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Gail Porter is a Scottish television presenter, television personality, former model and actress. She started her television career in children's TV, before branching out into modelling and presenting mainstream TV. In the 1990s she posed for a photo for FHM, which was projected on to the Houses of Parliament. Later in her career, Porter was affected by alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss.
Born: March 23, 1971, Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation: Television presenter, television personality, former model, actress
Television: Fully Booked, The Big Breakfast, The Movie Chart Show, The Gadget Show, Celebrity Big Brother, Dead Famous
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About Gail Porter
TV host who is most well known for working on programs like Fully Booked and The Movie Chart Show.
She studied Media Production at West Herts College in Scotland.
In 2007 she published a memoir based on her tumultuous life called Laid Bare: My Story Of Love, Fame, and Survival.
She welcomed her daughter Honey in 2002 with guitarist Dan Hipgrave, whom she married in August 2001.
She has previously dated vocalist Keith Flint from The Prodigy.
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All Out Football
Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil
Jan 24, 2017 Arsenal
Written by Carl Walker
Arsene Wenger is waiting to find out his punishment from Sunday’s push on the fourth official which occurred in the tunnel of the Emirates, but he has another problem, one that has been rumbling on for some time now and has still not been resolved, the future of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.
The pair both have eighteen months left on their contracts with the gunners and are both cleverly using their agents in the negotiations to get each of them the same pay, believed to be upwards of £300,000 a week each and the pair are refusing to budge. These are Arsenal’s two world class players and their contract should reflect that right?
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Now leaving a players contract to run down to eighteen months is not uncommon, but it is strange that given it is Arsenal’s biggest two stars that it has been left this long. Both stars are 28, so realistically this could be the last big contract they earn and usually this wouldn’t be a problem but with the emergence of the mega money in China, there is an element of player power being used against the club.
There are offers on the table from China and more than likely clubs in Europe for Alexis and there is probably one for Ozil too, Alexis has reportedly been offered upwards of £400,000 a week along with some impressive bonuses from a mega money Chinese club, this is enough to make anyone’s head turn but you wonder if it’s enough to force Arsenal’s hand and offer the contact’s that the pair want. Now I know what gunners fans will be screaming ‘just sign them up’ but I don’t believe it is that cut and dry, and I don’t believe Arsenal should cave in so easily to both players demands. One player is replaceable and one should be retained at all cost’s.
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Mesut Ozil is a wonderful footballer, technically very gifted and on his day a real joy to watch. A mercurial attacking midfielder who can pick a pass, and for the first half of last season was handing out assists to his teammates like they were going out of fashion. However in the second half of the season, much like Arsenal, Ozil’s form tailed off. At the end of December he had registered an astonishing 16 assist’s but for the rest of the season only went on to add an additional three.
Mesut Ozil is an attacking midfielder, with that role comes an additional pressure of chipping in with goals and the stats don’t make great reading. In his Arsenal career, his best goal return is this current season where he has scored 9 goals, surpassing the 8 he scored the last term but not surpassing his best ever tally of 13 while playing for Wolfsburg. Mesut is in the peak of his career and has not broken the 10 goal barrier. Frank Lampard broke the 20 goal barrier consistently for Chelsea.
Now look at Alexis Sanchez, again an incredible talent, a player that would walk into any other team in Europe, physically very strong and also devilishly quick and skillful, he gives defenders nightmares when they play against him. He also holds an upper hand on Ozil in other areas of his game too.
Mesut Ozil is a luxury player in many respects, he doesn’t work without the ball and very rarely tracks back. Alexis, on the other hand, is non-stop, a great engine. Constantly on the move, closing down defenders and space, he often drops deep into a false nine to help start attacks. This does not go unnoticed by Arsenal fans, and football fans alike. Fans like to see the skillful players who also appreciate the need to work hard for their team. With Ozil, you don’t get he understands that.
Mesut Ozil is also not as versatile as Alexis, Alexis can play anywhere in the attack of the midfield, comfortably, and also, as proved this season, play up front in the absence of a recognised striker. Giving Arsenal a different element in the attacking third.
Compare Ozil’s records to Alexis record and you can instantly see that he is far more consistent in each of his seasons at Arsenal he has scored 17 goals or more and this is not playing up front, this has been playing from a wide position. It is only this season, where on occasion he has led the line and proven he can do this admirably for Arsenal.
Both players are internationals that have international honours. Mesut Ozil is a world cup winner with Germany and Alexis Sanchez has two Copa America’s with Chile. If Arsenal can sign them both up then that’s fantastic news for the club, but I hope they are not held to ransom by them both.
Pay Alexis Sanchez what he wants, and offer Mesut Ozil an improved deal, if he does not agree with the deal then he can be replaced, Alexis in my opinion absolutely cannot. If the club don’t agree on terms with Ozil, then time to cash in and there will be plenty of clubs willing to take him and Arsenal can subsequently replace him. With who, you say?
Miralem Pjanic – Juventus
The Bosnian international is currently in his first season with Juventus and has 5 goals in 12 appearances so far in Serie A but more importantly has 14 assists. A player of the same ilk as Ozil, tidy in possession and can pick a pass, Pjanic likes to dictate the tempo of the game with his range of passing.
James Rodriguez – Real Madrid
James has been frustrated this season with his role at Real Madrid after only starting 9 league games so far. Finished as top scorer at the World Cup in 2014 and made the team of the tournament he has all the attributes required to make a real difference to any team. Linked with moves to Juventus, Chelsea and Tottenham in recent windows, James is likely to leave in order to play more regularly.
Isco – Real Madrid
You feel it will either be him or James that leaves at some point in the near future. Isco has found himself a more regular starter this season with Zinedine Zidane, albeit from a deeper role in the centre of the park. He could easily make the transition further forward as an attacking midfielder for Arsenal as he has done in the past with Madrid and Malaga.
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Jack Wilshere
Staying with Arsenal there is a fourth option, Jack Wilshere. His career was stagnating at Arsenal and injury after injury hampered his availability. This season however he has made a loan move to the south coast with Bournemouth and he is thriving under Eddie Howe, almost reinvented himself and restarted his career with the cherries. Again though he only has eighteen months left on his current deal, which will be down to twelve in the summer when he returns to the emirates. This is yet another headache for Arsene, who himself may not be there, will need to sort out.
Simply put, Arsenal does not need to be held to ransom over the Ozil deal, there are alternatives out there if he doesn’t agree with the deal the club offer, which will no doubt be a very good one. If he doesn’t cash in while they can. However, with Alexis, he is too important for the gunners, his all round ability and work rate is simply fantastic and he will be very hard to replace and should be signed up no matter what the cost.
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Learn from times of crisis, avoid conflict, pope tells Curia officials
Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
Dec 21, 2020 • 2 Min Read
Pope Francis listens as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, expresses his best wishes to the pope during an audience with officials of the Roman Curia at the Vatican Dec. 21, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Blaming one another for the fragility of the Catholic Church and the errors of its members increases conflict, which diminishes the church's ability to share the Gospel and increases opportunities for the devil to work, Pope Francis told members of the Roman Curia.
Crises are a normal part of life, including the life of faith, and must be accepted as challenges to discern and to change, leaving behind what is not essential, Pope Francis said Dec. 21.
"Crisis generally has a positive outcome," he said, "whereas conflict always creates discord and competition, an apparently irreconcilable antagonism that separates others into friends to love and enemies to fight. In such a situation, only one side can win."
In his annual pre-Christmas meeting with Curia officials, Pope Francis insisted the world should learn from the coronavirus pandemic, especially about how all people are brothers and sisters, that all have been made vulnerable by the threat of disease and all have been impacted spiritually, socially and economically by the pandemic.
In the same way that the crisis is not a judgment on the world but a challenge to change, he said, people should not judge the church "hastily on the basis of the crises caused by scandals past and present."
And, just as a global health crisis is a time for people to come together and help each other, the pope said, crises in the church call for gathering more intensely in prayer and resisting the temptation to increase divisions.
"A crisis is itself movement, a part of our journey," he said. "Conflict, on the other hand, is a false trail leading us astray, aimless, directionless and trapped in a labyrinth; it is a waste of energy and an occasion for evil."
Putting the church and its members into categories of conflict -- "right versus left, progressive versus traditionalist" -- makes it "fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying its true nature."
The church is "a body in continual crisis, precisely because she is alive," Pope Francis said. But it must never become "a body in conflict, with winners and losers, for in this way she would spread apprehension, become more rigid and less synodal, and impose a uniformity far removed from the richness and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed on his church."
While a crisis forces people to rally hidden resources, "conflict always tries to find 'guilty' parties to scorn and stigmatize, and 'righteous' parties to defend," the pope said. "This loss of the sense of our common belonging helps to create or consolidate certain elitist attitudes and 'cliques' that promote narrow and partial mindsets that weaken the universality of our mission."
"The church is always an earthen vessel, precious for what it contains and not for the way it may appear," Pope Francis told the Curia officials.
"These days it seems evident that the clay of which we are made is chipped, damaged and cracked," he said. The response isn't to make the fractures worse, but "to strive all the more, lest our frailty become an obstacle to the preaching of the Gospel rather than a testimony to the immense love with which God, who is rich in mercy, has loved us and continues to love us."
Crisis, Curia, Pope Francis
Cindy Wooden
Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.
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School psychologists, a social worker, and a school counselor form the Student Services team at Armstrong Elementary. These are highly trained and experienced people. Each discipline has unique skills and training. Together, school social workers, school psychologists, and school counselors provide a stronger team than any single profession could provide on its own. The students, parents, staff, and school benefit from the student services team.
FCPS K-12 school counseling programs strive to empower students to become independent and productive individuals through a developmentally age-appropriate program providing academic, social, emotional, and college and career counseling services. The belief that all students can achieve academic success is a touchstone of the program.
As elementary school counselors, their primary objective is to assist students in reaching their potential to become effective learners. Their goal is to complement the learning environment in the classroom by using a child-centered, preventative, and developmental approach.
Counseling will be conducted with students individually and in small groups, when requested by parents and teachers and determined appropriate. This service is short-term, voluntary, and confidential. Parent notification is given to any extended individual or group counseling. There will also be monthly classroom guidance lessons focusing on student success.
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School social workers focus on family and community factors that influence learning. They provide intensive services for students facing issues that pose risks to their academic success such as parent divorce and separation, poverty, truancy, chronic illness, mental health problems, conduct problems, child abuse, etc.
All FCPS social workers hold a Master of Social Work (MSW) or Master of Social Science (MSS) degree; many have earned a Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) degree. All school social workers are licensed by the Virginia Department of Education. The majority of the staff is clinically licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia Board of Social Work (LCSW) or in other jurisdictions and trained to provide mental health services in any setting.
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Citing confusion over new face-mask rules, N.B. couple plans to fight $292 ticket
Published Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:18PM AST Last Updated Friday, December 4, 2020 11:16AM AST
WOODSTOCK, N.B. -- There is confusion over the rules when it comes to orange and yellow zones in New Brunswick, and now a couple is preparing to fight an almost $300 ticket, saying they had no chance to learn those rules.
Jacob Munn says he had just got a coffee and muffin and was returning to his truck in a parking lot in Woodstock, N.B., when he pulled his bandana-style mask down.
At that moment, he says, an officer approached.
"He told me that my mask wasn't acceptable and I had to have it on," Munn said. "He had offered me one -- the disposable ones -- I said, 'I'm good, I'm almost to my truck, thanks anyway,' kind of thing. Uh, I got back to my truck, he demanded I give him my ID. I just said, 'No, I haven't done anything wrong.'"
When his partner Brooke Lockhart started filming the encounter, Munn was ticketed $292 for not properly wearing a mask.
"We're frustrated," Lockhart said. "Everyone else is frustrated in this province, and there's been such a lack of education, so many mixed messages going around."
Lockhart says the ticket was issued on Nov. 28, two days after their zone became orange and stricter measures were put in place, including wearing a mask indoors and outdoors.
Premier Blaine Higgs said Thursday that between Nov. 20 and 28, 2,500 sites were visited by peace officers in the Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton zones.
A total of 87 tickets were issued for non-masking and 38 businesses were ticketed for non-compliance matters.
"I certainly commended our officers for their diligence and I know it can be disruptive, but I'm asking for patience here because we're right on the cusp of the end phase," Higgs said.
But even in the last day or so, the rules have been adjusted.
For instance, no matter what zone you're in, you must wear a mask in your car while going through a drive-thru.
Even the government's website acknowledges the rule is a "new" addition.
Lockhart and Munn say they're not against wearing masks whatsoever, but they wonder if education should come first -- ticketing last.
The couple plan to fight their ticket in court on Jan. 12 and they say they have a lot of community support -- some who have promised they'll be there with them.
Jacob Munn and Brooke Lockhart say they're not against wearing masks whatsoever, they just wonder if education should come first -- ticketing last.
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Amazon editors say this is the best mystery novel of 2020: 'A roaring, full-throttle thriller!'
With the year coming to an end, the long-awaited “best of” lists have begun rolling in, and one of the latest is Amazon with its coveted “Best Books of 2020” list.
Curated and compiled by Amazon book editors, this list includes titles that range across several categories from literature to cookbooks. The title chosen as the best mystery novel of the year is the S. A. Cosby-authored Southern noir-themed Blacktop Wasteland — and Amazon shoppers say it absolutely “rocks.”
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The New York Times dubbed it “a roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm,” while the Sun-Sentinel crowned the title “one of the year’s strongest novels.”
Amazon editor Vannessa Cronin considers this to be one of the best books of the year, highlighting that it’s “rural Southern noir with a tender heart.”
“Blacktop Wasteland is a pedal to the metal thriller about a retired getaway driver — caught between the rock of poverty and the hard place of Southern racism — who gambles on one last heist to get himself ahead,” she explained.
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Sydney Covid cluster spreads to Victoria
Tom Flanagan
Sydney’s coronavirus cluster has spread into Victoria.
Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday morning it had one new case acquired from interstate.
The DHHS says the case, a returned traveller who had spent time in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, had limited contact with people in Victoria and there are no exposure sites.
The case, a 15-year-old girl, is in quarantine.
Health Minister Martin Foley said the individual is from Moonee Valley LGA and had returned to Victoria with one of their parents. The parent has so far tested negative while other close contacts are being tested.
Victorians have enjoyed more than a month without a coronavirus case. Source: Getty
They drove into Victoria however Mr Foley said they did not make any stops en route once crossing the border.
He pleaded with other returning Victorians to get tested.
“We take this opportunity to reiterate anyone who is in Victoria who has been in the high-risk zones - Northern Beaches, Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, from those dates of December 11 onwards - please, you have to get tested,” Mr Foley said.
It is the second state to detect a case linked to the Avalon outbreak after an infected woman travelled to Queensland last week.
The Victorian border closed to Greater Sydney and Central Coast residents at midnight on Sunday.
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Victorian residents who had been in those areas had until midnight on Monday to return.
Warning to Victorian, NSW travellers
Mr Foley said 17 people who had arrived from NSW were now spending Christmas in hotel quarantine.
"That is 17 people who will be spending their Christmas and their New Year, not as how they planned, but in hotel quarantining circumstances," he said.
"So, my message to anyone trying to enter Victoria from New South Wales is – don't.
"You won't get in, and if you do, you'll be spending your time at Christmas and New Year in hotel quarantining.”
The last case detected in the Victorian community was on October 31, however health authorities are maintaining the state has continued its virus-free streak.
DHHS testing chief Jeroen Weimar said there had been a surge in testing, with more than 15,000 completed in the previous 24 hours.
Two cases were confirmed in hotel quarantine from returning overseas travellers.
The Northern Beaches cluster sits at 83, with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to front media Tuesday morning with an update on cases.
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Drew Brees comes back from 11 broken ribs, has worst start to a game in his career
Drew Brees is the NFL’s all-time completion percentage leader. He’s not used to going a couple of passes without a completion.
When he came back from 11 broken ribs, he didn’t complete a pass until the second quarter of Sunday’s 32-29 defeat.
The New Orleans Saints took on the Kansas City, and the Chiefs had a 14-0 lead before Brees even completed a pass. Brees threw incomplete on his first six passes, the worst start he has had in his career.
Brees had never started a game 0-for-5 in his career. About 2:30 into the second quarter, Brees hit Alvin Kamara on a short pass barely past the line of scrimmage for his first completion. A few plays later Brees hit Emmanuel Sanders deep for 51 yards. It was a rare deep throw for Brees, which was a good sign.
Drew Brees 51-yard pass to Emmanuel Sanders traveled 50.8 yards of air distance, Brees' longest completion over the last 3 seasons.
Sanders has been the targeted receiver for the three longest completions by the Saints this season.#KCvsNO | Powered by @awscloud pic.twitter.com/3YN50Cx97U
— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) December 20, 2020
The Saints were without Brees for four games, and Taysom Hill filled in. When the Saints lost last week, the Packers took the lead for the No. 1 playoff seed in the NFC. The Packers won on Saturday, putting even more pressure on the Saints to win Sunday.
Brees has said he could make all the throws he needed to make, but it didn’t seem that way early on. He threw a few floaters, one of which was intercepted. He didn’t look comfortable. He didn’t look like he has for most of his storied career.
Given the severity of his injury, that shouldn’t have been a big surprise.
Drew Brees returned from injury to start for the Saints on Sunday. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
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Bills dismantle Broncos, clinch first AFC East title since 1995
Rose Bowl moves to Texas due to California’s COVID-19 restrictions
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Plants are factories that manufacture food in the form of sugars from light and carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, parts of this complex process, called photosynthesis, are hindered by a lack of raw materials and machinery. To optimize production, scientists from the University of Essex have resolved two major photosynthetic bottlenecks, boosting plant productivity by 27 percent in real-world field conditions. And that’s not all. According to the new study published in Nature Plants, this “photosynthetic hack” has also been shown to conserve water.
Like a factory assembly line, a plant’s food-making process is only as fast as its slowest machines. The researchers identified the key steps that were bottlenecks and then enabled the plants to build more machines to speed up these slower steps in photosynthesis.
Notably, a factory’s productivity decreases when supplies, transportation channels, and reliable machinery are limited. To find out what limits photosynthesis, the researchers modeled each of the 170 steps of the process to identify how plants could manufacture sugars more efficiently.
In this study, the team increased crop growth by 27 percent by resolving two constraints: one in the first part of photosynthesis where plants transform light energy into chemical energy, and one in the second part where carbon dioxide is fixed into sugars.
Inside two photosystems, sunlight is captured and turned into chemical energy that can be used for other processes in photosynthesis. A transport protein called plastocyanin moves electrons into the photosystem to fuel this process. But plastocyanin has a high affinity for its acceptor protein in the photosystem so it hangs around, failing to shuttle electrons back and forth efficiently.
The team addressed this first bottleneck by helping plastocyanin share the load with the addition of cytochrome c6 — a more efficient transport protein that has a similar function in algae. Plastocyanin requires copper and cytochrome requires iron to function. Depending on...
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REVIEW: Impulse & Initiative by Abigail Reynolds
Review by Allison T.
What if….Ah, the charm of the what-if story! What if Captain Ahab had said, “Screw it, I’m tired of chasing this hemm’d great fish—I’m going back to graduate school to get a degree in social work so that I can ameliorate the lives of Queequeg and his people”? What if Hamlet and Ophelia had scored some Prozac, hired a family counselor, sorted the Danish royal family, and gotten married to live happily ever after? What if Jane Eyre, upon hearing of the mad wife in the attic, had said, “Oh, hell, Edward, let’s chuck Victorian morality and Evangelical Christianity and go live in sin in southern France!”? What if Darcy refused to take Elizabeth’s “No” at Rosings, followed her back to Longbourne within a month or two of her initial refusal, and, by dint of snogging her (as our friends across The Pond so undeliciously put it) at every opportunity—snogging in the shrubbery, snogging in the wilderness, snogging in the churchyard—causes Elizabeth to sleep with him before marriage while staying at Pemberley with her aunt and uncle Gardiner, and otherwise changes the story that Austen gave us? For such is the plot of Abigail Reynold’s Impulse & Initiative; A Pride & Prejudice Variation—“What if Mr. Darcy didn’t take ‘No’ for an answer?”
“We are never told of what would have happened,” Aslan the Great Lion of Narnia assures us (and he should know, because he’s a Higher Power.) Mostly, we think this is true. What-if stories can be good if they are funny, but we don’t believe we’ve read a serious what-if story that moved us as much as the original. Impulse & Initiative is called a “variation,” and it is indeed that: not a sequel, nor a prequel, nor a retelling of the story from a different point of view, but a rewriting of the basic story.
Let’s start with some positives: Abigail Reynolds is coming into her own as a writer. Her sentences flow easily, there is some humor, only one anachronism, other than the complete rewriting of the characters’ motives and actions—(there are no “vanity tables” in the Regency era)—and Reynolds’ Lizzie is actually fresh, sparkling and charming, unlike the dull and/or angelic Lizzies of many other sequels. There are two serious flaws in this book, however: one that purists will rally around, but one that affects Reynolds’ writing of the romance novel in general. We will address these issues presently.
Back to Impulse & Initiative: Worried about “consequences’’—the poor fellow apparently never heard of a French letter—after recklessly seducing Elizabeth in the library at Pemberley, Darcy pushes for marriage to occur within three days after this event: other than the Gardiners, none of Elizabeth’s family attends. It is only after they are married that Lydia elopes….but then, really, what is now the point of this particular plot element at this point in this much-changed story? Let us pause here for a Moment of Useful Reflection.
Our Courteous and Genial Editrix has frequently posed the question: What is it about Mr. Darcy that is so generally compelling?
Here’s the answer: because he’s every girl’s High School Romance. Young ladies (even older ones) do not lie in bed at night fantasizing about snogging their older sister’s husband’s much older brother, the guy who’s been criticizing their hair-do and their reading list since they were a toddler. They don’t sigh over a sort of brother-ish dweeb who doesn’t admire their artistic and cultural talents, nor over a dull stick of a fellow who falls for the first pretty girl to arrive in the neighborhood. They don’t want to realize the sad truth that their transparent admiration of a cute guy who finds them naïve and silly will win the day. And if they are young ladies, they can’t imagine being a dried up old prune of a twenty-seven-year-old who sees her former beau courting not one but two other girls. (Older ladies might find this fantasy a little more appealing, which is why Persuasion is the second most romantic book in the canon, IMHO.)
No, in their imaginations they are like, way totally pretty and vivacious and when the cute new guy enters the high school gym at the big prom and then disses them, their Ultimate Fantasy is to drive him mad with longing and despair until he lays Heart, Hand and Fortune at their feet. Yes, Virginia, it is true that Mr. Darcy thus scores a perfect 100 on the Romant-O-Meter™ with Captain Wentworth well ahead of the rest of the field with a respectable score of 94. (Mr. Rochester also does fairly well, with a score of 87 (he’s something of a bully, but fortunately Jane can stand up for herself), leaving Heathcliff—really! his idea of romance is to lie down on your cold cold grave!—far behind at 25.)
Impulse & Initiative is thus a MarySue fantasy of Really Good Sex with the Ultimate Romance Hero. Some readers will be happy with this and will look no further. But two things make the story flat for me. The first is that it lacks, as Pamela Regis told us at the Chicago AGM and in her book A Natural History of the Romance Novel, the crucial moment of “ritual death,” in which the heroine feels herself to be forever separated from the hero—that all is lost. In Austen’s P&P this moment occurs after Lydia’s elopement, when Elizabeth finally realizes both that Mr. Darcy is her soul mate and that he is now, through these unfortunate circumstances, lost to her forever. There is no such moment of crisis in Impulse & Initiative. Reader, she marries him; it was clear from the beginning, even before the elopement or other crises. Even the childbirth that Darcy fears (but does nothing to prevent) does not represent a major emotional milestone in this book. There is no intensity of love, loss and longing in this tale equal to the crises and catharsis of the original story.
The second criticism is, as you will have guessed, this reader’s inability to understand why the story was written in the first place. Austen tells us that, while Elizabeth’s opinion of Mr. Darcy changed after reading his letter, it was only later, during the tour to the north, that she began to feel that he was the man for her. It is hard for me to understand Lizzie’s change of mind just because Mr. Darcy makes out with her for a few weeks prior to her trip to Pemberley.
Abigail Reynolds is finding her voice as a writer; Impulse & Initiative is faster-paced and more confidently written than the one earlier work of hers that I have read. Here is an author who, if she would stop obsessing over Mr. Darcy and find her own characters and plots, could be a contender in the competitive field of romance writing.
But two last quibbles, if you can stand to read more: first, in Austen’s double-barreled titles, P&P and S&S, the reader is invited to ponder over which principal character represents which attribute—or perhaps whether each character has elements of both attributes, and, if so, in what degree. It is difficult to see the parallel in Impulse & Initiative: yeah, Darcy impulsively seduces Elizabeth, but then what? He takes the initiative to marry her? It doesn’t make much sense.
Second quibble: a real eeuw-yuck. After a night of passionate love-making, Darcy comes down to breakfast with a spring in his step and Mr. Bingley comments on his good mood. Says Darcy, “Bingley, I am married to the most astonishing woman in the world, and if her sister is anything like her, you will be a very happy man indeed.”—nudge nudge wink wink. Bleagh. In my book—and I sure hope I’m not wrong!—a Gentleman Kisses But Does Not Tell. Thus I am reminded that, when visiting a gallery in London, the real Jane Austen spotted a portrait that she laughingly said was very like Mrs. Bingley—but that she did not see Mrs. Darcy: her husband, she wrote to Cassandra, apparently had too much sensibility to put a portrait of his wife on public display. Perhaps Austen’s character is a bit uptight and reserved by comparison with Reynolds’ Darcy, as the former wouldn’t dream of discussing with his future brother-in-law what a good lay their respective wives are. It might be this Austen’s hero’s pride in his charming wife that makes him prejudiced against exposing her to public view, but his reserve, candor and probity is a major part of what makes him my real Mr. Darcy.
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Comment: Factor in humans to make drones sound better
written by Adam Thorn December 23, 2020
In this cross-posting from The Conversation, the University of Salford’s Antonio J Torija Martinez stares into the future to ask how we’ll cope when the drone of drones is everywhere.
These days almost everyone has either flown a drone or listened to the nasty whining sound they produce. Although small drones (up to 20kg) are about 40 decibels quieter than conventional civil aircraft, they produce a high pitched noise – which people tend to find very annoying.
One NASA study found that drone sounds were more annoying than those made by road vehicles. And my own research has found that the noise of drones is less preferable than that of civil aircraft – even at the same volume.
Part of the problem is that drones often fly at relatively low altitudes over populated areas that are not normally exposed to aircraft noise. This is likely to lead to tensions within the exposed communities. Unquestionably, if the noise issues are not tackled appropriately, they could derail the wider adoption and commercialisation of drones and put at risk the significant societal benefits that they could bring.
For example, small to medium sized drones are already used for multiple applications such as medical deliveries and the search for missing persons. Another innovation in commercial aviation is the development of electrical vertical takeoff and landing (and possibly autonomous) vehicles to transport people in cities.
Several “urban air mobility” vehicles, or “flying taxis” are currently being developed by different aircraft manufacturers. Both drones and flying taxis will produce sounds significantly different from conventional civil aircraft and will share similar issues regarding noise annoyance.
In 2019, I started a line of research which aimed to answer two big questions: how will communities react to these new vehicles with unconventional noise signatures when they begin to operate at scale? And how can the design of these new vehicles be improved to protect the health and the quality of life of the people living in those communities?
To answer the first question, we investigated how a drone operation could influence the perception of a series of typical sound environments in cities. As drones cannot be flown closer to people than 50m, virtual reality techniques were used to produce highly realistic scenarios with a drone hovering in a selection of urban locations.
This laboratory study found that the noise generated by the hovering of a small quad-copter significantly affected the perception of the sound environment. For instance, an important increase in noise annoyance was reported with the drone hovering, particularly in locations with low volumes of road traffic. This suggested that the noise produced by road traffic could make drone noise less noticeable. So the operation of drones along busy roads might mitigate the increase of noise impact caused in the community.
Bonython: A world first drone delivery trial is dividing residents on the outskirts of Canberra. Some are so fed up with the noise they’re now spending their weekends away. A taste of what’s to come as the program spreads. @jenbechwati #Bonython #Drones #7News pic.twitter.com/ryRUStaFv7
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney) January 3, 2019
We are now testing a wide variety of drones, with different operating manoeuvres. We seek to better understand and predict human responses to the drone sounds and to gather meaningful evidence to further develop the regulation of the sounds they produce.
Perception-influenced engineering
By integrating human responses into the design process, the most undesirable noises can be avoided in the earliest stages of vehicle development.
This can either be done directly with subjective testing (human participants assessing and providing feedback for a series of drone noise samples) or through the use of so-called psycho-acoustic metrics which are widely adopted in the automotive industry. These metrics allow an accurate representation of how different sound features (pitch, temporal variations, tones) are perceived. We want to use them to inform the design of drones. For instance, optimising the position of rotors to make drones sound less annoying.
The combination of virtual reality techniques and psycho-acoustic methods to inform the design and operation of drones will avoid costly and inefficient ad-hoc corrections at later stages, going beyond the traditional approach for aircraft noise assessment. But more importantly, if drone manufacturers incorporate these strategies into their designs, they might just build machines that are not only efficient, but also, just that little bit less irritating.
Antonio J Torija Martinez is a lecturer in acoustic engineering at University of Salford.
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Escalating Events
Rising Action
September 15, 2020 Barbara Gregorich 2 Comments
In fiction rising action need not be action itself, and that’s because the term “rising action” includes not only character actions, but also character decisions, as well as events within the setting or plot (an economic depression, for example, or an earthquake). Taken together, all these incidents help build interest, suspense, and tension — and lead to the novel’s climax.
The individual events that constitute the rising action are important because they help lead the story to its climax. To put it another way, the climax is the ultimate, logical outcome of the rising action. If a writer doesn’t plan the rising action so that it’s believable and so that the cause-and-effect is very strong, the climax may not satisfy the reader.
Rising action is created when a writer throws obstacles in his hero’s path. These obstacles stand between the hero and her goal. The obstacles can be other people . . . or the character’s own doubts or hesitations . . . or society . . . or the natural world.
All action is, in a way, change. Rising action, then, is escalating change — to a character, to a relationship, to a plan, to a mission, to a town, country, or world. Again, this change need not be action: it could be something as simple as a character making a discovery, or being told a secret. Much of the rising action in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca consists of the protagonist (the second wife) learning things that change her perception of and understanding of Rebecca.
In Building Better Plots, Robert Kernen encourages writers to think about the arc of their story: the plot events that curve upward from the first incident to the climax. Kernen believes that as you outline or list these story elements, you should “naturally feel the level of tension, anticipation, and your characters’ stakes rising.” I agree. Rising action is something you can feel as you think about your story’s plot. And you can especially feel it as you’re writing the escalating events.
Many months ago I wrote about Rewriting: Macro. If the story in manuscript form doesn’t contain rising action, the writer must rewrite the entire story so that it does contain rising action. That’s a major (macro) rewrite. So it pays for the writer to pay attention to rising action from the first page onward.
Rising action is often depicted as a set of stairs, with each step an escalation (increase in intensity or seriousness) of the protagonist’s situation and choices. I prefer to think of rising action as a series of bridges that get burned behind the protagonist due to each choice she makes. Or as a tunnel of increasing narrowness, with no retreat possible: the only way out is through bold action.
Recently I wrote my first YA novel (publication date not yet set)and in plotting it I tried hard to make certain there was one bridge crossed and burned toward the end of the first 20% of the manuscript, maybe two additional bridges crossed and burned in the next 60%, and the final bridge crossed in the last 20%. I knew that if I plotted the novel with rising action embedded in the story, I wouldn’t have to worry that my first rewrite would require the insertion of rising action. What I chose as my steps of rising action were there from the beginning, pulling the story forward.
Guide to Writing the Mystery Novel: Lots of Examples, Plus Dead Bodies, contains a chapter titled “Rising Action and Pace.”
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Home Financial News Why Has Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) declined -38.74% from its 52 week...
Why Has Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) declined -38.74% from its 52 week high?
Heidi Phillips
Gold Fields Limited (GFI) saw downtrend of -0.67% in the recent trading with $9.13 being its most recent. The current price level -38.74% lower than the highest price of $14.90 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 140.85% higher than the lowest price of $3.79 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on GFI appeared in Insider Monkey under the title “Is GFI A Good Stock To Buy Now?” on Dec-16-20.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -14.50% below one month high and is +3.17% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Gold Fields Limited (GFI)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $9.71 while that of 5-day is reading $9.24.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and GFI’s SMA-200 as of now is $10.13.
Coming around sales and income figures, publically trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. During the reported three-month period, company’s sales were $29.24 billion.
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 873.85 million. GFI does have institutional investors; and they hold 38.80% or $2775.52 of the stock.
As on Sep 29, 2020, Van Eck Associates Corporation was the top most holder in Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) with an ownership of 91.68 million shares of the company or 10.38% of the stake worth $1.13 billion. The filing also reveals Blackrock Inc. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 2.89% of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $313.5 million for having 25.51 million shares in hand.
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 2.49% of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 304 institutions which have possession in GFI’s shares.
Investors are for sure keenly observing the recommendations of analysts at Wall Street about the Gold Fields Limited And review of current evaluations agreed by the analysts discloses a Buy rating for GFI. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.60 for the stock. Lower value of between 0 and 2 implies a Buy recommendation whereas the value in the range of 2 to 3 suggests Hold while above 3 recommends the investors to Sell the stock. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 10 of the Wall Street analysts.
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, current ratio recorded by Gold Fields Limited was 0.78 while posting a debt to equity ratio of 0.77. The count was 52.16 for long-term debt to equity ratio.
Gold Fields Limited’s return on equity, or ROE, is 9.10%, compared to the industry average of -15.53% for Basic Materials – Gold. Although this indicates that GFI uses its equity well, the metric will vary significantly depending on the industry.
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Gold Fields Limited (GFI), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 6,009,445 shares and 100% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 6,435,698 shares. And to end, GFI’s 100-day average volume is 6,150,345 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
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For the fourth consecutive year, McMaster has been named Canada’s most research-intensive university
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According to the 2020 Research Infosource rankings released today, McMaster also earned top spot in the corporate research income category – attracting more funding from the private sector than any of its peers. It’s a position McMaster has held over the five years that Research Infosource has tracked the data.
McMaster recorded a total sponsored research income of $371.6 million.
Research intensity measures research dollars per faculty member and, on average, McMaster researchers earned $404,400 – once again, more than doubling the national average. The university placed second for graduate student research intensity, averaging $75,100 per graduate student; nearly twice the national average.
David Farrar, McMaster’s president, says the rankings are a testament to our people and the influence of their work.
“McMaster is home to some of the world’s ‘best and brightest’ whose contributions continue to position McMaster as a national and global leader,” he says. “The true value of their work reaches far beyond any particular ranking and is best captured through its impact on the social and economic well-being of our communities.”
Karen Mossman, McMaster’s vice-president, research, echoed Farrar’s comments, noting the confidence our funders place in the University’s research community.
“McMaster’s researchers and graduate students continue to demonstrate their ability to attract significant investment from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors,” she says. “They’ve proven themselves – individually and collectively – as trusted and reliable research partners, and their work is making a huge difference in the lives of Canadians and citizens around the world.”
In the Research University of the Year ranking, which measures research income and intensity, along with publications in leading journals, and publication impact and intensity, McMaster placed third in the medical/doctoral category.
Research Infosource figures are based on 2019 financial data obtained from Statistics Canada.
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Soon to be Released!
If your Christmas stocking featured a book shop gift card and you’re looking for spending inspiration or you want to get your name in early at the library, take a peek at these titles releasing in the next few weeks. 2021 is already shaping up to be a stellar book year! You will see some favourite writers in the midst along with a few new names (to me anyway). I have a burgeoning bedside table but know that I’ll be keeping an eye out for these too.
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson – Canadian Jennifer Robson has written several acclaimed novels based on historical events and eras. (The Gown, Somewhere in France, Moonlight Over Paris …) Her thorough research and ability to craft characters who capture our hearts leads me to believe this will be another winner. Set in Italy during the Second World War, and based on a true story, Our Darkest Night is “a compelling tale of bravery, perseverance, and the immeasurable power of love in the face of adversity.” (Kristin Beck) January 5/21
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves – Kind of cheating as this was actually first published in April 2019 but is about to be released in paperback. “… a compelling novel with beautifully rendered characters, an extraordinary tale filled with sensitivity and empathy that gives readers a peek into the world of autism through the eyes of a woman who proves to be as audacious as she is charming. Readers, don’t you dare miss this love story.” Descriptions make me think of a bit of a Queen’s Gambit vibe. Without the darkness and drinks! January 7/21
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson – “Better Luck Next Time crackles with wit and wisdom. This delightful novel of love and loss on a divorce ranch in Nevada during the Great Depression is poignant, hilarious, and, at times, achingly sad. I love this glorious book!” (Mary Pauline Lowry) Until the 1970s, Divorce ranches in Reno were destinations for those seeking a “quickie” divorce, granted after 6 weeks as a resident. Also known as getting Reno-vated! January 5/21
The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin – The Children’s Blizzard was an actual epic storm that took place in January 1888 across the Midwest US. It came up suddenly and caught many school children, most of homesteading immigrant families, making their way home. “In this atmospheric novel, as relentlessly paced as a thriller, you experience the encroaching storm from many perspectives and, in the process, understand something important about the tenacity of the human spirit.” (Christina Baker Kline) January 12/21
The Last Garden of England by Julia Kelly – “Kelly’s novel encompasses everything I love in historical fiction: a dramatic setting depicted so vividly I could’ve sworn I was strolling through the gardens of Highbury House as I turned the pages, and a series of stories that intertwine each other effortlessly, echoing the theme of love lost and found. A delight.” (Fiona Davis) If that review doesn’t have you on your way to putting this on the shelf … grand English Manors and luscious gardens … done! Julia Kelly has also recently written the well reviewed, The Light Over London and The Whispers of War. January 12/21
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry – Barry is an accomplished novelist and short-story writer with an exquisite gift for language. This is a collection of eleven short stories set among the characters and landscape of his native Ireland. This interview in the Paris Review (here) may give us a sense of the humour he is capable of incorporating into even sometimes darker tales. “I had to quit reading this book the first day I had it in my hands, just so I could have it to read the next day. It’s that good.” (Richard Ford) January 12/21
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones – Set in a Barbados resort community where conflicts among the beach dwellers and the well-off mansion owners simmer and a botched robbery has dramatic repercussions. “How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is simply brilliant. By the first chapter, it burned into my heart. Ambitious, poetic, and layered with the rich voices of its many stunning characters, this terrific debut novel by Cherie Jones opened my eyes to the many ways that her young Barbadian protagonist must fight for her life.” (Lawrence Hill) January 26/21
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah – The Nightingale and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah are two of the most compelling reads I’ve experienced in recent years. This new novel is set in the 1930s Depression era and follows a woman making difficult decisions for her family while draught and despair surround her. I have no doubt that it will be at least as engaging as the earlier reads. “Hannah brings Dust Bowl migration to life in this riveting story of love, courage, and sacrifice…combines gritty realism with emotionally rich characters and lyrical prose that rings brightly and true from the first line“ – (Publishers Weekly) February 2/21
Red Island House by Andrea Lee – Another one with an intriguing location and social challenges. “From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee, an epic, gorgeously evocative novel about love and identity, following two decades in the marriage between an African American professor and her wealthy Italian husband as it unfolds on the remote and mysterious island of Madagascar.” (Publisher) March 23/21
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Incest/TabooA Student Earns Money For Sex
Sofia was grateful for her London bar job, part-time to fit in with her student studies. It was near the end of her shift and Sofia took the food order over to a single woman sitting in the corner. The woman, in her late 30s, had been an occasional customer in the pub and Sofia had chatted to her previously.
Sofia said, "Here's your sandwich, madam. Sorry for the delay."
"Call me Caroline," she said. "Are you a student?"
"Yes. I'm studying medicine. It's hard work though."
"It must be hard financially too," said Caroline. "Would you like to earn some more money?"
Sofia liked the customer. She knew that Caroline was a bank executive and had the air of someone successful. So Sofia smiled, "Yeah, I could do with more money for sure."
"I don't want to embarrass you, Sofia, but I like you … a lot … and I'd like to invite you over to my home this evening. And I'll pay you."
It took 3 seconds for Sofia to understand the suggestion. "Oh," she said, playing for time. "You're propositioning me?" said Sofia. She lowered her voice, "For sex?"
Caroline nodded.
Sofia tried to think of a decent question. "How much?"
"£200." Caroline seemed to want to clarify. "UK Pounds, straight into your bank."
"Oh. That's more than I make in 20 hours work here." Sofia imagined herself buying those ultra-expensive shoes she'd seen and had also been wondering how to afford a new iPad to replace the old. Sofia didn't know if the money offered for sex was the going rate or not but, right now, she could do with some extra cash. Besides, she liked Caroline and this would be a new experience.
Caroline wrote down her address and phone number which gave Sofia time to add up the disadvantages of having sex with an attractive woman and getting paid for it. The only negative so far was that Sofia had never had sex with another woman.
At 8 o'clock that evening, Sofia stood in Caroline's living room, sipping a cocktail. Initially nervous, Sofia witnessed a transfer of funds to her bank while Caroline put her at ease. They sat and talked. Caroline explained that she preferred to pay because she didn't want a relationship with a partner with all the compromises which are part of that. It was more exciting, Caroline admitted, to have fresh sex (she called it) where she got what she wanted.
Although Sofia had never even kissed another female, this didn't put Caroline off. "I'm attracted by your personality," said Caroline, "and you have this look which reminds me of Penelope Cruz, the actress. You have a sultry look and large dark eyes which look sexy."
"My nose is too straight," replied Sofia, "and my mouth too wide. Others have said I look a bit like Cruz on account of my mother being Hispanic. Dad is English."
"You're very attractive, Sofia. Let me say now how I want our sex to be. I get most pleasure from having a joint experience where we both have fun. I love to have my nipples sucked hard and have my pussy get a long slow work-over. And I'll do the same to you. Okay so far?"
Sofia nodded. She felt herself becoming aroused. Her nipples were pressing into the lace of her bra.
"I orgasm quite easily," said Caroline, "and I will straddle you at some point over your mouth." She laughed. "We'll get on fine, Sofia."
Two hours later, Sofia kissed Caroline goodbye. It appeared that Caroline might want a return visit. While walking back to her old car, Sofia thought the experience was a win-win. Not only was Sofia richer but she'd had 3 orgasms. Without a boyfriend, she had nobody else to think about, so she didn't feel guilty.
From that evening, Sofia made plans to earn more money. She hated the term 'prostitute' and wanted to become exclusive to the occasional situation where she'd have fun as well as providing sex with another woman or a couple. At no point, Sofia decided, would she visit any single men. Subsequently, she had another 2 visits to Caroline on the same terms and Sofia used her new wealth to buy expensive lingerie and upmarket clothes.
Her research indicated which online dating sites were often used for sex rather than long term relationships. By concentrating on couples and single women, connections were made, discussions followed to agree on the price and Sofia always took the time to research the prospective hook-ups. Sofia wasn't out to make loads of money as it was more important that she liked the client(s). Besides, studying for a medical degree meant she didn't have a lot of spare time.
About 4 months later, Sofia felt happy. Her dates had mainly been with couples. A threesome was her preferred option. There had never been any problems except the date she was just about to have, although Sofia didn't know it yet. It was a Friday evening as she drove and parked at the exclusive London Dorchester hotel which overlooked Hyde Park. Tonight she wore a figure-hugging black dress, the hem halfway up her thigh. The buttons down the back looked Parisian sexiness but her overcoat hid this. Dark stocking hold-ups and black high-heels completed the look.
As she confidently walked past the hotel reception to the lifts, she remembered she hadn't seen her client's faces online, only their bodies, each clothed in underwear. But they looked fit, the two conversations by phone had been with Mrs Wise (which she knew wasn't her real name) and the wife sounded welcoming. During their brief conversations, Sofia did find Mrs Wise's voice slightly familiar but the client said she was a TV presenter so it was that connection that had Sofia thinking no more about it.
Sometimes, a hotel was suggested by the clients because of children at home. So it was that Sofia arrived outside Room 20 on the 4th floor of the hotel and knocked on the door. It was opened by Mrs Wise.
Neither of the women spoke for 5 long seconds. Sofia spoke first, "I think I have the wrong room." Mrs Wise looked shocked and murmured, "Oh my God." She paused. "Your father is going to …" Her words were interrupted by an exclamation from Max behind her.
Sofia had to suck in air. Her stepmother, Tracy, stood aside to reveal her father. Sofia wanted to run and couldn't think of a plausible excuse for her to be there. It was her dad who edged past Tracy to grab Sofia's hand and pulled her into their room. He said, "This is so embarrassing … for all of us. I don't know what to say … let's at least have a drink. Take a seat, Sofia."
Sofia felt trapped. She wanted to keep her coat on but Tracy said, "Darling Sofia. You look flushed so let's take your coat and we can relax and sort out what to do." As she took the coat, Tracy continued, "You do look stunning, Sofia, in that dress."
Sofia sat in one of the armchairs at the foot of the bed. By crossing her legs, the black dress rose up her thigh to reveal the beginning of a stocking top.
While Max, her dad, got some drinks from the minibar, he said, "Sofia, I'm not angry with you. Please don't make a run for it because we're in this together in mutual shock I think."
Sofia reflected she should have escaped before she came into the room. To find out her dad and stepmom were into threesomes and paid for it was unbelievable. How was she going to get out of this mess? she wondered.
"Let's be honest and frank," said Tracy as she selected the chair next to Sofia. "You need to know what we're doing and of course, I'm intrigued to know about you." It appeared that Tracy was the least flustered or nervous and the calmest. Sofia noticed Tracy's short skirt had a split up the front which revealed white knickers underneath. And her buttoned tight shirt showed the outline of her hard nipples because Tracy wore no bra. Clearly, the slutty clothes were out of character with the loyal wife portrayed at family gatherings.
As the online image of Tracy's body edged into Sofia's mind, she remembered the firm pointed nipples had looked sexy. Sofia gratefully accepted the gin and tonic from dad but she still couldn't think of anything sensible to say.
"Let's talk openly," said Tracy.
Max looked at his wife. "Talk openly? Is it a good idea to tell my daughter our confidential secrets? It's bizarre!"
"We should," said Tracy. "For goodness sake, Max, she's part of a secret now which we all share." She looked at Sofia. "You agree, don't you? I mean, it's clear your dad and I are into threesomes and have fantasies."
Sofia found her voice. "I'm not seeing people to solely help them experience their secret desires." She gulped some gin. "I do this for the money which helps pay the student fees. And before you both get the idea I'm a professional sex-worker, I'm not … it's very part-time … not very often … about once a week." She paused to see the reaction of the others. Tracy was leaning forward, intensely interested and showing some cleavage. Dad sat down by the desk.
He said, "Let me increase the cash I already give for your degree. Your studies are the most important thing."
"No, Dad. You give enough already. I don't do these dates often and I only meet couples." Sofia thought it best not to mention single women yet in case it freaked out her father. "And I always first establish a rapport with each couple." It occurred to her not to mention that she mostly had a good time having sex with others with some memorable orgasms. She needed to exit the room before this family situation got too awkward.
"Are you being careful?" he asked.
"Yes. I never see single guys."
"And this sideline," said Max, "… does it interrupt your studies?"
Tracy got up to sit on the bed opposite and leaned back with straight arms behind her to keep her body upright. "Do you have fun, Sofia?"
Tracy's shirt had gone taut across her breasts. It looked to Sofia as if those buttons might pop. In different circumstances she would have stood in front of Tracy and opened the shirt up, the thought giving Sofia a mental image of her sucking those extended nipples. She quickly cast aside the thought to keep her mind on how to escape.
"Do you have fun?" repeated Tracy who showed a little bit of her tongue between her teeth.
"Usually. Yes. I make sure I'm not treated like a slave." Sofia thought this was too personal to share any more information. She was about to say 'I must go' when Tracy extended her foot, minus her high-heel, to touch Sofia's leg below the knee.
Tracy lowered her voice, "Do you also see single women?"
"Actually, yes." She found Tracy interesting and was grateful that her dad kept quiet.
"Do you …," asked Tracy, "experience a completely different type of sex with a woman on her own?"
Sofia took another sip of her drink. Where was this conversation going? she asked herself. "Yes, it's different. Slower, softer, different smells, taste …"
"Nicer?" Tracy had that ability to put others completely at ease. This had been noticeable at social family gatherings where Tracy always made people feel important, feel interesting. She was universally popular among the family. Sofia recalled their two phone conversations to fix up tonight's date during which she was charming. She remembered Mrs Wise saying in a husky voice how much she wanted sex for the first time with another woman. For some reason, Sofia's nipples had become more sensitive. She squeezed her crossed legs tighter as if to stop any arousal. At the same time, Tracy kept her foot in contact and slid it higher up Sofia's leg.
"It can be nicer, yes." Sofia meant to stop there but her mouth kept working, "As it's your first time I would do my best to make it special for you." She couldn't believe she'd said that and was about to retract when Tracy asked another question.
"And how does it work with a couple? Who goes first or do the three of us share as we go along?" Tracy moved her toe to Sofia's knee.
"Um … but I don't see anything happening this evening between us."
"How about between you and me?"
Sofia never expected that. She thought it odd that she didn't immediately reject this. Was it because she didn't look upon Tracy as her stepmom but more as a friend? When her mother left Dad, Sofia went with Mum to live in Spain. Dad then met and eventually married Tracy. But Sofia came back to the UK for university and got to know Tracy better.
Without Sofia noticing, Max had topped up her drink. She thought it best to avoid Tracy's latest suggestion to play with just Tracy and looked at him. "You've had previous threesomes haven't you?"
He nodded. "Yes. Always with a friend, a guy we trust. We've enjoyed it."
"But, what's it been like for you, Dad, when you watch another guy, a man … a man Tracy fancies presumably?"
"It works," said Dad, "because the three of us are participating, sharing …"
Sofia didn't want to get too detailed about their previous engagements. "So this evening you were going to try something different. A girl to replace your guy. Were you, Dad, going to also have sex with the new girl?"
Tracy answered, "Yes, we were both going to have sex with you, before we realised who you are," she laughed. "and one of the reasons I wanted this is because I'm bi-curious. To be honest, I've been so looking forward to this evening and I feel deflated now."
The look of disappointment was written all over Tracy's face. Sofia said, "I also was looking forward to it. But I couldn't with my father." Her gaze had dropped from Tracy's eyes to her breasts. There was no doubt that Tracy had sex appeal. She felt Tracy's toe move to the inside of her knee. It surprised Sofia that she didn't want to move her leg away from Tracy.
Tracy suddenly leaned forward to the edge of the bed, near enough to extend her hand. Sofia also reached out to touch and clasped Tracy. Tracy said, "I would like you to stay, Sofia."
Neither woman moved. The silence was broken by Max who said, "I'll go to the bathroom for a couple of minutes."
As he left the room, Tracy came off the bed, leaned over Sofia and quickly kissed her step-daughter on the lips before she knelt on the floor at Sofia's feet. "I'm so sorry about this, Sofia darling. Is there anything I can do to persuade you to … fuck me?"
In a peculiar way, Sofia was entranced by how Tracy said the word. She had said 'fuck' slowly with a click of the tongue which left her mouth slightly open with her tongue visible. Sofia had a similar feeling to the one she'd previously experienced with her first date with Caroline. A longing. A need to touch. Sofia couldn't help tightening her grip on Tracy's fingers and she leaned forward to kiss Tracy. At first, it was a gentle movement of lips across Tracy's. Sofia couldn't help opening her mouth. Their tongues fenced with each other.
They were still kissing when Max came out of the bathroom and sat on the bed. "I'll go," he said.
Tracy looked at him. "No, we don't do that, Max. One of our rules is not to leave the other in the sole company of a new lover." She turned to Sofia. "Could Max stay and watch?"
Sofia bit her lip and shook her head. There was no question that Sofia wanted Tracy, to fuck her, to experience an orgasm with her … but to have her father watch? She said, "Dad as a voyeur would freak me out."
"He's not going to bite you or take part."
"But," replied Sofia, "I'll be stark naked."
"He could look the other way."
"Any normal man would peek. The thought of Dad doing that would put me off." Sofia wanted to find a solution. Her body hummed with anticipation. "Could you blindfold him?"
Tracy looked at Max who nodded. "I'll satisfy you, Max, even with a blindfold on," she chuckled.
Sofia licked her lower lip. She couldn't leave now, didn't want to leave. In some unexplained way, she felt it erotic that her dad would be listening to her having sex with his wife. She looked at Tracy and saw the need in her eyes.
Tracy said to Sofia, "You can take my shirt off and I'll use that as a blindfold." She stood from her kneeling position and placed her legs either side of Sofia's knees. As her stepmom leaned forward, it was a clear instruction for Sofia to unbutton the tight shirt. It occurred to Sofia that she'd wanted to do this for the past few minutes.
With the anticipation of what was to come, Sofia undid the top two buttons. Her fingers ran lightly along the gap between Tracy's breasts and let one finger go AWOL up over the curve towards her nipple. Sofia held her breath before continuing with the rest of the buttons. The breasts sprang out towards Sofia's face.
Tracy murmured, "You sexy bitch. Play with them."
There was a hint of command but Sofia didn't mind. Both her hands roamed around Tracy's areola and cupped each breast as if to test their weight. The shirt still hung loose on her shoulders and she realised that Dad had got off the bed to unbutton his wife's cuffs. As he took off her shirt, Tracy demanded, "Squeeze my nipples, Sofia."
She squeezed and pulled, Tracy said, "Harder," Meanwhile, Dad had unzipped his wife's skirt which dropped to the floor before she removed it with a kick. Weirdly, Sofia had the vibe that he was preparing his wife for lesbian sex which made Sofia want Tracy more. Tracy said, "Suck."
Her word 'suck' had the same click of her tongue as when she previously said 'fuck'. The slow drawl from Tracy felt hypnotic and Tracy repeated it, "Suck."
As Sofia sucked and pulled the nipple out, she felt it swell. She imagined milk coming out. Her nipples screamed for release.
Tracy said, "You're sexy." She paused. "Max. Your daughter is going to be so good. I'm going to come easily with her." After a minute, Tracy pulled away, picked up her shirt and stood alongside the other chair where Max now sat. She rolled up the shirt like a scarf and tied it with a knot behind his head.
As if in a trance, Sofia didn't move. A voice in her head screamed that there was still time to leave, to say she couldn't do this with her dad in the room. But her body was reacting, nipples swelling, her pussy damp. She scanned her eyes hungrily over Tracy's body; the white lace panties; the stockings held up by suspenders. Tracy's pale blue eyes and short spiky hair dyed blonde gave her a more masculine look – a woman in charge.
Tracy held out her hand, a signal for Sofia to stand. "Turn around, darling," said Tracy. "Let's see what you look like without the dress." She helped Sofia shimmy out of the garment. "Face your father."
Although Sofia told herself it shouldn't make a difference, her dad couldn't see, and yet her heart thumped louder in the knowledge that he would imagine the scene.
Tracy hugged her from behind and spoke into her ear, "Maybe there will come a time when you're comfortable to have him watch?" She unclipped Sofia's bra and let the shoulder straps fall away. Her hands caressed her breasts.
Sofia struggled to answer as her nipples yearned for attention. She mumbled, "Yes." It wasn't what Sofia wanted to say and was about to retract but as Tracy squeezed her nipples she moaned instead.
Tracy kissed her neck and Sofia felt her ass in contact with Tracy's groin. It caused Sofia to reach back and grab her stepmom's thighs to pull her in hard. Tracy said, "You want me bad?"
"Yes." She felt Tracy's hands roam down her front. Sofia freed her hands to reach back with her arms to caress Tracy's head and ears and hair. Sofia said, "Play with me, please." It sounded like a plea as she realised how turned on she was, more so than any other encounter with other dates.
"Patience, Sofia. First, you finish undressing me." Tracy came around to face her and kissed her on the lips before she lowered herself into the lap of her husband. "Take off my panties." Dad had put his arms around Tracy to hold her breasts and Tracy leaned back to angle her head to kiss Max.
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Language, truth and sovereignty (and Humpty Dumpty too)
“What has contributed as much as anything to the prevalent misunderstanding of the nature of philosophical analysis is the fact that propositions and questions which are really linguistic are often expressed in such a way that they appear to be factual.” AJ Ayer, ‘Language, Truth & Logic’
We are told by the Government’s leading Brexit ideologists that negotiations with the EU on a trade deal are fundamentally a matter of ‘sovereignty’. This is simply false. We have left the EU; Brexit is now a trade negotiation. All trade negotiations among advanced states of necessity involve compromises on both sides, for mutual access to trade goods and services between them. Sovereignty, as understood, or rather as disingenuously presented by Brexiteers, would pre-determine that no trade deals could be negotiated between any states on anything. Sovereignty is not at stake here.
Allow me to illustrate. I must preface my remarks, however by confessing that like everyone else I do not know precisely the details of the current negotiations; which are wrapped in mystery and not least we may suspect buried in political spin; but I can only follow, and rely – albeit with a modicum of scepticism – what seems the best public, disinterested accounts available. Even this interpretation is potentially distorted by the lurid British claims that this will go down to the ‘wire’, because that is how things invariably happen in the EU. This may be true of internal negotiations among EU member states, but not (necessarily) for major trade agreements with other states, which take years to negotiate, often without close, continuous, wide public scrutiny, or even much popular interest.
Britain is no longer a member state of the EU; that specifically constitutional drama has passed. We left the EU; past tense, this is now simply the end of ‘transition’, the negotiation of a future trade deal by a sovereign British state. There is no need for drama, each side makes its own sovereign decisions in a trade deal, and that remains solely and wholly a sovereign decision whatever each side decides to agree. We have had a year to negotiate a sovereign deal. We dragged it out, because Britain is playing to its local Brexit gallery; supposedly involved in a crackpot game of ‘chicken’, spinning the hope the EU cracks at the last minute. In fact the British are not risking anything here; if any deal is done at all, it will be a ‘hard’, thin deal in which Britain inevitably comes off badly (as the much smaller party, with much more to lose – that is just an economic fact and a function of relative economic scale); but Britain is desperate to show that this flaccid, lazy collection of Brexit blusterers running Britain can announce some sort of deal very late as singular proof of how tough they are; but they will rely on the Blimpish British Brexit press to sell an authentic, sour Eton mess as a major triumph, to a confused British public; which the media obligingly do, with relish, and so often. Indeed, think about it; even ‘no deal’ on WTO terms will require some sort of, um “deal” to be struck with the EU, to give it all full effect. A deal of some sort is unavoidable.
The critical negotiations between Britain and the EU in the current overblown end-game over the last days of 2020 now concern fishing and ‘a level playing field’; the latter essentially a matter of deciding the terms on which Britain trades with the EU Single Market, while ensuring competitive parity between both sides is maintained. For the EU, the integrity of the Single Market, as providing fair competition between all parties, is sacrosanct; The Single Market rules are the EU secular, biblical text.
The British Brexit position, peddled by ministers and the British press, focuses on the position the British allegedly offered around a fortnight ago; to maintain the current trade regulations and EU standards formerly maintained both by Britain and the EU, into the future (I shall leave the considerable issue of how this is mutually audited to one side, because this same problem applies, ‘mutatis mutandis’ to all trade options). The EU were dissatisfied with that approach because both parties recognise that long term, divergence of regulations and standards will become inevitable; and standards and regulations are in fact generally understood to be more important in trade, than tariffs. For the EU simply to accept lower British standard goods into the Single Market if the EU has subsequently raised its standards (and Britain has not, since it need not), will give Britain an unfair competitive edge (typically through lower prices than EU goods, and by driving down EU standards – which are there to protect and enhance consumer interests).
The EU countered with a proposal that if the EU raises its standards, the British should also raise their standards to match, to preserve the competitive parity. It was at that point that the British then drew out their question-begging ‘sovereignty’ card. This, it was blustered, was an outrageous assault on British sovereignty, and was unconscionable. The sudden appeal to an irrelevant constitutional sovereignty in a mere trade deal is the position I wish to examine closely. But first, allow me to complete the state of play, at least until the last day or so, as I understand it. The EU has returned following the rejection of their last offer, proposing instead to building on the earlier British proposal; maintaining the current trade regulations and EU standards formerly maintained both by Britain and the EU, into the future. In the case that the EU raises standards and Britain does not follow, the EU (following detailed rules to scrutinise the circumstances surrounding divergence), will impose tariffs or other penalties to ensure that Britain is not using lower standards to provide unfair competitive advantage. Britain does not care for that either. The fundamental issue, however does not go away. The EU is not inclined to Britain taking advantage in the Single Market of having an unfair competitive advantage by the simple expedient of being able to offer lower consumer standards than their EU competitors. The EU considers this is not real competition based on efficiency, ingenuity or innovation, but effectively is little more than competing by cheating.
My argument is not about cheating, but to the British objections to a specific EU solution, because that solution is a matter of ‘sovereignty’. This is simply false. Look at the difference between the acceptable solution the British have taken on board as providing a ‘level playing field’; focusing on the logic of that position, and setting to one side the quite separate issue of how either solution would be monitored. Then compare that with the argument of British sovereignty against the second, EU solution:
1) The British government is prepared to agree to a solution that maintains the EU rules and standards already in operation, in order to continue to access the Single Market. In principle this is not claimed by the British to be a matter of sovereignty.
2) The British government is not prepared to agree to a position that increases the EU rules and standards already in operation, in order to continue to access the Single Market. In principle this is claimed by the British to be a matter of sovereignty.
Actually if one is not a matter of sovereignty, then neither is the other: alternatively if one is considered a matter of sovereignty, so is the other. The relevance of the matter of sovereignty is independent of whether the British government chooses to maintain standards, or raise them. There is no decisive ‘sovereign’ difference between ‘maintaining’ rather than ‘raising’ the standards. They are both free and independent decisions of the British government; and they have the same effects – undertaking both commits the British government not only to honour them, but restrict their freedom of action; for example only, the freedom to reduce the standards are in both cases given up. Both ‘maintaining’ or ‘increasing’ standards have the same relationship to ‘sovereignty’; which is irrelevant. ‘Sovereignty’ here is merely a ‘red-herring’.
I submit that the British government is using the term ‘sovereignty’ here as a catch-all. Sovereignty means whatever the government says is sovereignty. That is all that it is really about. Sovereignty is just the joker in the pack, that always trumps everything. The government uses it to argue that no matter what, the government is always right.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass’.
By John S Warren
Squigglypen says:
Independence… then we can create oor own chaos…but at least it will be oors.
Tom Ultuous says:
Article is spot on. The EU never really had any control that the little Englanders could take back. As it stands it’s little more than a trading club. The EU should just agree to 1) and tell Britain that if they diverge from future EU standards as in 2) then a new deal would have to be negotiated. Not even the clown could be arsed having to ‘Get Brexit Done’ every rule change.
James Robertson says:
This is a very good piece. Who is the author?
Sorry, just as I posted the above John Warren’s name appeared!
Chas Gallagher says:
At the end of the day, it all comes down to what they were very forcibly told in 2015/16, “You can’t have your cake AND EAT IT!!”
Blair says:
“Sovereignty is just the joker in the pack, that always trumps everything. The government uses it to argue that no matter what, the government is always right.”
Standards will change, we in UK will resort to our own British Standards, these will no longer be harmonised to the EEC. Trade will continue but goods will need to be certified by one of the European Test Centers for conformity certification. Trade Tarrifs may also be applied.
Sovereignty does not imply our government is always right, just that our government has the right and ability to make decisions for our UK nation in order to protect our interests: They are guided by us the electorate through democratic means.
As the majority of the UK electorate voted to leave Europe, it voted for Sovereignty over Technocratic leadership. The UK Government is doing what is required even though many of our MP’s would prefer to remain in the pre BREXIT world!
Boris has already declared it as ‘a failure of State Craft’ if a deal cannot be done, this may be so but the real problem lies at the heart of our UK Government: It does not matter which political party is in power because more than half the electorate has lost trust with the politicians.
Scottish Independence may result from the failure of our UK Government to negotiate. BREXIT provides an opportunity to develop both UK and Europe. What is important is that both our broken systems can be aligned through new ideas, the tools of government.
As we the electorate, both of UK and EU have the real power to make a real difference, the question is whether we can utilise the resources available to us to direct our governments to align on separate paths?
Language, Truth and Sovereignty. It’s vital that everyone should know how important these are.
While we in Scotland may see independence as a possible route, we also believe that Europe is also an important union to be aligned with.
Foghorn Leghorn says:
Yep, you’re right, John. The UK is negotiating from a position of sovereignty; conceding access rights to British fishing grounds or the right to impose quality standards on British goods and services entering the EU market wouldn’t change this. The British government is still free to refuse such concessions and accept the economic and political consequences.
I suspect the British government is spinning its possible failure to achieve a free trade agreement, along with the possible consequences of this, as the fault of the EU rather than the weakness of its own bargaining position.
Does anyone else think Pennywise’s sudden acknowledgement of the seriousness of the current virus situation (something he was aware of weeks ago) is a prelude to asking for an extension to the Brexit transition period as, surely, any kind of Brexit at this time will end him politically. That said, I’ve never been able to dismiss the idea that him and his cronies have sold the pound and are looking to crash it while claiming it’s all the fault of the EU. Doubtless he’ll portray the current EU travel and freight suspensions as the EU trying to teach us an advance lesson.
Gashty McGonnard says:
A fool’s errand, Alice, to look for honest meaning (let alone logical coherence), in the utterances of a Tory. This is not at all about sovereignty or anything that merits the name of “principle”. It’s just scorched earth grade bulls**t: aimed at stopping the British Conservative Party from being outflanked on the right. Neither BoJo nor Gove (Curious and Curiouser) ever thought Brexit was good for their country. They just know that Mad Hatter Farage and his ilk can’t come back after the tories have pursued “UK Independence” right up to it’s most squalid, suicidal Reductio ad Absurdum.
If you don’t think these people are capable of fomenting war, famine and pestilence just to keep their jobs, you haven’t been paying attention.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:
Many thanks to John S Warren for his thoughtful analysis. John writes:
“We are told by the Government’s leading Brexit ideologists that negotiations with the EU on a trade deal are fundamentally a matter of ‘sovereignty’.”
Of course, the Boris-Gove ‘sovereignty’ fixation is dictating their behaviour not only southwards (absolute sovereignty “over against” Europe), but northwords (ie absolute sovereignty “over” Scotland). At the moment, intriguingly, Northern Ireland seems to have been slightly, shall we say, “unclenched”.
Máire Uí Nuanáin, in a review of Nicholas Williams’ 2004 Irish translation of ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, describes Lewis Carroll’s Humpty-Dumpty (Filimín Failimín) as:
“Pearsanú de John Bull é, lán de mhór-is-fiú agus drochmheas aige ar aon tuairim ach ar a thuairim féin”
[“A personification of John Bull, full of pomposity and contempt for any opinion but his own.”]
John S Warren quotes the following passage from Carroll’s book:
“When *I* use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you *can* make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be *master* — that’s all.”
Nicholas William’s Irish renders the above:
“Nuair a bhainimse úsáid as focal,” arsa Filimín Failimín agus iarracht de tharcaisne ina ghuth, “is ionann a bhrí agus an bhrí is mian liom a thabhairt dó — gan dul os a chionn sin ná faoina bhun.”
“Is í an cheist atá ann,” arsa Eilís, “an féidir leat an oiread sin ciall éagsúil a thabhairt do na focail.”
“Is í an cheist atá ann,” arsa Filimín Failimín, “cé a beidh ina *mháistir* — sin am méid.”
(‘Lastall den Scáthán agus a bhFuair Eilís Ann Roimpi’ by Lewis Carroll, translated by Nicholas Williams, Evertype 2004/2009)
Not unrelated, I have just come across a webpage containing some fascinating political cartoons dating back to the Chinese ‘Boxer Rising’. The top image on the page is of a Chinese Humpty Dumpty about to topple (or “be toppled”) from his Great Wall. Other images illustrate the heinous carve up of China by imperial European powers, including the eponymous John Bull (who of course honed his trade in Ireland):
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/boxer_uprising/bx_essay02.html
Anyway, as things are panning out, terminal BREXIT looks increasingly like an “eggshell finish”.
Tony Maries says:
Very informed comment on the irresponsible brinkmanship of the Brexiteer headbangers.
I did a cartoon of Alice in Through the Looking-Glass last year with Boris Johnson as Humpty Dumpty.
John S Warren says:
23rd December 2020 at 10:32 pm
How appropriate!
Hell has duly been delivered by Humpty Dumpty; just in time for Christmas. What else could he do, with a long line of trucks in an endless car park (which used to be known as ‘Kent’), as a sobering warning at what Brexit was about to bring. Remember the famous 1979 Conservative election poster? A long queue of unepmoyed and the slogan ‘Labour isn’t working’?
Well we have the long line of trucks for a similar slogan:Conservatism isn’t working. So what do you do? Throw it all in fast and have a media Christmas bean feast triumph of Imperial proportions. You can work out the rest for yourselves …….
Enjoy. It is going to have to last a lifetime. I trust – except forScotland, but that is up to all of us.
Happy Christmas to all the Bella Caledonia editorial staff, writers, readers, commenters (even the ones who do not like my articles, and tell me); even the trolls (oh, well somebody has to do it) …… Take care and stay safe. As best you can.
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Happy anniversary! Our Ningaloo research project turns one
By Jo Myers
Our team at the Ningaloo reef have been busy this past year, tagging 60 animals and surveying 7 kilometres of reef, and 12,000 hectares of deep habitat!
Scientist releasing a tagged green turtle in shallow waters of beach.
Release of a tagged green turtle. Image -Richard Pillans
During the first year of the CSIRO-BHP Billiton Ningaloo Outlook research partnership, our science team tagged 60 animals (turtles; reef sharks and whale sharks) with three different types of tags, surveyed fish, corals and macroalgae along 7 kilometres of the reef, and 12,000 hectares of deep habitat!
To mark the end of the first year we, along with BHP Billiton and representatives from a range of organisations including the Department of Parks and Wildlife, Australian Institute of Science, Department of Fisheries, and Industry groups came together to hear some of the findings from the first 12 months of research at the Ningaloo Outlook Symposium in February 2016. This included observations from the tagging team that there may be a resident population of green turtles at Ningaloo.
It’s still early days, but data from the green turtles tagged in May 2015 (outside the nesting season) have so far exhibited very residential movement patterns, whilst nesting turtles have moved much greater distances even in the short time they have been tagged. This information is helping to dispel some of the myths around turtles and where they spend their time.
Two scientists standing on rocks near water checking diving equipment.
The Cape Conservation Group during a reef-check training.
The shallow reef research team surveyed over 70 sites along the Ningaloo coast from Osprey (in the south) to Jurabi (in the north), and recorded 208 different species from 45 families, with two dominant fish families recorded, Lutjanidae (snappers) and Scaridae (parrotfishes). The mean biomass recorded was 777 kg ha-1 which is comparable to average global biomass values for unfinished areas found in other studies of around 1 000 kg ha-1.
Preliminary results from 2015 surveys suggest coral communities between Osprey and Jurabi are generally in good condition, with the exception of some localised impacts as a result of the 2010/2011 heatwave event.
An important part of the Ningaloo Outlook project is the involvement with the local community. Both the tagging and shallow reef research teams have been working closely with the Cape Conservation Group, with volunteers helping to tag green turtles. Our staff were also on-hand to train volunteers as part of the Ningaloo Coast reef check training program in March. The team will also be providing an update to the Exmouth community on the 10th May 2016 at the Exmouth Yacht Club, where there will also be an opportunity for questions.
The research team are now busily preparing for field trips which will be executed during the May to August period.
Diver making notes underwater in reef.
Our Research Scientists completing a survey to assess relative abundance of coral as part of the shallow reef research. Image – Damian Thomson
The first field trip for the second year of research will be the shallow reef surveys. These will be conducted in early May along the Ningaloo Reef, from Osprey to Jurabi.
According to our lead researcher on the project, Damian Thomson, it will be exciting to see if coral cover has continued to increase in some areas, and what the potential impacts of the current global heatwave has been on corals, fish, and sharks at Ningaloo.
“We will be downloading temperature loggers we deployed with Reefcheck and Cape Conservation Group back in March, which will reveal if the heating event has indeed been as severe as we have seen further north in the Kimberley region of WA and on the Great Barrier Reef. It will be a busy trip!”
Members of the Ningaloo Outlook research team will also be on-hand at the annual Ningaloo WhaleShark Festival, held in Exmouth from the 26th to 29th May 2016. Look at for the team on the Talanjee Oval, at the Festival Day (Saturday 28th May 2016).
Find out more about our Ningaloo Outlook research here.
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Vince Edwards first screen appearance (uncredited) was in Delmer Daves' DARK PASSAGE, a gritty noir adapted from a novel by David Goodis. Edwards is arguably best known as the lead in MURDER BY CONTRACT. THE SCAVENGERS, directed the following year by the underrated John Cromwell, is a solid B...
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T20 series poised interestingly!
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This Indian team takes a while to get used to overseas conditions. I was a bit disappointed with the quality that they came up with for the 1st 2 ODI’s. But they are coming into their own now as we have seen in the last two games, especially in T20 series.
The 3rd T20 in Sydney promises to be a cracker. The Aussies love the SCG and Steve Smith loves the SCG more so.
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I think he has played 130 balls there for 200 runs in his last two outings. So he must be waiting to take guard. Australia will continue to miss Warner. He is that “ramrod” with which they enter games, and the first two ODI wins had his stamp on them. In movies, we have seen SWAT teams enter houses by breaking the door with the ramrod, thats what Warner is to Australia. Will be interesting to see if he can make it in time for the test series ! Also, he is a thinking cricketer who gets game situations very naturally and is a great ally to Finch in the “cricket thinking” department even though Cummins is Vice captain.
India on the other hand are doing the “Nattu dance” right now in this T20 series .
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They should be careful to not get too carried away as this is Australia they are playing, and the series can easily swing the other way. Sydney has also not been a happy hunting ground for India. India have a forced change with Jadeja not being available No prizes for who will replace him, yes its Chahal. As much as he was off color in the ODI’s, he seems to have rediscovered the secret sauce to his bowling, which is the “speed” at which he delivers each and every ball. Each ball has subtle changes in speed, he delays or hastens the release of the ball as he wants. This is possible as he has a great wrist position while letting go of the ball.
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India will also ponder over another change – Iyer for Pandey. I think if they have pitched their tent with Pandey, they might as well stick to it. I would have played Iyer in the first game too, BTW. Bumrah will also be back for Shami, who has looked listless on this tour. That zing is missing. Boom will be dying to get onto the pitch. India need an inform Bumrah now more than ever to win T20 series .
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A big controversy has broken out with the concoussion substitute and there have been refrences made suggesting that India have been unsportsmanlike Howver, as you can see from the rules below, India were not in the wrong. Whether Chahal should have been allowed as a like for like substitute should be the real discussion and not India being unfair about the use of the consussion rule
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IPhone users take note: Nokia Siemens speeds up EDGE
Nokia Siemens Networks has announced that it can double the data speeds possible on GSM/EDGE networks with only a software update.
By the third quarter of this year, the company claims it will be able to take existing EDGE-capable GSM networks to speeds up to 592 Kbps with its Downlink Dual-Carrier EDGE software solution.
Good news for iPhone users, 85% of whom, according to M:Metrics, accessed the mobile Web during the month of January.
"Locked" iPhone users are typically accessing the mobile internet via AT&T's EDGE and HSDPA BroadbandConnect networks. AT&T's EDGE network, according to its proprietor, is available in over 13,000 cities and along 40,000 miles of highway, providing between 75-135 Kbps.
HSDPA access is dramatically faster with speeds around 1.5 Mbps, but available in only a fraction of the markets; its rollout was only in 165 major metropolitan areas.
Nokia Siemens' simple software upgrade to GSM/EDGE networks could bring data traffic up to speeds that HSDPA promised several years ago between 400-700 Kbps. The company considers this the first step in EDGE's Evolution, which they predict could reach speeds of 1.2 Mps downlink and 473 Kbps uplink with its still-in-development EGPRS 2.
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Nyan.finance: The Digital Hedge Fund
DeFi is creating a blockchain environment like never before. New tokens are deployed everyday on the Ethereum chain, most of which aim for a quick 30x or more with gimmicky concepts, get-rich-quick schemes and downright copy/pasting past successful ideas. This has caused record breaking transactions on the Ethereum network, which are also due in part to the recent UNI airdrop. With that being said, not all of these new tokens are a waste of time. Innovation always finds its way, this time in the form of Nyan.Finance.
Nyan.finance (NYAN) is a new ERC20 token which bills itself as "a DeFi governance token that turns individual traders into a collective whale. NYAN holders can stake their NYAN and receive a secondary token known as Catnip. When a user claims their accumulated rewards, they will only receive 80% of the reward. The other 20% is sent to be stored by the NYAN address in order to be used as part of the pumping mechanism. NYAN holders will be able to bid on a Uniswap token that they want to purchase with the funds in one, or a series of, large buys."
NYAN has a total of 33,000 tokens for a total supply. The token can be broken down to 18 decimals. It did not have a private or presale, so tokens were made readily available for distribution after contract launch. 1,000 NYAN were distributed to the development team, with 2,000 also released as giveaway rewards. Liquidity is also locked for holders to trade on Uniswap. Currently, 1 NYAN = $204.54 (0.595424 Eth) at the time of this writing, with a fully diluted market cap of $6,749,820. As mentioned above, Catnip is also part of the NYAN tokenomic system, along with a third token named DarkNyan. All three tokens work hand in hand, and each asset will be outlined in full detail to explain how each attributes itself to the growth of the overall NYAN ecosystem.
Essentially, NYAN aims to provide a decentralized, community governed hedge fund, giving the holders of NYAN token the rights to decide collectively what they will invest in and for how long. Being decentralized, this gives community members an awesome responsibility, one that most other private hedge-funds or other iterations of a hedge-fund fail to offer. As mentioned earlier, a user who owns NYAN has the option to stake their NYAN to receive the secondary token Catnip (NIP) (Contract Address: 0xD2B93f66FD68c5572BFB8EBf45E2Bd7968B38113). NIP currently has 28,440 tokens in circulation, with the supply growing as more NIP are minted via the staking of NYAN. The current staking reward is: Blocks x NYAN staked / 100,000.
NIP is the token given to holders who stake NYAN. When a holder wants to claim their NIP staking rewards, users only receive 80% of that reward, with 20% of it being sent to the NYAN contract. The 20% of the NYAN staking rewards, which are now NIP held by the NYAN contract, are then pooled together and invested by the community via a voting system. In other words, voters create NIP via staking, the staking reward is then partially contributed to the decentralized ecosystem to create a hedge-fund made up of the combined contribution from stakers, with full control assessed to the community. NIP does have further utility, which will be explained below.
Along with NYAN and NIP, there a third asset which plays a large part in this ecosystem called Dark Nyan (DNYAN) (Contract Address: 0x23b7f3a35bda036e3b59a945e441e041e6b11101). DNYAN is attained joining the NIP/ETH liquidity pool on Uniswap. DNYAN currently has a supply of 554.14 tokens, and has its own major impact in regards to tokenomics. The current staking reward is: NIP/ETH LP (UNI-V2) Token x 6500/ 3,600,000 = DNYAN per day. (It is recommended to claim mined DNYAN as often as possible as difficulty increases)
Once you have joined this pool and you receive the LP tokens, you navigate back to Nyan.finance to stake the LP token. Staking effectively allows the user to mine the DNYAN token, which has its own utility as well. The DNYAN token will allow NYAN voters, via an upcoming integration with Polkadot, to acquire non ERC20 assets. This effectively ensures that NYAN voters will have access to a vast collection of available cryptocurrency assets (while Polkadot does not support ALL cryptocurrency assets at this time, it is its goal and mission to support the vast majority of projects, which will effectively allow the NYAN token ecosystem full access to hedge against the assets there).
To break down how the voting system will work, along with other questions the development team wanted to address if they ever arose, here is a bit of detail straight from the projects website:
Welcome to the steering wheel of a multi-million dollar machine
In this system, Nyan holders will be able to freely govern the protocol as they wish. The voting and function calls operate on a bidding system, in which the bid with the most votes at the end of a round will be executed. A bid can be a call to a contract, or a combination of calls to one or multiple contracts, all within the same transaction.
What are Bids?
Glad you asked! Bids are a set of instructions that relay what functions to call with the Voting Connector contract. A bid is composed of the Bidder's address, a unique bidId, and a series of arrays with types including Integers, Strings, and Bytes. With these data fields, anyone will be able to construct a bid with its own set of parameters for the function to be called.
Additionally, bids can be chained. No, this isn't street fighter. An additional bid can be chained to an initial bid. This additional bid is known as a chain bid. A chain bid requires an initial bid in order to be created. With chains, much more complex transactions can be created. It's a Pandora's box to be honest.
How does voting occur?
Voting for bids occurs within periods known as voting rounds. Before each round begins, Nyan holders can construct a bid and propose it in order to have it ready for voting. Other Nyan holders will vote using Nyan as a proof of collateral and Catnip as a fee. These fees will vary based on the amount of votes an individual is attempting to place in any one round. The more votes, the higher the Catnip cost. With this route, the cost of voting should be negligible for smaller holder. The current minimum Nyan needed to vote is 1 Nyan. However, this can be changed by voters.
How does the machine maintain value?
An reasonable thought that any onlooker would immediately have is: Is the protocol dependent on turning a profit? Fortunately, the answer is no. The Nyan machine will never have to turn a single profit in order to maintain value for Nyan holders. Here's why. All the funds held by the funding contract were generated by Nyan holders that have either staked their Nyan or Catnip Liquidity tokens. This means that those funds can be considered as speculated into existence. Now in order to make sure that value will always outpace minting and speculation, the goal of the Nyan protocol is continuously burn Catnip used as a fee for voting. Half of this Catnip will also be swapped for dNyan in order to provide rewards for individuals that provide liquidity to Nyan.
How do distributions work?
Voters decide when and what to distribute, with certain limitations. Distributions can be called once every 2 days maximum. The distribution can be for any token held by the funding address. Catnip and dNyan distributions are limited to 10% of their available amount in any one transaction. Distributions of other assets can use all of the available asset. In order to claim their proportion of the distributed asset, claimers must stake their Nyan or Catnip Liquidity tokens. The tokens will only be released when the distribution period has ended. This is to prevent users from unfairly claiming twice.
Is the voting contract fool-proof?
No contract is fool-proof. The Nyan voting contracts, however are built with modularity in mind. Each contract can be upgraded, replaced and reconnected. Voters will only have to vote for a bid that reconnects the contract to the rest of the ecosystem. Built this way, Nyan can continuously be updated by it's community without the need for a central developer. The voters can also vote for a transfer that pays an external auditor to look over any code in the ecosystem. To get a better technical look at the upcoming voting contracts, visit the Nyan Github and look over the voting contract files. The files in the github are not the most current version, please do not fork them into production. There are several bugs and mistakes that have been done in the unpushed version.
I find the decentralized aspect of NYAN very appealing. It is a way for users to take control as a collective whale and make decisions with their vote. I have not seen any sort of ecosystem like this in the cryptocurrency space, and I am curious to see it explored and expanded, as the environment surrounding NYAN allows for contract upgrades and new integrations based on the voting system. With DeFi continuing to be a driving force in the recent surge in crypto related assets, can NYAN become a mainstay and solidify itself as the first truly decentralized hedge-fund? The playing field is set for it to do just that.
nyan.finance Links:
- Website: nyan.finance
- Github: github.com/geass-zero/nyan.finance
- Medium: https://medium.com/@nyanfinance
- Telegram: https://t.me/nyanfinance
- Telegram (news): https://t.me/nyanfinancenews
- Trello Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/neXGkfpP/nyanfinance-roadmap
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School of Accounting Research Highlights
The School of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business features several nationally renowned scholars. Below are a few selected publications from the senior accounting faculty. For the latest research from the department, visit the School of Accounting homepage.
David Guenther
Research Focus: Taxation
International Financial Reporting Editor, The Accounting Review
“Unintended Consequences of LIFO Repeal: The Case of the Oil Industry,” The Accounting Review, 2012 (Coauthor R. Sansing).
“How Do Cross-Country Differences in Corporate Tax Rates Affect Firm Value?” Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2012 (Coauthors L. Bryant-Kutcher and M. Jackson).
“The Effect of Tax-Exempt Investors and Risk on Stock Ownership and Expected Returns” The Accounting Review, 2010 (Coauthor R. Sansing).
“Fundamentals of Shareholder Tax Capitalization” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006 (Coauthor R. Sansing).
“Financial Reporting Environments and International Capital Mobility” Journal of Accounting Research, 2003 (Coauthor D. Young).
“Capital Gains Tax Rates and the Cost of Capital for Small Business: Evidence from the IPO ” Journal of Financial Economics, 1999 (Coauthor M. Willenborg).
“Financial Reporting, Tax Costs, and Book-Tax Conformity” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1997 (Coauthor E. Maydew and S.E. Nutter).
Steve Matsunaga
Research Focus: Voluntary Disclosure, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation
“Management Forecast Accuracy and CEO Turnover.” The Accounting Review, November 2012 (Coauthors S. Lee and C. W. Park).
“Determinants of CEO Pay: A Comparison of ExecuComp and Non-ExecuComp Firms” The Accounting Review, 2010 (Coauthors B. Cadman and S Klasa).
“The Impact of Conservatism on Management Quantitative Earnings Forecasts” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2009 (Coauthors K.W. Hui and D. Morse).
“An Analysis of Insiders’ Use of Prepaid Variable Forward Transactions” Journal of Accounting Research, 2007 (Coauthors A. D. Jagolinzer and E. Yeung).
“The Effects of Financial Reporting Costs on the Use of Employee Stock Options” The Accounting Review, 1995.
“Disqualifying Dispositions of Incentive Stock Options: Tax Benefits vs. Financial Reporting Costs” Journal of Accounting Research, 1992 (Coauthors T. Shevlin and D. Shores).
Research Focus: Voluntary Disclosure, Earnings Management and Valuation
“Beyond the Numbers: Measuring the Information Content of Earnings Press Release Language” Contemporary Accounting Research, 2012 (Coauthors J. Piger and L. Sedor).
“Managers’ Use of Language across Alternative Disclosure Outlets: Earnings Press Releases versus MD&A” Contemporary Accounting Research, 2012 (Coauthor I. Tama-Sweet).
“Emphasis on Pro Forma versus GAAP Earnings in Quarterly Press Releases: Determinants, SEC Intervention and Market Reactions” The Accounting Review, 2005 (Coauthors R.M. Bowen and D.A. Matsumoto).
“The Value Relevance of Revenue for Internet Firms: Does Reporting Grossed-Up and Barter Revenue Make a Difference?” Journal of Accounting Research, 2002
“Do Conference Calls Affect Analysts’ Forecasts?” The Accounting Review, 2002 (Coauthors R.M. Bowen and D. A. Matsumoto).
Linda Krull
“Is U.S. Multinational Dividend Repatriation Policy Influenced by Reporting Incentives?” The Accounting Review, 2012 (Coauthors J. Blouin and L. Robinson).
“Bringing It Home: A Study of the Incentives Surrounding the Repatriation of Foreign Earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004” Journal of Accounting Research, 2009 (with J. Blouin)
“Stock Options, R&D, and the R&D Tax Credit” The Accounting Review, 2008 (Coauthor J. Brown).
“Did the 2003 Tax Act Reduce the Cost of Equity Capital?” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2007 (Coauthors D. Dhaliwal and O. Li).
“Divided Taxes and Implied Cost of Equity Capital” Journal of Accounting Research, 2005 (Coauthors D. Dhaliwal, O. Li, and W. Moser).
“Permanently Reinvested Foreign Earnings, Taxes, and Earnings Management” The Accounting Review, 2004.
Research Focus: Empirical Tax Research in Accounting
“A New Measure of Accounting Quality” Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming (Coauthors P. Hribar and T. Kravet).
“Executive Compensation, Equity Risk Incentives, and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness” Journal of Accounting Research, 2012. (Coauthor S. Rego).
“Income Shifting by Chinese Domestic Firms” Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2012 (Coauthors T. Shevlin and T. Tang).
“Long-Term Tax Avoidance, Large Positive Book-tax Differences and Earning Persistence” The Accounting Review, 2012 (Coauthors B. Blaylock and T. Shevlin).
“An Examination of Corporate Tax Shelter Participants” (dissertation), The Accounting Review, 2009.
“Economic Consequences of Increasing the Conformity in Accounting for Uncertain Tax Benefits” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2008 (Coauthors P. Frischmann and T. Shevlin).
“Examining Investor Expectations Concerning Tax Savings on the Repatriations of Foreign Earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004” Journal of the American Taxation Association, 2007 (Coauthors M. Oler and T. Shevlin).
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Juarez Chernobyl – The Largest Nuclear Contamination in America
Jeff T. Green
Chernobyl was a big hit for HBO. I found a question on AskReddit "If HBO's Chernobyl was a series with a new disaster every season, what event would you like to see covered?" CLICK HERE to find out what some of the suggestions on Reddit were.
As we brought this topic up on the air, we had some suggestions for something called Juarez Cherobyl. Interestingly enough, there are almost no articles in English about this disaster. But, thanks to technology, I can look up the articles written in Spanish and have them real time translated for me. So, here we go. Possibly the first English article about Juarez Chernobyl.
Back in 1977 Dr. Abelardo Lemus and his group of private hospital partners purchased a radiotherapy machine that came equipped with a Cobalt-60 pump. Cobalt-60 is used to treat cancer patients, and, you guessed it, it's radioactive. Direct from Wikipedia:
Cobalt-60 (60Co), is a syntheticradioactiveisotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2713 years[3]. It is produced artificially in nuclear reactors.
Now, no one at the hospital really knew how to use the machine, so it ended up sitting in a warehouse, collecting dust. Then in December of 1983, a maintenance worker at the hospital named Vicente Sotelo Alardin and one of his friends, Ricardo Hernandez took the machine to scrap it for parts and metal. Yes, they got the approval from a hospital supervisor to take it.
Vicente got the machine home and started to take it apart. Unfortunately the machine didn't have any markings about how dangerous the materials inside were. While taking apart the machine, Vicente opened up the housing for the Cobalt-60, which was in 1 millimeter sized pellets.
Here is where the contamination starts. They took the parts to the scrapyard, spreading the radioactive Cobalt-60 pellets all over the city as it is falling out of the back of his pickup truck.
At the scrapyard, they use the gigantic magnet to move the parts around, contaminating the magnet. So now everything that the magnet touches, becomes radioactive. And it's a lot. The scrapyard makes two big piles and sells the metal to 2 main smelters. These smelters then melt down the metal and, in turn, basically making radioactive pieces of rebar and table legs.
This radioactive metal gets shipped all throughout Mexico and the US. It isn't until a semi truck carrying a contaminated shipment took a wrong turn and triggered automatic radiation sensors.
Cameras at the base are used to track down what set off the sensors, and trace the semi truck back to Mexico and all the metal that was being used for the rebar and table legs. But at this point it's pretty much too late. This is before Chernobyl so they know it's bad, just not sure how bad.
Needless to say there's about 20,000 tons of radioactive material still floating around the US, Mexico, and Latin America. There's even a mall in Juarez that is still there today that used a lot of this radioactive rebar.
And in case you're wondering, Vicente survived. He got some burns, but lived. In fact, his truck that was used to haul the radioactive material finally broke down, but he didn't get rid of it. He kept it out in front of his house, and neighborhood kids would play in it, as well as it becoming a spot for the guys to go drink beer after a long day at work.
So there was no major explosion or nuclear reactor leak that led to this contamination. But the sheer amount of radioactive materials that were released to the public makes this one of the worst, if not the worst contamination in America. Nothing is official, because it's not exactly known how much radioactive material is still out there.
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A Cruising Couple | October 19, 2015 9:00 PM ET
The Top 9 Reasons To Visit Uvita, Costa Rica
Photo courtesy of Thinkstock, all others courtesy of A Cruising Couple unless noted.
Most first-time visitors to Costa Rica only make it as far south as Manuel Antonio National Park, with a few of the more intrepid souls possibly venturing to the Caribbean coastline. With countless beautiful beaches and natural attractions in the Northern Zone (all of which are closer to the country’s two international airports), this itinerary makes a lot of sense for many.
Unfortunately, travelers who choose to stick to these destinations north of Manuel Antonio National Park are missing out on our favorite region in all of Costa Rica: The Southern Zone.
Costa Rica’s Southern Zone comprises a large area stretching from Dominical Beach down to the Osa Peninsula. In many ways the region is less developed than the other more popular tourist destinations in Costa Rica such as Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula. Featuring countless pristine beaches and dense jungles, the Southern Zone is simply begging for exploration.
And while there are countless hidden gems in the Southern Zone, one of the most convenient places to stay is Uvita. This small town boasts a handful of restaurants and hotels, but it’s the central location that makes it an ideal base for exploring the surrounding natural attractions.
Whether it’s waterfalls, wildlife or simply whiling the day away in a hammock, you won’t have any shortage of entertainment. Ready to start exploring? Here are a few of our favorite things to do in and around Uvita, Costa Rica:
1. Horseback Riding
If you’ve ever dreamed of riding a horse on the beach at sunset, then this is your place to finally do it. Rancho La Merced offers horseback riding expeditions through the jungle and on the pristine beaches around Uvita. Perfect for enjoying the gorgeous scenery as well as searching for monkeys, birds and other critters.
2. Visit The Whale’s Tail Beach (Playa Ballena)
Photo via Flickr/Susana Soto
This unique beach is named for its uncanny resemblance to a whale’s tail during low tide. The best way to appreciate the view is from above — either during an Ultralight Tour or from one of the many hotels and restaurants nestled in the hills above. Alternatively, simply enjoy a walk along the expansive and remote coastline.
3. Go Whale and Dolphin Watching
Photo via Flickr/GPParker
Speaking of whales, Uvita is part of the Costa Ballena, a stretch of coastline that not only looks like a whale’s tail, but has numerous groups of whales migrating just off the coast. Humpbacks are among the most common, and a boat trip in the Ballena Marine National Park offers the opportunity to get unparalleled views of the magnificent creatures. Dolphins are also a common sight during any boating adventure.
4. Surf
Costa Rica is known for its surf and yoga schools, and Uvita is no exception. As a bonus, this happens to be a particularly good stretch of coastline for families and beginners. The Bodhi Surf School in Uvita receives fantastic reviews. For more advanced surfers, drive a few miles north to Dominical — a mecca that attracts surfers from around the world.
5. Experience A Canopy Tour
No visit to Costa Rica is complete without zip lining, or a canopy tour. While it’s likely you won’t spot a ton of animals, soaring through the trees is a fun way to get a true perspective of the dense canopy forest. Osa Canopy Tour isn’t far from Uvita and is one of the best in the area.
6. Visit The Waterfalls
If you love waterfalls, then you’ve come to the right place. There are numerous cataracts to visit in the region, so you’ll likely have to pick and choose. About a thirty-minute drive from Uvita are the spectacular Nauyaca Waterfalls, only accessible via horseback or a long hike — and our personal favorite option. The small pool for swimming at the base offers a tranquil setting in which to cool off after a long and sweaty hike.
7. Take a Day Trip To Corcovado National Park
Corcovado National Park, home to some two percent of the world’s biodiversity, certainly warrants longer than a day trip. However, if you’re traveling on a time crunch, don’t miss the opportunity to take a day trip from Uvita. Tours depart at 7 a.m. and include four hours of guided hiking in the National Park.
8. Snorkeling at Cano Island
Photo via Flickr/Vytautas Serys
Another excellent day trip and alternative to hiking through Corcovado is a snorkeling adventure to Cano Island. Here you’ll find some of the best snorkeling in all of Costa Rica, complete with sea turtles, dolphins, stingrays, manta rays, moray eels, barracudas and more.
9. Explore The Terraba Sierpe Mangroves
Explore 30,000-plus hectares of wetland forest reserve in this system of swamp, mangroves, rivers and lagoons known for its excellent birding and unique wildlife. Kayaking and boat tours depart from the Uvita area.
These are just a few of our favorite reasons to try Uvita on your next visit to Costa Rica. With countless more secluded beaches, top-notch restaurants and adventure activities, it’s only the start of what is possible on your vacation to the Southern Zone.
Have you visited the Southern Zone of Costa Rica? What did you think?
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TEKsystems are currently looking to hire a Data Analyst for one of our Tier 1 Investment Banking clients.
We are looking to hire a Data Analyst to work on a Risk Model Implementation project, this Data Analyst must have perfect written and verbal Spanish communication.
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Program Specialist, Small Business Development Center
Program Specialist, Small Business Development Center; School of Business
Posting # 2797
The University of San Diego School of Business embraces a stewardship approach to business education. Stewardship requires businesses to protect and care for society in pursuit of a greater good. The USD School of Business community of faculty, staff, students and graduates, embrace stewardship by applying values-driven, free-enterprise skills to improve businesses, industries, and the lives of people in our community and around the world.
Looking forward, the Knauss Center for Business Education will be the physical home for the USD School of Business, and more important, the mortar that binds us together is our unique competitive advantage as we deliver a rich, holistic student experience, crafted with a higher purpose in mind, for all the greater good. See our progress: https://horizon.sandiego.edu/knauss-center.
University Description:
The University of San Diego, a contemporary and engaged Roman Catholic institution, was founded by the Diocese of San Diego and the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1949. Governed by an independent board of trustees since 1972, USD remains committed to a liberal arts education grounded in the Catholic intellectual tradition and the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty. Inspired by this centuries old tradition of Catholic higher education, the University welcomes people of all faith traditions and any, or no, religious background. The future success of USD relies on the contributions of those who seek to foster the development of engaged global citizens and an earnest confrontation of humanity's urgent challenges.
This position is responsible for performing a wide variety of complex and specialized administrative, operational, programmatic and clerical functions in order to support the overall success of the Center's programs and objectives. This position is assigned to the Brink SBDC at USD and reports to the Brink SBDC Director. This position interacts with many stakeholders in the San Diego business communities-- including students, entrepreneurs, donors, service providers, etc. An ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with diverse partners and represent USD's work and mission with professionalism and poise is essential for success.
Due to the nature of working within business communities, this position must be able to work in some cases on weekends and after business hours and travel to or attend networking and industry programs several times per year.
Supports marketing and outreach efforts of the Brink SBDC
Coordinating with the School of Business Marketing and Communications team to develop copy, content, and graphics for the Center and it's programs and activities.
Developing and disseminating newsletters and social media content to support outreach efforts in coordination with the School of Business Marketing and Communications team.
Collecting analytics and other metrics and organizing for analysis.
Updating website(s), MyPostings and other outlets as needed.
Working with interns, student workers, vendors, or others to support marketing and communications.
Engaging audiences, increasing awareness and participation in offerings.
This is done to reach and engage the broadest group of innovation-focused entrepreneurs, increasing awareness and participation of growth-oriented companies.
Supports grant compliance and financial stability of the Brink SBDC
Collecting and organizing information.
Writing or drafting reports.
Completing expense reports on behalf of the Director according to USD policy.
Ensuring compliance with grants and USD policies.
This is done to ensure compliance with grants and USD policies and so the Center remains in good standing with funding sources and in compliance with policies and standards.
Supports the Brink SBDC and the Director of the Brink SBDC
Assisting in client/student recruitment, onboarding and communication for involvement in and improvement of programs.
Gathering and tracking important data for reporting from key stakeholders and secondary research sources.
Oversee office inventory, professional look and reception process (ie answer phones, welcome visitors or drop-ins).
This is done to ensure clients are assimilated into the programs effectively and the center/program operates efficiently.
Supports programs, workshops, events, and other activities of the Brink SBDC
Representing the Brink SBDC in a professional and customer service-oriented manner in all interactions and meetings.
Answering questions about program, attending meetings and industry events to represent the Center.
Recruiting speakers, facilitators and emcees for meetings and events.
Recruiting, as necessary, students/clients for advisory clubs/business clubs and consulting projects.
Coordinating venues, vendors, catering, and other resources according to the budget and supervisor's discretion.
Managing event logistics including registration, volunteers, materials, evaluations, etc.
Entering events on various platforms including CRMs.
Coordinating with speakers, sponsors, and vendors.
Ensuring compliance with SBDC/USD standards and ensuring client/student/participant experience reflects world-class intention of the program and confidentiality requirements.
This is done to ensure compliance with SBDC standards (including SBA form 888) and to ensure client experience reflects world-class intention of the program.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
2 years of experience in programming, student/customer services and/or clerical/administrative support in a complex academic, business, community, government or professional association environment.
Substitution: Up to one additional year of professional experience as identified above may substitute for two years of education requirement.
Bachelor's degree in business or related field from an accredited college or university.
2+ year of experience in program management, student services and/or career services in higher education.
Performance Expectations - Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ACT!) and experience with career services-related software (i.e., MonsterTrak).
Ability to work with senior level industry executives as well as broad range of undergraduate and graduate students.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience with program planning/administration.
Experience working with and greeting the public.
Self-starter, strong sense of initiative and accountability.
Positive attitude, outgoing personality, comfortable working with industry executives from junior to senior levels.
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
Strong verbal/writing/computer skills especially in web-based technology.
Tools & Equipment Used:
Effectively uses a computer, telephone, and other office equipment.
Background check: Successful completion of a pre-employment background check.
Degree Verification Requirement: Persons offered employment in this position will be required to provide official education transcripts for degree verification purposes.
Posting Salary:
$21.00 - $26.00/hour; Excellent Benefits. ; Excellent Benefits.
The University of San Diego offers a very competitive benefits package, to include medical, dental, vision, a retirement contribution given to you by the University (with three year vesting period), and access to on-campus Fitness Centers. Please visit the benefits section of our website to view all of the perks and benefits that USD has to offer.
Special Application Instructions: Resume and Cover Letter Required
Visit https://careers.pageuppeople.com/867/cw/en-us/job/494244/program-specialist-small-business-development-center to complete our online application. In addition, please upload a cover letter and resume to your application profile for the hiring managers' review. If you have any questions or difficulties please contact the Employment Services Team at 619-260-6806, or email us at jobs@sandiego.edu
This is a full-time, benefits based temporary assignment with an anticipated end date of December 19, 2021.
Hours: 37.5 per week. 9am-5pm, M-F (Compressed workweek schedule options available.)
Closing date: Open until filled
Note: External job postings will be up for at least five days. After that time, applications will be reviewed by the hiring manager/committee throughout the posting period. A candidate may be selected at any time which could then close this posting on a date earlier than listed.
The University of San Diego is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the campus community.
The University of San Diego is a smoking and tobacco-free campus. For more information, visit http://www.sandiego.edu/smokefree.
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The University of San Diego is committed to academic excellence, Catholic intellectual and social traditions, and providing a top-notch liberal arts education for scholars of all faiths. USD is located on 180 acres overlooking the city of San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The campus is renowned for its beauty, and features Spanish Renaissance-inspired architecture.
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Awards/
Open: January 13, 2020
Americas/APAC Close: June 1, 2020
EMEA Close: 1 June 2020
The CEDIA Awards program honors the top home technology projects designed and installed by CEDIA member home technology professionals. The competition offers a chance to be recognized within and outside the industry as a leader in your field.
Benefits for Finalists and Winners of the awards for the 2020 program include:
An personalized case study to use for your marketing, created by CEDIA.
Recognition in press and across CEDIA's digital platforms.
Usage of Award Finalist and Winner logos
Additionally, Winners will receive:
Feature in CEDIA E-Newsletter
Projects actively pitched to national media by CEDIA’s PR Team
Printed Copies of your Case Study for distribution
Judging Process & Timeline
All entries are evaluated and finalists will be selected by industry professionals.
Entrants compete and are recognized within their region — Americas, EMEA, or Asia Pacific — based on their primary location.
Additional sub-categories are reviewed and selected by an architectural panel of experts from the design build industry.
All Regional winners then compete for the Global Awards: Home Cinema, Integrated Home, and Media Room.
Finalists will be announced the week of August 3 2020.
Winners will be announced in the Autumn of 2020.
CEDIA Awards Home Tech Pros Categories
Auto, Marine or Aircraft
Entries for this category must be an auto, aviation, or marine installation. At least two residential home technology professional installed systems (e.g. music, video, lighting control, health monitoring, or security) are integrated together to provide enhanced entertainment, convenience, safety, health monitoring, and system reliability for the client.
A dedicated home theater is a room purpose-built for the enjoyment of movies, television, music, video games or other types of audio/video entertainment. Rooms are specialized and isolated from the rest of the house, physically and acoustically. Home Cinemas do not include any other entertainment areas, such as a bar, or billiards table.
Integrated Home
An integrated home must feature at least two residential home technology professional installed systems (i.e. music, video, lighting control, health monitoring and security) that are integrated together to provide enhanced entertainment, convenience, safety, health monitoring, and system reliability for the client.
A media room is designed to serve multiple purposes suitable for family entertaining, and can be an open floor plan or isolated/dedicated space. The room may include several entertainment areas such as a bar, gaming, billiards table, and additional seating.
Multiple Dwelling Unit Design
The entries into this category must demonstrate a real understanding of the deliverables of a multi-dwelling project. Key features include flexible design, scalable engineering, and a centralized system offering far more than typical systems in individual homes. The entry must include clear documentation and design objectives that allow the judges to ascertain how a quantity of small projects are drawn into one cohesive system. Looking beyond the development and making provision for the eventual owner’s needs will be crucial in this category.
The Best Showroom will be awarded to a CEDIA member company for innovation and design of a custom installation showroom.
Must be a finalist/winner in another category
Best Dressed Rack (Judged by technical panel)
Best Documentation (Judged by technical panel)
Best Lighting System (Judged by technical panel)
Best Innovative Solution (Judged by technical panel)
Life Lived Best at Home (Judged by architectural panel)
Technology Meets Design (Judged by architectural panel)
View full list of entry requirements and documentation.
2020 CEDIA Awards Rules, Policies & Procedures
Any entry that fails to follow competition rules will be disqualified from the competition.
Incomplete entries will have no opportunity for re-submission.
If you need to withdraw an entry, please email awards@cedia.org.
There will be no refunds for entries not submitted.
There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit per category. (Exception: Product Hall of Fame – one entry per company per year.)
Any physical materials mailed to CEDIA Headquarters become the property of CEDIA and will not be returned.
By submitting an entry, you agree to receive any and all emails from CEDIA regarding the CEDIA Awards.
All submissions must be completed online; entries via mail or email will not be accepted.
To maintain anonymity, all identifying references are to be removed from any drawings, support documentation, and photos prior to submission.
2. Competition Dates and Entry Fees
Home Technology Professional Competition Opens: January 13, 2020
Home Technology Professional Deadline: June 1, 2020
Manufacturer Competition Opens: February 10, 2020
Manufacturer Deadline: June 1, 2020
Home Technology Professional Members: Free to enter
Manufacturer Members: $300 USD per entry
3. Categories
Installation Categories: Home Technology Professional Companies
Sub-categories:
Best Dressed Rack
Best Documentation
Best Lighting System
Life Lived Best at Home
Technology Meets Design
Innovative Solution or System
Judging Process and Timeline
All entries are evaluated and finalists will be selected by industry professionals. (Entrants compete and are recognized within their region — Americas, EMEA, or Asia Pacific — based on their primary location.)
All Regional winners then compete for the Global Awards. Global categories recognized include Home Cinema, Integrated Home, and Media Room.
Regional finalists will be announced the week of August 3, 2020.
Winners will be announced in the Autumn of 2020
Hardware and Software Categories: Trade Supplier/Manufacturer Companies
Best New Software Product
Best New Hardware Product
All entries are evaluated online, and finalists will be selected by industry professionals. Entrants compete and are recognized within their region, based on their primary location – Americas or EMEA.
Finalists will be announced the week of August 3, 2020. America’s judges will request demos as necessary from finalists.
Please note that finalists which are not exhibiting at the 2020 CEDIA Expo may not be able to provide an in-person demo of their product for judges.
Products selected as finalists in the EMEA region will provide a demo for judges at the CEDIA EMEA office, in St Neots, UK.
Americas Product winners will be announced and recognized at the 2020 CEDIA EXPO in Denver, CO.
EMEA Product winners will be announced and recognized at the 2020 EMEA Awards Event, more details coming soon.
4. Entrant Eligibility
All entrants must be a CEDIA member in good standing.
For the categories of Auto, Marine or Aircraft; Home Cinema; Innovative Solution or System; Integrated Home, Media Room, Multiple Dwelling Unit Design; and Showroom, the entrant must be a CEDIA Home Technology Professional Member.
For the categories of Best New Software Product, Best New Hardware Product, and Product Hall of Fame, the entrant must be a CEDIA Manufacturer Member.
5. Entrant Release
By submitting a CEDIA Awards entry, the entrant ("Entrant") grants to the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association ("CEDIA"), a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, in any manner and in any medium CEDIA determines in its sole discretion provided that such use is consistent with CEDIA's purposes as a trade association, all photographs, depictions, and writings submitted by Entrant, and Entrant hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold CEDIA harmless from any and all claims, demands and damages that arise out of or relate to any claims brought by any person or entity to title to or on account of infringement or other use or misuse of such photographs and writings, such damages to include, without limitation, actual, statutory, compensatory, consequential, exemplary and punitive damages and attorneys' fees.
6. Award Use
Recipients of awards presented by CEDIA are allowed to display the awards that they have won from CEDIA. All display or advertisement of such awards must be truthful and may not be misleading, inaccurate, or ambiguous. Specifically, but without limitation, the recipients and member companies who employ individual recipients must abide by the following rules.
Any company which displays or advertises a CEDIA award must correctly identify the recipient of the award, and if the recipient is an individual employee of the company, the company must state so.
If the award recipient is an individual, a company may display the award only so long as that individual is employed by the company, unless the individual grants express permission for the company to display the award after termination of the employee’s employment.
All awards must be displayed or advertised with the correct name of the award.
The entity that displays the award must state conspicuously: the year in which the award was won, or that the recipient is a “past recipient” of the award.
Any display or advertisement of the CEDIA award may not include any statement or implication of CEDIA’s approval or sponsorship of the entity displaying the award or any other entity, other than the fact that the award was presented by CEDIA to the recipient.
No company may display CEDIA’s logo in connection with displaying or advertising the award unless that company is a member of CEDIA, or unless the CEDIA logo is incorporated into the award as presented by CEDIA.
No entity may alter the appearance of the award itself or any reproduction of the award for display purposes.
No award may be duplicated or copied except by photographic means and then only for inclusion in advertising the award.
The homeowner must agree for the project to be submitted prior to entry and sign a Homeowner Property Release Form.
The photographer must give the rights to use submitted project photos and sign a Photography Consent of Use Form.
8. Project/Product Eligibility
Projects entered in Home Technology Professional can only be submitted once, and cannot be resubmitted.
Projects entered in Home Technology Professional Program must have been completed within the last two years (March 2018 – March 2020) and completed for paying clients.
All projects entered in the Home Technology Professional Program categories are automatically eligible for the sub-categories of Best Dressed Rack, Best Documentation, Innovative System or Solution and Best Lighting System.
For the sub-categories, winners must be selected as a finalist/winner in one of the Home Technology Professional Program categories: m. These awards may not be given annually, based on the judge’s discretion.
For the category of Showroom, projects may be entered more than one year, but can only be selected as a winner once.
For the categories of Best New Software Product and Best New Hardware Product, the date which the product begins shipping to dealers must fall between September 30, 2019 and September 30, 2020.
For the category of Product Hall of Fame, the product must have entered the market a minimum of 7 years ago. Product Hall of Fame entries are eligible for repeat entry into the competition. This award may not be given annually.
9. Photo/Video Requirements and Restrictions
Photo-Editing Restrictions
Do not use insets in any photos.
Basic photo editing for attributes such as color balance, brightness, cropping, etc., is acceptable.
Inserting a stock photo into the display screen is acceptable and recommended.
Photo editing to remove or obscure information that could identify the client or entrant is required.
Manipulating or altering images in a way that has the potential to mislead judges about the nature of the project is unacceptable and may result in disqualification.
Awards Requirements for All Photos/Videos
Required marketing photos must be a minimum of 8” x 10” at 300 dpi or higher resolution (i.e., a minimum of 2400px x 3000px).
Required videos cannot be larger than 1000MB.
For the categories of Home Cinema, Media Room, Integrated Home, Innovative Solution, Marine and Aircraft, and Special Project, company names/logos and client names must be removed from all photos/videos (using editing software if needed). No people should appear in the photos/videos.
For the category of Product Hall of Fame, photos must be of the original version of the product, not upgraded or current versions.
Required photos/videos must be uploaded during the entry process.
Accepted photo file formats: .jpg, .png, .tif.
Accepted video file formats: .avi, .mov, .mp4.
Copyrighted Material Notice: It may be tempting to add a little “movie magic” to your submission by placing a still image from a movie or television show on the display screens shown in your submitted photos. However, CEDIA advises against placing images on display screens that may contain copyrighted material, including movie/TV stills. If CEDIA believes your images may contain copyrights material, we reserve the right to decline to display your images and/or edit the images to remove/obscure the material in question. However, CEDIA assumes no obligation to police submissions for improper content. If you wish to enhance the display screens shown in your photos, we recommend using royalty-free stock images from a reputable stock photo provider.
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BBC Work Culture ‘Needs to Be Rebuilt,’ Says Incoming Chair Richard Sharp at Parliament Grilling
Richard Sharp, the incoming chair of the BBC, believes that the U.K. public service broadcaster’s work culture needs a serious revamp.
Sharp, a former investment banker with one prior tilt at the org’s top job several years ago, was confirmed last week as the government’s preferred candidate for the job.
Sharp’s last hurdle before he can take up the position was to appear at a pre-appointment hearing conducted by the U.K. parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, which he did on Thursday.
During a questioning process that lasted nearly two hours, Sharp said his priority was to tackle impartiality issues that the BBC faces.
“Impartiality is clearly the biggest issue,” Sharp told the committee. “Clearly some of the problems it had recently are rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt so everybody [who] works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there. Then, in my view, that would produce a better output.”
Sharp said the corporation’s gender pay gap issues have “created, inevitably, a sense of unfairness for people working within the BBC. Whatever these circumstances were that led to differences in pay, that’s not a good culture to have.”
Currently, the U.K. public are required to pay an annual TV license fee of £157.50 ($215.50), which is the primary funding source of the BBC. Failure to pay the fee is a criminal offence. The U.K. government was considering decriminalizing non-payment, but decided to defer the decision until the new chair was appointed.
Sharp isn’t in favor of decriminalization. He said that the fee broke down to 43 pence (58 cents) a day, which is terrific value compared to an average of £400 per year spent on pay TV operator Sky.
When the committee pointed out that neither Sharp nor director general Tim Davie had any editorial experience, Sharp said several people on the board, including members of the editorial standards committee, have considerable editorial experience. “You want diversity on the board in all respects,” said Sharp. “One of those respects [is] the ability to interrogate and help manage them to account.”
If appointed, Sharp will donate the entirety of his £160,000 ($218,900) salary to charity. His intention in applying for the position was to contribute to British society, Sharp said.
Sharp also mentioned that he “inhales” BBC drama and referred to “Fleabag” and “Roadkill.”
Sharp will replace outgoing chair Sir David Clementi and will take charge in February, if appointed.
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Dispatches from the War: New York, Trump, physical freaks
Jul31 by Jon Rappoport
by Jon Rappoport
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Take a deep breath. Ready? In today’s episode of the current president in the iron mask, and a 77-year-old physical freak, Biden, with a brain aneurysm (and twelve doctors) who won’t make it through the swearing-in ceremony if he’s elected, leaving the fate of the nation to one Kamala Harris; and a country smoking in ruins, sold out by Fauci to the Chinese—hold your horses, no self-respecting B studio will green-light this mess, it could never happen, this is America, this is the land of the rednecks with big guns ready to invade governors’ offices alongside coiffed soccer moms who see their kiddies quarantined and locked down in schools after several snot-bubble sneezing third graders test positive on a viral assay geared to inflate case numbers…
What do they have on President Trump? Is it his taxes? Something much worse? A night in a hotel room? I’m asking, because the US GDP has just dropped more than 30 percent this past quarter—the greatest collapse in US history. Bar none. And what is the president saying, what is he doing? Besides wearing a black mask. And talking about operation warp speed to develop a killer Gates vaccine. And wondering whether the presidential election should be postponed.
Recently, I wrote five consecutive pieces directed at Trump, urging him to use the full power of his office to force open the economy of the country, come hell or high water, deploying the military or the DOJ—because the economic wreckage was that bad, and the danger line had been crossed months ago—and how much more evidence does the man need to convince himself this is an economic war being waged against The People, under the cover of a fake pandemic? Does he need Fauci to confess before a tribunal, Gates to admit he’s a Howdy Doody eugenicist on YouTube, the UN to issue a directive swearing allegiance to Mao and Stalin and Lenin and turning over its priceless piece of NYC real estate donated by Rockefeller to ANTIFA? Would that do it? Does he need raging mobs of dispossessed and evicted Americans attacking the White House and being gunned down by troops? Would that do it? Does he need a spinning silver Saucer landing in the Rose Garden with gray men stepping out holding a communique from the Milky Way Council of Elders stating America is finished? Would that be enough? Or does the president just want to wear a black mask and not find his ass with both hands?
In 1928, Edward Bernays, the wretched father of modern propaganda, wrote: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…”
It’s obvious that the global virus fakery called COVID depends on The Individual conceived as a social construct. He is now a carrier, infector, transmitter, vector of disease.
Even more important in this personality makeover, he is now a socially conscious member of the community of share and care and collective goo.
“Once we convince you that you’re an altruist down to your toes, we can manipulate you six ways from Sunday.”
That’s the synthetic part. You take a direct ideal—humans helping other humans—and you twist it into papier mache and plastic and cartoons and deflating politeness and robothood and automatic reflex and stimulus response. Everybody’s a good neighbor in Pleasantville. Everybody wants to “save the world.” There is a new gloss over society. Shiny. Oh so shiny.
This operation takes decades to perform. It involves constant messaging on television, in classrooms—especially in classrooms—in the workplace, in homes, in churches.
And when the operation succeeds, guess what? The government can enlist untold numbers of people in self-immolating programs on behalf of Humanity. Pull the trigger, obtain compliance.
“Of course I’ll go along with the masks and lockdowns. Anything to serve a higher cause.”
A new identity has been glued to The Individual. He is no longer just himself. He’s been made “better.”
Again, the trick is starting out with something genuine—and then twisting it into an artificial shape and imposing it on the mind.
Plotline: people were once strong, independent, resistant, and highly suspicious of all efforts to entrain them into cartoon versions of themselves. But after enough messaging, they became docile.
Thread: Once upon a time, pro athletes were highly difficult to control as “citizens.” But then came the concept of being role models. Which meant: behaving. Which meant doing good works in the community, for charity, for the less fortunate. Nothing wrong with good works. Certainly not. But hidden in the background, there was a successful effort to make these men over into obedient members inside society’s structure, willing to follow orders on behalf of the greater good. As defined by appointed anointed officials. There was a reversal in their minds—along with very large amounts of money….have to protect that cash…
Sports tough guys, billionaire team owners submit to COVID.
I stand in awe of their cowardice.
Not one of them will grow a pair and say NO to COVID. They obey senseless and destructive government directives like abject weaklings. The whole lot of them.
As the three major sports leagues in America try to open their seasons, the athletes bend and bow before warnings: THE WHOLE YEAR COULD BE LOST IF ENOUGH PLAYERS TEST POSITIVE. That little worm Fauci actually controls their every move, their dollars, their careers, their teams, their fortunes. And they take it.
The team owners, rough and ready capitalists who do cutthroat business like pirates of old, meekly submit as well.
Yes, these sports heroes and their owners do exhibit all the signs of living in a state of hypnosis about “the pandemic.” But that’s too easy as a final answer. The athletes are supposed to have enormous reserves of adrenaline and courage. They play through pain. They endure injuries that would make ordinary civilians flee to Disability.
And yes, it’s about the money, just as it was about the money when the China-Nike scandal blew up and pro basketball stars kept their mouths shut about the horrific human rights abuses (mass murders) in China, in order to protect their shoe contracts. Sure. Money.
But again, it goes beyond that to basic courage and independence, which these players are showing NONE of.
No guts, no glory.
Some of the more famous athletes are acting as overt whores of the State. They make little video vignettes for propaganda television. They’re “at home with the family,” urging the public to go along with the hammer directives of the State lockdowns, which are destroying millions and millions of lives.
The athletes and the owners and the coaches have fitted themselves into the weave of society at a level that is the ultimate choke.
Where is the team that says NO, WE WON’T GET TESTED, WE WON’T COOPERATE WITH CONTACT TRACING, WE’RE READY TO PLAY, WE’RE NOT BUYING THIS LOCKDOWN.
Where are the sons of bitches of days of yore who went out there and ran and hit and slid and tackled and blocked and fought and clawed for every advantage? These modern-day Sampsons have had haircuts. They’re bald.
I try to imagine what men like Ted Williams and John McGraw would have done and said in the face of a Fauci lockdown warning. It would have been a sight to behold.
There was a time when the men who built cars at the Ford factory—who staged a massive sit-down strike at their work benches and wrestled the right to unionize away from Henry Ford himself—these men would have rushed INTO work, no matter what, if told they had to stay at home and lock themselves in because of a GERM.
Now, like little lambs, the athletes’ unions fold up their tents and obey the governors’ edicts.
Take all the coaches of all the sports in the country—not one of them is saying NO to the lockdowns and the insane directives about distancing and masks. Not one coach among all these tough guys, most of whom are former players, is saying the whole vicious charade is insane and he’s not going to give in.
These athletes have been mind-controlled at a level that is astonishing, given how they used to think and live and play their sports. Their natural impulses to do good have been turned against them, through the magic of years and years of propaganda messaging.
—Now let’s turn from these bald Sampsons to the people of New York.
I was born there. One of my early memories was looking across 2nd Avenue at a candy store. This was 1943. The candy store no longer sold Fleer’s bubble gum—the best bubble gum—because the latex was needed for the War effort. But the rumor was, they peddled it under the counter for an exorbitant two cents a chunk, with the cartoon inside the wrapper.
When I was 22, after growing up in the suburbs, I moved back to NY and for several years lived among some of the smartest asymmetric people in the world. You could have an argument with the dumbest person in the city and it would be a smart argument. Everyone had opinions, and they could back them up. There was no such thing as political correctness, believe me. If you had uttered the phrase, no one would have known what you were talking about.
New York was a great city. The thing was, no one was proud to BE a New Yorker. That false synthetic layer of goo came much later. In the old days, there was no pose, no artificial front. People had ideas, they had talent, they had survival instincts.
The best jazz musicians in the world lived and played in New York. When a giant like Bud Powell was playing at Birdland, you could get in for a dollar and sit in a hard wooden chair and listen to him until two in the morning. A buck for the greatest pianist in the world.
And now, the city is wrecked and boarded up, and the people are locked in.
Out on the street, the few aimless glazed pedestrians wear masks. They’re not the same people. They’re replacements. Pods.
OVERNIGHT, the people of New York could throw off the whole phony pandemic, not only for themselves, but the world. They could come out of their apartments and go back to work, defying the petty little lunatics like Cuomo and De Blasio. They could open up their restaurants and bars and stack in the customers. They could start building again. They could open wide the libraries and museums and fill the concert halls. They could open up the little groceries to all comers. They could laugh in the face of the public health authorities.
And it would be OVER.
In 1962, that’s exactly what would have happened. And not for some cause. Not for the chance to do a little virtue signaling. Not for the sake of “being a New Yorker.” For survival. For continuing to live their lives, people would have shaken off that slimy fraud Fauci like a five-minute bad dream. A joke played by an idiot.
They would have looked at the screaming lockdown headlines in the newspapers on the corner stand and shrugged and gone on their way. “You’re telling me I can’t walk down the street and listen to John Coltrane at the Jazz Gallery on a summer night? You’re out of your mind.” And the Termini brothers, who owned the club, would have packed the place even tighter than usual, just to thumb their noses at the mayor and his con artists. They would have put in a call to their contact at Democratic Machine headquarters. And it would have been OVER.
No one would have obeyed. Independent scholars would have walked into the 42nd St. library, as they did every day, and gone to the reference desk and asked for manuscripts on ancient Roman law and the Walt Whitman papers and the early maps of the city. The quiet upstairs macrobiotic restaurant on 2nd Avenue (1962) would have served supper as usual. The Cedar Bar on University Place would have turned in another raucous night. The Irish bars would have been jammed. A chamber orchestra in Washington Square Park would have performed Vivaldi, with the sounds of traffic from 6th Avenue in the background. Miles Davis would have played at the Apollo. If Ravi Shankar was in town, he would have done a couple of stunning hours of ragas at the Asia Society and adjourned to an East Side apartment to continue on until dawn. No one and nothing would have obeyed a lockdown.
Pandemic? Virus? Get serious.
That New York…where is it? Who are all these one-dimensional super-politicized puny goofs of the city swearing allegiance to the medical fakers? Are they waiting for gold stars on the blackboard from the teacher?
In the old days, New York had DISDAIN. You didn’t get by with platitudes. You didn’t blithely mouth Left or Right and get away with it. The city was plugged into its own non-stop bullshit detector. What did you have to OFFER? Aimless blabbermouths were consigned to a special circle of Hell.
There was no political PROGRAM. Today’s “New Yorkers” would apparently be afraid to live in a landscape like that. They wouldn’t know which way to turn. They have a desperate need to become slaves to an IDEA. In this case, an idea about a virus.
In the 1960s, concealed by the Vietnam War, the city was undergoing a transformation into a cartoon of itself. That’s when the synthetic notion of “being a New Yorker”—based on nothing—started to take hold.
There were many reasons. Mind numbing leveling television. The raising of children to be targets of advertising and fetish objects in a consumer society. The new New Yorkers were taught that liberal politics were a necessary adjunct of their status. Liberal equaled big government. Messaging from every possible quarter was aimed at turning the people of the city into servants of share and care as defined by government…
Going to doctors and acquiring diagnoses of physical and mental conditions was starting to take off as a social trend. It was part of “good behavior” and “being good.” The medicines and the vaccines were, of course, toxic. Street drugs were also trending upward. Although no one wanted to admit it, because “being good for the greater good” was paramount, the city was taking in more immigrants than it could handle. There weren’t enough jobs. Desultory schools were steamrollered. Even skyscraper architecture was moving away from unique structures like the Chrysler and the Empire State, into functional steel and glass boxes. Signs of the minds. “We need more offices so more people can be good workers for good companies.”
With people dumbed down enough, they would fall for any con. Any piece of shiny gloss. And it was provided:
New York media (the greatest communication center in the world) covered the rise of New Money as if it were a perfumed cultural signal of a dawning epoch. By the 1970s, intellectuals in the city were reading hyped chronicles of the emerging $$ stars of Manhattan. Painters, fashioneers, stock speculators. And yes, Trump. The content of these celebs’ output was entirely irrelevant. All that mattered was that it was ringing up extraordinary sales in inflated dollars.
To view how thin and vulnerable new New York had become, and how brainless—when, in 2020, the fake pandemic hit, and lockdowns were announced, the population promptly folded, and went into mask and social distance mode without a whisper of protest.
In short order, the city was made over into abject wreckage, shuttered, obedient, loyal to a psychotic delusion.
In a silly song he recorded long after its internal demise, Frank Sinatra said New York was the city that never sleeps.
Now that’s all it does.
CODA: If the September 11th attacks had happened in 1962, there would have been no need for Billy Joel or the Yankees to rally “all New Yorkers.” The people of the city would have looked at the firemen and cops as human heroes risking everything for other humans. Period. That would have been enough. More than enough. That would have gone deeper into souls and minds. Where it counts.
—Entraining minds. The job of the super-State. Reworking independence into devotion to a synthetic pose of altruism.
But in this phony pandemic, it’s good to be BAD…
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The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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87 comments on “Dispatches from the War: New York, Trump, physical freaks”
Amazing article Jon, I find myself surrounded by altruistic robots who just want to be kind and do their part while all freedoms are being removed. It all starts with the individual, say no to this and take your mind back. Non compliance even if you are the only person or of a few in your community, refuse to bow to this nazis. We have the creative power. FREEDOM
JA says:
Where did you dig up the word nazi for what is happening to America and the world?
Are we going to stay so dumbed down that we cannot see that a young generation of Bolsheviks have risen from the 1917 slaughter in Russia and now are in power in all phases of the four hidden dynasties. EDUCATION,POLITICS, RELIGION, ECONOMICS worldwide?
If you don’t understand what the word Bolshevik means, by all means look it up.
Tearing America (and the world) down to slave states to be included in the United Nation has always been their ultimate dream. The “shock troops” on the streets of Russia were used just like the “shock troops” on the streets of America are now being used. Those shock troops are not the head of the snake. We need to dig deeper to see who the overlords are who are really behind these troops and their end agenda.
George Soros a nazi, hardly. Rothechilds, nazi? The families who own our so called Federal Reserve, nazi? The Senate and Congress Critters who are dual citizens, nazi? Members of the CFR, Tri Lateral Commission, Brookings Institute, nazi? And the list goes on.
There are still a few sites where you can study the Russian Revolution and the truth of how it happened. Eustace Mullins would be a good place to start.
I want to thank Jon for his wonderful insight into what amounts to the taking down of America. We need to be on our knees asking forgiveness for not taking the proper care of this wonderful nation that GOD entrusted us with. We are “paying the piper” for our neglect.
RegretLeft says:
Interesting points – first: I think we should call them what they called themselves: National Socialists. “Nazi” helps our rulers to hide the fact that they were socialists (in a nonstandard way).
But one of the reasons it helps to use “Nazi” in this connection is “Gleicschaltung” “co-ordination” getting everyone to think in the same way to act in the same way and to direct that effort from a centralized power. That’s the topic of today’s very powerful post.
You saved me writing the same response, so thanks!
Manfred says:
Yeah RegretLeft, I’m gonna call BS on that. JA is correct & you are all believing the PsyWar rhetoric that these BOLSHEVIK JEWS are somehow “nazis” when they very clearly ARE NOT! Stop mixing up the “nazi” BS with what is clearly just a modern version of jewish communism now applied globally. Believe whatever version of programmed virtual reality you like about the man called Adolf Hitler but one thing is glaringly clear – he (and many others, see example that follows) was right about the jews!
And now for just one example of MANY quotes throughout history (because this one says it so well).
Mr. Ouderdyke, the Representative of the Netherlands Government in St, Petersburg, who was in charge of British interests after the liquidation of the British Embassy by the Bolsheviks, sent in a report to Mr. Balfour. “I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the greatest issue now before the world, not even excluding the war which is still raging, and unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe, and the whole world, as it is organized and worked by jews, who have no nationality, and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things.” British Government White Paper. April 1919.
Lol, ah we have actual Nazis posting on this blog now, and John approves their messages. Delightful place you’re running here.
Yea, it’s ‘The Jews’ (TM) that are all out to get you. The mental gymnastics one must do to reach this conclusion is truly remarkable. It requires one to ignore 98% of the other ‘bad actors’, and laser focus on a tiny minority, and using half-baked references from a century ago, at that. Please tell the class just how many of the ‘Jews’ are in on it? All of them, I’m guessing? All the while one must misrepresent both historical facts, instead apply logical fallacies, and attribute a single mindset to an entire group (which is called the fallacy biased generalization), all in some lame attempt to obviate any personal responsibility from yourselves or any of your own ‘leaders’. Next you’ll be plucking quotes out of the ‘protocols’, cause everyone knows THAT was the real one, right?
Yea, Hitler was a great guy. He just wanted to hand out lollies and teddy bears. The holocaust never happened either, he was tricked into invading Poland. Hell even those Catholics he murdered were just collatorsl damage, that was an accident, he only wanted unlimited Sauerkraut for them.
Invading Russia? Pffft, that was a brilliant piece of war-time strategy, historians are liars, he wasn’t a categorical schizophrenic; after-all, he was just setting up table massages and tennis games for the over-privileged inmates wherever his army went. He wanted to pamper them and their countries, amiright?
Or, maybe he was just getting revenge on all those vile authoritarians that wanted to remove the individual, his freedom, his sense of self, those who would make the State God in its own right and remove their own authority…oh wait, or was that him…
Lemme guess, you watched “The greatest story never told”, yet never bothered to read the actual historical documentation that unequivocally proves that idiotic conjecture piece is twisted nonsense.
Alas, you’ve never read the actual documents, instead you’ll parrot bologna from conspiracy or nazi propaganda books. There are documents, you realize, actual historians have them, right? There are unsealed records everywhere. You actually believe their was some grand conspiracy to make Hitler look bad by everyone else, including every historian ever, and he dindo nuffins and was misunderstood?
Ah, it must be that only Eustace Mullins (lol seriously?! That guy was a moron that wrote for gullible fools and withheld verifiable references and used selective cherry-pickling of information) that knows the truth. Nevermind those questionable, unverifiable-references and cum hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning, cause we all know it’s the Jews, and Hitler’s legit, amiright?
It’s really incredible that every few decades this nonsense makes its rounds. It’s a myth for the simply minded, the feeble willed, for those without the fortitude to look beyond ‘conspiracy’ literature to take the time to study actual, in-depth State records. Nah, it’s easer to go with historical half-truths, selective observations, and deliberate withholding of contrary exculpatory evidence.
I’m ashamed to have once been a fan of this site, Rappaport. People like this use ‘free speech’ as a cover to spread lies, fallacies, blatantly biased and unproven accusatory nonsense, and you’re approving of it.
Maybe the virus is real after-all (its not, but let’s play). And if it’s not, I don’t care, I wouldn’t want to be associated with people like these if only ‘they’ have the answers, nor would the other 99% of the country. Thus, the ‘based’ will be forever relegated to the freak show car on the train to the otherworld.
AK in VT says:
And the Bolsheviks loved the Jews? I believe more Jews were killed by Lenin and Stalin without a war than Hitler’s war machine killed.
By the way, though Hitler did not “love” the Jews, he kept some Jews in his government and in high business: so long as they followed the program of 3rd Reich imperialism.
Mainly, Hitler was after the Ashkenazim Jews who came out of current Kazakhstan area after the entire nation was “converted” to Judaism by their king. The following invasion across Asia by the Huns and Mongols pushed the Ashkenazim out of central Asia and into Eastern and Central Europe: these became known as the Yiddish.
Some of the Ashkenazim became money lenders (we now call them “bankers”): perhaps they learned the system of banking and paper fiat (money on demand) from Genghis Khan’s Mongol invasion. Anyway, as they had a lot of money (especially during the Great Depression), they would attract the attention of someone needing money to start a war: a la Hitler.
The Sephardim were pretty much left alone and mainly occupy the Iberian peninsula and Morocco. They are thought to be of Middle Eastern and Egyptian heritage.
And lastly, Manfred, “Love your enemy,” even if he is a “Bolshevik Jew.” There is no place for hatred.
AK in VT
letmepicyou says:
Ahh, a Rothchild scholar. “Rothschild Money Trust” is a favorite book of mine. When it comes to the Russian revolution, I like to go straight to the result because it paints the best picture of communism and it’s evils. What are your thoughts on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? “The Gulag Archipelago” ?
Solzhenitsyn historical account of the take over of Russia by the Bolsheviks and the truth of the slaughter that followed cannot be matched.
He tells the true account of what happened there. the holocaust of the true Russian people.
Another author is Juri Lina if you can still find his pdf of The Trail of the Serpent. So much truth is being scrubbed from the internet, I have not tried to find it lately.
Ask yourself who and why all this information is becoming impossible to find on the internet. Who is afraid of the truth?
Starting down the “rabbit hole” is a scary journey but it is better than being a ‘sheeple’ in this day and age.
Excellent writing, but I believe predicated on nostalgia more than honest reflection.
Alternatively, the War of the Worlds broadcast in ’38 immunized a generation or two to mob-hysteria (doubtful).
Thankful says:
You are one of the few out there speaking the truth. Thank you your keeping me sane in an insane world.
ReluctantWarrior says:
The Quantum Tempest
Harper Eliot
We are children of the quantum tempest
Delivered from the womb of oblivion
Who did in Kronos’ game invest
The mystery of fair Elysium.
Like the lonely rose bud
Atop an angry whirl of thorns
We arose from dirt and mud
From which our beauty born.
Tho the stars arrange our fate
On this lonely earthen plane
We can pass through hell’s gate
Transcending our mortal pain.
Life is but a quizzical game
That challenge heart and soul,
To the demons of deceit tame
With the beauty that time stole.
Tho the atomic sculptures elemental
Seem void of all life
They are alive with creative potential
Fighting the headwinds of entropic strife.
Particles winking in and out of existence
Denizens of the quantum void
Telling the story of love’s painful persistence
With rosy cheeks coy.
And out of this cosmic maelstrom
Arose the forms sublime
That formed our mortal hellstrom
Partners in love’s capricious conspiracy of time.
And as my soul slides down to die
I can see life’s meaning
In my beloved’s eyes
Filled with the love that we are dreaming.
And as I walk my long green mile
I have learned one thing for sure
That the sirens of mad love do beguile
Even the heart most pure.
And lashed to the mast of life
I drink the sweet melodies of eternity
That doth the soul make ripe
For it’s glorious fated destiny.
This was great. I honestly hope you will make more of these articles. A lot of people that remember the old ways and days of the US are either dead or on the brain dead side. How can the youth be expected to fight for what’s better if the better they knew was crap from the day they were born? Thank you, be blessed.
Jeffrey S Hagen says:
Bravo- I am not a New Yorker, yet I got the taste of what it meant to be part of that city years past.
We are not all asleep- We must keep on punching
and how do the Sheeple not see the same thing in the creature Fauci?
Despicable liar.
TY Jon
This…. This post is exceptional. Thank you.
Dave Freedom says:
Best article that I have read in a while, and you write a lot of good ones Jon.
Jeffrey A. Friedberg says:
Opus Magnum.
JV says:
One athlete did stand up…Novak Djokovic. And boy did he pay the price. They are smashing him into oblivion now.
The other “virtue signaling” or whatever to call it that gets me is the commercials showing how “brave”, “courageous” those “fighting” cancer and other diseases are. For someone a little love starved, there is no better way to feel worthy and loved…
Tom_12 says:
Glad you brought this up. The “infection” has spread everywhere in terms of control of Society. Even if a club wanted to allow clients to come to listen without masks and distancing the owner would have the Health Dept. on their neck in no time. I dare say, no one would help them when the business would be run into bankrupts from fines, constant controls and contact tracing just to scare off the braves ones friends who would be in their chain of known people.
I fear we are in midst of “1984”
Eluard says:
Jon, I rarely swear in voice or print but:
This is a GREAT FUCKING PIECE.
Jeezus H., what HAPPENED to my beloved New Yawk City??? The fire, the dazzle, the no bullshit, the caring concealed by brashness? Oh, man….
You’re rocking it brother. You truly and really are.
As a jazz musician and fan I envy that you lived through NYC in the 50’s and 60’s.
Pisces says:
I agree with most of the article, but what’s the point in trying to tell Trump what to do, hoping for he’s going to listen and re-open the economy of the country as if it’s that simple? “Trump, you need to do this and do that in order to do this…” Do you know how annoying it would sound to you if you were in his position?
Reminiscing about the ‘good old days’ and comparing the past with the present is also meaningless, because we’re in a very different time right now. People are different. Talking about how awesome people were back then won’t bring them back. I’m sure that if people back then were constantly exposed to toxins at the same level with people are being exposed to in this day and age, there wouldn’t be much of a difference between the mentality of young people back then and young people now, because it’s the poisonous substances they deliberately put into the food and water supply that are making people weak. It’s cause and effect. The cause is poison/toxins and the effect is weak mentality, etc.
Jon Rappoport, you shouldn’t write articles to ridicule other people and only write articles to raise people’s awareness… Nah, I’m just kidding. I’m writing this stupid comment just to show you how annoying it is to be told what to do or what not to do by other random people..
Good luck with telling the president what to do. Seriously. I’m not being sarcastic, I hope he can read your articles and act accordingly.
Rick Potvin in Phoenix AZ says:
BUD POWELL PLAYING LIVE in COPENHAGAN 1962
Jon: The best jazz musicians in the world lived and played in New York. When a giant like Bud Powell was playing at Birdland, you could get in for a dollar and sit in a hard wooden chair and listen to him until two in the morning. A buck for the greatest pianist in the world.UNQUOTE Here’s a sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaSDinL6pC8
TOXINS MIGHT BE BEING INCREASED
Piksil wrote QUOTE “I’m sure that if people back then were constantly exposed to toxins at the same level with people are being exposed to in this day and age, there wouldn’t be much of a difference between the mentality of young people back then and young people now, because it’s the poisonous substances they deliberately put into the food and water supply that are making people weak. It’s cause and effect. The cause is poison/toxins and the effect is weak mentality, etc.”UNQUOTE <<<<THIS!<<<>> Increases pH to alkaline
I found out that the effect of HCQ++ is to RAPIDLY decrease the ACIDITY of a body which correlates not with a non-existent virus but rather with the activity of janitorial exosomes that are created and activated to rid the body of toxins. The effect of HCQ++ is to raise the pH which decreases the immediate anti-toxic-work of the exosomes– thus shutting down symptoms. The toxins remain in the body however and still need to be cleared at some point. The best therapy is LONG TERM ALKALINE/acid balance but ulimately the toxins must be cleared.
NECK FAN, 5G PROTECTION, DETOX, ALKALINITY
Therapeutic use of HCQ++ and oxygen concentrators as-seen-on-TV for seniors… and non-pressurized use of ventilators (because weak lungs is not the problem– it’s lack of oxygen presense) would be a start. Longer terms involves detoxification with less exposure to pollution (Jon’s correct several articles about that including cyanide, fluoride, food pesticides like glyphosates) and detox supplements like chelation, foot pad anti-toxic pads. Longer term use of alkaline foods so acidic environment for harmful bacteria and parasites is reduced. American diet has become too acid. NO Nitric Oxide boosts oxygen in the system with beet juice and other supplements.
This is the first time I listened to Bud Powell. Thanks for the link. He’s good, but to say that he’s the best pianist in the world is one’s personal opinion. I guess it depends on which genre you like the most to choose your favorite musician. I like classical music, and to me, the best pianist in the world is Martha Argerich. Everything about how she plays a piano is perfect, in my opinion. The musicality, the balance of how she’s pressing the keys, the delicatness, the energy, etc. etc. everything is mastered to perfection. Here’s an example of why I think she’s the best pianist:
(It gets intense at around 5:45)
https://youtu.be/_0RpoflsaUM
Here’s another one. So many people prefer Pollini’s interpretation of this piece, but Martha’s interpretation is my favorite. She made it sound so effortless and this was recorded live:
https://youtu.be/jg91_MDzo7s
And to reply to the last part of your comment succinctly, I agree with you on the importance of balancing the pH of the blood.
And I’m not Piksil, btw.
PISCES PIANO MUSIC & CREATIVE THINKING
You’re right– the classical music allows me to think bigger ideas! Part of the problem with schools is they dropped the music appreciation listening courses. It really develops something important in thinking ability. Went through both– great!
MORE TOXINS & MALADIES WITH COVID SYMPTOMS
There is no virus. There is not even an engineered virus. There are exosomes created by cells, internally, as part of the immune system to get rid of toxins and deal with damage. Toxins– including damage from 5G, 4G, wifi, cyanide, fluoride in the water which can be increased anytime they want to instantly sabotage city water supplies– and arsenic increasingly in wine and rice 7X the regulation level… Jons idea previously is that covid is an umbrella to cover all of those. Here are more toxins that have symptoms they’re LABELLING as covid-virus.
TOXIN: GLYPHOSATE SYMPTOM: HYPOXIA
Glyphosate is ubiquitous: it’s not only a major contaminant in food, but it’s also been found in soil, rivers, lakes, streams, and groundwater, and in blood, urine, and breast milk. It’s in rain and in the air and in lung tissue…. In high doses, it is clear that glyphosate has a profound damaging effect on the lungs, even when taken orally. We know that a farmer who tried to commit suicide by drinking a cup of a glyphosate-containing herbicide formulation developed a precipitous drop in blood pressure along with hypoxia, respiratory distress, and acute pulmonary edema within a short time of admission to the hospital [16]….Is this all just coincidence? I don’t think so. Instead, I strongly suspect that the degree to which a person is susceptible to COVID-19 is proportional to the degree to which they have been exposed to glyphosate…The United States has stood out as the country hit the hardest by COVID-19. We also consume more glyphosate per capita than any other country in the world…
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=17137
TOXIN : COPD … SYMPTOM: Shortness of BREATH
A meta-analysis of seven studies involving 1,813 COVID-19 patients reported several statistics on associations between ICU admission and various risk factors [17]. Shortness of breath was the strongest symptom linked to the infection. COPD was the most strongly predictive comorbidity for both severe disease and ICU admission.
TOXIN: VAPING SYMPTOM: Shortness of BREATH
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that heat a liquid and deliver an aerosolized product to the user. Recently, an epidemic has emerged in the U.S. of an unusual lung disease, clearly linked to the use of e-cigarettes, otherwise known as “vaping.”…“The most common respiratory symptoms were shortness of breath (85%), cough (85%), and chest pain (52%). Reported gastrointestinal symptoms included nausea (66%), vomiting (61%), diarrhea (44%), and abdominal pain (34%). All patients had one or more constitutional symptoms, with the most common being subjective fever (84%). Upper respiratory symptoms such as rhinorrhea, sneezing, or congestion were not commonly reported.” [18, my emphasis].
TOXIN: absence of toxins due to organic nation BHUTAN SYMPTOMS: absence
Why no COVID-19 in Bhutan? Bhutan is a landlocked country in the East Himalayas, bordered by Tibet and India. The population of Bhutan is a little over 807,000 people. As of this writing in early April 2020, only four cases of COVID-19 have been reported for Bhutan, two of whom were visiting foreigners. Bhutan has embraced the ambitious goal of becoming the world’s first 100% organic nation [38]. Is it possible that there is so little COVID-19 because Bhutan’s people aren’t being over-exposed to glyphosate?
Viktoria says:
Deliberately and intentionally putting toxins (poisons) in food, drink (roofies, aspartame) etc., water (flouride), and pharmaceuticals and other poisons is really a declaration of war. Mass-poisoners, still at large….
Piksil says:
Pisces (and Rick)
Yeah, I sure didn’t remember saying that!
But, that’s OK, it’s a good statement.
I’m glad my memory isn’t as bad as I (can or can’t) remember!
“Covid-19 isn’t simply a virus to be dealt with so we can move on with our lives. The response to this event is meant to instill fear and an acceptance of indefinite authoritarian measures.”
Allison McDowell, Amay 17, 2020; wrenchinthegears.com
Some good stuff over there.
Hey Pisces,
Thanks for bringing up memories of my grandmother — pianist extraordinaire. Seeing the young lady, Martha Argerich, playing with her dark hair and central European looks reminded me of my Polish grandmother, Helen, who once played at Little Carnegie Theatre in the 1930’s. She got married young and her husband (my grandfather) died young of cirrhosis of the liver from hard drinking. so her career ended in her early 20’s as she had my young father to look after.
Loved to hear her play, most especially when she was in her 60s and 70s and many hard years of life and playing piano crippled her hands with arthritis and goiter. She could still roll out Chopin (her favourite) to everyone’s delight. Still miss her after 25 years of having passed away.
Thank you, again
BS Detector says:
And what would the repeated vaccinations the stooges (no offense to the comedy troupe or later rock group) accomplish? Load folks up with MORE toxins. Then blame another “pathogen” for how sick and disabled they get from all these poisons. Rinse and repeat… unless TOO many people catch on, at least. That’s were we come in.
Just like poliomyelitis, which skyrocketed as the food supply in the US was poisoned with pesticides that kill insects by paralysis, such as lead arsenate (a compound of lead and arsenic, wunnderful), benezene hexachloride (the peak of which use the peak incidence of poliomyelitis followed like a shifted image), and of course good ‘ol DDT.
It decreased as those pesticides were withdrawn from use, which happened to just about coincide with the vaccine for the harmless enterovirus that was blamed for the paralytic condition caused by the poisons. but not quite. Poliomyelitis was on the decline a couple years before the vaccine came into use. Good try, pharma, but you didn’t cover your tracks quite well enough.
BS Detector:
Don’t forget that, in spite of declining numbers prior to its release, the polio vaccine caused a surge in cases.
And I think the majority of ‘wild’ polio cases in the present are vaccine related.
Did anyone see Fuck-si (did I spell that right?) and his statement on HCQ, that it’s never been subjected to a randomized, placebo controlled trial, “the gold standard”?
What an effen hypocrite!!!! No vaccine has EVER been rpct’d. Nobody (CON-gress, the media) called him out on this at warp speed??
But, he won’t make $$ from HCQ. He will from a vaccine though. Lot$. (Yes, I realize ‘vaccines’ are considered biologics, not drugs, so they had them exempted from testing. But that was a coup, not science.)
Of course poliomyelitis cases increased in response to the vaccine. Loading toxic bodies with MORE toxins will do that.
The evidence is all too clear. It had nothing to do with the poor ‘ol harmeless enterovirus that was framed to the point it was named for the disease. Nothing at all. Indigenous people who had 100% poliovirus infection rates, and nearly 100% of 3 strains, had no paralytic disease; whereas service people from the US in the same areas did. Thanks to the toxic pesticides they used and toxic food brought from home. They’d have been better off chowing down on larvae with the natives.
Sure, double-standards abound. Just like vaccine believers who base the very notion that “vaccines have saved millions” on the presumption that correlation implies causation regarding the decline of diseases and vaccination (ah, but the death rates due to non-vaccinable diseases declined just as surely and the introduction of the vaccines had no noticeable effect on the death rates of vaccinable diseases), are so quick to say “correlationdoes not imply causation” regarding the concurrent proliferation of chronic illness, especially in children, with the proliferation and earlier administration of their childhood vaccines. Conditions which unvaccinated kids in the very same areas incur at a several times lesser rate.
To quote Spock: These humans are highly illogical.
BS D:
Live long and prosper. (Don’t get a vaccine)
🖖🏻
Hi Rick, Excellent point about pollution and toxins. Here in Vermont where there is a strong local food movement (it’s a bit more expensive than the supermarkets, though), and where the air and water are quite clean, we have one of the lowest per capita death rates attributed to fake “covid,” as well as the third fewest deaths and fewest “infections.”
More than half of our deaths have been at nursing and long-term care homes where one knows these very sick and elderly have been poisoned with toxins while residents of these “waiting places,” as well as many of them lived for decades in polluted cities before coming to retire in our beautiful state. It is no wonder these are the people dying in Vermont and so very few otherwise.
John Carter says:
in Fact the majority of people went to war in Vietnam because they were told to – that they were protecting the US from communism it took most of them a long to figure out the truth,, some never did – same sheep different issues.
Pisces, although you do have a valid point, I think it’s important to take notice of a few recent developments: It was shortly after Jon started writing his articles to Trump that Trump started really challenging the Covid narrative. It could have been coinsidence, but there could also be some weight to that.
I will say that after this new set of articles started appearing, I am seeing Jon’s work pop up far more than I have since this whole thing started.
So while I do agree it often doesn’t help to tell people what they *should* do, the president is a man with many advisors, and I believe Trump is smart enough to use them. He just needs a lot of better ones than the many he has.
No matter what, change is happening, finally, and that gives me more hope.
Bala Bala Das (Bruce Hatcher) says:
You are hitting on all cylinders, Jon. So much quotable material, i hardly know where to start. Your old self is shinning thru today. I am constantly stunned, on how folks are so easily manipulated. Thank you Jon, for being you Like Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson) sung – “Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding”.
Brit says:
He just did the 33rd Production Act!
Defended his son against twitter
AND started re-campaigning.
I think he is trying, its just not as if robots will obey his every whim. To the contrary, the resistance he receives is one of the checks and balances of what some people tried to ingrain in governmental appartus.
Low Voltage says:
Hope springs eternal. LOL
A petition is out urging him to sign an executive order mandating freedom of choice regarding vaccinations. What, if anything, he does with that will tell where he really stands and if he has balls enough to do what is best for Americans.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/NirvanaNevermindalbumcover.jpg
scooter says:
Amen, Jon. Amen.
rivercity says:
To me, some comments that dwell on stylistic aspects of this piece (as excellent as it is), miss the impact of the 3rd paragraph. It well states that WE ARE AT THE END OF THE LINE. There is nothing more to add. TRUMP – no where to be found. Despite impassioned articles and appeals for response from this White House – basic liberty has not even been broached from the Presidential podium!
https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/1289271534154952704
2005 Article from Virology Journal, a journal of Fauci’s NIH, saying chloroquine effect for treatment and prevention of coronavirus cases.
Which coronavirus? The one which has never been shown to cause any disease? The causation is assumption. Modern scientists find what their minds say must be there. But the presence of a “Virus” (for which PCR and antibody tests are woefully inaccurate) is simply thought to be a cause, when it (if it is present) can be effect.
BoogeymanSlayer says:
Agree. I worked in the medical field in the USAF in the 70s. I worked in their largest hospital and I worked with dozens of doctors and countless patients. Not once was a virus text ever utilized to diagnosis an illness. Let me repeat that. Not once was a virus test ever utilized to diagnose an illness. We used patient interviews, physical exams, lab tests, lab cultures, x-rays, etc, but never any test to detect ANY virus.
This entire hoax gave me the opportunity to reflect back to scan my memory on that. I never even heard of a lab test or results that proved any virus whatsoever.
Pft says:
That crowd in 1962 didn’t exactly wake up when their President got snuffed by the mob in 1963. That mob rules us today.
The Dons been owned and an intelligent asset since 1987. His property was used to wash dirty money and he provided intelligence on the buyers. Trumps been in on the scam since the beginning, starting from day 1 of his Presidency. Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric and fake wrestling
The owners of all these sports teams, most of them Kompromat themselves, will be bailed out. They know it. The players have never been known for their IQ’s and their unions have sold out to the leagues as most private sector unions have. Same thing with most major companies, Larry Fink of Black Rock served them notice in January. Cooperate or he pulls his 7 trillion in investments. Now he is in charge of doling out the trillions of the Feds candy to cooperating companies
As for the people themselves. Dumbed down over 40 years with drugs, entertainment, vaccines and RF/EMR damaged, and common core victims. IQ’s and sperm counts have plummeted. Half of what they believe is false. Maybe more. So divided amongst themselves they wouldn’t know who the real enemy is. Most of them have replaced their brain with their party’s talking points, they wouldn’t know how to think for themselves. Most have not read a non fiction book in years not having yo do with diets , sports or food and cant communicate beyond short moronic tweets
Elections? Forget about them. One party forever. Make the Trumper King with Ivanka to follow as Queen. At least then people will know who to blame. Back in the day Kings and Queens knew they had to deliver or they would lose their heads. Twas a great motivator. Of course, the people they led were smarter and tougher then.
Bring out the Lady to sing that final song. Its over
Barf Crackhole says:
JFK wasn’t off by the mob. He faked his own death. See “The Hidden Kings” by Miles Mathis
hhi says:
Great article by Jon and superb reply – you nailed it
Larry C says:
I’m gonna remember that one!
Whenever utter bullshit is considered “good”, it’s good to be bad.
useless eater says:
RE: jazz in NYC during these dark, inhumane scam-/plandemic days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sntho7ww5VA – mike moreno quartet performing in masks @smalls (2020.07.10.) – rehearsal-cum-broadcast concert w/o live audience
…show starts rougly at 15.48 min.
Karl Pomeroy says:
Fantastic smooth jazz. Reminds me of the fusion from the !970’s. Some people JUST KEEP LIVING 🙂
We Will Not Be Silenced.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyVeUrYG-s
http://www.freedomplatform.tv
From Elsewhere says:
99% podpeople wait for those 1% counted as sick to justify the lockdowns and 30% GDP drop? This is madness! I hope your fury spreads, Jon, thank you for it.
joe grimes says:
jon, the last of the vanguard leaving the city, looks over his shoulder. and a tear runs down his face. he mumbles where is john gault!
This “pandemic” is sillier than a hoax. It’s a prank. Some secret club, like Skull & Bones or The Masons, has finally figured out how to take over the world. They are slapping their thighs at their own success, bleating with laughter that the world is wearing masks at their behest. We need to devote our efforts to finding out who these pranksters are. I’d even appeal to the Rothsch**ds for help, if I knew their email address. LET’S GET THIS DAMN THING OVERWITH.
CLUE: HOW THE TRICK IS DONE
quote “Here is one example of how the trick may play out. A toxin creates a disease. The toxin might be pesticides or industrial pollution or wireless technology radiation. The toxin damages millions of people and their communities. Companies or their insurance provider may be liable for civil or criminal violations. Then a virus is blamed. A “cure” is found in a “vaccine.” The pesticide or other toxic exposure is halted just as the vaccine is introduced, and presto, the sickness goes away. The vaccine is declared a success, and the inventor is declared a hero. A potential financial catastrophe has been converted to a profit, including for investors and pension funds. As a portfolio strategist, I admit it has been a brilliant trick and likely has protected the insurance industry from the bankrupting losses it would experience if it had to fairly compensate the people and families destroyed.”http://stateofthenation.co/?p=22866
Poliomyelitis, The Remix.
Just to let you know, Rick, State of the Nation has been my favorite website for a long time. Chief editor Michael Thomas has profound insight into the workings of global power. Yes, there are ways this trick can be done. Some of these secret societies are huge. Good quote, BTW.
Liberal Mast says:
I hope Biden wins becouse he knows where he is !
Just like Fauchi, it would be the greatest team in 2021 !
The MAST is there !
The Mast
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1289215154899435522
DarL says:
Does anyone remember when fluoride was introduced in the water supplies? How back does that go? It is all the chemicals and toxins as many have stated. Which has produced to the following quote:
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” Aristotle
Great article Jon..loved reading about NY past.
JohnQPublic says:
I believe fluoride began to be added to water in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s based on bogus science, perhaps originated from the nuclear weapons research and production with a waste product of uranium fluoride. I think Jon Rappoport here wrote some articles on it so you may want to check his archives. You can also search for the Flouride Action Network for more information.
just sayin says:
Great article. “In this phony pandemic it’s good to be bad” you said. Isaiah said, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent (clever) in their own sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked (declare innocent) for reward (bribes) and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Isaiah 5:20-23 KJV “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD. Proverbs 17:15 KJV. I know your not Christians but the greatest wisdom ever written is in the Bible.
100% Truth.
Doug Ronald says:
Good, and important essay, thank you. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s and gained much of my education from daily reading of all the newspapers and newspaper columnists I could. You are cut from the same cloth.
Sadly, I’m afraid that the next inflection point, if nothing can be found to turn this nonsense around now, is a lot farther down the hill. Eventually, slaves begin to realize they’ve lost their freedom, and only then might they realize how dear it is.
Then they may rise up and regain what is being so ignorantly given away now. But of course it won’t be an easy battle. There will be much loss, many casualties.
I pray that you and I are wrong about the inevitability of our losses.
lamberth says:
What I’ve been saying for months now.
We live in an inverted reality, where everything is upside-down, back-to-front and inside-out.
Truth? We don’t need no stinking truth!
The Twilight Zone.
And not just NY. World-wide.
bleak says:
It’s interesting to hear about NYC before I got there in 79. That “synthetic notion of ‘being a New Yorker'”. Did it lead to the ‘I LOVE NEW YORK’ campaign? I don’t doubt it.
Is there a pattern? Is this ‘segregation through pride’ the trap? Isn’t BLM of the same fabric?
We need new swag that says I MISS NEW YORK. I do miss it and I did love it. I lived in all five boroughs at one time or another and at multiple locations in each borough. The fate of many starving musicians.
Speaking of BLM, is the slogan “Black Lives Matter” a coincidence?
BeLluM.
Punch “bellum” into wikipedia and see what you get.
I’ll be damned…now *that* is interesting. (Coincidence?)
Moshe Sopher says:
GLOBALISTS ON THE RUN
The mind control of the sheeple is incisive and pervasive. While science has progressed to staggering heights, the minds of the masses have shrunk, when, science, as a liberating force, should’ve ripped off the shackles of illusions and delusions.
Deep State has an army of trolls in media, government and businesses that shut down dissent by labelling anyone a “crackpot” who questions or exposes the official narrative. It goes further when truthers get the sack from jobs or forced into mental asylums to shut them up and to terrorise others who face off with the elites.
Crass materialisn has spawned acquisitive hedonistic tendencies that value comfort over valor, fiction over fact and compliance over confrontation. A population that has largely lost its natural capacity of critical thinking and defence mechanism against lies is easy to manipulate and control even if it means engineering a global faux drama that destroys the economy and snatches fundamental rights because most of the dumbed down sheep go along with it.
Nevertheless, tens of millions around the world have awoken to the covid19 farce and tens of millions more are fast waking up as they sense something is gravely wrong.
With the hoax exposed and with twns of millions of people vociferously demasking the coronahoax, the Globalists are backtracking as seen in their switch from military conflicts to cold war.
The July 18, 2020, edition of the Rothschild owned The Economist has on its coverpage a flag of China with the Eye of Horus on it and the bold title: Trade Without Trust (How The West Should Do Business With China). Other articles moan about how bad it is for students to stay at home. These are clear hints that the world has entered or is entering the Globalist scripted Cold War phase while regional wars and world war have been sidelined.
Bill Gates confirmed that the covid19 vaccine trials are adversely affecting recipients who complained of high fever, chills, tremors and severe body pain. Polls suggest that over 50% of Americans are wary of the vaccine and oppose it. In Africa, too, people are organising themselves to resist mass vaccination as word of its genocidal potential spreads.
The Globalists thrive on ignorance.
Now that their game is exposed the Globalists are evidently backing off fearing a massive backlash that could mean murder of key Globalists and their lackeys at the hands of livid patriots and factarians.
Like plans for war have been put into the bin, the vaccination drive, too, will be put on hold or shelved in the coming weeks as opposition swells.
The Globalists are not omnipotent or omniscient..they’re a bunch of evil doers that are headed for a mighty fall including assassination.
The world should limp back to near normal by year end or the first quarter of 2021.
Yeppers! In order to boil frogs in water without them getting a clue and jumping out, the heat has to be turned up slowly.
In this great big stew of doo-doo they have turned up the heat too high too quickly, and in doing so have awakened many of the frogs, who are leaping out en masse like a great big chain reaction.
It is the one mercy of those who are intoxicated with power that they are also blinded by it, and tend to overplay their hand, just like a drunk at a poker table.
Censorship efforts only cause the awakened to shake their heads in disgust or disgusted amusement.
The jig is up. And not a moment too soon.
SPIRITUAL FRONT
I’m atheist but a group of dedicated Jewish spiritualists with a visble golden glow radiating from tbeir faces and whose deepest prayers and wushes almost always materialise have assured me that the evil of the elites won’t last and that the divine consent to judge the world has been withdrawn and soon we should witness a reversal in the misfortunes of the world. They emphasised that the divine fiat now favors a return to normal after testing/punishing the world for 4 long and torturous months via lockdown and economic collapse.
I withold judgement and await the evidence but the recent marked move from plans for military conflicts to implementation of cold war in the world gives me a glimmer of hope of the rosy prediction of the Jewish spiritualists referred to earlier and besides as science knows nothing about consciousness and its deeper functions, well, the spiritual dimension could exist as rarefied states of consciousness leading to a singularity of mass-energy-consciousness (G-d).
Ah yes,
But the true GOD states when you hear peace, peace, peace, that is when you had better be a WATCHMAN. We are living in the “Generation of the fig Tree”. When Jesus stated “LEARN THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE ” HE MEANT IT!
Whatever transpires in the coming days know that the true GOD is directing the outcome, however painful it may seem.
When you see G-D know they are not talking about the GOD in the Bible. Peruse Jewism101.com if you have any doubt.
Moshe, I like the positive message. Mystical political pundit Sacha Stone said recently that we have already won the war against the global ruling elite, that they are being massively exposed, and that victory is playing out in the real world, soon to be evident to all.
Benjamin Martin says:
Great article. Tragic indeed that things could be turned around overnight…but almost certainly will not be. But not everyone is truly brain-dead or brainwashed on this issue. Most people, perhaps, it would appear so, but a small proportion are well awake and know that they have a hell of a job ahead of them.
Really nails it, especially the point about using bogus “altruism” to lead people by their noses.
Just assuming for the sake of argument the illness is even having the effect it is said by big corporate media to have; if anyone told me our once great nation would be locked down on account of an illness that is less deadly than a bad flu for anybody but the very unhealthy and/or very old, I’d have thought they had completely lost their mind.
Instead multitudes of people have lost their minds… and their guts. Or have been tricked out of them, as the case may be. Even many who should know better, but have conned by the “altruistic” spin.
But there are also many who see the emperor’s clothes for what they are, and are not fooled one bit. And as the absurdity of this becomes clearer, our numbers are growing.
I, for one, am more adamant than ever. And I’m far from alone.
anonymous4u4me says:
I’m from Jersey and about your age, all I can say is, those were the days my friend we thought they would never end. Great people, great food (the best) great fun and great entertainment. Said what was on your mind, got things done. I miss them, enjoyed your article one of my favorites. Thanks for the memories.
SanityClaus says:
Edward Bernays is not the father of modern propaganda.
Aristotle is the father of all rhetoric and politics. He invented them to serve his boss Alexander the murdering cunt from Macedonia, THE SON OF GOD.
Machiavelli and Bernays are mere practicioners of the art of bullshit invented by Aristotle.
ambrosa mihai-cristian says:
Hi Jon, I enjoy reading your posts, just brilliant.
I have a comment on the whole pandemic hoax. Here it is: there’s a pattern, a pattern since the beginning of times — a new religion, a new god with false prophets and “thy” name is covid. Let’s all hope there will not be wars between believers and nonbelievers!!! This is what they want.
“You take
a direct ideal—
humans helping
other humans—
and you twist it
into papier mache
and plastic
and cartoons
and deflating politeness
and robothood
and automatic reflex
and stimulus response.”
Come on you raver,
You seer of visions
Come on you painter,
You piper, & shine
~ Pink Floyd
Both Mind & Music
Form & Fashion.
Dig this:
ALIVE in a Lighted City…
https://youtu.be/D97gP-1zyqQ
I enjoyed that.
I am learning that we are in a commercially based world. And if that is true, then all of these mandates and executive orders by mayors and governors and presidents are merely offers. Business offers I guess. And there is a way to counter offer them. Direct refusal isnt appropriate and may have bad consequences, from the dictators. Conditional acceptance to their offer of Anything is supposed to be the appropriate and actual legal and way to stay honorable in our system and puts them in checkmate. Ive recently learned some stuff from our Australian freedom lovers on how to do this and they are having success. I just sent the white house, Trump, ect a conditional acceptance of the vacs if they can prove to me this that and another then I will take them and if I do get sick from them or die, you owe me big time compensation for it, sign right here. Its that simple, but there is a protocol.
Thanks for that story Jon. Another great, great one.
John Dugan says:
I had similar thoughts when, through serendipity, after another depressing evening of absorbing current events, I came across the story of Sonora Carver. She was a horse diver at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. The horse would come running up a ramp, Sonora could jump on in mid-gallop, then the horse and rider would plunge 40 feet into a pool of water. When she 27, she had an awkward jump, landed face first and went blind. Later, Disney made a movie about her life. Sonora told her sister, “The only thing true in that movie was that I rode diving horses, I went blind, and I continued to do the dive for another 11 years.” That she did. What on earth happened to the country that used to produce people like Sonora Webster Carver?
Arby says:
“Mao and Stalin and Lenin”? Bill Gates et al are perfect capitalists. What is capitalism? Or better yet, what kind of system do we have? We have state capitalism, aka socialism for the rich. Just to be clear. The only free market you ever see, anywhere, is at your garage sale or local farmers’ market.
Covid Cult, prime members of the CULT leadership, Bill Gates and Fauci. If you don’t believe in this new CULT, the CULT of the brainwashed ideology will have you in quarantines, perpetual imprisonment, perpetual poverty, incremental artificial food scarcity/toilet paper, and supply line shutdowns until YOU conform to the COVID Cult of whackos with their face masks. QUIT CONFORMING TO THIS CULT!!!! or live on planet evil.
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Will push to boost college enrollment lower standards?
mcaputo June 10, 2011, 7:30 AM Jun 10, 2011
The Insight Now online debate last week on college enrollment and standards raises some interesting questions: Are there really viable alternatives to the classic four-year degree? Has the cost of college made the liberal arts degree a luxury? Has high school put too many students too far behind?
The road less traveled?
The team from the National Association of Scholars, Ashley Thorne and Peter Wood, took one side of our debate, and argued that herding more students into four-year schools won’t improve the falling performance of higher education in the United States.
They said students need alternatives to the four-year college and pointed to an unusual example in the news, the offer by PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel to pay young people $100,000 to chase a business dream instead of going to college. They gave other examples of young people who didn’t pursue a college diploma, like Wisconsin’s Brian Crave.
But the PayPal CEO’s offer goes to just 24 students. And how many students would be willing to seek an apprenticeship as Crave has?
Few alternatives to a bachelor’s degree
Well there is the two-year degree. But Brad Horras, a Brooklyn Park musician with a Master’s Degree, says there’s a stigma attached to two-year schools that needs to be removed.
There are for-profit schools. And while that’s a growing education sector – it’s largely for the older, returning student. And news on how the Obama adminstration will require more accountability (read, jobs after graduation) from these schools hasn’t helped their reputation.
Instead of looking at alternatives to the four-year track, the United States should improve the performance of the prevailing system, said Kevin Carey policy director for EducationSector, an independent think tank. He differs with Thorne and Wood. The current U.S. college approach is still strong, Carey argued, so strong that it is being replicated by nations around the world.
Improving that system, rather than “a rollback of our nation’s historic commitment to college access,” is Carey’s answer. Is it yours?
Liberal Arts – A wasted degree?
“I believe most people who go to college do so with vocational intent,” said Jon Blumenthal, director of education for the Minneapolis Business College, a for-profit institution.Some might dismiss Blumenthal’s comment as just a way to sell the for-profit college approach.
But students and parents who weighed in on the debate also supported the idea that college must primarily prepare young people for a career.
Wolfe Molitor, who works at the Minnesota Medical Foundation at the University of Minnesota, said he’s been saving money for years to put his daughter, now 11, through college. Molitor wrote:
“I am going to push her toward getting a degree that will certify her in a profession. I will do everything in my power to make sure she doesn’t waste her life – and our money – on a liberal arts degree.”
Another participant said the bigger financial burden of a college degree has “made a liberal arts education a true luxury.”
So has the liberal arts degree become a relic, a pursuit of the past?
Carol Ford of Milan, who has worked in the University of Minnesota system for 20 years, , said the trend away from the liberal arts degree worries her. She sees the liberal arts path as one that produces adults who can “sort through the info-muck … to analyze the political issues of the day.” In other words, a liberal arts degree makes students complete citizens.
Ford concluded: “I am ashamed at our growing disinterest and disrespect for liberal arts education.”
These are strong views on the worth of the liberal arts degree. Maybe a new line of pursuit should be: “What is the liberal arts degree good for?”
A word on motivation
Both debaters wrote about the growing need for remedial education. Thorne and Wood decried the national cost of remedial education, estimated at $2.3 billion annually. Carey said the nation can’t turn a blind eye to the preparation needs of students as 34 percent of students at public colleges enrolled in at least one remedial course, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Underlying the remedial education issue is a serious problem: More high school students don’t seem prepared for higher education.
Nicole Erickson, who works at Capella University in Minneapolis talked about being a teaching assistant at a “large public university”. What struck her was the sense of entitlement that students had in the class:
“I got the distinct impression that they were only there because they had to be there. Many of those students acted as though college was a pay-for-service kind of set-up. Almost as though once they paid for tuition, they then expected the product — a degree — to be given to them with only a basic level of hoop-jumping the their part.”
Erickson said that instilling discipline and motivation must come before college, in high school.
That prompted Kim Farris-Berg to add in a word about student motivation. She’s part of the Citizens League’s Student Speak Out project, which is exploring what motivate young people to excel. Farris-Berg wondered if the solution to higher education preparation should be “rooted in what motivates them” to achieve.
Look over the debate and find your own questions to pursue.
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Getting the latest release of ESP from the SAP Software Download Center
If you are evaluating ESP for purchase, getting the latest version of ESP is easy. You just have to click through the “Download Free Trial Version” link. However, if you are trying to find the latest release in SAP’s Software Download Center (SWDC), it can be a little trickier.
If you try navigating to the latest service pack, the initial screen shows that you can navigate to “Support Packages and Patches” or “Installations and Upgrades”:
You might think that the latest release of the software would be listed under the “upgrades” section but you would be wrong. The latest releases (also known as service packs) are listed under the “Support Packages and Patches” section.
Rather than navigating to the product, I prefer choosing the option to “Search for Software Downloads”. In the search box, I put in “Event Stream Processor”:
Several results are returned but the latest service packs are listed under “Maintenance Product”:
Next, choose the appropriate operating system:
Finally, you get the list of available service packs and you can choose the latest one (SP04 is the most recent in the screen shot below):
A couple of side notes:
ESP service packs are complete installations that include all of the fixes from the previous service packs. You do not need to install the GA release or a prior service pack before installing the most current release.
You might be asking yourself, what is this “EBF 21857”? EBF is old Sybase terminology for “Emergency Bug Fix” and the EBF number was a unique number to help identify the release. You could have “ESP5.1 SP04” available on five different platforms but the EBF number makes the release uniquely identifiable across platforms. In other words, if you give technical support the EBF number, they know exactly which release and which operating system ESP was installed on.
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East London has four of five most polluted streets in the capital
New figures have revealed that four streets in east London are among the worst for air quality, while the city as a whole boasts higher levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) than any other European capital.
Some of the poorest areas in the east also have the worst air quality and the highest emissions due to the large number of cars that pass through its streets.
According to the Guardian, emissions data by Transport for London showed that the Walthamstow area has a high concentration of four of the five most hazardous pollutants for human health, such as benzene, nitrogen oxides (NOx), PM10s and PM2.5s carbon.
Piccadilly and Oxford Street also ranked among the worst 15 streets, because of the high number of vehicles circulating there.
Meanwhile, the Environment Agency reports that NO2 in the capital is more prominent in London than in any other European capitals.
Earlier this month, Simon Birkett, director of campaign group Clean Air in London, said, “Research about real world emissions from diesel vehicles published recently by Kings College London and others showed that vehicle emissions have hardly reduced in the last 10 years.
“There is no other answer – the mayor must ban the most polluting diesel vehicles from the most polluted parts of London.”
He added, “The mayor’s story on air pollution keeps getting confused by the facts. Concentrations of air pollutants, the true measure of success or failure, show London is failing miserably to address the biggest public health risk after smoking.”
However, the Guardian reported that the mayor of London’s office said efforts are being made to improve air quality, with tough regulations that led to a fall in emissions.
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Meaningful content with lasting value and engagement
For this round of the Carnival of Journalism blog fest, my friend and research buddy Jonathan Groves posed the following questions: How do you define meaningful content that has long-lasting value? What is the best way to evaluate content that fosters deep engagement with the audience? Groves wants to find a way to go beyond just “immediacy” to properly value pieces of content with “longevity” that people return to repeatedly for connection, reference, or enjoyment.
First of all, I think that in order to increase the longevity of a meaningful piece of journalism, you’ve got to surface it for your readers at the right time, in the right way. A lot of that comes down to creating better systems for tagging and organizing content. For example, in the New York Times Innovation Report, they discussed the value in being able to do things like sort recipes by cooking time, restaurants reviews by geolocation, and similar. It’s difficult and time consuming to do this after the fact, they point out, so having a good CMS and established processes that make it a priority to do so at the time of publication are important. There is great potential here that remains untapped, even at well-resourced news organizations like the NYT.
I think Groves is right that not all of this kind of oft-returned to content has to be quite so utilitarian as recipes or restaurant reviews, although that’s an obvious place to start. What about investigative pieces that are relevant to a particular place? What about pieces that could resonate during certain events or milestones, like graduations, weddings, holidays, festivals etc.? I think there is a way to give many well-reported, well-written stories much longer lives, but it starts with making them easily findable, both through search and serendipity.
Second of all, I’m increasingly convinced that it’s less about choosing any one particular “golden” metric that will help us to quantify quality or impactful or engaging content, and more about being smarter and more sophisticated about the way we think and talk about the constellation of metrics available to us – and especially the story we as journalists tell advertisers.
I’m not an expert in advertising, but from talking to newsroom leaders at API’s Research Advisory Board meeting in February, what I understand is that right now advertisers are also trying to parse the effectiveness of rapidly changing digital and mobile strategies. I have often heard that most advertisers don’t think click-through-rate is a great metric but continue to use it because they aren’t yet sure about alternatives. I think journalists need to make a stronger case for higher ad rates on the basis of being associated with quality content and venerable media brands, especially on mobile. There’s nothing new about wanting to be associated with a credible brand, of course – it’s never been “only” about the volume of eyeballs. But it seems as though in the “Wild West” of trying to understand mobile and digital metrics we’ve been distracted from emphasizing these fundamentals.
For example, in her book “Saving Community Journalism,” Penelope Abernathy argues that publishers need to move from selling space to selling solutions to advertisers. She notes that a lot of the growth in digital advertising in recent years has come from search, which is all about helping consumers find products they are already inclined to purchase, but that “historically, advertising has served many other functions, from creating demand for a product to reinforcing the loyalty of customers.” She argues that newspapers should aggressively re-position themselves as a cross-platform medium that can provide ALL of those functions to the advertiser.
Similarly, the recently published API report on mobile argues that advertisers buy audiences rather than publications and that publishers need to think more creatively about cross-platform possibilities to provide useful services to people and capitalize on their unique strengths.
Maybe I’m too far off the topic of specific metrics, but I think it’s not so much about numbers, but about the stories they help us to tell about the kinds of people who read a publication, how they feel about it, how loyal they are, etc. and what that means for your credibility as a news organization and your ability to charge enough for your ads to sustain yourself.
Finally, I’m curious to follow the Financial Times’ recen t decision to move from CPMs to “time spent” going forward. They feel this metric will better value their highly engaged audience. As Sam Petulla writes for Contently:
This strategic shift is part of the broader vision that the The Financial Times sees for the future of advertising. [Commercial Director of Digital Advertising] Slade said that The Financial Times wants to distinguish every aspect of their brand through quality, and using time as an advertising currency fits that mission perfectly.
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“Chuck and Andy, Chuck and Andy, Chuck and Andy ….”
Mickey Rooney fiddled with his makeup kit and muttered those words again and again as though we weren’t in the room.
That was in 1973. My colleague, Andy Kudrick, and I had entered Rooney’s dressing room a few moments before and had introduced ourselves. The ritual seemed to send Rooney into a meditative trance in which we had provided the mantra: “Chuck and Andy, Chuck and Andy, Chuck and Andy ….”
When the actor again became conscious of our presence, he said, “Sit down, but don’t ask me about Judy Garland. I don’t talk about those days. I don’t live in the past. I look forward to the future!”
Judy Garland hadn’t been on our minds, so we were comfortable with this ground rule.
Apparently, Mickey Rooney himself was not comfortable with it. We were there to talk to him about a stage production of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which he was cast as Bottom. Rooney, who died yesterday, had played Puck in the 1935 film version of that play.
But before we could begin the conversation, he launched into a rambling invective against unspecified demons who, in his view, had used Judy Garland for their own profit and advancement and ultimately had destroyed her. I had read about her life, so I had some idea what he was referring to. “I loved her,” he said when he had exhausted the topic, at least for then: “I really loved her.”
Andy and I were unsettled by this outburst, because we felt as if it were an intimate moment that we had no business witnessing and because, in the seconds that followed, we didn’t know if we should remain silent, speak, or quietly leave the room.
But Rooney recovered from his reverie without so much as a “Chuck and Andy,” broke into a grin, and engaged us in a lively conversation about Bottom, Puck, and things besides.
“Miss Golightly, I protest!”
I was relieved. Although entertainment personalities were part of the raw material of my profession, I had approached this particular encounter fully conscious of what an iconic figure Rooney was. He was also a personal favorite, and that was because of his enormous range as an actor, something that helps to account for a career that lasted 88 years. He became a star through what now appear to be overblown characters in both musical comedies and dramas, but over time he showed that he had a capacity for subtlety, too, as witness his performances in the feature film Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and the television movie Bill (1982).
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney in “Requiem for a Heavyweight”
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I always enjoy your personal reminiscences, but this one’s especially nice. Other than the obligtory sentence or two, the only discussion of his life and death I happened across came on a sports talk program. Strangely, the two late-twenties hosts were fans, and quite capable of recalling the highlights of that long career.
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June 13, 2014 Bruce Allen Morning Links
Tito’s Still Upset, NESN Giving Time Off To Orsillo, Remy
The Red Sox got back on the winning side of the ledger last night at Fenway Park. Old friend Terry Francona was in the house, and like old times, made an appearance on the Dale and Holley show. He again said he has not spoken with John Henry or Tom Werner and isn’t sure he ever will again.
A few quick media notes this morning:
NESN will give Don Orsillo time off in July – Chad Finn looks at a memo from NESN this week that Orsillo and Jerry Remy would be taking vacation time this summer.
Like Chad, I find the Orsillo bit rather strange. NESN is known for their cryptic releases and this one was no exception. It stated “Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo will each get a week-long break this season, consistent with what many regional sports networks do for their MLB broadcast teams.” and then gave the dates.
It did note that Jon Rish will fill in for Orsillo while he is “on break.”
Join Eddie Andelman’s ‘Huddle’ on Boston Herald Radio – The sports radio pioneer will do a one-hour show this afternoon at 2:00 on Herald Radio.
Fran Quinn will get air time at U.S. Open – Bill Doyle looks at coverage of the U.S. Open, including of Massachusetts native Quinn, who had a strong showing on the first day of the tournament.
Random Thoughts:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a broadcast trio as depressed as Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson were when the second half of last night’s Spurs/Heat game began.
One of the things that makes Dan Shaughnessy’s incessant trolling so infuriating is columns like this.
I’ve seen hang-wringing on Twitter and elsewhere over the comments of U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann that his team has no chance to win the World Cup. The media is a funny group. They demand honesty from the people they cover. But when they get it, the criticize the person for giving it. They’d rather have Rex Ryan’s yearly Super Bowl guarantees.
Early returns on the MFB: Not good. Gresh and Zo have little to worry about. Tim Benz seems to be of the Mike Salk school of painful teases – “There IS one star that I don’t think should be getting more heat from the media. I’ll tell you who when we come back.” Christian Fauria can’t complete a thought without getting distracted, or he comes out with a gem like “90% of the time he always does the right thing.”
Tony Massarotti spent a good chunk of time yesterday staring at the ceiling while trashing David Ortiz and his season thus far. His timing was perfect.
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Early returns on MFB: Not good.
Are there any #’s out there? Between here, SoSH and Twitter, I saw a common theme: Benz sounds like Mutt. I didn’t see much buzz. If I had to guess, there won’t be much of a change in the demos.
America loved last night’s game. ESPN didn’t. They were getting killed this morning and continue to be.
Hope you guys in MA want this:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/13/boston-makes-short-list-for-summer-olympics/K5EyOKkSWisfXySpNujZWI/story.html
Seems like there’s a big opposition, though:
http://nobostonolympics.org/2014/02/26/boston-olympics-likely-to-cost-10-20-billion-read-the-report-here/
How long do you suppose the creative/marketing meeting took to come up with “MFB?” 90 seconds?
— “OK guys, we need a name for this new midday show, but we don’t want to use the personalities’ last names, ’cause we did that before and ratings suffered.”
** “How about their first initials instead?”
— “Brilliant! Put it on a T-shirt with a company logo, clip-art football, clip-art baseball, and a clip-art microphone!”
** “Uh, we can’t afford Shutterstock anymore!”
— “Dammit! Does anyone have any kids that can draw?”
I guess I’d ask: Does a show’s name really matter? Does the logo? Isn’t it content?
I thought the same about the show as what the majority said. Benz sounds like Mutt but seems to tease stuff more. The show still has the same feel. Fauria can be interesting for a segment but Bruce sums up what I get listening where he doesn’t complete thoughts. (He seems better as a guest in segments, not doing 4 hours.) And, If you weren’t a Lou fan before, you won’t be one now.
Homer Greenz says:
I find MFB listenable, in small doses, while Mutt & Lou I couldn’t stand for more than 5 seconds. I don’t want to listen, won’t go out of my way, but listenable. Pretty much the same as Gresh and Zo. Mutt & Lou was like an instant headache.
True, I guess it doesn’t really matter. I just find the idea of 12 suits (and Fauria, Benz and Merloni) sitting in a room to brainstorm the show and THAT is what they came up with.
And that they can’t afford clip-art anymore
I still ponder the “Paid a firm 100k” but then a homeless guy came up with it idea.
agramante says:
Yeah, if the show’s good, the name doesn’t matter. (Hell, in the early days of the Sports Hub, Mike Adams called Felger & Mazz “Squeaky and the Bitch.” They should’ve gone with that, in my opinion.) Back in the better old days at the Fan, the afternoon show could be Mike & the Mad Dog, or Mike & Chris. They didn’t seem to care what they called it. The “Mad Dog” gimmick was kind of a throwaway. But outside the show, it was more memorable than MFB. That sounds like a food additive.
Swampscott Wally says:
Concerning Merloni specifically: He has come to fully embrace the “Boston sports talk formula for success”. When he first started on radio and TV he was very listenable. He offered fresh takes, when something was good he would say so, and when something was wrong with the Sox he would offer solutions for that as well. Now? Basically, everything sucks. EVERYTHING. I have no idea how anybody can listen to sports talk radio anymore. It is nothing but one complaint and whine after another, one crisis after another. Sports are supposed to be fun, entertainment. Sports are not supposed to make you depressed. If they do, turn them off! They are meaningless. The “Felger method” has been copied by almost every talker on radio in this market, some are less depressing than others but its just a matter of degrees. Do they really think its enjoyable to spend 4 hours bitching about Steven Drew or Brad Marchand? Do we really need Shank to insinuate without evidence every few months that Ortiz is cheating? Whats the point? These guys don’t know one bit more about sports than you or I do, they simply have a microphone to show their sour attitudes. These guys may call Zolak a “fan boy” but at least he offers some positive takes from time to time. That alone makes him a lot more pleasant to listen to. Again – its entertainment.
You are absolutely right, Mike.
You’re preaching to the choir on that one.
I agree but add that:
– Felger does what’s natural to him. “Skip Bayless but who can admit he’s wrong.” He’s a great entertainer.
– His “show host” ability, I think, is the standard. He segments well. He can run a show. The one knock is how they handle calls, which I personally like because they’re bad enough most of the time.
– When F&M are “on”, like the Kraft interview yesterday, it’s really good radio.
For someone to try to “be their own Felger” reminds me of why coaches under BB fail elsewhere. The “hosting” stuff seems to be you either get it or you don’t. I’m sure it can be trained but you get reminded often by fill-ins or some regulars on those who don’t know how to just run a show. Content and style we can always debate (and do) about.
Andy Dursin says:
I agree with most all of your posts BSMfan but when it comes to F+M I completely part company with you. And saying Felger “does what’s natural to him” — I don’t buy it. It’s also not what WAS natural to him. He used to be a breath of fresh air in this market during the end of the Lobel era. Offered smart, objective analysis against the sour grapes of Will McDonough, Borges and the rest of the media clowns who were stuck on Bledsoe. Felger was the antidote to all of that….at least at the start.
He has successfully transformed himself into this media clown and “personality”, but despite his ratings, that doesn’t make him a “great entertainer.” Frankly I find his show utterly lazy — and also incredibly POOR when it comes to analyzing a game. He’s downright bad at talking about a game — often I wonder if he’s even watched it — and he’s got a co-host who is the most useless wreck I’ve ever heard — much less on the #1 show in a major market. Instead of dissecting an individual game or play (even Mike Francesa does that every day, quite well when the need arises), they sit there and just bang the same drum day in day out…it’s an “issues” show, rarely a game-centric program. And they recycle the same points to death — if you listen to 20 minutes, you’ve heard the entire 4 hours.
Standards around here haven’t just declined, they’ve bottomed out. There’s nothing in this market I’d even consider close to being “good radio” anymore, F+M in particular.
Nothing wrong with some disagreement. It makes for good threads.
Offered smart, objective analysis against the sour grapes of Will
McDonough, Borges and the rest of the media clowns who were stuck on
Bledsoe. Felger was the antidote to all of that….at least at the
I wish I had heard and also remember more, there. I guess it’s a subjective call but I think his “act” is natural. If you want to say it’s “grown”, I won’t disagree there. The F&M tendency to go “off the deep end” seems to have ramped up over the past two years (to me). Bruce has documented that well on the site.
I break radio and TV down into two categories: host and content. The content can depend a ton on not just the host but outlet. Hosting is how well you manage the segmenting and flow of a show. I believe this to be something you can learn but there are few hosts who can do well here. You see this disparity when fill-ins are on and struggle here. My point on Felger, above, is that I think he’s really good at “hosting” (I’d throw Ordway in here, too).
Content is the obvious. How do you handle each topic and pick the stuff you do each hour or segment. How it’s approached and handled is sometimes the network’s call (ESPN) but here we enjoy more “localized” because we know the national stuff won’t work.
To hit at one of your points, the tendency for F&M to “go off the deep end” into that #HOTSPORTZTAKE trolling seems to have ramped up in the past few years. I agree there. Bruce has documented it well on the site and the comments section reflects this. But, to their defense, they haven’t skipped a beat in the ratings. To counter, they’ve not had good competition, and we all know how that goes (see: Ordway’s BigShow). I have to think the next 3 quarters will be big as to see how the recent WEEI changes have done in the 10-2 and 2-6 parts.
And, as you said, the standards seem to have been dropped. You see this not just on talk but print media. Isn’t it the same on the national sphere?
Okay, so NESN wants to give DO some time off. I guarantee you they will factor that into his deal…from 150 games to 145, and he’ll take a 3% pay cut. Meanwhile they give a package to someone recently broomed out of the building after 25 years for being involved in situation that could end up in court.
You hinted at this before. Who are you talking about?
not to mention a repeat offender…
etak says:
I didn’t yet read Klinsmann’s magazine interview, but in the audio interview, what he basically said was, “People don’t think can win it, and realisitically they’re right, but I think we have a chance!” which is actually far more optimistic than how it’s being portrayed, and much different from “We can’t win, period.” So I’m irked, again, some more.
Can Tom Caron also get a sabbatical — you know, one that lasts FOREVER?
I’m guessing something is going on with Orsillo. Though I think he’s mostly just OK (I can’t stand it when he does that forced “Fenway Park stands as one!” line), he’s enjoyable to listen to when working with Eck. Though he seldom brings any “insight” at all into his broadcast, it’s also not like he wouldn’t have other options. He’s gotten some national work, etc. I get the sense that NESN’s salary must be low for the industry standard if they’re bringing in Rish, who might be a nice guy and all, but doesn’t have the pipes or personality to be doing MLB games on TV — much less in this market.
smack_libs_around says:
Tom Caron has a voice meant for silent movies.
I agree that Caron is flawed but i think he does a decent job running the post-game show given the level of talent by his side. Eck is very good but can get on a tangent and Caron generally keeps him focused. But look at the others he’s had to work with: Jim Rice, post-stroke Gammons, Wakefield, Jim Corsi, Ken Macha, Sam Horn. Rice, who is on most often, just rambles incoherently from cliche to cliche but Caron generally makes it work. His voice and look are bad, but he runs a decent show.
I was tempted to see exactly what Red-Head said but then was reminded that he, like a misbehaving petulant child, is locked behind The Globe’s ‘pay-wall.’ So I do thank The Globe for saving me from him.
DryHeave says:
This is why I call Bob Ryan a POMPOUS ASS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
@GlobeBobRyan
Do NOT pretend to call yourself a true spouts fan if you don’t get into the World Cup. This is non-negotiable
really Bob?…non-negotiable?…. well, I guess there is nothing left to say!….what an old douche bag (in my opinion)
BSF34 says:
Same guy who called football a “fungus”.
he loves to lecture/talk down to fans as if we’re all 6 year old children,very annoying.
Bobcat says:
Happy 6th,DryHeave
Hi, Mr.Ryan!
Well, to be fair BSF34, I listened to the podcast of that bit on D&H last night. Ryan was playing a bit of a semantic game–“sports fan” means “a fan of all sports”, and being an American big 4 fan means “American team sports fan” (I guess counting the pit crew as part of the team–a fair enough point). So, really, Ryan’s point was pretty benign. Sort of like the distinction between being a soccer fan and being World Cup fan, or a figure skating/nordic skiing fan or an Olympics fan. You get the point. I don’t think it’s much of an argument, frankly.
I’m surprised we haven’t got a Gasper column about how you’re racist if you don’t like the WC or Soccer.
I’m a soccer fan, mainly due to playing as a kid. I learned real quickly that it’s a minority sport. Want to turn someone off as quickly as possible when trying to make them a fan? Do what Bob Ryan did. Know how more people become fans? The increased exposure, like what’s going on now. It might not convert all or many, but you’ll get new fans.
exactly…obviously the World Cup is a HUGE event. I don’t bash the sport ( like Gerry Callahan) but at the same time I can’t all of a sudden become a “fan” just because the media deems it “fashionable’
Maybe I’m taking Ryan a little too seriously but what are the qualifications for being a “TRUE SPORTS FAN”?… do you have to follow/care about every sport in the world?….I don’t have that much free time..
I get when people aren’t fans of ‘whatever’, esp. something that’s not one of the big 4 in the US.
In the same way I’m not a NBA fan, I wonder why people aren’t NHL fans. But, they’re looking at me the same way as I do. As time has gone on, I’ve come to enjoy NHL as a minority sport; the last thing I want is it trying to relegate its product in order to cater the casual fan (removal of fighting, etc.) I doubt it can ever become “bigger” than the NBA because of the nature of each sport and how it’s covered. NHL is too niche, international players, not as many “TV moments”. I’m fine. I just wish others we’re fine here. I’ve even been called racist for not liking the NBA, describing the same reasons above, along with the basics on why I think hockey is a superior product (see the WCF this year.. beautiful).
Speaking of the NBA…. Thank you Spurs for ending our national nightmare. Thus far, ESPN has spent over 75% of its postgame sportscenter on ESPN with either the Heat pressers or talk of the Heat. They opened the 2nd “roundtable” with Simmons, et. al., by talking “LeBron’s future”. They not only had to “wait” for the LAA/ATL game to end (that must have had Bristol wishing they could just move it over to ESPN2), but spent the bare minimum of time on the Spurs. I’m sure this is how the Spurs want it but my god ESPN will be miserable tomorrow. LeBron is also “not sure” what he’ll do so you’ll basically have a prolonged “The Decision II” all summer.
I doubt it’ll last all summer, bsmfan. He’ll be impacting the free agency capabilities of his target team if he does. I’d be surprised if he’s not signed by mid-July.
The racial aspect to liking or not liking the NBA is a minor but real aspect to the situation–and bear in mind that I am NOT accusing you, or anyone else, of racism. (That accusation is much too easily and sloppily made these days.) I’m saying that like the NFL, NBA players are predominantly black (~78% in 2011, ~67% in the NFL), but the basketball is much more a star-driven sport, with fewer players on the court (field) at any time. (Plus they’re not covered by uniforms and helmets.) So it’s easy to focus on individuals, including tattoos, behavior, hair style (except for the occasional dreads-below-the-helmet) and easier for whites to not identify and feel uncomfortable with the back athletes. That’s perfectly natural—I wonder how many blacks follow tennis (even with the Williams sisters), or followed golf before Tiger came along.
So there’s no blame to be placed in this–it’s just natural, ordinary behavior. People tend to like their own. (Whitlock’s written about this more times than I can remember–and for my money, he’s the best sportswriter going, despite being swallowed by the ESPN borg. But avoid his podcast at all costs–I’m actually not sure if he’s still doing one. It was a waste of time. He was almost as bad at interviewing as Chevy Chase.)
But a sport with mostly black athletes and mostly white owners, and mostly (though less so now) mostly white coaches, will have some stresses with its white fans. The folks in the NBA have known this for quite some time–it’s why Stern started going Church Lady on players a long time ago. But the NBA remains very, very popular, and if for no other reason than climate–not much outdoor ice down south–in the USA hockey will never match the nearly universal appeal of basketball, football or baseball.
Yup, exactly. I was down in Australia this spring for work and fell in love with Aussie rules football. In my mind, it combines the best of rugby and soccer: it’s tough, with plenty of hits and tackling, but the action is continuous, with a lot of passing, and a whole lot of running–the field is an oval 150 m long. Oh, and there’s plenty of scoring, and you can score from as far away as you can kick the ball. Much, much more dramatic than even a 30-foot three pointer.
I’m quite content with the knowledge that outside of Aussie expats, I’m one of perhaps a couple of hundred AFL fans in the USA. Doesn’t bother me a bit. And I might talk up my reasons for liking the sport–as I have here–but I won’t insist on someone else liking it, and sure as hell won’t condemn them as a non-sports fan if they don’t.
Person in the family was working there for 4 years. Same thing. Another friend went abroad for a semester but wound up being able to spend 2 there. Same deal. However, both know that it’s basically Australia only, and that’s the only counter I’d offer. Name me a semi-developed/modern country not playing soccer.
Also, I think you’re in luck, as I recall ESPN2/ESPN3 showing AFL matches?
Maybe–I confess I haven’t looked. TSN in Canada (the ESPN franchise up there–same graphics & sound effects, and a few borrowed shows) runs two or three a week. I might try to DVR one or two to show my wife what the heck I’m talking about.
***LIVE UPDATE***
Mutt and Lou are, for one night at least, are ruining the usually enjoyable broadcast on WEEI of the Red Sox Games.
Mutt apparently has been given freedom to expand the content of the mid-inning updates, so now instead of a rapid of report of baseball scores courtesy on Jon Ryder, we get soccer scores, last night it was NBA scores, and also up-to-the-minute reports on the outcome of rehab at-bats in Pawtucket. We’re this close to #HotSportzTakes
And Lou Merloni will not shut his goddamn big mouth. He is delivering a constant stream of Hot Takes. Baseball is a slow game, it is perfect for radio. Occasional silence from the announcers, accompanied by crowd noise is okay. We don’t need to hear the long, drawn out opinion from Lou Merloni about every single thing that happens in the game. He’s going on like it’s 11 am and he’s had 5 cups of coffee.
T&R have the #’s from last night in Boston:
US/Ghana did a 10.0 (wow) and the Sox did a 6.
Figure Finn or someone here will have an article.
nsbombers says:
Does anyone know who pays Billy Star’s salary? I heard he makes $600,000 a year.I also know he does the same kind of work out in Colorado.
Wow! We didn’t even get cable in my house until 1990, so I’d never have had the chance. And of course, in 1982 I had the typical attention span and ability to sit still of any 12-year-old, which is to say, sitting and watching a game of any sort wasn’t happening.
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January 29, 2015 Bruce Allen Morning Links
Hugh Millen Drops A Bomb. No One Reacts.
On the Dennis and Callahan show this morning they had former Patriots quarterback Hugh Millen on as a guest to talk about the Super Bowl matchup, as Millen is working in the Seattle as an analyst of the Seahawks and Washington Huskies.
While they were discussing the inflation of the footballs, Millen dropped that he played for a coach with two Super Bowl wins who put together a huge scheme to install speakers inside the helmets of the offensive linemen so they could be given instructions remotely. He said they had it in place and working.
I played for a team, the coach has two Super Bowl wins, and there was an elaborate scheme to put speakers into the offensive lineman’s ears, and they had these custom made speakers, it was a covert operation, they would install it in a back room in the locker room on the road and what have you, and they did that week after week and presumably in the Super Bowl.
He also said the same team had offensive linemen who were caught with a substance on their jerseys and that the coach just shrugged when they were caught.
Millen declined to actually name the coach, but he played for Mike Shanahan in Denver in 1995. Three of Shanahan’s linemen were caught with Vaseline on their jerseys during a 1998 playoff game against the Chiefs.
Millen did also have a brief stint with the Jimmy Johnson-coached Cowboys, (the Patriots traded him there following the 1993 season) so it’s possible, he was referring to Johnson, but Gerry Callahan made a “beedy eyes” reference to Shanahan and it seemed like Millen went along with it.
We know that the Broncos were also caught cheating the salary cap those Super Bowl seasons. So here are two confirmed and one alleged (very serious) cheating incidents that the media and public will never pay attention to.
Can you imagine the uproar if any of these incidents happened with the Patriots? We’re on week two of the world going insane over allegations that the footballs the Patriots used were a tick under regulation inflation.
WEEI Audio – Former Patriot Hugh Millen on deflating footballs and the Seahawks 1-29-15
85 thoughts on “Hugh Millen Drops A Bomb. No One Reacts.”
StoJa says:
The national media has already jumped on a NEW scandal, of course involving the Patriots. Somehow LaGarrett Blount orchestrated his release from the Steelers knowing he would end up on the Patriots. So says some broad who allegedly writes a sports blog for the Washington Post. And here is the most mind boggling part of the story….REPUTABLE sports sites are picking up the story. Sites that should know that Blount had to clear waivers for 30 other teams before the Patriots had a shot at him. Something this lady neglected to report and something other sites also don’t report and 10000% should know.
Chattygal says:
I’m sorry, what is the relevancy of the reporter being female – I’m sorry, “some broad”?
Cindy Boren’s experience including reporting stints at the Kansas City Star, the New York Daily News, the Sporting News and the Washington Post. I suspect her CV is far more impressive than anything on yours.
Um, it’s just as relevant as when somebody says “some guy from…”. So we can call male reporters every name in the name book, but calling her a “broad”…well, holy cow. We can’t have that!! Just stop. You’re trying way to hard to try and find something to be offended about. Grow a pair.
Secondly, impressive resume. But still has NO IDEA how the NFL waiver wire works. Would rather spew some conspiratorial bullsh!t instead. And make veiled innuendo and accusations.
But please. Keep fighting the good fight on behalf of ignorance disguised as journalism.
Learn how to properly use ellipses and punctuation, little boy. You won’t sound like any less of a moron when you post comments, but at least you’ll look like less of a moron writing them.
Oh, the grammar nazi routine. SO just to recap…you can call me a moron and a little boy…BUT, I can’t refer to a woman as a broad. Cool. Good to know the rules of the game.
Roger Bournival says:
Fucking broads…
NS Webster says:
You can do anything you want – but why don’t you just call her a moron, if that’s what you think she is?
It’s like white guys throwing around the n-word. That’s the best you got? What’s someone gender or race got to do with anything? Hate people for the content of their character.
It’s funny. I’ve never once seen you complain when we all call Michael Felger an a-hole or a douchbag. Or the names we refer to Mazz, Tanguay, etc as.
But call a woman a “broad” and it’s pitchforks and torches. Get the f— out of here with that crap. Is this like how black guys can call each other the “n-word” and nobody else can? Women can call each other “b!tch” and so forth but if a man says something, let’s act all outraged and indignant!
Well not to put too fine a point on it, little one, but this is the first time I’ve been to this site. And given that the biggest loudmouth in the comments section (hint: you) seem sto be personification of Tawmmy from Quinzee, it will probably be the last.
By the way, “some broad” is not the equivalent of “some guy.”
Also, are you aware there’s an edit function so you can append a comment, rather than responding multiple times? Or did your remedial Internet class at Bunker Hill skip that lesson plan?
Toodles, ignoramus.
Aw, well we’ll miss ya sweetie. Toodles.
I love how you try and take the high road and insult me at the same time. Careful. The fence post you’re sitting on can’t be comfortable.
Tony time says:
Is it safe to post anything on this site without being attacked by a insane menstrual broad . Hey you’re ruining my super bowl
Charlotte Marks says:
Agree that her gender has no relevance, but the question is – if her CV is so impressive, why would she publish something that moronic? Anyone who knows anything about pro sports knows you can’t “conspire” to get a player through waivers, unless every GM in the league is in on it.
Rather than trusting the dubious reporting skills of StoJa, I will link you directly to Boren’s piece so that you can read what was actually published.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/01/29/legarrette-blount-is-at-the-center-of-latest-patriots-conspiracy-theory/
Annnnnd….?? I’ve read it three times. Please try and tell me this was tongue-in-cheek. Please. Defend this trash blog.
Go back to keying cars, Tawmmy. It’s more suited to your limited life skill set.
OK, I read it. It’s shit. She throws out allegation upon allegation, and very late, slips in a line about waivers, like someone quickly reciting a disclaimer in a car ad.
Lousy column dancing on the edge of libel that never should have come close to being published.
“The edge of libel”? Only if the edge is North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the libel is on the South. U.S. Libel law is more complicated than “columnist wrote something I don’t like!” and has a very high threshold; Boren is nowhere near the line of demarcation.
I’ve been an editor for more than 30 years, but thanks for the lesson.
No, she smartly throws in a CYA disclaimer, so of course it’s not libel. But the column is a purposefully shit-stirring load of bull, and will be – IS being – used as more tinder in the “culture of cheating” bonfire.
I would have spiked it and given the writer an earful. My old journalism 101 prof would have rolled up the copy and smacked the writer upside the head. Unfortunately times have changed. It’s all about page clicks and sensationalism, accuracy and verification be damned. I can’t wait to retire.
Ah, make hyperbolic claim – walk it back. That’s very Joe Morgan of you; it almost makes me miss him on SNB.
I see you’re not disputing that the column is a pile of crap.
The question remains – if this columnist has such an “impressive CV” – why is she writing such bullshit? She’s obviously not interested in the truth; she’s going for sensationalism and page clicks. Like just about everyone adding fuel to the fire in this whole sordid, ridiculous affair.
I’m pointing out you talked a big game about something and when called on it, walked it back as if of course you knew better, like most blowhards tend to do.
Boren is doing what columnists do, reporting what’s being talked about. Like it, don’t like it, but don’t lie and act like the Patriots didn’t bring a lot of the scrutiny onto themselves with their shady behavior in the past and the present. You can plug your ears and only listen to the echo chamber of WEEI and their ilk, but facts are facts. This sort of fuckery feeds the frenzy; this team, like any other, is not a bunch of innocent naifs and anyone who pretends differently has their head up their ass.
Maybe you should branch out and listen to what sports reporters – not the ones on ESPN, not the loudmouths on the radio – are writing about. It might broaden your horizons, something that seems to be an urgent need in these parts.
WHAT “shady behavior,” exactly?
And how do you know what or whom I do or don’t listen to? I’ve made every effort to focus on this stupid column (“report what’s being talked about”? Then why not write a column detailing how brainless such talk is?) and not you, but you certainly are determined to make this personal. Here’s a hint – to make a point, concentrate on the subject, not on personal insults.
What shady behavior? You can’t be serious. How about the big one that everyone points out as the landmark between our winning Super Bowls and – after its discovery and halt – our losing them?
LOL you can’t be serious.
Since “spygate,” the Patriots’ winning percentage has *improved.* Look it up. And they lost two Super Bowls the same way they won three – on a handful of key plays (or one, if you count that Tyree catch).
But OK, Spygate. Now, please detail all those other instances of “shady behavior in the past and the present.”
Ever notice when you ask for specifics on the “history of shady behavior” the trolls disappear?
Tony C says:
Those are the people who take every sour grapes-related allegation made by other teams at face value, as if they were established fact. For example, in an article in which he basically “exonerated” the Pats over Deflate-gate last week, Mike Westoff (ex-Jets S/T coach), never the less, went on a crazy rant about all of the “other” things the Patriots do that are either outside or barely inside the rules. Of course, he gave zero examples, and if he had given examples, my guess is that most of his accusations would have been drive by pure paranoia, and the others would have been found to be completely legal—-remember, John Harbaugh was crying about “deceptive” formations after the AFC divisional round because he simply didn’t understand the rule and he hadn’t done his homework as well as BB (if he had, he’d have known that Detroit used a similar formation earlier in the year). Pure Hatorade.
Exactly. They can’t provide examples because they don’t exist. I’ve challenged several trolls the past week and all they can do is rant, “Cheaterz…. blafhdkehdnyhghh…” before running away with their tails between their legs.
latetodinner says:
Charlotte you have been right on through this whole thread. They can’t cite real examples but they “feel” like the Pats must be cheating because …well …um… well… because…they must be cheating.
Thanks. It’s certainly not difficult. 😉
Welcome to the board…I hope you stay a while. I promise to only call you sweetie, missy, honey, sugar or pumpkin…but I am magnanimous…you can pick which pet name you would like us to call you 🙂
LOL, thanks anyway. 😉
Pyper says:
Lets be fair. The roster that won three Super Bowls was completely different from the teams after Spygate.
Consider that in comparing the starting roster and key contributors from 2004 to 2009 only four starters were the same on offense and only two on defense. Of the four starters on offense it was Brady and three offensive linemen. The RB’s, WR’s, and TE’s were all different. On defense, the strength of the championship teams was the LB’s and not a single one remained in 2009. The same was true of the secondary.
Like every other team in the league, the Patriots had to rebuild their roster. The difference is that while every other team demonstrates a significant dip in wins while rebuilding, the Patriots were able to rebuild their team without ever falling below the 10 win plateau.
That point is that while the “team” may wear the same uniforms, they are, in fact, a completely different team. Such is life in the NFL. Players get old. They retire, become free agents, or get traded. The only constant is constant change.
QuantumMechanic says:
Hey Ms. Boren — you’re only making yourself look like even more a stupid whiner.
I disagree with your take on Boren. She’s feeding the lowest element. Its a cheap tactic. Its manipulating facts to create a story that will get clicks. It reeks of a high school mentality. She’s catering to the popular kids at the expense of the kid nobody likes. Its bullying. It’ll go over great if your one of those bystanders laughing at the victim but its a disservice to what quality reporting should be. Having said that, the lack of ethics in today’s media is commonplace so I suppose that just makes her common. Not extraordinary. Not talented. Not unique in an appreciable way. Just a typical follower like all the rest.
Let me ask you a question Chattygal. Do you believe in due process? At its core, that is the complaint Patriots fans have with this fabricated controversy as well as Spygate. In both instances, false information was reported, speculated on, and then amazingly accepted as fact. Sensationalistic headlines get created and the accused are tried and convicted in the court of public opinion before the facts come out. Then when the facts start sprinkling out, only those that support the version of the story created by the media are acknowledged. The ones that don’t are ignored. Before long you have a mass hysteria that is based more on ignorance than anything else. Its dangerous and irresponsible and when you see it happening from the perspective of someone standing outside of the mainstream, the ugliness and inappropriateness becomes all the more obvious. Unfortunately, for those caught inside of it, they just can’t see it. They’re blinded by the excitement of the “big story” and often incapable of understanding the proper context of all the layers of complexity within that story. As such the story is mistold and misunderstood. The end result is a public that is not enlightened by the truth but instead stupidified by the entire process.
Oswee Larvey Hald says:
Broad City is my favorite TV show. Just sayin’
Hey, I always give my regards to Broadway 🙂
Because it adds insult to injury. She already needs to work harder to prove she belongs. When she does shoddy work she adds to the stereotype that she should not be in the business because she is a girl.
“because she is a girl”
Cindy Boren is not a tween. She’s an accomplished journalist. Learn the word “woman.”
Oh please. She is a girl. Read the spew she puts forth as journalism. Unsubstantiated drivel. Arguments less sophisticated than the average 10 year old girl. I have called John Tomasse, Bert Breer, Mike Felger, Tony Mazzeroti and Mike Holley far worse than girl. Pick and choose your battles. You really want to go to bat for a no talent hack because she is the same gender as you? If so you are just as dumb as she is.
If you truly want equality, which I doubt because you seem to be too narrow minded to listen to what we are all telling you…then you will learn that when media hacks say stupid things we use whatever insult is available to characterize their stupidity. No one cares what gender Boren is…all we are showing is she incompetent. So we insult her by calling her a broad, a girl or whatever other demeaning term is available. It is no different than when I call Mike Felger an insufferably 8 year old boy (something I did last year).
Lastly, get over your crusade. If I wanted to argue the merits of Andrea Dworkin thought police policies I would go back to academia. Boren is a professional journalist and a bad one. If she can’t handle criticism she should get out of the kitchen. If you feel obligated to defend her because of your shared gender then you represent all that is wrong with post Virginia Wolfe feminism. You are stuck fighting a battle you do not believe in to prove a point that no one cares about all in the name of gender equity.
Okay, little girl. Maybe you and Tawmmy should go get a couple of Twisted Teas together.
Nice one missy. You know what the problem with you coopted feminists is…you can’t think. You are so busy feeling that things should be a certain way that you toss logic and reason and replace them with nonsense.
Go play with people who agree with your perverted politics. As far as I can tell you have added nothing to the conversation on this board other than blind defense of a poor writer because you are the same gender. Come back when you have legitimate sports arguments rather than ruffled feathers because someone used the term “girl” when describing a talentless moron.
Okay, little girl. I think it’s past your bedtime. You must be tired from looking up all those big words to use today!
You guys really have lived up to the
Tawmmy from Quinzee persona. “EVERYONE IS JUST JEALOUS OF US MEMBERS OF GREATRIOT NATION! LIBEL! I MEAN NOT REALLY LIBEL BUT CLOSE ENOUGH! UNFAIR!!!”
A person couldn’t have asked for a better, more predictable response.
Enjoy your Twisted Tea, darlin’.
Child…I find you amusing. Quick to insult but not really sophisticated in your thinking. Thanks for the good laugh. Winding you up and watching you expose your silly arguments and while you retreat into name calling because several of us called you on your bullshit pseudo feminism has been a welcome respite from deflategate.
Take it to the dart board at Sullys, girl. You’re a waste of space and a brain cell killer.
Toodles and good luck in pursuit of that Associates degree at Bunker Hill!
I think we now know what happens when the comments sections on Jezebel and FoxNews.com finally meet.
She doesn’t need to work harder to prove she belongs – she needs to work harder to overcome ignorant stereotyping and outdated, absurd beliefs.
The people who fall back on stereotypes like that are the people I would stereotype as “morons.”
If she’s wrong than she’s “an idiot moron journalist.” Not an idiot moron woman journalist. Just an idiot moron journalist.
My point is she is both. Look…very few people on this board insult Jackie Mac because she is a woman. She has proven she is a competent journalist (at least when she talks hoops…not so much when she talks football). As such no one looks at her gender. On the other hand Shalise Manza Young is so bad its hard not to look at the fact that she is a girl trying to make it in a man’s professional especially when she complains how hard the Pats make her job when they do not give her access. Those days she sounds like the whiney little girl she is.
People want equality of opportunity…and they have it. That does not mean they then do not deserve equality of criticism/ venom when they say and do stupid things. All things are on the table. Even their gender.
Well, I don’t agree with that, but it’s a fair explanation. So yeah, I get it.
But you would never make a “Felger’s a white male so he thinks a certain way…” kind of comment. It’s ONLY women/non-white people who get these insults directed at them.
I just think it’s lazy – if all anyone’s got is to pull the gender/race card, then there must not be much weight to the argument.
Now, you’re rebuttal could easily be “hey, she’s not worth my effort – so I’m going with the easiest insult I can think of,” which again, is lazy and irrelevant, but I think we’ve all been there.
You are wrong. One of my favorite phrases is “never underestimate the stupidity of the average white well adjusted middle class white person.” I would say that about Felger if it made sense in context of what he is writing/saying. The good thing about Felger is there are so many ways to insult him and the caricature he has become that I have not needed to insult his ethnicity yet. I have mocked his yiddish on occasion but that was more because it sounds so forced.
That’s fair – but I still would argue that gender/race is low-hanging fruit. A moron’s a moron’s a moron. Haha
Sure…but if the argument warrants it use it. For example I never call Mike Holley the product of affirmative action because insulting his race is too simple when describing how bad he really is. I used the example of Jackie Mac before. Another one would be Karen G…when she does something stupid we call her dumb…not a dumb woman because she has earned our respect. I think the quality or lack there of determines how much time and energy I need to spend finding the correct insult. There is much science to being a successful blog post commenter! Its not like I rolled out of bed this witty and sardonic.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Pats had to wait for Blount to clear waivers, or at least have to wait until something like 25 other teams passed on him before they could sign him, no? How could there be a “conspiracy” in play to get him back to the Pats if two dozen other NFL teams had a perfectly legal chance to sign him first? This one simply doesn’t pass even the initial smell test IMO.
You are correct. All 32 teams could have claimed Blount off waivers. None did. (Though admittedly, if they had they would have had to honor his existing contract. The moment he cleared waivers his contract ceased to exist.)
JamesAllen says:
What does the sex of the blogger have to do with validity of the opinion? And, do you refer to your wife or mother as a “broad”?
Hmmm…if true, that implicates Mark Schlereth. Schlereth who currently works for ESPN, was an offensive linemen for Shanahan in Denver. Schlereth also was extremely harsh in his coverage for ESPN during the Spygate incident. Having said that, outside of his misguided impressions on Spygate, Schlereth has always struck me as a likable guy. Therefore I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as I’ve seen firsthand how awful it is when people rush to judgement unfairly. And therein lies the truth regarding what I call Belichick-Gate. None of the public and media outcry has ever been about the trumped up allegations on the New England coach. Instead they’ve merely been a pathetic attempt by the media to tear down the man who restricts their access and warm and fuzzy with them. He isn’t personable with them and they use their positions to influence the public to hate the man as much as they do. Thats what deflate gate is about and thats what spygate was about as well. Revenge.
The_Pip says:
If the Seahawks were facing even half the scrutiny, I’m sure a scandal much worse than deflated balls would come out. But nope, they get not a second glance. Despite that Coach’s track record.
And yet the NFL tested Earl Thomas for HGH after he declared he felt 100%.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/12248954/seattle-seahawks-miffed-hgh-tests
Its not like 10 Seahawks were not suspended or fined last year for PED violations. But hey…lets not chase real stories.
Wnna have your head explode? Like, brain matter splattered all over the walls? Go listen to the ultimate @ssclown troll of them all, Gregg Doyle with D&C&M. WOW. I sat in stunned silence when it was over. The guy who said the AFC-CG should be replayed, that Belichick and Brady should be fired and suspended from the Super Bowl…..he puked up an all-timer today.
Ready for it? He said the 2014 DeflateGate is the biggest, ugliest sports scandal since the 1919 Black Sox. Doyle is a EPIC troll but I actually believe HE believes this. Now, I’ve heard it all in relation to this story.
Mind. F##king. Blown.
Isn’t there a petition in Indy, signed by over 70k people, to replay the game?
mediablowhards says:
Cue the civil suits against Kraft, B.B. and Brady for ruining their last fifteen Winters.
Doyle is just plagiarizing from Greggggggg Easterbrook, who, in one of his typical, insane and unhinged rants over “Spygate”, also compared it to the 1919 Black Sox scandal more than 7 years ago. Of course, these mediots wouldn’t be interested in knowing, or caring, about the fact that the 1919 White Sox were consorting with gamblers with major underworld ties (Arnold Rothstein went to the grave because he ended up on the wrong end of a pistol); and so equating these minor infractions (if there even was ball deflating going on — we still don’t know that for a fact) to the Black Sox scandal is ignorant and moronic, at best, and slanderous, at worst.
The fact that you had to explain how they two are not analogous speaks volumes about how dumb certain “professional” mediots are. I think the bigger scandal is that there are outlets that still employ these morons. Free Speech does not mean it has to be endorsed by being given a platform. Remember the good old days when there were journalistic standards and ethics? Oh wait Journalists have always been holier than thou.
LTD: I may have to steal this one from you: “Free speech does not mean it has to be endorsed by being given a platform.” Great line, and very spot-on.
Tony…you can use anything I write always. Heck steal it and don’t give me credit. We are all part of the BSMW family, bro (I had to…don’t hate ;-))
If only individuals were less civil on internet discussion boards. I don’t know about all of you, but I get real bored when people try to share thoughtful insights. What we really need are good old fashioned flame wars between internet tough guys and tough gals. Nothing exemplifies ones intelligence more than the ability insult another by pressing keys on their computers under some anonymous identity. I am so impressed!!!
It is sad when many boards/threads follow Godwin’s Law or just devolve into troll/spam fests.
Yeah, this board used to be so much better when it was just me making 90s wrestling references that three people on here appreciated. #ShockMaster
IM OFFENDED BY THOSE
Suck it!
Your dissenting opinion may be more measured, more rhetorically sound, but it’s still just an opinion. And you shake it like a finger, while other, less eloquent, posters extend their comments like a finger.
Lamenting poor form on the interwebs is lame. Grow up.
Thank you for your advice and wonderful analysis. Have a great weekend and enjoy the game!
There’s a game Sunday?
Aaron Schatz over @ FO does a nice breakdown of the game:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/game-previews/2015/super-bowl-xlix-preview
Blandino said the Colts balls were checked at halftime, too. But again, the PSI is only approved or disapproved.
— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) January 29, 2015
Oops. NFL kinda just killed their own investigation. One of the prime “Ballgazi” truthers also kinda stepped in it this morning:
https://twitter.com/barthubbuch/status/560870562239496192
This Bart dude is dumb enough to be a paid columnist! What does it mean? It means exactly what it says, moron.
Funny screencap via the F&M simulcast. Zolak eating pizza in the background while they’re addressing.. what else..
Gotta love @scottzolak eating pizza on the @FelgerAndMazz simulcast on CSNNE. #PizzaGate pic.twitter.com/duGIbOwZFB
— Evan Walsh (@Evan__Walsh) January 29, 2015
You are absolutely correct. Every single team in the NFL had the chance to claim Blount off waivers (though admittedly, if they did they would have had to honor his existing contract). No one did.
Wow! Mike Reiss had his Wheaties today!
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/boston/chat/_/id/51566
“I’ll add a few more thoughts in this chat. I think it stinks. If anyone has ever felt piled-on before, and a target of something that they deem unfair, we know how helpless of a feeling that can be. You just ask whoever is doing it to be fair and balanced, and let the process play out. But this has been an absolute avalanche in many circles and the general lack of personal empathy stands out to me. Words like “jealousy” and “nasty” come to the forefront of my thoughts when I recap how this whole thing has gone down.”
“…here’s the bottom line: It doesn’t matter because the damage has already been done. Opinions are already formed/shaped. Reputations have been damaged and legacies potentially affected. It’s like the correction to a mistake in a newspaper story (I had plenty of those) — everyone remembers the story, not the correction. This is part of why the whole situation just stinks from my view. I’m not sparing the Patriots accountability; if they were found to manipulate the footballs, they should face a penalty. But the fact it has gotten to this point — without any hard-core evidence — is just crazy and makes me question the direction and leadership of the league office.”
The Gold Standard.
I could live without the “Could you imagine!!??” question at the end of these posts. Yes, we could imagine – that’s why we’re here.
Bob Kravitz is on D+C right now. Reacts to his little hunt not going so well.
Basically says that he doesn’t trust the NFL to “do the right thing’ and find the Patriots guilty. Why doesn’t he trust them? Because they didn’t do it with Ray Rice.
Ok, so you don’t trust the NFL because how bad they bungled the Ray Rice investigation but you do trust them when they find something against the Patriots?
Got it. Many continue to use this logic. This is before we get into the rest of it, but I still find this laughable.
And, I love how he dismisses everyone who disagrees with him as “fanbois”, “bloggers” or “passionate fans”.
He loves it – he can run his mouth all day and all night, and click after click after click.
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The only thing proven so far in Deflategate is that Bob Kravitz is a braying jackass.
That is the troll’s (Columnist) cute way of saying that he knows knows the NFL has nothing on the Pats.
re: “Basically says that he doesn’t trust the NFL to “do the right thing'”
He dismisses his opponents as “fanbois”, “bloggers” and “passionate” fans, but his own opinion on the story is that the NFL and Kraft are operating a conspiracy!
Trolls loathe to admit to being wrong about anything.
Paying_Attention says:
Kravitz dismisses those criticizing him as “fanboys.” He’s also stated that when you become a media member, rooting interests go out the window.
That’s fine, but I think he forgets that part of being a fan is not just rooting for your team. You also root against your team’s rivals.
I bring this up because, on the 19th, Kravitz was explaining why he ran with his story. It wasn’t only because it came from a source he trusted. He also mentioned that it was because it involved Belichick and the Patriots. To me, that means if it was, for example, the Bengals, he might have looked into it more or sought another source before reporting it. It was his fanboy-ish dislike for the Patriots that influenced his decision.
Sports Media Musings: The NFL Is Insane; 3 Best Deflategate Pieces To Date
Video: What Just Happened?
The Exaggerated Myth of Bill Parcells in New England
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Making Love in Public: Part Two of Poets & Writers ((LIVE)) San Francisco
January 14, 2015 § 1 Comment
Part two of the Rebecca Fish Ewan’s blog report (and nifty sketches) from the recent Poets & Writers ((LIVE)) event in San Francisco:
Let’s just jump back in…
Perfect Pitch Panel
The Perfect Pitch panel offered insight on query letter writing in a refreshing way. I’ve read hordes of tips on the topic, but watching a public critique was vastly more revealing, because the panelists reacted to the words as the authors read the letters (on stage, brave souls!).
The panelists, Jordan Bass (editor), Ethan Nosowsky (editor), Danielle Svetcov (agent) and Megan Fishmann (publicist), also illuminated the fact that query letter readers are human. They love to be told stories. “We read queries like we read everything,” said Svetcov. Rather than write in tight and stilted language, the letter needs to:
“Compress beautifully what your book is about” (Svetcov)
Reveal your voice
Reveal that you take writing seriously (include brief writing/publication history and blurbs from established authors attesting to your awesomeness)
Use comps that are current
Be read out loud to another human being before it’s sent
The Shields and Powell smack down came next, which I thoroughly enjoyed, along with a clip from the film adaptation of their book I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel. For me though, their quarrel was more cerebroerotic than homoerotic as Shields had hoped. Guess it depends on personal preference, but I always enjoy watching two brains going at it. I care much less about the sexes of the brains’ owners.
Both men did agree on the necessity of an initial wound from which art can emerge. “I can’t imagine art without the wound,” said Shields, emphasizing the necessity for rupture by quoting Kafka: “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” When asked by the audience whether friendship can stay real when it becomes art, Shields commented “There is something incredibly artful about a well-maintained friendship.” To which Powell replied “We’re stuck together for life…it’s better to be friends.” The audience all agreed their friendship stands a better chance of surviving if Shields makes good on his invitation to have the Powell family over for dinner.
The final panel, Why We Write, on its own filled me with enough inspiration to compensate for the conference registration fee. Authors Wendy Lesser, Yiyun Li, Alejandro Murguia, D. A. Powell and Michelle Tea shared details of their writing process. Tea described her approach as what was soon called The Barfing Method. Akin to the shitty first draft, it’s relinquishing the work to the writer and keeping the mental editor at bay. Not until the first draft is complete can the editor come out of the cage in the writer’s mind.
“It’s a lot easier to eliminate the stupid than to get out that first draft,” agreed Lesser. D. A. Powell described creating poetry as a collaboration between “two separate impulses, the writer and the shaper. I am always doing both these things when I am writing.” Either way the writing is balanced with the revising. Lesser noted that “the best way to edit is to read aloud.” But when is it finished? “The last version should be like a dwarf star, one spoonful weighing a ton,” said Murguia. A smaller comparison that also resonated with me was how D.A. Powell spoke of writing blocks, which he called “silences.” “Hummingbirds burn up a lot of energy beating their little wings. They need another action, to figure things out.”
Roman Muradov, Poets & Writers ((LIVE))
While this session focused on the more solitary act of writing, each panelist integrated other authors’ work as part of their own writing practice—reading out loud, rewriting it in their own hand, memorizing poems and passages. It becomes an intimate sharing of words. “Reading to your lover is one of the sexiest things you can do,” said Murguia, who has a particularly seductive spoken voice. And we’re back to human connection. Michelle Tea extended the companionship scope, suggesting “Be a part of a literary community. You need to create a world that you want and then live in it.”
The event closed with The Inspiration Experiment, performances of creative work inspired from the poem “Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die,” written and read by Joyce Carol Oates and then interpreted by Ben Arthur (singer-songwriter), Nick Twemlow (poet-filmmaker), Sarah Fiske (dancer-choreographer), and Roman Muradov (illustrator-cartoonist). As I watched and listened to Oates’ words woven into dance, film, song and drawings, the work became like a synesthetic haunting. As Fiske put it afterwards, “imagine what the landscape will sound like.”
When Kevin Larimer, Editor-in-Chief of Poets & Writers, closed the event with a quiet wish that he hoped we are all inspired, I felt so stuffed with the generosity of the writing community, my original selfish aspirations seemed very small. I’m grateful to the people I met and to the moderators and other staff who organized the event. This day in San Francisco was the fourth of a series of Poets & Writers ((LIVE)) shows. The next one will be in Chicago on June 20, 2015, and will track the writer’s journey from idea to publication. The San Francisco event was so well put together, I wish I could attend in Chicago. Maybe I should become a LIVE Head and follow the tour…maybe I’d meet a publisher…Oh, shut up, book whore.
Rebecca Fish Ewan, author of A Land Between and graduate of the creative writing MFA program in poetry at Arizona State University where she teaches landscape history and design, is trying to learn to market her free verse cartoon memoir of her life’s deepest wound. She lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her family, and makes pilgrimages to the Pacific Ocean whenever life permits.
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Interconvertible vanadium-seamed hexameric pyrogallol[4]arene nanocapsules
Kongzhao Su
Associated Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
C-alkylpyrogallol[4]arenes (abbreviated as PgCn, where n is the length of the associated alkyl tail), which are vase-shaped macrocyclic host molecules composed of 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene units, have been determined over the past decade to be versatile building blocks for the construction of supramolecular complexes. Since the initial discovery by Atwood et al. in 2005 of PgCn-based metal-organic nanocapsules (MONCs) constructed from six PgCn units and 24 Cu2+ ions, a number of studies have demonstrated that PgCn canassembled with Mg, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Ga ions to form MONCs in different shapes including hexameric octahedral, dimeric spherical and hexameric “rugby ball” shapes. Interestingly, the assemblies of the dimeric spherical and hexameric octahedral MONCs could be controlled by external stimuli including solvents and temperatures. However, PgCn-based MONCs are limited to the aforementioned metal ions, and still have the possibility of synthesizing new PgCn-based nanocapsules and exerting control over their self-assembly behavior.
A search of the CCDC database for metal complexes composed of the o-dihydroxybenzene and 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene subunit reveals that they can also coordinate with trasition metals such as Ti, V, Mn, Fe and so on, and also lanthanide ions. In these results, we have pay much more attention to cyclotricatechylene (CTC), a macrocyclic molecule composed of o-dihydroxybenzene units, which is much simialr to PgCn molecules. Notably, CTC can assemble with VO2+ centers to form tetrahedral MONCs. Bear this in mind, we have try to use PgCn and VO2+ ions to construct MONCs. Fortunatly, we have obtained a ball-shaped capsule (V24-ball) constructed from 24 vanadium centers and 6 PgC3 units. In attempt to synthesize the dimeric spherical V8 MONC is failed, but its quasi-isomer, hexameric octahedral V24 capsule (V24-oct) is accidentally obtained. Their structural differences are due to the coordination geometry differences in V centers. Speciafically, the V centrers adopt five-coordinated square-pyramidal and six-coordinated octahedral geometries for V24-ball and V24-oct, respectively.
It has been observed that the five-coordinate square pyramidal and six-coordinated octahedral oxidovanadium complexes can interconvert by associating and disassociating an axial molecule. With this in mind, we searched for conditions which promote the interconversion between the contracted V24 octahedron and the expanded V24 ball. Interestingly, we found that the axial water molecules of vanadium centers in V24 octahedron are removed in DMF/CH3OH (1:1, v/v) solution at 80 oC, the DMF working as a dehydrating agent; while those vanadium centers in V24 ball-shaped capsule can capture the water molecules in DMF/CH3CN/H2O/NEt3 (20:80:10:1, v/v/v/v) solution at 80 oC. Following such structural interconversions, the magnetic properties are significantly changed. Specifically, the V4+ centers in V24 ball are antiferromagnetic coupled, while V24 octahedron ferromagnetic at higher temperature.
Overall, our work not only provides a new strategy for efficient construction of metal-organic nanocapsule quasi-isomers by controlling the coordination environments of the metal centers, but also profoundly improves the understanding the transformation process and their structure-property relationships in stimuli-responsive assembly system.
For further information, please see our paper “Interconvertible vanadium-seamed hexameric pyrogallol[4]arene nanocapsules" published in Nature Communications from here.
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Iron-catalysed asymmetric carboazidation of styrenes
Hongli Bao
Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Previous studies on azidation reactions in this and other laboratories provided evidence that metal-catalyzed radical azidation often involves intermolecular transfer of an azido group from the metal catalyst to a carbon radical. Such radical group transfer reactions do not involve interactions between metal species and radicals, and accordingly few believed that this type of transformation could be enantioselective. Before we obtained positive results, we were not sure that whether enantioselectivity is possible and we navigated like a boat at night in the middle of the ocean. One of my most intelligent students felt that this task was impossible, and declined to continue to work on the project. Luckily, two other students Liang Ge and Huan Zhou elected to trust me and pursue the project. It was a long trip and many times we almost lost our faith. Research by Professor Joseph Ready from UT Southwestern Medical Center revealing rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective radical addition of CBr4 to olefins encouraged us in this dark time.
We finally achieved positive results, but then the problem became how to convince others that this is truly a group transfer reaction. Many people feel profoundly, that enantioselectivity in metal catalyzed radical reactions indicates instead an inner-sphere, high valent metal pathway.
Fortunately, two excellent chemists, Dr. Mong-Feng Chiou and Professor Xinhao Zhang supported us in a timely fashion and in the light of their work the proposed mechanism appears to be quite convincing.
Submission of our paper was also a long story, too long to relate here. Many people helped us and we truly appreciate the assistance we received from experts, editors and students. It is our hope that readers will like this work and find it useful.
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Research Article: Automated detection of moderate and large pneumothorax on frontal chest X-rays using deep convolutional neural networks: A retrospective study
Date Published: November 20, 2018
Author(s): Andrew G. Taylor, Clinton Mielke, John Mongan, Suchi Saria
Abstract: BackgroundPneumothorax can precipitate a life-threatening emergency due to lung collapse and respiratory or circulatory distress. Pneumothorax is typically detected on chest X-ray; however, treatment is reliant on timely review of radiographs. Since current imaging volumes may result in long worklists of radiographs awaiting review, an automated method of prioritizing X-rays with pneumothorax may reduce time to treatment. Our objective was to create a large human-annotated dataset of chest X-rays containing pneumothorax and to train deep convolutional networks to screen for potentially emergent moderate or large pneumothorax at the time of image acquisition.Methods and findingsIn all, 13,292 frontal chest X-rays (3,107 with pneumothorax) were visually annotated by radiologists. This dataset was used to train and evaluate multiple network architectures. Images showing large- or moderate-sized pneumothorax were considered positive, and those with trace or no pneumothorax were considered negative. Images showing small pneumothorax were excluded from training. Using an internal validation set (n = 1,993), we selected the 2 top-performing models; these models were then evaluated on a held-out internal test set based on area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value (PPV). The final internal test was performed initially on a subset with small pneumothorax excluded (as in training; n = 1,701), then on the full test set (n = 1,990), with small pneumothorax included as positive. External evaluation was performed using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ChestX-ray14 set, a public dataset labeled for chest pathology based on text reports. All images labeled with pneumothorax were considered positive, because the NIH set does not classify pneumothorax by size. In internal testing, our “high sensitivity model” produced a sensitivity of 0.84 (95% CI 0.78–0.90), specificity of 0.90 (95% CI 0.89–0.92), and AUC of 0.94 for the test subset with small pneumothorax excluded. Our “high specificity model” showed sensitivity of 0.80 (95% CI 0.72–0.86), specificity of 0.97 (95% CI 0.96–0.98), and AUC of 0.96 for this set. PPVs were 0.45 (95% CI 0.39–0.51) and 0.71 (95% CI 0.63–0.77), respectively. Internal testing on the full set showed expected decreased performance (sensitivity 0.55, specificity 0.90, and AUC 0.82 for high sensitivity model and sensitivity 0.45, specificity 0.97, and AUC 0.86 for high specificity model). External testing using the NIH dataset showed some further performance decline (sensitivity 0.28–0.49, specificity 0.85–0.97, and AUC 0.75 for both). Due to labeling differences between internal and external datasets, these findings represent a preliminary step towards external validation.ConclusionsWe trained automated classifiers to detect moderate and large pneumothorax in frontal chest X-rays at high levels of performance on held-out test data. These models may provide a high specificity screening solution to detect moderate or large pneumothorax on images collected when human review might be delayed, such as overnight. They are not intended for unsupervised diagnosis of all pneumothoraces, as many small pneumothoraces (and some larger ones) are not detected by the algorithm. Implementation studies are warranted to develop appropriate, effective clinician alerts for the potentially critical finding of pneumothorax, and to assess their impact on reducing time to treatment.
Partial Text: Pneumothorax can constitute a medical emergency since the presence of air within the pleural space outside the lung produces collapse of the lung and subsequent respiratory distress, especially in critically ill patients [1]. While the incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax in the United States is relatively low [2], pneumothorax is often associated with trauma [3], mechanical ventilation [4], and iatrogenic injury from procedures such as thoracentesis [5]. The use of adjunctive imaging has reduced this risk somewhat, but even with ultrasound guidance a recent meta-analysis estimated the rate of pneumothorax after thoracentesis to be approximately 4% [6]. Pneumothorax of a clinically significant size is often diagnosed with standard frontal plain film radiography; however, the accuracy of diagnosis is dependent on a number of factors including pneumothorax size, patient positioning, image quality, and variation in radiologist threshold for diagnosis, resulting in a mean sensitivity in the range of 83%–86% in studies assessing this [7–9]. Further, treatment is reliant on timely review of acquired images, both by the radiologist and the referring physician. A study of patients with pneumothorax in the intensive care unit (ICU) found that length of stay in intensive care was longer and the risk of progression to tension pneumothorax (a large pneumothorax that causes obstruction or restriction of blood flow to the heart, producing circulatory collapse) was higher for patients whose pneumothoraces were initially misdiagnosed; further, a significant risk factor for delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis was development of pneumothorax outside of peak physician staffing hours [10].
This study, compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, was approved by the institutional review board of our institution. The study was granted a consent waiver due to its retrospective design and minimal risk categorization.
We created automated models that had high AUC and were sensitive to large and moderate pneumothoraces while retaining high specificity when evaluated on our internal test set. In particular, the high specificity model (specificity 0.97) produced a PPV of 12.5% for the scenario in which pneumothorax has a prevalence of 1% (including small, moderate, and large pneumothoraces). This performance profile matches what is required for prioritization of low-prevalence findings. While high sensitivity is of course desirable, for our selected use case of triaging larger, potentially more acutely clinically significant pneumothoraces at times when review may be delayed (i.e., overnight), we felt it important that PPV remain high enough that there will not be too many false positives, since this would increase alert fatigue, and clinical radiologists might ignore the findings of the algorithm. With a PPV of 12.5%, a radiologist need only review approximately 8 radiographs for every positive case. However, it is important to make clear that this algorithm is not intended to be relied upon to detect small pneumothoraces (based on our experimental design and training method), and that some moderate and large pneumothoraces may still be missed. In keeping with our research aim, this is meant to be a prioritization and triaging tool for potential emergencies rather than a substitute for careful image review and diagnosis rendered by a human radiologist.
http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002697
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Research Article: RNA Interference of Trypanosoma brucei Cathepsin B and L Affects Disease Progression in a Mouse Model
Date Published: September 24, 2008
Author(s): Maha-Hamadien Abdulla, Theresa O’Brien, Zachary B. Mackey, Mohamed Sajid, Dennis J. Grab, James H. McKerrow, Serap Aksoy
Abstract: We investigated the roles played by the cysteine proteases cathepsin B and cathepsin L (brucipain) in the pathogenesis of Trypansoma brucei brucei in both an in vivo mouse model and an in vitro model of the blood–brain barrier. Doxycycline induction of RNAi targeting cathepsin B led to parasite clearance from the bloodstream and prevent a lethal infection in the mice. In contrast, all mice infected with T. brucei containing the uninduced Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B (TbCatB) RNA construct died by day 13. Induction of RNAi against brucipain did not cure mice from infection; however, 50% of these mice survived 60 days longer than uninduced controls. The ability of T. b. brucei to cross an in vitro model of the human blood–brain barrier was also reduced by brucipain RNAi induction. Taken together, the data suggest that while TbCatB is the more likely target for the development of new chemotherapy, a possible role for brucipain is in facilitating parasite entry into the brain.
Partial Text: Subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei are the causative agents of human African trypanosomiasis. In vitro studies utilizing both small molecule cysteine protease inhibitors and RNA interference (RNAi) have implicated the Clan CA (papain) family of cysteine proteases as critical to the successful lifecycle of Trypanosoma brucei brucei (T. b. brucei) [1],[2]. In vivo studies have demonstrated that cysteine protease inhibitors prolong the lives of mice infected with lethal inocula of trypanosomes [1],[3]. There are two distinct Clan CA cysteine proteases identified in the T. brucei genome. Brucipain (aka trypanopain-Tb, rhodesain) is a cathepsin L-like protease responsible for the bulk of protease activity in the organism [2]. Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B (TbCatB) is a more recently characterized protease that is upregulated in the bloodstream stage of the parasite [2]. In in vitro studies, RNAi of TbCatB produced swelling of the endosome compartment analogous to that seen with class-specific cysteine protease inhibitors [1],[2] and led to arrest of trypanosome replication and death. In contrast, knockdown of brucipain by RNAi in vitro produced no detectable phenotypic changes. However, it was hypothesized that this enzyme might play a role in the degradation of mistargeted glycosylphosphatidylinisotol (GPI) anchored proteins, VSG turnover, disruption of the blood–brain barrier, or degradation of host immunoglobulin [4],[5] While RNAi with cultured parasites can provide important insights into the role of a specific gene product in parasite replication and viability, a role in pathogenesis, as proposed for brucipain, can only be validated in vivo. We show that introduction of RNAi from a tetracycline-inducible promoter can be achieved in vivo in a mouse model of T. b. brucei infection, and show that transcriptional silencing of either of these two proteases alters the course of T. b. brucei infection [6].
The goal of these experiments was to validate the in vitro effects of RNAi on TbcatB in an in vivo disease model of African trypanosomiasis, and to explore a potential role of brucipain as a virulence factor. For safety reasons we conducted the knockdown experiment in the human non-infective strain T. b. brucei which has been traditionally grown and studied in mice. Doxycycline by itself produced no significant alteration (+/−1 day) in the course of T. b. brucei 90-13 infections (Fig. 1A). Equivalent levels of parasitemia and splenomegaly were observed in mice whether or not they were maintained on a doxycycline-containing diet (not shown). The in vivo induction of RNAi against brucipain in T. b. brucei did not cure infection, but extended the survival of three out of five mice beyond 60 days (Fig. 1B) the experiment was repeated twice with the same result. All mice infected with trypanosomes having the brucipain transcript knockdown had parasitemia and splenomegaly equivalent to that seen in control mice at the time of their sacrifice (not shown). Splenomegaly (quantified by spleen weight) is a convenient gross pathological marker of disease burden [16]. Analysis of mRNA levels in trypanosomes isolated from infected mice confirmed 60% reduction in the level of brucipain mRNA (Fig. 2A). The level of cathepsin B mRNA was not affected by RNAi induction against brucipain in pZJMTbRho induced parasites (Fig. 2B). Active site labeling of brucipain in trypanosomes purified from mouse blood confirmed 60% reduction in brucipain protease activity (Fig. 3C). Endogenous activity levels of brucipain and cathepsin B, quantified by DCG-04 labeling of purified parasites from mice infected with 90-13 strain, confirmed that brucipain was more abundant than cathepsin B (Fig. 3D), consistent with previously published data [2],[14]. A control cell line with an insert of GFP was generated to investigate the role of RNAi plasmid construct itself on the parasites in vivo. No difference was seen in mouse pathology or in brucipain or cathepsin B levels with GFP-induced parasites (data not shown).
http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000298
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Out from Bantam Press (UK) and Tor (US) now.
You Let Me In delivers a stunning tale from debut author Camilla Bruce, combining the sinister domestic atmosphere of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects with the otherwordly thrills of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
Cassandra Tipp is dead…or is she?
After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy–everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie’s infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far).
Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body–just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript.
Then again, there are enough bodies in her past–her husband Tommy Tipp, whose mysterious disembowelment has never been solved, and a few years later, the shocking murder-suicide of her father and brother.
Cassandra Tipp will tell you a story–but it will come with a terrible price. What really happened, out there in the woods–and who has Cassie been protecting all along? Read on, if you dare…
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“By the end of the third page I was not only hooked, but beginning to think that this might be the best book I’d read all year . . . creepy, pagan, detailed, entrancing. I loved it.” —Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and The Strawberry Thief
“You Let Me In is a bewitching, beguiling, and deeply unsettling tale of one woman’s strange life. It will ensnare you from page one and keep you riveted until the end.” —Caitlin Starling, author of The Luminous Dead
“You Let Me In is a dark, delicious confection of a novel, a tour-de-force of the unreliable narrator—or is it? Either way—I loved every word.” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Secret History of Witches
“Haunting, and harrowing, You Let Me In is the kind of fairy tale that keeps you up at night because the monsters are real. I couldn’t look away.” —Alix Harrow, Hugo award-winning author
“You Let Me In is a relentless, heartbreaking exploration of isolation, grooming, and the cycles of abuse that pursue the vulnerable. The Pepper Man is terrifying on levels that will stay with you long after you’ve put the book down, crawled into bed, closed your eyes, and told yourself that everything is going to be okay.”—Sarah Gailey, author of Magic For Liars
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“Exploring the darker side of fairytales, it inhabits that liminal space where folklore and horror collide. A worrying tale where reality is filtered through the unreal, and the rational rubs shoulders with the supernatural, this is a beguiling story of love and revenge.” —Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them
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Employees say El Reno medical marijuana dispensary owner won’t pay more than $4k owed in back pay
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EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) – A dispute between the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary and her former employees is escalating after they say she owes them more than $4,000 in back pay.
“It’s frustrating, and especially during this time because she knows how critical it is to find work, to provide for your family,” said former employee Josefina Sandoval.
Sandoval said just a few months after she was hired at Kush Konnexions in El Reno, her boss stopped paying her. Sandoval said the owner, Latosha Richey, now owes her $1,800 and has only made excuses as to why she hasn’t been paid.
“Finally, we got up to three checks, and I had told her that I can no longer work without compensation, and she fired me,” Sandoval said.
She’s not alone. Two other former employees said Richey owes them money as well.
One didn’t want to go on camera for fear of retaliation.
The other said the money issue wasn’t the reason he finally quit.
“No,” said former employee Alex Quiroz. “I quit because of her unprofessionalism. She cussed employees out in front of customers. That’s not how you run a business.”
That’s a claim made by more than one former worker.
“She would scream and yell at you. She would do it out in front of customers, out in the dispensary,” said former employee Nathaniel Beaty.
Even marijuana growers have taken to social media to complain she owes them money as well.
Richey declined to comment on camera, but told KFOR she only owes Sandoval one paycheck.
She also claimed she made a report to the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office regarding a blackmail attempt by Sandoval, but deputies said no report has been made.
“I’m highly disappointed,” Sandoval said. “Basically, because this is such a new industry and I feel like people who do things like this are giving the industry a bad name.”
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‘Craft Weed’: How Family Farming Can Remain in Marijuana’s Future
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A new book offers a case for craft marijuana as an industry staple.
K. Astre
The “Green Rush” has been in motion for years now, with no signs of stopping, and has summoned up a smorgasbord of companies and brands trying to capture an ever-expanding market. Corporate cannabis goes barreling forward at light speed, and officials are making up the rules along the way. As the business of cannabis has evolved, the threat of companies and corporations swooping in and trying to takeo ver the industry with their generic, mass-produced weed worries those who understand the benefits of small-scale farming models. But, is the arrival of “Big Marijuana” an inescapable fate?
Ryan Stoa, an associate professor of law at Concordia University, explores this question in his book, “Craft Weed,” which encourages readers to shift their focus to the agricultural sector of the industry. Throughout the book, Stoa explores the evolution of cultivation with a spotlight on Humboldt County, a region known for its top-notch crops, homesteading lifestyle and rich farming community. He uses the wisdom and firsthand experiences of veteran growers, upcoming cultivators, dedicated activists and others involved in cannabis to examine what the playing field looks like now and to consider how the future of cultivation will affect everyone if local, sustainable cannabis farms are replaced with large-scale producers.
In this current era of spreading legalization, the focus often falls on how cannabis is bought and consumed, but this book redirects the gaze towards what goes on behind the scenes of the industry to make any of those consumption options possible. Readers are offered a hearty mix of history, background and insight into how politics and the maturation of the medical and recreational cannabis industries have impacted growers — from severe drops in prices for cultivators who have taken major financial hits to others who have had to consider new ways to support themselves following the onslaught of newcomers. And this is without the emergence of a dreaded “Microsoft” or “Walmart” of weed that still might come along and wipe everyone out.
Stoa weighs a lot of factors in making a case for craft weed as an industry staple. For example, he considers whether or not a high maintenance plant like cannabis is fit for commercial growth and if corporations would be able to keep up with the demand for a variety of strains and resist commoditizing marijuana like wheat, soy or rice. The book beckons consumers to consider how a move toward commercial cannabis would not only influence their access to the seemingly endless amount of strains and products they have grown accustomed to, but also how it would impact the quality and efficacy of what they are consuming.
With 10 chapters and just under 200 pages of content (minus notes and an index), “Craft Weed” is a good read for people who are interested in going beyond the surface of business and learning about some of the other pieces that impact the vulnerable cannabis market. It’s a look at cannabis agriculture from all angles, with a little something for people with different interests in the topic. Some readers will appreciate the chapter on cannabis and its environmental impact, others may be fascinated about genetics and some will be drawn to stories and anecdotes from old-timers with decades of experience in the industry. For example, the book includes an interview with 65-year-old Elaine, who questions whether she can still survive in the new market after selling some of her harvest for record-low prices, and an interview with Sunflower, a seasoned grower who started her career working on guerilla grows and weathered multiple raids, but is now considering going legal.
The clear message throughout the book is that cannabis should not only be cultivated with the care, consideration and agricultural skill that it deserves, but also that the families who have dedicated their lives to farming quality cannabis and growers that maintain sustainable farming practices should be the ones growing it, not corporations looking to get rich. Stoa believes that marijuana legalization has the potential to revitalize the American family farm and rural economies nationwide and “can’t think of a more responsible approach to marijuana agriculture than a vigorous and cooperative community of family farms, supplying consumers with sustainable, high-quality marijuana, right here in the USA.”
The book is really interesting, but it could be a little loaded for people who expect a straight-forward look at craft weed. Readers need to wade through lots of names, dates, acronyms and more as Stoa connects the dots between the past, present and future. Though some parts of the book seem a little meandering, it’s a smart and level-headed assessment of how cannabis agriculture has been shaped and the endless possibilities that lie ahead.
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Here at Cannabis Now we’ve combed the globe over many years in search of the best cultivators had to offer, but sadly not all of the amazing cuts we’ve seen are still with us, due to various circumstances.
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Let’s take a trip down memory lane and reminisce on some of the great strains that are not or are barely with us anymore.
Some of these strains we consider to have been among the best in the world during their heyday. But, as with most things in life, it’s tough to stay at the top of the mountain. Issues such as a lack of genetic preservation of the best phenotypes, shifts in consumer tastes and — of course — law enforcement interference can derail a strain’s dominance.
Here are a few of our favorites from the history books.
One of the more popular sativas of the late 2000s, Green Crack had the honor of being one of the least politically correct names out there. Hence it fell off its surfboard early as the corporate wave hit the industry. What Green Crack lacked in mainstream branding appeal it made up for in kick and easily ranked not too far behind the ultra-elite sativas like AJ’s Sour Diesel and the Arcata Trainwreck cut.
Arjan’s Ultra Haze #2
While the Green House Seeds team are not the originators of Haze in Amsterdam, they definitely helped take its fame and pedigree to new levels. While you can still get your hands on the multiple-time cup winner Super Lemon Haze, Green House Seeds early crushers like Arjan’s Haze line and Super Silver Haze seem a lot harder to come by nowadays. We lucked out on scoring some Super Silver Haze recently, so now we’re hoping to see Arjan’s Ultra Haze #2 pop up again soon.
Blueberry Hashplant
While Canada’s western provinces are a bit more synonymous with cannabis, the Montreal dispensary scene has been crushing for a long time. Back in the day, Blueberry Hashplant was the crown jewel of French-speaking rotations. Believed to be a cross of DJ Short’s Blueberry and G13, this strain was a bit scratchy on the throat, but it was a small price to pay while enjoying the trichome-soaked buds.
Pine Tar Kush
Pine Tar Kush is an inbred Pakistani landrace indica. When put in the right hands, this strain turns into pure magic. At the turn of the decade, one of California’s top indoor cultivators got his hands on it. Not long after, Pine Tar Kush made its way to the top shelf of some of the biggest dispensaries in the world, where it served as best-in-show for the better part of a year. Sadly, Pine Tar’s toe-numbing high was gone as fast as it arrived.
The fall of Purple Kush may be the most directly tied to law enforcement. When Oaksterdam University was raided by the DEA in 2012, the mother plants that many cultivators in California were getting their cuts from died. Some impersonators have popped up since, but nothing compares. Sometimes people forget that kind of thing happened in the cannabis world during the Obama administration.
Romulan’s lineage is a bit of a mystery, but it definitely got preserved in Western Canada for a while. For many, Romulan was the quintessential medical cannabis indica hybrid. We’re clueless as to why it didn’t hold up to the test of time with the market, but you can still grab seeds of it at reputable places online.
Northern Lights #5 x Haze
Legend says the Northern Lights #5 was the end result of a massive propagation project in Canada quite some time ago. After it was paired with an old school Haze, the rest was history. Northern Lights #5 x Haze would find its way into many crosses over the years, but has faded into the lore of cannabis genetics of the past.
Mendocino Purps
When it comes to straight purple, Mendo Purps was a part of the purple trifecta completed by Granddaddy Purps and Purple Erkel. While GDP was easier to grow Erkel, the Mendo Purps stood out in the pack. While purple hype may have left the masses, it still runs strong in plenty of urban centers.
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Home > 2019 > 09/30 > Jim Benning discusses Canucks waiving Sven Baertschi and Nikolay Goldobin, Gaudette making team
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Jim Benning discusses Canucks waiving Sven Baertschi and Nikolay Goldobin, Gaudette making team
September 30, 2019, 2:58 PM | Brady Trettenero
Canucks GM Jim Benning met with the media this afternoon after the Canucks placed Sven Baertschi, Nikolay Goldobin and Alex Biega on waivers Monday morning.
Benning explained that the decisions have to do with the evolution of where the Canucks are at as a team. The team has better players now, and they’re going to have to make tough decisions as a result.
ICYMI: #Canucks GM Jim Benning spoke to media to discuss waiving forward Sven Baertschi. He also touches on Nikolay Goldobin, and Brock Boeser's status.
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Sven Baertschi
Benning says it was a tough conversation with Baertschi considering the Canucks traded for him and helped him develop. Benning pointed out that Baertschi only played 26 games last season and will get more ice time down in Utica. He also said Baertschi will be back up when the Canucks are hit with injuries.
Benning was asked if Baertschi being waived had to do there not being a fit.
“He wasn’t going to be on the top two power plays,” Benning said. “He doesn’t kill penalties for us. I think as we construct the roster and Travis thinks about the fit and who can kill penalties and play power plays, I think that was part of it.”
“Those other guys give us more flexibility to be we think third or fourth-line players and penalty killers,” Benning added. That’s kind of the conversation we had when discussing Sven vs. Loui or Tim Schaller.”
Benning says Josh Leivo and Brandon Sutter are capable of scoring on the third line with either Jake Virtanen and Loui Eriksson. He said Jake brings speed. He’s hoping for 15-20 goals out of Leivo this season.
Benning did say he talked with several teams over the last few weeks about a possible Baertschi trade, but he wasn’t able to find a fit.
Benning also said salary cap didn’t play a role in the Baertschi decision, stressing that the Canucks wanted to reward the players that deserved to be there.
“It’s about trying to figure out the best fit with the group and different types of players,” Benning said. “Sven is a skilled player and we just felt that the skill set on our team is addressed with some other players. Travis wants a different look .. maybe faster players, players that forecheck harder, penalty killers vs. keeping Sven on the roster.”
Benning said Baertschi looked good alongside Bo Horvat, but Tanner Pearson plays together well with Bo too. Benning further explained that Baertschi’s timing wasn’t 100 percent like it was in the past.
“He was a little bit [hesitant],” Benning said. We’re not expecting him to be a physical player, but as a skilled player, you gotta take hits to make plays and I think that kind of showed up in the preseason.”
Nikolay Goldobin and Alex Biega
Benning sayd Goldobin is a “great kid” and it was a tough conversation. Benning said Goldobin’s training camp was “just average” and gave praise to his offensive skill-set. He says Goldy can fill in for injuries in the top-six and will be a call-up option this season.
Benning didn’t know if Baertschi was going to be claimed off waivers, but he seemed to think there are teams interested in the veteran Biega. The 31-year-old is a serviceable defenseman who has logged over 500 games at the professional level. He could be of use to a team needing a blueliner such as Winnipeg.
Adam Gaudette
Adam Gaudette appears to have made the team, but was skating as an extra forward at practice today.
“He deserves to be here to start the year,” Benning said. “We’ll see how much, we’ll monitor how much he’s gonna play. If it’s the best for him at some point to send him down. If he’s only playing eight or ten minutes a night and not getting in the lineup, we’re going to do what’s best for his development.”
“Even though he had a real good camp, he’s gonna be a good player for us going forward. An important player for us. We’re going to do what’s best for his development, but he’s going to start up here.”
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Man Trying to Find a Cast-Iron Skillet Donated to Goodwill
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Cajuns love their cast-iron skillets. Especially the ones that have been handed down from our grandparents. So, we can totally relate to this guy. Stuart Dodson is asking for help finding his cast-iron skillet that is a family heirloom. Dodson told WYFF that his 82-year-old father accidentally donated the skillet to Goodwill at 1902 Woodruff Road in Greenville, SC on the Friday before Thanksgiving, November 20th.
Dodson is desperately trying to find it. He said he called around to all Upstate and Midlands S.C. Goodwill stores to see if he can find it. Obviously, trying to find his 81-year-old mother’s treasure is not going to be easy.
This item has immense sentimental value as my mom grew up in a farmhouse with a wood stove in North Carolina. This skillet was what her mother cooked with on that wood stove. My mother has moved this skillet from Greenville to Hilton Head to Greenville. - Stuart Dodson
According to WYFF, Dodson is willing to reimburse the price paid for the skillet AND pay a finder’s fee to the person who returns it. He is hoping someone comes through for his mother.
The skillet brand is Griswold and it has a lid. It measures 10 to 11.5 inches wide. Dodson said it could have been a No.8, No. 9, or No. 10 in skillet size. He said it did need some work. See the one from Etsy below for a similar description.
Dodson says the skillet has a lot of history in his family. He said his mother had recently unpacked the skillet and was preparing to clean it and season it because she has a gas grill top. She had plans to preserve it and pass it on.
Anyone with information is asked to email Stuartdodson.21@gmail.com.
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What is the ideal twenty-first century GC like? We believe the best term for them is ‘strategic business counsel’. Over the following pages we set out a model which attempts to visualise the factors that combine to make strategic business counsel capable of operating at the highest level within their organisation.
Our model has been developed through hundreds of conversations with GCs in a wide variety of jurisdictions. Some parts of it may resonate with you more than others. It would be wrong to underestimate the impact of local conditions, just as particular employers, and the characters of GCs themselves, can lead to very different situations. Nevertheless, we believe that – as our several results show – GCs around the world have a great deal in common, and that each of the ‘8Cs’ in the model is an important aspect of strategic business counsel life for the vast majority of them.
In each case, we’ve tried to explain what’s significant for the GC and to follow our explanation with some thought-provoking questions.
Some of our previous GC reports have included tools for GCs seeking to improve aspects of their performance. This is not a tool as such, but we hope it will help GCs who are thinking about what they do and how they do it.
One challenge is that some of these areas are more within the GC’s control than others. In some cases, the biggest difficulty for the GC may be finding the right modus operandi to achieve both the company’s goals and their own.
Our model shows what helps a GC to move up the Value Pyramid. A GC who scores highly in this model while being on a low level of the GC pyramid – or who judges themselves to be at the top of the pyramid but is a low achiever in terms of the 8C model – will want to think about the reasons for that disconnect. Are they in the wrong role? Is their opinion of themselves not matched by what others think? Or have they so far succeeded while maintaining a narrow focus – and, if so, do they now have an opportunity to spread their wings?
We know that not all GCs face the same problems and challenges – although most of the GCs who have seen this model, or earlier versions of it, have been enthusiastic. But we hope our ‘8Cs’ will, at the very least, provide the material for some fruitful reflection and discussion
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Credibility is a must for a GC, and all GCs seek it. Gonzalo Smith Ferrer identified this as a defining characteristic of his role: "Working in-house is about competencies and aptitude. The main role of the legal team is to shape conduct; to encapsulate the values and the purpose of the company."
However, there are traps along the way. In particular, some people gain a sort of credibility by being part of a group, whose members regard each other as inherently more credible than outsiders. Groups of all sorts – including boards and executive teams – can develop that sort of insularity. But such credibility is poison for a GC because, ultimately, a key component of a GC’s credibility is their independence.
A truly credible GC is one who can pull off the difficult trick of being wholly ‘on the team’ and yet completely objective. As Rocio Arredondo of HP Inc told us, the credibility the legal department has built across the business is based on trust. She describes that there is “understanding from our internal clients that we are their partners. They know we have their backs.”
As well as thinking about gaining credibility, GCs have to be aware of the ways in which credibility can be lost. These may include things entirely outside a GC’s control: for example, changes in management may mean that carefully cultivated relationships become redundant overnight. But there are other negative factors – such as weak influencing skills and poor performance by the legal team – that the GC should be able to address.
Do you have as much credibility as you’d wish at all levels in your organisation? If not, why?
How much of your credibility comes from your title, how much from your corporate relationships, how much from your record, how much from your knowledge and abilities, and how much from your team? What other factors are important?
Are you financially numerate enough to fully understand management and financial accounts?
Are you able to contribute to the conversation on wider commercial issues?
Would you feel comfortable as a panel member on a TV current affairs programme?
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Pound Edges Lower Against Euro As UK Manufacturing Data Disappoints, C
The pound started the week in the red against the euro in a fairly turbulent session on Monday. The release of mixed eurozone data outshone disappointing UK economic statistics. By the end of the session the pound had lost 0.1% versus the euro and was trading at €1.1385, as it continued to struggle to cross the €1.14 level.
For example, it could be written: 1 GBP = 1.13990 EUR
Or, if you were looking at it the other way around: 1 EUR = 0.87271 GBP
Weaker than expected UK manufacturing data set the pound off on the wrong foot at the start of the week. Data showed that manufacturing activity in the UK grew much slower than analysts were forecasting in June, which caused the pound to weaken. After the uncertainty caused by the general election analysts had forecast a slight drop in confidence in June, but a drop to a three-month low was not expected. As manufacturing is a dominant contributor to the UK economy any slowdown is likely to be poorly received by investors, sending sterling lower.
Why does strong economic data boost a country’s currency?
Solid economic indicators point to a strong economy. Strong economies have strong currencies because institutions look to invest in countries where growth prospects are high. These institutions require local currency to invest in the country, thus increasing demand and pushing up the money’s worth. So, when a country or region has good economic news, the value of the currency tends to rise.
Today sees the release of the construction PMI, which is expected to show a softening in growth in June. A weaker demand for house purchasing in general is expected to weigh on construction activity and confidence. Construction is not necessarily a large contributor to the UK economy, but combined with the manufacturing PMI they’re considered precursors to the more influential service sector PMI, the dominant sector in the UK economy. The service sector PMI is to be released on Wednesday, and disappointment here has the potential to move the pound significantly.
Eurozone unemployment remains at 8 year low
Mixed data in the eurozone meant that the demand for the euro fluctuated throughout the previous session. Stronger than expected manufacturing data boosted the euro, but was followed by weaker than expected unemployment data.
Unemployment in the eurozone remained at 9.3% instead of edging lower to 9.2%, disappointing the market. Investors were hoping for a lower unemployment rate because the closer a region is to full employment the more inflationary pressures pick up.
How does strong jobs data boost the currency?
It works like this, when there is low unemployment and high job creation, the demand for workers increases. As demand for workers goes up, wages for those workers also go up. Which means the workers are now taking home more money to spend on cars, houses or in the shops. As a result, demand for goods and services also increase, pushing the prices of the good and services higher. That’s also known as inflation. When inflation moves higher, central banks are more likely to raise interest rates, which then pushes the worth of the currency higher.
Today is a relatively quiet day for economic data in the eurozone with just wholesale inflation as measured by the producer price index. This data measures the change in the price of goods bought and sold by manufacturers. Should wholesale inflation look to be growing faster than analysts expect, then the hope of monetary policy tightening by the European Central Bank could help boost the euro.
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Cyware Daily Threat Intelligence, August 19, 2020
As cybercriminals continue to improve their skills and craft sophisticated threats, they aim to infiltrate bigger targets. In the last 24 hours, researchers came across one such threat in the form of FritzFrog, a fileless, multi-functional, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) botnet written in Golang. The botnet specializes in targeting SSH servers and has breached over 500 servers since the beginning of the year. Some of its victims include universities in the U.S. and Europe, along with a railway company.
Meanwhile, a couple of vulnerabilities affecting millions of users were also reported. The first one is a flaw in the implementation of ‘mailto’ links that can be used to infect users of mail clients, such as GNOME Evolution, KDE KMail, IBM/HCL Notes, and Thunderbird. The other major vulnerability reported affects an IoT communication module from Thales. The vulnerability could be exploited to steal credentials, take over device control, and spread across targeted networks.
State-sponsored attack spree
Taiwanese authorities reported that the Blacktech and Taidoor hacking groups linked to the Chinese government had attacked at least 10 government agencies and around 6,000 email accounts of public officials. The series of attacks, with some of them even dating back to 2018, were conducted with an intention to steal confidential government data as well as intellectual property from Taiwan’s tech industry.
DDoS extortion threats
Researchers from Akamai stumbled across cybercriminals posing as members of well-known threat groups, such as Fancy Bear and Armada Collective, and threatening organizations with DDoS attacks. The attackers targeted organizations operating in the financial and retail sectors, among others, and claimed to have the capability to launch DDoS attacks of up to 2Tbps.
Top Malware Reported in the Last 24 Hours
Fileless P2P botnet
A new sophisticated, multi-functional P2P botnet written in Golang has been discovered by researchers. The botnet, dubbed FritzFrog, is estimated to have breached over 500 SSH servers since January 2020. It uses a proprietary P2P protocol and an encrypted channel for C2 communications.
Decryption tool for WannaRen
A new decryption tool for decrypting files locked up by the WannaRen ransomware has been released. The ransomware was first detected in the wild in April 2020, and was found to be linked to the Hidden Shadow cybercrime group. It uses a propagation method based on EternalBlue to spread laterally across networks.
New flaw in mail clients
A group of academic researchers found that ‘mailto’ links could be exploited to launch on a range of desktop email clients. The vulnerability stems from the flawed implementation of RFC6068, the technical standard that describes the mailto URI scheme. Some of the mail clients affected by this flaw include GNOME Evolution, KDE KMail, IBM/HCL Notes, and older versions of Thunderbird.
IoT vulnerability exposes connected devices
IBM X-Force researchers discovered a vulnerability in Thales’ Cinterion EHS8 M2M module that is used to provide secure communication between connected devices using 3G/4G networks. Malicious actors could abuse this vulnerability to steal confidential information such as passwords, encryption keys, and certificates, and potentially control a device or gain further access to the targeted network.
Top Scams Reported in the Last 24 Hours
Phishers abuse design tool
The online design platform, Canva, was abused by cybercriminals to create legitimate-looking phishing emails to steal credentials through social engineering tactics. Users reported more than 4,200 malicious emails generated through Canva since mid-February 2020.
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blacktech
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Tag: Covid 19
Posted on December 22, 2020 by thebookofdreamsblog
“well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.”
By– Gray winter day liga klavina
There’s a line from an old set of books owned by my father and his father before him that goes like this, “And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.” It is from Shadow.– A Parable by Edgar Allen Poe.
I was struck by the image of the shadows of many “departed friends”. As I say goodbye to some contemporary friends I’m also reminded of the many who have passed before, family and comrades– people who contributed to and enriched my life in many significant ways. There’s hardly a day that goes by without a recollection of at least one of them being pulled from the Library of Memories.
This could also be read as a memorial for the over 316, 000 who have died from the Covid 19 virus pandemic in the United States and the over 1.7 million who have died worldwide and the shadows that each cast upon those who are still living.
What makes them shadows for me is that even though I’m grateful for the remembrances of those I’ve loved and of those who I do not know I don’t want to look too closely at the feelings of loss, best to give a rueful smile at their thought and return the book to its place than to turn the pages toward the grief that still lurks deep within. Best not to look at death too closely because in its blackness I can see myself reflected.
But as with all dark shadows they do not rest peacefully and conspire to darken my present, our present that robs us of hope for the future. The prospect of Death seems to steal one’s energy like one of the ‘Dementors” in the Harry Potter series. But it also, or at least it used to, give at least me impetus to live life as fully as possible while I could. That seemed much easier when I was young and the future seemed infinitely far away. But as close friends begin to leave and the daily climb of statistical graphs make so painfully obvious what was kept at a cosmic arms length is now lurking beyond the next corner.
This feeling is not new to me for I felt it before every morning as I shuffled through the dark to pick up my weapon and a few ammo boxes and climbed aboard the helicopter I was assigned to for that day. There was a heavy air of resignation that weighed on me then that I find returning to me now. But then the point for my life had narrowed to surviving the day so that I could reclaim a future. I was younger then, 22, with a prospect for an infinite future if I could survive the present but now with a very much more restricted future I find that I’m having trouble with all those pesky hidden shadows and that any point to it all is beginning to fade.
Clearly these shadows need to be invited to the party and a new dialog needs to happen. Today I begin to dust off the old tomes stuffed into the lower shelves of the library.
The Alchemist’s Crucible
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Cultural Dimensions, Hofstede, News
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
Aaron Rockwell – Staff Cultural Advisor
Gerard (Geert) Hofstede developed a system of four elements to try and put a finger on what makes different cultures different. The whole idea was developed through IBM data that Hofstede gathered while working as the head honcho of the personnel research department (he collected over 100,000 surveys). He took time off from IBM to crunch the numbers, and found patterns among different countries that led him to settle on four cultural dimensions, plus another two which were added later: Power Distance Index (PDI), Individualism versus Collectivism (IDV), Masculinity versus Femininity (MAS), Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI), Long Term Orientation versus Short Term Normative Orientation (LTO), and Indulgence versus Restraint (IVR). As T-birds, I think these should be common knowledge – so let’s jump into the data! We will be looking at the top 20 countries according to GDP (PPP).
Best Buds (Closet Cultures):
Courtesy: wikipedia.org
Brazil and Turkey: I really enjoy that while Turkey and Brazil are different in location, as well as so many other elements, they are nearly perfect cultural-dimension matches! Turks and Brazilians would probably get along swimmingly.
Australia and the US: Australia and the United States have been strong allies for quite some time (just bad phone buddies recently), and we rotate armed forces and fight in the same wars. This strong link makes sense based on our cultural similarities.
Far Buds (Furthest Cultures):
Australia and Russia: Of the top 20 countries (GDP), the two with the highest degree of cultural difference are Australia and Russia. Russian and Australian relations have been strained for a while. Before Russia invaded the Crimea (2014), a 2013 BBC poll showed that Australian attitudes toward Russia were 29% ‘mainly positive’ and 53% ‘mainly negative’. The top three largest cultural difference countries are Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom vs. Russia. It’s possible the Cold War was rooted in these deep cultural differences.
Cultural Degree of Separation
Australia 286 Russia
United States 283 Russia
United Kingdom 277 Russia
Most Unique (Sum of Total Degrees of Separation):
Lower rank means less distance to the sum of all other countries.
China: Compared to the other 20 countries, China is the most unique, which means that the summed variance of every element of their culture, compared to other cultures, was the largest.
Rank Total Sums of Distance Country
1 2133 Turkey
2 2153 Brazil
3 2165 Spain
18 3207 Russia
19 3233 Mexico
20 3249 China
Top 20 GDPs Average:
As expected, the average of all the scores regress toward 50 (the median), but not completely. I think this is because the nature of surveys that scale between 1-100, or any other number scale. The best way to usefully display data would be to use mean and standard deviations.
-Power Distance Index (PDI): Avg. 62, StDev: 19
-Individualism versus Collectivism (IDV): 50, StDev: 26
-Masculinity versus Femininity (MAS): 55, StDev: 15
-Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI): 66, StDev: 20
-Long Term Orientation versus Short Term Normative Orientation (LTO): 53, StDev: 25
-Indulgence versus Restraint (IVR): 48, StDev: 19
Mexico falls outside of two standard deviations in the indulgence/restraint dimension, with a high indulgence score (97), and Japan falls outside of two standard deviations on the masculinity/femininity scale with a high masculinity score (95). Another thing showcased is how the world as a whole really avoids uncertainty; this is probably why China is so unique because they embrace the changing landscape.
After reading Hofstede’s book, I do believe that he was able to choose smart data and pare it down in an equally intelligent fashion. It can tell a helpful and enlightening story. I think ultimately, machine learning and even bigger data will outpace Hofstede’s work by potentially finding even more subtle, non-survey created ways to parse our societies. But until then, thanks Geert!
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1993 NDTE NetCDF Data
The armored T-28 aircraft was flown by the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). The data from these flights were collected by SDSMT under agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Lower Atmospheric Observing Facility Program....
NDTE
Detwiler, A.
1993 NDTE Raw Flight Data
1993 NDTE UND Polarimetric Radar Data [UND]
This data set contains Polarimetric Doppler Radar data from the University of North Dakota during periods the T-28 aircraft flew for the North Dakota Tracer Experiment (NDTE 1993) field project. Data are included for the following periods: 13:56 - 21:2...
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1994 VORTEX KTLX WSR-88D Level II Radar Data [NCDC]
This data set contains Level-II WSR-88D radar data from the Twin Lakes, OK (KTLX) site in central Oklahoma (35.33N and 97.278W) during periods the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) T-28 aircraft flew for the Verification of the...
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1994 VORTEX NetCDF Data
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1995 VORTEX CHILL S-Band Weather Radar Data [CSU/CHILL]
This data set contains CSU-CHILL radar data from the Greeley, Colorado site during periods the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) T-28 aircraft flew for the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-1995 (VORTEX-1...
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CSU-CHILL National Weather Radar Facility
1995 VORTEX KTLX WSR-88D Level III Radar Data [NCDC]
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Date Tracker
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What Makes A Grocery Store Manager Great?
By Andrew Hoeft on September 2, 2016 | Topics: Customer Satisfaction, Grocery Industry News
There are few destinations more important to the daily life of a neighborhood than the grocery store. It should therefore come as no surprise that grocery store management is a demanding role that requires a range of skill sets to ensure their stores run smoothly day-in and day-out. Take a look at a few of the following key concepts to get an idea of what it takes to manage a successful grocery store.
Scheduling is about finding a balance between the needs of customers and those of employees . Over-staffing can lead not just to substantial loss of profit, but also to an atmosphere of under-engaged employees. Conversely, under-staffing can lead to frustrating, long check-out lines and under-stocked, disorganized shelves. Before long, either of these problems can create a bad reputation for an otherwise great store. Finding balance on a consistent basis is key.
Appealing merchandise
If only it were as easy as placing items on shelves and waiting for customers to purchase them. But any good grocery store manager knows that merchandising is everything. Visually-striking displays directly in the front of the store are effective at drawing customers in, while staple goods–like bread and dairy–are shifted to the back as a ploy to turn otherwise quick visits into longer stays with larger purchases. At the end of the day, there is no one way to go about it, but finding success will mean tapping into strategy and creativity.
Exciting promotions
While your regulars can be counted on for their weekly visits, a great way to attract new business is through unique and exciting promotions. These can range from coupons, giveaways, or anything else that can incentivize customers to come through the doors. A successful promotion is one that makes up more than the money lost through new sales, and one that leaves customers walking away with renewed interest in your store.
Inventory decisions
Your selection of goods depends primarily on your customer-base. So, while certain items may not sell as well in some parts of the country, finding out what will work and what won’t is up to the manager of the store. Learn from your customers and pay attention to requests for specific brands.
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Practice Directorate
Welcome to the Practice Directorate!
NEW The Practice Directorate of the Canadian Psychological Association is inviting all those who are interested in leadership to a 1½ day Leadership Conference. See the full announcement.
To register please click here.
If you would like a poster/flyer to print out and display about the event click here.
About the Practice Directorate
The Practice Directorate operates under the oversight of a Council made up of representatives from the provincial and territorial associations. CPA, through its Director of Professional Affairs, also has a seat on the Council. The Council functions as an autonomous body that is accountable to the CPA Board for matters relating to policy and finance. The Council is led by a Chair appointed from among the provincial and territorial representatives of psychology. Because the interests and activities of national and provincial/territorial advocacy overlap, the Council works closely and collaboratively with CPA’s Chief Executive Officer and Senior staff.
The Practice Directorate’s mandate is to support and facilitate advocacy across provinces and territories by:
coordinating and centralizing information and resources about the practice of psychology across Canada (e.g. advocacy initiatives, information about scopes of practice and licensed acts, legislation and changes to legislation affecting the practice of psychology);
coordinating advocacy initiatives and strategies that are common and can be commonly implemented across jurisdictions; and
organizing advocacy and leadership training for provincial and territorial leaders of psychology.
Practice Directorate Council
Practice Directorate Council Membership 2016
For more information about or to reach the Practice Directorate, please contact practicedirectorate@cpa.ca
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Current Initiatives of the Practice Directorate
Here is what the Practice Directorate is currently working on Advocating for better access to Psychological Services for Provincial & Territorial Employees Ensuring that better access to a Psychologist is being discussed during Provincial & Territorial elections Promoting Psychology Month with the Mind Your Mental Health Campaign http://mymh.ca/ that lets politicians know that better access […]
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Answering Legal Research Questions About Dutch Case Law with Network Analysis and Visualization
Dafne van Kuppevelt, Gijs van Dijck
Liability and insurance
Maastricht European Private Law Institute
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review
he availability of large collections of digitalized legal texts raises an opportunity for new methodologies in legal scholarship. Analysis of citation networks of case law gives insight into which cases are related and to determine their relevance. Software tools that provide an graphical interface to case law networks are required in order to enable non-technical researches to use network analysis methodologies. In this study, we present open source software for the analysis and visualization of networks of Dutch case law, aimed for use by legal scholars. This technology assists in answering legal research questions, including determining relevant precedents, comparing the precedents with those identified in the literature, and determining clusters of related cases. The technology was used to analyze a network of cases related to employer liability.
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
A. Wyner, G. Casini
https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-838-9-95
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
10.3233/978-1-61499-838-9-95
van Kuppevelt, D., & van Dijck, G. (2017). Answering Legal Research Questions About Dutch Case Law with Network Analysis and Visualization. In A. Wyner, & G. Casini (Eds.), Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Vol. 302, pp. 95-100). IOS Press. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-838-9-95
van Kuppevelt, Dafne ; van Dijck, Gijs. / Answering Legal Research Questions About Dutch Case Law with Network Analysis and Visualization. Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. editor / A. Wyner ; G. Casini. Vol. 302 Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2017. pp. 95-100 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications).
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Cornbread & Tortillas
Our Signature Show: Cornbread & Tortillas
Cornbread & Tortillas is a show in English and Spanish devised from the life stories of the artists involved, whose cultural heritages span from Appalachia to Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, Greece, and Ecuador. It contains music, dance and stories from throughout the Americas with central themes of family, identity, work, love and art. You will see lots of instruments including banjo, fiddle, mandolin, Andean flutes, charango, congas and cajon, as well as mountain-style flatfooting and percussive Ballet Folklórico styles from Mexico and colorful traditional clothing.
Weaving it all together is a narrative that illuminates the stories told through song and dance, highlighting our similarities and differences as human beings and building cultural bridges for our changing nation.
EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS & WORKSHOPS
These workshops and assembly are offered in conjunction with our theatrical show, or as stand-alone events as scheduling allows. Contact: info@cornbreadandtortillas.com
From Appalachia to the Andes Educational Assembly
This diverse show consists of two artists from Appalachia and two of Latino heritage, and is a mix of Appalachian, Andean, and Mexican music, dance, and stories. Students will see and hear instruments such as the banjo, Appalachian Dulcimer, guitar, charango, zampoñas and quenas (Andean flutes), various drums, and rhythms made by dancing feet. Students will hear traditional songs of Mexico, Kentucky, and Ecuador, sung in English and Spanish. They will see and compare flatfoot dancing from Appalachia and several styles of colorful Ballet Folklórico from Mexico.
The artists highlight the interconnections among the various cultures, in a mesmerizing way that celebrates the cultures involved. Audiences come away with an enhanced appreciation for cross-cultural similarities and differences, and the variety of arts present in cultures throughout the Americas.
Appalachian Clogging & Flatfooting
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Baggage Red (2020)
Watch Baggage Red (2020) Online
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Safety measures to reduce run-off-road crashes in Kilsyth and Montrose
A $694,000 funding boost for road safety on a section of Mount Dandenong Road at Kilsyth and Montrose was announced today as part of the Victorian Coalition Government’s Safer Road Infrastructure Program.
Member for Kilsyth David Hodgett MP said the project will address a history of crashes on a two kilometre section of road between Durham Road and Canterbury Road.
“This section of road carries a high volume of traffic wanting to access popular places like Lilydale, Monbulk and Mount Dandenong,” Mr Hodgett said.
“The upgrade includes line marking improvements such as the installation of raised reflective markers, the installation of new street lighting, replacing rigid light poles with impact absorbing poles and a reduction in the speed limit.
“Reducing the speed limit from the current 70km/h to 60km/h will make the speed limit more consistent with surrounding roads, and will ensure that everyone is travelling in the safest environment possible.”
Liberal Candidate for Monbulk Mark Verschuur said that the Safer Road Infrastructure Program has been designed to deliver simple improvements that can make a significant difference, and that is exactly what this project will do.
“The two casualty crashes, one of which was a serious injury crash that occurred at this site in the five years to December 2013 were due to drivers running off the road and hitting stationary objects, so the improvements we are making will make a significant difference,” Mr Verschuur said.
Work on the project is due to start in late 2014 and will be complete by mid 2015.
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Materials. Powering ideas.
Neuigkeiten aus dem Unternehmen
Preisankündigungen
Kantenbänder
Platten-/Profilextrusionen
Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol (ABS)
Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol, lange Glasfaser (ABS LGF)
Biokunststoffe
Polykarbonat (PC)
Polykarbonat Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol (PC/ABS)
Polykarbonat Polyethylenterephthalat (PC/PET)
Polystyrol (PS)
Recycelte Materialien mit Harzen
Verstärktes Elastomer
Styrol-Acrylnitril-Harz
Thermoplastische Elastomere (TPE)
Thermoplastische Polyurethane (TPU)
Styrol und Zirkularität
Latex-Bindemittel
Klebstoffe/Adhesives
Baustoffe/Building Materials
Beschichtungen/Coatings
Faserverbindungen/Fiber Bonding
Papier/Pappe/Karton
ENVERSA™-Technologie
LIGOS™-Bindemittel
LOMAX™-Technologie
Modifier A™/NA Latex
Styrol-Acryl-(SA)-Bindemittel
Styrol-Butadien (SB)-Bindemittel
VOLTABOND™-Bindemittel
Synthesekautschuk
Technische Kautschukartikel
Emulsions-Styrol-Butadien-Kautschuk (E-SBR)
Lösungs-Styrol-Butadien-Kautschuk (S-SBR)
Trinseo – Neuigkeiten
Trinseo veröffentlicht die vorläufigen Finanzberichte für das vierte Quartal und für das ganze Jahr 2017
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Trinseo Provides Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Financial Results
BERWYN, Pa. - Monday, January 29, 2018
Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, today announced that fourth quarter and full year 2017 results are expected to exceed previously issued guidance. Net income is expected to exceed previously issued guidance by approximately $45 million with about $25 million from better than expected operating performance, primarily from higher margins and favorable net timing, and about a $20 million one-time gain in the fourth quarter related to changes made to certain Company pension plans. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA is expected to exceed previously issued guidance by approximately $35 million.
Fourth quarter 2017 net income is estimated to be between $117 million and $121 million; Adjusted EBITDA is estimated to be between $167 million and $172 million. These fourth quarter estimates are above previous guidance due primarily to higher than expected results in the Performance Plastics, Latex Binders, and Basic Plastics segments, partly offset by lower than expected performance in the Synthetic Rubber segment. In addition, the fourth quarter benefited from a favorable pre-tax net timing impact of approximately $15 million versus the minimal expected net timing impact estimate that was previously communicated.
“We are pleased with the strong finish to 2017 and the momentum carrying us into 2018 across most of our businesses,” said Chris Pappas, Trinseo’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Our cash generation was in line with previously communicated guidance allowing us to continue to fund growth initiatives as well as return cash to shareholders through both dividends and share repurchases.”
Full year 2017 net income is estimated to be between $327 and $331 million; Adjusted EBITDA is estimated to be between $641 million and $646 million. Full year estimates include an approximately $30 million favorable impact from unplanned styrene monomer outages, and an approximately $25 million favorable impact from raw materials in the Latex Binders segment, both on a pre-tax basis. These impacts were partially offset by unfavorable impacts of about $15 million for an extended outage at Americas Styrenics and $10 million unfavorable net timing, both on a pre-tax basis.
Full year 2017 cash from operations is expected to be between $387 million and $392 million and Free Cash Flow is expected to be between $240 million and $245 million. In addition, the Company used cash of approximately $89 million to repurchase nearly 1.4 million shares during the year, and approximately $24 million to repurchase 329,000 shares during the fourth quarter.
Previously issued guidance for the fourth quarter 2017 was net income of $68 million to $77 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $130 million to $140 million; full year guidance was net income of $280 million to $288 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $605 million to $615 million. The Company had previously expected a minimal net timing impact in the fourth quarter and an approximately $25 million unfavorable pre-tax net timing impact for the full year.
Further details will be communicated on Trinseo’s fourth quarter and full year financial results conference call on February 20, 2018 at 10 am eastern time.
Unaudited financial data for the fiscal quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017 presented above are preliminary, based upon our good faith estimates and subject to completion of our financial closing procedures. We have provided ranges for our expectations described above because our fiscal quarter closing procedures are not yet complete. While we expect that our final financial results for the quarterly and full year periods ended December 31, 2017, following the completion of our financial closing procedures, will be within the ranges described above, our actual results may differ materially from these estimates as a result of the completion of our financial closing procedures as well as final adjustments and other developments that may arise between now and the time that our financial results for this quarterly and full year period are finalized. All of the data presented above has been prepared by and is the responsibility of management. This summary is not a comprehensive statement of our financial results for the quarterly period.
Note 1: Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Performance Measures to Net income
We present Adjusted EBITDA as a non-GAAP financial performance measure, which we define as income from continuing operations before interest expense, net; income tax provision; depreciation and amortization expense; loss on extinguishment of long-term debt; asset impairment charges; gains or losses on the dispositions of businesses and assets; restructuring; acquisition related costs and other items. In doing so, we are providing management, investors, and credit rating agencies with an indicator of our ongoing performance and business trends, removing the impact of transactions and events that we would not consider a part of our core operations.
Lastly, we present Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS as additional performance measures. Adjusted Net Income is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA (defined beginning with net income, above), less interest expense, less the provision for income taxes and depreciation and amortization, tax affected for various discrete items, as appropriate. Adjusted EPS is calculated as Adjusted Net Income per weighted average diluted shares outstanding for a given period. We believe that Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EPS provide transparent and useful information to management, investors, analysts and other stakeholders in evaluating and assessing our operating results from period-to-period after removing the impact of certain transactions and activities that affect comparability and that are not considered part of our core operations.
There are limitations to using the financial performance measures noted above. These performance measures are not intended to represent net income or other measures of financial performance. As such, they should not be used as alternatives to net income as indicators of operating performance. Other companies in our industry may define these performance measures differently than we do. As a result, it may be difficult to use these or similarly-named financial measures that other companies may use, to compare the performance of those companies to our performance. We compensate for these limitations by providing reconciliations of these performance measures to our net income, which is determined in accordance with GAAP.
For the reasons discussed above, we are providing the following reconciliations of expected net income to Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS for the three months ended December 31, 2017, and for the full year ended December 31, 2017. See “Note on Forward-Looking Statements” below for a discussion of the limitations of these estimates. Amounts below may not sum due to rounding.
(a) Reconciling items to Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Net Income for the three months and year ended December 31, 2017 reflect the Company’s preliminary estimate of adjustments for the period, and primarily reflect the impacts of the Company’s debt refinancing during the third quarter along with certain restructuring and acquisition-related charges as well as the pension curtailment gain recognized during the fourth quarter previously mentioned above.
(b) Weighted average share information presented above is unaudited and remains preliminary, based upon our good faith estimates and subject to completion of our financial statement close procedures, as discussed above.
Note 2: Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Liquidity Measures to Cash from Operations
The Company uses Free Cash Flow to evaluate and discuss its liquidity position and results. Free Cash Flow is defined as cash from operating activities, less capital expenditures. We believe that Free Cash Flow provides an important indicator of the Company’s ongoing ability to generate cash through core operations, as it excludes the cash impacts of various financing transactions as well as cash flows from business combinations that are not considered organic in nature. We also believe that Free Cash Flow provides management and investors with a useful analytical indicator of our ability to service our indebtedness, pay dividends (when declared), and meet our ongoing cash obligations.
Free Cash Flow is not intended to represent cash flows from operations as defined by GAAP, and therefore, should not be used as an alternative for that measure. Other companies in our industry may define Free Cash Flow differently than we do. As a result, it may be difficult to use this or similarly-named financial measures that other companies may use, to compare the liquidity and cash generation of those companies to our own.
For the reasons discussed above, we are providing the following reconciliation of expected cash provided by operating activities to Free Cash Flow for the three months ended December 31, 2017, and for the full year ended December 31, 2017. See “Note on Forward-Looking Statements” below for a discussion of the limitations of these estimates. Amounts below may not sum due to rounding.
About Trinseo
Trinseo (NYSE:TSE) is a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders, and synthetic rubber. We are focused on delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to help our customers create products that touch lives every day — products that are intrinsic to how we live our lives — across a wide range of end-markets, including automotive, consumer electronics, appliances, medical devices, lighting, electrical, carpet, paper and board, building and construction, and tires. Trinseo had approximately $3.7 billion in net sales in 2016, with 16 manufacturing sites around the world, and nearly 2,200 employees. For more information visit www.trinseo.com.
Use of non-GAAP measures
In addition to using standard measures of performance and liquidity that are recognized in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), we use additional measures of income excluding certain GAAP items (“non-GAAP measures”), such as Adjusted EBITDA and, Adjusted EPS and measures of liquidity excluding certain GAAP items, such as Free Cash Flow. We believe these measures are useful for investors and management in evaluating business trends and performance each period. These income measures are also used to manage our business and assess current period profitability, as well as to provide an appropriate basis to evaluate the effectiveness of our pricing strategies. Such measures are not recognized in accordance with GAAP and should not be viewed as an alternative to GAAP measures of performance or liquidity, as applicable. The definitions of each of these measures, further discussion of usefulness, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures are provided herein.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “guidance,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “outlook,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, without limitation, forecasts of financial performance, growth, net sales, business activity, acquisitions, financings and other matters that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from results expressed or implied by this press release. Such factors include, among others: conditions in the global economy and capital markets, volatility in costs or disruption in the supply of the raw materials utilized for our products; loss of market share to other producers of styrene-based chemical products; compliance with environmental, health and safety laws; changes in laws and regulations applicable to our business; our inability to continue technological innovation and successful introduction of new products; system security risk issues that could disrupt our internal operations or information technology services; the loss of customers; the market price of the Company’s ordinary shares prevailing from time to time; the nature of other investment opportunities presented to the Company from time to time; and the Company’s cash flows from operations. Additional risks and uncertainties are set forth in the Company’s reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov/ as well as the Company’s web site at http://www.trinseo.com. As a result of the foregoing considerations, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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‘The Clark Sisters: First Ladies Of Gospel’s Aunjanue Ellis, Director Christine Swanson & EP Dr. Holly Carter On Making A Smash Hit For Lifetime
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Lifetime movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel has proven a smash hit for the network—their biggest film debut in four years in fact— as 2.7 million watched it on its April 11th premiere, and it currently boasts 13.4 million total views total. The biopic, executive produced by Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott, examines the renowned singing group of five sisters, who actually pioneered contemporary gospel music, led by their mother Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, played by Aunjanue Ellis.
“It’s been a little overwhelming,” director Christine Swanson said via video conference during an AwardsLine screening series panel discussion on Wednesday. “Nobody expected this kind of mad obsessive love for this. Beyond The Clark Sisters fans, it bled over into all kinds of people.”
Despite its sudden rousing success, this has been a very long time in the making. Executive producer Dr. Holly Carter originally conceived the idea of a Clark Sisters biopic 17 years ago.
“It literally started as a dream that I had,” Carter said, “wanting to tell the story of Dr. Mattie Moss and her daughters… she fought for her daughters, she fought for their gift and she fought for their faith. It was a story that was very close to my heart.”
As for the film’s big reception, Carter believes that was partly down to how long it took to get to the screen. “This has been something beyond what we anticipated,” she said. “Yes we were in a quarantine state, and yes people were stuck in the house, but they didn’t have to watch it. Because of the anticipation and the build-up, not just around the fanbase, but around the mainstream and the secular, it’s been overwhelming. So we all feel very blessed to be a part of this.”
Ellis pointed out that the musicians’ legacy is hardly niche either. “The Clark Sisters are one of the most important and significant and consequential figures in American music,” she said, “and by extension they are one of the most important and significant and consequential figures in Western music, period.”
The storytelling focused on the talent and genius of the sisters, rather than salacious stories. As Ellis said: “We have these conversations about men, and how they figure into shaping the Western tradition, but we don’t have these conversations about women, and I think that’s what we wanted, all of us, Holly, myself, Christine, and these wonderful women who play the sisters themselves, they wanted to capture that. When we tell stories about women who are historical figures or musical legacies, like Whitney Houston, we hear the sensational part of their lives. Who their boyfriends were, who they were dating… but we wanted to make drama about the music-making, how they made music. We felt that their making of music was as important as their personal lives. When you tell stories about woman genius, you have to do that.”
The women who played The Clark Sisters were predominantly singers first, before they were actors. Swanson said she had always set out to cast the film in this way. “I thought, what can I do to properly honor their legacy in music? And the idea came to me to cast real gospel singers. So I had a conversation with our genius music producer Donald Lawrence. I asked Donald, ‘In what scenario can we make this work with real singers?’ And he walked me through specifically the type of vocal sound and talent that I needed.”
One of those talents was Kierra Sheard, who, at Swanson’s behest, played her own mother, Karen Clark Sheard, in the film. “I’m like, ‘Kierra, you have to play Karen because no one can capture the nuances of your mom as quickly,” Swanson said.
The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel is currently streaming on Lifetime and available on VOD on Amazon Prime Video.
To watch the panel discussion, click the video above.
Aunjanue Ellis
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Home News Breaking News Rav Shloma Margolis zt”l
Rav Shloma Margolis zt”l
February 8, 2012 11:33 am
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Shloma Margolis zt”l. Rav Shloma was a talmid of the pre-war Novardoker yeshivos and a talmid of Rav Yaakov Naiman, Rav Avrohom Joffen, Rav Elazar Shach and the Steipler Gaon. He was 99.
After World War II, Rav Shloma established a yeshiva for yesomim in Lodz, Pinsk and later in Prague, and he was instrumental in saving many neshamos who would have otherwise been lost from Yiddishkeit. He eventually procured visas for them and sent them off to learn in yeshivos in France and England. The great talmid chochom, Rav Arye Leib Grosnes, who on the scene from London, England, had in his possession twenty visas of entry for immigrant yeshiva bochurim. Rav Shloma entrusted to him twenty of his bochurim, including his two brothers-in law, Yudel and Ela Dovek, who later emigrated to Boston with him.
Many of his talmidim continued on to become marbitzei Torah themselves, attributing their love for Torah to Rav Shloma. He was a beacon of light to many who lost entire families. Rav Shloma, whose exemplary character traits attracted many of the youth later in Boston and then in Ramat Elchonon, was a warm influence on many talmidim already in Lithuania.
In his sefer, Darkei Hashleimus, released in 2002, Rav Shloma writes about his history and describes a unique society, a brotherhood of five of the elite bochurim of the Novardoker network. Its sole purpose was to encourage and strengthen one another and to ensure future contact with each another. Rav Shloma writes that the following seven resolutions were accepted by each of them, attesting to the greatness of these humble individuals. One of them was Rav Shlomo Podolsky, whose son, Rav Nachum Podolsky, rosh yeshiva of Siach Yitzchak, eventually married a daughter of Rav Shloma. The seven kabbalos were: 1. To correspond each half year with each member. 2. Before proceeding to write the letter, one should learn at least fifteen minutes of mussar about bein adam lachaveiro. 3. Each seventh of Shevat one should celebrate their friendship and also write letters to each other. If it is Shabbos, then this would be postponed until Sunday. 4. Each seventh of Shevat one should study fifteen minutes of mussar concerning conduct with one’s fellow man. 5. To assist one another both physically and financially as one would a brother. 6. To inform each other of a change of address. 7. The eventual goal is to gather together and settle in one place in Eretz Yisroel.
Rav Shloma attested to the fact that he fulfilled the first six resolutions all the years in America and finally fulfilled the seventh one eight years prior, when he settled in Bnei Brak.
After Rav Shloma emigrated to the United States, he served as rov of Bais Haknesses Chayei Adam in Boston for over 40 years, touching numerous lives and bringing many mishpachos close to Yiddishkeit. He was a major force in building Torah andYiddishkeit in Boston. Among other organizations that he founded, he was a driving force behind the Lakewood Yeshiva in Boston, bringing in Rav Leib Heiman to serve as rosh yeshiva there. Rav Shloma played a significant role in Agudas Yisroel and in spreadingYiddishkeit in America in general.
Rav Shloma spent the last 20 years of his life in Bnei Brak. He devoted his efforts to writing and printing his seforim, Darkei Hashleimus, and founded Yeshiva Darkei Hashleimus in Kiryat Sefer.
Rav Shloma was niftar yesterday and the levaya was held in Ramat Elchanan in Bnei Brak.
He merited to see all his children and grandchildren become talmidei chachomim and true avdei Hashem.
Rav Shloma is survived by his children, Mrs. Breindel Willner (Baltimore), Mrs. Devora Moskovitz (Boston), Rabbi Avrohom Margolis (Baltimore), Mrs. Esther Leah Kleinman (Cleveland), and Mrs. Basya Podolsky (Bnei Braq). In Bnei Brak, the mishpacha is sitting shivah at the home of Rav Shlomo’s son-in-law and daughter, Rav and Mrs. Nachum and Basya Podolsky. The aveilim may be reached at 011.972.3.677.9901 When calling from within Israel, dial 03.677.9901.
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Esther Leah Mincer February 8, 2012 at 1:07 pm
What a man! What an impact he had on so many lives, including mine. I’m sure, that as head of his mishpacha, he’ll be a meilitz yosher for all of us. Tanta Chava wouldn’t allow it to be otherwise! He will be greatly missed in the family, for sure.
Boruch dayan ha’emes! What a loss! I was only zocheh to meet him once since he was already living in Bnei Brak when I started davening in his shul, and that alone left an imperssion on me. Everyone I spoke to in Boston who knew him, misses him. He was a tremendous talmid chochom, yirei shomayim, and ba’al middos, and he impacted immeasurably on the Boston frum community. May he be a maylitz yosher for all of us.
Reb Dovid February 8, 2012 at 4:45 pm
When I lived in Boston I was zoche to daven literally within his daled amos. He and his wife were such fine, kind people. Even having the most cursory of conversations with him left one feeling that this was a very special person. I can still hear his Lithuanian Yiddish droshos – it was ‘tayra’ not ‘toyra’! (I think the article was remiss that it did not mention that he lived to be over 100 years old.) Yehi zichro baruch!
It is such a loss for us all. He was one of the founder of frumkeit in Boston. A true loss to us all
Heshy R February 8, 2012 at 7:35 pm
To me, Rabbi Margolis is best remembered for what he told me during Mussaf on the second day of Rosh Hashanah 5751 when my wife was starting to feel contractions. He told me that not only should my wife go home and not worry about shofar blowing, but that I should go home too and be with her. He made sure one of the balebatim stopped by my house after davening to check up on us and blow shofar. Once the baby was born, he was always asking how mother and daughter were doing. A big tzaddik to be sure. May his neshama have an aliyah.
Ronald February 8, 2012 at 8:22 pm
It was our very great Z’chus to host the Rav in our home. Being in his presence elevated our family to a higher level of Keddusha and left an indelible inspiration on us that made us all better for knowing him.
Daniel Aldrich February 9, 2012 at 10:51 am
We have been honored to know R’ Margolis, zt’l, through his amazing children and the Torah legacy he has created in Boston in Congregation Chayei Odom. May his memory be for a blessing.
Elana Kahn February 9, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I also only met Rov Margolis zt’l once when he visited Boston after I moved to the area, and he exuded such warmth and love of Torah that it was almost infectious. He gave my husband and I a brocha to have many children, and B”H we became pregnant with twins shortly thereafter. His loss is felt around the world, and I feel so lucky and grateful to have known him even for such a short time. Boruch dayan ha’emes.
(P.S. He was born in January 1913, so he lived to be 99.)
mommyp February 9, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Does anyone know if Mrs. Willner is sitting shiva in Bnei Brak?
mommyp – She is, along with the rest of the family. Call the number listed above for contact.
marvin February 9, 2012 at 6:26 pm
He was the perfect example of Mentchlikeit. He treated all people with respect.
I was very fortunate to spend time at the Rav’s shul, shiurim and home in Boston during my 4.5 years there, and to see him again briefly in Israel. Interacting with his many Torah-observant relatives on both sides of the ocean proves that his legacy lives on.
Bezalel Schendowich February 11, 2012 at 12:51 pm
The Margolises and their families provided me with a foundation upon which to build and to learn. I remember with great sadness the passing of the Rebbisyn and now the Rav. Their memory will be for a great many a blessing for years to come.
is mrs. moskovitz sitting in bnei brak as well?
Yes, all of the children are sitting in Bnai Brak.
Rabbi Kuperman February 19, 2012 at 6:34 pm
I grew up in Chai Odom, and my father, z”l, was very close with Rabbi Margolis, zt”l, and learned with him every shabbos morning. (He picked the Rabbi up in the morning and walked with him to (and often from) shul.) The first time we davened there, we were leaving after davening and Rabbi Margolis came out to the coatroom and put his hand on my father’s arm and invited us to join the shul for kiddush. My father kept refusing, and Rabbi Margolis (albeit gently) did not let go of his arm until we agreed. My father davened there regularly for the next 25 years. Yehi zichro baruch.
HIllel Avraham February 19, 2012 at 11:22 pm
I feel that Rav Margolis inspired, and I hope I can say influenced, me in Torah and Derech Eretz more than any other person.
My zeyde A”H was a contemporary of his at Chai Odom in Dorchester, MA; and his personal greeting and interest taken gave me a feeling that he had been waiting for me, the first time I entered his shul in Brighton, MA.
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This document describes the interface, installation, and usage requirements for the Prohelion Battery Management System (BMS).
The BMS provides an easy way to monitor and control an Electric Vehicle battery pack, and can work seamlessly with Tritium’s WaveSculptor motor controllers. It is a mature design with five previous product generations of real-world experience with various types of cells, form factors, and vehicles.
The BMS consists of two components: multiple Cell Management Units (CMU), which measure and control the individual cells in the battery pack; and a single BMS Master Unit (BMU) which interfaces between the CMUs and the vehicle, controls precharge and other safety systems, and provides total pack telemetry.
BMS FUNCTION
The function of the BMS is threefold, in order of priority:
Monitor cell voltages and temperatures, and act on this information to protect the pack against being operated outside acceptable limits
Manage the cells, to keep them at equal state of charge (SOC)
Report telemetry to the other systems in the vehicle, to allow a graceful reduction in vehicle performance as the battery approaches its limits The BMS performs these functions by measuring the following parameters:
Individual cell voltages
Group cell temperatures
CMU temperatures
Total pack voltage
Total DC bus voltage
Total pack current
Isolation from chassis
12V supply voltages and currents
Contactor status
Fan / Pump speeds
To achieve management over the cells and pack, it controls:
Individual cell bypass (shunt) balance resistors
Pack contactors, including precharging HV loads
Battery pack fan / pump
Battery charger charging current setpoint
Individual cell voltages are the most critical measurement taken by the system, and in the Prohelion BMS are measured using two separate, redundant circuits, each with it’s own analog circuitry, A/D converter, and reference.
All measurements are cross-checked, and any fault in the system can be identified and reported. This system not only gives reliable and accurate cell voltage measurements, it gives trusted measurements.
The Prohelion BMS reports if any measurements are not trustworthy, and this information can be acted on by a higher-level system in the vehicle, for instance by notifying the driver that the vehicle requires servicing.
A properly designed BMS system will protect a battery pack from being operated outside of acceptable limits. However, a poorly implemented system may not provide the expected protection – the Prohelion BMS must be installed in a professional and competent manner to function as designed.
Attention should also be paid to the larger system that the vehicle is part of, especially the systems associated with charging and the infrastructure to support it. As well as using the BMS to protect the pack, additional systems should be provided as backup as part of the charging infrastructure, for instance: fitting of smoke detectors; overcurrent and RCD protection in the AC supply; regular physical checks of charge cabling and connections; regular review of telemetry data for abnormal readings.
This list is not exhaustive, and it is the responsibility of the system designer / installer to conduct their own failure mode analysis and determine what is required.
Working around batteries is DANGEROUS. Not only are lethal high voltages present, but individual cells can also put out thousands of amps when shorted, for example with a stray wire or dropped tool, throwing out arcs and molten metal. Check the legal requirements in your jurisdiction for using licensed technicians for this type of work. Wear eye protection. Use insulated tools. Take extreme caution. Go slow. Think through every step before doing it.
Cell: A single physical unit, or permanently connected parallel group of units. A parallel group functions electrically as a larger capacity single unit.
Battery: A series-connected group of cells
CELL MANAGEMENT UNIT
The Cell Management Unit (CMU) is supplied as a 1.6mm thickness Printed Circuit Board (PCB), conformally coated, without an enclosure. It is designed to be installed inside the battery box, in a weather-sealed area, along with the cells themselves. This means that all connections to the cells remain inside the battery pack enclosure, simplifying fusing and wiring installation requirements.
The CMU should be mounted to a flat surface, using at least four M3 fasteners, with the supplied piece of insulation material between the CMU and the surface. The CMU will operate at a much lower temperature when balancing if the mounting surface is a thermally conductive material such as aluminium or steel, and it is strongly recommended to install the CMUs on a surface such as this. CMUs should not be stacked together, as they will overheat.
For a professional installation, press-fit M3 studs (eg PEM FHS-M3-10) can be installed in the wall of the box prior to fitting the CMUs. The insulating sheet and CMU are then installed over the studs, and retained in place with Nyloc nuts.
Wiring should be appropriately strain relieved to withstand the vibration typically found in an automotive environment – do not support the weight of the wiring loom solely from the connectors on the CMU.
CONNECTORS OVERVIEW
The following illustration shows the connections and indicators on the CMU:
The CMU is isolated from the CMU CAN bus, and therefore from the vehicle chassis and other CMUs, with an isolation barrier rated for 1000V DC. This allows the HV battery pack to be fully floating from the vehicle chassis, as is required by most EV construction standards (eg NCOP14 in Australia).
This isolation barrier rating is only valid if the correct insulation material is installed between the CMU and the surface it is mounted on.
As the CMU CAN bus operates relative to the vehicle chassis, the CMU CAN ribbon cable should be kept isolated from the cells and cell sense wiring with a rating of at least the full voltage of the battery pack.
The CMU voltage sense inputs are rated for a maximum of 5V per cell. Therefore, there must not be any breaks in the main battery string (from contactors, fuses, or service links) among the set of up to eight cells that are measured by a CMU, as a high voltage may be seen across this break when it is open, and destroy the CMU. Any breaks must be located between CMUs.
The green LED on the CMU flashes to indicate that the CMU has power (via the CMU CAN bus) and the microcontroller is operating.
The red LED illuminates when any of the eight cells are balancing. This LED illuminating is not a fault condition.
CELL VOLTAGE & TEMPERATURE SENSE CONNECTOR
The connector used for the Cell Voltage Sense is a 12-way single-row 3mm pitch Molex MicroFit connector. The pinout is shown below, as viewed from the wire side – as you would look at it while inserting crimps. The colours shown match those used in the recommended cable.
The recommended cell temperature sensor to use is a Murata 10k NTC bead type thermistor (NXFT15XH103FA2B100) with 100mm leads. The thermistor should be attached to a part of the cell that is a good representation of the internal temperature, such as a cell terminal (Care MUST be taken that the sensor is appropriately insulated from the terminal).
BMS Overview
CMU Overview
Contactor and Precharge
Operating Thresholds and State
Inputs, Outputs and Controls
BMS Telemetry Viewing Software
CMU Cell Wiring Procedure
BMU Communications Protocol
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Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine: What you need to know in 500 words
United States health officials are set to review a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Massachussetts-based Moderna Inc next week.
The vaccine, developed in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, uses the same basic approach to inoculations as another vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech that has been at the head of cues for government authorisations across the world.
Clinical studies have shown Moderna’s vaccine to be about 94 percent effective.
Meanwhile, a review of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found no red flags, the agency said on Tuesday. Outside advisers for the agency are set to meet on Wednesday to discuss recommending the vaccine for emergency use. They will meet again on December 17 to discuss the same for Moderna.
If both the vaccines are authorised, the US could have two ready-to-use vaccines in the coming weeks.
Like Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna’s vaccine uses synthetic Ribonucleic acid (RNA) messengers that use genetic code from the coronavirus to prompt human cells to generate a so-called “spike” protein found on the outside of the virus.
The process sets off an immune response from the body, which eventually blocks the actual coronavirus from latching onto cells.
Moderna’s vaccine will require two injections, which need to be administered 28 days apart. Like its Pfizer-BioNTech counterpart, it also must remain in cold storage before use, a fact that poses logistical questions related to shipping and storage..
However, Moderna’s vaccine remains stable for six months at negative 20 degrees Celcius (negative four degrees Fahrenheit) and for 30 days in a standard medical refrigerator, according to the company.
Meanwhile, The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine must be kept at about -70C (-94F) to remain stable for 30 days and lasts for only five days in standard refrigeration.
That difference could make Moderna more suited for distribution in rural areas, with the company’s chief technical operations and quality officer saying in a November statement the difference “would enable simpler distribution and more flexibility to facilitate wider-scale vaccination in the United States and other parts of the world”.
The US has paid $1bn to support the development of the Moderna vaccine under the White House’s Operation Warp Speed and has spent another $1.5bn to secure 100 million doses of the vaccine.
The company has said it is prepared to deliver 20 million doses by the end of the year and plans to make available 100-125 million doses of the vaccine globally within the first four months of 2021.
While the US government has said the initial doses will be administered at no cost to the patient, Moderna has said people in other countries could pay as much as $37 per dose, depending on the size of the order.
Like the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, it remains unclear how long the Moderna vaccine will protect patients from COVID-19, but data has shown that those who have received the vaccine still had antibodies needed to fight the coronavirus three months later.
It also remains unclear if those who have received the vaccine can still spread the virus.
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People of Darkness [HarperPaperbacks, second printing paperback, 1991]
New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1991.
The fourth novel in Tony Hillerman's Navajo Detective series. People of Darkness introduces Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, a younger and in some ways more traditional Navajo than Joe Leaphorn. This edition was published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1991 in New York. It is part of the HarperPaperback series, which reprints popular novels in a cheaper paperback editions.The cover art was created by Peter Thorpe.
This novel re-introduces Albuquerque, specifically the University of New Mexico central campus, as a setting. Although Hillerman began his first Navajo detective novel, The Blessing Way (1971), on the UNM campus, the setting quickly shifted to the Four Corners area. In People of Darkness, the action is split almost equally between the UNM Medical Center and the slopes of Mount Taylor, near Grants, NM. People of Darkness also treats the topic of Navajo witches, or skinwalkers, first introduced in The Blessing Way, again exploring the darker sides of humanity when someone chooses to reject walking in beauty, or hózhǫ́, disrupting one's harmony with the universe in order to satiate personal greed.
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Why are C# programmers afraid of F# or functional languages in general?
added by Robert Greyling
I think it's possibly because: * F# projects are difficult to setup and use in Visual Studio in conjunction with existing C# projects? * OO developers just can't get their heads around functional paradigms? * There aren't enough jobs around that require the skills so we're not incentivised to learn it except in a few special cases like finance? * Immutable structures just too hard to learn to work with effectively? * Not enough supporting libraries (e.g. Nuget) available for consumption and use in F# programs * Too hard to write for the web? * Monads are hard? Or a combination of these? Or none of these? Weigh in and lets us know why you think it is the case and what can be done to change it, or if it even needs changing at all?! If you have used it for production work - at what point did you become comfortable, and if you haven't, what's stopping you?
C# F# Functional Programming
I am personally interested in learning F# some day, just out of fun to learn new things. I'm sure it would help architecting better C# code, too. I already utilize a lot of delegates and lambda expressions in my code, but a more functional approach could work in some situations. However, F# would be harder to use in real-life projects for one big reason: It would be a maintenance/support risk for companies. If "the only guy who knows F#" leaves the company and F#-projects behind, who could fix it? It's hard to find replacement coder and if found, he would probably be expensive, due to niche knowledge. For personal or open source projects it's not that big deal and when more people utilize F# for those, then there will be people who can code with it.
Ryan Riley
Interestingly, this same argument can be made as a strategy for core, slow-to-change pieces of a solution that you don't want others to touch. :)
Robert Greyling
Haha, it's sad to say, but I have worked on some teams where it was necessary for me to do exactly that! At least until they were able to come around to my way of thinking ;)
Paul Wheeler
I guess for me personally, I don't have a lot of experience with the F# syntax and getting started with it I seem to be thrown by really simple things. Also, I notice when writing F# I tend to approach it as a procedural programmer and don't necessarily make use of the optimizations that a functional language like F# offers. Since most of the applications I'm building don't seem to require a lot of data algorithms, I haven't really spent the time learning more about functional languages in general and that's probably hurting me.
Jeremy Morgan
I wouldn't say I personally am afraid of it, I've been diving into it lately. I have had many of the struggles explained here with the paradigms and some syntax stuff. But overall I would like learn it more thoroughly just to improve my methods. One of the common reasons I hear for C# developers avoiding it: what's the point? There aren't a lot of F# positions opening up and not a lot of open source projects built with it. So there isn't as much incentive. On top of that many people I've talked to feel that it's merely an academic exercise. They don't feel like the end product is any better just because it's written as a functional application. I would disagree with that personally, and one also has to take into consideration the development process itself as a product. Was it faster to develop? Easier to extend? There is a good possibility that functional programming ends up being much more productive and smart than OOP/C# in this respect. Never say always and never say never. I do see it growing and getting more popular in the future, but I think the slow start is due to lack of career enhancement and a perceived payoff that's pretty low. Both of these things could end up changing this year.
Yes @JeremyCMorgan, I think you've hit the nail on the head with a lot of it, particularly the part about "what's the point?". I think a large proportion of developers out there are so busy just trying to make ends meet, that ventureing into new territory can be incredibly time consuming and difficult. If the day job required it, they'd probably love to start that learning process. As @jemm points out, it's currently still a risk for companies due to the relatively low number of devs in the F# pool, but I hope that changes in the coming months from boths sides, with companies offering more F# positions and developers venturing into F# waters on their own with community support :)
mhardy4
More than anything for me it's time. With only 24 hours before it all starts again I barely have enough ticks to keep up on the technologies I currently use. The thought of learning a different language is about number 10,452 on my list of things to do. It would take someone with a large hammer beating me over the head with these amazing features C# can't do before I'd burn a precious weekend learning F#.
GantSoftwareSystems
I suspect that F# hasn't taken off yet because it's a long, slow ramp, especially when you combine a language change with a paradigm change. C# took off quickly, but object oriented programming had been in wide use for quite some time beforehand (and it was close enough to C++ and Java for the leap to be easier as well). We're a bit early in the lifetime of the language to have had explosive growth. I also think a lot of developers have a bit of a sunk cost into C# already and if they are going to try something new, they are more likely to try something like node, since the language is a little more familiar and encountering use cases at work is more likely. Personally, I look forward to C# stealing F# features. That will improve both ecosystems, and will also get some C# devs looking towards F# to see what the future holds. That tends to help people jump over as well. Finally, I don't think most of us have had significant pain that the functional paradigm can solve that OO does not. That may change soon, but it just isn't there yet.
Bob Senoff
what do you think @panesofglass ?
I replied below. Thanks for bringing me into the discussion!
Interesting post by Eric Sink http://ericsink.com/entries/fsharp_chasm.html
John Atten
This is the link I was looking for when I read all the comments above.
@alex_dolin would love your thoughts on this too!
Eric Sink
(Not to quibble, but I like to avoid using potentially-pejorative words like "afraid" or phrases like "just can't get their heads around functional paradigms".) Like @mhardy4 said, learning a new language takes time and we're all busy and we have to prioritize. That said, we gotta admit that F# has a LONG learning curve. @mhardy4 wouldn't spend one "precious weekend" learning F#, and the notion that F# could be learned in a weekend is enough to make me spew coffee on my screen. Unless you've been writing a bunch of Haskell or OCaml on the side, most C# devs would need 4 weekends just to become an F# Novice. (Scott W's website helps a TON: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/) If you're not going to use F# during the week, what is the motivation to learn it? Well, I could argue that coding in F# is very enjoyable. And it is. But that means it competes with mountain biking or bridge or woodworking or playing with your kids. I think maybe the most compelling reason to encourage C# devs to learn F# is this: Without exception, everybody I know who learned F# would say that it made them a better C# programmer. That's the kind of thing that actually will make a difference during the week.
Thanks @eric_sink - great insights. I especially agree with your final reasoning about becoming a better C# programmer. Apologies for the possibly pejorative word "afraid", and while I was hesitant to use it (for the same reason you bring up), I was thinking about it back to a few years ago when I first started learning F#, and I was exactly that - afraid that this learning would go to waste, afraid that I would never be able to apply this knowledge in my job for money, afraid that I should rather be spending this free time learning some other cool tech, or playing with the kids or as you say challenging the inlaws to a feisty game of bridge :) So I can only imagine that other devs possibly feel the same, and so I'm just calling a spade a spade to try and bring those folks out and let them know that others also might feel that way, and that it's ok. In the end looking back, as you say, I couldn't be happier with my choice (aside from not being as good at bridge as I'd like!) and that I've learned some incredible time-saving techniques from my escapades into F#, and guess what, I've also been paid for it from time to time which is nice! Thanks again for taking the time - maybe 2015 is the year of F# - who knows?!
This is a good piece http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/why-fsharp-in-2015/index.html by Tomas Petricek.
Responding to the original post: > F# projects are difficult to setup and use in Visual Studio in conjunction with existing C# projects? I'm not sure if the words "contrast" or "comparison" were meant or not, but I'll answer that first. You need community owned and maintained templates for many project types, and that requires developers to search for and install them. The templates are not quite as polished as the Microsoft maintained templates in many cases, so I would agree with this point. If "conjunction" was the correct word choice, then I'm afraid I don't understand. F# projects produce IL just like VB and C# and so can be directly consumed by other .NET projects. One may run into some interop problems if discriminated unions or Async types are returned to C#, but these are easily overcome with proper scoping and following the F# Component Guidelines (http://fsharp.org/specs/component-design-guidelines/fsharp-design-guidelines-v14.pdf). > OO developers just can't get their heads around functional paradigms? I always find it amusing when I or others suggest a conflict between OO and FP paradigms. A recent occurrence for me was reading the Reflux (a library used with the React) library's description, in which it claimed to "eschew" the MVC pattern in favor of a functional approach. MVC is considered a fairly foundational OO pattern, and if you compare the original Smalltalk MVC with Reflux, they are hard to differentiate except for the names given to the pattern pieces. Except for a few changes in convention, most .NET developers already use a lot of FP in their apps. LINQ, static classes and methods without state, and various other patterns are essentially the same as one uses when writing functional programs. The difference is largely in the extra amount of typing, unfamiliar operators and keywords, and some additional F# syntax that makes creating certain kinds of types easier. F# has some additional, very powerful features not available to other .NET languages, but most of those are used a lot less than many realize. > There aren't enough jobs around that require the skills so we're not incentivised to learn it except in a few special cases like finance? This has been a valid point and is changing. Startups are beginning to realize the potential for leveraging F# as a way to attract talented developers away from their otherwise satisfactory jobs to try something different just so they can finally turn their F# hobby into a full-time job. Many stable companies are adopting F# in parts of their build or exploratory work (whether they realize it or not). As an example, I used to prototype features with F# and then port them into my C# client projects. F# helped me 1) focus on creating a prototype and 2) see more clearly what I was trying to build without losing me in prescribed patterns or architecture that are often more ceremonial than essential. > Immutable structures just too hard to learn to work with effectively? Not at all. In fact, they let you think less about potential problems like race conditions or unexpected mutations. In C# or VB, they tend to take a lot more effort to create, but their use is very straightforward once you become familiar with the idea that your stuff isn't changing. I used to use this in C# programs, as well. Rather than abstracting things out through things like repository patterns, I would often create internal functions that did the bulk of the work for a class. The public method would receive parameters, retrieve data from a database, then call the internal method to do the work and return the result. Testing was a breeze using the internal method, which was a pure function. > Not enough supporting libraries (e.g. Nuget) available for consumption and use in F# programs Not sure about this one. F# can use anything available for .NET, and several wrapper libraries exist for common .NET libraries, such as FSharp.Control.Reactive for Rx.NET. In addition, libraries like FSharpx, ExtCore, and a few others provide common extensions, while several functional-style web frameworks exist, such as WebSharper, FunScript, Suave, and Freya. > Too hard to write for the web? See the last item re: Suave and Freya. I'm currently working at a company where we use F# for our web APIs. I also built several examples for http://todobackend.com/, and another few examples are forthcoming for Freya and Suave. WebSharper also has an example Todo application available in their CloudSharper web-based IDE. I've given several talks on using F# for web programming, the recordings of which can be found in the Community for F# YouTube feed (http://c4fsharp.net/) and the slides for which are posted at http://panesofglass.github.io/TodoBackendFSharp. I just gave this talk at CodeMash, where I got a great response from several attendees. > Monads are hard? Maybe, but you don't need to know these things. Many computation expressions (F#'s more generalized approach for encoding such concepts) are already available either out of the box (e.g. async) or from a helper library like FSharpx or ExtCore. Several books and, in particular, Scott Wlaschin's series of posts (http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/computation-expressions.html) do an excellent job of helping you understand these things when you find yourself repeating code too often. > If you have used it for production work - at what point did you become comfortable, and if you haven't, what's stopping you? I was comfortable with F# fairly early, as I'd just come to .NET from Ruby and Python (hobby only) and found F# had a familiar feel to it. I started using F# full time for production web-based applications just this year but previously used it to prototype almost all the code I wrote for my work as a consultant. I've also used it to better learn the .NET framework or to deconstruct and understand why certain design patterns are useful, necessary, or just extra noise. If nothing else, F# made me a far better C# developer. I'm delighted I can write F# a lot in my day job now, and I left an otherwise great position to do so.
Ricardo Peres
To be honest, and it's entirely my fault, I haven't realized in which way will functional programming/F# help me. Don't mean just my daily work, I am interested in all aspects of software development and I do a lot of research/pet projects, but I have yet to see about F#. Lots of things to learn, (un)fortunately!
You'll find it helps you in subtle ways like simplifying your implementations, reducing dependence on inheritance, and thinking more about data flows through your applications rather than how to dictate to the computer what to do every step of the way. It's possible that you are doing a lot of functional-style programming even now without realizing it. The other difficulty is that, much like OO, FP is piled on with many different meanings. In its simplest form, the functional style is really about composing or chaining pure functions -- those that don't change their inputs or their environment -- that work on immutable data -- instances like structs that are created once and never change. You don't need structs or immutable types; you can use discipline with mutable classes just fine, though it helps to inform others of your intent. The greatest benefit of a functional language is in its expressiveness in showing how to think differently. I find it also makes me far more productive, but YMMV.
I couldn't agree more, and I think you'll find that after working with LINQ for example for a few years, your patterns and approaches change quite dramamtically from how you used to approach problems in the past. Even learning something as simple as Dependency Injection as a concept goes a long way towards making you think in a more functional and decoupled way. Those are all things that will become second nature when you do start delving into F#. I say "when", because it's not a case of "if" - that path is inevitable ;)
Here's a post on getting pragmatists to use F# https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-to-get-pragmatists-to-use-f-7ad94a728b68
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9 June 2016 Postirradiation behavior of p-channel charge-coupled devices irradiated at 153 K
Jason P. D. Gow, Daniel Wood, Neil J. Murray, David Burt, David J. Hall, Ben Dryer, Andrew D. Holland
Jason P. D. Gow,1 Daniel Wood,1 Neil J. Murray,1 David Burt,2 David J. Hall,1 Ben Dryer,1 Andrew D. Holland1
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J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2(2), 026001 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.2.2.026001
The displacement damage hardness that can be achieved using p-channel charge-coupled devices (CCD) was originally demonstrated in 1997, and since then a number of other studies have demonstrated an improved tolerance to radiation-induced charge transfer inefficiency when compared to n-channel CCDs. A number of recent studies have also shown that the temperature history of the device after the irradiation impacts the performance of the detector, linked to the mobility of defects at different temperatures. The initial results from an e2v technologies p-channel CCD204 irradiated at 153 K with 10-MeV equivalent proton fluences of 1.24×109 and 1.24×1011 protons cm−2 is described. The dark current, cosmetic quality, and the number of defects identified using trap pumping immediately were monitored after the irradiation for a period of 150 h with the device held at 153 K and then after different periods of time at room temperature. The device also exhibited a flatband voltage shift of around 30 mV/krad, determined by the reduction in full well capacity.
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Jason P. D. Gow, Daniel Wood, Neil J. Murray, David Burt, David J. Hall, Ben Dryer, and Andrew D. Holland "Postirradiation behavior of p-channel charge-coupled devices irradiated at 153 K," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 2(2), 026001 (9 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.2.2.026001
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Significant milestone reached as Lekela’s 140MW Kangnas wind farm comes online
Lekela, the renewable power generation company that delivers utility-scale projects across Africa, today announced that its 140MW Kangnas wind farm in South Africa has successfully reached commercial operations.
Lekela completes its first portfolio of South African wind farms as 140MW Kangnas comes online
140MW wind farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa successfully begins operations
The project will provide clean, reliable energy whilst eliminating approximately 450,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year
Kangnas joins four other completed wind farms in the 600MW portfolio owned and operated by Lekela-led consortium across South Africa
This marks the completion of all five wind farms in a Lekela-led consortium across South Africa
Together, these total over 600MW and will provide clean, cost-effective power for up to 485,000 South African homes over the next 20 years.
The Kangnas wind farm is situated just over 50km east of the town of Springbok in the Nama Khoi Local Municipality of the Northern Cape. Construction for the project began in 2018 and has been achieved with 50% of construction content manufactured locally in South Africa, including the site’s two transformers. Kangnas wind farm also committed to drive local job creation on top of manufacturing, providing over 550 jobs at the height of the project’s construction. Long-term operations and maintenance jobs will also be supported while the 61 Siemens SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines generate electricity for 20 years.
Kangnas follows the 110MW Perdekraal East wind farm which entered operation in October. Perdekraal East was the first wind farm from Round 4 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme to do so, with Kangnas now following it. Lekela’s first wind farm in South Africa, Noupoort, was likewise the first project from Round 3 to reach commercial operation, back in 2016.
Chris Antonopoulos, Chief Executive Officer at Lekela said, “Just five years after Lekela was created, this is a significant milestone for us all. Kangnas completes what only existed as ideas on a piece of paper just a few years ago. We now have over 600MW of wind power in operation, which will supply clean electricity to hundreds of thousands of South Africans, at an affordable price for the next two decades. Our completed portfolio places Lekela firmly as one of the leading providers of clean, renewable energy in the country, and across the African continent more broadly.
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Despite the challenges presented by coronavirus, Lekela’s overarching priority has been to support the health and safety of all employees, contractors and partners while continuing to provide clean, reliable power.
At the same time, Lekela and its companies have pivoted its community investment programmes in South Africa to help local communities in their response to the pandemic. Initiatives include supporting local enterprises during the pandemic, providing personal protective equipment, as well as food parcels for local families and hand-sanitiser for local communities.
Elsewhere in its wider portfolio of pan-African projects, Lekela has also recently been awarded a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to fund a feasibility study in partnership with Senelec for Senegal’s first grid-scale battery electric storage system. The study will focus on how to provide increased grid stability and integrate intermittent renewable energy into Senelec’s electricity grid. The battery will be located at Lekela’s 158.7MW Parc Eolien Taiba N’Diaye (PETN) project, which is itself the first utility-scale wind farm in Senegal.
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George Bush to fly to Moscow aboard his 400-ton "Angel"
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In the evening of Thursday, May 23rd, US President George Bush will arrive in Moscow from Berlin aboard his special Air Force-1 white-and-blue presidential Boeing, a unique "flying White House". There are two such planes in the world, both are absolutely identical and were built on a special order by the Boeing Corporation.
Built in 1990, both planes have always flown together with the second one being a reserve presidential liner used in case of emergency. The interior of the Boeing-747-200 planes with serial numbers SAM-28 000 and SAM-29 000 does not look like that of their ordinary passenger "mates".
The interior of the "flying White House" has a 360-square-metre living space, which houses the president's office, bedrooms for George Bush and "the first lady", a conference-hall and an office for closest assistants. If necessary another office may be quickly turned into a sick ward. The upper "hump" - ordinary liners usually house an A-class salon there -- hides major top-secret "electronics" of the presidential Boeing.
The electronics enables Bush to establish a round-the-clock stable communication with any place of the world in the usual and coded signal regimes. "The flying White House" is equipped with a few dozens of TVs and 87 phones, including 28 "satellite" unlimited-range phones supporting a super security system. By the way, the "flying White House" does carry a few top secret combat devices ensuring security of the presidential liner, even in case of a guided missile attack.
Usually, while using radio communication, US secret services agents speak a professional dialect which gives code names to guarded persons and objects. Taking into account that the presidential Boeing is designed for both carrying the head of state from one place to another and ensure his security, no wonder the secret services call it "Angel".
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State the average number of hours of Core Programming per week broadcast by the station on its main program stream 3.0
State the average number of hours per week of free over-the-air digital video programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream 336.0
State the average number of hours per week of Core Programming broadcast by the station on other than its main program stream. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671: 7.0
Does the Licensee provide information identifying each Core Program aired on its station, including an indication of the target child audience, to publishers of program guides as required by 47 C.F.R. Section 73.673? Yes
Does the Licensee certify that at least 50% of the Core Programming counted toward meeting the additional programming guideline (applied to free video programming aired on other than the main Yes No program stream) did not consist of program episodes that had already aired within the previous seven days either on the station's main program stream or on another of the station's free digital program streams? Yes
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Program Title Aqua Kids Adventures (COZI TV) 39.2
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Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 11:00am-11:30am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Aqua Kids provides a unique vehicle for young people to learn about the diversity of marine animals around the world, emphasizing the importance of preserving fragile aquatic habitats and encouraging children to take an active role in protecting the future of their community and the world. The program provides a window into the management and preservation of unique habitats and species through the eyes of kids and their hands-on collaboration with science researchers and educators. The messages delivered by Aqua Kids are given by a creative and resourceful host, Molly McKinney, whose scientific background is evident in the show. The other young hosts, whose ages range from pre-teen to late teens, are equally entertaining and informative. The young viewers identify with these young hosts and imagine themselves in the role of the scientist and as someone who could have a positive impact on the environment. The format of young student scientists presenting information on location in a variety of aquatic settings is both entertaining and informative. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Program Title Steal the Show (COZI TV) 39.2
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 11:30a-12:00n PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Steal the Show provides CORE programming in the areas music, music composition, the music recording process and musical instruments. Ariel, Zoey and Eli Engelbert of the EI program Ariel & Zoey & Eli, Too work to write and record an album with Grammy Winner Jim Peterik. All aspect of the process are covered - 1) Creating the melody, 2) writing the lyric, 3) creating harmonies, 4) developing instrumentals and 5) recording the song in the studio. With schools across the country cutting funding to music related programs, Steal the Show fills an important void. Students will be empowered with the knowledge and skills they will broaden and hone as they follow Ariel, Zoey and Eli on their journey with one of the most prominent songwriters of the past 20 years. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Program Title Groundling Marsh (COZI TV) 39.2
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sundays 11:30am-12:00pm PT
Total times aired 13
Number of Preemptions Rescheduled 1
Age of Target Child Audience 4 years to 8 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Groundling Marsh is a puppet-based show aimed at children ages 4 - 8. It is set in a magical swamp, featuring an ensemble cast of five characters; unique creatures called Groundlings, and a robot/computer named Stacks. Each episode contains a specific environmental issue in the marsh that the characters must address, with each Groundling approaching the problem in a unique way. The leader of the group is Eco, an ancient and wise woman who knows more than anyone about the ways of the world. Eco, provides guidance for all the groundlings, many times through moral lessons that focus on teamwork, compassion, honesty, caring, and always a reverence for the environment. Usually the character hearing the moral misinterprets or miscalculates how to manage the problem until the show comes to the final resolution, where the group has learned the lesson and reflects upon Eco's words. The Groundlings are rounded out by Maggie, the youngest and most exuberant; Galileo, the engineer type who built Stacks; Mud/Slinger, a creature with two dissimilar heads and two personalities, that considers itself an inventor; and a single antagonist, Hegdish, comes on the scene occasionally, and he is selfish, cynical and less concerned about the environment than the rest of the Groundlings. In the end, though the entire group understands you cannot give up conservation if you want to save Earth's environment. (Portfolio Entertainment)
Program Title Artzookai (COZI TV) 39.2
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sundays 11:00a-11:30am
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Artzooka! is a live action arts and crafts show encouraging creativity in children ages 7-10. The host, Jeremie, guides the audience step-by-step through a variety of projects that use recycled materials or tech gadgets found in most households. Each project typically includes an extension where Jeremie demonstrates a way that the simple craft can be individualized or enhanced to make a more interesting and advanced piece of art. Jeremie speaks directly to the audience, and the audience is frequently asked to guess what he is creating and also to send pictures to the show's website of the projects they create. Using the word "artzooka" as a verb, Jeremie models how the audience could envision how everyday materials can be reshaped and repurposed into art. There is typically a segment modeling this approach using everyday items from different environments; a classroom, a sewing bag, or from something shown in an animated short with the animated side-kick "Paper Bag". Overall, the show's theme of creativity and engagement is captured in it's tagline: "What will you Artzooka! today? (CCI Releasing, Inc)
Program Title Zou
Total times aired at regularly scheduled time 6
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Zou is a French series based on the Zou books by Michel Gay. Targeted for children age 2-5, each episode explores the kind of learning issues that emerge from everyday encounters in the life of a preschool child. If Zou plays his drums too loud, how can he learn to play them softly? If Zou wants a car, but has only a cardboard box, how can he transform it? If Zou lost his friend's favorite airplane, how does he explain? How can Zou be successful at baking a cake if he has never done it before? How can Zou muster the courage to go to the doctor when he's afraid of injections? These are big issues in the mind and life of a preschool child and Zou demonstrates how to have fun, ask for help, listen to advice, and try different solutions until he can commit to the strategy that works. The show says it, shows it, and does it, in the embedded and naturally occurring lesson within each episode.
Digital Preemption Programs #1
Title of Program Zou
List date and time rescheduled 08/30/14 at 5:00pm
Is the rescheduled date the second home? No
Were promotional efforts made to notify the public of rescheduled date and time? Yes
Date Preempted 2014-08-23
Episode # 08/23/14 at 10:30am
Reason for Preemption Sports
List date and time rescheduled 09/28/14 at 11:30am
Program Title Lazy Town
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 10:00-10:30am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Lazy Town encourages fitness and healthful habits for preschool children. In the imaginary setting of Lazy Town, characters' eating and fitness habits are linked to problem solving in their world. The lead character is Stephanie, a young girl who guides the audience through the story as she and her friends ("human" puppets) and her Uncle (Mayor Milford Meanswell) navigate life within Lazy Town. Robbie Rotten, the underground spy and influencer who personifies the ethos of Lazy Town, is determined to ruin the health and fitness practices of Stephanie and her friends. When the kids have difficulty with Robbie Rotten, Sportacus, a gymnast/athlete prepared to answer any call for help, comes to the rescue from his home in a zeppelin-like aircraft that hovers over earth. The underlying themes of Lazy Town stress the importance of eating "sports candy" (aka fruits and vegetables), always obtaining sufficient sleep, and going outside to engage in a wide range of physical activities including playing games, competing athletically, and even building forts and play structures.
Title of Program Lazy Town
Program Title The Chica Show
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 8:00am-8:30am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Chica is a five-year-old "baby" chick who spends her days with her parents in their costume shop, the Coop. The shop's one employee, Kelly, doubles as Chica's nanny and the ensemble is rounded out with Bunji, a large floppy eared rabbit and Stitches, a straw mannequin that sits in the window. In each episode Chica develops or encounters a problem that she cannot immediately resolve. Usually her issues involve impulse control, distractibility, judgment, and inter-personal behaviors. She and Kelly usually work on the problem through an adventure-a fantasy transformation to animation-- where Bunji and Stitches come alive and join Chica and Kelly for the problem solving process. The core educational content is primarily socio-emotional development, and Chica learns how to express herself properly, think before she acts, and interact with others effectively. She often learns that it takes hard work and practice to become proficient at different skills.
Title of Program The Chica Show
Episode # 07/12/14 at 8:00am
Program Title Zoo Diaries (COZI TV) 39.2
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sundays 10:30am-11:00am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Zoo Diaries focuses on the zoo as a modern-day Ark, where animals are increasingly protected from the threat of extinction. Each episode goes behind the scenes, providing an up close and personal look at both the animals and the people who care for them. Featuring real people in real situations, it follows the day-to-day activities, passions and triumphs of one of the most unique professions on earth, presenting positive role models and pro-social values. Zoo Diaries takes teenage viewers behind the scenes at North American Zoo's, large and small. These include the San Diego, Toronto, Wichita and Vancouver Zoos. They get up close and personal with wild & endangered animals, and the fascinating lives of the humans who care for them - the zookeepers, veterinarians, attendants, animal psychologists & preservationists. (Showplace TV Syndication)
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Program Title Justin Time
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 9:00-9:30am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Justin Time features a little boy, Justin, who wants very much to master his destiny, have great adventures, and solve problems. He begins with a problem that vexes him and daydreams his way into an adventure that takes him to different places around the world, providing him with an experience to help solve his problem when he returns home. Justin is accompanied by two imaginary friends throughout his adventures; Olive, a knowledgeable playmate, and Squidgy, the morphing flying sponge, who provides commentary and comedy along the way. Some examples of Justin's lessons involve learning that it takes focus to achieve success, our failures can teach what we need to do to succeed next time, or when one path to solve a problem doesn't work, you can find an alternative way to achieve your goal. Justin promotes self-directed learning from the young child's perspective and imagination.
Title of Program Justin Time
Episode # 07/12/14 at 9:00a
Program Title What Color is Your Dog
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. The motto of the series Dog and Cat Training with Joel Silverman says it all - Bond with your heart, train with your brain. This series demonstrates learning a new skill by listening, watching, and following through geared towards ages 13-16 by using animals as a teaching tool, some skills demonstrated can be used in dealing with common life issues as well. Issues that arise through training an animal are to encourage patience and discipline. Responsibility of caring for an animal instills compassion and concern. It is also a listening exercise to comprehend information. Ultimately, the child will gain an education through the art of training an animal which in turn can lead to more confidence, a sense of accomplishment and well-being. The series leads them to use the new skill as an opener to form new relationships and use their communication ability. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Program Title Tree Fu Tom
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 9:30 - 10:00am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Tree Fu Tom, is a live action/animated series about a little boy who lives in a rural area and has a rich fantasy life in the woods behind his home. Tom uses specific movements to summon up magic powers that permit him to morph into an animated hero and fly around in Treetopolis, the fantasy version of his woods. While in Treetopolis, Tom and his friends, Ariella, Twigs, Squirmturn and Zigzoo will invariably run into a problem or disaster that needs fixing. Tom calls upon the audience to practice original dance moves that will bring him "Big World" magic so he and his friends can resolve their challenge of the day. Educational messages reinforce positive socio-emotional content, with examples that model: being loyal to good friends, knowing how to ask for help, doing the right thing instead of what is convenient, making the effort to share rather than being selfish, or relying on teamwork in order to accomplish a goal.
Title of Program Tree Fu Tom
Program Title Ariel & Zoey & Eli, Too (COZI TV) 39.2
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Ariel & Zoey & Eli, Too (AZE2), a musical variety show that is driven by three siblings, empowers children to accomplish their goals and their dreams. AZE2 accomplishes this through interviewing people who excel in their profession and have a positive message for kids, introducing guests who perform different genres of music, and presenting musical performances by the cast members themselves. These cast musical performances show children they can write their own music and the importance of teamwork. Music on the show is produced by Emmy Award winner David Barrett. He and Brian Brill (another Emmy winner) ensure that the music is tailored for the young audience. All songs offer a positive message about life. Every episode begins with the song "Sweet Company which sends the positive message of friendship and ends with the singing of End of Another Day which encourages the viewer to stay optimistic about tomorrow. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Program Title Noodle and Doodle
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Noodle and Doodle, an instructional series, features creating art projects and cooking projects around a specific theme. Host, Sean, drives around in a double-decker bus fully equipped with art supplies and a kitchen, ready for any assignment. The projects encourage parent engagement and often feature families working together to make something to display within the child's home. Sean's side-kick, Doggity, is an ever-faithful beagle who transforms into an animated character during interstitial trips to a parallel universe, set in a kitchen full of prank playing animated characters. The art projects typically promote utilizing recycled materials in order to demonstrate that creativity can transform something intended for one purpose into something that achieves a completely different goal.
Title of Program Noodle and Doodle
Name of children's programming liaison Heather Luskie
Address 225 Broadway, Suite 300
City San Diego
Email Address heather.luskie@nbcuni.com
Include any other comments or information you want the Commission to consider in evaluating your compliance with the Children's Television Act (or use this space for supplemental explanations). This may include information on any other noncore educational and informational programming that you aired this quarter or plan to air during the next quarter, or any existing or proposed non-broadcast efforts that will enhance the educational and informational value of such programming to children. See 47 C.F.R. Section 73.671, NOTES 2 and 3. KNSD no longer broadcasts on an analog channel. KNSD only broadcasts on its digital channel. All children's programming listed in the analog section of this form aired on KNSD's main digital channel. As of January 1, 2012, KNSD is no longer broadcasting on its 39.3 digital sub-channel.
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Program Title Astroblast!
Age of Target Child Audience from 2 years to 5 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Astroblast!, based on the book series "Astroblast!" by author and illustrator Bob Kolar, is set on a space station in an unknown solar system. The station is populated by five animal characters and one 3-eyed octopus of unknown derivation. Each episode begins with an everyday conversation or incident that grows into a predicament of some sort needing a solution. While these predicaments take place on a space station populated by animal characters and aliens from different galaxies, the issues and resolutions resonate for a preschool audience. Through comedy and zippy action, our target audience sees how the characters learn lessons for practical living such as how to: keep track of things that belong to you, practice good habits, clean up a space when you've made a mess, rebound from a failure or embarrassing incident, or resist the urge to blame others for your mistakes.
Program Title Poppy Cat
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Poppy Cat, based on the book series by Lara Jones, models the use of imagination and storytelling to encourage creative thinking in viewers. Each episode features the narrator Lara, reading a story about Poppy Cat, to her own cat (who is also named Poppy). She weaves an exciting tale following her imagination, which leads her to distant lands reached by boat, plane, hot air balloon or train. Each story features Poppy Cat as the leader of a group of animal friends, the resident bully Egbert the badger, and other occasionally recurring characters. A prevailing message emerges within each episode to be nice to your friends and always work together. There remains an overarching implicit message within every episode as well: think creatively and exercise your mind through reading and storytelling - for these activities always lead to enjoyment and adventure.
Program Title Aqua Kids Adventures II (COZI TV) 39.2
Age of Target Child Audience from 13 years to 16 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. This series focuses on the amazing adventures of a young boy called Tom who, with the power of 'movement magic' called 'Tree Fu', can transform into a tiny but mighty magical super hero and travel to a wondrous enchanted kingdom called Treetopolis that exists in a tree in his backyard woods. During each program he calls upon the audience to follow his moves to send him the magic he needs to solve a problem encountered by Tom and his friends. . These include Ariella, a butterfly who is also a rancher and has rope lassoing skills; Twigs, an acorn sprite who folds himself into an acorn when he's frightened, Squirmturn, a pill bug who looks like a large and imposing coal miner but is often timid and fearful, and Zigzoo, a green tree frog and the resident genius inventor. In each episode there are an action adventure sequences that are key to resolving the challenge of the day.
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. The Chica Show features a five-year-old "baby" chick that spends her days with her parents in their costume shop, the Coop. The shop's one employee, Kelly, doubles as Chica's nanny and the ensemble is rounded out with Bunji, a large floppy eared rabbit, and Stitches, a straw mannequin that sits in the window. In each episode Chica develops or encounters a problem that she cannot immediately resolve. Usually her issues involve impulse control, distractibility, judgment, and inter-personal behaviors. She and Kelly usually work on the problem through an adventure-a fantasy transformation to animation- where Bunji and Stitches come alive and join Chica and Kelly for the problem solving process. The core educational content is primarily socio-emotional development as Chica learns how to express herself properly, think before she acts, and interact with others effectively. She often learns that it takes hard work and practice to become proficient at different skills.
Program Title Lazytown
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 9:30a-10:00am PT
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Lazy Town is a show featuring the importance of health, fitness, and being good friends. Set in a fantasy world known as Lazy Town, which is populated by inactive residents, we meet a visitor named Stephanie who is determined to coax her friends and relatives into adopting a healthful, active life style. She wins over her new friends, Ziggy, Stingy, Trixie and Pixel, convincing them to leave their gaming consoles and candy stashes at home so they can go outside and play. She persuades her uncle, Mayor Milford Meanswell, and his friend Ms. Busy Body to support her efforts. Robbie Rotten, who lives underground, and is determined to return Lazy Town to its former state of inactivity and quiet, constantly foils the characters' efforts. Coming to the rescue is the athlete Sportacus who lives in a zeppelin-like aircraft and receives signals from the kids or the Mayor whenever they need help. Sportacus has two goals, to keep the peace and to promote healthful, positive living. When Robbie Rotten is discovered and contained through comic pratfalls, he returns to his underground lair and all is well in Lazy Town, until another day and another time when Robbie will rise again.
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Zou is a French series based on the Zou books by Michel Gay. Targeted for children age 2-5, each episode explores the kind of learning issues that emerge from every day encounters in the life of a preschool child. If Zou plays his drums too loud, how can he learn to play them softly? If Zou wants a car, but has only a cardboard box, how can he transform it? If Zou lost his friend's favorite airplane, how does he explain? How can Zou be successful at baking a cake if he has never done it before? How can Zou muster the courage to go to the doctor when he's afraid of injections? These are big issues in the mind and life of a preschool child and Zou demonstrates how to have fun, ask for help, listen to advice, and try different solutions until he can commit to the strategy that works. The show says it, shows it, and does it, in the embedded and naturally occurring lesson within each episode.
Program Title Howdy Doody(COZI TV) 39.2
Age of Target Child Audience from 6 years to 10 years
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. Howdy Doody is a 1975 series which is known to its viewers for Buffalo Bob in his cowboy attire and a cast of human characters such as Clarabell the Clown and Chief Thunderthud as well as puppets (i.e., Howdy Doody, Dilly Dally, Flub-a-Dub, etc.). Children sat on stage in the Peanut Gallery, thus making this show a forerunner of interactive programming we enjoy today. The primary value of the series is to educate and entertain elementary school-aged children. In addition, both older children and monitoring adults will find this series amusing and quite charming as Howdy Doody is a timeless character who has an interactive quality. Educationally, the series offers opportunities for parents and teachers to teach lessons related to language, character development, science, and listening skills. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Other Matters (10 of 14)
Program Title What Color is Your Dog (COZI TV) 39.2
Describe the educational and informational objective of the program and how it meets the definition of Core Programming. What Color is Your Dog (formerly-Dog & Cat Training with Joel Silverman) The motto of the series Dog and Cat Training with Joel Silverman says it all - Bond with your heart, train with your brain. This series demonstrates learning a new skill by listening, watching, and following through geared towards ages 13-16 by using animals as a teaching tool, some skills demonstrated can be used in dealing with common life issues as well. Issues that arise through training an animal are to encourage patience and discipline. Responsibility of caring for an animal instills compassion and concern. It is also a listening exercise to comprehend information. Ultimately, the child will gain an education through the art of training an animal which in turn can lead to more confidence, a sense of accomplishment and well-being. The series leads them to use the new skill as an opener to form new relationships and use their communication ability. (Showplace TV Syndication)
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Sundays 11:30a-12:00pm PT
Days/Times Program Regularly Scheduled Saturdays 11:30am-12n PT
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A Good True Thai
PART OF Epigram Books Fiction Prize SERIES
By: Sunisa Manning
Publisher: Epigram Books
Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize
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In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results.
Det has just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to his best friend Chang, a smart boy from the slums, as they go to college. While there, Det falls for Lek, a Chinese immigrant with radical ideals. Longing for glory, Det journeys into his friends’ political circles, and then into the Thai jungle to fight. During Thailand’s most famous period of political and artistic openness, these three friends must reconcile their deep feelings for one another with the realities of perilous political revolution.
"For all its heavy political and historical content, A Good True Thai is not a didactic book. Manning’s impressive powers of synthesis are complemented by a streamlined and graceful prose style. The result is a real achievement—a novel that sheds light on a historical episode with striking relevance to the present, as rising authoritarianism is met with rousing protest—and, perhaps soon, intelligent debate."—Diane Josefowicz, Singapore Unbound
“Epic in sweep but precise in its details, A Good True Thai shines on all fronts. Time and again, Sunisa Manning resists easy answers, reaching for nuance, for complexity, for truth. An astounding debut from a talented new voice.”
—Kirstin Chen, bestselling author of Bury What We Cannot Take
“Sunisa Manning understands deeply and innately that politics is woven through the strongest and most ambitious fiction, just as it is through life itself.”
—Rachel Kushner, Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room
“The story of Thailand’s democracy movement in the 1970s is almost unknown in the rest of the world, but Sunisa Manning insists on recapturing and preserving it in this beautiful and astonishing novel. Read and immerse yourself in a narrative that speaks so profoundly to the condition of Thailand, and the world, today.”
—Jess Row, award-winning author of Your Face in Mine
“Sunisa Manning brings to life a tortured, misunderstood nexus in the painful evolution of Thailand’s democracy with immediacy and vividness, never losing her sharply-drawn characters in the labyrinth of history. Mingling narratives of insider and outsider in a terse, swiftly-moving style, she drags the past into the present, unveiling complex truths with a remarkable clarity of vision.”
—SP Somtow, multi-award-winning author of Jasmine Nights
“The 1970s leftist and anti-authoritarian protests that drive the characters in Manning’s authentic and engaging novel are among the most important and controversial political events in modern Thai history. Frighteningly, the general context of conflicts that the novel covers is still very relevant today. Foreigners who want to understand the long-lasting crisis in Thai society, and the complex psyche behind the famous ‘Thai smile’, should read this book.”
—Prabda Yoon, award-winning author of The Sad Part Was
“A vivid, thoroughly-researched account of a moment in time when everything seemed up for grabs. When youthful idealism is brought crashing down by harsh political realities, what can be salvaged for the future? Sunisa Manning’s exploration of this turning point in Thai history is clear-eyed and compassionate, and written with real flair.”
—Jeremy Tiang, Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of State of Emergency
Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and other places. She’s been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writer’s Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel.
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The EuroAsia Interconnector project Promoter welcomes the support of the Governments of Cyprus – Greece – Israel for the Electricity Interconnection Project.
NICOSIA, 1st February 2016 – The leaders of the Governments of Cyprus, Greece and Israel re-affirmed during the historic Tripartite Meeting on 28th January 2016 in Nicosia their full support towards the Project EuroAsia InterConnector, the submarine electric cable with length of 1518 km, which will connect the electricity grids of Israel, Greece and Cyprus with mainland Europe. As noted by the leaders themselves the Electricity Interconnection will significantly contribute towards achieving the strategic objectives of enhancing energy security and the energy markets of the countries concerned.
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IRELAND BREAKS RECORDS WITH ALL-TIME HIGH DRINK CAN RECYLING RATE OF 89%
10th December 2020 /in News /by Roisin.OBrien@aluproireland.ie
It’s been a year of doom and gloom but Every Can Counts Ireland is thrilled to announce a new aluminium drink can recycling and recovery rate of 89% – a staggering statistic meaning Ireland has one of the highest rates in Europe and overtakes the UK for the first time by a massive 13% (the UK is currently sat at 76%).
Every Can Counts is a not-for-profit initiative with a vision to achieve a 100% recycling rate for valuable aluminium drink cans, and this new figure comes as a massive step forward in their quest. The new figure reveals another enormous jump up 16% in just one year and means that nine out of ten cans are now being recovered for recycling!
Interestingly, the announcement comes after a Europe-wide survey found that a whopping 90% of Irish consumers say that since the Covid-19 outbreak, it is more important than ever to take care of our planet and the environment.
The survey also found that a massive 92% said it is an urgent task to tackle recycling and 90% said that considering recycling and its importance for the planet is an obligation of all citizens and consumers, not just world leaders.
And with our fragility as human beings having been put into perspective in a big way over the last year, combined with an unprecedented amount of time spent at home, 78% of Irish respondents stated that during the pandemic they have recycled more than ever.
Commenting on the figure, Róisín O’Brien, Every Can Counts Programme Manager says, “This new 89% figure shows the importance of recycling for the planet is really starting to hit home with Irish consumers. And now with many people now working and socialising from home it has made it even easier to recycle as we all know what bins aluminium should go in.”
CEO of Repak Ltd, Séamus Clancy comments, “We are delighted with the recycling and recovery result for drink cans! It is a huge leap forward for citizens, recovery operators, and the environment in general. Aluminium is infinitely recyclable making recycling drink cans an incredibly simple and effective way of helping the planet.”
In fact, the figures also show that only 47% said they recycle when out and about with 60% attributing this to not enough recycling bins on the streets, in public spaces, parks, beaches, or on trails. And with the country set for further easing of restrictions on 18th December, it’s more important than ever to address the issue of on-the-go recycling to keep the new rate flying high.
“The shocking impact of the pandemic has touched the lives of everyone in Ireland,” Róisín continues. “Covid-19 has encouraged us all to think more about the direct impact of our actions on our planet. The damage we have caused shouldn’t be the legacy we leave behind; we must act now to reverse our actions by changing how we behave, especially when out of home, in order to protect our environment.”
The Irish respondents echoed this call to action with 91% saying they would like to do more when it comes to recycling and a massive 82% feeling that more needs to be done in general to encourage recycling.
“It’s amazing to see Ireland leading such a great environmental example. Long may it continue!”
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Part 135
The Next XOJet With Smaller Airplanes - 100 Phenom Jets
Thread starter johnsonrod
johnsonrod
Former JetBlue Principals Unveil JetSuite, a New Model for Private Jet Ownership and Charter
Monday April 21, 4:14 pm ET
With Up to 100 Embraer Phenom Jets On Order, JetSuite Is Now Selling Aircraft for Delivery in Early 2009
LAS VEGAS, April 21, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- A cadre of senior management from airlines that changed the rules in commercial aviation are now expecting to change the way people own and operate private jets. Through JetSuite, private jet owners can fly their planes whenever they want and yet still receive $25,000 per month in return for allowing the company to charter the aircraft out to others during any downtime.
JetSuite was founded by Alex Wilcox, one of the founding team members at JetBlue Airways. The company has agreed to purchase 50 Embraer Phenom 100 very light jets on firm order and an additional 50 Phenom aircraft family options. With the 100 jet aircraft order, JetSuite is both the largest U.S. customer for the Embraer jet and the only operator currently planning to serve the West Coast with it once it obtains the necessary government approvals.
The Phenom 100 offers spacious comfort, superb performance and the latest technology. The jet's interior, designed by BMW Group DesignWorksUSA, boasts the largest cabin, windows and baggage compartment in its class. With a range of up to 1,160 nm, short runway capabilities, speeds up to 380 knots and a cruising altitude of 41,000 ft., the Phenom 100's performance is best-in-class.
``We're taking the hassle, expense and surprises out of private jet ownership,'' said JetSuite President Alex Wilcox. ``By looking after owners' regulatory requirements, aircraft maintenance, hangar facilities, and even hiring and training their pilots, their aircraft is prepared for flight whenever they want it -- but it also generates a guaranteed positive cash flow of $25,000 for them each month even if they don't use it themselves. What's more, with the Phenom, you get all the comfort with less than half the fuel burn of the most popular charter aircraft.''
Mr. Wilcox was a founding member of JetBlue Airways from 1998 to 2004 and then founding President and COO of Kingfisher Airlines (India) from 2004 to 2005. Prior to that, he held various positions at Virgin Atlantic Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Piedmont Airlines.
He's joined by several former JetBlue founding colleagues, including Usto Schulz, JetSuite's Vice President Certification and Safety, who was Vice President, Safety for JetBlue and was with the Federal Aviation Administration for 17 years, and Amy Curtis-McIntyre, former Vice President of Marketing at JetBlue who is consulting on JetSuite's brand and product. Also, Ken Burnham, former Fleet Captain for the DC-10 at United Airlines, has joined JetSuite as Vice President, Flight Operations.
For more information, please visit http://www.jetsuite.com, or call (866) 779-7770.
JJET44
johnsonrod said:
``We're taking the hassle, expense and surprises out of private jet ownership,'' said JetSuite President Alex Wilcox. ``By looking after owners' regulatory requirements, aircraft maintenance, hangar facilities, and even hiring and training their pilots, their aircraft is prepared for flight whenever they want it --
WOW!! What an original concept. It's almost as absurd as Al Gore claiming to invent the internet.
Great an LCC jet ownership program.
Hawkster54
Knuckle Deep!
Academic Eggheads!
It looks like airline CEO's aren't satisfied with F'ing up the entire airline industry now they need to add another notch in their belts! This game just keeps getting better!
osy007
The concept seems plausible, but the aircraft don't.
How can you perform 135 on-demand charter with so little room. I took a peek into one of those small birds and noticed that there was barely any room for bags.
You get one rich lady and there goes the baggage room and the seats. The dog gets fedex'd. The lead pax bitches about why he can't take his golf clubs because the other crew took them.
What does the crew do with their own bags? Do they fly ovn's? I'm still scratching my head....
http://www.geocities.com/rvieira72/nightfireflash.swf
osy007 said:
You gotta pack light. Just wash the same shirt and iron it in the Motel 6/HoJo every night on the road...
Gotta pack light?
How can you if your out for a 7/7 or 8/6?
If their not on that schedule now, they will be eventually.
Pattern-Master
so get outta my way
Ummm, didn't Dayjet try this already?
On Your Six
Pattern-Master said:
Different model. This company basically acts as a broker. It will sell the aircraft (or portion thereof) to an owner and then pay the owner a minimum of $25K per month to use it for charter when it is idle. The company will provide crews, maintenance, etc. The owner can claim depreciation expense to reduce taxable income in addition to the $25K (minimum) per month. It's a turn-key operation for the owner since all operating expenses and hassles are handled by the company.
Too bad this operation isn't opening sooner than later because I bet a bunch of West-Coast airline pilots might be interested in working there (if the salaries are acceptable)... The Phenom 100 looks like a nice airplane.
Dayjet owns all of their airplanes and only members can fly on them (annual membership fee + hourly fee per seat determined by supply/demand and availability of that aircraft). The Phenom 100 looks a bit bigger and more comfortable than the Eclipse too.
I LUV SOUTHWEST!
bunman45
Try gold aviation out of Ft. Lauderdale international. They have Some Eclipse jets and have phenoms on order. Been in business for a while. Not a bad little operator. Owner is cheap though. Won't pay a fair wage.
Phenom 100 looks like a nice, but tight, cockpit:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Embr...by photo_id DESC &photo_nr=3&prev_id=&next_id=
bizjet800
I don't care who you are that's funny right there!
If a pound of Socialism got us into this mess, a ton of Socialism won't get us out!
Citation style...
On Your Six said:
It IS a VLJ...
BoilerUP said:
The cockpit for the Phenom 300 is the same but the 300 is bigger than the CJ2.
Well then how does the Phenom 100/300 cockpit compare in size to the CJ series, LR 31/35/55 series, and Beechjet?
Going2Baja
Anyone know what the 100 or 300 pay for single pilot?
Baja.
Going2Baja said:
Probably comparable to a CJ1 and CJ3/Encore, respectively.
sflax
The funny thing is, you will never get to FL410 in socal and slowing to 250 kts is the norm into vegas. So any fuel savings by going high is not there.
brokeflyer
What it pays and what it SHOULD pay are 2 diffrent things,.,,
Probly about 40k.......
it should be about 70k
G4dude;2341295 said:
I am not worth this much, in my opinion.
Looking for PC-12 contract pilots
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Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system: An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm
G. Liu, G. L. Bakker, S. Li, J. H.G. Vreeburg, J. Q.J.C. Verberk, G. J. Medema, W. T. Liu, J. C. Van Dijk
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
The current understanding of drinking water distribution system (DWDS) microbiology is limited to pipe wall biofilm and bulk water; the contributions of particle-associated bacteria (from suspended solids and loose deposits) have long been neglected. Analyzing the composition and correlation of bacterial communities from different phases helped us to locate where most of the bacteria are and understand the interactions among these phases. In the present study, the bacteria from four critical phases of an unchlorinated DWDS, including bulk water, pipe wall biofilm, suspended solids, and loose deposits, were quantified and identified by adenosine triphosphate analysis and pyrosequencing, respectively. The results showed that the bulk water bacteria (including the contribution of suspended solids) contributed less than 2% of the total bacteria. The bacteria associated with loose deposits and pipe wall biofilm that accumulated in the DWDS accounted for over 98% of the total bacteria, and the contributions of bacteria in loose deposits and pipe wall biofilm were comparable. Depending on the amount of loose deposits, its contribution can be 7-fold higher than the pipe wall biofilm. Pyrosequencing revealed relatively stable bacterial communities in bulk water, pipe wall biofilm, and suspended solids throughout the distribution system; however, the communities present in loose deposits were dependent on the amount of loose deposits locally. Bacteria within the phases of suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm were similar in phylogenetic composition. The bulk water bacteria (dominated by Polaromonas spp.) were clearly different from the bacteria from the other three phases (dominated by Sphingomonas spp.). This study highlighted that the integral DWDS ecology should include contributions from all of the four phases, especially the bacteria harbored by loose deposits. The accumulation of loose deposits and the aging process create variable microenvironments inside loose deposits structures for bacteria to grow. Moreover, loose deposits protect the associated bacteria from disinfectants, and due to their mobility, the associated bacteria reach taps easily.
https://doi.org/10.1021/es5009467
10.1021/es5009467
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Liu, G., Bakker, G. L., Li, S., Vreeburg, J. H. G., Verberk, J. Q. J. C., Medema, G. J., Liu, W. T., & Van Dijk, J. C. (2014). Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system: An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm. Environmental Science and Technology, 48(10), 5467-5476. https://doi.org/10.1021/es5009467
Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system : An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm. / Liu, G.; Bakker, G. L.; Li, S.; Vreeburg, J. H.G.; Verberk, J. Q.J.C.; Medema, G. J.; Liu, W. T.; Van Dijk, J. C.
In: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 48, No. 10, 20.05.2014, p. 5467-5476.
Liu, G, Bakker, GL, Li, S, Vreeburg, JHG, Verberk, JQJC, Medema, GJ, Liu, WT & Van Dijk, JC 2014, 'Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system: An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 5467-5476. https://doi.org/10.1021/es5009467
Liu G, Bakker GL, Li S, Vreeburg JHG, Verberk JQJC, Medema GJ et al. Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system: An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm. Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 May 20;48(10):5467-5476. https://doi.org/10.1021/es5009467
Liu, G. ; Bakker, G. L. ; Li, S. ; Vreeburg, J. H.G. ; Verberk, J. Q.J.C. ; Medema, G. J. ; Liu, W. T. ; Van Dijk, J. C. / Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system : An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm. In: Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 ; Vol. 48, No. 10. pp. 5467-5476.
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‘Dream come true’ – College boy delights basketball world as he scores record 100-point in single game
Michael Eli Dokosi Dec 12, 2019 at 01:30pm
December 12, 2019 at 01:30 pm | News
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Michael Eli Dokosi is a journalist and a formidable writer with a decade's experience. He is a blogger, voice-over artist and MC. Dokosi is fluid with both spoken and written communication. He is for the African cause and reckons Africa shall regain its rightful place in world affairs soon.
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Wayland Baptist guard J.J. Culver scores two of his 100 points Tuesday night in an NAIA game against Southwestern Adventist. (Claudia Lusk/Wayland Baptist University/AP)
His famous senior brother plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves but Wayland Baptist University’s J.J. Culver has just served notice on Tuesday he is one to watch for the future regarding the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Culver scored 100 points in a 124-60 victory over Southwestern Adventist University in Plainview, Texas. According to the Corpus Christi Caller Times, Culver made 34 of 62 field goal attempts, including 12 of 33 from 3-point range while sinking 20 of 27 free throws.
First I have to thanks God. Second I couldn’t have done this without my coaches and teammates. Definitely a dream come true. I put in a lot of work for this. I love playing basketball and thanks everyone for the support pic.twitter.com/3Wy2fjljeG
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— JJ Culver (@jj10culver) December 11, 2019
Culver, a 6-foot-5 senior guard is only the fourth ever player to score 100 in a single game.
Culver’s coach, Ty Harrelson told ESPN: “The guys realized he was hot and kept going to him. We figured as long as he’s taking good shots and shots out of our philosophy that he had a chance to do something special tonight.”
WAIT…. my brother @jj10culver just scored 100 points in a game 🤯 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somebody tell me I’m not dreaming pic.twitter.com/qhnIEVkVrF
— jarrett culver (@jarrettc08) December 11, 2019
J.J’s brother Jarrett Culver on Twitter wrote “Somebody tell me I’m not dreaming.”
Jarrett himself is no mean achiever and had guided Texas Tech to the NCAA national title game last season. He now plays for the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves.
Sitting at 98 points, here’s JJ scoring to make it 100! Look at the reaction from the crowd and his brother Trey! pic.twitter.com/oCP3ACGel8
— Pete Christy (@pchristy11) December 11, 2019
Despite J.J. Culver’s feat, by virtue of Wayland Baptist being in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), he couldn’t equal the organization’s record of 113 points set by Clarence “Bevo” Francis of Rio Grande (Ohio) in 1954. He however is the second NAIA player to ever score 100 or more.
There is also Frank Selvy of Furman who holds the NCAA Division I record with 100, also set in 1954. Then there is Jack Taylor of Grinnell College; a NCAA Division III player who scored 138 points in 2012. And, of course, Wilt Chamberlain remains the only NBA player to score 100 in a game, which he accomplished in 1962.
2 of JJ’s 100. #WaylandBaptist pic.twitter.com/FWefAEqqWg
— WBU Basketball (@WBUBasketball) December 11, 2019
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Trump lawyer walks back comments about Moscow project
By Insider Last updated Jan 22, 2019 223
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Monday walked back comments he made about discussions Trump had with his former personal attorney about a real estate project in Moscow during the presidential election campaign.
Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 by saying he had abandoned the Trump Tower project in January 2016 even though prosecutors say he actually pursued it into June.
Giuliani suggested in a TV interview Sunday that Trump remembers conversations with Cohen about the project “up to as far as October, November,” or right up until the election. That extends the timeline for the Russian business deal well beyond what the president has publicly acknowledged.
Giuliani said Monday in a three-sentence statement that his comments “did not represent the actual timing or circumstances of any discussions.” He said his comments were “hypothetical” and “not based on conversations” he had with the president.
He concluded by saying the Moscow project “was in the earliest stage and did not advance beyond a free non-binding letter of intent.”
The changing timeline is relevant in light of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the election and ties to the Trump campaign.
For Trump, Giuliani plays the role more of spokesman than attorney, unleashing public attacks on investigators while throwing out wild accusations designed to muddle the narrative of the probe. But at times, he has gone too far or has flat-out misspoken, leading to a series of clarifications while triggering more legal questions for his client.
This was the second time within the past week that Giuliani has walked back comments from the previous day.
On Thursday, he issued a statement aimed at clarifying a TV interview from the night before in which he appeared to leave open the possibility of collusion between Russia and members of Trump’s presidential campaign.
In the statement, he said “there was no collusion by President Trump in any way, shape or form” and that he had “no knowledge of any collusion by any of the thousands of people who worked on the campaign.”
That was an apparent reversal from Wednesday’s television appearance in which he said, “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign.” He had previously denied any collusion.
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A History of Eastern Europe - Lecture Series on Amazon Prime
PolishOrigins Forum Index -> Books & Movies
krysradz
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:35 pm Post subject: A History of Eastern Europe - Lecture Series on Amazon Prime
Anything confusing you about the "kick-the-can" politicks of our ancestors' homelands? As a child in the USA in the 1980s, my parents were unable to explain to me the nuances of where my Great-great Grandparents, all of whom emigrated before the 1905 revolutions, came from...I received a tangled explanation of "They're Russian, but, they're really from Poland" for one side of the family, and, for the other, "...but, they're really from Lithuania". Regrettably, was not raised with any of our culture (with the exception of Kruschicki), just 'murican. World history was really never a part of K-12 education, and, I didn't need many history credits in college.
So, a VERY welcome find on Amazon Prime video (as an additional subscription @ $7.99/mo.) is the "Great Courses Signature Collection" which includes the series "A History of Eastern Europe" (at https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01J2AP7WY/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r ). There's several good lectures included in that subscription, but this series on Eastern Europe, given by Prof. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius (who hails from Chicago) is one of the best I've seen so far.
More detail about the series than can be found on Amazon's website is available on the producer's website: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/a-history-of-eastern-europe.html (note, you can't subscribe on the producer's site for $7.99/mo.--the affordable option is only thru Amazon Prime, which is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01J2AP7WY/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r ).
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Helmets for Kids taken to one more northern school
NGO Asia Injury Prevention Foundation has introduced the Helmets for Kids programme at the Phu Xuan Primary School in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province, hoping to increase the rate of students wearing helmets.
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Traffic police officers guide students of Phu Xuan Primary School in the northern province of Vinh Phuc to identify standard helmets under the Helmets for Kids programme. (Photo courtesy of the AIP Foundation)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - NGO Asia Injury Prevention Foundation has introduced the Helmets for Kids programme at the Phu Xuan Primary School in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province, hoping to increase the rate of students wearing helmets.
It said in a press release on December 20 that no student wears helmets when coming to the school on motorcycles with their parents.
Nguyen Trong Thai, chief of the National Traffic Safety Committee secretariat, said: “The issue of children not using helmets is of great concern, which highlights the need for strong collaboration with the private sector to address traffic safety issues related to children.
“The need for greater road crash prevention awareness at the Phu Xuan Primary School is of utmost importance. Students should not be on our roads without protective equipment for their developing brains.”
The Helmets for Kids programme demonstrates to students, as well as their parents, the importance of wearing a helmet whenever they are travelling on a motorcycle or bicycle, he added.
The programme gifted helmets to students and taught them injury prevention on roads through various activities and games.
Nguyen Thao Chi, a fifth-grader, said: “Before the programme I knew that I should wear a helmet, but my family could not afford to provide me one. I am so happy I have this helmet now, and will wear it always.”
The AIP Foundation has collaborated with the Vietnam National Traffic Safety Committee and Ministry of Education and Training for the programme with sponsorship from the Vietnam Garment Manufacturing Company-TAL Apparel.
Helmets for Kids was implemented for the first time in Binh Xuyen district last year at the Ba Hien B Primary School, and resulted in 76 percent of its students wearing helmets as against 1 percent before the programme.
Greig Craft, founder and president of the AIP Foundation, said: “Changing the culture surrounding road safety is not always easy, but that’s why we start in the classroom by targeting children. The Helmets for Kids programme is not only about providing new helmets, it is also about teaching young children important skills which will last throughout their lifetime.”/.
NGO Asia Injury Prevention Foundation Helmets for kids Phu Xuan Primary School traffic safety
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Michael Turco & Associates
Michael Turco – Architect
Winner of the National Luxury Home Award, Master Builders 2017
Tell us a bit about your vision for the building.
“We wanted to keep the architecture fairly neutral and not use the building as an opportunity to showcase our talents or have the architecture dominate in a way that restricts the owners ability to put their own touches and style in place. Think of it like a beautiful canvas with plenty of space for personalisation.
You’ll notice the façade is a flowing grid pattern that is broken into very distinct spaces to frame each home and give people a very different experience on the inside and the outside. We’ve also used an impressive array of natural materials and softened these with an abundance of planters to match the stately, established gardens in Turner.”
Carolyn – Feng Shui
What do you think is most unique about this property?
“Having the property Feng Shui assessed is unique in itself. Most developers don’t think of looking into Feng Shui, but it’s something that should be considered for all projects. The littlest tweaks can make such a difference to the life of the occupants.
The thought that went into the layout and planning of Forbes+Turner was to ensure the people who live there can make the most of every aspect. Even the smallest details—such as where the stove was placed—was taken into consideration. The stove is crucial to the energy within the house and moving it even just a few centimetres can make a huge difference. I find this amazing because the Forbes+Turner developers actually took these recommendations on board.”
Neil Hobbs – Landscape Architect
Neil Hobbs is a landscape Architect and Principal at Harris Hobbs Landscapes, based in Canberra Australia.
What’s the property’s best kept secret?
“Forbes Street presents a wonderfully consistent avenue of oak trees. The scale of the building sits well in and around the street tree canopy, allowing for a distinctive entry and a wonderful ground floor north side apartment.
The garden layout and planting selection have been informed by Feng Shui principles, in the provision of the communal space and the use of water in the north east apartment.
The care and thought that went into this is a real point of difference. All areas are fully landscaped, all done professionally with a commitment to quality. It is not common for a developer to landscape all areas.”
Lauren Sharman – Interior Designer
This multi-disciplinary studio is led by bright young interior designers Alanna Kochel and Lauren Sharman, along with architect Michael Turco.
What are you most proud of from being a part of this project?
“There was a cohesive process between the team to ensure the style level is maintained and assured. Nothing has been left out or not thought about. Everyone involved was passionate about all areas of the project. The luxury being our passion.
The common areas have a luxury hotel feel. Think timber, concrete, aged brass detailing and one statement artwork. This only hints on the luxury and inclusions within the apartments. Owners will want to show off all spaces within their home. Kitchens include integrated appliances, hidden wash up zones and ample storage. Bathrooms also incorporate five clever storage solutions and custom shape back lit mirrors.
Everything has been thought of, just move in and enjoy!”
Exempla GRP – Developer/Builder
Exempla is a family-run property development and construction company with a strong history in Canberra, Australia.
With roots dating back in Canberra to the 1970s, brothers Peter and Dennis Tzanetos have an enviable history, providing quality residences to the Canberra market. Past projects can be viewed at www.exempla.com.au.
Being both developer and builder of Forbes+Turner will allow for complete control of quality and function. Exempla only builds one property at a time, the intention being that the brothers can fully focus all their efforts to realising a great outcome for all involved.
Tommy Balogh – Artist
What would you like to share about the creation of ‘Odyssey?
The artwork was challenging, it was an unforgettable experience and now a lasting legacy of my work in Canberra.
I wanted to create a flagship, monolithic, 6 metre by 2 metre front and backlit artwork. Through this, the residence will always see something different. The artwork is fluid and varying and it will become an experience for everyone who sees it.
The architecture was considered around the artwork. This level of collaboration was incredible. The entrance was designed for the artwork to be the statement and showcase the two stories of continuous artwork. We really wanted to start some waves. The innovation behind the collaboration between the developer, architect and artist is uncommon but we took advantage of our visions being aligned which was an exciting opportunity for all of us.
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Fuck you George Lucas. Again. Again.
August 2011 edited August 2011 in Flamewars
So, looks like there are some new changes to the original trilogy in the Blu-Ray edition.
Note, these are leaked mp3s synced to old footage.
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WindUpBird
I have all of these on functional VHS. They are the original theatrical version of the Star Wars films. I will be copying them to DVD shortly, because fuck George Lucas.
It's possible that this is an elaborate hoax. Or at least, one can hope.
Li_Akahi
Okay, the rock thing looks totally fake, but seriously? People are getting up in arms about making the Ewok eyes not look like lifeless doll eyes?
ninjarabbi
At least I understand adding the new eyes, but why the fuck are there new rocks? Its not an improvement, its just more rocks. Urg
I will be copying them to DVD shortly
When you do, can you hook a brother up? Because fuck George Lucas.
Has there been an HD release of the original versions on any movie channels or something? I'd like to download that.
Victor Frost
Laserdisc, anyone?
Yeah, no problem. I'll post back when I get it done.
I have all of these on functional VHS.
I want in on the hook up if possible.
James has the laserdiscs copied to DVD. That is as good as it gets.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't an existing torrent of the VHS or Laserdisk rips.
Join me.
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5335527/Star_Wars_Trilogy_%28The_Original_Unaltered_Trilogy%29
Post edited by Apreche on August 2011
Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as father and son!
George Patches
Having a room mate that downloads half a TB of video in a month means I have access to digital copies of the original trilogy. ^_^
DevilUknow
Seriousyl? That's posted in the OP. Do you even bother reading?
]]Why not just get the Versions that came with the OOT on DVD? It would be much better quality the converting your own....
To be quite honest, I really don't mind some of the changes made to the movies. I like the added scene in a New Hope with Jabba and Han, I like the enhanced lightsabers. What I don't like is Greedo shooting first, the new song in Jabba's palace, and the song that replaced the Nub Nub song. Really, the changes are a mixed bag for me.
Its Yub Nub. Not Nub Nub.
And here. This is the DVD version I was talking about. It would be much higher quality then converting your old 1980a VHS to DVD. There is one each for 4, 5, and 6/
Post edited by KapitänTim on August 2011
I like the added scene in a New Hope with Jabba and Han,
That was probably the only seen that I approved of. Everything else was unnecessary fluff or changed things in a way that bothered me.
To be quite honest, I really don't mind some of the changes made to the movies.
Don't make me destroy you.
sucrilhos
I don't mind the changes I just think he should name them properly and sell accordingly. Original Trilogy, Trilogy 1.1, Trilogy 1.2 etc...
Omnutia
Stop given them ideas!!
I just think he should do whatever the hell he wants, so long as he also sells the true original version.
If we can somehow convince people to let go of their childhoods and stop giving George Lucas and Sega money, the world will be a better place.
Read this article. Some of the changes are actually good.
You know what, something has been bothering me about this.
George Lucas. He's one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, certainly one of the most influential, and has been involved in movies like American Graffiti, Kagemusha, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, Twice upon a time, Latino, Mishima, Labyrinth. He's created companies that have been true game-changers in the movie industry, either through films they were involved in, or by their own merits, as well as revolutionizing the video gaming industry - Monkey Island, Full throttle, and Day of the tentacle, anyone? If not For him, Pixar would not exist - that's right, No Toy Story, Cars, Finding Nemo, Up, Any of it, if not for George Lucas. The First filmmaker to use Motion Control cameras. Lucasfilm animation and Lucasfilm Animation singapore, which provides paid apprenticeships to Young Animators, allowing them a leg-up in the industry. Everything ILM has done, from the first completely computer-generated film sequence, through to inventing the iMocap System, and every film they've produced. He started a company dedicated to providing educational materiel for schools.
And of course, personally, He's founded his own educational charity, testified before congress to advocate in favor of a free and open wireless broadband educational network, Given millions to charity(including helping build the Martin Luther King Jr national memorial and joining the Giving Pledge, to give away Half of his fortune to charity, donated a Hundred and eighty million to USC, so they could expand their film school(which is now one of the best in the country).
But hey, He's messing with something He created and we all really like and is widely avaliable without his changes anyway, so we're not really losing anything, but fuck that guy, I hope he fucking dies. How dare he do anything but seal his previous work away in layers of impenetrable crystal so it remains the same for all time. What's that? They're changing THX1138? They Want to re-make American Graffiti as a Teen comedy with the cast of High School Musical, and make Kagemusha into a High-school Boylove anime? Oh, Who gives a fuck about those, I didn't pay much attention to those, do what you like, BUT I TOTALLY HOPE THAT GUY'S KIDS GET CANCER BECAUSE HE MAKES NEW VERSIONS I'M NOT FOND OF OUT OF SOMETHING I LIKED AS A KID. RUINING MY CHILDHOOD DESPITE IT BEING TRIVIALLY AVAILABLE IF I CARED TO LOOK, THAT BASTARD.
Thank you, for figuring out the words to something I've been trying to say for years.
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Fri Jun 21, 2013, 02:47 PM
I want everyone to re-visit this poll after our sophmore centre averages 18 pts 9 rebs 2 assists 2 blocks a game on 60% from the field and 80% from the line.
I also want everyone to re-visit this poll when Wiggins wins an MVP award in 4-5 years and lead his team to a championship.
Its going to be a good revist after JVs sophmore year and after Wiggins rookie season.
you mean like Brandon Knight did?
http://www.slamonline.com/online/col...2009/12/56799/
That's a bold statement. I like Wiggins but idk about that. JV is more valuable at his position
A center like JV is worth 2 dynamic wing players. I'm old school, I still think point guard and center are the most important positions
mountio
Cant believe anyone is saying JV. JV is a good looking young player who looks like he could be a very good NBA player / borderline all star if all goes well.
Wiggins (while admittedly earlier in his career and thus much riskier) has WAY more upside and is being projected as the type of player who could be a multiple time all star. Hes not just a #1 overall pick, but a near consensus #1 overall pick in a loaded draft.
This is a no brainer, my friends. Wiggins all day, every day
So was Harrison Barnes.
I hope Wiggins does awesome but this is a good question for one year from now.
Last edited by The Great One; Sat Jun 22, 2013, 01:58 AM.
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Well someone's already mentioned Harrison Barnes, who was touted as the next LeBron/Kobe calibre wing for years. Years! I think the first time I heard of Barnes he was only 13...
For a bigger "bust", how about Quincy Miller? I knew about him for at least a couple of years before college. He was supposed to be the next Durant. One knee injury and an average college showing later, and he was a 2nd rd pick.
So much can happen in a year. I mean, you could have this opinion now, but what if JV busts out next year and clearly becomes part of the "best big in the NBA" argument? I firmly believe when you look at his skill set compared to other bigs, it wouldn't be that hard for him to dominate, and he has already shown to do that in spurts against top NBA competition. What about Wiggins? He could be drafted, and LeBron and KD are going to be owning the SF position still. Can he outclass one of those guys? This is the question that the answer has to be "yes" (remember it's a "can" not "will" question, so it's just about whether he's on their level) to in order for it to make sense to trade a 2-way C with elite talent for a wing player. Right now, the answer is "maybe" IMO. That means he still have to prove his value. To me, this would mean a dominant college performance...averaging around 25 and 7, and leading his team deep into the tournament.
People have to remember....JV has been regarded as one of, if not the best, C prospect in the world since he was about 16 or 17. And now he's starting to live up to that hype. Shit, if he was Canadian, like Wiggins, fans on this site would've been drinking his kool-aid since he was 14-15 probably.
People also have to remember it's not just about talent, but what you do with that talent. If Wiggins can't dominate in college despite the obvious fact that he's more talented than everyone, what does that say about his personality? You could end up getting a faux franchise player who frustratingly never maximizes his talent. Could be more Rudy Gay than LeBron James...
Again, a lot can happen in a year....for both guys, in the end.
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Yes, he was. He was absolutely considered this before he started his career at NC. And even after a freshman season where he didn't meet the high expectations, many were shocked when he decided to stay in college, thinking his skills are a better fit for the NBA and he would just go.
I don't follow NBA prospects in detail compared to others so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. The way I recall Barnes was he was considered a strong candidate for the the #1 spot long before the draft. Wiggins on the other hand is coming across as a no questions or competition #1 long before the draft (there is ofcourse always a contrarian or two). Maybe a minut detail, but I think its significant to this discussion.
The discussion around Wiggins is much closer to the discussion around Lebron James than the discussion was around Barnes.
That said, I still think Barnes is a solid example of how much can change in a year or two.
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Feedback helps OFPP amend A-76 Circular revision
By Jason Miller
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is sorting through and evaluating more than 650 comments about its proposed changes to OMB Circular A-76. So far, OFPP officials say, about 12 issues have risen to prominence.
OFPP administrator Angela B. Styles said yesterday that based on the comments there would be some changes made to the revised circular, which governs the federal process for competing government jobs between the public and private sectors. She said her office is considering: changing how A-76 affects intra-agency service agreements, to whom the right of first refusal applies on a review, the role of the human resources adviser in reviews and the appropriateness of setting a 12-month time frame for the studies.
'We are putting together a matrix of the issues and assessing each one,' Styles said at the Interagency Services Network Conference in Washington. 'We are moving quickly and hope to get the final version out shortly.'
Her office also is reconsidering how the new circular applies to interagency service agreements, Styles said. The proposed changes said agreements for commercial services worth more than $1 million would be subject to competition.
Style said about 200 to 300 comments offered substantial input on the new circular.
In addition to finishing the A-76 guidelines, Styles said, her office also has other goals for the next two years, including setting enterprisewide software licenses for use governmentwide and getting discounts for buying commercial products with purchase cards.
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Some Iranian Women Take Off Hijabs, Others Push Back
The Maria Da Penha Law: 10 Years On
The world has been shocked recently by a new wave of girls’s activism in Iran. Bareheaded Iranian women climb on platforms and benches in public areas, white scarves tied to the ends of poles, waving their hijab flags to protest compulsory veiling.
These individuals refused to acknowledge these women as independent individuals with minds of their very own. Nasrin’s husband, Reza Khandan, and a fellow activist, Farhad Meysami, had been additionally sentenced to six years in prison. One of the pieces of so-known as evidence that was used in opposition to them were badges that read ‘I oppose obligatory hijab’, which safety agents confiscated when they raided their homes. These men who stood by women combating for his or her rights now face six years in jail each and have been banned from leaving the country and going surfing. She did this in the future earlier than mass protests broke out in varied cities all through Iran against a spread of different issues.
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Iranian regulation still favors men, however women in that nation are extra educated and have a more visible role in life than in lots of different Islamic international locations, such as Saudi Arabia. And issues are getting higher, in accordance with the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary in that nation.
Extreme political suppression within the early years of the IRI and the bloody and dear Iran-Iraq struggle ( ) made organized, collective action for girls’s rights unimaginable. For instance, many women refused to put on the all-enveloping black chador favoured by some conservative groups and promoted by the Republic, arguing that the black chador did not exist on the time of the Prophet. Ultimately, public veiling was imposed for all females, Muslims or not, over the age of nine. The state claimed that unveiled women caused men’s immoral thoughts – a persistent trope within the history of feminine diminishment and male impunity.
It appears that after that picture went viral, several followed her example. Social media performed a job in spreading that image, and the image compelled others to go out, but I can’t quantify the extent to which social media propelled things forward. Given all of that, Lauer requested Ebtekar if women’s rights and Sharia regulation can coexist. In courtroom, the testament of two women equals that of 1 man; a man’s son inherits twice as a lot as his daughter; compensation for the unintended death of a person is twice that for a woman. In Tehran, there is a skilled fire firm composed entirely of girls, who wear hijabs beneath helmets whereas responding to fireside calls. But to see that, Massoumeh Ebtekar told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer, Westerners must recover from their obsession with the hijab, the pinnacle scarf that Iranian women are required to put on by law.
The measure was not practical due to the high fee of unemployment among women, some 18.9 percent. Still, Rouhani may have relied on the assist of an ardent constituency if he have been keen to point out more courage in pushing for women’s rights.
Thousands of Iranian women took to the streets to protest towards the hijab law in Tehran in the spring of 1979. The effort to permit women again into stadiums has gone through fits and starts for the reason that revolution. Iran even barred a lady from holding a sign for the country when it attends its first Summer Olympics in 1986 in South Korea. A group of Irish women obtained special permission to attend a qualifier between Iran and Ireland in Tehran in 2001. “Her solely ‘crime’ was being a lady in a country where women face discrimination that’s entrenched in regulation and plays out in essentially the most horrific methods imaginable in every space of their lives, even sports,” Luther added.
Rouhani didn’t name women to his cabinet or revive the Ministry for Women’s Affairs as he had promised throughout his election marketing campaign in 2013; he realized the conservative majority in parliament wouldn’t approve. However, he appointed four women as vice presidents, including Masoumeh Ebtekar as head of the Environmental Protection Organization and Shahindokht Molaverdi as vice chairman for women and household affairs. Rouhani additionally instructed each of his cupboard members to appoint a minimum of one woman as a deputy minister. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif named a girl, Marziyeh Afkham, a diplomat for 30 years, because the ministry’s spokesperson. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struggled to steadiness rival developments at a time women carried growing weight on the ballot box. He faced deepening resolve among hardliners to curb the female quest for full equality; he was additionally confronted by public pressure from women not to be relegated to second-class status once more. Professionally, women have been slowly pushed into conventional female fields, corresponding to teaching and nursing.
Government–run day care centers had been closed, making it tough for girls to remain in jobs anyway. At universities, the idea of segregating men and women was soon abandoned as impractical, but it took a number of years before bars were eliminated on sure fields of training—in flip affecting job prospects. Since the 1979 revolution, women have struggled to regain lost rights and win a bigger position in society, regardless of a regime unfriendly to women’s points. See Women’s Rights in Iran,supranote 1 (displaying human rights group advocating for Iranian women by asking FIVB to enforce own rule using #Watch4Women campaign). Iranian women and human rights organizations have also tried utilizing direct appeals to the International Federation of Football Associations (“FIFA”) and FIVB to reverse the ban. Additionally, advocates have written an open letter to FIFA asking that FIFA demand that Iran raise the ban on women. Backlash additionally came from hardliners within the authorities, both in the government and the legislative branches, who accused the ladies of protesting towards the hijab law not as a result of they made a alternative but because they were being misguided and directed by others.
The judiciary just lately urged Iranians to inform on women with out hijabs by sending pictures and movies to designated social media accounts. Many other women, while stopping in need of outright defiance, opted for loosely draped colorful scarves that show as much hair as they cowl. Even in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, frequented by many traditional iran woman women, most female buyers wore these informal hijabs. Still, a sizeable minority of women were covered head to toe in black robes and tightly pulled headscarves, the so-known as chador. Iranian women take a selfie close to the Persian Gulf Martyrs lake, west of Tehran, Iran.
She added that Khodayari’s suicide underscores “the necessity for Iran to finish its ban on women attending sports activities matches — and the urgency for regulating our bodies like FIFA to enforce its personal human rights rules.” Hardliners and conventional Shiite clerics, citing their own interpretation of Islamic regulation, believe in segregating women and men at public occasions, as well as preserving women out of men’s sports. Iranian women cheer as they wave their nation’s flag after authorities in a rare move allowed a select group of ladies into Azadi stadium to observe a pleasant soccer match between Iran and Bolivia, in Tehran, Iran on Oct. sixteen, 2018. Sahar Khodayari, an Iranian female soccer fan died after setting herself on fireplace outdoors a courtroom after studying she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a soccer stadium where women are banned, a semi-official news company reported Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The 30-12 months-old was generally known as the “Blue Girl” on social media for the colours of her favorite Iranian soccer team, Esteghlal. “The more women costume in an openly sexual way, the less we’ll have social peace, while going through the next crime fee,” Minoo Aslani, head of the women’s department of the paramilitary Basij group, informed a rally last week. They have known as for harsh punishment, even lashes, arguing that permitting women to point out their hair leads to ethical decay and the disintegration of households.
A few daring women in Iran’s capital have been taking off their mandatory headscarves, or hijabs, in public, risking arrest and drawing the ire of exhausting-liners. Many others cease wanting outright defiance and opt for loosely draped scarves that show as a lot hair as they cover.
Because of this, Amnesty International is highlighting the courageous actions of the men and women campaigning to end Iran’s pressured veiling legal guidelines and is demanding that the Iranian authorities free the ladies’s rights defenders who remain in jail. In the previous couple of years, a growing motion against pressured veiling laws has emerged inside Iran, with women and girls performing brave acts of defiance. They stand in public places, silently waving their headscarves on the ends of sticks or share videos of themselves walking down the street with their hair showing – something many people take without any consideration. Iran’s abusive, discriminatory and degrading pressured veiling laws have enabled not solely state agents but also thugs and vigilantes who really feel they have the duty and proper to enforce the Islamic Republic’s values to harass and assault women in public.
In all circumstances, women are demanding state recognition of bodily autonomy as an important step to recognition of their full personhood and citizenry rights. There has been a minimum of one occasion of a woman in full chador climbing onto a platform on a busy avenue and waving a shawl to protest her lack of bodily autonomy. The battle isn’t a couple of piece of cloth on a girl’s head, it is concerning the gender politics that cloth symbolizes, and its use to silently and broadly communicate a rejection of state control over women’s our bodies. Rather, we see an organic civil motion manifesting the widespread dissatisfaction of large segments of each the male and female population, including many ladies who will wear the veil regardless but object to the obligatory hijab. The young protesters are being known as “daughters of the revolution.” The motion has taken the regime by surprise; there has been no coherent response and the variety of women making flags of their headscarves in public areas is rising. There isn’t any organized, central orchestration of these actions, although they’ve attracted many supporters.
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Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's five-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Branch Call Number: Erdrich, L
Characteristics: x, 373 pages ; 24 cm
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EljayJohnson May 16, 2020
Erdrich is an incredible storyteller and she shines here. This is a heart-wrenching, tragic, and infuriating story of two families experiencing horrific grief and loss. I'm not sure I was supposed to, but I found what these adults did to the 5-year old LaRose unforgivable. This book left me drained.
maipenrai Mar 07, 2020
Louise Erdrich has written some of the best novels concerning Native Americans. One of my all time favorite books is "Love Medicine". In this novel she again captures the pain of loss and reconciliation which is not restricted to Native people, but to all humans. I highly recommend this book and author. Kristi & Abby Tabby
CPLannie Jan 17, 2020
Sometimes, and not saying, we don't find friends through commonalities, you find a story that is like no other.
donnambravo Aug 31, 2018
A good story but not my favorite among Erdrich's novels.
FW_librarian Apr 29, 2018
A heart-wrenching and reflective book that exposes the vulnerabilities of our cultural backgrounds and the effect it has on our relationships. We feel the dilemmas and the compassion that connects each resident to each other’s past, present and, inevitable future. Erdrich is an artist when it comes to character development. This is an excellent book group discussion choice.
ArapahoeStaff26 Mar 06, 2018
Compelling characters and dialog that rings true, Native American life on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, gripping themes of tragedy and redemption - I can't say enough good things about this book!
mclarjh Aug 11, 2017
So disappointing. A real struggle to read. Far too long, and more a young adult than adult book. Melodramatic soap opera, more popular than literary.
kountzcl Jul 10, 2017
I was expecting the character LaRose to be the impressive woman of that name in Erdrich's earlier novel Round House. Instead we find generations of LaRoses and all of them memorable. What an ear for teen-age chatter! The final epilogue chapter about the high school graduation party is uplifting--each character except one finds a reward, as does the reader. I also recommend Round House.
EmilyEm Mar 27, 2017
Erdrich’s family story starts in tragedy and foreshadows what may be more. This multi-generational story follows one gifted Native American boy named LaRose and the generations of people previous who have borne this name.
It has all the fingerprints of a classic, exceptional characters, prose and storytelling. Dense and rich—a winner.
brangwinn Mar 26, 2017
My favorite Erdrich story made me feel good to read it. I loved watching a strong Native American family share their son, Larose, with a neighbor family, after the accidental death of a son. I loved the strong (and the weak) characters. I loved Snow and Josette, what a remarkable pair of high school students. Erdich can blend modern reservation life with a respect for the past and make you cheer for the success of her characters, and empathize with emotions of loss and the importance of family and community.
Hunting Accidents — Fiction
Children — Death — Fiction
Atonement — Fiction
Ojibwa Indians — North Dakota — Fiction
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Blog / Galapagos Day 2019 – Our biggest yet!
Galapagos Day 2019 – Our biggest yet!
Guest blog by Imogen Kempton
On Wednesday 30 October, at the Royal Geographical Society in London, we came together to celebrate and show support for one of the most uniquely biodiverse, but increasingly under threat places on Earth – the Galapagos Islands. From highlighting the detrimental effects that plastic is having on the Islands, to sparking hope and optimism in an all too often-bleak world of conservation, Galapagos Day emphasised the incredible efforts being made to protect this environmental mecca.
We were warmly welcomed by Galapagos Conservation Trust’s (GCT) Chair, Charmian Caines, who introduced His Excellency, the Ambassador of Ecuador, who we were honoured could attend and address the audience. In addition, Norman Wray, Minister of the Governing Council of Galapagos travelled from the Islands to provide context for the evening and discuss the conservation impacts from the point of view of the Galapagos community. We were lucky to have the much-acclaimed zoologist and conservationist, Mark Carwardine, host the evening’s three lectures delivered by GCT partners and scientists.
Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez speaking at Galapagos Day 2019 © Charlie Cupples
Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez kicked things off, talking about his current research on plastic pollution, its impact on wildlife and his input into GCT’s Plastic Pollution Free Galapagos programme. The talk was hard hitting and highlighted the urgency with which we all need to act to reduce plastic waste. The lecture contained many fascinating clips and statistics – one of which stated that ‘every toothbrush we have ever used still exists somewhere on the planet today’. A simple fact that emphasised everyone’s duty to do their bit to stop our reliance on plastics.
Dr Luis Ortiz-Catedral, who GCT has been supporting for more than five years, then took to the stage to deliver an inspiring talk, celebrating the uplifting conservation stories he has been involved in. Most notably, his work to relocate 5000 land iguanas from North Seymour island to Santiago, where they have been locally extinct since the early 20th century as a result of invasive cats and goats. Now rid of these invasive species, Santiago island can recover naturally with land iguanas roaming the island once again. Luis also spoke of his work to monitor populations of Galapagos racer snakes on Champion and Gardner islets. This is an essential part of GCT’s Floreana programme, which aims to reintroduce this species back to Floreana, once we have successfully remove invasive predators.
Our Galapagos Day speakers for 2019 © Charlie Cupples
Sophia Cooke, from the University of Cambridge, gave a hugely inspiring and captivating final talk. Beginning with her first trip to Galapagos, Sophia described how she developed an ongoing interest in the introduced smooth-billed ani. A combination of determination, commitment, drive and a fairytale raffle win enabled Sophia to embark on a path to explore the impacts of these birds. It was impressive to see the various contraptions Sophia designed, and made, to trap the birds for her studies. Her independence and commitment to undertake such a large research project at the same time as her PhD is awe inspiring, and no doubt encouraged other budding conservationists to embark on their own path to Galapagos.
Guests enjoying Falmouth University’s Photography Exhibition © Charlie Cupples
Guests had a chance to stroll through this years’ GCT’s annual Galapagos Photography Exhibition, kindly sponsored by Aqua-Firma, as well as Falmouth University’s exhibition of their latest field trip to the Islands.
Lastly, we would like to thank the sponsors, including Bespoke Hotels and Quasar Expeditions, and attendees who contributed to making the evening such a fantastic, informative and inspiring one.
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Immunogenicity of fractional doses of tetravalent A/C/Y/W135 meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine: Results from a randomized non-inferiority controlled trial in Uganda
Guerin_MengVxFractDos_PLoSNTDs ...
Abstract - French translation
Guerin, P J
Næss, L M
Fogg, C
Rosenqvist, E
Pinoges, L
Bajunirwe, F
Nabasumba, C
Borrow, R
Frøholm, L O
Ghabri, S
Batwala, V
Twesigye, R
Aaberge, I S
Røttingen, J A
Piola, P
Caugant, D A
Epicentre, Paris, France; Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; Centre for Prevention of Global Infections, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; Health Protection Agency, Manchester, United Kingdom; Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway; Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A is the main causative pathogen of meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, serogroup W135 has also been the cause of epidemics. Mass vaccination campaigns with polysaccharide vaccines are key elements in controlling these epidemics. Facing global vaccine shortage, we explored the use of fractional doses of a licensed A/C/Y/W135 polysaccharide meningococcal vaccine. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted a randomized, non-inferiority trial in 750 healthy volunteers 2-19 years old in Mbarara, Uganda, to compare the immune response of the full dose of the vaccine versus fractional doses (1/5 or 1/10). Safety and tolerability data were collected for all subjects during the 4 weeks following the injection. Pre- and post-vaccination sera were analyzed by measuring serum bactericidal activity (SBA) with baby rabbit complement. A responder was defined as a subject with a >/=4-fold increase in SBA against a target strain from each serogroup and SBA titer >/=128. For serogroup W135, 94% and 97% of the vaccinees in the 1/5- and 1/10-dose arms, respectively, were responders, versus 94% in the full-dose arm; for serogroup A, 92% and 88% were responders, respectively, versus 95%. Non-inferiority was demonstrated between the full dose and both fractional doses in SBA seroresponse against serogroups W135 and Y, in total population analysis. Non-inferiority was shown between the full and 1/5 doses for serogroup A in the population non-immune prior to vaccination. Non-inferiority was not shown for any of the fractionate doses for serogroup C. Safety and tolerability data were favourable, as observed in other studies. CONCLUSIONS: While the advent of conjugate A vaccine is anticipated to largely contribute to control serogroup A outbreaks in Africa, the scale-up of its production will not cover the entire "Meningitis Belt" target population for at least the next 3 to 5 years. In view of the current shortage of meningococcal vaccines for Africa, the use of 1/5 fractional doses should be considered as an alternative in mass vaccination campaigns. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00271479.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
10.1371/journal.pntd.0000342
http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000342
These data contributed to a 2007 WHO recommendation for a fractional dosing strategy in the context of severe vaccine shortages during a meningitis epidemic.
Avidity of serogroup A meningococcal IgG antibodies after immunization with different doses of a tetravalent A/C/Y/W135 polysaccharide vaccine.
Authors: Bårnes GK, Naess LM, Rosenqvist E, Guerin PJ, Caugant DA, Fractional Doses Vaccine Study Group.
Meningococcal serogroup W135 in the African meningitis belt: epidemiology, immunity and vaccines.
Authors: Mueller JE, Borrow R, Gessner BD
Issue date: 2006 Jun
The tetravalent meningococcal serogroups A, C, W-135, and Y tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine is immunogenic with a clinically acceptable safety profile in subjects previously vaccinated with a tetravalent polysaccharide vaccine.
Authors: Dbaibo G, Van der Wielen M, Reda M, Medlej F, Tabet C, Boutriau D, Sumbul A, Anis S, Miller JM
Meningococcal group C and w135 immunological hyporesponsiveness in african toddlers.
Authors: Findlow H, Sow S, Borrow R, Tapia M, Haidara FC, Akinsola AK, Idoko OT, Diallo F, Adegbola R, Tang Y, Parulekar V, Chadha H, Mabey L, Holme D, Townsend K, Chaumont J, Laforce FM, Kulkarni PS, Marchetti E, Viviani S, Hassan-King M, Preziosi MP
Emergence of serogroup X meningococcal disease in Africa: need for a vaccine.
Authors: Xie O, Pollard AJ, Mueller JE, Norheim G
Issue date: 2013 Jun 12
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