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USA TODAY BESTSELLER
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Agatha Award Nominee
Kendel Lynn is a Southern California native who now parks her flip-flops in Dallas, Texas. Her debut mystery, Board Stiff, was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. It features Elliott Lisbon, a mostly amateur sleuth who is only 5000 hours away from getting her PI license. Kendel has served as president of the board of directors for both Sisters in Crime (national) and Sisters in Crime North Dallas. She holds a B.A.A.S. from Texas A&M University-Commerce and is a certified Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR). She's penned six novels, plus novellas, screenplays, workshops, speeches, and countless articles and posts. She's an INFJ who finds balance with meditation, trips to Disneyland, and all things pug.
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SWITCH BACK (#0)
coastal, cozy, humorous mysteries, PI-in-training, Southern fiction
Elliott Lisbon Mysteries
Switch Back is a novella (about 1/3 of a full-length novel, about 5 times longer than a short story) and takes place prior to Board Stiff (Elliott Lisbon Mystery #1). After inheriting an entire town, Ballantyne Foundation Director, Elliott Lisbon, travels to Texas to thank them. She quickly learns they don’t want her gratitude, they want their town back. And they’re willing to kill for it. Trapped in a small town full of big suspects, Elliott must unlock their secrets, or she’ll never get out alive. Now doesn’t that sound like fun? Read the whole series and it gets even better.
“A cozy triple-scoop that tastes divine.” – Library Journal
BOARD STIFF (#1)
As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, SC, Elliott Lisbon scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. Until Jane Hatting, Ballantyne board chair, is accused of murder. The Ballantyne’s reputation tanks, Jane’s headed to a jail cell, and Elliott’s sexy ex is the new lieutenant in town. Armed with moxie and her Mini Coop, Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes, gambling debts, illicit affairs, and investment scams. With victims piling up faster than shells at a clambake, Elliott realizes she’s next on the killer’s list.
“With an intelligent woman sleuth, a unique blend of quirky supporting characters and a well-devised mystery plot, Board Stiff is delightfully entertaining.” – Fresh Fiction
WHACK JOB (#2)
Elliott Lisbon blends her directorship of the Ballantyne Foundation with her PI-in-Training status by planning parties and performing discreet inquiries for charitable patrons. But when the annual Wonderland Tea Party makes everyone go mad as a hatter, Elli gets pulled into a shooting, a swindle, and the hunt for a Fabergé egg. From seedy pawn parlors to creepy antique shops, Sea Pine Island’s other half prove to be as wacky as the wealthy. Elli falls farther down the rabbit hole and finds a scheming salesman, a possessive paramour, a dead donor—everything but a bottle labeled “Drink Me.” Elli gets lost in the maze and finds herself trapped in a house of cards with a killer.
“Elli Lisbon is proving herself to be the most lovable OCD PI since Adrian Monk.” – Maddy Hunter, Agatha-Nominated Author of From Bad to Wurst
SWAN DIVE (#3)
It’s Opening Night at the Ballantyne Foundation’s production of The Nutcracker, but it’s curtains for the Sugar Plum Fairy. When her body is found backstage, fatally poisoned by a cupcake she baked herself, rumors turn to suicide. But Elli Lisbon, director of the Ballantyne and coordinator of the ballet, smells something rotten amidst the sugar and spice. As Elli applies her PI-in-training skills on the suspects, she discovers an eccentric herbalist, a temperamental chef, a stalking choreographer, and a bevy of backstage secrets. Between her off-the-record investigation, duty as director, and highly-charged love life, she finds herself caught in a dance to stay one pirouette ahead of a half-baked killer.
“The irrepressible heroine is delightful and her ongoing banter is nonstop fun.” – Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
POT LUCK (#4)
It’s time for the Irish Spring at the Ballantyne Foundation, and charity director/PI-in-training Elliott Lisbon kicks off the annual Pot of Gold Cook-Off in shamrock style. Twenty chefs compete for the corned beef and cabbage crown but only one can win the title. The odds improve when one chef goes missing...until Elli finds the Ballantyne’s own Chef Carmichael standing over the body with a knife. With pug puppies, Colonel Mustard and Mrs. White, by her side, Elli searches both sides of coastal living for a clue to the killer. From million dollar condos to a run-down trailer park, the evidence pits her against sexy Nick Ransom, and the case gets hotter than a handful of peppercorns.
“Elli Lisbon is the Stephanie Plum of the South!” – Krista Davis, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
SHAKE DOWN (#5)
Ballantyne Foundation Director and PI-in-training, Elliott Lisbon, is enjoying her idyllically slow life on Sea Pine Island, South Carolina. It’s the week before the annual Beach Ball and she’s sipping Bellinis on the sidelines. Her committee involvement is limited to securing the centerpieces: scrumptious masterpieces from the Cake & Shake. But when the head baker goes missing, Elli’s calm life gets a major shakeup. She takes the case and soon learns that missing is a relative term. As Elli walks the delicate line between a woman finding herself and a woman needing to be found, the days speed up and she knows something’s about to go down. From drug runners to whistleblowers to sea turtle sabotage, Elli stirs up secrets and inadvertently whips a desperate killer into a frenzy. If she doesn’t find a way out of the heat, she’s going to get burned.
“Kendel has done it again...It’s the bits and pieces that pulled it all together...This is the best book in the series and I can’t wait to experience more adventures with Elli and her friends.” – Dru's Book Musing
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J. Malek – How Spiritual Symbols and Rituals Work
How Spiritual Symbols and Rituals Work
J. Malek
A sensible person might ask, “What on Earth does Magic, Tarot, or Ritual have to do with spiritual awakening? How does studying number and color and tone help me on this spiritual path? What does the Tree of Life have to do with anything? It doesn’t even look like a real tree!”
Why symbols and rituals? Well, because spiritually-minded people are a bunch of grown imbeciles who like to play dress up and stare at absurd abstractions, right? Those spiritual types are just suckers for all sorts of silliness and pageantry… or maybe not.
Taken on a purely superficial level, what are rituals and symbols? Complete and utter nonsense — gibberish. And for adults to concern themselves with these things in a superficial or literal way is lunacy on stilts. So why use them? Why all the nonsensical images and pageantry? The answer to these questions might be a bit more practical than one would expect. Properly understood, spiritual symbolism is among the most powerful tools one can wield on his quest for awakening.
Just as an analogy, think of Helen Keller. She was deaf-blind and unable to communicate. However this didn’t mean she lacked intellectual capability — quite the opposite. She simply lacked the means to directly receive ideas from other people, as well as the means to send her own ideas out into the world. Spiritually we, as beginners, are deaf-blind. We each have spiritual insight; we each receive flashes of spiritual intuition. However, we don’t yet speak the “language” of this intuition. We have no ordered way of structuring our subconscious insight.
Our conscious minds communicate through concretizing abstract ideas into words. Our words, at best, serve as a crude estimation of the abstract ideas we wish to convey. The more sophisticated our vocabulary, the more clearly we can communicate our ideas. Similarly, our subconscious also communicates abstract ideas and concepts. However we, being limited by our five senses, require these abstractions be codified — made palatable. They must be flattened, much like the painter who creates the illusion of a 3D object on his 2D canvas. The artist can only give the suggestion of a 3D object; he is not actually creating a 3D object.
So how does our conscious mind receive these abstract impressions from our subconscious? What is the means our subconscious mind employs to impart information to our conscious mind? Imagery. That is the language of our subconscious. Through imagery, our subconscious mind “flattens” abstract concepts so that we may perceive them. As I alluded to above, this imagery — much like written and spoken word — is itself a language. Our ability to perceive and comprehend this imagery is contingent upon our structuring of these images into an orderly system. Our limited minds require a visual vocabulary, a lexicon of abstraction, so that we may come into contact with wisdom that lies beyond the boundaries of our limited, waking consciousness.
To borrow some more commonly known terminology popularized by the late Carl Jung, we each share in a collective unconscious. This collective unconscious is something we’re each born with, much the same way a newborn fawn is born with the innate knowledge of how to walk. Our collective unconscious — or subconscious mind — has embedded within it archetypal imagery: imagery the subconscious just intuitively understands. Our collective, intuitive understanding that the color red represents “heat,” “passion” or “love,” is one very basic example of this phenomenon. However, the images of the Tarot and Kabbalah relate to qualities of a much deeper nature.
Back to the original question: why use “nonsensical” images and pageantry to spur spiritual growth? Because our subconscious mind communicates through “nonsensical” images and pageantry — at least that’s how it might appear when viewed from a purely superficial, outward perspective.
The conscious mind is largely the slave of the subconscious mind. Accordingly, there are many New Age streams of thought that acknowledge the dominion of the subconscious over the conscious. Often these New Age philosophies endeavor to consciously define and identify the subconscious source of a particular emotional problem — but they, then, go about dissecting this subconscious problem, and attempt to affect change, through purely conscious, analytical means. This is like trying to fix the foundation of a house while standing in the attic. If we understand our base behaviors to be rooted on the subconscious level, we must affect change on the subconscious level.
Any cure for an ailment of the subconscious must also be administered at the level of the subconscious. While the conscious mind can be used as a tool to influence subconscious patterns, today’s most popular “spiritual” methods for curbing unwanted patterns of subconscious behavior come in the form of self-recognition techniques. The ability to critically observe one’s own behavior is — without a doubt — a sign of emotional maturity and can be a highly useful exercise. However, “being mindful” of one’s flaws and, then, simply abstaining from ever acting upon these flaws is not a solution for removing these unwanted subconscious patterns. It’s an agonizing diet of thought and behavior. It’s masking a symptom — not getting at the disease.
But there’s a small paradox here: once again, it is possible to alter the subconscious mind through the influence of the conscious mind. However, supreme clarity of focus is needed. In other words, one must sharpen his conscious faculties. But achieving that sharpened conscious faculty of focus first requires altered subconscious patterns of thinking… But, once again, to alter subconscious patterns of thinking, it requires a higher level of focus on the conscious level…
How do we break this cycle? Where’s our point of entry, so to speak?
To overcome the hurdle of the untrained conscious faculty of focus, and affect change on the subconscious level, the solution is to meet the immature conscious mind on its own terms. How? Through the use of outward visual representations of subconscious imagery. These visual representations — these symbols — make it so the immature conscious mind has no trouble focusing on and internalizing these abstract concepts. Spiritual symbols and rituals serve, in part, as “training wheels” for our conscious mind. Ritual and symbol not only provide a means for the conscious mind to perceive abstract concepts communicated from the subconscious, they also accommodate our underdeveloped conscious mind by bypassing the need for supreme clarity of focus. When an abstract concept is plainly displayed in the form of a symbol, focus and comprehension are much less of an issue. By using these “training wheels,” we affect change in our subconscious patterns of thought, which in turn leads to maturation of our conscious minds, leading to a greater degree of focus; a greater degree of understanding of the symbols on the subconscious level; and to a further peeling back of the veil that shrouds ineffable, experiential wisdom.
The abstract, intuitive imagery contained in the Kabbalah and Tarot — for instance — can also be seen as just one example of how the western esoteric path might better serve a western spiritual aspirant. To some extent, the imagery called to mind by certain archetypal concepts can be skewed by cultural conditioning. For example, for many westerners — even non-religious westerners — the term “Divine Mother” immediately calls to mind an image along the lines of the Holy Mother Mary. Even if, afterwards, we’re able to call to mind other visual representations of the “Divine Mother,” for many westerners the image of Mary is the most “instinctual” — the most immediate. And even if this example doesn’t hold true for everyone, what’s important is to recognize this principle of “subconscious immediacy.” What are the first images that are called to mind when we conceive of particular abstract concepts? The western path taps into this quality of “subconscious immediacy” through its symbolism, and uses this quality toward maximizing the effectiveness of its teachings.
This is probably the simplest and most practical way to understand the purpose of studying Tarot and Kabbalah and other spiritual symbolism on the western esoteric path. By internalizing this system of spiritual imagery — as well as the corresponding abstract concepts linked with each individual image — a path is beaten through the overgrown brush that stands between our own conscious and subconscious minds.
And that is why we study at the beginning of our spiritual path: to cultivate the tools that eventually grant us access to higher insight. This promotes a higher degree of emotional intelligence and balance, which eventually leads to an emotional realignment, in which we understand ‘genuine connection with the Divine’ to be the only pursuit even capable of satisfying our inner desires. In the western path we work to shift the aim of our desire nature toward something Higher — we don’t deaden it. And one of the most crucial steps on this transformational journey is the practical study of spiritual symbols.
Yes, spiritual symbols and rituals appear to be nonsense on stilts — until you learn
to see them from a new perspective.
Corpus Hermetica
Dr. Elias Rubenstein – The Online Courses of the Hermetic Academy
Edmund William Berridge – Some Thoughts on Imagination
Elias Rubenstein – The Power of the True and Visible Rosicrucian Order
Harriet B. Case – Brotherhood
Hermes Trismegistos – A Treatise on Initiations; or Asclepios
Hermes Trismegistos – Fragments of the Writings of Hermes to Ammon
Hermes Trismegistos – The Definitions of Asclepios
Hermes Trismegistos – The Virgin of the World
Hermes Trismegistos – Various Hermetic Fragments
Hermes Trismegistus – Fragments of the Book of Hermes to his Son Tatios
Michael Whitty – The Key to True Happiness
Tabula Smaragdina
The Kybalion
William Wynn Westcott – The Order of the Golden Dawn
William Wynn Westcott – Zoroaster
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Judge won't block state right-to-work law
By Todd Richmond
MADISON — A judge on Thursday declined to block Wisconsin's new right-to-work law, allowing it to remain in effect while several unions challenge the statute.
Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust rejected the request by three unions to grant a temporary injunction blocking the law from being enforced pending the outcome of their lawsuit. He said he believes the unions have a chance of winning the case, but he's not convinced that letting the law stand while the proceedings continue would cause them serious damage.
"The irreparable harm is speculative, in my opinion," Foust said at the conclusion of the morning hearing.
Right-to-work laws prohibit businesses and unions from reaching agreements that require all workers, not just union members, to pay union dues. Twenty-four other states have such statutes.
Right-to-work supporters say such laws give workers the freedom to choose whether to join a union. Opponents say the laws weaken unions by depriving them of the dues from workers who choose not to pay them, resulting in lower wages and fewer employee rights. They also say the Republican-backed law is intended to undermine unions' political power because unions tend to vote Democrat.
The Wisconsin AFL-CIO, Machinists Local Lodge 1061 in Milwaukee and United Steelworkers District 2 in Menasha filed a lawsuit last week alleging that the law amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of union property because unions now must extend benefits to workers who don't pay dues.
Union attorney Frederick Perillo told the court that the law essentially requires the organizations to provide free services to nonmembers. He said if the law is allowed to stand, unions will expend their resources helping nonmembers. That could have serious repercussions, such as draining unions of the funding they would need to defend workers in disputes, which in turn could cost such workers their jobs, he argued.
Perillo went on to say that if Foust ultimately finds the law unconstitutional, the unions would have no way to recover the dues that nonmembers would have paid in the interim.
Assistant Attorney General David Meany countered that no challenge to right-to-work laws based on the illegal seizure argument has succeeded anywhere in the country. Last year the Indiana Supreme Court rejected two nearly identical challenges to that state's right-to-work law. Those lawsuits alleged that the law unconstitutionally required unions to provide services to nonunion workers without compensation.
Meany likened Wisconsin's law to any other business regulation, comparing it to an ordinance that forces liquor stores to close on Saturday nights.
The law doesn't take anything from the unions since it technically doesn't remove any money currently in their accounts, he argued. He said if unions lose dues going forward, they could control their expenses by shortening grievance fights and scaling back other services. Employers and unions also could negotiate clauses in their contracts allowing unions to recoup dues from nonmembers if the law is struck down, Meany added.
As for any harm the unions might suffer, the organizations don't know how many workers might not pay dues and what the effects of losing that potential revenue might be, Meany said.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a likely 2016 presidential candidate who made a name for himself by curbing public unions' collective bargaining powers in 2011, signed the right-to-work law on March 9. He initially said he didn't want to pursue the concept, but he quickly signed it after the Republican-led Legislature introduced the measure and passed it in just two weeks.
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Inside Tonight's Edition Of The Mariner
Grimsby Town’s official matchday programme ‘The Mariner’ will be on sale tonight for the visit of Tranmere Rovers. Here’s a taste of what’s inside ‘Issue 6’…
Town boss Paul Hurst discusses the recent game against Aldershot Town and looks ahead to tonight’s opponents in his exclusive column.
The Mariners Trust look back at their amazing Crowdfunder scheme, which brought national attention to the club during the closed season.
Mariners defender Gregor Robertson talks injuries and putting last season’s Play-off defeat behind him in the main interview
Richard Lord makes the case for Kenny Swain’s legacy in ‘The Men Who Managed The Mariners’.
We examine things connected to the club that begin with the letter ‘F’ in ‘The A-Z of The Mariners’.
Paul Savage remembers a game against Hereford United in 1989 in ‘When I was a mascot’.
There are images and a report from the 4-1 victory against Aldershot Town at Blundell Park.
Club historian Rob Briggs returns with ‘Blundell Park – A History’ and his new article ‘Programmed’.
We again look at former Mariners in the news in ‘The Ex-Factor’.
There’s an artist’s interpretation of Mariners goalkeeper James McKeown in the centre fold.
We take a closer look at our visitors, Tranmere Rovers.
Andy Phillips shares his monthly update on fortunes of Alan Lamb’s Youth Team.
We also get to know Youth Team defender Joe Crowther a little better.
All of these great features, and much more, all for just £3!
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Watchmen Pilots Guide Premieres Renewal Scorecard TV's Top 5 Series Regular Grey's TWD
May 16, 2012 9:23am PT by Mikey O'Connell
TV Ratings: 'Fashion Star,' 'Private Practice' and 'NCIS' Rise in Finales
ABC/KAREN NEAL
Private Practice Kate Walsh with Baby - H 2012
UPDATED: Several series climb with season enders, while "Cougar Town's" final episodes on ABC hit new lows.
The season came to end for nearly a half-dozen other series Tuesday night, with CBS' finales coming out on top in fast affiliate ratings. Its three-hour block of Naval procedurals nabbed a 3.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 16.3 million viewers, with NCIS rising four tenths of a point for a 3.5 rating in the demo and NCIS: LA's two-hour ender even with the most recent 3.0 rating.
PHOTOS: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows for 2012-13 Season
America's Got Talent brought in a 3.4 rating with adults 18-49 in its second night of the season. It marked a season high for NBC in the 8 p.m. hour and only fell three tenths of a point from the Monday premiere. Fashion Star rose, back in its 10 p.m. time slot, ending its freshman season with a 1.6 in the demo. The network averaged a second place 2.8 rating with adults 18-49 and 8.6 million viewers.
On Fox, a two-hour Glee earned a 2.4 rating with adults 18-49 at 8 p.m. and a 2.5 rating at 9 p.m. The show, which averaged a 2.5 in the demo and 6 million viewers for the network, was down just 7 percent from last week's episode.
PHOTOS: 'Glee' Season 3: The Episodics
Cougar Town, now headed to TBS, offered up two of its final ABC episodes to record low ratings. Both broadcasts only earned a 1.0 rating with adults 18-49. Dancing With the Stars was also down, though not as much, earning a 2.2 demo rating for its results show. Private Practice rose nearly 30 percent in its finale for a 1.8 with 18-49-ers. ABC earned a 1.7 rating with adults and 7.8 million viewers for the night.
90210 earned a 0.5 rating with adults 18-49 on the CW, while The L.A. Complex dropped to a 0.2 in the demo.
Updated: A previous version of this article misidentified the two-hour Glee episode as the season finale. That episode airs May 22.
Mikey O'Connell
michael.oconnell@THR.com mikeylikestv
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Alexander Geist's "Transparent" Is a Sublime Pop Oddity
Alexander Geist / Adrian Lourie
"Transparent" is being billed as the final release from Alexander Geist before their imminent death. But fear not dear listeners, it's not for nothing that this London/Berlin darling of the indie pop world is compared to David Bowie - Geist's time making subversive pop may be done, but surely we have a future creative iteration to look forward to.
But if "Transparent" is the last we see from Geist, then what a way to finish. Reimagining the heyday of '90s Bruce Weber shoots as a queer fantasia, it's a ballad of the bizarre that feels beamed in from an alternate universe. It must truly be seen to believed. Take a look at the Sam Ratcliffe-directed visual below.
Speaking on the visual, Geist tells Highsnobiety in an email that "We tried to make the song itself sound like a hybrid of a Greek Orthodox chant and a classic FM radio ballad (like "Drive" by the Cars or "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc)," in addition to the "the usual mix of inspo - 19th century poetry and '90s pop, an ambrosia salad of touchstones!"
"Transparent" is out now via Wicked Hag Records. For more on Alexander Geist, head here.
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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, challengers spar over political style, campaign cash
By Patrick Condon
Saturday August 1, 2020
The WCCO debate was the first, and possibly the last, direct exchange between incumbent and political newcomer Antone Melton-Meaux.
Rep. Ilhan Omar sparred Friday with Democratic rival Antone Melton-Meaux in an hourlong debate on WCCO Radio.STAR TRIBUNE
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar sparred Friday with Democratic rival Antone Melton-Meaux over who is best positioned to deliver progressive policy wins in an overwhelmingly liberal district that includes Minneapolis, now at the center of national debate over police and race issues.
In a wide-ranging, hourlong debate on WCCO radio, Omar and Melton-Meaux were both put on the defensive about their massive fundraising hauls from donors outside the Fifth District in a nationally watched primary on Aug. 11 that has attracted millions of dollars on each side.
Also in the mix was John Mason, another DFL candidate, who has run a quiet campaign. But the encounter was the first, and possibly the last, direct exchange between Omar and Melton-Meaux, a political newcomer charging that the incumbent’s turbulent two years in Congress have not served the district well.
“We don’t need more dividers,” Melton-Meaux said. “We need more uniters.”
Omar lamented that so much of the contest has focused on “personalities.” She portrayed herself as a progressive voice for the district, which has been in DFL hands for decades. “What I do every day is listen to you and turn that into legislation,” she said.
Omar also cited her endorsement Friday by DFL Gov. Tim Walz, citing it as an example of her strong support from community leaders in Minnesota.
Omar, elected in 2018 with 78% of the vote, is an ally of powerful progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has championed ambitious proposals such as Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and eliminating rent and student loan debt.
“I have done the work of building coalitions in the district, in Congress, to try to make sure that we have our voices implemented in every single piece of legislation that’s introduced,” Omar said.
While Melton-Meaux differed little with Omar on specific policy points, he said she takes an unrealistic approach that guarantees little actual progress. As an example he cited her “Homes for All” proposal meant to end homelessness.
“That has a trillion-dollar price tag, no funding mechanism, only six cosponsors, no Senate companion,” Melton-Meaux said. “That’s not a progressive agenda, that’s just a platitude.”
Mason also noted that Omar’s support for Medicare for All is out of step with House Democratic leaders, who are committed to protecting the Obama-era Affordable Care Act from GOP efforts to dismantle it.
But some of the sharpest attacks in the debate came from exchanges over their fundraising, much of it from donors and interest groups from out of state.
Altogether, including money raised by GOP candidate Lacy Johnson, the race has attracted more than $10 million in contributions, making it one of the costliest in the nation.
While Omar has proved herself a prolific fundraiser, Melton-Meaux has outraised her since he entered the race, and he noted that he has received more money than she has from within the district.
But Omar and Mason alike were sharply critical of Melton-Meaux for the fact that a significant portion of his fundraising and spending from some outside groups has been from Republican donors mainly motivated by a desire to get her out of office.
“These are people really who are very much invested in creating a toxic environment, that are invested in a president who not only has a Muslim ban but invested in singling out the only member in Congress that comes from one of those countries that is on the Muslim ban,” said Omar, who emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia with her family.
Melton-Meaux jabbed back by arguing that Omar’s campaign has “tried to plant the idea that I’m anti-immigrant, which is deeply troubling.” He said the attack came in response to his use of his personal story as the descendant of American slaves.
Omar responded: “I never have, and it’s really sad that is being, that lie is being spoken right here.”
A debate moderator asked Omar to respond to frequent criticism, from Melton-Meaux and others, of her recent marriage to a D.C.-based political consultant whose firm is a major recipient of her re-election funds.
A Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing this week shows that the firm, the E Street Group, has now received more than $1.6 million from Omar’s campaign.
“I don’t pay my husband. I pay the firm to do work,” Omar said. Most of the $600,000 directed to the firm since July 1 went directly to other vendors for TV commercials and campaign literature, she said.
Melton-Meaux also attacked both Omar and Mason for past campaign finance violations.
“I find it ironic I’m the only person on this panel who hasn’t had an ethics violation on campaign finance,” Melton-Meaux said, noting that Mason was reprimanded by the FEC for not filing reports on time. Omar faced past scrutiny from the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board when she was a state legislator.
While more of Mason’s attacks were pointed at Melton-Meaux, he did save some criticism for Omar. He said he’s found it disingenuous that she has positioned herself as President Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare.”
In fact, Mason said, “she’s Trump’s best dream,” adding, “the only person benefiting from Omar is Omar.”
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How to Shuck an Oyster
Learn how to shuck oysters in this Howcast food video with Chef Brendan McDermott.
What we're going to do today is shuck oysters. Shucking oysters is actually a really easy process but you have to be careful because you can really get hurt doing this if you do it incorrectly. What you really need is you're going to need an oyster knife, or a shucking knife. They're pretty dull, pretty straightforward, and the fact that they are so dull and kind of thick is kind of what makes them dangerous, because you're not really going to get a really nice sharp edge in there. You need something that's going to be able to pop it open, but because you're using force, if your hand slips you can really get yourself badly. What I like to do is I like to make sure I've a kitchen rag or, you know, a basic kitchen rag or a good face cloth folded over a few times, at least four times, so that you can really have a nice safety net.
All we're going to do is we're going to take the oyster and put it down there and then literally fold it over to really make sure my hand is safe. The number one rule with any knife is always think about where it could go if it slips, so I'm not going to try and jab upward or go into my hand. I'm actually going to try and go down as much as I can so if it slips, it just goes to the table or even below my hand. All I'm going to try and do is brace myself a little bit and get a little bit of stability.
Take the oyster knife, and what we're going to do is go in down to where kind of the spine is, or the hinge I should say, right down here at the end. If you try and come in up by the mouth, where it opens up, you're going to fight it, you're going to crack it, you're going to end up - it's not really going to work very well for you. So we want to come up from the back and really come in right where it, you can see it actually fits in there nicely, right? Now what I can do is I can cover that up, take my shucking knife, get in there, and then just whittle a little bit until it pops. And it should pop right open.
Once you've got that cleared, once you've got that open, just to make sure you get any sand or dirt off, you can clean off the knife, and then go in and pop that up, come up underneath. And underneath, right in here in the back, there's actually a little bit of a muscle. So what we want to do is take the knife and just kind of scrape that out to release the whole entire thing. And now you can just shoot it.
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NORTH POLE -- Yes, Virginia, the economy has gotten that bad.
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The Irish Monument commemorating the April 24, 1916 Easter Monday Uprising is located south of the County Court House at Court House Drive Mineola, New York. First dedicated in 1979 in a grove located in the shadow of the Courts of Justice, the monument is a living symbol of our determination to end bigotry and discrimination in Northern Ireland and to support efforts to achieve Peace with Justice in a united Ireland.
It is now topped with a harp, a symbol of Ireland, upon a mounting stone inscribed with the names of the 16 who were executed by the British, with seven lilies on the Harp symbolizing the seven who signed the Proclamation of April 24, 1916, and the strings etched into the Harp forming 32 spaces and lines to represent a united Ireland.
Beginning in April 2011 refurbishment now includes the installation of commemorative bricks along the walkway to the Monument.
Commemorative bricks are a wonderful way to acknowledge and honor special people and events. Each brick can be inscribed with a personal message and will be installed in a decorative fashion on the plaza surrounding the Monument. Each of the brick paver which measure 9″ x 6″ and accommodate three lines of fourteen letters or spaces is available for a tax deductible donation of $150.00 to the Irish Monument Committee of Nassau County, New York, Inc., P.O. Box 1497 Valley Stream, New York 11582, 501 C3 Corporation.
Each year at 12:00 noon, on the Monday following Easter, a commemoration ceremony is held to honor the memory of those who have struggled for human dignity, human rights and Irish unity.
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China's People's Liberation Army hails resolution of Doklam standoff
Tensions between India and China escalated in June after Indian soldiers stopped Chinese troops from constructing a road in the uninhabited territory of Doklam, which is claimed by both Bhutan and China.
By Namrata Tripathi @NessaTangerine
Beijing slams Indian border troops crossing into Chinese territory as very serious
China's People's Liberation Army has said that it is satisfied with the way the recent border settlement with India was reached after nearly 10 weeks of standoff between the countries in Doklam. PLA said that the issue was "safely resolved," which reflected President Xi Jinping's increasing influence in the region.
Tensions between India and China escalated in June after Indian soldiers stopped Chinese troops from constructing a road in the uninhabited territory of Doklam, which is claimed by both Bhutan and China. This resulted in a months-long standoff between the troops of both the nations at India's Sikkim border, where both sides told each other to withdraw from the region.
The standoff finally came to an end in August, when India's Ministry of External Affairs said that the countries had decided to pull back their troops from the border. China, however, stated that it would continue to patrol the Doklam region.
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Staff officer at the office of International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China's top military body, Liu Fang, while addressing a press conference on Sunday referred to "the Indian military passing the borderline into China's territory".
Liu said that China's defence and other ministers "worked very closely many times" during negotiations with the Indian side.
"Of course, it is safely solved right now," she said. "We reiterated very clearly Chinese position and all of these actually contributed to the peaceful resolution of China-Indian cross-border conflict," she added, while speaking on the sidelines of the Community Party Congress, which gathers once in five years to create policies and choose the next generation of leaders.
A Chinese soldier gestures as he stands near an Indian soldier on the Chinese side of the ancient Nathu La border crossing between India and China.DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images
The CMC staff officer said that the PLA had established regular channels of communications with the military of various countries, and that has been proven very useful for the country.
"We have built many dialogues and dialogue mechanisms with many countries at the right levels," Liu said adding, "We don't work on a single point but we connect all the points together. We are expanding a net of cooperation."
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 photo, a female black bear sleeps with its tongue out high up in a Ponderosa pine tree near Clark Fork School in the Rattlesnake neighborhood of Missoula, Mont. A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups seeking to ban using bait to hunt black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. The groups say allowing the use of bait violates environmental laws because hunters have ended up killing federally protected grizzly bears.
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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, a young black bear climbs down from a tree near Woodland Middle School in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups seeking to ban using bait to hunt black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. The groups say allowing the use of bait violates environmental laws because hunters have ended up killing federally protected grizzly bears.
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Lawsuit to ban bear baiting in Idaho, Wyoming can continue
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge for the second time has rejected a Trump administration request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups seeking to ban using bait to hunt black bears in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming.
The groups say allowing the use of bait violates environmental laws because hunters have ended up killing at least 10 federally protected grizzly bears attracted to the bait.
The Trump administration argued the lawsuit should be dismissed because last summer it withdrew some mid-1990s documents on which the lawsuit is based.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale in rejecting the administration’s request last week said those documents were used to create the 1995 hunting rule that remains in effect.
The U.S. government’s national policy targeted in the lawsuit allows states to decide if hunters can use bait for black bears in grizzly habitat, including national forests. Idaho and Wyoming allow the practice.
Specifically, Dale said, the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally withdrawing the documents — a biological opinion and incidental take statement — doesn't make the case moot because hunting for black bears using bait continues.
“Consequently, the challenged activity has not voluntarily ceased,” Dale wrote.
Dale did not rule on the merits of the case. She ordered each side to confer on proposed scheduling for additional court proceedings.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which defends federal agencies in lawsuits, didn't respond to a request for comment sent through its online media portal.
Dale noted in particular that both the withdrawn documents were expressly referenced as support of the U.S. Forest Service's conclusion that the national bear-baiting policy that remains in effect provides the needed safeguards in all states to allow bear-baiting.
In her ruling, Dale also allowed Western Watersheds Project and two other environmental groups to file a supplement to their initial complaint concerning the withdrawal of those mid-1990s documents, which the environmental groups contend is illegal.
Hunters who use bait put out food in the forest and then hide and wait for a bear to come within shooting range.
The 1995 policy approved by the U.S Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allows no inadvertent killing of grizzly bears.
The policy later survived a court challenge that was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The environmental groups argue in the lawsuit filed in 2019 that in the more than two decades since the policy took effect, black bear hunters using bait have killed at least 10 grizzly bears. The bears are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The conservation groups say bait is allowed in areas important to grizzly bears, such as between the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and the Bitterroot ecosystem in central Idaho, and between the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem in northwestern Montana and the Bitterroot ecosystem.
Idaho, Wyoming and the hunting group Safari Club International are siding with the federal government in the lawsuit.
Dale in May rejected an earlier Trump administration request to throw out the lawsuit based on a technical argument. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it lacked the legal authority to re-initiate consultation with the U.S. Forest Service concerning bear-baiting under the Endangered Species Act, contending only the Forest Service had that authority.
However, Dale said that argument was without merit, citing court precedent.
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Eagles might go for future replacement
by LES BOWEN, bowenl@phillynews.com, Posted: April 27, 2007
Miami safety Brandon Meriweather rates high in versatility.
IN 1996, the Eagles wanted to use one of their two second-round draft choices to trade up, so they could climb higher than 25th in the first round. They had their sights on a big-play linebacker, either Reggie Brown, who ended up going 17th to the Lions, or John Mobley, who was drafted 15th, by the Broncos.
When their trade talks came to nothing, the Birds stayed at 25 and selected offensive lineman Jermane Mayberry. They took tight end Jason Dunn with their initial second-round choice, 54th overall, then used the second-rounder they'd thought about trading, No. 61, on a Clemson safety named Brian Dawkins.
Brown and Mobley are retired now after neck injuries, Brown after playing just two seasons, Mobley after eight, one of which saw him win All-Pro honors. Mayberry retired this past season after a distinguished career, the first 8 years of it spent in Philadelphia. Dunn, released by the Birds in 1999, has become a steady blocking tight end for Kansas City. And the Eagles are very happy they didn't trade that 61st pick, probably the best second-round selection in franchise history.
Following that draft, Kevin Mulligan wrote this for the Daily News: "A couple of years from now - or maybe even this fall - we'll know for sure if they held on too tightly to the extra second-round choice [No. 61] they received for Seth Joyner's 1994 plunge into free agency's deep, rich water.
"If safety Brian Dawkins, No. 61, proves to be the second coming of Wes Hopkins, or even Greg Jackson - the Eagles need him to be one of those - then holding on to that extra second-rounder will have been the right call."
When the draft convenes again tomorrow, the Eagles are expected to address the issue of finding an eventual successor to Dawkins, perhaps with their first selection, 26th overall. This is said to be a deep draft for safeties, with LSU's LaRon Landry expected to land somewhere in the top 10 overall and a highly touted trio of safeties expected to go fairly quickly thereafter. Much has been written and said about how Florida's Reggie Nelson stacks up against Miami's Brandon Meriweather and Texas' Michael Griffin, whether this one or that one is more of a first-round or second-round talent.
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One thing to remember, though. The idea that any of these guys is really going to become another Brian Dawkins is probably ridiculous. There will be a Dawkins successor, likely within a few years - he turns 34 in October - but odds are, it will be on the order of Rick Schu succeeding Mike Schmidt. We are talking here about a six-time Pro Bowler, probably the best safety in the 75-year history of the franchise. Last season, Eagles coach Andy Reid, that effusive, praise-spouting fountain of superlatives, called Dawkins a future Hall of Famer. Dawkins currently is Philadelphia's longest-tenured pro athlete, and he has played in more winning games, regular-season and playoff, than anyone in franchise history.
Another thing to remember: Even if one of these guys is another Brian Dawkins, it might not be so easy to differentiate him from the others this weekend.
The irony in 1996 was not just that the Eagles got Dawkins with a pick they were ready to trade to try to get a linebacker; as it turned out, they could have drafted a pretty good linebacker at 25, without trading. The Ravens took him right after the Eagles selected Mayberry. A fellow named Ray Lewis. (Trivia alert: Who went 86th overall in the third round to the Pats, the slot right after the Birds drafted QB Bobby Hoying? Why, another linebacker, of course - Tedy Bruschi.)
Before Dawkins was taken with the final pick of the second round, the Chiefs also were looking for a second-round safety. They chose 58th, and they astutely nabbed the immortal Reggie Tongue.
If Dawkins were in the 2007 draft, he'd probably go a lot higher than 61st. The league's thinking about safeties is changing. Years ago, they were guys who weren't quite fast enough to be corners, or quite big enough to be linebackers. Dawkins, who in his prime could fly across the field in coverage or blow up a quarterback on a blitz, helped change perceptions of what a safety could do. In the Cover 2 schemes so popular now - both Super Bowl teams ran them - corners cover close to the line of scrimmage and safeties cover deep.
If Landry is indeed the first defensive back off the board tomorrow, this will be the third time in the 4 years a safety has been taken ahead of the draft's first corner, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli noted recently. He contrasted this with the fact that over the past 20 drafts, first-round corners outnumbered safeties more than 2 to 1.
Eagles general manager Tom Heckert said it's especially hard to evaluate safeties coming out of college, because they rarely do the things NFL defenses will require them to do. "You have to watch a lot of tape to see them play the ball," he said.
This offseason, the Birds let Mike Lewis leave in free agency. Lewis, a second-rounder in 2002 (58th overall), is the only safety the Eagles have taken higher than the fourth round since Dawkins. Heckert insists he has high hopes for Sean Considine, the fourth-round 2005 draftee who moved into Lewis' starting role last season. (That happened after several coverage misadventures, culminating in a touchdown Lewis gave up to New Orleans' Joe Horn when the Eagles were playing Cover 2 and Lewis tried to jump the route instead of staying deep, an illustration of the position's changing demands.)
"I think Sean Considine is going to be a great player," said Heckert, who added that "I may be completely out of my mind."
Considine will never be Dawkins physically, but he has the coverage instincts that have become so critical.
"Right now, everybody's going, 'You've got to have a safety who can cover,' and those guys don't exist a whole lot," Heckert said. "To get a guy that's 200 pounds and can cover, that's tough to find. There are a few of those guys this year."
Heckert noted that there are some corners in this draft who project as safeties. This doesn't sound like something you'd do with your first-round pick, but it certainly could happen in the second or third round, and remember, the Eagles seem to be open to moving out of the first round if they could, say, draft twice in the second and restore the fourth-round selection they sent to New Orleans for Donté Stallworth.
Tanard Jackson, of Syracuse, and Marcus McCauley, of Fresno State, are two college corners who have been mentioned as potential NFL safeties.
Among the big three safeties after Landry, Meriweather seems to be the most versatile and experienced, Nelson maybe the guy with the most deep-coverage upside. Griffin might be more of a strong safety than a free safety in the NFL.
There has been speculation among Eagles fans that hard-hitting corner Sheldon Brown (just ask Reggie Bush) could switch to safety, but Heckert said the Birds aren't contemplating that. "We like him as a corner," Heckert said.
The Eagles also are in the market for a corner, though - Rod Hood left in free agency and Will James is signed just for 1 year - and it wouldn't be a shock to see them go that way in the first round, presumably waiting until later for a safety - Jackson, McCauley, maybe Oregon State's Sabby Piscitelli, Virginia Tech's Aaron Rouse or Utah's Eric Weddle.
A first-round corner at No. 26 could be Texas' Aaron Ross or Arkansas' Chris Houston. A second-round corner could be UNLV's Eric Wright.
If they get defensive-backfield help in the first round, the Eagles might very well go for a running back in the second or third, Heckert's recent endorsement of Ryan Moats notwithstanding. Moats seems to be talented but has proved to be a poor fit for the Eagles' offense; he might net a second-day draft pick this weekend.
The Birds could also be in the market for a linebacker, a defensive end, a tight end and, if the right guy falls to the right spot, a developmental quarterback.
Some observers predict a run on corners and safeties late in the first round, maybe starting well before the Eagles pick. If that happens, they might just go in another direction, rather than talk themselves into drafting for need if the guys they've rated for the first round are all gone.
"That's where a lot of mistakes are made," Heckert said. *
Posted: April 27, 2007 - 3:01 AM
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Healthcare Management: An Introduction v4.0 (AHM-250)
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If left unresolved, member complaints about the actions or decisions made by a health plan or its providers can lead to formal appeals. One procedure health plans can use to address formal appeals is to submit the original decision and any supporting info
A. A Level One appeal, and the member has the right to a further appeal
B. A Level Two appeal, and the reviewer's decision is final and binding
C. An independent external appeal, and the member has the right to a further appeal
D. Arbitration, and the reviewer's decision is final and binding
Expose Correct Answer
Answer : A
Historically most HMOs have been
A. Closed-access HMO
B. Closed-panel HMO
C. Open-access HMO
D. Open-panel HMO
Answer : B
Eleanor Giambi is covered by a typical 24-hour managed care program. One characteristic of this program is that it:
A. Provides Ms. Giambi with healthcare coverage for any illness or injury, but only if the cause of the illness or injury is work-related.
B. Combines the group health plan and disability plan offered by Ms. Giambi's employer with workers' compensation coverage.
C. Requires Ms. Giambi and her employer to each pay half of the cost of this coverage.
D. Requires Ms. Giambi to pay specified deductibles and copayments before receiving benefits under this program for any illness or injury.
In order to measure the expenses of institutional utilization, Holt Healthcare Group uses the standard formula to calculate hospital bed days per 1,000 plan members per year. On
October 23, Holt used the following information to calculate the bed days per
B. 397
C. 403
In certain situations, a health plan can use the results of utilization review to intervene, if necessary, to alter the course of a plan member's medical care. Such intervention can be based on the results of
A. Prospective review
B. Concurrent review
D. A, B, and C
E. A and B only
F. A and C only
G. B only
Answer : D
As part of its utilization management (UM) system, the Poplar MCO uses a process known as case management. The following statements describe individuals who are Poplar plan members:
-> Brad Van Note, age 28, is taking many different, costly medications for
A. Mr. Van Note, Mr. Albrecht, and Ms. Cromartie
B. Mr. Van Note and Ms. Cromartie only
C. Mr. Van Note and Mr. Albrecht only
D. Mr. Albrecht and Ms. Cromartie only
Answer : C
An exclusive provider organization (EPO) operates much like a PPO. However, one difference between an EPO and a PPO is that an EPO
A. Is regulated under federal HMO legislation
B. Generally provides no benefits for out-of-network care
C. Has no provider network of physicians
D. Is not subject to state insurance laws
Dr. Milton Ware, a physician in the Riverside MCO's network of providers, is reimbursed under a fee schedule arrangement for medical services he provides to Riverside members.
Dr. Ware's provider contract with Riverside contains a typical no-balance billi
A. prevent Dr. Ware from requiring a Riverside member to pay any coinsurance, copayment, or deductibles that the member would normally pay under Riverside's plan
B. require Dr. Ware to accept the amount that Riverside pays for medical services as payment in full and not to bill plan members for additional amounts
C. prevent Dr. Ware from seeking compensation from patients if Riverside fails to compensate him because of the MCO's insolvency
D. prevent Dr. Ware from billing a Riverside member for medical services that are not included in Riverside's plan
During an open enrollment period in 1997, Amy Hadek enrolled through her employer for group health coverage with the Owl Health Plan, a federally qualified HMO. At the time of her enrollment, Ms. Hadek had three pre-existing medical conditions: angina, fo
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B. the angina and the high blood pressure only
C. none of these conditions
D. the broken ankle only
A medical foundation is a not-for-profit entity that purchases and manages physician practices. In order to retain its not-for-profit status, a medical foundation must
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B. Employ, rather than contract with, participating physicians
C. Achieve economies of scale through facility consolidation and practice management
D. Refrain from the corporate practice of medicine
Amendments to the HMO act 1973 do not permit federally qualified HMO’s to use
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Dr. Samuel Aldridge's provider contract with the Badger Health Plan includes a typical due process clause. The primary purpose of this clause is to:
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Smart Grids Need a Secret Identity—Here’s Why
Published Date November 27, 2018
Author Rich Nass
For years, experts have been pointing out that smart grids are susceptible to network attacks and other vulnerabilities. Yet efforts to remedy the situation are progressing slowly, and conventional IT solutions struggle to secure these systems.
Just look at energy providers. When deploying smart grid technology, they must connect and segment a mix of modern and legacy SCADA systems across geographically distributed locations. Typically, each site has different management interfaces and hardware, all with specific network configuration limitations. As a result, providers find it difficult to secure, support, and sustain their critical infrastructure.
They also faced the problem of having different pieces of equipment at different sites with overlapping IP address spaces, which made configuration, monitoring, and support even more complicated. In addition, certain areas could be connected only by radio, where interference can create reliability issues.
One potential solution comes in the form of identity-defined networking (IDN). Before we get into that specific solution, let’s identify why traditional IT technologies can’t meet the demands of scalable and secure smart grids or other key deployments.
OT Versus IT Techniques for Scalable, Secure Smart Grids
Historically, most industrial systems have lacked basic security controls like authentication and encryption. Instead, operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems were isolated, using separate network protocols. In addition, OT systems couldn’t run endpoint security software like IT endpoints.
As smart-grid deployments and other critical infrastructure environments are seeing a convergence OT and IT, the main challenge is how to securely connect and segment these systems. Common IT technologies such as such as firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), access control lists (ACLs), virtual LANs (VLANs), and cellular modems aren’t up to the task. They simply weren’t designed for OT systems, and are too complex and costly to deploy and manage. This leaves the grid vulnerable due to insufficient security and segmentation.
In addition, many organizations have highly distributed remote sites in extreme environments, where connectivity options are limited. Purchasing and deploying a combination of firewalls, VPNs, cellular modems, or microwave radios for these remote sites is not feasible in many cases – the acquisition cost is too high and it would take too long to configure segmented connectivity across all sites.
Enter Identity-Defined Networking
These challenges stand in the way of scalable and secure smart grids. To address these obstacles, IDN delivers instant overlay networks that connect, cloak, and secure any endpoint over any transport – with no modifications to the underlying infrastructure.
Instead of using a complicated mix of tools and technologies, IDN allows energy organizations to achieve cloaked LAN and WAN micro-segmentation using end-to-end encryption (Figure 1). It provides the ability to quickly connect and revoke remote access to specific systems, such as cellular, Ethernet, or Wi-Fi.
Figure 1. An identity-defined network (IDN), which can operate from the edge to the cloud, can isolate and conceal each of the components in a network. (Source: Tempered Networks)
IDNs can eliminate outdated radio transmissions, costly MPLS lines, and private APNs by using standard Internet, while removing IP addressing issues and conflicts. Finally, it simplifies a traditionally complex networking with centralized point-and-click network management.
IDN technology was originally developed for Boeing to secure the connections of mobile tooling networks within its manufacturing facilities. The tooling systems were controlled by ICS/SCADA systems and communicated over Wi-Fi, an easy attack vector. The company developed a solution based on the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), an open network security protocol ratified by the IETF.
HIP separates the endpoint identifier and locator roles of IP addresses and introduces a more flexible networking and secure host identity namespace. This brings native security and mobility to networking without having to change existing infrastructure. In addition to being inherently secure with end-to-end encryption, it’s both backward and forward compatible with any IP-based network, application, or resource.
The Benefits of Cloaking for Critical Infrastructure Security
The cloaking aspect of IDN is particularly notable. Organizations can cloak critical systems and endpoints by requiring authentication and authorization based on trusted machine identities before TCP sessions are established. Therefore, untrusted devices without verifiable machine identities can’t discover and communicate with cloaked devices on the network.
Because authorization and authentication occur before transport is established and any data is exchanged, hosts and machines protected by HIP services are effectively cloaked and undiscoverable from unauthorized machines. A scanning tool like Nmap can’t discover any listening ports, meaning attackers can’t initiate Step 1 in the cyber kill chain (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Step 1 of the Cyber Kill Chain can’t take place on identity-defined networks because they make endpoints invisible to the underlying network. (Source: Tempered Networks)
As a result, IDN users can cloak critical infrastructure from threat-action reconnaissance, which protects against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), man-in-the-middle (MiTM), command and control, IP spoofing, and other types of network and transport-layer attacks.
This type of segmentation is different from what you could achieve on a private LAN, and can include north-to-south and east-to-west data traffic in physical/virtual/cloud environments. IDN delivers segmentation based on verifiable machine identities rather than spoofable IP addresses. A HIP service can be deployed as close to a resource as possible, either in-line or installed directly on the host, and delivers segmentation across north/south and east/west directions.
Contrast this to the way firewalls and software-defined networks (SDNs) attempt to prevent north/south and east/west lateral movement by defining access restrictions based on IP addresses, VLANs, and/or ports. These solutions define policy enforcement and segmentation based on ephemeral IP address ranges, which exposes organizations to IP spoofing and VLAN traversal. And, with thousands of IP resources constantly being added, moved, and changed, ports are often misconfigured or forgotten and left enabled. This makes it difficult to maintain hardened firewall and SDN segmentation, especially at scale.
The response from many vendors and consultants is to drive more firewalls deeper into the network, whether as a standalone unit or as part of an SDN solution. The cost of this approach in terms of purchase, personnel, and complexity can be significant.
Integrating IDN and HIP in Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Tempered Networks has a better approach. Its solutions commercialize IDNs in a platform that emphasizes ease of use to overcome IT complexity. The HIPswitch* Series, for example, are network switching platforms that establish an identity-defined perimeter around sensitive network resources. They are deployed in-line to prevent unauthorized discovery and communication with protected systems from north/south and east/west channels.
For edge applications like the smart grid, the HIPswitch portfolio includes the industrial-grade HIPswitch 100 Series edge gateway with Ethernet or Ethernet-plus-cellular connectivity. The 100 Series supports 1:1 or 1:many configurations for machines that cannot protect themselves, and is available as a pre-provisioned system for deployment by nontechnical staff (Figure 3).
Figure 3. The HIPswitch 100 Series of Industrial IoT edge gateways support Ethernet or Ethernet and cellular connectivity to establish in-line encryption and segmentation for vulnerable smart grid systems. (Source: Tempered Networks)
For data center segmentation of smart grid systems, the product line also features HIPswitch 500 Series that can function as an IDN-enabled aggregation point (Figure 3). The 500 Series supports high-availability (HA) and SFP/SFP+ expansion modules for scalability and failover in critical applications (Figure 4).
Figure 4. The HIPswitch 500 provides encryption and segmentation for physical and virtual servers, while also doubling as an identity-defined networking (IDN) aggregator. (Source: Tempered Networks)
These platforms are supported by the Tempered Networks Conductor, an orchestration engine that manages policy for all distributed HIP services and provides simple control over networks.
Beyond OT and SCADA
In conclusion, IDN doesn’t suffer from the limitations of using IP addresses to identify and define which systems can communicate with another. HIP solves the two fundamental flaws that afflict all other competitive networking and security products: the inability to authenticate and authorize network connections between two or more endpoints before data is exchanged, and the use of spoofable IP addresses as the device identity that defines LAN/WAN connectivity, segmentation, and access.
But IDN solutions can clearly support more than OT and SCADA networks. They provide a consistent way to micro-segment and secure machines and devices, from the IoT edge up to cloud platforms. Hence, security can span all environments with a single fabric-based network architecture across an on-premises data center, the cloud, just about any client device, and IoT elements such as robots, IP cameras, or sensors.
Richard Nass’ key responsibilities include setting the direction for all aspects of OpenSystems Media’s Embedded product portfolio. Previously, he was the Brand Director for UBM’s award-winning Design News property. Nass has been in the engineering OEM industry for more than 25 years. In prior stints, he led the Content Team at EE Times, and the TechOnline DesignLine network of design engineering websites. Nass holds a BSEE degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Paint or Paint App? The Value of creating digital vs. traditional art
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Interestingly, some people feel that the iPad and other mobile devices are ‘different’ to other mediums for art making. They feel a separation between ‘traditional’ mediums and new technology in the art room. While so many people discover the creative potential of mobile devices, they question the ability of the iPad to ‘make art’.
I would argue that the iPad is actually a tool for creation in the same way that charcoal, pencils, etc are used to produce art. When you think about the diverse material we use to make art, does a tablet or a phone really stand out amongst screen printing presses, metal castings, air brushes, spray paint, macro photography, rocks, fibreglass and LED light installations?
The iPad is just another art-making tool, albeit a new and very powerful one, to use alongside the tools we have always used in the art room and beyond.
“There is no such thing as art, only artists.” That’s what they say, and I tend to agree.
I also baulk at the idea that ‘hands-on’ art making does not include tablet devices, iPhones, etc. Have you watched someone make art on an iPad? What does ‘hands-on’ actually mean? It’s worth considering. Is art made in the environment using sticks to create a pattern ‘hands-on’? The waters get pretty murky when you start thinking along this line.
But these debates about art-making processes and mediums certainly aren’t new. As Michael Prodger notes, “For 180-years, people have been asking the question: is photography art? At an early meeting of the Photographic Society of London, established in 1853, one of the members complained that the new technique was “too literal to compete with works of art” because it was unable to “elevate the imagination”. This conception of photography as a mechanical recording medium never fully died away.”
In any medium, the tactile experiences of making are personal, and the expressive qualities of art are a combination of aesthetics, technical skill, etc. This includes making art on the iPad.
Check out this except from an interesting article on Mindshift, and learn more about the value of creating digital and traditional art.
MINDSHIFT “When it comes to creating something new, Sonnemaker says that technology helps her students be more creative, not less: “In regards to composition, students are not only more engaged in their own projects (with iPads), but they’re using real life technology,” she said. “We still do a good deal of composition exercises using old-fashioned pencil and paper. But using Garageband on the iPad is what many professional musicians use, so students are also acquiring skills to compose in the real world if they choose to continue.”
Benefield’s colleague, visual art teacher Karen Richards, notes that iPad apps have made the tools that digital artists use much more accessible for young children, but having the digital technology available doesn’t at all diminish hands-on art making.
“I must stress that technology is one of many tools our students have to execute their critical and creative thinking. We believe that they must also know how to sew, woodwork, sculpt in clay, paint, draw, make prints, shoot a good photo, animate an image, and know about the artists that they stand on the shoulders of,” Richards said.
Richards describes a recent photography-based project she developed in order for children to blend the two: “They’re all taking tons of photos (with the iPads), so we worked on photography. We also learned a bit about Photoshop with Photoshop Express, and we had each student (K-8) edit and alter their photo before printing it out on watercolor paper,” she said. The final outcome was a sewing project inspired by textile artist and San Francisco Day School artist-in-residence Ehren Reed, where the students sewed into their photos.
In January of this year, the Indianapolis Museum of Art opened the Star Studio, an interactive exhibit that includes a room filled with iPads featuring a museum-customized drawing app. Tools include digital blending sticks, markers, chalk and paint brushes. Originally intended for children ages five to eight to explore the fundamentals of art alongside their parents, says Jen Mayhill, Senior Coordinator of Play and Learning at the museum, in reality the exhibit’s popularity has extended much further. “We’re seeing people of all ages and abilities using the application now.” Mayhill mentioned that, even though she doesn’t have the numbers yet, the exhibit is popular; a feature that allows visitors to email their finished iPad artwork has already yielded over 1,500 emails of art. “Purely from my own observations, I cannot imagine this space without these components, since they appear to be as popular as the tables including more traditional art mediums.” Read more from Holly Korbey’s article ‘Paint or Paint app: The Value of Creating Digital vs Traditional Art, originally posted on Mindshift.
If you want to get a feel for the impact technology across other areas of the arts, check out this post from techinmusic.wordpress.com and see the changing landscape for music in a digital era.
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“The CAFC said it is not improper for the TTAB to ‘determine that, for rational reasons, it should give more or less weight . . . to a particular feature of the mark provided that its ultimate conclusion regarding the likelihood of confusion rests on [a] consideration of the marks in their entireties.’”
On January 8, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissing QuikTrip West, Inc.’s (QuikTrip) opposition to Weigel Stores, Inc.’s (Weigel) registration of the mark W WEIGEL’S KITCHEN NOW OPEN on the ground that there was not likelihood of confusion with QuikTrip’s registered design mark, QT KITCHENS (QuikTrip West, Inc. v. Weigel Stores, Inc.).
TTAB Finds the Marks Dissimilar
QuikTrip operates a gasoline and convenience store and has sold food and beverages in its stores under the registered mark QT KITCHENS since 2011. In 2014, Weigel, which also operates gasoline and convenience stores, began using a stylized mark, QT KITCHENS, in connection with food and beverages sold in its stores. In response to a cease-and-desist letter sent by QuikTrip, Weigel modified its mark by changing “KITCHENS” to “KITCHEN,” altering the font, and adding the words “WEIGEL’S” and “NOW OPEN.” In 2017, Weigel applied to register the mark W WEIGEL’S KITCHEN NOW OPEN and QuikTrip filed an opposition, “asserting that it would create a likelihood of confusion with its QT KITCHENS mark.”
The TTAB evaluated the likelihood of confusion between the two marks in accordance with the DuPont factors. The Board found that “the parties’ identical-in-part goods and related services, overlapping trade channels, overlapping classes of customers, and similar conditions of purchase pointed to a likelihood of confusion finding.” However, the panel also found that “the dissimilarity of the marks weighed against a likelihood of confusion,” the word “KITCHEN(S)” was “at least highly suggestive, if not descriptive,” and Weigel did not act in bad faith. Thus, the Board concluded that despite several factors weighing in favor of a likelihood of confusion, the marks were so dissimilar that there would not be a likelihood of confusion.
Similarity of the Marks
On appeal, QuikTrip challenged the Board’s analysis regarding the similarity of the marks, Weigel’s alleged bad faith, and the Board’s overall weighing of the Dupont factors. With respect to similarity, QuikTrip argued that the “Board improperly dissected the marks when analyzing their similarity.” The CAFC agreed with Weigel that the Board’s analysis was correct and noted that it is not improper for the Board to “determine that, ‘for rational reasons,’ it should give ‘more or less weight . . . to a particular feature of the mark’ provided that its ultimate conclusion regarding the likelihood of confusion ‘rests on [a] consideration of the marks in their entireties’” (citing Packard Press, Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Co.). The CAFC reasoned that the Board correctly accorded less weight to the term KITCHEN(S) because it was a “highly suggestive, if not descriptive word” and was entitled to afford more weight to the “dominant, distinct portions of the mark,” such as “Weigel’s encircled W next to the surname Weigel’s and QuikTrip’s QT in a square below a chef’s hat—given their prominent placement, unique design, and color.” Thus, the CAFC concluded that the Board properly compared the marks in their entireties, despite weighing certain portions more heavily, and the Board’s findings were supported by substantial evidence.
In considering QuikTrip’s argument that Weigel acted in bad faith, the CAFC cited Sweats Fashions, Inc. v. Pannill Knitting Co., explaining that an “inference of ‘bad faith’ requires something more than mere knowledge of a prior similar mark”; rather, it requires an intent to confuse. The CAFC disagreed with QuikTrip that the Board failed to “meaningfully weigh evidence that Weigel intentionally copied elements of QuikTrip’s mark in order to confuse customers” and did not explicitly discuss its arguments relating to trade dress related bad faith. The CAFC explained that Weigel’s “willingness to alter its mark several times in order to prevent customer confusion negate[d] any inference of bad faith.” The CAFC also noted that the Board did not err in not addressing QuikTrip’s trade dress arguments, since the Board was “not obliged to discuss every piece of evidence that QuikTrip raised.” Thus, the CAFC concluded that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that Weigel did not act in bad faith.
Weighing of the DuPont Factors
The CAFC considered QuikTrip’s argument that “the Board legally erred in giving decisive weight to the dissimilarity of the marks under DuPont factor one, while disregarding other DuPont factors strongly supporting a likelihood of confusion.” The CAFC disagreed with QuikTrip, noting that analyzing the DuPont Factors is a “balancing test” and “[o]ne DuPont factor ‘may be dispositive in a likelihood of confusion analysis, especially when that single factor is the dissimilarity of the marks’” (Citing Champagne Louis Roederer, S.A. v. Delicato Vineyards). The CAFC explained that the Board did not disregard any evidence, it simply determined that such evidence was outweighed by the differences in the marks. Thus, the CAFC affirmed the decision of the TTAB, dismissing QuikTrip’s opposition.
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Major expansion set for Baybrook Mall
David Kaplan / Houston Chronicle – Baybrook Mall, already among the Houston area’s most profitable per square foot, will become one of its physically largest as well, through a major expansion announced Monday that will give it about the same footprint as west Houston’s Memorial City Mall. It would be surpassed in size only by the Galleria, a bona fide tourist destination that is known internationally.
The company that owns the indoor shopping complex off the Gulf Freeway in suburban Webster will add 555,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space and create a community lawn the length of a football field. The design features eight new buildings and outdoor-oriented “lifestyle areas” similar to those common to pedestrian-friendly town centers and becoming even popular at traditionally enclosed malls.
Mall owner General Growth Properties said in its announcement that it remains bullish on the hub south of Houston.While many indoor retail centers are making adjustments merely to survive in the face of sweeping changes in Americans’ social and shopping habits, Baybrook plans instead to build on recent success. In what was considered a coup two years ago, Baybrook was one of just two local malls to sign H&M, an iconic retailer appealing to teens and young women.
“Baybrook Mall is nearly 100 percent leased and is located in one of the nation’s fastest-growing markets,” executive vice president Richard Pesin said. “Retailers and restaurants are looking to add new locations in high-quality centers.”
The project, set to be completed by the 2015 Christmas shopping season, would expand Baybrook by about 50 percent, to some 1.7 million square feet, leapfrogging the likes of The Woodlands and Willowbrook malls.
GGP said through a mall spokesman that the company also is positioning the 36-year-old Baybrook Mall as a more community-oriented, family-welcoming space, with not just 30-plus new stores but also a movie theater, 10 restaurants and an outdoor lawn the length of a football field intended to host family gatherings and special events.
The new design will allow customers to walk from store to store in an open-air environment and be connected by shaded walkways, the mall’s marketing manager Colin Moussa said.
Jeff Green, a retail feasibility consultant based in Phoenix, applauded Baybrook’s owners on the strategy. “They’re combining the mall with the speciality center concept, and I think it’s a great idea,” said Green, president of Jeff Green Partners.
“The restaurant category is basically exploding,” he added, “and it looks like they’re really trying to set up a food and entertainment hub.”
Scott Shillings, president of Riverway Retail, a retail tenant representative, agreed that Baybrook is a regional powerhouse. He said it is one of the entire area’s top generators of sales per square feet.
“Baybrook Mall has a dominant position in the southeast corridor of the Houston area,” he said.
GGP has added similar outdoor lifestyle areas at its First Colony, in Sugar Land, and Woodlands malls, he said. The company also owns Willowbrook and Deerbook malls, both well north of Beltway 8.
GGP declined to name any of the retailers expected to sign on in the expanded Baybrook space, but Moussa said they would include big-box anchor tenants.
The project is a joint venture between GGP and landowner CDC.
Existing Baybrook tenants include Dillard’s, Forever 21, Lego, Coach and Michael Kors. After its expansion Baybrook will be the largest of GGP’s five Houston-area malls.
Memorial City Mall underwent a big expansion and by 2003 grew to 1.7 million square feet, with the additions of Dillard’s, JCPenney, Cinemark Memorial City, and other retail, said Steve Nisenson, director of marketing at MetroNational, developer and manager of Memorial City Mall.
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Adult Historical about Madame Moustache coming from Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing!
GUYS, I am so excited for this book and so thankful to Shannon and Nancy for helping me bring Eleanor Dumont's (aka Madame Moustache's) story to readers.
My interest in Eleanor Dumont’s story bloomed as I began researching the women of the California gold rush. It wasn’t long before I came upon a name unknown to me, Madame Moustache. As it turned out, Madame Moustache was the sobriquet for Eleanor Dumont, who was born as Simone Jules, and who had popularized vingt-et-un, now known as blackjack.
The presence of three names for a single woman intrigued me. I wondered how one name bled into the next and how life winded to a nickname—one I didn’t initially find particularly endearing—that Eleanor lived with for over a decade. I wondered if she endured the moniker for all those years or if she was accepting of the name, which was spat at her after taking a man’s last dime during a game of vingt-et-un and offering him a glass of milk, Eleanor having been claimed to have said, "Any man silly enough to lose his last cent to a woman deserves a milk diet.”
In all the anecdotes I found of Eleanor, she was warmhearted, quick-witted, business savvy, courageous, and tenacious. The attributes led me to believe that perhaps Eleanor didn’t tolerate the nickname but instead embraced it. After that, there was no stopping me from telling her story.
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I take every opportunity possible to work on my kindergartener's writing so... here she is helping to reveal the title of my next middle grade book... I AM DEFIANCE, where 12yo Brigitte, a member of the Hitler Youth, begins to question all she's ever known when anti-Nazi flyers begin to arrive in the mail from a resistance group called the White Rose.
She's releasing from Scholastic on February 2, 2021 and I'm so dang excited!!
If you're on Goodreads, I'd be so appreciative of any adds to your TBR.
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Exciting news! The ebook of SIDE BY SIDE, which tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde through Bonnie's eyes, is on sale for only $2.99 and only until February 28th!
If you've ever been fascinated with, intrigued by, or interested in the story of Bonnie and Clyde, then this book's for you -- and now's the time to snag it!
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History, romance, crime and action – a great book." - Historical Novel Society, Editors' Choice
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If you haven't read yet, pick it up to experience Bonnie and Clyde's story through Bonnie's eyes! I'm told it's riveting 😉🙌
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The Series Finale of Game of Thrones Actually Wasn't *That* Bad
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Even if you yourself don't watch Game of Thrones, you've likely heard that the series finale aired this month and fans are severely disappointed with the end result.
I'm not one of those fans.
Now, before I face the backlash of being the odd-woman-out on this, let me clarify: yes, I agree that this season has had its faults, more so than any of the other seasons, and I can understand why people are enraged. However, I also think that there was no way to end this show that would appease millions of fans and that many viewers are overlooking some of the satisfying conclusions to a show we've devoted nearly a decade of our lives to.
On a very basic level, season 8 of Game of Thrones followed through with some of our, again very basic, expectations of the series:
Characters Died
Hopefully you've seen the entire eighth season because we're entering into spoiler territory here.
This is a weird thing to celebrate, but I'm going to celebrate it anyways: hooray for all of the deaths this season! So many great, inspiring, terrible, heroic, and villainous characters died this season, I don't even know where to start.
Big-name deaths have become a crux of Game of Thrones. After Ned's death in season 1, I think fans knew to start expecting some table-turning deaths for the rest of the show. The final season did not come up shorthanded.
We got Beric Dondarrion, Jorah Mormont, Lady Lyanna, the Night King, all those pesky the white walkers, Melisandre, Rhaegar, Varys, Euron Greyjoy, Cersei and Jaime Lannister, The Mountain and The Hound, and, let us not leave out the biggest death of all: Daenerys Targaryen.
But what's more important than all the people dying?
Characters We Loved Didn't Die
Do you have any idea what it's like to watch a series that has no regard for your favorite characters? Well, you probably do if you're reading this post because you've hopefully watched Game of Thrones, so sadly, you too have had many of your favorite characters ripped away from you without warning. I'm not even going to mention a certain wedding that will go down in history as the most horrific and surprising scene in television...
So when season 8 rolls around and your top three—or maybe even top five—favorite characters survive, that's a victory!
For me, I still can't believe that Jon Snow, Arya and Sansa Stark, Tyrion Lannister, and Ghost and Drogon all made it out alive this season! I can finally stop fearing that one of them is going to be harpooned, or backstabbed, or die by execution.
For many viewers, Daenerys was a favorite character, so a lot of fans are in mourning over her death and her "rapid" decline into villain-hood. Although I can empathize and will gladly hand you a tissue box if you need one, I personally was pleased that she was removed from the throne, though, "why" brings me to my next point:
The Kingdoms are No Longer Ruled by a Tyrant
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At many points in the series, Varys, Master of Whisperers, reminds the key players of the series that their greatest duty is to ensure the safety and prosperity of the kingdoms. "For the realm," would've made for some especially poignant final words, but I think most viewers started to appreciate the sentiment when Dany commanded Drogon to set King's Landing ablaze.
So here's the thing for me: Daenerys wasn't fit to lead. Maybe in the earlier seasons, but when she launched her attack on the innocent people of King's Landing—I mean, she was serpentining up and down streets, blasting fleeing families, rather than just charging the Red Keep where she knew Cersei was—she lost the right to the throne.
I've thought a lot about this, as I'm sure many viewers have. I've asked myself, after that moment, how else could the show have ended? The options were to overthrow her or assassinate her.
With a dothraki horde and the unsullied army at her back, overthrowing her would've only started another war and, as much as we're all sad to see the series end, I think we can all agree that this wouldn't have been good television. The only viable option at that point was to kill her, and the only person who could get close enough to do it was Jon.
But as fans are mourning the loss of the woman who had been their champion for seasons, the Mother of Dragons, the Breaker of Chains, Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targeryen, viewers are also disenchanted by the newly declared King, Brandon Stark. I think there are a few things happening here.
The first is that many viewers are still kind of confused and put-off by Bran and his storyline. Admittedly, Bran's a little weird! He's the Three-Eyed Raven now, and with his new inherent knowledge of all that was and all that is to come, he's become an unfeeling, cryptic character that fans have a difficult time relating to. I think it's more than just that though.
Mostly, I think it was an ending that people didn't see coming, and that always makes something difficult to accept. The writers had done a great job over the last seven seasons bringing all of the key players to the table. In the final moments of the show, viewers had their eyes on just a few who they thought were potential future Kings and Queens: Jon Snow, Daenerys Targeryen, Tyrion Lannister, for example. But seeing Bran take the throne almost felt like Gendry Baratheon had taken it. It was a little anticlimactic to watch something that the main characters had fought so hard for be given to a second tier character (sorry Bran).
All that said, once you grapple with the remaining choices the Lords and Ladies of the Seven Kingdoms had, and once you analyze the type of person Bran is—wise, patient, devoted—it becomes a no-brainer that he will actually make a great King and was better than any of the options we'd ever considered.
Granted, The Final Season Wasn't Perfect
None of this post is to suggest that there weren't things that enraged me about how the writers wrapped-up the series. I, like most viewers, believe that the series finale's biggest issue was pacing. Had they gone forward with two seasons of ten episodes each like the other seasons had been, I think most of fans' complaints would've corrected themselves.
Instead, we got one super short season, and it had it's faults:
-"The Long Night" visuals made the fight a little less enjoyable to view, but still rather epic.
- No one got to actually kill Cersei? She's been the villain for like the entire show!
- Speaking of Cersei and terrible endings for characters, after all the character development for Jaime, the writers really just brought him back together with his sister? Really?
- "Bran the Broken" was really the best name they could come up with?
Most disappointingly, I think the biggest plot thread they didn't tie-up was the fact that Jon Snow is the rightful heir to the throne. And how is he thanked? By getting sentenced to serve life at the Night's Watch.
But even that isn't depressing to me. The way I see it, Jon got what he wanted: no commitments to the throne, and instead he gets to live a free life beyond the wall with Ghost.
Our other surviving main characters all got mostly happy endings as well: Tyrion is Hand to the King, Sansa is Queen of the North, Arya is off exploring uncharted realms, Bran is King of the Six Kingdoms, even Bronne made it out on top. For a show that has done nothing but murdered all the best characters and made the remaining folks miserable, I'd say this was the best ending we could've hoped for.
Enough about what I think though. What did you think of the series finale? Comment below what you enjoyed about the final season of Game of Thrones and what you wished would've been different!
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After a seven year saga of community outreach, approvals and clarifications, the proposed River Improvement Overlay District (RIO), and a more geographically specific Los Angeles River Improvement Overlay Zone (LA-RIO) is now a reality. Mayor Eric Garcetti approved the two ordinances July 8, after it passed City Council early in July. The ordinances will now apply to new developments seeking permits starting August 20.
"More than just passing regulations, these ordinances really give communities a chance to celebrate their being near the river, to say that they are part of this Los Angeles River ecosystem," said Claire Bowin, City Planner for Los Angeles. According to Bowin, being part of an acknowledged River District could also be beneficial for the neighborhoods participating because it allows them to work with the city and apply for grants that improve their river-adjacent communities.
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As we previously reported, the RIO ordinance creates a general supplemental use district that specifically meant for properties adjacent to waterways. The idea was to incorporate the principles outlined in the Los Angeles River Master plan into reality, by codifying the rules and regulations for land development along the waterway. The LA-RIO ordinance creates a specific geographical area that encompasses property within 2,500 feet (or half a mile) of the 32-mile Los Angeles River in the city's limits. The regulations address landscaping, screening and fencing, lighting, and orientation, on new developments by the Los Angeles River.
Though the ordinances take effect August 20, residents won't be seeing changes anytime soon. Developments that have already gained approved permits are exempt from the new regulations within the LA-RIO district, so any designs already under construction, by the likes of the 56-unit LA River Lofts on Gleneden Street, or 50-unit Rio Vista Apartment affordable housing, will not be affected. Landscape architect Glen Dake of DakeLuna said, "Typically, ordinances like this have no bearing on ongoing projects like the River Lofts. Once you have an approved permit, you are approved throughout the whole construction process unless there are major changes in your design." He consulted for developers Anastasi Construction at the beginning of the River Lofts project eight years ago, even before the planning for RIO and LA-RIO began.
LA-RIO in the Atwater Village area
The ordinance will not immediately affect ongoing development, but future projects will be subject to the changes, which Robert de Forest thinks can only mean good news for the neighborhood. De Forest is the principal of real estate investment company The Pinyon Group, whose Terra River LLC partnership is launching a river-related project in Elysian Valley in the near future. De Forest has already purchased seven separate parcels of land in the neighborhood, totaling more than an acre, which he hopes to transform into several mixed-use, mixed-income, live-work environments that acknowledges the river as an asset.
"Our commitment to the river really brought us here. The RIO doesn't really affect our plans because we will end up doing those things anyway. Our goal is to be the first truly river-embracing development in the city," says de Forest.
Not all developers working in the neighborhood might feel the same way he does. Pushed out of an increasingly built city, some developers have turned to river-adjacent neighborhoods in the hopes of making a profit, while not necessarily considering the area's existing cultural fabric.
"The irony is that because of all the press the river has gotten lately, it's brought developers in who might not yet have that river sense," says de Forest. "If the RIO and LA-RIO gives them a framework to develop that, then much the better."
Ultimately, only after years of adoption will the city see the fruits of these ordinances, which gives some residents cause for concern.
Mott Smith of real estate development firm Civic Enterprise adds, "The RIO looks well-constructed and common-sensical. That said, it's still just zoning. It's not a plan for public City projects like parks, roads and sidewalks -- what we really need to complement River investment. It's just guidance for whatever private projects may or may not happen down the road."
The ordinance would add another layer of clearance from City Planning, apart from the requirements from the Department of Building and Safety. If anything, it adds an extra step to an approval process that no one enjoys.
Though not yet a proven tool, RIO and LA-RIO could become the foundation for productive, holistic development along the river, according to Omar Brownson, Executive Director of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation. "RIO and LA-RIO is a mechanism to think about the river community on the day-to-day level, but on the whole at the same time. It supports the creation of a community that connects to the river," he says. "What the LA-RIO looks like, no one knows yet, but it does provide the basis to start substantive conversations."
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Pati's Mexican Table
An episode dedicated to one of the Jinich's favorite ingredients: cheese. In her kitchen, Pati cooks three mouthwatering cheesy recipes — one for each of her boys. In Oaxaca, Pati and her three sons visit a cheese producer to see how the famous Oaxacan cheese is made. Recipes include the Señor breakfast sandwich; Tres quesos chicken pasta; Bacon cheese dogs with avocado relish.
Recipe: Señor Breakfast Sandwich
Learn how to prepare the Señor Breakfast Sandwich from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Pati is invited to cook a special Cinco de Mayo dinner at the prestigious James Beard House in New York.
Los Cabos By Land & Sea
Along with Chef Guillermo Gomez of Cabo's luxurious Esperanza Hotel, Pati sets out into the Sea of Cortez to reel in the catch-of-the-day that they will later grill up beachside.
The Godmother of Cabo Cuisine
Pati spends the day in Los Cabos with local legend Edith Jimenez, who worked her way up from waitress to living out her dream of owning the restaurant.
Road Trippin' with Javier Plascencia
One of the region's most celebrated chefs, Javier Plascencia, gives Pati a tour of the Baja he knows and loves before they make their way to his newest restaurant, Jazamango.
La Paz: The Heart of Baja Sur
In the crystal clear waters off Baja Sur's breathtaking capital, La Paz, Pati swims with whale sharks, then satiates the appetite she worked up with some must-eat local food.
A Local’s Tour of Culiacán
Pati visits Culiacan, the capital of the state of Sinaloa. Founded in 1531, Culiacan is the center of trade for produce, meat, and fish and the locals pride themselves on the produce cultivated from the land and nearby sea. Pati's guide is celebrated chef and culinary ambassador Miguel Taniyama. Miguel gives Pati a local's tour of the best markets, street food stands, and restaurants, meeting friends and family along the way. In her kitchen, Pati creates recipes inspired by the experience.
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Altata, Hidden Gem by the Sea of Cortez
Altata is a small town on the coast of Sinaloa, about 45 miles west of Culiacan with stretches of beautiful beaches and delicious seafood at your fingertips. Pati visits with locals and chefs as this town embarks on a journey to reinvent itself from sleepy fishing village to first class tourist destination. Pati takes a boat ride to sample fresh oysters straight from the water. Then back on the mainland, she stops in restaurants serving up fresh fish, oysters and shrimp. In her kitchen, Pati prepares a seafood feast based on the beautiful waters of the Altata Bay
South by South of the Border with Vivian Howard
Pati welcomes dear friend and fellow public television chef and host Vivian Howard to her kitchen. In this south of the border meets southern food experience, Pati and Vivian will cook a couple of their classic recipes for each other, looking for connections in cultures and food.
Los Mochis, Street Taco Favorites
Pati heads to Los Mochis, a coastal city in the northern region of Sinaloa that was founded by Americans in the late 1800s. After learning its unique history and getting an incredibly delicious tour of the street food, Pati returns to her kitchen to create two mouth-watering taco recipes that take her right back to those street stands in Los Mochis.
A Taste of Mazatlán
Sinaloa's premiere resort town claims 13-miles of beautiful Pacific coastline with boardwalks and pristine streets lined with brightly-colored homes and some of the best restaurants in Mexico. But Mazatlan has overcome a troubling and complicated history to become Sinaloa's number one destination. In this episode, Pati meets up with two close friends, chefs Luis Osuna and Zahie Tellez, both of whom witnessed the evolution of Mazatlan firsthand.
Pati travels to the northern part of Sinaloa and the town of El Fuerte, one of Mexico's "Pueblos Magicos" or magic towns. El Fuerte was founded in 1563 right at a bend in the Fuerte River. Now a quiet colonial town, for over 300 years it was the most important commercial and agricultural center in northwest Mexico. After a walking tour and a stop at the Hotel Posada Hidalgo to try their famous cauques, a local type of langoustine, Pati creates a few lobster recipes in her kitchen inspired by the experience.
Pati travels into the mountains of Sinaloa to the tiny village of Jinetes - a place that appears to be stuck in time. The small population of barely 100 people live on whatever the land gives them. Miles and miles removed from civilization, they've managed to preserve their customs and recipes for generations. Pati is the first visitor to come learn from their culinary traditions and they've prepared a feast fit for the occasion.
Originally conceived as a trade route linking cattle markets in Kansas City to the nearest Pacific Ocean port in Mexico, which is Topolobampo. Today the El Chepe railway is a historic passenger train that connects the city of Los Mochis to Chihuahua with stunning views of the Sinaloa countryside and the Copper Canyon. In this episode, Pati will ride the first section of the train's journey - from Los Mochis to El Fuerte. She will tour the train's kitchen and sit down with chef Daniel De Los Santos to taste the gourmet offerings from the train's restaurant, Urike.
Founded in 1594, Mocorito is a quiet, colorful colonial town known for one of Sinaloa's most beloved recipes: a slow-simmered pork dish called chilorio. Pati visits the home of Victoria Gonzalez, a cook known for having one of the best chilorio recipes in town. Then Pati goes with Victoria to visit her sister, Fabiola, who just happens to live right down the street and specialize in another Sinaloan classic, jamoncillo - a soft, sweet candy that is made only of sugar and milk.
Recipe: Coco Fish
Learn how to make Coco Fish from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Recipe: No Bake Chocolate Pie
Learn how to make a No Bake Chocolate Pie from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Recipe: Chorizo, Apple and Corn Bread Stuffing
Learn how to make Chorizo, Apple and Corn Bread Stuffing from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Recipe: Shrimp Rolls with Pepita and Cilantro Pesto
Learn how to make Shrimp Rolls with Pepita and Cilantro Pesto from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Recipe: Roasted Broccoli & Cauliflower with Queso Cotija Dressing
Learn how to make Roasted Broccoli & Cauliflower with Queso Cotija Dressing from "Pati's Mexican Table."
Recipe: Tropical Mint Pineapple Lime Smoothie
Learn how to make a Tropical Mint Pineapple Lime Smoothie from "Pati's Mexican Table."
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July 28, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Full Episode
Huell Tries to Make Soap in Pasadena
Huell heads to the Soap Kitchen in Pasadena to learn all about soap-making.
Huell Checks Out Amazing Animal Dioramas
Huell visits the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to explore its famous animal dioramas.
S3 E4: Cultivating Native Foodways with the Cultural Conservancy
The Cultural Conservancy, an inter-tribal organization, is revitalizing indigenous knowledge by inviting people to re-engage with the land, honor heirloom seeds, grow clean food and medicines, and decolonizing their foodways.
Harry Reid’s lowercase 'green new deal'
"The New West and the Politics of the Environment," a feature-length documentary for the public television environmental news magazine “Earth Focus,” makes the case for placing former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada at the center of a green new deal.
Opinion: Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It — Because They Do
Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.
Moapa Solar Plant Addressed Injustice, Economy and Energy
Behind-the-scenes negotiations helped establish the Moapa transition from coal to solar.
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July 28, 2020 – PBS NewsHour Full Episode | KCET
Tuesday on the NewsHour, Attorney General William Barr testifies in front of the House Judiciary Committee in a long-delayed, combative hearing. Plus: Unemployment relief during the pandemic, the value of college education at a distance, Trump’s immigration agenda, Congo Basin wildlife in jeopardy, a poet laureate remembers her mother’s violent death and cannabidiol business in Navajo Nation.
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On the July 27 edition of the Reporter Roundup, KPCC reporters discuss the latest on COVID-19 in L.A., child care workers and the L.A. County Sheriff.
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Re: AI M handed down by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division
5 March 2020 |High Court|Family
Judgments made available today (5 March 2020)
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In the UK of the 1990's, experimental Dark Wave band MagiKore conducts powerful invocations of deities of death and transformation, forging unbreakable psychic links between its five members. Centuries later, following the announcement that global Ascension is imminent, they must reunite in their various futuristic incarnations to perform the metaphysical functions understood by only one of them, Chandra, currently resident in the spiritually-elevated Crystal Dome of the Latter-Day Aquarians.
As all sentient creatures prepare for translation, inner and outer landscapes begin to blend. Individuality must be safeguarded if the group is to perform its cosmic role and successfully channel the aspects of divinity most representative of their mutual soul-path.
The players in this mythopoetic jaunt find themselves emerging from diverse stages of personal evolution in order to re-group at the key moment of global crisis. Veering through alternative realities on the quest to find the soul-group's unique spiritual home, a touchstone truth of Ascension is that 'Every Thing Possible to Be Believ'd is an Image of Truth'.
Ascension draws on the Bhagavad-Gita, the canons of William Blake and Aldous Huxley, and on alchemical and Symbolist motifs and esoteric lore. Its cast of idiosyncratic characters must intuit their way through living allegory which includes aspects of Hinduism, Theosophy and Paganism, Evangelical Christianity, Buddhism, and materialism and atheism. Meanwhile, as numerous cults and creeds gather their forces, and godforms emerge to claim their own flocks, the world builds up to a dramatic transition that neither scientist nor saddhu can accurately foretell.
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Outside on Warmoesstraat, the night was closing in, bringing its usual rucksacked arrivals seeking shelter and a spliff, its parties of rowdy beer-swilling Brits, the crack dealers in metallic puffa jackets and bling, the leery-eyed men heading for the red light booths. Weaving among these were flashing figures attired in the skins of wild animals; a leopard-man here, a red-mouthed woman in wolf's clothing there; but these moved towards the river so fast that scrutiny was impossible. One was merely left doubting the veracity one's peripheral vision.
Neon signs announced bar and sex shop, coffeeshop and hotel. The bells of Sint Nicolaaskerk and Oude Kerk chimed a lengthy carillon, a cheery summons to all good spirits. On the dark water by the cathedral, the new ship swayed and sent out its own music in which ancient cadences and technical finesse were alluringly combined. The strange-angled melodies and sudden glissandos painted pictures in the mind, images that did not belong to ordinary perception, many of them being mythic in nature, and to the majority of listeners, incomprehensible.
A mysterious vessel sails into Amsterdam and sets up as the world's ultimate nightclub. It soon proves preternaturally tempting, even to sensible Jude, who moves to the city to be with her musician boyfriend, Rafferty. Soon they are joined by her effete, intellectual son Lenox, whose interest in the occult, existentialism and sexual exploration lead him – and the victims of his experiments – into surreal and soul-changing adventures.
A new, updated edition of the 2010 Gothic novel by Kala Trobe.
The Little Book of Pocket Spells by Akasha Moon, 2018
Written by Kala Trobe under one of her pen names, Akasha Moon, and published by Random House, this Fifteenth Year Anniversary hardback celebrates the arts of everyday magick, and includes a starburst of new spells.
Conjuring up love, success, health and happiness, The Little Book of Pocket Spells has an enchanting idea for every occasion. It offers an array of practical tips for bringing those magickal essentials into your life. With its feet planted firmly in traditional witchcraft and remedies, this magickal gem of a book will have you and others spellbound.
Invoke the Goddess, 2019
A revised and updated edition from Llewellyn Worldwide, featuring fifteen Goddesses from the Hindu, Egyptian and Greek pantheons and ideas on how to connect with them. Each chapter provides a factual history of the deity and detailed exercises and visualisations to bring them forth into daily life. Starring Saraswati, Durga, Kali, Lakshmi and Radha; Isis, Nephthys, Hathor, Maat and Sekhmet; Artemis, Persephone, Hecate, Aphrodite and Iris.
Includes many concepts and tips on living magickally, healing the past, walking with the Divine, and enhancing one's creative potential.
KALA TROBE
© 2018 Kala Trobe.
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SMAT: 3 reasons why J&K lost against Karnataka
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Bairstow unconcerned at prospect of facing Amir again
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LONDON: England’s wicket-keeper/batsman Jonny Bairstow is unperturbed at the prospect of facing Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir again in the two-Test series starting here at Lord’s next week.
Amir, who burst on to the scene with his brilliant left-arm pace and swing eight years ago in England, took his 100th Test wicket to help Pakistan on the way to the hard-earned victory they completed over Ireland in Dublin on Tuesday.
A five-year ban over his part in the 2010 Lord’s spot-fixing controversy stopped Amir in his tracks, of course — but on his comeback tour of England in 2016, there were still signs of the wonderful skills with which he had lit up world cricket as a teenager.
Bairstow succumbed just once, in the final Test at The Oval, and Amir finished the four-match series with 12 wickets at an unflattering 42 each as luck largely evaded him.
The England wicket-keeper is respectful of Amir’s abilities but does not appear about to lose any sleep over the hosts’ imminent challenge of taking guard against him in the rematch.
Referencing the drawn series two years ago, Bairstow said: “We played them [Pakistan] not too long ago, so there will be people in their team we have played against previously.
“There are plans that you are going to have. You could pick out any right-arm bowler that we have had problems against — [or Australia’s] [Mitchell] Starc and [Mitchell] Johnson are two very good bowlers.
“It’s possibly a disservice to our players [to mention it], because we have got players who have scored a lot of runs around the world against left-armers.
“People have got skills – I don’t think it’s a problem that needs highlighting.”
Bairstow is also enthused by the Test return, fresh from the Indian Premier League, of Jos Buttler — whose surprise selection at number seven will allow the Yorkshireman to move up to five as he seeks to consolidate his Test average of 39.20.
Reflecting on the first squad picked three days ago by new national selector Ed Smith, he said: “Bringing Jos in at seven is really exciting.
“He has obviously been in great form in the IPL. It is a really positive selection.
“You have got to keep faith with people and you have got to make difficult decisions — and that is exactly what has happened.”
Smith has ‘kept faith’ with Mark Stoneman at the top of the order, but dispensed with James Vince at number three – a position which will instead be filled by captain Joe Root.
Vince’s omission was accompanied with words of advice from Smith, who spelled out that he believes the Hampshire batsman has the ability to score many more runs than he so far has — and needs to go out and prove it.
Speaking at New Balance’s launch of England’s kits for this year, Bairstow said: “Vincey is a fantastic player. It is well above my pay grade to decide what he needs to do, but that conversation will have been had.”
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by Tim O’Brien
Pub Date: Oct. 1st, 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
The memories and the revised relationships stimulated by a college reunion produce a mixed bag of individual stories in this involving and beautifully written eighth novel from veteran author O’Brien, still best known for his award-winning Going for Cacciato (1978).
There’s an echo of The Big Chill at the start as graduates of a small Minnesota college’s class of 1969 gather on a hot July weekend. The opening pages briefly introduce pivotal characters, then the story settles into juxtapositions of the present situation against tales of separate and shared pasts. We know at the outset that unmarried Karen Burns has recently been murdered and that good-natured dentist Harmon Osterberg drowned while on summer vacation. Further details emerge as O’Brien patiently connects their histories, as well as those of several others. Ageless sexpot “Spook” (Caroline) Spinelli, who’s already managing two husbands, turns her attentions to obese, ever romantically hopeful mop-and-broom mogul Marv Bertel. Embittered divorcées Amy Robinson and Jan Huebner recall their unhappy sexual experiences, while functioning as a venomous two-woman Greek chorus. Happily married Ellie Abbott and presumably celibate woman pastor Paulette Haslo cope awkwardly with unsheddable emotional burdens. In a perfectly controlled dual story, cancer-victim and conservative matron Dorothy Stier reconsiders her refusal to move to Canada in 1969 with draft-dodger Billy McCann, who has never forgiven her failure of nerve. And in sequences that show O’Brien at his most assured, former baseball phenom and Vietnam vet amputee David Todd struggles heroically to live with his several disabilities, including the (brilliantly imagined) “voice” in his head and his unquenchable love for the woman who returned his affection but couldn’t live with him. Though its parts are of unequal interest and excellence, July, July powerfully dramatizes the long, lingering aftermath of what had seemed to those who grew up during it, a veritable year of wonders (“Man on the moon, those amazing Mets. We had to believe”).
A heartening recovery of form after the meretricious Tomcat in Love (1998). Once again, O’Brien proves he’s capable of being one of our brightest and best novelists.
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Published: January 13, 2021, 1:14 pm Updated: January 13, 2021, 3:53 pm
Tags: Spurs, NBA, Basketball, San Antonio, Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich, Kobe Bryant
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‘I’m not going to Boston?’: Tim Duncan discusses ’97 lottery, Spurs rivalry with Lakers, Kevin Garnett, why he didn’t sign with Orlando
Duncan was guest on Real Ones podcast, shared thoughts on Gregg Popovich, most fulfilling championship, early days in San Antonio
FILE - In this June 15, 2014, file photo, San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan (21) celebrates after Game 5 of the NBA basketball finals in San Antonio. As NBA training camps prepare to open, every team is trying to mimic the San Antonio Spurs after they steamrolled the Miami Heat for their fifth title. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
SAN ANTONIO – Tim Duncan was on a podcast. Yes, that Tim Duncan.
The Spurs legend recently joined Logan Murdock and Raja Bell on The Ringer’s Real Ones podcast, where he discussed everything from his early days with the Spurs, head coach Gregg Popovich, his near move to Orlando and his legendary battles against the late Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett.
Duncan, who played 19 seasons and won five championships with the Spurs, said in the podcast that he had the option to come out of Wake Forest after his junior season and was told he would be a lottery pick in the 1996 draft, but wanted to finish his four-year college career.
The Spurs won the lottery the year after despite not having the best overall team odds.
“In my head, I was going to Boston. I just kind of knew it,” Duncan said. “Then it’s like ‘Holy crap, I’m not going to Boston? But I get to play with David Robinson. Are you kidding me? This is awesome.’”
“It worked out pretty great for me being with coach Pop and all those vets,” Duncan said. “I was absolutely blessed to land where I landed and it worked out for me.”
Duncan said when he arrived in San Antonio, he was asked to simply play well and not necessarily be the immediate team leader. Duncan praised Spurs veterans for helping him get adjusted and teaching him how to be a professional.
“I learned so much and grew into the player I was because of the Avery Johnsons, the Vinny Del Negros, the Sean Ellliots, David Robinson, Monty Williams,” Duncan said.
Duncan said Williams took him under his wing, but the entire group, including Malik Rose, was made up of genuinely good people who cared about basketball and the community.
Duncan said some of the highlights of his first few seasons in San Antonio were beating Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal in the 1999 playoffs and “shutting down the Forum,” and ending the Lakers 3-peat in 2003, which was the Spurs’ second championship season.
The Spurs icon said the Lakers rivalry was great at the moment and had several ups and downs, including the 0.4 shot that eliminated San Antonio in 2004.
Duncan said he had nothing but “absolute respect for Kobe” and Bryant’s competitiveness pushed the Lakers and made the Spurs bring their “A-game” every time they played.
On Kevin Garnett, Duncan said he frustrated the Minnesota Timberwolves forward simply because he wouldn’t engage in Garnett’s trash-talking antics.
“That’s what he wanted. I recognized that,” Duncan said. “It frustrates people more when you keep coming and coming and getting things done.”
He was also asked to reflect on his 2002 free agency when he nearly signed with the Orlando Magic.
Duncan said “it was pretty close on Orlando and didn’t happen because of Coach Pop and David Robinson.”
“They had the last word and an understanding that I enjoyed what I had (in San Antonio) and maybe had a little more control and certainty of where I was in rebuilding and competing in the Western Conference,” Duncan said.
Duncan also shared that his most fulfilling championship was in 2005 against Detroit due to it being an intense seven game series and the heated interior battles with Pistons big men Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace.
When it comes to Popovich, Duncan said one of his greatest traits is that he knows how to strike the proper balance between players personal lives and basketball.
“Someone who is easy to respect because he’s straight forward with you,” Duncan said. “He’ll stay on you, but keep the environment fun, but you know when it’s time to work and when to relax.”
Duncan said his father gave Popovich permission to keep him in line and it was a primary reason why a team first culture was built in San Antonio rather than it being about one player.
Duncan said he enjoyed dinners with Popovich and his endless knowledge about wine was substantiated, but coaching was not likely for him anymore in the future after his lone season as an assistant.
The Hall of Fame power forward also touched on several other subjects, including Bryant’s death, the way the game is played now, his favorite current players and the Anthony Davis comparisons.
You can check out the full hour long podcast here.
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Brexit Party Chairman Slams "Coward" MPs Trying To Tie Government's Hands Over Brexit
The chairman of the Brexit Party criticised the "coward" MPs who are trying to tie the government's hands by trying to stop a no-deal Brexit.
Opposition leaders and cross-party senior MPs will meet later in talks arranged by Jeremy Corbyn, who says Labour will do "everything necessary" to stop the UK leaving the EU without an agreement.
But speaking to Tom Swarbrick, Richard Tice said they are destroying the government's negotiating power.
He told LBC: "When you go into any negotiation, you have to be prepared to walk away. When you look to buy a new car and want to part-exchange your old car, if your partner says 'we're not leaving the showroom until we have a new car', then you're not going to get a good deal.
"What these MPs are doing is undermining the Prime Minister's negotiating leverage.
"MPs twice, when they voted to serve Article 50 back in 2017 and when they voted the Withdrawal Act to be given Royal Assent, they voted to leave on 29th March with or without a deal.
"Twice MPs have voted for it and then for some inexplicable reason, when it came near to the date, they then bottled it like a bunch of cowards.
Tom Swarbrick spoke to Richard Tice. Picture: LBC / PA
"Let's remember that parliament outsourced this decision to the people. Parliament then voted to leave with or without a deal. Now, because a few MPs don't like and and are a bit scared, they're now desperately trying to grasp back control from the Prime Minister.
"It's an appalling way to negotiate when MPs are trying to tie one or both of your hands behind your back."
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Indian Arts and Culture Buddhism
The Six Perfections of Mahayana Buddhism
Guides for the Practice of Mahayana Buddhism
Amitabha Buddha in a Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco.
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B.J., Journalism, University of Missouri
Barbara O'Brien is a Zen Buddhist practitioner who studied at Zen Mountain Monastery. She is the author of "Rethinking Religion" and has covered religion for The Guardian, Tricycle.org, and other outlets.
The Six Perfections, or paramitas, are guides for Mahayana Buddhist practice. They are virtues to be cultivated to strengthen practice and bring one to enlightenment.
The Six Perfections describe the true nature of an enlightened being, which, in Mahayana practice, is to say they are our own true buddha-nature. If they don't seem to be our true nature, it is because the perfections are obscured by our delusion, anger, greed, and fear. By cultivating these perfections, we bring this true nature into expression.
Origins of the Paramitas
There are three different lists of paramitas in Buddhism. The Ten Paramitas of Theravada Buddhism were gleaned from several sources, including the Jataka Tales. Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand, took a list of Six Paramitas from several Mahayana Sutras, including the Lotus Sutra and the Large Sutra on the Perfection of Wisdom (Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita).
In the latter text, for example, a disciple asks the Buddha, "How many bases for training are there for those seeking enlightenment?" The Buddha replied, "There are six: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom."
Prominent early commentaries on the Six Perfections can be found in Arya Sura's Paramitasamasa (ca. 3rd century CE) and Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara ("Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," 8th century CE). Later, Mahayana Buddhists would add four more perfections--skillful means ( upaya), aspiration, spiritual power, and knowledge---to make a list of ten. But the original list of six seems to be more commonly used
The Six Perfections in Practice
Each of the Six Perfections supports the other five, but the order of the perfections is significant also. For example, the first three perfections--generosity, morality, and patience--are virtuous practices for anyone. The remaining three--energy or zeal, meditation, and wisdom--are more specifically about spiritual practice.
1. Dana Paramita: Perfection of Generosity
In many commentaries on the Six Perfections, generosity is said to be an entry way to the dharma. Generosity is the beginning of bodhicitta, the aspiration to realize enlightenment for all beings, which is critically important in Mahayana.
Dana paramita is a true generosity of spirit. It is giving from sincere desire to benefit others, without expectation of reward or recognition. There must be no selfishness attached. Charity work done to "feel good about myself" is not true dana paramita.
2. Sila Paramita: Perfection of Morality
Buddhist morality is not about unquestioning obedience to a list of rules. Yes, there are precepts, but the precepts are something like training wheels. They guide us until we find our own balance. An enlightened being is said to respond correctly to all situations without having to consult a list of rules.
In the practice of sila paramita, we develop selfless compassion. Along the way, we practice renunciation and gain an appreciation for karma.
3. Ksanti Paramita: Perfection of Patience
Ksanti is patience, tolerance, forbearance, endurance, or composure. It literally means "able to withstand." It is said there are three dimensions to ksanti: the ability to endure personal hardship; patience with others; and acceptance of truth.
The perfection of ksanti begins with acceptance of the Four Noble Truths, including the truth of suffering (dukkha). Through practice, our attention turns away from our own suffering and toward the suffering of others.
Accepting truth refers to accepting difficult truths about ourselves--that we are greedy, that we are mortal--and also accepting the truth of the illusory nature of our existence.
4. Virya Paramita: Perfection of Energy
Virya is energy or zeal. It comes from an ancient Indian-Iranian word that means "hero," and it is also the root of the English word "virile." So virya paramita is about making a courageous, heroic effort to realize enlightenment.
To practice virya paramita, we first develop our own character and courage. We engage in spiritual training, and then we dedicate our fearless efforts to the benefit of others.
5. Dhyana Paramita: Perfection of Meditation
Dhyana, Buddhist meditation is a discipline intended to cultivate the mind. Dhyana also means "concentration," and in this case, great concentration is applied to achieve clarity and insight.
A word closely related to dhyana is samadhi, which also means "concentration." Samadhi refers to a single-pointed concentration in which all sense of self falls away. Dhyana and samadhi are said to be the foundations of wisdom, which is the next perfection.
6. Prajna Paramta: Perfection of Wisdom
In Mahayana Buddhism, wisdom is the direct and intimate realization of sunyata, or emptiness. Very simply, this is the teaching that all phenomena are without self-essence or independent existence.
Prajna is the ultimate perfection that includes all other perfections. The late Robert Aitken Roshi wrote:
"The Sixth Paramita is Prajna, the raison d'être of the Buddha Way. If Dana is the entry to the Dharma, then Prajna is its realization and the other Paramitas are Prajna in alternate form." (The Practice of Perfection, p. 107)
That all phenomena are without self-essence may not strike you as especially wise, but as you work with prajna teachings the significance of sunyata becomes more and more evident, and the importance of sunyata to Mahayana Buddhism cannot be overstated. The sixth paramata represents transcendent knowledge, in which there is no subject-object, self-other dualism at all.
However, this wisdom cannot be understood by intellect alone. So how do we understand it? Through the practice of the other perfections--generosity, morality, patience, energy. and meditation.
Paramitas: The Ten Perfections of Mahayana Buddhism
What Do Buddhist Teachings Mean by Sunyata, or Emptiness?
Virya Paramita
The Ten Perfections of Theravada Buddhism
Ksanti Paramita: Perfection of Patience
Right View—The Buddhist Eightfold Path
Prajna or Panna in Buddhism
Buddhism and Compassion
What Do Buddhists Mean by 'Enlightenment'?
What is Samadhi in Buddhism?
The Fourth Noble Truth
Right Action and the Eight Fold Path
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
The Buddhist Precepts
The Three Pure Precepts
Buddhism's Perfection of Giving
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Happy Holiday Season
Since 2020 has been a very challenging and unusual year we most importantly hope our Season’s Greetings have found you and your loved ones in good health.
This year, we have decided to thank you differently for your continued trust in LGT Capital Partners. Our holiday seasons gift to you is a donation to the three organizations Aangan Trust, India, Last Mile Health, Liberia and Mara Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya. Please find more details on the respective initiatives below.
We wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and hope you can enjoy some well-deserved time off.
Aangan Trust
Approximately 60 million children in India are victims of child labor, human trafficking, physical abuse or homelessness. Lack of awareness, attention and capacity of local authorities results in insufficient response to the problems. Mistrust of the community in local authorities hinders transparency and poses challenges to stopping abuse and violence against children.
Aangan Trust runs prevention, post-harm and advocacy programs that work with vulnerable children, adults and state authorities towards the creation of a protective environment for children in India where all rights are secured:
Ensuring support to families (e.g. mentoring on the topic of abuse) that are affected by the lack of security or well-being of their children
Advocating for changes in laws, social practices and norms
Building capabilities and resilience of the individual child
Enabling children and communities to access protective and essential services
Training and catalyzing existing protective services (children’s institutions, police, statutory bodies, protection officers, district officials, community and local authorities) to be proactive about children’s well-being and safety
Last Mile Health
50% of the world’s 7.3 billion people lack access to essential health services
Of those, one billion live in rural communities, where the gaps are most alarming (e.g. infant mortality rates up to 21% higher)
Compounding this crisis is a massive shortage of healthcare workers (18 million by 2030)
Investing in community health workers (CHWs), alongside more nurses and doctors, can help close this gap.
The Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy for Health Finance and for Malaria found a 10:1 ROI from investing in CHWs through increased productivity, reduced risk of epidemics, economic impact of increased employment
Last Mile Health (LMH) is an NGO working in Liberia with a mission to put a high-performing CHW in every remote community
LMH recruits and pays village-based healthcare workers that are medically equipped and supervised so that they can effectively perform home-based care, saving people from the most common, preventable causes of death
Drawing attention from the Government of Liberia for the impact of its work, LMH advised the government in launching the National Community Health Assistant Program (NCHAP), an effort to scale the CHW model nation-wide
LMH also started the Community Health Academy, which partners with ministries of health to strengthen the clinical skills of CHWs and the capacity of health systems leaders in order to build higher quality community health systems worldwide
Three problems are faced in the Maasai Mara (one of the largest game reserves in Kenya):
Threats and damages to the ecosystem (wildlife and vegetation) due to fencing, overgrazing and increased farming activities.
Poverty of the local Maasai population in the surrounding areas as the pre-existing conservancy models provided only few local economic benefits in terms of land-lease payments, employment and grazing land.
Exclusion of the local Maasai population from decision making regarding conservation and tourism related activities on their land.
Most tourism conservancies in the Mara are run solely by tourist operators. Mara Naboisho Conservancy (“Naboisho”) has developed a unique conservancy model in which both tourism operators and the local Maasai landowners are equally represented on the conservancy board and involved in decision making.
The model empowers the Maasai also economically through income from land leases and employment in the tourist camps within Naboisho. The local population (both land and non-land owners) also benefits from other projects initiated by Naboisho such as access to schools and hospitals.
Naboisho enables the Maasai to continue their traditional way of life as it allows for controlled grazing within the conservancy during periods of drought. This limits overgrazing and maintains the longevity of livestock farming- a significant activity of the Maasai culture.
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Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Fires Staffer in Sex Trafficking Video
Steven Ertelt Feb 2, 2011 | 11:02AM Trenton, NJ
The Planned Parenthood abortion clinic staffer who appears in a new undercover investigation video assisting two people who claim to be heading up a sex trafficking ring has been fired.
Late Tuesday night, Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey released a statement saying the staff person, Perth Amboy center clinic manager Amy Woodruff, would be let go.
“We were profoundly shocked when we viewed the videotape released this morning, which depicted an employee of one of our health centers behaving in a repugnant manner that is inconsistent with our standards of care and is completely unacceptable,” Phyllis Kinsler, executive director of the local affiliate, said a statement, according to NJ.com.
“We have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of behavior, and the employee in the video was immediately suspended from her duties this morning and was terminated this evening,” Kinsler said. “We are fully committed to delivering high-quality reproductive health care to the women of our communities, complying with all laws, and upholding the highest ethical standards.”
Planned Parenthood officials were reportedly unaware of what Woodruff told the couple involved in the undercover investigation.
Still, Kinsler questioned the sting operation, saying the video was heavily edited — even though Live Action, the pro-life group that recorded and released the video, has released the entire footage.
The naional Planned Parenthood organization had also originally suggested that the undercover video was a “hoax” and an “edited tape” before firing Woodruff. Lila Rose of Live Action responded to that and the firing.
“It appears that Planned Parenthood decided to fire Ms. Woodruff over a ‘hoax.’ Or, maybe they are coming to the realization that they have a serious problem brewing,” Rose stated.
“Soon, we will be releasing more evidence to law enforcement officials and the public showing that Planned Parenthood is willing to aid and abet sexual exploitation of minors and young women. As our research and evidence will show, this is not only a problem for one clinic in New Jersey — it is much broader and more endemic,” Rose said.
“These practices are putting minors and young women in harm’s way — all paid for by the American taxpayer,” Rose concluded.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Paula Dow has asked the Division of Criminal Justice to investigate whether the former Planned Parenthood employee broke any laws in assisting the acting couple with securing abortions for the sex trafficking victims they said they managed.
“At first glance, I find these allegations to be very disturbing,” Dow said in a statement.
The video sparked a renewed debate about the taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood receives both from the federal government and the state of New Jersey and New Jersey Right to Life director Marie Tasy called on Governor Chris Christie to veto a bill that would restore state taxpayer funding he previously yanked.
Sen. Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat who sponsored the funding measure, responded to that call in comments to NJ.com.
She said, “obviously this Planned Parenthood clinic needs to get rid of any inappropriate employees and make sure the employees they retain are property trained on the law,” but worried the video would derail the funding efforts.
The national Planned Parenthood abortion business says it turned the couple in to the FBI and federal authorities after they visited a number of Planned Parenthood centers to engage in the sting operation, but with Planned Parenthood staffers going to great lengths to help them cover up the sex trafficking, obtain abortions, and figure out how to get the girls back on the streets, pro-life activist Jill Stanek says she doesn’t believe it.
“It simply doesn’t ring true that immediately after giving the sex trafficker advice on how to cover up sex abuse, statutory rape, minor prostitution, and human sex trafficking, the Planned Parenthood staffer turned around and turned them in to authorities,” she said.
In the video, Woodruff warns the pimp and his prostitute to have their trafficked underage girls lie about their age to avoid mandatory reporting laws.
“Even if they lie, just say, ‘Oh he’s the same age as me, 15,’…it’s just that mainly 14 and under we have to, doesn’t matter if their partner’s the same age, younger, whatever, 14 and under we have to report,” Woodruff says. “Like on the paperwork there’s going to be a point that asks, uh, like are you sexually active, stuff like that … if they’re under a certain age… – you know, me and my other counselor, like for the most part we want as little information as possible – cause we don’t want to be involved…”
Woodruff also recommends how the pimp can get his prostitutes cheaper contraception by claiming they are “students.”
“If they’re minors, put down that they’re students. Yeah, just kind of play along that they’re students–we want to make it look as legit as possible,” Woodruff is caught saying in the videotape.
Woodruff also coaches the alleged sex traffickers on where to get an abortion that won’t be met with as much scrutiny, referring them to the New Jersey-based abortion business named Metropolitan Medical Association, where she says “their protocols aren’t as strict as ours and they don’t get audited the same way that we do.”
The Planned Parenthood official also coaches the alleged sex traffickers on how soon they can put underage female sex slaves back to work. The prostitute in the video asks how long after the abortion until the girls can have sex again, and, when Woodruff says “minimum of 2 weeks,” she asks what sex acts the girls could still do to make money.
“Waist up, or just be that extra action walking by” to advertise sex to potential clients, Woodruff advises.
Lila Rose, President of Live Action, a group that has also caught Planned Parenthood on tape covering up potential cases of sexual abuse of minors, lying to women about abortions, and gladly accepting donations for abortions specifically targeting black unborn children, says the actions the new video footage shows contains illegal activity on behalf of the Planned Parenthood staff. She accuses them of covering up sexual abuse, aiding and abetting statutory rape, minor prostitution, human trafficking, racketeering, and other crimes.
“This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Planned Parenthood intentionally breaks state and federal laws and covers up the abuse of the young girls it claims to serve,” she told LifeNews.com.
“Time and time again, Planned Parenthood has sent young girls back into the arms of their abusers. They don’t deserve a dime of the hundreds of millions they receive in federal funding from taxpayers. Congress must cease funding and the Department of Justice should investigate this corrupt organization immediately,” Rose added.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a Twitter response, shrugged off the video.
“Planned Parenthood is no stranger to the attacks of those who oppose sexual and reproductive rights. We’re still here, providing the care you need. That being said, back to business…,” the tweet said.
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Legendary Ella Brennan dies at age 92
On behalf of the Louisiana Restaurant Association, we are deeply saddened by the passing of legendary restaurateur Ella Brennan. We had the joy of interviewing her in late 2016 for the LRA magazine about her life, passion and her then, new book with her daughter Ti Martin, Miss Ella of Commander's Palace.
She was inducted into the LRA Hall of Fame in 1987 and mentored countless culinarians throughout her long career. Daughter Ti Martin and cousin Lally Brennan helm the Commander's Family of Restaurants and were selected as the LRA's Restaurateurs of the Year in 2016.
Miss Ella of Commander's Palace
by Wendy Waren
“Who would want to hear about this?” said Ella Brennan, when asked why she waited so long to write her book. “I just didn’t think people would want to know about me and my work in the restaurants.”
Her memoir titled, Miss Ella of Commander’s Palace, written with her spitfire of a daughter Ti Martin, is one you will not be able to put down. Chalk full of food memories, stories of family connectedness, heartbreak and heartache, and overcoming adversity in the midst of turbulent times, this book has it all. There’s even threatening ruffians and a call in to a New Orleans mob boss.
“There’s a lot to be said about Ella,” said Chef Frank Brigtsen. “She has a sharp mind and sharp palette. She is a quick read. She can look at a dish, taste it and immediately tell if it’s a winner or not.”
When you read the book, it will seem like she’s sitting right next to you telling you these remarkable stories about her family’s history—her parents Nellie and John, her beloved older brother Owen and glamorous sister Adelaide, and siblings John, Dick and Dottie. If you’ve ever dined at one of the family restaurants, especially Commander’s Palace, you will really begin to understand the Brennan philosophy of hospitality.
“He (Owen) was always saying to us, ‘You’ve got to make these people feel that you’re happy to have them. You’ve got to make them feel, and you just don’t show, you feel.’ That was a big word-feel,” said Ella, take from the book.
Learning how to cook never happened for her and she was thrust into Owen’s first restaurant when she was barely 20 years old. To hear her tell it, the place was a pitiful excuse for a restaurant as the shrimp was teeny and the menu boring and she would tell Owen constantly, “Your restaurant stinks.” Finally, to shut her up, he challenged her to go fix it.
“She won’t tell me what’s wrong with the dish, she’ll just tell me something’s not right,” said Tory McPhail, Executive Chef at Commander’s Palace. “In the beginning, I’d ask her to tell me what’s wrong and she doesn’t know, and I’d have to go back through all the ingredients and reevaluate each component until I got it right.”
A breakfast of scrambled eggs and sautéed bananas like her mother made, is to this day one of her favorite things.
“Thankfully my sister Dottie has mastered making them just like my mother,” she said sharply. “I live right next door to the restaurant and when the chefs make it, I have to coach them on how to do it right.”
When asked what she enjoys to eat right now, today, she replied, “Whatever the chef says is fresh. I love a good soft shell crab and redfish or trout.” Ti quipped, “She loves fish.”
If you ever wondered how Paul Prudhomme came to be at Commander’s Palace alongside Ella Brennan, the book tells the story. Brigtsen testifies that “She and Dick took a dramatically bold step in hiring Paul, and together, they broke the mold of New Orleans cuisine of the time and evolved it with a freedom that revolutionized Louisiana and New Orleans food.”
“He’d put a sauce on part of the dish and another sauce somewhere else, and I would find myself saying, ‘Stop it, Paul. Calm down. Let’s do something simple,’ and he’d respond, ‘But did you taste it?’’’
Brigtsen added, “They were both self-confident enough to insert their opinions and compromise on dishes. For example, Ms. Ella thought his gumbo was too heavy to be a first course or appetizer, so she challenged him to lighten it up and he did—with a roux-less gumbo.”
Emeril was a baby of a chef when he began at Commander’s and she didn’t think much of him at first, but he came to be a good leader and mentor to others and she is proud of the mark he made on Commander’s and the culinary world at large.
“Emeril furthered the evolution of the Haute Creole cuisine and expanded on what Paul had been doing with Cajun, but he also brought his French-Canadian/Portuguese heritage and his own insatiable curiosity to bear on the menu, “ said Ella.
Tales of Emeril’s hand-selected predecessor Jamie Shannon and his cut to short life, and current chef McPhail, are educational outlooks on identifying and fostering talent within the four walls of the restaurant.
All of this behind the scenes work was done with the diner first and foremost. She is passionate about her patrons having an unforgettable experience complete with a feeling that they are family. As I’ve been lucky to experience on a number of occasions, course after course of conversation stopping, mouthwatering cuisine—my favorite meal at Commander’s goes like this: the Shrimp and Tasso Henican, followed by the boudin stuffed quail lacquered with bourbon or cherry brandy, and the bread pudding souffl é or Strawberry shortcake in season.
“Upon first meeting Ella, many people have reported how truly intimidated they were, especially chefs,” added Brigtsen. “While she is direct and to the point, she is never rude and would never use a mistake to tear you down, but rather use the experience to build you up and make you better.”
In the beginning of his career at Commander’s, Ella would meet with McPhail in the restaurant kitchen, and she taught him early on that every dish has to tell a story and that she wanted something on the menu from the grill.
“How do you make steak on a plate tell a story,” asked McPhail. “We are not a steak house, but if you want a steak, we know the Louisiana farmers of Black Angus beef and for the first time ever, we are aging our beef on the second floor of the restaurant. Pair that with fresh vegetables from Covey Rise Farm on the Northshore and you’ve got a great local story.”
Everyone who has had the opportunity to sit with her tells of her ability to get them thinking about things from a different perspective.
Her peers in the industry speak of her as someone who is always doing for others, giving to the community and does not want any fanfare. One of her most notable admirers is Leah Chase of Dooky Chase Restaurant who could not say enough nice things about Ella.
“Let me tell you how exceptional Ella is,” said Chase. “Our restaurant had gotten the worst review from a critic and I was ready to take it on the chin. But Ella wasn’t going to stand for it and she got everyone she knew in huff about it and ended up talking to the writer about it. She sent me the biggest bouquet of flowers. That’s the kind of woman she is and I’m proud she’s my friend.”
“She does this thing called trust and respect,” said Martin. “I come to work every day and I have to try to earn your trust and respect. As an employee, the cook, the dishwasher, General Manager, you don’t owe me any trust and respect, I have to earn that, and you got to earn mine. If we can work from that premise every day,
we can do some magical things.”
The recently released Miss Ella of Commander’s Palace is available in book stores nationwide now.
Member Spotlight-Acing Advocacy with Jeff Gulotta of MoPho & Maypop
Working with the LRA Advocacy Team on multiple initiatives has given Jeff Gulotta a crash course in what it means to advocate for your business and the industry at large. We interviewed Gulotta for the Spring issue of A La Carte and ICYMI, we want to share his story with you here.
Jeff Gulotta and his younger brother, Michael, have an arrangement decades in the making and is playing out daily with Asian-inspired cuisine at MoPho in New Orleans’ Mid City neighborhood and internationally infl uenced dishes at Maypop in the South Market District.
Their paths converged professionally after Hurricane Katrina, when Jeff went to work in management at an emerging restaurant group where Michael was a chef. The company where Jeff had moved up from wine director, head of the beverage department and then assistant general manager wasn’t reopening in the city.
In this post Katrina era, Jeff continued his journey in restaurant management, while Michael was honing his culinary acumen. Each with complementary skills and a growing business knowledge, the two began to contemplate a restaurant of their own. They really loved Vietnamese Pho and Bahn Mi, but at the time, getting that type of cuisine outside of New Orleans East and the West Bank was unheard of. In 2014, the two opened MoPho where they now bring Vietnamese and Louisiana cuisine together in what was once Delgado Community College’s Chimes book store. Two years later, they doubled down and opened Maypop—a Southeast Asian-inspired eatery in an up-and-coming downtown district formerly made up of parking lots used for Saints tailgating.
Gulotta’s learned firsthand the challenges of restaurant ownership and the importance of advocating on behalf of the family business. “The LRA was an important resource for me when we started the business and certainly since then,” he said. “From helping connect us with the City’s Special Projects division regarding a massive construction project around MoPho to giving me the opportunity to meet with U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to share my concerns about health care, immigration and tax reform, they’ve really shown me how to be an advocate for myself and our industry.”
National Heat Awareness Day is May 25
May 25 is #NationalHeatAwarenessDay, and here in Louisiana, we know about heat all too well. It’s often said that Louisiana has two seasons- hot and hotter (with a cold weekend or two thrown in there). Summertime is definitely the “hotter” season and there are many instances where your employees may have to perform duties outside or in environments with no air conditioning. While those job functions may be necessary, so is safeguarding them against heat related injury.
Exposure to heat can cause illness and death. The most serious heat illness is heat stroke. Other heat illnesses, such as heat exhaustion, heat cramps and heat rash, should also be avoided.
There are precautions that should be take any time temperatures are high and the job involves physical work.
Risk Factors for Heat Illness
High temperature and humidity, direct sun exposure, no breeze or wind
Low liquid intake
Heavy physical labor
No recent exposure to hot workplaces
Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion
Headache, dizziness, or fainting
Weakness and wet skin
Irritability or confusion
Thirst, nausea, or vomiting
Symptoms of Heat Stroke
May be confused, unable to think clearly, pass out, collapse, or have seizures
May stop sweating
To Prevent Heat Illness, You Should
Provide training about the hazards leading to heat stress and how to prevent them.
Provide a lot of cool water to workers close to the work area. At least one pint of water per hour is needed.
Schedule frequent rest periods with water breaks in shaded or air conditioned areas.
Routinely check workers who are at risk of heat stress due to protective clothing and high temperature.
Consider protective clothing that provides cooling.
How You Can Protect Yourself and Others
Know signs/symptoms of heat illnesses; monitor yourself; use a buddy system.
Block out direct sun and other heat sources.
Drink plenty of fluids. Drink often and BEFORE you are thirsty. Drink water every 15 minutes.
Avoid beverages containing alcohol or caffeine.
Wear lightweight, light colored, loose fitting clothes.
What to Do When a Worker is Ill from the Heat
Call a supervisor for help. If the supervisor is not available, call 911.
Have someone stay with the worker until help arrives.
Move the worker to a cooler/shaded area.
Remove outer clothing.
Fan and mist the worker with water; apply ice (ice bags or ice towels).
Provide cool drinking water, if able to drink.
IF THE WORKER IS NOT ALERT or seems confused, this may be a heat stroke. CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY and apply ice as soon as possible.
RECAP: 2018 Louisiana Legislative Session
As the Louisiana Legislature begins its Second Special Session of 2018, we'd like to provide a recap of the Regular Session. You can keep up with the legislative session through the weekly LRA e-newsletter,The SnapShot (sent on Mondays), and through the new Capitol Connections video series with your Lead Advocate, LRA President and CEO Stan Harris. If you have questions or would like to update your contact information or add one of your team members to the LRA's email list, please contact the LRA Communications Department at (504) 454-2277 or communications@lra.org.
Thank you for your engagement with the LRA and to those members who connect with the LRA Advocacy Team on our advocacy initiatives. The trust you place in us to represent your business before the legislature is something we never take lightly.
House Bill 126 by Rep. Jordan
Jordan's bill sought to eliminate the tip credit in Louisiana based on the flawed premise that tipping contributes to sexual harassment. It would have raised the minimum wage for tipped employees over 300 percent--from $2.13 to $7.25. The bill was voluntarily deferred by the author after noting industry opposition, killing it for the session.
House Concurrent Resolution (HRC) 68 by Rep. Jordan
This effort by Rep. Jordan sought to create a task force to study the issue of a minimum wage for certain tipped employees and whether an increase would reduce instances of sexual harassment. The LRA opposed this measure. It was returned to the calendar and died for the session.
SB 159 by Sen. Carter
This bill sought to repeal the restrictions which prohibit local government from enacting local labor ordinances to establish a minimum wage or what we call "preemption." The LRA was successful in passing a bill that gave authority solely to the Louisiana Legislature for setting wages and benefits several years ago. The LRA opposed this measure. It was returned to the Senate Labor calendar and died for the session.
This bill would have increased the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8 in 2019 and $8.50 in 2020. The LRA remained neutral on the bill. It was returned to the Senate calendar and died.
This bill was a constitutional amendment to establish a state minimum wage for every employer with 50 or more full-time employees who are 18 years or older. The state minimum wage beginning Aug. 1, 2019 would be $8 and and further increased Aug. 1, 2020 to $8.50. The LRA opposed this bill. It was returned to the Senate Finance calendar and died.
SB 516 by Sen. Price
This bill sought to eliminate the tip credit for casinos. The LRA opposed this bill. It was returned to the calendar and died.
HB 191 by Rep. S. Bishop
This bill sought to mandate that 5 percent of seating in restaurants contain armchairs. This bill was involuntarily deferred and died for the session.
HB 846 by Rep. Simon
This bill eliminates an onerous regulation on small operations (500 square feet) that could be a concession stand at a ball park that has seasonal operating hours. The LRA supported this bill and it passed.
SB 192 by W. Bishop
This bill sought to allow individuals or businesses to seek private action (lawsuit) to enforce zoning restrictions or regulations. This is the responsibility of the municipal or local government. The LRA opposed this measure. It was returned to the Senate Local and Municipal Affairs calendar and died.
SB 375 by Sen. Barrow
This bill as amended would have required restaurants to post a letter grade for its food safety inspection and use numerical scoring to calculate the letter grade. We amended this out of the bill, but because of challenges from the small retailers, it died on the Senate calendar.
SB 541 by Sen. Morrish
This bill sought to amend the regulations on the reporting of terminated employees. Unfortunately, what the bill envisioned violated federal law. The LRA was neutral on this bill and has met with the Workforce Commission as it beta tests its HiRE employer login for reporting on employee separations. The bill died in the Senate Labor committee.
This bill proposed to allow beer and wine to be delivered with restaurant food. The LRA's position was that third party delivery providers would need to be licensed by the ATC, their employees would need to have responsible vendor server permits, the firm would need to maintain liquor liability insurance and be able to verify the age of the purchaser. Unfortunately, all of the required items did not make it into the final bill before the House Judiciary committee. The LRA did not oppose the bill as we had the assurance of the author it would be amended as requested. Unfortunately the House Judiciary committee did not vote to move the bill favorably and it died.
HB 235 by Rep. Stefanski
After SB 489 failed to pass, House Bill 285 was substituted. This was the original form of SB 489 that we opposed. The confusion as to its intent led to its defeat by a committee vote, thus it was involuntarily deferred and died.
HB 428 by Rep Coussan
This bill proposed to change the definition of "premises" as defined for the service of alcohol. The ATC and LRA opposed it because of its expansive nature. The ATC agreed to work with the craft brewers to provide additional special event days that motivated their interest in changing the premises definition.
HB 899 by Rep. Hilferty
As more awareness has been raised around sex trafficking and sexual harassment, this bill proposed adding awareness and educational requirements to the existing ATC Responsible Vendor Program for bartenders and servers. It was amended to allow the ATC to distribute an informational pamphlet with new license packets and renewals. The LRA supported this bill as it was amended and it passed.
SB 314 by Sen. Hewitt
This bill originated to provide exception for native wineries to sell native wine at wholesale for consumption on or off the licensed premises. It was expanded to change beer distribution laws in Louisiana. The LRA opposed this bill. It was voluntarily deferred in Senate Judiciary B and died.
SB 539 by Sen. Ward
This measure would have rolled back the provisions that currently allow LRA members with alcohol service to purchase competitive liquor liability insurance, instead replacing this with strict liability that existed in statute prior to 1989. The author worked with us to have a hearing in committee and reported favorably to address a constituent concern however he did not call it from the calendar for a vote. The bill died.
HB 790 by Rep. Connick
This bill sought to deem hearing loss as a compensable and classified as a permanent partial disability. The LRA opposed the bill as it relates to workers' compensation. We worked with Rep. Connick to amend it however we were unable to craft a workable amendment. He agreed to leave the bill on the calendar and it died.
SB 180 by Sen. Milkovich
This bill would have allowed for a tort option for workers' compensation insurers should medical treatment be denied. As the worker's comp system is the sole remedy for injured workers, this could have brought any workers' comp dispute to state district court seeking damages, in addition to statutorily provided benefits for medical expense and lost wages. The LRA opposed this bill. The Senate Labor committee voted not to favorably report this bill and it died.
SB 536 by Sen. Luneau
This bill would have given injured workers additional remedies outside of the current medical guidelines reforms instead re-instituting broad authority for the workers' comp administrative law judges to determine outcomes. The LRA opposed this bill. It was returned to the Senate calendar and failed in two floor votes.
HB 553 by Speaker Barras
This high profile bill was related to the $350 million Harrah's Casino hotel expansion in New Orleans and the 30 year extension of their contract. The bill died in conferencecommittee. The LRA executed a new memorandum of understanding with Harrah's this spring that defines the type, size and scope of restaurant operations in the existing or future casino operations.
SB 184 by Sen. Martiny
This bill modified some of the requirements for video poker truck stops as it relates to fuel sales and restaurant operations for those in business over 10 years. (Many of these operations are LRA members.) The LRA supported this measure and it passed.
SB 316 by Sen. Johns
This bill permits riverboat casinos to move its operations on land within a specific radius and cease requirements related to maritime operations. (Many of these operations are LRA members.) The LRA supported this bill and it passed.
HB 680 by Rep. Leger
This bill sought to clarify and amend a prior bill that was passed five years ago to help Louisiana's efforts to attract national and regional sporting events. The Major Events Incentive Fund will be used for qualified major events like the NFL's Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, NBA All-Star Games, etc. The Senate further amended this bill after a hearing to provide an appropriated revenue stream to meet the current obligations for events over the next four years. This amended bill will provide a great tool for attracting events and provide a less cumbersome approval process while retaining the oversight of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget to approve any distribution of funds after an events proposed economic impact has been validated.
As mobile app and riding sharing platforms (Uber and Lyft, for example) have emerged in recent years, this bill sought to define and make consistent rules statewide regarding permitting, fare transparency, driver responsibilities and user safety. If an Uber or Lyft driver took you from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, this bill proposed allowing them to pick up a client in New Orleans for the return trip. The LRA supported this bill, however it died in the Senate Judiciary A committee.
HB 881 by Rep. Miller
This bill sought to further restrict indoor smoking in all public accommodations (bars, casinos, etc.) rather than continue to allow local ordinances to govern this. The LRA opposed the bill and the author sought to convert it to a study resolution.
SB 227 by Sen. Morrell
This bill defines the board membership and reporting structure of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. In essence, it returned the SWB board make-up to less control of the Mayor of New Orleans. The LRA supported this bill and it passed.
National restaurant association Research Chief Riehle talks Industry, Economy
As senior vice president of the National Restaurant Association’s Research and Knowledge Group, Hudson Riehle directs consumer, economic, market, human resources, tourism and operations research. He also oversees the National Restaurant Association’s Knowledge Center, which provides information services to restaurant operators and researchers.
Frequently cited in major national and international newspapers, he has appeared on major national TV broadcasts and has authored a variety of articles. Riehle serves as an information source and spokesperson for the restaurant and hospitality industry.
What is the state of the restaurant industry today?
We expect sales this year will exceed $825 billion, despite some challenges. Among consumers, there is still pent-up demand for dining out. Our research indicates 90 percent of Americans enjoy eating out, but income issues restrict their ability to patronize restaurants as often as they’d like.
Who is dining out and where?
Income and employment are often related and, generally, the areas of the country posting the highest restaurant sales growth have the highest employment growth, income growth and population growth. Where are people dining? Tableservice restaurants last year posted sales of $263 billion, and quickservice, which includes fast-casual restaurants, posted sales of $234 billion. Consumers also are interested in restaurants specializing in the snack and nonalcoholic beverage category.
How important is takeout and delivery to the restaurant business?
The off-premises market – takeout, delivery, drive-thru, curbside and food trucks – has been an important driver of sales over the past decade and is only growing more important. The most rapidly developing component is delivery, especially in quickservice. From the consumer perspective, there’s nothing more convenient than having a restaurant come to them.
What are the biggest challenges to the industry today?
Labor costs and talent recruitment. After analyzing hourly eating-and-drinking-place wages over the past three years, we discovered that wage growth in our industry has become substantially higher than private-sector wages. New minimum wage mandates in multiple states and a shallow labor pool caused a dramatic increase in labor costs, making it much more difficult economically to operate a restaurant. If you ask restaurateurs, 50 percent will tell you that high labor costs threaten their long-term success.
What should we expect a year from now?
We’ll still be talking about labor, and there will be even greater focus on the off-premises market, especially delivery. That will include alcohol, not just food. We also expect there to be greater emphasis on sustainability, sourcing, technology, kids’ meals and global flavors.
Aaron Sanchaz Scholarship Fund Application
The Aarón Sánchez Scholarship Fund (ASSF) provides one recipient with a fully paid culinary scholarship to the
International Culinary Center (ICC) in New York City and a paid internship in New Orleans upon completion of the ICC program. Recipient must be an aspiring chef from the Latin community in the Greater New Orleans area and committed to bettering themselves and their community through food. The deadline to apply is May 31, 2018.
ASSF Application
Federal Menu Labeling Regulations effective May 7, 2018
Yesterday was a day many of us in the industry have been waiting on for nearly 10 years. Effective May 7, 2018, the menu-labeling regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – eight years after Congress called for the provision as part of the Affordable Care Act – officially becomes the law of the land.
The menu-labeling requirement applies nationwide to chain restaurants and businesses that serve prepared food and have more than 20 locations. These establishments will now have to post calorie counts on foods they sell – although many in the industry already do.
This is a welcome development for both the restaurant industry and consumers, and we are pleased that our efforts to preserve the May 7th compliance date were successful. By setting a clear standard, this rule provides the necessary guidance and expectations for America’s restaurants to follow in order to continue delivering a high quality experience and customer service to everyone who walks through our doors, as well as the transparency our customers demand. We applaud Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and the Trump Administration for working with the National Restaurant Association to push this policy across the finish line.
To read an op-ed by the National Restaurant Association’s Cicely Simpson, click here.
Going forward, the FDA intends to actively assist restaurants and foodservice establishments comply with the new requirements, and they will not issue penalties during the first year of implementation. To read the FDA’s guidance on this rule, click here.
As always, please do not hesitate to reach out to the National Restaurant Association with any questions we may assist with.
Lt. Gov Nungesser Announces Chefs for LASCO 2018
The Lt. Governor and the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board are proud to announce the selection of 12 chefs from across the state to represent their areas in the 11th annual Louisiana Seafood Cook Off (LASCO).
The chefs include:
Paul Gibson Pont Breaux's Cajun Restaurant Breaux Bridge
Scott McCue Cypress Bayou Casino and Hotel Charenton
Joshua Hebert The Cabin Restaurant Gonzales
Kris Allen Pamplona Tapas Bar & Restaurant Lafayette
Ryan Trahan Blue Dog Café Lafayette
Justin East Vic & Anthony's Steakhouse at the Golden Nugget Lake Charles
Paige Lucas Pork Belly's Bar and Grill Marksville
Nick Simons Wine Country Bistro Shreveport
Anthony Felan Fat Calf Boucherie Shreveport
Justin Ferguson BRQ Restaurant Baton Rouge
Noah Lessard Ruffino's Baton Rouge
Richard Brennan III Bourbon House New Orleans
“Seafood is a part of our culture and has created a culinary identity for Louisiana unlike any other state,” Lt. Governor Nungesser said. “Oysters Rockefeller, shrimp poboys, crab boils and all the wonderful dishes these chefs create with our abundant seafood keep tourists coming back. This is a chance for us to celebrate the great contribution chefs and our hard working seafood industry make to the state.”
LASCO will be held in conjunction with the Taste of EatLafayette event which will be held at the Cajundome Convention Center on June 19. The evening will include the live cook off with chefs from all over the state participating in a competition with the winner to be announced that evening.
This event features the best of both worlds: a taste of EatLafayette restaurants and a world class cooking competition. This is the 14th year for EatLafayette and the 11th year for the state’s premier cooking competition, which is presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board in partnership with the Louisiana Restaurant Association.
“We are delighted that the Lt. Governor and the Louisiana Seafood Promotion Board are staging the Cook-off in Lafayette again this year,” said Ben Berthelot, President & CEO of the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission. “Last year it helped take our popular Taste of EatLafayette Event to another level, while providing great exposure for our area, our chefs, restaurants, the Cook-off and EatLafayette. It is exciting to see this partnership and event continue this year.”
The Taste of EatLafayette showcases locally owned restaurants that participate in the annual EatLafayette™ campaign. The event has traditionally served as the kick off for the summer campaign that drives customers to local eateries and is a sell out every year.
The winner of LASCO will represent Louisiana at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off (GASCO) in New Orleans on Saturday, August 4 at the Morial Convention Center. GASCO is held in conjunction with the Louisiana Restaurant Association EXPO and will feature chefs from around the country competing for the title of King of Queen of American Seafood.
Follow @LaSeafoodBoard on Instagram and Twitter and keep up will all Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off (LASCO) events via the official hashtag, #LASCO18.
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After 27 years, the law on what goes in the statement of terms and conditions that employers are obliged by law to provide to their staff is changing. The timing as to when it need to be provided is changing too.
Employees (and now workers) who start work on or after 6 April 2020 are entitled to receive a statement of terms and conditions of employment before they start work. That means that those who are being offered jobs now, to commence on 6 April 2020 or later will need a new style statement. The new statements are designed to provide additional clarity to individuals over their terms and conditions and make it easier for them to understand their rights and entitlements. Are you sending out new style terms already? If not, you may not be compliant with the legislation.
The new changes require more information to be included in the main statements of terms, rather than be contained in separate documents. By having all the information is one place, this makes it easier for the individual (and any enforcement body) to ascertain their entitlement and whether they have been correctly paid. Some employers do not use statements of terms and conditions and use contracts instead. The new provisions will need to be contained in one document, and contracts will therefore be affected too.
The new requirements mean that employers must provide detail about the length of the contract, the days of the week the individual is required to work, whether the hours are variable and if so, how the variation will be determined in the main document itself. Details about training entitlement to be provided by the employer will need to be included, along with whether the training is mandatory and whether it must be paid for by the employee. Details of any other paid leave must be included, which will include many of the family friendly benefits and others besides. Information about other benefits to be provided by the employer will now need to be included and details of any probationary period applicable along with the conditions that apply to as to whether the individual will be judged successful or unsuccessful at the end of it.
Failure to provide the above statement (or to provide an inaccurate or incomplete statement) can result in a claim for between 2 and 4 weeks’ pay by the individual concerned.
Existing employees and ex-employees can also ask for a new style statement and in the event an existing employee’s terms change such that if they had had a new style statement, the detail would be included within it, then they are entitled to be notified in writing of that change, even if their old terms and conditions make no reference to it. For example, if their terms contain no detail about the other benefits applicable to them but the employer subsequently changes benefits provider, then the employee is entitled to be notified of this change in writing.
There are provisions in place to prevent against the exploitation of these new requirements by staff as they are only entitled to make one request for a new style statement of terms and conditions. Repeated requests do not need to be complied with by the employer. However, this does mean that HR may be busy in the next few months, ensuring that their terms and conditions are compliant with the new requirements, introducing statements of terms and conditions to workers as well as employees, updating their handbooks and offer letters to compliment the new style terms and training managers to understand that last minute hires will leave the business exposed to potential claims if the terms and conditions are not sent out in advance of their start date. A greater lead in time will be needed by HR in order to ensure that such terms can be sent out in time and prior to the individual commencing work.
At Lupton Fawcett, we review and draft statements of terms and conditions, contracts, offer letters and handbooks to ensure they not only meet the legal requirements but also provide practical and commercial support for the business by the addition of certain terms that help businesses.
Feel free to contact Angela Gorton on 0113 2802026, email angela.gorton@luptonfawcett.law for assistance in ensuring that your documentation meets the new requirements and is not drafted in a way that creates contractual entitlements where such entitlements are not necessary.
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Streetwise Opera: Changing lives through song
Streetwise Opera participants rehearsing.
It’s estimated that there are more than 100,000 people experiencing homelessness in the United Kingdom, and thousands more ‘hidden homeless’ sleeping rough. According to the Homelessness Monitor, a five-year study by academics from Heriot-Watt and York universities, one in 10 adults in England alone has experienced homelessness at some point in their lives, a fifth of them since 2010.
Homelessness is often preceded by major life events, such as the end of a relationship, unemployment or leaving an institutional setting. Many homeless people have also experienced trauma and abuse. Added to this can be social exclusion, with the general public fearing or not understanding the challenges faced by homeless people.
Some agencies working with homeless people focus on social inclusion to help them integrate back into society. In 2002, former homeless shelter support worker and opera critic Matt Peacock established Streetwise Opera in the UK, offering free weekly singing workshops to people who had experienced homelessness with professional singers teaching performance techniques.
"The support Streetwise Opera has had from Macquarie Group Foundation is one of the most important factors in the charity’s success over the last decade."
Matt Peacock MBE
CEO, Streetwise Opera
The organisation also stages critically acclaimed opera productions where its participants star alongside professionals.
Group singing is at the core of Streetwise Opera and has been documented to improve wellbeing, boost the immune system, reduce anxiety and stress, help people cope with chronic pain and lessen depression and loneliness.
A meeting between Streetwise and the Macquarie Group Foundation in 2007 progressed to a long-term, multi-level partnership. This subsequently led to:
Co-mentoring between Streetwise founder and CEO Matt Peacock and senior leaders within Macquarie
Pro bono support to review the charity’s brand and redesign its logo
IT assistance with an office move, desktop support, server switch and IT sustainability advice
Input into Streetwise’s strategic reviews and business planning
Volunteer support at Streetwise performances
Macquarie staff serving on the Streetwise Opera Board
Events hosted at Macquarie’s London office
Streetwise involvement in the Macquarie Directors leadership training program, during which Macquarie staff were matched with Streetwise participants for three months to help them work on their progression planning and employability skills
Macquarie staff and the Foundation have contributed £480,000 to Streetwise, as well as more than 1,000 volunteer hours and in-kind support worth in excess of £50,000.
The Macquarie Choir and the Streetwise Opera ensemble also performed together during Macquarie’s 2015 Foundation Week, raising over £700 in donations for Streetwise’s work.
From a one-man start-up idea, Streetwise Opera has grown into an award-winning organisation with worldwide recognition and a 15-strong staff team.
Weekly music programs are held in homeless centres and arts and community venues across England. Participants sing and act, with specially trained professional singers teaching performance techniques to boost confidence.
The organisation also stages critically acclaimed opera productions where its performers star alongside professionals. Productions have toured worldwide from New York to Beijing and at high-profile festivals, promoting more positive attitudes towards homeless people.
From the perspective of Streetwise participants:
80% of participants reported better social networks
77% of participants reported increased creative skills through participation
73% of affected participants reported reductions in substance misuse
89% of participants reported improved mental or physical health
80% of participants reported increased self-esteem
82% of participants reported increased confidence
Since 2007:
2,500 participants reached approximately
133 opera and theatre trips enabled for participants
4,018 workshops delivered
300,000 people audience reached
6 new opera productions organised
212 public performances staged
£385,000 to £900,000 increase on annual turnover
413 to 794 almost doubled its annual participant numbers from 413 in 2008-09 to 794 in 2014-15.
Source: Streetwise Opera, March 2016
Photo credit: Alan Kerr
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Commonwealth Solar II Block 11
Commonwealth Solar II Block 11 program update.
MassCEC is pleased to provide the following program update for the Commonwealth Solar II Rebate Program. As of noon today, June 22, 2012, Block 10 of the Commonwealth Solar II Rebate Program is still open, with $165,116 remaining. Block 10 will remain open until all available funds are reserved or until June 30, 2012 (end of the second calendar quarter), whichever comes first. Block 11 of the Commonwealth Solar II Rebate Program is currently scheduled to launch at 3:00 PM EST on Monday, July 9, 2012.
The Commonwealth Solar II Rebate Program helps finance the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for residential, non-profit, public, and commercial projects up to 15kW in capacity. Block 11 will consist of $1.5 million and will last until the funds are expended or until the end of the third quarter 2012, whichever is earlier. Quarterly blocks of funding are available for customers of investor owned utilities or Municipal Light Plants that have opted into MassCEC's Renewable Energy Trust.
Please see below for a summary of important program updates. Please note: Full details about all program changes cannot be captured in this email, so please read the program documents carefully!
Block 11 & 12 Rebate Levels (Capacity Measured in DC @ STC)
Rebate levels will remain the same for Block 11 and Block 12.
Base Incentive: $0.40/watt
Massachusetts Company Components Adder: $0.05/watt
Moderate Home Value Adder/Moderate Income Adder: $0.40/watt
Natural Disaster Relief Adder: $1.00/watt
Program Changes for Block 11
Qualification for the Moderate Income Adder will be based on an individual's or domestic household's 2011 tax return.
Installers must submit Version 11 of the Application record. Expedited Installers will continue to upload documentation in PowerClerk. Non-Expedited Installers will continue to email application documents to cs@masscec.com per the instructions in the Program Manual.
Effective immediately, all project completion deadlines will be extended to one year from the date of approval (the date that the Notice of Award is issued).
MassCEC incurs a significant financial penalty for incorrect information listed on W-9s. Please make sure to work with System Owners to have these forms written clearly and accurately. When submitting W-9s to MassCEC via email, please submit them to finance@masscec.com without copying other MassCEC staff.
The Natural Disaster Relief Adder will be available for customers who have experienced damage from a natural disaster. Please refer to the Program Manual for more detailed requirements.
Block 11 Program documents will be available at www.masscec.com/solar shortly before the launch of Block 11. Again, all changes cannot be captured in this email, so please read the program documents carefully!
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Pentagon Confirms Military Will Not Hold Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump
Selfie-Happy Insurrectionists Have Created Over 140,000 Pieces of Evidence For FBI — and Counting
FBI Director Chris Wray Breaks Silence: We’ve Identified Over 200 Suspected Capitol Rioters, Arrested Over 100
Joe Manchin Says Congress Should Give ‘Consideration’ to Ousting Cruz, Hawley Over Capitol Insurrection
Larry Kudlow Calls Out Trump’s Failure to Condemn Capitol Riot as It Happened: I Hoped He’d ‘Make Statements Calling Everybody Back and Stopping the Violence’
MSNBC’s The Cycle’s Co-Hosts Open Up To Mediaite About Launching New Show And Facing Critics
By Andrew KirellJul 27th, 2012, 4:20 pm
MSNBC’s newest show The Cycle is unlike any other political talk show on cable. That may sound like a PR cliché, but unlike your usual assortment of cable news veterans, old-school journalists, and suit-and-tie pundits, The Cycle resembles more a collection of Generation X-er political geeks talking about their passions. All four hosts represent a newer, younger generation of political pundits.
As the show’s executive producer Steve Friedman explains, that design was on purpose: “It’s basically a dinner party show, unlike any other ensemble on television.” A forty-year veteran of the business, Friedman has produced a slew of ensemble shows including ESPN2’s Cold Pizza, The Early Show on CBS, and a little morning program called Today on NBC. “This is my computer,” he jokes, showing his college-ruled notebook and a pen. He may come from an older world of television, but he says that his goals with The Cycle don’t necessarily match that mentality.
The Cycle came about in the wake of Dylan Ratigan‘s abrupt departure from his MSNBC show. Friedman and executives decided to soft-launch an ensemble show with four distinct voices. “We wanted an ensemble show because we didn’t want the new person to be compared to Ratigan,” Friedman explains. “If we had just replaced him with a single host, reporters like you might’ve said ‘That’s who they replaced him with?'”
And so Friedman recruited a younger batch of frequent MSNBC guests to host the new show: controversial music journalist Touré, Salon‘s stat-obsessed political writer Steve Kornacki, former Democratic congressional candidate Krystal Ball, and outspoken conservative S.E. Cupp.
“It’s the personalities that set apart ensemble shows,” Friedman says, underscoring the network’s belief that these four are particularly unique host additions to a daytime landscape usually brimming with straight-reporting cable newsman types. Interestingly, their on-air dynamic is an accurate reflection of their off-air relationship.
“This is a great opportunity for me to slay dragons in front of an unfriendly audience,” Cupp says.
Touré is the eldest of the group, probably the most talkative, and definitely no stranger to controversy. Within the show’s first week, he drew criticism for suggesting the death of U.S. solider Pat Tillman was an intentional silencing by the American government; another week, he drew the ire of small government advocates when he advocated for a variety of government mandates. “He just loves to argue,” Cupp says of her co-host, pointing out that even at group dinners a conversation can’t go on without Touré playing devil’s advocate.
Kornacki, by contrast, was enlisted by Friedman as the “anti-Touré” — not politically, but characteristically. Friedman sees his two male hosts as a perfect juxtaposition: Touré pushes buttons and invites controversy; Kornacki is measured and intellectual in demeanor. Off-air and on-air, the other three “Cyclists” openly tease Kornacki for his “nerdy” ability to rattle off obscure polling numbers at the drop of a hat. During one show, the cast created a compilation video of the most neurotic things Kornacki has said on the program, and all enjoyed a good laugh at the result.
Cupp was chosen because, as Friedman describes, “the show needed someone who is not a card-carrying liberal.” Among the network’s non-liberal personalities, Friedman says, Cupp is “the best one.” She jokes that she never dreamed of hosting a show on MSNBC beside all the network’s openly liberal personalities; but she has relished the opportunity: “This is a great opportunity for me to slay dragons in front of an unfriendly audience,” she says. Her conservative fans, however, have had mixed reviews for her new job: “I’ve gotten ‘you’re a traitor,’ to ‘you’re so courageous,’ to ‘I will never watch you on that network.'”
Much like the Touré-Kornacki pairing, Ball was selected as the “anti-Cupp,” in the political sense. Before her television career, she was a 29-year-old liberal congressional candidate in Virginia. Shortly thereafter, she made the rounds as a “Democratic strategist” on Fox News and MSNBC. She credits her on-air experiences with Touré during Ratigan’s “Mega Panel” as helping shape her comfortability with The Cycle‘s format. And even with the stresses of hosting a cable news program, Ball says “running for Congress was way harder,” especially in terms of having the time to spend with her young daughter.
>>NEXT PAGE: The Cycle Addresses Its Critics, Fox News’ The Five, And Touré Takes On The “9/11 Truther” Allegations
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Home SL Dharmegowda, Deputy Speaker of State Legislative Council Karnataka Dies After Suicide
SL Dharmegowda, Deputy Speaker of State Legislative Council Karnataka Dies After Suicide
Medianews18 Tuesday, December 29, 2020 crime, National,
Early reports are coming in from Karnataka where deputy speaker of the state has ended his life in a very bizarre state.
As per reports coming in body of SL Dharmegowda, Deputy Speaker of State Legislative Council was found on a railway track near Kadur in Chikkamagaluru. A suicide note has been recovered.
This is the worst political outcome of a political leader who has a reign of successors in the political corridors. The suicide of SL Dharamegowda Deputy Speaker of state legislative council have left his co-leaders in a state of shock.
By Medianews18 at Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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Asmae El Hilal 27 avril 2017 30 décembre 2019
A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment, was the eureka moment for one of the Maghreb’s new health entrepreneurs.
The North African region has its own unique problems when it comes to healthcare, such as Morocco’s nationwide lack of facilities.
Since 2011 entrepreneurs have seen the opportunity. Healthcare startups in the region have covered online platforms such as Dabadoc, or the development of new medications such as researcher Adnane Remmal.
According to the MENA’s Health Startups report by the Wamda Research Lab in 2016, the wider region has a growing health entrepreneurship movement, as the widening ICT presence and lifestyle health crises create the need and opportunity to use advanced digital healthcare solutions. Most MENA startups were focused on more transparency for patients, and mobile and connected health solutions.
A McKinsey report in 2015 noted that Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt represented 70 percent of the pharmaceuticals market in Africa. The Economist Intelligence Unit in 2011 said Tunisia was leading health innovation in the Maghreb, thanks to good indicators such as qualified specialists, strong public and private hospitals, and a high level of services and developed healthcare infrastructure. At the time, 90 percent of Tunisians had access to health insurance.
But the country suffers, like its neighbors, from deficient distribution of health services.
Where Sub-Saharan and South African countries have already adopted telemedicine, it’s an industry that is yet to take off in technology-forward UAE, let alone North Africa.
Yet we’ve found four startups from across the Maghreb which are finding ways to make healthcare more accessible to all.
Medtrucks – Morocco
Moroccan Anas El-Hilal was the entrepreneur who watched the woman faint at the train station.
“She was going to a city three hours away from her home to get her dialysis treatment [but] she could not physically [make the journey],” he said.
So he developed a map of medical facilities in Morocco and created a business out of sending medical trucks to all of the places where there were none. Although based in France, Medtrucks and its product Medmapping services his home country.
The idea – to bring the doctors to their patients, not the reverse – was simple but hard to implement in a country like Morocco, which faces the scary problem of medical desertification where large parts of the country have no medical facilities. In Tunisia and Morocco, most doctors do not open a practice outside big cities, and tend to flee abroad rather than work in bad conditions.
“I drew a collaborative map which would put together both the medical facilities and the patient’s needs. Then it is easy to dispatch medical trucks with doctors who know where to go and for what need, like a sort of Blablacar but for doctors,” El-Hilal said.
His main goal is to make Morocco digitalize the healthcare systems so he can access more data and improve the platform. He has studied the needs of more than 700 patients and is adding a device to track the different diseases in each region. He is supported by French banks and the business was incubated at Espace Bidaya in Casablanca.
Medtrucks enables you to map the healthcare facilities in Morocco with its medpapping (Image via Medtrucks)
Sutures – Morocco
The three founders of Moroccan app Sutures wanted to ‘gamify’ anatomy in 2016.
Three of the founders are surgeons who found explaining anatomy to their patients via drawings or scribbled patterns time consuming.
“We just decided to do this through an app with the main organs of the body so they could see what we are going to do,” said Amine Benkabbou, one of the founders, to relieve the patient from being overwhelmed with medical information they do not understand.
The surgeons launched the beta version of the app after a stint in Techverse, an incubator and coworking space that helped them make their idea into a product with the help of the Medverse program. They are launching the first prototype in April and have self-financed the project. Their market is surgeons, for whom they’re considering offering the app on a freemium model.
Cure – Tunisia
Mohamed Dhaouafi came up with the idea of a made-in-Tunisia prosthesis when a cousin of one of his colleague was born with no upper arms. Dhaouafi, who was studying engineering, wondered if he could create a cheap prosthesis for limbs and made a team with other students.
The idea started with the Tunisia entrepreneurship challenge in 2016, where it won first prize for a prototype of a hand which was mechanically articulated.
After a stint at MEPI, an American exchange program in Tunisia, to understand better how to build one’s startup, the nine person team developed a myoelectric hand that they presented to Startup Sauna challenge this year.
“You can recycle our prosthesis, you can customize it, our aim is to make it cheaper than the imported ones, not only for Tunisia but also for Morocco where there is a high demand,” he said.
“In Tunisia we studied with the CNAM (Tunisian healthcare insurance) the need. There are only 100 people who can be reimbursed per month and a thousand who need a prosthesis but who don’t have the financial means.”
Mohamed Dhaouafi presenting his prosthesis to the Ministry of Employment (Image via Mohamed Dhaoufi)
Bye Bye Autism-Tunisia
Olfa Safraou, 30, a former medical secretary, met a friend’s autistic child four years ago. “His eyes were staring into space and he could not even play with my son. I felt bad and I wonder what I could do,” she told Wamda.
After some research, she discovered (with her nutritionist background) that people often underestimated the importance of the effects of some food on autistic children.
“I decided to create a center where autistic kids could come and play and also share a snack with some gluten-free food for instance because it can have some impact on their behavior,” she said, even if worldwide scientific research had not proven this for a fact yet.
“It had an effect on my friend’s son and I believe since in Tunisia we eat too much wheat and gluten, it can really change things,” Safraou said, arguing that one newborn out of 80 was autistic in Tunisia.
“The center is not only about finding a place for those kids to be able to blossom which they can’t in usual schools, I aim at making it a startup that could have a lab to research more on the issue of how to help them with food,” she added.
After starting her project on her own one year ago, she now has received a $7,000 fund from Minbar Mena program during a challenge in Tunisia.
Feature image via Pexels
Lilia Blaise
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NEW National Practitioner Data Bank: October 2018 Guidebook Changes
Instructor: Elizabeth A. Snelson
In this webinar speaker will explain about National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook changes.
Hospitals must file a National Practitioner Data Bank report on any physician's surrender of privileges if an investigation is underway. This has always been a Data Bank reporting requirement, intended to discourage plea bargains which allowed physicians to avoid being reported if they agreed to waive hearing rights.
In 2015 the NPDB Guidebook published expanded descriptions of "investigation" and "surrender" stretch what is to be considered a reportable surrender of privileges. In October 2018, a new Guidebook modifies these and other reporting descriptions.
OPPE and FPPE and other peer review can be affected, as are physicians ability to make practice decisions without inadvertently tripping Data Bank reporting triggers. Medical staff bylaws and policies need to be reworked under the newest Data Bank Guidebook."
Why should you Attend: Are you aware of the revisions to the National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook? New and surprising government interpretations of the regulatory scheme have been recently published. Most medical staff policies and bylaws in hospitals today do not reflect these changes. Legal protections for medical staff leaders and hospitals could be lost. Physicians will be surprised by reports generated under the new Guidebook.
National Practitioner Data Bank Guidebook changes
Hospital reporting requirements
Medical staff bylaws problems
Peer review process issues
Physician credentialing
Medical Staff President/Chief of Staff
Credentialing Committee
Vice President of Medical Affairs
Director of Medical Staff
Medical Staff Attorney
Medical Staff Manager
Credentialing Specialist
Human Resources Professionals
Elizabeth Snelson works for medical staffs and medical societies across the country. Medical staff bylaws are a primary focus of her practice. She also handles "disruptive practitioner" procedures, peer review problems, and other compliance matters.
A frequent speaker on medical staff legal issues, Elizabeth Snelson presents at medical staff leadership retreats and serves as an expert witness in credentialing and Data Bank cases.She is Past President of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, and past Vice President of the ABA's Physician Issues Interest Group. She was a member of the Joint Commission's Task Force on medical staff bylaws. Her articles on medical staff legal issues have appeared in various publications. She is the author of The Physicians Guide to Medical Staff Organization Bylaws, published by the American Medical Association.
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Hair is deeply rooted in the identity of black women but black hair has always had a hard time finding its place in American society. Often, a choice in hairstyle, accompanied with a darker skin color, is subject to misjudgment and bias. Despite it's tangled history, black hair has always been innovative and unapologetic.
TENDERHEADED is a collaborative photography series by creative director &stylist Margo Hannah and photographer Esdras T. Thelusma. Each photograph reimagines hairstyles worn in the 90s and early 2000s.
TENDERHEADED explores the intersection of hair choice, skin color, and self-identity. It aims to capture how black hair operates as a method of self-expression and individuality. It also seeks to normalize hairstyles that would otherwise be considered "ghetto" or "classless" due to its nonconformity to European beauty standards.
TENDERHEADED was curated into a gallery experience during Art Basel in Miami, FL. Opening night included a panel discussion focusing on the importance of hair in black culture and the stigma that comes along with it.
The exhibition featured several photographs from the project along with a multi-channel video installation filmed and edited by Terence Price II and directed by Margo Hannah and Mandella Phillips. The work serves to create dialogue about hair-related behaviors performed by black women that are often mocked, and challenges the viewer’s perception of these behaviors. It includes audio of “Ego Trippin”, apoem by Nikki Giovanni.
Click here to view more images from the TENDERHEADED project.
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Post Wild Card Series Thread- Marlins Move On!
By SongInTheAir,
October 2, 2020 in Miami Marlins
A team that wins the World Series buys rings for every player who was with the team that season. With the Marlins having so many roster moves they would have to buy more rings than probably any past championship team.
Wouldn't that be ironic for #CheapJeter?
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2 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:
First ever World Series ring with cubic zirconias.
Already seen plenty of posts about 29-9, those people really didn't watch that entire series did they? Shows what real Braves fans they are.
28 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:
The smart articles are finally starting to come out...
https://www.mlb.com/news/derek-jeter-marlins-vision-quickly-taking-shape
Maybe this isn't a fluke, maybe Jeter knew what he was doing all along? Imagine that!
You're telling me a first-ballot Hall of Fame shortstop who was a lifetime member of the most dominant franchise in baseball history knows more about baseball than an art dealer and his son-in-law? I find that hard to believe.
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Headed down to Team Store.
Be there by 12:15
10 minutes ago, DTrain said:
Take pics!
3 lanes blocked on 95 South
should have stayed home
Those many bandwagon fans heading in for the merch?
They have very little here.
They have black “Respect Miami” shirts and one style of post-season hat (black)
Also had to walk around a bit to make our way to the store because of C-19 testing
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17 hours ago, SirFishFan said:
If any of the games are on MLB Network, they could use those same announcers from that YouTube game a few weeks back. Probably John Smoltz since it’s the Braves.
Let's hope not.
16 hours ago, Michael said:
They really shouldn't use anyone with any history with either team.
100% agree. Should be neutral people, or one from each team.
13 hours ago, SilverBullet said:
Gotta admit taking 3 from the Braves is a challenge. Hopefully some breaks go our way but I have to think I won't be too shocked if we can't get it done. With that said this team has been all about defying the odds all season so let's keep doing just that.
Hopefully they've replaced the apparently blind replay officials in NY.
Kinda figured since fanatics doesn’t even have that much stuff.
Did get a bad ass new release Marlins Skull cap
Got 10% off cause I have 10 game plan
If you have a full season plan do you get 81% off?
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3 hours ago, SilverBullet said:
Ultimately I think the longterm goal now is, or should be, to prove that this season isn't a fluke by remaining competitive from now on. We may not be "this good" in 2021 but as long as we're winning and contending more often than not for like the next decade or so then they've done well.
I guess in simple terms I'm saying they just need to make sure it isn't another 17 years before our 4th postseason run. If it is then we'll be ridiculed with "Marlins only made the playoffs with expanded playoffs in a shortened season during a pandemic" and rightfully so.
With that said I think they're actually in a better position to compete going forward than either the 97 or 03 teams. It's been cool to call us a fluke but this team is clearly on the rise with a strong potential to get even better and with a more sustainable foundation underneath it.
If we're a fluke in 2020 it's not because we suck it's because we're ahead of schedule. It's not that we shouldn't be here, it's that we got here earlier than people expected.
Anyone who calls this team a fluke is just going by historical narratives and clearly hasn't watched them all year. A team with a dynamite pitching staff like this winning games should not surprise anyone who actually has a clue about baseball.
We obviously still need some more offense, but typically, championship foundations are built with pitching. We definitely have that.
Are we in better shape to contend going forward than the 2003 squad? It remains to be seen. I think it tends to be forgotten that the 2003 Marlins were actually pretty stacked. However, it didn't take long for Loria to break up that team, so assuming you are more bullish on the 2020 Marlins going forward than the 2003 team because of Jeter at the helm, then I definitely agree.
I also want to add one more thing in here: the work Mike Hill has done this season (and over the past couple of years) has actually been terrific. While Jeter deserves the lion's share of the credit for turning this ship around, Hill's contributions should not go unnoticed. Perhaps Loria was just holding him back the whole time and Hill had a clue after all?
6 minutes ago, hovertical said:
The funniest thing about this is Phillies analysts and fans acting like their team is the Yankees. The Phillies have not made the playoffs since 2011, went 13 seasons without a playoff appearance between 1994 and 2006 and have a grand total of two World Series championships, with the first one coming all the way back in 1980. Lol. The Marlins have as many championships in 28 seasons as the Phillies have in 138 seasons. Think about that for a minute.
In the grand scheme of things, the Phillies are an absolute joke of a franchise.
20 minutes ago, Valid said:
Anyone who calls this team a fluke is just going by historical narratives and clearly hasn't watched them all year. A team with a dynamite pitching staff like this winning games should not surprise anyone who actually has a clue about baseball
Yes this has been my biggest complaint. If you actually watch this team you see it's not a fluke. There were other more flukey teams in the playoffs than the Marlins who were pretty consistent all season long.
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This lol.
I wonder if they need a culture change/new mentality type of shakeup there. They are total losers who think they are winners without actually winning... it makes no sense. Maybe they're not working hard enough because they assume they'll win easily? That doesn't even seem logical but that's what it feels like. And then they lose and are all like what how did we lose and then they can't get out of the rut.
A "lesser" team that works their ass off to be better will succeed more than a "better" team that half asses everything.
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I keep thinking what an even better story it would be if we can knock off the Braves considering the 29-9 game, it's setup very nicely to prove to everyone how stupid ripping on that one game is.
There's a potentially beautiful Marlins story in every round. Imagine Donnie finally reaching the World Series by eliminating the Dodgers? Imagine the predicted worst team in the NL eliminating what is clearly the best team in the NL?
This possibility got washed away but could you have imagined how fitting, and how funny, if not cringeworthy, if the 2020 NLCS had been Marlins vs Cardinals???
World Series? A potential "Citrus World Series" has been almost jokingly wished for here for years but right now it's as much of a possibility as ever. And if we could somehow beat the Rays, its again another redemption story considering how they've owned us lately. Also the Jeter Tampa connection. The Yankee connections are plentiful but obvious too.
There's just so much to digest here I love it.
If it is the Astros, the whole of the baseball world will love us if we win.
5 minutes ago, FishFan95 said:
I low key want this to happen.
4 hours ago, Rabbethan said:
Interesting about the 29-9 game; only Pablo is left on the roster of the pitchers who gave up runs.
Worth noting that his two bad starts against the Rays and that game vs the Braves were with Alfaro. Pablo was back to his dominant early season form in the last 3 starts- all caught by Wallach.
Talent for talent the 03 team was better but there are other factors for sustainability and I'd say most if not all point to the current group being more sustainable.
Loria not having a ballpark deal back then meant he was destined to dismantle that team one way or another over time. Jeter doesn't have this problem and has tremendous financial flexibility.
The farm systems are hugely different too. The best of the farm was already up in 2003, but who was gonna step in two or three years later when the 03 guys started filtering out? Chad James, Taylor Tankersley, and Jeremy Hermida weren't keeping the Marlins in contention. The better draft picks didn't come until the end of the decade or later such as Stanton Jose and Yelich. With the 2020 team there's a whole crop of future pieces still to come and it seems like they're still drafting right to continue that trend even further down the line.
Plus it's pretty certain that this 2020 team is overachieving in the sense that the majority of the young guys should actually be getting better in the future. A lot of the 2003 team (though not all of them) was already at their peak and not necessarily improving.
Also even with trying to contend again in 2004 Pudge, Derek Lee, and Carl Pavano were already gone so the 04 team was already being downgraded. No one on the 2020 Marlins is necessarily leaving unless it's to upgrade us.
There was very much a one time lightning in a bottle magical feeling in 2003. I think there are plenty of signs that the 2020 group is only just beginning.
22 minutes ago, FishFan95 said:
17 minutes ago, GuitarPik said:
I "high key" want this to happen. The Astros are the one team that we could face that would actually make us the popular pick everywhere except in Houston. Damn maybe even in Houston if there are any Astros fans disgusted with their cheating who wouldn't mind them being taught a lesson.
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I think whatever happens the rest of the year is a positive to me. What a great job by the team to bring some fun into this franchise, and to this year.
This postseason series will feel very different than the regular season vs the Braves. First off, the teams aren't playing in either Atlanta or Miami, so playing in Houston will completely even o
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Gotta give props to Donnie Baseball too. Even though in the past I have called him Donnie Teeball, he has EARNED another extension. Even if we all don’t agree with some of his in game decisions, he is
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White strawberry from UF/IFAS is ready for harvest
White strawberry one of two new UF/IFAS varieties ready for harvest season
“Because the white strawberry is being test-marketed this year, there has been a lot of interest in it,” said Vance Whitaker, a faculty member at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. (Courtesy, UF/IFAS photography)
BALM, Fla. — A white strawberry? Not red? Yes, you “read” that right. And it smells a little like a pineapple. It’s also novel in that it’s the first white strawberry to go to market in the United States.
Just in time for the west-central Florida strawberry harvesting season, which runs from now until the end of March, UF/IFAS is releasing not one, but two new varieties – and the white strawberry is one of them. The other: another cultivar that UF/IFAS’ primary breeder says tastes oh-so-good.
‘FL 16.30-128’ (Courtesy, UF/IFAS photography)
Neither variety has a name yet. They’re known by numbers, which is typical early in the cultivar-release process. So far, they’re known as ‘FL 16.78-109’ (the white strawberry) and ‘FL 16.30-128’ (the red strawberry), said Vance Whitaker, a UF/IFAS associate professor of horticultural sciences and a strawberry breeder.
“Because the white strawberry is being test-marketed this year, there has been a lot of interest in it,” said Whitaker, a faculty member at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. In fact, a grower told Whitaker that some chefs like the new fruit.
When it’s ripe and ready to eat, it is white inside and out, with a slight pink blush on the skin and red seeds, he said.
“The flavor is very different from a typical strawberry, sweet but with a pineapple-like aroma,” Whitaker said. “White strawberries have been popular for some time in Japan, but this is expected to be the first white strawberry on the market in the United States.”
You can find white strawberries in nature, he said. Breeders have harnessed this naturally occurring trait, crossing white strawberries from the wild with modern strawberries to create something different in both appearance and taste.
Here’s how the white strawberry came about.
In 2012 strawberry seeds from Japan were sown at the University of Florida, and a few small plants recovered. The seeds were sown, and a few small plants were recovered. The pollen from these plants were crossed with a Florida variety. The seedlings from this cross-produced fruit that ranged from white to pink to red, Whitaker said.
“Commercial trials have been promising so far,” he said. “Pickers can tell when the fruit is ripe when a slight pink blush develops on the side of the fruit that is most exposed to the sun, and when most of the seeds turn red. By 2022, these new white strawberries should be available in U.S. grocery stores. They will probably be marketed as “pineberries” because of the pineapple aroma.”
Whitaker also touts the consistently even red color and conical shape of the new red variety, making the fruit more attractive.
Here’s how the colors differ in the two strawberries: The red from a typical strawberry comes from pigments called anthocyanins. White strawberries produce much lower amounts of these compounds in their flesh than red strawberries, Whitaker said.
As harvest arrives, farmers will welcome the new red and white strawberries from UF/IFAS, Whitaker said. UF/IFAS researchers and the Florida Strawberry Growers Association estimate strawberries generate about $300 million annually for those who farm them.
Out of the 10,000 acres of strawberries in west-central Florida, the new red strawberry may occupy as much as 300 acres in Florida during the 2021-2022 season, and if it continues to perform well, that number could grow.
The white strawberry, or “pineberry,” will be grown on fewer acres since it is a new specialty product. It will take time for farmers to become comfortable growing it, and it will also take time to educate consumers about this new fruit.
“The new red strawberry is notable for its outstanding flavor,” Whitaker said. “Because of its high sugar level, it tastes somewhat similar to (another UF/IFAS variety called) Sensation®, which is currently one of the leading varieties in Florida, yet with a more intense flavor due to the fruit’s higher acid content.”
–Brad Buck
UF/IFAS Communications
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Motorpoint to support Hidden Disabilities Lanyard Scheme
09 December 2020 Press Release
Hannah Litt, Motorpoint Recruitment Manager and Sunflower Lanyard Scheme supporter, who has several hidden disabilities including Fibromyalgia
Photos © 2021 Motorpoint
Motorpoint, the UK’s largest independent car retailer, is set to rollout the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme across its branch network
“Being supportive is in our team’s DNA so this scheme will now make it even easier for them to support their colleagues and customers alike in the way that is most appropriate to their needs”
The initiative, which goes live from today, is designed to encourage Motorpoint employees across England, Scotland and Wales, to not only recognise the Sunflower symbol on lanyards but how best to provide the customer wearing the lanyard with additional support while in branch. Full training is currently being provided to all staff while lanyards will also be available on site for customers to use if required.
Launched in 2016, the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme indicates to people around the lanyard wearer that they may need additional support, help or just a little more time. It has been widely adopted throughout the UK by a host of major public and private sector employers to assist people with disabilities which are not always immediately obvious – such as Autism, Dementia and visual or hearing impairments. In the UK 1 in 5 people have a disability, 80 per cent of these are hidden.
Cat Moseley, Chief People Officer at Motorpoint, explained: “I’m incredibly proud to be rolling this scheme out across our branch network. The scheme is excellent and truly helps to drive awareness and inclusion across the UK. Being supportive is in our team’s DNA so this scheme will now make it even easier for them to support their colleagues and customers alike in the way that is most appropriate to their needs.”
The backing for the Sunflower Lanyard Scheme comes only a matter of months after Motorpoint was shortlisted in the ‘Make A Difference’ category by the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative in recognition for the work it does to encourage more disabled candidates to apply for roles within the business.
Motorpoint is proud to work with Hidden Disabilities. For more info on the work they do, please visit https://hiddendisabilitiesstore.com/.
For all media enquiries please contact Stephen Wright, PR Manager on 01332 227239 or 07825 308326. Alternatively by email.
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Bride-to-be Ruth Maguire found dead after hen night is buried in wedding dress
Mum-of-three Ruth Maguire, who went missing during a night out, has been buried in the wedding dress she was due to wear this August
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A bride-to-be who died after disappearing on a hen do has been laid to rest surrounded by hundreds of tearful mourners.
Mum-of-three Ruth Maguire, who was due to marry her partner in August, was buried in the wedding dress she never got to wear.
Devastated James Griffin said 30-year-old Ms Maguire was his "soulmate" , and he and their children and families will miss her "more than she will ever know".
Ms Maguire's coffin, covered in flowers, was followed by Mr Griffin and their children - Tyler, Lydia and Oliver - on their way into mass held in a church in north Belfast on Saturday morning.
A number of bouquets of flowers were carried by members of the RNLI, while a bouquet that spelt out "Friend" was driven in the hearse.
Devastated James Griffin said 30-year-old Ms Maguire was his "soulmate"
A number of bouquets of flowers were carried by members of the RNLI, while a bouquet that spelt out "Friend" was driven in the hearse (Image: PA)
Fiance's heartbreaking tribute to 'soulmate' who vanished and died on hen party
A guard of honour made up of children and adults from Ms Maguire's local sport's club, where she volunteered as a coach, stood outside the church.
Ms Maguire went missing on a hen night in Carlingford Co Louth last Saturday, sparking a major search, before her body was found in the nearby lough.
Friends have described her death as a tragic accident.
During today's service, mourners heard how Ms Maguire, who is originally from Belfast, worked in Daisy Hill hospital in Newry, and although the baby of the family, was "the boss" who looked out for her sisters and brothers.
Ms Maguire's coffin, covered in flowers, was followed by Mr Griffin and their children (Image: PA)
Ms Maguire went missing on a hen night in Carlingford Co Louth last Saturday, sparking a major search, before her body was found in the nearby lough
Ms Maguire and Mr Griffin, who had been together for 12 years, were due to get married on August 8 in front of their families and friends, RSVP Live reports.
The priest told mourners Ms Maguire dedicated her life to others, through her job as a carer, coaching sport and Irish dancing.
He said: "Ruth was slow to take offence and quick to forgive, she realised that life is too short.
"Family was at the heart of Ruth's life, and Ruth and Jim were due to receive the sacrament of marriage this year, my prayer is that the grace you were due to receive that day, will come to you today Jim and sustain you in the future."
Friends have described Ms Maguire as "the most loving, hardworking and caring mother to her three beautiful children" (Image: PA)
A guard of honour made up of children and adults from Ms Maguire's local GAA club, Bryansford GAC in Newcastle, where she volunteered as a coach, stood outside the church (Image: PA)
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"May she meet you Jim in God's kingdom, dressed in dazzling white," the priest added.
Speaking to her three children, the priest said: "Don't you ever think that because you're wee your prayers aren't powerful. God listens to your prayers so carefully, you remember that.
"Today, remember your mummy loved you so very much, and your prayers will help you on life's journey, she was so proud of you, and you'll have so many people around you to help you.
Ms Maguire's coffin is carried into the church (Image: PA)
Ruth Maguire with sister Rachel Wilkinson (left) and friend Michelle McCabe (right)
"Remember this is always hope, always faith, always love."
A card made by her young son for Mother's Day next week has taken pride of place in their home with the many sympathy cards sent by the local community.
Friends have described Ms Maguire as "the most loving, hardworking and caring mother to her three beautiful children" who, along with her partner, "worked tirelessly to give their children the best that they possibly could in life".
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Texas Township residents seek answers and action to end flooding
Updated Feb 12, 2019; Posted Feb 11, 2019
Flooding on Crooked and Eagle Lakes in Texas Township
By Malachi Barrett | mbarret1@mlive.com
TEXAS TOWNSHIP, MI -- A feeling of crisis in Texas Township is growing as residents wonder whether a solution to reduce flooding around inland lakes will bring problems to the doorstep of their downstream neighbors.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is considering a permit requested by Texas Township to pump water from Crooked Lake and Eagle Lake to Bass Lake and surrounding wetlands. Floodwaters encroaching on more than 100 properties have caused some to abandon their homes while residents worry the situation will worsen during the spring snowmelt.
Texas Township seeks DEQ permit to pump flooded lakes
A public hearing is set for Jan. 31.
Water would need to be pumped from Eagle Lake into Crooked Lake at a rate of 1,500 gallons per minute. Pumps will remove water from Crooked Lake to wetlands adjacent to Bass Lake at a rate of 3,000 gpm.
Eagle Lake would need to be pumped for about 6 months to return to normal levels and Crooked Lake would need to pump about 8 months.
To approve the permit, the DEQ must find pumping the lakes will not adversely affect the public trust or riparian rights and take public comments from property owners. During a Monday, Feb. 11 public hearing, Thomas Schripsema said he’s not too proud to beg his downstream neighbors to support the permit.
“The water is rising,” Schripsema said. “In the coming weeks, I look to possibly displace my family of five. Our life savings are at risk through no fault of our own. Please allow our home to be saved. Please give us our lives back.”
DEQ Environmental Quality Analyst Derek Haroldson said the issue is the “top priority” for the Kalamazoo office. DEQ will accept additional written comments until Feb. 21 and make a decision by May 6.
Several homeowners who live near Bass Lake asked the DEQ to deny the permit based on adverse impacts they could face if floodwaters are pushed northeast. Representatives of lake associations for Crooked Lake and Eagle Lake said those concerns are overblown.
Kalamazoo County Deputy Drain Commissioner Jeffrey VanBelle said there will be no adverse downstream impact. A permanent solution is likely years away, he said, but something needs to be done now to relieve residents of a significant threat to their property.
“The level of stress and intensity has dramatically increased form the last few months,” VanBelle said. “Even if the crisis is averted, we still need to work on this permanent solution. I am totally convinced we will be back in this one day.”
Mary Ewalt said residents will suffer if the permit is denied, but she and others could suffer if the permit is approved. She expressed sympathy for those affected but isn’t convinced that pumping won’t adversely impact the natural ecology of Bass Lake.
“We, the residents of Bass Lake, will be directly and negatively impacted if the permit is approved,” Ewalt said. “Pumping water to Bass Lake will most likely result in invasive species where currently none exist, decreased water quality, flooding of wetlands and damage to personal property.”
Prein & Newhof was hired by Texas Township to study groundwater flow conditions and make recommendations. Project Manager Tom Smith said lake levels have been rising quickly since September 2018.
Smith said residents who can see water rising in their basements can’t wait for evaporation to happen naturally this summer. Spring rain and melted snow and make the situation much worse by then, he said.
High amounts of precipitation since 2016 has caused groundwater tables in Kalamazoo County to reach record highs in some places. A severe storm in February 2018 caused lakes to overflow their banks.
Smith said one of the main goals of the permit is to prevent adverse impacts downstream. Monitoring wells at several lakes, culverts and U.S. Geologic Survey gages will be observed.
“Obviously we need to bring the lake levels down," he said. "But, we can’t have adverse impact on other folks in the township.”
Still, other residents weren’t convinced there will be no negative impact on downstream property owners and Boy Scouts who use the Rota-Kiwan Scout Reservation on Bass Lake. Some saw the permit as a trade that will benefit one group at the expense of the other.
Scouts expressed concern that invasive vegetation in Eagle Lake and Crooked Lake could enter Bass Lake. A December 2018 study commissioned by the township found no aquatic invasive species in Bass Lake and Scouts said they want it to stay that way.
A screen should help stop invasive species from migrating, Smith said.
More than two dozen Scouts attended Monday’s meeting. Texas Township Trustee Tim Brown addressed them directly.
“Your neighbors are hurting right now and they need immediate help right now,” Brown said. “This is a great civics lesson and a great Scout lesson. Some truths you should know before you leave: No one is going to take your property, no one is going to ruin your scout camp and no one is going to break the law.”
Meanwhile, residents said they are spending thousands of dollars to keep pumps operating at their home 24 hours per day. Some worried about the long-term impact to their property values and a chilling effect on the housing market.
Janet Hedden said she spent more than $40,000 on pumps to keep water out. Hedden said her real estate said her home wouldn’t sell for half of its market value.
“My entire livelihood is being decimated right now," she said. "We need this fixed. This has not been a couple of months for us, this has been over a year. The amount of stress that it puts on us, financially and emotionally, is insurmountable.”
VanBelle said the township intends to pay for the pump equipment with a special assessment district encompassing the impacted area.
Kalamazoo County Board Chair Julie Rogers says the county has never experienced a prolonged flooding event like this, but it doesn’t rise to the level of requiring a state of emergency declaration.
The emergency management process is “reactive," she said, and it hasn’t been proven that significant property damage has been caused, despite possibly being on the horizon.
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56-SONG COLLECTION BY THE SPORTZBLASTERS (THE 17th PIZZA PUPPIES ALBUM)
The 2008 New York Yankees by The SportzBlasters
There are 99 tracks (56 actual different original songs spread onto 42 tracks and 57 five-second-long tracks of silence*) on this featured collection. It is close to two hours long in total. Every player who logged time for the 2008 New York Yankees professional baseball franchise is represented with a song, even total nobodies like Humberto Sanchez and Chris Stewart. The tracks go by the players' uniform numbers. For players who were up and down from the minors (eg, Phil Hughes) and others who just switched numbers for whatever reason (eg, Xavier Nady), multiple songs were written. Chris Britton wore four different numbers for the Yankees in 2008, which is just silly. the sportzblasters actually wrote four songs in 'honor' of this guy lol (and s/o to friend of the program mr. vernon howl for directing the music video for "Chris Britton (Part Four)" above).
The five seconds of silence* are for every unused number (eg, Mantle #7, the plain unwanted #81, etc.)--don't ask me why they did it this way, it's part of the 'concept' i guess.
*NOTE: these silent tracks originally included on the project have been removed in the current iteration on bandcamp because that was a hella dumb idea.
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By MacRumors Staff on January 11, 2021
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About Andiee
HORROR; 1hr 12min (English and German with subtitles)
STARRING: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Josef Klemperer, Chloë Grace Moretz
Tiny dancer: Johnson (right) girds her loins
Veering dramatically from the buttery embrace of 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, director Luca Guadagnino drenches his reinterpretation of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror milestone in the bleakest and wettest possible light. And if his Cold War–era Berlin is miserable (which you’d better believe it is), beneath their chilly sheen, the halls of the globally acclaimed Helena Markos Dance Company are its witchy hub of ill-will.
Ohio naïf and potential sacrificial lamb Susie Bannon (Fifty Shades’ Johnson, dancing as fast as she can) knows nothing of what she’s gyrating into at first. She fails to twig—and why in the netherworld would she—that in their off-duty hours, the company’s queenly artistic director, Madame Blanc (long-haul Guadagnino collaborator Swinton, magnetic as per), and her coterie of campy “Mothers” are a diabolical coven. (Unlike Susie, we squirmers in the cheap seats are left in no doubt about this regrettable state of play, courtesy of a horrifying dance sequence in Act Two.)
Mix in a suspiciously missing dancer (Moretz, tearing into what little time she has), more rain, Susie’s mentally transmitted nightmares, a meddlesome psychiatrist (Klemperer) who really should have kept his suspicions to himself and Madame Blanc’s increasingly mixed agenda, and the thickening pall of dread is as palpable as a shroud.
“Suspiria de profundis” is a Latin phrase meaning “sighs from the depths,” which even if you haven’t seen the original, gives you a fair idea of where Guadagnino is going. His portentous treatment of David Kajganich’s screenplay will probably be a cinch for lofty archetypal dissections so beloved by the cognoscenti. But if striking a word pose isn’t your thing, for sheer say-what? spectacle, the batty denouement in the witches’ parallel world should help to seal the infernal deal. It’s a scene so operatically grotesque and balls-out preposterous that only a master of chutzpah could begin to pull the madness off.
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If you’re a Philly fan in a Sixers jersey walking down South Street, you may have been subject to an impromptu version of the Sixers' starting lineup intros.
“I’ll do the BEEEEENNNNN Simmons and they’ll look at me, like that guy's weird,” public address announcer Matt Cord joked.
Now in his 22nd season, Cord is always working on his craft, even if that means soliciting the reaction of fans strolling to their neighborhood bar.
How he enunciates and emphasizes players' names is constantly evolving, as are the physical movements he delivers them with, sometimes resulting in an inadvertent whack to those that dare cross behind his perch.
For Cord, the starting lineup introductions are his performance, and the mic is his stage.
It wasn’t until about a handful of years ago that Cord started incorporating physical gestures into his routine. Out of necessity due to a neck accident, a stationary mic was switched out for one that Cord could move around with more freely, giving new life to his performance.
Recently, Stephen Curry approved.
this is why @MattyCord is the best!
check out @StephenCurry30’s reaction. pic.twitter.com/XjqohNHRrE
— Christian Crosby (@ChristianCrosby) March 6, 2019
“I totally knew he was watching everything, but I didn’t know anyone had taped it,” Cord said. “Now everywhere I go, people say that to me, ‘Hey! I saw that video Steph posted!'”
But, since Joel Embiid was out, there was one thing Curry missed.
“He missed my Process,” Cord said.
It’s true. There’s nothing quite like when Cord introduces the Sixers' "crown jewel" at Wells Fargo Center — especially if you sit behind the scorer’s table.
“When I do Joel ... from Kansas ... No. 21… JO-el, The Process EMMBEEEEEEEAD ... I turn around for ‘The Process,’ for whoever is sitting behind me.”
Take a look for yourself.
JO-el The Process EMBEEEEEEEEEADDD!
Have loved everything about how @MattyCord performs @Sixers starting lineup intros since I got here (like have you ever noticed how he turns around to the fans for The Process??) Story coming up next on @NBCSPhilly https://t.co/CYtSlB4KjR
— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) March 22, 2019
But, it wasn’t always this way.
In the summer of 2016, Cord ran into Embiid at a music festival.
“I go up to Joel and say, ‘Hey man, you’re going to start next year, and I’m working on your name and I need something else.'”
“Call me Hans, that’s my middle name,” Cord remembers Embiid saying.
“So then, the very first game, I see him in the back (at the arena), and I’m like Joel HANS Embiid, and he’s like, ‘No, no, no. I’ve changed it to ‘The Process.’ He was joking around, and he said he legally changed his name to The Process, so you have to call me The Process.”
Cord, worried Embiid could get in trouble, decided against it.
“I didn’t do it the first game … and he kind of looked at me a couple times in the game when he scored.”
And now, the rest is history.
Embiid isn’t the only player who has influenced Cord’s introductions.
“Years ago, (Allen) Iverson came up to me and said, ‘Make me 6-2.’"
And so, Cord obliged.
“And finally … a 6-2 guard…
“The next game, I did it again. And the next game, Eric Snow (formers Sixers point guard) came up to me and said, 'Can you make me 6-4?' And I’m like no, stop this, I’m going to get in trouble, everyone’s going to be seven feet by the end of this!”
Lucky for Cord, that same game, Iverson re-thought his request.
“He came up to me and said I think we better go back to six-foot.”
If you catch Cord at the arena, there’s one thing you’ll always see him doing: Smiling.
“Honestly, since I’ve been here, and I know you can’t have a bad game as a PA announcer, but he’s just always smiling,” T.J. McConnell said. “And just the way he announces so enthusiastically, he comes up with these things like Three-J (when McConnell shoots a three), and even stuff he said when I was a rookie with Ish Smith, like a 'dish from Ish.'”
Well actually, Cord doesn’t come up with all of those sayings. But, he did come up with Three-J.
Longtime statistician Ron Pollack has offered up sayings like, "Dish from Ish," "Feed from Embiid," and "Embiid indeed!" It’s a joint effort.
For players like JJ Rrrrrrrrrredick and Allennnnnn Iiiiiii-versooooonnnn, both say that when fans come up to them in the streets, they say their name like Cord says their name.
“That’s the coolest thing ever,” Cord smiles.
But what means more to him than anything else is his biggest fan, his almost 16-year-old niece, Lily, who has Down syndrome.
“She is fantastic, she imitates me. She can do Embiid. She can do Iverson,” Cord said as he pulled out his cell phone.
“Here she is doing Bobi, down by the beach.”
You know that unmistakeable voice you hear echoing throughout Wells Fargo Center every single home game? That is the voice of Matt Cord and this is the voice of his (almost) 16-year-old niece, Lily ❤️. His biggest fan and his biggest inspiration. She doesn’t let Down syndrome stop her from doing what she loves 👏 And @mattycord76 you better watch out for your job, Lily might be coming for it 🤣 (Story link in my bio 📝)
A post shared by Serena Winters (@serena_winters) on Mar 22, 2019 at 7:38am PDT
Watch out Matty, Lily might be coming for your job.
More on the Sixers
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Wow! Thanks to Embiid's dominance, Butler's heroics, Sixers finally beat C’s
Celtics' Smart ejected, eggs on Sixers fans after cheap shot on Embiid
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Pair of U.S. 70 Ramps in Durham to Close Overnight
DURHAM — N.C. Department of Transportation contractors are set to close one ramp to and one ramp from U.S. 70 East in Durham tonight.
Beginning at 8 p.m., the ramp from Cheek Road onto U.S. 70 East will be closed to allow crews to place new pavement markings and adjust the concrete barrier on the ramp.
Traffic will be detoured from Cheek Road to Geer Street, Miami Boulevard and Holloway Street to get onto U.S. 70 East.
At the same time, the ramp from U.S. 70 East to N.C. 98/Holloway Street will also be closed for the same work.
Drivers wanting to access N.C. 98/Holloway Street will take the Cheek Road exit and follow Cheek Road, Geer Street and Miami Boulevard to reach Holloway Street.
Work is scheduled to be completed by 5 a.m. Friday but is weather dependent and subject to change.
Drivers should pay extra attention and allow extra time to navigate around the work zone.
This work is associated with the East End Connector project.
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Learn from Manmohan Singh, Sushil Kumar Shinde tells Arvind Kejriwal
HomeAll IndiaLearn from Manmohan Singh, Sushil Kumar Shinde tells Arvind Kejriwal
This Article is From Dec 30, 2013
All IndiaPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: December 30, 2013 10:03 am IST
Arvind Kejriwal at the oath-taking ceremony in Ramlila Maidan
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday had a word of advice for new Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal on how to run a coalition government- follow Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's example.
Mr Shinde said that running a coalition government is a "difficult task" and that those at the helm should choose what they say with care.
"He has got elected as the Chief Minister and Congress has supported from outside. Our policy is very clear that the government should function. But the person at the helm should talk with care," Mr Shinde told reporters, a day after the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) leader assumed office as Delhi Chief Minister.
"For instance, Dr Manmohan Singh runs a coalition government, it's a very difficult task. That's an example before the country," the Home Minister added. (Read: Everyone interested in joining Kejriwal, says former Samajwadi Party leader)
The Congress, which won eight seats in Delhi assembly polls, is providing outside support to Mr Kejriwal's AAP. The BJP won 32 seats in the election, the highest, but refused to form the government as it fell short of majority.
Mr Kejriwal on Saturday took oath as Delhi's seventh chief minister in a huge ceremony at the Ramlila Maida that was attended by over a lakh people.
Delhi Court Extends Former Trinamool MP's Custody Till January 25
Delhi Reports 299 New Covid Cases, Positivity Rate Dips To 0.42 Per Cent
Health Minister Slams Congress MP For Doubting Vaccine Efficacy, Safety
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At the age of 9 years, Rick Vendl got the bug for racing by listening with
his Father to the Indy 500 and Sid Collins doing "The Voice Of The 500"
on the radio. Rick began his "Speed" search starting at age 14 up until
20, by building (5) outboard racing boats from scratch out of wood from
blue prints and raced on lakes in and around Fox Lake, Illinois, but, this
wasn't fast enough for him. At 21, He bought a 1957 270 HP Corvette with
dual carbs and did a lot of street racing against formidable street racer's,
kind of like the movie, The Fast and The Furious and blew a lot of his
street competition away. Which was about the same time of the muscle
car beginnings. The desire for going and being the fastest then took
another step forward in Rick's life. In 1968 American Motors Corporation
introduced their new AMX for sale to the public. Rick bought 2 AMX's in
January of 1968, one for the road and another never to be driven on
public roads and strictly used for drag racing on drag strips. He adopted
the name, "Mr AMX" and was endorsed officially by AMC. He won many
trophies around the Midwest during 1968. Then in 1969 he began an
association with AMC's Javelin Racing Team and continued as Mr AMX in
drag racing and also was appointed Sales Engineer and used the Mr AMX
image to sell performance to AMC Dealers and their customers. In 1970
Rick was hired as an Assistant Chief Engineer at the Avanti II Factory in
South Bend, Indiana, which was formally a part of the Studebaker
Corporation, they went out of business in 1963. Rick was in charge of all
facets of designing and building the Avanti II, including, testing at the
Bendix Test Track (also formerly Studebaker) in South Bend, Indiana
Then in 1973 he put drag racing aside with a calling to buy a ZINK
Formula Vee to go SCCA Road Racing. Rick obtained his Novice Racing
Permit by attending 2 SCCA Racing Schools during June of 1973. He
raced the rest of 1973 with above average success and after the first 4
races he gained his Regional SCCA Drivers License. After the 1973
SCCA season ,Rick wanted to go faster, so, that fall he ventured to the
Chicago area and visited Carl Haas, the Lola Importer for the United
States. Carl Haas had for sale a blue, Lola T192 lettered with the #42.
Rick wanted to jump into Formula A and then Formula 5000. After several
news paper articles in the South Bend Tribune, Rick met Bob Bay and
after several meetings with each other, Rick Vendl and Bob Bay
co-founded Bay Racing Enterprises in the late winter of 1973-1974,
located in Elkhart, Indiana. They bought the Lola T192. The car
remained lettered #42. After test sessions at Indianapolis Raceway Park,
Rick raced his first race there and finished in 12th place overall and this
after a lengthy spin out in turn one of the second lap. At the second race
in the Lola, also at IRP, Rick finished 12th overall again, but, first in class,
still getting comfortable with the car. At the next race at Black Hawk,
Farms in Illinois, Rick finished first over all. Rick during this time received
his National SCCA Drivers License. The next race back at IRP, he was
dicing for 2nd place, it was back and forth thru the whole race, the other
car he was dicing with was throwing oil and Rick spun in an oil slick and
grazed the inside Armco barrier in turn 3 on the last lap, the damage to
the car was too much to continue, but, he finished in the top 12 overall.
The car was repaired in time and ready for the 1974 National June Sprints
at Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. After an engine failure on the
5th lap of practice and it was lucky it was the completion of the 5th lap,
because, 5 laps are needed to start at the rear of the field. The engine
took until Sunday to repair, less than an hour before the Start of the race.
The engine fired and Rick took the last grid position in a 46 car field. Rick
finished 6th in class, with an engine that was not up to full song, not bad
going from Formula Vee to Formula A in one year. Rick was awarded his
first FIA License in 1975 from the 1974 season. Some unforeseen tragic
circumstances in 1975, sidelined Rick and he had to step aside for some
time. He kept renewing his FIA Licenses. In 1977, Rick met George
Bignotti, the Award Winning Indy Crew Chief for Patrick Racing and they
became friends. Rick first went to Patrick Racing, because, they had
Gordon Johncock's T332 Lola F5000 car for sale, he learned this from
George Bignottii while talking with him in a phone conversation. Rick knew
Gordon Johncock raced in the F5000 series, but, Johncock preferred oval
racing. So, Rick decided to see if the car was available. That's how
George Bignotti and Rick became friends. George Bignotti also signed a
1977 USAC Indy 500 Participant form for Rick. Considering that the
F5000 series was canceled for 1977 and the cars were being converted
to the single seat Can-Am configuration, with full bodies to look similar to
the original Can-Am series cars, Rick decided to go towards his original
goal, the Indy 500. In 1978 Rick sent a detailed proposal to the Stroh's
Brewery Company in Detroit, Michigan to sponsor an entry into the 1979
Indy 500, tentatively named the "Stroh Car." Stroh's sent back a letter
that they only sponsored races not race cars and thanked him for his
proposal. To Rick's dismay in 1982 Stroh's sponsored Jim Hickman in the
Stroh's Beer Indy Car #42. Hickman went on to become the Indy 500
rookie of the year, after the running of the 1982 Indy 500. Unfortunately
Jim Hickman was fatally injured during the last 5 minutes of a qualifying
attempt for the 2nd Milwaukee Indy car race that same year. The throttle
stuck wide open and he suffered a massive head injury, crashing into the
wall in one of the turns at Milwaukee. In April 1979 Rick met car owner
Lindsey Hopkins in an IMS Garage in Gasoline Alley were Johnny
Parson's was the driver for Mr. Hopkins team. Mr. Hopkins read the article
in the March 1979 Indianapolis Star about Rick and his new car design.
He wanted Rick to meet with designer Roman Slobodynskj. Mr.
Slobodynskj was also a designer for Dan Gurney and associated with
designer John Ward, also a designer for Dan Gurney. The meeting with
Mr. Slobodynskj seemed to go well at that time because, Mr. Slobodynsksj
was interested in Rick's new car design, so Rick thought. Coincidently
about 2 year's later the new "Gurney Eagle" and the Interscope "Bat
Mobile" appeared at Indy and were strangely similar in design to each
other and also to Rick's design? Then later in April 1979, George Snider,
long time Indy Driver was in the Patrick Racing Shop one day and he
signed Rick's application for a USAC Indy Champ Car License, which was
a requirement that a current Indy Driver to sign the application. There
was a Gurney Eagle car #42, entered in the 1979 Indy 500, no driver
assigned. The car was formerly driven by the late Dana Carter, who
drove it in that year's California 500, but, he vacated the ride for another
team. Rick acquired a Sponsor for the ride, but, the car owner had a
problem with his other car #81, driven by Dick Ferguson, preventing Rick
from his rookie try to qualify for the 1979 Indy 500. During the summer of
1987 Rick was residing in Redlands, CA and he made a proposal to
Redlands city officials to sponsor a car for their 1988 centennial year,
named "The Spirit of Redlands." Dick Simon of Dick Simon Racing was to
provide the Indy race car, all the spares needed, pit crew, pit equipment
and garage space in Gasoline Alley at the IMS Speedway for the 1988
Indy 500. Unfortunately Redlands opted not to sponsor the car. To make
a longer story shorter, Rick is looking forward to possibly racing in future
Formula 5000 Vintage Races, plus, also considering a future venture into
the Indy Racing League with an Indy 500 team, either owning a team or
being associated with a current team. For Rick Vendl, "The Search For
The Formula" to be the fastest, goes on.
Testing-IRP
Rick Vendl
photo 1973 & profile April 2009
Resident, Indianapolis, IN
Born April 14, 1937
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Arecibo Seminars
go Virtual!
The Arecibo Observatory is committed to operating as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic and is continuing the AO Seminar Series virtually via Zoom. We encourage you to join our email list to be notified of upcoming seminars here: [inset Jorge's form here]. If you are working with AO data and would like to present your research as a seminar, please contact Dylan Hickson at [dylan dot hickson at ucf dot edu].
9/16/2020 Finding our Place in the Universe : Laniakea and Beyond.
Hélène Cortois
University of Lyon
9/9/2020 The Heart of Darkness
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Date Name Affiliation Title Abstract
9/16/2020 Hélène Cortois University of Lyon Finding our Place in the Universe : Laniakea and Beyond. View Abstract
"Our galaxy and its neighbors move through the universe at a staggering speed of several hundred kilometers every second. This observation has been known since the early 1960s without astrophysicists being able to fully explain the cause. This speed is not due to the general expansion of the universe, but rather to the gravitational force generated by the matter distributed around us. In the 1990s, an American team of cosmologists, researchers working to understand the laws that govern the universe as a whole, proposed the model of a ""great attractor"", located in a region of the universe hidden from our view. My specialty is called cosmography. It is a question of mapping the positions and the movements of the galaxies, in order to understand which physical laws give birth to these celestial architectures which we observe in the distribution of the luminous matter. In this quest, we discovered with my team, the super continent of galaxies in which we live: ""Laniakea"", reformulating the concept of our local cartography with terms derived from hydrography: watersheds and rivers are now extra-galactic. In this seminar, I will present this discovery and the rest of the research: with observational campaigns using telescopes located in Hawaii, Australia, in space and data from Arecibo! I will also explain the methods of analysis that we invented to understand our nearby cosmic environment." Hélène Courtois is a French astrophysicist specializing in cosmography. She is Professor and Vice President at the University of Lyon 1 and the director of a research team at the Lyon Institute of the two infinite. She received the 2018 Scientist of the Year Award from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for her international influence. She is featured in the 2019 documentary Cosmic Flows: The Cartographers of the Universe by CPB Films.
9/9/2020 Jian Li Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY The Heart of Darkness View Abstract
Microquasars, the local siblings of extragalactic quasars, are binary systems comprising a black hole of several to tens of solar masses and a companion star. By accreting matter from their companions, microquasars launch powerful winds and jets, influencing the interstellar environment around them. Steady gamma-ray emission is expected to rise from their central objects, or from interactions between their outflows and the surrounding medium. The latter prediction was recently confirmed with the detection at the highest (TeV) energies of SS 433, one of the most interesting microquasars known. We analyzed more than ten years of GeV gamma-ray data on SS 433. Detailed scrutiny of the data reveal emission associated with a terminal lobe of one of the jets and with another position in the SS 433 vicinity, co-spatial with a gas enhancement. Both gamma-ray sources are relatively far from the central binary, and the latter shows evidence for a periodic variation at the precessional period of SS 433, linking it with the microquasar. This result challenges obvious interpretations and is unexpected from any previously published theoretical models. It provides us with a chance to unveil the particle transport from SS 433 and to probe the structure of the local magnetic field in its vicinity. Dr. Jian Li pursued his Ph.D. jointly at Institute of High Energy Physics, China and Institute of Space Sciences, Spain. Currently he is a Humboldt Fellow at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany. Dr. Jian Li's research is mainly aimed at understanding particle acceleration process and high energy emission mechanism in Galactic sources, in a multi-wavelength context. Dr. Jian Li's research topics cover binaries, pulsars and their related nebulae, magnetars, supernova remnants, and other Galactic compact objects.
8/29/2020 Wei Siang Tan Western Illinois University High-sensitivity Observations of Molecular Lines with the Arecibo Telescope View Abstract
We conducted a high-sensitivity survey (~5mJy RMS) for spectral lines in the 6 to 7.4 GHz frequency range with the 305m Arecibo Telescope. We observed a sample of 12 intermediate-/high-mass star-forming regions that included a broad range of evolutionary stages, from Hot Molecular Cores to regions prior to the development of ultra-compact HII regions. The low RMS of our observations allowed us to investigate the nature of spectral features undetectable in previous low-sensitivity surveys, including absorption lines of excited OH and weak variable masers. A main focus of this work is the characterization of 6.7GHz methanol absorption. Even though this transition can be detected in absorption against the Cosmic Microwave Background, we find that most of the known 6.7GHz methanol absorption lines are associated with active sites of high-mass star formation, and that the absorption is likely against compact radio continuum sources in the regions. This work is currently accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and is available in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11817.pdf Mr. Wei Siang Tan is a graduate from the Master's Program in Physics at Western Illinois University, where he worked with Dr. E. D. Araya on observations and analysis of Arecibo data. He has continued the collaboration with Dr. Araya since then and he is now involved in analysis of GBT observations of 14 GHz formaldehyde emission and follow-up VLA observations of the Arecibo sample. Mr. Tan is currently in Singapore and plans to continue PhD studies in radio astronomy.
8/5/2020 Jason Hofgartner Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology The Root of Anomalously Specular Reflections from Solid Surfaces on Saturn's moon Titan View Abstract
Saturn's moon Titan has a methane cycle with clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, and seas; it is the only world known to presently have a volatile cycle akin to Earth’s tropospheric water cycle. Anomalously specular radar reflections (ASRR) from Titan's tropical region were observed with the Arecibo Observatory (AO) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and interpreted as evidence for liquid surfaces. The Cassini spacecraft discovered lakes/seas on Titan, however, it did not observe lakes/seas at the AO/GBT anomalously specular locations. A satisfactory explanation for the ASRR has been elusive for more than a decade. Here we show that the ASRR originate from one terrain unit, likely paleolakes/paleoseas. Titan observations provide ground-truth in the search for oceans on exoearths and an important lesson is that identifying liquid surfaces by specular reflections requires a stringent definition of specular; we propose a definition for this purpose. Jason’s research is focused on understanding the physics of present-day active geologic processes in the outer solar system. As a graduate student, he led the Cassini RADAR team in the first discovery and later confirmation of transient features in the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn’s moon Titan. These enigmatic features, popularly known as "Titan's Magic Islands" were determined to be waves, floating or suspended solids, or bubbles. As a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Jason contributed to the first measurement of the Bond albedos of Pluto and Charon and led the New Horizons team in a search for temporal changes on Pluto and Charon. Pluto was found to have terrains with extraordinarily different albedos and several enigmatic features, which are the focus of a new research project. Jason's current research includes resolving a decade-old apparent discrepancy between Arecibo Observatory and Cassini RADAR observations of Titan and thermal modeling of Kuiper belt object Eris to test the putative explanation of atmospheric freeze-out for its exceptionally high albedo.
7/22/2020 Betsey Adams ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy / Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen First results and data from the Apertif surveys View Abstract
Apertif is a new phased-array feed for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), greatly increasing its field of view and turning it into a natural survey instrument. On 1 July 2019, the Apertif legacy surveys commenced. These are a time-domain survey and a two-tiered imaging survey, with a shallow and medium-deep component. The time-domain survey is searching for new fast radio bursts (FRBs) and monitoring known FRBs to identify repeating sources and improve their localization. The imaging surveys provide neutral hydrogen (HI), radio continuum and polarization data products across a bandwidth of 300 MHz, corresponding to a redshift of 0.26 for HI. The key science goals to be accomplished by by Apertif include localization of FRBs (including real-time public alerts), the role of environment and interaction on galaxy properties and gas removal, finding the smallest galaxies, connecting cold gas to AGN, understanding the faint radio population, and studying magnetic fields in galaxies. First results from the surveys include the detection of multiple FRBs (including sources with high rotation measures), the discovery and monitoring of an intra-hour variable, resolved spectral indices from combining with LOFAR data, and more. Survey data products are served to the community via the Apertif Long Term Archive (ALTA). A first, test data release occurred at the end of last yera, and the first survey data release is planned for the near future. Available data products include high-time resolution filterbank data in the PSRFITS standard for the time-domain survey and, for the imaging surveys, raw visibilities, calibration tables, calibrated visibilities, multi-frequency synthesis continuum images, polarization images and cubes, and uncleaned neutral hydrogen (HI) line and beam cubes. I earned my PhD at Cornell University studying isolated gas clouds in the ALFALFA survey as potential gas-bearing ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. I then went to ASTRON as a postdoc, where I continued HI-based studies of dwarf galaxies. In 2017 I became a staff member at ASTRON as a NWO-WISE fellow and led the Apertif imaging commissioning until the start of the Apertif surveys in mid 2019. I have served as the Head of Apertif Science Operations since the start of Apertif survey observations.
6/3/2020 Ariel Deutsch Brown University Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Polar Ice Deposits on Mercury View Abstract
The poles of Mercury harbor ice deposits that are several meters thick and interpreted to be >95% pure water ice. The physical properties, composition, and age of the ice can provide critical insight into its origin and evolution. In this seminar, we will discuss our understanding of Mercury's polar ice deposits, and explore how future ground-based exploration can support science investigations of Mercury's polar deposits.
3/9/2020 Ashish Mahabal California Institute of Technology Full Transient Zoo from ZTF View Abstract
"The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a sky survey covering 3750 sq. degrees down to 20.5 mag from the Palomar 1.2m telescope. It has been functional for close to two years, and with its field of view of ~47 square degrees the publicly released DR2 boasts of over 100 billion detections in g//r/i filters. We will describe the data release and how it can be widely used for archival studies. We will emphasize the real-time and time-domain wonders from the survey with rapid follow-up of gravitational wave events as well as its plethora of discoveries including thousands of supernovae, several tidal disruption events, first atiras/vatiras and so on. We will finish by putting it in perspective with surveys to come including ZTF Phase II and the Vera Rubin Observatory (formerly LSST)."
3/3/2020 James Joyce University of Puerto Rico The 2019-20 Earthquake Sequence in the Paired Left Lateral and Normal Punta Montalva and Guayanilla Canyon Fault Systems View Abstract
The 2019-20 earthquake sequence in southern Puerto Rico between Guanica and Guayanilla occurred along a paired fault system at the eastern end of the Southwest Puerto Rico seismic zone and the western margin of the Guayanilla Canyon.The primary faults that constitute the zone of earthquake activity are the Punta Montalva Fault and a previously unnamed submarine fault mapped along the upper portions of the western Guayanilla Canyon. The Punta Montalva Fault extends from southern coast of Ensenada Las Pardas, Guanica to the North side of the Parguera Hills, Lajas.Displaced surface drainage patterns (hoyas) between Ensenada Las Pardas and Punta Montalvaindicate 200 meters of left lateral strike slip (horizontal) displacement. Relative motion along fault is to the West on the north side of the Fault and to the East on south side of the fault.The submarine extension of the fault intersects the fault mapped in the Guayanilla Canyon. The Guayanilla CanyonFault is mapped as normal faultinclined to the Northwestwith downward vertical motion Northwest of the mapped trace of the fault.The earthquake sequence initiated with primarily lateral displacementalong the Punta Montalva Fault followed by larger normal displacementsincludingthe largest 6.4 magnitude earthquake on January 7, 2020. The normal fault displacement earthquakes are restricted to a zone Northwest of the Guayanilla Canyon Fault and North of the Puta Montalva Fault.
2/26/20 Nimalan Swarnalingam NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/the Catholic University of America Cross-comparisons of PMSE and meteor head echo observations at multiple locations using different radar systems View Abstract
Radar observations have been playing vital roles in our understanding of many fantastic phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere such as Polar mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSEs) and micrometeoroid influx. However, until recently, most of the observations were not calibrated by any standard method, but rather utilized signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as the detection threshold, which is closely dependent on the radar's system parameters and experimental configurations, as well as the background noise level. These uncertainties have impeded our ability to understand the absolute signal strengths of the measurements, and complicated the cross-comparisons among sites. In this talk, I will focus on how multiple radars are utilized to understand the geographical distribution of PMSEs. The radars are calibrated using a standard method and cross-comparisons of measurements are performed in absolute units. The results indicate that PMSEs could be influenced by several factors other than the well known extremely low temperate and the availability of water vapor in the polar mesosphere. We also use a similar standardized technique with modeling efforts to perform cross-comparisons of micrometeoroid influx in the Earth�s upper atmosphere among multiple radar sites. In this case, we model the altitude distribution for the radar detection of meteor head plasma reaching the upper atmosphere with a range of masses, velocities, and entry angles, and use it as a proxy to determine and cross-compare the micrometeoroid influx among multiple radars including the Arecibo system.
2/25/20 Joanna Rankin University of Vermont Pulsar Astronomy and Physics at the Arecibo Observatory View Abstract
Arecibo Observatory (AO) has long been the best instrument anywhere for studying pulsars. Its unmatched sensitivity and versatility led to many key early discoveries, and two major upgrades over half a century have since maintained its pre-eminent position in the pulsar astronomy field. The talk will provide an introduction to pulsar physics and astronomy with emphasis on AO�s development, contributions and centrality in the speaker�s personal research.
2/21/20 Raul Carballo Rubio University of Central Florida Constraining physics beyond general relativity with gravitational waves View Abstract
One of the most striking predictions of general relativity is the formation of black holes and their corresponding horizons, surfaces that act as one-way membranes for energy, matter and information. Testing the latter prediction is particularly subtle but, at the same time, the formation of these membranes has critical implications for the nature and internal structure of black holes, leading to a number of theoretical problems that remain to be solved. Some proposed solutions to these problems involve long-range modifications of general relativity that should be testable both with electromagnetic and gravitational waves. In this talk, I will summarize the motivation behind these theoretical proposals, and discuss possible ways in which observations can constrain them.
2/19/20 Kevin Ortiz Ceballos University of Puerto Rico Observing Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov for Radio OH Lines with the Arecibo Observatory View Abstract
Comet 2I/Borisov was first observed September 8, 2019 and was quickly identified as originating from outside the Solar System due to its highly eccentric, hyperbolic orbit. This is only the second such body that has been detected, after 1I/�Oumuamua, which unlike Borisov, showed no coma. The presence of this coma in Borisov may indicate an icier composition with sublimating volatiles. One way of studying the composition of this coma is through radio observations, which can be used to measure the presence of the hydroxyl (OH) radical in the comet�s coma. The OH radical is a photodissociation product of water and can be used to quantify the activity of the comet. Spectroscopy of the OH lines in comets using the Arecibo Observatory has been successfully performed for Solar System comets. We observed interstellar comet 2I/Borisov throughout its passage over the northern sky in the fall of 2019 at the OH line frequencies accessible to Arecibo. Though the OH line was not detected in our observations, we estimate an upper limit to the OH production rate of 6.98 x 10^27 mol/s and an upper limit to the water production rate of 6.49 x 10^27 mol/s. Our results agree with reported optical, near-IR and UV observations of Borisov, which are consistent with low water production. 2I/Borisov did not undergo significant outbursts during our observations.
1/17/20 Selvaraj Dharmalinga University of Central Florida VHF radar echoes and Turbulence from Low Latitude Middle Atmosphere View Abstract
VHF radar echoes are of origin of refractive index fluctuations and its gradient. These fluctuations are of turbulence. Atmospheric turbulence studies are mostly made by refractive index fluctuation induced radar echoes. These echoes are expected to be an intermittent in space and time since turbulence are highly intermittent in space and time. VHF radar echoes are characterized by different techniques for basic understanding on it and then those echoes are used to study atmospheric turbulence. A new method is being developed for turbulence studies since radar estimated spectral width method has inherent problem. VHF radar echoes from the low latitude mesosphere have been extensively studied using the Jicamarca radar located in Peru and more recently using the MST radar located at Gadanki. This study focuses on studying the low latitude mesospheric echoes extending up to the mesospause (which is ~100 km), which include echoes generated by neutral turbulence below 80 km an! d by plas ma instability above 87 km, turbulence characteristics, and the governing dynamics. Studies have been done using observations made by ground based radars (MST, MF, meteor radars), lidar and ionosonde; rocket borne Langmuir probe; and satellite. Observations have revealed that radar echoes during daytime are observed from two height regions: 60-80 km and 87-102 km. The echoes observed in the height region of 65-80 km are observed in all beam direction while the echoes from 87-102 km are observed in the direction that satisfies perpendicularity to earth�s magnetic field. The echoes from 65-80 km are attributed to the electron density fluctuations generated by neutral turbulence in the mesosphere and are referred to as low latitude mesospheric echoes while the echoes from the 87-102 km are attributed to field aligned electron density irregularities in the E region generated by plasma instability and are referred to as low latitude E region echoes. Both are found to be govern! ed direct ly or indirectly by the neutral dynamics. These findings indicate that the refractive index fluctuations responsible for VHF radar echoes from the low latitude mesosphere are related to neutral turbulence and the turbulence is closely linked with gravity wave activities. These results are discussed inthe light of current understanding on the governing processes and dynamical forcing generating the low latitude mesospheric echoes. Echoes from MLT region are also depends on electron density of that region. Retrieval of electron density has been attempted in D and E region using Incoherent Scattering Radar (ISR) technique and this same technique has also been applied to upper atmosphere/ionosphere.
9/27/19 Avinash Deshpande Raman Research Institute Radio Frequency Interference: To avoid or attack? View Abstract
Man-made Radio Frequency Interference, or RFI, has increasingly invaded the electromagnetic spectrum of interest to radio astronomers, and can seriously hinder sensitive measurements of the radio sky from most locations on the Earth, particularly at lower radio frequencies (below about 2 GHz) where several interesting new investigations with newer instruments have been proposed. Over the past decades, a number of techniques have been developed to characterize and mitigate the RFI. However, the mitigation strategies, often developed to deal with specific RFI situations, have largely been found wanting due to their lack of broader applicability. The talk will attempt to highlight the issues and challenges involved, as well as present a few possible detection and excision techniques, illustrated and assessed through relevant case studies.
9/18/19 Fabio Vargas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aeronomic Studies carried out at the Andes Lidar Observatory, Chile View Abstract
The dryness of the region makes it ideal for aeronomical experiments relying on clear skies conditions and low cloud coverage throughout the year. Because of that, several optical instruments are operated at ALO since 2009 in a continuous base. The aeronomical instrument suit corresponds to a word-class resonance W/T Na Lidar system, a 40 kW Enhanced Meteor Detection Radar operating at 60 MHz, an OH mesosphere temperature mapper, and several all-sky nightglow imagers equipped to observe the space-time variations of the OH(6-2), O2(0-1), O(1S), O(1D), and Na nightglow brightness. In this talk, we want to show the different aspects of the lidar observatory and discuss the science investigation enabled by this set of instruments. We will show a number of important results obtained in the past few years and the endeavors we want to pursue in�the near future.
9/16/19 Esteban Araya Western Illinois University Atomic and Molecular Tracers of Jets and Outflows in High-Mass Star Forming Regions View Abstract
High-mass stars are responsible for some of the most spectacular astronomical objects such as supernova remnants and stellar mass black holes. Massive stars form in giant molecular clouds, generate copious amounts of ionizing photons responsible for the development of HII regions, and drive massive molecular outflows that are thought to contribute to the dissipation of their natal clouds. This talk presents highlights of a multiscale effort to search and characterize atomic and molecular tracers of jets, outflows and the expansion of ionized regions associated with young high-mass stellar objects. The presentation focuses on molecular transitions (masers and absorption lines) and radio recombination lines observable with Arecibo and the VLA
9/12/19 Allison Smith University of North Georgia - Dahlonega Searching for Intermediate-Velocity Molecular Gas View Abstract
More than 100 small molecular clouds exist at Galactic latitudes b > |25| deg., a subset of which have LSR velocities in the range of (+/-) 20-90 km/s. These objects, known as Intermediate-Velocity Molecular Clouds (IVMCs) have infalling motion that is inconsistent with differential galactic rotation, and studies show that some of these objects may lie at the disk-halo interface. Given their dynamics and locations, IVMCs may represent gas originating in the Galactic fountain or the halo. As there are only 11 known IVMCs to date, we are using Arecibo Observatory to search dozens of candidate IVMCs for the presence of OH 18 cm emission. I will discuss the nature of these clouds, some updates on our current project at Arecibo, and the importance of�possible IVMC detections with respect to understanding the Milky Way's gas cycle
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Check Out The 20 Most Remarkable Nigerian Entertainment Events Of 2020
These are some of the most remarkable moments in the Nigerian entertainment industry in 2020 as compiled by The PUNCH.
2020 has undoubtedly been an eventful year in the Nigerian entertainment industry. Saturday Beats takes a look at the major highlights of the past 12 months.
Burna Boy and Jopearl
Singer, Burna Boy, was called out by a lady (Jopearl), who claimed that she was in a relationship with the singer at about the same time the self-acclaimed ‘African Giant’ and a British rapper, Stefflon Don, started dating. Jopearl alleged that her relationship with Burna Boy lasted for about two years, adding that she decided to break her silence as her resolve to keep it a secret had continued to upset her. Burna Boy, however, kept mum on the issue.
Funke Akindele, JJC flouted COVID-19 guidelines
In April, during the lockdown declared to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, JJC Skillz, were arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for hosting a house party that had more than 20 people in attendance without maintaining social distancing. Though she apologized profusely through her Twitter account, the movie star was docked for violating restriction orders in the state. However in October, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, granted a state pardon to the couple.
Naira Marley continued romance with the law
‘Mafo’ singer, Naira Marley, was convicted and fined the sum of N200,000 for flouting COVID-19 safety guidelines.
The ‘Soapy’ artiste was charged with four counts of violating the interstate travel ban, not using a facemask, breaking the social distancing order, and attending a concert, thereby breaching the COVID-19 restriction directive on physical gatherings.
The ‘Marlian’ had, on June 13, left Lagos for Abuja to perform at a concert at the Jabi Lake Mall, despite an interstate travel ban then.
Prior to that, in April, Marley, was arrested for ignoring the ban on social gatherings when he attended a house party hosted by Funke Akindele and her husband, JJC Skillz.
Meanwhile, earlier in the year, a case of car theft and other allegations against the singer was dismissed. Marley, alongside his brother and some associates, had been arraigned in December 2019 on a four count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, assault and obstructing arrest.
Iyabo Ojo versus Faithia Balogun
In February, actress, Iyabo Ojo, shared a post on her Instagram page, which many interpreted to be a criticism of her colleague and former close friend, Faithia Williams (Balogun).
According to Ojo’s post, a person that was close to her had always been envious of younger actors in the industry. She also alleged that she (Ojo) helped to plan the birthday party of the person in question two years ago in Turkey, even though the latter went on to snitch on her. Ojo, who lost her mother later in the year, shared the controversial post on Faithia’s birthday.
D’banj’s rape saga
A lady, Seyitan Babatayo, jolted many when she claimed that popular singer, D’banj, had raped her at a hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, in 2018.
The ‘Scape goat’ singer however denied the lady’s allegations and described them as ‘lies from the pit of hell’. He also said the claims were a ‘slap to my marriage and beautiful wife, my entire family and those who believe in me’. The singer went ahead to demand an apology from his accuser and the sum of N100m as ‘compensation’.
After a series of accusations and counter accusations, the Nigeria Police Force cleared D’banj of the rape allegations.
Peruzzi and Daffy Blanco
A United Kingdom-based singer, Daffy Blanco, accused Davido Music Worldwide artiste, Peruzzi, of allegedly trying to rape her after she engaged him to write songs for her and had made an upfront payment of N10m.
Blanco said she hired Peruzzi to write songs for her after the Chief Executive Officer of a bank spoke highly of him. Describing their meeting as a nightmare, Daffy Blanco said she sustained a scar on her thigh as a result of the alleged near-rape incident.
On his part, Peruzzi denied the rape allegations against him. This was even as another alleged victim, simply identified as Princess, took to a newly created Twitter page, to call out the music star for sexually assaulting her eight years ago.
Following the heated criticisms, Peruzzi wrote on Twitter, “My name is Okoh Tobechukwu. I have never (been) and will never be a rapist.”
DMW sacked Lil Frosh
Davido Music Worldwide, a record label owned by pop star, Davido, in October, terminated its contract with a budding artiste, Lil Frosh, after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend, Gift Camille.
Camille’s manager and brother, Mayoks Michael, had accused Lil Frosh of domestic violence against his sister.
Reacting to the issue, Davido said his company strongly condemned domestic violence.
Wizkid slammed Reekado Banks
Top singer, Wizkid, lambasted his colleague, Reekado Banks, for planning the release of their collaborative single amid the #EndSARS protests against police brutality in Nigeria.
Reekado Banks had announced the release date of the single he recorded with Wizkid in a tweet. Banks had written, “Out of control ‘gbedu’ must drop. This one with my brother @wizkidayo. ‘Omo Olomo’ midnight dropping. Still on the matter! #EndSARS #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality”.
Describing Reekado Banks as a ‘fool’ and ‘clout animal’, Wizkid said he didn’t believe Banks would deign to put out a song at such time.
“Delete this, dude. Can’t believe you’re doing this at a time like this. Old song. #EndSARS fool,” Wizkid wrote, though he later deleted the tweet.
Lilian Afegbai bashed online, deleted Instagram account
An actress and former Big Brother Africa contestant, Lilian Afegbai, was apparently not ready for the social media onslaught that was unleashed against her in the thick of the #EndSARS protests.
Though Lilian had earlier joined protesters to condemn police brutality in the country, some Nigerians called her out, stating how her mother who is a police officer, Carol Afegbai, allegedly killed Ibrahim Momodu, a student of the University of Benin in Edo State, some years ago when she was a Divisional Police Officer.
The bashing got so much for the actress that she deactivated her Instagram account shortly after an old video of her mother recounting the killing of Momodu, in 2013, surfaced online.
Laycon won BBN
On September 27, 2020, a rising rapper, Olamilekan ‘Laycon’ Agbeleshe, made history when he won the Big Brother Naija (Lockdown Edition), with the highest number of votes cast in the history of the competition.
After 70 days in the Big Brother house, Laycon, who had been a fan favourite from the beginning of the show, beat other finalists? Nengi, Vee, Neo and Dorathy? to the ultimate prize. Laycon was also the first BBN housemate to have 1.2 million Instagram followers while still in the reality show.
While in the house, the love triangle between Laycon, Erica and Kiddwaya was also a talking point for many viewers and was, in fact, one of the highlights of the show. The triangle climaxed with the disqualification of Erica from the show after she threatened Laycon for saying she tried to kiss him.
Nengi and Ozo’s ‘situationship’
Another highlight of BBNaija was the relationship between two contestants? Ozo and Nengi? which some fans described as a ‘situationship’.
Throughout his stay on the show, Ozo could not hide his admiration for Nengi to the point that he sometimes drooled over her. However, it seemed the feeling was not mutual in its intensity. Though Ozo constantly professed his love for Nengi, she stated that she was not ready for any relationship until after the competition.
On the day Ozo was evicted, he probably thought Nengi would have ‘sympathy’ on him and he attempted to kiss her but she artfully dodged his lips. Her action generated diverse reactions on social media.
Blakface condemned Wizkid
Blackface, a member of the defunct Plantashun Boiz is not a stranger to controversy. He has often been in the news for not so good reasons, and the trend continued this year.
Blackface slammed Wizkid over his criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari. This was after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) sent a ‘get well soon’ message to the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 with his wife, Melania.
Wizkid had written, “Donald Trump is not your business! Old man! Police/Sarz still killing Nigerian youths daily! Do something! Face your country.”
In his reaction, Blackface berated Wizkid for delving into politics when he should be busy with his music career. “Why don’t you face your music, small man? I understand why that is difficult, because it doesn’t have any substance #ChildrenOfNowAdays,” he wrote on Twitter.
Blackface also accused Wizkid of allegedly copying one of his songs.
Tiwa Savage ‘hit’ journalist hard
Singer, Tiwa Savage, was not pleased with the opinion piece written by a journalist, Motolani Alake, about her music career, and she did not hold anything back in registering her displeasure.
Alake had written a review of her album, ‘Celia’, and described her brand as ‘struggling’. An angry Savage later took to her Twitter account to verbally assault the journalist. She wrote, “Because I’m quiet does not mean I am a fool. Don’t try to turn the Nigerian media against me to hide your guilty conscience. Ask all the media houses; I have great relationships with them. What you did with this is pure evil.”
Not done, the ‘Ole’ singer also alleged that when Alake interviewed her in her house for the first time, he asked for a picture. She added, “Guy, you came to my house to do an interview, then you asked for pictures. You are a fan.”
DJ Switch live streamed Lekki shootings
Many Nigerians would not forget in a hurry the night of October 20, 2020, when security operatives opened fire on unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos.
On that night, DJ Switch became a heroine by recording a live video which transmitted what happened to the world in real time. Though the military initially denied shooting live ammunition at protesters, footage from DJ Switch’s Instagram proved otherwise. The Federal Government also debunked the disc jockey’s claims that about 15 lives were lost on that night.
DJ Switch eventually made her way out of Nigeria amid allegations that her life was being threatened. She later appeared before the Sub-committee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development of the Canadian parliament. The entertainer claimed that she had been on the move since the ugly incident as there had been threats to her life.
Rahama Sadau’s backless gown
Northern actress, Rahama Sadau, sparked controversy on social media when she shared pictures of herself wearing a backless gown which exposed her skin from the neck to the upper section of her waist.
Her choice of clothing, however, did not go down well with a number of her conservative Muslim fans, some of whom quickly condemned her as having committed ‘haram’? a forbidden act in Islam. Though Sadau later apologised, the Motion Picture Practitioners Association of Nigeria suspended her over the controversial pictures.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, also ‘directed’ the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Umar Muri, to investigate the controversy Sadau’s post generated
P-Square’s family feud
It was supposed to be a season of merriment for them but Paul Okoye, one half of the defunct group, P-Square, took a swipe at his brother, Peter’s wife, Lola Omotayo, over her birthday greeting to them.
Lola took to social media to celebrate the duo while persuading them to end their rift, adding that life was too short.
Reacting to the birthday message, Paul, who is better known as Rudeboy, accused Lola of pretending to be a ‘good woman’ while she ‘manipulates’ things behind the scenes.
Not done, Paul also tackled Davido, who had lambasted those who attended the separate birthday parties thrown by the twin brothers.
9ice caught cheating
Popular singer, 9ice, ate the humble pie when he called on Nigerians to help beg his wife, Olasunkami, after a video of him caressing another woman surfaced online.
Though he had initially appeared unperturbed, the ‘Gongo Aso’ singer later made a u-turn and recorded a video, appealing to fans to help plead for his wife’s forgiveness. In an Instagram post titled, ‘Save a sinking vessel’, 9ice admitted that he had done ‘something shameful and terrible’ but he did not want his marriage to fall.
Temmie Ovwasa called out Olamide
Temmie Ovwasa, better known as YBNL Princess, took many by surprise when she called out popular rapper and her former record label boss, Olamide.
In a Twitter rant, Ovwasa criticised the YBNL boss for the way he handled her career while she was with his label. She alleged that she recorded three albums and multiple singles with YBNL but they did not see the light of the day because Olamide ‘rejected them for no reason’.
She wrote, “@olamide, I did not beg you or reach out to you for a record deal. I was minding my business when you reached out to me. Five years, four singles and four videos. Is that how you got to where you are? Oga, I would use you write a bestseller (sic) since we are all crazy…”
The singer later took to Twitter to announce that she had a meeting with Olamide and all the issues had been resolved.
Meanwhile, Ovwasa had also stated that she has bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and multiple personality disorder.
Davido was the best man at his driver’s wedding
Many didn’t believe Davido when he announced that he would be the best man at his driver’s wedding. He however made good his promise and shared pictures of himself and other guests at the event. The ‘Jowo’ crooner accompanied one of the photos with a brief post, wishing the newly-married couple a happy home.
Omah Lay, Tems arrested in Uganda
Undoubtedly two of the fastest-rising Nigerian singers, Omah Lay and Tems, had a good 2020 but it was almost sullied by a bitter experience they had in Uganda, where they had gone to perform at a concert. The both of them were remanded in the custody of the Uganda Police Force after they were charged to court for flouting the protocols put in place by that country’s government to control the spread of COVID-19.
Their detention sparked outrage with many Nigerians condemning their treatment in Uganda. The singers subsequently regained their freedom.
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Fight Parkinson's: Exercise May Be The Best Therapy : Shots - Health News Several times a week, Mike Quaglia dons bright red boxing gloves and pummels a hundred-pound punching bag. He has Parkinson's disease, and the boxing helps alleviate his symptoms.
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Participants in a boxing class designed specifically for people with Parkinson's disease at Fight 2 Fitness gym in Pawtucket, R.I. Joel Hawksley for NPR hide caption
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Participants in a boxing class designed specifically for people with Parkinson's disease at Fight 2 Fitness gym in Pawtucket, R.I.
Mike Quaglia was 42 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which gradually robs its victims of their ability to move normally. For the next seven years, his condition deteriorated despite medication.
"I was at a point where I was either going to give up and let the Parkinson's take over, or I was going to decide to fight back," Quaglia says.
Fight back he did — literally. Last February he stumbled on a program called Rock Steady Boxing. That's right: It teaches Parkinson's patients how to box.
So now you can find Quaglia at Fight 2 Fitness, a gym in Pawtucket, R.I., several times a week, his hands encased in bright red boxing gloves.
Mike Quaglia says he needs less of his Parkinson's medication when he boxes. Joel Hawksley for NPR hide caption
Mike Quaglia says he needs less of his Parkinson's medication when he boxes.
Alongside him are a dozen other Parkinson's patients. They range from a 46-year-old mother of teenagers — she sports pink boxing gloves — to an 84-year-old former phys ed teacher who uses a wheelchair.
They don't punch each other. They're hitting 100-pound punching bags when they're not stretching or doing calisthenics.
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On days Quaglia boxes, he doesn't need to take medication for six hours afterward — twice as long as usual. His depression has lifted, and he has more self-confidence. Boxing, he says, "doesn't cure, but it helps."
Parkinson's disease afflicts about a million Americans — more than multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and ALS combined. Every year 50,000 more get the diagnosis, a number that's going up as the population ages. They face a gradual loss of control over their muscles, leading to tremors, loss of balance and difficulty walking or speaking.
And boxing, it turns out, is only one of an expanding array of movement therapies gaining in popularity as antidotes to Parkinson's. Other Parkinson's patients are drumming, dancing to a Latin beat, practicing the ancient Chinese art of tai chi or golfing.
Even patients with advanced disease can benefit. Jacobo Farina, 79, says he could barely move when he got up on the day of a recent drumming class for Boston-area Parkinson's patients. But when the drumming started, he was one of the most energetic participants.
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"When you feel the music, your body — your spirit — it comes alive," Farina says.
Dr. Daniel Tarsy, director of the Parkinson's disease program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston sees meaningful change in a lot of patients who go into these exercise programs.
"I'm a believer," Tarsy says. "Patients look a lot different walking out an hour later than they did walking in. They literally have a bounce to their step."
Tarsy says patients often report that their movements become more fluid. That's the opposite of the rigid, jerky movements typical of Parkinson's.
Quaglia unwraps his hands after a punching exercise. Joel Hawksley for NPR hide caption
Quaglia unwraps his hands after a punching exercise.
A 2012 study from the Oregon Research Institute and other institutions found Parkinson's patients who did six months of twice-weekly tai chi had better balance and control over their movements and were less likely to fall than others who did weight training or stretching. The weight trainers had improved balance and fewer falls than those who merely stretched.
Other recent studies show that Parkinson's symptoms improve with cycling and treadmill workouts.
"There is a growing consensus among researchers about the short- and long-term benefits of exercise for people with Parkinson's disease," the National Parkinson Foundation says on its website. "Research has shown that exercise can improve gait, balance tremor, flexibility, grip strength and motor coordination."
Tarsy says many patients feel that exercise liberates them from "this straitjacket that's called Parkson's disease. They say, 'I can do this!' And in many of those people it carries over into their everyday life."
Quaglia, center, joins a "Rock Steady" cheer at the end of a boxing class. Joel Hawksley for NPR hide caption
Quaglia, center, joins a "Rock Steady" cheer at the end of a boxing class.
Scientists are trying to figure out just how exercise can counter the effects of Parkinson's and possibly even prevent it. Among more than 43,000 Swedes followed for nearly 13 years, the risk of Parkinson's was almost cut in half for those who engaged in moderate levels of exercise.
One clue is that animals with a form of the disease have higher levels of dopamine — the brain chemical deficient in Parkinson's — if they're made to exercise.
Peter Wayne at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital is looking at how the brains of humans with Parkinson's change in response to six months of exercise.
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His study uses tai chi, which has been shown to improve balance and strength in older adults.
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"Because the movements of tai chi are geared to be upright and moving," Wayne says, "they translate a little better into going downstairs and walking the aisles in a supermarket and being able to lift and put things down carefully."
Tai chi engages both mind and body; you might call it "mindful movement." Wayne thinks it may help patients use undamaged parts of their brains to compensate for the areas that normally control automatic movements such as walking.
But it may be that any kind of purposeful exercise is a tonic for the brain. Back at the gym, that's how Mike Quaglia sees it.
"It's all about pushing yourself past your limits and reaching that point where you don't think you can reach," Quaglia says. "You get that runner's high. Your neurons start clicking. You get new cells working. Everything works more effectively."
And then there's the social aspect of it. Rich Gingras, owner of the Rhode Island gym where Quaglia boxes, says Parkinson's patients often sit at home and get depressed.
"They're not moving at all," Gingras says. "So ... coming in here and just moving around and being happy — everybody's smiling — it's great!"
And after all, there's nothing more therapeutic than a smile.
Correction Feb. 3, 2015
In the audio of this story, as in a previous Web version, we incorrectly identify the organization leading the 2012 study on exercise as the University of Oregon. It is the Oregon Research Institute.
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Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians
Music appreciation could help children with language-based learning disabilities
Musicians are more effective communicating in noisy environments.
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The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments. The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago is the first biological evidence that musicians' have a perceptual advantage for "speech-in-noise."
When tested against non-musicians, musicians demonstrated faster neural timing, enhanced representation of speech harmonics, and less degraded response morphology in noise. That is to say, they were more effective communicating in noisy environments.
"Converting key elements that comprise speech sounds--consonants, syllables, timing and harmonics--was maintained with greater fidelity in musicians despite the disruptive influence of background noise," said lead researcher Nina Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor at and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory.
This likely occurs because cognitive processes that involve auditory attention and memory strengthen musicians' nervous systems enabling them to sense and discern relevant sounds. Understanding the biological basis for this advantage is the goal of the research, which may also prove beneficial for children and adults, who have difficulty hearing in noise.
Speech perception in noise is a complex task people are faced with every day. Cognitive demands of a musical performance are equally complex in that they require musicians to parse concurrently presented instruments or voices.
The researchers hypothesized that a musician's lifelong experience with "musical stream segregation," that is separating competing voices and musical instruments during a performance, would also give musicians an advantage in "speech-in-noise" environments.
Working with doctoral student Alexandra Parbery-Clark and project manager Erika Skoe, both at Northwestern, the researchers gathered 16 highly-trained musicians and 15 non-musicians. Each participant wore a headset and was fed carefully selected target audio and background noise. Target audio consisted of specific speech sounds, consonants, syllables and so on, while background noise consisted of multi-talker babble spoken by six different speakers.
Kraus and her team compared nerve center responses in each of the participants. They found that in both quiet and noisy environments, the highly trained musicians could more readily discern the target acoustic stimulus.
Kraus says the finding could be important for anyone who has difficulty understanding language in a complex soundscape. "Hearing in noise is hard for everyone but can be particularly difficult for some children with learning problems, that have developmental dyslexia for example, and older adults," said Kraus.
"The implication is that musical experience strengthens biological processes that are useful for extracting meaningful signals from any noisy environment, a classroom, a boardroom, etc."
Studies conducted across a length of time, perhaps years, would provide stronger developmental biological evidence of the educational benefits musical experience may have.
The study was supported by the Science of Learning Centers Program at the National Science Foundation.
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A new location for a popular Greenodd bakery is proving to be the business for its young owners and café customers
The new Grenodd location for Bakehouse Born and Bread is proving to be the business
By Eleanor Ovens @EOvensNWEM Reporter
It’s a wet Wednesday morning, one of those days where the sky meets the land and the spray from wagons on the A590 makes driving tricky. It’s a minute to nine when we reach our destination, Bakehouse Born and Bread. Five tables are already taken. By ten past it’s full and a queue has formed.
It’s safe to venture to owners Kirsty Postlethwaite and Chris Small that they might be rather pleased with how things are going just two weeks into their new café at Greenodd. On a trading estate. Opposite a plant hire company. On a wet Wednesday.
Its popularity says a lot more about their hospitality and food than it does about the location, of course. On the face of it, a business park next to a dual carriageway wouldn’t be the obvious choice for a trendy café. And yet it seems to be part of a mini trend. There’s More? bakery, which has a café on the front of its production unit at Staveley, and Method, on a busy business park near Homebase in Kendal. The point about these venues is that once inside drinking your cappuccino, diving into your eggs and avocado and chatting to the friendly staff, the outside surroundings become irrelevant.
Coupled with the stylish interior of Bakehouse, it’s all about what’s happening inside. You could be in the heart of a European city or a bustling town centre or a business park in south Cumbria, it makes no odds. We’re calling it ‘industrial estate chic’ and here, at least, it’s working very well.
There are lots of reasons why they chose it. It’s a large unit – previously the showroom and workshop of the Rusland Movement – and there is plenty of free parking. As Kirsty says: “We couldn’t have got this size of space in a town or city, we couldn’t have afforded it.” As an empty, rectangular box, it also offered a blank canvas for them to create their business exactly as they want it.
Most importantly, however, it keeps them in Greenodd, where they live and where their earlier, smaller village bakery was a destination in its own right.
Kirsty grew up in the village where the bakery had existed for as long as she can remember. When she was 19, she spent 18 months in Canada working in cafes and pizzerias, and she studied catering at Kendal College where her teacher was French. Having specialised as a pastry chef, she worked at The Samling and the Wilson Arms, at Torver, where she also started a deli.
When Greenodd village bakery came up for sale in 2014, she went along to the auction in Ulverston and bought it. “I had been working towards having my own place for a few years,” says Kirsty. “We started by trying to keep the bakery as it was with bread, cakes and pies with a few tables for coffee. We didn’t want to go too ‘out there’.
“It’s always been an asset to the village and was very traditional. I was a bit cautious about breaking out of that, but it wasn’t really working for us. Because we live upstairs it was almost like having a café in your living room.”
Chris joined in their second year. Originally from Woking, in Surrey, a job at Grizedale Forest centre café brought him to Cumbria, the easier pace of life and access to the outdoors keeping him here. He also worked at the Wilson Arms and, most recently, for catering equipment company CaterKwick, in Ulverston, which gave him useful insight into the investment needed for the new business.
“By the second year, we were thinking that we needed to change and do what we wanted to do. It took off from there,” explains Chris, who is the bread-maker. They recruited another member of staff, began to offer specialist cakes and patisserie, sandwiches and breakfasts with a sit-in and takeaway menu.
They would always be limited by the size of the tiny shop, however. “We had the potential to scale up quite quickly but we didn’t want to move out of Greenodd,” says Chris. Their friend, Tom Prestwich, owner of Red Bank Coffee Roasters, had heard about the former Rusland Movement unit. They got the keys in March, days before the country went into lockdown.
“Our plan had been to do it up and be open for the Easter weekend,” says Chris. Despite the uncertainty of lockdown, they had momentum and enthusiasm behind them and pressed on regardless, doing a lot of the work themselves in the absence of workmen.
“We still managed to open at Easter but not in the way we expected,” says Chris. “We really wanted to do something and just thought what would work, what would people want and how could we do it.”
They opted for a click and collect drive-thru. Kirsty explains: “People would order then drive up. We had their number plates on our tickets so we could seem them arrive then we’d go out, put the bag on the floor and they would get out of their car to collect it.”
Chris adds: “It was nice to be able to give people something when everywhere was closed and during a not very nice time. People did appreciate it and we were supported by local suppliers like Crakeside Meat.”
That’s all in the past now they are fully open, from 9am-3.30 for breakfast, brunch, lunch and cakes, and evenings for street food and burger nights. With its international flavour, the daytime menu offers something for everyone: the New York-style Reuben sandwich with pastrami and loaded hash browns, Asian lamb paratha, Euro deli salami and smoked cheese and Scandi salmon smørrebrød. Given their proximity to the coast, there is also potted shrimp and samphire in there.
“The menu is based around the products we bake here, muffins, crumpets, sourdough. We try not to put too much of a label on it but there’s definitely a brunch kind of vibe,” says Kirsty.
Chris adds: “We wanted to do evenings in a year or two but because of lockdown we were kind of forced into doing it quicker and now it’s grown really fast.”
They took part in Eat Out to Help Out and offered BYOB in the evenings whilst waiting for their own alcohol licence to be approved.
For both food and décor inspiration, before lockdown Kirsty and Chris headed off on a foodie trip to Copenhagen, in particular to Hart Bageri, co-founded by British baker Richard Hart, and artisan bakery-café Mirabelle.
The interior at Greenhodd has an urban, industrial feel but is softened with comfortable furniture, muted lighting and indoor plants while the forest green backdrop is livened up with pops of gold.
“I was very, very fixed on the colour,” says Kirsty. The counter came from an old cedar tree from the garden of fellow café owner Lucy Nelson in Grasmere; the timber and metal tables were made by Craig Wheeler of Idle Fabrications, in Windermere.
Window security grates, along with branches from the forest, have been cleverly put to use cleverly as filament lighting and plant chandeliers.
The kitchen, too, provided a blank canvas. “I have never been in a kitchen like it,” beams Kirsty. “Deliveries aren’t a problem at all and there’s space to wheel trolleys around which is unheard of. It’s such a luxury having a proper kitchen.”
Along with Chris on bread and Kirsty on cakes, there are daytime chefs Stuart Smith and Greg Stewart, with Jake Parker and Tom Robinson on evenings. Ben McDougall supports Kirsty in patisserie and Adam Seward is pieman.
“They have a lot of freedom. Because we are both chefs it’s quite easy for us to let the reins go and let them try what they want and what they’re inspired to do. We feel we can let go of that creative control,” Kirsty explains.
Partly due to their location, the majority of customers are local, from Ulverston, Barrow, Broughton and Coniston. As word gets around, however, they are sure to draw from further afield, becoming a destination in their own right.
They already look back at their old shop in wonder as to how they managed in such a small space. Plans for a big opening are on hold, and for now they are content with what they have achieved, remarkably, this summer.
Chris says: “The business has now come up to where we had it in our heads.”
“And we will have a big party at some point,” adds Kirsty.
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Table from A.J.W. Taylor and A.G. Frazer's report, Psychological sequelae of Operation Overdue following the DC10 aircrash in Antarctica.
The psychological toll
Few of those involved in the recovery and identification of victims from the Erebus disaster could have been fully prepared for the task ahead. As Chief Inspector Jim Morgan, who headed the victim identification phase of Operation Overdue, recalled:
It was very difficult for our young police officers who may have handled the occasional sudden death to be confronted with 280 [sic] sudden deaths all at once. The young married people who were able to go home at the end of their shift and talk about other things − they didn't talk about the horrors of the mortuary − managed to cope quite well, but the young single people who returned to their flats which were largely unoccupied suffered some quite bad psychological trauma. Hear and read this interview.
Psychiatrist Alan Frazer and psychologist Tony Taylor conducted psychological testing and debriefing following the disaster. They subsequently produced Psychological sequelae of Operation Overdue following the DC10 aircrash in Antarctica, a major report on the topic. It established that the personnel involved in the gruesome tasks following a disaster were themselves victims of the event. The trauma they suffered meant they deserved specialist support and treatment.
Recognition was given to the post-traumatic stress suffered by those involved in Operation Overdue. Counselling was offered to all who wanted it, and the debriefing report spelled out the need for the officers in command of such operations to know how to recognise and deal with signs of stress in their staff. It took several years more for psychological support to become standard practice in the New Zealand Police.
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Unadilla Valley is an excellent school. Through my years here, I have felt and continue to feel as if I am listened to and that I am an integral part of the community at this school. Students and faculty participate in a variety of events and the student council does a lot for the school. The superintendent is very friendly and so are most of the teachers. They are always available to help students. They try their best to ensure that the students succeed. The athletics are good and fun to watch, and parents are very involved in the school. The drama club is also awesome and is growing in popularity. There is plenty to do. All in all, it is a nice school.
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Unadilla Valley has an excellent educational standard, and strongly encourages all students to take concurrent enrollment classes. The high school offers a plentiful amount of college courses and credits, among many different types of classes for any major. The class sizes are small for a personal experience, and the educators make it obvious that they love their jobs.
I have always attended UV and am honestly grateful to have grown up in a school like this one. We have a lot of school pride and teachers who are willing to do anything in their power to make sure the student as happy and has everything they need to be their best. I am proud to be a UV student and will forever be grateful for my time at UV.
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Indian appointed as UN Assistant Secretary-General; will head UNEP New York office
Satya S Tripathi has been appointed an assistant Secretary-General and will head the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) New York office. Tripathi has been the Senior Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the UNEP since 2017.
UNEP: HQ - Nairobi, Kenya; Formation: 5 June 1972.
Drones’ commercial use to be legal from December
Flying of drones or the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) in India is set to become legal. No permission will be required to fly drones weighing up to 250 gms. Drones will only be allowed to fly during daytime to a maximum altitude of 400 ft.
Digital Sky platform,will be set up for drone user registrations
MOU to be signed for Indore- Manmad new railway line project
The project will reduce the distance from Mumbai/Pune to key central India locations by 171 kms. It is estimated to result in cumulative net economic benefits of Rs 15,000 cr in the first 10 years of operations. The project will be constructed in 6 years
Manmad is a town in Nasik district, Maharashtra.
India’s first biofuel powered flight undertakes maiden voyage
Spicejet, powered by indigenously produced aviation biofuel from jatropha oil took a maiden flight from Dehradun to Delhi. The use of bio jet fuel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by about 15 % and cost savings in jet fuel supply.
This biofuel technology has been patented by CSIR-IIP Dehradun
Petroleum Ministry launches online portal for booking on GAIL’s pipelines
The online portal www.gailonline.com is the first of its kind to provide gas consumers with the facility to register pipeline capacity bookings online. It would be a first step to facilitate gas trading on hub or exchange-traded platform in India.
GAIL was conferred with the Maharatna status on 1 Feb 2013
Defence Minister Visits Kingdom of Thailand
Nirmala Sitharaman is on an official bilateral visit to Thailand from 27 to 28 Aug. Both sides discussed a gamut of issues relating to defence cooperation between countries. India offered additional training opportunities for the Royal Thai Army in India
MAITREE and SIAM BHARAT are their joint military exercises.
Committee on review of penal provisions of Company Act 2013 submits final report
Injeti Srinivas committee (constituted in July 2018) submitted its report on reviewing existing framework dealing with offences under the Companies Act, 2013. It recommended that the existing law should continue for serious offences covering six categories
Twin purpose was ease of doing biz& better corporate compliance
India to double exports by 2025: Suresh Prabhu
Suresh Prabhu has asked traders to develop strategies to increase the pace of export growth to 20% this year. This will help double the country’s exports by 2025 and help create jobs, bring in foreign exchange and validate India’s international competitiveness
India acceded to WTO’s TFA in Apr, 2016 to ease out bottlenecks
Asian Games: Neeraj Chopra becomes first Indian to win javelin throw gold
Neeraj Chopra won Gold in the Men’s Javelin Throw Final at the 18th Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta,Indonesia. He shattered his own national record by clearing 88.06m. Chopra’s gold is only the second medal India has won in javelin throw in Asian Games history
Gurtej Singh won bronze in javelin throw in Asian Games, 1982.
Current account deficit (CAD) to hit 2.8% of GDP in FY19, says SBI report
The SBI report says India’s CAD is likely to touch 2.8% of GDP in FY19 on surge in crude oil prices and moderate growth in exports. Amidst the recent devaluation of the Chinese Yuan, the country’s imports from China increased in recent months.
CAD is when a country imports moreGoods&services than it exports
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What is electricity?
You might have wondered at one point or another; what actually is electricity?
It’s hard to escape; whether you look to nature and watch an electrical storm rolling in with its beautiful but powerful lightening strikes. Or, you simply go to your kitchen, flick on a light and open the fridge; electricity is a part of our everyday lives.
But to really understand what electricity actually is, we need to take a look at the science behind it at the atomic level.
It all starts with atoms
Atoms are small particles and put simply, they are the basic building blocks of everything around us, whether it is our chairs, desks or even our own body. Atoms are made up of even smaller elements, called protons, electrons and neutrons.
When electrical and magnetic forces move electrons from one atom to another, an electrical current is formed.
Take a look at this video to see electrons in action.
Do you really understand what electricity is?
How is electricity made?
Firstly, to generate electricity, you’ll require a fuel source, such as coal, gas, hydropower or wind.
In Australia, most of our electricity supply is generated from traditional fuels, such as coal and natural gas, with around 14 percent coming from renewable energy sources.1
Regardless of the chosen fuel, most generators operate on the same proven principle: turn a turbine so that it spins magnets surrounded by copper wire, to get the flow of electrons across atoms, which in turn generates electricity.
Coal and gas work in similar ways; they are both burned to heat water, which creates steam and turns the turbine.
Renewable energy sources such as hydropower and wind operate slightly differently, with either the water or the wind being used to turn the turbine, and generate the electricity.
Solar photovoltaic panels take a different approach again: they generate electrical power by converting solar radiation into electricity using semi-conductors.
Power stations convert fuels into electricity
Coal and gas are burned to heat water and turn it into steam.
The steam, at a very high pressure, is then used to spin a turbine.
The spinning turbine causes large magnets to turn within copper wire coils – this is called the generator.
The moving magnets cause electrons in the wires to move from one place to another, creating an electrical current and producing electricity.
Electricity goes out on the grid
In Australia, we get our electricity via a sophisticated networked grid.
Electricity leaves generators and travels along conductor wires on the networked grid to homes and businesses across the country. By the time electricity reaches you, it’s likely to have travelled hundreds of kilometres through the grid.
Australia’s National Electricity Market or the NEM is the largest interconnected power system in the world.
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Internet Technologies is a working group in the Department of Informatik at the HAW Hamburg, Germany.
INET performs research and development on technologies and applications for a Next Generation Internet, with a particular focus on mobility, security, and knowledge-based systems. Maintaining an applied, evolutionary perspective, we seek for solutions of practical relevance. Rich experimental environments and strong analytical skills aid us in disclosing the possible. Close collaborations with our partners from industry, research, and standardization bodies sharpen our view to meet the feasible.
INET has founded or leads many open source projects of significant impact, most notably RIOT (http://riot-os.org), the friendly operating system for the IoT, the C++ Actor Framework CAF (http://actor-framework.org/), and the RPKI router extension RTRlib (http://rtrlib.realmv6.org/).
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OUH HomeHead2Head HomeAbout us
At the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, we recognised there was a need for a support service after discharge for Subarachnoid Haemorrhage patients and their families 6 years ago (2013).
We sent out a questionnaire to approximately 40 patients, the feedback referred to the lack of information available on discharge, and no one to contact when at home. Many patients wanted to talk to others who had similar experiences; this is where the idea came from.
This prompted a business plan to get money together for stamps and we started sending out invites to our very first focus group, tailored for patients and families following a SAH.
We booked a room, made a cake and the rest is history!
At the first group meeting, we had 8-10 people attend. Currently, we have an average of over 25 people attending each time. The meetings are held every 4 months and there is always tea and cake available. Our focus group is a free service for all SAH patients and their families.
Each year we audit the need for the meetings; and each year the feedback supports the value of the group. The focus group aims to provide all attendees with a relaxed atmosphere, where they have the opportunity to meet those with a similar diagnosis. It is a forum to be able to share coping strategies and stories. This is a really recommended stage of the recovery progress, and can often help to put the mind at rest. At most sessions there are presentations given by professionals about topics most relevant to the group. As always the presenters are available for questions afterwards.
If you know of others who would like to join this group who have had a subarachnoid haemorrhage, please email head2head@ouh.nhs.uk and let us know some details.
At the meetings, any issues highlighted by members are raised at OUH Neurosciences teaching days; in this way we are helping to change and improve the experience of all our patients with this condition.
In the future we hope to run the group monthly and in many other areas. Obviously for this we would need people from those areas to be involved and be willing to set up a satellite group. Due to many patients being out of Oxford area a previous patient and his wife help to set up a Facebook forum for the group, this can be accessed via this website. This way we can keep in touch 24/7 about issues you come across in your recovery.
We would not be where we are today without the kindness of people. A huge thank you to a freelance graphic designer Steph Buncher. She saw our poster on the ward area asking for a new logo design and came to our rescue. The group voted on her designs and chose this beauty. It is with gestures like this we are truly grateful. Thank you.
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Political Fix (4 July, 2019)
Posted on July 4, 2019 July 5, 2019 by Catherine Doe
The Shakedown of Hanford Vice-Mayor John Draxler Part II – The Money Game
On June 5 Hanford resident Skip Athey posted an article on facebook. The article had just been released by Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) an evangelical law group, concerning Hanford Vice Mayor John Draxler’s evicting a widow for her religious activities.
I was soon to discover that thousands of people across the United States were doing the same.
PJI is a nonprofit legal defense organization that defends religious freedoms, parental rights, and other civil liberties without charge.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled them a hate group.
Like thousands of others spreading the news, Mr. Athey emailed me the article; even though he vowed last year to never communicate with me again because of something I wrote about City Councilmember Francisco Ramirez. I guess he felt Mr. Draxler’s actions were so egregious that he would swallow his pride.
Based solely on the accounts of former Windgate Village resident Diana Martin and her son, PJI circulated a story how Mr. Draxler evicted an elderly, sick widow for praying and other religious practices. The PJI article stated, “When she began to cry, protesting that it was winter and that her children did not live nearby, he (Mr. Draxler) responded that it was not his problem.”
Current residents of Windgate Village say, however, that Ms. Martin was “evil, nasty, and rude” and that she seemed to be in the early stages of dementia. They described Ms. Martin as a lonely old lady whose children rarely visited.
After receiving Mr. Athey’s email, I Googled “Draxler” and found a dozen evangelical websites featuring slightly different versions of the same article. Many of the websites were emblazoned with large “Donate” buttons back lit in neon red or yellow beckoning the reader to open their wallet to help defend people like Ms. Martin.
Because of PJI’s article, the internet was flooded with facebook posts, comments, blogs, and negative reviews written about Mr. Draxler’s businesses. The articles and personal posts made sure to point out that Mr. Draxler was the Hanford vice-mayor, so as to not only drag his reputation through the mud, but to also cast a pall over Hanford as anti-Christian.
Adding to the wall built around the followers of these evangelical websites, all of the articles’ comment sections were turned off or there was a “mediator” to ensure that the residents of Windgate could not tell their story.
Most disappointing was Alex Tavlian’s local online newspaper, The San Joaquin Valley Sun, formerly the CV Observer. He posted PJI’s article with no fact checking or corroboration. A national newspaper wouldn’t know better, but Mr. Tavlian had no right to disparage the city of Hanford and trample on a local businessman’s rights. The Valley Future Foundation launched the SJV Sun, an organization run by former Congressman Valadao and Nunes staffers.
After the 20 June Political Fix described what really happened at Windgate, I asked Mr. Tavlian to retract his story. He said he would have the SJV Sun’s author, whose email was disabled just like its comment section, to reach out to Mr. Draxler, knowing full well that Mr. Draxler couldn’t talk.
And so the circle was complete and primed for Act II.
Now that PJI’s legal group and their lackeys had spread Ms. Martin’s story to the four corners of the Earth and sealed it up tight, it was time to make some money.
All the lawyers have the game down pat, so let me enlighten you how it’s played.
Your first lesson in the American judicial system is that anyone can sue anybody for anything at anytime. It doesn’t matter if you, the plaintiff, are lying or telling the truth. What matters is how effective your lawyer is in making the defendant feel so miserable and worried that they realize settling is less expensive than a legal battle–even if the defendant would win.
First the plaintiff’s lawyer files a suit at the courthouse stating all the ‘facts” and serves the defendant. The defendant then has a chance to respond but that is irrelevant. Then both sides and their lawyers go to court. The judge sets up a trial date about a year out and demands that in the meantime the two sides go to mediation.
A few days before mediation the plaintiff’s lawyer writes another brief that might have some resemblance to the truth, but is basically a bunch of lies to intimidate the defendant and get them off balance. This document is not filed with the court, is not part of the public record, nor is it subject to perjury laws. The defendant can respond in kind but no one cares what they have to say.
During mediation, the mediator, a retired judge, knows the plaintiff’s lawyer is lying but nevertheless encourages the defendant to accept an unfair settlement. The judge repeats, in different iterations, until the defendant is worn to a nubbins that it will cost exponentially more to go to trial. And no matter how airtight their case they could still lose.
Mediating judges’ success rate, by the way, isn’t based how many lawsuits come to a fair resolution. Their success is gauged by how many cases don’t land in court no matter how egregious the terms of the settlement.
So why do the lawyers and judges lie during mediation?
Because they can.
Nothing they say during mediation, nor the briefs, can ever be repeated to friends, relatives, or the press. Its every lawyer’s Shangri-la. And remember, almost all judges and mediators were former lawyers.
In PJI and Ms. Martin’s case, they had so thoroughly ravaged Mr. Draxler’s reputation the two weeks prior that they didn’t even need to play the first two steps of the game. They just jumped straight to mediation. By 10:30am on June 12, Mr. Draxler agreed to settle for an undisclosed amount.
PJI not only made 33.3% of the cash settlement but collected an unknown amount of donations after e-blasting Ms. Martin’s story to hundreds of thousands of people.
On top of that, PJI is a “Charitable Organization.” So they pay no taxes on their winnings or donations. All this is sealed with a confidentiality agreement so the truth never comes out, lest Mr. Draxler talks, and he is sued by PJI again.
Pretty darn good for a morning’s work, isn’t it?
I’ve been on the business end of some seriously unethical mediations. So when I received Mr. Draxler’s text saying, “The matter has been resolved amicably between both parties” followed by a text saying that he had signed a confidentiality agreement, I was quite frankly really pissed.
Exposing what really happened at Windgate Village wouldn’t turn back the clock on what happened to me, Joseph or my kids, but it could even the score on the side of the truth. Whether Mr. Draxler was guilty or not, I was on a mission to find out.
I do not know Mr. Draxler and he would not return my calls. I also could not trick his faithful on-site apartment manager into giving me any information. (My bad Dolores. I’m the one with the small dog “interested” in the one bedroom.) So I was going to have to go to Windgate Village Apartments myself.
Let me tell you first off that if you are looking for a secure place to live get on the waiting list at Windgate Village. I had a heck of a time getting into that complex and finally found a hole through a construction area.
After almost giving up the night before, I found Ms. Martin’s former address at Windgate online so I knew the general area to go where the tenants would know her.
I knocked on a couple of doors and found a tenant who knew Ms. Martin well. Jessica initially didn’t want to talk as she was suspicious I was “one of them,” or a member of PJI. Once she believed I was who I said I was she told me her entire story. Jessica did not want her real name used because she did not want PJI to attack her as they did Mr. Draxler.
The next day Jessica set up an interview with Samantha at Mike’s Grill next door to the apartment complex. Samantha told me her story and the stories of other tenants with whom she was good friends. She was still visibly rattled by Ms. Martin’s behavior towards her.
It turns out Mr. Draxler did not kick an old sick woman out of his apartment complex for her religious activities. In fact I don’t even think Mr. Draxler evicted her. I think she was asked to leave because of her erratic and increasingly disruptive behavior. It seems the thought of her having to take responsibility for her behavior, or admit she might be suffering from dementia, sent her secretly moving out of the complex undetected by the other tenants.
So there are two victims–Mr. Draxler, and a lonely old woman whose children never visited. Pacific Justice Institute and her children would do well to crack open a bible and stop throwing stones. PJI should not have made money off their mentally and physically frail client and her children should have taken better care of their mother so none of this would have happened in the first place.
But there’s no money in that.
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Home Crime Uttar Pradesh: Communal tension prevails in Sitapur village after a 14-year old minor girl...
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Uttar Pradesh: Communal tension prevails in Sitapur village after a 14-year old minor girl was raped
As per an Amar Ujala report, the accused Khaleel had raped the minor girl on Wednesday evening when she was alone in the fields.
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A local court has sent a man named Khaleel to judicial custody for raping a 14-year-old girl in Sakran village, Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, reports Amar Ujala.
As per the report, on Wednesday, the accused raped the minor girl when she was alone in the fields. After committing the heinous crime, Khaleel threatened to murder the victim in a bid to silence her. When the girl was successful in getting out of his clutches, she reached home and informed her family members about the incident. The family then filed a complaint at the Sakran police station. The cops registered a case and also arrested the accused.
Communal tension in Sitapur
Meanwhile, the victim was sent to the District Women’s Hospital for medical examination. The incident has created tension between the communities as the victim and the perpetrator belonged to different religions. On Thursday, Assistant Superintendent of Police (North) Rajiv Dixit and CO Biswan Piyush Kumar took cognisance of the ground situation and patrolled the said village. Keeping in mind the sensitive nature of the case, a large contingent of police has also been deployed in the area.
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What Exactly Is Runner's High, and How Can I Make It Happen?
A new theory behind the elusive runner's high
That feeling of zen some people get while running might be more than just endorphins at work. (Photo: littlehenrabi/iStock)
Amanda MacMillan
Runner's high has been described as many things: euphoria, a burst of energy, or feelings of zen and clear-headedness, to name a few. It's also been a biological mystery for years, and an elusive goal for some runners who have never experienced it themselves. Up to this point, most research on runner's high has suggested that the phenomenon occurs when the body releases pain-blocking endorphins and addictive, drug-like endocannabinoid chemicals in response to physical stress of exercise. But a study published this month in the journal Cell Metabolism suggests another explanation. Leptin, a hormone secreted by fatty adipose tissue that regulates feelings of hunger and satiety, also appears to play a role in the rewarding effects of running.
"Our study shows that this phenomenon is not just a matter of endorphins," says lead author Maria Fernanda Fernandes, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Guelph in Ontario. When she and her colleagues tested two groups of mice—one of which had been genetically modified to have impaired leptin levels—they found that the low-leptin critters logged nearly twice as many miles on a running wheel as their genetically normal peers.
This may serve an evolutionary purpose, she says, since running was once a means of finding and pursuing food sources. "We speculate that for humans, low leptin levels increase motivation to exercise and make it easier to get a runner’s high," she explains. "Ultimately, leptin is sending the brain a clear message: When food is scarce, it’s fun to run to chase some down."
Previous research has also shown a correlation between leptin and marathon times: the lower people's leptin levels are, the faster they run.
So does lower leptin equal faster and more enjoyable runs? It's very likely—which may be why short and easy pre-breakfast runs, when leptin is naturally low after you've fasted all night, can be so invigorating, says Fernandes. But don't start skipping meals just yet, at least not before long or hard runs.
"Our findings do not mean that people should purposefully run too far or too often on an empty stomach, as this can be very harmful for the health and act as an unpleasant experience far from euphoric," she says. "It's important to fuel the body properly before running exercise so that you can run and feel your best."
There may be one way you can safely and permanently alter your body's leptin production, however: Run more.
"Chronic running exercise is well known to reduce leptin levels," says Fernandes. So the benefits may be cyclical: Running gives you lower leptin levels, which may make you more susceptible to runner's high and more inclined to exercise.
The bottom line: Leptin seems to be at least partially responsible for the rewarding effects of running, but it may not be the only metabolic chemical at play. More studies, preferably in humans, are needed—and of course there are plenty of other factors (including psychological ones) that will affect how much a person enjoys exercise.
But if you've never felt runner's high yourself, keep chasing it. The more often and more consistently you run, this study suggests, the better your body may be conditioned to achieve it.
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Learning machines turn to quantum
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Pete Wilton
With each passing day it seems that the torrent of data generated by devices such as computers and smart phones grows ever greater.
If we humans are struggling to cope with this 'information overload' then spare a thought for the machines tasked with trying to improve web searches, understand the content of video and images, translate speech, and even analyse genomes.
Machine learning, where computers figure out 'for themselves' how to perform data analysis, modelling and inference, and optimisation, finding the best solution to a problem from a set of alternatives, can help us to manage our data-rich lives. But there's a problem:
'Machine learning and optimisation are important, but they are hard for conventional computers,' Simon Benjamin of Oxford University's Department of Materials tells me. 'The tasks don't scale well. Suppose that you can 'just about' handle some particular task, but then you instead try to handle a task that is twice as complex. Then it can be vastly more difficult for the computer, practically impossible, even if you bring in lots more computers to help.'
Now a new project starting this month called Quantum Optimisation and Machine Learning (QuOpaL), jointly supported by Oxford University, Nokia, and Lockheed Martin, is setting out to explore the potential for quantum technology to enhance optimisation and machine learning tasks.
'The hope is that by harnessing quantum effects, we can tackle things in a fundamentally different way and then the learning process will scale better – allowing us to get to the really tough tasks that reach far beyond human capabilities,' explains Simon, who is leading the Oxford side of the project with Steve Roberts of the Department of Computer Science.
From search engines such as Google to the speech recognition software powering Apple's Siri, machine learning and optimisation are already part of our everyday lives but they are also at work behind the scenes in service industries and manufacturing:
'Another example is predicting things, like anticipating the supply needs of a big supermarket chain based on analysing loads of sales data from previous months,' adds Simon. 'But the applications go even further including finding the 'best way' to solve problems. For example, Intel researchers were able to show that improved computer optimisation of the design of silicon chips can reduce power consumption by 38%. These, and many other applications, are potentially areas where quantum machine learning and optimisation can help.'
QuOpaL will examine a range of approaches being developed as part of research into quantum information processing – using effects in the quantum world to store and manipulate information. One of the most promising is adiabatic quantum optimisation (and the closely related phenomenon of quantum annealing). Here, a system is initialised to a simple state and then the conditions are slowly ('adiabatically') changed to reach a complex final state that describes the solution to a computational problem. Many believe that this approach is the best way to start using quantum effects for accelerated machine learning.
'The idea that harnessing quantum physics can help with hard computing tasks has been around for nearly thirty years, and has driven a worldwide race to develop the necessary hardware,' Simon tells me. 'The exciting news is that the hardware is nearly ready! What we can now do in Oxford and in other leading labs elsewhere in the world, is to make components that meet and exceed the necessary performance figures for a real working device. Now, we have to build it!
'For machine learning in particular there is also some important theory that needs to be worked out to fully understand the best way to exploit the quantum effects for the different kinds of application. It's very timely to be starting QuOpaL - the project is up and running and we're recruiting, looking at people from all sorts of backgrounds to join this interdisciplinary project. I'm very excited about it!'
Find out more about research and recruitment opportunities at QuOpaL.com
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(b Paris, Nov 30, 1813; d Paris, March 29, 1888). French pianist and composer. His real name was Morhange. He was one of the leading piano virtuosos of the 19th century and one of its most unusual composers, remarkable in both technique and imagination, yet largely ignored by his own and succeeding generations.
Of Jewish parentage, Alkan was the eldest of five brothers, all of whom, with an elder sister as well, became musicians under the assumed name Alkan; Napoléon Alkan, the third brother (1826–1910), taught solfège at the Paris Conservatoire for over 50 years. Valentin Alkan’s career at the Conservatoire started brilliantly with a premier prix for solfège at the age of seven. When Alkan was nine Cherubini observed that he was ‘astonishing for his age’ and described his ability on the piano as ‘extraordinary’. He won a premier prix for piano in 1824, for harmony in ...
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The Financial Condition of Social Security
As a federal program, Social Security cannot be any stronger financially than the overall federal government, and looming financial problems in Social Security will have a negative impact on the Federal budget as a whole.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/the-financial-condition-of-social-security
Retirement Reform in France 2010
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Census Bureau Report on Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage
The poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. This is the highest rate since 1994.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/census-bureau-report-on-poverty-and-health-insurance-coverage
Government Accountability Office: Raising the Retirement Ages Affects Older Workers
While proposals to raise the retirement age are intended to improve the financial health of the Social Security program, GAO finds that such changes could produce an opposite result, while also having an adverse impact on some of society’s most vulnerable members.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/government-accountability-office-raising-the-retirement-ages-affects-older-workers
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Abstract: Particle energization in astrophysical systems is a challenging yet fascinating subject. Observations from radio to gamma-rays of AGN jets, supernova remnants, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, etc., have provided important clues. In this talk, we explore the energy conversion processes in a parameter regime when the magnetic energy density overwhelms the particle energy density (including its rest mass energy density). Such a condition has been discussed in the context of AGN jets and pulsars. We present two-dimensional and three-dimensional relativistic, full kinetic simulations that show fast magnetic reconnection can occur in highly magnetized plasmas, with the magnetization parameter ranging from unity to 1600. The fast magnetic dissipation leads to a fast, nonthermal particle acceleration, yielding a power law distribution with a hard spectrum. Detailed analyses show that the acceleration in the power-law range is mainly by a Fermi-like mechanism in the relativistic flows generated by reconnection. Implications for observations will be discussed.
Host: Professor and Dept Chair Ellen Zweibel
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Speaker: Benjamin Hunt, MIT
Abstract: Van der Waals heterostructures represent a new and surprising direction in nanoscale device engineering: we stack isolated two-dimensional crystals to create layered structures with atomic precision. The layer-by-layer assembly allows us to introduce a new design parameter - the interlayer twist angle - which can have profound consequences for the engineering of electronic states based on tunable interactions between adjacent layers. In this talk, I will discuss recent experiments at MIT in which we have used a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer to modify the electronic bands of monolayer graphene in a van der Waals heterostructure, inducing a sizable bandgap at the charge neutrality point and imparting a mass to the normally massless Dirac charge carriers. The bandgap occurs only in samples in which the twist angle between the graphene and hBN crystals is small, resulting in a long-wavelength moirA(c) that acts as a superlattice potential; by adjusting the twist angle the bandgap can be tuned. The moirA(c) superlattice potential also allows us to study the problem of a charged particle in a periodic potential and magnetic field aEuro" the so-called Hofstadter problem aEuro" whose theoretical solution exhibits a rare instance of fractal behavior in a quantum-mechanical energy spectrum.
I will also discuss our recent studies of weakly-coupled graphene-hBN heterostructures in which massless Dirac fermions in graphene exhibit a quantum spin Hall effect, a fascinating example of a aEurooesymmetry-protected topological phaseaEuro of which the more familiar contemporary examples are the edge and surface states of the topological insulators.
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Black Friday is now Black November
Chris Painter November 22, 2017
With Brexit making the UK economy as jittery as a coffee addict outside a closed Starbucks, British retailers have set about turning Black Friday into Black November, which sounds like a 70s terrorist organisation.
In the pre-Christmas retail-fest, Black Friday discounts pillaged from the US have been extended over as much as a fortnight to try to wring every last penny from reluctant shoppers.
There’s good reason. After the vote to leave the EU, the pound has disappeared faster than a wig in a hurricane. This has rocketed the cost of imported goods, meaning higher prices in the shops. Spending power isn’t helped by wage stagnation, now way behind inflation, and the first interest-rate rise since the recession.
Even worse, business-advisory firm BDO LLP reports that October retail sales in the UK were the worst in living memory, over 5% down on 2016. No wonder retailers want to suck away at Christmas shopping budgets ahead of the pack.
There’s tons of stock to shift, so big chains such as Dixon’s Carphone, Curry’s PC World, AO and Halfords kicked off Black Friday promotions earlier. In fact, most of us still had our summer suntans when the first bargains hit the shops.
Not that any of this will help much. A survey by The Royal Bank of Canada (obviously) found that only 16% of 1,000 UK consumers planned on spending more this Black Friday than last year. Twenty-one percent planned to spend less, while 63% were aiming to spend the same as last year.
RBC Analysts have concluded that these survey results and retailers’ bulging warehouses are a ‘marginal negative’ for the sector. That’s corporate speak for a ‘steaming great disaster’. Throw into the mix an earlier payday cycle this season and it’s the perfect storm for Christmas retail.
“The basic idea [of Black Friday] is still great – to stimulate traffic either to your home page or to the stores – and it still works,” says Andreas Inderst of Macquarie Capital. “But if everyone is doing it, it’s getting a bit diluted.”
For online retailers such as Asos, Black Friday has become the cash cow they can milk and milk as they try to compete with Amazon and spread out the Christmas rush over a longer period.
But it’s not just the UK that’s frog-marching its citizens into the real and virtual shops. In Belgium, Zalando has turned Black Friday into Black Friday Week. And, in Germany, tech retail company Saturn is running a ‘Black Week’.
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GE gas turbine sets industry milestone
GE Energy has announced the latest milestone for its fleet of F technology gas turbines: more than 30 million hours of commercial operation in power plants worldwide. The company’s fleet of more than 1000 F-class machines also has exceeded 600,000 starts, illustrating the model’s durability and availability.
The high number of starts is said to be testimony to the effectiveness of F technology as a cycling or peak unit, serving the operating flexibility needs of today’s power generating customer. Since its introduction in 1987, GE’s F technology has set global industry standards for reliability, availability and emissions, says the company. For example, according to ORAP data, GE’s 7F turbine is the most reliable gas turbine in the F class and is the first to achieve 99.1% reliability.
Designed for both 50 and 60 HZ applications, the 6FA is a 75 MW class machine. Its output range, high exhaust energy, full packaging and robust design make the 6FA well suited for a wide range of applications, from industrial cogeneration and district heating to pure power generation in combined cycle for islands as well as integration in refineries.
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Carol Sarler obit: Columnist with 'endless capacity for outrage' who exposed plight of Romanian orphans
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In January 1991 Carol Sarler’s 11-page report on the scandal of the Romanian orphanages was published in the Sunday Times Magazine.
Headlined Shame About The Babies it was the most important of the many thousands of articles she wrote in half a century of journalism.
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Heartbreaking about the terrible condition of the children, it was a savage indictment of the cruelty and racism endemic in a society whose recent liberation from Ceausescu had been so roundly applauded, as well as a searing attack on the ineptitude of the major international charities.
As for the Dunkirk-style flotilla of kindhearted British who wanted to help, she lauded the people who made a difference but was harsh on those (and they were legion) sending “help” that was thoughtless, useless or worse. To critics of those adopting Romanian orphans she showed no mercy.
Here were many of the characteristics that made Sarler remarkable: empathy, stamina, a reporter’s nose for the telling detail and, as one of her best friends puts it, “her endless capacity for outrage, in this case properly applied.”
As a newspaper columnist on subjects great and small she was often fierce. She was never one to mince her words.
As a woman in her sixties, she contrasted her own generation’s feminism – “all about what women could do” with “today’s ninny version all about what women can’t do, the ridiculous Me Too brigade” – and told how at a party when she was in her thirties a senior male colleague kept putting his hand on her thigh.
She asked him not to and when he didn’t “I slapped him across the face then back-slapped the other cheek for good measure”. She can’t remember the man’s name but bets he can remember hers.
She had a big mouth but a bigger heart and if she could be a bad enemy she was a marvelous friend, quick and unstinting with help, support, affection and generosity. She had what she called “an absurd but enduring fondness for comedians” and became a loved figure on the alternative comedy scene, a welcome outsider in a world where journalists were often viewed with suspicion.
Writing for The Guardian in the 1980s she became the first broadsheet reviewer of stand-up, helping it onto the arts agenda and giving oxygen to new talent.
She loved Edinburgh. “It felt like no Fringe had started until Carol turned up and claimed her seat in the Club Bar,” says William Burdett-Coutts, director of the Assembly Rooms which was the Fringe’s nerve centre.
There, often dressed in long Bohemian clothes in rather eccentric colours, she held court. Possibly thanks to her expense account at the Daily Express, whose Wednesday columnist she was for several years, she was able to provide drinks to impecunious young comics as well as advice, amusement and debate.
For the chosen she cooked and even offered a place to stay. She was catalyst and enabler as well as critic, coming up with ideas and helping newcomers make contacts.
“I have produced Edinburgh shows for money (hah!) and for charity (mercifully, more profitably),” she wrote, “and spent a few years reaping titbits for newsprint. The best overheards, tragically, were always unprintable.”
In the wake of her reports on the orphanages, London Comedy Store’s Fund For Sick Children was turned to Romania – with Jo Brand, Arthur Smith and others involved – but with Sarler very much the driving force.
Charity concerts produced tens of thousands of pounds. They sent play therapists headed by a team leader from Great Ormond Street to train Romanian nurses in a children’s hospital inBrasov. When the Romanian nurses visited London Sarler showed them round and put them up in her house.
Born in Hong Kong, daughter of a major in the army pay corps (always referred to as “the Major”) she had a peripatetic childhood as he was posted to Hanover and then to Benghazi.
In 1958, when she was eight years old, the family came back to England, driving to Tripoli then up through France where the car was stripped by customs but the Libyan tortoise that the little girl had slipped into her pocket made it back to become the family pet in Surrey.
After Farnham Girls’ Grammar School till O-level, then A-levels at Guildford Tech, she did a short fashion course in London and joined Petticoat, a girls’ weekly magazine (slogan “For the young and fancy free”).
In 1972 she went to Australia with her then-husband. Her daughter Flynn was born there in 1973. They returned to England later that year. Soon she was single and she and Flynn, a journalist-turned-schoolteacher, lived together from then on as a brilliant two-woman team, joined ten years ago by Flynn’s much loved-daughter Milly.
As well as doing a sociology degree at Goldsmiths College in South London, Carol threw herself into a hectic freelance career. In 1977-8 she worked on the Look! pages of the Sunday Times where she led a heroic if quixotic campaign to persuade the Treasury to tax wives as individuals separately from their husbands (only more than a decade later did that come to pass).
In the early Eighties she did a stint as editor of the young women’s monthly magazine Honey.
She wrote for national newspapers right across the spectrum from left to right, broadsheet and red-top. Twice when she was shortlisted as columnist of the year she was beaten by people who had recently died – the very definition of misfortune for all concerned.
Her home saw many evenings of dinners, laughter and lively drink-enhanced debate (Red Red Wine is one of the two songs she requested for her sadly small socially-distanced funeral).
Long remembered will be her annual Christmas parties packed with friends from comedy, politics, television and print and the odd national pariah figure whom she supported through thick and thin, even though maybe she shouldn’t have.
Carol Sarler died aged 70 (her death was not Covid-19 related).
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Trump campaign asks supporters for funds to launch legal battle
Saturday, 07 November 2020 4:14 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 07 November 2020 4:16 PM ]
US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, October 18, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Donald Trump’s campaign has asked supporters for contributions to help pay for legal challenges brought by the president in the wake of the November 3 presidential election.
Trump pledged to launch a legal fight as his Democratic rival Joe Biden inches closer to winning the US presidency.
“We need your help to ensure we have the resources to protect the results and keep fighting even after Election Day,” the Trump campaign said in a statement on its website.
The campaign said the president believed that the “Democrats want to steal this election” and that “there will be fraud like you’ve never seen, plain and simple!”
Trump says ‘will not give up fighting’
US President Trump has vowed to continue his legal fight as Joe Biden could soon be declared winner of the presidential election.
The campaign requested contributions to send cash to the “Official Election Defense Fund.”
Similarly, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced its plan to raise at least $60 million to fund legal challenges brought by Trump.
"They want $60 million," an anonymous Republican donor, who received solicitations from the campaign and the RNC, told Reuters.
Two other anonymous sources told the news agency that the Trump campaign aimed to raise as much as $100 million for the joint fundraising committee it maintains with the RNC.
Analysts expect the Trump campaign to launch massive legal action against Biden's team.
The call for funds comes as both the Trump and Biden campaigns recruit the best lawyers in the country to go to a potentially lengthy legal battle over the results of the election.
So far, Biden's campaign has recruited a list of top litigators including former White House counsel Bob Bauer, former deputy White House counsel Dana Remus and election law giant Marc Elias.
Also in Biden's legal team are former solicitors general Walter Dellinger III and Donald Verrilli Jr., plus former Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Trump campaign, however, has reportedly failed to recruit top attorneys considered household names.
On board Trump's legal team is Mark “Thor” Hearne II, former President George W. Bush’s national legal election counsel.
Trump's legal team has filed a barrage of lawsuits in several battleground states in an effort to win reelection with the help of the court judges.
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A senior White House aide says President Donald Trump has no plans to immediately concede his possible election defeat to his Democratic rival.
The Trump campaign said it had deployed legal teams to Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, and North Carolina.
“[T]his election is not over,” the Trump campaign claimed in a press release on Friday.
Trump's claims of fraud rock GOP
Some of Trump's fellow Republicans have criticized the president for his baseless accusations of fraud in the US presidential election.
Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential candidate who has been strongly critical of Trump, slammed the incumbent's efforts to remain in power at all costs.
"He is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen," Romney said in a statement.
Trump's behavior was doing damage to "the institutions that lie at the foundation of the republic, and recklessly inflames destructive and dangerous passions," Romney said.
Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania also described Trump's claims of election fraud as "very disturbing" in an interview on Friday.
"The president's speech last night was very disturbing to me because he made very, very serious allegations without any evidence to support it," Toomey told CBS's This Morning.
Representative Will Hurd of Texas, a former CIA undercover officer, issued strong criticism, saying that Trump's unproved allegations were "dangerous."
"It undermines the very foundation this nation was built upon," Hurd wrote on Twitter.
Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, wrote on Twitter, "STOP spreading debunked misinformation... This is getting insane."
Republican strategist Karl Rove, who helped George W. Bush win the 2000 presidential election, also mocked Trump, saying the kind of election fraud alleged by by the president would require a James Bond-like conspiracy.
On Friday morning, however, Senate majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, released a statement in this regard, confirming that the legal battle between Trump and Biden had to be resolved in court.
He said ballots needed to be counted with both sides observing the process; however, deciding the winner was up to the court.
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Weekend of Events Highlight Leicester’s Heritage
September 2nd, 2015 News
Next week, a four day celebration of Leicester’s hidden historic treasures will take place in the city.
Visitors will get a chance to go behind the scenes at key heritage and history sites across the city ranging from places of worship to historic cemeteries and gardens, as well as parks and landmark buildings.
The Central Baptist Church on Charles Street is one of the building opening its doors to the public. Credit. Pukaar News
Its all part of a programme of Heritage Open Days events taking place at venues across Leicester from Thursday 10 September, to Sunday 13 September.
Cllr Piara Singh Clair, Leicester Assistant City Mayor for culture, leisure and sport said: “Leicester has so much history and so many heritage venues, and this programme of events really showcases them in the best way.
“While some of these venues regularly open to the public, others are opening their doors especially for these Heritage Open Days, giving people a unique insight into these historic gems.”
The Magazine Gateway will open its doors to the public on Friday 11 September, 1pm – 4pm with a tour at 12 noon, Saturday 12 September, 11am – 4pm, Sunday 13 September with guided tours at: 11am, 12noon, 2pm & 3pm. Credit. Pukaar News
Lectures, talks and guided walks will be on offer in the extensive Heritage Open Days programme.
City Hall, Town Hall, Leicester Secular Hall, Belgrave Hall and Gardens, De Montfort Hall and the City Rooms are some of the landmark buildings opening their doors for tours.
Both the city’s universities – De Montfort University and the University of Leicester – will be revealing their cultural and architectural gems in a series of talks and tours.
The Grade II listed Bishop Street Methodist Church which was built in 1815 will be open Saturday 12 September, 10am – 4pm. Credit. Pukaar News
Notable places of worship will also be open for visitors to explore including Leicester Cathedral, Leicester Synagogue, the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir, the Central Baptist Church and William Carey Museum, Guru Nanak Gurdwara, and Bishop Street Methodist Church.
‘Behind the scenes’ tours are being offered by New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, while other historic buildings opening their doors include Jewry Wall Museum’s bathhouse, Leicester Castle and the Magazine Gateway building.
Stoneygate Tram Depot will be revealing its Edwardian history, and offering free heritage shuttle bus rides to the city centre.
Jewry Wall Museum: Bath House Tours will be on Saturday 12 September, 11am – 4.30pm, with tours at 12 noon & 2pm. Credit. Pukaar News
Regular participants to Heritage Open Days, including Leicester Castle, the Magazine Gateway and Wygston’s House, will once again be taking part.
Westbridge Place, one of the city’s oldest mill buildings will also be opening its doors for a rare tour showing how the original architecture has been combined with cutting edge new refurbishment designs.
Elsewhere, visitors will be able to see how a 1920s three-bed home in Western Park has been transformed with pioneering energy-efficiency measures into a ‘SuperHome’ cutting its emissions by 73 per cent.
Other places involved in the Heritage Open Day events include the Peepul Centre, Regent Sports and Social Club, Makers Yard, the LCB Depot and the Glenfield Tunnel.
Full timetable of Heritage Open Day events is available online at: www.visitleicester.info/heritageopendays
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Dr. Srinubabu Gedela, CEO and Managing Director of Pulsus Group
Dr Gedela is a serial entrepreneur and a scientist. Dr Gedela Completed B.Pharma, M.Tech and Ph.D from Andhra University and Post Doctorate from Stanford University. Dr Gedela was awarded Ph.D at the age of 25 in 2007.
Dr Srinubabu Gedela own bitter experiences to get research literature prompted him to begin an initiative that would free the scientific knowledge from all barriers. Dr Gedela got young scientist award from Human Proteome Organization at Seoul, Korea in 2007, where he explored the difficulties faced by scholars from developing countries to access the scientific literature, with their support he started first open access journal called Journal of proteomics & Bioinformatics.
Encouraged by his fellow scientist friends and scholars at Andhra University and Stanford University, Dr. Gedela started Omics International Pvt Ltd to make healthcare and scientific information open access. As Dr. Gedela’s initial interests were in the field of proteomics and diabetes he named his organization as ‘omics’. As he was well aware of the difficulties of his fellow scientists in accessing the instant information and knowledge, he committed himself to the mission of ‘Open Access’ to guarantee free and immediate access to information for any academic or research requirement. As of now Omics International is operating in six Special Economic Zone Units with 5000+ employees (75% are female employees) at Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi. As part of expansion Omics International Pvt Ltd acquired several small and medium size companies in publishing and events sector. These companies are majorly from Europe, Canada and United States and ru.
Today, Omics International Pvt Ltd is an ever expanding publishing group which publishes 1000 scientific and healthcare journals in the fields of Clinical, Medical, Engineering & Technology, Management, and Life Sciences that publishes 50,000 scientific research articles annually. Not confining to publishing alone, Dr. Gedela quickly expanded his activates to International Conferences and events. With more than 3000+ Global Annual Medical and Scientific Meetings in 40 countries, Omics International meetings are dais for 60,000+ scientists for meaningful interaction and discussions where world class scientists, and business professionals deliberate their knowledge with young and aspiring scholars.
Objective: Removing language barriers in research. Making healthcare and scientific information accessible to remotest corners of the world in their preferred language for free of cost.
Dr Gedela's Scientific h-index is 12, and i10-index is 15 as per Google Scholar
TV News and Interviews
Shri Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Opened the Chennai Pulsus office on 09 March 2018.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/pulsus-opens-healthcare-informatics-pharmacovigilance-facility-in-chennai/articleshow/63236743.cms
IT/ITeS Campuses at Hyderabad
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/scientific-publisher-omics-scripts-major-expansion-plans-1000cr-i nvestment/article10035789.ece
Skill Development Campus at Visakhapatnam
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/health-informatics-unit-likely-to-come-up-in-it-sez/article20745647.ece
About Dr Srinubabu
https://telanganatoday.com/making-wealth-out-of-science https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/307-dr-dot-srinubabu-gedela-05-06-2017.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-29/medical-journals-have-a-fake-news-problem
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/chanting-success-mantra-scientific-way/article8319221.ece
Language is no longer barrier for research
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/language-is-no-longer-barrier-for-research-open-access-journals-disrupting-the-english-dominance-in-scientific-literature-300590935.html
Expansion to Noida
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Business/1970-01-01/Pulsus-Group-invests-in-UP/360715
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/e-education-firm-pulsus-to-invest-rs-500-cr-in-up/articleshow/63066607.cms
https://telanganatoday.com/pulsus-plans-to-buy-two-firms
https://telanganatoday.com/500-omics-employees-donate-blood-in-hyderabad
Women empowerment programs
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/308879
Positions Federation of Asian Biotech Vice President
https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/49/6188/srinubabu-gedela-is-faba-vice-president.html
Indian Angels and Hyderabad Angels Members to Support Indian Startups
https://www.indianangelnetwork.com/individual-members/srinubabu_gedela_der/
http://www.hyderabadangels.in/srinubabu-gedela.html
EENADU-Telugu
http://www.eenadu.net/special-pages/etharam/etharam-inner.aspx?catfullstory=19290
TV News Interviews and Regional News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cEGJewpod4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxW3M1M-O0I&t=49s
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Dr. Srinubabu Gedela
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Farmer to Stanford University, Srinubabu is building a huge Online Healthcare Informatics Business
Hyderabad based Serial Entrepreneur Srinubabu’s enterprise Omics International is world’s leading open access scientific journal with over 1000 journals and growing. His current passion is to build his newest acquisition PULSUS – a 30 year Canadian Health Informatics Company as a go to destination of premium scientific content and Pharmacovigilance (Drug Safety) services.
Born and brought up in a village called Allena in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh Srinububabu completed his schooling in his village and shifted to Andhra University after gaining a seat on merit for doing his B.Pharma in 2000. He later did his M.Tech with specialization in Biotechnology in 2006 and was awarded Ph.D for his work on early stage identification of diabetes in 2008.
While doing his research work Srinubabu faced lot of difficulty to gain access to relevant literature as his University Andhra University did not have subscription to majority of scientific journals. To solve his immediate problem, the Gedela used travel by bus to Hyderabad from Visakhapatnam every month, about 400 miles away from his University to access research content.
Hitting the Entrepreneurial Bug
While pursuing his Doctorate at the Andhra University Srinubabu received Young Scientist Award in 2007 from South Korea for his application of mathematical modelling for life sciences under sponsorship from Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO). During the award ceremony, Dr. Srinubabu expressed his problems of literature access. He debated that scholars from developing countries are not able to access literature there was a need for open access journal.
This is where the entrepreneurial bug bit him. He made a humble beginning with support he received from many scholors with the launch of first open access journal called as Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics in 2008. He also bought a domain name for 200 rupees, and made a website with help from his few colleagues in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam and began building his company named as Omics Online Publishing (later changed to Omics International) catering to information in the fields of biology studies. He posted his first article n April 2008 for the Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics.
Named as Omics international - a new science, broadly the application of computation to study biology/life sciences; a name relevant to his doctoral education. Started with one journal in 2008, Omics international now runs 1000 journals with support from 50,000 qualified scientists as editorial board members that post 50,000 articles annually in fields of medicine, technology, and engineering.
Besides its free online open journal Omics also established a robust conference division that went on to hold over 3,000 annual events across 40 more countries. He also garnered support from the healthcare industry, which regularly publishes in the company’s journals and attends its conferences, bringing Omics both credibility and the financial resources to grow.
Stint at Stanford University
During his Post Doctorate studies in Stanford University in 2008 on biomarkers for identification of early stage of cancer he mustered further support from his Stanford Alumni that helped him grow his open access journals and also bring on board qualified scientists as editorial board members to meet the industry standards.
After acquiring PULSUS around the year 2016 - a 30 years old company and well established brand in America, we acquired the company and all acquired journals are running under Pulsus. Srinubabu is keen to strengthen its position in the market as a go-to-destination for premium research articles and healthcare information. The founding company in the mean time grew to 3500 employees having established its operations in Hyderabad, Chennai and in New Delhi.
Srinubabu’ immediate center of attention is to grow PULSUS – into a leading online Health informatics with a sharp focus on Pharmacovigilance services providers. Pulsus will open its centre in SEZ Chennai and thereafter in Gurugram. It aims to grow to a 1000 employee company in the next couple of years from its current level of 500 people working in Hyderabad.
In Hyderabad, headquarters and his newest passion PULSUS are spread over 250,000 square feet in the Special Economic Zone buildings located in the Technology Hub. More than two-thirds among the 3500 people employed by Pulsus and Omics international are women.
By 2020 Srinubabu is planning to expand his employee base to 5,000 at upcoming one million square feet Omics international SEZ campus, Hyderabad and another 5,000 employees at Chennnai, Gurugram, Noida and Visakhapatnam.
Social Inclinations and interests
Srinubabu Gedela owns and operates a school and college for 5000 students at his home town.
Dr Srinubabu is also an investor and has made investments in several startups through Indian Angel Networks, Hyderabad Angels and Ney York Equity Forums.
Dr Srinubabu donated money to build libraries, temples to improve drainage and driking water system at his adopted villages.
An Entrepreneur
Dr. Srinubabu is a serieal entrepreneur and the recipient of “Young Scientist” award from the prestigious Human Proteome Organization at Seoul, Korea in 2007 for his pioneering research in the study on early stage identification of Diabetes. He received his Ph.D from Andhra University in 2007 at the age of 25 and has a Post Doctoral experience from Stanford University. He is also the recipient of Best Young Entrepreneur in 2015 and 2017. The group companiesOmics & Pulsus group employ more than 5,000 employees with 75% of them being womenThey work out of six SEZ units at Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi. Going forward,PULSUS is establishing its own IT/ITeS Campuses, Life Sciences Skill Development Campus,scientific and healthcare information translation centers at Hyderabad,Visakhapatnam andNoida.
Dr. Srinubabu started his entrepreneurial journey in 2009 by founding Omics International Pvt. Ltd, with a profound vision of making scientific literature accessible to everyone on the globe free of cost, an idea which has actually borne out of the hardships he has faced while doing his Ph.D, and how the researchers from developing countries are shortchanged with the access to the extant scientific literature from around the world which has been controlled by global publishers with an iron-fist. What started as one single open access journal in 2009, the group today has grown to 1000 scientific and healthcare journals in the fields of Clinical, Medical, Engineering & Technology,Management, and Life Sciences that publishes over 50,000 scientific research articles annually.
Entrepreneurial Journey
Dr Gedela used to travel from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad (700 kilometers) once in a month or once in two months to get relevant litarature for his research during his doctoral studies.
Dr Gedela expressed his concern on under developed/developing countries scholars are not able to access scientific literature during his Young Scientists Award ceremony at South Korea in 2007. He told toHuman Proteome Organization (HUPO) committee, subscription based journals cost is very high, to access each article is costing about $50-57dollars. Developing countries scholars may not spend this amount to access literature.
With the support from members ofHUPO, he started his first open access journal called "journal of proteomics and bioinformatics". Most of the editorial board members are HUPO organizing committee members.
After that Dr Gedela moved to Stanford University for his postdoctoral, with the support from Stanford University Alumni the journals were increased. The open access journals content also reaching thousends of scientists across the world, Open access journals got it's momentum and reader base also increased to millions.
Omics quickly expanded its activates to International Conferences and Events. With more than 3000 Global Annual Medical and Scientific Meetings in 40 countries, the group annual meetings are dais for 200,000+ scientists for meaningful interaction and discussions where world class scientists, and business professionals deliberate their knowledge with young and aspiring scholars. As part of their spectacular growth during the last 9 years, Omics acquired several small and medium size companies in publishing and events sectors, mainly from Europe, Canada, USA and Russia. In 2016 Dr. Srinubabu acquired PULSUS Group, a highly reputed 30-year-old Canadian health informatics, medical and scientific publisher.
Today, Omics & Pulsus group employ more than 5,000 employees with 75% of them being women. They work out of six SEZ units at Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi. Going forward, PULSUS is establishing its own IT/ITeS Campuses, Life Sciences Skill Development Campus,scientific and healthcare information translation centers at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Noida .
Furthering his service to the society, Dr. Srinubabu is now embarking on translating the Global Scientific Literature from English to other foreign languagesJapanese,Russian, Chinese, Germanetc. and also into Indian languages Hindi, Telugu, Guajarati, Tamil, Begali etc. Once this is completed INDIA will become global hub for knowledge and everyone in the world will have access to the rich source of Healthcare information in their local languages.
Removing language barriers in research. Making healthcare and scientific information accessable to remotest corners of the world in theirpreferred language for free of cost. To fulfill this objective Dr Gedela group is initially establishing healthcare and agriculture information translation center in Greater Noida with the support from Goverment of Uttar Pradesh.As per reports of KPMG/Google 550 Millions (55 crores) people of India uses local languages to search/browse internet (By the year 2020-21). The above traslated information will be useful to millions of Indians especially farmers to update thier knowledge in new agricultural developments incombination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock in thier preferred languages. Rural and Urban Indians gets free healthcare knowelge in thier preferred language for free of cost. Knowledge is power, Rural indians can increase thier healthcare conditions by taking necessary precaustions.
Indian Regional language apps all the rage, to have 550 million users in next 3 years.
Language tools empowerment to create content in regional language.
Local language industry will combine online and offline potential which has the space of worth over $10 billion.
The digital ad spends alone will be worth $1.5 billion by 2020.
- Online traffic will catch the attention of advertisement industry.
-Branding.
-Promoting entrepreneurship.
-Customized content, Membership services for regional language consumers.
The growth of digital content, is driving the growth of the creative sectors.
Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences Skill Development Campus
Skill Development Centre is an initiative to empower the youth of the country with skill sets which make them more employable and more productive in their work environment.
India is a country today with 65% of its youth in the working age group. If ever there is a way to reap this demographic advantage, it has to be through skill development of the youth so that they add not only to their personal growth, but to the country’s economic growth as well.
Most of the Life Sciences and Pharma gradutes are comingout from thier Universitities/Collgeges with out much exposure on practical knowledge. To fulfil thier skill development gap on advaced instrumenation hadling the group is establishing Pulsus Life Science and Pharmaceutical Sciences Skill developments centers in India.
Pulsus &Omics International Pvt Ltd and Its associate companies conducting scientific, agriculture and healthcare conferences in 40 countries and operating from six Special Economic Zone(SEZ) Units with 5000+ Employees.
Young Scientist Award from HUPO at Seoul, South Korea in 09 October 2007.
Omics International Pvt Ltd Received best Indian ITES award in 2015.Received Best ITES Company Award from HYSEA
Best Young Enterprenuer Award for 2017
A Philanthropist
In an effort to give back to the society that had shaped his life and career, Dr Srinubabu adopted seven villages in the Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. He created necessary infrasture for driange system, currently provides safe drinking water to Allenna, Burja, Kilentra, G B Puram, Peddapeta, Palavalasa, Kothapeta and its nearby villages, where contaminated water is leading to an increased rate of cancer. Dr Srinubabu is also involved in expanding resources for education, healthcare, and sanitation within these communities.
In an effort to support rural students Dr Srinubabu conducting Students Science fairs, skill deveopmet programs in association with Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and Dr. BR Ambethkar University Srikakulam.
Dr Srinubabu also conducting entrepreneurialpromotion events in association with Government to create more job providers.
Dr Srinubabu and his group are did conferences in collaboration withIndus foundadtion, Andhra University, Stanford University, NIH, Dr. BR Ambethkar University, KL University etc and providing jobs,poster awards to studentsduring the events.The group isconducting education fairs for students awarness about foreign Universities and also conducted healthcare & Pharma events in association with Government of Telangana, Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council and Federation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce.
Dr Srinubabu interview on Importance of conferences to promote quality researchand perspectives of pharma industry growth.
Dr Srinubabu interviews and conferences coordination on Indian Agriculture, crop research, Indian healthcare, Cancer awarness programs,pharma regulatory, pharma industry sector etc.
Educational Contributions
Education lays the foundation for the success of any society, and is the torch-bearer for any progress, be it scientific or technological.
Dr Srinubabu Educational Society utilizes faculty development workshops to provide resources, such as audio/visual learning equipment and other methods of technical assistance, to better equip teaches to educate community members.
Dr Gedela has made inroads into seven interior villages of the Srikakulam District, where it has extended support to schools to reform and strengthen primary, secondary and higer education.
Dr Srinubabu Educational Society providing education from primary education to higher education. There are about 5,000 students studying in Dr Srinubabu Educational Society.
Dr Geedela published 50+ articles in peer reviewed international journals. His research is majorly on application of mathematical modelling for life sciences techniques and for early stage identification of diabetes and cancer.
Srinubabu Gedela Integration, warehousing, and analysis strategies of Omics data Methods Mol Biol. 2011;719:399-414. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-027-0_18
Thota H, Rao AA, Reddi KK, Akula S, Changalasetty SB, Srinubabu G Alzheimer's disease care and management: role of information technology Bioinformation. 2007 Nov 3;2(3):91-5
Srinubabu G, Ratnam BV, Rao AA, Rao MN Development and validation of LC-MS/MS method for the quantification of oxcarbazepine in human plasma using an experimental designChem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2008 Jan;56(1):28-33.
Srinubabu G, Patel RS, Shedbalkar VP, Rao AA, Rao MN, Bandaru VV Development and validation of high-throughput liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric method for simultaneous quantification of loratadine and desloratadine in human plasmaJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2007 Dec 15;860(2):202-208.
Srinubabu G, Sudharani B, Sridhar L, Rao JS Development and validation of liquid chromatographic and UV derivative spectrophotometric methods for the determination of famciclovir in pharmaceutical dosage forms Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2006 Jun;54(6):819-22
Srinubabu G, Raju ChA, Sarath N, Kumar PK, Rao JV Development and validation of a HPLC method for the determination of voriconazole in pharmaceutical formulation using an experimental design Talanta. 2007 Feb 28;71(3):1424-9. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2006.04.042
G Srinubabu, N Lokeswari, K Jayaraju Screening of nutritional parameters for the production of protease from Aspergillus oryzae J Chem 2007 4(2) 208-215.
Srinubabu Gedela, Allam Appa Rao, Thota H, Techniques for Integrating -omics Data Bioinformation Jan 2009, Volume 3, Issue 6 pp 284-286
Srinubabu Gedela, Allam Appa rao, Narasimha Rao Medicherla Identification of Biomarkers for Early Stage Identification of Type 2 Diabetes Int J Biomed Sci Dec 2007, Volume 3, Issue 4 pp 284-286
Srinubabu Gedela, Narasimha Rao Medicherla Chromatographic Techniques for the Separation of Peptides: Application to Proteomics Chromatographia May 2007, Volume 65, Issue 9, pp 511–518
Dr Gedela's Scientific h-index is 12, and i10-index is 15 as per Google Scholar.
Dr Srinubabu in News
Dr Srinubabu appeared in regional, national and international news.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/scientific-publisher-omics-scripts-major-expansion-plans-1000cr-investment/article10035789.ece
About Dr Srinubabu achievements
https://telanganatoday.com/making-wealth-out-of-science
https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark-of-corporate/307-dr-dot-srinubabu-gedela-05-06-2017.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/Local-lad-creates-platform-for-access-to-research-papers/articleshow/31764645.cms
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2018/mar/15/now-healthcare-information-in-telugu--just-a-click-away-1787338.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz_tWCGEgk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6diNU1Pgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOYLNToUoJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIzaEOfVUmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDoJpUblf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyk8f6HQE1s&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kefcDe7qI&t=106s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27BvuBtLSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEsSWTomFR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ebZGSg8L4&t=94s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56CVpRmFXmM
An important Anthrax story published in
Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense appeared in New York Times in 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/science/10anthrax.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1
Dr Srinubabu first conference is started at Stanford University in 2010 in association with Stanford University and National Cancer Institute.
https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-317/20141006124705/http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/ncicancerbulletin/archive/2010/011210/page11
https://www.conferenceseries.com/archives/Conferences/NCI2010/images/NCI2010_homepage.pdf
Dr Srinubabu inspirational profile to motivate young brains.
Dr Srinubabu interview on Importance of conferences to promote quality research and perspectives of
pharma industry growth
http://pharma.financialexpress.com/sections/market-section/1341-criteria-of-speaker-selection-is-important-to-convey-the-quality-level
http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=26190
Major reasons to start open access journal
His position as Vice President in professional organisations and education foundation
http://www.indus.org/healthcare/whoiswho.html
His charity on school and education
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIH/2014/02/10&PageLabel=9&ForceGif=true&EntityId=Ar00902&ViewMode=
Young Scientist award from Human Proteome Organization in 2007
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Selected-for-award/article14850628.ece
Best Indian IT/ITeS Company award 2015
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/tcs-infosys-wipro-ca-tech-win-hysea-awards/article8422753.ece
Best Young Entrepreneur Business Excellence Award 2017
https://startupsuccessstories.in/omics-founder-dr-srinubabu-honoured-business-excellence-award/
Honourable guest to open cycling healthcare event 2016
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/over-5-000-take-part-in-cycling-event-on-i-day-in-hyderabad-115081501571_1.html
Open access is the future of publishing interview
http://www.esna.tv/service/index.php/Daily_News_2016.html
His conference interview on cancer awarness
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/breast-cancer-cases-may-double-by-2025/article6414372
http://yourstory.com/2015/07/hyderabad-healthcare/
http://www.indiacsr.in/en/?p=1
http://metroindia.com/metrolifenews.aspx?id=6261
Dr Srinubabu for Startups investements and promotion
http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/meraevents-gets-1-million-funding-from-omics-group-114062601025_1.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/global-publishing-company-to-hire-150-candidates/article7034658.ece
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/emedevents-launched-in-india-115013001624_1.html
http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=86504&sid=2
https://yourstory.com/2016/12/the-bluebook-funding/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/money/deals-app-bluebook-raises-500000-in-a-seed-round-from-ian-letsventure-and-others/articleshow/56095948.cms
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/india-dealbook-bluebook-supr-daily-e-vegetailing-mcaffeine-raise-funding-61150/
https://inc42.com/buzz/the-bluebook-seed-funding/
Conferences announcements and guest speaker
http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news/omics-observes-annual-open-access-week-5805600493_1.html
http://news.indiamart.com/story/omics-group-organize-three-day-pharma-conference-171427.html
http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/Events/index.php/name/4th-International-Conference-and-Exhibition-on-Biosensors-Bioelectronics/event/10143/
http://www.biometricupdate.com/201303/omics-group-announces-2nd-international-conference-on-biometrics-and-biostatistics/
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/address-ethanol-availability-issues/article20745770.ece
http://pharmabiz.com/Services/ProjectTenders/PrintArticle.aspx?aid=72244&sid=1
http://www.pharmabiz.com/PrintArticle.aspx?aid=63172&sid=1
http://pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=72330&sid=2
http://www.mumbainews.net/index.php/sid/213333964/scat/b8de8e630faf3631
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=47046
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2017-11-24/Plan-to-make-India-bio-manufacturing-hub/341180
http://www.contify.com/stories/38249856?fromSearch=news&sort=approved_on&page=1&q=&timeline=&company_tags=OMICS%20Group|N&internal=false
http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2014-04-29/aexjsNzhotNg.html
http://tribune.com.pk/story/702056/oral-hygiene-awareness-uhs-students-shine-at-international-conference
http://www.whatech.com/members-news/conferences/19041-omics-group-international-cardiology-conference-2014-to-be-held-from-april-14-16-2014-at-san-antonio-us
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/macro-economy/call-for-technology-breakthrough-to-step-up-farm-productivity/
article5649902.ece
http://www.apnnews.com/2014/01/27/omics-announced-its-global-scientific-conferences-schedules-for-the-year-2014/
http://www.netindia123.com/netindia/showdetails.asp?id=2333365&n_date=20140203&cat=India
http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/A-3-Day-International-Conference-on-Agriculture-and-Horticultural-Sciences-begins-56689.html
http://metroindia.com/Details.aspx?id=21110
http://www.fauchard.org/news/newsletter.php?newsid=S01ROMANIA
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=241930449
http://www.bsdht.org.uk/professor_kenneth_eaton.html
http://www.biospectrumasia.com/biospectrum/news/198404/srinubabu-gedela-faba-vice-president
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/060316/visakhapatnam-web-shows-what-a-global-village-means.html
Best Indian ITeS and Young Scientist Award
Honourable guest to open cycling healthcare event
Students awards to promote science at Dubai
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-5-247260-UHS-students-bring-laurels-to-country
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=240771
http://www.nation.com.pk/lahore/30-Apr-2014/uhs-students-shine-at-intl-moot
Open Access Week to promote knowledge to all
https://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news/omics-observes-annual-open-access-week-5805600493_1.html
22 Nobel laureates supporting journal of cellular and molecular biology published by Dr Srinubabu open access group journals.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11567498.htm
Dr Srinubabu, Serial entrepreneur acquires Canada-based Pulsus
Serial entrepreneur acquires Canada-based healthcare and medical informatics company Pulsus
Pulsus @ Chennai opened by Shri Suresh Prabhu
Pulsus opens healthcare informatics, pharmacovigilance facility in Chennai. Shri Suresh Prabhu, Minister for Commerce and Industry opened the centre.
PULSUS @ VIZAG SEZ
Health informatics unit likely to come up in IT SEZ
Best Young Entrepreneur Business Excellence Award
Pioneer of Open Access Scientific Journals, Founder CEO of OMICS International Dr. Srinubabu was awarded the Young Entrepreneur Business Excellence Award
Pulsus @ Noida
Pulsus scientific and healthcare language translation centre at Noida
Pulsus @ Hyderabad
Scientific publisher Omics scripts major expansion; plans ?1,000-cr investment
Wealth Creators Interview
OMICS International Founder Srinubabu Gedela Special Interview | Wealth Creators | hmtv News
Making wealth out of science
Dr Srinubabu Gedela operates his business from Hyderabad from a 2,50,000 square feet-office in the Special Economic Zone at Raidurg and is planning to expand his businesses both in India and abroad.
500 Omics International and pulsus employees donate blood in Hyderabad
Pulsus @ Gurgaon
Pulsus plans to buy two firms and expansion to Gurgaon
Pulsus Group @ Noida Uttar Pradesh
Pulsus Group invests in UP to start global language translation centre.
Women at work-The corporates should be cognizant of the biases and should make efforts to address the issue
Dr. SrinuBabu Gedela , CEO, PULSUS, OMICS International said, \"Women workforce in India is in a state of transformation. For many decades, women participation was limited to the agricultural work force or semi-skilled industrial workforce where women have been perceived to be less productive and therefore less paid. They were also restricted to a limited number of job roles. And this obviously led to a pay disparity based on gender which is a structural issue
OMICS: Knowledge dissemination through innovation
Dr Srinubabu, a post-doctorate degree holder from Stanford University, initiated OMICS International Educational Society, which works on the model of acquiring already established schools by...
24th Annual HYSEA Awards OMICS International - Best ITES Company
The sustainable efforts of OMICS International is being recognized at the ?Annual HYSEA Software Product Competition & Showcase 2016? by HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association). OMICS International world?s leading Open Access Publishing House & Global Conference Organizer wins the award of the \"Best ITES Award\" for the year 2014-15 held in HICC, Hyderabad on 31st March 2016. CA (India) Technologies, HSBC Software Development (India) LV Prasad Eye Institute, DeepSea Technologies, CGK Technologies were the others who have won their awards in various other categories. The event witnessed with More than 150 Startups, 150 leaders from IT industry with more than 1000 delegate participants featured with keynotes from CEOs of IT majors and leading Startups. The awards were felicitated by Honorable Cabinet Minister for Information Technology and Panchayat Raj, Telangana Shri K T Rama Rao.
Young Scientist Award 2007
The Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organisation (AOHUPO) has selected a research scholar of Andhra University, Srinubabu Gedela, for its Young Scientist award,
Global Health Summit 2014
Indus Foundation, Govt of Telanaga
Felicitation by Andhra University
OMICS International?s CEO and Managing Director, Dr Srinubabu was felicitated by the Andhra University at the International Conference on Environmental Biotechnology and Biodiversity held at the university campus itself...
2010-Pharmaceutical Event
Conference : USFDA Suggestions on BA/BE studies
2017 8th Anniversary of OMICS International
8th Anniversary of OMICS International
medical cost skyrocketing, says Governor
All the concerned stakeholders at various levels in the healthcare industry ? the manufacturers, the policy makers, the healthcare providers, the insurance players and medical education institutions need to join hands for a sustained growth of medical device industry and eventually pass the benefit to the patients,? said Dr Srinubabu Gedela, CEO, OMICS International
Chanting success mantra, scientific way
My failure to access advanced journals when I was a student in Visakhapatnam gave me strong will to promote open access journals and organise scientific conferences and symposiums
Freedom Ride 2015 - 69th Independence Day celebrations
Over 5,000 cycling enthusiasts from different corporate companies in Hyderabad today participated in the seventh edition of corporate cycling event \"Freedom Ride 2015\", organised at Madhapur here as part of the 69th Independence Day celebrations. The event organised by The Atlanta Foundation (TAF), was flagged off by Srinubabu Gedela, CEO of OMICS International, Jayesh Ranjan, Telangana IT Secretary, Bharani Kumar, Secretary, Cyberabad Security Council, according to a release.
2011 -3rd World Congress on Biotechnology
3rd World Congress on Biotechnology
Education Summit 2014
Indus Foundadtion, OMICS International, TV9, Goverment of Telangana Education Summit
Pharma BA/BE Conference Hyderabad 2012
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Top quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Votes: 16
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Votes: 15
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Votes: 13
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. Votes: 12
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. Votes: 12
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. Votes: 12
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Votes: 11
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Votes: 10
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. Votes: 10
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Votes: 10
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. Votes: 10
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. Votes: 9
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Votes: 9
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before. Votes: 9
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning. Votes: 9
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Votes: 9
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Votes: 8
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. Votes: 7
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Votes: 7
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. Votes: 6
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Votes: 5
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. Votes: 5
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. Votes: 5
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Votes: 4
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. Votes: 4
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. Votes: 3
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Votes: 3
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. Votes: 3
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change. Votes: 3
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. Votes: 3
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Votes: 0
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Votes: 0
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. Votes: 0
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Votes: 0
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Votes: 0
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. Votes: 0
Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness. Votes: 0
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus . Votes: 0
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. Votes: 0
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies. Votes: 0
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. Votes: 0
Seek simplicity, and distrust it. Votes: 0
Seek simplicity but distrust it. Votes: 0
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Votes: 0
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift. Votes: 0
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. Votes: 0
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. Votes: 0
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. Votes: 0
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. Votes: 0
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Votes: 0
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society . Votes: 0
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under. Votes: 0
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths. Votes: 0
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Votes: 0
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. Votes: 0
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. Votes: 0
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Votes: 0
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Votes: 0
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. Votes: 0
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Votes: 0
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity. Votes: 0
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. Votes: 0
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Votes: 0
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Votes: 0
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. Votes: 0
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Votes: 0
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe. Votes: 0
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality Votes: 0
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Votes: 0
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Votes: 0
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. Votes: 0
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. Votes: 0
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience... Votes: 0
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. Votes: 0
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch. Votes: 0
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. Votes: 0
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. Votes: 0
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Votes: 0
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Votes: 0
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. Votes: 0
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance. Votes: 0
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. Votes: 0
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty. Votes: 0
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies. Votes: 0
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Votes: 0
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering Votes: 0
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Votes: 0
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. Votes: 0
My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe. Votes: 0
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. Votes: 0
All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. Votes: 0
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Votes: 0
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Votes: 0
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Votes: 0
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment... Votes: 0
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities. Votes: 0
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork. Votes: 0
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. Votes: 0
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. Votes: 0
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. Votes: 0
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. Votes: 0
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. Votes: 0
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. Votes: 0
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one. Votes: 0
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Votes: 0
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. Votes: 0
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. Votes: 0
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Votes: 0
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. Votes: 0
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. Votes: 0
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Votes: 0
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Votes: 0
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. Votes: 0
Common sense is genius in homespun. Votes: 0
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. Votes: 0
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Votes: 0
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Votes: 0
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. Votes: 0
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. Votes: 0
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality .... Votes: 0
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. Votes: 0
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it. Votes: 0
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Votes: 0
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Votes: 0
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality. Votes: 0
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Votes: 0
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM. Votes: 0
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. Votes: 0
Philosophy is the product of wonder. Votes: 0
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. Votes: 0
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe. Votes: 0
The motive of success is not enough. Votes: 0
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. Votes: 0
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations Votes: 0
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise Votes: 0
Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. Votes: 0
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Votes: 0
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness. Votes: 0
There is no nature at an instant. Votes: 0
How the past perishes is how the future becomes. Votes: 0
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.'' Votes: 0
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. Votes: 0
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. Votes: 0
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest. Votes: 0
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. Votes: 0
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. Votes: 0
Value is coextensive with reality. Votes: 0
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. Votes: 0
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. Votes: 0
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness. Votes: 0
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. Votes: 0
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. Votes: 0
There is no nature in an instant. Votes: 0
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology. Votes: 0
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. Votes: 0
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Votes: 0
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. Votes: 0
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Votes: 0
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. Votes: 0
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts. Votes: 0
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. Votes: 0
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Votes: 0
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Votes: 0
Error itself may be happy chance. Votes: 0
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Votes: 0
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. Votes: 0
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom. Votes: 0
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition. Votes: 0
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. Votes: 0
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. Votes: 0
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. Votes: 0
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious. Votes: 0
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Votes: 0
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. Votes: 0
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. Votes: 0
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God. Votes: 0
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth. Votes: 0
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections. Votes: 0
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. Votes: 0
Knowledge keeps no better than fish. Votes: 0
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people. Votes: 0
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. Votes: 0
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. Votes: 0
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover. Votes: 0
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest. Votes: 0
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. Votes: 0
Problems are only opportunities in disquise. Votes: 0
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger. Votes: 0
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. Votes: 0
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. Votes: 0
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. Votes: 0
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. Votes: 0
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest. Votes: 0
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort. Votes: 0
The term many presupposes the term one , and the term one presupposes the term many. Votes: 0
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography. Votes: 0
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society. Votes: 0
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. Votes: 0
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. Votes: 0
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Votes: 0
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Votes: 0
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks. Votes: 0
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing. Votes: 0
Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. Votes: 0
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. Votes: 0
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. Votes: 0
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. Votes: 0
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty. Votes: 0
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty. Votes: 0
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir Votes: 0
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Votes: 0
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system. Votes: 0
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Votes: 0
When success turns a man's head he faces failure Votes: 0
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision. Votes: 0
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation. Votes: 0
The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. Votes: 0
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Votes: 0
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry. Votes: 0
Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Votes: 0
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Votes: 0
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. Votes: 0
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth. Votes: 0
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. Votes: 0
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls Votes: 0
Error is the price we pay for progress. Votes: 0
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. Votes: 0
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. Votes: 0
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Votes: 0
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life. Votes: 0
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. Votes: 0
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being. Votes: 0
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance. Votes: 0
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are. Votes: 0
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas. Votes: 0
Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended. Votes: 0
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it. Votes: 0
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. Votes: 0
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. Votes: 0
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. Votes: 0
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count. Votes: 0
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. Votes: 0
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. Votes: 0
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. Votes: 0
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover. Votes: 0
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Votes: 0
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep. Votes: 0
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. Votes: 0
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. Votes: 0
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. Votes: 0
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed. Votes: 0
People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature. Votes: 0
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought. Votes: 0
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. Votes: 0
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. Votes: 0
Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement. Votes: 0
Seek simplicity, then distrust. Votes: 0
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. Votes: 0
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader. Votes: 0
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. Votes: 0
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. Votes: 0
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Votes: 0
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close. Votes: 0
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance. Votes: 0
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society. Votes: 0
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. Votes: 0
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. Votes: 0
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. Votes: 0
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. Votes: 0
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. Votes: 0
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. Votes: 0
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. Votes: 0
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. Votes: 0
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. Votes: 0
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad. Votes: 0
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system. Votes: 0
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. Votes: 0
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. Votes: 0
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about? Votes: 0
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. Votes: 0
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about. Votes: 0
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things. Votes: 0
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. Votes: 0
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate. Votes: 0
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable. Votes: 0
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. Votes: 0
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion. Votes: 0
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. Votes: 0
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. Votes: 0
War can protect; it cannot create. Votes: 0
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. Votes: 0
After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset. Votes: 0
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. Votes: 0
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century. Votes: 0
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. Votes: 0
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. Votes: 0
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Votes: 0
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. Votes: 0
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it Votes: 0
It is the business of the future to be dangerous. Votes: 0
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. Votes: 0
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. Votes: 0
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned. Votes: 0
Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality. Votes: 0
The many become one and are increased by one. Votes: 0
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Votes: 0
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors. Votes: 0
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self. Votes: 0
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated. Votes: 0
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilisation there is always an element of unrest. For sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilised order survives on its merits, and is transformed by its power of Recognizing its imperfections. Votes: 0
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. Votes: 0
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality. Votes: 0
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world Votes: 0
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory. Votes: 0
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. Votes: 0
Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy. Votes: 0
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought. Votes: 0
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning, Votes: 0
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. Votes: 0
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. Votes: 0
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system. Votes: 0
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. Votes: 0
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. Votes: 0
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. Votes: 0
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. Votes: 0
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. Votes: 0
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. Votes: 0
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. Votes: 0
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Votes: 0
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. Votes: 0
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. Votes: 0
With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful. Votes: 0
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. Votes: 0
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. Votes: 0
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. Votes: 0
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Julie Palmer
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Updated: 30th January 2020
Wizz Air On The Rise
The Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has announced a strong set of figures for the third quarter of the current financial year despite the difficulties being faced elsewhere in the aviation sector.
The airline’s profits during the three months to the end of December 2019 were worth €21.4 million, against losses of €21 million posted for the same period of the year before.
On the same comparative basis, the number of passengers carried by Wizz Air went from 8.1 million to 10 million, while revenues rose by close to 25 per cent.
Those impressive numbers were achieved despite the travails and financial difficulties that several high-profile aviation operators have been suffering of late.
As Julie Palmer, Partner at RBR Advisory, explains: “Despite it being a turbulent period for the aviation industry, which has intensified over the last year with the administration of Flybmi and Thomas Cook, Wizz Air has remained on an upward trajectory with positive passenger and revenue growth.”
“By maintaining a low-cost model while expanding routes, the business has been able to achieve a healthy profit margin and adapt to changes in the market.”
“With the fallout from Brexit still impending, and proposals for an aviation duty to be introduced, 2020 could pose challenges for airlines such as Wizz Air. And airlines that are investing heavily in lower carbon flight technology are a threat. But with plans to introduce new routes across the globe and the struggles of competitors, investors will be feeling like they are walking on air with the company’s current standing.”
A total of 719 routes are currently operated by Wizz Air, mainly across central and eastern Europe, with 154 destinations connected by its flights across 45 countries.
On the back of its most recent financial numbers, the company has said that it plans to invest in the near term to ensure that “new routes will be in place ahead of the all-important summer period”.
Wizz Air’s chief executive Jozsef Varadi praised his company’s recent performance in glowing terms, noting that the business has been able to boost its load factors while also improving its yields.
Mr Varadi describes the current trading environment as being “favourable with a relatively benign competitive environment, stable fuel prices and a positive yield environment”.
“In short, it’s been another quarter of significant improvement,” he said.
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The Loneliness Of Having A Child With Disabilities
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No One Talks About The Loneliness Of Having A Child With Disabilities
Eliza Factor
Photographed by Rochelle Brock.
When my son Felix was a baby, his muscle tone was so low that he couldn’t hold up his head. He and I spent so much time at pediatric therapy or shuttling to different specialists, trying to understand the root of his floppiness, that we barely got a chance to socialize. I couldn't bother worrying about finding friends for Felix. I all but forgot about my own. So when the opportunity arose to invite some young families over for a gathering in honor of mutual friends, I grabbed at it.
They came on a weekend afternoon: five couples with their new offspring, a friendly, bleary eyed crowd, chatting about diaper rash and the difficulty of getting back to work. The adults settled in a circle on the living room floor, their babies perky in their laps, bouncing on nubby legs, or scooting out of reach into a cooing collective in the middle. I could not speak.
All those strong spines, those necks effortlessly holding those heads; all those hands easily grasping, pulling, tugging. They were younger than Felix and yet they could sit, they could wiggle across the floor. I knew that Felix’s muscle tone was low. But these other babies were almost unbearable to watch. Why could they just do this, without having to suffer as therapists manipulated their muscles? They looked back at me, eyes gleaming with delight — look at me! Here I am, splendid!
Felix sprawled in my lap. He was very chubby at that point. When he lay on his side, as he was then doing, his features were lost in his flesh. I tried to shift him into a more erect position. I wanted to show him off, to demonstrate to these people that he was splendid, too. I wanted them to see the compelling sparkle in his eyes, to hear his tipsy samurai laughter — Hee hee hee! Ha ha Aka! But Felix did not want to show off. None of my nudging or bossy kissing did any good. His eyes were glazed over, his expression slack, his head so heavy that my arm ached from supporting it.
Not since junior high school had I cared about popularity, fitting in. Why was I desperate for Felix to look and act just like the other babies?
What is the opposite of a revelation? A feeling that plunges you into despair. A sinking emptiness followed by a hot well of shame. I could no longer see his beauty. I was embarrassed of his lumpy, strange body. The parents in our living room kept chatting and laughing; their babies kept grabbing and goo-ing, unaware, as they should be, of my personal turmoil. Felix, however, wailed the loneliest wail I’d ever heard.
I could not get that incident out of my mind, that terrible onrush of shame. What if Felix had sensed it? What if that was what had provoked his lonely cry? Not his body, but his mother’s betrayal. Who cared if he could sit? Had I filled out so many forms regarding his gross motor delays that I was starting to measure him that way, too? I felt like I had betrayed myself. Not since junior high school had I cared about popularity, fitting in. I was happy on the periphery, so why was I desperate for Felix to act and look just like all the other babies? A month or two later, I admitted this to my friend Jenny, amid a good deal of tears.
She hugged me, wiping away a tear herself. She reflected that she and her husband and their friends who had just started families were, in spite of sleeplessness and diaper rash, in a sweet spot. “A honeymoon period,” I believe was her phrase. “But you guys, you are getting the full brunt of parenthood all at once.” I treasured this comment as it recognized both the particular uncertainty and strain my husband and I were facing, and interwove our experience with everyone else’s. We weren’t that different, we were just getting it all at once. Mostly I appreciated not having to explain myself or our situation further.
At 16 months, we would learn that Felix had periventricular leukomalacia, which meant that significant areas of white matter in his brain had died in utero. He would soon acquire other diagnoses, autism and cerebral palsy the most well known. As each brain has its differences, and our knowledge of neurological plasticity is patchy, the doctors could not tell us exactly how the altered architecture of Felix’s brain would affect his development, only that it would. He would be “moderately to severely disabled for the rest of his life,” our neurologist said.
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The author plays with her son, Felix.
Those words sounded so grim, and so incompatible with the boy that Felix was becoming. By the time that he was 2, he had learned to hold his head up, sit, grab a set of keys and jingle them merrily. He had a bouncy infant walker with which he would scoot around the apartment, a wooden molecule model he loved to twist and turn, a killer grin. I didn’t think of him as disabled when we were at home. I thought of him as affectionate, diverting, strong-willed, funny. I thought of him as a kid doing his best to conquer the world, and doing a pretty good job at it. When we were with other children, though, his differences were clear.
I did not realize how isolated we had become until Felix was 3-and-a-half, and our daughter was born. Miranda had springy muscles; observant, attentive eyes, and she proceeded to wow us with tricks we had not yet experienced: first steps, first drawing, first ABCs. I discovered that being able to talk about my child without having to explain the fundamentals of neurology made talking infinitely easier. Socializing with other families became enjoyable. This wasn’t only because I had more in common with other parents, it was also because Miranda liked being around other children. Her face would light up. When I introduced Felix to other children, his expression went blank and vacant. It hurt seeing him like that, and so I'd take him away.
The friends I made through Miranda and later her younger sister, Penelope, energized and encouraged me, and showed me how sustaining a community that rises around children can be. I wished that I had had this same sort of community when Felix was born. It wasn’t that I had been shunned; I had been surrounded by friends and family who wanted to help, and often did. Yet there was a gulf that couldn’t be broached. What I had needed when Felix was born, what I still needed, was the company of other parents who have kids with disabilities. Other people who get it without a word being said.
I knew that it would be difficult to get these people in the same room, the realities of competing medical appointment or therapy schedules, but the coop preschool where my girls went had given me an idea — in 2011, we turned an empty classroom into a non-profit play center for children with disabilities. On the weekends, families from all over New York City came to explore music, art, and movement at our play space. Kids with disabilities such as autism, ADHD, blindness, paralysis, epilepsy, and their siblings and parents met one another, laughed, cried, climbed, spun, or simply lolled on beanbags, relaxing.
Extreme Kids has grown over the years, and through it my world has expanded in ways that I never would have imagined that lonely afternoon when Felix was a floppy, heavy baby, and I a despairing young mother. It has unleashed something in me: a quiet joy, that deep down feeling of not being alone.
Adapted from Strange Beauty by Eliza Factor © 2017 Parallax Press.
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by Elizabeth O’Keefe
Pickle Shack pop up restaurant
The pop-up restaurant and supper club scene is big in the UK, spanning from secretive to mainstream. We take a look at a whole new world of opportunity for the fresh produce industry
If you’ve spent time in any large UK city just recently, you will know that the pop-up restaurant/supper club concept is flying. In fact, in certain circles, it’s so well used that if your eatery has a fixed abode, it raises eyebrows. No-one wants to be known as too posh to pop up…
Quirky and experiential, the pop-up offers obvious financial and creative independence akin to a modern speakeasy. From very small barges to artist studios, temporary buildings or bookshops, you are equally likely to walk into someone’s living room as you are a disused warehouse.
It can be as exciting and unnerving for the customers as it is for the organiser, but the most important aspect is that anything goes. It is not very bohemian to complain that there’s a small dog in the kitchen or that it’s 12.30am and your dessert hasn’t been served. Trust me.
But, in culinary terms, it’s a temporary blank canvas. It regularly includes a large number of small taster courses, meaning chefs and cooks can experiment without the worry of alienating regular customers. And customers can usually get some top-notch food for a suggested or relatively low donation.
Pop up – the definition
So, let’s take this back a step; what exactly is a ‘pop-up’ restaurant or supper club? Depending who you talk to, the supper club probably sprung up first in New York and London about 10 years ago, and was a way of every-day people getting a taste of creative food in a secret venue. With a distinct underground edge – mainly due to no one really knowing how legal they were – a lot of the first supper clubs wouldn’t even disclose its address until hours before the event.
The concept then followed the economic zeitgeist of the last 10 years.
Around eight years ago, before the bottom dropped out of everything, well-known chefs, such as Pierre Koffmann, started high-end pop-ups in actual restaurants and places like Harvey Nichols, which shifted the bohemian ideal slightly.
As the economic mood swung back to thrifty, intimate pop-up supper clubs, and restaurants began to, well, pop up everywhere. “It's less underground now, which is both good and bad,” says Kerstin Rodgers, aka MsMarmiteLover, who started her London-based underground restaurant in 2009. “It is, in some ways, less exciting, but also more ‘legal’. High street restaurants have nicked our ideas, so it has become mainstream.”
Michelin-trained chef Josh McDonald-Johnson took the concept from London to Exeter, with notable success. The events organised through his company, Pickle Shack, take from 25 to 100 guests in tasting cellars, theatres and vintage stores, with enough demand for an event each week. “There’s a feeling that having a fixed menu is outdated,” explains the chef. “We have had nothing but fantastic feedback and returning customers since starting in July. It is just snowballing. We hold events in places you wouldn’t usually see and cook dishes you can’t get anywhere else.”
Going mainstream?
Now described as ‘alternative’ dining, pop-ups from Edinburgh to Exeter can be found quite easily, providing plenty of opportunities for suppliers. New to the pop-up scene, Rosie Llewellyn started up her supper club A Little Lusciousness in her home a year ago, taking up to 20 diners each month.
“The standard of cooking has got better at supper clubs due to competition, so you can't get away with not being on point,” says Llewellyn. “People try to stand out from the crowd.”
Rodgers even takes on commercial clients, designing and executing fit-for-purpose supper clubs, showcasing the product for chosen guests – usually press. She offers a personally designed menu, creates campaign recipes and blogs those recipes on her multi-award winning blog, as part of the deal, for clients like The Avocado Brotherhood and Jersey Royals.
“With the avocado supper club, I was told I had put on a more original, creative event than the Michelin-starred restaurant they'd used before,” says Rodgers, who hosts with a dash of humour. “People can relate to my cooking, as even though it is creative, it is not using tons of weird molecular machinery.”
Opportunities a plenty
Product, especially niche and in low volumes, can be hard to get hold of. MsMarmiteLover uses catering wholesaler Chefs Connection, as she hasn’t the time as a one-woman band to source individually.
“Large catering suppliers are often more expensive than supermarkets,” she says. “But they have more of a selection and they deliver, which is great, because I don't have the time to go out shopping. But sometimes it's a pain when they don't deliver something.”
Llewellyn, who puts on a supper club every month, chooses a few key ingredients and builds her menus around them. “Sometimes this leaves me a little stuck, when fruit and veg comes into season early or late, but I've got a great guy who goes to New Covent Garden Market the day before and picks up what I've requested or as near as. My butcher sources my cheese and for one event, his cheese wasn’t delivered on time, so he drove to Borough Market from Chiswick, then brought them straight to me, in the nick of time.”
McDonald-Johnson has gone one step further and sources all the food used from a 10-mile radius personally. He has even teamed up with independent retailers, The Real McCoy, and a form of people’s supermarket to put on particular supper clubs. “I go straight to the farm to keep the costs down, as well as the food miles,” he explains. “We have just started to work with a small grower called Incredible Vegetables, which grows the foot-long Thai bean and tromboncino squash, but volume-wise, timing has be right. Sometimes we can’t use a farm we would like to because they don’t produce the volume, but the variety of products is essential – we never repeat the same dish.”
Move with the changes
The movement has begun to evolve further, with pop-up organisers such as London’s Grub Club facilitating chefs, cooks, venues and customers.
Having launched in 2013, Grub Club’s co-founder Olivia Sibony says that she wanted to change the perception of supper clubs from very secretive to inclusive. She wants to work with suppliers to take it to the next level. “The challenge is giving a good price for the diner, but sourcing from high-quality, independent food producers or distributors,” she says.
“It's important to engage diners with the whole food supply chain story. People are happier to know that their money has a constructive impact on the industry.”
Produce Business UK asks pop-up restaurant and supper club expert, Grub Club’s Olivia Sibony about the trends going forward into 2015
What trends have you seen food-wise, and what do you think is here to stay?
Olivia Sibony: There is a trend towards food being an experience – a catalyst towards greater connections and bringing people together. This is taking us back to the concept of ‘slow food’, where it's lovingly prepared from scratch and enjoyed over a longer period of time, rather than grabbing a quick bite on the fly and having the food as an after-thought or a filler before people go out to get drunk.
Food is increasingly become the central focus that brings people together for a leisurely evening.
Have you ever put on any fresh themed or concentrated supper clubs?
OS: We partnered with London Food Link to promote Urban Food Fortnight, where everyone had the challenge of only using produce that was not only fresh and seasonal, but also grown or made with produce that came from a maximum of 25 miles from their home.
The Urban Food Challenge got diners to each take on the challenge and share a dish they prepared from locally sourced produce and Rosie from A Little Lusciousness put on a Little London Lusciousness grub club, where she sourced everything directly herself and cooked for everyone.
Are you looking for food supply partners?
OS: Slow Bread Company, who all take such care in making small-batch, high quality food, which tastes completely different to what you would ever buy in supermarkets where everything has to be mass-produced. As we look to grow in 2015, this is something we'd like to support more of.
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ΗΠΑ: Παραλήφθηκε το όγδοο κηροζινοφόρο αεροσκάφος KC-46A Pegasus
Αερας, Αμερικη, Αμυντικά Συστηματα, Κοσμος
Η εταιρεία Boeing ανακοινωσε ότι παρέδωσε στην Πολεμική Αεροπορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτείων Αμερικής (ΗΠΑ) το όγδοο κηροζινοφόρο αεροσκάφος KC-46A Pegasus.
“Είμαστε υπερήφανοι για την παράδοση του όγδοου κηροζινοφόρου KC-46 στην Πολεμική Αεροπορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτείων στην αεροπορική βάση ΜακΚόνελ,” ανακοινωσε ο αεροδιαστημικός γίγαντας σε δημοσίευση του στο Twitter.
Στην ΜακΚόνελ υπηρετούν αεροπόροι που ειναι πιστοποιημένοι στα KC-135 και KC-46. Ακόμα και με την προσθήκη του KC-46, η μονάδες ανεφοδιασμένου θα συνεχίσουν να διατηρούν το KC-135.
To KC-46A Pegasus ειναι ένα πολλαπλών ρόλων κηροζινοφόρο ευρείας ατράκτου που μπορεί να ανεφοδιάσει όλα τα στρατιωτικά αεροσκάφη των ΗΠΑ, των Συμμάχων και του Συνασπισμού που εναρμονίζονται με τις διεθνείς διαδικασίες εναερίου ανεφοδιασμού. Κατά τις εκτεταμένες δοκιμαστικές πτήσεις, έξι KC-46 ολοκλήρωσαν περισσότερες από 3800 ώρες πτήσης και εκφόρτωσαν περισσότερα από τέσσερα εκατομμύρια λίβρες καυσίμου σε αεροσκάφη A-10, B-52, C-17, KC-10, KC-135, KC-46, F-15E, F-16 και F/A-18. Το Pegasus ελέγχθηκε σχολαστικά σε όλες τις πτυχές του φακέλου ανεφοδιασμού και υπό όλες τις συνθήκες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης ημέρας, νύχτας και σε μυστικές αποστολές.
Το KC-46A παρέχει βελτιωμένες δυνατότητες σε σχέση με τα παλιότερα αεροσκάφη εναερίου ανεφοδιασμού της USAF που εκτελούν στην ίδια πτήση ανεφοδιασμό με βραχίωνα και σωλήνα ευστάθειας (drogue), την ικανότητα ανεφοδιασμού άνω των 210000 λιβρών καυσίμου και φορτίων παλετοκιβωτίων 65000 λιβρών, αναλόγως με τη διαμόρφωση αποθήκευσης καυσίμου.
Η Boeing σχεδίασε το KC-46 για να μεταφέρει επιβάτες, φορτία και ασθενείς. Το αεροσκάφος μπορεί να εντοπίσει, αποφύγει, καταστείλει και επιβιώσει από απειλές χρησιμοποιώντας πολλαπλά στρώματα προστασίας, τα οποία θα του επιτρέψουν να επιχειρεί με ασφάλεια στα περιβάλλοντα μεσαίων απειλών.
Το KC-46, που προέρχεται από τις ατράκτους των πολιτικών Boeing 767, κατασκευάζεται στις εγκαταστάσεις Έβερεττ στην πολιτεία Ουάσιγκτον. H Boeing ειναι σε σύμβαση για 52 από τα 179 προβλεπόμενα κηροζινοφόρα της Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας των ΗΠΑ.
We’re proud to deliver the 8th #KC46 tanker to the @USAirForce at McConnell Air Force Base @22ARW. pic.twitter.com/DBjD0pLvqL
— Boeing Defense (@BoeingDefense) April 20, 2019
Απόδοση/Μετάφραση απο το defence-blog.com για την Προέλαση.
Η ιστορία του North Star, το KC-135 Stratotanker που έσωσε ένα F-4 Phantom πάνω από τον Ατλαντικό
ΗΠΑ: H USAF παρέλαβε τα δυο πρώτα κηροζινοφόρα αεροπλάνα KC-46A Pegasus
Ολοκληρώθηκε η δεύτερη φάση πιστοποίησης αεροσκάφους δέκτη με το KC-46
Ν. Κορέα: Το πρωτο A330MRTT προσγειώθηκε στην Τζίμαε για τις δοκιμές αποδοχής
Το Ισραήλ ζητάει επιπρόσθετη Μοίρα F-15 από τις ΗΠΑ
Η USAF επέλεξε το νέο Boeing T-X για το μελλοντικό εκπαιδευτικό αεροσκάφος της
KC-46 PegasusΑμυντικά νέαΗΠΑ-USA
Gunslinger32 21 Απριλίου 2019
Παρόλο που δεν πρόκειται για νέα σχεδίαση αεροσκάφους, το πρόγραμμα/χρονοδιάγραμμα παραδόσεων παράμενει πίσω απο το αντίστοιχο ευρωπαϊκό Α330, στο οποίο μέχρι σήμερα έχουν παραδοθεί 35 αεροσκάφη εναέριου ανεφοδιασμού σε διεθνείς πελάτες(σύμφωνα με επίσημη ανακοίνωση της Airbus).
https://www.airbus.com/defence/a330mrtt.html
Παρακάτω μια αναφορά με λεπτομέρειες σχετικά με τον διαγωνισμό για την USAF στον οποίο επικράτησε η πρόταση των αμερικανών(Μπόινγκ).
How Boeing Won The Tanker War
Business in the Beltway
Loren Thompson
I write about national security, especially its business dimensions.
After ten years of seeking a replacement for hundreds of Eisenhower-era tankers, the Air Force may have finally found a workable solution last week. On Thursday, Pentagon leaders surprised both teams competing for the prize — a program initially worth $35 billion that eventually could grow to $100 billion — by declaring Boeing’s proposal was the “clear winner.” The losing team, led by Airbus parent EADS, was stunned. Not only had it won an earlier competition to supply the new tanker, but some Boeing executives expected the European company to win this time too. So why did Boeing prevail in an outcome that government officials say wasn’t even close?
In this case, the bottom line really was the bottom line. Boeing offered a very low price to build and own its plane, while over-confidence and maybe funding constraints led EADS to bid less aggressively. Since the two rival tankers had already satisfied 372 mandatory performance requirements, price determined the outcome and Boeing emerged victorious. In other words, Boeing won because EADS made a mistake — it failed to tap the European government subsidies that have allowed it to develop every commercial transport it currently offers to a sufficient degree so it could overcome the pricing advantage Boeing had from offering a much smaller plane. Smaller planes cost less to manufacture and to fly, but that has not stopped EADS subsidiary Airbus from beating Boeing on price in scores of commercial competitions. In the tanker contest, though, EADS either bid too optimistically or failed to leverage subsidies for some other reason, so it was out of the money.
Before I elaborate on how Boeing won, I need to dispose of one inconvenient truth. A big part of the reason why many people thought EADS would win the tanker competition was because I said it would, over and over again in the national media, in the months leading up to the award. Within minutes after the Boeing victory was disclosed, Politico put up a story on its web-site stating that expectations of a Boeing loss were driven mainly by my pronouncements on the matter. And the biggest newspaper in Alabama editorialized on Sunday that the Boeing win was “unbelievable” in part because “one of the nation’s leading defense analysts” — me — predicted EADS would prevail. Obviously, I was completely wrong. So why would you take seriously my explanation of how the opposite of what I predicted happened?
The reason I’m still halfway credible on the subject is because I said all along that the Boeing plane was the more cost-effective solution to the Air Force’s tanker needs. I simply assumed EADS would leverage the same subsidies that allowed it to aggressively market its commercial product line to also win the tanker competition. It wouldn’t have been hard, because the Air Force methodology for comparing the EADS and Boeing planes actually understated the cost of owning the much bigger European tanker over a 40-year service life. Many people within Boeing assumed the same thing, which is why they were worried in the final stages of the tanker contest despite the fact they were offering a more economical solution to Air Force needs. But EADS didn’t tap subsidies to the degree Boeing or I expected, so Boeing won in the kind of competitive climax that defense industry insiders call a “price shootout.”
Boeing executives sensed during the preparation of final offers that EADS had become overly optimistic, in much the same way that Boeing itself had grown too confident in the earlier round of competition. They now think that EADS lost partly because of its own hubris. They’re probably right, but I suspect something more is going on because concessionary pricing has been the centerpiece of the EADS tanker strategy since it first got into the competition in 2006. I’ll come back to the question of why EADS didn’t fully leverage its pricing power at the end of this essay, after I explain why it is so clear that cost was the reason Boeing won and EADS lost. But it’s important first to demonstrate that Boeing won on the merits, because any protest EADS mounts to try to overturn the outcome is unlikely to prevail, and we don’t need conspiracy theories floating around for the next 40 years about why “the better tanker lost.”
The Air Force’s aerial refueling fleet is unique in the world. Without it, U.S. and allied aircraft would have great difficulty sustaining operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. But by the beginning of the new century, the Boeing 707-type tankers that provided 90 percent of the aircraft in the refueling fleet had reached nearly 40 years of age, so Air Force officials began what they thought would be a routine effort to convert an existing commercial transport into a replacement tanker. A decade later, no new tankers had been built. An abortive effort to lease tankers from Boeing was killed by Congress, and then a competition to select a new tanker from between rival Boeing and Airbus offerings was overturned by the Government Accountability Office. By the time the Obama Administration was handed the responsibility for finding a new plane the aging tankers in the fleet were approaching half a century of age, and the new team at the Pentagon decided it had to come up with an acquisition strategy that was impervious to further delays.
Its solution was to craft a selection process in which there was virtually no subjectivity that might be challenged by the loser. Rather than weighing the performance features of Boeing and Airbus offerings, the Air Force developed a list of 372 mandatory performance requirements that each team must meet before they could submit a final bid. What this meant in practical terms was that unless one of the teams was disqualified, the key discriminator in the competition would be price. But price was defined to cover more than just the cost of producing the planes. It also reflected the cost of ownership over a 40-year lifetime, including fuel expenditures, construction outlays, and the relative efficiency with which each tanker could accomplish refueling missions. Those life-cycle costs were to prove pivotal in Boeing’s eventual victory.
The tanker competition that began in late 2009 was a “come as you are” competition in the sense that the Air Force did not want to pay for the cost of developing a new tanker from scratch. So Boeing and EADS had to pick an airliner from their existing commercial product lineups and adapt it to the refueling mission. The mandatory performance requirements demanded that it be able to offload at least as much fuel as the 707-type planes in the existing tanker fleet while having a main flight deck available for cargo, passengers and other payloads. Boeing had long since settled on its twin-engine widebody 767 airliner as the best available airframe, since other planes in its line-up were either too small for necessary payloads or too expensive to operate. The 787 Dreamliner was not seriously considered because production capacity was committed to commercial customers far into the future. EADS selected as its offering a modified version of the much bigger Airbus A330, which weighed 28 percent more than the Boeing entry and burned correspondingly more fuel — in fact, over a ton more fuel per flight hour when fully loaded.
On its face, the A330 did not look like much of a bargain for the Air Force because it cost much more to build and operate than the plane it was replacing or the Boeing alternative. However, in the first, abortive round of competition with Boeing’s tanker, EADS and then-partner Northrop Grumman had convinced Air Force evaluators that by doing refueling missions differently they could benefit from buying the bigger plane. That made a certain amount of sense since bigger planes typically are more efficient per pound of payload delivered. The problem, though, was that existing, smaller tankers typically returned from refueling missions with a lot of fuel still on board, so buying a much bigger successor required the Air Force to completely change its approach to aerial refueling. That became all too apparent when the Air Force tried to apply its scenario-based warfighting model to the rival tankers and discovered that the EADS plane couldn’t accomplish some wartime missions due to basing constraints. Under pressure from Congress to keep the Northrop-EADS team in the competition, the Air Force made changes to its model that enabled the bigger plane to execute all the missions.
Northrop Grumman decided to withdraw from the tanker battle when it saw the Obama Administration’s proposed terms for the second round of competition, so EADS elected to go it alone. Despite complaints from Boeing, the Air Force continued using the same modified warfighting model to evaluate the two tanker proposals — which was one reason why EADS thought its bigger plane had a shot at winning. But once the rival tankers met mandatory performance requirements the revised acquisition strategy was all about price, and there EADS faced a big challenge. First of all, the A330 typically sells for about $40 million more than Boeing’s 767, which is a huge difference in cost when multiplied by the 179 planes the Air Force was seeking to acquire in the competition. EADS would need to tap billions of dollars in subsidies to price competitively with the manufacturing costs of the smaller Boeing plane. And then there were the post-production costs — the much higher fuel burn of the A330 over a 40-year service life, and the need to modify hangars and runways to accommodate a bigger plane. The only way Airbus could defray those costs for the Air Force was to offer an even lower up-front pricetag.
Boeing wasn’t happy with the way the Air Force calculated the higher fuel costs of the A330, since evaluators used a price escalator for the next several decades that was only about a third of the actual growth rate in fuel costs since 1970. The company felt the government was undercutting the cost-effectiveness of their offering in the real world, especially given the refusal of policymakers to even consider adjusting the EADS price to reflect use of illegal subsidies as long as subsidy cases were still pending before the World Trade Organization. So Boeing entered the final stages of the tanker competition pessimistic about its prospects. However, one message the company heard loud and clear was that if it was to have any chance of prevailing it had to price very aggressively, and that it did — so much so that its board refused to go any lower for fear of losing money on the contract. When the Pentagon announced that Boeing had won last Thursday company officials were pleasantly surprised, but they knew the government had gotten quite a bargain.
Of course, Boeing got something big too: the continuation of it 50-year tanker franchise with the U.S. Air Force, and a deal that would preclude its main rival in the airliner business from setting up commercial operations in Boeing’s home market. But in the aftermath of Boeing’s convincing win, the question still arises as to why EADS didn’t bid more aggressively when it knew price would be decisive in determining the outcome. Was it really just hubris, or was something else going on? Perhaps people like myself over-estimated how much latitude EADS had in tapping government subsidies, given the huge funding infusions it had already received to fix the A380 jumbo-jet, continue the A400M military transport, and develop a rival for the Boeing Dreamliner. Or perhaps the company’s willingness to leverage subsidies in a politically charged competition had been muted by the WTO finding of massive impropriety in its past use of subsidies to steal commercial market share.
We’ll have to wait a while to learn why EADS failed to price its tanker competitively. The one thing we know for sure is that the real-world costs of the rival tankers weren’t even close, because EADS lost even though evaluators gave the company big breaks in calculating the cost of owning its plane. In other words, the Boeing tanker won on merit, and no protest of the outcome by EADS is going to change that fact.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011/02/28/how-boeing-won-the-tanker-war/#dcc758c3d49d
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Euronext Makes Irrevocable Cash Offer To Acquire LCH.Clearnet SA
Global Market 3141 VIEWS
Tuesday, January 03, 2017 11.04AM / Mondo News
· Euronext has made an irrevocable all-cash offer to LCH.Clearnet Group Limited (“LCH.Clearnet Group”) and London Stock Exchange Group plc (“LSEG”) to acquire LCH.Clearnet SA (“Clearnet”), in relation to which terms and conditions have been agreed. Clearnet has commenced a period of consultation with its works council during which LSEG and LCH.Clearnet Group have granted exclusivity to Euronext
· Strategic combination to strengthen Euronext at the heart of the Eurozone capital markets:
-Strengthening long-term control of clearing activities for Euronext’s markets, while enhancing our ability to innovate
-Improving Euronext’s business diversification (post-trade revenue to represent approximately 30% of Euronext’s pro forma revenue)
-Providing substantial growth opportunities in Fixed Income and CDS
-Acquisition price of €510m (subject to a closing adjustment and including excess capital 1] for 100% of Clearnet
-Expected pre-tax operating cost synergies of €13m and additional opportunities for revenue synergies
· Completion of the contemplated transaction is subject to various conditions including:
-Closing of the merger between Deutsche Börse AG (“DB”) and LSEG
-Euronext shareholder approval
-Customary regulatory and anti-trust approvals and other consents
-Completion of the works council consultation process of Clearnet
· Irrespective of the completion of the contemplated transaction, Euronext remains committed to delivering the best long-term solution for its post-trade activities, in the interests of its clients and shareholders
Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has signed a binding offer and been granted exclusivity to acquire 100% of the share capital and voting rights of Clearnet. Clearnet is a leading, multi-asset, Eurozone-based Central Counterparty (CCP) serving Euronext’s markets, pan-European electronic trading platforms and OTC markets, with gross income of €137m and profit after tax of €36m in 2015, and shareholders’ equity of €301m[2]. Together, Euronext and Clearnet will deliver a powerful multi-asset CCP based in the Eurozone.
This transaction will strengthen the long-standing relationship between Euronext and Clearnet, and cement the strategic future of Clearnet within the Eurozone. It will create a compelling value proposition for customers based on capital efficiencies, product innovation and execution certainty.
Stéphane Boujnah, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of Euronext said: “The potential acquisition of Clearnet represents an opportunity for Euronext to achieve revenue growth and diversification. We will be in a position to provide our existing and future clients with a pan-European, fully integrated trading and post-trade platform. Euronext remains committed to delivering the best long-term solution for its post-trade activities in the interests of its clients and shareholders, irrespective of whether the acquisition of Clearnet is completed. We are looking forward to further strengthening our role as the leading integrated market platform of the Eurozone, powering pan-European capital markets to finance the real economy.”
As the transaction is contingent on, among other things, completion of the DB / LSEG merger, which remains under review by the European Commission and other authorities, Euronext continues to explore options for derivatives clearing after the expiry of the cash equities and derivatives clearing agreements with Clearnet in December 2018.
Transaction highlights
The contemplated acquisition of Clearnet will allow Euronext to create one of the leading market infrastructure groups in the Eurozone and significantly diversify its revenue mix. It will also accelerate Euronext’s growth by boosting the achievement of its ambitions in derivatives, by enhancing its ability to pursue growth initiatives and by adding new and fast growing Fixed Income and CDS asset classes.
The contemplated transaction is expected to generate significant cost synergies, the majority of which are anticipated to be delivered by 2020:
Annual pre-tax operating cost synergies are expected to amount to circa €13 million per year[3] (on a gross basis), primarily driven by IT savings and operational efficiencies. These are expected to be mostly delivered by 2020 and fully delivered in 2022;
One-off costs related to transaction expenses, the carve-out and integration of Clearnet and the implementation of the cost optimisation plan are estimated at circa €40 million;
Additional revenue synergies have also been identified resulting from the launch of trading in new products, in particular targeted at the clients of Clearnet’s Fixed Income and CDSClear businesses, and clearing related to additional Euronext products.
With Clearnet, Euronext will onboard a proven management team with an extensive track record and expertise in clearing and risk management; one which has delivered significant growth and diversification of revenues through product innovation and customer focus.
The purchase price of €510 million, which will be subject to a closing adjustment for any change in surplus regulatory capital, will be funded through a combination of debt facilities and existing cash.
Following the acquisition, Euronext will retain strong financing capabilities, with pro forma leverage[4] remaining below peers (1.3x pro forma LTM as of June 2016) and solid deleveraging prospects.
The transaction is expected to be double-digit accretive to Euronext’s earnings from the first full year post completion, excluding integration costs and before synergies. The Return On Capital Employed (“ROCE”) is expected to be higher than Euronext’s cost of capital from the first full year post completion.
An Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) of Euronext’s shareholders will be held to approve the transaction and will be convened for mid-February 2017.
The Managing Board and the Supervisory Board of Euronext have unanimously approved the transaction and will unanimously recommend that Euronext shareholders vote in favour of the transaction at the EGM. The Reference Shareholders of Euronext[5] support the acquisition of Clearnet by Euronext and will vote in favour of the transaction at the EGM.
Transaction timetable and requirements
The transaction is subject to various conditions:
DB and LSEG merger closing6
Euronext college of regulators’ approval
Euronext shareholder approval
Anti-trust approvals in France and Portugal
Other consents
Subject to the satisfaction of these conditions and completion of the required works council consultation process of Clearnet, the transaction is expected to close towards the end of Q2 2017, concurrent with closing of the DB / LSEG merger.
Rothschild is acting as sole financial adviser to Euronext on this transaction.
Note: The financials of Clearnet reflect the scope of the transaction and are IFRS unaudited numbers
[1] The EMIR capital requirement of Clearnet as of June 2016 was €123m. Any distribution of excess capital would require prior approval by the relevant regulatory and supervision authorities
[2] As of June 2016
[3] Excluding additional IT-related recurring capital expenditure savings of €2m
[4] Net debt / EBITDA
[5] 6At any time prior to completion of the acquisition, this condition may be waived in writing by LCH.Clearnet Group and LSEG, acting jointly
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