told CNN Monday.
[Updated 11:09 am. ET] As the assault on bin Laden's compound commenced, the United States had a number of U.S. aircraft flying protective missions, according to a senior U.S. military official. None of the aircraft entered Pakistani airspace but they were prepared to do so if needed, the official told CNN.
These included fixed wing fighter jets that would have provided firepower if the team came under opposition fire it could not handle. There were also armed and unarmed Predator drones providing additional firepower as well as surveillance. The Air Force also had a full team of combat search and rescue helicopters including MH-53 Pave Low and HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters flying.
[Updated at 11:07 a.m.] Pakistanis passed along raw phone-tap data to the United States that eventually led to Osama bin Laden's killing, but they failed to analyze or interpret the information themselves, a Pakistani intelligence official told CNN.
The details of what Pakistanis did or didn't know or do about the daring American operation to kill bin Laden - from intelligence gathering to the execution of the raid - remained unclear Monday.
But the intelligence official said that information about bin Laden and the people in the compound where he stayed "slipped from" Pakistan's "radar" over the months.
The intelligence official said Pakistan regularly passed along intelligence of interest to Americans.
The official did not say over what period the data was collected, but noted that from September the United States "was concentrating on this."
He added that much of the focus was on a courier coming and going to the compound. He did not give the courier's nationality or name.
Osama bin Laden was not in contact with other militant networks while he was there and maintained "an invisible footprint," the official said.
Of the raid, he said, "I think they came in undetected and went out the same day."
He added Pakistan officials do not think there were any U.S. intelligence personnel on the ground ahead of the special operations forces.
[Updated 10:55 a.m. ET] A U.S. official disputed reports that bin Laden had altered his appearance to avoid recognition.
The official said Bin Laden was recognizable on scene. He was "not transformed somehow."
A visual ID was made, there were photo comparisons and other facial recognition used to identify him, the official said. A second official said that in addition to DNA there was full biometric analysis of facial and body features.
[Updated 10:50 a.m. ET] There was no indication bin Laden was going to surrender when the U.S. launched its operation, a U.S. official said.
"There was no evidence they tried to surrender," the official told CNN. “The order going in was to get UBL (Osama bin Laden)”
“All of the contingency planning was that we would encounter heavy resistance," the U.S. official said. "That is what we expected and what happened. Obviously if everybody had put there hands up and surrendered we would have taken them but that did not happen and we did not expect it.”
That assumption bore itself out, the official said.
“We encountered resistance upon entering the compound," CNN was told.
A second U.S. official says the president's order was always to capture or kill bin Laden. The second official said the assumption all along was there would be no surrender by the al Qaeda leader.
The official said that the mission was originally supposed to happen on Saturday, but would not discuss why it was delayed until Sunday.
[Updated 9:56 a.m. ET] Posters to some of the radical websites that bin Laden's terrorist network used to speak to the world celebrated him as a martyr and vowed the group will continue despite its leader's death.
"Congratulations for dying as a martyr and a fighter in the sake of Allah," one poster wrote.
"We won't cry today, but we will revenge. Men and women in America will cry." another post read, echoing warnings from Western leaders that the terrorist network will almost certainly move to avenge bin Laden's death.
The sites, frequented by radical Islamists who subscribed to bin Laden's philosophies, have played a significant role in attracting and radicalizing potential terror recruits and the broader radical Islamist community and have been frequently used by al Qaeda and its affiliates to broadcast statements.
Many of the posters reacting to bin Laden's death referred to him as a "shaheed," or martyr. One was headlined "The Lion of Jihad was killed in a fierce battle."
[Updated 9:56 a.m. ET] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that the death of Osama bin Laden sends a message to the Taliban in Afghanistan that "you cannot wait us out. You cannot defeat us. But you can make the choice to abandon al Qaeda" and participate in a peaceful political process.
Bin Laden's death comes at a time of "great movements toward freedom and democracy" in the Middle East and elsewhere, she said.
"There is no better rebuke to al Qaeda and its heinous ideology," she said. "The fight continues and we will never waiver."
Some doubted bin Laden would ever be caught, she said, but "this is America. ... We persevere, and we get the job done."
[Updated 9:45 a.m. ET] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that "Osama bin Laden is dead and justice has been done."
"I want to offer my thoughts and prayers" to families of those killed due to bin Laden's campaign of terror, she said.
His attacks showed "no value for human life or regard for human dignity," she said. But now "justice has been served."
Clinton offered thanks to military, diplomatic, and security officials who launched "broad, deep, very impressive effort" to hunt down bin Laden as part of the anti-terror campaign.
"We must take this opportunity to renew our resolve and redouble our effort" in Afghanistan and elsewhere, she said.
[Updated 9:19 a.m. ET] Terrorists "almost certainly will attempt to avenge" the death of Osama bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a message sent to agency employees.
[Updated 8:52 a.m. ET] The operation targeting Osama bin Laden was designed and executed as an operation to kill him, rather than to take him alive, a U.S. government official tells CNN.
[Updated 8:40 a.m. ET] Pakistan's ambassador to the United States said both countries "cooperated in making sure" that the operation leading to Osama bin Laden's death was "successful." Husain Haqqani told CNN's "American Morning" that President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president to thank him for Pakistan's cooperation.
[Updated, 8:12 a.m. ET] The operation that led to Osama bin Laden's death was American action, a Pakistani official told CNN. "We assisted only in terms of authorization of the helicopter flights in our airspace," said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak about the issue. "In any event, we did not want anything to do with such an operation in case something went wrong," the official said.
[Updated, 7:30 a.m. ET] A U.S. government official tells CNN that DNA matching is underway on the samples from the body of Osama bin Laden. The matching has not been completed, but there are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual that is not unrecognizable as bin Laden.
No decision has yet been made on whether to release the photographs and if so, when and how.
[Updated, 5:38 a.m. ET] For much of the world, Osama bin Laden was the face of al Qaeda. He was, after all, the man who oversaw the September 11, 2001, attacks.
With bin Laden gone, the question now becomes "What happens to al Qaeda?"
Within hours of bin Laden's death, questions began to emerge about who would take the helm of the organization and whether it would create an opportunity for other Islamic organizations to step up.
"Al Qaeda is weakened. But it doesn't mean that the United States has no challenges," Steven L. Spiegel, director for Middle East development at the University of California Los Angeles, said early Monday.
[Updated, 5:22 a.m. ET] Diana Massaroli, whose husband Michael was killed on September 11, 2001 when a jet plane slammed into the World Trade Center, said the death of bin Laden helped give her closure.
"I'm missing him, but I feel that justice has been done," she said at ground zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood, holding a picture of Michael.
"I feel some overall calm that I haven't felt in 10 years. I never thought it would happen... never thought it would give me a feeling of closure," she said.
But, she added, "I feel better... like I can start a new chapter in my life."
[Updated, 3:36 a.m. ET] Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday he hopes the world believes that his country is "not the place of terrorism," hours after the United States announced that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in neighboring Pakistan.
"If the international troops are the true allies of Afghans, now they should come up to say that killing of the Afghans, women, children and elders was not a good idea in the last many years as it was happening on a daily basis," Karzai said on RTA TV.
[Updated, 3:12 a.m. ET] A U.S. official said that Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. The official said his body was handled in the Islamic tradition, but did not elaborate.
[Updated, 2:31 a.m. ET] U.S. officials said they used facial imaging and other methods to identify the body of Osama bin Laden.
One official said it was clear to the assault force that the body matched bin Laden's description, but they used "facial recognition work, amongst other things, to confirm the identity."
A senior national security official said that they had multiple confirmations that the body was bin Laden, saying they had the "ability to run images of the body and the face."
The national security official would not confirm if DNA testing was performed.
[Updated, 2:15 a.m. ET] The leader of an Afghanistan opposition party on Monday said the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden proves that Pakistan is a "haven" for terror groups.
U.S. forces killed bin Laden in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
"Killing of Osama bin Laden is pleasant news for Afghans, and now it's proven that al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are not based in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a haven for them," said Abdullah Abdullah, the leader of the Hope and Change political party in Afghanistan.
[Updated, 1:56 a.m. ET] The United States' Department of Homeland Security did not immediately raise the terror-threat level in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, a department official told CNN early Monday.
"We remain at a heightened state of vigilance. Secretary (Janet) Napolitano has been clear since announcing the NTAS (National Terrorism Advisory System) in January that we will only issue alerts when we have specific or credible information to convey to the American public," the official said.
[Updated, 1:42 a.m. ET] Former President George W. Bush said of the death of Osama bin Laden: "This momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."
[Updated, 1:36 a.m. ET] As news of bin Laden's death reached people via cell phones late Sunday, thousands of fans at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game chanted "USA! USA!" in the ninth inning of a Phillies-Mets game.
[Updated, 1:26 a.m. ET] A congressional source familiar with the operation that killed Osama bin Laden confirmed that the terror mastermind was shot in the head during the U.S. raid, according to a briefing the source received, CNN's Dana Bash reports.
The source would not go into details of others who were killed, except to say the operation was conducted carefully to avoid harming women and children.
Asked if there is any intelligence that shows whether bin Laden's death could trigger pre-planned attacks, the source said no, but added there is obvious concern about retaliation.
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[Updated, 1:14 a.m. ET] Video from Pakistan's Geo TV is showing a fire at what apparently is the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound where U.S. President Barack Obama said a "small team of Americans" launched a firefight Sunday that resulted in Osama bin Laden's death.
Here is the video:
[Updated, 1:08 a.m. ET] Crowds continue to celebrate Osama bin Laden's death at the site of the former World Trade Center in New York and outside the White House in Washington.
One of the celebrants in New York, retired New York City police officer Bob Gibson, said he knew people who died in the September 11 attacks.
"I never thought this night would come, where we would actually capture or kill bin Laden, and thank the lord, he's been eliminated, to put it politely," Gibson told CNN's Jason Carroll. "A lot of us .. gave up. But it did come, and a lot of us are overjoyed that it happened."
[Updated, 12:54 a.m. ET] CNN's Chris Lawrence, citing U.S. officials, reports that the compound where bin Laden was found - in Abbotabad, Pakistan, about 100 kilometers outside Pakistan's capital of Islamabad - was three stories tall, and about eight times larger than any of the buildings around it.
An official said a "small U.S. team" was involved in the operation at the compound - the official would not confirm any U.S. military involvement. An official said bin Laden resisted the assault - and was killed in the firefight.
Three other men were killed in the firefight, and a woman being used as a human shield was also killed, the officials said. There were no U.S. casualties, the officials said. The U.S. team was at the compound for about 40 minutes, officials said.
A U.S. helicopter crashed during the raid because of mechanical reasons, an official said. It was destroyed, the officials said.
[Updated, 12:54 a.m. ET] A senior administration official told reporters that U.S. President Barack Obama's administration did not share intelligence gathered before the attack on bin Laden in Pakistan with any other country - including Pakistan - for security reasons.
The official said that only a small group of people inside the U.S. government knew about this operation targeting Osama bin Laden in advance.
[Updated, 12:44 a.m. ET] Many hundreds of people have gathered at the former World Trade Center site in New York City, cheering news of Osama bin Laden's death.
Chants of "USA! USA!" are coming from the crowd.
"It's just the most out-of body experience to feel so involved in history, this such a historic moment for our country right now," a woman told CNN's Jason Carroll.
[Updated, 12:35 a.m. ET] The U.S. State Department warned Americans living abroad of "enhanced potential for anti-American violence" following the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. The announcement was made in a worldwide travel alert issued early Monday.
[Updated, 12:24 a.m. ET] A team of U.S. Navy SEALs carried out the operation in Pakistan that ended in the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported. The operation lasted about 40 minutes, and the team had practiced the raid a few times.
Earlier, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, citing a senior Pakistani intelligence official, reported that members of Pakistan's intelligence service - the ISI - were on site in Abbotabad, Pakistan, during the operation that killed bin Laden. The official said he did not know who fired the shot that actually killed Bin Laden.
[Updated, 12:11 a.m. ET] Members of Pakistan's intelligence service - the ISI - were on site in Abbotabad, Pakistan, during the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports, citing a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The official said he did not know who fired the shot that actually killed Bin Laden.
[Updated, 12:06 a.m. ET] The crowd celebrating bin Laden's death outside the White House has grown significantly. Lots of cheering and waving of the U.S. flag.
Here is video of the crowd:
[Updated, 11:59 p.m. ET] More detail on where Osama bin Laden was killed: Forces killed him at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after a firefight, U.S. President Barack Obama said.
Cooperation with Pakistan helped lead U.S. forces to Osama bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding, President Barack Obama said.
Obama said he ordered the attack after he decided last week that the United States had actionable intelligence that bin Laden was in the compound.
[Updated, 11:56 p.m. ET] U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world were placed on high alert following the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, a senior U.S. official said. The U.S. State Department should be sending out a new "worldwide caution" for Americans shortly.
[Updated, 11:44 p.m. ET] Bin Laden was killed in a military operation in Pakistan that U.S. President Barack Obama ordered today, Obama said.
Obama said he was told last August that the United States had developed a possible lead on bin Laden - intelligence on bin Laden hiding in a compound in Pakistan. Obama said he determined last week that the United States had actionable intelligence.
"Today at my direction, the United States directed a targeted operation against that compound," Obama said.
Bin Laden was killed after a firefight, and forces took custody of his body, the president said. No Americans were harmed, Obama said.
[Updated, 11:36 p.m. ET] U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead.
"Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that has killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda," Obama said.
[Updated, 11:33 p.m. ET] Osama bin Laden was killed by a "U.S. military asset," according to a senior U.S. official.
Earlier, a senior U.S. official says bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to address the nation shortly.
[Updated, 11:20 p.m. ET] A crowd that has gathered outside the White House is singing the national anthem, within an hour after reports that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed.
The group also chanted, "USA! USA!" and "Hey, hey, goodbye!" in reference to bin Laden.
A senior U.S. official says bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.
[Updated, 11:15 p.m. ET] Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official tells CNN.
Congressional and administration sources say U.S. officials have the body of bin Laden. Further details around his death were not immediately available.
Bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda, the terrorist network behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
[Updated, 10:55 p.m. ET] A woman whose mother was killed on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11 expressed "relief" over reports that Osama bin Laden is dead.
In an e-mail to CNN, Carrie Lemack said: "Cannot express how this feels to my family, but relief is one word. We hope we can now focus on all that that madman took, namely nearly 3,000 + innocent victims, and not on him."
[Updated, 10:55 p.m. ET] Osama bin Laden is dead, sources told CNN Sunday night.
Congressional and administration sources say U.S. officials have the body of bin Laden, who was reportedly killed in Afghanistan. The details about his death were not immediately available.
[Updated, 10:45 p.m. ET] Osama bin Laden is dead, CNN's John King reported Sunday night, citing sources.
[Initial post, 10:09 p.m. ET] U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to make a statement Sunday night, tentatively at 10:30 p.m., the White House said. The subject of his address was not known.
Obama is expected to address national security in his speech, a source said.
Post by: CNN news blog editor Mallory Simon, CNN's Doug Criss, CNN's Jason Hanna, The CNN Wire
Filed under: Al Qaeda • Barack Obama • Osama bin Laden • September 11 • Terrorism
This should be Al Qeada's kristallnacht! When you cut off the head you leave a large trail. I am suprised that more hasn't happened. Fear of reprisals? Enough.
May 2, 2011 at 11:54 am | Report abuse |
"The Lion of Jihad was killed in a fierce battle." -Ha! he was hiding behind a woman!
Mmmm....Obama's numbers for reelection are in the shi****....hey look, there's Osama Bin Laden! Just sayin'....
You people are pathetic. Does anyone else with half a brain smell a rat? The name of the game from OUR Government is distraction – plain and simple. The "President" has ratings in the crapper, gas prices are through the roof, our counrty is in the toilet and what do you know? All of a sudden after 10 years OBL is dead. How ironic – and covenient. I hope it's not too late when all of you realize that our goverment counts on us to be sheep – and that's exactly what is shown to me here – that you all will believe anything told to you. I would love nothing more than terrorism to dry up and go away, but that is never going to happen. If anything, while the sadly mistaken who think this is some kind of victory, believe that the organization OBL created is hard at work planning another attack against us. WAKE UP!!!
Here Here ... they count on us to be BRAIN DEAD sheep at that .... pathetic is puttin it ... POLITLEY ....
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damawn82
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html – Osama died years ago.
BenPetty
I was only 8 years old when 9/11 occured, I had relitives in NY at that time and was scared about the effect that might have had on them. Well done to those who captured and killed him, but America, we still need to be cautious... he could have made a bigger plan to respond to his death. Be careful on March 10th, thats Bin Laden's Birthday so be careful...
FloBot
Perhaps this is why Will and Kate - excuse me Prince William and Lady Catherine - have delayed their honeymoon. They were tipped that UBL was gonna get it and they didn't want to be anywhere near any rabble. America, are you really buying this story? Watch "Wag The Dog" again pleeeeeaaaaasssse!
they dumped the body at sea because there was no body to begin with... no validity will ever come of this...
butch2u
It wouldn't matter what proof they had on his death, some people won't believe no matter what.
Econ 101- money chases commodity, Obama didn't cause the gas increase – greed did.
And finally, who cares about grammatically correct sentences. This isn't English class!!!
SHARK BAIT, lol!
mikehunt
why did they kill him and not arrest him? sounds like a big cover up to prevent unanswered questions from getting answered
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I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A VIDEO OF HIS DEATH AND VIDEO OF HIM BIENG CUT INTO PIECES AND THROWN TO THE SHARKS PLEASE
Hard to face Mec ca when you're spinning around on the ocean floor! Beautiful!
WHO KNOWS WHO'S BODY WAS THAT LOL
TheCannon
They say they have pictures so we can see it was him. I am from Missouri!! SHOW ME!! Where is the proof. Media can say what the government let's them say.
Well I must say it was great to hear this news even though death is bad no matter what way you put it. I think this is a new beginning of peace until a new leader of terrorist takes his role. Can we really think we are safe. We hear how organized his evil mind is. If he would be captured he would kill himself or have a body gaurd shoot him. Dont you think he would have someone carry out his mission? Makes you think that when or if someone takes his mission on that they may be worst or use his name to motivate his people more aggressively.
What does this all mean? I could ramble more as to where we stand in the future but we as people must think and look at ourselves as to what we are fighting for? We got oil issues and and price of gas goes up and up, starving people and money spent so unwisely. Our governments US and Canada are motivated how? So when people ask "what does this mean to me" I'll say "another tomorrow will come after sunset of his death come and gone May 1, 2011"
acidtongue
I agree – we need to see a video of the actual death and burial. He had look-alikes and the way his father had kids (hundreds of them), the look alike could be his brother and the DNA will match.
Death to Talibans
Death to Mullah Omar, the leader of Talibans. He is living in save heavens in pakistan. The USA must kill him as well.
Let the joyful news be spread, at last the wicked ol witch is dead!
(Unless your a birther teabilly and then the whole world is round and not flat is also a lie)
York Hunt
Yeah. Arrest him and get him makin' license plates. Put America back to work.
woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont care why they didnt just arrest him instead of killing him. I can remember that day as clear as can be, it's burned into my memories. Justice was served, and thats all I care about.
edifed
WHAT A GREAT LIE BY AMERICAN PRESIDENT & ADMINISTRATION
WATCH THIS VIDEO IF U HAVE LITTLE BIT MIND U WILL GET THE ANSWER FROM IT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsBVahA7IM&feature=player_embedded
mapleleafman
Farce. Its just a ploy to get Obama elected again. Cause he knows he is done. Where is the evidence? It's just a theory until it can be PROVEN.
How convenient that OSAMA happen to be in an OPEN space for the US.....The whole thing SMELLS like re-election..
Great decision and action by our troops. Burying in sea was the best option. At least we will not see a grave being built and terrorists visiting it to pay tribute. On saracstic remarks they could build a grave next to ISI military acadamy of Pakistan, Just 100 meters away from where he was killed. Look across the world where all these graves lead to building of monument and kiliing people under the name of occupation. Cheers to our country and allies. We are proud of our country, our strategies and operations..
LIke everone else, I'm happy that justice has been served, at least for the 3,000+ folks who lost their lives on 9/11/01. Thta being said, some of the "jubilation" videos posted on this website are disturbing. This should be an opportunity to solemnly remember all those who lost their lives on that day; not celebrate like a bunch of drunken college students at a football game. Completely classless.
You are so stupid, the government make you belive that Osama Bin Laden is personification of Evil and now You are so happy. You are acting like you've won all wars and tomorow start new better World. America fight for petrol not for peace and is ready to to sacrifice their citizens. Day after day will die yours sons and daughters in yours new wars, America need petrol, America need money. Sorry for my english
Please guys, let's not blame pakistan for this. you have to understand, we are a poor country, law and order here is terrible. so its much easier for someone like osama to be able to hide here. but our govt or people would never harbor osama. we have suffered more casualties than any other country and will likely face the brunt of Al Qaeda's revenge too.
StenchTrench
Osama been hidin is like santa claus to you people
Best Comment ever !!!
Death to criminals
Now Mullah Omar, the leader of Talibans are living in save heavens in pakistan. The USA must kill him as well.
conoclast
Blame Pakistan? Sure you're poor and splintered and mis-governed - but you have sufficient sophistication to posses nukes and that puts you in elite company and carries a certain higher responsibility. Now start behaving like the international grownups you purport to be!
Paki Gov is responsible for harboring terrorist. Musharaff (ex pres.) used to fund ( american dollar) to these terrorist org. to lunch attack against India and leave Pakistan in peace. They did that and GDP was above average tht time. When US got the bitter test of funding other nations to fight against each other when 9/11 occured, they kicked Taliban/Iraq/AFG/Pakis butt to root out the terrorist. When Paki attacked Mumbai/India two years ago, pressure on PAKI got intensified and PAK increased attck on terrrorists and this lead to the current stage. Period.
Bossy200
THAT MAN IS NOT DEAD THEY TRYING TO FOOL EVERYBODY LIKE THEY DID BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!
BOSSY YOU ARE ALMOST RIGHT. BIN LADEN HAS BEEN DEAD FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS AND THE GOVERNMENT KNEW, BUT BUSH NEEDED HIM TO BE AROUND FOR THE VARIOUS WARS. NOW OBAMA NEEDED HIS DEATH FOR THE ELECTIONS. BURIED IN THE SEA???? WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT? NEVER HEARD IN THE ISLAM WORLD. AMERICANS WAKE UP!!!!
Right. He's with Elvis.
roho94
Dude, are you serious? The evidence is right there! You see the compound, you see the wreckage. What's coming next? the certificate. Just you wait.
donutman
yeah Bossy, he's alive and well on the bottom of the ocean....he said to say hi
It is me Osama, I chilling at friend house watching South Park and eating Hot Pockets
Midwest wonderer
He was just seen at the Seven Eleven with Elvis!
(Bossy200 – You are such an fffing idiot!!!!)
I agree with Pat..Another ploy to make us feel a sense of security as he looks good for this. And the call to Bush was too much.
Let me guess Bossy, you want to see the long form death certificate, right?
I don't see your brain inside your head, so I'm assuming you don't have one. Stop covering it up!
Hey leave me out of this!!!!!!!!
Hey dont forget about me herhhee
"....Would somebody make sure to foward the death ceritficate to Mister trump asap.....Hate to see the man left in the dark again..."
Best post evar.
NO PICS, HE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS, WAKE UP GUYS!
Happy Canuck
Furthermore...could we make sure it's THE LONG FORM...
GoChiefs
lol osama be mad
sherrie allen
PRAISE ALLAH!!!
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Background on the Research Integrity Review
NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC (the agencies), along with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), remain committed to improving the policy framework for research and scholarly integrity, and financial accountability. The report on the review of the integrity policy framework was prepared by NSERC, SSHRC and AUCC for the Minister of Industry and made public in October 2009. CIHR provided input on the draft report and has been participating in the development and implementation of a related action plan. The report concluded that the overall approach to research integrity was sound and identified four key action areas to strengthen the policy framework:
clarify the Agencies’ role regarding integrity;
update and strengthen the current research and scholarly integrity policy in order to ensure that it reflects the highest standards of integrity and provides increased clarity of terms, roles and responsibilities1;
improve the effectiveness of its implementation and increase transparency; and
update and strengthen the current Financial Policy in order to ensure that it reflects the highest standards of accountability and provides increased clarity of terms, roles and responsibilities1.
This update is the second in a series of periodic updates on work being done to address these key action areas. In this update, the membership of the new Research Integrity Advisory Group (RIAG) is presented (see below).
Actions Taken to Strengthen Research Integrity
1. Clarify the Agencies’ role regarding integrity.
The report to the Minister of Industry on the integrity policy framework, the overview document and the February 2010 update provide detailed clarification of the Agencies’ current role regarding integrity. During the past year, the Agencies have provided clarifications of their roles in presentations on the policy framework made to the Canadian Research Integrity Committee (CRIC), the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR), and the Canadian Association of University Research Administrators (CAURA).
As part of the process of revising the integrity policy framework, the Agencies will review their roles to determine if any changes are needed.
2. and 41. Update and strengthen the current research and scholarly integrity policy in order to ensure that it reflects the highest standards of integrity and provides increased clarity of terms, roles and responsibilities. Update and strengthen the current Financial Policy in order to ensure that it reflects the highest standards of accountability and provides increased clarity of terms, roles and responsibilities.
The Agencies are moving ahead with the revision of the Tri-Agency Policy Statement: Integrity in Research and Scholarship (January 1994) and the financial policy.
The Agencies are pleased to announce that the Research Integrity Advisory Group (RIAG) has been established, and are making the membership of the RIAG publicly available. The RIAG's Terms of Reference will be made public in late October. The RIAG will help guide the development of the new policy framework for integrity and financial accountability by providing guidance and advice to the Agencies on recommended improvements. The Agencies would like to thank the RIAG members for agreeing to contribute to this important initiative.
The Agencies have engaged Tijs Creutzberg, Principal, Hickling Arthurs and Low, to support this project.
3. Improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the Policy and increase its transparency, in order to ensure that all relevant cases are dealt with effectively and that relevant stakeholders are effectively informed.
The Tri-Agency Process for Addressing Allegations of Non-Compliance with Tri-Agency Policies was released in February 2010.
New tools have been developed by the Agencies to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the policy and improve its transparency:
Tri-Agency Decision Tree; and
These new tools explain a common approach for receiving and transmitting allegations, the handling of anonymous allegations and time lines for reviewing cases.
As explained in the February 2010 update, at the request of the Minister of Industry, the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) convened an expert panel to assess “the key research integrity principles, procedural mechanisms and practices, appropriate in the Canadian context, that could be applied across research disciplines at institutions receiving funds from the federal granting agencies.” The panel is expected to release its Report late October 2010. The RIAG will then meet to consider the CCA report and to begin guiding the development of a strengthened Tri-Agency policy framework for integrity and financial accountability.
The Agencies expect a revised Tri-Agency draft policy to be completed and ready for consideration by stakeholders in spring 2011. Comprehensive consultations on the revised draft policy and processes will be undertaken in 2011 with a wide range of stakeholders, with the assistance of the AUCC.
The final revised policy framework is expected to be made public in December 2011. Institutions will be expected to ensure that their institutional research integrity policies adhere to the revised policy within one year of the release date.
Integrity and accountability in research and scholarship are essential values of universities, colleges and other academic institutions. These values are also important to Canadians, given the significant investments made by the federal government in research and scholarship, and the important contributions these activities make to our society.
The Tri-Agencies are committed to ensuring that the highest standards of integrity and accountability are reflected in their own policies and procedures, and those of the institutions they fund. We look forward to receiving your feedback and input during the consultation process.
1Given that items 2 and 4 are closely related, they will be acted upon as one item.
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Kim: Out of context is out of mind
Won Hee Kim, Columnist|September 22, 2017
Amazon reviews may leave you with the impression that Hillary Clinton’s new book, “What Happened”, is either the worst book ever written or the greatest. It was neither; I thought the book, while sometimes bitter in tone, was still an interesting insight into her mind and an illuminating explanation of the circumstances of the 2016 Presidential Election. Actually, I felt she was occasionally justified in being bitter, at least considering how misrepresented she was by the media and her opponents, and how much more misrepresented she will continue to be. Her words were actively taken out of context to be used to depict her negatively.
Clinton’s coal miner quote is one instance when her words were misconstrued by the public. The version you are likely to be familiar with is: “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business.” Those words did technically come out of Clinton’s mouth, but the words were cropped out from a longer explanation. The context was that while coal miners will inevitably lose jobs if America turns to clean energy, they will not be forgotten under her administration. The words completely misrepresented her sentiment.
The term for what happened to Clinton is “contextomy”, and it refers to the act of cherry-picking words to use in an argument against either the person who said the words or against the argument the person made. It’s also known as “quote mining”. This differs from normal quoting because it deliberately removes the context that would change the meaning of the quote. While not illegal, contextomy is immoral. Academics believe in intellectual property, of words and thoughts being credited to the right person, but in this case the wrong meaning is being credited to the person.
To be fair, Clinton is far from the only victim of contextomy. Her campaign also created ads of Donald Trump using his quotes against him. (Then again, some of his quotes remained accurate to the spirit of what he said simply because he is a pretty outrageous character to begin with.)
But there are still others affected by contextomy. In July 2010, Breitbart.com, a far-right news site, published an article titled “Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism-2010”. In it were two videos, one of which showed Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the USDA at the time, sharing an anecdote where she seemingly discriminated against a white farmer. In reality, the anecdote was about how she, despite having faced racism from childhood, grew against it and realized that her purpose was to help all poor people, rather than just black people. Not only that, the video was from years before she even was hired as the USDA Georgia Director. However, the video was blown out of proportion until she was asked to resign. She later settled in court for undisclosed amounts.
Examples of contextomy can be seen outside of politics as well. They are present in reviews, interviews, conspiracy theories faking legitimacy, and speech. And so, to prevent misunderstandings and the spread of misinformation, we should be wary of small quotes, ellipses and abrupt endings. Offer a little courtesy by trusting that a sound bite is not the speaker’s complete statement. People are more complex than that.
Won Hee Kim, Director of Print
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Big Picture News, Informed Analysis
This blog is written by Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise. Posts appear Monday & Wednesday.
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An Appeal to Reason
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
by Nigel Lawson (2008, Overlook Duckworth publishers)
A concise, 100-page overview of the good reasons to be skeptical of the hype associated with global warming. The world might be a more sensible and informed place if journalists, politicians, and educators spent a few hours with this slim volume.
Adding this work to student reading lists would be a quick, inexpensive (US retail price: $20) way of ensuring that young people hear more than one perspective. (Isn’t that what education is supposed to be about – an exploration of a range of ideas, the expansion of young minds beyond the confines of conventional wisdom?)
Below is a quick-and-dirty list of some great lines/quotes. Page numbers refer to the US/Canadian hardcover edition:
“the only practical effect of the Kyoto process has been to create what is fast becoming one of the biggest scams on the planet” p. 77
“doing nothing is better than doing something stupid” p.95
“to describe the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as pollution is as absurd as it would be to describe the clouds as pollution” p. 11
“It is time to take a cool look at global warming.” p. 1
“I am not a scientist. But then neither are the vast majority of those who pronounce on the matter with far greater certainty than I shall do here.” p. 1
“science is only part of the story. Even if the climate scientists can tell us what is happening and why, they cannot tell us what governments should be doing about it.” p. 2
“scientific truth is not established by counting heads” p. 5
“While peer review may be a useful process, all it means is that the author’s peers consider that the paper which advances the hypothesis is worthy of publication in the journal to which it has been submitted.” p. 6
“It is not immediately apparent what real-world evidence could shake the faith of the true believers and overturn the conventional global warming wisdom” p. 6
“in a number of important aspects, the IPCC’s processes have become seriously flawed” p. 12
“There is something inherently absurd about the conceit that we can have any useful idea of what the world will be like in a hundred years time” p 23
“you start with the uncertainties of long-range weather forecasting, add to these the uncertainties of long-range economic forecasting, plus the uncertainties of long-range population forecasting, feed them all into a powerful computer and supposedly arrive at a sound basis for serious…long term policy decisions” p. 24
“is it really plausible that there is an ideal average world temperature, which by some happy chance has recently been visited on us, from which small departures in either direction would spell disaster?” p. 27
“The IPCC Report claims to take into account both costs and benefits, yet it devotes large amounts of space to the costs and almost none to the benefits. It is difficult not to sense a lack of even-handedness, leading to a bias in the overall assessment.”
“natural disasters such as hurricanes, monsoons, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, and even pandemics (the vogue word for what used to be known as plagues), have always occurred, and no doubt always will; to attribute them to global warming is not science but political propaganda.” p. 37
“I suspect there are few people…who regard the huge improvement in living standards, including a substantial reduction in infant mortality and a substantial rise in life expectancy, that cheap, carbon-based energy has made possible, as an unwelcome turn of events.” p. 45
“The idea that anything sensible can said about the likely state of the world thousands of years ahead, still less that we can make rational policy decisions on that basis, is mind-boggling.” p. 52
“stabilizing carbon dioxide concentrations is not the same as stabilizing the global temperature” p. 65
“Feelgood measures in the western world, from driving a hybrid car to the abolition of plastic bags, to not leaving our television sets on standby, are trivial to the point of irrelevance in this context” pp. 65-66
“there still remains the political problem of the widespread public hostility to nuclear power, which is as often as not fomented by those who profess the greatest concern about man-made global warming” p. 70
“The African peasant, desperately seeking to replace his renewable [animal] dung with an electricity supply, may not be amused to be told that, if…it is produced by a carbon-fired power station, the electricity generated is dirty…and should be discouraged.” p. 71
“We care about the welfare of our children and grandchildren, but we do not normally lose sleep over the welfare of our grandchildren’s putative grandchildren, nor make financial provision for them.” p. 85
“Without risk-taking there is no human progress…to take policy decisions on the basis…of the worst possible case, is not rational precaution, but irrational alarmism.” p. 88
“Reliable prediction is impossible.” p. 91
“the issues surrounding global warming are so often discussed in terms of belief rather than reason” p. 101
“Throughout the ages, something deep in man’s psyche has made him receptive to apocalyptic warnings: ‘the end of the world is nigh’. And almost all of us are imbued with a sense of guilt and a sense of sin.” p. 102
“We appear to have entered a new age of unreason…It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet.” p. 106
This entry was posted on September 26, 2009 by Donna Laframboise in books and tagged Appeal to Reason (book), books, Nigel Lawson.
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Wahlroos unwilling to compromise on corporate capital returns
2012-10-25NFU News
“How much less return is a managing director allowed to achieve in order to save a single job? If you start thinking this way, you lose touch with how you should rate your work as a managing director,” the prominent Finnish business figure Björn Wahlroos said on Wednesday at an NFU seminar in Helsinki.
“A company must always make the best possible return,” he insisted.
Wahlroos, who chairs the boards of Nordea and Sampo, sees no alternative to this way of thinking, and does not believe in the existence of patient and far-sighted shareholders. “If a pension fund is managed so that pensioners get five per cent less return than would be possible, the fund’s managing director has to be changed, no matter how socially responsible the fund’s activities are,” he explained.
Wahlroos has earlier stated that returns on capital investments should amount to 15 per cent or more. “It’s clearest if companies think about their returns, and other matters are left to legislation,” he said.
Concerning cases where Nordea’s and Sampo’s competitors use their funds to support civil society and local companies, Wahlroos was asked whether this is a good investment or a waste of money. “I don’t believe in 90 per cent of what such companies tell us,” he replied. “If I ask about environmental issues I believe that I’ll be shown beautiful brochures that will be thrown into the bin as soon as I leave the room.”
According to Wahlroos, environmental concerns and other aspects of responsibility are complex issues for businesses. Companies have to prove to their shareholders that their activities are rational in the long run. “It’s more honest to focus on targets for returns that can be explicitly measured,” he added.
High returns – high risks
A contrasting view was set out in a video presentation by Thomas Franzén, who recently headed a financial crisis commission appointed by the Swedish government. “Winners adapt by accepting lower returns,” he said, stating that demands for high returns on capital are short-sighted.
“High demands lead to the taking of risks from the perspectives of companies and society. Interest rates and inflation are now low, making it especially difficult to achieve the kinds of staggering returns that were earlier possible,” explained Franzén.
Franzén is critical of the way companies continuously distribute dividends among shareholders. He prefers investments that guarantee stability and growth. “Trade unions are also shareholders, and they should take their shareholders’ responsibilities seriously,” he added.
Return on capital is not a conventional item for the agenda of a trade union seminar, but the topic was chosen since demands for high returns on capital lie behind many current trends in business life.
“It’s because of such demands that jobs are cut, companies are reorganized, and employees are urged to work ever more efficiently,” explained Christina Colclough, General Secretary of the NFU.
Pro News/Katja Palhus/Juhani Artto
2020.12.18 | NFU News
If you have experience from working with policy analysis and research and share the vision of making the financial sector prosper in a way that is sustainable for employees, companies, consumers and society, then we will be happy to hear from you.
The Management Board of Nordic Financial Union has appointed Carin Hallerström as new General Secretary of NFU. She will take up her new position as General Secretary of NFU from September 1, 2020.
On May 7, 2020, NFU President Michael Budolfsen together with the Nordic trade union movement sent an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, welcoming the initiative from the Nordic Ministers for Enterprise on a Nordic post Covid-19 strategy for the economy. The Nordic tripartite dialogue should play a key role in the development of the strategy.
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Chromeo Debuts video for “Don’t Sleep today”
Chromeo "Don't Sleep Today"
Montreal’s favourite sons Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) and P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel), have dropped a video for “Don’t Sleep today”, the clip features 90s icon Robin Givens (Never Heard, Riverdale, The Bold and the Beautiful) and featuring French Montana and Stefflon Don. Don’t Sleep was produced by Chromeo and legendary R&B producer, Rodney Jerkins. The album’s guest list includes Jesse Johnson, Pino Palladino, DRAM, The-Dream, Amber Mark, Onyx Collective, Raphael Saadiq and more.
Directed by Allie Avital (serpentwithfeet, Moses Sumney), the visual is another sophisticated installment in Chromeo’s collection of artfully hilarious clips. Of the video Avital explains, “It’s lonely at the top. ‘Don’t Sleep’ is a 2018 satire for the age of dissatisfaction; the age of overstimulation and Tinder. Robin Givens plays a version of the ‘sad king,’ where the more pampered and entertained she is, the more disaffected she becomes. All the bulging biceps, sponge baths, and lap dances can’t cure her existential void.”
Allie Avital on the video:
“Harems are historically reserved for men, and music videos have a long history of ornamental ‘video girls,’ so I wanted to flip both of those narratives. The video was directed and produced by a team of women, which gave the shoot a funny, meta dimension. Dave and Pee are so open and collaborative, and in this often-formulaic industry, it was a breath of fresh air to be given so much artistic freedom and trust.”
Ryan Hemsworth ‘Elsewhere’
“On And On” by Steven A. Clark
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RBC OTTAWA BLUESFEST 2018: DAY 2
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Achievements Report
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From 1994 to 1999, Thérèse Paquet-Sévigny, the first secretary general of Orbicom, worked on the creation of the network and on its consolidation and development. She led various activities to ensure its sustainability. She also oversaw the creation and development of the Bell UNESCO Chair in Communication.
Network development and consolidation
From 1994 to 1999, Orbicom had grown into a network of 22 chairs from a mere nine in 1994. Were added: USA, Brazil, Mexico, France, Romania, Denmark, Great Britain, Morocco, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Japan, Philippines and South Korea. The number of its associate members expanded rapidly from zero to 240, making Orbicom a unique international network of scholars, members of the industry, practitioners and policymakers who work on information and communication issues.
Consultations, Seminars and Publications
In view of the first GKP (Global Knowledge Partnership) Summit in Toronto, at the request of the Ministry of External Affairs of Canada, Thérèse Paquet-Sévigny presided in early 1997 a national consultation among media and policy leaders, video producers and software business people. About 55 participants from all provinces of Canada contributed to a platform to be of use at the Toronto Summit. Claude-Yves Charron, Professor of Communications at UQAM, edited the report together with Anne-Tamara Lorre, then a PhD student at UQAM.
In 1996, with the support of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Mrs. Paquet-Sévigny organized a two-day seminar concerning the interrelations between communications and international development, with the participation of 15 Canadian experts and professors from seven universities. Under her direction, the outcomes of the seminar were later presented in the book entitled Communication and International Development, published in French, English and Spanish and distributed in dozens of countries. Pierre Sormany, professor of journalism at University of Montreal, scientific journalist, conceptor and editor of scientific programs at Radio Canada, accepted to act as the editor of the book as well as to contribute one article.
In 1998, at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, 35 international experts in communications and new technologies prepared a collective collection – Freedom of Expression and New Communication Technologies. Under the direction of Thérèse Paquet-Sévigny, the book was edited by Michèle Paré, journalist and past chief researcher at Radio Canada, and Pierre Desbarats, journalist and professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of Western Ontario. Its three versions in French, English and Spanish were made possible with the financial support of UNESCO, the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Dutch Commission for UNESCO, the Columbian Commission for UNESCO and the Commission for UNESCO of Uruguay Government.
In 1998, Orbicom started to plan for an international conference concerning employment in the communication field to take place in Montreal, Canada, in April 1999. The conference was related with Orbicom’s one large international research project, carried in seven geographical regions under the supervision of Claude-Yves Charron and with 11 coordinators around the world. 27 researchers contributed to this project. The 518 pages research report entitled Information Societies: Crisis in the Making? Diagnostic and Strategies for Intervention in Seven World Regions was edited by Claude-Yves Charron and Metasebia Woldemariam, then a PhD student at UQAM. The report was available in three languages and distributed to all participants to the April 1999 Montreal Conference.
From 14 to 17 April 1999, the Montreal conference, Connection Knowledge in Communication: Bridging the Gap between Training and Employment, brought together 155 communications specialists from 55 countries, among which, over 40 speakers. Proceedings of the conference were compiled in the 374 pages book, New Partnerships in Communications for the 21st Century: Strategies for Governance, Technology, Employment and Lifelong Learning, edited by Claude-Yves Charron, Maria Camila Chica and Sheryl Hamilton and published in three languages in 1999.
In the context of the 1999 conference, another study was prepared on the topic of employment in communication, Les paradoxes des technologies de l’information: productivité, emploi et formation. It was published by Professor Hadj Benyahia (UQAM), at the request of ORBICOM.
A quarterly Newsletter was launched as well as an annual Directory of Members.
During the period, a few dozens of special regional activities were organized by UNESCO Chairs in communication. Academic teaching programs were also initiated in some countries.
Training Environment for students
Over the years, more than 30 students in Master’s and PhD programs in communications worked at the Orbicom Secretariat. The Secretariat was called to play a triple role. It had a “traditional” role of service to members including information exchange and distribution of material. Prior to that, it should conduct a constant process of recruitment of universities, chair holders and associate professional members, in consultation with UNESCO and the Board. Last but not least, students can participate in different projects initiated by Orbicom and perform tasks like researching, writing, translating, editing, publishing and coordinating. Such an environment was unique and stimulating for everyone.
All these projects and the development of Orbicom Network would not have been possible without a full engagement from UNESCO and UQAM from the start. The protocol stipulated the annual financial support of UNESCO and the offering of space and services (professorial, legal, technical and accounting) from UQAM.
For the sake of credibility and sustainability, Orbicom had creative capacity to design projects. New funding was needed. The Secretary General had to approach the UN system and many other international institutions and foundations as well as a few Canadian international development organizations like Montreal International, CIDA, IDRC and la Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO.
Some of these endorsed financially a few specific projects and the 1999 international conference on connecting knowledge (45 partners, private and public, contributed financially and professionally to the preparation of the conference and the meeting itself). Among these were l’Agence de la Francophonie, le PNUD, le Conseil des Arts et Sciences du Canada, Bell Canada, CGI, NORTEL, le Mouvement Desjardins, France Telecom, as well as les Ministères des Affaires internationales et de la Culture du Québec.
During its first three years in operation, Orbicom received its first international recognition. It earned the United Nations accreditation Category A, the UNESCO accreditation, and was invited amongst the first members of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP).
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Herbie Taylor
South African cricketer
Taylor at the Oval in 1924
Herbert Wilfred Taylor
(1889-05-05)5 May 1889
Durban, Colony of Natal
8 February 1973(1973-02-08) (aged 83)
Newlands, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Right-arm unknown style
Dan Taylor (brother)
National side
Test debut (cap 77)
27 May 1912 v Australia
27 February 1932 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Runs scored
100s/50s
7/17 30/64
176 250*
Balls bowled
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Catches/stumpings
19/– 75/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 April 2009
Herbert Wilfred Taylor MC (5 May 1889 – 8 February 1973) was a South African cricketer who played 42 Test matches for his country including 18 as captain of the side. Specifically a batsman, he was an expert on the matting pitches which were prevalent in South Africa at the time and scored six of his seven centuries at home. His batting was also noted for quick footwork and exceptional 'backplay'.[1] He became the first South African to pass 2,500 Test runs and was selected one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1925. In domestic cricket, he played for Natal, Transvaal and Western Province.
Taylor's greatest achievement is generally reckoned to be scoring 508 runs at an average of 50.80 in the 1913–14 Test series against England, in spite of English bowler Sydney Barnes taking a record 49 wickets in the series at 10.93. The cricket historian H.S. Altham wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hoped to see." Neville Cardus noted it was "perhaps the most skilful of all Test performances by a batsman." It also led Cardus to count Taylor as "one of the six greatest batsmen of the post-Grace period".
Cricket career
Born in Durban, Taylor attended Michaelhouse School from 1903 to 1907,[2] during which period he was coached by Sussex bowler George Cox.[3] Taylor made his first-class debut for Natal in January 1910 against the touring MCC team, he opened the batting in both innings, scoring 55 and 30.[4] After finishing the 1910/11 season as second highest run scorer in the Currie Cup,[5] he was selected for South Africa's touring party to England in 1912.
Triangular tournament
In the final warm-up match before the Triangular Tournament began, Taylor scored 83 in an innings victory over Worcestershire. He shared in a 146-run opening partnership with Gerald Hartigan after the home side had been dismissed for 50.[6] In the first match of the tournament between South Africa and Australia at Old Trafford, Taylor was selected to make his Test debut. Opening South Africa's innings, in response to Australia's total of 448, Taylor was dismissed for a duck. South Africa followed on and were dismissed for 98 to lose by an innings, Taylor top-scored in the second innings with 21, having moved down the order.[7] In the next two Tests against England he struggled for runs scoring 39 in four innings.[8] In South Africa's second Test against Australia at Lord's he made his maiden half-century, batting at number six he top scored with 93 in a first innings total of 263.[9] From 74/5 he put on a 97-run stand with Louis Stricker "in little more than an hour". Wisden noting that Taylor's "driving was splendid".[10] In South Africa's two remaining fixtures he scored 31 runs, to finish with a series aggregate of 194 at an average of 19.40.[11] South Africa had a poor series, losing five of their six Tests, drawing the other which was rain affected.[12] Taylor finished the whole tour with 1340 runs, a figure only bettered by Dave Nourse.[13]
The Wisden end of series report stated: "Excellent in style and a powerful driver, he is likely to make a great mark before he is much older".[13] In 1912/13 Taylor captained Natal as they won the Currie Cup.[14] He started his captaincy career with a match against Transvaal, in the second innings of which he scored an unbeaten 250 in 225 minutes, out of a score of 384/5 declared. Only one other player passed fifty in the match.[15] This score remained the highest of his first-class career.
England 1913/14
England (Marylebone Cricket Club) toured South Africa in 1913/14, the tourists final game before the Tests began was against Natal at Pietermaritzburg. Taylor carried his bat in the first innings, scoring 83 in a total of 124, in the second he scored 42 not out as the match was drawn.[16] He carried this form into the first Test at Durban, his first match as captain of South Africa. Having won the toss and chosen to bat first he made a maiden Test century, scoring 109 in about three hours and 20 minutes.[17] Wisden described the innings as a "superb display of batting" commenting that he played "[Sydney] Barnes with perfect confidence".[17] However Taylor got little support from his team mates and South Africa were dismissed for 182. England won the Test by an innings after the hosts had managed just 111 in the second innings, Taylor scored eight.[18] England also won the second Test at Johannesburg by an innings, Sydney Barnes taking record Test match figures of 17/159, Taylor fell to him twice for scores of 29 and 40.[19]
Taylor took his Test best bowling figures in the third Test which was again staged in Johannesburg, in England's first innings he took three wickets for 15 runs (3/15) from 10 overs. In dismissing Wilfred Rhodes leg before wicket he claimed his maiden Test wicket, his other two wickets were that of Frank Woolley and Morice Bird. Taylor opened the bowling in the second innings and, although expensive, claimed the wicket of Rhodes again. In terms of batting Taylor scored 14 and 70, the latter innings came in a 153-run opening stand with Billy Zulch.[20] There was a six-week gap between the third and fourth Tests, in which period the MCC played seven tour matches.[21] The last of these was against Natal, and just like in the earlier tour fixture Taylor dominated the scoring for the hosts. In a low scoring match he scored 91 (out of a team total of 153) and 100 (out of 216/6), as Natal won by 4 wickets. Only one other batsman in the match passed fifty.[22]
In the fourth Test at Durban South Africa avoided defeat despite Sydney Barnes excellent form continuing, he claimed 14 more wickets to take his series tally to 49. Taylor was dismissed by him in both innings, scoring 16 in the first and 93 in the second, an innings Wisden described as "more cautious than usual".[23] In that second innings he shared a 69-run partnership with his older brother Dan who was making his Test debut.[24] In the fifth and final Test of the series at Port Elizabeth Taylor scored 42 and 87 as South Africa lost by ten wickets. In the second innings he shared a century stand with Billy Zulch for the second time in the series, this time they put on 129.[25] Despite the 4–0 defeat Taylor finished the series as the leading run scorer on either side with 508 runs in 10 innings, his aggregate was 227 ahead of the next best South African, Philip Hands.[26] This performance came while facing Barnes who finished the series with a Test record 49 wickets at 10.93.[27] The cricket historian H. S. Altham wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hoped to see".[3] Neville Cardus wrote in the 1955 Wisden:
Yet at his deadliest Barnes met a worthy opponent in H. W. Taylor, who played with ease and assurance in each Test match...how possibly could any mortal batsman be subjected to a severer ordeal—Barnes on matting, with wickets falling at the other end all the time? H. W. Taylor must be counted one of the six greatest batsmen of the post-Grace period.[28]
Cardus also wrote that Taylor's performance was "perhaps the most skilful of all Test performances by a batsman".[29]
Taylor returned to cricket in 1919/20 having won the Military Cross in World War I. He served 18 months in the Royal Field Artillery and two years in the Royal Flying Corps.[30] His first match back for Natal was against Transvaal in April 1920, he scored 76 but the innings was overshadowed by Dave Nourse who scored 304 not out.[31] This was the only match of the season however formal competition (the Currie Cup) returned for the 1920/21 season. Taylor scored 150 in the opening match of the season against Orange Free State and finished with 372 runs at an average of 53.14.[32]
The first international opponents for South Africa following the War were Australia, who toured South Africa in 1921/22. Despite the eight-year gap after the hosts' last Test, Taylor was still captain. In the first Test at Durban, Taylor was dismissed for one in the first innings, and he moved down the order to number four for the second innings and the remainder of the series. From the unaccustomed position he made scores of 29, 47, 80, 26 and 17[8] to finish the series with a total of 200 runs at an average of 33.33.[11] After the first two Tests were drawn, Australia won the three match series with a ten wicket victory at Cape Town.[33]
The following season saw England tour and just like nine years previous Taylor was at his best. In the first Test at Johannesburg he batted at number three and in the second innings scored a superb 176, the next highest score in the match was 50.[34] Taylor's knock included 25 boundaries and was the largest by a South African against England.[35] South Africa won the Test by 168 runs, it was Taylor's first victory as captain and as a Test player.[36] He followed that in the second Test with scores of 9 and 68 as England narrowly won by one wicket.[37] In the third Test at Durban he was moved back up to open the innings, he scored 91 and shared 110 with Bob Catterall. The third days play was washed out leaving the draw inevitable in a four-day match.[38] The fourth Test was also drawn, Taylor scored 11 at number four and when moved back as opener in the second innings made 101. Wisden wrote: "Taylor, who hit out freely when fear of defeat had gone, played a masterly game, but he had a little luck".[39]
With the series still level at 1–1, the fifth and final Test was made Timeless to ensure a winner of the series. England's C. A. G. Russell scored two centuries in the match and South Africa were set a target of fourth innings target of 344. Taylor, at number four, batted for four and a half hours over an innings of 102 however he received little support from his team mates and South Africa lost by 109 runs.[40] Taylor finished the series with 582 runs at 64.66 and was the highest scorer on either side, his total was 278 more than the next South African.[41] His series total was at the time a Test record for a captain, later surpassed by Don Bradman in 1936.[42] His three centuries in the series set a South African Test record which was only bettered in 2003/04 by Jacques Kallis.[43] The Wisden report of the series recorded that "H. W. Taylor as a batsman was in a class by himself".[44]
1924 England tour
Taylor (left) watches the England captain Arthur Gilligan tossing the coin before the first Test match at Edgbaston in Birmingham on 14 June 1924.
Taylor played only two matches in the 1923/24 season prior to the South Africa tour of England in 1924.[45] His form at the start of the tour was poor, in 11 matches before the first Test, he scored just two fifties in 18 innings.[45] In the first Test at Edgbaston he scored 7 and 34, however his first innings was the top score for South Africa as they were dismissed for 30 in 12.3 overs.[46] It equalled the record for the lowest Test total, the previous score of 30 also set by South Africa against England.[47] It was also the only occasion in Test history that not a single batsman had reached double figures.[48] Despite scoring 390 in the second innings they lost by an innings and 18 runs, the same margin of defeat followed in the second Test at Lord's where Taylor made scores of four and eight.[49]
They were three tour matches between the second and third Tests,[50] in the second of these against Northamptonshire Taylor top scored with 116, his second century of the tour. The third match saw South Africa return to Edgbaston, this time against Warwickshire he top scored in both innings with 94 and 116.[51] His good form continued into the third Test where he made scores of 59 not out and 56. He shared 54 and 99 run partnerships with Bob Catterall as South Africa averted a third consecutive innings defeat however they still lost by nine wickets.[52] Rain affected the final two Tests of the series and both were drawn, Taylor scored 18 not out at Old Trafford and 11 at The Oval.[8] His series total was 197 at 32.83.[11] Wisden described the performance as 'disappointing' but commented: "There can be no doubt that the anxiety of captaining a beaten team told upon him and that he would have done far better if he had had nothing to think about but his own batting."[53] In the tour as a whole he played in 34 first-class matches and scored 1,898 runs, marginally fewer than Dave Nourse but with a higher average of 42.17.[54]
Three South African seasons passed without an international tour, in this time Taylor moved from Natal to Transvaal prior to the 1925/26 season. He had a successful first season with his new side, captaining them to win the Currie Cup and scoring 344 runs at an average of 68.80. The following season he scored 481 runs at 80.16 as Transvaal retained the title.[55]
England toured South Africa in 1927/28 for a five-Test series. Taylor was no longer captain, having been replaced by Nummy Deane, but he showed himself to still be the country's leading batsman by top scoring in the series. In the first Test at Johannesburg he scored 31 and 4 as the tourists won by ten wickets.[56] With scores of 68 and 71 he top scored in both innings of the second Test at Cape Town, in the second innings he shared a 115-run opening partnership with Mick Commaille.[57] He made another fifty in the third Test before scoring a first innings century in the fourth that played a crucial part in South Africa winning the match by four wickets and keeping the series alive.[58] Wisden described Taylor's innings of 101: "By restrained methods he gradually obtained a mastery over the bowling and then hit so freely that he scored 101 out of 170 in two hours and twenty-five minutes".[59] Taylor scored 36 and 29 in the fifth and final Test which South Africa won by eight wickets to square the series. It was the first time in his Test career that Taylor hadn't finished on the losing side in a series. He ended the series as South Africa's top scorer with 412 although Bob Catterall had a marginally higher average.[60]
Taylor toured England for a third time in 1929, as part of a young and inexperienced squad he was one of only three players who had toured the country previously.[61] After Taylor scored two in the drawn first Test, he missed both second and third Tests with an injury. This was the first time Taylor hadn't appeared in the Test team since his debut in 1912. He returned for the fourth Test at Old Trafford and played two attacking innings in defeat. In the first innings scoring 28 of the 32 added while at the crease, while in the second innings he was dismissed for 70 with the score at 113. Wisden considered his driving to be "admirable in its power and certainty".[62] In the fifth and final Test at The Oval Taylor scored his first Test century outside of his homeland. He scored 121 including 12 boundaries, the innings came with South Africa 20/3 in their first innings, Taylor alongside captain Nummy Deane shared a fourth wicket stand of 214. Wisden recorded: "The batting of both men reached a very high standard and, coming as it did in such circumstances, was easily the best in point of class and skill shown by the South Africans in the whole series of Tests."[63] The stand was a South African record for the fourth wicket until beaten in 2003 by Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten.[64] The century gave Taylor a total of 221 runs in the series at an average of 55.25.[11] The end of tour report in Wisden commentated that although he wasn't the dominating personality of previous years he was still the man England had most to fear.[61] In the whole tour he scored 1,575 first-class runs at 38.41, the highest average amongst the tourists.[65]
Taylor played only two Currie Cup matches in the 1929/30 season, but made centuries in both. In the final two matches of the season he scored 142 against Western Province and 139 against Rhodesia as Transvaal won the title for a third time in five seasons.[45] The following season saw England tour for a five Test series which witnessed a first series victory for South Africa since 1910.[66] Taylor missed the first Test which South Africa won by 28 runs.[67] He returned for the second at Cape Town and scored a seventh Test century.[68] He was one of three South African centurions but Taylor's 117 was considered by Wisden as "the most attractive batting display for South Africa."[69] England followed on in the match but were able to draw the match. The third match was also drawn but on this occasion England had the better of the play, Taylor scored an unbeaten 64 from a total of 145/8 in the second innings to ensure the draw.[70] In the fourth Test he top scored in the first innings with 72, the innings took South Africa past the follow on which was crucial in securing another draw.[71] England needed to win the fifth Test to level the series but they were unable to dismiss South Africa quickly in the first innings having put them in and the hosts controlled the match from there. South Africa drew the match and therefore won the series 1–0, it was Taylor's first series victory as a Test player.[72]
Australia 1931/32
In 1931/32 South Africa toured Australia for the first time since 1910/11, it was therefore Taylor's first tour of the country. Without the chance of a draw, all Tests in Australia at the time were Timeless, South Africa were whitewashed in the Test series. Part of the reason for this dominance was Don Bradman who scored 806 runs including four centuries.[73] Taylor scored 41 and 47 in the first match at Brisbane and made innings of seven and six in the second at Sydney,[8] South Africa lost both Tests by wide margins.[74] They gained a first innings lead of 160 in the third but still lost, this time by 169 runs, Taylor contributed 11 and 38.[8] His highest innings of the series came in the fourth Test at Adelaide where he scored 78 and 84, in both innings he shared century stands with Bruce Mitchell however Clarrie Grimmett's 14 wickets saw Australia win by ten wickets.[75] In the fifth Test, South Africa made totals of just 36 and 45 and lost by an innings.[76] Taylor was dismissed for a duck in the first innings and made two in the second. The duck was the first since his debut Test, a run of 72 innings which was a then Test record.[77] His series total of 314 runs made him South Africa's second highest scorer behind Mitchell.[78] In the tour as a whole he was also second behind Mitchell, Taylor scored 813 runs with one century against New South Wales.[79][80]
Following the Australia tour South Africa played two Tests in New Zealand, the first Tests to be staged between the two teams. In the single warm-up match before the first Test, Taylor scored 113 against Auckland.[81] In the first Test at Christchurch he didn't fare as well, dismissed for nine having come to the crease following a large opening stand.[82] This was his final innings in Test cricket[8] as he announced his retirement from that form of the game prior to the second Test.[83]
After Test retirement
Taylor continued to play first-class cricket for a short period. In 1932 he spent the season in England playing for a variety of teams including: the MCC, the Gentlemen, an England XI and the Rest of England side.[45] He returned to South African domestic cricket for the 1932/33 season although he played only one match. Now at Natal he played against former team Transvaal and scored 158. Over the following two seasons he played eight further matches and adding two further centuries.[45] The last of his 30 first-class centuries came in December 1934 at the age of 45. In March 1936 he made a brief comeback playing one first-class match for Western Province against the touring Australians.[45]
Taylor took up coaching schoolboys upon retirement. He lived in Cape Town near the Newlands ground which was where he died in 1973.[3]
At the time of his retirement Taylor held a number of South African Test batting records, including most runs (2,936), centuries (7) and half-centuries (17). His average of 40.77 was only fractionally behind that of Aubrey Faulkner (40.79).[84] The aforementioned records were all surpassed by Bruce Mitchell in the late 1940s.[85] Taylor had most of his success on the matting pitches of South Africa, he averaged 48.80 and scored six of his centuries at home. In comparison his average outside of South Africa was 30.16 and 20 Tests produced a single century.[86] He scored 2,001 of his Test runs at home and this aggregate remained a record until after readmission.[87]
For the majority of Taylor's career there were only two other Test nations, Australia and England and he only played against different opposition, New Zealand, in his final Test. Of Taylor's 42 Tests, 30 were against England.[86] He scored all of his centuries and accumulated 2,287 runs against that opposition. In England-South Africa contests only Mitchell has scored more runs while the seven centuries is a record he shares with Mitchell, Dudley Nourse, Denis Compton and Jacques Kallis.[88]
In Currie Cup matches he scored 3,226 runs at an average of 58.65[3] and was part of seven championship winning teams, four with Natal and three with Transvaal.
Taylor captained his nation in four series and 18 Tests in total and although he had personal success in averaging 47.96 during this period, the team lost all four series and they won only one Test with him in charge.[89] However this was indicative of South Africa at the time and during his whole career Taylor only enjoyed four Test victories, he played a large part in the first two of these scoring centuries in the Johannesburg wins of 1922 and 1928.[90]
Despite the results under him Taylor does have a number of captaincy achievements to his name. He holds the record for longest time spent as Test captain, he took charge of his first Test on 13 December 1913 and his last on 16 August 1924, a period of 10 years and 251 days.[91] Taylor is one of two South African captains to have scored centuries in their first match in charge, the other is Jackie McGlew.[92] By scoring that century he also had a share in the first occasion of opposing captains scoring centuries in the same match.[93]
On subsequently calculated world rankings Taylor reached a peak batting rating of 844 (out of 1000), this placed him top of the batting rankings.[94] He reached this mark in February 1923 following his innings of 102 in the fifth Test of the home series with England. He remained top of the rankings for only a single match but did disturb Jack Hobbs from the top spot, the only person to do so between 1912 and 1928.[95]
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1888/89: Dunell
1888/89–1891/92: Milton
1895/96–1902/03: Halliwell
1895/96: Richards
1898/99: Bisset
1902/03: Taberer
1902/03: Anderson
1905/06–1910/11: Sherwell
1909/10: Snooke
1912: Mitchell
1912: Tancred
1913/14–1924: Taylor
1927/28–1930/31: Deane
1930/31: Nupen
1930/31–1931/32: Cameron
1935–1935/36: Wade
1938/39–1947: Melville
1948/49–1951: Nourse
1952/53–1955: Cheetham
1955; 1956/57; 1957/58; 1960–1961/62: McGlew
1956/57–1957/58: van Ryneveld
1963/64–1964/65: Goddard
1965–1966/67: van der Merwe
1969/70: Bacher
1991/92–1994: Wessels
1993/94; 1994/95–1999/00: Cronje
1997/98: Kirsten
2000/01–2002/03: Pollock
2001/02; 2002/03: Boucher
2003–2014: Smith
2005/06; 2008/09: Kallis
2006: Prince
2014–2015/16: Amla
2015/16; 2017/18: de Villiers
2017–2020: du Plessis
2017: Elgar
2020– : de Kock
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Cricketers from Durban
Royal Flying Corps officers
Royal Artillery officers
KwaZulu-Natal cricketers
Recipients of the Military Cross
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MR090605- Philippine Basketball Team trains at the Australian Institute of Sports
PHILIPPINE BASKETBALL TEAM TRAINS AT THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS
The Pilipinas 16 & Under National Youth Basketball Team of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas recently visited Canberra to train at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Australia’s world-leading elite sports development institute. The 10-day training camp allowed the team to prepare for forthcoming international competitions by honing their skills in shooting, playing against a zone defence and competing against taller and faster opponents.
The training camp at AIS included a pocket tournament facilitated by National Intensive Training Centre Program head coach Rob Beveridge (pictured), in which the Philippine team was competitive against representative teams from Australian states. It is hoped that training camps and pocket tournaments will be held annually in Canberra.
Australian Ambassador Rod Smith welcomed the exchange, noting that Filipinos and Australians share a passion for sports, particularly basketball, and international exchanges of this nature would benefit both countries. Australia is consistently ranked among the world’s top 10 nations in men’s basketball and top three nations in women’s basketball.
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Penang Story: Remembering Malayans on the Death Railway and the INA
Penang Story Colloquium
Date: Saturday, 19 October 2013
Time: 9.00 A.M. — 2.00 P.M.
Venue: Hindu Mahajana Sangam, Gandhiji Ashram, 467 Jalan Kebun Bunga (Waterfall Road), Penang
**NEW** – Photo Gallery
Penang Heritage Trust championing Penang’s heritage (a tax-exempt charity) supported by Gandhiji Ashram & Think City
Malaysia is yet to fully recognize the immense contributions of the Malayan Indians towards the nurturing and strengthening of the struggle against colonialism. This spirit of nationalism was vigorously encouraged by NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose towards freeing India from British colonial rule by establishing the Indian National Army, the Jhansiki Regiment and the BalakSena.
The Swaraj Institute (Swaraj meaning ‘self-rule) for training espionage and propaganda agents as well as the Azad Hind School operated at the site of the Penang Free School on Green Lane. During the Japanese Occupation, many Indians as well as other ethnic groups, both men and women, had sacrificed their lives on the “Death Railway” construction.
Once the Japanese forces surrendered in Malaya, and India gained its independence, the Malayan Indians used this new found sense of nationalism and patriotism to seek independence for Malaya.
This history colloquium is held on 19 October, 2013, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the completion of the Burma-Thailand Railway and the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) by NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose in 21 October 1943.
9.00am Registration
9.35am Welcoming remarks by Khoo Salma, Chairman, Penang Heritage Trust
9.40am Opening Address by YB Prof Dr.P. Ramasamy, Deputy Chief Minister of Penang
10.00am Keynote speech by Prof. David John Boggett, Emeritus Professor at Kyoto Seika University, ‘The Death Railway’
10.40am Question and answer
11.00am Morning Tea
11.20am Chandra Sekaran, Efforts to remember the workers on the Death Railway
11.40am Jeyaraj C. Rajarao, ‘Indian Nationalism and BalakSena Days in Penang: Personal Experiences’
12.20pm Himanshu Bhatt, presenting the story of 91-year old Gujarati, GirishKotari, who was a member of the Indian National Army.
12.40pm Discussion
1.00pm Closing remarks by Dato’ Anwar Fazal, Chairman, Think City
1.15pm Lunch
SYNOPSIS OF KEYNOTE LECTURE BY DAVID BOGGETT
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the ending of World War II, in 1995, The Japanese Yomiuri Television Station aired a special documentary entitled “The Tragedy of the Thai-Burma Railway” (Thai-Men Tetsudo no Higeki). Most – if not all – of the persons interviewed in this documentary have since passed away during the intervening 20 years and it will not be possible to create a record of a comparable standard again. The documentary is one hour long and in Japanese, but notwithstanding the inevitable difficulties of explanation, excerpts from this production form a suitable “keynote” to the 70th Anniversary of the Death Railway’s completion. The excerpts include footage demonstrating the pride of the Imperial Japanese Army’s 5th and 9th Railway Regiment in their achievement in constructing the railway; interviews with former British Prisoner-of-War (POW), Trevor Dakin, who returned to live in Kanchanaburi until his death; former Kempeitai (Japanese Secret Police) translator, Nagase Takashi, explains methods of torture used on prisoners; interviews with Asian “Romusha” from Central Java and the moving story of BuntanWandi, also from Central Java, who still remained living in Thailand at the time of the documentary’s making. The speaker, besides explaining the Japanese language content of the documentary, will try to add further observations gathered during his leading groups of Japanese and Thai students on Field Study Trips to the Railway over a period of some eight years. Hopefully, this documentary material will provide some overall background against which the experiences of other Asian labourers – including those from the Tamil, Malay and Chinese communities of Malaya – can be better understood.
David John Boggett was educated at Read Grammar School, Drax, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in History in 1969.He became the first sabbatical president of the Cambridge Students Representative Organisation (now the Cambridge Students Union). In 1970, he was sent to South Korea to investigate human rights issues affecting a South Korean student from Cambridge University. Thereafter he relocated to Japan. From 1972 to 1975, he was editor and writer (based in Japan) for the small Hong Kong magazine, “Ronin”, a journal on East Asian affairs, later extended to South East Asia. From1975 to 2010, he was a Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University. Around 1980, he took did research during his Sabbatical year, attached to Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. In 2010, he was appointed Professor Emeritus of Kyoto Seika University. Now retired he lives near Chiangrai, North Thailand. Prof. Boggett is the author of several articles on East Asian and South-East Asian affairs in various Japanese language publications, and eleven articles on Asian labourers on the Death Railway, published in English in the Journal of Kyoto Seika University.
Jeyaraj C. Rajarao was born in Penang in December 1932; thereafter, he lived and schooled in Penang, leaving for Singapore in 1953 for his University education. Rajarao was an excellent student at the Penang Free School, and secured a First Class Honours’ degree in History at the University of Singapore where he was an active socialist, including being, at different periods, the editor of FAJAR, the Secretary General, and President of the University Socialist Club. He proceeded to the United Kingdom for his postgraduate studies on a British Council scholarship, and also won the Commonwealth scholarship. He taught History for brief periods at the Universities of Singapore, Malaya and in Penang Free School. He was also employed as Assistant City Secretary, City Council George Town, Penang from 1965 to 1966. He left for Kuala Lumpur in mid-1966 to head the Publications, Library and Information Division of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia. He retired in 1987.The Japanese Occupation from 1942 to 1945 had a strong impact on Indians. Generally, the Indians became severely anti- British and sternly anti-colonialists. They vigorously championed India’s freedom struggle. Rajarao moved with this spirit and became a Balak Sena member, while one of his elder brothers joined the Indian National army and was involved in building the “Death Railway.”
Himanshu Bhatt is a veteran journalist based in Penang. His range of writings and news reports cover a wide array of issues, including politics, arts, business as well as special features on society and culture. He was previously the news editor of The Sun daily before joining FZ.com where he currently writes. A scholarship graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Himanshu is also involved in Penang’s theatre industry. He is the director of the Cape Poetics Circle, an independent arts concern focussed on literature and drama.
Penang Heritage Trust is a non-profit organisation committed to preserving Penang’s heritage. All donations to the Penang Heritage Trust are tax-exempt.
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Alzheimer’s disease usually begins with memory decline and later affects other cognitive abilities. Two different kinds of protein deposits in the patient’s brain are involved in the disease: “Amyloid beta plaques” and “tau neurofibrillary tangles.” The emergence of tau neurofibrillary tangles reflects disease progression: they first manifest in the brain’s memory centers and then appear in other areas in the course of the disease. Tau proteins or tau aggregates probably migrate along nerve fibers and thereby contribute to the spreading of the disease throughout the brain.
Tau spreads more rapidly in aging brains
What is the role of aging in tau propagation? If the protein spread more easily in older brains, this could explain the increased susceptibility of older people to Alzheimer’s disease. Wegmann and her colleagues tested this hypothesis.
Using a “gene vector” — a tailored virus particle — the scientists channeled the blueprint of the human tau protein into the brains of mice. Individual cells then began to produce the protein. Twelve weeks later, the researchers examined how far the tau protein had travelled from the production site. “Human tau proteins spread about twice as fast in older mice as compared to younger animals,” Wegmann summarized the results.
The experimental part of the study was carried out in the laboratory of Bradley Hyman at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, where Susanne Wegmann worked for several years. In 2018, she moved to the DZNE’s Berlin site, where her research group addresses various questions on tau-related disease mechanisms. Here, the major part of data analysis and summarizing the results took place.
Healthy and pathological tau
The experimental setting also allowed the scientists to analyze tau propagation in more detail. The protein exists in a healthy, soluble form in every neuron of the brain. However, in Alzheimer’s disease, it can change its shape and convert into a pathological form prone to aggregate into fibrils. “It has long been thought that it is primarily the pathological form of tau that passes from one cell to the next. However, our results show that the healthy version of the protein also propagates in the brain and that this process increases in old age. Cells could also be harmed by receiving and accumulating large amounts of healthy tau,” said Wegmann.
The findings from the study raise a number of questions that Wegmann will now tackle with her research group at the DZNE: Which processes underlie the increased spreading of tau in the aging brain? Is too much tau protein produced or too little defective protein removed? Answering these questions may open up new therapeutic options in the long term.
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The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) is the physician practice of Duke Health. It is one of the first and the largest academic multi-specialty group practices in the United States.
The PDC is a member-led organization with 1,750 members, and is governed by a Board of Managers.
As a professional limited liability company (PLLC), the PDC owns and operates more than 120 primary care and specialty care clinics throughout central and eastern North Carolina. Through a diverse and integrated network of providers, patients have convenient, accessible and high quality primary and specialty care close to home.
In addition to patient care, PDC members conduct cutting-edge research and train the future health care workforce as faculty in the Duke University School of Medicine.
The PDC collaborates with other entities within the Duke University Health System to expand opportunities and advance Duke's clinical, research and academic missions.
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The State Historical Society of Missouri-Kansas City
Carter Home on 54th Street
Carter home on the south side of 54th Street, between Belinder Road (now Belinder Avenue) and Porter Road (now Mission Road). 54th Street in Kansas once ran directly east from the present intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and State Park Road. Although once part of Mission, Kansas, this area was developed by J. C. Nichols and incorporated as Fairway, Kansas.
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10 Years of the Millennium Development Goals -TEDxChange Event
More than 150 of the world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ will gather in New York this month for an event to mark 10 years of the Millennium Development Goals.
Staff Reporter | 6 September 2010 at 5:15 pm
The event, TEDxChange: The Future We Make, is co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and international Not for Profit, TED with satellite events around the world linking up with the main event in New York.
Satellite TEDxChange events will be held in 50 locations around the world, including an event in Brisbane. Local TEDx organisers will be hosting viewing parties and discussions coinciding with the live TEDxChange webcast. (Find out more about the Brisbane event here.)
After ten years of the Millennium Development Goals, the TEDxChange event poses the question – Where are we in the work to save and improve lives around the world? And what more needs to be done to ensure the health and well-being of future generations?
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says people live in a unique time in history, where technological advances and social innovations can help save millions of lives. She says TEDxCHange is a chance to share some of the incredible work being done.
The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development targets established by the United Nations. Accepted by world leaders in 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the goals seek to spur development by improving social and economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries. View the goals here.
Speakers at the TEDxChange event announced so far include:
Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Graca Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development. Machel is a renowned international advocate for women’s and children’s rights and has been a social and political activist for decades.
Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Foundation and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation. Through his work at Gapminder, Rosling co-developed the breakthrough software Trendalyzer, which converts international statistics into moving, interactive graphics representing global development trands.
Mechai Viravaidya, Founder and Chairman of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA).
Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew. Originally from Sierra Leione, this hip-hop group are known for speaking out against political and social injustices.
TED is a Not for Profit organisation, committed to ‘ideas worth spreading’, through a global set of conferences which are available for viewing free online – known as TED Talks. So far over 700 talks are available, and TED Talks have been watched more than 290 million times. TEDx events are independently organised events, co-hosted by TED, with a similar focus on showcasing the world’s leading thinkers and sparking deep discussion.
There will also be a Flickr campaign, enabling those who are unable to attend the sessions to get involved.
To find out how to take part in TEDxChange, click here.
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Survey Reveals Australian Attitudes to Torture in Conflict
Tuesday, 6th December 2016 at 3:05 pm
Indigenous Advocate Named 2016 Telstra Business Woman of the Year
Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 at 12:30 pm
Aussies Say Yes to Multiculturalism, Marriage Equality But No To Politics
Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 at 11:05 am
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Supreme Court Says Illegal Police Stops Are OK as Long as They Find an Outstanding Warrant Afterward
A couple of days ago the Supreme Court released its opinion in Utah v. Strieff. The facts of the case are pretty simple. Working from an anonymous tip about drug dealing, a police detective staked out a house and then randomly detained a man named Edward Strieff as he was leaving. He had no probable cause to do this, but he did it anyway. Then he demanded Strieff’s ID, ran a background check, and discovered that Strieff
had an outstanding warrant for a traffic violation. Bingo. That was enough to arrest him and conduct a search, which turned up some meth.
There’s no argument about whether the stop was valid. It wasn’t. It was plainly unlawful, and the officer who made the stop certainly knew that. However, the court ruled that the illegality of the stop was “attenuated” by the outstanding warrant. Here is Clarence Thomas’s astonishingly cavalier decision:
Officer Fackrell was at most negligent…. two good-faith mistakes…. lacked a sufficient basis to conclude that Strieff was a short-term visitor…. should have asked Strieff whether he would speak with him, instead of demanding that Strieff do so…. his conduct thereafter was lawful…. the warrant check was a “negligibly burdensome precautio[n]”…. search of Strieff was a lawful search incident to arrest…. no indication that this unlawful stop was part of any systemic or recurrent police misconduct.
….Strieff argues that, because of the prevalence of outstanding arrest warrants in many jurisdictions, police will engage in dragnet searches if the exclusionary rule is not applied. We think that this outcome is unlikely. Such wanton conduct would expose police to civil liability.
Nickel version: There’s no reason to think that Officer Fackrell knew he was acting unlawfully. And no reason to think that this kind of “innocent mistake” happens frequently. After all, this would expose police departmentd to civil liability, and history suggests that’s plenty to deter police from illegal conduct. And anyway, everything following the illegal conduct was just standard procedure. No need to be concerned about it.
This willful exercise in ivory tower fantasy is breathtaking. Does anyone seriously believe that Officer Fackrell just made an innocent mistake? That goes far beyond garden variety naivete. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently knows a little more about the real world than Thomas, wrote a blistering dissent:
To the Court, the fact that a warrant gives an officer cause to arrest a person severs the connection between illegal policing and the resulting discovery of evidence. This is a remarkable proposition: The mere existence of a warrant not only gives an officer legal cause to arrest and search a person, it also forgives an officer who, with no knowledge of the warrant at all, unlawfully stops that person on a whim or hunch…. Remember, the officer stopped Strieff without suspecting him of committing any crime. By his own account, the officer did not fear Strieff.
….The majority also posits that the officer could not have exploited his illegal conduct because he did not violate the Fourth Amendment on purpose…. Never mind that the officer’s sole purpose was to fish for evidence….. [But] even officers prone to negligence [note the obvious sarcasm here. –ed.] can learn from courts that exclude illegally obtained evidence. Indeed, they are perhaps the most in need of the education.
….Most striking about the Court’s opinion is its insistence that the event here was “isolated”… .nothing about this case is isolated. Outstanding warrants are surprisingly common…. The States and Federal Government maintain databases with over 7.8 million outstanding warrants, the vast majority of which appear to be for minor offenses…. The Department of Justice recently reported that in the town of Ferguson, Missouri, with a population of 21,000, 16,000 people had outstanding warrants against them.
….By legitimizing the conduct that produces this double consciousness, this case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time. It says that your body is
subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights. It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.
There’s more, and it’s worth reading. Sotomayor marshals a considerable amount of real-world evidence in her dissent. Thomas marshals none whatsoever. One justice just blandly assumes that this whole affair was a minor mistake that shouldn’t affect the end result. The other knows perfectly well that this kind of thing happens all the time; that it happens to some kinds of people more than others; and that by legitimizing it, the court is sending a message that fishing expeditions against suspicionless pedestrians are perfectly OK. Elena Kagan, if anything, is even more dumbfounded than Sotomayor by the court’s casual indifference to how the real world works:
The majority chalks up Fackrell’s Fourth Amendment violation to a couple of innocent “mistakes.” But far from a Barney Fife-type mishap, Fackrell’s seizure of Strieff was a calculated decision, taken with so little justification that the State has never tried to defend its legality. At the suppression hearing, Fackrell acknowledged that the stop was designed for investigatory purposes—i.e., to “find out what was going on [in] the house” he had been watching, and to figure out “what [Strieff] was doing there.” And Fackrell frankly admitted that he had no basis for his action except that Strieff “was coming out of the house.”
And Fackrell’s discovery of an arrest warrant—the only event the majority thinks intervened—was an eminently foreseeable consequence of stopping Strieff. As Fackrell testified, checking for outstanding warrants during a stop is the “normal” practice of South Salt Lake City police. In other words, the department’s standard detention procedures—stop, ask for identification, run a check—are partly designed to find outstanding warrants. And find them they will, given the staggering number of such warrants on the books.
Both the opinion and the dissents are remarkable pieces of writing. But the end result is clear. Police can now stop you in hopes of finding an outstanding warrant, and if they get lucky the Supreme Court says everything they do afterward is fine. This is exactly the kind of behavior the Supreme Court is supposed to stop, not the kind of behavior they’re supposed to excuse.
This will never affect me. It will never affect anyone on the court. But will it affect the poor and the nonwhite in far greater numbers than anyone else? Oh yes. But you’d have to care even slightly about how the real world works to be worried about that. Thomas and four others don’t.
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Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin
When Palin touts her book in Indiana, pro-lifers will be there—because they don’t believe she’s one of them.
Photo by flickr user <a href="Fourth Assessment Report">NewsHour</a> used under a <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a> license.
When she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin reportedly said that even if her then-14-year-old daughter were raped, she would “choose life” and force her to bear a child. Comments like that that have endeared the fiery Alaskan politician to most pro-life voters, who lionized her for not aborting her Down’s Syndrome baby. But Trig isn’t enough to protect Palin from a phalanx of anti-abortion activists who plan to protest her appearance on Thursday to promote her book in the conservative heartland of Indiana. Their reason? They think she’s not really pro-life.
For the Denver-based American Right to Life, when it comes to abortion, Palin is as impure as any godless feminist. “[H]er words and actions prove that she is officially pro-choice and stands against the God-given right to life of the unborn,” they write in a new report. ARTL members plan to educate reporters about Palin’s many alleged failings as a true believer, particularly her March nomination of a former Planned Parenthood board member to the Alaska Supreme Court and her refusal to call for a ban on the morning-after pill.
ARTL has claimed credit for ousting Mitt Romney from the 2008 presidential race by exposing his pro-life “conversion” as a fraud with TV ads in the key primary states of Iowa and South Carolina. The group has grown exponentially over the past two years since it split from the National Right to Life Committee over its belief that the evangelical powerhouse had sold out to the GOP by trading candidate endorsements for thousands of dollars worth of donations from the party.
Palin is emblematic of that compromised relationship, according to ARTL. “The pro-life movement has sunk to such a low level that if you don’t kill your own child you qualify as a leader,” says ARTL spokesman Bob Enyart, referring to Palin’s decision to give birth to Trig.
While it does not condone violence against abortion providers, ARTL may be the nation’s most radical anti-abortion group. It promotes the simple logic that “either abortion is murder or it’s not, and if it is, you don’t support those who’d kill some children,” says Enyart, explaining why they don’t like efforts by more established pro-life groups to simply regulate the practice with such restrictions as the partial-birth abortion ban. ARTL wants abortion to be a crime—and it doesn’t countenance compromise.
As a 527 group, ARTL cannot formally endorse candidates. But as Enyart points out with a chuckle, “We can’t say don’t vote for Mitt Romney, but you can say Romney is the son of the devil and if you vote for him you’ll go to hell.” The group’s president is Brian Rohrbough, who once served as the running mate to hardline conservative presidential contender Alan Keyes. (Rohrbough is perhaps better known for having lost a son in the Columbine massacre.)
One of the organization’s goals is to expose politicians who claim to be pro-life but fall short of supporting anything less than legal rights for the unborn and full criminalization of abortion. ARTL launched a new website this week called Prolife Profiles that prominently features a report calling Palin’s record on abortion “shocking to the conscience.” ARTL has given Palin a “Tier 4” designation that lumps her in with other allegedly fake pro-lifers like Romney, George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Rep. Ron Paul. Tier 4 members “use the pro-life title but deny the personhood and God-given right to life of the unborn.” By that measure, Palin has many strikes against her, according to ARTL, including:
* Her failure to endorse legislation and amendments that would extend equal protection laws to unborn children
* Her description of the morning after pill as contraception rather than an abortifacient
* Palin’s statement to the Anchorage Daily News that she opposes the “use of public funds for elective abortions.” This means, according to ARTL, that Palin supports taxpayer funding for non-elective abortions.
ARL takes particular offense at Palin’s belief that voters and individual states should decide whether abortion should be legal or not. “If you’re personally against slavery but say that the states have the right to decide if they can trade in slaves, then you’re a hypocrite,” explains Enyart.
One of Palin’s biggest violations of pro-life orthodoxy was her political partnership with John McCain, whom the National Right to Life Committee dubbed a “significant threat to future advances by the pro-life movement” back in 2000. (It endorsed him in 2008.) ARTL is also not happy that Palin and McCain supported stem cell research.
The group also blasts Palin for her position that public schools should teach evolution as “an accepted principle” (a belief she seems to have repudiated in her book, according to some leaked reports). This might seem to be a tangent for the group, but Enyart says creationism is central to the abortion issue. “We have the right to life from our creator. If we come from animals, you can kill one another without consequences. A fish can eat another fish and it’s not a crime.”
Enyart notes that ARTL has reserved a “tier one spot” for Palin in their rankings of public figures, provided she meets certain criteria. But he doubts she will ever improve her spot on their list. “When given a choice for a Supreme Court justice in Alaska between a radical environmentalist and a radical pro-abortionist, she prefers the pro-abortionist, which is at the heart and soul of the left,” he said. “If she was given a choice between KKK or PETA, who’s she going to choose?”
UPDATE: Twenty-four hours after ARTL posted its report on Palin’s pro-choice record, her political action committee responded by scrubbing any mention of the Alaska Supreme Court nominee from its website Tuesday. Read more about it here.
The Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights?
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Sarah Palin’s Purity Problem
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Guanipa: “In Zulia it is not known the exact number of people infected and killed by COVID-19”
“The growth of cases of coronavirus in Zulia is alarming. However, there is no certainty of how many people are contaminated because the right amount of molecular tests are not done, nor is the exact number of deaths known because the regime alters the outcomes in the death certificate,” denounced this Tuesday the First Vice President of the National Assembly, Juan Pablo Guanipa during his participation in the program Plan País, Zulia: A reality with a solution.
During his speech, Guanipa affirmed that Maduro’s dictatorship generates “false information” because “their interest is to have absolute control of the information” and not that the population be informed. In this sense, he said that only last weekend 15 people died at the University Hospital of Maracaibo and that in the region 7 doctors and 15 nurses have died, as well as instrumentalists and cases that have not been reported.
The National Assembly approved an agreement that recognizes the debts sustained with law firms that defend the assets of Venezuelans
AN condemns criminalization of journalistic activity and stands in solidarity with media outlets attacked by the dictatorship
Similarly, the deputy indicated that the neglect of Zulia as a border state has influenced the figures of COVID-19. “They had three months to address the quarantine, to improve Zulia’s hospitals, the number of beds and ICU units, to increase the number of respirators and they didn’t do it. It cannot be possible that the HUM, which is supposed to be the sentinel hospital, as they say, has 8 respirators for the whole population, this is absolutely unacceptable. So there has never been the possibility of treating the population that at the time could have been foreseen.
Regarding the Las Pulgas market, he said that this is an “underworld where too many people transit” and the regime did not have the foresight to deal with the transit of people, and especially traders, from Colombia to Maracaibo. He emphasized that “they should have made a plan with the merchants of Las Pulgas so that they would have an alternative, not just close the market because by doing so the problem is transferred to other spaces.”
On the other hand, he announced that the Interim Government obtained the entry of humanitarian aid, which will come to the Zulia region especially for the attention of the health sector.
Finally, he explained that the former mayor of Cabimas and political leader, Hernán Alemán, died on Tuesday from coronavirus in Bogotá after a stay in the Intensive Care Unit “because several pathologies arose, he was already very compromised, he had problems in his heart, lungs, he was undergoing dialysis”. So he sent a hug to his family and his party.
Tags: Asamblea NacionalCoronavirusCOVID-19Hernán AlemánJuan Pablo Guanipa
Congressman Olivares: Maduro preferred to buy voting machines than respirators and supplies to save lives and protect health personnel
Embajadora en Brasil celebró proceso de incorporación de Venezuela en la CAN
Deputy Paparoni: “The voice of journalism in Venezuela has been fading in the 21 years under a dictatorship”
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Vrykolakas: the greek bloodless Vampire.
Leo S 1 Jul 2020
The “undead dead” have always been an interesting aspect of global folklore. Many cultures seem to have at least a few popular creatures or mythic beings that are near to a Vampire. However, each culture seems to have its own “version” on the common creature.
I didn’t know the Greek Vrykolakas, whose journey from human to vampire, and their life afterwards, is really interesting.
While most vampire legends tend to involve drinking human blood as part of the mythos, in Greece, it does not. A person doesn’t become a Vrykolakas by being bitten, and one can become one of these creatures fairly simply: it is said that if you live a sacrilegious life, were excommunicated, or were buried in unconsecrated ground that you run the risk of joining the undead. Of course, there is one more curious way to become a Vrykolakas…by eating mutton that was previously injured or eaten by a werewolf (!!!)
The word “Vrykolakas” itself derived form the older Slavic term “vblk’b dlaka”, meaning wolf pelt wearer.
The earliest uses of the word seem to be around the mid-1600s. In 1645, Leo Allatius wrote: “The vrykolakas is an evil and wicked person who may have been excommunicated by a bishop. Its body swells up so that all its limbs are distended, it is hard, and when tapped it thrums like a drum.” It has also been reported, along with the rise of the Greek Orthodox Church, that the Vrykolakas had to do with evil (or the devil) inhabiting a body of the already-dead, causing it to move.
One story about these creatures was also told by Phlegon, a freedman who lived during the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. About six months after her death, Philinnon, the daughter of Demostratus and Charito, had been observed entering into the room of a young guest named Machates. When Charito questioned Machates the next morning about his visitor, he admitted that the girl’s name was Philinnon. He then showed them the accessories she had left behind: a ring and a breast band. The parents immediately recognized the objects as belonging to their late daughter. The next night, Philinnon again came to Machates’ room, but this time, her parents, anxious to see her, dropped in. Philinnon reprimanded them for interrupting her time with Machates. She had been given three nights with him, but because they interfered, she would die again. Before their eyes, her body once again turned into a corpse.
Phlegon was a town official called to keep the rumor of Philinnon’s revival hushed up before it spread all over town. Upon examination of her burial vault, he found several gifts she had taken from her visit with Machates, but no body. A local wise man advised that the body be burned and given the appropriate purification rituals and propitiatory rites to the deities.
If the Vrykolakas does not turn people with a bite, it would spread death through disease.
In order to draw people out, it would knock on doors, only to disappear if the person answered on the first knock, but that person would then be condemned to death soon after and would become a vrykolakas themselves. The legend lingers to this day: a traditional Greek household will only open the door upon the second knock!
However, it also seems that not all Vrykolakas wanted to kill everyone they came into contact with. Sometimes, they were people who had died unfortunate or violent deaths and had to attend to some unfinished business, and you can get rid of a Vrykolakas much the same way you’d get rid of an Eastern European vampire – a stake through the heart, some kind of impaling, cremating the corpse, etc. Sometimes also an exorcism is also said to work….
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RENCI encourages North Carolina middle school and high school students to pursue research in the areas of engineering and computing through its sponsorship of the Innovation and Technology Award for North Carolina Science and Engineering Regional Fairs.The award recognizes students whose projects demonstrate high standards in technology and/or engineering, giving special consideration to projects that increase public awareness of the integration of computer science and computing technologies used in energy and transportation and/or environmental sciences. The winners receive an award certificate and an iPod Nano.
RENCI collaborates with its engagement centers to sponsors these awards regionally. RENCI partners with RENCI at East Carolina University for the award at the Northeast Region Science Fair (Region 1), RENCI at the University of North Carolina Charlotte at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Science Fair (Region 6b), and with RENCI at the University of North Carolina Asheville for the award at the Western Regional Science Fair (Region 8).
Due to budget cuts, no awards were issued in 2010. However, we anticipate that the award program will resume in 2011.
2009 RENCI Innovation and Technology Award Winners:
Kyle Decker, Hendersonville High School, Hendersonville, NC, for his project, “Paper Plane Dynamics.”
Olivia Palmer, Hendersonville High School, for her project, “Up, Up and Away.”
Amber Adams and Kavirath Jain, Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy, Charlotte, NC, for their project, “Landslide.”
Sarah Dellana, Conley High School, Greenville, NC for her project, “Designing an Energy Efficient Switch.”
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RENCI at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute
Karen Green, project leader
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Lenore C. Pranzo has a background in substance abuse, mental health and adolescent counseling. She has a Masters degree from Fairfield University in Marriage and Family Therapy, a Masters in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and a Bachelors degree in Finance from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.
She has worked with Liberation Programs in Stamford, Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT and most recently at Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services in Westport, CT. Prior to a career in Therapy she worked for 10 years in corporate roles and human resources management. She is a clinical member of both the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the Connecticut Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and has been in private practice since 2005.
Her areas of experience are:
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Nude Model Army
By Citizen M | Published: July 20, 2011
I know we have already mentioned Putin’s Army, the viral video phenomenon in which young women pledge their allegiance to the Prime Minister with displays of bare flesh, but since the story appears to have legs (if you’ll forgive the pun), here’s some background on this headline-grabbing, depressingly retrograde, doubtless man-made homage to Russia’s Alpha Dog. Are these women playing more than the proverbial Barbie to Putin’s Ken? From Russia Profile:
There is little likelihood that the piece was directly commissioned or approved by the premier, said Alexander Morozov, the director of the Center for Media Research at the Institute of Cultural History and an influential blogger on politics, but other small groups working independently are the usual suspects. Politically, he said, the piece was indicative of the different strategies that attract different age groups to the premier. “This is an attempt to use sexuality to attract a young audience, in particular young women,” he said.
The piece is just one of dozens of ad campaigns and public stunts that have seized on Putin’s popularity in months and years past. Publicity stunts have included official shirtless photo shoots of Putin riding horses and fishing, renegade appearances on recent advertisements dressed like James Bond or in a local high end shopping center’s seasonal collection, or a number of women singing the chorus to Blueberry Hill in front of the White House in Moscow (police initially tried to interfere, but quickly fell back and allowed them to finish).
Yet more than any other, the piece resonates with last year’s release of a racy catalogue featuring students from Moscow State University’s Faculty of Journalism. Promoted as a gift to the prime minister for his birthday, 12 journalism students in lingerie posed as pin-ups with speech bubbles containing text like “Vladimir Vladimirovich, how about a third time?”
The catalogue earned its creator, Vladimir Tabak, controversy, and a retaliatory anti-Putin catalogue with other, fully-dressed journalism students asking Vladimir Vladimirovich “Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?” With his follow up piece, a reality series called ZhurFak taped on location at the Journalism Department, he has further angered the university and established himself as a strict adherent to the maxim “sex sells.”
Tabak told Russia Profile that he had no part in producing “I Tear for Putin” and said that comparisons between the two projects were superficial. “Why people are connecting our projects is clear. We had girls in the calendar, and [in “I rip for Putin”] the pretty girls in the clip are ripping their shirts. But all the same, we were never a political project, whereas these girls want the president to have a third term.” When it was noted that all the women in the calendar had similar political orientations supporting Putin, he said: “if you’re going to give a birthday present, it makes sense that they would be saying positive things.”
He further argued that the video could have been put together for a fairly small sum of money, making it possible that the project was an individual initiative and not funded by pro-Putin youth groups. “This project is just a personal reminder of how attractive the prime minister is to young women, and I don’t think it was professionally produced. I don’t think that this project was created by the White House.”
Yet the project is growing. On the Internet, the video has now gone viral. “I Tear for Putin” is closing in on a million views on YouTube, while the VKontakte page for the group has several thousand fans (and was closed down today due to a spam attack). The organizers of the group, who remain unknown, have further called for a demonstration on July 22 in central Moscow in order for young women to show just “how cool YOU are and how great YOUR president is.”
To sweeten the deal for potential “rippers,” the organizers of the project are offering the winner of the contest a brand new iPad 2. High-tech devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops are all prominently featured in the advertisement. The logic behind the move is simple, as the devices have recently gained popularity especially among young audiences.
Yet there’s also perhaps a slight “touch of irony,” noted Morozov, as Medvedev, a possible candidate for president, has a famous predilection for Apple products. To wit: yesterday at an open forum with Angela Merkel, Medvedev emerged with his trademark iPad and, when the moderator noticed the device, responded “modernization is modernization.” The comparison here is Putin’s reputation as a strong, physical man as compared to Medvedev’s attraction to these devices, said Morozov.
Read all here.
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Today in Russian Business
By Citizen M | Published: January 24, 2008
It is being reported that France has unfrozen one of the Russian Central Bank‘s accounts in French commercial banks, frozen as part of a lawsuit by Swiss trading firm Noga. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says that Russia, “a sufficiently stable region for investment”, and other countries with large gold and currency reserves could help the world economy weather the current crisis. He says that Russia would come to be seen as “an island of stability.” The CEO of Merrill Lynch has warned that Russia is not immune to the crisis. “Even though we do see great growth in Russia and India, China and Brazil, I think that none of those markets are immune to a global slowdown,” he said. The organizers of the 11th Russian Economic Forum are rebranding the London-based event in an apparent attempt to rekindle interest in the annual gathering after many of last year’s participants pulled out at the last minute. Vimpelcom, Russia’s second-largest cell phone operator, is concerned that significant deterioration in the markets could threaten a $4.3 billion planned acquisition of fixed-line compatriot Golden Telecom. Peter Hambro Mining, the second-largest producer of gold in Russia, said it will achieve annual production of 1 million ounces a year later than previously planned.
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42, august 28, baseball, black panther, Chadwick bosemann, Jackie Robinson, march on washington, Martin Luther King, MLK
Life And Death Of Jackie Robinson
42: The ultimate answer to life, the Universe and everything.
42: The uniform number worn by Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson died today. . .again.
I was sad when COVID cancelled baseball games on April 15. On that day in 1947 a young rookie named Jackie Robinson stepped in to play 1st base for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the era of integrated baseball had begun.
Robinson was a rare talent. He won Rookie of the Year honors and today the award is named in his honor. An even greater honor is that every year on April 15, every baseball club wears #42. Not just one player, but every player, every manager, every coach. They all put on number 42, “so we can’t tell them apart.”
Robinson’s number 42 has been retired by every baseball club in the Major Leagues. No MLB player will ever again wear number 42. The last one to wear it was the great Mariano Rivera. He is the only player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame unanimously. Not even the great Jackie Robinson earned that honor. He earned 78% of the vote on the first ballot.
Baseball decided that Jackie Robinson day wasn’t something that we had to miss this year. Sure, we can’t hold it on the anniversary of his first game. Instead it was held today August 28.
I’m not sure if MLB picked this date on purpose. But, in 1968, 21 years after Robinson made his MLB debut, on August 28, another black man stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and told us that he had a dream for America.
Yes, today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a Dream” speech. It’s one of the greatest speeches ever spoken. It’s so much more than the “I have a dream” phrase. It speaks of a check that America wrote to its black citizens. And that check came back marked Insufficient Funds.
MLK’s soaring oratory takes us from the hills of Stone Mountain, GA, to Colorado, to New York. It’s a speech full of hope. Yes, and dreams, but mostly a call to action to be better than we have been.
Today is the anniversary of that speech, the culimination of his March on Washington.
It seems fitting that MLB would choose today to honor Jackie Robinson. His leadership helped Major league baseball integrate decades before the rest of the country followed suit.
It was nice to see the Mariners and the California Angels take the field today all wearing 42 with no names.
And if that’s all that happened today, it would be a great day to remember baseball, Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King. Perhaps, I’d compare Doctor King’s quest for racial justice with today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
But, it’s not all that happened.
The movie “42” was one of the most entertaining Jackie Robinson movies. The brilliant actor Chadwick Bosemann played Robinson and he literally become the great ball player. He movements, even how he dangled his fingers before stealing a base.
It was a masterful movie and Bosemann did an equally masterful job.
Today, at the age of 42, Chadwich Bosemann died. Jackie was a few years older at 53 when he died of a heart attack. It was colon cancer that killed Bosemann.
He is probably best known for his role in Black Panther. But, to me he will always be the person who allowed me to watch Jackie Robinson.
RIP Jackie, and Bosemann.
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A little knowledge can get one’s self smacked, as was some of this information from your previous posts on Jackie Robinson.
Me (the non-sports fan) to my Wife (rabid hockey and baseball fan) on seeing 42 on a baseball player as she turns on the game, “wasn’t that number retired except for one day a year when all wear it? but I thought that was earlier in the season” (yes, knowledge I learned from a Rodney post). My wife was skeptical (cause I’m the non-fan and she is) and had to check up about it. On finding that I was right, she smacks me on the arm cause I’m not supposed to know this stuff 😉
Thank you for broadening my knowledge, so much fun even among the related sadness.
42 is such an answer, and clues us that we are really in a base 13 universe since that is how that equation actually works, much to Douglas Adams consternation.
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Sorry to get you smacked, but happy I got it right.
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Georg Baselitz & Emilio Vedova, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, 2015
Georg Baselitz & Emilio Vedova
23 May—11 July 2015
Salzburg Villa Kast
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A double exhibition combining a new series of works by Georg Baselitz with works from the 1980s by Emilio Vedova.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the collaboration between the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova and the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Our first joint project will be a double exhibition combining a new series of works by Georg Baselitz with works from the 1980s by Emilio Vedova. The Venetian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) was one of the most prominent representatives of Italian informel. He first took part in the Venice Biennale in 1947, and devoted his whole life to the development of non-representational painting. Works by Vedova were shown at exhibitions including the legendary documenta exhibitions I, II and III (1955, 59 and 64) in Kassel. By the end of the 1950s, Vedova had become established in the international art scene as a classic of abstract painting. From the beginning of the 1980s, Vedova became an important integrative figure for an up-and-coming generation of neo-expressive artists – as was demonstrated in 1982 by his renewed participation in documenta (7),...
It is with great pleasure that we announce the collaboration between the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova and the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Our first joint project will be a double exhibition combining a new series of works by Georg Baselitz with works from the 1980s by Emilio Vedova.
The Venetian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) was one of the most prominent representatives of Italian informel. He first took part in the Venice Biennale in 1947, and devoted his whole life to the development of non-representational painting. Works by Vedova were shown at exhibitions including the legendary documenta exhibitions I, II and III (1955, 59 and 64) in Kassel. By the end of the 1950s, Vedova had become established in the international art scene as a classic of abstract painting.
From the beginning of the 1980s, Vedova became an important integrative figure for an up-and-coming generation of neo-expressive artists – as was demonstrated in 1982 by his renewed participation in documenta (7), as well as by many publications and solo exhibitions in the ensuing years.
"The central contrast between the two non-colours black and white is a decisive characteristic of Vedova's œuvre [...]. This polarisation, later often complemented by a further strong colour such as red or blue, complies with an inherent wish for clarity of expression, and prevents blurring into diverse nuances. Moreover, the black levels enhance the intensity of the overall effect, defining the formal orientation, which might otherwise easily be obscured by colour values" (Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, 1986). In this context, the contrast with American-style Abstract Expressionism is interesting: while Jackson Pollock, for instance, introduced in his Drippings a neutralising element, so that the work in its overall structure could be continued indefinitely, Vedova remains at the centre of the picture, the dimensions of which are always accessible to him, in keeping with the size of his own body. Characteristic of Vedova's painting is l’ubiquità del centro, the omnipresent centre.
This concentration on the centre is also an important aspect of Georg Baselitz's new series Ma grigio. "Each picture shows two pairs of legs, vaguely suggested in blurred shades of grey on a black ground, attempting a wild but spasmodic dance. They are cut off above the calves, and the feet are in high-heeled shoes. This 'windmill commotion', alternating between cheerful exuberance and expressionless staccato, is abruptly stopped, since the edges of the pictures prevent uninterrupted rotation. Here Baselitz pushes the abstraction of the figurative to a new level. If previously, despite alterations, the unity of the figure was to a certain extent retained, here it has become obsolete. It can no longer be made to fit a definable form with some relation to reality; the individual parts become ciphers for a purely notional idea. The centre of the picture, where the legs would have to collide, remains vague, sometimes lightly covered by pale grey, runny streaks of paint, sometimes appearing like a dark opening" (Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, 2015).
Baselitz’s unusual chain of association for this series ranges from Lucio Fontana's Attese pictures dating from the 1950s and '60s, through Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (1866), right up to the Mexican dancers and Frida Kahlo. On the other hand, this series is based on Baselitz's intensive reflection on the "problem of the empty centre" in scenes of the Annunciation from past centuries.
The foot, the dominant (and isolated) element in the new series, has been a leitmotiv in Baselitz's work since the 1960s. The disembodied feet reminiscent of Théodore Géricault, the feet crammed into tiny shoes in the New Types, Edvard Munch's feet in the series Spaziergang ohne Stock [Walking without a stick], the huge cowboy boots, the high heels of the recent monumental wood and bronze sculptures, and so on. "Feet are my earth wire. For me the earth connection is more important than the transmission. For me the reception via an earth wire is much better than through an antenna – perhaps I've got more in common with the trolls than the angels, who knows? Funnily enough, I also paint crouched down; I walk across the paintings" (Georg Baselitz, 2006).
Baselitz and Vedova first met in Berlin in the early 1960s. At that time, Vedova had received a grant from the DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] and was working on his 7-part installation Absurd Berlin Diary, in line with Dadaist examples. Baselitz and Vedova shared not only a long-standing, intensive friendship, but also appreciation of each other's artistic approach. Baselitz had already purchased a work by Vedova in 1957, through the Galerie Springer, which represented both artists and held Vedova's first solo exhibition in Berlin that year. Baselitz recounts: "I bought a picture by Emilio, his Universal Manifesto (1957) [...] as a document, my first view through the west window in Berlin, an abstract […] and all the heart could desire. With regard to this picture, people kept telling me Franz Kline was better – but he isn't! [...] Emilio loved ambushes, he was a partisan, he loved the revolution, the grand gesture, Expressionism, and me. But I'm not an Expressionist, and I despise the revolution; at best, we can produce paintings, maybe even some good ones. I used to make fun of him, and he'd look at me in bewilderment. Annabianca understood everything better" (Georg Baselitz, 2007). After Vedova's death in 2006, Baselitz made a series of black-and-white tributes to Emilio Vedova (Omaggio a Vedova), first shown in the Venice Pavilion at the 2007 Biennale, in combination with three-dimensional works by Vedova. This was the origin of the idea for the Salzburg project. In 2008, the Berlinische Galerie also held an exhibition of works by both artists.
Emilio Vedova had a special relationship with the town of Salzburg. Every year from 1965 to 69 he directed master classes in painting at the Salzburg International Summer Academy, and during this period he also influenced the cultural life of the town. In 1988, the Künstlerhaus held a solo exhibition of his work, which attracted widespread notice.
A book with an essay by Carla Schulz-Hoffmann will accompany the exhibition.
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Emilio Vedova
Oltre - 3 (Ciclo I 1985), 1985
Water paint, pastel colour and nitro laquer on canvas
Da Dove (1983 – II), 1983
Paint on canvas
Rosso '84, 1984
Il tempo sempre bello, anche bello un cano, 2015
(118,11 x 66,93 in)
Viola da gamba, suona, 2015
(73,23 x 45,28 in)
Viva le piramidi, 2015
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Sarah Ockler is the bestselling author of six young adult novels: Twenty Boy Summer, Fixing Delilah, Bittersweet, The Book of Broken Hearts, #scandal, and The Summer of Chasing Mermaids. Her books have been translated into several languages and have received numerous accolades, including ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, Girls’ Life Top 100 Must Reads, Indie Next List, Amazon Top Movers and Shakers, and nominations for YALSA Teens’ Top Ten and NPR’s Top 100 Teen Books. Her short works have appeared in the anthologies Dear Teen Me and Defy the Dark.
She’s a champion cupcake eater, tea drinker, tarot enthusiast, night person, and bookworm. When she’s not writing or reading at home in the Pacific northwest, Sarah enjoys hugging trees and road-tripping through the country with her husband, Alex. Fans can find her on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and at sarahockler.com.
I bought my first tarot deck in 2008 as research for Fixing Delilah. In that book, Delilah’s aunt reads cards, so I wanted a better understanding. Now, several years (and decks) later, I’m still hooked. I even do tarot readings for my characters, my writing goals, and to help me out of sticky plot issues. Tarot cards also make an appearance in The Summer of Chasing Mermaids.
In my world, guacamole is always a good idea. Unless it comes in a jar. Jarred guacamole is never a good idea.
I entered college intending to study criminal justice, thinking I’d become a juvenile defender. But late in my junior year when the clock was ticking on declaring a major, I was waffling. Uncertain and confused, waiting for my turn in the admin office to make that big declaration, I randomly grabbed a brochure from the rack on the major degrees offered. It said, “Majoring in COMMUNICATION!” in very successful-looking font. With nothing else to go on, I picked it. That’s why I have a degree in Communication.
My favorite cuisine is Indian. I could seriously live on it. But this summer I moved to a town with zero Indian restaurants! There was one when we visited last fall, but it has since closed down. Had I known this, we may have altered our moving course. Now I’m going to have to learn how to cook it properly!
I haven’t spoken French since high school, but sometimes I dream in French. I never know what’s going on in those dreams, but I think it’s a sign that someone wants to send me on an all-expenses paid trip to France. Anyone?
My first car was a 1985 Toyota Celica GT with 130,000 miles on it. It had those pop-up headlights, which was cool, but one was fused upright, so it was always winking, and there was a hole in the gas tank so I could only fill up 1/4 tank at a time, which was less cool.
I can’t stand cheap chocolate. I mean, I’ll eat it if that’s all there is, because CHOCOLATE, but still. And don’t even come near me with that Hershey’s Syrup, trying to pass it off as fudge. Just, no.
I’m a bookworm, but I don’t keep many books. My shelves are stocked with a few old favorites and reference books. So if you come to my house and scan my shelves trying to get an idea of the kind of person I am, you’ll be misled (I totally do that in people’s homes, BTW).
Once I decided to get serious about writing, the first writing class I took was on memoir and personal essay. Then I wrote a YA novel called Twenty Boy Summer, which really got people wondering! It’s not a true story though. Mostly not. At least 40% not.
I collect sea glass, rocks, and pigs. Not real pigs. But real rocks and sea glass. I have a lucky three-legged writing pig named Chancho who sits by my computer when I’m drafting a new project. Chancho understands my process.
How long have you been writing? Did you always want to be an author?
I started writing stories and poems back when I was still losing teeth and wearing tank tops without a bra. As for wanting to be an author, sure, that was always the dream –- but it was just that. A dream like becoming a princess without royal ties or an astronaut without NASA training. I didn’t think it was possible to become a real author until I was in the midst of completing TWENTY BOY SUMMER, and my husband helped me see the truth: that I am a writer, and that becoming an author is my dream, and the only one who can stop me from achieving it is me.
Who or what first inspired you to become a writer?
You know how they say it takes a village to raise a child? My writing inspiration is kind of like that. When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to read anything I wanted, and to write my own stories (after I tried to get them to find a publisher for my E.T. fan fiction, circa 1982). Then, to cope with the horribleness of high school, I carried a journal everywhere I went, which became kind of a therapist and taught me how to observe and write in specifics. I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to other writers whose storytelling drew me into new worlds and made me want to create that same feeling for others.
But the biggest influence on my writing (and actually taking the steps to become a published author) was and continues to be my husband, Alex. One of the first times we hung out, he asked me if I was a writer. He saw it in me — the way I wrote emails, the stories I told, the way I’d get so excited talking about writing or books. Years later, when I was struggling with a full time job, graduate school, and trying to finish Twenty Boy Summer, wondering whether business school was the right path for me, Alex reminded me with this phrase: “You’re a writer.” Sounds simple, but I needed to hear it. I got off the corporate treadmill and finished my book. And now, whenever I’m struggling or doubting myself, Alex reminds me, again, “You’re a writer.” He makes me laugh every day too, which is important, and he accepts my writerly neurosis. It’s not easy living with me!
The point is, whatever your dream, all you really need is one person to really, truly believe in you, to support you, to hold your hand on the journey. And guess what? You can be that one person for yourself. It’s true. I’m so fortunate to have Alex in my life, but never doubt that you can be your own cheerleader and best friend.
What is your favorite part of the writing process?
I really love coming up with new ideas, because it’s always fun and exciting to work on a fresh and limitless blank page. But I think the part I get most excited about is the revision process, because it’s in revising that the truest core of the story comes through, stripping away the excess to reveal the jewel of a book beneath. At least, that’s the goal of revision, anyway. But whether I’m revising for an early agent draft or alongside an editorial letter, I find that revision is when I finally figure out what the book is really about, and it’s a great moment.
What’s the most difficult part of the writing process for you?
Finishing. Seriously. I’m so obsessive, constantly questioning whether I used the right words, said the right things, described everything in a way that perfectly translates what’s in my head to what goes into the readers’ heads. Finishing is scary and painful, and whenever I send a manuscript to my editor, it’s like I have to really talk myself into hitting that send button, even if I know I’ll have another chance to make changes. It’s a long road. The last mile is always the hardest, right? And my second favorite part, on a less philosophical note — writing the synopsis. I’m always like, “Well, it’s about this girl, and… stuff happens…”
Who are some of your favorite authors or literary influences?
Writing is so powerful… I truly feel that I take something from every author I read, whether fiction or nonfiction, young adult or middle grade or adult, science fiction or romance or… anything! But the authors who’ve most directly influenced my writing, both motivationally and stylistically, are:
Jack Kerouac. His writing style is so full of life and soul and experience and craziness… reading his work is like going on a whirlwind trip where you don’t stop seeing and tasting and doing and just being until the very last day, and then you totally crash! His voice comes through with such passion and authenticity that I can’t help but be inspired (even though he pretty much burned out and drank himself to death. Um, don’t try this at home. But do read his books!).
Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I admire these diarists for the truth, beauty, and raw intensity of their writing. They were not afraid to be honest, sharing their private pains and joys with the world through their journals and letters. Each of them touched me in such profound ways that I become re-energized to write just from reading a few passages of their works. In fact, whenever I see one of Nin’s dairies in a used bookstore, whatever edition, I buy it — even if I already have the same one at home.
J.R.R. Tolkein. A master story-teller, world-builder, and creative thinker from whom writers can’t help but learn.
Sarah Dessen, Deb Caletti, and Laurie Halse Anderson. When I first started seriously exploring teen literature in a YA novel class as an adult, I studied these contemporary YA authors and was so inspired by their voices, character development, and head-on tackling of tough issues that I knew without hesitation that I wanted to write in this genre myself. I continue to look to these modern YA masters for literary guidance as they continue to reach out and connect with audiences through their compelling characters and stories.
Maggie Stiefvater. She’s an author I’ve only recently discovered, and now I devour her words, her complex storytelling, the way she makes everything feel like a little bit of magic. There’s something truly special about her stories, and I continue to study them and the writerly wisdom she’s shared on her blog.
What are some of your favorite YA books?
The list is ever-growing, but right now, here are some of the top contenders:
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Things We Know by Heart and In Honor by Jessi Kirby
The Raven Boys series by Maggie Stiefvater
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
The Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Red Glass by Laura Resau
The Season by Sarah MacLean
Everything ever written by Deb Caletti
I’m doing a book report on your book. Can you tell me your birthday / age / personal stuff about your family / the theme of your book?
I’m thrilled that you chose one of my books for your report–thank you! But, please let your teacher know that I don’t share personal information for any reason (and I encourage teachers to stop making this a requirement for book reports on contemporary authors). I’m also not going to do your homework for you (unless you want to write a book proposal for me, then maybe we can work out a trade)!
For more information about the book, including behind the scenes info and trivia, check out that book’s page on this site (under the “Books” tab). If you have a few other questions, and at least a few weeks before your assignment is due, please get in touch and I’ll do my best to answer!
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Festivals / France / French Radio / Past Daily / Past Daily Mid-Week Concert / Piano Recital / Radio
Jean-Philippe Collard - The Dean of French Pianists.
Jean-Philippe Collard Plays Music Of Faurè, Wagner, Liszt And Chopin In Recital At Salle Rameau, Lyon – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
by gordonskene · Nov 6, 2013
Jean-Philippe Collard – The Dean of French Pianists.
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Over to France this week for a concert by the legendary Jean-Phillipe Collard in recital at the 2013 Piano Season festival in Lyon. The concert was recorded at the Salle Rameau by the always-present/ever-faithful Radio France Musique on October 11th and features music of Faurè, Wagner, Liszt and Chopin.
He is considered one of the greatest exponents of the French school. Collard made his American debut in 1973 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa. The performance was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle.
A prolific recording artist with more than thirty titles to his credit, Collard’s discography includes Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux and the Brahms Hungarian Dances (with pianist Michel Beroff), both named Stereo Review’s Record of the Year in their respective years; the Ravel concerti with Lorin Maazel and the Orchestre National de France, cited by Gramophone magazine as Best Concerto Recording; and the Chausson Concert, Op. 21 (with Augustin Dumay and the Muir String Quartet) which won the Grand Prix du Disque. He has recorded all five Saint-Saëns piano concerti with André Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the first recordings of Mozart’s arrangements of the six French melodies with baritone José van Dam. Other recordings include a disc of Chopin’s Ballades and his third sonata, and a Liszt recital disc including the B minor sonata.
He is the Artistic Director of the Flâneries musicales de Reims.
Here’s what’s on the player:
1. Gabriel Fauré
Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor Op.26 (1881)
Nocturne No. 6 in D flat major Op.63 (1894)
Ballade in F sharp major Op.19 (1877-1879)
2. Franz Liszt
St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Water No. 2, Ext. Two legends of S 175 (1863)
3. Franz Liszt / Wagner
Death of Isolde S 447 (1859)
4. Chopin
24 Preludes Op.28 (1838, 1839)
5. (encore) Robert Schumann / Liszt Widmung (Devotion – Rückert)
Jean-Philippe Collard , piano
This is a really nice and thoroughly enjoyable concert. And Collard is in top form.
Guaranteed to take the blood-pressure down several notches while listening.
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Google Patent | Shake Event Detection System
作者 映维 · 分类 Google · 2020年08月27日 22:28:51
Patent: Shake Event Detection System
Publication Date: 20200827
Applicants: Google
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing a user interface action are provided. In one embodiment, an example method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with a user interface. The method further includes detecting, by the one or more computing devices, a shake event associated with the user interface based at least in part on the motion of the virtual camera. The method further includes performing, by the one or more computing devices, an action associated with the user interface based at least in part on the detected shake event.
[0001] The present disclosure relates generally to user interactions with a user interface, and more particularly to performing a user interface action upon detection of a shake event associated with the user interface.
[0002] User devices can include motion sensors to detect movement associated with the device. For instance, a mobile phone may include an accelerometer that is configured to detect the movement of the mobile phone. In some cases, the movement detected by the accelerometer can be used to perform a task associated with the device. For example, a software application may scroll to the next song in a playlist after the accelerometer detects movement of the mobile device. However, repeated movement of a device can increase the risk of potential damage to the device. Moreover, inclusion of such motion sensors can increase hardware cost, while also using valuable processing and power resources.
[0003] Aspects and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure will be set forth in part in the following description, or may be learned from the description, or may be learned through practice of the embodiments.
[0004] One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of performing a user interface action. The method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with a user interface. The method includes detecting, by the one or more computing devices, a shake event associated with the user interface based at least in part on the motion of the virtual camera. The method includes performing, by the one or more computing devices, an action associated with the user interface based at least in part on the detected shake event.
[0005] Another example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a computing system for performing a user interface action. The computing system includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with a user interface. The operations include identifying one or more virtual camera manipulation patterns associated with the virtual camera based at least in part on the user input. The operations include detecting a shake event associated with the user interface based at least in part on the virtual camera manipulation patterns. The operations include performing an action associated with the user interface based at least in part on the detected shake event.
[0006] Yet another example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a user device including a display device, one or more processors, and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include presenting a user interface via the display device. The operations include receiving data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with the user interface. The operations include detecting a shake event associated with the user interface based at least in part on the motion of the virtual camera. The operations include performing an action associated with the user interface based at least in part on the detected shake event.
[0007] Other example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media, user interfaces, memory devices, and electronic devices for providing performing a user interface action.
[0008] These and other features, aspects and advantages of various embodiments will become better understood with reference to the following description and appended claims. The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the related principles.
[0009] Detailed discussion of embodiments directed to one of ordinary skill in the art are set forth in the specification, which makes reference to the appended figures, in which:
[0010] FIG. 1 depicts an example system according to example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0011] FIGS. 2A-C depict example user interfaces according to example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0014] FIG. 5 depicts an example virtual reality system according to example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0015] FIG. 6 depicts a flow diagram of an example method according to example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0016] FIG. 7 depicts a flow diagram of an example method according to example embodiments of the present disclosure;* and*
[0017] FIG. 8 depicts an example system according to example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0018] Reference now will be made in detail to embodiments, one or more example(s) of which are illustrated in the drawings. Each example is provided by way of explanation of the embodiments, not limitation of the present disclosure. In fact, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the scope or spirit of the present disclosure. For instance, features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment can be used with another embodiment to yield a still further embodiment. Thus, it is intended that aspects of the present disclosure cover such modifications and variations.
[0019] Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to performing a user interface action due to the detection of a shake event directed to the user interface. For instance, a user device can present a user interface for display via a display device. The user interface can be, for example, a rendering of a three-dimensional geographic map user interface (e.g., Google Maps, Google Earth). To interact with the user interface, a user can provide user input directed to a virtual camera that dictates the view being presented within the user interface. For example, a user can grab and drag the map interface via a cursor to manipulate the motion of the virtual camera to show different geographic areas within the user interface. The user device can monitor the virtual camera manipulation patterns to help detect the occurrence of a shake event, whereby the user input causes the motion of the virtual camera to “shake” (e.g., in a side-to-side manner, up-and-down manner, circular manner). The user input can create a shake event simply by interacting with the user interface, rather than physically moving the user device itself to trigger physical motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes). When the user device detects a shake event, the user device can perform an action associated with the user interface. For example, the user device can remove place location identifiers (e.g., pins) currently displayed on the geographic map interface. In this way, the user device can perform actions based on intuitive user inputs directed to an interface’s virtual camera, without using physical motion sensors.
[0020] More particularly, a user device can present a user interface (e.g., via a display device) for a user of the user device. The user device can include a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a tablet, a phone, etc. In some implementations, the user device can be associated with a virtual reality system (e.g., a virtual reality headset). The user interface can include, for example, a rendering of a three-dimensional map interface. In some implementations, the map interface can include one or more place location identifier(s) such as icons, pins, arrows, etc. that designate one or more location(s) on the map interface. For instance, the map interface can include an icon that indicates the location of a corporate headquarters office. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the map interface may present information associated with that location via an element (e.g., information card) overlaid the map interface.
[0021] The user interface can be associated with a virtual camera that allows a user to navigate and control the view presented in the user interface. For example, a user can navigate through a three-dimensional environment presented by the user interface to display three-dimensional data. The three-dimensional environment can include a virtual camera that defines what three-dimensional data to display. The virtual camera can have a perspective according to its position and/or orientation. By changing the position, orientation, zoom, etc. of the virtual camera, a user can navigate through the three-dimensional environment presented by the user interface. By way of example, the three-dimensional environment can include a substantially spherical three-dimensional model of the Earth (e.g., rendered using satellite and/or other imagery). The user device can receive data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of the virtual camera associated with the user interface. For instance, the user input can grab and drag the user interface (e.g., via a cursor) to cause motion of the virtual camera. In this way, the virtual camera can be manipulated to view the spherical three-dimensional model of the Earth from different perspectives.
[0022] The user device can monitor the motion of the virtual camera to detect a shake event associated with the user interface. The user device can, for instance, monitor the motion of the virtual camera to detect certain manipulation patterns. By way of example, the user device can determine the occurrence of a plurality of cycles associated with the motion of the virtual camera. A cycle can include a repetitive manipulation pattern that is indicative of the user attempting to create a shake event. This can include side-to-side motion, up-and-down motion, a circular motion, etc. The motion path does not need to be perfectly linear or circular, as long as the motion is indicative of a shaking (of the virtual camera) by the user input.
[0023] In some implementations, to detect a cycle, the user device can compare parameter(s) (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude) of the virtual camera at a first position (e.g., when the motion starts) to parameters (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude) of the virtual camera at subsequent positions. This can allow the user device to determine if the virtual camera is moving in a manner that returns the virtual camera to its initial position, which can be indicative of a cycle. The user device can detect the periodicity of the camera movements and count the number of cycles until it exceeds a threshold level of cycles that is indicative of a shake event. The threshold level of cycles can be set such that inadvertent movements of the virtual camera (e.g., during a bumpy train ride) will not be detected as a shake event.
[0024] The user device can perform an action associated with the user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. For example, upon detection of a shake event, the user device can remove one or more place location identifier(s) shown in a geographic map interface. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the user device can remove one or more elements (e.g., information cards) that are overlaid the user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. In some implementations, the user device can clear one or more search result(s) shown in the user interface. For example, upon detection of a shake event, the user device can clear restaurant search results that were input by the user when searching for a particular genre of restaurant. In some implementations, the action can include adjusting the size of the user interface (e.g., to enter/exit full screen mode). Accordingly, the user can manipulate the information and/or characteristics of the user interface by providing input to shake the virtual camera of the user interface.
[0025] The systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein may provide a number of technical effects and technical benefits. For instance, by allowing a user to provide a shake event directed to a virtual camera, a user device may provide an efficient and intuitive means for the user to cause an action to take place within a user interface. This may reduce the number of user inputs required by the user to perform certain actions (e.g., removing icons, elements, search results, enter/exit full screen) and so may reduce the amount of processing associated with handling the user inputs. Additionally, as a result of the reduced number of inputs and the intuitive nature the shake event, the user may be able to spend less time using the application associated with the user interface, which may reduce screen-on time, thereby reducing power usage.
[0026] Moreover, detecting shake events through analysis of virtual camera update patterns is a superior approach to detecting such events through more basic sensors such as touch inputs and inertia sensor inputs. For example, the systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein can be built on top of existing functionalities that convert touch/inertia-sensor inputs to camera updates. This can allow the systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein to be incorporated across different hardware inputs and platforms (e.g., shaking via touchscreen, shaking virtual reality headsets via inertia-sensors).
[0027] The systems, methods, and apparatuses of the present disclosure provide an improvement to user device computing technology by enabling a user device to save computational resources that may otherwise be used by physical motion sensors to detect a shake event. For example, the computing devices described herein can receive data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with a user interface, detect a shake event associated with the user interface based, at least in part, on the motion of the virtual camera, and perform an action associated with the user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. In this way, the systems, methods, and apparatuses of the present disclosure can detect a shake event using the motion of the virtual camera, without the use of physical motion sensors. In some cases, this can allow physical motion sensors (e.g., accelerators, gyroscopes) to be omitted from the user device hardware, thereby preserving the processing and power resources (and cost) that would be used on such sensors. In cases where physical motion sensors are still included in the user device, the systems, methods, and apparatuses of the present disclosure can allow these sensors to focus on other, more suitable applications (e.g., for geo-location services), rather than be used for detecting shake events. This can reduce the amount of computational resources allocated to such resource-needy hardware, as well as reduce the need to physically shake the user device (helping to prevent potential damage).
[0028] With reference now to the FIGS., example embodiments of the present disclosure will be discussed in further detail. FIG. 1 depicts an example system 100 for performing a user interface action according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The system 100 can include a provider computing system 102 and one or more user device(s) 104. The provider system 102 and the user device(s) 104 can be interconnected via a direct connection and/or can be coupled via one or more communications network(s), such as a LAN, WAN, the Internet, etc., which may be wired and/or wireless and/or can include any number of wired and/or wireless communication links.
[0029] The provider system 102 can be associated with, for example, a mapping service provider such as, Google Maps or Google Earth developed by Google Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), other suitable geographic services, and/or another an entity that provides data to be rendered in a user interface. In some implementations, the provider system 102 can be associated with a three-dimensional body to be displayed (e.g., architect, building owner, government entity). The provider system 102 can include various components for performing various operations and functions as described herein. For instance, the provider system 102 can include one or more computing device(s) (e.g., servers). As will be further described herein, the provider system 102 can include one or more processor(s) and one or more memory device(s). The one or more memory device(s) can store instructions that when executed by the one or more processor(s) cause the one or more processor(s) to perform operations and functions. The provider system 102 can be coupled to and/or can include various databases, such as a database 106. The database 106 can include data (e.g., geographic data) that is accessible by the provider system 104. The computing device(s) 108 can provide various data from the database 106 to the user device(s) 104 via one or more network(s).
[0030] A user device 104 can be various types of user devices, such as, a tablet, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a phone, a smart phone, a computerized watch (e.g., a smart watch), computerized eyewear, computerized headwear, other types of wearable computing devices, a gaming system, a media player, an e-book reader, a television platform, a navigation system, an embedded computing device, and/or any other type of mobile and/or non-mobile computing device. The user device 104 can include various components for performing various operations and functions as described herein. For instance, the user device 104 can include a display device 108 and one or more computing device(s) 110. The display device 108 can include an output device configured to display a user interface, such as a CRT, LCD, plasma screen, touch screen, TV, projector, etc. As will be further described herein, the computing device(s) 110 can include one or more processor(s) and one or more memory device(s). The one or more memory device(s) can store instructions that when executed by the one or more processor(s) cause the one or more processor(s) to perform operations and functions, for example, such as those described herein for performing a user interface action.
[0031] The computing device(s) 110 can include various components for implementing a user interface. The computing device(s) 110 can include a camera component 112 (e.g., camera manipulation system) that is configured to receive data indicative of a user input (e.g., raw input data) from a user 113 and generate an output based, at least in part on the input data. For example, the camera component 112 can be associated with a virtual camera 114 that can be used to navigate within a user interface (e.g., such as that shown in FIG. 2A). The virtual camera 114 can have a perspective according to its position and/or orientation. By changing the position, orientation, zoom, etc. of the virtual camera 114, a user can navigate through an environment presented by a user interface. By way of example, the user interface can be a geographic map interface that presents a three-dimensional environment. In some implementations, the three-dimensional environment can include a substantially spherical three-dimensional model of the Earth (e.g., rendered using satellite imagery and/or other imagery). The camera component 112 can receive data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of the virtual camera 114 so that the user can navigate the environment of the user interface (e.g., to see different views, orientations, positions, locations). The camera component 112 can process the data indicative of the user input and generate an output 116 based, at least in part, on that data. The output 116 can be indicative of one or more conditions(s) that define the camera (e.g., location conditions, orientation conditions). The camera component 112 can provide the output 116 to a rendering component 118 of the computing device(s) 110.
[0032] The rendering component 118 can be configured to receive the output 116 and render a frame of the user interface based, at least in part, on the output 116. For example, the rendering component 118 can obtain data 120 (e.g., geographic mapping data, geometries, textures) from the provider system 104 based, at least in part, on the output 116, which can indicate the view, orientation, position, location, etc. of the virtual camera 114 to be presented in the user interface. The rendering component 118 can render a frame of the user interface based, at least in part, on the data 120. In this way, the virtual camera 114 can be manipulated to view, for example, the spherical three-dimensional model of the Earth from different perspectives.
[0033] By way of example, as shown in FIG. 2A, the computing device(s) 110 can present a user interface 200 via the display device 108 of the user device 104. As shown, the user interface 200 can present a rendered version of a three-dimensional geographic map interface. The user interface 200 can be presented on the display device 108 using any suitable rendering techniques. For instance, the provider system 102 can obtain (e.g., from database 106) and transmit data 120 (e.g., geographic map data) corresponding to a specified location to the user device 104 (e.g., the rendering component 118). In some implementations, an application programming interface can request data associated with a specified location (e.g., based on location coordinates, other identifiers) from the provider system 102 and/or the database 106. In some implementations, the data 120 can include vector data, raster data partitioned into “tiles” of a fixed size, a combination of vector data and raster data, and/or in any other suitable format. Moreover, in some implementations, the data 120 can allow for generating a two-dimensional map and/or a three-dimensional map (e.g., vertices defining a mesh and textures). A software application operating on the user device 104 (e.g., associated with the rendering component) can render and display the user interface 200 for a specified location based, at least in part, on the data.
[0034] Returning to FIG. 1, the computing device(s) 104 can include various other components 122. For example, the user device 104 can include one or more of a cycle-detection component, search component, interesting places (e.g., cards) component, compass component, etc. The computing device(s) 110 can generate events for these components to react upon, such as to implement actions associated with a user interface, as further described herein.
[0035] The computing device(s) 110 can be configured to detect a shake event associated with a user interface. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can receive data 124 indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera 114 associated with a user interface. As shown, in FIGS. 2A-C, a user input 201 can be directed to grabbing and dragging the user interface 200 (e.g., via a cursor 202) to cause motion of the virtual camera 114. The computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 204 associated with the virtual camera 114 based, at least in part, on the user input 201. The manipulation pattern(s) 204 can be caused by the user input 201 directed to the cursor 202 displayed on the user interface 200.
[0036] The computing device(s) 110 can detect a shake event associated with the user interface 200 based, at least in part, on the virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 204. By way of example, a user 113 can provide a user input 201 directed to the cursor 202 displayed on the user interface 200. The user input 201 can be a grab-and-drag of the user interface 200 to move the virtual camera 114. The user 113 can move the user interface in a particular manipulation pattern to cause a shake event. For instance, the user input 201 can move the user interface 200 (e.g., via the cursor grab) in a side-to-side, up-and-down, and/or circular motion to “shake” the virtual camera 114.
[0037] In some implementations, the computing device(s) 102 can identify the one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 204 by determining the occurrence of a plurality of cycles 205 associated with the motion of the virtual camera 114. A cycle can include, for instance, a manipulation pattern by which the virtual camera is moved away from an initial position and back to a position that is the same as, substantially similar to, or generally similar to the initial position. For example, the virtual camera 114 can be in a first position 206A (e.g., as shown in FIG. 2A) and one or more second position(s) 206B-C (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 2B-C). The first position 206A can be associated with an initial position of the virtual camera 114 when the motion of the virtual camera 114 starts. The one or more second position(s) 206B-C can be associated with a subsequent position of the virtual camera 114 that occurs after the first position. As shown in FIG. 2C, at least one of the second position(s) (e.g., 206C) can be substantially similar to the first position 206A, indicating that the virtual camera is being shaken (e.g., back and forth).
[0038] To detect a shake event, the computing device(s) 110 can compare parameter(s) associated with the virtual camera 114 at the various positions. For instance, when the motion of the virtual camera 114 starts, the computing device(s) 110 can identify, record, and/or store one or more first parameter(s) 210A associated with the virtual camera 114 at the first position 206A. The first parameter(s) 210A can include positional information (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude, virtual distance) associated with the virtual camera 114 when at the first position 206A. The computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more second parameter(s) 210B associated with the virtual camera 114 at a second position 206B-C. The second parameter(s) 210B can include positional information (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude, virtual distance) associated with the virtual camera 114, when the virtual camera 114 is at one or more of the second position(s) 206B-C. The computing device(s) 110 can determine the occurrence of a respective cycle 212 (e.g., from positions 206A to 206B to 206C) based, at least in part, on a comparison of the first parameter(s) 210A to the second parameter(s) 210B, as will be further described with reference to FIG. 7. This can allow the user device 104 to determine if the virtual camera 114 is moving in a manner away from and/or that returns the virtual camera 114 to its initial position (e.g., 206A), which can be indicative of a cycle 212. The computing device(s) 110 can repeat this process, for example, to detect a plurality of cycles 205.
[0039] The computing device(s) 110 can be configured to detect a shake event 216 based, at least in part, on the plurality of cycles 205. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can compare the plurality of cycles 205 (e.g., the number of cycles) to a threshold level of cycles 214 that is indicative of a shake event 216. The computing device(s) 110 can detect the shake event 216 based, at least in part, on the plurality of cycles 205 exceeding the threshold level of cycles 214. The threshold 214 can be set such that inadvertent movements of the virtual camera 114 (e.g., during a bumpy train ride) will not be detected as a shake event. In this way, the shake event 216 is detected based, at least in part, on the movement of the virtual camera 114. The shake event 216 is detected without the use of physical motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers), that may be included in the user device 104.
[0040] The computing device(s) 110 can be configured to perform an action associated with a user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. For instance, a user interface can include a display area for presenting visual content. In some implementations, a user interface can include one or more element(s) that are overlaid (or appear to be overlaid) the visual content. The computing device(s) 110 can remove one or more of the element(s) from the user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event 216. The removal can be performed such that the elements are hidden from view, are no longer visible, etc. to the user 113.
[0041] By way of example, the user interface 200 can present a geographic map interface, as shown in FIGS. 2A-C. One or more icon(s) 218 can be presented in the user interface 200 (e.g., overlaid the geographic map). The icon(s) 218 can, for example, indicate a geographic point of interest for the user 113. Additionally, and/or alternatively, an information card 220 (e.g., presented in a subscreen smaller than the display area and overlaid the geographic map) can be presented in the user interface 200. The computing device(s) 110 can remove the one or more icon(s) 218 and/or the information card 220 presented in the user interface 200 based, at least in part, on the detected shake event 216. In this way, the computing device(s) 110 can be configured to perform an action that is intuitive of the user 113 creating a shake event (e.g., the removal of elements).
[0042] Additionally, and/or alternatively, the computing device(s) 110 can remove one or more search result(s) presented via a user interface based, at least in part, on a detected shake event. FIGS. 3A-C depict an example user interface 300 according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. A user 113 can search via a search prompt 302 presented on the user interface 300. For example, the user 113 can search for a particular location and/or a type of location (e.g., pizza restaurants). The prompt 302 can display the search results that are returned for the user’s requested search terms and/or phrases. Moreover, in the event that the user interface 300 presents a geographic map interface (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 3A-C), one or more icon(s) 306 and/or label(s) 308 indicative of the search results 304 (e.g., locations, names of places, etc. included in the search results) can be presented on the user interface 300.
[0043] The user 113 may desire to clear the search results. To do so, the user 113 can provide a user input 310 directed to causing motion of the virtual camera 320 associated with the user interface 300 in order to cause a shake event. For instance, the user 113 can use a cursor 312 to “shake” the virtual camera 320 (e.g., from a plurality of positions 314A-B) to cause a plurality of cycles. The computing device(s) 110 can detect the shake event based, at least in part, on the plurality of cycles and perform an action associated with the user interface 300. For example, as shown in FIG. 3C, the computing device(s) 110 can remove one or more search result(s) 304 presented via the user interface 300 (e.g., a search results subscreen). This can cause the search prompt 302 to clear, become available for another search, and/or hide from view. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the computing device(s) 110 can remove one or more of the icon(s) 306 and/or label(s) 308 indicative of the search results 304 from the user interface 300 (e.g., as shown in FIG. 3C).
[0044] Additionally, and/or alternatively, the computing device(s) 110 can adjust the size of the user interface 300 based, at least in part, on a shake event. For example, FIGS. 4A-C depict an example user interface 400 according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The user interface 400 can include a display area 402 for displaying visual content. As shown in FIGS. 4A-B, the display area 402 can be presented in a first size (e.g., that is less than a full screen size of the display device 108). The user 113 can provide a user input 404 (e.g., via a touch interaction) directed to causing motion of a virtual camera 420 associated with the user interface 400. The user input 404 can cause one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 406 (e.g., an up-and-down motion). The computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 406 associated with the virtual camera 412. The computing device(s) 110 can detect a shake event based, at least in part, on the one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 406. The computing device(s) 110 can adjust (e.g., shrink, expand) a size, orientation, position, etc. of the user interface 400 based, at least in part, on the shake event. The computing device(s) 110 can adjust the user interface 400 to a second size. For example, the computing device(s) 110 can expand the display area 402 to a full screen size, as shown in FIG. 4C based, at least in part, on the shake event caused by the user input 404.
[0045] In some implementations, the user input can be provided via movement of a virtual reality system. FIG. 5 depicts an example virtual reality system 500 according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The user device 104 can be, include, and/or otherwise be associated with the virtual reality system 500. The virtual reality system 500 can be configured to implement a user interface such as a three-dimensional geographic interface and/or other types of user interfaces. In some implementations, a user interface can be associated with an augmented reality implemented using the virtual reality system 500. Moreover, in some implementations, the virtual camera associated with a user interface implemented by the virtual reality system 500 can be associated with an augmented reality. In a manner similar to that described above, one or more computing device(s) associated with the virtual reality system 500 can receive data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with a user interface of the virtual reality system 500. The user input can cause the associated virtual camera to be moved in one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 502A-C (e.g., causing a plurality of cycles). The computing device(s) associated with the virtual reality system 500 can detect a shake event based, at least in part, on the one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 502A-C (and/or the plurality of cycles).
[0046] The computing device(s) associated with the virtual reality system 500 can be configured to perform an action associated with a user interface based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. For instance, the one or more manipulation pattern(s) 502A-C can be based, at least in part, on an intuitive movement by a user 113. For example, in some implementations, the user input can be directed to moving the virtual camera in an up-and-down manner (e.g., 502B), similar to a physical “yes” shake of the user’s head, to cause a shake event (e.g., via movement of the virtual camera). The computing device(s) associated with the virtual reality system 500 can detect the shake event and can perform an action, such as, a confirmatory action. The confirmatory action can include, for instance, the confirmation of search results, obtaining information associated with a particular location (e.g., presenting an information card), confirming a question presented in the user interface, other actions within an augmented reality, etc. In some implementations, the user input can be directed to moving the virtual camera in a side-to-side manner (e.g., 502B), similar to a physical “no” shake of the user’s head, to cause a shake event. The computing device(s) associated with the virtual reality system 500 can detect the shake event and can perform an action, such as, a refuting and/or dismissing action. For example, the computing device(s) of the virtual reality system 500 can remove one or more search result(s), icon(s), label(s), etc., deny and/or dismiss a question and/or a suggestion presented on the user interface, etc. As such, the virtual reality system 500 can perform actions that may be intuitive and/or familiar to the user 113 based, at least in part, on the type of manipulation pattern (e.g., 502A-C) of the virtual camera.
[0047] FIG. 6 depicts a flow diagram of one example method 600 of performing a user interface action according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The method 600 can be implemented using, for instance, one or more computing device(s) such as those described in FIGS. 1 and 8. FIG. 6 depicts steps performed in a particular order for purposes of illustration and discussion. Those of ordinary skill in the art, using the disclosures provided herein, will understand that various steps of any of the methods disclosed herein can be adapted, modified, rearranged, omitted, and/or expanded without deviating from the scope of the present disclosure.
[0048] At (602), the method can include presenting a user interface. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can present a user interface (e.g., 200, 300, 400) via a display device 108 of the user device 104. In some implementations, the user interface can present a geographic map interface and/or a rendered version of a three-dimensional geographic map interface, as described herein. A user 113 can navigate the user interface (e.g., the three-dimensional environment presented by the user interface) to display different data (e.g., views within the three-dimensional environment). As indicated above, the user interface (e.g., 200, 300, 400) can be associated with a virtual camera (e.g., 112, 320, 420) that can define, at least in part, what data to display via the user interface. The virtual camera can have a perspective according to its position and/or orientation. By changing the position, orientation, zoom, etc. of the virtual camera (e.g., 112, 320, 420), a user 113 can navigate through the environment presented by the user interface.
[0049] At (604), the method can include receiving data indicative of a user input directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera associated with the user interface. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can receive data 124 indicative of a user input 201 directed to causing a motion of a virtual camera 114 associated with a user interface 200. As described herein, the user input can include a cursor interaction, a touch interaction, and/or other types of interactions with the user interface. By way of example, a user 113 can grab and drag the user interface 200 (e.g., its display area) via a cursor 202 to manipulate the motion of the virtual camera 114 to show different areas (e.g., geographic areas) within the user interface 200. In some implementations, the user input can be provided via movement of a virtual reality system 500, as described herein.
[0050] At (606), the method can include detecting a shake event. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can detect a shake event (e.g., 216) associated with the user interface 200 based, at least in part, on the motion of the virtual camera 114. The shake event (e.g., 216) can be detected, by the computing device(s) 110, without the use of physical motion sensors. For example, the computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more virtual camera manipulation pattern(s) 204 associated with the virtual camera 114. The computing device(s) 110 can detect a shake event (e.g., 216) based, at least in part, on one or more of the manipulation pattern(s) 204.
[0051] FIG. 7 depicts a flow diagram of one example method 700 of detecting a shake event according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The method 700 can be implemented using, for instance, one or more computing device(s) such as those described in FIGS. 1 and 8. FIG. 7 depicts steps performed in a particular order for purposes of illustration and discussion. Those of ordinary skill in the art, using the disclosures provided herein, will understand that various steps of any of the methods disclosed herein can be adapted, modified, rearranged, omitted, and/or expanded without deviating from the scope of the present disclosure.
[0052] At (702), the method 700 can include determining the occurrence of a plurality of cycles associated with the motion of the virtual camera. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can determine the occurrence of a plurality of cycles 205 associated with the motion of the virtual camera 114. To determine a respective cycle, the computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more first parameter(s) 210A associated with a virtual camera 114 at a first position 208A. The first position 208A can be associated with an initial position of the virtual camera 114 when the motion of the virtual camera 114 starts (e.g., when the user input 201 starts to move the virtual camera). The computing device(s) 110 can identify one or more second parameter(s) 210B associated with the virtual camera 114 at a second position 208B. The second position 208B can be associated with a subsequent position of the virtual camera 114 that occurs after (e.g., in time) the first position 208A. The computing device(s) 110 can determine the occurrence of the respective cycle (e.g., 212) based, at least in part, on a comparison of the first parameter(s) 210A to the second parameter(s) 210B. In some implementations, the manipulation pattern (and/or motion path) associated with the respective cycle need not necessarily be perfectly linear and/or circular, as long as the movement of the virtual camera 114 appears like a “shaking” of the virtual camera 114, the computing device(s) 110 can detect the shake event.
[0053] Moreover, the computing device(s) 110 can validate the respective cycle, such that a cycle is not detected for movements of the virtual camera 114 that are not associated with a shake event (e.g., an inadvertent movement caused by a bumpy train ride, slow navigation movement of the user interface). For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can impose one or more frequency bound(s) and/or threshold(s) on the periodicity detected by the movement of the virtual camera 114 (e.g., as indicated by the parameter(s) 210A-B). In some cases, these bound(s) and/or threshold(s) can be selected empirically and/or tested by users.
[0054] By way of example, to detect a cycle, the computing device(s) 110 can identify, record, store, etc. one or more first parameter(s) 110A (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude) when the user input 201 starts to move the virtual camera 114 (e.g., a start moving event is triggered). Before the computing device(s) 110 determine that the motion of the virtual camera 114 has stopped (e.g., before a stop moving event is detected), the computing device(s) 110 (e.g., via a cycle-detection component) can identify the second parameters 210B (e.g., x-y-z coordinates, latitude-longitude-altitude) associated with the virtual camera 114 at one or more second position(s) (e.g., 208B). The computing device(s) 110 can compare the first parameter(s) 210A to the second parameter(s) 210B to detect a cycle. For example, if the Euclidean distance between the first and second parameter(s) fall short of a distance threshold, it can be considered a detected cycle. In some implementations, the computing device(s) 110 may only consider a respective cycle to be detected if it also has a large enough span (e.g., a small distance cannot trigger a valid cycle). Once the cycle is validated, the computing device(s) 110 can clear the recorded virtual camera history (e.g., the identified parameters) and try to detect new, subsequent cycles (e.g., via a cycle-detection component). The computing device(s) 110 can repeat this detection process to detect a plurality of cycles 205. In some implementations, the computing device(s) 110 can require subsequent cycles to fall within a similar time period and/or frequency of one or more previously detected (and/or validated) cycle(s). In this way, the variation of frequency can be contained among the detected cycles.
[0055] At (704), the method can include comparing the plurality of cycles to a threshold level of cycles. For instance, the computing device(s) 110 can compare the plurality of cycles 205 (e.g., the number of cycles in the plurality) to a threshold level of cycle(s) 214. The threshold level of cycle(s) 214 can be indicative of the minimum number of detected cycles required to determine a shake event (e.g., 216). As indicated above, the threshold level of cycles 214 can be set such that inadvertent movements of the virtual camera (e.g., during a bumpy train ride) will not be detected as a shake event. At (706), the computing device(s) 110 can detect the shake event (e.g., 216) based, at least in part, on the plurality of cycles 205 exceeding the threshold level of cycles 214. In some implementations, the computing device(s) 110 may be configured to detect only one shake event at a time. Thus, when a shake event is detected, unless the virtual camera 114 stops moving and starts moving again, the computing device(s) 110 may simply no longer analyze and/or output new shake events.
[0056] Returning to FIG. 6, at (608), the method can include performing an action associated with the user interface. For example, the computing device(s) 110 can perform an action associated with the user interface 200 based, at least in part, on the detected shake event 216. To do so, in some implementations, the camera component 112 of the computing device(s) 110 can generate and provide an output (e.g., 116) that is indicative of the shake event to one or more of the other component(s) (e.g., rendering component 112, other components 122). The other components can use the output (e.g., 116) to perform an action based, at least in part, on the detected shake event. By way of example, the action can include removing one or more icon(s) 218 presented in the user interface 200 based, at least in part, on the detected shake event 216 (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 2A-C). In some implementations, the action can include removing one or more search result(s) 304 (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 3A-C), adjusting a size associated with the user interface (e.g., as shown in FIGS. 4A-C), and/or other actions associated with a user interface.
[0057] While the user interface actions are often described herein as being performed by the computing device(s) 110 of the user device, one of ordinary skill in the art would understand that this is not meant to be limiting. One or more of the operation(s) and function(s) described herein as being performed by the computing device(s) of the user device 104 can be performed by the provider system 102. For example, in the event that the user interfaces are accessed via a web-based application, the provider system 102 can receive data indicative of user input, detect a shake event, perform actions associated with a user interface, etc. as described herein. Moreover, in some implementations, the provider system 102 can provide a user interface for display on a display device 108 (e.g., of the user device 104).
[0058] FIG. 8 depicts an example system 800 according to example embodiments of the present disclosure. The system 800 can be implemented using a client-server architecture that includes the provider computing system 102 that communicates with one or more user device(s) 104 over one or more network(s) 802. The system 800 can be implemented using other suitable architectures, such as a single computing device.
[0059] The provider system 102 can include, for instance, a web server and/or a cloud-based server system. The provider system 102 can be implemented using any suitable computing device(s) 804. The computing device(s) 804 can include one or more processor(s) 806A and one or more memory device(s) 806B. The one or more processor(s) 806A can include any suitable processing device, such as a microprocessor, microcontroller, integrated circuit, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a digital signal processor (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), logic device, one or more central processing unit(s) (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), processing units performing other specialized calculations, etc.
[0060] The one or more memory device(s) 806B can include one or more computer-readable media, including, but not limited to, non-transitory computer-readable media, RAM, ROM, hard drives, flash drives, or other memory devices. The one or more memory device(s) 806B can store information accessible by the one or more processor(s) 806A, including computer-readable instructions 806C that can be executed by the one or more processor(s) 806A. The instructions 806C can be any set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processor(s) 806A, cause the one or more processor(s) 806A to perform operations. In some embodiments, the instructions 806C can be executed by the one or more processor(s) 806A to cause the one or more processor(s) 806A to perform operations, such as any of the operations and functions for which the provider system 102 and/or the computing device(s) 804 are configured, the operations for performing a user interface action and/or detecting a shake event (e.g., methods 600, 700), and/or any other operations or functions, as described herein. The instructions 806C can be software written in any suitable programming language or can be implemented in hardware. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the instructions 806C can be executed in logically and/or virtually separate threads on processor(s) 806A.
[0061] The one or more memory device(s) 806B can also store data 806D that can be retrieved, manipulated, created, or stored by the one or more processor(s) 806A. The data 806D can include, for instance, geographic mapping data, data associated with a user interface, and/or other data or information. For instance, the data 806D can include map-related information, at least a portion of which may be transmitted to a user device. For example, data 806D can include map tiles where each tile is a map image of a particular geographic area/location. Depending on the resolution (e.g., whether the map is zoomed in or out), one tile may cover an entire region such as a state in relatively little detail. Another tile may cover just a few elements (e.g., streets) in high detail. The map information is not limited to any particular format. For example, the images may comprise street maps, satellite images, or a combination of these, and may be stored as vectors (particularly with respect to street maps) or bitmaps (particularly with respect to satellite images). The various map tiles can each be associated with geographical locations, such that the computing device(s) 804 are capable of selecting, retrieving and transmitting one or more tiles in response to receipt of a user input and/or location.
[0062] The data 806D can be stored in one or more database(s) (e.g., database 106). The one or more database(s) can be connected to the computing device(s) 804 by a high bandwidth LAN or WAN, and/or can be connected to computing device(s) 804 through network(s) 802. The one or more database(s) can be split up so that they are located in multiple locales.
[0063] The computing device(s) 804 can also include a network interface 806E used to communicate with one or more other component(s) of the system 800 (e.g., user device 104) over the network(s) 802. The network interface 806E can include any suitable components for interfacing with one more networks, including for example, transmitters, receivers, ports, controllers, antennas, or other suitable components.
[0064] The computing device(s) 804 can exchange data with one or more user device(s) 104 over the network(s) 802. Although one user device 104 is illustrated in FIG. 8 (and herein), any number of user devices 104 can be connected to computing device(s) 804 over the network(s) 802. Each of the user devices 104 can be any suitable type of computing device, such as a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, laptop, desktop, mobile device, navigation system, smartphone, tablet, wearable computing device, a display with one or more processors, and/or other suitable computing device, as described herein.
[0065] The user device 104 can include one or more computing device(s) 110. The one or more computing device(s) 110 can include one or more processor(s) 808A and one or more memory device(s) 808B. The one or more processor(s) 808A can include any suitable processing device, such as a microprocessor, microcontroller, integrated circuit, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a digital signal processor (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), logic device, one or more central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) (e.g., dedicated to efficiently rendering images), processing units performing other specialized calculations, etc.
[0066] The memory device(s) 808B can include one or more computer-readable media and can store information accessible by the one or more processor(s) 808A, including instructions 808C that can be executed by the one or more processor(s) 808A and data 808D. For instance, the memory device(s) 808B can store instructions 808C for implementing a camera system component, rendering system component, a user interface component, etc. for displaying a user interface according to example aspects of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the instructions 808C can be executed by the one or more processor(s) 808A to cause the one or more processor(s) 808A to perform operations, such as any of the operations and functions for which the user device 104 and/or the computing device(s) 110 are configured, the operations for performing a user interface action and/or detecting a shake event (e.g., methods 600, 700), and/or any other operations or functions for providing a user interface, receiving user input, detecting a shake event, and performing an action associated with the user interface, as described herein. The instructions 808C can be software written in any suitable programming language or can be implemented in hardware. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the instructions 808C can be executed in logically and/or virtually separate threads on processor(s) 808A.
[0067] The data 808D can be retrieved, manipulated, created, or stored by the one or more processor(s) 808A. The data 808D can include, for instance, data associated with user interfaces, user input, mapping data, a virtual camera, manipulation patterns, shake events, and/or other information. In some implementations, the data 808D can be received from another device (e.g., computing device(s) 804).
[0068] The user device 104 can include various input/output components 808E-F for providing and receiving information from a user. The input components 808E can include, for example, a mouse, trackball, a touch screen, touch pad, gyroscope, data entry keys, a microphone suitable for voice recognition, and/or any other suitable input device. The output components 808F can include the display device 108 for presenting a user interface according to example aspects of the present disclosure. The display device 108 can include, for example, a CRT, LCD, plasma screen, touch screen, TV, projector, and/or any other suitable display device.
[0069] The user device 104 can also include a network interface 808G used to communicate with one or more other component(s) of system 800 (e.g., provider system 102) over the network(s) 802. The network interface 808G can include any suitable components for interfacing with one more network(s), including for example, transmitters, receivers, ports, controllers, antennas, or other suitable components.
[0070] The one or more network(s) 802 can be any type of communications networks, such as a local area network (e.g. intranet), wide area network (e.g. Internet), cellular network, or some combination thereof. The network(s) 802 can also include a direct connection between a user device 104 and the provider system 102. In general, communication between provider system 102 and a user device 104 can be carried via network interface using any type of wired and/or wireless connection, using a variety of communication protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP), encodings or formats (e.g. HTML, XML), and/or protection schemes (e.g. VPN, secure HTTP, SSL).
[0071] The technology discussed herein makes reference to servers, databases, software applications, and other computer-based systems, as well as actions taken and information sent to and from such systems. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the inherent flexibility of computer-based systems allows for a great variety of possible configurations, combinations, and divisions of tasks and functionality between and among components. For instance, server processes discussed herein can be implemented using a single server or multiple servers working in combination. Databases and applications can be implemented on a single system or distributed across multiple systems. Distributed components can operate sequentially or in parallel.
[0072] Furthermore, computing tasks discussed herein as being performed at the provider system (e.g., a server) can instead be performed at a user device. Likewise, computing tasks discussed herein as being performed at the user device can instead be performed at the provider system (e.g., a server).
[0073] While the present subject matter has been described in detail with respect to specific example embodiments and methods thereof, it will be appreciated that those skilled in the art, upon attaining an understanding of the foregoing can readily produce alterations to, variations of, and equivalents to such embodiments. Accordingly, the scope of the present disclosure is by way of example rather than by way of limitation, and the subject disclosure does not preclude inclusion of such modifications, variations and/or additions to the present subject matter as would be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art.
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Final Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election Released by the House Intelligence Committee
April 27, 2019 (updated May 30, 2020) Published by Lee Floyd
John Solomon from the Hill reported –
Before you judge the DOJ’s and FBI’s arguments — which are similar to those offered to stop the release of information in other major episodes of American history, from the Bay of Pigs to 9/11 — consider Footnote 43 on Page 57 of Chapter 3 of the House Intelligence Committee’s report earlier this year on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Until this past week, the footnote really had garnered no public intrigue, in part because the U.S. intelligence community blacked out the vast majority of its verbiage in the name of national security before the report was made public.
From the heavy redactions, all one could tell is that FBI general counsel James Baker met with an unnamed person who provided some information in September 2016 about Russia, email hacking and a possible link to the Trump campaign.
Solomon continues –
There is now a concrete storyline backed by irrefutable evidence: The FBI allowed itself to take political opposition research created by one party to defeat another in an election, treated it like actionable intelligence, presented it to the court as substantiated, and then used it to justify spying on an adviser for the campaign of that party’s duly chosen nominee for president in the final days of a presidential election.
And when, nine months later, the FBI could not prove the allegation of collusion between Trump and Russia, unverified evidence was leaked to the media to try to sustain public support for a continued investigation.
That means the redaction of Footnote 43 had more to do with political embarrassment than with national security. And that should concern us all.
The redaction coverup by the corrupt DOJ and FBI is damning per “Stealth Jeff” on Twitter –
Here’s the report that John Solomon of The Hill is referring to, and the redacted section that was supposedly redacted because ‘national security’: https://t.co/nUYSGS5W9M pic.twitter.com/V7KlkPWgPM
— President of the Rod Rosenstein Fan Club (@drawandstrike) October 8, 2018
Here is a copy of the redacted section of the DOJ and FBI report from the current corrupt Deep State –
This is simply another outrageous attempt by the criminals running our Department of Justice to cover up their crimes.
Source: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/deep-state-fbi-and-doj-caught-redacting-key-intel-documents-that-implicate-hillary-and-dnc-have-nothing-to-do-with-national-security/
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and President Trump’s attorney, shared in recent interviews that the corruption in the Ukraine doesn’t stop with the Bidens. It also involves George Soros – (at the 2 minute mark) –
Whatever Soros was involved with in the Ukraine, it was big enough that Soros got himself involved in the Russia collusion sham investigation after President Trump’s election. The Epoch Times reported –
Billionaire George Soros and a group of wealthy donors from New York and California have paid $50 million to sustain an ongoing private Russia investigation conducted by former British spy Christopher Steele, research firm Fusion GPS, and a former staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
The revelation is part of the final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election released on April 27 by the House intelligence committee. The report concluded that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
A footnote in the report states that Daniel Jones, the former Feinstein staffer who runs the Penn Quarter Group (PQG), told the FBI in March 2017 that he is working on a project with Fusion GPS that “was being funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million.”
Soros needed to get rid of President Trump who had upset his apple cart. He didn’t own Trump and obviously Soros was afraid of something President Trump might find out.
One thing that we now know that Soros might want to keep hidden is that George Soros wanted to take over the oil and gas industry in the Ukraine.
According to John Solomon at the Hill –
Liberal mega-donor George Soros made some big bets during the last U.S. presidential election. One was that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency. Another was that he could reshape Ukraine’s government to his liking, and that his business empire might find fertile ground in that former Soviet state.
So when Donald Trump’s improbable march to the White House picked up steam in the spring of 2016, Team Soros marched to the top of the State Department to protect some of those investments, according to newly released department memos providing a rare glimpse into the Democratic donor’s extraordinary access to the Obama administration.
Then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland received repeated calls, emails and meeting requests from Soros, according to the memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the conservative group Citizens United.
Solomon continued –
Likewise, Soros set out a bold vision in an internal 2014 memo for his Open Society Foundation to help root out corruption in Ukraine and build a “civil society” after the Maidan Revolution ousted the country’s Russia-friendly president. It worked with U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to leverage the so-called Kleptocracy Initiative to fight corruption. The initiative enabled DOJ to prosecute or seek asset forfeitures from foreigners suspected of corruption, even if the crimes didn’t technically occur on U.S. soil.
Such initiatives are noble in principle. But in Ukraine, some targets had political and business implications as well.
For example, one DOJ investigation in 2014 targeted Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash. He and Soros both have significant energy interests in Europe — and rival plans to rebuild Ukraine. After Firtash’s indictment, Soros’s business announced plans to invest $1 billion in Ukraine.
Since then, significant problems have arisen with the DOJ’s case, thwarting efforts to extradite Firtash to the U.S. for trial.
And finally, Solomon notes –
And when Ukraine’s general prosecutor sought to investigate one of the country’s nonprofits partially funded by Soros during 2016, the State Department pressured Ukrainian officials to drop the case.
This last piece by Solomon is probably what Rudy is alluded to in his comments about Soros in the Ukraine. The Obama State Department intervened in the Ukraine and stopped the case against Soros. Based on Rudy’s comments, it is likely he has support for Obama’s State Department actions.
We also know that the DOJ went too far with Firtash.
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The Duchess of Sussex launches her first major solo project
By Charlie Proctor
The Duchess of Sussex is launching her first major solo project since joining The Royal Family in May.
The 37-year-old royal is supporting a new charity cookbook, which celebrates the power of cooking to bring people together.
‘Together: Out Community Cookbook’ showcases over 50 recipes from women whose community was affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.
The project is being supported by The Royal Foundation and is being published by Penguin Random House companies.
Following the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire last year, a group of women gathered in a communal kitchen at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London, where they could prepare fresh food for their families, friends and neighbours.
Cooking together as a community helped to heal wounds and look forward to the future.
The Duchess of Sussex wrote in the foreword of the book: “I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together.
“Melding cultural identities under a shared roof, it creates a space to feel a sense of normalcy – in its simplest form, the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy – something we can all relate to.”
Photo by Jenny Zarins via Getty Images
Meghan continued: “Through this charitable endeavour, the proceeds will allow the kitchen to thrive and keep the global spirit of community alive.”
The proceeds of sale from the book will support the Hubb Community Kitchen.
Her Royal Highness first visited the kitchen in January 2018 on a private visit and had made many more visits since. Meghan was inspired by the project and how it empowers women at a grassroots level.
Who was Empress Dowager Cixi – one of the most powerful women in China’s history?
Prince Charles to join the Duke of Westminster at a consecration service in West Yorkshire
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H.R. 830 - FHA Refinance Program Termination Act
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 5:00pm in H-313 The Capitol View Announcement »
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 12:00am View Announcement »
FHA Refinance Program Termination Act
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 7-4 on Tuesday March 8, 2011.
FLOOR ACTION ON H.RES. 150:
Adopted by record vote of 240-180, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 235-186, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
MANAGERS: Bishop/Polis
1. Modified open rule.
2. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill
4. Makes in order the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Financial Services as original text for purpose of amendment, and provides that each section shall be considered as read.
6. Makes in order only those amendments that have been submitted for printing in the Congressional Record not later than March 9, 2011 or pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate. Provides that each amendment submitted for printing in the Congressional Record may be offered only by the Member who submitted it for printing or their designee, and that each such amendment shall be considered as read if printed.
Pre-printed amendments in the Congressional Record to H.R. 830
:: Tuesday, March 8, 2011: Amendments 1-3
:: Wednesday, March 9, 2011: Amendments 4-15
Motion by Mr. McGovern to report an open rule. Defeated 4-7.
Motion by Mr. Polis to amend the rule to H.R. 830 to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #1, offered by Rep. Cardoza (CA), which would require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) each to carry out a one-year program providing for the refinancing of qualified single-family housing mortgages it owns or guarantees. Defeated 4-7.
Motion by Mr. Sessions to report a modified open rule. Adopted 7-4.
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College of Arts and Sciences dean steps down to return to teaching
Lacy Ford is stepping down as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and will return to research and teaching in the 2021 spring semester. Professor Joel Samuels, interim vice provost for interdisciplinary studies and director of the Rule of Law Collaborative, will serve as interim dean starting Jan. 1.
Topics: Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law
UofSC alums help keep 5 Points alive
December 14, 2020, Craig Brandhorst
If you think Five Points is only a college bar district, think again. The village down the hill has drawn South Carolina students for more than a century, and not simply to celebrate. And for many who settle in the Capital City after graduation, Five Points remains an integral part of their lives, including Tim Smith, who turned his passion for music into a 40-year career buying and selling it.
Topics: Alumni, College of Arts and Sciences
The Virgin of Guadalupe is more than a religious icon in Mexico
December 11, 2020, Rebecca Janzen
Each year, as many as 10 million people travel to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, in what is believed to be the largest Catholic pilgrimage in the Americas. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the pilgrimage will instead be held online this year. Rebecca Janzen, assistant professor of Spanish and comparative literature, explains the significance of the pilgrimage for The Conversation.
Topics: Faculty, Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences
If you think Five Points is only a college bar district, think again. The village down the hill has drawn South Carolina students for more than a century, and not simply to celebrate. And for many who settle in the Capital City after graduation, Five Points remains an integral part of their lives, including Don McCallister, whose business Loose Lucy's supports his creative outlets.
How history memorializes those who die from COVID-19 will reflect our values
December 03, 2020, Nicole S. Maskiell
As COVID-19 affects frontline workers and communities of color far more than other demographic groups, and protesters agitate for racial justice, American society is wrestling with its racial memory and judging which monuments and memorials deserve a place. In The Conversation, history professor Nicole S. Maskiell looks back at how a few marginalized and oppressed people who served on the front lines of prior epidemics have been treated and remembered.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences
Drawing on both sides of the brain
If you think the visual arts and the hard sciences don’t mix, think again. Or maybe just talk to Eliza Stierle. The Dayton, Ohio, native and 2020 University of South Carolina graduate double-majored in studio art and biology (with a minor in art history) and aspires to become a medical illustrator.
Topics: Students, Academics, Health Sciences, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences
Garnet Apple award winner: Hayden Smith
Take a criminal justice course with Hayden Smith, and at some point in the semester, you’ll probably find yourself behind bars, inside a 6-by-9-foot cell. You might also hear voices and see hallucinations, just like inmates diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Topics: Faculty, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences
'Campus Conversations' reveal student resilience
November 27, 2020, Caleigh McDaniel
Students have have faced many challenges due to COVID-19, and their stories of resilience have become prominent topics in our weekly "Campus Conversations." Check out these students who have adapted to and overcome obstacles brought on by the pandemic.
Topics: Students, Initiatives, Recognition, Healthy Carolina, COVID-19, Leadership, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Computing, College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, College of Information and Communications, Arnold School of Public Health
Mungo award winner: Mary Robinson
November 24, 2020, Megan Sexton
As a professor in the School of Visual Art and Design, Mary Robinson believes in creating a sense of community – both in the classroom and beyond.
3 professors earn AAAS honor for scientific accomplishments
November 23, 2020, Bryan Gentry
Three faculty members in the University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The recognition is an honor bestowed by a scientist’s peers to recognize distinguished contributions to science.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Leadership, College of Arts and Sciences
Garnet Apple winner: Micky Myrick
November 17, 2020, Chris Horn
Two things you should know about chemistry professor Micky Myrick: He doesn’t shy away from a challenging task even if there’s little reward in it, and once he has committed to something, he’s in it for the long haul.
UofSC's McNair Institute cultivating student innovators
November 12, 2020, Laura Kammerer
Yaw Addei-Boadu sees chances to innovate, well, everywhere — from event rentals to biogas stoves to fashionable emergency alert devices. Now he's one of a growing number of University of South Carolina students and alumni entrepreneurs who are shaking up the startup scene.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Computing
Mungo award winner: Anna Swartwood House
Knowledge is constructed, not passively received. That, in a nutshell, is Anna Swartwood House’s teaching philosophy. But the art history professor isn’t the sole architect of her students’ education; everyone shares in the heavy lifting.
U.S. Navy veteran embarks on a new mission to earn doctorate
Marco Hernandez's research as a doctoral student in biological sciences at the University of South Carolina shares a thread with his service in the Navy ― his commitment to a purpose higher than himself, looking beyond the moment.
Topics: Students, graduate-studies, Service, College of Arts and Sciences
First-generation alumnus returns to UofSC to pursue history Ph.D.
Trey Capps, a first-generation college student from the small town of Aynor, South Carolina, has returned to his alma mater to pursue his doctorate in history.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Faculty, Academics, Research, Experiential Learning, graduate-studies, Recognition, Leadership, Careers, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
Gamecock Battalion tops among Navy ROTC programs
October 27, 2020, Page Ivey
The University of South Carolina has the best Navy ROTC program in the country. That recognition comes as no surprise to the midshipmen and alumni of the program that began at Carolina in 1940. And it comes as the result of hard work by a team of staffers and the university’s support for it and other military-affiliated programs on campus.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Experiential Learning, Scholarships, Recognition, Partnerships, Service, Leadership, College of Arts and Sciences
Garnet Apple winner: Andy Schumpert
October 27, 2020, Craig Brandhorst
Andy Schumpert got his first taste of teaching in graduate school at the University of South Carolina. Now an instructor and lab coordinator for the university’s Department of Biological Sciences, he credits his early experience as a graduate teaching assistant with kickstarting his career.
History prof's experience as a first-generation college student shapes her approach to teaching
October 26, 2020, Chris Horn
Attending college as a first-generation student was a life-changing experience for Myisha Eatmon, and now, as an assistant professor of history at South Carolina, she encourages her students to use this time to figure out who they are and what they want out of life.
Topics: Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences
Garnet Apple winner: Deena Isom Scott
Deena Isom Scott’s course list in criminal justice and African American Studies becomes all the more relevant in the era of Black Lives Matter and protests against police brutality and injustice.
Remembering the Days: An 1840 sensory experience of campus
Buckle up for a time traveling excursion to 1840 and a sensory experience of 19th century life on campus.
Topics: Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC scientists model how the COVID-19 virus might travel, settle in indoor environments
In this age of COVID-19 concerns, what’s the safest indoor environment? One without humans, of course. In a practical world the answer lies partly in understanding how the virus moves and where it lands in indoor spaces because air ow and surfaces are important routes for transmission of COVID-19.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing
How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone
October 14, 2020, Nükhet Varlik
Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and public health specialists have been using mathematical models to forecast the future in an effort to curb the coronvirus’s spread. History professor Nükhet Varlik writes for the The Conversation to give historical insight into how and when pandemics end.
Topics: History, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
TEDxUofSC 2020 goes virtual
October 13, 2020, Thom Harman
The University of South Carolina will host its first ever virtual TEDxUofSC event Wednesday, Oct. 21. Guided by TED’s goal of sharing “ideas worth spreading,” TEDxUofSC 2020 will be broadcast from the Columbia campus via Facebook Live from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Topics: speakers, Signature Events, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing, School of Law, College of Pharmacy
Mungo award winner: Andrew Greytak
Andrew Greytak isn’t content with his students learning chemistry two or three times a week in class. He wants them to realize the world outside the classroom and many of the things they do in it are examples of the chemical concepts they’re studying.
The Roaring '20s -- America and UofSC a century ago
It’s often referred to as the Roaring ‘20s — the third decade of the 20th century that’s generally associated with prosperity, Prohibition, jazz music and flappers. It’s also the theme of this year’s virtual Homecoming at the University of South Carolina, which takes place Oct. 16-18. In the spirit of that celebration, here’s a look back at what life was like in America and at the university a century ago.
Topics: Students, History, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC student podcast highlights lives of refugees here and abroad
Students in the Carolina Global Scholars Program are drawing attention to the plight of refugees one listener at a time through their "Seeking Refuge" podcast.
Topics: Students, Experiential Learning, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences
UN organization run by UofSC alum wins Nobel Peace Prize
An international food program run by University of South Carolina alumnus David Beasley won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger in regions facing conflict and hardship and at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has driven millions more people to the brink of starvation.
Topics: Alumni, Recognition, Philanthropy, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law
Experience the literary world - at home
The Fall Literary Festival continues in 2020 on three consecutive Wednesday evenings in October – with a twist.The three featured authors will share their readings and talks online.
Topics: Faculty, Academics, Collections, Signature Events, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
Students serve as Gamecock Guides through social media content creations
October 02, 2020, Caleigh McDaniel
Gamecock Guides are newly hired student employees that will soon become familiar faces on UofSC social media channels. The guides are working to create content that will amplify university messages, build virtual relationships that engage fellow students and serve as representatives of UofSC.
Topics: Students, Leadership, Careers, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Information and Communications, Arnold School of Public Health
Poet Nikky Finney embraces outspoken candor to inform, educate, motivate
September 30, 2020, Bryan Gentry
In “At War with Ourselves: 400 Years of You,” Nikky Finney, the poet and English professor, covers four centuries of American history, recounting uncomfortable truths about racism and violence. But she also sings of success and resilience.
Topics: Faculty, Diversity, History, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC artist sparks joy for children at Charleston hospital
Marius Valdes, a University of South Carolina studio art professor and Charleston native, created murals that reflect the wildlife of his hometown and brighten the day for children and families at MUSC's new children's hospital.
Topics: Faculty, Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC law students helped Breonna Taylor's family secure $12 million settlement
September 24, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
University of South Carolina law students Jasmine Caruthers and Anna Catherine Parham say their research on no-knock warrants to assist the lawyers representing Breonna Taylor’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit was enlightening and emotional.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Faculty, Experiential Learning, Service, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, School of Law
From Gaffney to Broadway to Hollywood
September 23, 2020, Megan Sexton
Julia Fowler, who earned her degree from UofSC as a theater and dance major, has made the move from South Carolina to Broadway to Los Angeles, where she created the Southern Women Channel on YouTube and is a writer on a Netflix television show.
Topics: Alumni, Undergraduate Admissions, Leadership, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences
Mungo professor of the year: Amit Almor
For psychology and linguistics professor Amit Almor, the job always circles back to the students. While maintaining a robust research agenda in experimental psychology and publishing at a steady clip, he sees his role in the classroom as a responsibility, “a kind of a sacred obligation to serve.”
Cast of creators
Jarad Greene is one of many former UofSC media arts students who have launched successful creative careers thanks in part to the efforts of Hollywood screenwriter-turned-professor Northrop Davis.
Topics: Alumni, Faculty, Academics, Experiential Learning, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences
Breakthrough Star: Jeanne Britton
September 03, 2020, Page Ivey
Jeanne Britton loves old books and literature so she saw a dream job opportunity in 2014 when University Libraries advertised for a rare books curator who also would teach the literature found in those books.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Collections, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
Boseman's death underscores an alarming increase in from colorectal cancer among younger adults
September 02, 2020, Franklin G. Berger
The tragic death of Chadwick Boseman at age 43 following a four-year battle against colorectal cancer reminds us it is a difficult and emotional disease for people at any age. Franklin G. Berger, distinguished professor emeritus of biological sciences, writes for The Conversation that awareness of signs and symptoms, along with screening, will lead to the eventual eradication of the disease as a major form of cancer.
Topics: Faculty, Research, College of Arts and Sciences
Joe Biden appealed to 2 different audiences in his acceptance speech
August 24, 2020, Todd Shaw
“Give people light,” Joe Biden said, beginning his acceptance speech at the conclusion of the Democratic Party’s online convention on Aug. 20. In an analysis for The Conversation, political science professor Todd Shaw calls it a good speech that was evocative and full of passion with a crisp, effective delivery.
100 years of suffrage: After the vote, comes an era of 'firsts'
August 20, 2020, Page Ivey
South Carolina’s few but dedicated suffragists were no doubt disappointed that the state was not among the first 36 to ratify the 19th amendment, but they almost immediately set about the business of turning their suffrage organizations into education and advocacy groups. In the process, these bold women kicked off the era of “firsts.”
Topics: Alumni, History, Collections, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, University Libraries
ROTC cadet proves himself in combat diving courses
August 17, 2020, Kelsey Hagon
University of South Carolina junior Cole Falkenstine recently completed the U.S. Army’s prestigious Combat Diving Supervisor Course, preparing him to oversee combat dive operations in the Army.
Topics: Students, Faculty, Experiential Learning, Recognition, Service, Leadership, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business
Camp will highlight Gullah/Geechee culture to spark students' interest in science
August 17, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
A summer camp for fifth- and sixth grade-students in South Carolina’s Gullah/Geechee community will introduce Gullah/Geechee students to STEM content from their own community and provide opportunities to interact with professionals who look like them, working in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
Topics: Alumni, Faculty, Research, Experiential Learning, Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Arnold School of Public Health
100 years of suffrage: Reconstruction through ratification
The push for women's suffrage began in earnest in South Carolina right after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. We look at a few of these efforts in the second in a series of stories commemorating 100 years of women’s suffrage.
Topics: Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
What literature can tell us about people's struggle with their faith during a pandemic
August 07, 2020, Agnes Mueller
Some might take solace in religion at a time of uncertainty, such as a pandemic, but literary texts suggest that this is not always the case: Faith may deepen for some, while others may reject or abandon it altogether. Agnes Mueller,professor of German and Comparative Literature, examines pandemics in literature in The Conversation.
Topics: Faculty, Academics, College of Arts and Sciences
100 years of suffrage
The month of August marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote in the United States. South Carolina women were a part of the fight for suffrage that started here in the years after the Civil War. Historians and librarians at the University of South Carolina have played a major role in documenting and preserving their stories.
Topics: Alumni, Faculty, Research, History, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
Breakthrough Star: Fabienne Poulain
August 03, 2020, Megan Sexton
As a teenager growing up in France, Fabienne Poulain was always interested in human behavior, fascinated by how the brain develops and works. Now, as an assistant professor in biological sciences, she works to understand neural development and disorders by studying how neurons form connections during development.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences
Early challenges motivate Honors College student's success
July 31, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
Rodrianna Gaddy took her love of learning about different cultures, combined it with her passion to help people and channeled both into her academic path at the University of South Carolina with a double major in international business and human resources management with a minor in Japanese. Gaddy was scheduled to study abroad in Japan this spring. Then COVID-19 hit.
Topics: Students, Scholarships, Diversity, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, South Carolina Honors College
Q&A with author Rachel Beanland
July 29, 2020, Megan Sexton
The first novel by UofSC almuna Rachel Beanland has been called the perfect summer read and is one of Good Morning America's "25 Novels You'll Want to Read This Summer."
Topics: Alumni, Undergraduate Admissions, Recognition, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Information and Communications, South Carolina Honors College
Breakthrough Star: Samuel McQuillin
July 27, 2020, Page Ivey
Millions of American children have serious mental health and behavioral challenges that could be improved with psychological counseling and support. Samuel McQuillin wants to provide people who work with these children every day — parents, teachers, community- and church-based volunteers — with science-based resources and tools to help.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Recognition, Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
July 22, 2020, Anna Swartwood House
No one knows exactly what Jesus looked like, and there are no known images of him from his lifetime. Art history professor Anna Swartwood House writes in The Conversation that the portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society.
Topics: Faculty, Diversity, History, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC alumna named SC teacher of the year
Sarah Schumacher Gams, who earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of South Carolina, is the 2021 South Carolina teacher of the year.
Topics: Alumni, Undergraduate Admissions, graduate-studies, Recognition, Leadership, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, South Carolina Honors College
Historic Columbia's Robin Waites' commitment to the community runs deep
Robin Waites, who earned her master's in art history from the University of South Carolina, has made her mark at Historic Columbia by rethinking the way the city looks at its history.
Topics: Alumni, Research, graduate-studies, History, Recognition, Leadership, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences offers a semester of justice
July 09, 2020, Annika Dahlgren
This fall, the College of Arts and Sciences begins its new themed semester initiative that encourages faculty and students from across the university to explore ideas related to the core subject of justice. The theme is meant to combine work from the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural and mathematical sciences to bear on today's challenging issues and problems.
Topics: Students, Faculty, Academics, Diversity, History, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC among top universities granted U.S. utility patents
July 08, 2020, Communications and Public Affairs
For the eighth-consecutive year, the University of South Carolina stands among the top 100 universities in the world, based on the number of U.S. utility patents faculty members received in 2019. South Carolina ranks 90th worldwide, named as the lead on 31 patents last year.
Topics: Faculty, University Leadership, Research, Recognition, Economic Engagement, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing, Medicine (Columbia), Arnold School of Public Health
Chemistry professor named AAAS fellow
June 23, 2020, Megan Sexton
Caryn Outten, the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry, researches iron metabolism and uses biochemical methods to understand how cells maintain iron levels that are not too high or too low
Topics: Faculty, Research, Recognition, Health Sciences, Careers, College of Arts and Sciences
Racial disparities revealed in massive traffic stop dataset
Traffic stops are the most common interaction that citizens have with law enforcement. But what happens after the stop is not a universal experience for everyone, says Kelsey Shoub, an assistant professor of political science and one of three co-authors of "Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race."
Career of working to keep drinking water safe garners high honor for UofSC chemistry professor
For her career of work to keep drinking water safe, UofSC chemistry professor Susan Richardson has been elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Topics: Faculty, Academics, Research, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences
Carving a path toward justice: Part 3
Bobby Donaldson is an associate professor of history and African American Studies and director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina. In a three-part question-and-answer series, Donaldson presents both his scholarly insights and his personal perspective as they relate to protests over the death of George Floyd.
Topics: Faculty, Research, History, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
COVID-19 research: Stopping a virus in its tracks
While the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine continues, scientists around the world are also searching for possible new treatments for the disease, including inhibitors that will shut down the virus’ ability to reproduce.
Topics: Faculty, Research, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2020: Bryce Jerin
Class of 2020 senior Bryce Jerin spent his first eight years in India, an experience that shaped his view of life, education and what matters most.
Topics: Students, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
Psychology major finds his passion through research
Jeremy LaPointe has been interested in learning more about why people behave in certain ways since he was in high school. He has been able to pursue that interest at the University of South Carolina in the classroom and in research labs as an undergraduate majoring in experimental psychology with a minor in neuroscience.
Topics: Students, Academics, Research, Scholarships, Health Sciences, Careers, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
The study abroad experience that, ultimately, helped save a life
This past spring semester, Paige Fallon began a study abroad experience in Europe, then got sick with COVID-19 and ended up in quarantine back home in Ohio. But the rising senior made the most of her experience after recovering from the virus that has killed some 350,000 worldwide — she helped save a life.
Topics: Students, Experiential Learning, COVID-19, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Information and Communications
TV show highlights beginning of polarizing politics
Professor Marjorie Spruill has studied the politics around the Equal Rights Amendment for 50 years — both as a participant and as a historian and author. Her work is getting attention as the TV series "Mrs. America" has introduced a new generation to the feminist movement of the 1970s.
Topics: Faculty, Research, History, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC alumna's research could lead to a better understanding of climate change
May 15, 2020, Amanda Hernandez
At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, former UofSC Capstone Scholar and NOAA Hollings Scholar Erin McParland studies dissolved organic matter in the ocean using sophisticated equipment originally developed for use in the medical field.
Topics: Alumni, Academics, Research, Experiential Learning, Scholarships, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
Class of 2020: Finding a home on campus -- and in the labs
May 14, 2020, Megan Sexton
Madhura Pande, who graduated in May from the South Carolina Honors College with degrees in biological sciences and Spanish, has been working on research since she arrived on campus as a freshman.
Topics: Students, Faculty, Academics, Research, Undergraduate Admissions, Health Sciences, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
UofSC experts: 2020 hurricane season
May 13, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1. Top researchers at the University of South Carolina are available to discuss multiple aspects of the 2020 hurricane season, including forecasting, disaster planning and historical perspectives. To coordinate an interview, contact the staff member listed with each expert entry.
Topics: Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Computing, College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, College of Information and Communications, School of Law, College of Pharmacy, Arnold School of Public Health
Internationally known: Ceramics professor lands another global venue
Virginia Scotchie, whose ceramic art is in private collections and galleries around the world, now has another international venue for her work: the U.S. embassy in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
Class of 2020: Senior takes a flying leap toward career serving others
Rebekah Cloninger has a lot to tell her future children and grandchildren about her time at the University of South Carolina. Like the night she met A’ja Wilson, the Most Outstanding Player from the 2017 championship team, and got her jersey signed by the former UofSC forward who now plays for the Las Vegas Aces.
Topics: Students, Undergraduate Admissions, Healthy Carolina, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences
COVID-19 impact: Language differences spark fear amid pandemic
May 08, 2020, Stanley Dubinsky, Kaitlyn E. Smith, Michael Gavin
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, it can cause a fear of others, especially strangers, who may or may not have taken proper precautions against spreading the disease. This fear can cause people to be on heightened alert for anyone who might be different. English professors Stanley Dubinsky, Michael Gavin and doctoral student Kaitlyn Smith write for The Conversation about how language differences can contribute to discrimination.
Class of 2020: Honors senior's thesis project explores history of a former SC mill town
When 89-year-old Richard Mims was just a boy in the 1930s, he remembers playing a game he called “Executive” in the abandoned offices of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Co. in Ferguson near his hometown of Eutawville, South Carolina. The once-thriving mill town now lies underwater, part of the region flooded to create Lake Marion. Mims shared his memories in an oral history recorded by South Carolina Honors College graduate Caldwell Loftis.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Research, History, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
Podcast Episode 8: Month of May, 1970
In May 1970 America was turned upside down amid anti-Vietnam War protests, including a deadly confrontation between National Guardsmen and students at Kent State University. The University of South Carolina wasn't immune to the societal unrest, and things turned ugly on campus in several incidents 50 years ago this month.
Topics: History, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
MFA exhibitions go online to build empathy, spark imagination
May 01, 2020, Bryan Gentry and Anna Toptchi
Three students exhibit their MFA thesis works online, fostering the opportunity to build empathy and spark the imaginations of viewers around the world.
Topics: Students, Academics, graduate-studies, Collections, COVID-19, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, The Graduate School
COVID 19 impact: Welcome to your sensory revolution, thanks to the pandemic
April 29, 2020, Mark Smith
The way we see, hear, taste, touch and smell may never be the same again. History professor Mark Smith writes for The Conversation about how we are undergoing a sensory revolution courtesy of COVID-19.
UofSC professor, poet Nikky Finney elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 28, 2020, Bryan Gentry
The celebrated poet and University of South Carolina professor Nikky Finney was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious fellowship of artists, scholars and leaders who work together for the public good.
COVID-19 impact: Coronavirus genome allows epidemiologists to track where it's been
April 27, 2020, Bert Ely and Taylor Carter
Following the coronavirus’s spread through the population – and anticipating its next move – is an important part of the public health response to the new disease. Biological sciences professor Bert Ely and doctoral student Taylor Carter write for The Conversation on how the virus's genetic sequence provides insight into where the virus has been.
Topics: Students, Faculty, Research, graduate-studies, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
50 years of May
April 27, 2020, Craig Brandhorst
A half century ago, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and seismic shifts in American culture, the campus of the University of South Carolina became a battleground — between students and the administration, between a young generation and the establishment, between radically different worldviews. But the dramatic events of that spring, which came to be known as The Months of May, weren’t strictly destructive. The lessons of that era also changed lives and changed the university itself.
Topics: Alumni, University Leadership, History, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Information and Communications, School of Law
Q&A with Student Government President Issy Rushton
April 23, 2020, Caleigh McDaniel
Due to COVID-19, Australia native Issy Rushton is fulfilling her student body president duties from across the globe. We caught up with her to see what life is like starting her new position remotely during a pandemic.
Topics: Students, University Leadership, Recognition, Leadership, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences
Campus Conversation: Prer Shidhaye
"Conversations aren’t canceled, songs and movies aren’t canceled. Reading and self-care aren’t canceled—focus on the positives.'
Topics: Students, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences
Breakthrough Leader: Ron Benner
Marine science professor Ron Benner took a roundabout route into his field, first majoring in physical education, then traveling for a year on a sailboat. But his efforts to mentor graduate students and younger faculty members in the years since then have been very intentional.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences, South Carolina Honors College
Staying green while staying apart
Prior to campus’s closure, the Student Council on Sustainability, a representative body of all sustainability leaders in several student organizations, were planning a week full of programming for Earth Day on Greene Street called Green on Greene Week. Now, the council has adjusted their plans to create Virtual Green Week.
Topics: Students, Experiential Learning, Initiatives, Healthy Carolina, Service, Student Voices, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
COVID-19 impact: How the pandemic is affecting politics
April 14, 2020, Communications and Public Affairs
Political scientist Katherine Barbieri considers the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. political scene and on authoritarian governments around the world.
Topics: Faculty, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
Breakthrough Leader: Dawn Wilson-King
Dawn Wilson-King has devoted her career to helping people pursue active and healthy lifestyles, and what a career it’s been. Since 2001, the psychology professor has collaborated on more than 30 grant-funded projects that brought some $40 million in grant funding to the University of South Carolina and she served as president of two prominent national organizations.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Recognition, Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health
Popular UofSC civil rights exhibit will have a permanent home
April 09, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
The university will continue rehabilitation and preservation of the Booker T. Washington Auditorium Building to create a permanent space for the Center for Civil Rights History and Research’s exhibit “Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement.” Funded with a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service, the restoration will advance efforts to create a destination for people to learn the history of Columbia and of the school.
Topics: Faculty, Diversity, History, Collections, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
COVID-19 research: Geographer tracks movement during pandemic with Twitter data
Twitter data could be a useful tool in tracking human movement in this and future disease outbreaks, says a UofSC geography scientist who used Twitter data to track historic flooding in 2015 in South Carolina.
Topics: Faculty, Research, Health Sciences, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
Breakthrough Star: Zhengqing Fu
Imagine, if you can, a world without oranges or any fruit or vegetable. When plant pathogens strike, unchecked, the results on agriculture can be devastating. Luckily, researchers like University of South Carolina associate professor of biological sciences Zhengqing Fu are on the case.
Research opens doors to the Goldwater Scholarship
April 02, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward, Jan Smoak & Nathaniel Thomas
Two South Carolina Honors College juniors, Ian Bain of Irmo and Zoe Screwvala of Brooklyn have won prestigious Goldwater Scholarships, awarded annually to undergraduate STEM majors across the country.
Topics: Students, Faculty, Academics, Research, Scholarships, Recognition, College of Arts and Sciences
Podcast Episode 5: Looking for Jack
March 31, 2020, Chris Horn
The history of enslaved people at South Carolina College — the precursor of today's University of South Carolina — is a difficult one to tell. But research has brought to light the names of many of those individuals, and the university is acknowledging the vital role they played in the college's early days. Here's the story of one of those enslaved workers — a man named Jack.
Topics: Diversity, History, College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries
COVID-19 response: Faculty use technology prowess to connect virtually with students
When the University of South Carolina announced plans to switch to online learning only beginning March 23, the nearly 20 sections of U401 were quickly ready to roll, thanks in large part to the efforts of two technology-savvy language professors.
COVID-19 response: Faculty members mobilize network to obtain medical supplies
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to separate communities, families, co-workers and friends — but it is also bringing us together like never before. And it is inspiring University of South Carolina faculty and staff to step up their efforts in a time of need.
Topics: Faculty, Philanthropy, COVID-19, Service, College of Arts and Sciences
COVID-19 impact: Insights from ancient 'plague lit'
Classics professor Hunter Gardner studies plague narratives in Western literature, particularly those of the Roman epic poets.
Topics: Faculty, History, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
COVID-19 impact: Building resiliency in the time of a pandemic
Psychology professor Sayward Harrison offers advice on ways individuals, families and communities can nurture resilience in the time of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Topics: Faculty, Research, COVID-19, Leadership, College of Arts and Sciences
COVID-19 impact: Communicating through social networks
Matthew Brashears, an associate professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina, discusses how the coronavirus might affect social networks, both in-person and online.
Topics: Faculty, Academics, Research, COVID-19, Service, College of Arts and Sciences
COVID-19 impact: The history of plague and contagion
Nükhet Varlik, an associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences at UofSC, studies disease, medicine and public health, particularly in era of the Ottoman Empire. She has written a book and edited another on plague and contagion in the Mediterranean world.
Topics: Faculty, Research, History, COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences
UofSC faculty experts on coronavirus
March 18, 2020, Carol J.G. Ward
The University of South Carolina’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs has compiled a list of faculty experts who can discuss topics relevant to the coronavirus pandemic.
Topics: COVID-19, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Education, College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, College of Information and Communications, School of Law, Medicine (Columbia), College of Pharmacy
UofSC continues climb in graduate rankings
The University of South Carolina continues to shine with 54 unique nationally ranked graduate programs — nine in the top 25 — in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools list released Tuesday (March 17).
Topics: Academics, graduate-studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, College of Engineering and Computing, College of Information and Communications, School of Law
UofSC faculty experts: 2020 census
The University of South Carolina’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs has compiled a list of faculty experts who can discuss topics relevant to the 2020 census.
Topics: Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, Darla Moore School of Business, Arnold School of Public Health
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Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia
A coronavirus related to SARS-CoV-2 has been found in Shamel’s horseshoe bats captured in Cambodia in 2010.Credit: Merlin D. Tuttle/SPL
Two lab freezers in Asia have yielded surprising discoveries. Researchers have told Nature they have found a coronavirus that is closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, in horseshoe bats stored in a freezer in Cambodia. Meanwhile, a team in Japan has reported the discovery of another closely related coronavirus — also found in frozen bat droppings.
The viruses are the first known relatives of SARS-CoV-2 to be found outside China, which supports the World Health Organization’s search across Asia for the pandemic’s animal origin. Strong evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats, but whether it passed directly from bats to people, or through an intermediate host, remains a mystery.
The virus in Cambodia was found in two Shamel’s horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus shameli) captured in the country’s north in 2010. The virus’s genome has not yet been fully sequenced — nor its discovery published — making its full significance to the pandemic hard to ascertain.
If the virus is very closely related to — or even an ancestor of — the pandemic virus, it could provide crucial information about how SARS-CoV-2 passed from bats to people, and inform the search for the pandemic’s origin, says Veasna Duong, a virologist at Institute Pasteur in Phnom Penh, who led the search of the old samples in Cambodia and alerted Nature to their discovery in early November. To provide such insights, the virus would have to share more than 97% of its genome with SARS-CoV-2, which is more than its closest known relative, say researchers.
But the new virus might be more distantly related, in which case, studying it will help scientists to learn more about the diversity in this virus family, says Etienne Simon-Loriere, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, who plans to sequence the virus, after which it will be shared publicly.
That is the case with the other virus, called Rc-o319, identified in a little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) captured in 2013. That virus shares 81% of its genome with SARS-CoV-2, according to a paper1 published on 2 November — which makes it too distant to provide insights into the pandemic’s origin, says Edward Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.
No matter what the Cambodian team find, both discoveries are exciting because they confirm that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 are relatively common in Rhinolophus bats, and even in bats found outside of China, says Alice Latinne, an evolutionary biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society Vietnam in Hanoi, who has seen some of the Cambodian team’s analysis but was not involved in the investigation.
“This is what we were looking for, and we found it,” says Duong. “It was exciting and surprising at the same time.”
Pandemic origins
The findings also suggest that other as yet undiscovered SARS-CoV-2 relatives could be stored in lab freezers, says Aaron Irving, an infectious-diseases researcher at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, who also plans to test stored samples of bats and other mammals for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
“I did not expect to find a relative of SARS-CoV-2,” says virologist Shin Murakami at the University of Tokyo, who was part of the team that decided to retest frozen animal samples for viruses in the wake of the pandemic.
Only a handful of known coronaviruses are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, including its closest known relative RaTG13. It was discovered in intermediate horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus affinis) in the Chinese province of Yunnan in 2013, and was published2 only earlier this year. There are also several other coronaviruses, found in other Rhinolophus bats and pangolins captured between 2015 and 2019, which scientists now know to be closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
“SARS-CoV-2 probably wasn’t a brand new virus that popped up all of a sudden. Viruses in this group existed before we became aware of them in 2019,” says Tracey Goldstein, associate director of the One Health Institute at the University of California, Davis, who is involved with the Cambodian team.
Latinne says the discoveries confirm that Rhinolophus bats are the reservoir of these viruses.
Virus in Cambodia
Duong’s team captured the Shamel’s horseshoe bats in Cambodia as part of the US-government-funded PREDICT project, which surveyed wildlife worldwide for viruses with pandemic potential for decades and ended earlier this year. In April, the US Agency for International Development gave the programme an additional US$3 million and a 6-month extension to look for evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in animal samples — mostly bats, as well as pangolins and other animals — that were sitting in laboratory freezers in Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. A full report of these investigations is expected in the coming weeks.
Duong says preliminary genome sequencing of a short fragment of the new bat virus — 324 base pairs long — showed that it was similar to the same region in SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG-13, suggesting that the three are closely related. That region is highly conserved in coronaviruses, says Latinne, and is often used to quickly identify whether a virus is new or known. But it’s not yet clear whether RaTG-13 or the new virus is more closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
It is difficult to say with such a small fragment, says Vibol Hul, a virologist also at the Institute Pasteur in Cambodia, who trapped the Shamel’s horseshoe bats at the entrance to a cave in 2010. The genomes of most known coronaviruses contain about 30,000 base pairs.
In a separate analysis, the Cambodia team sequenced some 70% of the new virus’s genome using the technology available locally, says Erik Karlsson, a virologist at the Institute Pasteur in Cambodia, who helped to analyse the bats. Missing from that sequence were the instructions for crucial parts of the virus, such as the genes that encode the spike protein that coronaviruses typically use to enter cells. Sequencing that section will indicate whether this virus can infect human cells, says Duong.
The new virus would have to be at least 99% similar to SARS-CoV-2 to be an immediate ancestor of the current pandemic virus, says Irving. The genomes of RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2 differ by only 4%, but that divergence represents between 40 and 70 years of evolution since they shared a common ancestor. Although decades apart, the viruses are similar enough to use the same receptor to enter cells. Cell studies suggest that RaTG13 could infect people.
Another close relative
Of the known coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the newly discovered Rc-o319 seems to be the most distantly related, says Duong.
In cell studies, the Japan team found that the virus can not bind to the receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter human cells, suggesting that it could not easily infect people.
Shin says his colleagues captured more bats in Japan earlier this year, and plan to test them for coronaviruses. And in October, Hul returned to the cave in northern Cambodia to catch more bats.
More SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses probably exist in Rhinolophus bat populations, which live across the region, says Holmes. “Hopefully, one or more of these will be so closely related to SARS-CoV-2 that we can regard it as the true ancestor.”
This article was originally published by Nature.com. Read the original article here.
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"Modern Folk Music at its Most Hauntingly Beautiful"
Cutting a Swath Through the Self-Releasing Jungle
May 22, 2012 September 8, 2015 / scifiromanceband / Leave a comment
Years ago, people started sounding the death knell for traditional music distribution models, and now much of the doomsday scenarios have played out exactly as feared (or hoped, depending on your particular relationship to the mainstream). Unfortunate casualties have been the record store, many independent radio stations, livable advances for musicians signed to labels, and – divorced of a physical product (CDs, etc.) – the erosion of public sentiment that musicians should be paid. We have lost much, but before us, as always, is the horizon. For independent artists, these changes have resulted in the barriers to entry crumbling and an unprecedented opportunity for connecting directly with fans.
But that also means that independent artists – like me – who self-release an album have so many options for seemingly every single decision-point in the process that it can be crippling. What I decided to do, then, was just walk through the vendors that I used for our release of The Ghost of John Henry and …and surrender my body to the flames before it. I don’t know that anyone else has aggregated the entire process start-to-finish, so hopefully this will be valuable, or at least open up discussion in the comments section below for alternative approaches. I don’t pretend to be an expert, just a guy who’s been through it a couple times.
Off we go!
Recording & Mastering: For The Ghost of John Henry, we hired the wildly talented Jaron Luksa (www.jaronsound.com) in Burbank, California, to handle the recording stuff, and we tracked to Pro Tools HD, which Jaron also used for mixing and mastering. If you’re in LA, you should use him, too. I performed and recorded …and surrender my body to the flames on my own using Adobe Audition for tracking, mixing, and mastering. For the drums, I recorded all of my own samples using my kit and loaded them into Reason. Then I used a Midi drum kit for the actual performance, because micing a drum kit would’ve been way to expensive and difficult on my own. Micing one drum at a time though, I could handle. You can hear the finished results of each at our website. Update: We recorded album #3 with Tim Moore at York Recording, and you should use him, too.
“The Ghost of John Henry” Cover Artwork
Physical CDs: The first time I released a CD was many years ago, and I had to pull together several vendors for the CD replication, the jewel cases, the printing, etc. Discmakers does all of that, and they also publish a number of free DIY guides each year on topics like getting your music to blogs, how to get college radio play, and mastering tips. I never really considered any other alternatives, and used Discmakers for both albums. Couldn’t be happier with the finished products.
Digital Distribution: I actually use two distributors, Tunecore for singles, and The Orchard for albums. I’ve been with The Orchard for over 10 years, and these guys are the real deal. They don’t have an open sign-up policy, however. If they’ll take you, I can’t recommend them highly enough. They have a flat release fee of $35, and then keep a small percentage of your sales moving forward. They release to over 40 (Update: over 240) digital channels worldwide and have a tight integration with YouTube. Tunecore offers album distribution for $50/year, and singles distribution for $10/year, both renewed annually. You can add stores beyond the initial 12 (I think) you’re offered for an additional fee. Financially, it makes sense for us to use the two different channels for the two different kinds of releases. The big drawback of Tunecore is that it takes 2 months to see sales activities. We released our single version of “House of the Rising Sun” in late March, and I’m still waiting to see any of the sales activity on it. With The Orchard, sales are usually reported after only one month, and iTunes sales are reported daily. Daily! If you cross a certain sales threshold (Sci-Fi Romance does not), The Orchard also offers physical distribution. Update: We have since moved all distribution to The Orchard, chiefly because we were paying the album rate for the “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” single.
Physical Distribution: If you’re kind of a big deal and Amoeba Music is going to be ordering your CDs to keep stocked on the shelves, you probably want to use somebody like Super D Distribution. We’re not there yet, so I content myself with the CD being available on Amazon. I set this up through the Amazon Advantage program. You can sign up as a vendor, add items, and sell them on a consignment basis, with Amazon handling all fulfillment. It’s a good system, and when they run low or out of stock, they issue a PO for more items, and you send them in. Easy. Update: I still use this, but Amazon is a harsh mistress. They once issued me a PO on a Saturday, I wasn’t able to send the CDs in the mail until Monday, so when I didn’t get the CDs to them within a 48-hour window, I got a red-mark against me and they started charging customers over $18 for Sci-Fi Romance CDs as a punishment. Buyer beware, I guess.
UPCs, Barcodes, and ISRC Numbers: This is super-important, but it’s very hard to get good information on it. Some people will pay up to $300 for a barcode for their CD, when they could’ve gotten one for $7 from Nationwide Barcode. Yes, if you use Tunecore or The Orchard, or probably CD Baby or anybody else, they will issue you a UPC/barcode. But that is for the digital release only! If you are creating a physical CD, you need a different barcode/UPC for it. They are technically two different products. ISRC numbers are the numbers SoundScan and everybody else uses to track digital sales. Tunecore issues you a TC ID number, which is not an official ISRC, but serves the same purpose and works just as well. The Orchard issues actual ISRC numbers for your tracks. You can also apply for a block of ISRC numbers and pay a bunch of money, but don’t worry about it, even if you’re a small record label. Update: National Barcode now charges even less for physical distribution UPCs. These guys are the best.
Embeddable Players: This question is really “Bandcamp or Soundcloud?” To be honest, they’re two entirely different things, although they have in common a feature that allows you to stream your music on other websites. At their cores, Bandcamp is a sales tool, and Soundcloud is a collaboration tool. I use each. It seems like bloggers prefer Soundcloud, and that’s probably because the widget is extremely customizable and looks pretty awesome. Here’s an example: You get up to two hours of storage free, and can make tracks downloadable. However, if you want any meaningful statistics on who’s playing your music or downloading it, you have to pay a pretty significant annual fee. So it looks cooler than Bandcamp, but Bandcamp is pretty bad-ass under the hood. While a lot of people may be more comfortable using AmazonMP3 or iTunes to download paid music, fans can buy your album through Bandcamp in whatever digital format they want, including highest-quality, uncompressed FLAC audio. Great for audiophiles. Bandcamp keeps a small percentage of sales, but the basic features of the site are at no additional cost. You get meaningful play statistics – how people found your site, how many people listened to your tracks, where they listened from (ie, embedded on other sites), and more. Plus, you can give away tracks for free on Bandcamp in exchange for a fan’s email address, which is in many ways the lifeblood of independent musicians.
Mailing List: I’m a regular person, so I don’t like spam emails, and I feel very icky about sending people emails about my band. But Jimmy Kimmel’s not calling anytime soon, so if I want anybody to know about our new releases or when we’re playing, I’ve got to suck it up and send a couple of respectful, and infrequent emails. Facebook is great, Twitter is great, but a direct email drives more traffic, downloads, and sales than anything else I do. At first I used ReverbNation because it’s free, I already had a profile set up with them, and my email list was small enough to where it didn’t really matter. But once I started having email addresses coming in from Bandcamp, the ReverbNation profile, PayPal sales, and two or three other avenues, I had to step up my game. The lovely and talented Joan Hiller of Riot Act Media recommended MailChimp to me, and I do everything Joan tells me to do. MailChimp has a free option, and then tiered paid options available above that, which offer larger lists, greater segmentation, and other features. They have a simple and powerful interface, and offer a ton of customization and options. They are a tremendous resource, and after using Constant Contact and looking at other options like Aweber, MailChimp seemed like the best option, hands-down. Very pleased to be with them.
Social Networks: People tell me I should still pay attention to MySpace, but I don’t. I was super happy to get an early invite to Google+ from a friend, and haven’t been back since its official launch. I do a Facebook page and Twitter, and if I’m missing out on sales or fans that would’ve found me through other networks, I may sleep a little restlessly, but at least I sleep. Because trying to keep up with two or three more social networks would make an already difficult task that much harder. If you can do it, God love you, I wish you the best.
I think that’s it. Did I miss something? Please let me know in the comments. Was this helpful? Please let me know that, too. If you think I’m an idiot…well, that’s what YouTube comments are for.
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Intelligent Sensors for Active Packaging
1/3 of all food produced Globally is wasted
The Senoptica Technology will reduce food waste on the most resource intensive and valuable foods
The Senoptica Technology helps identify defective modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The Senoptica Sensor is printed directly into the MAP lidding film laminate. Once the product has been packed, the sensor is scanned using the Senoptica scanning system. On scanning, the sensor will appear a different colour, depending on the O2 level within the pack. Packs are then accepted or rejected based on the specification for that product.
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Brendan has extensive experience in the food industry with strong background in the commercial disciplines of innovation, marketing and sales. He has grown portfolios worth over £500m and led large cross functional teams to deliver award winning World first innovations. Brendan holds an MBA (1st Class) from UCD Smurfit Business School, Ireland.
Dr Steve Comby – Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
Steve is the co-inventor of the technology and led the development of the project for early stage research to successful industrial scale production. Steve’s academic research has focused on intelligent sensors for active packaging. Steve holds a PhD (Inorganic Chemistry) from Ecole Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Rachel is the originator and co-inventor of the idea and has overseen the development of the project from inception. She is currently working in Cambridge University, UK furthering research interests in the science underpining the Senoptica Technology. Rachel holds a PhD (Physical Chemistry) from University of Wales Swansea, UK.
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is one of the top academic institutions in the World and is Ireland’s leading academic institution.
Trinity sits at number 48 in the global rankings for producing venture-backed entrepreneurs from its undergraduate programmes, according to PitchBook’s recently published Universities Report. Trinity is the only European university within the Top 50, making this the third year in a row that Trinity has been ranked first in Europe by the private equity and venture-focused research firm.
Headed up by Professor Mike Lyons, the TCD School of Chemistry has come a long way since the first lecturer in Chemistry was appointed in 1711. The School is research intensive and has an active research programme that spans all sub-disciplines of Chemistry. Its members are involved in a great many inter-departmental, national and international research programmes. Research income (approx. €5 million per year) is earned from national, international and commercial sources, and several groups are involved in networks of European laboratories. The School of Chemistry currently spearheads TCD activity in Raw Materials and significant funding has been obtained in this area in recent times in collaboration with European and International partners, both academic and industrial. The School has a diverse, strong, and dynamic research community consisting of the academic staff, Fellows Emeriti, researchers and postgraduate students.
CRANN AMBER
CRANN (the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices) is one of the largest research institutes in Trinity College Dublin and Ireland’s leading nanoscience institute.
CRANN brings together over 300 researchers including 37 leading Investigators based across multiple disciplines including Trinity’s Schools of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Engineering and Pharmacology.
In October 2013, a Science Foundation Ireland funded research centre, AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) was launched. AMBER is jointly hosted in TCD by CRANN and the Trinity Centre for Bioenineering, and works in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and UCC. The centre provides a partnership between leading researchers in material science and industry to develop new materials and devices for a range of sectors, particularly the ICT, medical devices and industrial technology sectors.
Trinity’s Senoptica to launch optical sensor for packaging
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The British Magazine
During the 1857 uprising, hundreds of sepoys came into Delhi after a mutiny in Meerut where they killed all the British. In Delhi too they went about killing all the English – men, women, children they could find. By the afternoon, almost all of them in the city had been killed. At around 4 PM, the sepoys went to the Mughal king – Bahadur Shah Zafar to seek his blessing and support for the uprising.
The old king, having very less options, reluctantly agreed to it. As soon as he came back to his quarters after announcing this publicly, there was a huge blast north to the Palace (The Red Fort). It was so strong that it was heard 20 miles away.
The epicenter of this blast was the British Magazine – North India’s largest arsenal of ammunition and guns. Lieutenant Willoughby was defending this Magazine since morning. By the afternoon he was fully surrounded by the sepoys. To prevent such a large cache of arms and ammunition landing in the mutineer’s hands, Willoughby blew up the whole building along with a large mob of the sepoys who were attacking it and of course himself.
What remains of this magazine are the two entrances around 100 meters apart. Kashmiri Gate Post office stands where perhaps there was a warehouse of the ‘modern’ Enfield rifles which were the primary reason for the 1857 uprising.
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For the sap of certain trees, see Latex.
github.com/latex3/latex2e
LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL)
www.latex-project.org
LaTeX is a computer program used for making articles, books and mathematical formulas more aesthetically pleasing. LaTeX is well-suited for expressing mathematical formulas on electronic devices in a more human readable format, by allowing them to be shown in a format similar to how they would be written in many textbooks or by hand.
LaTeX is used for making mathematical formulas for some articles on Wikipedia, in addition to being used within academic circles.
The writer types their article into a plain text document. A plain text document cannot have styled text, like bold or italic. When the writer wants to write styled text, they use computer commands. For example, the command for bold text is \textbf{This text is bold}.
After the writer is finished writing the article, they tell LaTeX to read the document. After LaTeX is done, LaTeX makes a file that can be printed. The command \textbf{This text is bold} would print as This text is bold.
LaTeX was first made in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at SRI International, who published its first manual in 1986.[1] The current version is LaTeX2e (styled ), which has been active since 1994.[2]
2 Academic contributions to LaTeX
Example[change | change source]
The example below shows the LaTeX input and its corresponding output:
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\LaTeX{} is a document preparation system for the \TeX{}
typesetting program. It offers programmable desktop publishing
features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of
typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and
cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout, bibliographies,
and much more. \LaTeX{} was originally written in 1984 by Leslie
Lamport and has become the dominant method for using \TeX; few
people write in plain \TeX{} anymore. The current version is
\LaTeXe.
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Academic contributions to LaTeX[change | change source]
In order to support mathematical typesetting, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has made the AMS-LaTeX package.[3] AMS also founded MathJax, a Javascript extension to display mathematical formulas on web browsers, with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[4]
Acaric (Developer of Cloud LaTeX)
Beamer (LaTeX-based presentation software)
CTAN (One of the largest LaTeX-related website)
KaTeX (LaTeX for web browsers)
SATySFi (A computer program expected to be an alternative to LaTeX)
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Van Dongen, M. R. (2012). LATEX and Friends. Springer Science & Business Media.
Grätzer, G. (2014). Practical LaTeX. Springer.
Datta, D. (2017). LaTeX in 24 Hours: A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing. Springer.
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To better accommodate a growing number of cardiovascular patients from across a wide region, Shockey recently completed a 66,000-SF addition to Winchester Medical Center’s (WMC) Heart & Vascular Center.
Specialists and services for the prevention, early diagnosis and advanced treatment of cardiovascular disease now reside together under a new four-story wing that adjoins the existing 22,000 SF Heart & Vascular Center on the WMC campus.
The expansion gives patients easy access to the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Advanced Heart Failure Center, imaging and other services. Besides housing the cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program and an outpatient laboratory for patient convenience, the new building also includes new clinic and office space for more than 40 cardiovascular physicians and advanced practice clinicians (APCs). According to the Winchester Star, every practice in the new building can now accommodate 30% to 50% more patients.
Experts from the new center say the supportive environment will aid patients who have had heart attacks in building their endurance and cardiac function again, and help them feel like they can soon return to normal.
In 2019, nearly 60% of WMC’s 7,000 heart and vascular patients came from outside Winchester and Frederick and Clarke counties.
Shockey began site work in March 2018 and the building opened in February 2020. In September, the center received the 2020 Silver Performance Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology, one of only 124 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
LOCATIONWinchester, VA
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Love Ghost –…
Love Ghost – “Heart Shaped Box”
I was fourteen years-old when the shot went off.
I was just on my way back in from lunch hour at school and settling back into the next class. As history will tell you from the perspective of anyone who’s lived through an event of such colossal magnitude that rocks the entire world…you remember everything. I remember that the class wasn’t mine; we were about to share a room with a different grade for a random project…we didn’t even have official seats in the classroom, and the students in my class were still finding seats on the floor, awaiting the instruction to come. And then it happened.
At first you’d have no idea what it even was…but you could see it was something big. Whispers started quickly and swept like a wave over top of us all as the news made its way closer to where I was sitting. Me…the kid that basically did everything he could to alter his brown hair to blonde…the kid who already had a goatee rocking fully by the time I was in middle-school…the kid who looked the part much more than he ever actually played the role. When that wave reached me and someone told me that Kurt had shot himself, it felt like being stabbed in the heart; if you were a fan at the time of, it’s like hearing that news brought the inevitable conclusion to a ride we’d all been on for a very long time, and sadly, it felt like we always knew it was coming. Someday. But oh God…don’t let it really be today…that’s all you can think at the time. Nirvana was my LIFE…not just a piece of it at the time; they were my entire damn life.
Having the mat ripped out from underneath you like that is unbearable on your way into your teenage years. There was one other kid in that same class that was just as much of a fan as I was…a kid named Joel…he actually DID play the part; he could play Nirvana songs on guitar & he’d do that at lunch all the time while we all hung out together. I watched the news hit him too that day…and rather than be sorrowful, he laughed with reckless Grunge attitude & said “Pfff. Whatever, I never liked him anyway.” Already irreparably upset, I got the fuck up and left school that very moment for the day…I figured if it was only going to take mere seconds for a lifelong fan to start mocking Kurt Cobain and the way he went out, that there was no way I was going to be able to handle the comments that were about to come my way. I packed up my shit, I cried all the way home, & I watched the news for the next five days straight.
Obviously, this isn’t the kind of tragedy that you live through every day…one that affects the entire world all at once…aside from wars, pandemics, and the occasional rare human-being that captures the hearts & minds of the entire globe getting wiped out within a second…the rest of what we live through – the hard bits – all remain burning underneath the surface, equally important, but less of a commodity.
What you don’t realize at the time & never could, is how it’ll affect you years & years afterwards. It was hard enough to listen to the originals…nevermind the day that I knew would eventually come, where covers of Nirvana songs would become commonplace in our world…an idea that completely horrified me. For the longest time it felt like there would never be a way for me to accept a variation of the originals…but to be fair, I was also so locked into Grunge that I didn’t value OTHER music like I do today.
Those first steps out on stage for the brave soldiers that chose to cover Nirvana’s music in those first couple years would have been lucky to escape the night with their skin still on their bones. To say that many of us were vocal in our opposition from the audience in front of them would be an understatement…no matter who it was, how big or how small, how unknown or how legendary – the world at-large went through a long recovery process where no music at all, became actually better than some. I would have rather sat in a silent tomb or school library than heard a Nirvana cover in between 1994 to the time I graduated in 1998. I didn’t give up the look…in fact, two years after he passed, I still had a car actually pull over while I was walking home, with two dudes that got out from both sides just to LOOK and see if it was him. They were as disappointed as much as I was daily about the fact that I wasn’t him apparently – one said to the other, “Damn…it’s not him,” and then turned to me to say, “you’re not him” – and I had to agree. No matter how much I wanted to be, I wasn’t. They got back into their car, threw up a set of devil horns out the side of each window in a full-salute of respect, and drove off forever.
Apologies to Love Ghost…I’ve gone and hijacked this commentary with all kinds of personal stuff; like I was saying…you don’t realize just how much this kind of stuff affects you at the time, or will forever. Every time I hear Nirvana now, even to this day, it still brings about a kind of PTSD unlike I’ve ever known in any other capacity or have felt towards any other subject, person, place, or thing I can think of.
The point in telling any of you out there reading this, is really to say that, when it comes to this ONE particular band…mannnnnnnnnnnn…you better be ready to BRING IT if you’re gonna attempt a cover. There have been a couple over time that eventually broke through and impressed me enough to listen – and they usually came from strange places. I remember the first time I saw a band cover a Nirvana song live…in fact, up til that point, as much as a super-fan as I was, I was still under-age for just about every venue on the map back home…it was the first time I had seen ANY Nirvana song played live by a real band, not just Joel noodling on his guitar at some old high-school lunch hangout session. It was an opening band with something to prove…they barely had a hit on the radio at that point, and I hated the song they had out there to begin with…to say that I expected Three Days Grace of all bands to go out there and crush it that night would be a complete lie. Yet there they were. They lit up the Commodore Ballroom stage in Vancouver with a cover of “School” that was so scorching hot and spot-on for the energy that it was just undeniably awesome, and genuinely jaw-dropping. I still don’t listen to Three Days Grace and I can’t imagine that will ever change any time soon – but I’d never refuse a chance to see’em play live after that show, that I can tell ya, 100%. Because it wasn’t about really going out there to be a carbon-copy of what we already knew and had heard from Nirvana…it was much more about paying the music a proper tribute; they did it in their own style, their own way, and it fuckin’ ROCKED.
In knowing Love Ghost and the angst-laden signature style of their own that they’ve built throughout the years, I gotta say…I felt immediately confident that this was one of those ‘right bands’ to be handling such precious cargo. Though I’ll admit…not having any clue of what was actually being sent our way here, all I had was a link to go by…and when I clicked it, was exactly the moment that good ol’ PTSD kicked straight back in out of nowhere…and as quick as I had clicked it, I clicked pause to stop it from playing. And then I just sat there. I sat there and stared at the screen/challenge ahead of me right there in writing. Love Ghost – “Heart Shaped Box.” God I fucking love this song. Am I even ready for this?
Read it again Jer. It says LOVE GHOST. Calm the fuck down and know that this crew always crushes it.
I’m highly satisfied and stoked on what they’ve come up with. It’s kinda hard to explain until you see & hear it for yourself, but they’ve taken an exceptionally rad approach to this massively monstrous hit-song and done some really badass things with it. Just as important as what they’ve done, is what they’ve chosen to keep intact, and what they’ve chosen to add in on their own; as with all covers, there are parts you can’t fuck with & elements of a song that keep its original timeless appeal still present. If you end up tarnishing those special attributes…say like something like A Perfect Circle’s astonishingly terrible cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” – then everything can all fall to shit pretty damn quick if you’re not careful. To me, having that main guitar hook come out as gnarly & rad & silky & deadly as it does on Love Ghost’s cover of “Heart Shaped Box” was essential to this cover’s success…and they chose wisely by keeping it in there, along with the savage grip of that punch when you switch from it in the verses to the energy in the chorus. That’s the real essential stuff when it comes to this particular cut – & they nailed it all solid; the rest as far as I’m concerned, is welcome to change without nearly as much judgment being passed.
When it comes to the overall execution…the best way I can put it, is that there was a much easier route that Love Ghost could have taken – and I’m glad they didn’t. Thinking back to the rawer-sound this band had in their beginning with songs like “Girl Pusher” and its amped-up aggression in Finnegan’s vocals – I mean…if you’ve got ears on your head, you know he could have probably just gone into the booth and laid down a whole bunch of similarly tortured wails and goodnight Irene, game over, job well done. You’re gonna get endless comparisons no matter what you do…in my opinion, even as close as a singer like Bell would likely get to the sound of an original Cobain, they were collectively wise as a band to take this idea and give it their own decisive twists – especially when it came to the vocals. The melody is 100% intact…and arguably, that’s gonna be the main element of what 99% of the people out there hear – so another strong move there too – but listen to the smart changes they’ve made to the verse & chorus. The verses are as subtle, slick, and stylistically badass as you’d hope they’d come out…the changes occur mainly in the sound & tone with the effects used & all that…it works really well; it’s not such a dramatic shift that it throws us as listeners at all, and you’re not gonna hear me complaining about those choices whatsoever. That being said, I’m not complaining about ANY of this when it comes right down to it – I thought they put an extremely rad spin on the chorus and attacked it almost like you’d imagine some sort of bizarre Grunge/Gothic/Alternative version of Queen would have played this song. If that seems like a stretch of your imagination, I get it, I get it…like I was tellin’ ya from the start here, you kind of really have to see & hear this version of “Heart Shaped Box” to fully get it…words ain’t gonna cut it. When you’re looking at the video…keep that Queen reference in your mind…I’m tellin’ ya they’ve even left you visual clues right there onscreen that would cue you into how they’ve approached this song by incorporating multiple influences & styles, to give it a hybrid sound that’s refreshed & authentically new.
In particular…I wanna shout-out keyboard player Corey Batchler this time around…because the efforts being made from that department contribute enormously to why I’d give this cover my full approval. You’ve got players that can hear what a song does and they can map that out no problem for themselves when ripping through a cover – and then you’ve got players like Batchler that can hear the melody that exists between what we know about a song, and where it can go. Think of it this way – in writing, we simply refer to something like this as being able to ‘read between the lines’ – as if we’ve somehow written some genius into our work without actually saying anything at all…some other level or dimension that gives everything we’ve said a complete new level of meaning. For musicians, the same can be true – and what we really mean is that there are some players out there that can simply hear things in a song that others cannot. They find unique avenues into a song, they play with the melody, the space, the timing…and everything seems to fit like it’s been there all along. I believe that Corey Batchler is indeed such a player – and I think everything you’d need to prove all I’m saying correct is right there on display in this cover of “Heart Shaped Box” in the ‘what’ he chooses to play, and ‘when.’ Spectacular stuff from Batchler…and even while it’s a more subtle aspect of what’s happening in the meat & intensity of the overall song…it’s these tiny changes that appeal to me the most as a lifetime fan of Nirvana, and as a guy that simply wants ANY band to bring something of their own to a cover tune. Bonus points for the gnarly & gritty guitar-solo combo from Daniel Alcala & Bell in tandem on this cover tune as well; and as reliable as ever, Samson & Ryan hold the fort down tight with their lockstep rhythm section always keeping it real.
Credit where credit is due folks – Love Ghost did all the right things to impress us all with the way they’ve re-created “Heart Shaped Box” – they took chances, they kept what we love intact, and they ended up with a really valid & enjoyable cover that warrants its existence. Shout-out to Dan Bell as well, who directed the video this time around – I think this ended up being one of their strongest & most captivating vids to-date so far; I love the entire look to the visuals & how fluidly everything flows onscreen. Especially when they’re all hitting those harmonies of the chorus together and the faces are changing right in front of you…it’s a brilliantly executed idea that makes a savage impact onscreen as you watch & listen. Favorite moment? Probably heading right into the two-minute mark as the keys sparkle in the background and bring a whole other dimension of the melody in “Heart Shaped Box” to the surface…but like I’ve been saying…I’m not complaining about anything else I see or hear here today either – Love Ghost has put the work in once again, and achieved results they should be seriously proud of. Paying tribute by covering a song has never been about being a simple carbon-copy…it’s always been about showing the writing the respect it deserved, and having the cojones to give it your own stamp without damaging what made us fall in love with the original to begin with – it’s a very, very fine line to walk – but it’s one that Love Ghost has successfully navigated to a solid victory, without question.
“Heart Shaped Box” is out & available now – get yourself some of this here new single/cover-song, and find out more about Love Ghost from the official pages below!
Official Website: https://loveghost.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveghost_official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loveghost.official
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7oYWWttOyiltgT19mfoUWi
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/345566313
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Home Diets Partners with Brighter Bites to Increase Access to Healthy Food in the...
Partners with Brighter Bites to Increase Access to Healthy Food in the Innovation District
HOUSTON, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Rice Management Company (RMC), the developer of The Ion and Innovation District in Houston, announced today a multi-year partnership with Houston-based nonprofit Brighter Bites to increase access to healthy and affordable foods in neighborhoods near the Innovation District.
To start, RMC and Brighter Bites are supporting students at Blackshear Elementary School in the Third Ward by serving approximately 100,000 pounds of fresh produce to 375 underserved families during the school year.
Residents in the Third Ward have faced barriers to accessing high-quality, nutritious food for years. Currently, more than half of residents in the area struggle with food insecurity, which is more than four times the national average of 11.8%.*
“I am extremely excited about this partnership primarily because it supports the children in my district, and they are able to have access to produce that will help them receive the nutrition they need to grow and be healthy,” said Councilmember Carolyn Evans-Shabazz. “It also supports community-based organizations that are addressing food access in areas that are food insecure.”
“The goal with this partnership is two-fold: To ensure immediate and consistent access to healthy food for Houstonians who live in nearby areas facing food access challenges, especially during a pandemic, and to provide long-term solutions that will strengthen communities and make them sustainable, healthy and resilient,” said Sam Dike, manager of Strategic Initiatives at RMC.
Brighter Bites’ evidence-based program incorporates produce distribution, nutrition education and fun food experiences to change eating behaviors and prevent obesity and to achieve long-term health. Over the 2019-2020 school year, 99% of parents reported their family ate more fruits and vegetables while participating in Brighter Bites, and 97% maintained increased consumption after the program ended.
“We all know that a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables is essential to health, but for far too many residents in the Third Ward the ability to maintain a healthy diet is hindered by barriers to accessing high-quality, nutritious food,” said Rich Dachman, Brighter Bites CEO. “Brighter Bites commends Rice Management Company for their thoughtful leadership and sincere commitment to addressing this issue, and we are excited to work alongside them in expanding access to fresh produce and nutrition education to Third Ward families who need it most.”
At Blackshear Elementary, more than 80% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. With RMC’s support, every family enrolled receives about 60 servings, or 25 pounds, of fresh produce every two weeks. Families receive printed and digital nutrition handbooks, tip sheets and recipes for capacity building, and complete pre- and post-program surveys for data collection. Brighter Bites is working closely with Blackshear Elementary Principal Alicia Lewis, teachers and administrators to implement a health curriculum and virtual lessons about healthy eating for their students.
Beyond the partnership with Brighter Bites, RMC is exploring other ways to provide immediate access to fresh produce, such as expanding and supporting community gardens in the area, while delivering resources and training to address chronic food insecurity.
“I am ecstatic about this partnership and what it means for the neighborhood. The foundation of a healthy community is good nutrition, and this reflects Rice Management Company’s commitment to strengthen the community,” said Kirk Jackson, M.S., a board member of Blodgett Urban Gardens and long-time community activist. “Our collective purpose is to make sure no one goes hungry. Whether that’s through fresh produce, gardening or nutrition education, we’re giving our neighbors the tools they need to make healthier choices and improve their overall quality of life.”
RMC is developing the Innovation District to be a vibrant and collaborative place for all Houstonians. For three years, Rice University’s Multicultural Community Relations team has organized activities for Blackshear students, including college readiness programs and music enrichment opportunities. The Ion team is also developing a variety of STEM-related programming for K-12 students.
“One of our reasons for existing is to provide tools and education to help our community succeed,” said Jan E. Odegard, Interim Executive Director of The Ion, the 300,000 square foot, mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District. “For our programs to be sustainable, we need an engaged and healthy – literally and figuratively – pipeline of talented young professionals. That starts with making sure families can provide kids with consistent access to nutritious and high-quality meals.”
*Baker Institute and Sankofa Research Institute’s Third Ward Needs Assessment.
About Brighter Bites
Brighter Bites is a nonprofit that creates communities of health through fresh food with the goal of changing behavior among children and their families to prevent obesity and achieve long-term health. Brighter Bites is an evidence-based, multi-component elementary school, preschool, and summer camp program that utilizes reliable access to fruits and vegetables, nutrition education, and consistent exposure to recipes and messages that feature fresh food. Since 2012, Brighter Bites has provided more than 38 million pounds of produce and millions of nutrition education materials to more than 475,000 individuals (including teachers) in Houston, Dallas, Austin, New York City, the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, and Southwest Florida. To learn more about Brighter Bites visit www.brighterbites.org.
About the Innovation District
Houston’s 16-acre Innovation District is destined to become the epicenter for the city’s innovation ecosystem as an inclusive, dynamic, vibrant and dense hub focused on quality collaborations between entrepreneurs, incubators, accelerators, corporations, academics and the Houston community. It is anchored by The Ion, a 300,000 square-foot building that will accommodate multiple uses, including office and coworking space, prototyping and maker resources, event space, classrooms, food and beverage offerings as well as indoor/outdoor communal areas with shared amenities. The building is scheduled to open in 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.houinnovate.com/.
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We are creating the future climate
Climate protection ›
Carbon footprint is the indirect indicator of energies consumption, products and services. It measures the amount of greenhouse gases which correspond to activities or company´s product. Carbon footprint is nowadays measured and reported by thousands of companies abroad, tens of companies in the Czech Republic and their reporting has become a corporate standard, similarly to the Environmental Management System (EMS) or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The sum of emissions for a given time period, most commonly a calendar year, is described as the company´s carbon footprint.
Procedures how to determine GHG emissions are codified in the standard ČSN ISO 14064 – Greenhouse Gases, ISO 14067 – Carbon footprint of a product, services and company and GHG Protocol is the international standard.
In general, making use of carbon footprint is connected with international (Kyoto Protocol) and other national and companies obligations derived from the above mentioned, i.e. to reduce greenhouse gases emissions (GHG) Reducing carbon footprint of a company contributes to climate protection and to reducing the burden on the Earth caused by emissions contributing to the greenhouse effect. The carbon footprint is used by companies as one of the key indicators of corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability. It is compulsory to report GHG emissions for entities involved in the European system of trading with emission permits, however, it is optional for other companies.
Possibilities of determination
Companies most often determine their carbon footprint in compliance with the procedure of GHG Protocol, which divides the emissions into 3 categories based on their origin:
Scope 1 (direct emissions) – activities, which fall within the particular company and which are controlled by this company and during which emissions are released directly into the atmosphere. These are direct emissions and include, e.g. emissions from combustion boilers in a company, cars owned by a company or emissions from industrial processes.
Scope 2 (indirect emissions from energies) – emissions connected with consumption of purchased energy (electricity, heat, steam or cooling),which do not origin directly in a company but are a consequence of company´s activities. These are indirect emissions, which are not directly controlled by a company.
Scope 3 (other indirect emissions) – emissions, which are a consequence of company´s activities and which originates from sources out of control or company´s property but are not classified as Scope 2 emissions. For example, business trips by means of transport not directly owned or checked by a company (planes), storing waste or purchase of materials and fuels.
Emissions reporting within Scope 1 and Scope 2 is compulsory, Scope 3 is optional. The resulting carbon footprint is most frequently determined in tons of equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 equiv.).
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Two more Marine Corps aircraft crashed on Tuesday, four presumed dead
by Alex Hollings Apr 4, 2018
Four U.S. Marines are presumed dead following yet another tragic incident involving Marine Corps aircraft on Tuesday. That crash was one of two incidents involving Marine Corps aircraft going down within just hours of each other.
The Marines were traveling over Southern California near the Mexican border when their CH-53 Super Stallion was lost on radar at approximately 2:35 p.m. local time. Thus far, very little information regarding the incident has been released by Marine Corps officials, though it is unusual for the branch to seem uncertain of the Marines fate even hours after the incident.
“The status of all four is presumed dead pending positive identification,” read a statement from the unit.
Once the status of the Marines have been confirmed, family notification procedures will be initiated and their identities will remain withheld for 24 hours as notification teams engage with the family.
An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the incident, but it seems likely that the crash may have been related to maintenance issues associated with inconsistent funding caused by lawmakers failing to pass defense budgets on a nearly annual basis.
According to a recent internal study conducted by the Marine Corps, budgeting issues have combined with the advancing age of America’s Super Stallion fleet to create an extremely dangerous situation. Overall, CH-53 Super Stallion readiness is rated at just 23 percent fleet wide. Of the 196 Super Stallions that are required to be operational at any given time, only 33 of them are actually considered combat capable, and the force has only 146 that could be repaired or serviced to bring back to operational standing.
The issue of having too few flight-capable CH-53s has also made it nearly impossible for pilots to receive adequate training on the air frame, increasing the likelihood of pilot error resulting in a crash.
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“Pilots returning from six-month deployments with only 30 total flight hours and pilots completing their first operational tours with too few hours to become aircraft commanders,” The report read.
The issue would seem to be specifically associated with budget constraints, as the Marine Corps has funneled most of its available funding into new platforms like the MV-22 Osprey, while allocating less than a tenth of what the Army devotes to the maintenance of their own Super Stallions to refitting Marine Corps aircraft after each deployment.
Earlier that same day, a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet went down during training operations in Djibouti, Africa. The pilot was reported treated in a military medical facility and is considered stable.
Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier landing during sea operations. (Marine Corps photo)
Although details are limited, it appears the pilot ejected during takeoff after the nose of the jet rose rapidly.
“Doctors said the pilot was in stable condition while being evaluated at Camp Lemonnier’s expeditionary medical facility,” the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said in a statement. “There are no reports of injuries to personnel on the ground nor damage to infrastructure at the airport. The airport is open.”
These crashes are only the most recent in a string of incidents around the world involving Marine Corps aircraft going down or experiencing mechanical failures. A rash of issues with Marine helicopters in Japan, including one involving the window falling out of another CH-53 Super Stallion and landing in a school’s playground, have prompted many Japanese officials to call for a change in the rules regarding what portions of the nation American military aircraft are authorized to fly over.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps
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Alex Hollings writes on a breadth of subjects with an emphasis on defense technology, foreign policy, and information warfare. He holds a master's degree in communications from Southern New Hampshire University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Corporate and Organizational Communications from Framingham State University.
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Gravitational Force (Weight)
A brief history of the concepts of mass and weight
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The term ‘mass’ is derived from the Latin massa meaning a lump of dough or paste. In many ancient cultures, despite standardisation of units such as length and volume, different units of weights were used for different goods and measures varied from place to place. Therefore, it has been argued that weight was not conceived of as a unified concept but rather as a property of individual objects, like colour or smell. This view may have been the cause of Aristotle’s perception that heavy objects fall faster than light ones. Ancient Greek philosophers thought weight derived from centrifugal forces whereas Romans thinkers believed weight resulted from a natural tendency of objects to fall. Aristotle argued that the heavy elements, earth and water, have gravity, a tendency to move to the centre of the universe, whereas light elements, air and fire, have levity, a tendency to move away from the centre of the universe. Galileo, philosophers of science have argued, understood the concept of inertial mass without ever offering an explicit definition of the term.
Newton used the term pondus which translates to ‘weight’ to refer to a measure of matter but was aware of a distinction between quantity of matter and gravitational force. He reported that, because of ‘the want of a suitable word’ he would ‘represent and designate quantity of matter by weight’ though he clarifies that by weight ‘I mean the quantity or amount of matter being moved, apart from considerations of gravity, so long as there is no question of gravitating bodies’. Newton defined mass in the following way: ‘The quantity of matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjointly’. Ernst Mach suggested that Newton’s definition was circular and proposed an argument that mass is a concept constructed simply to make sense of the motion of objects.
While contemporary textbooks typically define mass either as the quantity of matter or as an object’s ability to resist changes in motion, Hecht argues that it is impossible to create a completely operational definition of mass as valid measurement is not practically possible.
M. Jammer, Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics, Mineola, NY, Dover Publications Inc., 1997, p. 7
R. S. Brumbaugh, The Philosophers of Greece, New York, NY, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1964, p.86
M. A. Finocchiaro, Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide, Berkley, University of California Press, 1997, p. 381
E. Hecht, There is no really good definition of mass. The Physics Teacher, vol. 44, no. 1, 2006, pp. 40-45, p.40
G. Prudovsky, Can we ascribe to past thinkers concepts they had no linguistic means to express? History and Theory, vol. 36 no. 1, 1997, pp. 15-31.
M. Jammer, Concepts of Mass Contemporary Physics and Philosophy, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 8
I. B. Cohen, Newton’s concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion, In I.B. Cohen, & G. E. Smith, The Cambridge Companion to Newton, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 57-84, p.60
G. Freudenthal, Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton: On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View, Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1986, p.20
O. Belkind, Physical Systems: Conceptual Pathways between Flat Space-time and Matter, Dordrecht, Springer, 2012, pp. 136-137
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Stadium Rock is back! Guns N’ Roses return to Australia.
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Smarter, Safer Firearms
In the wake of recent mass shootings, the smart gun technology is gaining more and more traction. Vice president Joe Biden has come out in support of this technology this January and it seems to be a part of President Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/joe-biden-smart-gun_n_2458889.html)
The Justice Department is asking whether they could reduce the kind of gun violence seen in Newtown or Aurora.
In case you’re wondering, the technology would have the same effect like the Judge guns in the science-fiction movie Dredd and the latest James Bond movie Skyfall. While there was some experimentation with the concept, the technology seemed to fall by the wayside, no one was really interested enough for it to get mass market appeal.
A group of parents of the Sandy Hook massacre have, as a part of their Sandy Hook Promise organization, launched an Innovation Initiative with members of the Silicon Valley technology community. (http://newtownbee.com/news/news/0001/11/30/sandy-hook-promise-launches-innovation-initiative/10397)
Several companies and organizations have made prototypes and still deal in such weapons, such as U.S. and Austrian company BIOMAC (http://www.biomacsystems.com/), New Jersey Institute of Technology (http://www.njit.edu/), Irish company TriggerSmart (http://www.triggersmart.com), German Armatrix (http://www.armatix.us/?L=1) and AmericaniGun Technology Corp (http://www.iguntech.com/). They use various means of owner verification, from RFID rings, sub dermal implants over stored biometric data to palm and grip recognition.
Due to the technology waiting law passed in Germany in 2009, which requires all German manufactured weapons to be outfitted with “smart” technology once it is available anywhere in the world, it is conceivable that other countries would follow suit, using German law as a model.
Stephen Teret, the founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (http://www.jhsph.edu/), has been a longtime proponent of using smart gun technology to reduce gun violence. He believes smart weaponshave the potential to reduce deaths from stolen weapons, underage suicides and accidental shootings.
Despite developing technology and increased attention on smart guns, many experts do not believe they would curb gun violence to any significant degree. According to the data from Violence Policy Centre (http://www.vpc.org/), only 606 out of 30,000 firearm deaths in 2010 were accidental shootings. Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the VPC worries that more people would choose to own guns if they perceived them as safer.
Larry Keane of National Shooting Sports Foundation (http://www.nssf.org/) argues that high tech smart guns do not offer anything more than a standard lock doesn’t.
Groups supporting smart gun technology believe it could be introduce into the mass market as early as two years from now. While they
may not stop all or even most gun violence, with 500,000 guns stolen from private citizens every year, it is conceivable that these measures would have at least some effect.
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Lee Hsien Loong: 19 year old wanted to kill me and Tony Tan
In a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed that the 19 year old Singaporean, M Arifil Azim Putra Norja’i, who was detained by the Internal Security Act last month wanted to kill him and President Tony Tan.
You may watch the video of his speech here:
https://www.facebook.com/STReview/videos/vb.1599939350224250/1613170898901095/?type=1&theater
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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) today announced that a 19 year old Singaporean, M Arifil Azim Putra Norja’i, has been detained without trial under the Internal Security Act for plotting terror attacks in Singapore. In a press release announced on 29th May, Arifil has been detained since April 2015 pending an investigation outcome on the extent of his extremism.
Arifil had only secondary school education and his radicalisation began around 2013 which he eventually made plans to join the global terror group ISIS in Syria. He was supportive of the violent acts like publicised beheading and started approaching individuals online whom he believed could help him join the ISIS. He actively did his research on the travel routes to Syria and the making of home-made explosive devices.
In the investigation, Arifil confessed that if he was unable to join ISIS, he intended to carry out terrorist attacks in Singapore like attacking key facilities and assassinating the PAP government leaders. Arifil had also attempted to recruit more people to conduct his terrorist plot but to no avail. Those people whom he approached however did not inform the police of Arifil’s terror tendency.
In another case also involving a Singaporean youth, a 17 year old has been detained this month (May 2015) for investigations on the extent of his radicalisation.
You may read more from MHA’s press release here.
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China political analysts: Lee Hsien Loong screwed up China relations
In a political talkshow covering international relations, two China political analysts discussed Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s handling of China’s relationship and criticized him for lacking eloquence and experience unlike his father Lee Kuan Yew.
Below is the transcript between the two analysts:
First analyst:
“The Japanese are like Germans. They were invaders during World War 2 and murdered many Chinese and Koreans. If they have reflected on their past and felt ashamed of their behaviour following an apology, China will have no grounds to keep pursuing for an apology from Japan. If Japan has been apologetic, Lee Hsien Loong can then have the right to tell China not to keep heckling Japan for an apology. However, this is not the case. Lee Hsien Loong appears like he is sucking up to Shinzo Abe and hurt Chinese and Koreans’ feelings. Lee Hsien Loong understands the importance of Sino-Japan relationship and the need to understand the background behind this relationship, but he is inexperienced and not diplomatic enough to handle the territorial disputes unlike his father Lee Kuan Yew.
In the past, his father can be his consultant while Lee Hsien Loong remains as Prime Minister. If Lee Hsien Loong said something wrong, his father can remind him and Lee Hsien Loong will apologize. For example, in July 2015, Lee Hsien Loong hinted China not to adopt a hard line attitude, then right after that comment a month later in August, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi flew to Singapore and reiterated that China do not allow any country to interfere with it’s domestic policies in South China Sea. China is trying to warn Lee Hsien Loong that he should be mindful of his words.
China has been reclaiming land in it’s own territories and there is no issue with South China Sea. The Americans set up an army base in Okinawa but the Japanese residents want them out. Guam is not America, but US insists on having a base there. Why did Lee Hsien Loong keep quiet on these? Lee Hsien Loong is not as tactical as his father and this is Lee Hsien Loong’s crisis, which is why I am worried. His incompetence in handling China’s relationships will affect Singapore’s future negatively.”
Second analyst:
“Lee Hsien Loong inherited the government from his father. This second generation government is important but unlike his father, he did not see the hardships of World War 2. Lee Kuan Yew commands respect worldwide and that promoted Singapore’s status. Foreign delegates knew that Lee Kuan Yew has retired in his later years but would still continue to consult his views, and Lee Kuan Yew was able to use his intelligence to tackle the questions. His son however is still lacking in such qualities.”
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IOWA Governor to deliver her Condition of the State Address next week
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The faith community of St. Peter's gathers several times a week to offer praise and thanks to God and to be nurtured and challenged in its spiritual growth through worship. Our celebrations are marked by a spirit of joy, warmth and reverence. Exceptional music and thoughtful, provocative preaching enliven our Sunday experience of our beautiful Episcopal liturgy.
This is a Eucharistically-centered parish, celebrating the Holy Eucharist several times per week:
5 p.m. Saturday afternoon in the Sanctuary
8 and 10 a.m. Sunday morning in the Sanctuary
10:30 a.m. Sunday morning in the Parish Hall
7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening in the Absalom Jones Chapel
10 a.m. Thursday morning at The Moorings in Lewes (formerly Cadbury).
Rite II is used for most services.
The Laying on of Hands and Anointing, with prayers for healing, are offered during the Communion portion of most Eucharists. At the Sunday services if you wish to receive unction or to share a special prayer request, please meet a member of the clergy in side chapel during the distribution of Communion.
All God's people are welcomed to the Lord's Table to receive the Holy Sacrament of Communion, including children. The ushers will help direct you to the Communion rail. If physical limitations make it difficult for you to come to the rail, please let an usher know, and we will be happy to bring Communion to you in your pew.
Holy Eucharist is Celebrated
Saturday: 5 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m. (with organ) & 10 a.m. (with choir) in the Sanctuary
10:15 a.m. Iona Service in the Parish Hall
(service time from September to May is 10:30 a.m.)
Wednesday: 7:30 p. m. in The Absalom Jones Chapel
Thursday: 10 a.m. at The Moorings (formerly Cadbury) in Lewes
Special Services: Scroll below
light Service
Sunday at 10:15 a.m. - Parish Hall
Join us at the Iona Service each Sunday at 10:15 a.m. in the Parish Hall.
This worship experience is an intergenerational service which combines elements of ancient and future worship in an Episcopal context. You don’t have to have a family with young children or be a child to attend. Led by our parish priests and musicians from our congregation.
Come worship, sing, listen, pray!
sung compline
First Thursday of Every Month at 8:45 pm
Join our Adult Choir in a short contemplative service of evening worship. Compline is the last service of the Daily Office typically celebrated by religious orders. Compline consists of psalms, short scripture passages, an office hymn, a canticle (Nunc Dimittis), a litany, collects and additional prayers, sung to plainsong chant.
In keeping with the earliest practices of the monastic communities, Compline is offered when the work of the day is completed, and the quietness of evening settles over the hearts and minds of those who have come together in thankfulness for the blessings of the day which has passed and in anticipation of God's gift of a new day.
The service is about 20 minutes and sung by the adult choir of St. Peter's.
Compline Service Leaflet [PDF]
LENT, HOLY WEEK, AND EASTER
10:00 a.m. - Liturgy and Imposition of Ashes (at The Moorings at Lewes)
12:00 noon and 7:30 p.m - Liturgy and Imposition of Ashes (church)
5:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist on Saturday
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Choir on Sunday
10:00 a.m. The Last Supper service and feast with Fr. Mark (parish hall)
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Choir on Sunday
MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK
noon Holy Eucharist, Rite I
TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
6:00 p.m. Seder Passover [rsvp required--contact church office]
WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
7:30 p.m. Tenebrae Service
7:00 p.m. Stripping of the Altar; Eucharist
8:00 p.m. through 8:00 a.m. Friday - Vigil in the Garden
Noon -Good Friday Liturgy, Mass of the Pre-Sanctified
7:00 p.m. Celtic Stations of the Cross
EASTER SATURDAY
7:00 p.m. Easter Vigil with Choir and Brass
8:00 & 10:00 a.m. Choral Eucharist (church)
8:00 & 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with music (parish hall)
Noon St. Francis Celebration - Blessing of the Animals
1st Sunday in October
5:00 p.m. Children's Pageant, Festal Holy Eucharist and Carols
7:00 p.m. Candlelight Festal Holy Eucharist, Carols, and Bell Choir
9:00 p.m. Celtic Eucharist, Carols, and Acoustic Music (Parish Hall)
11:00 p.m. Candlelight Festal Holy Eucharist, Carols, and Adult Choir
(Prelude begins at 10:30 p.m.)
Acolytes are trained to perform important functions in the worship service such as carrying the cross, lighting the candles and assisting clergy in preparation of the Eucharist. Please speak to Fr. Jeffrey or Richard Jundt if you are interested in serving.
The Altar Guild is the ministry of men and women who prepare and maintain the sacred vessels and vestments used in the church. Some of our members also help with floral arrangements and decorations for special occasions. Members are trained and assigned to a rotating team that is responsible for the services during a two week series. Serving on the Altar Guild, members say, is like preparing for a very special party--a feast--because you set the table and choose fine linen and candles or oil lights, the brass or silver vessels.
LAY EUCHARIST MINISTER
To serve St. Peter's church as a Lay Eucharistic Minister is a meaningful and fulfilling ministry. The opportunity to assist the celebrant during Holy Eucharist as a chalice bearer and lay reader is available to any church member who is in good standing and who wishes to be trained to perform these duties. Two LEM's are scheduled to serve at all of the Sunday morning services. The schedule for serving is published in the monthly newsletter. If you are interested in volunteering at any of our services, please speak to Fr. Jeff.
LAY EUCHARIST VISITOR
License from the Bishop is available to several members of the congregation to assist the Rector in visiting the sick and shut-ins in the congregation and to provide the Eucharist. If you are interested in serving in this ministry you must be a member in good standing, faithful in worship and devotion. If you are interested in pursuing this ministry, please speak to Fr. Jeff.
By reading the First Lesson and the Psalm at each Sunday morning service, this group of parishioners is given a meaningful way to participate in our services. Simple training is provided and each Lector has his or her own copy of the lectionary to keep at home in order to become familiar with the reading before the Sunday service. If you are interested, please speak with Fr. Jeff.
Ushers at our worship services are crucial participants in our liturgy. They welcome newcomers, help them find seats and assimilate into the service. Usher teams typically serve once a month and are essential to our ministry of hospitality.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 144 › McLane v. King
McLane v. King, 144 U.S. 260 (1892)
McLane v. King
Argued and submitted March 24, 1892
Decided April 4, 1892
In this suit, the property of a corporation in a bridge constructed by it over the San Antonio River is held to have been lawfully transferred by the foreclosure of a mortgage upon it.
This suit was originally commenced in the district court of Karnes County, Texas, on September 12, 1882, and thereafter
properly removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. The facts as disclosed by the bill were that in 1876 there existed a corporation known as the "Helena Bridge Company," and organized for the purpose of building an iron bridge over the San Antonio River at the Town of Helena. The defendants King & Son had a contract with the bridge company for the full construction of the bridge, payment therefor to be made partly by the transfer of $10,000 of full-paid stock, and partly in notes of the corporation, secured by a mortgage on the bridge. The stock was never issued, but the notes and mortgage were duly executed and delivered. King & Son contracted with the plaintiff Ruckman to do part of the work. By the terms of this contract, they were to have transferred to Ruckman, in full payment of his work, the $10,000 of stock. This contract was fully performed by Ruckman, and in the amount due thereon McLane became jointly interested. In 1880, King & Son brought suit on the notes and mortgage, which suit resulted in a judgment for $10,919 and a decree of foreclosure. Subsequently, on proper process, they purchased the property, and still hold it. The object of the suit was to have the plaintiffs decreed to be jointly interested with the Kings in the bridge, and for an accounting of tolls and the profits arising therefrom. For the purpose of invalidating the legal effect of the foreclosure proceedings, it was alleged that such proceedings were instituted and prosecuted
"with the fraudulent intent and purpose, then and there entertained by the said Z. King and James A. King, and actuating them in the premises, to obtain possession of the said bridge and its appurtenances, being the only property of value belonging to said Helena Bridge Company, and the only revenue producing property thereof, to render the stock of said Helena Bridge Company worthless in the hands of the holders, and thereby to render the performances of their contracts to deliver stock to
these complainants in the said bridge company unavailing and ineffectual if literally executed, and complainants here charge that it was the understanding and agreement of the parties to said contracts between said Z. King and Son and these complainants for the delivery of said stock, as set forth in complainants' original bill, that the stock should be good and valuable stock, worth fully dollar for dollar in the public market, and that by the institution and prosecution of their said suit against said Helena Bridge Company, and by their taking possession of the said bridge and appurtenances, the said Z. King and Son have rendered the stock of said Helena Bridge Company utterly valueless."
It was also alleged that the delivery of the stock, while in law a literal compliance with the terms of the contract, would in equity be nugatory and ineffectual because the acts of the Kings, as before stated, had rendered it valueless. A demurrer to this bill was sustained, and a decree of dismissal entered. From such decree plaintiffs appealed to this Court.
STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the Court.
The foreclosure proceedings transferred the legal title to the bridge to King & Son, and rendered the stock of the bridge company valueless. A transfer of the latter, if now possible, would be of no benefit to the plaintiffs, and is not desired by them. That it was supposed to be of value when the contract was made, and that it is now worthless, creates no liability against the Kings unless they have wrongfully destroyed that supposed value. But it is not alleged that King & Son did not give full value for the notes and mortgage, or that they were illegally issued by the bridge company, or that they were paid in whole or in part, or that suit was brought before they matured, or a recovery obtained for a larger amount than was due. In other words, it is not shown that King & Son did other than exercise a legal right of collecting a just debt by foreclosure of the mortgage given to secure it. By so doing, they exposed themselves to no liability
to others for the indirect result of such legal act. The allegation that it was done with a fraudulent intent and purpose to obtain possession of the bridge amounts to nothing. If the act was legal, it is not made illegal by a mere epithet.
So far as respects the charge that it was the understanding and agreement that the stock should be good and valuable stock, worth fully dollar for dollar in the public market, it is enough to say that the contract, which is in writing, and attached to the bill, contains no such provision. There in no stipulation whatever expressed or suggested in that contract other than for the transfer of this specified stock. Ruckman took the chances of its value.
The decision of the circuit court was right, and the decree is
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Memphis celebrates 50 years as a diocese, rich history for the Church
Andy Telli, Tennessee Register
A special Mass to read the proclamation establishing the Diocese of Memphis and to ordain and install its first bishop, Carroll Dozier, was held on Jan. 6, 1971, at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. Nearly 9,000 people attended. Concelebrating the Mass were: (from left) Bishop Dozier; Cardinal John Wright, Prefect of the Congregration for the Clergy; Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States; Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of the Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina; and Bishop Joseph Durick of Nashville. Tennessee Register file photo
Nearly from its founding in 1837, there were two poles in the Diocese of Nashville, which included the entire state of Tennessee. Nashville was where the diocesan governance was located, but Memphis was the vibrant heart of Catholicity in the state.
“Memphis was the tail that wagged the dog,” said Msgr. Owen Campion, a former editor of the Tennessee Register and a historian of the diocese. “Nashville was where the diocese was, but Memphis was where the action was, no doubt about it.” The Vatican recognized the strength of the Catholic community in Memphis and West Tennessee and the new Diocese of Memphis was established at a special Mass on Jan. 6, 1971.
The diocese originally planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding with a special Mass this month, but has moved the date to late spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be two 50th Anniversary Masses, one at 7 p.m. May 26 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Memphis, and a second at 7 p.m. May 27 at St. Mary’s Church in Jackson.
‘Boom town’
The Diocese of Nashville’s first bishop, Richard Pius Miles O.P., had “a very daunting task,” Msgr. Campion said. When the diocese was established, “in the entire state of Tennessee, he was the only priest.” Bishop Miles called on his fellow Dominicans to help him build his diocese, eventually convincing them to take over Memphis’ first church, St. Peter’s, established in 1840. “They’re still there to this day,” Msgr. Campion said. Though younger than Nashville, Memphis grew quickly in the first half of the 19th century, and by 1860, its population of 22,000 had passed that of Nashville’s 19,000.
Much of the city’s growth was fueled by its location on the banks of the Mississippi River, a major artery for transporting people and goods, and its development as a major railroad hub, Msgr. Campion said.
“It was a boom town,” and the railroads were a key contributor to that growth, Msgr. Campion said.
As the city’s population grew, so too did its Catholic community. “There was a large influx of Irish. Then there was a large influx of Italians,” Msgr. Campion said. “At one time, Memphis had the largest community of Italian-Americans between Chicago and New Orleans.”
The city’s Catholic community had grown so large that after the Civil War there was talk of moving the episcopal see from Nashville to Memphis.
But then Memphis suffered several setbacks in the form of Yellow Fever outbreaks. “They were catastrophic,” Msgr. Campion said. “They had three yellow fever epidemics, which almost took the city out. There was such a horrendous loss of life. People fled and it created a reputation. People did not want to move there. Businesses did not want to move there.”
Catholic nuns and priests who stayed to care for the sick and dying, many of them succumbing to the Yellow Fever themselves, became heroes in the city, which showed its appreciation for years to come.
Eventually, the city of Memphis recovered. “It came back really vigorously,” Msgr. Campion said. “You move into the 20th Century, it definitely had recovered. It was booming again.”
A Catholic identity
As Memphis grew, so too did its Catholic population, in numbers and in prominence. “The Catholic community began to form a real identity and it was somewhat an identity different than the rest of the state,” Campion said. “Catholics in other parts of the state had not had that sort of privileged place.”
Besides individual Catholics who became prominent in the city, the Church itself carved out an outsized role for itself through institutions like St. Joseph Hospital, two Catholic colleges, Catholic high schools and elementary schools, a Catholic orphanage, a Catholic nursing home, and a growing number of parishes.
“It was just an established Catholic community,” Msgr. Campion said.
Talk resurfaced of moving the episcopal see from Nashville to Memphis, or of establishing a new Diocese of Memphis. “The question always was … can the rest of the state make it without Memphis,” Msgr. Campion said.
World War II put those discussions on hold. Nashville Bishop William Adrian resisted talk of forming a new diocese, arguing that the task at hand was building up the Diocese of Nashville to accommodate the growing Catholic population in the state in the post-War years, Msgr. Campion said. “There was a big boom in church building.”
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Church in Memphis and in the rest of Tennessee was caught up in the most important issue of the times, the Civil Rights movement.
The Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. The Board of Education, which desegregated schools, “was a monumental moment in the history of Memphis,” Msgr. Campion said.
Desegregation wasn’t popular anywhere in the South, he said, but in some cities, like Nashville, the political and business leaders decided “we don’t like it, but we have to go with it,” Msgr. Campion said. In other cities, like Memphis, the leadership resisted desegregation.
At one time Memphis considered itself a rival of Atlanta and Dallas as major cities of the South, Msgr. Campion said. “My opinion is Memphis’ reluctance to accept segregation stopped its momentum,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about it.”
A rift between the city’s Catholic community and Bishop Joseph Durick grew as the bishop became a prominent voice in support of the Civil Rights movement. “He was strong on Civil Rights,” said Msgr. Campion, who later served as Bishop Durick’s master of ceremonies. “That made him very unpopular in Memphis.”
In the late 1960s, when talk resurfaced of creating a new diocese for West Tennessee, Bishop Durick didn’t fight it. “I think probably Bishop Durick felt … it was Memphis’ time.”
New diocese established
“The process to create a new diocese is quite extensive,” Msgr. Campion said. “They would have looked at it in many ways.”
One question to be answered was whether the new diocese would have strong enough finances to maintain itself, Msgr. Campion said. “It wasn’t a question of whether Memphis could do it, it was could Nashville survive.”
Another was whether the new diocese would have enough priests to serve the people. “Probably half of the priests of the diocese were from Memphis,” Msgr. Campion said. Convinced that the resources and the need were there, Pope Paul VI, on Nov. 18, 1970, announced the formation of the Diocese of Memphis, covering the 21 counties west of the Tennessee River, and the appointment of its first bishop, Msgr. Carroll T. Dozier of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia.
Bishop Dozier, who served in Memphis until 1982, was ordained as a bishop and installed, and the proclamation establishing the diocese was read during a Mass held Jan. 6, 1971, at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. Nearly 9,000 people attended.
“It was an enormous occasion,” said Msgr. Campion, who attended as a young priest. “They invited all the priests of the Nashville Diocese, so I went down for it. The hotel (where he was staying) was practically taken over with guests for that occasion.”
“It was a big, big thing,” he said. In his address at the end of the Mass, Bishop Dozier welcomed the people to the new diocese with an eye on the future.
“As we look to the future – and we are future-bound – we may ask ourselves, what kind of a Church shall we be? What kind of a Church do we want to be?”
“One in union with the Vicar of Christ, one dispensing the grace of God to all men, one anointing sorrow with sympathy, one of love and human kindness, a good Samaritan on the banks of the Mississippi. Is this not what we, this new Diocese of Memphis, wish to be? By the grace of God, so shall it be.”
The division of the two dioceses, worked out for both, Msgr. Campion said.
“The Memphis Catholic community is a blessing, it’s an example,” he said. “The Catholic people in Memphis have an enormous devotion to the Church, in every way. If you look at what they built down there, the image they created for the Church, absolute dedication, even heroism. It’s an image they created. It’s an image they created 150 years ago and kept going.
“The Catholic community … long ago has made itself an important part of the civic community,” Msgr. Campion said. “It’s an identity they should be proud of and one as a Tennessean that I am proud of.”
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Police: Man stabs 9 people at toddler’s birthday party
BOISE, Idaho – A man who had been asked to leave an Idaho apartment complex because of bad behavior returned the next day and stabbed nine people, including six children, at a toddler’s birthday party, police said.
Refugees from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia were among the injured. Boise Police Chief William Bones said Sunday that while the suspect is an American, investigators have not found any evidence that would indicate the attack was a hate crime. Still, Bones said, it is one of several possibilities that remain under investigation.
Timmy Kinner showed up late Saturday at the complex, which houses many resettled refugee families in Boise. Kinner, who is not a refugee, targeted the party that was held a few doors down from the apartment where he had stayed for a short time, police said.
“This incident is not a representation of our community but a single evil individual who attacked people without provocation that we are aware of at this time,” Police Chief William Bones said Sunday.
The victims included the 3-year-old birthday girl and five other children ages 4 to 12. Three adults who came to their defense were also hurt. Some were gravely wounded, Bones said.
A resident of the complex had recently met Kinner, who was new to the area and needed a place to stay, Bones said.
“I believe her perception was, ‘Here’s a helping hand I can give in return for a helping hand I have been given,'” Bones said.
The resident asked Kinner to leave Friday when his behavior became a problem, and he did so peacefully, Bones said. The police chief did not elaborate on his behavior. The woman was not among the victims.
Esrom Habte, 12, and Fathi Mahamoud, 11, were playing in the grass behind their apartment when the attack began. They saw the suspect chasing people.
“We saw him saying, like, bad words and stabbing a kid and a grown-up and really hard and a lot of times,” Esrom said.
The two ran into an apartment and hid in a closet with other children until police told them it was safe to come out, he said.
“I saw the police cleaning stuff, and then I came outside,” Fathi said. He said the stabbing victims included three families, all of them friends.
Kinner, 30, was arrested near the scene and charged with aggravated battery and of injury to a child. Investigators recovered the knife he was believed to have used in a nearby canal, Bones said.
The attack resulted in the most victims in a single incident in Boise Police Department history, the police chief said.
“The crime scene, the faces of the parents struggling, the tears coming down their faces, the faces of the children in their hospital beds will be something that I carry with me for the rest of my life, as will every first responder that night,” he said.
The apartment complex is just off of one of Boise’s busier streets, separated from the traffic by one of the many irrigation canals that run through the city. On Sunday, colorful bouquets had been placed just outside crime-scene tape.
Residents of the apartments and the rest of the community were “reeling” from the violence, Bones said, and will need long-term community support.
“This isn’t something that gets over in the days or weeks that follow. … The level of the some of the injuries will be life-altering in a very negative way,” Bones said.
Mayor Dave Bieter condemned the stabbings on Twitter.
“Last night’s horrific attack does not represent Boise,” Bieter wrote. “Please join me in praying for the injured and their families. We must come together to condemn this vile act.”
Megan Schwab, who works with the International Rescue Committee in Boise, said the organization was working to provide temporary housing, counseling and other support to those affected by the attack.
For some of the refugees living at the complex, the attack revived traumatic memories of the war and violence they had fled. The blood from the stabbings reminded residents Ibod Hasn and Thado Aip of the terror they left in Somalia, they said on Sunday.
Aip’s son, Fathi Mahamoud, stayed close by her side Sunday, at times sitting on the grass to lean against her legs as he watched the police at the crime scene.
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Composite Contract can be subject to service tax only under Work Contract Service after 01 June 2007
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Case Law Details
Case Name : Kunnel Engineers and Contractors Pvt. Ltd. Vs C.C.,C.E.& S.T (CESTAT Bangalore)
Appeal Number : ST Appeal No. 867 of 2012
Date of Judgement/Order : 19/06/2020
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Courts : All CESTAT (1058) CESTAT Bangalore (133)
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Kunnel Engineers and Contractors Pvt. Ltd. Vs C.C.,C.E.& S.T (CESTAT Bangalore)
The issue under consideration is whether the service would continue to be classified under CICS/CCS and changing the classification into Work Contract Service midway is permissible or not?
In the present case, appellant was paying service tax under CICS and CCS after availing 67% abatement from the value in terms of Notification No. 15/2004 dt. 10/09/2004, No. 18/2005 dt. 07/06/2005 and Notification No.01/2006 dt. 01/03/2006. The benefit of abatement was sought to be denied on the ground that the appellant had not included the value of material supplied free of cost by the service recipient. Further from 0/06/2007, a new taxable service viz WCS was introduced under Section 65(105)(zzzza) of the Finance Act, 1994. After the introduction of WCS, the appellant had started paying service tax by classifying their services into WCS and started availing the benefit of (Composition scheme for payment of service tax) under Service Tax Rules, 2007. Revenue raised the objection by issuing show-cause notices alleging that the appellant is liable to pay service tax under CICS/CCS only and changing the classification into WCS midway is not permissible.
CESTAT states that the levy of service tax on CICS/CCS would be applicable only in case of pure service contracts whereas composite contracts involving transfer of property in goods would be liable to service tax only under WCS from 01/06/2007 as statutory mechanism to arrive at the value of service has been prescribed only under WCS from 01/06/2007. The decision of L&T Ltd. cited supra has been followed by the Tribunal in large number of cases to set aside the demand of service tax on services like CICS, CCS etc. involving composite contracts of both material as well as service element prior to 01/06/2007. In the present appeal also, there is no dispute that the construction activities are in the nature of composite work and hence the decision of the Apex Court in L&T Ltd. is squarely applicable to the facts of the present case. Hence, a composite contract can be subject to service tax only under WCS post 01/06/2007 and any demand under CICS/CCS on such composite contracts is not sustainable.
FULL TEXT OF THE CESTAT JUDGEMENT
The present appeal is directed against the impugned order dt. 30/12/2011 passed by the Commissioner of Service Tax whereby the Commissioner confirmed the demand raised in 2 show-cause notices dt. 22/07/2010 and 20/10/2010. The learned Commissioner has passed the following orders confirming the demands:-
In respect of show-cause notice dt. 22/07/2010:-
i. I hereby deny the benefits under Notifications No. 15/2004-ST dt. 10/09/2004, 18/2005-ST dt. 07/06/2005 and 1/2006-ST dt. 01/03/2006 during the period from 01/12/2005 to 31/03/2009 claimed by M/s. Kunnel Engineers and Contractors (P) Ltd.
ii. I order that the services provided by the assessee from 01/06/2007 to 31/03/2009 are classifiable under “Construction of Complex Service (Residential)” or “Commercial or Industrial Construction Service”, and reject the classification made by the assessee under “Works Contract Service” and to disallow the option for payments of Service Tax and Education Cess under “Works Contract (Composition Scheme for payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007” for the ongoing project prior to 01/06/2007 for the period from June 2007 to March 2009.
iii. I hereby confirm an amount of Rs.12,49,16,628/- (Rupees twelve crore forty nine lakh sixteen thousand six hundred and twenty eight only) being service tax, education cess and higher & secondary education cess short paid by the assessee on the taxable services rendered during the period 01/12/2005 to 31/03/2009, under proviso to Section 73(2) of the Finance Act, 1994 (as detailed in annexure B to the show-cause notice).
iv. I order that the assessee shall pay interest at the appropriate rate on the amount confirmed above under Section 75 of the Finance Act, 1994;
v. I impose a penalty on the notice under Section 76 of the Finance Act, 1994, calculated @ Rs.100/- (Rupees one hundred only) for every day starting from the due date till 17/04/2006 and thereafter i.e. from 18/04/2006 @ Rs.200/- (Rupees two hundred only) or 2% of such tax per month, whichever is higher, till 10/05/2008, subject to a ceiling that the total amount of the penalty payable under Section 76 shall not exceed the service tax, education cess and secondary & higher education cess payable for the period;
vi. I impose a penalty of Rs.5000/- (Rupees five thousand only) on the notice under Section 77 of the Finance Act, 1994, for the contravention of Section 70 of the said Act.
vii. I hereby impose a penalty of Rs.12,49,16,628/- (Rupees twelve crores forty nine lakhs sixteen thousand six hundred and twenty eight only) on the assessee under Section 78 of the Finance Act, 1994 with an option to pay 25% of this penalty, if the amount confirmed above, interest confirmed and reduced penalty under this Section are paid within 30 days from the date of communication of this order.
i. I order that the services provided by the assessee from 01/04/2009 to 31/03/2010 in respect of the ongoing projects as on 01/06/2007 (for which service tax was paid before 01/06/2007 under “Construction of Complex (Residential) Service” or “Construction of Commercial & Industrial Buildings or Civil Structures Service”) are classifiable under “Construction of Complex (Residential) Service” or “Construction of Commercial & Industrial Buildings or Civil Structures Services” and deny the benefit under Notifications No.1/2006-ST dt. 01/03/2006 for violation of the conditions stipulated therein and disallow the option for payments of service tax and education cess under “Works Contract (Composition Scheme for payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007” for the period April 2009 to March 2010.
ii. I hereby confirm an amount of Rs.3,64,49,664/- (Rupees three crore sixty four lakh forty nine thousand six hundred and sixty four only) being service tax, Rs.7,11,688/- (Rupees seven lakh eleven thousand six hundred and eighty eight only) education cess and Rs.3,68,066/- (Rupees three lakh sixty eight thousand and sixty six only) secondary and higher education cess short paid during the period 01/04/2009 to 31/03/2010, under Section 73(2) of the Finance Act, 1994.
iii. I order that the assessee shall pay interest at the appropriate rate on the amount confirmed above under Section 75 of the Finance Act, 1994;
iv. I impose a penalty on the notice under Section 76 of the Finance Act, 1994, calculated @ Rs.200/- (Rupees two hundred only) or 2% of such tax per month, whichever is higher, subject to a ceiling that the total amount of the penalty payable shall not exceed the service tax, education cess and secondary & higher education cess payable for the period.
2. Briefly the facts of the present case are that the appellant is a private limited company engaged in the business of providing construction service to its clients as per agreements executed by them. Appellants are also registered under the Central Excise for the purpose of payment of service tax and are engaged in construction of various commercial buildings as well as residential complexes. Service tax was imposed under „Commercial or Industrial Construction Service‟ (CICS, for short) w.e.f. 10/09/2004, on Construction of Complex Services (Residential) (CCS, for short) w.e.f. 16/06/2005 and „Works Contract Service‟ (WCS, for short) w.e.f. 01/06/2007. The appellant had been paying service tax on the taxable value determined after availing the exemptions in terms of Notification No.15/2004-ST dt. 10/09/2004, No. 18/2005-ST dt. 07/06/2005 and No. 1/2006-ST dt. 01/03/2006 which provide for 67% of abatement on the gross amount charged, till 31/05/2007. From 01/06/2007, the appellant started paying service tax @ 2%/4% on the receipts under the Works Contract (Composition Scheme for payment of service tax) Rules, 2007 as notified vide Notification No. 32/2007-ST dt. 22/05/2007. When service tax was introduced on CICS and CCS, it was the belief that composite contracts involving transfer of properties in goods as well as service, could be taxed under this head and abatement of 67% from value, by way of exemption has been granted and service tax payable on 33% of the value under these services. Accordingly, the appellant was paying service tax under CICS and CCS after availing 67% abatement from the value. Department entertained the view that the appellants are not entitled to claim the abatement of 67% from the value and show-cause notices were issued to the appellant alleging that they were not entitled to claim the abatement of 67% from the value, inasmuch as the gross amount charged by them, does not include the value of the goods used in the construction activities, as major materials like cement and steel are supplied by the customers themselves. Thus the show-cause notices proceeded to demand service tax under CICS and CCS on the entire value received by the appellant without extending any abatement and after adjusting the service tax already paid by the appellant. subsequently w.e.f. 01/06/2007, a new taxable service viz. Works Contract Service (WCS, for short) was introduced under Section 65(105)(zzzza) of the Finance Act, 1994 and simultaneously as per Rule 2A of the Service Tax (Determination of value) Rules, 2005 under WCS, service tax can be paid on the gross value – minus the value of transfer of property in goods on which VAT is payable. Alternatively under WCS (composition scheme for payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007, service tax @ 2% (revised to 4% from 01/03/2008) can be paid on the gross amount. After the introduction of WCS from 01/06/2007 onwards, appellant had started paying service tax by classifying their service into WCS and under the composition scheme applicable thereto. As availment of cenvat credit on input services was allowed under WCS, the appellant has started availing such cenvat credit also. This practice was followed by the appellant both in respect of existing contracts as on 01/06/2007 on which they were paying service tax under CICS/CCS by claiming 67% abatement and new contracts undertaken after 01/06/2007. The show-cause notices issued by the Revenue alleged that the service would continue to be classified under CICS/CCS and changing the classification into WCS midway is not permissible. Even in respect of fresh contracts after 01/06/2007, it was alleged that appellant is liable to classify the same only under CICS/CCS, since they have not exercised their option to pay the service tax under the composition scheme under WCS. Accordingly both in respect of the ongoing contracts and fresh contracts, demand of service tax has been made under CICS/CCS without granting the benefit of 67% abatement on the ground that some of the material were supplied by the customers. After following the due process, the Commissioner vide the impugned order confirmed the demand in both the show-cause notices.
3. Heard both the parties and perused the records.
4.1. Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the impugned order is not sustainable in law as the same has been passed without properly appreciating the facts and the law. He further submitted that the issue involved in the present case is no more res integra and has been settled by the Apex Court in the case of CST Vs. L&T Ltd. [2015(39) STR 913 (SC)] which has laid down the law on various aspects of levy of service tax on WCS. Further he submitted that the Supreme Court has held that since as per Section 67, service tax is leviable on “gross amount charged”. The levy of service tax on CICS and CCS would be applicable only in case of pure service contracts and composite contracts involving transfer of property in goods would be liable to service tax only under WCS from 01/06/2007 as statutory mechanism to arrive at the value of service has been prescribed only under WCS from 01/06/2007. The Supreme Court further held that abatement notification/exemption notification, which are issued by the Government cannot determine the scope of levy, in the absence of such exemption, the entire amount including the value of transfer of property in goods would be liable to service tax which is constitutionally impermissible. He further submitted that the Apex Court decision was relied upon by the CESTAT, Chennai in the case of Real Value Promoters Ltd. Vs. CCE [2018-TIOL-2867-CESTAT, Chennai wherein the facts involved are identical to the present case and the CESTAT, Chennai held that the composite contract can be subjected to service tax only under WCS post 01/06/2007 and any demand under CICS/CCS on such composite contracts post 01/06/2007 is not sustainable. He further submitted that the CESTAT, Chennai has relied upon the following decisions wherein the demands under CICS/CCS for the period post 01/06/2007 have been set aside.
i. URC Constructions Vs. CCE[2017(50) STR 147 (Tri. Chennai)]
ii. Mantri Developers Vs. CCE [2014(36) STR 944 (Tri. Bang.)]
iii. Skyway Infra Projects Vs. CST [2018-TIOL-360-CESTAT-MUM]
IV. Srishti Constructions Vs. CCE [2018-TIOL-CESTAT-CHD]
v. CST Vs. Swadeshi Construction Company [2018-TIOL-1096-CESTAT-DEL]
vi. Logos Construction Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CST [2018-TIOL-2716-CESTAT-MAD]
4.2. He further submitted that in view of the law laid down by various Benches of the Tribunal cited supra, the demand of service tax under CICS/CCS for the period prior to 01/06/2007 as well as post 01/06/2007 is not at all sustainable and liable to be set aside. He further submitted that the appellant in fact post 01/06/2007 has been paying service tax under WCS under composition scheme both in respect of ongoing contracts as well as fresh contracts. He further submitted that apart from cement and steel supplied by the customers, all other goods required for construction have been supplied by the appellant which is not in dispute and to that extent, there is an element of transfer of property of goods involved in the contracts and the appellant is also paying appropriate VAT thereon.
4.3. Learned counsel submitted that without prejudice to the foregoing stand, benefit of 67% abatement under CICS and CCS has been denied to the appellant on the ground that the gross amount charged by the appellant does not include the value of all goods, as cement and steel are supplied by the customers. In this connection, the appellant relied upon the decision of the Larger Bench of the Tribunal in the case of Bhayana Builders Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CCE [2013(32) STR 49 (Tri. LB)] rendered on 06/09/2013 wherein it has been held that while claiming abatement of 67% under these services, the value of materials supplied by the customers need not be included. This decision has also been upheld by the Hon‟ble Supreme Court vide 2018(10) GSTL 118 (SC). He further submitted that after the decision of Apex Court in L&T Ltd. cited supra, such contracts are not at all liable to service tax under CICS/CCS thereby the question of abatement is not at all relevant. The decision of Larger Bench of the Tribunal was prior to the decision of Hon‟ble Supreme Court in L&T case. Hence even assuming but not admitting that the appellant is not liable to pay service tax under CICS/CCS, the demand confirmed on the appellant by denying the benefit of abatement, on the ground that the value of material supplied by the customers are not part of the amount charged by the appellant, are not at all sustainable in law. He also submitted that the provision for adding the value of material supplied by the customers has been specifically added only under WCS composition scheme vide Notification No. 23/2009-ST dt. 07/07/2009 and it has been specifically stated that this would not apply for the contracts awarded prior to this date. He further referred CBIC circular bearing No. 128/10/2020 dt. 24/08/2010 which clarified that in respect of ongoing contracts, the classification would change to WCS post 01/06/2007, though the benefit of composition scheme is not available. Learned counsel submitted that the demand confirmed by the Commissioner under CICS/CS is contrary to this clarification. He further submitted that even in respect of contracts, commenced after 01/06/2007 where the appellant has paid the service tax under composition scheme of WCS, the same has been denied and the demand is confirmed under CICS/CCS. He further submitted that in the absence of any specific manner in which the option for composition scheme has to be opted, the payment of tax under the scheme and filing of return as such itself would amount to exercise of option. For this submission, he relied upon the following decisions:-
i. ABL Infrastructure Limited Vs. CCE&ST [2015(38) STR 1185 (Tri. Mum.)]
ii. Mehta Plast Corporation Vs. CCE&ST [2016(44) STR 651 (Tri. Del.)]
4.4. Learned counsel also submitted that the demand for the period from December 2005 to March 2009 has been raised by issue of show-cause notice on 22/07/2010 and hence the entire demand is by way of invocation of extended period. He further submitted that the appellant have been paying service tax under CICS/CCS by claiming abatement though no service tax was held to be payable by the Supreme Court in such cases subsequently. Further the levy of service tax on construction related activities has undergone several changes during the relevant period and even the CBEC has recognized such changes in various circulars issued. Further the appellant have not suppressed any information from the Department and has been regularly filing the returns and supplying the information as and when asked by the Department. In such circumstances, there is no justification for invoking the extended period of limitation and the demand is liable to be set aside on the ground of time bar also. He also submitted that similar issue has been raised for the earlier period also and hence extended period cannot be invoked and the demand is liable to be set aside.
5. On the other hand, the learned AR reiterated the findings of the impugned order and submitted that even prior to 01/06/2007 from which WCS was introduced in the Finance Act, 1994, the construction services like CICS and CCS were subject to levy of service tax. These services have not been deleted or omitted from the act ibid after 01/06/2007 when WCS was introduced. This can only mean that after 01/06/2007 also such services are liable to service tax being composite contracts.
6.1. After hearing both sides and perusal of the material on record and after going through the various decisions relied upon by the appellant, we find that it is not in dispute that earlier, appellant was paying service tax under CICS and CCS after availing 67% abatement from the value in terms of Notification No.15/2004 dt. 10/09/2004, No. 18/2005 dt. 07/06/2005 and Notification No. 01/2006 dt. 01/03/2006. The benefit of abatement was sought to be denied on the ground that the appellant had not included the value of material supplied free of cost by the service recipient. This issue is no longer res integra in the light of the Larger Bench decision of the Tribunal in the case of Bhayana Builders Pvt. Ltd. cited supra wherein it has been held that while claiming abatement of 67% under these services, the value of material supplied by the customers need not be included. This decision of the Larger Bench has been upheld by the Apex Court reported in 2018(10) GSTL 118(SC). Further we find that from 0/06/2007, a new taxable service viz WCS was introduced under Section 65(105)(zzzza) of the Finance Act, 1994. Here it is necessary to reproduce the definition of WCS introduced w.e.f. 01/06/2007 by insertion of Section 65(105)(zzzza):-
Section 65(105)(zzzza):-
“To any person, by any other person in relation to the execution of a works contract, excluding works contract in respect of roads, airports, railways, transport terminals, bridges, tunnels and dams.
Explanation. – For the purposes of this sub-clause, “works contract” means a contract wherein, –
(i) transfer of property in goods involved in the execution of such contract is leviable to tax as sale of goods, and
(ii) such contract is for the purposes of carrying out, –
(a) erection, commissioning or installation of plant, machinery, equipment or structures, whether prefabricated or otherwise, installation of electrical and electronic devices, plumbing, drain laying or other installations for transport of fluids, heating, ventilation or air-conditioning including related pipe work, duct work and sheet metal work, thermal insulation, sound insulation, fire proofing or water proofing, lift and escalator, fire escape staircases or elevators; or
(b) construction of a new building or a civil structure or a part thereof, or of a pipeline or conduit, primarily for the purposes of commerce or industry; or
(c) construction of a new residential complex or a part thereof; or
(d) completion and finishing services, repair, alteration, renovation or restoration of, or similar services, in relation
to (b) and (c); or
(e) turnkey projects including engineering, procurement and construction or commissioning (EPC) projects”
The Explanation of the said provision also contained the definition of WCS. After the introduction of WCS, the appellant had started paying service tax by classifying their services into WCS and started availing the benefit of (Composition scheme for payment of service tax) under Service Tax Rules, 2007. Revenue raised the objection by issuing show-cause notices alleging that the appellant is liable to pay service tax under CICS/CCS only and changing the classification into WCS midway is not permissible. So much so, the Revenue was of the view that even in respect of the fresh contracts after 01/06/2007, the appellant was liable to classify the same only under CICS/CCS. Since they have not exercised their option to pay service tax under the composition scheme under WCS and accordingly both in respect of ongoing contracts as well as fresh contract, demand of service tax has been confirmed under CICS/CCS without granting the benefit of 67% abatement on the ground that some of the material were supplied by the customers.
6.2. We may note here that there was considerable litigation on the issue whether service tax can be levied on individual WCS prior to its introduction from 01/06/2007 and the same was finally settled by the Hon‟ble Apex Court in the case of CCE Vs. L&T Ltd. cited supra. In this case, the Apex Court laid down the law on various aspects of levy of service tax on WCS. The Apex court has held that since as per Section 67, service tax is laviable on “gross amount charged”. The levy of service tax on CICS/CCS would be applicable only in case of pure service contracts whereas composite contracts involving transfer of property in goods would be liable to service tax only under WCS from 01/06/2007 as statutory mechanism to arrive at the value of service has been prescribed only under WCS from 01/06/2007. The Apex Court held that since the Finance Act had not laid down any charge or machinery to levy and assess service tax on individual WCS prior to 01/06/2006, hence the levy on such composite WCS prior to that date has no constitutional validity. The decision of L&T Ltd. cited supra has been followed by the Tribunal in large number of cases to set aside the demand of service tax on services like CICS, CCS etc. involving composite contracts of both material as well as service element prior to 01/06/2007. In the present appeal also, there is no dispute that the construction activities are in the nature of composite work and hence the decision of the Apex Court in L&T Ltd. is squarely applicable to the facts of the present case. By following the ratio of the Apex Court decision cited supra, it has been held by Chennai CESTAT in the case of Real Value Promoters Pvt. Ltd. cited supra that a composite contract can be subject to service tax only under WCS post 01/06/2007 and any demand under CICS/CCS on such composite contracts is not sustainable. Here it is pertinent to reproduce the finding of the Tribunal recorded in para 8 which is reproduced herein below:-
8. In the light of the discussions, findings and conclusions above and in particular, relying on the ratios of the case laws cited supra, we hold as under:-
a. The services provided by the appellant in respect of the projects executed by them for the period prior to 1.6.2007 being in the nature of composite works contract cannot be brought within the fold of commercial or industrial construction service or construction of complex service in the light of the Hon‟ble Supreme Court judgment in Larsen & Toubro (supra) upto 1.6.2007.
b. For the period after 1.6.2007, service tax liability under category of „commercial or industrial construction service‟ under Section 65(105)(zzzh) ibid, “Construction of Complex Service‟ under Section 65(105)(zzzq) will continue to be attracted only if the activities are in the nature of services‟ simpliciter.
c. For activities of construction of new building or civil structure or new residential complex etc. involving indivisible composite contract, such services will require to be exigible to service tax liabilities under “Works Contract Service‟ as defined under section 65(105)(zzzza) ibid.
d. The show cause notices in all these cases prior to 1.6.2007 and subsequent to that date for the periods in dispute, proposing service tax liability on the impugned services involving composite works contract, under “Commercial or Industrial Construction Service‟ or “Construction of Complex‟ Service, cannot therefore sustain. In respect of any contract which is a composite contract, service tax cannot be demanded under CICS / CCS for the periods also after 1.6.2007 for the periods in dispute in these appeals. For this very reason, the proceedings in all these appeals cannot sustain.
6.3. Further we find that CBIC has in its subsequent circular bearing No. 128/10/2020 dt. 24/08/2010 clarified that in respect of ongoing contracts, the classification would change to WCS post 01/06/2007, though the benefit of composition scheme is not available. Hence the demand confirmed by the Commissioner under CICS/CCS is contrary to this clarification and the reliance placed on earlier circular No. 98/1/2008 dt. 04/01/2008 is not valid. It is pertinent to note that after the decision of the Apex Court in L&T Ltd. cited supra wherein it has been held that prior to 01/06/2007, composite contracts are not at all liable to set aside under CICS/CCS, any tax paid by the appellant under these categories of services is a payment under a mistake of law. In the case of L&T Ltd., it has been held that since no service tax was payable prior to 01/06/2007, opting for composition scheme under WCS is not barred, even if tax was wrongly paid prior to 01/06/2007.
7. The next issue that arise for consideration is with regard to demand raised for the reason that the appellant did not intimate the Department about their intention to opt for payment of service tax under composition scheme under WCS. The Tribunal vide Final order No. 508/71/2018 dt. 06/03/2018 in the case of Vaishno Associates Vs. CCE [2018-TIOL-1486-CESTAT-DEL] had occasion to consider this issue and held that for sole reason of not filing the intimation opting to pay service tax under WCS, the demand cannot sustain. Similar view was taken in Bridge & Roof Co. Ltd. Vs. CCE, Jaipur [2018-TIOL-30-CESTAT-DEL]. Further in the cases of ABL Infrastructure Ltd. cited supra and Mehta Plast Corporation cited supra also, it has been held by the Tribunal that substantial benefit cannot be denied for procedural deficiency of delay in opting for WCS.
8. As far as bar of limitation is concerned, we find that demand for the period from December 2005 to March 2009 has been raised by issue of show-cause notice on 22/07/2010 which is beyond the normal period of one year from the due date for filing the return.
The Revenue has invoked extended period of limitation alleging suppression by the appellant. We may note that appellants have been paying service tax under CICS and CCS by claiming abatement though no service tax was held to be payable. Further the levy of service tax on construction related activities has undergone several changes which led to lot of litigation during the relevant period and even the CBIC has recognized such confusions in various circulars issued by them. In such circumstances, we do not find any justification for invoking the extended period of limitation and the demand for the period from December 2005 to March 2009 is set aside being barred by limitation.
9. In view of our discussion above, we are of the considered opinion that in view of the decision of the Apex Court in L&T Ltd. cited supra, the impugned order is liable to be set aside and we do the same. Appeal of the appellant is allowed by setting aside the impugned order.
(Order was pronounced in Open Court on 19/06/2020)
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New Zealand missed the memo, and the Olympic medals they wanted
Scotty Stevenson | Senior Sports Writer
The New Zealand men’s sevens Olympic campaign was given a raw deal by a rugby union which still sees the seven-a-side game as a poor relation to 15s, writes Scotty Stevenson in Rio de Janeiro.
It was a salty old hot take-o-rama after the New Zealand Men’s sevens team was bundled out of the Olympic Games in Rio this evening. They were bundled out by Fiji, who are coached by Englishman Ben Ryan, who didn’t get paid for the first few months when he took the job following a long career in charge of his home nation. He’ll be getting paid if he can lead them all the way to gold. It’ll be the nation’s first ever medal. That it could come in their national sport would be one of the great stories of these Olympics.
The New Zealand men’s sevens team after their quarterfinal defeat to Fiji (Photo Getty Images)
Alas, New Zealand Rugby will not be the story of these Olympics. They could have been. Nine months ago I wrote a feature on Sir Gordon Tietjens and his quest for the gold medal. Tietjens may not be everyone’s cup of tea, and his coaching methods may not be universally popular, but his record is second to none and he deserved to be supported through this campaign. It is hard to buy any line that starts with “we gave the sevens programme everything it needed to succeed.” This programme did not have everything it needed. Obviously.
The problem is not with the effort of the players. Anyone who has been around a sevens side or who has watched a tournament will know that this is a game that is all about effort, and repeat effort. Those that would argue the players didn’t care enough, well, I’m afraid they are ignorant in the extreme, or just full of shit. The players did care about it, which is why Kurt Baker voiced his displeasure at his non-selection, and Liam Messam was privately devastated not to be a part of the team. It is also why the women’s side cried after they won an Olympic silver medal.
No, it’s not the effort of the players. It’s simply the volume. In order for teams to improve they require internal competition. New Zealand sevens just cannot get its hands on enough players to make that the case. Even in Olympic year, with two gold medals in Rio a key measure of success for New Zealand Rugby, the Sevens were off limits for All Blacks, for Super Rugby players, and for New Zealand under-20 players. Ardie Savea’s decision to join the team and then withdraw after it became clear he would make his All Blacks debut just shows what the real priority is.
DJ Forbes and Tim Mikkelson. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)
And it shouldn’t be. New Zealand fans can be a myopic bunch when it comes to the growth of rugby around the world. Many (some of whom hold key roles in the sport) still don’t think sevens is a legitimate game, and many more roll their eyes at the mention of the game’s ever-expanding reach in places like the USA and Asia. Well, open those eyes. When major American broadcasters such as ESPN are calling sevens one of the ten ‘must-watch’ events at the Olympics, and NBC are showing the sport live and free-to-air that’s a big thing. Bigger, I hate to tell you, then pumping the Welsh 3-0 in a test series in New Zealand shown at breakfast time in the UK.
Many fans around the world will rejoice at the New Zealand side’s early exit from this Olympic tournament, and there is little doubt Tietjens and his team will be lamenting their loss. But there can be no other way to put this. New Zealand Rugby underestimated the scale of this event and the toughness of the tournament, and they will now have to face the cold hard reality that on the world’s biggest sporting stage they let a massive opportunity pass them by. As did the players who said no to the programme.
Sevens was given a long-overdue rebirth in Rio this week. It’s a shame New Zealand Rugby missed the delivery.
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A new identity for the McGill University men’s teams
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McGill University on Tuesday unveiled the new names for its men’s sports teams, which will now be called the Redbirds.
This identity will replace the previous one – the Redmen – which had been abandoned in May 2019. McGill considered it offensive to members of the First Nations. Late last year, the University asked the community for help in finding names for its teams.
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In a statement issued in the morning, she said she was “keen to honor the traditions and history of the Recreation and Sports Department, while uniting her community.”
“This decision comes at the end of a long process of consultation, discussion and deliberation,” said Fabrice Labeau, co-chair of the naming committee for men’s sports teams. The committee studied several denominations during its mandate and finally opted for The Redbirds, because the name evokes the Recreation and Sports Department both in what it has been in the past and in what it is. today.”
The Committee received 1238 proposals containing a total of 230 names.
“I have no doubt that our male athletes will continue to perform and bring honor to the University for years to come,” said Hubert T. Lacroix, University graduate and co-chair of the naming committee. Our sports teams are a vital part of the McGill community and experience, and I have no doubts that we can all be proud of this new name. ”
Unequivocal vote
In November 2018, McGill students had backed a name change 78.8% in a referendum in which 5,856 people agreed to vote.
“This result shows a need for speed. People need the name to change now, ”said Tomas Jirousek, the Indigenous Affairs Commissioner of the McGill Student Association at the time.
Returning to the Redbirds, the University recalled the past use of the name of several of its clubs, teams and sporting events: the Red Birds Ski Club, founded in 1928 by three McGill graduates; the McGill Nordic Ski Team in the early 1930s; McGill baseball roster of the late 1990s and the beginning of the next. Additionally, the Recreation and Sports Department traditionally hosted a basketball tournament in the fall known as the Redbird Classic.
On the women’s side, McGill continues to use the name “Martlets” for its various teams.
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STONE the crows! Does everybody hate hacks? Well not absolutely everybody. According to a Roy Morgan opinion poll, only 89 per cent of Australians think journalists are not trustworthy.[1] It’s worse in the UK where journalists rate just 3 per cent, the same as bankers.[2]
But at the Newseum in Washington DC hacks are heroes.[3] The crows flapped in there the other day thinking they could fly through this museum of journalism in an hour or so – the staff had to shake them out of the trees when they wanted to go home. They were back the next morning and still had not seen everything when they were shooed out in the evening.
All of the Newseum’s sixth floors are a delight, covering the way news is reported, starting in the sixteenth century and dealing with the way ethics and engineering changed the process along the way. While the emphasis is inevitably American, the issues are universal.
For anybody who believes that journalism, with the free market, the rule of law and fair and regular elections, is one of the four pillars of democracy, the museum has an essential message.
Journalism is essential to a free society if the powerful are to be called to account. The Newseum’s present Hurricane Katrina exhibition demonstrates how TV and print reporters told the truth when federal officials were spinning that all was well after the storm. It was journalists writing and broadcasting on the ground that revealed the depths of the disaster and forced the feds to act.
There are many other examples, obviously including Watergate, in the permanent exhibitions. Inevitably, what with all that “balance” business journalists bang on about, there are ample examples of reporters lying, editors getting it wrong and owners running agendas.
But the Newseum makes Lord Northcliffe’s famous and fundamental point about the importance of the press: “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”[4]
Yet for all the bully pulpits of the past the Newseum does not dispute the print press and the broadcast media are in trouble. Audiences are falling, as media consumption patterns change. The good news is that people are still news consumers. According to new research from the Pew Centre, the decline in US newspaper readership is offset by the amount of time people spend with online news media.[5]
The bad news is that the old media is what is at risk, the platforms which produce the sort of journalism democracy depends on – heavy on facts and strong on analysis and interpretation, writing and broadcasting that takes time and effort to create, consume and comprehend.
The unanswered question is why. Is it because people are moving on from print and electronic mass media or is it because they are no longer interested in the politics and economics, the social policy and scandal stories? These are the basis of what former Chicago Tribune editor Jack Fuller calls, “the standard model of professional journalism”? [6]
Pessimists, or optimists, depending on your opinion of the press, argue that analytical media is being abandoned because not only are its platforms obsolete, its emphases are irrelevant to people’s lives. We are all supposedly citizen journalists now, reporting and editing our own news and analysing events for ourselves, online and via Twitter. And when it comes to evidence every individual can be their own Woodward and Bernstein.
The problem with this argument is that we aren’t. While blogging continues as a mass of cyber communities, and savvy specialists who once published print newsletters are making money from their industry expertise online, the prospect of bloggers replacing old media expertise is passing.
“Contributions to Wikipedia have stalled and the assumption that online experts would subvert the mainstream media by providing accurate information and astute analysis for free is failing” – all this according to the (admittedly old) media outlet Newsweek.
The magazine reports specialist online information sites produced by professionals (who are journalists as much as any others) are strong. But blogging is not growing and online debate, as opposed to the abuse that infests online comment pages of even the most restrained media, has not created a global version of the Athenian assembly.[7]
The challenge for citizen journalists is that no one is paying them and not many people are reading them – and there is no surer way to shut people up than irrelevance and indigence.
This might mean the established schools of journalism are not doomed – as long as anybody wants to know what is going on in the world, beyond the chit chat of the bloggersphere and the instant wisdom of tweeting.
But just as the product forms for news media are changing, journalists must adapt the new tools to expand how they research and write their stories – the distinction between print and broadcast press has disappeared, while the internet enables interactive information presentations beyond anything imaginable a decade ago.
Interactive maps for The New York Times show everything from subway useage to parking statistics in Manhattan and demonstrate how to display data which is relevant at a local level. George Megalogenis in The Australian and Julie Novak from the Institute of Public Affairs both use their mastery of a mass of government statistics available online to provide policy analyses of a depth unimaginable a decade back.
As Julianne Schultz puts it;
There has been so much talk in recent years about the need for new business models for journalism that we have forgotten to concentrate on what we are best at – public sense making, reporting and interpreting the news, getting the mood of the times, the complex fabric of life that undergirds the events that erupt on the surface. We have become much better at the events but have not maintained the same levels of innovation when it comes to covering the underlying issues.[8]
The crows are not optimistic avians by nature but the Newseum demonstrates how journalists have adapted to changing technology and brought their audience with them. We have to hope they do it again – because if they don’t the people who want the media only filled with what Lord Northcliffe called advertising will win.
[1] Roy Morgan Research, “Image of Professions Survey 2010,” http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2010/4518/, 28 June 2010 recovered on 12 September 2010
[2] Roy Greenslade, “Only 3 per cent trust journalist,” Greenslade Blog, theguardian.co.uk 31 March 2009 recovered on 13 September 2010
[3] http://www.newseum.org/ recovered on 15 September 2010
[4] The News Manual, http://www.thenewsmanual.net/Resources/what_is_news_00.htm, recovered on 14 September 2010
[5] Pew Research Centre, “Americans spending more time following the news” 12 September 2010 @ http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1725/recovered on 15 September 2010
[6] Jack Fuller, What is Happening to News (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
[7] Tony Dokoupil and Angela Wu, “Take this blog and shove it” Newsweek, 9 August 2010
[8] Julianne Schultz, “A new paradigm” Australian Policy Online, 7 September 2010, @ http://www.apo.org.au/commentary recovered on 12 September 200
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What Happens When You Turn On Your Inner Addict?
By James Altucher, April 20th 2015
Flickr / Daria Nepriakhina
Rich Roll was having a heart attack on his staircase. He was fat. He hated his work. He was unhappy.
A few years later he ran, swam, biked, 703 miles in seven days when he was 45 years old!
When he was 40, he had a job he was unhappy at, but he was still trying to live the American dream: the two cars, the beautiful family, partnership at a law firm.
“I thought I was having a heart attack on the staircase,” he said. “I was 50 pounds overweight. I was working 80 hours a week. I wasn’t happy. I was going to die.”
That moment on the staircase was one of three or four turning points in Rich Roll’s life that forced him to say: “I have a small window to change for the better.” And then he did it.
But what’s interesting to me is that Rich Roll is an addict. I’m an addict. Many people I know are addicts. Many addictions are bad for you. When I was younger I was addicted to just about everything that could possibly be harmful to me.
Rich Roll, when he was 31 and a high-priced lawyer, had to check himself into a 100 day rehab after he was drunk-driving the wrong way down a one way street.
While in rehab he noticed something interesting. “At first it felt really horrible, and then it felt better.”
When he was 40, he wasn’t drinking, but he threw those obsessions into his NEXT unhealthy addiction.
“I was living on the window diet” – if you can drive up to a window and order the food then that’s what he would eat. Like three Wendy’s cheeseburgers.
He threw himself into the lifestyle of top lawyer, 80 hours a week, eat whatever you can. But that moment on the stairs made him realize, with heart disease in his family, that he was at risk.
So he started a seven day cleanse. All juices.
“In the first three days I felt horrible, but I knew from my experience in rehab that it would get a lot better”.
And it did. At the end of the juicing he felt incredibly energetic and cleansed.
This was his third addiction. Gradually he went from juicing to a “junk vegetarian” style (pizza, etc) to real plant-based vegan lifestyle.
“I had so much energy I couldn’t stop moving. Even sitting at rest I couldn’t stop tapping my leg.”
So one day he went for a run. He ran 24 miles. His biggest run prior that was 8 miles!
And that was 22 years earlier. (Sorry, Rich, if I’m getting the numbers slightly wrong.)
After that he realized this was some latent ability that was coming out, so he started to train.
He trained every day. He started running in “Iron Man” competitions. Then the competitions got more and more intense until he did his 700 mile Hawaii run. Five Irons Mans in seven days.
This was his fourth addiction.
He was named one of the 50 fittest men in the world.
But he was still a lawyer part-time and training part-time.
He wrote a book about his lifestyle… He started giving talks for free. Going to conferences.
Spreading the world on this healthy lifestyle that had changed his life, invigorated his relationships, and catapulted him to being one of the healthiest people in the world.
This was his fifth addiction. He couldn’t stop spreading the word about what was happening to him.
“It was hard at first,” he said. “I wasn’t getting paid and I was traveling everywhere.” Gradually he started making a living at his new career and he gave up his job as a lawyer.
His book “Plantpower” is about to come out, describing his lifestyle even more.
Rich and I are one year apart in age. I can’t even run down the block although I try to live a healthy lifestyle.
People always demonize addiction. It’s bad! Don’t be an addict!
But there are positive addictions.
“Well-being” is being addicted to three things: Competence, Positive relationships, Autonomy. And maybe one more thing: Growth every day in all three of those areas.
If you do those things, I can tell you you will feel well-being today, no matter what else is going on in your life.
The first few days or weeks or months are really hard and then as Rich says, “suddenly it gets better.”
When I was talking to Rich for an upcoming podcast, he would use the same language often when describing a bad addiction and a positive addiction.
“I noticed I had to change.”
“It was hard at first to get over it, but I knew it would get better.”
It was all-consuming for him and obviously, negative or positive, he loved the lifestyle.
His family and friends were super-supportive and those were the people who gravitated towards.
When he went from negative to positive in his life he also suddenly went from AMBITION to MEANING.
There’s a lot of great books recently about habits and developing positive habits. A positive habit might be: brush your teeth twice a day. make your bed in the morning.
What’s the difference between a habit and an addiction? I think there is a gray area here but roughly – a habit you can control. An addiction feels out of your control.
I bet that if Rich didn’t exercise for a week he would feel physically ill. I bet exercising and health are addictions for him.
What happened to Rich Roll?
He told me that during his time in rehab, someone asked him, “Are you a human being having a spiritual experience or a spiritual being having a human experience?”
He said the question threw him off. He had never even thought in those terms before.
It was always the straight line: school, law school, lawyer, partner, family, two car garage, retirement.
What does that question even mean?
The truth is: it doesn’t have to mean anything. It just has to make you think. It has to give you a little bump off the straight line.
To tear you apart a little inside so you realize there’s a world outside the one you’ve been living in.
I try to turn on my inner addict every day. I look at what I’m doing and I try to be competent, have good relationships, and the freedom to do what I want. Or grow towards those things.
Maybe it means meet new people. Or be creative in some way. Or try to get better at something. Or start saying “No” more to the people who are trying to direct my life in ways good for them but not for me.
If I do that, I know I will get excited and my inner addict will turn on. And everyone’s inner addict is different. I will NEVER run 100 miles. Or even one mile.
But every six months my life has changed almost 100% as a result.
It’s a gradual process. You can’t be a “positive addict” overnight.
But when you “invest in yourself” as Rich told me he started doing, the universe conspires to help you find the right answers to questions that have no meaning.
I’m an addict and proud of it.
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Norton 360 Deluxe vs Premium - Introduction
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For securing all these cloud files, Norton uses a multi-layered protection technique.
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These are the major aspects where both of these softwares differ. However, there are a lot of similar things too that you can find with these softwares.
Common features of Norton 360 Deluxe and Premium
For a fair comparison, it is really important to compare both similar and dissimilar aspects. And the features that you can find with both of these software are:
100% guaranteed protection: Both versions assure users to provide 100% protection against viruses. A user is also protected against Malware and Ransomware.
Password Manager: Norton helps users in generating strong passwords. It also remembers these passwords for the users.
Secure VPN: With both of these antiviruses, you can enjoy safe browsing through a secured VPN connection. With the Deluxe version, you can use VPN on 5 devices whereas the limit for the Premium version is 10 devices.
Dark Web Monitoring: Norton also does dark web monitoring for you. Through this, it checks whether your identity is safe or is available for sale on Dark Web. And in the case of any danger, it alerts you.
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Norton 360 Deluxe vs Norton 360 Premium - Which is better?
Norton 360 Deluxe and Premium both are nice and capable of protecting your device against viruses. Both of them also provide almost the same kind of features. However, the Premium protects a wider range of devices than the Deluxe.
So, if you want to protect up to 5 devices, then Norton 360 Deluxe is better for you. And if you want protection for more than 5 devices, then you should choose Norton 360 Premium.
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What’s a green nudge?
In Blog by Iranzu Monreal February 24, 2020
Dr Rebecca Koomen
Over the past decade, the field of applied behavioural science has developed an array of methods to influence public behaviour. Many involve behaviour change interventions that systematically alter one (or a handful) of characteristics in the environment in which people make choices and then test the effects of the new environment(s) against the original environment. For example, a disgruntled maintenance team at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport wanted to change the behaviour of their male visitors, after noticing a pattern of excessive ‘spillage’ around their urinals. In a now famous example of applied behavioural science, they applied some small decals in the shape of a fly in some of the urinals and found that men suddenly used these urinals with much more accuracy than the urinals without the decals, presumably because they had a target to aim at.
By comparing the spillage differences between the urinals with decals and those without decals, the team was able to say with confidence that male behaviour improved when a decal was provided, and this occurred without any education campaign, coercion, or incentives. In fact, the decals were a relatively inexpensive fix!
Behavioural interventions can have a powerful effect on how people behave by capitalising on our predictable thought patterns and decision mechanisms. Marketing and sales professionals have long been aware of the influential power of applied behavioural science, but in the last decade or so governments and other socially minded organisations have begun to utilise these tools for many publicly beneficial behaviours, like tax compliance, organ donation, and traffic control.
With the looming threat that global climate change poses for our world, it's none too soon for a new target of applied behaviour science: our habits and choices with the environment. We are a species that uses more resources in nine short months than the earth can produce in one entire year, and this rate keeps increasing as our population grows and our lifestyle expectations advance. In order to avoid ecologically and socially disastrous consequences, scientists urge us to change our behaviour, our economic structures, and our relationship with the environment upon which we depend.
According to UN climate change expert, Niklas Hagelberg, behavioural science is necessary to combat environmentally exhausting behaviours. People are generally in favour of changes towards carbon neutrality, but the reality of changing day-to-day behaviour to meet these goals can often feel vague or overly complex. This is where behavioural science comes in. A recent UN climate change report says, “achieving sustainable consumption will require great global effort— it is critical that we employ all of the tools at our disposal. By using the deep understanding of decision-making offered by behavioural science, policymakers can design more effective policies to shift consumption patterns and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Behavioural science applied in the name of the environment is often called ‘green nudging’ and can take many forms. A recent review of green nudging practices grouped them broadly into three categories:
Nudges that appeal to people’s self-image
Nudges that appeal to people’s tendency to socially conform
Nudges that re-set the default choice
I will go ahead and add a fourth category to this list, and then I’ll outline examples of all four:
Nudges that capitalise on other non-social cognitive biases and heuristics
We generally want to maintain a positive self-image
Fundamental to our nature, is a motivation to maintain a positive self-image. People generally want to believe that they are good. Consumers, particularly in WEIRD societies (wealthy, educated, industrialised, rich, & democratic) where most of our data come from, are generally in agreement that protecting the environment is good. Because of this norm, people generally prefer to see themselves as being environmentally conscious consumers (i.e. good consumers). Therefore, some behavioural science approaches seek to highlight this motivation in order to nudge more environmentally friendly choices. This can be accomplished by simplifying the language used to describe certain choices, which reduces the cognitive load required for consumers to recognise the environmental aspects of these choices. This can also be accomplished by directly increasing the salience of the environmental aspects of certain choices – drawing more awareness to the environmental elements of a decision can make consumers more likely to choose along those lines than other, competing choice motivators (like cost or convenience).
An example of this kind of green nudge is eco-labelling. Consider the last time you bought a product in the supermarket that had one of these on the package. How did it make you feel? Did you, by any chance, feel a small surge of pride at your wise and responsible lifestyle?
Another method of green nudging that harnesses people’s desire for a positive self-image works by activating people’s social identity, making them aware of a particular aspect of their identity that may lead them to be more likely to choose an environmentally beneficial behaviour or product. At any time of our lives, we belong to many different social groups that define our identity at different levels. We belong, for example, to a number of global groups defined by inalienable biological characteristics like gender and age – I’m a female millennial and I identify with other female millennials. We also belong to more localised social groups like ‘Manchester United fans’ or ‘University of Oxford alumni’. These social groups combine to define our identities and can be activated in different contexts to influence decisions relevant to these identities. A great example of this put to practice is the “Don’t mess with Texas” anti-littering campaign in the 80’s. In the four years this campaign was active, it reduced highway littering by about 70% – an effect attributed to the sense of community pride it induced in people with a Texan identity.
We generally want to conform to our social group
Throughout human evolution, it’s generally been in our best interest to behave the way others do around us. This can help us more quickly find solutions to challenges we’ve not yet encountered, and it can help us signal to those around us that we belong. We do this by perceiving and adhering to norms of behaviour. Norms can either be descriptive (e.g. ‘most people do things this way’) or they can be injunctive, adding a moral component (e.g. ‘we ought to do things this way’). Conforming to environmental norms is no different – if we hold environmental consciousness as being generally good, we will feel rewarded when we behave in line with this goal. But behaving in line with the environment can be very vague when it comes to our day-to-day lives, so finding evidence of how other people behave in pro-environmental ways, and importantly, how many people in our surroundings actually behave this way can be a powerful motivator as this provides a rich amount of information on how strong environmental norms are and how they are applied.
You can activate environmental norms descriptively, by reminding people that most people choose the environmentally optimal choice, or you can activate them injunctively, by insinuating (or even directly expressing) that the environmental choice is the one people are expected to take.
Perhaps the most common form of green nudging falls into this category – that of social comparisons. Think back to the last time you received an energy or water bill. Was it full of complex jargon or did it have a simple-to-interpret infographic with your own water use compared to that of your neighbours? Personal energy or water reports are now widely used as green nudge tools because they are a low-cost way to activate both descriptive and injunctive norms. First, they provide easy-to-read feedback for customers about how much they have consumed. Second, they make it very easy for customers to then compare how much they have used to the average use of those in similar households. Third, they often offer praise to those who use less than the average, and hints and tips for improvement to those with unfavourable comparisons to the average. Social comparisons have been shown to have strong and lasting effects on our green behaviour in a number of different cultural contexts. Here’s a great example of social comparisons encouraging people to reduce their water consumption. And here is what it looks like in a home energy report:
You can also take this method a step further by allowing people the opportunity to signal their pro-environmental behaviour. Most of us generally want others to see us as being environmentally conscious. Behaving in ways that help the environment is a way that we can actively manage our reputations and maintain belonging to the cultural groups that shape our identities. We can accomplish these things through the process of advertising our adherence to pro-environmental norms. It’s like saying “Hey! Look what a good environmentalist I’m being!”
Adding yet another component to this, if you frame resource-saving behaviours as part of a competition, even if you provide no incentives for winning, this can motivate people to adopt green behaviours at a much higher rate than when no one is competing.
We generally prefer to keep things the way they are when changing requires work or time
Now we’re getting to one of the most impactful forms of green nudging: defaults. Often, when we have to make an explicit choice between a number of different options, one of the options will be set as the default, and we are then welcome to change to another option through an active process. An example in behavioural science is the decision to become an organ donor or not. When you register, the state can either make you an organ donor by default and give you the option to opt out, or the state can make you a non-donor by default and give you the option to opt in. In both instances, the two choices are the same, and the freedom to switch between them is the same. You’d also expect the national proportion of people who want to be an organ donor to be the same irrespective of the way in which you become one. But research shows instead that countries that set organ donor registration to the default, while allowing abstainers to opt-out, have much higher proportions of donors than countries that do things the other way around.
This is due to a few different cognitive biases. One is the status quo bias. Put simply, this is a preference for the current state of affairs. If we are already an organ donor and have to actively take steps to become a non-donor, we are less likely to do so because this means expending effort to change the current state of affairs. The opposite is also true: if we are already a non-donor and have to actively take steps to become a donor, we’re less likely to take those steps than to simply continue being a non-donor. This is sometimes discussed as the need to overcome inertia. Another is the authority bias, which describes our tendency to attribute more value and sway to the opinions of authority figures. In this case, the government can be seen as an authority over the individual and the default option the government selects can often be interpreted as an implicit endorsement of that option. So people can come to believe that the state wants us to be (or not to be) organ donors based on whether this is selected as the default or not.
A third cognitive bias that aids the default effect is loss aversion, which basically means that we find the pain of losing things to be greater than the reward we feel when we acquire those same things. For example, if my boss gives me a day off and then tells me at the last minute that I still have to work, the frustration I’ll feel about this will almost certainly be more acute than the elation I originally felt when I was told I had a day off. Once we feel we have something in our possession – whether it’s a physical object, money, or something of less explicitly financial value like a day off – we tend to avoid parting with it more strongly than we would work to get it in the first place. So, if the default is set at a certain decision and you assimilate this decision into your personal expectations of your circumstances, you may be less likely to want to lose this option simply because its already in your ‘possession,’ so to speak.
Defaults can be applied to the environment by setting, for example, green energy contracts as the default in a specific region or customer base. Consider the town of Schönau, in Germany. In the 80’s, the town voted to put a green energy coalition in charge of the town’s power grid. They set a green (i.e. renewable) energy contract as the default option for residents of the town. In 1996, 8 years after this change to the default was instantiated, 99% of residents were still with the green contract, even though as many as 48% of the residents were opposed to the coalition. As a comparison, other German towns with grey (i.e. non-renewable) energy defaults still hover at around 1% of green choice opt-ins. This is quite a stark difference. These results were experimentally validated in another German city, indicating that even if people have to pay more for the green contract, once it’s the default the customer base with this contract type stays about ten times larger than the opt-out groups.
We generally think and make decisions with a set of predicable mental short cuts
One of the defining concepts of the applied behavioural science movement is the idea that people do not always behave in ways that are 100% economically rational, but instead follow predictable mental short-cuts and biases that make us, in a sense, predictably irrational (speaking strictly in terms of economic rationality. Loss aversion, authority bias, and the status quo bias, above, are all examples of these predictable mental short-cuts. But there is another approach that believes instead that humans generally have the mental capacity, intelligence, and motivations to arrive at optimal decisions, but we make non-ideal (or unsustainable) decisions because we are simply bogged down by suboptimal mental conditions. Essentially, this approach, called Boosting, posits that if information about decisions is presented in clearer terms, our innate mental abilities will naturally be engaged and we will then arrive ourselves at optimal decisions without having to be ‘nudged’ into them. It may seem like a subtle difference between nudging and boosting, but it’s seen as the equivalent of steering people towards good decisions and empowering them to make their own good decisions.
An example is to, for example, boost financial literacy (and therefor healthier financial behaviours) by providing people with a set of simple financial and accounting rules.
When it comes to the environment, boosting is less common than nudging, but here is a clever mixed-methods approach that highlighted the benefits of providing people with the right information to allow them to come to their own environmental decisions. A few years ago, some researchers (including Rob Metcalfe, co-founder of The Behaviouralist) set out to find a solution to reduce fuel consumption by helping airline pilots to change their pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight decisions. In a novel approach that is now being applied across other airlines and even other transport sectors, the researchers decided on a mixed-boosting approach by providing individual pilots with individualised feedback about their own fuel use and ways they can reduce it based on their particular set of nuanced decisions. Prior to this, pilots had no reliable way of knowing how any number of individual decisions were affecting their fuel use, so having this feedback allowed them to alter their own behaviour in a more informed way. Combined with introduced carbon saving targets and indirect financial incentives for meeting these targets (in the form of donations to charity), the 8-month trial with pilots saved over $7 million in fuel costs, cutting the airline’s carbon emissions by over 21,500 tonnes(!) Granted, this is not exclusively a boosting strategy as new behavioural targets were communicated to pilots, and the pilots were given the chance to choose a charity to benefit from their own fuel savings, which altered their incentive structure, but this is still a great example of how effective it can be to simply provide people with information about how their behaviour is affecting the world or those around them.
I look forward to seeing how these two methodological approaches are expanded and creatively applied to the environment in the coming years. If you’ve seen green nudging or boosting in action – let us know! Email me at rebecca@thebehaviouralist.com
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Joe Bonamassa Live in Las Vegas: Palms Pearl Theater – Concert Review
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Two weeks ago I witnessed Joe Bonamassa and his band live at The Palms Pearl Concert Theatre in Las Vegas. This was one of the best concerts I’ve seen in a long time. Not since perhaps Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton did I see the level of musicianship that unfolded that night. Yes, Bonamassa and his band are that good! While his name is not as prevalent as the legends listed above, his popularity continues to climb. He is a legend in the wings, and his fans look forward to future projects as his career continues to roll… ~tbb
Saturday April 20th, 2013- The Palms Hotel
You couldn’t have asked for better weather in Las Vegas that weekend. The sunny 93 degree desert air was magnificent – A full 60 plus degrees difference from home just 24 hours prior… I walked into The Palms and made my way into the ultra-cool state of the art Pearl Theatre. You could feel the anticipation growing as the 2200 sold-out crowd settled into their seats.
Acoustic Set
The show started promptly at 8:00 PM to much surprise of the people still rolling into the theater. No opening act for this gig. Dressed in a full white suit (only in Vegas could he get away with wearing it, Bonamassa would later say) he sat down and treated the fans to a 30 minute acoustic set.
Along with drummer/percussionist Tal Bergman and keyboardist Arlan Schierbaum, the evening began with his cover version of Bad Company’s “Seagull.” The set continued with “Jelly Roll”, “Jockey Full of Bourbon,” and then “Athens to Athens,” before concluding with “Woke up Dreaming.” Anyone familiar with Joe’s latest release An Acoustic Evening at The Vienna Opera House would’ve been delighted to witness this extraordinary acoustic opening set. It was a very classy way to start a show indeed.
Electric Set
The acoustic piano and bongos were promptly removed and a gush of light hammered the audience with the opening chords of “Slow Train.” The infectious thick bluesy groove (with Carmine Rojas now joining in on bass) really got the crowd going.
Bonamassa showed he was more than just a superb guitarist. Unlike many guitar aficionados, he also has a great voice that keeps getting better. Bonamassa then worked through an additional two hours of material. From “Dustbowl” to “Dislocated Boy,” “Driving Towards the Daylight,” “Who’s Been Talking,” “Mountain Time,” “Young Man Blues,” and “The Ballad of John Henry,” Bonamassa executed masterfully; using each song to showcase a different guitar from his vast collection.
It’s easy to see why people who are familiar with Bonamassa compare him to guitar legends of the past. At 36-years-old (this Wednesday May 8th) the Utica New York native is known by some as an amalgamated version of his largely British blues-rock influences. Bonamassa never hides this fact and occasionally during the show will pay tribute to his idols by weaving the odd Led Zeppelin or Cream guitar lick into his repertoire. Each member of his band contributed equally, but the distinctive growling sound of the Hammond B3 organ for many of the tunes, as well as Bergman’s incredible drum solo were particularly memorable.
Not exactly a newcomer to the Palms, Bonamassa has recorded two studio albums at the resort’s recording facility. The voyage of creating the album “Driving Towards the Daylight” was documented in a video series Bonamassa released last year. He will also be recording his next album at the facility.
Joe Bonamassa and his band came back for a two song encore: “Sloe Gin” and then wrapped up the evening with a barn burner version of ZZ Top’s “Just Got Paid.” There were several well deserved standing ovations throughout the evening. The first words I heard from the people around me as the lights came up was a speechless awesome inspired, “Wow…” I couldn’t have agreed more.
When I first started The Blues Blogger back in 2007, I used classic blues tunes I heard my brother and his band play as a soundtrack to recalling my past experiences. I was constantly being emailed about Joe Bonamassa by many of my readers. It didn’t take long for me to be intrigued. Perhaps, (I thought back then) my blog didn’t have to be all about the past, but it could also be about current musicians whose influences came from some of the great legendary artists of our time.
Since then I’ve enjoyed listening to Joe Bonamassa play over the years and I’ve featured Joe now four times on my site. I’ve gained tremendous respect for him and feel very fortunate to be able to see him perform live. Bonamassa is an artist you definitely do not want to miss when he comes to your area. I know I’ll be keeping an eye on his tour schedule; waiting for the chance to see him again.
What about you? Are you familiar with Joe Bonamassa? Have you seen him perform live before? Perhaps you were at The Las Vegas show at The Pearl as well? Or part of the Bona-Vegas weekend? Or maybe you just want to wish Joe a “Happy 36th Birthday” this Wednesday May 8th? Please include your thoughts or comments in the area below.
I’d love to hear from you,
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6 Responses to “Joe Bonamassa Live in Las Vegas: Palms Pearl Theater – Concert Review”
Gord May 6, 2013 at 10:05 am #
My wife and I made a special trip to Vancouver on April 10th to see Joe at the Orpheum Theatre.. I have a lot his music including his newest one. The show was spectacular and yes WOW was the word used most to describe his show..It was worth the trip for sure..
Howard June 11, 2013 at 12:34 am #
Yes, I have seen him OZ at the Byron Bay Blues Festival a couple of years ago now but I remember it well & WOW, he just gets better.
I too heard of him back in, 2006-7. Back then I bought some CDs through Amazon and was blown away, how could he be so young and yet be so good!
His work with Beth Hart breaks new ground too. I think he has done a second album with her?
He has mastered so many styles now and yet he just keeps, adapting, learning and Improving, a true Legend.
kristian August 28, 2013 at 7:09 pm #
i also saw Joe at the Byron Bay Blues Festival. what a set he played the air was electified with with his natural flow and his trues passion for the blues.. you hit the nail on the head Howard ^^^ when you say WOW as the best word to describe his performance
Jim Cameron October 24, 2013 at 2:15 am #
Joe Bonamassa. “Wow”s indeed – what a superb musician. I am rarely unmoved listening to his songs.
Besides the sheer virtuosity of his playing, it is the ease with which he swaps between musical genres that is astounding. He seems born to each style. Even his vocals are not typical of any one style, but sound natural to each.
I don’t often give such accolades, but I think in years to come Joe Bonamassa will be seen as one of the true “Greats”.
To illustrate the breadth of his playing styles, what about the following; the blues of Your Funeral, My Trial, and You Better Watch Yourself; the slow-building waves of intensity in Dust Bowl; the haunting Bird on a Wire; the Zeppelinesque Blue and Evil; the melodic Mountain Time; the eeriness of The Ballad of John Henry; the pure joy of Bonamassa and Clapton in Further On Up The Road; and the power of The Outsider and I Can See Your Spirit from the Black Country Communion chapter.
The great players, like Joe, can take someone else’s song and not just copy it, but give some of themselves to it so you are left with your mouth agape thinking “Wow, that was better!”
Paul Phelps November 20, 2013 at 9:47 am #
My wife and I just saw Joe for the first time last Friday at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater Fl. Having been a fan for a number of years I thought I knew what to expect from the concert. I could not have been more wrong.
He started out with an acoustic set reaching deep into the roots of Blues and spread it out from the Mississippi Delta to the northern Appalachians and then dug deep into the coal mines of Kentucky. The instruments on stage were a mix of cultures and added a feel that made this part of the show. They included a Celtic Drum, mountain dulcimer with a bow , a fiddle and a banjo. Not instruments you would expect to see at a Blues show.
When they opened the electric set, I found myself sitting there with my mouth hanging open. We will remember this as one of the best concerts of our life. My favorite song had to be “Ballad Of John Henry” although it was a tough call. The only thing that made it my favorite was the accompanying light show where it appeared that a train was coming onstage behind the drummer.
Wow doesn’t really say enough, but that is the first word that came out of my mouth and my wife’s mouth after the lights came on. We will definitely see him again!
i.love.blues November 21, 2013 at 9:48 am #
Ive seen Joe three times and each time he was more passionate, intense and a greater musician. The more i watched the further i fell into his hypnotic style of music that he calls ‘The Blues’.
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Reporter, New York Times
Amy Harmon is a New York Times reporter who seeks to illuminate the intersection of science and society through narrative storytelling. Harmon has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 2008 for her series, “The DNA Age,” the other as part of a team for the series “How Race is Lived in America,” in 2001. Her series, "Target Cancer," received the 2011 National Academies of Science award for print journalism. In 2012, her article “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World’’ won the Casey Medal for meritorious reporting. Harmon is the author of an e-book, “Asperger Love,’’ which portrays two teenagers on the autism spectrum as they try to master romance and intimacy. She was awarded a 2013 Guggenheim fellowship in science writing. Harmon lives in New York City with her husband and nine-year-old daughter.
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Here’s What Happened When Ben Okri And Jeremy Corbyn Met To Talk Literature
Ben Okri reads his poem 'A New Dream of Politics'| ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
Harriet Clugston
‘The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love.’ These were words quoted by Jeremy Corbyn in his victory speech after he was unexpectedly elected leader of the Labour Party last summer. The man who wrote them, Man Booker Prize-winning Postcolonial author and poet Ben Okri, penned a new poem in response, “A New Dream Of Politics,” inspired by the politician. This past July, in an event seven months in the making, they came together publicly for the first time in London to discuss art, creativity, and their dreams of a better world.
It’s a fairly surreal experience, sitting in the beautiful 2,500-seat concert hall at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, watching poet and politician meet to discuss life’s big questions. The evening kept to the loose form of an interview by the former of the latter — loose enough to retain the sense of authenticity so well noted in each, but for which they are far from equally celebrated. In front of each man sat a pile of papers and books, favourite texts selected especially by each from which they would intermittently give readings. The event certainly presented an unorthodox combination, the two arenas — politics and art— seemingly worlds apart. But, as the Southbank Centre attests, this is a place that has always celebrated ‘the transformative power of art’.
Ben Okri and Jeremy Corbyn on stage at the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall | ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
Okri began by pledging his intention for the discussion to try and focus on the topics of creativity, literature, art and culture, with the pressing politics of the day — which, he admitted, has dominated all of our thoughts for the past few weeks — to take a backseat. But then again, he told us, he had always found that what you deeply want to talk about will come through anyway. This was proven true almost instantly, when he began to quizz Corbyn on the formative books of his childhood years — his mother, he answered, had given him Robert Tressell’s The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists to read when he was 16, which became a favourite — which quickly descended into a discussion on the implicit political dimensions of such childhood classics as The Little Prince and Alice in Wonderland, with their anti-monarchist motifs and probing of the nature of power.
Ben Okri and Jeremy Corbyn | ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
It’s this fluidity between literature and politics which underpins the poignancy of the meeting between these two men, both extraordinary figures in what seem like two very different worlds, but whom have far more in common than might be initially supposed. In reality, the pairing between the political and the cultural, which Corbyn and Okri’s union represents, goes way back, the two intertwined in an ancient and symbiotic relationship — as Okri himself alluded to in one of his readings of the night, from the poem he penned in celebration of Corbyn’s victory nine months ago:
‘We measure the deeds of politicians
By their time in power.
But in ancient times they had another way.
They measured greatness by the gold
Of contentment, by the enduring arts,
The laughter at the hearths,
The length of silence when the bards
Told of what was done by those who
Had the courage to make their lands
Happy […]’
A New Dream of Politics, Ben Okri
Ben Okri reads his poem 'A New Dream of Politics' | ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
While this passage alludes to the relationship between bard or songwriter and the deeds of rulers in ancient history, we can look far closer to home for other examples of the link between politics and art, specifically to the rise of democracy in the Western world. In 1831, the French aristocrat and political thinker, Alexis de Toqueville travelled to America, seeking to get a sense of American democracy and equality, to understand how it could be possible to achieve the two principles without the need for bloodshed. His conclusion was laid out in the landmark text Democracy in America, which described how the revolutionary spirit of political democracy and equality had been absorbed into the cultural and artistic landscape of the country.
This was a notion wrestled with by writers from the German Friedrich Von Schiller, who laid out his vision of a democratic art in On the Aesthetic Education of Mankind in 1794, to the British William Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, which pondered on the political dimensions of architecture and design, and was to become a point of fascination for Modernist writers such as E.M. Forster and James Joyce. The central thesis tells how, if democracy is to be more than a buzzword, it must go beyond a simply bureaucratic definition, and be more than just a political apparatus. It must weld itself indivisibly to the very heart and soul of society — and this means it must have its basis in culture.
It is in the spirit of this rich history of cultural crossover between politics and art that Okri and Corbyn confer. Outside the Royal Festival Hall sits a monumental bust of Nelson Mandela, a political figure who famously used poetry and literature to elucidate his cause and inspire support, even using a poem in his very first speech to the South African parliament after his election as President. It’s a fitting link to the man inside, Ben Okri, a giant of postcolonialism — perhaps the most democratic of any genre, in its desire to empower and give voice to the disenfranchised and dispossessed —whose work has always been profoundly political. Okri began writing aged 16, producing political and social articles which were never to find a publisher, but on which his first published short stories were based.
Ben Okri gives a reading | ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
The postcolonial was to serve as an undercurrent throughout the evening, an area of interest shared by both men. Though he was born in Nigeria, Okri was raised in London until he was nine, at which point he and his family returned to their home country. Here he was to experience first hand the violence and tragedy of the Nigerian Civil War, a deadly three-year conflict that saw two million civilians die of starvation and disease, which arose largely from the ethnic and religious tensions stoked by the British during the move towards decolonization. As with many postcolonial authors, his early work was inspired by this political violence. Seeking common ground, Okri questioned Corbyn on the origins of his political activity, particularly his long-documented interest in race relations and identity politics. In 1984 he was even arrested during a protest against Apartheid outside the South African Embassy in London.
After leaving school with few qualifications, Corbyn recalled how he had travelled to live in Jamaica for two years, working with Polio-stricken children and doing campaign work, before getting a job as a Lighting Technician in the Barn Theatre in Kingston. Corbyn explained how, during the 60s, Jamaican theater had been undergoing a remarkable transformation, with the domination of imported British culture beginning to be countered by home-grown texts — Barn Theatre was amongst the first to produce Jamaican plays. The writings of the prominent Pan-Africanist writer, Marcus Garvey, had recently been coming back into fashion, with Corbyn also recalling his experiences of the Rodney Riots, in which the Jamaican government’s banning of Guyanese academic Walter Rodney from the country sparked a period of unrest. As Corbyn put it, at first nobody had heard of the socialist political activist, but rioted anyway. By the time it was over, everybody had heard of him: the government unwittingly triggering a rise in political consciousness across the Caribbean.
It was this formative spirit of counter-culturalism that would inspire an interest in postcolonialism and black consciousness in the future politician, a political awakening similar, in many ways, to that of Okri’s — despite their disparate roles as observer and protagonist, in racial terms at least. While it would inspire a lifetime spent in public service for Corbyn, it would also lead to a lifelong interest in populist art and ‘outsider’ voices across the board. It’s an idea brought to British shores by his reading from a text by his late friend, the poet and social observer Mike Marqusee. Named Street Music, the work is a collection of over 60 poems, which weaves together a myriad of London voices. The poem selected by Corbyn is narrated by a busker, who proudly purports to ‘take the piss out of Intellectual Property’ with his ‘impure’ music, which is regarded with suspicion by others. It speaks to the dynamic between the determined and the determiner, the impotent and the empowered; commenting on the domination of the homo over the hetero-geneous, and ultimately asserting the need for democratic representation to go beyond the empirical and political, to the cultural.
Jeremy Corbyn reads an 'arrogant' pro-European passage in Joseph Conrads 'Heart of Darkness', a book Okri desribes as troubling | ©Adam Weatherley/Southbank Centre
That’s all very well, but what is the purpose of a culture that calls for this if the political class is not engaged? As Okri puts it, a Tango teacher once told him the leader can only lead if the follower follows. Perhaps meant more as a comment on party politics, the anecdote provides a compelling link to the overarching theme at play — the current divorce between the governing body and the cultural life of the society it purports to serve.
‘I don’t know if it’s a healthy thing to meet too many politicians,’ quipped Okri towards the start of the night, ‘The few that I’ve met…they’re not big readers’, a reality Corbyn puts down to the fact that politics today ‘is dominated by process, not by ideas’, and ‘the instant, not the long-term’. Having proven himself a bit of a book-worm, Corbyn described how he uses literature in his life as a politician, reading books that focus on something different to whatever is occupying him professionally. ‘What you’re doing on any day seems very important, like it’s everything,’ he said, recalling how he read Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and the works of William Godwin on the campaign trail last summer, in order to keep himself grounded in the big picture.
‘From the moment people are elected to public office’, he continued, ‘they are inundated with business-like information and short-term decision making’ — in short, they are taught not to be creative. How, then, to put the creativity back into the process? Corbyn seems to think the route of the problem lies in education (‘why do we separate subjects in school?’), a view Okri enthusiastically endorses. ‘Creativity is fundamentally human’, he argues, ‘so why should we separate things? There’s mathematics in poetry, and poetry in mathematics.’
Beneath all the talk of the evening, sits this incumbent belief in the value that art, with its ability to foster the qualities of innovation and imagination, can offer politics and politicians — which, each man argues, are impoverished by the separation. ‘Is there a spiritual side to socialism?’ asked Okri at one point. ‘Absolutely’, Corbyn replied. And at the heart of their discussion, this seems to be what they are both calling for, the reconciliation of the spiritual with the empirical, the cultural with the scientific, of lateral and vertical thinking — and in their new dream of politics, this is something that only art and culture can bring.
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11 People Reveal Their Average Weekly Spend On Alcohol
By Holly TranthamFriday, January 13, 2017
About a month ago, I took a good look at my overall spending for the year (via Mint) to figure out how much I’d spent on alcohol in 2016 up to that point. I found that, when I divided the total number for the year by the number of weeks that had passed so far in the year, I spend an average of $35 a week on alcohol. (Of course, Mint is not a perfect science — at least the way I use it, there’s no accounting for cash spending, splitting checks on Venmo, etc.)
Living in an expensive city like I do, where most people also don’t drive and therefore have the “excuse” to drink more, $35 a week seems pretty minimal. But I’ve been wondering, how much does the average American spend on alcohol? It’s interesting to me how people have different ideas of what constitutes “a lot” of drinking. Of course, I have to take into account the way I was raised. In my household, there was no taboo against drinking; I saw my mom drink a glass of red wine pretty much every night. And though, I rarely saw my parents have more than one drink at a time, except on special occasions or during family get-togethers, it was simply a thing adults did. Until I started thinking a lot more about my spending habits, I never would have considered partaking in Drynuary. (And for the record, I still wouldn’t. It is much too cold this time of year to forego red wine. Of course, drinking is a problem in this country — here are some important alcohol spending statistics.)
For instance, I’ve never considered myself to be a huge drinker. But when I say I have a couple of drinks probably three nights a week, some people might think that to be quite a lot, while others would just shrug, considering that to be pretty normal. I also have to take into account that my drinking habits fluctuate depending on other things going on in my life. For instance, I started dating my boyfriend almost a year ago, and much of the time we spent together was over drinks. Now that a lot of our time consists of nights spent in one of our respective apartments, we both consume less alcohol (which sometimes takes a concerted effort on both of our parts — we are both somewhat social enablers who love beer) and more television , and spend less money. The average cost of alcohol per year is a particularly interesting to me, because it’s obviously not a “necessary” spending category, but at this point in my life, I know so few people who have cut it out of their lives.
Of course, I can’t be representative of every single person in my age bracket. So, I took to asking some peers — all of whom are in their 20s and 30s, and all of whose names I’ve changed — about theiraverage weekly spend on alcohol. Keep in mind almost all of these people live in urban areas, so it’s still not a completely accurate snapshot (though really, what is?), but I think their answers provide some interesting insight into how we approach this particular area of spending.
11 People Tell Us Their Money Spent On Alcohol Each Week
1. “I would say I spend between $50 and $100. It depends on how social I’m feeling that week. I feel like I go out more in the summer because it’s warmer, and easier to go to bars and stuff.” – Neil, Producer
2. “It’s easier to measure my alcohol spending in months, because about once every month or so, I do a buy on Wines Til Sold Out (the only place I buy wine, and the only place anyone should tbh), and I’ll usually do about 100 bucks for eight really good bottles. It’s cheap compared to what these bottles go for in the store, but still pretty pricey. Combine that with ‘going out’ spending and the errant liquor purchase (let’s say one $50-ish bottle per month, and I don’t drink beer), and you come out to an average of $75 a week. That’s a lot, but I also spend a ghastly amount on groceries/restaurants. Good food and good wine are where basically all of my spending money goes, and I have zero remorse. (Also I should add that the majority of our bottles go into dinner parties/cocktail parties, which we try to host in some version every week or so, so it’s not mostly us consuming this stuff, but I have never regretted a dollar spent on a good bottle to enjoy with good friends.)” – Danielle, Writer
3. “Probably like 20 bucks a week? Usually a bottle of wine throughout the whole week and maybe a mixed drink here or there.” – Brandy, Stenographer
4. “Probably around $5 a week. I buy wine once a month, roughly, and rarely go out. We’re big house party people.” – Kelsey, PR Account Manager
5. “I’d say I spend anywheres from $40-$100 in an average week on alcohol, depending on if I go out or not. If I’m just drinking at home, it’s almost always beer. If I go out, it’s beer and cocktails. And that’s almost certainly less than it used to be when I would go out more. Then, I’d probably be spending about $200 a week on drinks.” – Patrick, Developer
6. “We have been staying in a lot more lately (getting old) which means buying more at one time and spreading it over the month. We have been typically buying between four and six bottles of wine to last us for the month (come out to be about $5-$15 a week) and then we go out maybe two to three times a month where we will both enjoy about $10-$25 on the alcohol portion, depending on the situation (dinner vs. friends in town). So maybe on average $35-$90 a week which is factored into our entertainment budget. But I have had months where some where the cost has been much more per week. I always try to look for big box wine discounts, and try to stock up that way.” – Rebecca, Marketing Lead
7. “I’d say maybe $200 per year, or $3.75 a week. I typically don’t go out unless I’m visiting my significant other or friends in metropolitan areas.” – Gerald, Grad Student
8. “Hmmm. Well I just bought an $8 Bloody Mary.” – Stella, Ski Resort Employee
9. “Living in a big city, my weekends definitely vary along with my alcohol purchases, but I almost always spend more during the two weekend days on alcohol than I do during all five week days. Typically on a Friday, I split a handle or a few bottles of wine that my roommates and I will drink before we go out to a bar. Once at the bar, I’ll probably only buy one drink (which can be up to $12 generally). On Saturday, I normally go out to dinner where I’ll have a drink, and then maybe go out again, where I’ll buy one or two more drinks. Overall, I think it averages out to about $45.” – Hannah, PR Assistant
10. “I probably average $50 a week. I go out like twice a week, and I rarely drink at home. I think that’s been pretty consistent, because I don’t like drinking or going out all the time.” – Daniel, Barista
11. “I would say I used to spend around $75-100 a week depending on how often I was going out, but now that I’m dating someone, it’s a lot less — closer to $50, because I’m spending more nights are home.” – James, Comedian
Holly is the Managing Editor of The Financial Diet. Follow her on Twitter here, or send her your ideas at holly@thefinancialdiet.com!
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Thomas Speck[1, 2]
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Name Thomas Speck [1, 2]
Born 1827 Wroughton, Wiltshire, England [3]
Christened 18 Feb 1827 Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England [3]
Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England, Parish Records, Baptisms, Thomas Speck
Thomas Speck son of Richard and Flurmuthias Speck, baptised 18 Feb 1827, Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England.
Address 3 Apr 1881 45 Eastcott Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, England [1]
45 Eastcott Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
Occupation 3 Apr 1881 Swindon, Wiltshire, England [1]
Labourer in Factory
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Father R. Speck
Mother Thurmuthius Marsh
Family Mary Dance, b. Abt 1830, Liddington, Wiltshire, England [2, 4]
Married 8 Jul 1872 Church of St John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England [2]
Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England, Parish Records, Marriages, Thomas Speck and Mary Dance.
Thomas Speck Married Mary Dance 8 July 1872 at the Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England.
Wroughton Parish Church - St John and St Helen - Wroughton, Wiltshire, England
This photo of the Wroughton Parish Church was taken around 1865
Documents At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
[S45] 1881 Census of England and Wales, The National Archives, England, Folio 43 Page Number 9 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 1881.
See attached copy of 1881 Census of England Family of David and Mary Dance.
[S536] Ancestry, Wiltshire, England, Church of England, Marriages and Banns 1754 -1916, Church of England, (Ancestry), 202 (Reliability: 3), 8 Jul 1872.
See attached copy of Church of England Marriages and banns, The church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England, Parish Records, Marriages, 1872, Page 202, No. 403, Thomas Speck and Mary Dance.
[S538] Ancestry, Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms 1813 - 1916, Church of England, (Ancestry), 82 (Reliability: 3), 18Feb 1827.
See attached copy of Church of John the Baptist and St Helen, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England, Parish Records, Baptisms, 1827, Page 82, 18 Feb 1827, No. 653, Thomas Speck.
[S45] 1881 Census of England and Wales, The National Archives, England, Swindon - page 43 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 1881.
See attached copy of 1881 Census of England, Wiltshire, Swindon, page 43.
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New David Bowie Box Comes With A Brilliant Tony Visconti Remix Of “Lodger,” Bowie’s Greatest Album
Posted in Music with tags "A New Career In A New Town [1977-1982]", "Lodger", David Bowie, Tony Visconti on September 29, 2017 by johnbuckley100
Lodger was the third and final album in what became known as Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, that series of 43cords released between ’77 and the summer of ’79 that he crafted with Brian Eno. Only Low and parts of Heroes were actually recorded at Berlin’s Hansa Studios, (though Berlin also was the locale of Bowie’s production of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot and Lust For Life.) Whether or not this period is accurately defined by the Cold War Berlin milieu, the three albums are of a piece, as Bowie turned away from cocaine and pop fame — or perhaps, “Fame” — and created his greatest work.
Low, like Eno’s Another Green World before it, was as notable for instrumentals and song fragments as it was for full-fledged rock songs. It was, after Station To Station, a sharp left turn, coinciding with the rise of punk without in any way adopting, or even reckoning with it. It began the process by which Bowie became as much associated with composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich — and Eno — as he was with pop music. This was a very controversial repositioning, but looking back on his long and fruitful career, we think this is the moment — the Berlin Trilogy — when Bowie cemented his stature.
Yes, “Heroes” the song, and Heroes the album were hits, and with Robert Fripp joining the party, this was thrilling rock music. But the first two albums of the Berlin Trilogy were notable, in no small part, for how Bowie went his own way, parallel to punk and what became New Wave, even as, with his ties to and influence over Iggy Pop, he helped shape a reformation of rock that somehow combined avant garde elements of the Velvet Underground, the proto-punk of the Stooges, with the Krautrock of his adopted home.
When Lodger came out in the summer of ’79, it was, to these ears at least, the culmination of what had come before it. It had Eno’s trademark synth figures. Adrian Belew was the poor man’s Robert Fripp, but he was nonetheless a fantastically unconventional guitarist added to the band Bowie had slowly assembled. And while the Stones, the summer before, had on Some Girls bowed in homage to the punk rock designed to replace them, Bowie’s new record still ignored it, instead presaging World Music which was still really a decade away. We had only weeks before returned from a post-college, around-the-world trek, and an album-based travelogue with a post card on its cover — and an English rock star depicted as smashed up from his journey; the cover photo, at least, was true to the punk rock ethos — became the perfect soundtrack to our entry to adulthood in a small apartment in Manhattan.
It’s important to note that in ’79, rock’n’roll music was in full ferment, especially in New York. The CBGB bands were now the new establishment, with Talking Heads putting out Fear of Music, records by bands like Joy Division, Magazine, and Wire’s brilliant 154 washing up on shore, and Manhattan bands like the dBs and Fleshtones coexisting with Eno’s No Wave discoveries and their offshoots like 8 Eyed Spy. Lodger put Bowie completely in alignment with a wide array of younger artists in New York and Britain, and even as at age 32 — along with Lou Reed and Iggy Pop — he was a revered elder statesman.
We thought Lodger was completely brilliant, and we had been a diehard Bowie fanatic since first hearing The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust in ’72. Not everyone thought so. Greil Marcus could sniff in Rolling Stone, “Lodger might have been an event, if only as a record we would someday look back on as work that mapped the territory between past and future. Instead, it’s just another LP, and one of his weakest at that: scattered, a footnote to Heroes, an act of marking time.” Freshly minted as a rock critic, our work beginning to be published in New York Rocker, we knew Marcus was a square, not even as hip as the Voice’s Robert Christgau, who seemed uncharacteristically confused when he wrote, “Musically, these fragments of anomie don’t seem felt, and lyrically they don’t seem thought through. But that’s part of their charm–the way they confound categories of sensibility and sophistication is so frustrating it’s satisfying, at least if you have your doubts about the categories. Less satisfying, actually, than the impact of the record as a whole.” He gave it an A- anyway.
For us, there was just one problem: the album sounded pretty terrible. Presaging the miseries of ’80s production techniques, in which synthesizers and tinny mastering of the new CD format made the sound of all records suck, Lodger was brittle, claustrophobic. Too many instruments clogged the output. The album was jarring, but we thought it was supposed to be that way. We were wrong.
We actually had no idea just how bad Lodger sounded until this morning, when upon the release of the Bowie box celebrating his output between ’77 and ’82, a new Tony Visconti mix of the album came out. We’ve been smiling ever since.
Listening to the Visconti mix of Lodger is like seeing the Sistine Chapel after 500 years of smoke and grime has been removed from its ceiling. It breathes. The instruments are warm, and his voice hangs upon the songs like a comfortable jacket on a cedar hanger in a capacious closet. There is space between instruments, and like wine properly decanted, fruit at room temperature, its bearing is natural, all flavors easily explored by the tongue. Visconti has taken a 1979 polyester suit and rendered it in natural fibers.
We have always thought Lodger was Bowie’s greatest album. Eighteen months after his death, the remix by his longstanding friend and producer Tony Visconti finally proves it. The Bowie estate surely understands what it has here as the only way you can access it is by purchasing the whole box set. We hate moves like this, but is handing over the dough worth it? Unquestionably, the answer is yes.
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The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
Making Sense of Cancer’s ‘Big Data’ Problem to Revolutionize Patient Care
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announces $11.7 million grant to the University of Cambridge for data-driven approach to cancer care
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND – A new institute at the University of Cambridge aims to revolutionize cancer care by using cutting edge analytics to maximize the use of big data sets collected from patients.
The Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine, announced today, will be funded by an $11.7 million award to the University of Cambridge from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research – the first time that the New York-based philanthropy has made an award to a UK institution.
The virtual institute aims to exploit recent advances in big data processing and machine learning to capture and integrate clinical, genomic, and image data collated from hundreds of cancer patients in real time. Laboratory and clinic-based researchers and data experts will work together to determine whether sophisticated computational integration of these diverse data types into a single platform can inform and predict the best treatment decisions for each individual patient.
Blood tests, biopsies, medical imaging, and genetic tests are a routine part of current cancer care; however, it is not always clear which of these increasingly large datasets are most important in guiding treatment at specific points in the patient journey.
“Doctors have long dreamed of an objective system that can integrate all the results generated from their cancer patients, guiding comprehensive treatment decisions both for current treatment and to predict how a particular disease will behave in the future,” explains Professor Richard Gilbertson, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, where the new institute will be based.
“This is essentially an enormous mathematical problem that requires state-of-the art computational and machine learning approaches to solve. It is this problem that our new institute, funded by a visionary award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, will seek to address.”
With the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches, the new institute will build and interrogate common data platforms and translate insights gained into principles for guiding timely clinical decision making.
“Integrated cancer medicine offers the promise of turning the tsunami of data generated in medical practice into an extraordinarily powerful but practical tool for patient benefit. This should enable us to deliver conventional and novel cancer treatments more effectively, and learn constantly from each patient through iterative analysis, as we refine and improve care for the future,” adds Professor Gilbertson.
The researchers involved in these studies plan to use existing breast cancer clinical trials to test the concept of synthesizing different types of data to produce results that improve clinical decisions for patients during the course of their treatment. If successful, this approach will be extended to other disease types.
Dr. Michele Cleary, CEO of The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research said, “We are delighted to support this bold and innovative research at the University of Cambridge. The maximal use of patient data holds tremendous promise to offer better outcomes to patients and their families. Cambridge scientists are at the forefront of the field in this regard and are well positioned to accelerate optimal approaches for personalized cancer medicine.”
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The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. To date, 98 affiliates of the University have won the Nobel Prize.
Founded in 1209, the University comprises 31 autonomous Colleges, which admit undergraduates and provide small-group tuition, and 150 departments, faculties and institutions. Cambridge is a global university. Its 19,000-student body includes 3,700 international students from 120 countries. Cambridge researchers collaborate with colleagues worldwide, and the University has established larger-scale partnerships in Asia, Africa and America.
The University sits at the heart of the ‘Cambridge cluster’, which employs 60,000 people and has in excess of £12 billion in turnover generated annually by the 4,700 knowledge-intensive firms in and around the city. The city publishes 341 patents per 100,000 residents. http://www.cam.ac.uk
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What is The Position and Role of Chief Minister in India?
By The Mlive On Dec 11, 2016
The Role and Position of Chief Minister in India
In India, the Chief Minister is the real ruler of the State and his role, status and position is very high. The Chief Minister is in the state what the Prime Minister is at the centre. After every general election, the Governor appoints the leader of the majority party in the State Assembly or as is often the case, the leader of a combination of parties forming a coalition, the Chief Minister of the state.
Though formally, Chief Minister is appointed by the Governor and serves during his pleasure, in reality, in the appointment of the Chief Minister, the Governor has no free hand. The constitution makes the Council of Minister together with the Chief Minister collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) of the State i.e. the popularly elected chamber of the legislature.
Collective responsibility ensures that the Governor will not find any other person but the leader of the majority group in the Legislative Assembly, able to command majority support and hence fit to be appointed Chief Minister.
The Indian constitution (vide 42nd amendment) makes the advice of central Council of Ministers binding on the President. A parallel amendment of the constitution has not been made making the advice of the State Council of Ministers binding on the Governor. This is because; the Governor has been given some powers to be exercised at his discretion. Some subsequent amendments of the constitution also vest the Governor with some special responsibilities. Barring these two fields the Governor acts in all other matters on the advice of the Chief Minister.
The Chief Minister is the head of the Government. The Ministers are appointed on the advice of the Chief Minister. Portfolios among ministers are in reality allocated by the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister has also the power to ease a minister out of office. He may advice the Governor to drop a minister. The Chief Minister presides over the meetings of the State Cabinet.
The Chief Minister also is the leader of the legislature. He is the leader of the majority group. Through his control over the legislative majority, he controls the legislature.
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ANZ class action over $200m in fees in court
News National ANZ class action over $200m in fees in court
9:57am, Dec 2, 2013
The fight against bank fees will go to court on Monday with the start of Australia’s largest consumer class action in Melbourne.
Around 38,000 ANZ bank customers have joined the class action to fight for the return of more than $220 million in bank fees.
The start of the action in the Federal Court in Melbourne follows a High Court ruling in September last year that allowed an appeal against an earlier Federal Court ruling that limited what ANZ bank charges could be regarded as penalties.
The High Court unanimously rejected the Federal Court’s proposition that penalties or punishments only related to actions that breached a contract, such as late-payment fees.
The ANZ class action will now also include dishonour fees of between $25 and $45 imposed on overdrawn accounts.
“The fees range, but $25 to $35 is the sort of range for fees that are imposed, so you might be a dollar over on your account or a day late in your payment and the banks will slug you with a fee that’s out of all proportion to what it costs them for that minor transgression,” Andrew Watson from law firm Maurice Blackburn, which is representing customers, told the ABC.
“We think it’s worth (in total) about $50 million, but overall we’re running a case for 170,000 bank customers against eight major banks, and that’s worth about $220 million.”
The broader class action currently involves 170,100 customers and rising, claiming $223 million from the ANZ, BankSA, Bankwest, Citibank, Commonwealth, NAB, St George and Westpac.
The case is backed by litigation funder IMF (Australia) Ltd.
Mr Watson said the ANZ action was the first of the cases to go to trial.
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BACKFIRE: VIOLENCE SURGES IN WAKE OF NEW SEATTLE GUN CONTROL LAW
By Breck Worsham June 15, 2017
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SEATTLE, WA — A newly passed law in Seattle written to crack down on gun violence has backfired as violent crime continues to grip the city.
The law, which took effect on January 1, 2016, mandates a $25 tax on every firearm sold in the city and a separate tax of up to 5 cents per round of ammunition. Since it’s inception, gun violence in the city has surged and law abiding citizens have pulled back on purchasing of firearms to use for self defense due to the skyrocketing costs.
When pushing for the law to be passed, it’s author, Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess, suggested it’s implementation would generate between $300,000 and $500,000 annually. The money, claimed Burgess, would be used to study the root causes of gun violence in hopes of reducing the costs to taxpayers.
However, according to crime statistics published by the Seattle Police Department, when comparing the first five months of 2017 with the same period before the gun tax went into effect, reports of shots fired are up 13 percent, the number of people injured in shootings climbed 37 percent and gun deaths doubled (https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data).
Further, on March 16, 2017, the Seattle Times reported that Seattle city leaders were reluctant to release data on the revenue generated by the city’s firearms and ammunition tax, citing taxpayer confidentiality concerns. It was later discovered, however, that the reason the city was less than forthcoming had little to do with confidentiality. A follow up report by The Seattle Times shows the money raised fell drastically short of the figure projected by Burgess (http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattles-gun-sale-tax-raised-under-200000-in-first-year/).
In addition to the negative impact on crime and the lack of revenue the tax has brought in to the city, small business owners say they, too, are feeling the heat.
Gun dealer Mike Coombs, owner of Outdoor Emporium, told Fox News that gun sales in his chain of stores have plummeted 60 percent (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/15/seattle-gun-tax-failure-firearm-sales-plummet-violence-spikes-after-law-passes.html). “I’ve had to lay off employees because of this,” Coombs said. “It’s hurting us, it’s hurting our employees.”
On August 24, 2015, NRA, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and the Second Amendment Foundation filed suit in King County Superior Court to prevent the city from enforcing the new tax. The NRA’s complaint cited that the tax violates both the Second Amendment and Washington State law.
Washington’s firearms preemption statute also bars Seattle’s tax. Section 9.41.290 of the Revised Code of Washington states,
“The state of Washington hereby fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation within the boundaries of the state, including the registration, licensing, possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, transfer, discharge, and transportation of firearms, or any other element relating to firearms or parts thereof, including ammunition and reloader components.
Local laws and ordinances that are inconsistent with, more restrictive than, or exceed the requirements of state law shall not be enacted and are preempted and repealed, regardless of the nature of the code, charter, or home rule status of such city, town, county, or municipality.”
Despite NRA efforts, however, the law easily passed and now opponents say it’s the people who are suffering.
“All these gun control laws affect the wrong people,” says Dave Workman. “The gang bangers don’t go in and buy ammunition at retail, at least not around here. It certainly hasn’t stopped them from getting their hands on firearms.”
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Thousands still trapped at sea as more ports turn away cruise ships
Gene Sloan
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information about ships that have been unable to dock around the world.
More than a dozen cruise ships around the world that were at sea when cruise lines began announcing a global halt to operations last week still are struggling to find a place to dock.
In what travel industry officials have begun describing as a humanitarian crisis, vessels operated by Norwegian Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Princess Cruises and several other major brands have been turned away from multiple ports in recent days due to fears of coronavirus.
The vessels include the 2,376-passenger Norwegian Jewel, which has tried and failed to dock in New Zealand and Fiji since late last week and now is heading toward Hawaii; and the 670-passenger Pacific Princess, which has been sailing toward Australia after being blocked from landing at multiple ports across the Indian Ocean and Asia.
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Other vessels that have been struggling to find a place to offload passengers in recent days include the 2,852-passenger Celebrity Eclipse, the 684-passenger Azamara Pursuit and the 1,250-passenger Marina. The first two ships currently are anchored near Valparaiso, Chile, which has denied them entry. Marina, an Oceania Cruises vessel, is near the Panama Canal.
“A disturbing and antihumanitarian trend has emerged”, Zane Kerby, the president and CEO of the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA), said on Wednesday in a statement. “Multiple cruise ships at sea have been denied entry to various ports around the world for fear that some aboard might have or spread the COVID-19 virus”.
In some cases, the ships have reported they have passengers on board showing symptoms of coronavirus. But Kerby noted the exclusions were taking place even for ships with no known cases of illness on board.
“This issue persists out of apparent local government fear”, he said.
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To be sure, a large percentage of the nearly 300 cruise ships operated by major lines around the world have had no trouble returning to a nearby port and dropping off passengers. But, at least a few vessels now are facing journeys of thousands of miles to reach a port that will accept them.
In one of the most extreme cases, British line P&O Cruises on Wednesday announced its 2,388-passenger Arcadia would be forced to travel more than 8,000 miles from its current location near the southern tip of Africa to the U.K. to get passengers off the vessel. South Africa denied the line’s request to let passengers disembark in Cape Town.
The voyage will take more than three weeks.
Arcadia will no longer visit Cape Town. The ship will make a short technical stop in Durban on Sunday 22 March for fuel, stores and medication before returning to Southampton. All guests are remaining on board until Southampton, where Arcadia is due to arrive on Sunday 12 April.
— P&O Cruises (@pandocruises) March 18, 2020
Also preparing to make an epic journey is Celebrity Eclipse. Celebrity says the vessel soon will sail from Valparaiso to San Diego, a trip that will take 10 days. But Celebrity Eclipse still needs to take on provisions necessary for such a long voyage — a process made difficult by Chile’s refusal to let the ship dock.
“Provisions including food and fuel are being slowly barged to the ship, further delaying the journey back home”, Kerby said. “While local governments certainly have a responsibility to keep their citizens safe, human decency and common-sense solutions should take precedence during these times of crisis”.
In some cases, ships seem to be stuck in limbo.
Two Silversea ships that had been sailing in South America are now under isolation in ports in Brazil and Chile after passengers tested positive for coronavirus. It’s unclear how or when passengers will be allowed off the vessels.
“On behalf of our guests, we are in close coordination with the governments and local health authorities to determine next best steps”, Silversea said Monday in a statement about the two ships — the 382-passenger Silver Shadow and the 144-passenger Silver Explorer. Silver Shadow is in Recife, Brazil; Silver Explorer is in Tortel, Chile.
On Thursday, a spokesperson for Silversea said nothing about the situation had changed since Monday.
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The situation on all the vessels has worried friends and family of passengers who, along with the passengers themselves, have taken to social media to express their frustration and beg for governments and politicians to help. In some cases, cruise lines have had little information to share other than that they are looking for a country that will take in the vessels.
My in-laws and so many other people are stranded on #CelebrityEclipse @CelebrityCruise which has been denied docking in Chile. They need help to come home. No #COVID19 cases on board. Pls help! @GMB @BBCNews @SkyNews @VictoriaLIVE
— Rachael Downie (@RachaelDownie) March 19, 2020
“[Please] help!” a daughter-in-law of a passenger on board Celebrity Eclipse pleaded Thursday on Twitter, echoing a growing flurry of tweets about the ship over the past 48 hours.
Norwegian Cruise Line is facing troubles with two ships. In addition to Norwegian Jewel, the line’s 1,996-passenger Norwegian Spirit is still at sea after being turned away from several ports in the Indian Ocean. It recently had been heading to Cape Town, South Africa. But, as P&O Cruises discovered this week, South Africa no longer is accepting cruise vessels.
A spokesperson for Norwegian Cruise Line on Thursday told The Points Guy the line didn’t have an update on Norwegian Spirit’s status. Nor did the line have an update on Norwegian Jewel.
The current sailing of Norwegian Jewel originally was scheduled to end tomorrow in Tahiti. But with cruising coming to a halt around the globe, the vessel turned around several days ago and tried to dock first in New Zealand and then Fiji. After being turned away by both destinations, it began the long voyage to Hawaii — a destination at least five days away.
Norwegian had been hopeful that Hawaii would allow the ship to unload passengers, as U.S. ports, for the most part, have remained opened for returning cruise vessels. Passengers on board Norwegian Jewel even were told to start making arrangements to fly home from Honolulu.
But late Wednesday, the State of Hawaii announced it would not allow passengers on the vessel to disembark. Another vessel stranded in the Pacific that has been heading to Hawaii, Holland America’s 1,258-passenger Maasdam, is in a similar situation. As of now, both ships only will be allowed to enter the harbour at Honolulu for the purpose of refuelling and restocking provisions.
The Maasdam and Norwegian Jewel cruise ships will be allowed to refuel and restock at Honolulu Harbor, however passengers and crew will not be allowed to leave the ship. For additional details please click on the link:https://t.co/TOXEoKUkeH
— Hawaii DOT (@DOTHawaii) March 19, 2020
One passenger on board Norwegian Jewel, Mark Lijek, 68, of Anacortes, Washington, told The Points Guy this week that it’s been a trying few days.
“The biggest stress factor has been the lack of knowledge, both of what is happening in the outside world and, more particularly of course, what Norwegian management was up to”, said Lijek, a retired foreign service officer. He noted an early plan was to dock in a small New Zealand city of Tauranga.
“The first plan, dropping us in Tauranga, which has no international airport, seemed problematic”, Lijek said. “Fiji seemed practical for several reasons. We think most people had travel arrangements, and it was a gut punch when they withdrew permission”.
That said, Lijek is taking things in stride. He’s been through worse. His first assignment as a foreign service officer, in the 1970s, was to Tehran, and he and his wife, Cora, were two of the six Americans who escaped the U.S. embassy takeover in 1979.
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“That event taught me to try and maintain perspective — also, to make sure I know the location of the Canadian embassy”, he quipped. “Cora and I have been joking that, despite the years, at least we have not lost the knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
Lijek added that the crew of Norwegian Jewel had been terrific through the ordeal.
Another stranded cruiser taking things in stride is Tamara Koperda, a 61-year-old retiree from Atlanta who is onboard Maasdam with her husband, Frank.
“If our destiny is to stay on the ship, we will make the best of it!” Koperda told The Points Guy Thursday after learning passengers might not be allowed off in Honolulu. The vessel already has been turned away from two other ports in recent days.
“We are a healthy ship, for which we are most grateful”, Koperda said, noting that passengers and crew have been finding ways to entertain themselves and remain upbeat even as some provisions begin running low. “We had a guest and staff talent show last night that was truly funny. There were poems about being out of lettuce but please don’t run out of booze”.
Still, Koperda said passengers are very worried about our families and friends at home — and about the risks that confront them.
“We all realize that our trip home will be the riskiest part of the journey as far as the virus is concerned”, she said. “However, some guests are running out of prescription (medicines), and we’ve been advised by the medical staff that they will have to work with what they have on board”.
Hawaii’s move to block the offloading of cruise passengers in the state is at odds with federal pronouncements on the topic. While all cruising out of U.S. ports has stopped, the U.S. government has been letting cruise ships return to U.S. ports to disembark passengers. The U.S. government issued a waiver to new coronavirus-related rules restricting the arrival of non-U.S. citizens to make that possible.
Still, Hawaii wouldn’t be the first state or territory to block the arrival of cruise ships in recent days. On Sunday, the San Juan, Puerto Rico-based 2,056-passenger Carnival Fascination was denied permission to dock in San Juan as was Royal Caribbean’s 3,634-passenger Freedom of the Seas. The denials came from the government of Puerto Rico.
“We made a formal request to at least debark Puerto Rican residents, but that was also denied”, Carnival said Sunday in a statement.
Both Carnival Fascination and Freedom of the Seas instead sailed to Miami, which they reached on Tuesday. All passengers were able to disembark without incident.
The Princess ship in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Princess, hasn’t been allowed to dock anywhere for days due to worries about the new coronavirus. Visits to Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have been cancelled. The ship, which is in the midst of a world cruise, recently was heading for Fremantle, Australia. But Australia, too, has announced restrictions on arriving cruise ships.
That said, another Princess Cruises ship that had been searching for a home, the 2,600-passenger Golden Princess, finally was able to disembark passenger Thursday in Melbourne, Australia.
@PrincessCruises @CNNnewsroom @MSNBC Our friends and many others are on the #PacificPrincess -They’ve been at sea with no welcome ports for 18 days and none on board have symptoms. They are hearing that Australia may not let them dock either. What’s happening to help them?
— Lisa Ellen (@Lisellen007) March 16, 2020
A spokesperson for Princess Cruises did not immediately respond to a request for more information about the status of Pacific Princess.
Among other vessels that have been stranded at sea, the Oceania Cruises ship near the Panama Canal, Marina, appears to be anchored for the time being near Panama City. It was turned away from ports in Peru and Chile. There’s also a Costa Cruises vessel with confirmed cases of coronavirus on board now docked at the French city of Marseilles.
In a bit of upbeat news, a British ship that had been in the midst of a high seas drama earlier this week as it was turned away from multiple ports has finally found a home. The 929-passenger Braemer docked in Cuba on Wednesday.
The Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines vessel (the Fred. is short for Fredrik, hence the period) had been experiencing an outbreak of coronavirus with six confirmed cases and 49 additional suspected cases. Late Wednesday, the passengers flew out of Cuba for the U.K. on four chartered aircraft, include one set aside just for the sick passengers.
Nearly all the passengers were British, and none were Americans.
Featured image by Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines.
Gene Sloan has written about cruising for more than 25 years and for many years oversaw USA TODAY’s award-winning cruise site, USA TODAY Cruises. He’s sailed on nearly 150 ships.
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Shawn Mendes Will Tell His Story In The Upcoming ‘In Wonder’ Documentary
Derrick RossignolFacebookTwitterMusic News Editor
A couple weeks ago, Shawn Mendes dropped some mysterious teasers and eventually revealed that he was kicking off a new era with two releases: The single “Wonder” (which came out on October 2) and the album Wonder (arriving December 4). Now there’s a third element: The documentary In Wonder, which premieres on Netflix on November 23.
“Been working on this documentary for so long & am so excited to finally share it with you all,” Mendes wrote while sharing the news and the film poster.
Been working on this documentary for so long & am so excited to finally share it with you all #InWonder Nov 23rd on @netflixfilm 🖤🖤🖤 https://t.co/mGVSLWpuRi pic.twitter.com/YbGvSqUNSe
— Shawn Mendes (@ShawnMendes) October 13, 2020
Variety describes the film, which is directed by veteran music video director Grant Singer, as “an intimate look at Mendes’ life and journey, filmed over the last few years” and notes that it “will likely feature footage of Mendes from his 2019 self-titled world tour that took him across the North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.”
Mendes is certainly coming off a pretty big year: Aside from the aforementioned tour, he also logged a No. 1 single in the summer of 2019 with his Camila Cabello collab, “Señorita.”
Meanwhile, over the past week or so, Mendes has offered some behind-the-scenes clips of the making of his “Wonder” video, which show him and his crew working on the visual in various locations, so check those out below.
Wonder is out 12/4 via Island. Pre-order it here.
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The Crown season 4: The scene that deals with Prince Andrew – ‘I was shocked’ OLD
Jacob Stolworthy
30 November 2020, 4:44 pm ·2-min read
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The new season of The Crown has arrived, and it explores several historical points between the years of 1977 and 1990.
Alongside the introduction of Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) and Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) comes the death of Lord Mountbatten and Michael Fagan's break-in at Buckingham Palace.
One thing viewers were wondering ahead of new episodes was how the Netflix show would depict Prince Andrew. These are the first episodes to have been written since allegations against him surfaced after he was linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2015, one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, alleged that she was forced to have sex with Epstein and Prince Andrew, a claim that the Duke of York has denied.
Prince Andrew stepped back from his royal duties in November 2019 after a widely criticised BBC interview in which he defended his friendship with Epstein. The broadcast was described as “disastrous”
One particular scene in The Crown’s new season seems to be a direct response to the claims.
It occurs in the fourth episode, titled “Favourites”, which sees Queen Elizabeth speak alone with each of her children to see how they are.
Prince Andrew's scene sees him fly in on a royal navy helicopter for a lunch with his mother. While there, the Queen addresses recent headlines about her son's possible relationship with “a young, racy American actress”.
“You mustn't believe what you read,” Andrew tells her. He then proceeds to discuss the film this star is in, the 1976 coming-of-age film The Awakening of Emily.
Tom Byrne as Prince Andew in ‘The Crown’
“It's set in the 1920s and follows an impressionable, nubile 17-year-old girl,” he says, to which the Queen responds: “17? I'm not sure I want to know more.”
He continues: “Don't be such a prude, mummy. The story is that she returns home from a finishing school in Switzerland to her mother's country house in the English countryside.
“There, she meets several twisted and perverted older predators who seduce the vulnerable, helpless young Emily as we follow her induction into sensual pleasures.”
After he tells the Queen that the film was shot at the Wilton house near Salisbury, she asks: “Are you sure it was even legal?” His response: “Who cares?”
Later in the episode, during a sit down with Philip to discuss their children, she expresses concern about them all.
“As for Andrew – I was shocked,” she says.
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The episode was written by showrunner Peter Morgan.
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Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display)
byJoel Santo Domingo Jun 13, 2012
With a higher-resolution display, thin chassis, and up-to-date components, the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch with Retina Display is the new king of high-end desktop replacement laptops.
Brilliant Retina display.
Thin profile.
Good port selection.
Discrete graphics.
Speedy storage.
Has 8GB of memory.
Ready for Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
Ethernet use requires adapter.
Not all apps currently work well with Retina display.
The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display) is the laptop you want if you care about performance, thinness, and the screen. It's not the vaunted "15-inch MacBook Air" that was rumored prior to 2012's WWDC—it's better, thanks to an up-to-date components, super-thin chassis, and impressive battery life. This "next-generation" MacBook Pro hasn't just caught up to the thin and powerful Windows laptops and ultrabooks on the market; it has surpassed them to become the high-end choice for media professionals, enthusiasts, and general Mac fans alike. As such, the MacBook Pro is our new Editors' Choice for high-end desktop replacement laptop PCs.
Design and Features
The MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display) carries the same Jony Ive–design DNA as previous systems—it's all aluminum unibody chassis, glass, and black plastic for the keyboard. In fact, it still looks like a MacBook Pro, which is good news, because the cachet of the Apple ID is part of the reason people go nuts for the company's products. It even feels similar to previous models in your hand, though it's noticeably thinner and lighter (4.46 pounds versus 5.6 pounds); if you've held a 13-inch MacBook Air, you're not too far off.
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The 15.4-inch screen now looks more seamless, if that's possible. The bezel around it is black, but unlike on the MacBook Air it's of a piece with the screen glass. The screen electronics are built into the glass, which helps the laptop's thin profile. Apple mentioned that the screen is less prone to glare than was the case with previous MacBooks, but the glare is still visible when you're viewing a black background and if you're really picky. If you want a matte-finish screen, for now you'll have to go with the updated MacBook Pro with Ivy Bridge.
The Retina display itself is glorious. The resolution is 2,880 by 1,800, which sounds like a lot, but text is scaled so it doesn't look too small. Instead of making the letters smaller like on the iPhone 4 or 4S (to see this effect, use one to visit a non-mobile-optomized Website), Apple kept the font sizes consistent with what you'd expect in the real world and just made them smoother. In contrast, text on a MacBook Air looks smooth from your seat, but the individual letters are still jaggy close up. Text on the new MacBook Pro looks smooth from both far away and close up, as if it were laser printed on paper.
The real magic is when you view photos (and high-res video). You can view images straight from your camera and they will look more like printed images than electronic ones. Look at a geometric form, like a picket fence in front of a yellow wall, and the lines look smooth, not jaggy. Likewise, a 1,920-by-1,080 HD video takes up a relatively small portion of the screen at full resolution, leaving the video editor with lots of space for timelines, toolbars, and other interface items. It's almost like having a dual 20-inch-screen setup in a 15-inch diagonal space. When playing back 1080p video full screen, the improved IPS display exhibits rich colors, deep blacks, and a generally pleasant viewing experience. It really is like having a large-screen HDTV you can rest on your lap.
If there's any drawback to the Retina display, it's that all of your existing Mac applications will have to be updated for it (kind of like what happened with the iPhone 4/4S and latest iPad). Apple-sourced apps like Safari, Final Cut Pro, and Aperture look terrific, but non-optimized apps like Google Chrome will show upscaled and jaggy fonts. It's a problem that's likely to go away as more developers update their programs, but it's an annoyance right now.
The power button has moved to the upper right of the keyboard proper, like it is on the MacBook Air. The island-style keyboard has the same feel as the MacBook Air; key travel feels shallower than the previous MacBook Pro. The function keys match those of the MacBook Air, which may be a hang-up for people with older-generation MacBook Pros, particularly ones made before the advent of Mission Control and the Launchpad in Mac OS X Lion. The backlighting is everything we expect from a MacBook, clearly visible in a darkened room. After several straight hours of playing back video during our battery rundown test the bottom of the system was still cool to the touch, demonstrating the new chassis' cooling capabilties.
There is a full-size HDMI port on the side of the laptop. The new MagSafe 2 port is wider yet shorter than the previous style, so you'll need an adapter for existing LED Cinema and Apple Thunderbolt Displays, as well as older power adapters. (Newly purchased Thunderbolt Displays will come with the MagSafe 2 adapter.) The USB 3.0 ports aren't colored blue like they are on some Windows PCs, but because there aren't any USB 2.0 ports on this MacBook Pro, you won't need color coding to tell the difference.
Copying a 1.22GB test folder from a USB 3.0 drive took 21 seconds, which is half the time we needed to copy the same folder using a USB 2.0 drive on the previous MacBook Pro. Speedier drives using the Thunderbolt interface are likely to be even faster. Two Thunderbolt ports are a boon for the video editor: You can connect up to 14 devices, seven devices per port. The system can also support at least two Thunderbolt Displays for more screen real estate. An SDXC slot and a headphone audio jack with headset support round out the ports.
One thing you won't find on the new MacBook Pro is a DVD SuperDrive: The optical drive has been eliminated to benefit the new profile, which is 0.71 inch (18mm) at the thickest point (meeting the spec for 13.3-inch or smaller ultrabooks, and slimmer than the 21mm requirement for 14-inch or larger ultrabooks). The MacBook Pro is the same height as both (11- and 13-inch) MacBook Air models at their thickest points, an impressive feat. The slim profile prevents Apple from using Ethernet and FireWire 800 ports (they simply won't fit); if you need either, you'll need to buy adapter cables (at $29 each). Using a Thunderbolt Display is also an option, as it has built-in FireWire 800 and Ethernet. On the plus side, the MacBook Pro includes 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi with 2.4GHz and 5GHz support, as well as Bluetooth 4.0, so you'll be able to connect to almost any hotspot or wireless audio device.
The system comes with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4, so you'll get all the same iLife apps and familiar Mac OS interface. Systems purchased now will be eligible for a free upgrade to Mac OS X Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8 in all but name) when it is released in a month or so. Mountain Lion will introduce iMessage, Notification Center, Power Nap, AirPlay, and lots of other iOS-like features to the MacBook Pro and other Macs.
Bottom Line: With a higher-resolution display, thin chassis, and up-to-date components, the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch with Retina Display is the new king of high-end desktop replacement laptops.
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The Trouble with Hong Kong’s Chief Executives
On January 14, the trial of Sir Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s former chief executive who served from 2005 to 2012, was set for January 3 of 2017. This past December, Tsang pleaded not guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office, charges on which he was indicted in October. At issue is an apartment Tsang rented in the Chinese border city of Shenzhen from Bill Wong Chor-bau, a shareholder of the Digital Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Hong Kong’s biggest broadcaster. At the time of the lease, DBC’s Hong Kong broadcasting license was pending before Tsang’s administration. Tsang did not reveal his connection at the time, but speaking before the Legislative Council in 2012, he admitted that he had leased the flat and that it was an error in judgment. While Tsang’s prosecution could suggest that no one, not even the city’s highest official, is above the law, it has instead become further evidence of the failure of the office of Hong Kong’s chief executive. Caught between Hong Kong and the central government in Beijing, successive executives seem unable to maintain the confidence of either.
Hong Kong reverted to mainland Chinese rule in 1997, and—like British colonial Governors—its chief executive serves the local population while answering to a distant but powerful central government. Over the past several years, the tension between these two roles has been brought to the fore. How should the chief executive be elected or chosen? How can Hong Kong maintain its autonomy from Beijing? Specific to the Tsang case, no statute covers his actions. He is being prosecuted for common law crimes. On November 10, Hong Kong’s semi-elected Legislative Council rejected an extension of the anti-corruption law to cover the chief executive’s office in situations like Tsang’s. Furthermore, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) reports directly to the chief executive.
The chief executive’s dual role lies at the heart of bitter debates that sparked the Occupy Central street protests from September to December of 2014. In what was also known as the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong people took to the streets to demand direct and democratic election of their leader. Though the streets were cleared after 79 days, debates continue—some existential, such as whether Hong Kong has a separation of powers, some trivial, such as whether the Hong Kong Post should “decolonize” old postboxes by removing their royal insignia.
In the post-Umbrella environment, the Tsang case has caused a maelstrom in the Hong Kong media. It follows on the heels of the high-profile trial and conviction of former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui in 2014, as well as two legislative investigations into corruption on the part of a former head of the ICAC itself. Even the current chief executive, Leung Chun-ying (also known as C.Y. Leung), has come under scrutiny for alleged payments received from an Australian company in 2014. Although Hong Kong politics are separate from mainland Chinese politics, the Tsang case nonetheless prompted speculation among Hong Kong’s democrats of direct Beijing interference because of how long the case remained in legal limbo. Prior to the October indictment, Hong Kong’s former Director of Public Prosecutions, Granville Cross, was interviewed inMing Pao. Three years after Tsang’s public confession, he asked, why had there still been no resolution to the case?
When Tsang was finally indicted in October, the Hong Kong Department of Justice stated that the choice to prosecute Tsang was “a decision made independently in the due discharge of the [Department of Justice]’s constitutional duty” and was “free from any interference.” As the subsequent response demonstrates, this initial denial failed to allay suspicions. Pro-democracy editorial writers contended that the timing of the prosecution was quite convenient for the beleaguered Leung. They claim that he isusing Donald Tsang to distract from his own corruption allegations as well as from a litany of other issues. These editorialists point out that the Tsang indictment followed closely on the heels of a controversy over appointments at Hong Kong University (of which the chief executive is the titular head) and the prosecution of Occupy Central protestors, which has also been delayed. Writers for one media outlet, EJ Insight, the online English-language version of the well-regarded Hong Kong Economic Journal, repeated speculation that if Leung stands for chief executive again in March 2017 he could use the case against those of his political rivals who had formerly worked for Tsang.
Hong Kong’s continued anti-corruption travails, especially those related to the chief executive’s office, present two possible conclusions, neither reassuring to the public in Hong Kong. If, as some speculation has suggested, the case signals Beijing’s ever-strengthening hand in Hong Kong politics, then Tsang’s prosecution is just another stumble down the slope of Hong Kong’s eroding autonomy.
Since Chinese president Xi Jinping announced a crackdown on corruption in 2013, the mainland has seen a surge in corruption cases, from the indictment of bureaucrats at the lowest levels to high-ranking officials like former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang. Some of these cases are politically motivated, and all must go through Communist Party channels; the anti-corruption campaigns are implemented by the disciplinary organ of the Communist Party, the cases require Party approval to be investigated, and the prosecutions unfold as Party rectification campaigns. If the Tsang case represents the mainlandification of Hong Kong, then the very autonomy of institutions like the ICAC and Department of Justice is in question, a concern that has grown more acute in recent years.
On the other hand, if Leung and the Department of Justice are correct that there is no interference in Hong Kong’s rule of law, it is scarcely more palatable to the Hong Kong people, who cannot point with satisfaction to any chief executive since Hong Kong’s handover in 1997. Tsang’s predecessor, Tung Chee-hwa, resigned in 2005, two years after hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest his failed attempt to implement wide-ranging national security legislation. Leung himself is unpopular; according to Hong Kong University’s most recent poll, his approval rating stands at 38.7 percent—not the lowest it’s been, but lower than his initial ratings and low among Hong Kong chief executives. “C.Y. Leung, step down!” has been a slogan at almost every protest since he has taken office. Tsang’s charges underscore the fact that Hong Kong people can neither vote directly for their own chief executive, nor remove him if he is corrupt.
In the wake of Tsang’s indictment in October, Leung was cited in the pages of the pro-Beijing newspaper Wen Wei Po reiterating Tsang’s contributions to Hong Kong government service, expressing his faith in Hong Kong as a society with rule of law, and suggesting that any commentary or speculation would negatively affect the trial. His words, too little and too late for either Tsang’s supporters or his detractors, give little reason for them to trust this chief executive more than the last. The protests of previous years demonstrate to Beijing that the chief executive cannot maintain order, while the corruption cases remind Hong Kongers that the office does not answer to its population. In answering to two masters, the chief executive has found legitimacy in neither.
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Informational Texts: Speeches Delivered with Love from Bruce and Steve
For teachers who are looking for guidance on how to teach informational texts at the high school level, there is a model lesson on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the EngageNY website. The text of the speech delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863, is short enough to fit on two pages or two bronze plaques on a memorial on the battles grounds in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. With 272 artfully crafted words Lincoln reframed the objectives of the Civil War while restating the principles of the equality of man. The opening six words are iconic, the closing asyndeton, “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” is inspiring. The choice of the Gettysburg Address is laudable and non-controversial as a selection as an informational text. However, this speech is nearing its 150th birthday, and while an understanding of this speech helps students understand who we were as a nation, there are more contemporary speeches that address who we are as a nation today. What other speeches can we offer our students to review for content and style?
I can think of two speeches that have impressed me this school year. One such speech is a commencement address to college students, the other an address of how the power of rock and roll “commenced” and what that meant to an artist. The first speech is formal, running a little under 15 minutes in length, and delivered by Steve Jobs on June 12, 2005, at Stanford University. The second speech is a full 50 minutes delivered on March 15, 2012, by Bruce Springsteen as the keynote address at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.
While Jobs engineered his speech into three separate and distinct parts (“Connecting the dots”, “Love and loss”, “Death”), the “Bruce’s” rollicking retelling of his life as a musician is part-explanatory, part-stream of consciousness, and wholly poetic. While Jobs formally and frankly narrated his stories of failure and ultimate redemption in the computer industry, Springsteen peppered his observations with epithets and musical interludes. Both speeches should get a “look-see” by teachers looking to engage students with meaningful informational texts.
Steve Jobs’s commencement address received a great deal of attention after his passing in October 2011. Stanford University has a page on its website that has both the text of the speech and a video of Jobs reading the speech , standing at the podium with his black graduation robe swirling in the breeze. He opened with the story of his adoption and his bold admission that he had dropped out of college because he “didn’t see the point” –this before a crowd of parents and new graduates who had just completed four or more years at one of the country’s more expensive universities!
Shortly after this startling confession, Jobs deftly described how he followed the “dots”, crediting a calligraphy class at Reed College with being the inspiration in developing his sense of sleek design. These “dots” led him to the computer industry when “Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20” and that “in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.” He professed his failure, the subsequent firing from the company he had founded, as entirely necessary. “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
In contrast to Jobs’s formal delivery, the video of Springsteen’s speech (video with text link on the NPR website) shows him blinking at the cameras wondering why he is up so early (it was noon) gripping the podium and addressing other musicians saying, “Every decent musician in town is asleep, or they will be before I’m done with this thing, I guarantee you. I’ve got a bit of a mess up here.” Several minutes (and epithets and expletives) later, Springsteen states his thesis:
“So I’m gonna talk a little bit today about how I’ve put what I’ve done together, in the hopes that someone slugging away in one of the clubs tonight may find some small piece of it valuable. And this being Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, and the centerpiece of this year’s South by Southwest Conference, I’m also gonna talk a little about my musical development, and where it intersected with Woody’s, and why.”
Springsteen’ s “dots” began with Elvis and television:
“Television and Elvis gave us full access to a new language; a new form of communication; a new way of being; a new way of looking; a new way of thinking about sex, about race, about identity, about life; a new way of being an American, a human being and a new way of hearing music. Once Elvis came across the airwaves, once he was heard and seen in action, you could not put the genie back in the bottle. After that moment, there was yesterday, and there was today, and there was a red hot, rockabilly forging of a new tomorrow before your very eyes.”
Inspired by Elvis, the six-year-old Springsteen wrapped his fingers around a guitar neck for the first time, and when they wouldn’t fit, “I just beat on it, and beat on it, and beat on it — in front of the mirror, of course. I still do that. Don’t you? Come on, you gotta check your moves!”
Both of these speeches center on the importance of love and the love of one’s profession. Springsteen’s love of music, and his embrace of all musical genres, is lyrical as evidenced by his professed love for Doo-wop, a passage in the speech which aches for an accompanying melody:
“Doo-wop, the most sensual music ever made, the sound of raw sex, of silk stockings rustling on backseat upholstery, the sound of the snaps of bras popping across the USA, of wonderful lies being whispered into Tabu-perfumed ears, the sound of smeared lipstick, untucked shirts, running mascara, tears on your pillow, secrets whispered in the still of the night, the high school bleachers and the dark at the YMCA canteen. The soundtrack for your incredibly wonderful, limp-your-ass, blue-balled walk back home after the dance. Oh! It hurt so good.”
Jobs’s love of his work at NeXT, at Pixar, at Apple, is less descriptive but equally impassioned, and he challenged the graduates to recognize the importance of loving one’s work:
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”
Both speeches also focus on change. In the last portion of his speech, Jobs introduced death; in a moment of cheer and celebration, he bluntly talked about death. He was honest with his beliefs, stating how he did not want to die, and he described how the prognosis of pancreatic cancer drove him to seek surgery. His statement, “and I am fine now” is delivered with such confidence, a poignant moment now that he has passed away. However, Jobs was not trying to be maudlin in discussing his, and our own, imminent fate; he deliberately summed up his feelings about death as “the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Jobs is right about death as a change agent, but as he stood before that crowd gathered for Stanford’s graduation in 2005, he was a live example of a change agent in our lives and the lives of our students.
Springsteen introduced the legacy of Woody Guthrie as his change agent. He explained how in his 20s he read Joe Klein’s Woody Guthrie, A Life, noting that, “Woody’s gaze was set on today’s hard times” and that “Woody’s world was a world where fatalism was tempered by a practical idealism. It was a world where speaking truth to power wasn’t futile, whatever its outcome.” Springsteen explained that although he would cover Woody’s infamous This Land is Your Land, he was never “going to be like Woody” because he was too fond of Elvis and the pop simplicity of his Pink Cadillac, that is until he and Pete Seegar stood up in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 2009 to sing (with the crowd) From California/ To the New York island/ From the Redwood Forest /To the Gulf Stream waters /This land was made for you and me:
“On that day Pete and myself, and generations of young and old Americans — all colors, religious beliefs — I realized that sometimes things that come from the outside, they make their way in, to become a part of the beating heart of the nation. On that day, when we sung that song, Americans — young and old, black and white, of all religious and political beliefs — were united, for a brief moment, by Woody’s poetry.”
Both Jobs and Springsteen ended their speeches with a clarion call. From the industrialist,” Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.” From the musician: “Don’t take yourself too seriously, and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but doubt — it keeps you awake and alert.”
Could these speeches be “informational texts”-the new CCSS term used to cover all manner of writing other than fiction? While these speeches are most certainly not equal to the eloquence of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, do they have a place in the study of contemporary history? Is the speech that details the development of the Mac with its sleek design and easily used graphic interface, as told by its founder, an informational text? Does the speech that chronicles a musician’s experience with the birth of American rock’n roll and the influence of pop culture qualify as an informational text? Could either speech be a springboard into student research? Could either speech be analyzed for rhetorical structures, word choice, and imagery? Do these speeches inspire the reader?
For students in the upper grades of high school, grades 11 and 12, for whom the CCSS suggests 70% of reading should be in the form of informational texts, the answer is a yes, yes, most assuredly yes!
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Lucia April 5, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Woody inspired Buce, Love that!
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Stick Stringing Specifications Simplified for Women's Lacrosse
SPARKS, Md. — Women’s game rules representatives from the NCAA, NFHS and US Lacrosse have collaborated with industry representatives to simplify the stick stringing specifications for women’s collegiate, high school and girls’ youth play for the 2018 season.
The changes were made to address growing concerns around stick stringing in the women’s game. US Lacrosse and the NCAA receive multiple inquiries from coaches, officials, players, and parents at all level of the games requesting help with measurements and clarifications of legality.
Both manufacturers and officials reference the technical specifications for stick stringing in the Youth, NFHS/USL and NCAA rulebooks in order to ensure that players are not using sticks that may result in unsafe or unfair play. Traditionally, the technical specifications have focused on limiting pocket depth, release point of the ball, and ensuring that the ball could not get lodged within the stick head. These criteria are based on the safety needs of the women’s game. If the ball is difficult to dislodge by a normal checking motion or the speed of the ball out of the stick is greatly increased those would impact the safe play of the game.
Over time, the rule language, in its focus on the technical criteria for stick stringing, has become highly detailed and subsequently, stick stringing has become very difficult for officials to consistently enforce. Officials at all levels of play in the women’s game have significant responsibilities associated with maintaining safe play, and the measuring and testing of sticks before and during games in order to ensure consistent enforcement and to ensure that are legal for play has become overly burdensome. The technical requirements have also created unnecessary confusion in the marketplace for players, particularly those who just entering the sport and looking to find sticks that they can buy inexpensively off the shelves, and use without requiring significant modifications before becoming legal or functional on the field.
The technical details have been replaced by performance criteria aimed to focus on function, while maintaining a basis for ensuring safe play.
While many of the technical specifications for stringing have evolved in the new rules, two requirements remain constant, pocket depth and shooting string parameters. The safe play of the women’s game is the ultimate priority for rules and consequently these two components were not changed. Based on studies and dialogue with manufacturers, these two pieces were identified as critical to maintain comparable speed and grip on the ball under the new regulations.
“Ultimately, the traditionally strung women’s stick will remain dominant in the women’s game; but we also believe that as the game grows across the country and more and more young girls are picking up sticks to play, we need specifications that allow for off-the-shelf playability and are easier for everyone to discern and maintain legal sticks, from game to game and season to season,” said Caitlin Kelley, senior manager of the women’s game for US Lacrosse. “We look forward to both innovation and less on-field burden to officials with these pared down requirements.”
“We feel confident that by continuing to align with US Lacrosse stick stringing requirements, these new changes will offer streamlining of the specifications and provide more consistency with stick checks,” said Jen Adams, chair of the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee and the head coach at Loyola (Md.) University. “The simplification of stick stringing specifications will also be more understandable for officials, coaches and players who are not stringing experts.”
The new permissive specifications will encourage innovation and broader accessibility to sticks across all age and talent levels. It is difficult to find an entry-level stick for a female player that is ‘playing ready’ off the shelf and cost effective. The stick is a critical component of skill acquisition and was a high hurdle for growing the game and retaining new players. The new specifications ensure that stick rules put performance first in order to foster skill acquisition and enjoyment of the game.
Notable Takeaways
Women’s sticks that are currently legal will remain legal
Consumers may begin to see stringing that looks different. Mesh can be part of the pocket.
The on-field pregame stick check will look at depth and movement on both the front and back facing side of the pocket now.
Shooting string rules remain the same and must be attached directly to the sidewall.
Also remaining the same, the pocket depth must allow a portion of the ball to be seen above the sidewall (front and back) and no holes or gaps in the stringing can be greater than 1.5 inches
A complete list of sticks currently legal for play in women’s lacrosse is available on the US Lacrosse web site.
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B.C. fisherman who tossed 'bear-banger' at group of sea lions facing large fine
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VICTORIA -- The skipper of a B.C. commercial fishing vessel is on the hook for a hefty fine after he was recorded tossing a “bear-banger” at a group of sea lions in 2019.
Allan Marsden, a North Vancouver-based fisherman, pleaded guilty to disturbing a marine mammal under the Fisheries Act and was subsequently ordered to pay $8,000 to the federal government.
Last year, Marsden posted a video of himself tossing a bear-banger into a large feeding frenzy of seals and sea lions off the coast of Hornby Island.
Shortly after the video was released, the skipper told CTV News Vancouver Island that the sea lion population had boomed so much in B.C. that the marine mammals were making it nearly impossible for him to catch enough herring to make a living.
He claimed that each year, sea lions cause roughly $150,000 in damage to fishing equipment aboard ships across Vancouver Island’s herring fishing fleet.
The video, which clearly shows Marsden toss a small explosive device into the horde of seals and sea lions, quickly garnered a storm of negative comments and even led to the skipper being threatened.
Marsden is now facing an $8,000 fine and is also banned from possessing explosives for the next three years.
The video was posted to social media in 2019.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6
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2000's, Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson, Anthony Stewart Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6, Emma Caulfield, James Marsters, Michelle Trachtenberg, Nicholas Brendon, Sarah Michelle Gellar
After Buffy’s heroic death at the end of Season 5, I think a lot of people wondered how the show could carry on. The answer is Season 6 which emerges as one of the darkest series and one of the most hotly debated in the Buffy saga. Spoilers will follow in this overview.
The Scooby Gang is still reeling from Buffy’s(Sarah Michelle Gellar) death. Giles(Anthony Stewart Head) decides to return to England whilst Willow(Alyson Hannigan) takes over leadership of the group. With her Wiccan powers increasing, Willow decides that they must resurrect Buffy. She believes that Buffy must be trapped in a hell dimension after she threw herself into the portal of energy. Although Xander(Nicholas Brendon), Anya(Emma Caulfield) and Tara(Amber Benson) are unsure of the spell and worried about potential consequences, Willow takes command and decides to go ahead with the ritual. Buffy is in fact brought back, but exactly where she was left, her grave. After clawing her way out of her coffin, Buffy is withdrawn and traumatized by the ordeal. We later find out that she was in fact in Heaven and her friends pulled her out of it. She further sinks into depression and finds comfort in the arms of Spike(James Marsters), engaging in a sexual relationship that soon becomes increasingly destructive for both involved. Whilst dealing with her dark ordeal, Buffy is faced with the Trio; Warren, Andrew and Jonathan. These three geeks have banded together to become super powerful, though they are mostly inane. They torment Buffy by summoning demons and toying with her. As Warren craves more power, their mission takes a darker turn once they come into contact with Buffy. Meanwhile, Dawn(Michelle Trachtenberg) is feeling isolated from everyone and takes to stealing as a coping mechanism. Anya and Xander announce their engagement to the gang, although it ends in sadness. One of the most important character arcs this season is Willow’s. She is now becoming more powerful but continues to rely too much on magic. This makes Tara worried for her safety and the two begin to grow apart. As Willow begins to acknowledge her addiction, a tragedy sends her spiralling back into the realms of dark magic. Can Buffy regain her strength and bring her best friend back before it is too late? All will be revealed in this bleak penultimate season.
As I previously mentioned, Season 6 is controversial among fans. Many consider it too dark and that the series should have ended with the epic Season 5 finale. In one sense I do think that Season 5 made for an excellent finale, but Season 6 does have its good points in terms of characters and themes. Each character is going through a personal struggle of some sort. The most interesting examples are Buffy and Willow. Buffy must readjust to life again whilst trying to cope with the knowledge that in death she found happiness. Willow must deal with her magic addiction that is slowly taking her over. Season 6 does have its fun moments though, especially in the classic musical episode ‘Once more, with feeling’. In the episode, the residents of Sunnydale are afflicted with the urge to reveal their thoughts in song by a demon. The catch of this is that if they sing and dance for too long, they will combust. The episode is filled with humour and some amazing vocal work as the characters find themselves telling their secrets to one another and delving into their personalities. Witty, theatrical and a joy to watch, it is classic and innovative Buffy.
Yet despite these moments of comedy, it is the tragedy and darkness that Season 6 will generally be remembered for. The most tragic moment has to be the death of Tara. After Buffy humiliates the power crazed Warren, he shoots her but a stray bullet hits Tara, who dies in Willow’s arms. Tara’s death is such a sad moment as she and Willow were just getting to know one another again and their rekindled relationship has been tragically cut short. Seeing Willow cry as she holds her beloved and her eyes turn to a scarlet red is both an emotional and scary moment. Tara’s death also functions as the key factor in Willow’s descent into dark magic with horrific consequences as she wants the world to know the pain her loss has caused her. It’s sad to see Tara leave the show, because I’ve continually been impressed with Amber Benson’s subtle and moving performance as her. Yet I do understand that her death functions as a way to push Willow’s story forward. Although The Trio are used for comedic effect, even they take a dark turn. This is certainly in the case with Warren, who soon begins to lose his grip on plans.
Our cast delivers some stunning work during this season. Sarah Michelle Gellar flexes her acting muscles and gets to show us the vulnerable side to Buffy and how much death and resurrection has affected her. She’s still a fierce warrior who can take down the enemy, but this season showcases Buffy at her most frightened before she manages to reclaim her life once and for all. It is a true testament to Gellar’s talent that we sympathise with Buffy and want her to climb out of her sadness. Nicholas Brendon is great as Xander, who is going through his own set of problems. This includes his wedding day in which he can’t go through with it because he glimpses what a future with Anya might be like. Brendon imbues the part with emotion and earnest heart. Emma Caulfield continues her impressive portrayal of Anya, who is broken by being left at the altar. This causes her to reconsider her past of vengeance and Caulfield gets to show us the wounded woman who can’t deal with the human pain. Caulfield still has her laugh out loud moments but this is the season when Anya really grows as a character. Alyson Hannigan excels at showing Willow’s downward spiral into magic addiction and the horror of when she turns into an almighty powerful force who can wreak havoc on anyone or anything. She also shows us the side of her that wants to stop, but can’t help but give into these dark impulses especially after the death of Tara. James Marsters reveals the caring side to Spike as he falls into a sexual relationship with Buffy, but how he can’t deal with the fact she is using him as a way to cope. This culminates in Spike attempting to rape Buffy, a decision that causes him to leave town and attempting to regain a soul. Michelle Trachtenberg captures the feelings of isolation as Dawn, who develops a stealing obsession that soon gets out of hand. Sadly, Anthony Stewart Head isn’t in Buffy as much this season as Giles, but when he does come back it’s certainly worth it. I mean any Giles is better than no Giles at all, isn’t it?
Season 6 may become a bit too grim for its own good, but the excellent performances and stories make sure that Buffy is still one amazing television series.
2000's, Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson, Anthony Stewart Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 5, Emma Caulfield, James Marsters, Marc Blucas, Michelle Trachtenberg, Nicholas Brendon, Sarah Michelle Gellar
After the dreamlike finale of Season 4, Buffy Season 5 becomes one of the best seasons of the show along with Season 3 due to some amazing writing and moving performances. Featuring fantasy as well as genuine human drama, Season 5 adds maturity and darkness to the world of Buffy and her slaying of demons. Spoilers will follow in this review.
Buffy(Sarah Michelle Gellar) is now approaching her second year of college and is back on good terms with Willow(Alyson Hannigan) and Xander(Nicholas Brendon) after they grew apart last season. She is finally embracing her destiny as chosen one, whilst also having time for a life. But then as is typical in Buffy’s job as a slayer, there is evil to be taken care of on a daily basis. The most mysterious occurrence is the appearance of Dawn(Michelle Trachtenberg), Buffy’s sister. Up until now we haven’t seen her at all, let alone known that Buffy has a sister. Everyone acts as if Dawn has always been there. In actual fact, Dawn is the Key, a mystical source of energy that can be used for good and evil. Dawn just believes she is a normal girl growing up in the shadow of her older sister. She always feels left out of the group and forms a friendship with Tara(Amber Benson), Willow’s girlfriend who Dawn feels is the only person who treats her as an equal and not just a 14-year-old girl. When Buffy learns of the creation of Dawn and the threat of Glory, she vows to protect her. A demented hell goddess named Glory is after the Key and will do anything to get her evil hands on it. Glory is more than a match for Buffy in terms of physical strength and feeds off the energy of humans to remain strong. Elsewhere, Buffy’s romantic relationship with Riley(Marc Blucas) begins to disintegrate quickly as he feels left out of the group and feels inadequate in comparison to Buffy’s old lover Angel. Giles(Anthony Stewart Head) considers leaving for England as he feels like Buffy doesn’t need a Watcher anymore, he later changes his mind when he realises that Buffy needs him. Spike(James Marsters) is back and realises he is deeply in love with Buffy, even though they have been sworn enemies in the past. Buffy’s mother Joyce begins to feel sick and is later diagnosed with a brain tumour that takes a debilitating effect on her. In the end to protect Dawn from the plans of Glory, Buffy is faced with a difficult choice that only she can decide in an emotional and tense finale.
As I previously mentioned, Season 5 takes on a darker vibe than Season 4 which produces poignant results and some devastating conclusions. Sure there is still the snappy dialogue and humorous exchanges, but it’s the dramatic and emotional parts of the season that linger long in the memory. The overriding themes of Season 5 are death, maturity and sacrifice. Chief among these is Joyce’s condition. Joyce has been with the show since the beginning and has grown to be loved by fans. She might not understand her daughter’s destiny, but she loves her with all her heart. After discovering her brain tumour, Joyce’s memory begins to change and she often has angry outbursts.
One of the most emotionally devastating moments has to be in the episode ‘The Body’ in which Joyce dies from the effects of her tumour and Buffy finds her, dead on the living room couch. The episode is devoid of music which creates an atmosphere of numbness and disorientation that comes with death. We watch as the gang, of which many of them consider Joyce a mother figure, try to comfort Buffy in this difficult time whilst dealing with their own grief for the loving Joyce. What is most tragic about Joyce’s death is that Buffy is highly skilled in taking down evil and saving innocent people on a regular basis, but when it comes to the unfairness and sadness of life, she has no control and can’t reverse these tragic events. Poignant and soul-shaking, it is one of the most haunting hours of television I have ever seen. With Joyce’s death, Buffy gains more responsibility and must embrace the tribulations of adulthood that await her. She may be mature already, but this is the season when Buffy becomes a figure of responsibility to those around her and is forced into some difficult decisions to protect those she holds dear.
Rivalling this episode in terms of emotional stakes is the finale, entitled ‘The Gift’ in which Buffy sacrifices herself to save Dawn. Rather than let Dawn die, Buffy selflessly throws herself into a portal that has been opened in what is a hero’s death. Her voice over to Dawn about remaining brave in the face of danger and the devastated reactions of the gang are such heartbreaking scenes to watch as we see the bravery of this heroine and how she was willing to sacrifice herself to save others. If you don’t cry watching this episode, you clearly don’t have any emotions. With Buffy dead, what can possibly happen in the next series?
Another high point of season 5 is the villain, this time in the form of Glory who provides much of the humour in this sombre season. A destructive and unstable hell god who is crazed for power and will do anything for it. Glory’s personality is interesting as she flits from one extreme to the other and spells dire consequences for the gang. A clever tactic is introduced that Glory also occupies the body of Ben, a hospital intern who knows Buffy because of her mother’s condition. This adds danger to the mix as Ben wrestles with this knowledge that Glory may find out the identity of the Key and succeed in her plans. Diva like, despicable and delightfully sinister, as well as a highly skilled fighter, Glory makes for one of Buffy’s most dangerous adversaries.
The cast is again on fine form with involving performances all round. Sarah Michelle Gellar brings outward strength and inner vulnerability to the role of Buffy, as she accepts her responsibility as a grown up and defender of good, even when she is close to breaking down completely. We see how she has changed as a character and Gellar gives the role her all with compassion, relatability and intensity. Alyson Hannigan exudes knowledge, love and growing power as Willow, whose powers of witchcraft are increasing and are often utilised when battling the enemy. We also see how her power can be deadly and how it may overtake her mind if she continues to use it so much. Amber Benson is radiant and winsome as Tara, Willow’s girlfriend who is the most level-headed of the group and the one to keep her cool in a crisis. It is sad when Glory takes her energy and leaves her catatonic, but we do get to see Willow unleashing ferocious power on Glory in an act of revenge and later restore Tara back to herself. Nicholas Brendon continues his impressive performance as Xander, who may not possess any magical power, but whose quiet observations and caring actions make him an asset to the Scooby Gang. His relationship with Anya also provides many comical moments of misunderstanding. Emma Caulfield is a joy to watch as Anya, who often offends people because of her unfamiliarity with human ways and customs. Yet she also shows us how much Anya has learned about emotion from those around her, specifically her breakdown when Joyce dies and her questioning over life and death.
Joining the cast is Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn, the Key in human form. I know that Dawn can be whiny at times, but we do see her alienation when she discovers her life has been a lie and how she believes she brings harm to those around her because of her power. Trachtenberg is perfectly suited to her character and provides many touching moments in which she questions her identity. James Marsters is typically bad ass as Spike, the vampire who is now an important member of the gang but can also pose a threat. It’s interesting to watch how he defects to the good side because of his growing obsession with Buffy, to which she tells him that nothing will come of it. We also get to take a glimpse of Spike’s past in which we see how he was a disillusioned man transformed into a vampire and how he has killed two slayers, one during the Boxing Rebellion in China and the other in 70’s New York. Anthony Stewart Head is particularly strong as Giles, who provides much-needed support and diligent strength when the group feels as if they are cornered. Marc Blucas bows out of Buffy as Riley ends his relationship with her as they drift apart from one another and he begins to frequent vampire bars in which he allows them to drink his blood. Riley becoming a darker character was a gamble, yet we’re so used to seeing him as a nice guy that it’s a bit of a stretch to see him behaving like this.
Dark, emotional and character-driven, Season 5 of Buffy is one of the strongest seasons boasting a great villain, deep themes and touching work from the cast.
Second Liebster Award
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I recently received the Liebster Award for a second time from Tiago Ricardo over at Panda’s Choice. Please check out his amazing blog. Also, my sincere thanks to him for giving me this award again.
There are a few rules that come with this award, here they are:
Post the Liebster Award graphic on your site.
Thank the blogger who nominated you.
The nominee has to write 11 facts about themselves.
The nominee will nominate 9 other blogs for the award.
Facts about me:
I’m a Sagittarius.
I prefer watching football rather than playing it.
Joss Whedon is one of my idols.
Ellen Ripley is one of my favourite movie characters.
I recently had my wisdom teeth removed.
I have a knack for noticing symbolism in movies.
I’m hopefully purchasing a Blu-Ray very soon.
I judge a film on its merit rather than going with the majority of opinion.
When I hear of a certain director, I try to watch as much of their filmography as possible.
My favourite words from a song are “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return” from Nature Boy.
I often use music as a way to relax.
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1990's, 2000's, Alyson Hannigan, Amber Benson, Anthony Stewart Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4, Emma Caulfield, James Marsters, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Green
After the mesmerizing Season 3, Buffy Season 4 carries on the greatness as the characters mature and the threats against them become more dangerous. There may be some weaknesses in comparison with other seasons, but believe me, Season 4 boasts some classic episodes of Buffy that you don’t want to miss. Be warned, spoilers will follow in this overview.
After an eventful three years in high school, Buffy(Sarah Michelle Gellar) is now in college with best friend Willow(Alyson Hannigan). At first the experience is overwhelming for her and she feels left out as Willow and Oz(Seth Green) are happy together, Xander(Nicholas Brendon) is doing his own thing with Anya(Emma Caulfield) and Giles(Anthony Stewart Head) wants Buffy to act on her own. Matters are complicated by her pining for Angel, who has departed for Los Angeles. But gradually, she begins to blossom in college. Whilst juggling homework, she must also fight the demons that populate Sunnydale. There is also the matter of commandos that keep appearing on campus. It turns out that they belong to a program known as The Initiative. They capture demons, including vampire Spike(James Marsters) for research and experiments, yet there are more sinister motives brewing beneath this in the form of half human half machine Adam. It transpires that one of the agents is nice guy Riley Finn(Marc Blucas), who Buffy begins to date as he seems like an average guy. As they pursue a relationship, they struggle to keep their identities as Slayer and Agent secret. Elsewhere, the relationship between Willow and Oz deteriorates as Oz fears he can’t control his power when he transforms into a werewolf. His exit to find an answer prompts Willow to sink into melancholy and start practicing magic, this time with unexpected results. Buffy manages to get through to Willow and make her face her problems. Another key component in Willow’s life is the introduction of Tara(Amber Benson), a shy witch who notices Willow’s power. It is Tara who brings Willow out of her confined shell as the two begin a relationship. As the gang starts to grow apart due to various things in their lives, they realise that in order to fight demons they must band together again.
Firstly, I want to get the flaws of the season out-of-the-way. At first, the idea of the nefarious Initiative is a very interesting concept. But I feel like it could have been expanded upon to give the story more of a jolt. To be fair, the Initiative does give us Spike with a chip in his head that prevents him from harming humans and therefore makes him align himself with the Scooby Gang. I also feel that the Big Bad of Season 4 in the form of Adam, wasn’t as impressive as other villains such as The Master and The Mayor. Sure the Frankenstein like qualities to him add some form of interest, but he just doesn’t quite measure up to former villains on Buffy.
Now that I’ve got those flaws of Season 4, I will go onto the positives, of which there are numerous. As always, the writing is loaded with one-liners and pop culture references that contribute to the humour. The themes of alienation and isolation are expertly handled, mostly in the case of Buffy who becomes distant from her friends but realises the importance of them in her life and her destiny to fight the forces of evil. High school may have been hell, but college presents a whole new bunch of challenges for Buffy as she begins to find herself again. We have the welcome return of Spike, who provides a lot of the dry humour in the show. After receiving the chip that renders him unable to harm humans, he reluctantly joins the gang and proves to be a very useful ally when fighting the demons and monsters of Sunnydale. James Marsters impresses once again as Spike, capturing his bad ass, growling and violent demeanor to great effect. Season 4 also provides the introduction of Tara, who will become an important factor in Willow’s life. Played with virtue, nervousness and sweet-faced charm, Amber Benson excels as the shy witch who begins a tender relationship with Willow. It should be noted the importance of the relationship in terms of the way lesbians are portrayed on-screen. Before Willow and Tara, lesbianism had been used and exploited for male fantasies in many a TV show. In Buffy, it portrays their burgeoning relationship like any other on the show, with respect and warmth.
No discussion on Season 4 of Buffy would be complete without mentioning one of the best episodes, ‘Hush’. In this episode, creepy demons known as The Gentlemen steal the voices of everyone in Sunnydale in order to extract seven hearts from victims. Everytime they appear, The Gentlemen are bound to scare viewers. Floating through town with metallic smiles and strange, courteous gestures, whilst being flanked by henchman dressed is straight jackets, they will forever be in people’s nightmares. I love how the episode examines what happens when communication is taken away from us and we have to find another way to get our point across. Featuring only 15 minutes of dialogue and a haunting musical score of Gothic choral voices, Hush is classic Buffy that is not to be missed.
Our cast of Buffy is again on super form delivering exceptional work. As the eponymous slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar combines humour, steel and compassion as she adjusts to college whilst facing her destiny to kill whatever demon stands in her way. Gellar has grown into the role so much that I can’t imagine anyone else ever playing the character of Buffy. Nicholas Brendon excels at showing Xander feeling like the one who doesn’t contribute much to the group, but who in actual fact is a core member. Alyson Hannigan is exceptional as growing witch Willow, who has her heart-broken by Oz but begins to discover herself with the introduction of Tara. Seth Green is stoic and deadpan as werewolf Oz, who bows out of the series as he attempts to control his powers. Emma Caulfield is hysterically funny as former vengeance demon Anya, whose misunderstandings of human communication often lead to her awkwardness. Marc Blucas plays Riley as a good guy who comes to see the corruption in the work around him. Riley as a character may be a little bland and ordinary, but I believe this is the point. When he dates Buffy, he is the opposite of Angel and it shows how Buffy finally dates an average guy rather than a demon. Anthony Stewart Head provides wisdom as Giles, whose genuinely cares for Buffy in a fatherly way and is an important ally in her battles against evil. He also gets some really funny moments, including him embracing the Halloween spirit by answering the door to an embarrassed Buffy whilst wearing a Sombrero and upon being discovered with a scantily clad woman being compared to Hugh Hefner by Buffy .
Flaws aside, Season 4 of Buffy is still sexy, mature and addictive television of the highest order.
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Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco is a movie starring Joan Juliet Buck, Paul Caranicas, and Michael Chow. Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion...
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Antonio López 1970: sexo, moda y disco, Antonio 70
Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York, and his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.
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Saturday, 04 Jul 2020 17:52
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Julia Sims
Friday, 26 Jun 2020 22:25
If you are a fan of the music and the era of the 80's, this is a must see! If you are not, don't watch it! It's a must watch for any true lover of the music. It's like listening to a concert tape, only without the music. It's the story of the music, of the era and of the culture. It's a film that will stick with you for a long time. I've watched it twice, and I'll watch it again!
Billy Barnes
Sunday, 21 Jun 2020 18:53
This is a fascinating and funny look at the way that the fashion industry has altered the way people dress. The interviews with the fashion designers and stylists are also worth watching. For a somewhat NSFW version, see a clip from the DVD. The documentary is funny and informative but in the end, it doesn't really explain why it was important to fashion designers to use gender-specific colors in their dresses and what exactly it meant to change the way people dress. I found the documentary interesting and informative but didn't really understand what it was trying to say. It was interesting to see what the fashion industry has done with this film. Some of the interviews were particularly funny, like when the interviewee "Nailah" talked about how she got her boyfriend to wear black and white clothes, while a male interviewer asked her what color she'd wear in black and white. I think that it's a really good documentary but it's hard to get into.
Saturday, 13 Jun 2020 09:49
Although this documentary is rather unusual, it is certainly the most talked about documentary of the decade. What is even more amazing is that it is the first film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. After a long time, I actually did find this movie entertaining. The film is based on a true story of a couple, and although there are many elements that are not true, the movie is not false. I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to understand what happened to the "Sex Fashion".
Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020 05:24
Well-written, well-executed and well-shot documentary about the meaning of fashion, which seems to be the main subject of the film. Lopez interviews several designers and fashion execs about what it means to be a designer and to be in fashion. The director also interviews fashion editor Holly Flanders, who is famous for the 'Art of Fashion' series. Flanders explains how fashion is an art. That art is beautiful, and it is something that needs to be respected. Lopez interviews designers such as Ralph Lauren, Peter Unger and Richard Rodriquez about the meaning of fashion and the meaning of fashion. Also, he interviews fashion fans such as George and Martha Lane, and they discuss fashion as art. I thought that the interviewees were very good, as well as the interviews, as they were able to answer many of the questions Lopez asked them. Overall, I think that this is a great film for everyone to watch. It is very informative and very interesting, and it is an entertaining documentary about fashion.
Pamela Schneider
Thursday, 04 Jun 2020 15:29
I've never seen this film before and I'm glad I did. It is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. I've seen some on the Internet and some others are more or less about the same. Antonio Lopez, a Spaniard and father of three, is an example of a successful businessman who has made his fortune by inventing a successful American brand of condoms. He is the president of a company that makes condoms in Spain. He has lived a relatively rich life and he is an example of a successful businessman, but he has also suffered from various problems. He was caught by the police and he lost his fortune. He was sentenced to prison in 1990 for four years. His marriage and his children were destroyed by the scandal of his cheating. He was sentenced to prison for four years. He is not a very likable character. He has been accused of various crimes, including being a homosexual. I think that the way he portrays his own life is pretty accurate and I like this movie. I'm not a big fan of other documentaries, but this one is very good. It's a lot more interesting than most other documentaries that I've seen. I really liked it. It's a very good movie, I recommend it to everyone. It's a good movie.
Emma Hanson
Thursday, 30 Apr 2020 20:01
I was able to view this film at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film covers a decade of music, both in music and in dance, and this period is the focus of the film. As music and culture change, so does the way people dress and dance. The film starts in the early 1970s with an interview with a young man about his fashion. His answer was, "I'm not a dresser." A man who is also dressed in an off-the-rack suit speaks of the music and fashion of his time and how it shaped him. In the early 1970s, fashion was very different from today. The clothes were bigger and more elaborate. Some of the clothing was so elaborate that the dancers and their costumes needed to be specially made for them. This film covers a decade, the 1970s. This is the period when fashion and music changed radically. This film is a documentary that shows how people in the 1970s dressed. It is a period in time that has been covered many times before. It is interesting to see the changes that were made to people's clothing as the decade changed. This film covers the changes in fashion and music from the early 1970s. The film includes interviews with some of the people that were in the music and fashion of the time. The interviewees include musicians, models, dancers, and more. There is a lot of information in the interviews. They talk about their careers, their relationships with each other, and how they experienced the changing culture of music and fashion. The interviews cover a lot of topics. One of the main topics is the sex revolution that occurred in the 1970s. The interviewer talks about how this started when women had more opportunity in society and they were trying to make that happen. He also talks about how women were being forced to be sexual and they were trying to be sexual with men. They also talk about the sexual revolution in music. He talks about the young people in the music scene. He also talks about the sexual revolution in fashion. The interviews cover all of the subjects discussed in the film. The interviews are interesting and interesting to hear about. I think that the interviews covered all of the subjects discussed in the film. The interviews covered the major topics discussed in the film. There is a lot of information in this documentary that was interesting. I think that the interviews covered a lot of the topics covered in the film. The interviewees were interesting and interesting to listen to. The topics covered in the interviews were very interesting. The subjects were very different from what the interviewer was describing. The interviewer did a good job of describing the topics. There
Andrea R.
This film is in fact quite good, but lacks depth. In fact, the film is more about the fashion industry, as opposed to any discussion of the social problems in the Dominican Republic. As such, it's a good film to watch for its fashion and interview footage, but as a whole, it's a bit shallow.
Sunday, 26 Apr 2020 03:30
I am a huge fan of Antonio Lopez, and I loved this film. I also love the soundtrack. The film has a great soundtrack and the movie is an amazing look at a life that I know little about. The film is a look at the life of a man who became a fashion icon, and the impact of that on his family, friends, and fans. The film is very informative and entertaining. I really loved this film, and I highly recommend it.
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Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
Nov 22, 2020 at 09:38 pm by pj
Dr. Barney Graham, deputy director at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, gives President Donald Trump a tour of the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at NIH on March 3 in Bethesda, Maryland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News
When he started researching a troublesome childhood infection nearly four decades ago, virologist Dr. Barney Graham, then at Vanderbilt University, had no inkling his federally funded work might be key to deliverance from a global pandemic.
Yet nearly all the vaccines advancing toward possible FDA approval this fall or winter are based on a design developed by Graham and his colleagues, a concept that emerged from a scientific quest to understand a disastrous 1966 vaccine trial.
Basic research conducted by Graham and others at the National Institutes of Health, Defense Department and federally funded academic laboratories has been the essential ingredient in the rapid development of vaccines in response to COVID-19. The government has poured an additional $10.5 billion into vaccine companies since the pandemic began to accelerate the delivery of their products.
The Moderna vaccine, whose remarkable effectiveness in a late-stage trial was announced Monday morning, emerged directly out of a partnership between Moderna and Graham’s NIH laboratory.
Coronavirus vaccines are likely to be worth billions to the drug industry if they prove safe and effective. As many as 14 billion vaccines would be required to immunize everyone in the world against COVID-19. If, as many scientists anticipate, vaccine-produced immunity wanes, billions more doses could be sold as booster shots in years to come. And the technology and production laboratories seeded with the help of all this federal largesse could give rise to other profitable vaccines and drugs.
The vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are likely to be the first to win FDA approval, in particular rely heavily on two fundamental discoveries that emerged from federally funded research: the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, and the concept of RNA modification, first developed by Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, Moderna’s founders in 2010 named the company after this concept: “Modified” + “RNA” = Moderna, according to co-founder Robert Langer.
“This is the people’s vaccine,” said corporate critic Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program. “Federal scientists helped invent it and taxpayers are funding its development. … It should belong to humanity.”
Moderna, through spokesperson Ray Jordan, acknowledged its partnership with NIH throughout the COVID-19 development process and earlier. Pfizer spokesperson Jerica Pitts noted the company had not received development and manufacturing support from the U.S. government, unlike Moderna and other companies.
The idea of creating a vaccine with messenger RNA, or mRNA — the substance that converts DNA into proteins — goes back decades. Early efforts to create mRNA vaccines failed, however, because the raw RNA was destroyed before it could generate the desired response. Our innate immune systems evolved to kill RNA strands because that’s what many viruses are.
Karikó came up with the idea of modifying the elements of RNA to enable it to slip past the immune system undetected. The modifications she and Weissman developed allowed RNA to become a promising delivery system for both vaccines and drugs. To be sure, their work was enhanced by scientists at Moderna, BioNTech and other laboratories over the past decade.
Another key element in the mRNA vaccine is the lipid nanoparticle — a tiny, ingeniously designed bit of fat that encloses the RNA in a sort of invisibility cloak, ferrying it safely through the blood and into cells and then dissolving, thereby allowing the RNA to do its work of coding a protein that will serve as the vaccine’s main active ingredient. The idea of enclosing drugs or vaccines in lipid nanoparticles arose first in the 1960s and was developed by Langer and others at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and various academic and industry laboratories.
Karikó began investigating RNA in 1978 in her native Hungary and wrote her first NIH grant proposal to use mRNA as a therapeutic in 1989. She and Weissman achieved successes starting in 2004, but the path to recognition was often discouraging.
“I keep writing and doing experiments, things are getting better and better, but I never get any money for the work,” she recalled in an interview. “The critics said it will never be a drug. When I did these discoveries, my salary was lower than the technicians working next to me.”
Eventually, the University of Pennsylvania sublicensed the patent to Cellscript, a biotech company in Wisconsin, much to the dismay of Weissman and Karikó, who had started their own company to try to commercialize the discovery. Moderna and BioNTech later would each pay $75 million to Cellscript for the RNA modification patent, Karikó said. Though unhappy with her treatment at Penn, she remained there until 2013 — partly because her daughter, Susan Francia, was making a name for herself on the school’s rowing team. Francia would go on to win two Olympic gold medals in the sport. Karikó is now a senior officer at BioNTech.
In addition to RNA modification and the lipid nanoparticle, the third key contribution to the mRNA vaccines — as well as those made by Novavax, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson —- is the bioengineered protein developed by Graham and his collaborators. It has proved in tests so far to elicit an immune response that could prevent the virus from causing infections and disease.
The protein design was based on the observation that so-called fusion proteins — the pieces of the virus that enable it to invade a cell — are shape-shifters, presenting different surfaces to the immune system after the virus fuses with and infects cells. Graham and his colleagues learned that antibodies against the post-fusion protein are far less effective at stopping an infection.
The discovery arose in part through Graham’s studies of a 54-year-old tragedy — the failed 1966 trial of an NIH vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. In a clinical trial, not only did that vaccine fail to protect against the common childhood disease, but most of the 21 children who received it were hospitalized with acute allergic reactions, and two died.
About a decade ago, Graham, now deputy director of NIH’s Vaccine Research Center, took a new stab at the RSV problem with a postdoctoral fellow, Jason McLellan. After isolating and obtaining three-dimensional models of the RSV’s fusion protein, they worked with Chinese scientists to identify an appropriate neutralizing antibody against it.
“We were sitting in Xiamen, China, when Jason got the first image up on his laptop, and I was like, oh my God, it’s coming together,” Graham recalled. The prefusion antibodies they discovered were 16 times more potent than the post-fusion form contained in the faulty 1960s vaccine.
Two 2013 papers the team published in Science earned them a runner-up prize in the prestigious journal’s Breakthrough of the Year award. Their papers, which showed it was possible to plan and create a vaccine at the microscopic structural level, set the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center on a path toward creating a generalizable, rapid way to design vaccines against emerging pandemic viruses, Graham said.
In 2016, Graham, McLellan and other scientists, including Andrew Ward at the Scripps Research Institute, advanced their concept further by publishing the prefusion structure of a coronavirus that causes the common cold and a patent was filed for its design by NIH, Scripps and Dartmouth — where McLellan had set up his own lab. NIH and the University of Texas — where McLellan now works — filed an additional patent this year for a similar design change in the virus that causes COVID-19.
Graham’s NIH lab, meanwhile, had started working with Moderna in 2017 to design a rapid manufacturing system for vaccines. In January, they were preparing a demonstration project, a clinical trial to test whether Graham’s protein design and Moderna’s mRNA platform could be used to create a vaccine against Nipah, a deadly virus spread by bats in Asia.
Their plans changed rapidly when they learned on Jan. 7 that the epidemic of respiratory disease in China was being caused by a coronavirus.
“We agreed immediately that the demonstration project would focus on this virus” instead of Nipah, Graham said. Moderna produced a vaccine within six weeks. The first patient was vaccinated in an NIH-led clinical study on March 16; early results from Moderna’s 30,000-volunteer late-stage trial showed it was nearly 95% effective at preventing COVID-19.
Although other scientists have advanced proposals for what may be even more potent vaccine antigens, Graham is confident that carefully designed vaccines using nucleic acids like RNA reflect the future of new vaccines. Already, two major drug companies are doing advanced clinical trials for RSV vaccines based on the designs his lab discovered, he said.
In a larger sense, the pandemic could be the event that paves the way for better, perhaps cheaper and more plentiful vaccines.
“It’s a silver lining, but I think we are definitely pushing forward the way everyone is thinking about vaccines,” said Michael Farzan, chair of the department of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research’s Florida campus. “Certain techniques that have been waiting in the wings, under development but never achieving the kind of funding they needed for major tests, will finally get their chance to shine.”
Under a 1980 law, the NIH will obtain no money from the coronavirus vaccine patent. How much money will eventually go to the discoverers or their institutions isn’t clear. Any existing licensing agreements haven’t been publicized; patent disputes among some of the companies will likely last years. HHS’ big contracts with the vaccine companies are not transparent, and Freedom of Information Act requests have been slow-walked and heavily redacted, said Duke University law professor Arti Rai.
Some basic scientists involved in the enterprise seem to accept the potentially lopsided financial rewards.
“Having public-private partnerships is how things get done,” Graham said. “During this crisis, everything is focused on how can we do the best we can as fast as we can for the public health. All this other stuff is going to have to be figured out later.”
“It’s not a good look to become extremely wealthy off a pandemic,” McLellan said, noting the big stock sales by some vaccine company executives after they received hundreds of millions of dollars in government assistance. Still, “the companies should be able to make some money.”
For Graham, the lesson of the coronavirus vaccine response is that a few billion dollars a year spent on additional basic research could prevent a thousand times as much loss in death, illness and economic destruction.
“Basic research informs what we do, and planning and preparedness can make such a difference in how we get ahead of these epidemics,” he said.
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What Is Teachable?
Nowadays, just about anyone can earn money out of anything, with little to no cash out. The world wide web has given us access to a nearly endless amount of information, and in the same way, you may give the World Wide Web a bit of your abilities and knowledge. True to its motto,”Everything is Teachable,” you can turn your thoughts and experiences into profit by organizing them into pro online courses, available to millions of individuals around the globe. Teachable guides its users into creating beautiful sites with just a few clicks, requiring nothing more than basic tech know-how.
Teachable isn’t the first of its type. In fact, it was designed as a revolutionary alternative to some of its forerunners. In effect, its features were developed to address a few of the problems people had with earlier Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Price What Is Teachable?
For those who wish to try their hand at selling online classes, but aren’t prepared to commit to a paid program, Teachable has a free alternative with no strings attached. With absolutely zero overhead, this includes unlimited hosting of your courses, videos, and students. The only time you will be required to pay is when your site goes live, and you have your first buyers, after which you will be asked to upgrade to a paid plan and be charged per sale. That is not a bad deal considering you put everything up completely free. As soon as you get the hang of things, or when you have built a steady following, it could be time to consider their higher-tier programs (although the free one is available so long as you are still building or just tinkering around).
From $29-$249 per month (billed yearly ), you get some of the more advanced features that provide more control over your content, and resources that can really maximize your sales and marketing. With the two top tiers, the rates are a flat rate, and the transaction fees are waived.
From creating an account, to building your website, and even up to admin tasks and payouts, Teachable has some of the best reviews on ease of use. Its course builder is flexible but impressive, with drag and drop capabilities for people who prefer click navigation and have nearly no technical skills. Additionally, it has multi-selection options for making mass changes on uploaded classes, whether you would like to edit preferences or delete several lessons at once, saving time and effort. Cloud services are also permitted on Teachable, so importing files such as texts, audios, and videos can be linked directly from Dropbox, Google Drive, and the like. All of your content, from instructional to testing, can be ordered however way you want them, which is something that is not available in other systems.
Identity and Branding What Is Teachable?
One of the most praised qualities of Teachable is the value it puts on the instructor’s branding and uniqueness. Its builder is almost entirely customizable. You can start by choosing from default themes, and then further tweaking details like colors and fonts for your website’s look. They have a huge variety of stunning designs and typographies, which is a plus for the ones that are more particular about aesthetics. It’s no surprise that lots of creatives choose Teachable over some of the more cookie-cutter choices on the industry. More sophisticated users are given the option to dabble in code as well.
Teachable does not wrench the control from its users, but allows them to keep an eye and follow their client’s progress directly. Only instructors will have their customer’s data, and not Teachable. Some other online marketplaces overdo their participation, and control the platforms in such a way that the users have no direct contact with their students. On Teachable, the instructor is given liberties to followup on past students, and customize messages to include promos or bundles if they have not purchased a course in a little while. What Is Teachable?
As regards client care, Teachable has tons of tools to be certain their courses are taken in the particular sequence that they designed them, and that their clients get the most out of what they paid for. They can provide graded quizzes (with or without limitations on number of attempts), lock and drip their content to avoid customers binging on modules, place checkpoints (such as their video watch compliance feature which requires a certain amount of video time finished before moving to the next step), then grant certificates to their graduates. Certificates do not only give students a feeling of accomplishment, they are also another way to add value to customers.
It starts with an impressive course, but money is made in its sales. Teachable provides its users the ability to attract and keep customers: like allowing landing pages to link to Facebook ads, putting strategic upselling buttons, and displaying customer testimonials, product advantages and badges. They include the capacity to set up discussion forums that build a sense of community to your followers, and encourage integration with other systems like MailChimp, Ontraport, Infusionsoft, Mixpanel, and other tools via the Zapier app. They have settings for putting up promotions, coupons, and email marketing, and users can experiment with innovative pricing options, bundled classes, and subscriptions. Multi-language support also caters to customers from different countries. To put it differently, you are set up for success, and if you are not earning, perhaps you’re not maximizing the tools enough.
Accepts Multiple Currencies What Is Teachable?
Even for users outside of the US and Canada, Teachable’s Gateway allows Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay to process payments. They also provide a suite of services called BackOffice, which collects tax forms from authors and affiliates, and then makes the payouts for its users. It even auto-computes the EU VAT on top of the class cost for clients from that region, and remits the taxes to the proper authorities. Though they charge a 2% fee for the use of BackOffice, it takes away all the hassle from doing the admin work manually.
Teachable is one of the few LMS which has a dedicated app on iOS, allowing users to keep tabs on their content on the go. All the sites they build are also intuitive in the sense that they can detect the student’s devices, whether computer, smartphone, or tablet, so that content snap into place and can be seen in their proper dimensions.
LMS stands for Learning Management System, which has also been called an Online Course Platform or OCP. These types of companies allow people to consolidate their thoughts into neat sets of lessons, and sell them to interested individuals for a price. Teachable is a kind of LMS that specializes in creating courses within their platform, and providing tools for managing its sales and promotion.
Who gains from Teachable?
Anyone with anything to impart to the world can benefit, and profit, from Teachable. Concerning niche markets, some platforms gravitate toward certain topics like self-improvement or web development, but Teachable has assisted lecturers on a variety of topics, from gardening to calligraphy. Essentially, if you have any sort of skill that you could share with confidence, Teachable can help you bring it to a larger audience.
What attracts newcomers to Teachable is their free lifetime plan, allowing the inexperienced to dabble in website and course creation. Advanced course managers make the switch to it due to its outstanding marketing tools that provide them the freedom to construct their online brand identity and gain a following. It’s especially popular with bloggers and artists of various media.
Are there hidden charges with Teachable? What Is Teachable?
Their pricing plans are straightforward and detailed on their site. A Few of the things that new users may overlook are the following:
Both lower tiers have transaction fees, with the free plan deducting a greater percentage. Their top two tiers waive the transaction fees.
Plans that utilize the Monthly Payment Gateway or Teachable Gateway are charged processing fees that may differ for users outside the US and Canada.
The platform supports almost all of the most common formats, including text, sound files, picture, video, and PDF. They can be uploaded from the computer, or imported from cloud providers such as Google Drive and Dropbox.
Yes, but bear in mind that the higher-priced plans get more priority service, which is only natural in the biz. Direct contact with a representative is through a live chat window on their site, but while waiting for your turn in the ticketing queue, you’re encouraged to have a look through some of the troubleshooting posts first. There is no phone-in support, but their website has a wealth of tips and tricks, weekly live workshops, and an online academy with movie tutorials — instructing users to teach their clients!
Conclusion What Is Teachable?
We hope this review has helped define and introduce some terms related to learning management systems. We decided to review Teachable as one of the greatest choices in the industry of online course platforms, and a closer look at its attributes clearly shows why. This firm champions the uniqueness of the individual, and makes it easy for virtually anybody to share ideas online, and get paid for it.
What Is Teachable
The present trend of consumer behaviour moving into online media is fast becoming the new normal for many industries. It’s no surprise that the same is true for unconventional education via the multitude of online courses now available online. This has opened more avenues of learning outside the classroom setting, and has empowered nearly anyone with an idea to talk about their knowledge.
Whether you wish to teach your hobbies, or something associated with your expertise, there are lots of online course platforms (OCP) or learning management systems (LMS) that may help you begin. Some OCPs will offer services from scratch, like making your website, while others focus mainly on helping you achieve your target audience. The 1st step is finding which one can move your ideas seamlessly onto the screens of your prospective students.
With so many LMS to choose from, there’s one firm that has stood out because of its balance of reasonable pricing, customizability, ease of use, and marketing control. Teachable is the top choice of creative entrpreneurs, and after pitting it against its competitors, it’s clear why.
Teachable vs Udemy What Is Teachable
Udemy was among the pioneers of LMS, which explains why and how their audience is still among the biggest markets in the business: they were there first. Udemy and Teachable are currently two of the most popular options in selling online classes, but they are extremely different in essence and progressiveness.
Teachable allows users to build their own course site and market their brand, while Udemy is merely a market for class creators that have existing classes. At the surface, this means that Teachable lets you use your custom domain while Udemy will have your clients keep coming back to Udemy.com. On another level, Teachable gives you tools to create and personalize the entirety of your site, from content building and editing to sales, which are not at all possible on Udemy. One of the more immediate consequences of this is that Teachable lets you communicate more directly with your clientele, by giving you access to student’s data and information; but once you’re on Udemy’s platform, your students’ information is theirs alone for whatever other purpose it may serve them. And in line with that, Udemy seems to care most about selling classes, period; so it’s not just your courses, but every other course on their listing. There have been testimonials that said this, when even competitor’s courses are promoted to clients that the instructor brought in. Sure, that may work in favor of newer users who could use the advertising, but from the point of view of a user, that business sense could seem overly spammy and unnecessary.
Marketing at a Price
It’s Udemy’s cut-throat policies that have turned off many former or possible users. They seem to know the very value of their following, and have taken advantage of it, much to the detriment of the lecturer. True, Teachable does not market the courses for its users, that responsibility is left entirely to them. In an extreme fashion, Udemy markets their user’s courses aggressively, but with a substantial price. That price is a massive chunk of control and earnings.
Udemy started with a 90% creator revenue share, but they slashed those percentages to 70%, and then again quite suddenly to 50% throughout the years. A 50% share of the course earnings may still look reasonable to others, especially to those whose courses were previously created for different purposes and were merely shared more publicly on Udemy, but that hurt a number of the instructors that were selling solely from the company’s site. In addition to this, what have driven people over the edge are the restrictions on pricing. In 2016, Udemy put a cap on its prices, and all courses on the system needed to be within the $20-$50 range. This is regardless of the uniqueness or skillfulness of a course, and it is natural for some to turn away and look for better outlets for their thoughts. If you combine these two policies, and have a course priced at $20 and a 50% creator revenue, selling on Udemy becomes almost impossible as a dependable source of primary income.
So while it is true that Udemy has a massive audience which you might want to tap into, most of the topics which they offer are really quite limited to largely Technology and Personal Development. Consider their dog-eat-dog advertising strategies and absorption of your brand’s identity, I would say Teachable is the answer to many of Udemy’s shortcomings. In the long run, there is nothing more satisfying than creating your own following.
Teachable vs Thinkific
Pricing What Is Teachable
If you’re looking for an LMS that is comparable to Teachable’s cost, Thinkific is another great company that offers a great deal for less. Both provide their first tier plans for free, and start charging for each higher tier thereafter. Many beginners choose Thinkific because of its generous waiving of transaction fees on any of its plans; however a closer look at the fine print will reveal that it costs extra for certain features which are already included in Teachable’s monthly flat prices. However, those deviations are somewhat negligible, and with a range from $0-$499 per month, you really can’t go wrong with either of these two.
Beginner-Friendly
But pricing isn’t all that they have in common. Both enable their users to create and sell personalized classes in their hosted platforms, without the hassle of handling the technical aspects like site maintenance, hosting, and security.
Newbies to the biz have a tendency to gravitate toward these firms for their easy-to-use interface that allows nearly all formats of content, including video, audio, PDFs, and other multimedia. The majority of these can be uploaded into the site with a simple drag and drop builder. They can host unlimited videos, create quizzes, send certificates, and monitor the progress of their students.
One of the benefits of Teachable over Thinkific is the former’s course builder: it allows bulk changes to courses, which can be a huge time-saver, especially for the ones that have built quite a number on their system; also it allows multi-format content in one lecture. What’s more is it can be connected to cloud services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, for faster uploads from your PC.
In terms of course delivery, Teachable has an iOS app that permits students to learn on their mobile devices, which is something which Thinkific doesn’t have.
Following the content creation comes the selling and promotion of your classes. This is where Teachable wins by a landslide. Both give the liberty to sell one-time or recurring goods, offer discounts and packages, or add affiliate programs, but Teachable has more options. The real clincher is Teachable’s 1-step checkout process, which reduces customer fallout (which occurs more during obsolete, 2-step processes like Thinkific’s). Additionally, it includes a 1-click upsell upon checkout, raising transactions per customer. Another major benefit is Teachable’s payment gateway which accepts credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay payments. Another service included is the automated payout to affiliates and authors (when applicable), taking care of tax forms and similar documentation. If you have users from the EU, it even goes as far as including EU VAT on top of course rates. That definitely gives you more value to your own content. Click here to check out pricing for Teachable.
Teachable vs Podia What Is Teachable
Among the online course platforms with the most affordable top tier is Podia. Though it doesn’t have a free plan, and its basic plan comes at $39/month (with Teachable at $29/month), its top and only remaining plan is offered at $79 (with Teachable at $399). This price gap can be due to the vastly different things they each offer. On the one hand, Teachable is a fully customizable course creator and vendor, and on the other, Podia decided to concentrate on Online Course Hosting, Membership or Email Marketing, and Digital Downloads. Those will instantly help you narrow down your choice to what’s best suited to your needs.
Podia’s streamlined classes lets users filter out other aspects that they might not have to dip into, like e-commerce. Its interface is easy, clean, and pretty great for novice instructors. That said, this is also why it may not satisfy the needs of instructors who want to do more with their site. Since the variety is not much, more advanced users may find it lacking.
Course Creation and Control
Teachable defeats Podia in design and customization tools, with choices for easy uploads of files, texts, and quizzes. The ones that dabble in code may also explore that within Teachable. Users can easily get the sleek look of a professional website by choosing from default themes which can be customized to liking. Teachable’s editor makes it effortless to create changes and push upsells, maximizing both user’s time and profitability.
Both have a drip content feature for those that want to space the lessons provided to their students, and avoid cramming modules in one go. What’s unique to Teachable is innovative control over course compliance, such as keeping tabs on students’ completion of lessons and quizzes. It also has built-in certificates that users can make and send to their students at the end of the course. In terms of integrations, Teachable has better autoresponders and analytics, both of which are very important to sales and marketing.
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To summarize, Teachable‘s interface is approachable even to the most inexperienced users, has exceptional creation and builder resources for designing a sleek course website, gives you control over your advertising and sales, has features that cut time and effort on backend paperwork, and provides the best value for money. With more updates and user feedback, they are guaranteed to be a trusted choice for years to come.
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Sights from Festival of Flight
The first Festival of Festival celebrated the area’s rich aviation history and capped off Wright State University’s Homecoming Week. (Photos by Erin Pence)
The inaugural Festival of Flight attracted families from around the Miami Valley, Wright State employees, alumni and students, and aviation enthusiasts to the grounds of the Wright State University Nutter Center on Oct. 5.
The festival introduced attendees to many of the hidden gems of aviation-related resources in the Miami Valley. The festival featured aviation-related educational experiences; flight-themed food and drinks; live band performances; Wright State soccer, volleyball and softball teams in action; exhibition games with a military veteran softball team; a vintage baseball game; a dedicated area with fun activities for children; and a haunted trail.
Festival of Flight was sponsored by the City of Fairborn, Wright State University and the Wright State Alumni Association, in partnership with the Dayton Regional STEM School, the Miami Valley Restaurant Association, the National Aviation Heritage Alliance and the National Aviation Hall of Fame with participation by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
In future years, the Festival of Flight will take place on the first weekend in October.
Watch our in-depth look at the Festival of Flight and Wright State’s Homecoming Week.
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All or Nothing: Tottenham
How to watch Tottenham All or Nothing Amazon Prime series: Release date and TV channel
The gold standard remains Channel 4's 1995 documentary Orient: Club for a Fiver, in which Leyton Orient's then manager, John Sitton, offered to fight two of his players in a peerless – if counterproductive – rant. We don't get profiles of hopeless clubs on the fuzzy end of the footballing lollipop, but of plutocrats' playthings – the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City, the Philadelphia Eagles and now Tottenham Hotspur. It is only a few miles from Orient's humble Brisbane Road to Spurs' new £1bn Tottenham Hotspur stadium, with its microbreweries and season tickets priced at up to £2,233, but they are light years apart in terms of cash. Tom Hardy's surprisingly comprehensible narration tells us that Spurs had never recovered from losing to Liverpool in 2019's Champions League final. Spurs are 14th in the Premier League at the time of Pochettino's exit and words such as "relegation" and "dogfight" are being used by White Hart Lane futurologists.
So Daniel Levy, the club's chairman, sacks Pochettino and replaces him with the self-styled "Special One", José Mourinho. After all, Mourinho had been sacked from his two previous Premier League jobs and Pochettino's flair seemed destined to be neutered by Mourinho's utilitarian approach to the beautiful game. "Fuck off," says Mourinho crossly to the radio before heading off to the training ground to meet the players. "There must be something wrong with this team," Mourinho tells his new charges. And nice guys don't win the Premier League.
Despite such Sitton-esque pep talks, Mourinho adds nothing to Spurs' honours list in his first season. Spurs won't win the Premier League this season under Mourinho, so Levy may as well fire him. Once sacked by a Premier League club for a fourth time and otherwise unemployable, Mourinho would be able to play to his strengths as a cabbie. In the resulting reality show, Do You Know the Way to Stoke, José, Mourinho would berate functionally pre-verbal footballers for their professional and lifestyle shortcomings as he drives them to their matches. Finally, us mugs would get a football documentary worth watching.
TOTTENHAM's explosive docuseries on Amazon Prime Video, All Or Nothing, has been released. The cameras will follow Spurs during their bombshell season last term which included Jose Mourinho taking the reins and moving to their £1billion brand new stadium. This series also delves into Spurs' new 62,000-seater stadium and the coronavirus lockdown. And even candid moments like Mourinho ordering his players to be a "bunch of c***s" have not been overlooked. All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur is narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hardy.
Hammersmith-born Hardy was announced as the narrator for the series on August 20. Jose Mourinho was placed under the spotlight at Tottenham Hotspur this season. When 'The Special One' agreed to replace Mauricio Pochettino at the back end of 2019, he wasn't just signing up to coach the Spurs squad, but also to appear in an Amazon documentary. That's because the delivery giants had already recruited the north London club for the latest in their line of 'All or Nothing' documentaries after the success of the Manchester City version. "If people only watch the video that was leaked, people will think that I am a crazy guy," the Spurs boss explained to PA.
A new side to Mourinho? Does Mourinho play Football Manager? Does one of the most respected football managers of all time play... Besides, Mourinho wouldn't be the first person to have coached at Manchester United and had some sort of association with the game... The current United boss said in 2013: "It's a fantastic game, I have learned a lot about football. Don't wait 30 years - sign up for our daily football email newsletter today! The wait is over for Tottenham fans as the club's Amazon Prime documentary has finally been released. The 2020/21 Premier League campaign does not kick until September 12, but the streaming giants will provide their own brand of top-flight drama with the release of All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur. The highly-anticipated docu-series, which examines life on and off the pitch at the north London club, will be a welcome buffer between the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. They have previously put a major Premier League club under the microscope, of course, with their 2018 project focusing on Manchester City's title-winning 2017/18 campaign. They have also followed the New Zealand All Blacks, the Brazilian national football team and several other NFL sides, including the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming release of the Spurs doc. The first three episodes of the Spurs doc will dropped onto Amazon on Monday, August 31, with the series set to launch in more than 200 countries worldwide. The series is set to feature behind-the-scenes footage of the Spurs home dressing room at their 62,000-seater stadium, which the club officially moved into in April 2019, as well as clips from training. A large portion of the series is expected to feature the building of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where Spurs first played in April 2019. Pochettino was sacked in November and swiftly replaced by former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho. A two-minute trailer, released earlier this month, showed Mourinho's arrival at the club as well as the team dealing with injuries to key players including Harry Kane and Son Heung-min. Another trailer also teased footage of Mourinho meeting the squad for the first time. The series will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime offers a wide range of football documentaries, including Take the Ball, Pass the Ball, an in-depth examination of Barcelona, and Take Us Home: Leeds United, which follows the West Yorkshire club through Marcelo Bielsa's first season in 2018/19. These football documentaries tend to boast an A-list narrator. Gracing the Tottenham series, however, is Tom Hardy, who was confirmed as the narrator earlier this month. In addition to dealing with Spurs' trials and tribulations on the pitch and the transitionary period following Mourinho's arrival, Tottenham have said that the documentary will shine a light on their efforts to help transform the local area and will also focus on the club's relationship with the NFL. Well then sign up for the brilliant new Daily Star Sport email newsletter! From the latest transfer news to the agenda-setting stories, get it all in your email inbox. The documentary is destined to set football Twittersphere alight, although Mourinho has previously admitted that he did not enjoy the presence of Amazon's cameras during the formative stages of his Spurs reign. "I think for them it must be great for them because they have day by day, 24 hours of what a football club and dressing room is.
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Pranab Mukherjee last book The Presidential Years PM Modi must speak more often in Parliament
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‘Prime Minister Modi must speak more often in Parliament,’ writes former President Pranab Mukherjee in latest book
Prime Minister Narendra Modi should listen to dissenting voices and speak more often in Parliament, using it as a forum to spread his views to convince the opposition and inform the nation, former President Pranab Mukherjee said.
According to Mukherjee, the mere physical presence of the prime minister in Parliament makes a huge difference in the functioning of this institution.
“Be it Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Manmohan Singh, each of these former PMs made their presence felt on the floor of the Chamber.
“Prime Minister Modi, now in his second term, must draw inspiration from his predecessors and provide visible leadership, through his increased presence in Parliament, to avoid situations that precipitated the parliamentary crisis we witnessed in the first term,” Mukherjee wrote in his memoirs “The Presidential Years, 2012-2017” that he completed before his death last year. The book, published by Rupa Publications, was published on Tuesday.
Modi, Mukherjee said, must “listen to dissenting voices and speak more often in Parliament. He must use it as a forum to spread his views to convince the Opposition and inform the nation.”
He said that during the years of the UPA, he would solve difficult problems by staying in constant contact with the leader of the Opposition and the top leaders of both the UPA and the NDA.
“My job was to lead the House, even if it meant meeting and convincing the members of the Opposition alliance. I would be present at all times in the House in order to defuse contentious issues, when they arose.” But he regretted that the NDA government, during its first term in 2014-19, failed to fulfill its primary responsibility to ensure the smooth running of Parliament.
“I attribute the acrimonious exchanges between the Treasury and the Opposition seats to arrogance and inept government management.
But the Opposition is not blameless either. He had also behaved irresponsibly, “he wrote.
Mukherjee said he had consistently argued that the disruption hurts the opposition more than the government, as a disruptive opposition loses the moral authority to put the government on the canvas.
“It also gives the executive an undue advantage to reduce the sessions of Parliament under the pretext of the prevailing chaos.” According to the former president, the moral authority to govern rests with the prime minister.
“The overall state of the nation reflects the functioning of the prime minister and his administration. While Dr. Singh was concerned with saving the coalition, which affected governance, Modi seemed to have employed a rather autocratic style of government during his first term, as seen by the bitter relationship between the government, the legislature and the judiciary, “he wrote.
“Only time will tell if there is a better understanding of these issues in the second term of this government. It is also important that the government take into account the demands and aspirations of the sector of the population that has not voted for it, because the government represents and belongs to all sectors of the people, regardless of their voting preference ”, he added.
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On 10th Anniversary, ‘Now Playing’ Hosts Talk Milestones, Memorable Moments
Let’s jump back in time 10 years to summer 2007. Sam Raimi had just tanked the Spider-Man franchise, the Fast & Furious films had stalled with Tokyo Drift, and nobody knew if George Lucas would ever launch another Star Wars trilogy.
This was when Now Playing Podcast first went on the air. Back when we still believed Crystal Skull might be good and before they rebooted Freddy’s origin story to make it, just, icky.
Not only does 2017 mark Now Playing’s 10th anniversary, the upcoming War for the Planet of the Apes review marks its 700th episode. That’s a lot of movies (and also the occasional failed TV pilot or one of those superhero shows that played theatrically in Bulgaria or wherever).
To mark the occasion, the show’s hosts came together for a Q&A about their time behind the mics and what’s changed during the last 10 years.
Venganza Media Gazette: What do you remember thinking after you heard your voice for the first time on Now Playing?
Arnie: “Well our first episode was recorded in a car in the parking lot of a Toys r Us. So my thought was, ‘For being in a car that doesn’t sound TOO bad.’”
Marjorie: “I was used to hearing my voice on Star Wars Action News but I still thought I sounded under 13. And then you have the thoughts such as ‘I really sound like that?’ or ‘What if people find my voice irritating?’”
Stuart: “I like to be behind the scenes — directing, writing, evaluating other people’s art. It was pretty painful to step in front of a mic and even more awkward listening to myself on some of my early shows. I was grateful that there weren’t too many listeners back in 2008 and early 2009.”
Jakob: “I was no stranger to hearing my voice; I had sang in bands and had been podcasting on and off for a few years prior. But at the time a huge part of our listenership were horror fans, a genre I wasn’t very familiar with. So there was some anxiety with having my introduction with the SAW movies and having to speak about a genre I just didn’t have a lot of exposure to.”
Venganza Gazette: What’s changed about you as a host?
Jakob: “I watch a lot more movies and I discuss them a lot more — not just with my co-hosts, but with my family. We spend a lot of time discussing why a film does or doesn’t work.”
Marjorie: “I have a different view of movies now. I see so much more that goes into a movie. More than just ‘it was good.’ I also can’t ever ‘turn off’ reviewing. When I see movies I’m not reviewing, I tend to dissect them.”
Jakob: “My wife and I share what we consider great scenes with our girls, even if they may be too young for the entire movie. Is it crossing a line that we reenacted the ‘I drink your milkshake’ scene from THERE WILL BE BLOOD for our 10 and 6-year-old?”
Stuart: ”The biggest change for me is the zip code where I record. I’m no longer ‘Stuart In L.A.’ When I started Now Playing I always worried that things I said might come back to haunt me working in the Los Angeles entertainment industry. Now that I’ve stepped away from that scene, I sleep better at night.”
Arnie: “The differences are greater than the similarities, in my mind. What’s the same? A rotating cast of hosts and we devote one episode to one movie. What’s different? Everything else. Now Playing started as a show where we would record short, spoiler-free movie reviews.”
The first Now Playing Podcast episode, a review of Spider-Man 3 was released on May 4, 2007.
Stuart: “A long show in 2007 was 30 minutes. Now we go twice as long on an episode of Twin Peaks.”
Arnie: “They weren’t going to be edited at all, as editing takes five-to-10 times the length of a given show.”
Brock: “I do remember editing the first show I did with my wife – back then it was a two person review show, much like what Arnie and Marjorie do on Star Wars Action News.”
Arnie: “As I had Star Wars Action News already I didn’t feel I had the time to undertake more editing. So they would be instant reaction thoughts, recorded immediately upon leaving the theater, and published as-is [with] minimal editing, [and] we also were going to focus on new releases only. Now we go through the history of film, with spoiler-filled critiques that are very long, and very well edited by a great team including Heath and David.”
Jakob: “We just go so much more in depth now. But for me, personally, I approach the show with a different attitude. When I first came on, I had a MST3K mentality. I mean, I had to review a bunch of SAW films — not really my thing — so I thought, ‘How many jokes can I make?’ Now, while we still shoot for humor at times, I try focus on the filmmaking and storytelling so I can articulate how those contribute to a film, good or bad.”
Brock: “Today we are a well-oiled machine, even more comfortable sharing our opinions and talking with one another. The shows back then, and especially when we started the roundtable format, had the best we could do technically at the time, and now the production values are insanely great thanks to our equipment, sure, but mostly because of the countless hours Arnie puts in producing each and every episode. And also the incredible, tireless work of our talented editors who make us all sound so good.”
Marjorie: “We are all so much older and wiser! I think that we all found our rhythm with each other. I have a natural rapport with Arnie because we are married and therefore spend a lot of time together. But Stuart, Jakob and myself had to build that.”
The July 14, 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes review marks Now Playing Podcast’s 700th episode.
In addition to hitting the 700th episode milestone, several of the hosts are racking up big numbers behind the microphone. When the War for the Planet of the Apes review is released, Arnie will have hosted 676 Now Playing episodes, Stuart will have hosted 618, and Jakob will have hosted his 469th show.
Venganza Gazette: Do you have a favorite Now Playing episode?
Stuart: “INCEPTION was an early favorite of mine because I think it was such a turning point for the show. Now Playing proved in that podcast that we could do more than heckle. On top of really liking the movie, I was proud of the way we broke down all of Nolan’s multi-level storylines and daunting thematic readings in a very concise 73 minutes.”
Arnie: “I really am proud of PROMETHEUS. That was a film with disparate, and surprising, opinions from the hosts, and yet the conversation was always lively, and I think everyone made such great points. I re-listened to that show recently because of ALIEN: COVENANT and so it’s recent to my memory, but even before that it was a go-to for me to see three of the hosts bringing their A-game.”
Brock: “I really liked what the guys did with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Sometimes with a really good movie, a classic, practically flawless movie the show can be a little harder for us panelists to do. You can’t tear it apart, and there aren’t always opportunities to make jokes because the jokes have been made for 30 years already. Everyone is so familiar with the movie itself and the behind the scenes information already and on top of that the listeners know going in it that the hosts are all going to give it a green arrow. The team embraced all these challenges and showed us why Now Playing is as good as it gets with review shows. The guys did a great job with the commentary, the trivia, and played off one another beautifully making an entertaining show that was structurally and technically proficient. So much so that I have enjoyed listening to that show multiple times over. A highlight for me is when Stuart brought up the CASABLANCA correlation; not many people get that aspect of RAIDERS and I’m glad he did and shared it with the audience.”
Jakob: “I’m really enjoying our current Now Peaking discussions for TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. What’s fascinating is we had the chance to do a whole David Lynch retrospective building up to this new series. With Lynch, as an auteur, there is so much of him in this return to Twin Peaks. It feels like a culmination of his entire aesthetic and viewpoint. Within the first two episodes we had brought up the influences of ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE. I’m still not sold on this third season, but it has been insightful to discuss it in the context of Lynch’s complete works and not just the original run of the television show.”
Venganza Gazette: What’s the most positive feedback you’ve ever received from a listener?
Arnie: “I can’t begin to express how touched I am by some listeners’ messages to us. From troops stationed overseas who use our show to experience movies they can’t yet see to adults who say our show is like a conversation with friends, each message means so much.”
Marjorie: “There have been a few people who have written to us about how listening to Now Playing got them through a rough patch in their life. And I think it’s utterly amazing that, even remotely, I was able to help someone.”
Stuart: “I never thought three people riffing on movies had the potential to heal, but I have been incredibly moved by all the stories fans have shared over the years about how we helped them laugh away depression, death, and some real big life challenges.”
Arnie: “A handful of people have e-mailed with a very specific message and I’m humbled every time I read them. These are people who have been in bad situations: illness or accident, divorce, job loss, the death of someone close to them, or sometimes a combination of those. These are people who tell us they felt hopeless. One person said, ‘I felt like I would never be able to laugh again.’ A couple people mentioned contemplating suicide. These are deeply personal moments being shared via e-mail with us. Then their notes change tone and discuss how our show helped them through. We entertained them, in that one case we gave him the first laugh he’d had. We took their minds off their troubles and brought them a bit of happiness. That is my dream come true — to be able to entertain people and give them a few moments where they aren’t thinking about their day, their responsibilities, and their problems.”
Stuart: “I never expected to have such impact on anyone, and I’m incredibly humbled by that.”
Arnie: “It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I considered being a lawyer or a stockbroker. But in high school I realized the importance of entertainment in my life. I had my own dark days in my teen and early adult years. What got me through those times were video games, movies, television, books – entertainment. So starting in high school, and really for the rest of my life, my goal has been to entertain. I wanted to give people that escape the way Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, Will Wright, and Stephen King helped me to escape. My path to finding podcasting as that vehicle was a winding one, but it was the outlet I found. And I can’t express how touched I am when I read what we do does provide that for some of our listeners. It fills me with purpose, and reminds me that we’re not just discussing the eighth in a bad series of direct-to-video sequels, we’re hopefully also entertaining and informing at the same time.”
Venganza Gazette: What’s the strangest feedback you’ve ever received from a listener?
Brock: “I was at a Comic Con, talking to the vendor on the other side of the table about an action figure or something, and this guy standing next to me exclaimed ‘Hey, you’re Brock! I recognize your voice!’ That was pretty cool to be picked out by my voice alone.”
Marjorie: “I had some weird messages from guys who liked my voice.”
Stuart: “It was pointed out very bluntly a few times on Facebook that I have a ‘squeaky voice’ when I get excited. Hey, I’m not going to say that’s untrue, but there’s only so much I can do about that until I finish going through puberty. How I wish I could hire Barry White to say all the things I’ve got to say!”
Brock: “There was this one [comment] we received years ago that accused me of trying to sound professional, putting on a radio voice when I talk or something. Arnie told Stuart and I about this thing one night when we were recording, and we all got a great laugh because this is how I talk! I wouldn’t have the patience or the discipline to put on a fake voice for hours on end, each and every time we do a recording session. I mean, I guess that is sort of a compliment, that my voice sounds that way, but the guy clearly didn’t have a clue about what he was talking about.”
Jakob: “One listener offered to pay for my dental work after he punched my teeth out because of my views on one film. I wonder if the police I had to involve became fans of Now Playing after I reported [him]?”
Arnie: “I need to be vague about this for privacy, but a listener wrote in and told me how, in 2012, he had a workplace encounter with Bradley Cooper [and] he ended up turning Cooper on to Now Playing, specifically our HOWARD THE DUCK show. The next day Cooper told him he laughed his ass off listening to that podcast. He said he downloaded some other shows, including our ROCKY reviews. That is totally surreal to think of the voice actor who performed in GUARDIANS has listened to our HOWARD THE DUCK review.”
Stuart: “We get a lot of positive feedback when we slam a problematic movie like HOWARD THE DUCK or HALLOWEEN III.”
Venganza Gazette: What’s the one film you’re still waiting to review?
Jakob: I’d love the work through Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER. It’s a film that I’ve done a complete 180° on since its theatrical release. Originally, I recognized the amazing acting but the story left me cold. I recently re-watched it with my wife, who is a huge Phillip Seymour Hoffman fan. As we worked our way through the film, she helped me realize what a heartbreaking romance it is in the midst of some heavy ideas about religion and post-war America. I would love to discuss such a dense piece of work.”
Stuart: “THE MANITOU! There is no crazier horror movie from the 1970s. It would be a perfect Easter Egg pairing with THE OMEN and ROSEMARY’S BABY franchises.”
Marjorie: “I would love to do a 70s disaster movie retrospective. There was a small heyday of disaster movies.”
Arnie: “DONNIE DARKO is a favorite film of mine that I think is so rich for analysis, even if the director did make it so obvious with various supplements and the director’s cut.
Brock: “BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. It’s my favorite movie, and the first movie I say when people ask me for a film recommendation. Every time. Not enough people watch it anymore but they really should. It’s not a traditional western, but can be a hard sell to people who deeply dislike westerns. Perhaps we can bundle it THE STING and that sequel they made in 1979 with Tom Berenger. I have avoided watching that sequel but I’d watch it for Now Playing.”
Arnie: “I made a vow to never watch S DARKO, the cash-grab DONNIE sequel with hardly anyone from the original involved. If we reviewed DONNIE I’d probably have to watch S, and I really don’t want to taint my love of the original with a super-shitty sequel.”
Now Playing Podcast will release its War for the Planet of the Apes episode as part of its 2017 Spring Donation Drive. Supporters of the show can hear the review, along with all of the episodes in the Planet of the Apes series, at NowPlayingPodcast.com.
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Congrats on your 700th episodes. This podcast has meant so much to me and others. Sometimes you need some humor, or a friendly voice or some deep thoughts to take you away from the bad things in your life. For 10 years Now Playing has provided that for so many people. From the bottom of my heart, Thanks for being there.
Comment by Joe Black | July 12, 2017
I need to know which movie review got Jakob’s teeth punched out!
Comment by Brett B. | July 12, 2017
It HAD to be Batman and Robin! Lol!
Comment by Chuck White | July 16, 2017
One of my favorite episodes is still Dr. Strange (1978). As much as I like to hear Stuart be in pain for the bad superhero movies (Green Lantern), I love it when he is pleasantly surprised by a movie in a genre I take to heart. It was nice to hear him so enthusiastic about a TV movie! I just wish Dr. Strange (2016) wasn’t such a letdown!
Comment by Jason W. | July 12, 2017
The Manitou! What a lovely gob of trash. Love it! Watch that one with Prophecy (1979) and you’ve got one hell of a drive-in double feature.
Comment by Glenn Ferrara | July 12, 2017
Always love these guys. You are the best. I listen to several podcasts as well as yours. I listen to The Simpson Show, Seincast, Twilight Pwn, and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. You are my tops. I’ve donated platinum every time since LotR, Kickstarter donated, bought almost all the eps off podbean (5 Easter Egg and Excorcist left) and now Patreon. I love getting to support you guys.
You all surprise me a bunch. I was shocked when an Easter Egg podcast for Making Contact showed up. I nearly did a spit take. I knew the film. “Oooh Stuart is going to rail on having to watch this.” Nope HE picked it. In fact lots of the easter egg ones are his picks. They go above and beyond so much. Listen to Arnie’s recommend on KISS Meets the Phantom. It is epic!
Also love the bloopers. Sad that Stuart moved and we will no longer get interuptions like neighbors fighting, planes overhead and such. I remember one blooper that was five minutes of him giving play by play of a neighbors argument. Just hilarious.
Even when it is a film that doesn’t interest me i listen. I’m not a Lynch fan but still have them in my up next to get to soon.
Thank you again guys for the hours of entertainment.
Comment by Rattrap007 | July 12, 2017
Since 2009, there is no entertainment I look forward to more than Now Playing. Even for movies I have no interest in seeing, the quality of every episode still makes it worth a listen. And for the movies I love, numerous listens are a must. Here’s to 700 more!
Comment by Todd Gillette | July 12, 2017
Great, great podcast. I’m with Marjorie- 70s disaster flicks! Now, please!
Comment by Bob Latchaw | July 13, 2017
Congrats on the milestone guys. I love your shows, are been listening and donating for years and spreading the message in U.K. and Ireland where I am based. Keep up the good work and I too like the idea of a disaster movie retrospective by decade perhaps. Cheers
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Film and Television Studies
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V. F. Perkins Tribute
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Richard Dyer
This is the text of a tribute delivered at Victor’s funeral on the 2nd of August, 2016.
I first met Victor in 1977 at Warwick University, though neither of us worked there yet. It was at a conference. He came up to me and asked me if I would be interested in applying for a job at Bulmershe College, which is where he worked at the time. It rather surprised me, and it set the tone for what he was like as a colleague.
Of course, I knew who he was – indeed, I was already a great admirer. I was very flattered that someone like Victor would ask me, but at the same time I also surprised as I felt we had such different approaches. I also thought it was wonderful that he didn’t just want more people like himself to be in the department he was developing. And in fact, that was very much a keynote of how he ran Film Studies at Warwick, which is where I eventually worked with him for twenty-seven years. One of the things about him was that, whenever we made a new appointment, he would always say that above all we want the best person; but secondly, we want someone who brings something different, who doesn’t just do what we do. Victor was someone who was intellectually very fastidious, but he was also nonetheless very aware of other approaches, and very democratic in his desire to incorporate other approaches than his own. That openness and generosity was one of the things that was great about working with him. He was always very supportive of anything one wanted to do, and helped make it possible for one to do it.
There are two other things I want to mention about working with him. One is perhaps quite hard to convey to anyone who isn’t in Film Studies. He was very good at thinking about material infrastructure: what kind of rooms do you need? What equipment do you need? He was quite gadget-minded, so if there was a new thing that would help us study, a new machinery of some kind, he was very keen to get it. He also thought, for instance, about us having access to the department’s offices, which meant that we had this elaborate system of keys to all the rooms, so that we could come and go as we pleased. These things are very nuts-and-bolts, but that sense of attention to detail – of considering the material basis of doing teaching and being colleagues – was striking.
The other thing he provided as a colleague was the tone that he set. I should say that in some ways I found him quite scary: he really was very clever. You didn’t really want to look at Victor when you were listening to a guest speaker: if you did his face would often say say ‘I can’t believe this: why did they ask this person?’ And afterwards, one might rather gingerly ask, ‘Well, what did you think of that?’ And he would say, ‘Disgraceful!’ That was one of his favourite terms for a bad talk – a talk that was stupid, or banal. So then of course one thought, ‘Well, what does he think of me?!’ But despite that, the other thing about him as a colleague – apart from his wonderful supportiveness – was that he was fun. He was always up for a cup of tea, always up for going to lunch, always up for talking about the latest film, or thing one had seen on TV, or book you had read. Part of his wonderful attention to detail in terms of material organisation was that he thought it was important to have a space that we could all have coffee in. That was a major factor in how the department ran in such an enjoyable and pleasant way. At Ed Gallafent’s retirement do, only a few weeks before Victor’s death, Ed said that one of the most striking things about the department at Warwick is how kind it was. I think that’s absolutely true, and I think that comes in large part from the tone that Victor set. So, as a colleague of Victor, one had the security of it being well organised, the tremendous supportiveness, his brilliance, but also that sense of fun, of creating a great atmosphere.
I also want to say something about him as a scholar. I was trying to think about why was he so important. Obviously he was foundational to Film Studies, and if you read any histories of the subject, Victor is there as a key player in the development of the discipline nationally and internationally. But he was not only admired and respected; he was also beloved – even by people who had never met him — his work was beloved. I was trying to think about what it was that was so special about his work. Of course it was intellectually rigorous; but what was the special quality?
I decided that it was, in fact, love. Not just love of film in the sense that he loved particular films and he would persuade you of why they were loveable. Of course he did that; but it wasn’t really that which I wanted to get at in what was important about his love. I think he loved in a way that was how one should love: he gave himself to his object of affection, to the film he was looking at. He didn’t use film as an occasion to be clever, which I’m afraid is quite a vice in our discipline. He also didn’t use film simply to illustrate some general point. He gave himself to the film he was writing about. And it was that which gave him the inwardness with it, the readiness to really pay attention to detail, to go back again, and again. He would teach the same film year-in, year-out; and I would ask him, ‘Don’t you get bored?’ And he would say that no, he didn’t. He always went deeper, and think that’s because he gave himself to the film, and I think it’s that loving relationship to what he was studying that made his work so important, and beloved. One might sum up by saying that his view of film was that you had to pay full and utter attention to it as a film – in other words, film as film.
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Star Scene: Sebastian Bach
August 19, 2015Mary Boukouvalas
Sebastian Bach’s scene is “High energy”. Known as the Original Voice of SKID ROW, Bach is one of the finest front men to come out of the late 80’s / early 90’s with one hell of a voice. He is considered musical royalty and a personification of pure rock and roll at its finest. Thus his scene being high energy needs no clarification yet Bach continues, “I don’t know what it is about me personally or my music but when I run out there on stage and the fucken place goes mental, that’s my scene. I have been doing this for 30 years and I feel we all know each other even though I don’t know you personally, you all can’t believe I can do this shit”.
Before joining Skid Row at 18, Bach states he always wanted to be a musician. “All I ever wanted as a kid was to be Willie Nelson was to go on the road again and play my music, and I got exactly that, even the same hair”. His influences were varied but states: “One of my biggest influences was Rose Tattoo. I am not just saying that because you’re from Australia. Yesterday I was on a long run and for first time in a long time I played ‘We Can’t be Beaten’ and I almost ran through a brick wall when that song came on. That song, and Rock N Roll Outlaw. I bought that album when it came out cause I haven’t seen men who looked so mean. Rose Tattoo have played for us. I love AC/DC too but Rose Tattoo, those two albums, Scarred for Life and Rock N Roll Outlaw, you can put on your phone today, look out, good rock and roll”.
Though if he wasn’t a musician, he continues, “I’m also a rock fan, a collector, I would have something like JB’s audio, like I love records and comics and collectable figures and books. I love art, that’s the culture I love. Some rock stars open up restaurants; I’d probably open up a head shop. I like collecting stuff. I just bought a vintage turntable, which sounds great, so when you ask me what I’d be doing, I’d probably have a shop like that but I’m too busy to think about that. I’m always on tour, my book comes out next year, I’m getting married to my girl. So I’m not going to open up a head shop anytime soon but maybe someday”.
After joining, Bach began a whirlwind career fuelled with sex, drugs and rock and roll alongside large amounts of touring and Gold & Platinum accolades, until 1996 when he ventured off on his own where he created acclaimed solo material and his various collaborations with musicians across all genres. He states that: “As far as rockers go I am on the young side, look at AC/DC. Motley Crew, they’re all like ten-twenty years older, and they’re like we can’t still believe you can hit those notes, that you can still scream on the stage”.
Bach has just finished an American and Canadian tour. He states, “We’ve just done seven weeks of touring, now we’re recharging batteries after 30 and 40 shows it takes a lot out of you. I mean you can interview Rush or KISS and they will tell you same thing. Very physical heavy metal takes all your energy, all your spirit. So we’re just getting some energy back. So fortunate to play so many gigs especially in this day and age, with the tour bus and everything. Now we are getting ready to come to New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia,
The 18 and Alive Down Under tour. We’re really excited. Melbourne has always been one of the best crowds that I’ve ever performed in front of, going back to when we played Guns N’ Roses 1993 shows. That was incredible. I did three tours of Australia on the Angel Down album and I didn’t do any since then. Not even Kicking & Screaming which was weird because I was told by record company that that album even charted in the Australian charts which Angel Down didn’t which seems weird doing three tours on an album that didn’t chart and no tours on an album that did. So we now have a new album, Give ‘Em Hell, and it’s been going down well live and we can finally get ‘Bach’ to Australia”.
As for the songs on Give ‘em Hell, Bach had a totally different temperament two years ago. He explains this attitude through one of the songs on the album: “Hell on Earth is how I felt at the time. That’s about two years old. While I was writing the lyrics yes I felt that way but I don’t feel that way about my life now. But that’s what music is, it’s a reflection of your life, and at the time I felt I was in hell and I wanted to give a little back, sorry ‘bach’. But I don’t feel that way now, so ive got that out of my system, and it’s safe to say that on the next record I won’t have devil horns on my head. I won’t have a halo neither. I’m in a much better mood in my life right now”.
Bach takes touring seriously, preparing for months beforehand. He has a routine of a “Set of scales, Journey, old Judas Priest, and if I can get my voice to hit those notes then I know I’m ready to go on the road. It takes a couple of weeks locking myself into a room, it is a whole process”. Now, for the first time since 2008, Bach will be returning to Australian shores as well as his very first headlining shows ever in New Zealand in September 2015. Though a solo artist in his own right, he still performs Skid Row tracks. His attitude is one of professionalism for his art, and consideration for his fans. Excited about the tour, Bach states: “I am blessed with a throat that can sing every night but I am too old for 6 or 7 nights in a row. The Australian tour is two nights in a row plus travel days, but I can rest my voice and sing properly and not do ten in a row. I’ll be doing all the hit songs you expect me to do.
My band is really kick ass: Brent Woods on guitar, Bobby Jarzombek on drums, and Rob De Luca on bass. There are so many songs to choose from so each night will be different. We have to keep it interesting for us too”.
Whether you’re a fan from the SKID ROW days or his solo material nowadays, Bach, who describe his sound as hot tamale, is ready to Give ‘Em Hell and leave audiences Kicking & Screaming.
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Protecting creditors from Pre-Packs: when a company must disclose its secret plans
Pre-Pack administrations can allow an insolvent company to sell off its business and assets free of debt without notice to its creditors. Sometimes the sale is to the same people who ran the company into the ground. Creditors often feel short changed. If the company has to apply to Court to enter administration, there is a protection from Pre-Packs, but creditors have to be alert.
When a creditor petitions to wind up a company that owes an undisputed debt, the ideal result is that the startled company pays up immediately. When that doesn’t happen however, the creditor faces vying with the other unsecured creditors for the insolvent company’s assets as they are realised and distributed. They very rarely recover the full debt.
If the company’s directors come and say to the creditor “we can’t pay you now, but if we go into administration for some time, we really believe we’ll get out of trouble and be able to pay our debts in full”, then the attraction for the creditor is obvious.
In normal circumstances, a company can enter administration by its own motion by filing a notice of appointment with accompanying documents with the Court – this is known as the “out-of-Court-route.”
However, where a winding up petition has been presented, the company cannot enter administration unless a Court makes an Administration Order (as provided by paragraph 25(a) of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986). If the company is going to apply for an Administration Order, it will have to give notice to the creditor and stay the winding up petition. The company will also usually identify a proposed administrator.
When deciding whether to order that a company should enter administration (and therefore prevent its being wound up) the Court follows Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986:
Paragraph 11 of Schedule B1 provides:
The court may make an administration order in relation to a company only if satisfied—
(a) that the company is or is likely to become unable to pay its debts, and
(b) that the administration order is reasonably likely to achieve the purpose of administration.
The purpose of administration is set out at para 3(1) of Schedule B1:
(a) rescuing the company as a going concern, or
(b) achieving a better result for the company’s creditors as a whole than would be likely if the company were wound up (without first being in administration), or
(c) realising property in order to make a distribution to one or more secured or preferential creditors.
In the circumstances described above, a creditor may be happy to agree to the appointment of the administrator, believing administration to offer their best chance of recovering all of their debt. The Judge deciding the application may take the same view, especially where the petitioning creditor (and any other creditors who attend the application) have consented.
The Pre Pack surprise
However, if unbeknownst to the creditor a pre –packaged sale (“Pre-Pack”) has already been arranged, joy can turn swiftly to anger. Over the last decade or so, creditors have increasingly had to watch as upon his or her appointment the Administrator immediately sells the business and assets of the company to a prearranged purchaser—often the same people who ran the company into insolvency— for a discount. The buyer can carry on with the company’s business, free of all debts.
The creditor is left with nothing but a share of whatever payment was agreed under the Pre-Pack.
While legal, Pre-Packs have proved controversial to say the least. It is a legitimate defence of these schemes to say that they can rescue a business (and its employees’ jobs) which would sink in the face of the negative publicity surrounding a sale in insolvency. They are quick, and it is not necessarily the case that the company’s unsecured creditors will receive less than if the business and assets of the company were sold following a winding up.
Set against those positives is the fundamental lack of transparency involved in a Pre Pack. Creditors often feel like the victims of a conspiracy—and never more so than when they see that the business and assets of the company are still in the hands of the people who, in their eyes, ran up the company’s debts. The fact that the administrators fees come out of the sale price serves in increase the impression of collusion.
These frustrations filtered through to the insolvency regulatory bodies, wand in 2009 they produced official guidance for Administrators who find themselves arranging Pre Packs for a company before it has entered administration.
SIP 16
Version 3 of ‘Statement of Insolvency Practice 16’ came into force from 1st November 2015. It sets out the steps that an Insolvency Practitioner acting as Administrator in a Pre-Pack must follow. In summary, the Administrator must:
• Be clear that his or her duty is to the company rather than the directors
• Bear in mind the interests of and duties towards creditors
• Obtain proper valuations of assets and retain records of all steps taken
• Unless another approach is clearly preferable, undertake “proper marketing” before the sale
• As soon as possible after the sale, provide creditors with a detailed narrative explanation and justification of the decision to carry out the Pre Pack (“the SIP 16 Statement”)
• Provide additional information where the sale will be to a “connected party”
The appendix to SIP 16 sets out the minimum requirements for ‘proper marketing’, and prescribes certain information and documentation which must be provided by the Administrator to the creditors in the SIP 16 Statement.
If provided properly, the information in SIP 16 Statement is sufficient to provide creditors with an understanding of the Pre-Pack, particularly in terms of who bought the assets and for how much. It should also provide an explanation of how Administrator satisfied him or herself that the Pre-Pack was actually in the company’s and the creditors’ best interests.
But how far does this actually help a creditor?
Creditors’ options
Out-of-Court administration
For unsecured creditors of company’s whose Pre-Packs followed the out-of-Court route for administration, the first they will hear about the administration, leave alone the Pre-Pack, will be when the administrator provides first notification of the administration. That notification is required as soon as reasonably practicable. Paragraph 17 of SIP 16 requires notification of the pre-pack to be given to creditors within seven calendar days after the pre-pack sale regardless of practicalities.
Given that the sale will already have taken place, this is too late for creditors who would have opposed the sale to do anything about it. They are left with the option of a claim against an Administrator if they believe he or she has breached their duty. But in respect of the assets of the company which owed the debt, the ship has already sailed. So long as pre-packs remain legal, the trail will run cold here.
Court-ordered administration
Where the Court has to be involved, there is authority providing that a company cannot apply for an Administration Order with a pre-pack in mind unless it discloses the full details of the proposed sale to the Court and any creditors concerned with that application.
The company’s directors will not be allowed simply to pick and choose what details it gives to the Court when they seek an Administration Order. In Re Bowen Travel Ltd [2012] EWHC 3405 (Ch), HHJ Simon Barker QC said in this context that:
“it is, in my judgment, essential that the evidence presented to the court is reliable. Implicit in the noun "reliable" in this context is not only that it is accurate evidence and true insofar as it is factual, but also that a clear account is given of all potentially relevant facts and circumstances.” (Paragraph 19)
Creditors who have issued winding up petition will be even better served by reference to the now ageing but still valid case of Re Kayley Vending Limited [2009] EWHC 904 (Ch). In that case, HHJ David Cooke considered the disclosure requirements on an application for an Administration Order where a Pre-Pack was envisaged. SIP 16 was still in its early days, but the Judge clearly approved of the transparency that it was aimed at providing. His Judgment provides that the matters covered in SIP 16 should in most cases be the minimum details disclosed in the original application:
“While it is primarily a matter for the applicant to identify what information is likely to assist the court, and that information may not be limited to the matters identified in SIP 16, it seems to me likely that in most cases the information required by SIP 16, insofar as known or ascertainable at the date of application would fall within the requirement I have referred to and so ought to be included in the application.” (Paragraph 24)
It follows that, in principle at least, a creditor who has taken the step of issuing a winding up petition should never be caught unawares by a pre-pack sale. Of course, in the real world, company directors are not always as thorough as they should be.
As the law stands, where a company enters administration via the out-of-Court route, it is permissible for a Pre-Pack sale to be agreed and immediately executed without reference to the creditors. This is not the case however where a Court order is required.
Whenever a creditor in a winding up petition discovers that the company has responded by making an application for an Administration Order, they should not assume that they will be given the full picture. As early as possible, both the company and the proposed administrator should be reminded that the details of any proposed pre-pack, at least those required for a SIP 16 Statement, must be placed before the Court. It’s possible that this would not deter some directors from keeping their plans secret, but it must be hoped that Insolvency Practitioners would not jeopardise themselves by ignoring such a warning.
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Energy | Features
Harnessing Humidity as a Renewable Resource
by Advanced Science News | Dec 24, 2019
A new material that pulls moisture from the air and uses it to generate an electric current.
A superhygroscopic hydrogel is developed that can harvest humidity from the atmosphere directly for light-driven water splitting.
The tropical region of our planet covers approximately 40% of the total land area and houses about 40% of the world’s population. Residing in a tropical country means combating high levels of relative humidity throughout the year – especially on warm days.
Relative humidity affects the way in which we perceive temperature. It makes hot days feel even hotter since evaporation of sweat from the human body takes longer. Maintaining comfort under humid conditions accounts for almost 40% of a country’s total expenditure. With a peaking global energy demand, the need to develop an alternative, sustainable, and less-energy-intensive technique to maintain thermal comfort is the order of the day.
Humidity is often considered a redundant resource, however, in their recent article in Advanced Materials, Professor Swee Ching Tan and his co-workers from National University of Singapore report a self-sustainable solution to combat the “sticky heat” problem.
Taking inspiration from some flora and fauna found in nature and having recognized their unique water-harvesting abilities that fuel their survival, the team has developed materials for harnessing ambient humidity as a potential resource. Capturing atmospheric moisture leads to effective dehumidification of closed spaces and integration of photocatalytic semiconductors to the hydrogel aids in generating energy from humid air; much like the process of photosynthesis that happens in plants. The result is a path toward attaining thermal comfort at zero energy expense.
This approach involves integrating a superhygroscopic gel-like concoction that absorbs an enormous amount of water from ambient humid air with semiconducting photocatalytic nanoparticles that help in splitting the absorbed water. Two versions of the superhygroscopic hydrogel – zinc-based and cobalt-based – were explored. Both these hydrogels have an enormous “thirst” for air moisture that enables them to absorb water from humid air to more than four times their own weight. A semiconducting light-active copper-based material was used to synthesize Cu2O nanoparticles, which aid in breaking down the absorbed water molecules to evolve hydrogen and oxygen. These nanoparticles distribute throughout the hydrogel matrix to fabricate the hybrid system.
“Interestingly it was found that in Cu2O nanoparticles, there exists a built-in polarized electric field between their two crystal planes and when illuminated with light,” says Dr. Tan, one of the study’s authors. “This built-in field is responsible for breaking down the absorbed water molecules.”
Crystal-plane engineering was used to fine-tune and enhance the moisture-breakdown process of the nanoparticles by integrating it with barium titanate (BaTiO3 or BTO) in a favorable orientation. The built-in electric field of the nanoparticles was enhanced by the BTO particles, leading to a more efficient charge separation and transfer and higher efficiencies of water splitting. “This system proves to be effective and self-sustaining in dehumidifying enclosed spaces,” says Tan. “The reason being the absorption of moisture from the humid air and breaking down of the absorbed water happens in tandem. The presence of the light-active nanoparticles prevents the hydrogel from reaching saturation in water absorption.”
With reliance on air-conditioning reaching new heights in many parts of the globe, there is a huge increase in energy consumption and global greenhouse emissions. This system, coupled with a fan, assists in easing the thermal discomfort caused by high levels of relative humidity, leading to a cleaner and greener world.
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'Networks and Voids'…weaving Stephens’ art, Ojeikere’s women into a story
By Tajudeen Sowole
When American painter, Gary Stephens showed interest in the work of renowned photographer J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, the synergy that would later exist between them, led to a joint art exhibition, which highlights the latter’s decades-old identity of celebrating the uniqueness of Nigerian women’s native headdresses.
Visitors viewing Networks and Voids.
At Omenka Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, the headdresses - expressed in hair braiding and native Yoruba headwear gele - are depicted in creative contents of photography and drawings titled Networks and Voids.
The exhibition, quite of note, stresses art’s borderless value as resonates in the two artists who are cultures and generations apart. Ojeikere, 83, whose works on Nigerian women’s headdresses have been shown at exhibitions over the decades across Europe and the U.S is a master of the lens. Stephens, 51, a recent convert, started showing interest in African women’s headdresses from his Johannesburg, South Africa base, but got fully involved when he visited Lagos last year.
Having come across Nigerian women’s headdresses on his first visit to Lagos, Stephens seems to be developing a chain of thematic works after he showed a body of paintings and drawings titled Ankara Portraits at the same gallery, last year. Earlier, Stephens was in Lagos where his work was briefly on display at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, for his Artist’s Talk.
While Networks and Voids offers Stephens a broader opportunity to focus on women’s headdress, the deliberate choice of presenting his entire works in black and white is, indeed, a tribute to Ojeikere who has, over the decades, personified monochromatic presentation of photography in Nigeria and the Diaspora; Ojeikere’s work is mostly in black and white. For Stephens, some of the works shown include the drawings captured in Lagos during his second visit, stressing an increased interest in the headdress theme. He discloses that though he had been showing great interest in headdresses across the genders ahead of his first visit to Nigeria, but in Lagos ladies’ styles, “I got more fascinated”. The interest, Stephens recalls, was fueled after meeting Ojeikere. “I had made quite a lot of drawings of braided hairstyles. But when I came to Lagos, it was great meeting Ojeikere and I immediately showed interest in his works of hair styles”.
Some of Ojeikere’s works in the show are quite familiar, particularly of the Onile gogoro (high rising house) hair styles – reminiscence of the springing up of high rise buildings on the Lagos Island streetscapes in the 1970s – from which the style got his name. The Onile gogoro style actually added to the list of existing native hair weaving names such as suku, Ipako elede, among several old names given to the styles.
However, before the 1970s vogue of Onile gogoro, Ojeikere had been documenting headdresses over a decade. “My collection of hairstyles stated in 1956”, he recalls what he describes as a “sub-conscious” passion. But it was during the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (FESTAC ’77) that he deliberately expanded his interest in the gele headdress. Ever since then, Ojeikere’s work is synonymous with woven hairstyle and gele such that his other themes have been blurred from his bio. “As we speak, most people think I don’t do any other work apart from hairstyles”, the octogenarian says.
In huge sizes, Stephens’ works in Networks and Voids also strengthens the artist’s technique of creating optical illusion as he steps up the effect by boxing the drawing in a glass frame that equally has lines. Quite of note, the lines on the opaque-cover connect with the pleating technique of the canvas, hence an animation effect. When he showed in Lagos last year, the works, which included both male and female head wears - caps or hats for men – were in paintings and few drawings, the folding technique was indeed innovative, though an evolving process then.
And as he steps up the technique, it would be of great interest to see some of the works in colour. An all-black and white display appears to have the technique of something, isn’t it? Maybe yes, but the non-colour presentation of the works, Stephens concedes, “is a tribute to Ojeikere”.
As fascinated as Stephens was to “the varieties of braiding” he has seen in Lagos, some of the people he met, surprisingly, were not so excited. “My models in Nigeria gave me the impression that the braiding that fascinate me are old fashion”, the visitor explains. Indeed, over the last 20 years, hair braiding has changed from the bold, estuary-like and native patterns to thin and hairy or loose styles, which come with all sorts of names such as ‘Ghana weaving’, Senegalese weaving’.
Gary Stephens (left), curator Luciano Uzuegbu and J.D. Ohkai Ojeikere during the opening of the exhbition
For Ojeikere whose camera has documented Nigerian women headdresses in the past 50 years, the contemporary hair dressing devoid of the original native styles is a minus for the African value. He boasts that, it’s a great joy he had the vision to document the old styles after missing the trend of the 1950s. “I actually lost the styles of the 1950s when Nigerian women were plaiting their hair”. The 1960 independence of Nigeria, he notes, brought wig, which replaced the native braiding. “So, when the 1950s style returned after independence and in 1970s, I grabbed the opportunity”. More importantly, he explains that he was so eager to document the hair styles as he feared that in the future, contemporaneity might push trend to a state “when women would have no hair on their head”.
A well-braided woven hairstyle, Ojeikere argues, is the “pride and glory of the African woman”.
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Marijuana dispensary loses six licenses, will pay $1.25M fine
by: 8NewsNow staff
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A marijuana dispensary will have to pay back wages to their employees along with a $1.25 million fine after reaching a disciplinary settlement with the state’s brand new Cannabis Compliance Board.
Canopi Cannabis Dispensaries, whose parent company is CWNevada, had six of their licenses revoked as part of the settlement. Sale of those licenses will go toward paying back wages.
The fine appears to be the largest ever in Nevada against a marijuana company.
In June 2019, employees told the I-Team they were not being paid, and the company was in the middle of a bankruptcy and investigations. See that report here:
Now, six licenses will be revoked, and the company will have to pay a $1.25 million fine and $1.5 million in back taxes.
The company had been accused of keeping large quantities of marijuana off the books and destroying evidence.
The compliance board also said the owners, including Brian Padgett, will not be able to make any money from the sale of the company and could face additional discipline.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Clark County Fire and Rescue are working a 3-alarm fire near Fort Apache and Tropicana. At this time, there is no word on what caused the massive blaze, but a photo sent into the 8 News NOW newsroom shows flames so high it can be seen from the 215 highway.
Multiple units and firefighters have been called to the scene.
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U.S. Disability Rights Advances and Setbacks: 2017 Year in Review
December 12, 2017 /in Birth Injury /by Jesse Reiter
January 17th: Future Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos shows lack of knowledge about the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
During her confirmation hearing for education secretary, Betsy DeVos frustrated many special education advocates by stating that enforcement of the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires public schools to provide “free appropriate public education” to children with disabilities, was “a matter best left up to the states.”
In response, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said, “So some states might be good to kids with disabilities and other states might not be so good and, what then, people can just move around the country if they don’t like how kids are being treated?”
In the moment, Secretary DeVos simply reiterated that she thought it should be left up to the states. Near the end of the hearing, she said that she didn’t understand that IDEA was a federal law (1).
January 20th – February 16th: Trump administration removes disability information from white house website
Shortly after his inauguration, President Trump’s administration removed several of the most visited disability-related pages from the white house website, including a page on federal policies regarding disability rights, a contact page for the Disability Issues Outreach Team, and a page on the government’s commitment to support persons with disabilities (2), as well as a button users could press to find accessibility features of the website (such as closed captioning options and alt tags to enable the use of screen readers).
On February 8th, a resource website for IDEA also disappeared. This website, which was launched by Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush, had been continuously updated by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) with any changes in legislation or important Supreme Court rulings.
In an open letter to Secretary Betsy DeVos, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Patty Murray (D-WA) wrote that, “The Department’s failure to keep this critical resource operational makes it harder for parents, educators, and administrators to find the resources they need to implement this federal law and protect the rights of children with disabilities” (3). This website was restored on February 16th; a statement from Secretary DeVos attributed its disappearance to technical issues (4).
The disability rights pages and accessibility button removed in January, nearly a year ago, are still missing. If you click on the links (above), you will be directed to a page that says, “Thank you for your interest in this subject. Stay tuned as we continue to update whitehouse.gov.”
January 28th: Secretary DeVos expresses support of controversial school voucher program
Secretary Betsy DeVos published a letter clarifying her position on IDEA, stating that she is aware it is a federal law and wants to do more to advance educational opportunities for students with disabilities. In the letter, she also expressed her support for a voucher program that gives funds for special education students to attend private school (5).
While some were satisfied with this response, others have argued that funding private school education and essentially giving up on public school for students with disabilities is not the way to go. Private, religious schools are exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that they do not have to accept or provide accommodations to students with disabilities. In many areas, the only private schools around are religious institutions. Therefore, special needs students may not be able to benefit from school of choice vouchers. Senator Maggie Hassan (Da-NH), whose son has cerebral palsy, told NPR that, “Many of us see this as the potential for turning our public schools into warehouses for the most challenging kids with disabilities or other kinds of particular issues” (6).
February 22nd: US Supreme Court affirms right to bring service dogs to school
In a case called Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a girl named Ehlena Fry, who has cerebral palsy, had the right to bring a hypoallergenic service dog named Wonder to her school. The school argued that they could prohibit Wonder’s entry because a human aide could also help Ehlena with the tasks he performed, such as opening doors and picking up dropped items.
However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (Ehlena’s representation) argued that Wonder enabled Ehlena’s independence – a fundamental right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In a press release, the ACLU said that denying a service dog entry because an aide was available “would be like saying that a school had no obligation to build a wheelchair ramp so long as volunteers were willing to lift students who used wheelchairs up and down the stairs every day.” The Supreme Court justices agreed, ruling unanimously in Ehlena’s favor (7).
March 22nd: US Supreme court determines that schools must try harder when it comes to special education
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District case determined that schools must set higher educational standards for children with disabilities. The case began after the parents of Endrew, a boy with autism, pulled him out of public school because they did not believe he was receiving the free and appropriate education he was entitled to under IDEA. The Supreme Court ruled that Endrew’s school was providing “merely more than de minimus” education, and that schools must set “appropriately ambitious” goals for special education students (8).
May 4th: House of Representatives passes the American Health Care Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 (HR 1628), with the aim of partially repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as Obamacare. This act proposed major cuts to Medicaid, a government insurance program that many people with and without disabilities rely on for healthcare (these cuts to Medicaid would have also impacted special education programs). Many disability advocates spoke in opposition of this bill.
July 28th: Senate rejects a similar bill to eliminate many benefits guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act
The Senate rejected a scaled-back plan to reverse parts of the Affordable Care Act. This occurred in a dramatic upset in which Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and John McCain(R-AZ) sided against President Trump and other GOP leaders. McCain’s “no” vote was particularly unexpected given previous statements he had made, and elicited gasps and applause from some audience members (9).
Protesters with disabilities, many from the organization ADAPT, galvanized the resistance to this bill. Some were arrested, but their efforts were not in vain. As Laura Chapin wrote in a column for US News & World Report, personal stories from people with disabilities made it “impossible for Republican senators to talk about it in the abstract” (10).
October 17th: Senator Tammy Duckworth criticizes a bill that, if passed, will reverse some of the rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) published a column in the Washington Post criticizing bill HR 620, which would repeal part of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA was signed into law in 1990, by President George H.W. Bush, and was a bipartisan effort to stop legally-sanctioned discrimination against people with disabilities. At the time, President Bush stated, “Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.”
In her op-ed, Senator Duckworth notes that “Decades later, the forces of discrimination are working hard to rebuild that wall.” HR 620 would allow businesses to wait until after they have received formal complaints to begin making reasonable efforts to accommodate people with disabilities; she stresses that businesses have already had 27 years to comply with the ADA, and that people with disabilities need to be accommodated now, not later. Senator Duckworth, who lost both of her legs while fighting in Iraq, writes, “I understand that not everyone thinks about these things because, for most of my adult life, I didn’t either. But the truth is that everyone, whether they realize it or not, is just one bad day away from needing accessible options to help them get around their community” (11).
October 27th: Secretary DeVos rescinds 72 policy documents that clarified rights of students with disabilities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded 72 policy documents focused on the rights of students with disabilities. According to a Department of Education statement, these documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.” Many civil rights groups disagreed, saying that they offered important clarifications of rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Rehabilitation Act. While both acts are technically still in effect, many fear that without these guiding documents, the rights they confer may not be respected in court (12).
November 2nd: United States Government Accountability office releases a report stating that over 80% of polling places have accessibility issues
A report from the United States Government Accountability Office revealed that in the 2016 election, less than 20% of polling places were fully accessible. Issues included a lack of accessible parking spaces, paths, and entrances, as well as voting stations that could not accommodate wheelchair users without personal assistance. The researchers conclude that, “Our work examining the accessibility of polling places for voters with disabilities during the 2000, 2008, and 2016 general elections points to the need for additional progress to help voters with disabilities enter and move through polling places, access voting systems, and cast a private and independent vote” (13).
Also on November 2nd: Bill is introduced to Senate that aims to increase safety of people with developmental disabilities
Bill HR 4221 was introduced by Senator Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ). It is called “Kevin and Avonte’s Law,” after two children on the autism spectrum who wandered off and drowned (click here to read more about Avonte). If passed, it will provide funding for a) wearable tracking devices and other resources to help people keep tabs on family members with developmental disabilities, and b) efforts to educate law enforcement agents on how to respond to wandering cases. Bill HR 4221 would expand on an existing program aimed at protecting people with Alzheimer’s disease (14).
November 16th: House of Representatives passes controversial tax bill
The House of Representatives passed Republican-led tax reform legislation (HR 1). This bill proposes widespread changes that would affect people with disabilities. These include, among many others, raising the cost of health insurance and medical care, getting rid of incentives for pharmaceutical companies to research drugs for rare conditions, and eliminating tax credits that help small businesses increase their accessibility to customers and employees (15).
December 2nd: Senate passes similar tax bill; begins working with House to settle differences amid ongoing protests of both versions
The Senate narrowly passed a similar tax reform bill – negotiators from the House and Senate began meeting to merge the two bills into one law. Over a dozen disability rights groups protested these tax reform plans, citing concern that it will lead to cuts on vital programs that help people with disabilities to obtain medical care, housing, and employment (16).
December 21st: Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinds 25 ADA guidance documents
In a move highly reminiscent of Betsy DeVos’s elimination of policy documents clarifying students’ rights under IDEA and the Rehabilitation Act, Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked 25 guidance documents that explained rights under the ADA. He called them “unnecessary, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” However, many disability advocates feel differently. The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities and the Collaboration to Promote Self Determination (two umbrella organizations encompassing dozens of advocacy groups) released a statement saying they are “extremely concerned” (17, 18).
December 22nd: President Trump signs a finalized tax bill
President Trump signed the final tax reform bill (19). Exactly how it will impact people with disabilities remains to be seen, but activists have expressed concern that it may affect crucial programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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JESSIQUOI is a music producer and performer from Australia, now based in Switzerland. Her beats flow somewhere between fresh Electronica, Rap and a hint of Pop. Her notoriety for her ex-tremely engaging live shows is building quickly, with performances at Switzerland’s biggest festi-vals auch as Zürich Openair Festival, Gurten Festival, Lethargy Festival, Swiss national television and her latest single on national radio. In 2018 She was also awarded both ‘Best Electronic’ and ‘Demo of the Year’ a out of nearly 800 entries at the M4Music festival in Zurich. She certainly has ruffled the feathers of the Swiss scene. Most recently she has begun to break into the internatio-nal arena, with shows at Eurosonic, Mondo Festival in New York, Monkeyweek in Spain, plus Waves Vienna and Soundcity, Liverpool, this coming autumn. Completely DIY, she takes the stage with her own hand-made, LED laden wooden wagon, which is an artistic light show display for itself. Then she hits the audience with an effortless combination of dance, audacious lyrics and sweet vocals. As if that weren’t enough, all her material is completely self-produced, inspired by her favourite games, anime, cartoons and books which influence not only her sound but the visual presentation of her work. Jessiquoi likes to abstract versions of herself and put them into stories set in other contexts, rather than write purely autobiographical material. This results in the music being somewhat otherworldly, ahead of its time. In October 2019 she released a debut album, ‘Glitch Trigger’, which was accompanied by a concept art booklet. Currently, she is working on new material, which is planned for release in early 2021.
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illegal immigration News Stories & Reports
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Final argument: Supreme Court considers power of states to crack down on illegal immigration
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2:17 AM
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is questioning Arizona’s tough “show me your papers” law aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the state, amid objections from the Obama administration that states have a limited role to play in immigration policy.
The court’s review of the Arizona law includes a provision that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if officers suspect he is in the country illegally. In the final argument of the term Wednesday, the justices will explore whether lower federal courts were right to block that and other key provisions.
The administration challenged the law in federal court soon after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed it two years ago. Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah passed similar laws, parts of which also are on hold pending the high court’s decision.
The court hearing comes as presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney is trying to find a way to cut President Barack Obama’s strong support among Latino voters. Romney was drawn to the right on issues like immigration as he fought off other Republicans in state GOP primary elections. On Monday, Romney signaled he was considering a wide range of immigration policies, including a proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that would allow some of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a chance at visas to stay in the U.S.
A decision in the high-profile immigration case is expected in late June as both camps will be gearing up for the general election.
Other blocked provisions of the Arizona law require all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers, make it a state criminal offense for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job and allow police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without warrants.
Arizona argues that with its 370-mile border with Mexico, it has paid a disproportionate price for illegal immigration. It says its 2010 law is consistent with federal immigration policy.
The administration says the law, and Arizona’s approach of maximum enforcement, conflict with a more nuanced federal immigration policy that seeks to balance national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, human rights and the rights of law-abiding citizens and immigrants.
Civil rights groups that back the administration say Arizona’s and the other states’ measures encourage racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping. California, New York and nine other states with significant immigrant populations support the Obama administration.
Florida, Michigan and 14 other states, many of which also are challenging Obama’s health care overhaul, argue that Arizona’s law does not conflict with federal law.
The case features a rematch of last month’s clash over health care between Obama Solicitor General Donald Verilli Jr. and Paul Clement, who had Verilli’s job in the George W. Bush administration. Clement is defending the Arizona law.
Justice Elena Kagan, who was Obama’s first solicitor general, is not taking part in the case, presumably because she worked on it while in the Justice Department.
The case is Arizona v. U.S., 11-182.
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